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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 53 40
Rank change year-on-year -33 -13 +29
Contract jobs citing Scrum 70 44 81
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.57% 3.74% 4.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.98% 4.02% 5.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 22 56
10th Percentile £413 £367 £383
25th Percentile £460 £406 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £479 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -12.95% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £514 £593
90th Percentile £619 £595 £641
England median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -8.70%

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 2,349 1,095 1,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.30% 93.11% 84.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,441 663 866
10th Percentile £325 £263 £275
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £582
90th Percentile £675 £624 £650
England median daily rate £519 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.23% -1.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 48 75
10th Percentile £14.85 £15.88 £11.48
25th Percentile £17.01 £18.10 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £21.24 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.39% +57.33% +27.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £22.57 £21.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £29.21 £53.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year +71.53% -26.93% +5.19%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -4 38 £500 - 8
South Yorkshire -36 28 £500 +7.30% 7
North Yorkshire -9 3 - -
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 8 (11.43%) Confluence
2 7 (10.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.43%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.43%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.43%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 15 (21.43%) AWS
2 13 (18.57%) Azure
3 10 (14.29%) Serverless
4 9 (12.86%) GCP
5 5 (7.14%) Cloud Run
6 4 (5.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (4.29%) GitHub
8 2 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.86%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.43%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.43%) Figma
9 1 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.43%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.14%) Network Security
2 2 (2.86%) BIG-IP
2 2 (2.86%) DHCP
2 2 (2.86%) DNS
2 2 (2.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.00%) Hadoop
1 7 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 7 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.71%) Neo4j
3 3 (4.29%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.86%) Big Data
5 1 (1.43%) Power BI
5 1 (1.43%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (28.57%) JIRA
2 15 (21.43%) Git
3 7 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.86%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.86%) Flyway
4 2 (2.86%) git-flow
4 2 (2.86%) JUnit
4 2 (2.86%) Liquibase
4 2 (2.86%) Mockito
5 1 (1.43%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.43%) GitLab
5 1 (1.43%) Vite
General
1 31 (44.29%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.14%) Finance
3 10 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 7 (10.00%) Banking
5 7 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (7.14%) Retail
7 4 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (4.29%) Law
9 2 (2.86%) Military
9 2 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.43%) Games
10 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
1 14 (20.00%) Lead
1 14 (20.00%) Senior
2 12 (17.14%) Developer
3 7 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 7 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 7 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 6 (8.57%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 6 (8.57%) Senior Manager
5 5 (7.14%) Analyst
5 5 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) Java Developer
5 5 (7.14%) Python Developer
5 5 (7.14%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
5 5 (7.14%) Senior Delivery Manager
6 4 (5.71%) Agile Delivery Lead
6 4 (5.71%) Backend Developer
6 4 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (5.71%) Senior Backend Developer
6 4 (5.71%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.86%) REST
2 8 (11.43%) RESTful
3 5 (7.14%) Kafka
3 5 (7.14%) Spring
3 5 (7.14%) Spring Boot
4 4 (5.71%) React
5 2 (2.86%) Drools
5 2 (2.86%) Gherkin
5 2 (2.86%) HATEOAS
5 2 (2.86%) Jasypt
5 2 (2.86%) JPA
5 2 (2.86%) JSON
5 2 (2.86%) Loki
5 2 (2.86%) OAuth
5 2 (2.86%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.86%) SailPoint
5 2 (2.86%) Spring Batch
5 2 (2.86%) Spring MVC
5 2 (2.86%) Spring Security
5 2 (2.86%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.14%) Product Ownership
2 7 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.57%) Onboarding
4 5 (7.14%) NHS
5 4 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.86%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (98.57%) Agile
2 33 (47.14%) CI/CD
3 22 (31.43%) Kanban
4 20 (28.57%) DevOps
5 19 (27.14%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (27.14%) Test Automation
6 18 (25.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (24.29%) Code Quality
8 15 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (18.57%) Sprint Planning
10 12 (17.14%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (17.14%) Data Pipeline
11 11 (15.71%) Analytics
11 11 (15.71%) Change Management
11 11 (15.71%) Decision-Making
11 11 (15.71%) Microservices
11 11 (15.71%) Roadmaps
12 10 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
12 10 (14.29%) Risk Management
12 10 (14.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 16 (22.86%) SQL
2 15 (21.43%) Python
3 6 (8.57%) JavaScript
4 5 (7.14%) Java
5 2 (2.86%) PromQL
6 1 (1.43%) ABAP
6 1 (1.43%) Bash
6 1 (1.43%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (10.00%) Degree
2 5 (7.14%) PMP
3 4 (5.71%) PMI Certification
3 4 (5.71%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.71%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.86%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.86%) CBAP
5 2 (2.86%) CISM
5 2 (2.86%) CISSP
5 2 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.86%) CRISC
6 1 (1.43%) CAPM
6 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) Accessibility
1 4 (5.71%) PMO
2 3 (4.29%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.86%) GRC
3 2 (2.86%) NIST
4 1 (1.43%) QA
4 1 (1.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (15.71%) Terraform
3 8 (11.43%) Ansible
4 4 (5.71%) Kustomize
5 2 (2.86%) Consul
5 2 (2.86%) Grafana
5 2 (2.86%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.86%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 7 (10.00%) Splunk
2 5 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.71%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.29%) SAP
5 2 (2.86%) Cadence
5 2 (2.86%) F5
5 2 (2.86%) Infoblox
5 2 (2.86%) Solace
6 1 (1.43%) Tenable
6 1 (1.43%) Workday