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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 48 55
Rank change year-on-year -23 +7 -1
Contract jobs citing Scrum 50 40 29
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.52% 4.00% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.02% 4.45% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 34 22
10th Percentile £358 £321 £375
25th Percentile £414 £374 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £415 £489
Median % change year-on-year +20.48% -15.09% -13.11%
75th Percentile £585 £475 £550
90th Percentile £602 £641 -
North West median daily rate £537 £420 £450
% change year-on-year +27.86% -6.67% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - £69.50
Median hourly rate £72.50 - £72.00
75th Percentile £73.75 - £74.50
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £59.01 - £72.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 1,657 898 1,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 83.56% 89.80% 87.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 968 586 604
10th Percentile £313 £311 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £471 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.27% -5.90% -
75th Percentile £600 £580 £600
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
North West median daily rate £500 £455 £488
% change year-on-year +9.89% -6.67% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 65 34
10th Percentile £20.00 £15.06 £15.94
25th Percentile £33.64 £19.07 £22.38
Median hourly rate £60.00 £22.63 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +165.13% -41.60% +106.67%
75th Percentile £74.75 £35.50 £64.38
90th Percentile £79.38 £67.50 £87.45
North West median hourly rate £46.80 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +86.10% -40.83% +28.79%

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 25 September 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
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 25 September 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 8 (16.00%) Confluence
2 2 (4.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 19 (38.00%) AWS
2 15 (30.00%) Azure
3 9 (18.00%) GCP
4 7 (14.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (12.00%) GitHub
6 5 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (8.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (6.00%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (6.00%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (4.00%) OCI
9 2 (4.00%) OneDrive
9 2 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (2.00%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (2.00%) AWS KMS
10 1 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (2.00%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) Firewall
2 1 (2.00%) BGP
2 1 (2.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (2.00%) DHCP
2 1 (2.00%) DNS
2 1 (2.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (2.00%) HTTP
2 1 (2.00%) MPLS
2 1 (2.00%) Network Security
2 1 (2.00%) OSPF
2 1 (2.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.00%) VPN
2 1 (2.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (2.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.00%) MySQL
2 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (20.00%) JIRA
2 7 (14.00%) Git
2 7 (14.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.00%) GitLab
3 4 (8.00%) JUnit
4 3 (6.00%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.00%) Mockito
5 2 (4.00%) REST Assured
5 2 (4.00%) Selenium
5 2 (4.00%) TestNG
5 2 (4.00%) Zephyr
6 1 (2.00%) Gatling
6 1 (2.00%) Gradle
6 1 (2.00%) Maven
6 1 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.00%) WebDriver
General
1 31 (62.00%) Social Skills
2 26 (52.00%) Finance
3 13 (26.00%) Banking
4 10 (20.00%) Retail
5 8 (16.00%) Public Sector
6 4 (8.00%) Retail Banking
7 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (24.00%) Developer
2 9 (18.00%) Finance Manager
3 8 (16.00%) Project Manager
4 6 (12.00%) Agile Project Manager
4 6 (12.00%) Finance Project Manager
4 6 (12.00%) IT Manager
4 6 (12.00%) IT Project Manager
4 6 (12.00%) Java Developer
4 6 (12.00%) Security Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Analyst
5 5 (10.00%) IT Finance Manager
5 5 (10.00%) Senior
6 4 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Product Manager
7 3 (6.00%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) E-Commerce Manager
7 3 (6.00%) E-Commerce Project Manager
7 3 (6.00%) ServiceNow Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (26.00%) Terraform
2 6 (12.00%) HTML
2 6 (12.00%) Spring Boot
3 5 (10.00%) CSS
3 5 (10.00%) REST
3 5 (10.00%) Spring
4 4 (8.00%) AngularJS
4 4 (8.00%) React
4 4 (8.00%) RESTful
5 3 (6.00%) .NET
5 3 (6.00%) Great Expectations
5 3 (6.00%) Pandas
5 3 (6.00%) PySpark
6 2 (4.00%) HTML5
6 2 (4.00%) JSON
6 2 (4.00%) Kafka
6 2 (4.00%) Playwright
6 2 (4.00%) XML
7 1 (2.00%) Vue
7 1 (2.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (42.00%) Product Ownership
2 10 (20.00%) Credit Risk
3 8 (16.00%) Security Posture
4 7 (14.00%) Mobile App
5 6 (12.00%) Cloud Native
6 3 (6.00%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (6.00%) NHS
7 2 (4.00%) AS400
7 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (4.00%) iSeries
7 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
8 1 (2.00%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.00%) Linux
2 6 (12.00%) Windows
3 5 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.00%) Unix
4 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (96.00%) Agile
2 24 (48.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (38.00%) CI/CD
4 13 (26.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (26.00%) DevOps
4 13 (26.00%) Kanban
5 12 (24.00%) Supplier Management
6 11 (22.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (18.00%) Change Management
7 9 (18.00%) Cloud Security
7 9 (18.00%) Decision-Making
7 9 (18.00%) Migration
7 9 (18.00%) Project Management
8 8 (16.00%) B2C
8 8 (16.00%) Project Governance
8 8 (16.00%) SDLC
8 8 (16.00%) User Experience
9 7 (14.00%) E-Commerce
9 7 (14.00%) Observability
9 7 (14.00%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 15 (30.00%) Java
2 10 (20.00%) Python
3 7 (14.00%) Bash
3 7 (14.00%) SQL
4 6 (12.00%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.00%) Bicep
5 4 (8.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.00%) C#
6 3 (6.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.00%) C
7 2 (4.00%) C++
7 2 (4.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 7 (14.00%) Degree
2 6 (12.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 5 (10.00%) Azure Certification
4 4 (8.00%) CISSP
5 3 (6.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.00%) CCIE
6 1 (2.00%) CCNP
6 1 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.00%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.00%) QA
2 3 (6.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (22.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (28.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (12.00%) Progress Chef
3 2 (4.00%) Ansible
4 1 (2.00%) Argo
4 1 (2.00%) Grafana
4 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (8.00%) Google
2 4 (8.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.00%) Oracle
3 3 (6.00%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.00%) Cisco
4 2 (4.00%) DocuSign
4 2 (4.00%) IBM
4 2 (4.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.00%) F5
5 1 (2.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.00%) SAP
5 1 (2.00%) VMware