Scrum Contracts in the North of England

Scrum
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Scrum skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scrum over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 59 29
Rank change year-on-year +3 -30 +4
Contract jobs citing Scrum 154 199 433
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.32% 3.56% 6.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.88% 3.93% 6.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 147 268
10th Percentile £380 £413 £388
25th Percentile £425 £490 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £550
90th Percentile £642 £688 £638
England median daily rate £530 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -7.83% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 23
10th Percentile - - £33.00
25th Percentile £69.50 - £38.68
Median hourly rate £72.00 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% - +159.64%
75th Percentile £74.50 £75.00 £77.50
90th Percentile - £78.00 £81.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +44.44% -20.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Scrum is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,971 5,062 6,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.53% 90.60% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,420 3,499 4,622
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £401 £413 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £569
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 201 266
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.72 £13.56
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.98 £19.12
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +46.32% +5.90%
75th Percentile £45.00 £44.50 £36.75
90th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £62.86
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the North of England

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the North of England

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the North of England

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scrum in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in the North of England

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
North West -2 80 £500 -4.76% 67
Yorkshire +6 64 £538 -2.27% 31
North East +2 10 £525 -32.26% 9
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 15 (9.74%) Confluence
2 5 (3.25%) Apache
2 5 (3.25%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.25%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.30%) Mule
4 1 (0.65%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.30%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (4.55%) SAP PM
1 7 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.65%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 42 (27.27%) AWS
2 38 (24.68%) Azure
3 15 (9.74%) GitHub
4 11 (7.14%) GCP
4 11 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 10 (6.49%) Serverless
6 9 (5.84%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (5.84%) Amazon S3
6 9 (5.84%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (5.84%) Kong
7 8 (5.19%) SaaS
8 6 (3.90%) Apigee
8 6 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (3.90%) PaaS
9 5 (3.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (3.25%) Amazon EMR
9 5 (3.25%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (3.25%) IaaS
9 5 (3.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.49%) Firewall
2 9 (5.84%) DNS
2 9 (5.84%) HTTP
2 9 (5.84%) TCP/IP
2 9 (5.84%) VPN
3 5 (3.25%) FTP
4 3 (1.95%) BIG-IP
4 3 (1.95%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (1.95%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.95%) SSL
5 2 (1.30%) Internet
6 1 (0.65%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.74%) Relational Database
2 12 (7.79%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.84%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (4.55%) Power BI
5 5 (3.25%) Big Data
5 5 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.60%) Redis
6 4 (2.60%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.95%) MySQL
7 3 (1.95%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.65%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.65%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.65%) DataStage
8 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.65%) Sisense
8 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (22.73%) Git
2 31 (20.13%) JIRA
3 19 (12.34%) GitLab
4 18 (11.69%) Jenkins
5 17 (11.04%) JUnit
6 9 (5.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (5.84%) CircleCI
6 9 (5.84%) Travis CI
7 5 (3.25%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (2.60%) Jasmine
8 4 (2.60%) Karma Test Runner
8 4 (2.60%) Mocha
8 4 (2.60%) webpack
9 3 (1.95%) Postman
9 3 (1.95%) Selenium
10 2 (1.30%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.30%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.30%) Log4j
10 2 (1.30%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.30%) TeamCity
General
1 53 (34.42%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.34%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (12.34%) Public Sector
