Scrum Contracts in Manchester

Scrum
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Scrum skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Scrum over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 48 56
Rank change year-on-year -18 +8 -17
Contract jobs citing Scrum 22 53 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.32% 3.38% 3.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.54% 3.88% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 45 55
10th Percentile £343 £413 £421
25th Percentile £400 £450 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £550
90th Percentile £648 £625 £638
North West median daily rate £455 £475 £520
% change year-on-year -4.21% -8.65% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £73.00 - -
25th Percentile £73.75 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £78.13 - -
90th Percentile £78.50 - -
North West median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 867 1,367 1,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 91.26% 87.13% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 952 1,385
10th Percentile £311 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 72 67
10th Percentile £15.95 £12.41 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -30.67% +154.24%
75th Percentile £60.00 £57.50 £54.50
90th Percentile £74.63 £72.44 £67.60
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £23.45 £37.30
% change year-on-year +35.95% -37.13% +97.96%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in Manchester

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Scrum in Manchester

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Manchester over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Manchester

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scrum in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend 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 2 April 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
Bolton -3 3 - - 8
Salford -1 1 £300 -35.14% 6
Scrum
North West

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (18.18%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) Liferay
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) AWS
1 5 (22.73%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (13.64%) Serverless
3 2 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (4.55%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (4.55%) Figma
4 1 (4.55%) Firebase
4 1 (4.55%) GCP
4 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.55%) npm
4 1 (4.55%) Power Automate
4 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.55%) PowerApps
4 1 (4.55%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
1 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.55%) InfluxDB
2 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) JIRA
2 4 (18.18%) GitLab
3 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
4 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket
4 2 (9.09%) Cucumber
5 1 (4.55%) Balsamiq
5 1 (4.55%) Git
5 1 (4.55%) Jasmine
5 1 (4.55%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (4.55%) Mocha
5 1 (4.55%) webpack
General
1 12 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Finance
3 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 3 (13.64%) Banking
4 3 (13.64%) Military
5 1 (4.55%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Developer
2 3 (13.64%) IT Manager
2 3 (13.64%) IT Project Manager
2 3 (13.64%) Project Manager
2 3 (13.64%) Senior
3 2 (9.09%) Agile Business Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Business Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) iOS Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Java Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Lead
3 2 (9.09%) Migration Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Test Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Test Manager
4 1 (4.55%) IT Technical Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Scrum Master
4 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) RESTful
2 3 (13.64%) Spring
2 3 (13.64%) Spring Boot
3 2 (9.09%) .NET
3 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
3 2 (9.09%) SOAP
4 1 (4.55%) .NET Core
4 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.55%) Django
4 1 (4.55%) FastAPI
4 1 (4.55%) Flask
4 1 (4.55%) HTML
4 1 (4.55%) Java EE
4 1 (4.55%) Kafka
4 1 (4.55%) LINQ
4 1 (4.55%) pytest
4 1 (4.55%) React
4 1 (4.55%) Visualforce
4 1 (4.55%) Vue
4 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Mobile App
2 2 (9.09%) iPad
2 2 (9.09%) iPhone
2 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.09%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) Agile
2 8 (36.36%) Microservices
3 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (27.27%) SDLC
4 5 (22.73%) DevOps
4 5 (22.73%) Kanban
4 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
4 5 (22.73%) Test Automation
5 4 (18.18%) API Testing
5 4 (18.18%) Functional Testing
5 4 (18.18%) Project Management
5 4 (18.18%) Software Testing
5 4 (18.18%) Test Strategy
6 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
6 3 (13.64%) Design Patterns
6 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (13.64%) Generative AI
6 3 (13.64%) Project Delivery
6 3 (13.64%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) SQL
2 4 (18.18%) Java
3 2 (9.09%) C#
3 2 (9.09%) PL/SQL
3 2 (9.09%) Swift
4 1 (4.55%) Apex Code
4 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.55%) PHP
4 1 (4.55%) Python
4 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
1 2 (9.09%) ISTQB
1 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.55%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) Accessibility
1 4 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Grafana
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle
1 2 (9.09%) Splunk
2 1 (4.55%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (4.55%) Google
2 1 (4.55%) Salesforce