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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 48 58
Rank change year-on-year +1 +10 -23
Contract jobs citing Scrum 97 46 52
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.35% 3.43% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.94% 4.04% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 33 40
10th Percentile £377 £406 £400
25th Percentile £449 £470 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £517
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.55% -1.05%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £575
90th Percentile £579 £690 £603
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £90.42 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £67.02 £65.00
% change year-on-year -17.93% +3.11% -

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 1,634 1,140 1,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 90.08% 84.95% 88.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,088 656 1,072
10th Percentile £250 £246 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.57% +1.60%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £649 £681 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 38 25
10th Percentile £15.03 - £15.96
25th Percentile £18.74 £12.55 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.08 £19.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.59% -11.36% +7.32%
75th Percentile £25.49 £33.75 £30.00
90th Percentile £78.63 £41.50 £44.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +23.61%

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 21 November 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 21 November 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
West Yorkshire +6 48 £500 - 35
South Yorkshire -19 40 £500 -4.76% 2
North Yorkshire - 6 £488 -
East Yorkshire - 2 - - 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 26 (26.80%) Confluence
2 2 (2.06%) IIS
3 1 (1.03%) Apache
3 1 (1.03%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.03%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.03%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.03%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.03%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.03%) SAP MRS
3 1 (1.03%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 21 (21.65%) AWS
2 18 (18.56%) Azure
3 13 (13.40%) GitHub
4 11 (11.34%) GCP
5 9 (9.28%) CloudBees
6 5 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (5.15%) Serverless
7 4 (4.12%) Cohesity
7 4 (4.12%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.09%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
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 Service Bus
10 1 (1.03%) Bitrise
10 1 (1.03%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.12%) Firewall
2 3 (3.09%) DNS
2 3 (3.09%) NAS
2 3 (3.09%) SAN
3 1 (1.03%) HTTP
3 1 (1.03%) SSL
3 1 (1.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.19%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.09%) DocumentDB
2 3 (3.09%) Power BI
2 3 (3.09%) Redis
2 3 (3.09%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.06%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.06%) Tableau
4 1 (1.03%) MySQL
4 1 (1.03%) Power Query
4 1 (1.03%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.03%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 39 (40.21%) JIRA
2 25 (25.77%) Jenkins
3 19 (19.59%) GitLab
4 12 (12.37%) Git
5 10 (10.31%) Postman
6 9 (9.28%) SoapUI
7 5 (5.15%) Cucumber
8 4 (4.12%) Cypress.io
8 4 (4.12%) SonarQube
9 3 (3.09%) git-flow
10 2 (2.06%) Selenium
10 2 (2.06%) Zephyr
11 1 (1.03%) Artifactory
11 1 (1.03%) Crashlytics
11 1 (1.03%) Log4j
11 1 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (1.03%) SpecFlow
11 1 (1.03%) TestRail
General
1 52 (53.61%) Social Skills
2 19 (19.59%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (19.59%) Finance
3 15 (15.46%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.12%) Banking
5 3 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.09%) Military
6 1 (1.03%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.03%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.03%) Front Office
6 1 (1.03%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (19.59%) Analyst
2 15 (15.46%) Senior
3 14 (14.43%) Scrum Master
4 12 (12.37%) Automation Engineer
5 9 (9.28%) Data Protection Engineer
5 9 (9.28%) Test Analyst
6 8 (8.25%) Business Analyst
6 8 (8.25%) Data Engineer
6 8 (8.25%) Delivery Manager
6 8 (8.25%) Developer
7 6 (6.19%) Product Owner
7 6 (6.19%) Test Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) Project Manager
8 5 (5.15%) Senior Test Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Lead
9 4 (4.12%) Migration Specialist
9 4 (4.12%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.12%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.34%) Node.js
2 5 (5.15%) Kafka
2 5 (5.15%) Playwright
3 4 (4.12%) RESTful
4 3 (3.09%) .NET
4 3 (3.09%) Middleware
4 3 (3.09%) Next.js
4 3 (3.09%) React
4 3 (3.09%) REST
4 3 (3.09%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.06%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.06%) ASP.NET
5 2 (2.06%) Django
5 2 (2.06%) FastAPI
5 2 (2.06%) Flask
5 2 (2.06%) MSMQ
5 2 (2.06%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (2.06%) Vue
6 1 (1.03%) JSON
6 1 (1.03%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 30 (30.93%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.19%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.12%) NHS
4 3 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.06%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.06%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.06%) N-Tier
5 2 (2.06%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.03%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.03%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.03%) Derivative
6 1 (1.03%) Equities
6 1 (1.03%) FMCG
6 1 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.03%) PDA
6 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.15%) Windows
2 4 (4.12%) Linux
3 3 (3.09%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.06%) Android
4 2 (2.06%) VMS
5 1 (1.03%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (83.51%) Agile
2 42 (43.30%) CI/CD
3 33 (34.02%) Kanban
4 32 (32.99%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (32.99%) User Stories
5 30 (30.93%) Test Automation
6 28 (28.87%) DevOps
7 24 (24.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (21.65%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (20.62%) Sprint Retrospective
10 19 (19.59%) Backlog Refinement
11 18 (18.56%) Sprint Planning
12 17 (17.53%) Software Testing
13 16 (16.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 15 (15.46%) Configuration Management
14 15 (15.46%) Roadmaps
15 14 (14.43%) Data Protection
16 12 (12.37%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 11 (11.34%) Project Management
17 11 (11.34%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 23 (23.71%) Python
2 13 (13.40%) Bash
3 10 (10.31%) JavaScript
4 8 (8.25%) Java
5 7 (7.22%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.15%) SQL
7 3 (3.09%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.09%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.06%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.06%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.03%) ABAP
9 1 (1.03%) Bicep
9 1 (1.03%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (8.25%) CISM
1 8 (8.25%) CISSP
1 8 (8.25%) ISTQB
2 7 (7.22%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (6.19%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.12%) Degree
4 4 (4.12%) PMP
4 4 (4.12%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.06%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.03%) CSPO
7 1 (1.03%) IBM Certification
7 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.03%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.40%) 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 4 (4.12%) WCAG
5 3 (3.09%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.03%) HL7
6 1 (1.03%) MiFID
6 1 (1.03%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 5 (5.15%) Docker
2 4 (4.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.09%) Active Directory
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 5 (5.15%) Grafana
3 5 (5.15%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.15%) Puppet
4 4 (4.12%) Terraform
5 3 (3.09%) vCenter Server
5 3 (3.09%) vRealize
6 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.03%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.03%) SCCM
6 1 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (24.74%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.46%) 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%) Databricks
8 2 (2.06%) Planview
8 2 (2.06%) SAP
9 1 (1.03%) Brio
9 1 (1.03%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.03%) IBM
9 1 (1.03%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.03%) Oracle
9 1 (1.03%) TIBCO