3 17 (11.04%) Finance
4 7 (4.55%) Manufacturing
4 7 (4.55%) Marketing
5 6 (3.90%) Legal
5 6 (3.90%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (3.25%) Banking
7 4 (2.60%) Law
8 3 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.30%) Front Office
9 2 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Billing
10 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Retail
10 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (28.57%) Developer
2 19 (12.34%) Analyst
3 18 (11.69%) Java Developer
4 16 (10.39%) Business Analyst
5 13 (8.44%) Project Manager
5 13 (8.44%) Scrum Master
6 12 (7.79%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (5.84%) Senior
8 7 (4.55%) Architect
8 7 (4.55%) Salesforce Developer
9 6 (3.90%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (3.90%) Delivery Manager
9 6 (3.90%) DevOps Automation Engineer
9 6 (3.90%) Lead
9 6 (3.90%) SAP Analyst
9 6 (3.90%) SAP Business Analyst
10 5 (3.25%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (3.25%) Data Engineer
10 5 (3.25%) ServiceNow Developer
10 5 (3.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (13.64%) React
2 18 (11.69%) JSON
2 18 (11.69%) REST
3 15 (9.74%) Hibernate
3 15 (9.74%) XML
4 14 (9.09%) .NET
4 14 (9.09%) Spring
4 14 (9.09%) Spring Boot
5 12 (7.79%) JPA
5 12 (7.79%) Web Services
6 11 (7.14%) HTML
6 11 (7.14%) YAML
7 10 (6.49%) AngularJS
7 10 (6.49%) CSS
8 9 (5.84%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (3.90%) .NET Framework
9 6 (3.90%) Kafka
9 6 (3.90%) OAuth
9 6 (3.90%) RESTful
10 5 (3.25%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 13 (8.44%) Data Structures
3 9 (5.84%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.25%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.60%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.60%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.95%) CMDB
6 3 (1.95%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.30%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.65%) IoT
8 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.65%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.65%) PMI
8 1 (0.65%) Replication
8 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.90%) Linux
2 4 (2.60%) Unix
3 3 (1.95%) Windows
4 2 (1.30%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.65%) Android
5 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (90.91%) Agile
2 58 (37.66%) DevOps
3 35 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (22.08%) CI/CD
5 32 (20.78%) Kanban
6 27 (17.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 26 (16.88%) Test Automation
8 25 (16.23%) Project Management
9 24 (15.58%) User Stories
10 23 (14.94%) Unit Testing
11 20 (12.99%) Waterfall
12 19 (12.34%) Containerisation
13 18 (11.69%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 18 (11.69%) SDLC
14 17 (11.04%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (10.39%) Collaborative Working
15 16 (10.39%) Microservices
16 15 (9.74%) CRM
16 15 (9.74%) Mentoring
16 15 (9.74%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 40 (25.97%) Java
2 25 (16.23%) Python
3 20 (12.99%) C#
4 19 (12.34%) JavaScript
5 16 (10.39%) SQL
5 16 (10.39%) TypeScript
6 13 (8.44%) Bash
7 12 (7.79%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.95%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.65%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.65%) Scala
9 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.65%) Swift
Qualifications
1 25 (16.23%) Security Cleared
2 24 (15.58%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.09%) Degree
4 12 (7.79%) DV Cleared
5 9 (5.84%) PMI Certification
6 7 (4.55%) PMP
7 4 (2.60%) CBAP
8 3 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.95%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.95%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.65%) CAPM
9 1 (0.65%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (17.53%) QA
2 4 (2.60%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.60%) GDPR
3 3 (1.95%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.30%) WCAG
5 1 (0.65%) GRC
System Software
1 29 (18.83%) Docker
2 2 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 29 (18.83%) Kubernetes
2 19 (12.34%) Ansible
2 19 (12.34%) Terraform
3 14 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 13 (8.44%) Grafana
5 10 (6.49%) Progress Chef
5 10 (6.49%) Puppet
6 9 (5.84%) Docker Swarm
6 9 (5.84%) Kibana
6 9 (5.84%) logstash
7 4 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.65%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 16 (10.39%) Salesforce
2 10 (6.49%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.49%) Splunk
3 9 (5.84%) ServiceNow
4 8 (5.19%) SAP
5 7 (4.55%) Oracle
6 5 (3.25%) Informatica
6 5 (3.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 5 (3.25%) Talend
7 4 (2.60%) Google
7 4 (2.60%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.95%) F5
9 2 (1.30%) VMware
10 1 (0.65%) Ariba
10 1 (0.65%) Cisco
10 1 (0.65%) Databricks
10 1 (0.65%) Embarcadero
10 1 (0.65%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.65%) Meraki
10 1 (0.65%) Workday