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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 57 55
Rank change year-on-year +14 -2 -23
Contract jobs citing Scrum 97 32 54
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.25% 2.72% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.86% 3.16% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 23 42
10th Percentile £360 £401 £400
25th Percentile £417 £406 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £517
Median % change year-on-year - -3.29% -6.00%
75th Percentile £537 £625 £573
90th Percentile £550 £710 £599
England median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.19% -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 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 1,656 1,013 1,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.56% 85.99% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,115 607 1,040
10th Percentile £250 £234 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -4.60% -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 30 25
10th Percentile £14.25 £12.52 £15.69
25th Percentile £17.48 £15.88 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% +2.06% +1.48%
75th Percentile £43.59 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £59.65 £60.29 £38.90
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

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 16 December 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 16 December 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 -4 47 £471 -5.80% 7
West Yorkshire +4 44 £500 - 16
North Yorkshire - 5 £488 - 1
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 31 (31.96%) Confluence
2 1 (1.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.03%) SAP MRS
3 1 (1.03%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 22 (22.68%) AWS
2 17 (17.53%) Azure
3 13 (13.40%) GCP
4 11 (11.34%) GitHub
5 9 (9.28%) CloudBees
6 5 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (5.15%) Serverless
7 4 (4.12%) Cohesity
8 3 (3.09%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (3.09%) OpenShift
8 3 (3.09%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.06%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.06%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.06%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.06%) Azure API Management
9 2 (2.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.06%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.03%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.15%) Firewall
2 4 (4.12%) DNS
3 3 (3.09%) NAS
3 3 (3.09%) SAN
4 2 (2.06%) HTTP
4 2 (2.06%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.19%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.09%) DocumentDB
2 3 (3.09%) Power BI
2 3 (3.09%) Redis
3 2 (2.06%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.06%) Tableau
4 1 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.03%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.03%) Power Query
4 1 (1.03%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.03%) Spark SQL
4 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (45.36%) JIRA
2 25 (25.77%) Jenkins
3 19 (19.59%) GitLab
4 12 (12.37%) Git
5 11 (11.34%) Postman
6 10 (10.31%) SoapUI
7 5 (5.15%) Cucumber
8 4 (4.12%) Cypress.io
8 4 (4.12%) Selenium
9 3 (3.09%) JUnit
9 3 (3.09%) Maven
9 3 (3.09%) SonarQube
9 3 (3.09%) WebDriver
9 3 (3.09%) Zephyr
10 2 (2.06%) git-flow
11 1 (1.03%) Artifactory
11 1 (1.03%) CircleCI
11 1 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (1.03%) TestRail
11 1 (1.03%) Travis CI
General
1 48 (49.48%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.56%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (17.53%) Finance
4 14 (14.43%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.12%) Banking
6 3 (3.09%) Military
7 1 (1.03%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.03%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.03%) Front Office
7 1 (1.03%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (17.53%) Analyst
2 13 (13.40%) Automation Engineer
2 13 (13.40%) Scrum Master
2 13 (13.40%) Senior
3 9 (9.28%) Data Protection Engineer
4 8 (8.25%) Data Engineer
4 8 (8.25%) Delivery Manager
4 8 (8.25%) Project Manager
4 8 (8.25%) Test Analyst
5 7 (7.22%) Business Analyst
5 7 (7.22%) Developer
6 6 (6.19%) Lead
6 6 (6.19%) Product Owner
6 6 (6.19%) Test Engineer
7 5 (5.15%) Senior Test Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.12%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Technical Analyst
9 3 (3.09%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.31%) Node.js
2 6 (6.19%) Middleware
3 5 (5.15%) Kafka
3 5 (5.15%) Playwright
4 4 (4.12%) React
4 4 (4.12%) RESTful
5 3 (3.09%) REST
5 3 (3.09%) SailPoint
5 3 (3.09%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.06%) Django
6 2 (2.06%) FastAPI
6 2 (2.06%) Flask
6 2 (2.06%) JSON
6 2 (2.06%) Next.js
6 2 (2.06%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (2.06%) Spring
6 2 (2.06%) Vue
6 2 (2.06%) XML
7 1 (1.03%) BAPI
7 1 (1.03%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (28.87%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.19%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.12%) NHS
4 3 (3.09%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.06%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.03%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.03%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.03%) FMCG
6 1 (1.03%) PDA
6 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.15%) Windows
2 3 (3.09%) Linux
2 3 (3.09%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.06%) VMS
4 1 (1.03%) Android
4 1 (1.03%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (83.51%) Agile
2 40 (41.24%) CI/CD
3 33 (34.02%) Kanban
4 31 (31.96%) Test Automation
4 31 (31.96%) User Stories
5 29 (29.90%) DevOps
5 29 (29.90%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (24.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (20.62%) Backlog Refinement
8 19 (19.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 19 (19.59%) Stakeholder Management
9 18 (18.56%) Sprint Retrospective
10 17 (17.53%) Software Testing
11 15 (15.46%) Sprint Planning
12 14 (14.43%) Configuration Management
12 14 (14.43%) Data Protection
13 13 (13.40%) Project Management
13 13 (13.40%) Roadmaps
14 12 (12.37%) Migration
15 11 (11.34%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 23 (23.71%) Python
2 13 (13.40%) Bash
3 11 (11.34%) Java
4 9 (9.28%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.19%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.12%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.12%) SQL
7 3 (3.09%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.03%) ABAP
8 1 (1.03%) C++
8 1 (1.03%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 9 (9.28%) ISTQB
2 8 (8.25%) CISM
2 8 (8.25%) CISSP
3 7 (7.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (6.19%) Degree
4 6 (6.19%) Security Cleared
5 5 (5.15%) PMI Certification
5 5 (5.15%) PMP
6 4 (4.12%) SC Cleared
7 3 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.03%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.43%) QA
2 7 (7.22%) Accessibility
2 7 (7.22%) GDPR
2 7 (7.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (7.22%) NIST
3 6 (6.19%) PCI DSS
4 5 (5.15%) Data Quality
5 4 (4.12%) WCAG
6 1 (1.03%) HL7
6 1 (1.03%) MiFID
6 1 (1.03%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 6 (6.19%) Docker
2 4 (4.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.09%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.09%) VMware NSX
3 3 (3.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (22.68%) Ansible
2 13 (13.40%) NetBackup
3 8 (8.25%) Kubernetes
4 6 (6.19%) Grafana
4 6 (6.19%) Puppet
5 4 (4.12%) Terraform
6 3 (3.09%) vCenter Server
6 3 (3.09%) vRealize
7 1 (1.03%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.03%) Kibana
7 1 (1.03%) logstash
7 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.03%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.03%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.03%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (24.74%) Microsoft
2 14 (14.43%) Red Hat
3 13 (13.40%) Commvault
4 9 (9.28%) Google
4 9 (9.28%) Veritas
5 8 (8.25%) BeyondTrust
5 8 (8.25%) CyberArk
5 8 (8.25%) Splunk
5 8 (8.25%) Thycotic
6 4 (4.12%) VMware
7 3 (3.09%) F5
8 2 (2.06%) Planview
8 2 (2.06%) SAP
8 2 (2.06%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.03%) Brio
9 1 (1.03%) Databricks
9 1 (1.03%) MarketAxess
9 1 (1.03%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.03%) Oracle
9 1 (1.03%) Tradeweb