Scrum Contracts in the South East

Scrum
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 42 25 28
Rank change year-on-year -17 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing Scrum 221 409 528
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 4.06% 7.32% 6.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.82% 8.21% 7.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 266 353
10th Percentile £358 £406 £390
25th Percentile £422 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £625
90th Percentile £638 £675 £699
England median daily rate £530 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -7.83% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 27 19
10th Percentile £58.92 - -
25th Percentile £63.13 £42.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £45.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% -15.89% -7.76%
75th Percentile - £58.67 £62.70
90th Percentile £75.50 £71.48 £65.11
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +44.44% -20.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,584 4,983 6,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.28% 89.17% 89.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,667 3,471 4,653
10th Percentile £250 £250 £228
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +1.60% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 213 284
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.10
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £61.05
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 South East

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the South East

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the South East over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scrum in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scrum in the South East over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Scrum in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the South East 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
Hampshire +2 87 £525 -0.94% 27
Thames Valley -45 80 £501 -8.91% 38
Berkshire -46 66 £515 -1.90% 22
Surrey -15 26 £433 -17.62% 9
West Sussex +17 17 £425 -26.72% 5
Buckinghamshire -1 10 £475 -20.83% 10
Oxfordshire +9 4 £486 -6.27% 6
Middlesex +2 3 - -
East Sussex +2 3 £490 -18.33% 5
Kent - 3 £600 - 12
Home Counties - 1 - -
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 30 (13.57%) Confluence
2 10 (4.52%) Apache
3 9 (4.07%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.26%) SAS
5 4 (1.81%) CICS
6 3 (1.36%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.90%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.45%) Drupal
8 1 (0.45%) IIS
8 1 (0.45%) JBoss
8 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.81%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.45%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (1.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.90%) VisionPLUS
3 1 (0.45%) Maximo
3 1 (0.45%) SAP MII
3 1 (0.45%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 33 (14.93%) Azure
2 19 (8.60%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (6.79%) AWS
4 14 (6.33%) Power Platform
5 11 (4.98%) Serverless
6 9 (4.07%) PaaS
7 8 (3.62%) SaaS
8 7 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (3.17%) Azure Functions
8 7 (3.17%) IaaS
9 5 (2.26%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (2.26%) GitHub
9 5 (2.26%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.81%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.81%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.36%) Azure AKS
11 3 (1.36%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.36%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.79%) SNMP
1 15 (6.79%) Software-Defined Radio
2 9 (4.07%) BGP
2 9 (4.07%) Ethernet VPN
2 9 (4.07%) MPLS
2 9 (4.07%) Radio Access Network
2 9 (4.07%) VPN
3 7 (3.17%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.26%) Firewall
5 2 (0.90%) DNS
5 2 (0.90%) SAN
6 1 (0.45%) 3G
6 1 (0.45%) 4G
6 1 (0.45%) 5G
6 1 (0.45%) Broadband
6 1 (0.45%) DSL
6 1 (0.45%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.45%) Network Security
6 1 (0.45%) SMS
6 1 (0.45%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (9.05%) MongoDB
3 14 (6.33%) SQL Server
4 13 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 12 (5.43%) Power BI
6 10 (4.52%) MySQL
6 10 (4.52%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.62%) RDBMS
8 6 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (2.26%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.81%) Couchbase
10 4 (1.81%) DB2
10 4 (1.81%) GIS
10 4 (1.81%) IDMS
11 2 (0.90%) CouchDB
11 2 (0.90%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.90%) Power Query
12 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 58 (26.24%) JIRA
2 49 (22.17%) Git
3 35 (15.84%) Robot Framework
4 23 (10.41%) Bitbucket
5 21 (9.50%) GitLab
6 17 (7.69%) Jenkins
7 15 (6.79%) Eclipse
7 15 (6.79%) GoogleTest
8 12 (5.43%) TestRail
9 8 (3.62%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.81%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.81%) ClearCase
10 4 (1.81%) ClearQuest
10 4 (1.81%) Selenium
10 4 (1.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (1.36%) Postman
11 3 (1.36%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (1.36%) Subversion
12 2 (0.90%) JUnit
12 2 (0.90%) Oracle APEX
General
1 39 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 23 (10.41%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (6.79%) Finance
4 11 (4.98%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.52%) Telecoms
