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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 48 48
Rank change year-on-year +17 0 -22
Contract jobs citing Scrum 135 110 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.31% 4.14% 4.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.25% 4.56% 4.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 65 119
10th Percentile £408 £425 £410
25th Percentile £475 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +7.42%
75th Percentile £626 £615 £603
90th Percentile £653 £638 £690
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.75
Median hourly rate - - £61.50
75th Percentile - - £62.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% +0.81% -1.59%

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 1,861 2,411 3,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.00% 90.74% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,069 1,584 2,502
10th Percentile £300 £245 £305
25th Percentile £411 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £612
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
South East median daily rate £511 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -1.70% +1.46% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 100 72
10th Percentile £18.00 £16.39 £11.42
25th Percentile £27.75 £24.00 £14.06
Median hourly rate £57.50 £50.00 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +159.74% -
75th Percentile £62.69 £66.11 £50.31
90th Percentile £70.72 £75.67 £75.75
South East median hourly rate £58.30 £52.30 £37.13
% change year-on-year +11.47% +40.86% +35.02%

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 31 October 2024.

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 31 October 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
Berkshire +15 122 £550 -1.12% 18
Buckinghamshire +2 12 £550 +7.32% 8
Oxfordshire +4 1 £260 -44.68% 6
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 4 (2.96%) Apache
2 3 (2.22%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.48%) Appian
4 1 (0.74%) CMS
4 1 (0.74%) Confluence
4 1 (0.74%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.74%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (42.96%) Azure
2 38 (28.15%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (11.85%) Azure Data Factory
4 15 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 15 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 14 (10.37%) Azure Key Vault
5 14 (10.37%) Azure Monitor
6 13 (9.63%) Azure Service Bus
7 12 (8.89%) Serverless
8 11 (8.15%) PowerApps
9 9 (6.67%) Azure API Management
9 9 (6.67%) Azure Functions
10 8 (5.93%) GCP
10 8 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (4.44%) AWS
11 6 (4.44%) Azure Storage
12 4 (2.96%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (2.22%) Azure Machine Learning
13 3 (2.22%) dbt
13 3 (2.22%) Oracle CX
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.89%) BGP
1 12 (8.89%) MPLS
1 12 (8.89%) VPN
2 9 (6.67%) Ethernet VPN
3 4 (2.96%) Firewall
3 4 (2.96%) Network Security
4 3 (2.22%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (2.22%) Cisco Firepower
4 3 (2.22%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (2.22%) DMVPN
4 3 (2.22%) EIGRP
4 3 (2.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (2.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (2.22%) IPsec
4 3 (2.22%) OSPF
4 3 (2.22%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (2.22%) SDH
4 3 (2.22%) SD-WAN
4 3 (2.22%) Sourcefire
4 3 (2.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.89%) NoSQL
2 10 (7.41%) MongoDB
3 7 (5.19%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (5.19%) Data Lake
4 6 (4.44%) MySQL
5 4 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.96%) Delta Lake
5 4 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.96%) Power BI
5 4 (2.96%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.22%) Big Data
6 3 (2.22%) Power Query
6 3 (2.22%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.48%) HDInsight
7 2 (1.48%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.74%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.74%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 19 (14.07%) JIRA
2 15 (11.11%) Git
3 11 (8.15%) GitLab
4 9 (6.67%) Selenium
5 4 (2.96%) Postman
5 4 (2.96%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.22%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.48%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.48%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.74%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.74%) JUnit
