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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 38 63
Rank change year-on-year -7 +25 -36
Contract jobs citing Scrum 81 74 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 5.28% 4.88% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.82% 5.83% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 59 40
10th Percentile £360 £406 £409
25th Percentile £403 £490 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £550 £521
Median % change year-on-year -12.27% +5.57% +4.20%
75th Percentile £534 £605 £588
90th Percentile £588 £650 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £560
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.25% +1.82%

All Process and 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 1,392 1,270 1,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 90.68% 83.83% 89.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 885 766 1,209
10th Percentile £252 £313 £300
25th Percentile £375 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £623
90th Percentile £638 £659 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 46 35
10th Percentile £15.90 £12.15 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.23 £12.55 £16.13
Median hourly rate £22.14 £17.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.51% -12.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £28.75 £25.27
90th Percentile £81.25 £43.75 £44.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -41.51% +0.58% +47.41%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum 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 13 September 2025.

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 13 September 2025. 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
South Yorkshire -14 38 £456 -17.64% 8
West Yorkshire -9 36 £500 -8.05% 33
North Yorkshire - 4 £400 - 9
East Yorkshire - 3 - - 1
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (23.46%) Confluence
2 3 (3.70%) IIS
3 1 (1.23%) Apache
3 1 (1.23%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.23%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.23%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.47%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.23%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.23%) SAP MRS
2 1 (1.23%) SAP PM
2 1 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (23.46%) Azure
2 16 (19.75%) AWS
3 13 (16.05%) GCP
4 10 (12.35%) GitHub
5 9 (11.11%) CloudBees
6 5 (6.17%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.70%) Azure API Management
7 3 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.70%) Serverless
8 2 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.47%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (2.47%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (2.47%) Lucidchart
9 1 (1.23%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.23%) Bitrise
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.64%) DNS
1 7 (8.64%) NAS
1 7 (8.64%) SAN
2 4 (4.94%) Firewall
3 1 (1.23%) HTTP
3 1 (1.23%) SSL
3 1 (1.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.94%) BigQuery
1 4 (4.94%) MongoDB
1 4 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (4.94%) Power BI
1 4 (4.94%) Relational Database
1 4 (4.94%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.70%) DocumentDB
2 3 (3.70%) MySQL
2 3 (3.70%) Redis
3 2 (2.47%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.47%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.47%) Tableau
4 1 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.23%) Power Query
4 1 (1.23%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 31 (38.27%) JIRA
2 24 (29.63%) Jenkins
3 19 (23.46%) Git
3 19 (23.46%) GitLab
4 9 (11.11%) Postman
4 9 (11.11%) SoapUI
5 5 (6.17%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.70%) git-flow
7 2 (2.47%) Selenium
7 2 (2.47%) Zephyr
8 1 (1.23%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.23%) Crashlytics
8 1 (1.23%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.23%) Log4j
8 1 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.23%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.23%) TestRail
General
1 47 (58.02%) Social Skills
2 17 (20.99%) Finance
3 12 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.94%) Banking
5 4 (4.94%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.47%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.47%) Retail
8 1 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.23%) Military
8 1 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.23%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (23.46%) Analyst
2 10 (12.35%) Senior
3 9 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 9 (11.11%) Developer
3 9 (11.11%) Test Analyst
4 8 (9.88%) Delivery Manager
5 7 (8.64%) Automation Engineer
5 7 (8.64%) Scrum Master
6 6 (7.41%) Data Protection Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Lead
8 4 (4.94%) Migration Specialist
8 4 (4.94%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.94%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Engineering Manager
9 3 (3.70%) Server Migration Specialist
9 3 (3.70%) Server Specialist
9 3 (3.70%) Software Manager
9 3 (3.70%) Technical Analyst
9 3 (3.70%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.11%) Node.js
2 7 (8.64%) Middleware
3 5 (6.17%) Kafka
3 5 (6.17%) RESTful
4 4 (4.94%) .NET
4 4 (4.94%) React
5 3 (3.70%) .NET Framework
5 3 (3.70%) ASP.NET
5 3 (3.70%) MSMQ
5 3 (3.70%) Next.js
6 2 (2.47%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (2.47%) Spring
6 2 (2.47%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.23%) BAPI
7 1 (1.23%) JMS
7 1 (1.23%) JNDI
7 1 (1.23%) LDAP
7 1 (1.23%) Playwright
7 1 (1.23%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (1.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (24.69%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.94%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (4.94%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (4.94%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (4.94%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.70%) N-Tier
4 2 (2.47%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.47%) Derivative
4 2 (2.47%) Equities
4 2 (2.47%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.23%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.23%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.23%) FMCG
5 1 (1.23%) NHS
5 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.23%) PDA
5 1 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.23%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.11%) Windows
2 8 (9.88%) Linux
3 7 (8.64%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.47%) Android
4 2 (2.47%) VMS
5 1 (1.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (85.19%) Agile
2 39 (48.15%) Kanban
3 34 (41.98%) CI/CD
4 33 (40.74%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (29.63%) User Stories
6 22 (27.16%) DevOps
7 19 (23.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (22.22%) Test Automation
9 16 (19.75%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (17.28%) Software Testing
10 14 (17.28%) Sprint Retrospective
10 14 (17.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (16.05%) Data Protection
11 13 (16.05%) Migration
12 12 (14.81%) Backlog Refinement
12 12 (14.81%) Sprint Planning
13 10 (12.35%) Roadmaps
13 10 (12.35%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 10 (12.35%) Test Management
14 9 (11.11%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (24.69%) Python
2 9 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 9 (11.11%) Shell Script
3 8 (9.88%) Bash
3 8 (9.88%) Java
4 7 (8.64%) PowerShell
5 6 (7.41%) SQL
6 5 (6.17%) Kotlin
7 3 (3.70%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.70%) VB.NET
8 2 (2.47%) Bicep
9 1 (1.23%) ABAP
9 1 (1.23%) C++
9 1 (1.23%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 8 (9.88%) CISM
1 8 (9.88%) CISSP
1 8 (9.88%) ISTQB
2 7 (8.64%) Degree
3 6 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.94%) PMP
5 4 (4.94%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.47%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.23%) CBAP
7 1 (1.23%) IBM Certification
7 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.23%) MBA
7 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.11%) QA
2 7 (8.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (8.64%) NIST
3 6 (7.41%) GDPR
3 6 (7.41%) PCI DSS
4 4 (4.94%) WCAG
5 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.23%) PMO
5 1 (1.23%) SEPA
System Software
1 8 (9.88%) Active Directory
1 8 (9.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (8.64%) VMware NSX
2 7 (8.64%) vSphere
3 6 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (22.22%) Ansible
2 9 (11.11%) NetBackup
3 7 (8.64%) vCenter Server
3 7 (8.64%) vRealize
4 3 (3.70%) Grafana
4 3 (3.70%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.70%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.47%) HP Data Protector
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.23%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.23%) Puppet
6 1 (1.23%) SCCM
6 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.23%) Terraform
6 1 (1.23%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 21 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.58%) Google
3 9 (11.11%) Veritas
4 8 (9.88%) BeyondTrust
4 8 (9.88%) CyberArk
4 8 (9.88%) Red Hat
4 8 (9.88%) Thycotic
4 8 (9.88%) VMware
5 7 (8.64%) Commvault
6 4 (4.94%) Splunk
7 3 (3.70%) F5
8 2 (2.47%) Databricks
8 2 (2.47%) Dell
8 2 (2.47%) Oracle
9 1 (1.23%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.23%) IBM
9 1 (1.23%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.23%) SAP
9 1 (1.23%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.23%) TIBCO