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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 51 34
Rank change year-on-year -34 -17 +33
Contract jobs citing Scrum 67 59 86
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.36% 4.37% 5.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 4.74% 6.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 37 60
10th Percentile £413 £364 £381
25th Percentile £455 £400 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -14.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £578 £520 £600
90th Percentile £616 £630 £646
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -6.67%

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 2,430 1,246 1,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 85.53% 92.23% 84.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,479 774 858
10th Percentile £325 £266 £292
25th Percentile £413 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £577
90th Percentile £675 £625 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 57 57
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.75 -
25th Percentile £16.72 £18.35 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +64.00% -28.95%
75th Percentile £33.25 £25.15 £22.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £31.83 £50.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -10 37 £500 - 11
South Yorkshire -36 28 £500 +11.48% 6
North Yorkshire -13 1 - - 2
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 7 (10.45%) Apache Spark
2 6 (8.96%) Confluence
3 1 (1.49%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.49%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.49%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 20 (29.85%) AWS
2 19 (28.36%) Azure
3 14 (20.90%) GCP
4 9 (13.43%) Serverless
5 5 (7.46%) Cloud Run
5 5 (7.46%) GitHub
6 4 (5.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.49%) Figma
8 1 (1.49%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.45%) Network Security
2 2 (2.99%) BIG-IP
2 2 (2.99%) DHCP
2 2 (2.99%) DNS
2 2 (2.99%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.94%) Hadoop
2 7 (10.45%) NoSQL
2 7 (10.45%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.97%) Big Data
3 4 (5.97%) Neo4j
4 3 (4.48%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.99%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.49%) Power BI
6 1 (1.49%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (29.85%) JIRA
2 17 (25.37%) Git
3 7 (10.45%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.99%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.99%) Flyway
4 2 (2.99%) git-flow
4 2 (2.99%) GitLab
4 2 (2.99%) JUnit
4 2 (2.99%) Liquibase
4 2 (2.99%) Mockito
4 2 (2.99%) MSBuild
4 2 (2.99%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (2.99%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.49%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.49%) Vite
General
1 31 (46.27%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (14.93%) Finance
3 8 (11.94%) Influencing Skills
3 8 (11.94%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.96%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (7.46%) Banking
5 5 (7.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (5.97%) Telecoms
7 3 (4.48%) Law
7 3 (4.48%) Military
7 3 (4.48%) Retail
8 2 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.49%) Games
9 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (22.39%) Senior
2 12 (17.91%) Delivery Manager
2 12 (17.91%) Lead
3 11 (16.42%) Developer
4 8 (11.94%) Project Manager
4 8 (11.94%) Senior Developer
5 7 (10.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (8.96%) Agile Delivery Manager
6 6 (8.96%) Senior Manager
7 5 (7.46%) Java Developer
7 5 (7.46%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
7 5 (7.46%) Senior Delivery Manager
8 4 (5.97%) Agile Delivery Lead
8 4 (5.97%) Backend Developer
8 4 (5.97%) Business Analyst
8 4 (5.97%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (5.97%) Product Owner
8 4 (5.97%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.97%) Senior Backend Developer
8 4 (5.97%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.93%) REST
2 8 (11.94%) RESTful
3 6 (8.96%) Spring
3 6 (8.96%) Spring Boot
4 5 (7.46%) Kafka
5 4 (5.97%) React
6 2 (2.99%) .NET
6 2 (2.99%) Drools
6 2 (2.99%) Gherkin
6 2 (2.99%) HATEOAS
6 2 (2.99%) Jasypt
6 2 (2.99%) JPA
6 2 (2.99%) JSON
6 2 (2.99%) Node.js
6 2 (2.99%) OAuth
6 2 (2.99%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.99%) SailPoint
6 2 (2.99%) Spring Batch
6 2 (2.99%) Spring MVC
6 2 (2.99%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 15 (22.39%) Product Ownership
2 7 (10.45%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.96%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (8.96%) Onboarding
3 6 (8.96%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (7.46%) NHS
5 2 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.99%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (98.51%) Agile
2 35 (52.24%) CI/CD
3 22 (32.84%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (31.34%) DevOps
5 20 (29.85%) Kanban
5 20 (29.85%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (26.87%) Code Quality
6 18 (26.87%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (26.87%) Test Automation
7 17 (25.37%) Sprint Planning
8 13 (19.40%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (19.40%) Microservices
9 12 (17.91%) Analytics
9 12 (17.91%) Roadmaps
10 11 (16.42%) Change Management
10 11 (16.42%) Data Pipeline
10 11 (16.42%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (16.42%) Software Engineering
11 10 (14.93%) Migration
11 10 (14.93%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (25.37%) SQL
2 16 (23.88%) Python
3 6 (8.96%) Java
4 5 (7.46%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.99%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.99%) PromQL
6 1 (1.49%) ABAP
6 1 (1.49%) Bash
6 1 (1.49%) Bicep
6 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (8.96%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.46%) Degree
3 4 (5.97%) PMI Certification
3 4 (5.97%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.48%) PMP
5 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.99%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.99%) CISM
5 2 (2.99%) CISSP
5 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.99%) CRISC
6 1 (1.49%) CAPM
6 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.48%) Accessibility
1 3 (4.48%) Data Quality
1 3 (4.48%) PMO
2 2 (2.99%) GRC
2 2 (2.99%) NIST
3 1 (1.49%) QA
3 1 (1.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (19.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (19.40%) Kubernetes
2 12 (17.91%) Terraform
3 10 (14.93%) Ansible
4 4 (5.97%) Kustomize
5 2 (2.99%) Consul
5 2 (2.99%) Grafana
5 2 (2.99%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.99%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 7 (10.45%) Splunk
2 6 (8.96%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.46%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.48%) SAP
5 2 (2.99%) F5
5 2 (2.99%) Infoblox
5 2 (2.99%) Solace
6 1 (1.49%) Cadence
6 1 (1.49%) Databricks
6 1 (1.49%) Workday