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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 48 46
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing Scrum 58 41 42
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.93% 3.99% 3.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.52% 4.50% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 32 29
10th Percentile £358 £307 £375
25th Percentile £417 £364 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £415 £488
Median % change year-on-year +31.02% -14.87% -11.36%
75th Percentile £600 £478 £550
90th Percentile £617 £647 -
North West median daily rate £550 £423 £450
% change year-on-year +30.18% -6.11% -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 1,649 912 1,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 83.20% 88.80% 86.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 994 582 661
10th Percentile £310 £306 £331
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £582 £600
90th Percentile £694 £674 £713
North West median daily rate £500 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +9.89% -9.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 60 46
10th Percentile £21.00 £16.79 £15.96
25th Percentile £29.96 £19.07 £23.96
Median hourly rate £50.00 £22.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +120.95% -35.34% +79.49%
75th Percentile £75.00 £56.62 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.25 £88.00
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £26.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year +72.58% -25.50% +9.80%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -
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 13 (22.41%) Confluence
2 2 (3.45%) Apache
2 2 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Trello
2 1 (1.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 22 (37.93%) AWS
2 18 (31.03%) Azure
3 10 (17.24%) GCP
4 7 (12.07%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (10.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (6.90%) GitHub
6 4 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (5.17%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (5.17%) Serverless
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (3.45%) OCI
8 2 (3.45%) OneDrive
8 2 (3.45%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.45%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.79%) Firewall
2 3 (5.17%) Network Security
3 2 (3.45%) NGFW
4 1 (1.72%) BGP
4 1 (1.72%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.72%) DHCP
4 1 (1.72%) DNS
4 1 (1.72%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.72%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.72%) MPLS
4 1 (1.72%) OSPF
4 1 (1.72%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.72%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.72%) VPN
4 1 (1.72%) VXLAN
4 1 (1.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.17%) MySQL
2 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.45%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.45%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.45%) Impala
3 2 (3.45%) Power BI
3 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (34.48%) JIRA
2 10 (17.24%) Git
3 4 (6.90%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.45%) GitLab
4 2 (3.45%) JUnit
4 2 (3.45%) Mockito
4 2 (3.45%) Zephyr
5 1 (1.72%) Gradle
5 1 (1.72%) Maven
5 1 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (53.45%) Social Skills
2 26 (44.83%) Finance
3 14 (24.14%) Banking
4 11 (18.97%) Retail
5 6 (10.34%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.90%) Retail Banking
7 2 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (18.97%) Developer
2 8 (13.79%) Finance Manager
2 8 (13.79%) Security Engineer
3 7 (12.07%) Analyst
3 7 (12.07%) Project Manager
4 6 (10.34%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) IT Manager
4 6 (10.34%) IT Project Manager
4 6 (10.34%) Java Developer
4 6 (10.34%) Scrum Master
5 5 (8.62%) Agile Project Manager
5 5 (8.62%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Data Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Finance Project Manager
5 5 (8.62%) IT Finance Manager
5 5 (8.62%) Product Manager
5 5 (8.62%) Senior
6 4 (6.90%) Business Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) Product Owner
7 3 (5.17%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (27.59%) Terraform
2 6 (10.34%) AngularJS
2 6 (10.34%) Spring
2 6 (10.34%) Spring Boot
3 5 (8.62%) RESTful
4 4 (6.90%) CSS
4 4 (6.90%) HTML
4 4 (6.90%) React
4 4 (6.90%) REST
5 3 (5.17%) Great Expectations
5 3 (5.17%) Pandas
5 3 (5.17%) PySpark
6 2 (3.45%) .NET
6 2 (3.45%) 802.1X
6 2 (3.45%) AWS CDK
6 2 (3.45%) YAML
7 1 (1.72%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.72%) JSON
7 1 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (37.93%) Product Ownership
2 11 (18.97%) Security Posture
3 10 (17.24%) Cloud Native
4 9 (15.52%) Credit Risk
5 6 (10.34%) Mobile App
6 4 (6.90%) NHS
7 3 (5.17%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (3.45%) AS400
8 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (3.45%) iSeries
8 2 (3.45%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.72%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.79%) Linux
2 7 (12.07%) Windows
3 6 (10.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.72%) Unix
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (98.28%) Agile
2 25 (43.10%) Stakeholder Management
3 23 (39.66%) CI/CD
4 18 (31.03%) Kanban
5 17 (29.31%) DevOps
6 15 (25.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (22.41%) Cloud Security
9 12 (20.69%) Change Management
10 11 (18.97%) Supplier Management
11 10 (17.24%) Migration
12 9 (15.52%) Observability
12 9 (15.52%) Roadmaps
12 9 (15.52%) User Experience
13 8 (13.79%) Decision-Making
13 8 (13.79%) Microservices
13 8 (13.79%) Project Management
13 8 (13.79%) SDLC
13 8 (13.79%) SIEM
14 7 (12.07%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.69%) Java
2 11 (18.97%) Python
3 8 (13.79%) Bash
3 8 (13.79%) SQL
4 7 (12.07%) PowerShell
5 4 (6.90%) Bicep
6 3 (5.17%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.45%) C#
8 1 (1.72%) Korn
8 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (12.07%) Degree
2 6 (10.34%) AWS Certification
2 6 (10.34%) Azure Certification
2 6 (10.34%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (6.90%) CISSP
4 2 (3.45%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.72%) CCIE
5 1 (1.72%) CCNP
5 1 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.72%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.24%) QA
2 3 (5.17%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (3.45%) NIST
3 2 (3.45%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (20.69%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.72%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (25.86%) Kubernetes
2 8 (13.79%) Progress Chef
3 2 (3.45%) Ansible
3 2 (3.45%) Apache Ranger
3 2 (3.45%) CASB
4 1 (1.72%) Argo
4 1 (1.72%) Grafana
4 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.72%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (10.34%) Google
1 6 (10.34%) Red Hat
2 5 (8.62%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.90%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.17%) Oracle
4 3 (5.17%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.45%) Cisco
5 2 (3.45%) Cloudera
5 2 (3.45%) DocuSign
5 2 (3.45%) IBM
5 2 (3.45%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.72%) F5
6 1 (1.72%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.72%) SAP
6 1 (1.72%) VMware