Scrum Contracts in England

Scrum
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 38 26
Rank change year-on-year -5 -12 -1
Contract jobs citing Scrum 1,461 2,529 5,357
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.02% 5.25% 7.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 5.82% 8.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,007 1,704 3,601
10th Percentile £375 £413 £413
25th Percentile £430 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £650
90th Percentile £715 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £546
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.73% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 85 102
10th Percentile £31.71 £42.50 £34.38
25th Percentile £54.38 £55.00 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +44.44% -20.35%
75th Percentile £68.75 £73.75 £68.56
90th Percentile £70.45 £86.66 £79.43
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +44.44% -20.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,446 43,440 63,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.42% 90.15% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,588 30,513 45,420
10th Percentile £300 £325 £333
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,538 1,746
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £16.23 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.00 £49.37
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in England

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum in England

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in England

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scrum in England.

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in England

Scrum
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scrum in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Scrum in England

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
London +4 868 £550 -8.33% 250
South East -17 221 £500 -7.41% 102
North of England +3 154 £500 -9.09% 110
Midlands -18 88 £488 -7.14% 113
North West -2 80 £500 -4.76% 69
West Midlands -18 71 £505 -6.13% 77
Yorkshire +6 64 £538 -2.27% 32
South West -60 63 £575 - 74
East of England -44 29 £550 +4.76% 44
East Midlands -5 17 £405 -4.65% 34
North East +2 10 £525 -32.26% 9
Scrum
UK

