Scrum Contracts in England

Scrum
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Scrum skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Scrum over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 40 26
Rank change year-on-year -2 -14 -2
Contract jobs citing Scrum 1,520 2,370 5,347
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.06% 5.04% 7.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.75% 5.60% 8.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,045 1,617 3,597
10th Percentile £363 £406 £413
25th Percentile £425 £481 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £650
90th Percentile £702 £775 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 72 103
10th Percentile £31.83 £42.50 £34.86
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +44.44% -22.41%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.81 £68.38
90th Percentile £74.35 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +44.44% -22.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,009 42,303 63,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.42% 89.91% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,803 29,700 45,505
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,367 1,525 1,690
10th Percentile £12.80 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% +37.27% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.02 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.24% +36.35% +11.65%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +4 898 £550 -8.33% 313
South East -16 218 £500 -6.98% 108
North of England +16 169 £510 -7.27% 134
Midlands -22 93 £475 -9.52% 99
Yorkshire +25 81 £538 +1.18% 34
West Midlands -20 74 £500 -7.41% 71
North West -10 73 £500 -4.76% 92
South West -51 68 £575 - 85
East of England -50 28 £550 +4.76% 34
East Midlands -7 19 £398 -6.47% 28
North East +7 15 £513 -33.84% 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
1 117 (7.70%) Confluence
2 32 (2.11%) Apache
3 31 (2.04%) CMS
4 21 (1.38%) Apache Spark
5 18 (1.18%) SAS
6 17 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (0.86%) SharePoint
8 11 (0.72%) CICS
9 10 (0.66%) IIS
10 9 (0.59%) Drupal
11 7 (0.46%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.33%) JBoss
13 4 (0.26%) Headless CMS
14 3 (0.20%) govService
14 3 (0.20%) WordPress
15 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 2 (0.13%) Mule
15 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 2 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
15 2 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.53%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.26%) Trello
7 3 (0.20%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.13%) InVision
8 2 (0.13%) Mingle
8 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 24 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.46%) SimCorp Dimension
4 6 (0.39%) Endur
4 6 (0.39%) SAP PM
5 5 (0.33%) SAP BPC
6 4 (0.26%) Shopify
6 4 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.20%) Maximo
7 3 (0.20%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.20%) SAP QM
8 2 (0.13%) BusinessWorks
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.13%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.13%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.13%) SAP SD
8 2 (0.13%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 419 (27.57%) Azure
2 215 (14.14%) Azure DevOps
3 176 (11.58%) AWS
4 107 (7.04%) Power Platform
5 72 (4.74%) Entra ID
6 67 (4.41%) Serverless
7 58 (3.82%) GCP
8 56 (3.68%) GitHub
9 42 (2.76%) SaaS
10 37 (2.43%) Amazon S3
10 37 (2.43%) Azure Service Bus
10 37 (2.43%) PaaS
11 36 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
12 29 (1.91%) Azure Data Factory
13 26 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
14 25 (1.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 24 (1.58%) Azure Functions
15 24 (1.58%) PowerApps
16 21 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
17 18 (1.18%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 28 (1.84%) Firewall
2 26 (1.71%) DNS
3 24 (1.58%) TCP/IP
4 22 (1.45%) VPN
5 21 (1.38%) SNMP
6 17 (1.12%) Software-Defined Radio
7 15 (0.99%) HTTP
8 11 (0.72%) MPLS
