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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 46 56
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 -14
Contract jobs citing Scrum 42 35 53
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 4.05% 3.06% 3.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% 3.52% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 26 47
10th Percentile £322 £378 £428
25th Percentile £391 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £493 £538
Median % change year-on-year -15.74% -8.37% +13.16%
75th Percentile £478 £550 £598
90th Percentile £636 £644 £652
North West median daily rate £418 £469 £538
% change year-on-year -10.93% -12.79% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £72.00 -
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £72.00 £52.00
% change year-on-year -36.86% +38.46% -30.67%

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 935 994 1,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 90.16% 86.96% 88.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 566 1,088
10th Percentile £299 £313 £270
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £598 £575 £588
90th Percentile £678 £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 72 34 58
10th Percentile £16.37 £18.17 £15.21
25th Percentile £19.07 £28.75 £16.26
Median hourly rate £22.57 £36.00 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -37.32% +87.01% -26.67%
75th Percentile £32.44 £62.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £73.60 £68.50
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -37.64% +15.21% +40.00%

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 20 October 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 20 October 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 -
Stockport - 2 - -
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 10 (23.81%) Confluence
2 3 (7.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.81%) Azure
2 7 (16.67%) AWS
3 6 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (9.52%) GCP
5 3 (7.14%) Figma
5 3 (7.14%) IaaS
5 3 (7.14%) PaaS
5 3 (7.14%) SaaS
5 3 (7.14%) Serverless
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.76%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.38%) GitHub
7 1 (2.38%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) SAN
2 2 (4.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.38%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (30.95%) JIRA
2 3 (7.14%) Git
2 3 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.14%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (4.76%) Android Studio
3 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket
3 2 (4.76%) GitLab
3 2 (4.76%) JUnit
3 2 (4.76%) Subversion
3 2 (4.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (30.95%) Finance
1 13 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.81%) Banking
3 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.14%) Back Office
5 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (19.05%) Lead
2 7 (16.67%) Developer
3 6 (14.29%) Analyst
3 6 (14.29%) Business Analyst
4 5 (11.90%) Senior
4 5 (11.90%) User Researcher
5 4 (9.52%) Software Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Architect
6 3 (7.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Android Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Banking Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Digital Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Digital Business Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Security Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.90%) REST
2 3 (7.14%) Middleware
2 3 (7.14%) NestJS
2 3 (7.14%) RESTful
3 2 (4.76%) .NET
3 2 (4.76%) Android Jetpack
3 2 (4.76%) Android SDK
3 2 (4.76%) AWS CDK
3 2 (4.76%) Jetpack Compose
3 2 (4.76%) Node.js
4 1 (2.38%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (2.38%) HTML
4 1 (2.38%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (2.38%) React
4 1 (2.38%) Serverless Framework
4 1 (2.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (7.14%) Mobile App
2 3 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 3 (7.14%) Private Cloud
3 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.38%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.29%) Linux
2 3 (7.14%) Android
2 3 (7.14%) Unix
2 3 (7.14%) Windows
2 3 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (95.24%) Agile
2 14 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (28.57%) DevOps
4 10 (23.81%) Sprint Planning
5 9 (21.43%) Kanban
5 9 (21.43%) Waterfall
6 8 (19.05%) Microservices
6 8 (19.05%) Project Management
7 7 (16.67%) Planning and Forecasting
7 7 (16.67%) Risk Management
7 7 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 7 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
7 7 (16.67%) User Stories
8 6 (14.29%) CI/CD
8 6 (14.29%) Containerisation
8 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (14.29%) Resource Allocation
8 6 (14.29%) Software Engineering
8 6 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (14.29%) Java
1 6 (14.29%) SQL
2 5 (11.90%) C++
2 5 (11.90%) Python
3 4 (9.52%) JavaScript
3 4 (9.52%) TypeScript
4 3 (7.14%) Bash
4 3 (7.14%) Kotlin
5 2 (4.76%) C#
6 1 (2.38%) Go
6 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) ISEB
3 1 (2.38%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) QA
2 3 (7.14%) GDPR
2 3 (7.14%) PSD2
3 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.38%) NIST
3 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (9.52%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.14%) Ansible
2 3 (7.14%) Podman
2 3 (7.14%) SELinux
3 2 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.52%) IBM
3 3 (7.14%) Citrix
3 3 (7.14%) F5
3 3 (7.14%) HP
3 3 (7.14%) Oracle
3 3 (7.14%) Ping Identity
3 3 (7.14%) VMware
4 1 (2.38%) Google
4 1 (2.38%) MuleSoft