Scrum Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Scrum
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Scrum skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 57 61
Rank change year-on-year +7 +4 -23
Contract jobs citing Scrum 91 26 47
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.68% 2.62% 2.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.24% 3.01% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 18 40
10th Percentile £362 £404 £400
25th Percentile £450 £406 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £517
Median % change year-on-year - -3.29% -6.00%
75th Percentile £537 £619 £575
90th Percentile £550 £724 £600
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £102.00 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Scrum falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,736 863 1,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.35% 87.08% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,168 515 992
10th Percentile £284 £231 £275
25th Percentile £400 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 22 44
10th Percentile £14.25 £12.52 £11.03
25th Percentile £16.77 £15.88 £12.53
Median hourly rate £25.15 £20.57 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year +22.28% +19.04% +62.54%
75th Percentile £55.00 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £61.23 £91.13 £53.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £38.16
% change year-on-year -28.14% -8.27% +9.67%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Scrum relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Scrum job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Scrum
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Scrum.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Scrum

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 21 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Yorkshire

Scrum
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Scrum.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Scrum

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Yorkshire +5 45 £500 - 23
South Yorkshire -25 38 £500 - 7
North Yorkshire +6 7 £488 - 7
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 32 (35.16%) Confluence
2 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (15.38%) AWS
2 10 (10.99%) GitHub
3 9 (9.89%) CloudBees
4 6 (6.59%) Azure
5 5 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (5.49%) Serverless
6 4 (4.40%) Cohesity
7 3 (3.30%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (3.30%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.30%) GCP
7 3 (3.30%) OpenShift
7 3 (3.30%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.20%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (2.20%) Azure API Management
8 2 (2.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (2.20%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.10%) Kong
9 1 (1.10%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) DNS
1 1 (1.10%) Firewall
1 1 (1.10%) HTTP
1 1 (1.10%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.59%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.30%) Power BI
3 2 (2.20%) DocumentDB
3 2 (2.20%) Redis
3 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.20%) Tableau
4 1 (1.10%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.10%) Power Query
4 1 (1.10%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 35 (38.46%) JIRA
2 23 (25.27%) Jenkins
3 16 (17.58%) GitLab
4 8 (8.79%) Git
5 5 (5.49%) Cucumber
6 4 (4.40%) Cypress.io
6 4 (4.40%) Selenium
7 3 (3.30%) JUnit
7 3 (3.30%) Maven
7 3 (3.30%) WebDriver
8 2 (2.20%) git-flow
8 2 (2.20%) Postman
8 2 (2.20%) SoapUI
8 2 (2.20%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.20%) Zephyr
9 1 (1.10%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.10%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.10%) Travis CI
General
1 42 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 18 (19.78%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (15.38%) Finance
3 14 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.69%) Banking
5 3 (3.30%) Military
5 3 (3.30%) Retail
6 2 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.10%) Front Office
7 1 (1.10%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 13 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
2 12 (13.19%) Analyst
2 12 (13.19%) Scrum Master
3 11 (12.09%) Senior
4 10 (10.99%) Business Analyst
4 10 (10.99%) Delivery Manager
4 10 (10.99%) Project Manager
5 9 (9.89%) Data Protection Engineer
6 8 (8.79%) Data Engineer
6 8 (8.79%) Developer
7 7 (7.69%) Lead
8 6 (6.59%) Product Owner
9 5 (5.49%) Senior Test Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Test Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Technical Analyst
11 3 (3.30%) Integration Manager
11 3 (3.30%) Senior Developer
11 3 (3.30%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.89%) Node.js
2 4 (4.40%) Kafka
2 4 (4.40%) Playwright
2 4 (4.40%) React
2 4 (4.40%) RESTful
2 4 (4.40%) Spring Boot
3 3 (3.30%) Django
3 3 (3.30%) FastAPI
3 3 (3.30%) Flask
3 3 (3.30%) Middleware
3 3 (3.30%) REST
3 3 (3.30%) SailPoint
3 3 (3.30%) Spring
3 3 (3.30%) Vue
4 2 (2.20%) Next.js
4 2 (2.20%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.10%) FHIR
5 1 (1.10%) MERN Stack
5 1 (1.10%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 31 (34.07%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.59%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.49%) NHS
4 3 (3.30%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.20%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.10%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.10%) FMCG
6 1 (1.10%) PDA
6 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (82.42%) Agile
2 34 (37.36%) CI/CD
3 33 (36.26%) User Stories
4 32 (35.16%) Test Automation
5 30 (32.97%) DevOps
6 25 (27.47%) Continuous Improvement
6 25 (27.47%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (26.37%) Kanban
8 20 (21.98%) Backlog Refinement
8 20 (21.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 19 (20.88%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (18.68%) Sprint Retrospective
11 16 (17.58%) Project Management
12 14 (15.38%) Data Protection
12 14 (15.38%) Sprint Planning
13 13 (14.29%) Configuration Management
13 13 (14.29%) Roadmaps
13 13 (14.29%) SDLC
14 11 (12.09%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 10 (10.99%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 19 (20.88%) Python
2 13 (14.29%) Bash
3 12 (13.19%) Java
4 11 (12.09%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.59%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.30%) SQL
7 1 (1.10%) C++
7 1 (1.10%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
1 7 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.59%) Degree
2 6 (6.59%) PMP
3 5 (5.49%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.40%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.20%) CBAP
6 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.10%) CSPO
6 1 (1.10%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.89%) QA
2 8 (8.79%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.49%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.30%) WCAG
5 1 (1.10%) GDPR
5 1 (1.10%) HL7
5 1 (1.10%) MiFID
5 1 (1.10%) PMO
5 1 (1.10%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 7 (7.69%) Docker
2 3 (3.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 18 (19.78%) Ansible
2 13 (14.29%) NetBackup
3 9 (9.89%) Kubernetes
4 6 (6.59%) Grafana
5 5 (5.49%) Puppet
5 5 (5.49%) Terraform
6 1 (1.10%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.10%) Kibana
6 1 (1.10%) logstash
6 1 (1.10%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (15.38%) Red Hat
2 13 (14.29%) Commvault
2 13 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 9 (9.89%) Veritas
4 8 (8.79%) Splunk
5 4 (4.40%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.20%) Planview
7 1 (1.10%) Brio
7 1 (1.10%) Cadence
7 1 (1.10%) Google
7 1 (1.10%) MarketAxess
7 1 (1.10%) Oracle
7 1 (1.10%) SAP
7 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.10%) Tenable
7 1 (1.10%) Tradeweb