9 10 (0.66%) BGP
10 9 (0.59%) SSH
11 8 (0.53%) Ethernet VPN
11 8 (0.53%) Radio Access Network
12 7 (0.46%) DHCP
12 7 (0.46%) Internet
12 7 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (0.39%) FTP
13 6 (0.39%) RS-485
13 6 (0.39%) SSL
14 5 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 5 (0.33%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (12.11%) SQL Server
2 84 (5.53%) Relational Database
3 82 (5.39%) Power BI
4 76 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
5 63 (4.14%) MySQL
6 55 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
7 47 (3.09%) NoSQL
8 39 (2.57%) Big Data
8 39 (2.57%) MongoDB
9 38 (2.50%) Data Lake
10 34 (2.24%) Tableau
11 32 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
12 27 (1.78%) Redis
13 26 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
14 18 (1.18%) Qlik Sense
15 17 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 15 (0.99%) DB2
17 14 (0.92%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
17 14 (0.92%) RDBMS
18 13 (0.86%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 279 (18.36%) JIRA
2 237 (15.59%) Git
3 100 (6.58%) Jenkins
4 74 (4.87%) GitLab
5 61 (4.01%) Selenium
6 54 (3.55%) JUnit
7 47 (3.09%) Postman
8 41 (2.70%) SpecFlow
9 39 (2.57%) Robot Framework
10 35 (2.30%) Visual Studio
11 31 (2.04%) Bitbucket
12 24 (1.58%) JMeter
13 20 (1.32%) Cucumber
14 18 (1.18%) Artifactory
14 18 (1.18%) Cypress.io
14 18 (1.18%) Eclipse
14 18 (1.18%) GoogleTest
15 16 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
16 15 (0.99%) WebDriver
17 14 (0.92%) TeamCity
General
1 421 (27.70%) Social Skills
2 265 (17.43%) Finance
3 161 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (10.07%) Public Sector
5 110 (7.24%) Banking
6 49 (3.22%) Marketing
7 47 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
8 41 (2.70%) Front Office
8 41 (2.70%) Retail
9 39 (2.57%) Telecoms
10 37 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
11 31 (2.04%) Investment Banking
12 29 (1.91%) Manufacturing
13 27 (1.78%) Back Office
14 20 (1.32%) Local Government
15 19 (1.25%) Legal
16 18 (1.18%) Electronics
17 17 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 15 (0.99%) Billing
19 14 (0.92%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 346 (22.76%) Developer
2 225 (14.80%) Senior
3 163 (10.72%) Analyst
4 140 (9.21%) Project Manager
5 127 (8.36%) Scrum Master
6 102 (6.71%) Business Analyst
7 94 (6.18%) Architect
8 92 (6.05%) Senior Developer
9 82 (5.39%) Lead
10 74 (4.87%) Software Engineer
11 66 (4.34%) Java Developer
12 61 (4.01%) Software Developer
13 54 (3.55%) Delivery Manager
14 51 (3.36%) Product Owner
15 43 (2.83%) Senior Analyst
16 41 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
17 40 (2.63%) Tester
18 38 (2.50%) DevOps Engineer
19 37 (2.43%) Consultant
19 37 (2.43%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (11.64%) .NET
2 158 (10.39%) XML
3 122 (8.03%) HTML
4 108 (7.11%) React
5 106 (6.97%) CSS
6 100 (6.58%) AngularJS
6 100 (6.58%) REST
7 72 (4.74%) Spring
8 70 (4.61%) .NET Framework
9 63 (4.14%) Web Services
10 61 (4.01%) .NET Core
11 60 (3.95%) JSON
12 51 (3.36%) Spring Boot
13 44 (2.89%) Hibernate
13 44 (2.89%) JPA
14 42 (2.76%) Kafka
15 40 (2.63%) SOAP
16 37 (2.43%) RESTful
17 31 (2.04%) Node.js
18 26 (1.71%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 227 (14.93%) Product Ownership
2 35 (2.30%) Mobile App
3 31 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
3 31 (2.04%) Data Structures
4 30 (1.97%) Algorithms
4 30 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
6 22 (1.45%) Management Information System
7 21 (1.38%) Derivative
7 21 (1.38%) Hedge funds
8 20 (1.32%) Onboarding
9 18 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
10 17 (1.12%) Virtual Team
11 14 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (0.92%) Mainframe
12 13 (0.86%) Cloud Native
12 13 (0.86%) PKI
13 12 (0.79%) IBM Mainframe
14 11 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 147 (9.67%) Linux
2 76 (5.00%) Windows
3 64 (4.21%) Unix
4 33 (2.17%) Windows Server
5 18 (1.18%) Android
6 16 (1.05%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.79%) zOS
9 8 (0.53%) VMS
