Scrum Contracts in Birmingham

Scrum
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for Scrum skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scrum over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 48 50
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing Scrum 22 28 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.96% 3.14% 3.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.62% 3.61% 3.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 24 34
10th Percentile £413 £395 £313
25th Percentile £452 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £531 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% +6.25% +24.64%
75th Percentile £633 £600 £597
90th Percentile £680 £646 £625
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £540 £536
% change year-on-year -7.41% +0.70% +19.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Scrum is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 608 775 1,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 81.94% 86.88% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 505 858
10th Percentile £236 £275 £229
25th Percentile £375 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +5.13% +14.71%
75th Percentile £580 £631 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £520 £495
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.05% +16.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 31 22
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.00 £12.05
25th Percentile £18.50 £12.50 £13.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £20.71 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +25.57% +23.61% -6.94%
75th Percentile £47.13 £29.38 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £53.75 £19.95
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £16.83
% change year-on-year +7.30% +24.64% +5.16%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in Birmingham

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Scrum in Birmingham

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Birmingham over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Birmingham

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) NetSuite
2 1 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (18.18%) Boomi
3 4 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 2 (9.09%) AWS
4 2 (9.09%) GitHub
5 1 (4.55%) SaaS
5 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) LAN
1 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
1 2 (9.09%) VPN
1 2 (9.09%) WAN
2 1 (4.55%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.55%) Flink
2 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) JIRA
3 1 (4.55%) Artifactory
3 1 (4.55%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (4.55%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Finance
3 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
5 2 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Analyst
1 6 (27.27%) Business Analyst
2 5 (22.73%) Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Project Manager
4 3 (13.64%) Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Salesforce Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Senior
4 3 (13.64%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Finance Business Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Financial Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Financial Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Business Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) C# Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) HTML
1 4 (18.18%) XML
2 2 (9.09%) CSS
2 2 (9.09%) JSON
2 2 (9.09%) OAuth
2 2 (9.09%) SAML
2 2 (9.09%) Spring
2 2 (9.09%) Visualforce
2 2 (9.09%) Web Services
3 1 (4.55%) Guice
3 1 (4.55%) Kafka
3 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (4.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 3 (13.64%) Taxonomies
3 2 (9.09%) Algorithms
3 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
3 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
1 2 (9.09%) Unix
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
2 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Agile
2 8 (36.36%) User Stories
3 7 (31.82%) Project Management
3 7 (31.82%) Waterfall
4 6 (27.27%) Business Transformation
4 6 (27.27%) Change Control
4 6 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (22.73%) Change Management
5 5 (22.73%) DevOps
6 4 (18.18%) Analytical Thinking
6 4 (18.18%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 4 (18.18%) Business Analysis
6 4 (18.18%) Conflict Resolution
6 4 (18.18%) GAP Analysis
6 4 (18.18%) Product Backlog
6 4 (18.18%) Resource Allocation
6 4 (18.18%) Roadmaps
6 4 (18.18%) Technical Analysis
7 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
7 3 (13.64%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 2 (9.09%) Apex Code
2 2 (9.09%) Java
2 2 (9.09%) Perl
2 2 (9.09%) SOQL
3 1 (4.55%) C#
3 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Degree
2 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (13.64%) PMI Certification
2 3 (13.64%) PMP
3 1 (4.55%) CCNA
3 1 (4.55%) CCNP
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) Ansible
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
2 1 (4.55%) Puppet
2 1 (4.55%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 4 (18.18%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.55%) Dell
2 1 (4.55%) Guidewire
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle
2 1 (4.55%) VMware