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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 47 48
Rank change year-on-year -20 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Scrum 62 37 45
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 3.17% 3.74% 3.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.79% 4.27% 4.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 28 34
10th Percentile £358 £296 £391
25th Percentile £363 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £418 £489
Median % change year-on-year +15.27% -14.58% -11.14%
75th Percentile £573 £540 £550
90th Percentile £616 £630 £568
North West median daily rate £513 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +20.59% -10.53% -13.64%
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% -

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 1,636 867 1,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 83.64% 87.66% 86.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 997 560 732
10th Percentile £302 £305 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £595 £588 £594
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
North West median daily rate £489 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +8.56% -9.09% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 50 61
10th Percentile £22.63 £16.79 £13.50
25th Percentile £30.00 £19.16 £20.50
Median hourly rate £62.25 £23.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +163.49% -32.50% +79.49%
75th Percentile £77.00 £60.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £87.25 £77.63 £74.50
North West median hourly rate £55.72 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +93.81% -4.17% +2.39%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 - 2 £375 - 1
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 14 (22.58%) Confluence
2 2 (3.23%) Apache
2 2 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.23%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) MS Visio
1 2 (3.23%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 21 (33.87%) AWS
2 19 (30.65%) Azure
3 11 (17.74%) GCP
4 7 (11.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 6 (9.68%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (8.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (6.45%) Serverless
8 3 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (4.84%) GitHub
9 2 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (3.23%) Miro
9 2 (3.23%) OCI
9 2 (3.23%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.52%) Firewall
2 3 (4.84%) Network Security
3 2 (3.23%) NGFW
4 1 (1.61%) BGP
4 1 (1.61%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.61%) DHCP
4 1 (1.61%) DNS
4 1 (1.61%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.61%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.61%) MPLS
4 1 (1.61%) OSPF
4 1 (1.61%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.61%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.61%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.61%) VPN
4 1 (1.61%) VXLAN
4 1 (1.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.84%) MySQL
1 3 (4.84%) NoSQL
1 3 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.23%) DynamoDB
2 2 (3.23%) Hadoop
2 2 (3.23%) Impala
2 2 (3.23%) Power BI
2 2 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (33.87%) JIRA
2 9 (14.52%) Git
3 3 (4.84%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.23%) GitLab
4 2 (3.23%) Zephyr
5 1 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (43.55%) Social Skills
2 22 (35.48%) Finance
3 8 (12.90%) Banking
4 6 (9.68%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.06%) Retail
6 2 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Automotive
7 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (22.58%) Developer
2 10 (16.13%) Scrum Master
3 7 (11.29%) .NET Developer
3 7 (11.29%) Analyst
3 7 (11.29%) Security Engineer
3 7 (11.29%) Senior
4 6 (9.68%) Project Manager
5 5 (8.06%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Data Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.45%) Business Analyst
6 4 (6.45%) IT Manager
6 4 (6.45%) IT Project Manager
6 4 (6.45%) Product Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Agile Project Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Angular Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Finance Project Manager
7 3 (4.84%) IT Finance Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.29%) .NET
2 6 (9.68%) AngularJS
2 6 (9.68%) RESTful
2 6 (9.68%) Spring
2 6 (9.68%) Spring Boot
3 5 (8.06%) React
4 4 (6.45%) HTML
4 4 (6.45%) REST
5 3 (4.84%) CSS
5 3 (4.84%) Great Expectations
5 3 (4.84%) Pandas
5 3 (4.84%) PySpark
5 3 (4.84%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (4.84%) YAML
6 2 (3.23%) .NET Core
6 2 (3.23%) 802.1X
6 2 (3.23%) AWS CDK
6 2 (3.23%) Entity Framework
6 2 (3.23%) JSON
6 2 (3.23%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 18 (29.03%) Product Ownership
2 11 (17.74%) Cloud Native
3 10 (16.13%) Security Posture
4 5 (8.06%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (6.45%) Credit Risk
5 4 (6.45%) Mobile App
6 3 (4.84%) NHS
7 2 (3.23%) AS400
7 2 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (3.23%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (3.23%) iSeries
7 2 (3.23%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.61%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (1.61%) IoT
8 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.90%) Linux
2 7 (11.29%) Windows
3 6 (9.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.61%) Unix
4 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (98.39%) Agile
2 27 (43.55%) CI/CD
3 19 (30.65%) Kanban
3 19 (30.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (29.03%) DevOps
5 17 (27.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (20.97%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (19.35%) Cloud Security
8 11 (17.74%) Change Management
8 11 (17.74%) Observability
8 11 (17.74%) Roadmaps
9 9 (14.52%) Microservices
10 8 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (12.90%) Product Roadmap
10 8 (12.90%) Project Management
10 8 (12.90%) SIEM
10 8 (12.90%) Test Automation
10 8 (12.90%) User Experience
11 7 (11.29%) Decision-Making
11 7 (11.29%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.97%) Java
2 12 (19.35%) Python
3 10 (16.13%) SQL
4 8 (12.90%) Bash
5 7 (11.29%) C#
5 7 (11.29%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.84%) Bicep
6 3 (4.84%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.61%) C++
7 1 (1.61%) Go
7 1 (1.61%) Korn
Qualifications
1 8 (12.90%) Degree
2 7 (11.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (9.68%) AWS Certification
3 6 (9.68%) Azure Certification
4 4 (6.45%) CISSP
5 3 (4.84%) Security Cleared
6 2 (3.23%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.61%) CCIE
7 1 (1.61%) CCNP
7 1 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.61%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.61%) PMP
7 1 (1.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.52%) QA
2 3 (4.84%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (3.23%) NIST
3 2 (3.23%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.23%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (17.74%) Docker
2 1 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (29.03%) Terraform
2 13 (20.97%) Kubernetes
3 8 (12.90%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.23%) Ansible
4 2 (3.23%) Apache Ranger
4 2 (3.23%) CASB
4 2 (3.23%) Grafana
4 2 (3.23%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.61%) Argo
5 1 (1.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.68%) Google
2 6 (9.68%) Red Hat
3 3 (4.84%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.23%) Cisco
4 2 (3.23%) Cloudera
4 2 (3.23%) DocuSign
4 2 (3.23%) IBM
4 2 (3.23%) Oracle
4 2 (3.23%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.61%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.61%) F5
5 1 (1.61%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.61%) Okta
5 1 (1.61%) PagerDuty
5 1 (1.61%) VMware