9 8 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
11 4 (0.26%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.066%) CentOS
12 1 (0.066%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,342 (88.29%) Agile
2 419 (27.57%) DevOps
3 333 (21.91%) Kanban
4 302 (19.87%) CI/CD
5 225 (14.80%) Software Engineering
6 215 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
7 211 (13.88%) Project Management
8 210 (13.82%) Test Automation
9 159 (10.46%) User Stories
10 156 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
11 152 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
12 146 (9.61%) SDLC
13 144 (9.47%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 140 (9.21%) Analytics
15 135 (8.88%) TDD
16 132 (8.68%) Project Delivery
17 123 (8.09%) Microservices
18 116 (7.63%) Business Intelligence
19 113 (7.43%) Roadmaps
20 109 (7.17%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 279 (18.36%) SQL
2 233 (15.33%) Java
3 212 (13.95%) C#
4 185 (12.17%) Python
5 168 (11.05%) JavaScript
6 165 (10.86%) PowerShell
7 79 (5.20%) TypeScript
8 59 (3.88%) C++
9 52 (3.42%) Bicep
10 39 (2.57%) Bash
11 35 (2.30%) C
12 24 (1.58%) PL/SQL
13 23 (1.51%) Scala
13 23 (1.51%) Shell Script
14 18 (1.18%) T-SQL
15 16 (1.05%) Perl
16 14 (0.92%) COBOL
17 13 (0.86%) REXX
18 12 (0.79%) SELCOPY
19 11 (0.72%) CLIST
Qualifications
1 249 (16.38%) Security Cleared
2 184 (12.11%) SC Cleared
3 166 (10.92%) Degree
4 62 (4.08%) DV Cleared
5 60 (3.95%) PMP
6 59 (3.88%) PMI Certification
7 51 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (2.37%) Master's Degree
9 16 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (0.86%) AWS Certification
11 10 (0.66%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.46%) APMP
12 7 (0.46%) CBAP
12 7 (0.46%) CSPO
13 6 (0.39%) CCNP
13 6 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (0.26%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.26%) ISEB
15 4 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (9.87%) QA
2 37 (2.43%) Data Quality
3 35 (2.30%) Accessibility
4 25 (1.64%) PMO
5 8 (0.53%) WCAG
6 7 (0.46%) GDPR
6 7 (0.46%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.46%) RMADS
7 5 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
8 4 (0.26%) P3O
9 3 (0.20%) GRC
9 3 (0.20%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.20%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.20%) NIST
9 3 (0.20%) SLA
10 2 (0.13%) GxP
10 2 (0.13%) IFRS
10 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 2 (0.13%) JTAG
11 1 (0.066%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 127 (8.36%) Docker
2 97 (6.38%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.12%) Firmware
5 14 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.53%) vSphere
7 6 (0.39%) VirtualBox
8 4 (0.26%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.13%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.066%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.066%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.066%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.066%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.066%) XenApp
11 1 (0.066%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 105 (6.91%) Kubernetes
2 98 (6.45%) Terraform
3 96 (6.32%) Ansible
4 55 (3.62%) Grafana
5 38 (2.50%) Puppet
6 28 (1.84%) Prometheus
7 18 (1.18%) Progress Chef
8 16 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.86%) Kibana
10 12 (0.79%) logstash
11 9 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
12 8 (0.53%) vRealize
13 5 (0.33%) HP ALM
13 5 (0.33%) Packer
14 4 (0.26%) Podman
15 3 (0.20%) Netcool
15 3 (0.20%) SCCM
15 3 (0.20%) VxRail
16 2 (0.13%) Ganglia
16 2 (0.13%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 233 (15.33%) Microsoft
2 77 (5.07%) Oracle
3 70 (4.61%) SAP
4 68 (4.47%) ServiceNow
5 59 (3.88%) Salesforce
6 43 (2.83%) Google
7 31 (2.04%) Talend
8 30 (1.97%) VMware
9 28 (1.84%) Splunk
10 27 (1.78%) Atlassian
11 24 (1.58%) Denodo
12 19 (1.25%) IBM
13 18 (1.18%) Databricks
14 13 (0.86%) Informatica
14 13 (0.86%) Syncsort
15 11 (0.72%) Cisco
16 10 (0.66%) Adobe
17 9 (0.59%) Dell
18 8 (0.53%) Cloudera
18 8 (0.53%) F5