Scrum Contracts in the Thames Valley

Scrum
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 52 31
Rank change year-on-year +10 -21 +7
Contract jobs citing Scrum 69 99 211
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.58% 3.52% 7.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.92% 3.97% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 57 144
10th Percentile £387 £380 £413
25th Percentile £450 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £625
90th Percentile £643 £630 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £538
% change year-on-year -0.10% -6.88% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £48.00 - £70.00
South East median hourly rate £61.50 £66.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -7.17% +47.22% -27.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,402 2,492 2,744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.03% 88.71% 91.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 855 1,427 1,902
10th Percentile £300 £213 £313
25th Percentile £409 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £685
South East median daily rate £505 £500 £505
% change year-on-year +1.00% -0.99% +3.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 180 51
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.00 £19.81 £22.75
Median hourly rate £46.30 £42.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year +8.94% -12.19% +176.57%
75th Percentile £62.24 £63.00 £68.11
90th Percentile £75.50 £85.65 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.53% -5.56% +91.49%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scrum in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire +10 58 £500 -6.54% 52
Buckinghamshire +5 8 £575 -4.17% 21
Oxfordshire 0 3 £550 +37.50% 24
Scrum
South East

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (2.90%) Appian
2 1 (1.45%) Apache
2 1 (1.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.45%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Primavera
2 1 (1.45%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (1.45%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 15 (21.74%) Azure
2 10 (14.49%) AWS
3 7 (10.14%) GitHub
4 6 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (8.70%) Serverless
5 5 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (7.25%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (5.80%) SaaS
7 3 (4.35%) dbt
7 3 (4.35%) GCP
7 3 (4.35%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.45%) Azure AI
8 1 (1.45%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.45%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.45%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.45%) IaaS
8 1 (1.45%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.80%) HTTP
2 3 (4.35%) Broadband
3 1 (1.45%) BGP
3 1 (1.45%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (1.45%) GPON
3 1 (1.45%) MPLS
3 1 (1.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.35%) MySQL
1 3 (4.35%) SQL Server
1 3 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (2.90%) DocumentDB
2 2 (2.90%) Power BI
3 1 (1.45%) Big Data
3 1 (1.45%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.45%) GIS
3 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (8.70%) JIRA
2 5 (7.25%) Git
3 3 (4.35%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (2.90%) GitLab
5 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.45%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.45%) Snyk
5 1 (1.45%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.39%) Telecoms
3 9 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.80%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.35%) Finance
6 2 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.45%) Billing
7 1 (1.45%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.45%) Marketing
7 1 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (15.94%) Developer
2 10 (14.49%) Product Owner
3 9 (13.04%) Lead
4 8 (11.59%) Scrum Master
5 7 (10.14%) Analyst
5 7 (10.14%) Senior
6 6 (8.70%) Architect
6 6 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (8.70%) C++ Developer
7 5 (7.25%) Junior
8 4 (5.80%) Business Analyst
9 3 (4.35%) .NET Developer
9 3 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Junior Scrum Master
9 3 (4.35%) Product Analyst
9 3 (4.35%) ServiceNow Architect
9 3 (4.35%) Telecoms Architect
10 2 (2.90%) Agile Product Owner
10 2 (2.90%) Agile Scrum Master
10 2 (2.90%) Data Visualisation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.59%) SOAP
2 7 (10.14%) JSON
2 7 (10.14%) REST
2 7 (10.14%) Web Services
3 5 (7.25%) CSS
3 5 (7.25%) HTML
3 5 (7.25%) XML
4 4 (5.80%) .NET
4 4 (5.80%) Ajax
5 3 (4.35%) ADO
6 2 (2.90%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.90%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.90%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (2.90%) Entity Framework
6 2 (2.90%) NHibernate
6 2 (2.90%) YAML
7 1 (1.45%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (1.45%) NETCONF
7 1 (1.45%) Playwright
7 1 (1.45%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.74%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.80%) CMDB
3 2 (2.90%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.45%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.45%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.45%) IoT
4 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.45%) Life Science
4 1 (1.45%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.45%) PKI
4 1 (1.45%) PMI
4 1 (1.45%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.35%) Linux
1 3 (4.35%) Windows
2 1 (1.45%) CentOS
2 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.45%) Unix
2 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (68.12%) Agile
2 24 (34.78%) DevOps
3 18 (26.09%) Roadmaps
3 18 (26.09%) User Stories
4 17 (24.64%) Kanban
5 15 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (20.29%) CI/CD
6 14 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (17.39%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 10 (14.49%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 10 (14.49%) ITIL
9 9 (13.04%) Coaching
9 9 (13.04%) Product Roadmap
10 8 (11.59%) Sprint Planning
11 7 (10.14%) Analytics
12 6 (8.70%) Collaborative Working
12 6 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
12 6 (8.70%) IT Asset Management
12 6 (8.70%) ITSM
12 6 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.94%) Python
2 10 (14.49%) SQL
3 7 (10.14%) C#
4 6 (8.70%) Assembly Language
4 6 (8.70%) C++
5 3 (4.35%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.90%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.45%) Bicep
7 1 (1.45%) Delphi
7 1 (1.45%) Java
7 1 (1.45%) Magik
7 1 (1.45%) R
7 1 (1.45%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (8.70%) Degree
2 4 (5.80%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.90%) PMI Certification
3 2 (2.90%) PMP
3 2 (2.90%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.45%) CISA
4 1 (1.45%) CISM
4 1 (1.45%) CISSP
4 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.45%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.14%) QA
2 2 (2.90%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.45%) GDPR
3 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.45%) NIST
3 1 (1.45%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.45%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (14.49%) Docker
2 2 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (5.80%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.35%) Terraform
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (13.04%) Microsoft
1 9 (13.04%) ServiceNow
2 4 (5.80%) Oracle
3 3 (4.35%) Cisco
3 3 (4.35%) Snow
4 2 (2.90%) Blue Prism
4 2 (2.90%) Genesys
4 2 (2.90%) Nokia
4 2 (2.90%) Rakuten
4 2 (2.90%) VMware
4 2 (2.90%) Xamarin
5 1 (1.45%) Adobe
5 1 (1.45%) ArcSight
5 1 (1.45%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.45%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.45%) IBM
5 1 (1.45%) SAP
5 1 (1.45%) Sparx