Scrum Contracts in Manchester

Scrum
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 6 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 45 52
Rank change year-on-year -23 +7 -13
Contract jobs citing Scrum 21 53 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.02% 3.41% 3.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 3.94% 3.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 50 52
10th Percentile £393 £413 £413
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £569 £573 £550
90th Percentile £646 £631 £638
North West median daily rate £466 £475 £515
% change year-on-year -1.89% -7.77% +3.00%

All Process and 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 948 1,344 1,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 91.07% 86.38% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 943 1,375
10th Percentile £294 £313 £306
25th Percentile £400 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £590
90th Percentile £675 £668 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 72 71
10th Percentile £15.92 £12.50 £17.77
25th Percentile £23.00 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.15 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.60% -38.09% +143.07%
75th Percentile £42.75 £61.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £64.50 £78.25 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £24.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +32.14% -34.41% +100.70%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in Manchester

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum in Manchester

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Manchester over the 6 months to 6 March 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Manchester

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in Manchester

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (4.76%) Confluence
1 1 (4.76%) Liferay
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) AWS
1 4 (19.05%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (9.52%) npm
3 2 (9.52%) Serverless
3 2 (9.52%) Yarn
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.76%) Figma
4 1 (4.76%) Firebase
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) GitLab
1 4 (19.05%) JIRA
2 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.52%) Bitbucket
3 2 (9.52%) Cucumber
3 2 (9.52%) Jasmine
3 2 (9.52%) Karma Test Runner
3 2 (9.52%) Mocha
3 2 (9.52%) webpack
4 1 (4.76%) Balsamiq
4 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 13 (61.90%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Finance
3 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
4 3 (14.29%) Banking
4 3 (14.29%) Military
5 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (14.29%) Analyst
2 3 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 3 (14.29%) Scrum Master
3 2 (9.52%) Agile Business Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) iOS Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Java Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Lead
3 2 (9.52%) Migration Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Senior
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Test Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Test Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Digital Business Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Java Software Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) RESTful
2 3 (14.29%) Spring
2 3 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 2 (9.52%) .NET
3 2 (9.52%) .NET Core
3 2 (9.52%) .NET Framework
3 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
3 2 (9.52%) LINQ
3 2 (9.52%) SOAP
3 2 (9.52%) Web Services
4 1 (4.76%) Django
4 1 (4.76%) FastAPI
4 1 (4.76%) Flask
4 1 (4.76%) Java EE
4 1 (4.76%) Kafka
4 1 (4.76%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (4.76%) pytest
4 1 (4.76%) Visualforce
4 1 (4.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (14.29%) Mobile App
3 2 (9.52%) Algorithms
3 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
3 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (9.52%) iPad
3 2 (9.52%) iPhone
3 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.76%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (95.24%) Agile
2 6 (28.57%) Mentoring
2 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (28.57%) SDLC
3 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
3 5 (23.81%) DevOps
3 5 (23.81%) Microservices
3 5 (23.81%) Test Automation
4 4 (19.05%) API Testing
4 4 (19.05%) Design Patterns
4 4 (19.05%) Functional Testing
4 4 (19.05%) Kanban
4 4 (19.05%) OOP
4 4 (19.05%) Software Testing
4 4 (19.05%) SOLID
4 4 (19.05%) Test Strategy
5 3 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (9.52%) Memory Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) SQL
2 4 (19.05%) Java
3 2 (9.52%) C#
3 2 (9.52%) PHP
3 2 (9.52%) PL/SQL
3 2 (9.52%) Swift
4 1 (4.76%) Apex Code
4 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) ISTQB
1 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.76%) DBS Check
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) Accessibility
1 4 (19.05%) QA
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Grafana
2 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle
1 2 (9.52%) Splunk
2 1 (4.76%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (4.76%) Google
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Salesforce