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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 54 48
Rank change year-on-year -4 -6 0
Contract jobs citing Scrum 58 22 49
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 3.27% 2.44% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% 2.74% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 14 40
10th Percentile £358 £401 £413
25th Percentile £366 £404 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £421 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -15.75% -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £466 £575
90th Percentile £599 £544 £650
North West median daily rate £449 £422 £500
% change year-on-year +6.28% -15.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £73.00 -
25th Percentile £85.00 £73.75 £69.50
Median hourly rate £90.00 £75.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £95.00 £78.13 £74.50
90th Percentile - £78.50 -
North West median hourly rate £56.44 £75.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year -24.75% +4.17% -

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 1,487 804 1,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 83.77% 89.04% 86.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 897 551 835
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £650 £665 £694
North West median daily rate £475 £466 £500
% change year-on-year +1.93% -6.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 26 79
10th Percentile £21.49 £14.16 £12.48
25th Percentile £37.50 £26.61 £13.81
Median hourly rate £57.50 £60.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +130.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77.38 £74.69 £60.63
90th Percentile £89.25 £86.63 £72.90
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £31.88 £27.00
% change year-on-year +72.52% +18.07% -22.86%

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 5 June 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
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
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) MS Visio
1 2 (3.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (31.03%) AWS
2 17 (29.31%) Azure
3 10 (17.24%) GCP
4 5 (8.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (6.90%) Serverless
5 4 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.17%) GitHub
6 3 (5.17%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (3.45%) Miro
7 2 (3.45%) Slack
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.72%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.07%) Firewall
2 2 (3.45%) Network Security
2 2 (3.45%) NGFW
3 1 (1.72%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.62%) MySQL
1 5 (8.62%) NoSQL
2 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.17%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.45%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.45%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.45%) Impala
3 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.45%) Power BI
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (34.48%) JIRA
2 9 (15.52%) Git
3 3 (5.17%) JMeter
3 3 (5.17%) Postman
3 3 (5.17%) Selenium
4 2 (3.45%) GitLab
5 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 16 (27.59%) Finance
3 6 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.62%) Banking
4 5 (8.62%) Retail
5 4 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Automotive
6 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Law
6 1 (1.72%) Legal
6 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (22.41%) Developer
2 11 (18.97%) Scrum Master
3 10 (17.24%) Senior
4 7 (12.07%) .NET Developer
4 7 (12.07%) Analyst
5 6 (10.34%) Business Analyst
6 5 (8.62%) Data Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Java Developer
7 4 (6.90%) Product Manager
7 4 (6.90%) Project Manager
7 4 (6.90%) Security Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Agile Scrum Master
8 3 (5.17%) Angular Developer
8 3 (5.17%) C# Developer
8 3 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Lead
8 3 (5.17%) Product Owner
8 3 (5.17%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.52%) RESTful
1 9 (15.52%) Spring
1 9 (15.52%) Spring Boot
2 8 (13.79%) React
3 7 (12.07%) .NET
4 6 (10.34%) AngularJS
4 6 (10.34%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (8.62%) Kafka
6 4 (6.90%) HTML
7 3 (5.17%) CSS
7 3 (5.17%) Great Expectations
7 3 (5.17%) Pandas
7 3 (5.17%) PySpark
7 3 (5.17%) REST
8 2 (3.45%) .NET Core
8 2 (3.45%) 802.1X
8 2 (3.45%) AWS CDK
8 2 (3.45%) Entity Framework
8 2 (3.45%) YAML
9 1 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 19 (32.76%) Product Ownership
2 9 (15.52%) Cloud Native
3 6 (10.34%) Security Posture
4 5 (8.62%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.45%) Credit Risk
5 2 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.45%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.72%) IoT
6 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.72%) NHS
6 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.90%) Linux
1 4 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (6.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (100.00%) Agile
2 26 (44.83%) CI/CD
3 19 (32.76%) Kanban
4 17 (29.31%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (25.86%) DevOps
6 12 (20.69%) Microservices
6 12 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (17.24%) Roadmaps
7 10 (17.24%) TDD
8 9 (15.52%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (15.52%) Observability
9 8 (13.79%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 8 (13.79%) Product Roadmap
9 8 (13.79%) Software Engineering
9 8 (13.79%) Test Automation
10 7 (12.07%) Change Management
10 7 (12.07%) Cloud Security
10 7 (12.07%) Coaching
10 7 (12.07%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 14 (24.14%) Java
2 11 (18.97%) SQL
3 8 (13.79%) C#
3 8 (13.79%) Python
4 6 (10.34%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.90%) Bash
5 4 (6.90%) Go
5 4 (6.90%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.17%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.72%) C++
7 1 (1.72%) Korn
7 1 (1.72%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (13.79%) Degree
2 7 (12.07%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (6.90%) AWS Certification
3 4 (6.90%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.45%) CISSP
4 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.72%) IIBA
5 1 (1.72%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.72%) PMP
5 1 (1.72%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) 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
4 1 (1.72%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (12.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (20.69%) Terraform
2 10 (17.24%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.62%) Progress Chef
4 3 (5.17%) Grafana
4 3 (5.17%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.45%) Apache Ranger
5 2 (3.45%) CASB
Vendors
1 7 (12.07%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.62%) Google
3 4 (6.90%) Red Hat
4 3 (5.17%) PagerDuty
5 2 (3.45%) Cloudera
5 2 (3.45%) Oracle
6 1 (1.72%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.72%) Okta
6 1 (1.72%) Salesforce