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 114 (7.80%) Confluence
2 32 (2.19%) Apache
2 32 (2.19%) CMS
3 17 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (1.16%) Apache Spark
4 14 (0.96%) SAS
5 11 (0.75%) CICS
6 10 (0.68%) IIS
7 9 (0.62%) Drupal
7 9 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.34%) JBoss
10 4 (0.27%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.27%) WordPress
11 3 (0.21%) govService
11 3 (0.21%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 23 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.21%) Trello
6 2 (0.14%) Mingle
7 1 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.068%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.068%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.068%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.068%) InDesign
7 1 (0.068%) InVision
7 1 (0.068%) Marvel
7 1 (0.068%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.068%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 24 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.48%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.48%) SAP PM
4 6 (0.41%) Endur
4 6 (0.41%) SimCorp Dimension
5 5 (0.34%) SAP BPC
6 4 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.21%) Maximo
7 3 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.21%) SAP Hybris
7 3 (0.21%) SAP QM
7 3 (0.21%) Shopify
8 2 (0.14%) BusinessWorks
8 2 (0.14%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.14%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.14%) SAP SD
8 2 (0.14%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 395 (27.04%) Azure
2 218 (14.92%) Azure DevOps
3 164 (11.23%) AWS
4 74 (5.07%) Power Platform
5 71 (4.86%) Entra ID
6 61 (4.18%) GCP
7 59 (4.04%) Serverless
8 55 (3.76%) GitHub
9 39 (2.67%) SaaS
10 38 (2.60%) Azure Service Bus
11 36 (2.46%) PaaS
12 33 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
13 30 (2.05%) Azure Data Factory
14 28 (1.92%) Amazon S3
15 23 (1.57%) Azure Functions
16 22 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
16 22 (1.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 19 (1.30%) PowerApps
18 18 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
18 18 (1.23%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.78%) DNS
2 23 (1.57%) Firewall
2 23 (1.57%) VPN
3 22 (1.51%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.23%) SNMP
5 15 (1.03%) HTTP
5 15 (1.03%) Software-Defined Radio
6 12 (0.82%) MPLS
7 11 (0.75%) BGP
7 11 (0.75%) Ethernet VPN
8 10 (0.68%) Radio Access Network
9 8 (0.55%) Internet
10 7 (0.48%) DHCP
10 7 (0.48%) Modbus
10 7 (0.48%) RS-422
10 7 (0.48%) RS-485
10 7 (0.48%) SSH
10 7 (0.48%) SSL
11 6 (0.41%) FTP
11 6 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (12.53%) SQL Server
2 75 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
3 63 (4.31%) Relational Database
4 58 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
5 54 (3.70%) Power BI
6 42 (2.87%) MySQL
6 42 (2.87%) NoSQL
7 36 (2.46%) Data Lake
7 36 (2.46%) MongoDB
8 33 (2.26%) Big Data
9 28 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
10 26 (1.78%) Redis
11 22 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
12 19 (1.30%) Tableau
13 17 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (1.03%) DB2
15 14 (0.96%) RDBMS
16 13 (0.89%) Geospatial Data
17 12 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
18 11 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 269 (18.41%) JIRA
2 213 (14.58%) Git
3 88 (6.02%) Jenkins
4 70 (4.79%) GitLab
5 54 (3.70%) Selenium
6 48 (3.29%) JUnit
7 40 (2.74%) Robot Framework
8 38 (2.60%) SpecFlow
9 37 (2.53%) Postman
10 35 (2.40%) Visual Studio
11 34 (2.33%) Bitbucket
12 23 (1.57%) JMeter
13 19 (1.30%) Cucumber
14 18 (1.23%) Cypress.io
15 17 (1.16%) Artifactory
15 17 (1.16%) TestRail
16 16 (1.10%) TeamCity
17 15 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 15 (1.03%) Eclipse
17 15 (1.03%) WebDriver
General
1 402 (27.52%) Social Skills
2 265 (18.14%) Finance
3 162 (11.09%) Analytical Skills
4 141 (9.65%) Public Sector
5 104 (7.12%) Banking
6 49 (3.35%) Marketing
7 44 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
8 38 (2.60%) Retail
9 37 (2.53%) Front Office
9 37 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
9 37 (2.53%) Telecoms
10 29 (1.98%) Manufacturing
11 27 (1.85%) Investment Banking
12 26 (1.78%) Back Office
13 19 (1.30%) Electronics
14 18 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 17 (1.16%) Legal
15 17 (1.16%) Local Government
16 15 (1.03%) Billing
17 13 (0.89%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 336 (23.00%) Developer
2 215 (14.72%) Senior
3 151 (10.34%) Analyst
4 149 (10.20%) Scrum Master
5 134 (9.17%) Project Manager
6 100 (6.84%) Business Analyst
7 93 (6.37%) Architect
8 82 (5.61%) Senior Developer
9 79 (5.41%) Lead
10 64 (4.38%) Java Developer
10 64 (4.38%) Software Engineer
11 61 (4.18%) Software Developer
12 50 (3.42%) Product Owner
13 47 (3.22%) Delivery Manager
14 43 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
15 38 (2.60%) C# Developer
16 37 (2.53%) Senior Analyst
17 36 (2.46%) Senior Software Developer
18 35 (2.40%) DevOps Engineer
19 34 (2.33%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (11.57%) .NET
2 155 (10.61%) XML
3 106 (7.26%) HTML
4 101 (6.91%) REST
5 100 (6.84%) React
6 85 (5.82%) AngularJS
6 85 (5.82%) CSS
7 68 (4.65%) .NET Framework