6 9 (4.07%) Billing
7 8 (3.62%) Aerospace
8 5 (2.26%) Marketing
9 4 (1.81%) Automotive
10 3 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.36%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.90%) Banking
11 2 (0.90%) Retail
12 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.45%) French Language
12 1 (0.45%) Legal
12 1 (0.45%) Local Government
12 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (21.27%) Developer
2 33 (14.93%) Software Engineer
3 28 (12.67%) Analyst
4 24 (10.86%) Senior
5 20 (9.05%) Scrum Master
6 17 (7.69%) C++ Software Engineer
7 14 (6.33%) Test Engineer
8 11 (4.98%) Architect
8 11 (4.98%) Project Manager
9 10 (4.52%) Java Developer
9 10 (4.52%) Linux Engineer
9 10 (4.52%) Senior Software Engineer
10 9 (4.07%) Product Owner
11 8 (3.62%) Business Analyst
11 8 (3.62%) Java Engineer
11 8 (3.62%) Java Software Engineer
11 8 (3.62%) Network Engineer
11 8 (3.62%) Product Analyst
11 8 (3.62%) Senior Manager
12 7 (3.17%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.22%) HTML
2 24 (10.86%) CSS
3 21 (9.50%) REST
4 17 (7.69%) SOAP
5 14 (6.33%) XML
6 10 (4.52%) Kafka
6 10 (4.52%) YANG
7 9 (4.07%) .NET
7 9 (4.07%) NETCONF
7 9 (4.07%) RESTCONF
7 9 (4.07%) Spring
8 8 (3.62%) AngularJS
8 8 (3.62%) React
8 8 (3.62%) RESTful
9 7 (3.17%) Web Services
10 6 (2.71%) Node.js
11 5 (2.26%) ASP.NET
11 5 (2.26%) ASP.NET MVC
11 5 (2.26%) Spring Boot
12 4 (1.81%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 36 (16.29%) Product Ownership
2 14 (6.33%) PKI
3 9 (4.07%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.62%) Smart Meter
5 7 (3.17%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (2.71%) Client/Server
6 6 (2.71%) Mainframe
6 6 (2.71%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.81%) IBM Mainframe
8 3 (1.36%) Clustering
8 3 (1.36%) Replication
9 2 (0.90%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.90%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.90%) Robotics
9 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.45%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 66 (29.86%) Linux
2 42 (19.00%) Windows
3 18 (8.14%) Windows Server
4 12 (5.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (5.43%) Unix
5 7 (3.17%) Embedded Linux
5 7 (3.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (2.71%) VMS
7 4 (1.81%) zOS
8 1 (0.45%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (83.26%) Agile
2 62 (28.05%) Kanban
3 54 (24.43%) Software Engineering
4 42 (19.00%) Test Automation
5 33 (14.93%) DevOps
6 32 (14.48%) CI/CD
7 31 (14.03%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (11.31%) OO
9 23 (10.41%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 22 (9.95%) TDD
10 22 (9.95%) UML
11 21 (9.50%) Project Delivery
12 18 (8.14%) Computer Science
12 18 (8.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 18 (8.14%) Project Management
12 18 (8.14%) Stakeholder Management
13 17 (7.69%) Workflow
14 16 (7.24%) SDLC
14 16 (7.24%) Unit Testing
14 16 (7.24%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 52 (23.53%) Python
2 44 (19.91%) SQL
3 41 (18.55%) Java
4 39 (17.65%) JavaScript
5 35 (15.84%) C++
6 22 (9.95%) C#
7 13 (5.88%) Bash
7 13 (5.88%) C
7 13 (5.88%) PowerShell
8 8 (3.62%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.81%) CLIST
9 4 (1.81%) COBOL
9 4 (1.81%) F#
9 4 (1.81%) Perl
9 4 (1.81%) REXX
9 4 (1.81%) VBScript
10 3 (1.36%) Go
10 3 (1.36%) SELCOPY
10 3 (1.36%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.90%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 67 (30.32%) Security Cleared
2 43 (19.46%) SC Cleared
3 23 (10.41%) Degree
4 8 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.71%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.71%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.81%) CSPO
6 4 (1.81%) ISTQB
6 4 (1.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 4 (1.81%) PMP
7 3 (1.36%) HNC
8 2 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.90%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.45%) APMP
9 1 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.05%) QA
2 7 (3.17%) RMADS
3 5 (2.26%) PMO
4 4 (1.81%) GDPR
5 3 (1.36%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.45%) GxP
6 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (9.95%) Docker
2 16 (7.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (6.79%) Active Directory
3 15 (6.79%) Firmware
4 9 (4.07%) vSphere
5 6 (2.71%) VirtualBox
6 5 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.90%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.90%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.45%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 19 (8.60%) Ansible
2 15 (6.79%) Kubernetes
3 12 (5.43%) Terraform
4 7 (3.17%) vRealize
5 6 (2.71%) Packer
6 4 (1.81%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.90%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.90%) VxRail
8 1 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.45%) Kibana
8 1 (0.45%) SCCM
8 1 (0.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (9.95%) VMware
2 19 (8.60%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.60%) Oracle
3 18 (8.14%) Google
4 15 (6.79%) Atlassian
5 6 (2.71%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.71%) SAP
6 5 (2.26%) Ab Initio
6 5 (2.26%) Arqiva
6 5 (2.26%) Veritas
7 4 (1.81%) HP
7 4 (1.81%) IBM
7 4 (1.81%) SolarWinds
7 4 (1.81%) Syncsort
8 3 (1.36%) Adobe
8 3 (1.36%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (1.36%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.36%) Sparx
9 2 (0.90%) Dell
9 2 (0.90%) ServiceNow