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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 68 52
Rank change year-on-year +4 -16 +8
Contract jobs citing Scrum 38 18 49
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.84% 1.75% 3.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.22% 1.93% 3.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 12 47
10th Percentile £356 £391 £413
25th Percentile £375 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £427 £479 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +0.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £528 £591 £575
90th Percentile £575 £649 £625
North West median daily rate £425 £431 £475
% change year-on-year -1.45% -9.21% -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 1,181 933 1,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.33% 90.85% 86.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 807 597 968
10th Percentile £306 £294 £313
25th Percentile £381 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £677 £671
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 32 71
10th Percentile £17.23 £15.92 £12.50
25th Percentile £24.08 £20.75 £13.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £32.50 £24.19
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% +34.35% -41.00%
75th Percentile £64.38 £34.56 £49.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £60.00 £72.50
North West median hourly rate £42.69 £31.51 £30.00
% change year-on-year +35.46% +5.03% -19.57%

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 14 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 9 (23.68%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (26.32%) Azure
2 9 (23.68%) AWS
3 5 (13.16%) GCP
4 3 (7.89%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (7.89%) Miro
4 3 (7.89%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.89%) Serverless
5 2 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.26%) Figma
5 2 (5.26%) GitHub
5 2 (5.26%) Power Automate
5 2 (5.26%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) MongoDB
1 2 (5.26%) MySQL
1 2 (5.26%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.63%) Power BI
2 1 (2.63%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (23.68%) JIRA
2 3 (7.89%) JMeter
2 3 (7.89%) Postman
2 3 (7.89%) Selenium
3 2 (5.26%) Git
3 2 (5.26%) GitLab
4 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 10 (26.32%) Finance
3 7 (18.42%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (7.89%) Banking
6 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.26%) Retail
7 1 (2.63%) Automotive
7 1 (2.63%) Law
7 1 (2.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (21.05%) Developer
1 8 (21.05%) Senior
2 7 (18.42%) Analyst
3 6 (15.79%) Business Analyst
3 6 (15.79%) Scrum Master
4 5 (13.16%) Lead
5 4 (10.53%) .NET Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Product Manager
6 3 (7.89%) C# Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Applications Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Azure Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Banking Analyst
7 2 (5.26%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (5.26%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Security Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.79%) .NET
1 6 (15.79%) REST
2 5 (13.16%) RESTful
2 5 (13.16%) Spring
2 5 (13.16%) Spring Boot
3 4 (10.53%) Kafka
3 4 (10.53%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (7.89%) React
5 2 (5.26%) HTML
5 2 (5.26%) NestJS
6 1 (2.63%) ADO
6 1 (2.63%) AWS CDK
6 1 (2.63%) JSON
6 1 (2.63%) Node.js
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (2.63%) SailPoint
6 1 (2.63%) Serverless Framework
6 1 (2.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.89%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.63%) AS400
4 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.63%) IoT
4 1 (2.63%) iSeries
4 1 (2.63%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (100.00%) Agile
2 13 (34.21%) Continuous Improvement
2 13 (34.21%) Kanban
3 10 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (23.68%) CI/CD
4 9 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (18.42%) Microservices
5 7 (18.42%) Software Engineering
5 7 (18.42%) TDD
6 6 (15.79%) DevOps
6 6 (15.79%) Roadmaps
7 5 (13.16%) Acceptance Criteria
7 5 (13.16%) Event-Driven
7 5 (13.16%) Objectives and Key Results
7 5 (13.16%) Product Management
7 5 (13.16%) Product Roadmap
7 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (13.16%) Test Automation
7 5 (13.16%) User Stories
8 4 (10.53%) Conflict Resolution
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.42%) C#
2 6 (15.79%) Java
2 6 (15.79%) SQL
2 6 (15.79%) TypeScript
3 5 (13.16%) Go
3 5 (13.16%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.89%) Python
5 1 (2.63%) C++
5 1 (2.63%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) Degree
2 3 (7.89%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) IIBA
4 1 (2.63%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.63%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.63%) PMP
4 1 (2.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) GDPR
1 2 (5.26%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.63%) NIST
2 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.63%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.89%) Grafana
2 3 (7.89%) Prometheus
3 2 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) PagerDuty
3 2 (5.26%) Oracle
3 2 (5.26%) Ping Identity
4 1 (2.63%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.63%) IBM
4 1 (2.63%) Okta
4 1 (2.63%) Salesforce