8 67 (4.59%) Spring
9 63 (4.31%) Web Services
10 57 (3.90%) .NET Core
11 56 (3.83%) JSON
12 45 (3.08%) Spring Boot
13 42 (2.87%) Hibernate
13 42 (2.87%) Kafka
14 40 (2.74%) JPA
14 40 (2.74%) SOAP
15 34 (2.33%) RESTful
16 29 (1.98%) ASP.NET
16 29 (1.98%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 240 (16.43%) Product Ownership
2 35 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
3 31 (2.12%) Mobile App
4 29 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
5 28 (1.92%) Data Structures
6 26 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
7 24 (1.64%) Algorithms
7 24 (1.64%) Management Information System
8 21 (1.44%) Hedge funds
9 20 (1.37%) Onboarding
10 18 (1.23%) Derivative
11 17 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.10%) Mainframe
12 16 (1.10%) PKI
13 15 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
14 14 (0.96%) Virtual Team
15 13 (0.89%) Cloud Native
15 13 (0.89%) Fixed Income
16 12 (0.82%) IBM Mainframe
17 11 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 138 (9.45%) Linux
2 78 (5.34%) Windows
3 58 (3.97%) Unix
4 33 (2.26%) Windows Server
5 15 (1.03%) Android
5 15 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.89%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.82%) zOS
8 9 (0.62%) VMS
9 8 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
11 4 (0.27%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.068%) CentOS
12 1 (0.068%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,310 (89.66%) Agile
2 425 (29.09%) DevOps
3 318 (21.77%) Kanban
4 288 (19.71%) CI/CD
5 213 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
6 208 (14.24%) Project Management
7 195 (13.35%) Software Engineering
7 195 (13.35%) Test Automation
8 151 (10.34%) User Stories
9 148 (10.13%) SDLC
10 145 (9.92%) Stakeholder Management
11 139 (9.51%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 134 (9.17%) Continuous Integration
12 134 (9.17%) Project Delivery
13 130 (8.90%) TDD
14 116 (7.94%) Roadmaps
15 115 (7.87%) Continuous Improvement
16 111 (7.60%) Analytics
16 111 (7.60%) Microservices
17 104 (7.12%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 246 (16.84%) SQL
2 213 (14.58%) Java
3 210 (14.37%) C#
4 184 (12.59%) Python
5 167 (11.43%) PowerShell
6 148 (10.13%) JavaScript
7 67 (4.59%) TypeScript
8 57 (3.90%) C++
9 52 (3.56%) Bicep
10 41 (2.81%) Bash
11 38 (2.60%) C
12 20 (1.37%) PL/SQL
12 20 (1.37%) Shell Script
13 19 (1.30%) Scala
14 18 (1.23%) T-SQL
15 15 (1.03%) Perl
16 14 (0.96%) COBOL
17 13 (0.89%) REXX
18 12 (0.82%) SELCOPY
19 11 (0.75%) CLIST
Qualifications
1 247 (16.91%) Security Cleared
2 185 (12.66%) SC Cleared
3 145 (9.92%) Degree
4 62 (4.24%) DV Cleared
5 49 (3.35%) PMP
6 48 (3.29%) PMI Certification
7 40 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (1.78%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (1.16%) AWS Certification
11 8 (0.55%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.48%) APMP
12 7 (0.48%) CBAP
12 7 (0.48%) CSPO
13 6 (0.41%) ISEB
14 5 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.34%) Azure Certification
14 5 (0.34%) MBA
15 4 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
15 4 (0.27%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (9.10%) QA
2 35 (2.40%) Accessibility
3 25 (1.71%) Data Quality
4 24 (1.64%) PMO
5 9 (0.62%) GDPR
6 7 (0.48%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.48%) RMADS
6 7 (0.48%) WCAG
7 5 (0.34%) NIST
7 5 (0.34%) SLA
7 5 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
8 3 (0.21%) GRC
8 3 (0.21%) GxP
8 3 (0.21%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.21%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.21%) JTAG
8 3 (0.21%) P3O
9 2 (0.14%) IFRS
9 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 1 (0.068%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 125 (8.56%) Docker
2 93 (6.37%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.10%) Firmware
5 14 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.68%) vSphere
7 6 (0.41%) VirtualBox
8 5 (0.34%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.34%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.068%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.068%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.068%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.068%) XenApp
10 1 (0.068%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 100 (6.84%) Kubernetes
2 92 (6.30%) Terraform
3 90 (6.16%) Ansible
4 44 (3.01%) Grafana
5 41 (2.81%) Puppet
6 26 (1.78%) Prometheus
7 19 (1.30%) Progress Chef
8 17 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.89%) Kibana
10 12 (0.82%) logstash
11 9 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
12 8 (0.55%) vRealize
13 6 (0.41%) Packer
14 5 (0.34%) HP ALM
15 3 (0.21%) Netcool
15 3 (0.21%) SCCM
15 3 (0.21%) VxRail
16 2 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
16 2 (0.14%) PingFederate
16 2 (0.14%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 226 (15.47%) Microsoft
2 78 (5.34%) Oracle
3 66 (4.52%) SAP
4 59 (4.04%) Salesforce
5 48 (3.29%) ServiceNow
6 42 (2.87%) Google
7 32 (2.19%) VMware
8 29 (1.98%) Splunk
9 24 (1.64%) Atlassian
10 22 (1.51%) Talend
11 20 (1.37%) IBM
12 17 (1.16%) Databricks
13 15 (1.03%) Denodo
14 13 (0.89%) Informatica
14 13 (0.89%) Syncsort
15 10 (0.68%) Dell
16 9 (0.62%) Adobe
17 8 (0.55%) CA Agile Central
17 8 (0.55%) Red Hat
18 7 (0.48%) CyberArk