Scrum Contracts in South Wales

Scrum
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 42 21
Rank change year-on-year +19 -21 +12
Contract jobs citing Scrum 17 12 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 5.20% 2.53% 7.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.72% 2.86% 9.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 10 49
10th Percentile £369 £202 £423
25th Percentile £485 £218 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £358 £550
Median % change year-on-year +42.24% -35.00% +29.41%
75th Percentile £523 £473 £625
90th Percentile £526 £533 £710
Wales median daily rate £503 £430 £550
% change year-on-year +16.86% -21.82% +29.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 253 419 719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 77.37% 88.21% 84.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 320 529
10th Percentile £143 £190 £263
25th Percentile £313 £372 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +15.61%
75th Percentile £566 £588 £575
90th Percentile £667 £650 £638
Wales median daily rate £490 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -2.00% +2.56% +12.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 23 21
10th Percentile £11.45 £16.37 £15.25
25th Percentile £15.48 £16.98 £19.91
Median hourly rate £20.24 £18.14 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year +11.55% -10.38% -2.58%
75th Percentile £52.31 £22.11 £46.88
90th Percentile £86.90 £49.75 £47.40
Wales median hourly rate £19.17 £18.14 £20.24
% change year-on-year +5.68% -10.38% -1.27%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in South Wales

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum in South Wales

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in South Wales over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in South Wales

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in South Wales

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Cardiff +14 17 £509 +78.42% 5
Scrum
Wales

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) GitHub
1 8 (47.06%) GitHub Actions
2 7 (41.18%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) MySQL
2 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) JIRA
2 3 (17.65%) Postman
3 2 (11.76%) Cypress.io
4 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 3 (17.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Project Manager
2 5 (29.41%) Migration Manager
2 5 (29.41%) Migration Project Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Agile Project Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Software Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Software Project Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) QA Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Test Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Development Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Development Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) IT Manager
5 1 (5.88%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Scrum Master
5 1 (5.88%) Software Development Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Software Development Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) .NET
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (11.76%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Agile
2 8 (47.06%) SDLC
3 7 (41.18%) Project Management
4 6 (35.29%) Kanban
5 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
5 5 (29.41%) Migration
6 3 (17.65%) Analytics
6 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
6 3 (17.65%) Data Analytics
6 3 (17.65%) Kalman Filter
6 3 (17.65%) Manual Testing
6 3 (17.65%) Project Governance
6 3 (17.65%) Regression Testing
6 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
6 3 (17.65%) Test Strategy
7 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
7 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (5.88%) API Testing
8 1 (5.88%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) PHP
2 3 (17.65%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.88%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
4 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Argo
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
2 8 (47.06%) Atlassian
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle
3 2 (11.76%) Progress