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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 44 48
Rank change year-on-year -25 +4 +2
Contract jobs citing Scrum 55 41 39
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.77% 4.00% 3.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.32% 4.49% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 32 26
10th Percentile £358 £307 £375
25th Percentile £404 £364 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £415 £481
Median % change year-on-year +29.52% -13.77% -12.50%
75th Percentile £593 £478 £550
90th Percentile £611 £647 -
North West median daily rate £537 £422 £450
% change year-on-year +27.24% -6.17% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £72.63 £73.00 -
25th Percentile £74.69 £73.75 £69.50
Median hourly rate £81.25 £75.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £89.69 £78.13 £74.50
90th Percentile £92.88 £78.50 -
North West median hourly rate £59.01 £75.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year -21.33% +4.17% +38.46%

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 1,656 913 1,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 83.43% 89.07% 86.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 997 581 656
10th Percentile £309 £303 £331
25th Percentile £403 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £694 £663 £713
North West median daily rate £500 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +9.95% -9.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 62 45
10th Percentile £21.00 £14.49 £15.95
25th Percentile £29.96 £19.07 £23.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £22.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +120.95% -35.34% +79.49%
75th Percentile £75.00 £55.37 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.88 £89.00
North West median hourly rate £45.25 £26.08 £35.36
% change year-on-year +73.54% -26.26% +1.03%

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 26 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scrum in Manchester over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Scrum in Manchester

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 26 August 2026. 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
Heywood - 3 £375 -
Scrum
North West

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 11 (20.00%) Confluence
2 2 (3.64%) Apache
2 2 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.64%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Trello
2 1 (1.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 19 (34.55%) AWS
2 17 (30.91%) Azure
3 8 (14.55%) GCP
4 7 (12.73%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (12.73%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (9.09%) GitHub
6 4 (7.27%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (7.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (5.45%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (3.64%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (3.64%) OCI
8 2 (3.64%) OneDrive
8 2 (3.64%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.64%) Serverless
8 2 (3.64%) Slack
8 2 (3.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.09%) Firewall
2 2 (3.64%) Network Security
3 1 (1.82%) BGP
3 1 (1.82%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.82%) DHCP
3 1 (1.82%) DNS
3 1 (1.82%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (1.82%) HTTP
3 1 (1.82%) MPLS
3 1 (1.82%) NGFW
3 1 (1.82%) OSPF
3 1 (1.82%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.82%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.82%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.82%) VPN
3 1 (1.82%) VXLAN
3 1 (1.82%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.45%) MySQL
2 3 (5.45%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.64%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.64%) Impala
3 2 (3.64%) Power BI
3 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.82%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (32.73%) JIRA
2 11 (20.00%) Git
3 5 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 3 (5.45%) GitLab
4 3 (5.45%) JUnit
5 2 (3.64%) Mockito
5 2 (3.64%) Zephyr
6 1 (1.82%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.82%) Gradle
6 1 (1.82%) Maven
6 1 (1.82%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.82%) Selenium
6 1 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.82%) TestNG
6 1 (1.82%) WebDriver
General
1 31 (56.36%) Social Skills
2 25 (45.45%) Finance
3 13 (23.64%) Banking
4 10 (18.18%) Retail
5 6 (10.91%) Public Sector
6 4 (7.27%) Retail Banking
7 2 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (20.00%) Developer
2 8 (14.55%) Finance Manager
3 7 (12.73%) Analyst
3 7 (12.73%) Project Manager
4 6 (10.91%) IT Manager
4 6 (10.91%) IT Project Manager
4 6 (10.91%) Java Developer
4 6 (10.91%) Security Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Agile Project Manager
5 5 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Finance Project Manager
5 5 (9.09%) IT Finance Manager
5 5 (9.09%) Product Manager
5 5 (9.09%) Scrum Master
5 5 (9.09%) Senior
6 4 (7.27%) Business Analyst
6 4 (7.27%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) ServiceNow Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.45%) Terraform
2 6 (10.91%) AngularJS
2 6 (10.91%) Spring
2 6 (10.91%) Spring Boot
3 5 (9.09%) HTML
3 5 (9.09%) REST
3 5 (9.09%) RESTful
4 4 (7.27%) CSS
4 4 (7.27%) React
5 3 (5.45%) Great Expectations
5 3 (5.45%) Pandas
5 3 (5.45%) PySpark
6 2 (3.64%) .NET
6 2 (3.64%) AWS CDK
6 2 (3.64%) JSON
6 2 (3.64%) XML
6 2 (3.64%) YAML
7 1 (1.82%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.82%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.82%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 20 (36.36%) Product Ownership
2 9 (16.36%) Credit Risk
2 9 (16.36%) Security Posture
3 6 (10.91%) Cloud Native
3 6 (10.91%) Mobile App
4 4 (7.27%) NHS
5 3 (5.45%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (3.64%) AS400
6 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.64%) iSeries
6 2 (3.64%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.82%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.73%) Linux
2 6 (10.91%) Windows
3 5 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.82%) Unix
4 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (98.18%) Agile
2 25 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 20 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 17 (30.91%) Kanban
5 15 (27.27%) DevOps
6 14 (25.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (23.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (20.00%) Supplier Management
9 10 (18.18%) Cloud Security
9 10 (18.18%) Migration
10 9 (16.36%) Change Management
11 8 (14.55%) Decision-Making
11 8 (14.55%) Project Management
11 8 (14.55%) Roadmaps
11 8 (14.55%) SDLC
11 8 (14.55%) User Experience
12 7 (12.73%) Analytics
12 7 (12.73%) Microservices
12 7 (12.73%) Observability
12 7 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.82%) Java
2 10 (18.18%) Python
3 8 (14.55%) SQL
4 7 (12.73%) Bash
5 6 (10.91%) PowerShell
6 4 (7.27%) Bicep
7 3 (5.45%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.64%) C#
9 1 (1.82%) Korn
9 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (12.73%) Degree
2 5 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 5 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 5 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (7.27%) CISSP
4 3 (5.45%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.45%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.82%) CCIE
5 1 (1.82%) CCNP
5 1 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.82%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (20.00%) QA
2 3 (5.45%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (1.82%) NIST
3 1 (1.82%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.82%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.82%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.82%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (23.64%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.91%) Progress Chef
3 2 (3.64%) Ansible
3 2 (3.64%) Apache Ranger
4 1 (1.82%) Argo
4 1 (1.82%) CASB
4 1 (1.82%) Grafana
4 1 (1.82%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.82%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (9.09%) Red Hat
2 4 (7.27%) Google
2 4 (7.27%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.45%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.45%) Oracle
3 3 (5.45%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.64%) Cisco
4 2 (3.64%) Cloudera
4 2 (3.64%) DocuSign
4 2 (3.64%) IBM
4 2 (3.64%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.82%) F5
5 1 (1.82%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.82%) SAP
5 1 (1.82%) VMware