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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 66 51
Rank change year-on-year -6 -15 +13
Contract jobs citing Scrum 35 19 49
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.65% 1.84% 3.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.00% 2.02% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 12 47
10th Percentile £336 £391 £413
25th Percentile £392 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £427 £479 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +0.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £541 £591 £575
90th Percentile £575 £649 £625
North West median daily rate £425 £425 £475
% change year-on-year - -10.53% -5.00%

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 1,166 939 1,379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.40% 90.90% 86.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 801 598 970
10th Percentile £305 £294 £313
25th Percentile £375 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £453 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -9.50% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £677 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 31 72
10th Percentile £17.16 £15.90 £12.50
25th Percentile £26.48 £20.25 £13.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £32.50 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% +34.60% -43.01%
75th Percentile £63.63 £33.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £60.00 £72.44
North West median hourly rate £42.69 £30.95 £30.00
% change year-on-year +37.92% +3.17% -20.00%

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 11 February 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 10 (28.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.86%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (31.43%) Azure
2 9 (25.71%) AWS
3 4 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (11.43%) Figma
3 4 (11.43%) GCP
4 3 (8.57%) Miro
4 3 (8.57%) Power Platform
4 3 (8.57%) Serverless
5 2 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (5.71%) GitHub
5 2 (5.71%) Power Automate
5 2 (5.71%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.86%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) MongoDB
1 2 (5.71%) MySQL
1 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.86%) Power BI
2 1 (2.86%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (28.57%) JIRA
2 3 (8.57%) JMeter
2 3 (8.57%) Postman
2 3 (8.57%) Selenium
3 2 (5.71%) Git
3 2 (5.71%) GitLab
General
1 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 9 (25.71%) Finance
3 6 (17.14%) Public Sector
4 5 (14.29%) Banking
5 4 (11.43%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.71%) Retail
7 1 (2.86%) Automotive
7 1 (2.86%) Law
7 1 (2.86%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Analyst
2 8 (22.86%) Business Analyst
2 8 (22.86%) Senior
3 6 (17.14%) Scrum Master
4 5 (14.29%) Lead
5 4 (11.43%) Developer
5 4 (11.43%) Product Manager
6 3 (8.57%) Banking Analyst
6 3 (8.57%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Banking Business Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (5.71%) Digital Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Digital Business Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Security Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.14%) REST
2 5 (14.29%) RESTful
2 5 (14.29%) Spring
2 5 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 4 (11.43%) Kafka
3 4 (11.43%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (8.57%) React
5 2 (5.71%) .NET
5 2 (5.71%) NestJS
6 1 (2.86%) ADO
6 1 (2.86%) AWS CDK
6 1 (2.86%) HTML
6 1 (2.86%) JSON
6 1 (2.86%) Node.js
6 1 (2.86%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.86%) AS400
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.86%) iSeries
3 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.86%) Mobile Banking
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) Agile
2 15 (42.86%) Kanban
3 13 (37.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (31.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (20.00%) Microservices
6 7 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 7 (20.00%) User Stories
7 6 (17.14%) Acceptance Criteria
7 6 (17.14%) CI/CD
7 6 (17.14%) DevOps
7 6 (17.14%) Roadmaps
8 5 (14.29%) Epics
8 5 (14.29%) Event-Driven
8 5 (14.29%) Objectives and Key Results
8 5 (14.29%) Product Management
8 5 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
8 5 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 5 (14.29%) User Experience
9 4 (11.43%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.14%) TypeScript
2 5 (14.29%) Go
2 5 (14.29%) Java
2 5 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 3 (8.57%) C#
4 2 (5.71%) Python
4 2 (5.71%) SQL
5 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Degree
2 4 (11.43%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.86%) IIBA
3 1 (2.86%) ISEB
3 1 (2.86%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.86%) SAFe Agilist
3 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) GDPR
2 3 (8.57%) PSD2
3 2 (5.71%) QA
4 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.86%) NIST
4 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.57%) Grafana
2 3 (8.57%) Prometheus
3 2 (5.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) PagerDuty
3 2 (5.71%) Ping Identity
4 1 (2.86%) IBM
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle
4 1 (2.86%) Salesforce