Scrum Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Scrum
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Scrum skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 67 48
Rank change year-on-year +6 -19 0
Contract jobs citing Scrum 54 15 55
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 3.19% 1.62% 3.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.77% 1.81% 4.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 8 47
10th Percentile £357 £368 £403
25th Percentile £366 £410 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% -2.20%
75th Percentile £575 £540 £571
90th Percentile £606 £549 £635
North West median daily rate £447 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +5.18% -10.53% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £73.00 -
25th Percentile £85.00 £73.75 -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
75th Percentile £95.00 £78.13 -
90th Percentile - £78.50 -
North West median hourly rate £56.44 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year -24.75% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,432 828 1,297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 84.48% 89.61% 87.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 899 576 884
10th Percentile £307 £300 £325
25th Percentile £381 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -6.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £567 £596
90th Percentile £650 £675 £694
North West median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 31 75
10th Percentile £21.00 £15.00 £12.44
25th Percentile £36.13 £21.75 £13.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £32.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.92% +25.00% -30.48%
75th Percentile £77.50 £68.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £92.50 £77.50 £72.50
North West median hourly rate £53.89 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +65.81% +44.44% -39.68%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Scrum relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Scrum job vacancy trend in Manchester

Scrum
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Scrum.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Scrum

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Manchester over the 6 months to 5 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Manchester

Scrum
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Scrum.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Scrum

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 13 (24.07%) Confluence
2 2 (3.70%) Apache
2 2 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (3.70%) MS Visio
1 2 (3.70%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (27.78%) AWS
2 14 (25.93%) Azure
3 8 (14.81%) GCP
4 4 (7.41%) Serverless
5 3 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.56%) GitHub
5 3 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (3.70%) Miro
6 2 (3.70%) Slack
7 1 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.85%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.26%) Firewall
2 2 (3.70%) Network Security
2 2 (3.70%) NGFW
3 1 (1.85%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.26%) MySQL
1 5 (9.26%) NoSQL
2 3 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.70%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.70%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.70%) Impala
3 2 (3.70%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.70%) Power BI
4 1 (1.85%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (37.04%) JIRA
2 9 (16.67%) Git
3 3 (5.56%) JMeter
3 3 (5.56%) Postman
3 3 (5.56%) Selenium
4 2 (3.70%) GitLab
5 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (35.19%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.93%) Finance
3 5 (9.26%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.26%) Retail
4 4 (7.41%) Banking
4 4 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Automotive
5 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Law
5 1 (1.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (22.22%) Scrum Master
2 11 (20.37%) Developer
3 10 (18.52%) Senior
4 8 (14.81%) Analyst
5 6 (11.11%) .NET Developer
5 6 (11.11%) Business Analyst
6 5 (9.26%) Data Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Java Developer
7 4 (7.41%) Lead
7 4 (7.41%) Product Manager
8 3 (5.56%) Angular Developer
8 3 (5.56%) C# Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Product Owner
8 3 (5.56%) Security Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Software Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Azure Developer
9 2 (3.70%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.67%) RESTful
2 8 (14.81%) React
2 8 (14.81%) Spring
2 8 (14.81%) Spring Boot
3 6 (11.11%) .NET
3 6 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (9.26%) AngularJS
5 4 (7.41%) HTML
5 4 (7.41%) Kafka
6 3 (5.56%) CSS
6 3 (5.56%) Great Expectations
6 3 (5.56%) Pandas
6 3 (5.56%) PySpark
7 2 (3.70%) .NET Core
7 2 (3.70%) 802.1X
7 2 (3.70%) AWS CDK
7 2 (3.70%) Entity Framework
7 2 (3.70%) REST
7 2 (3.70%) YAML
8 1 (1.85%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 16 (29.63%) Product Ownership
2 7 (12.96%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.41%) Security Posture
4 3 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.85%) AS400
6 1 (1.85%) IoT
6 1 (1.85%) iSeries
6 1 (1.85%) NHS
6 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.70%) Linux
1 2 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (100.00%) Agile
2 22 (40.74%) CI/CD
3 19 (35.19%) Kanban
4 18 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (22.22%) DevOps
6 11 (20.37%) Microservices
6 11 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (20.37%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (16.67%) TDD
8 8 (14.81%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 8 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (14.81%) Roadmaps
8 8 (14.81%) Test Automation
9 7 (12.96%) Conflict Resolution
9 7 (12.96%) DevSecOps
9 7 (12.96%) Observability
9 7 (12.96%) Product Roadmap
9 7 (12.96%) Product Strategy
9 7 (12.96%) Risk Management
9 7 (12.96%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (22.22%) SQL
2 11 (20.37%) Java
3 7 (12.96%) C#
4 6 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 6 (11.11%) Python
5 4 (7.41%) Go
6 3 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.70%) Bash
7 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.85%) C++
8 1 (1.85%) Korn
8 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
1 6 (11.11%) Degree
2 2 (3.70%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.70%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.70%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.85%) IIBA
3 1 (1.85%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.85%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.85%) PMP
3 1 (1.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) QA
2 3 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (3.70%) NIST
3 2 (3.70%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.70%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (16.67%) Terraform
2 7 (12.96%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.56%) Grafana
3 3 (5.56%) Progress Chef
3 3 (5.56%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.70%) Apache Ranger
4 2 (3.70%) CASB
Vendors
1 7 (12.96%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.56%) Google
2 3 (5.56%) PagerDuty
3 2 (3.70%) Cloudera
3 2 (3.70%) Oracle
3 2 (3.70%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.85%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.85%) IBM
4 1 (1.85%) Okta
4 1 (1.85%) Salesforce