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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 47 49
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -14
Contract jobs citing Scrum 33 46 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 3.45% 3.20% 3.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.91% 3.71% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 36 59
10th Percentile £284 £397 £413
25th Percentile £391 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £491 £550 £588
90th Percentile £568 £638 £650
North West median daily rate £422 £475 £538
% change year-on-year -11.11% -11.63% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £73.00 - -
25th Percentile £73.75 £69.50 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £72.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -
75th Percentile £78.13 £74.50 -
90th Percentile £78.50 - -
North West median hourly rate £75.00 £72.00 -
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -

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 843 1,241 1,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.09% 86.24% 90.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 570 812 1,201
10th Percentile £305 £325 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 78 53
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.50 £14.13
25th Percentile £19.71 £14.15 £16.85
Median hourly rate £42.00 £26.76 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.95% +18.93% +25.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £61.25 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.63 £76.45 £66.00
North West median hourly rate £29.90 £30.50 £30.54
% change year-on-year -1.97% -0.13% +29.71%

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 5 July 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
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 5 July 2025. 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
Bolton -5 3 - - 29
Stockport - 2 - - 17
Salford - 1 £300 - 6
Scrum
North West

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 6 (18.18%) Confluence
2 3 (9.09%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.03%) Liferay
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (30.30%) Azure
2 5 (15.15%) AWS
3 4 (12.12%) Serverless
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (9.09%) GCP
4 3 (9.09%) IaaS
4 3 (9.09%) PaaS
4 3 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 3 (9.09%) PowerApps
4 3 (9.09%) SaaS
5 2 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (6.06%) GitHub
5 2 (6.06%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.03%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) SAN
2 2 (6.06%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.03%) InfluxDB
3 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) JIRA
2 2 (6.06%) Android Studio
2 2 (6.06%) Bitbucket
2 2 (6.06%) GitLab
2 2 (6.06%) JUnit
2 2 (6.06%) Subversion
2 2 (6.06%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.03%) Git
General
1 10 (30.30%) Finance
1 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.18%) Banking
3 3 (9.09%) Back Office
3 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.03%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Developer
2 7 (21.21%) Lead
3 3 (9.09%) Architect
3 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
3 3 (9.09%) IT Manager
3 3 (9.09%) IT Project Manager
3 3 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 3 (9.09%) Senior
3 3 (9.09%) User Researcher
4 2 (6.06%) Android Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Java Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Software Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Agile Delivery Lead
5 1 (3.03%) Android Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.03%) IT Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) RESTful
2 3 (9.09%) .NET
2 3 (9.09%) Middleware
3 2 (6.06%) Android Jetpack
3 2 (6.06%) Android SDK
3 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
3 2 (6.06%) AWS CDK
3 2 (6.06%) Jetpack Compose
3 2 (6.06%) Node.js
3 2 (6.06%) Spring
3 2 (6.06%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.03%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (3.03%) HTML
4 1 (3.03%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (3.03%) Java EE
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (3.03%) NestJS
4 1 (3.03%) Next.js
4 1 (3.03%) React
4 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 3 (9.09%) Private Cloud
3 2 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.06%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Android
1 3 (9.09%) Linux
1 3 (9.09%) Unix
1 3 (9.09%) Windows
1 3 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (90.91%) Agile
2 10 (30.30%) Microservices
2 10 (30.30%) Project Management
3 9 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (27.27%) Waterfall
4 7 (21.21%) Planning and Forecasting
4 7 (21.21%) Sprint Planning
4 7 (21.21%) Sprint Retrospective
5 6 (18.18%) Resource Allocation
5 6 (18.18%) Risk Management
6 5 (15.15%) Containerisation
6 5 (15.15%) DevOps
6 5 (15.15%) Project Delivery
7 4 (12.12%) CI/CD
7 4 (12.12%) Kanban
7 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (12.12%) SDLC
8 3 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
8 3 (9.09%) Coaching
8 3 (9.09%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.21%) SQL
2 5 (15.15%) Java
3 4 (12.12%) JavaScript
4 3 (9.09%) C#
4 3 (9.09%) Kotlin
5 2 (6.06%) C++
5 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (6.06%) Degree
2 1 (3.03%) DBS Check
2 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Grafana
1 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.15%) Oracle
3 4 (12.12%) IBM
4 3 (9.09%) Citrix
4 3 (9.09%) F5
4 3 (9.09%) HP
4 3 (9.09%) VMware
5 1 (3.03%) MuleSoft
5 1 (3.03%) Ping Identity