Scrum Master Contracts in London

Scrum Master
England > London

The median Scrum Master daily rate in London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 310 366 283
Rank change year-on-year +56 -83 +54
Contract jobs requiring a Scrum Master 83 125 372
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.48% 0.49% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.51% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 85 254
10th Percentile £396 £410 £425
25th Percentile £450 £500 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £606 £663 £634
90th Percentile £653 £708 £700
England median daily rate £520 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £72.50 £56.88
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year - +36.17% -
75th Percentile - £90.13 £60.63
90th Percentile - £94.85 -
England median hourly rate - £80.00 £51.88
% change year-on-year - +54.22% -25.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,304 24,334 37,153
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.59% 95.14% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,762 17,769 27,336
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 278 415
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.12
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +6.54%
75th Percentile £47.50 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.60 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -15.56% +88.21% +11.73%

Scrum Master
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Scrum Master in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum Master in London

Scrum Master
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum Master in London

Scrum Master
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum Master in London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum Master in London

Scrum Master
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Scrum Master in London

Scrum Master
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum Master within the London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Central London +25 14 £575 -4.17%
South London +9 4 £588 +2.62%
West London +23 2 £385 -18.95%
Scrum Master
England

Scrum Master Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 3 June 2024, Scrum Master contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Scrum Master in the job title.

1 83 (100.00%) Scrum
2 68 (81.93%) Agile
3 32 (38.55%) DevOps
4 29 (34.94%) Finance
5 24 (28.92%) Azure
5 24 (28.92%) Social Skills
6 22 (26.51%) Banking
7 20 (24.10%) Project Management
7 20 (24.10%) Product Ownership
8 19 (22.89%) Coaching
9 17 (20.48%) Sprint Retrospective
9 17 (20.48%) Sprint Planning
9 17 (20.48%) Sprint Review
10 16 (19.28%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (19.28%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 16 (19.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (19.28%) Kanban
11 15 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (15.66%) Mentoring
13 12 (14.46%) SDLC
13 12 (14.46%) Decision-Making
14 11 (13.25%) Stakeholder Management
15 10 (12.05%) Project Delivery
15 10 (12.05%) Conflict Resolution
16 9 (10.84%) Roadmaps
16 9 (10.84%) JIRA
16 9 (10.84%) Change Management
16 9 (10.84%) PMP
16 9 (10.84%) PMI Certification
16 9 (10.84%) PRINCE2

Scrum Master Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (4.82%) Confluence
2 1 (1.20%) Apache
2 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.20%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 24 (28.92%) Azure
2 16 (19.28%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (3.61%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.41%) AWS
5 1 (1.20%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.20%) GCP
5 1 (1.20%) Miro
5 1 (1.20%) Serverless
5 1 (1.20%) Smartsheet
5 1 (1.20%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.61%) Power BI
2 1 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (10.84%) JIRA
2 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
General
1 29 (34.94%) Finance
2 24 (28.92%) Social Skills
3 22 (26.51%) Banking
4 6 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.23%) Front Office
5 5 (6.02%) Investment Banking
5 5 (6.02%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.82%) Retail
7 3 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.41%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (2.41%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.41%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.20%) Back Office
9 1 (1.20%) Games
9 1 (1.20%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.20%) Multimedia
9 1 (1.20%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.20%) HTML
1 1 (1.20%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 20 (24.10%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.23%) Mobile Banking
3 3 (3.61%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.41%) Credit Risk
4 2 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.41%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.20%) Derivative
5 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.20%) Equities
5 1 (1.20%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.20%) Android
1 1 (1.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (100.00%) Scrum
2 68 (81.93%) Agile
3 32 (38.55%) DevOps
4 20 (24.10%) Project Management
5 19 (22.89%) Coaching
6 17 (20.48%) Sprint Planning
6 17 (20.48%) Sprint Retrospective
6 17 (20.48%) Sprint Review
7 16 (19.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (19.28%) Kanban
7 16 (19.28%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 15 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (15.66%) Mentoring
10 12 (14.46%) Decision-Making
10 12 (14.46%) SDLC
11 11 (13.25%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (12.05%) Conflict Resolution
12 10 (12.05%) Project Delivery
13 9 (10.84%) Change Management
13 9 (10.84%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.43%) SQL
2 5 (6.02%) Java
2 5 (6.02%) Python
3 1 (1.20%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (10.84%) PMI Certification
1 9 (10.84%) PMP
2 7 (8.43%) Degree
3 4 (4.82%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.82%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.41%) QA
2 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.20%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.20%) GAAP
2 1 (1.20%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.20%) Docker
1 1 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 4 (4.82%) Splunk
2 2 (2.41%) Automation Anywhere
2 2 (2.41%) Blue Prism
2 2 (2.41%) Salesforce
2 2 (2.41%) UiPath
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.20%) Planview
3 1 (1.20%) SAP
3 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow