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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 46 43
Rank change year-on-year -27 -3 +7
Contract jobs citing Scrum 55 42 44
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.83% 4.16% 3.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.39% 4.68% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 33 31
10th Percentile £358 £309 £375
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £420 £490
Median % change year-on-year +27.98% -14.29% -9.89%
75th Percentile £591 £537 £550
90th Percentile £618 £644 -
North West median daily rate £550 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +29.41% -5.56% -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 £56.44 £75.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year -24.75% +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 1,621 897 1,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 83.30% 88.81% 86.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 974 575 658
10th Percentile £304 £300 £336
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £600
90th Percentile £688 £673 £713
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 53 48
10th Percentile £21.00 £17.12 £15.98
25th Percentile £29.00 £19.07 £24.89
Median hourly rate £50.00 £22.63 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +120.95% -41.60% +101.30%
75th Percentile £75.00 £60.00 £64.06
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.00 £86.00
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £27.19 £35.00
% change year-on-year +65.52% -22.32% +2.94%

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 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 14 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 14 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 - 1
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 21 (38.18%) AWS
2 17 (30.91%) Azure
3 10 (18.18%) GCP
4 7 (12.73%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (12.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 5 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (7.27%) Serverless
7 3 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (5.45%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (5.45%) GitHub
8 2 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
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%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.36%) Firewall
2 3 (5.45%) Network Security
3 2 (3.64%) NGFW
4 1 (1.82%) BGP
4 1 (1.82%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.82%) DHCP
4 1 (1.82%) DNS
4 1 (1.82%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.82%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.82%) MPLS
4 1 (1.82%) OSPF
4 1 (1.82%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.82%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.82%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.82%) VPN
4 1 (1.82%) VXLAN
4 1 (1.82%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.45%) MySQL
1 3 (5.45%) NoSQL
1 3 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.64%) DynamoDB
2 2 (3.64%) Hadoop
2 2 (3.64%) Impala
2 2 (3.64%) Power BI
2 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (32.73%) JIRA
2 9 (16.36%) Git
3 2 (3.64%) GitLab
3 2 (3.64%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.64%) Zephyr
4 1 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (50.91%) Social Skills
2 24 (43.64%) Finance
3 11 (20.00%) Banking
4 9 (16.36%) Retail
5 5 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (18.18%) Developer
2 8 (14.55%) Security Engineer
3 7 (12.73%) Analyst
3 7 (12.73%) Project Manager
3 7 (12.73%) Scrum Master
4 6 (10.91%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (10.91%) Finance Manager
4 6 (10.91%) IT Manager
4 6 (10.91%) IT Project Manager
4 6 (10.91%) Senior
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
6 4 (7.27%) Business Analyst
6 4 (7.27%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Java Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Angular Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.91%) AngularJS
2 5 (9.09%) React
3 4 (7.27%) RESTful
3 4 (7.27%) Spring
3 4 (7.27%) Spring Boot
4 3 (5.45%) .NET
4 3 (5.45%) CSS
4 3 (5.45%) Great Expectations
4 3 (5.45%) HTML
4 3 (5.45%) Pandas
4 3 (5.45%) PySpark
4 3 (5.45%) REST
4 3 (5.45%) YAML
5 2 (3.64%) .NET Core
5 2 (3.64%) 802.1X
5 2 (3.64%) AWS CDK
5 2 (3.64%) Entity Framework
5 2 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.82%) Kafka
6 1 (1.82%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (34.55%) Product Ownership
2 11 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 11 (20.00%) Security Posture
3 6 (10.91%) Credit Risk
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 8 (14.55%) Linux
2 7 (12.73%) Windows
3 6 (10.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.82%) Unix
4 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (98.18%) Agile
2 23 (41.82%) CI/CD
3 22 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (29.09%) DevOps
5 15 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (27.27%) Kanban
6 14 (25.45%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (23.64%) Cloud Security
8 12 (21.82%) Change Management
9 10 (18.18%) Observability
9 10 (18.18%) Roadmaps
10 9 (16.36%) User Experience
11 8 (14.55%) Decision-Making
11 8 (14.55%) Microservices
11 8 (14.55%) SIEM
11 8 (14.55%) Supplier Management
12 7 (12.73%) B2C
12 7 (12.73%) Load Balancing
12 7 (12.73%) Migration
12 7 (12.73%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (20.00%) Python
2 10 (18.18%) Java
3 8 (14.55%) Bash
4 7 (12.73%) PowerShell
4 7 (12.73%) SQL
5 4 (7.27%) Bicep
6 3 (5.45%) C#
6 3 (5.45%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.82%) Korn
Qualifications
1 7 (12.73%) Degree
2 6 (10.91%) AWS Certification
2 6 (10.91%) Azure Certification
3 5 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (7.27%) CISSP
5 2 (3.64%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.64%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.82%) CCIE
6 1 (1.82%) CCNP
6 1 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.82%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.18%) QA
2 3 (5.45%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (3.64%) NIST
3 2 (3.64%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.64%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.82%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (32.73%) Terraform
2 13 (23.64%) Kubernetes
3 8 (14.55%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.64%) Ansible
4 2 (3.64%) Apache Ranger
4 2 (3.64%) CASB
5 1 (1.82%) Argo
5 1 (1.82%) Grafana
5 1 (1.82%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.82%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (10.91%) Google
1 6 (10.91%) Red Hat
2 5 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.27%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.64%) Cisco
4 2 (3.64%) Cloudera
4 2 (3.64%) DocuSign
4 2 (3.64%) IBM
4 2 (3.64%) Oracle
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