8 1 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.74%) Snyk
8 1 (0.74%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.74%) Subversion
General
1 42 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 30 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (7.41%) Telecoms
4 7 (5.19%) Billing
4 7 (5.19%) Finance
5 6 (4.44%) Retail
6 4 (2.96%) Legal
7 3 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Back Office
9 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Marketing
9 1 (0.74%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 31 (22.96%) Developer
2 22 (16.30%) Lead
3 17 (12.59%) Product Owner
4 14 (10.37%) Analyst
5 13 (9.63%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (6.67%) Tester
7 8 (5.93%) Azure Developer
7 8 (5.93%) Delivery Manager
7 8 (5.93%) Senior
8 7 (5.19%) Automation Tester
8 7 (5.19%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 7 (5.19%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (5.19%) Scrum Master
9 6 (4.44%) .NET Developer
9 6 (4.44%) Designer
9 6 (4.44%) Lead DevOps
9 6 (4.44%) Project Manager
10 5 (3.70%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.70%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.85%) SOAP
2 15 (11.11%) ADO
3 12 (8.89%) .NET
3 12 (8.89%) REST
4 10 (7.41%) AngularJS
4 10 (7.41%) YANG
5 9 (6.67%) NETCONF
5 9 (6.67%) RESTCONF
6 7 (5.19%) Gherkin
6 7 (5.19%) JSON
6 7 (5.19%) Node.js
6 7 (5.19%) React
6 7 (5.19%) YAML
7 6 (4.44%) HTML
7 6 (4.44%) XML
8 5 (3.70%) .NET Framework
8 5 (3.70%) COM
8 5 (3.70%) CSS
8 5 (3.70%) Entity Framework
8 5 (3.70%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 28 (20.74%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.19%) Virtual Team
2 7 (5.19%) Wiki
3 3 (2.22%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.48%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.48%) Cyberattack
4 2 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.74%) IoT
5 1 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.74%) N-Tier
5 1 (0.74%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.74%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.11%) Linux
2 10 (7.41%) Unix
3 9 (6.67%) CentOS
4 7 (5.19%) Windows
5 2 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (82.22%) Agile
2 75 (55.56%) DevOps
3 35 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (25.19%) CI/CD
5 27 (20.00%) Kanban
6 25 (18.52%) User Stories
7 23 (17.04%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 22 (16.30%) Microservices
9 21 (15.56%) Roadmaps
10 19 (14.07%) Product Roadmap
10 19 (14.07%) SDLC
11 18 (13.33%) Test Automation
12 17 (12.59%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (11.85%) ETL
14 15 (11.11%) ITIL
15 13 (9.63%) Coaching
15 13 (9.63%) Lean Software Development
15 13 (9.63%) Project Management
15 13 (9.63%) Software Testing
16 11 (8.15%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 46 (34.07%) SQL
2 29 (21.48%) Python
3 14 (10.37%) C#
4 9 (6.67%) T-SQL
5 8 (5.93%) PowerShell
6 6 (4.44%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (3.70%) Assembly Language
7 5 (3.70%) C++
7 5 (3.70%) Delphi
7 5 (3.70%) Java
8 4 (2.96%) Bicep
8 4 (2.96%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.22%) PHP
9 3 (2.22%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.48%) VBScript
11 1 (0.74%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (12.59%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.89%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.44%) Degree
3 6 (4.44%) PMP
4 4 (2.96%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.22%) CCNA
5 3 (2.22%) CCNP
5 3 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.22%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.74%) CCSA
6 1 (0.74%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.15%) QA
2 6 (4.44%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (9.63%) Docker
2 3 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (8.15%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.48%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (15.56%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.37%) Cisco
3 8 (5.93%) Oracle
4 6 (4.44%) Databricks
5 4 (2.96%) Genesys
6 3 (2.22%) Aruba
6 3 (2.22%) Blue Coat
6 3 (2.22%) CheckPoint
6 3 (2.22%) Ciena
6 3 (2.22%) F5
6 3 (2.22%) Fortinet
6 3 (2.22%) Google
6 3 (2.22%) Juniper
6 3 (2.22%) McAfee
6 3 (2.22%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.22%) Zscaler
7 2 (1.48%) Blue Prism
7 2 (1.48%) Rakuten
7 2 (1.48%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.48%) VMware