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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 64 48
Rank change year-on-year +8 -16 +3
Contract jobs citing Scrum 53 22 51
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 3.28% 2.33% 3.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.88% 2.56% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 13 43
10th Percentile £358 £343 £413
25th Percentile £400 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.21% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £571
90th Percentile £603 £648 £625
North West median daily rate £447 £455 £475
% change year-on-year -1.76% -4.21% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £73.00 -
25th Percentile £85.00 £73.75 -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
75th Percentile £95.00 £78.13 -
90th Percentile - £78.50 -
North West median hourly rate £56.44 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year -24.75% - -

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 1,367 860 1,363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 84.64% 91.20% 87.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 887 608 946
10th Percentile £313 £310 £313
25th Percentile £389 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £682 £691
North West median daily rate £460 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -3.16% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 33 71
10th Percentile £19.75 £15.93 £12.40
25th Percentile £26.83 £24.25 £13.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% +25.00% -30.67%
75th Percentile £75.50 £60.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £89.00 £74.75 £72.50
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £31.64 £23.45
% change year-on-year +43.68% +34.93% -37.13%

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 April 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 (24.53%) Confluence
2 2 (3.77%) Apache
2 2 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.77%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) MS Visio
1 2 (3.77%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (28.30%) AWS
1 15 (28.30%) Azure
2 8 (15.09%) GCP
3 5 (9.43%) Serverless
4 4 (7.55%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.66%) GitHub
5 3 (5.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (5.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.77%) Miro
6 2 (3.77%) Slack
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.89%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.89%) OCI
7 1 (1.89%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.89%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.43%) Firewall
2 2 (3.77%) Network Security
2 2 (3.77%) NGFW
3 1 (1.89%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.43%) MySQL
1 5 (9.43%) NoSQL
2 3 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.66%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.77%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.77%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.77%) Impala
3 2 (3.77%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.77%) Power BI
4 1 (1.89%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (37.74%) JIRA
2 9 (16.98%) Git
3 3 (5.66%) JMeter
3 3 (5.66%) Postman
3 3 (5.66%) Selenium
4 2 (3.77%) GitLab
5 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (33.96%) Social Skills
2 12 (22.64%) Finance
3 6 (11.32%) Public Sector
4 5 (9.43%) Retail
5 4 (7.55%) Banking
5 4 (7.55%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Automotive
7 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.89%) Law
7 1 (1.89%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (22.64%) Developer
2 10 (18.87%) Scrum Master
2 10 (18.87%) Senior
3 7 (13.21%) Analyst
4 6 (11.32%) .NET Developer
4 6 (11.32%) Business Analyst
5 5 (9.43%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Security Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Java Developer
6 4 (7.55%) Lead
6 4 (7.55%) Product Manager
7 3 (5.66%) Angular Developer
7 3 (5.66%) C# Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Product Owner
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Java Software Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.98%) RESTful
2 8 (15.09%) React
2 8 (15.09%) Spring
2 8 (15.09%) Spring Boot
3 7 (13.21%) .NET
4 6 (11.32%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (9.43%) AngularJS
6 4 (7.55%) HTML
6 4 (7.55%) Kafka
6 4 (7.55%) REST
7 3 (5.66%) AWS CDK
7 3 (5.66%) CSS
8 2 (3.77%) .NET Core
8 2 (3.77%) 802.1X
8 2 (3.77%) Entity Framework
8 2 (3.77%) NestJS
8 2 (3.77%) YAML
9 1 (1.89%) .NET Framework
9 1 (1.89%) JSON
9 1 (1.89%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.53%) Product Ownership
2 7 (13.21%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.55%) Security Posture
4 3 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.89%) AS400
6 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.89%) IoT
6 1 (1.89%) iSeries
6 1 (1.89%) NHS
6 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.77%) Linux
1 2 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (3.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (100.00%) Agile
2 22 (41.51%) CI/CD
3 17 (32.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 17 (32.08%) Kanban
4 14 (26.42%) Microservices
5 12 (22.64%) DevOps
5 12 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (18.87%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (16.98%) TDD
8 7 (13.21%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 7 (13.21%) Cloud Security
8 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (13.21%) Product Roadmap
8 7 (13.21%) Product Strategy
8 7 (13.21%) Risk Management
8 7 (13.21%) Roadmaps
8 7 (13.21%) Software Engineering
8 7 (13.21%) Test Automation
9 6 (11.32%) Conflict Resolution
9 6 (11.32%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 11 (20.75%) Java
2 10 (18.87%) SQL
3 8 (15.09%) C#
4 7 (13.21%) JavaScript
5 5 (9.43%) Go
5 5 (9.43%) Python
5 5 (9.43%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.66%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.77%) Bash
8 1 (1.89%) C++
8 1 (1.89%) Korn
8 1 (1.89%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (11.32%) Degree
2 5 (9.43%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.77%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.89%) IIBA
4 1 (1.89%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.89%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.89%) PMP
4 1 (1.89%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) QA
2 3 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.66%) NIST
2 3 (5.66%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (3.77%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.89%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.89%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (7.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (15.09%) Terraform
2 7 (13.21%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.66%) Grafana
3 3 (5.66%) Progress Chef
3 3 (5.66%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.77%) Apache Ranger
4 2 (3.77%) CASB
Vendors
1 8 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.66%) Google
2 3 (5.66%) PagerDuty
3 2 (3.77%) Cloudera
3 2 (3.77%) Oracle
3 2 (3.77%) Ping Identity
3 2 (3.77%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.89%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.89%) IBM
4 1 (1.89%) Okta
4 1 (1.89%) Salesforce