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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 55 47
Rank change year-on-year -22 -8 +8
Contract jobs citing Scrum 69 34 65
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.70% 3.26% 3.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.12% 3.54% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 20 46
10th Percentile £372 £365 £375
25th Percentile £448 £400 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £464 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.70% -15.59% -0.90%
75th Percentile £581 £505 £600
90th Percentile £619 £550 £645
England median daily rate £513 £500 £533
% change year-on-year +2.50% -6.10% -7.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £102.00 -
England median hourly rate £66.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.78% -11.54% -

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 2,210 961 1,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.50% 92.14% 85.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,407 593 861
10th Percentile £325 £263 £275
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -6.67%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £582
90th Percentile £669 £625 £650
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 38 66
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.86 £11.30
25th Percentile £18.12 £17.27 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £21.12 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +56.44% +27.00%
75th Percentile £57.25 £22.14 £22.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £34.24 £53.75
England median hourly rate £46.11 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +60.37% -21.23% -1.75%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +1 37 £528 +8.21% 15
South Yorkshire -45 28 £460 -0.92% 9
North Yorkshire -3 3 - - 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 12 (17.39%) Confluence
2 7 (10.14%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.45%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.45%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.45%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 19 (27.54%) AWS
2 15 (21.74%) Azure
3 8 (11.59%) GCP
4 7 (10.14%) Serverless
5 4 (5.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (4.35%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.90%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.90%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.90%) Cloud Run
7 2 (2.90%) GitHub
8 1 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.45%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.45%) Apigee
8 1 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.45%) Figma
8 1 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.45%) Kong
8 1 (1.45%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.45%) SaaS
8 1 (1.45%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.25%) Network Security
2 3 (4.35%) DNS
2 3 (4.35%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.90%) BIG-IP
3 2 (2.90%) DHCP
4 1 (1.45%) Firewall
4 1 (1.45%) HTTP
4 1 (1.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.59%) NoSQL
2 7 (10.14%) Hadoop
3 4 (5.80%) Neo4j
4 3 (4.35%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.90%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.45%) Power BI
6 1 (1.45%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (36.23%) JIRA
2 12 (17.39%) Git
3 10 (14.49%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.80%) GitLab
5 3 (4.35%) JUnit
5 3 (4.35%) Maven
5 3 (4.35%) Selenium
5 3 (4.35%) WebDriver
6 2 (2.90%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.45%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.45%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.45%) Postman
7 1 (1.45%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.45%) Travis CI
7 1 (1.45%) Vite
7 1 (1.45%) Zephyr
General
1 29 (42.03%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.14%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (8.70%) Finance
4 6 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.25%) Banking
5 5 (7.25%) Retail
6 4 (5.80%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.35%) Military
8 2 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.45%) Law
9 1 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (24.64%) Lead
2 13 (18.84%) Delivery Manager
3 11 (15.94%) Senior
4 9 (13.04%) Project Manager
5 8 (11.59%) Developer
6 6 (8.70%) Agile Delivery Manager
6 6 (8.70%) Senior Manager
7 5 (7.25%) Analyst
7 5 (7.25%) Business Analyst
7 5 (7.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
7 5 (7.25%) Senior Delivery Manager
8 4 (5.80%) Agile Delivery Lead
8 4 (5.80%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Java Developer
9 3 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (4.35%) Integration Manager
9 3 (4.35%) Lead Consultant
9 3 (4.35%) Lead Data Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.70%) Kafka
2 5 (7.25%) React
2 5 (7.25%) REST
2 5 (7.25%) SailPoint
3 4 (5.80%) Middleware
3 4 (5.80%) Spring
4 3 (4.35%) JSON
4 3 (4.35%) Node.js
4 3 (4.35%) RESTful
4 3 (4.35%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.90%) Playwright
5 2 (2.90%) Redux
6 1 (1.45%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.45%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.45%) MERN Stack
6 1 (1.45%) Mustache
6 1 (1.45%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (1.45%) SAPUI5
6 1 (1.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.49%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.14%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.80%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.80%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.35%) NHS
5 2 (2.90%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.45%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (95.65%) Agile
2 31 (44.93%) CI/CD
3 23 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 22 (31.88%) DevOps
4 22 (31.88%) Kanban
5 21 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (20.29%) Code Quality
8 13 (18.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 12 (17.39%) Change Management
9 12 (17.39%) Data Pipeline
10 11 (15.94%) Containerisation
10 11 (15.94%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (15.94%) Sprint Planning
11 10 (14.49%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (14.49%) Data Engineering
11 10 (14.49%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (13.04%) Analytics
12 9 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
12 9 (13.04%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (18.84%) Python
2 11 (15.94%) SQL
3 8 (11.59%) Java
3 8 (11.59%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.90%) Bash
5 1 (1.45%) ABAP
5 1 (1.45%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (10.14%) PMP
2 6 (8.70%) Degree
2 6 (8.70%) PMI Certification
2 6 (8.70%) SC Cleared
2 6 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.90%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.90%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.90%) CBAP
4 2 (2.90%) CISM
4 2 (2.90%) CISSP
4 2 (2.90%) CRISC
5 1 (1.45%) CAPM
5 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.45%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.25%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.80%) PMO
3 3 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.35%) QA
4 2 (2.90%) GRC
4 2 (2.90%) NIST
5 1 (1.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (15.94%) Docker
2 3 (4.35%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 13 (18.84%) Kubernetes
2 12 (17.39%) Terraform
3 7 (10.14%) Ansible
4 4 (5.80%) Kustomize
5 2 (2.90%) Grafana
6 1 (1.45%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.45%) Kibana
6 1 (1.45%) logstash
6 1 (1.45%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.45%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (13.04%) Splunk
2 6 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.70%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.80%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.35%) SAP
5 2 (2.90%) Cadence
5 2 (2.90%) F5
5 2 (2.90%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.45%) Tenable
6 1 (1.45%) Workday