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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 59 59
Rank change year-on-year +7 0 -13
Contract jobs citing Scrum 38 31 45
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 3.45% 2.62% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.86% 2.99% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 21 40
10th Percentile £321 £363 £424
25th Percentile £374 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £525 £550 £580
90th Percentile £641 £638 £674
North West median daily rate £418 £450 £488
% change year-on-year -7.22% -7.69% -2.50%

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 985 1,038 1,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.46% 87.59% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 648 599 1,028
10th Percentile £300 £300 £270
25th Percentile £367 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £585
90th Percentile £676 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 37 57
10th Percentile £17.02 £15.96 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.07 £28.50 £16.85
Median hourly rate £22.41 £32.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.05% +66.67% -3.13%
75th Percentile £31.40 £58.00 £46.88
90th Percentile £60.38 £66.90 £69.25
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £35.36 £35.00
% change year-on-year -16.29% +1.03% +55.56%

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 19 November 2025.

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
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 19 November 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
Cheadle - 2 £650 -
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 8 (21.05%) Confluence
2 3 (7.89%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (26.32%) Azure
2 6 (15.79%) AWS
3 5 (13.16%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (10.53%) GCP
5 3 (7.89%) Figma
5 3 (7.89%) IaaS
5 3 (7.89%) PaaS
5 3 (7.89%) Power Platform
5 3 (7.89%) PowerApps
5 3 (7.89%) SaaS
5 3 (7.89%) Serverless
6 2 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (5.26%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.63%) Miro
7 1 (2.63%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.63%) BigQuery
1 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
1 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (28.95%) JIRA
2 3 (7.89%) Git
2 3 (7.89%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.89%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (5.26%) Android Studio
3 2 (5.26%) Bitbucket
3 2 (5.26%) GitLab
3 2 (5.26%) JUnit
General
1 15 (39.47%) Social Skills
2 13 (34.21%) Finance
3 10 (26.32%) Banking
4 6 (15.79%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.89%) Back Office
6 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) Lead
2 6 (15.79%) Analyst
2 6 (15.79%) Business Analyst
2 6 (15.79%) Developer
3 4 (10.53%) Senior
4 3 (7.89%) Architect
4 3 (7.89%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Architect
4 3 (7.89%) Software Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) User Researcher
5 2 (5.26%) Android Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Banking Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Banking Business Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (5.26%) Digital Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Digital Business Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Scrum Master
5 2 (5.26%) Security Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.16%) REST
2 3 (7.89%) .NET
2 3 (7.89%) Middleware
3 2 (5.26%) Android Jetpack
3 2 (5.26%) Android SDK
3 2 (5.26%) Jetpack Compose
3 2 (5.26%) NestJS
3 2 (5.26%) RESTful
4 1 (2.63%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (2.63%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.63%) HTML
4 1 (2.63%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (2.63%) Node.js
4 1 (2.63%) React
4 1 (2.63%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.89%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (7.89%) Mobile App
2 3 (7.89%) Onboarding
2 3 (7.89%) Private Cloud
3 2 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.63%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.79%) Linux
2 3 (7.89%) Android
2 3 (7.89%) Unix
2 3 (7.89%) Windows
2 3 (7.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (100.00%) Agile
2 15 (39.47%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (26.32%) DevOps
4 9 (23.68%) Kanban
4 9 (23.68%) Risk Management
4 9 (23.68%) Sprint Planning
4 9 (23.68%) Waterfall
5 7 (18.42%) Planning and Forecasting
5 7 (18.42%) Project Management
5 7 (18.42%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 6 (15.79%) CI/CD
6 6 (15.79%) Containerisation
6 6 (15.79%) Microservices
6 6 (15.79%) Resource Allocation
6 6 (15.79%) Sprint Retrospective
6 6 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (15.79%) User Experience
6 6 (15.79%) User Stories
7 5 (13.16%) Acceptance Criteria
7 5 (13.16%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.16%) Java
1 5 (13.16%) Python
2 4 (10.53%) JavaScript
2 4 (10.53%) SQL
3 3 (7.89%) Bash
3 3 (7.89%) C#
3 3 (7.89%) C++
3 3 (7.89%) Kotlin
3 3 (7.89%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.63%) Go
4 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.63%) ISEB
4 1 (2.63%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) QA
2 3 (7.89%) GDPR
2 3 (7.89%) PSD2
3 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.63%) NIST
3 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.89%) Ansible
2 3 (7.89%) Podman
2 3 (7.89%) SELinux
3 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) Citrix
2 3 (7.89%) F5
2 3 (7.89%) HP
2 3 (7.89%) IBM
2 3 (7.89%) Oracle
2 3 (7.89%) VMware
3 2 (5.26%) Ping Identity
4 1 (2.63%) Google
4 1 (2.63%) MuleSoft