Scrum Contracts in the Thames Valley

Scrum
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 21 48
Rank change year-on-year -33 +27 -21
Contract jobs citing Scrum 80 233 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.03% 8.14% 4.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.53% 8.97% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 155 94
10th Percentile £396 £413 £393
25th Percentile £425 £454 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +4.76% +20.69%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £629
90th Percentile £632 £700 £679
South East median daily rate £495 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.86% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.75
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year - +13.82% -3.15%
75th Percentile - - £62.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year +33.33% +1.45% -17.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,268 2,598 3,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 86.01% 90.78% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 1,766 2,158
10th Percentile £213 £319 £235
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £485
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +4.12% +7.78%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £579
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +0.10% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 69 89
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.50 £12.25
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.50 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +201.38% -17.24%
75th Percentile £64.42 £73.59 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £63.27
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.72
% change year-on-year -9.52% +141.77% -21.04%

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

Scrum
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

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the Thames Valley

Scrum
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 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
Berkshire -37 70 £508 -7.64% 11
Buckinghamshire -3 7 £463 -22.92% 15
Oxfordshire +4 3 £488 -3.47% 4
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 8 (10.00%) Apache
2 7 (8.75%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.75%) OpenStack
4 2 (2.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.25%) Confluence
5 1 (1.25%) Drupal
5 1 (1.25%) JBoss
5 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Maximo
1 1 (1.25%) SAP MII
1 1 (1.25%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 26 (32.50%) Azure
2 17 (21.25%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (13.75%) Power Platform
4 9 (11.25%) Serverless
5 7 (8.75%) AWS
5 7 (8.75%) PaaS
6 6 (7.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (7.50%) PowerApps
7 5 (6.25%) Azure Functions
7 5 (6.25%) GCP
8 4 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (3.75%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.50%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.50%) SaaS
11 1 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.25%) BGP
1 9 (11.25%) MPLS
1 9 (11.25%) VPN
2 7 (8.75%) Ethernet VPN
2 7 (8.75%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (3.75%) Network Security
4 2 (2.50%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (2.50%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (2.50%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (2.50%) DMVPN
4 2 (2.50%) EIGRP
4 2 (2.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (2.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (2.50%) Firewall
4 2 (2.50%) IPsec
4 2 (2.50%) OSPF
4 2 (2.50%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (2.50%) SD-WAN
4 2 (2.50%) Sourcefire
4 2 (2.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.25%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 8 (10.00%) Power BI
3 7 (8.75%) NoSQL
3 7 (8.75%) Relational Database
4 6 (7.50%) SQL Server
5 5 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.75%) MySQL
7 3 (3.75%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.50%) Power Query
9 1 (1.25%) Big Data
9 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.25%) HDInsight
Development Applications
1 20 (25.00%) JIRA
2 10 (12.50%) Git
2 10 (12.50%) Robot Framework
3 7 (8.75%) GitLab
3 7 (8.75%) TestRail
4 4 (5.00%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.75%) Selenium
5 3 (3.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (2.50%) JUnit
6 2 (2.50%) Postman
7 1 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.25%) JMeter
7 1 (1.25%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.25%) Mockito
7 1 (1.25%) SoapUI
General
1 18 (22.50%) Analytical Skills
1 18 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 9 (11.25%) Billing
3 9 (11.25%) Finance
4 4 (5.00%) Marketing
5 3 (3.75%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Automotive
7 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (25.00%) Developer
2 17 (21.25%) Analyst
3 6 (7.50%) Network Engineer
3 6 (7.50%) Scrum Master
3 6 (7.50%) Test Engineer
4 5 (6.25%) C# Developer
4 5 (6.25%) Product Owner
5 4 (5.00%) Azure Data Engineer
5 4 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (5.00%) Data Engineer
5 4 (5.00%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (5.00%) Java Developer
5 4 (5.00%) Product Analyst
5 4 (5.00%) Project Manager
5 4 (5.00%) Senior
5 4 (5.00%) Tester
6 3 (3.75%) Business Analyst
6 3 (3.75%) Consultant
6 3 (3.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (3.75%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.00%) REST
2 10 (12.50%) SOAP
3 8 (10.00%) YANG
4 7 (8.75%) NETCONF
4 7 (8.75%) RESTCONF
4 7 (8.75%) XML
5 6 (7.50%) HTML
6 5 (6.25%) Spring Boot
7 4 (5.00%) Kafka
7 4 (5.00%) Node.js
7 4 (5.00%) React
7 4 (5.00%) Spring
7 4 (5.00%) Web Services
8 3 (3.75%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (2.50%) .NET
9 2 (2.50%) Apache Camel
9 2 (2.50%) ASP.NET
9 2 (2.50%) ASP.NET MVC
9 2 (2.50%) Django
9 2 (2.50%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 24 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.75%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.00%) Client/Server
4 4 (5.00%) Smart Meter
5 3 (3.75%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.50%) Robotics
7 1 (1.25%) IoT
7 1 (1.25%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.75%) Linux
2 11 (13.75%) Windows
3 7 (8.75%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (81.25%) Agile
2 26 (32.50%) DevOps
3 19 (23.75%) Test Automation
4 15 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 15 (18.75%) Kanban
5 14 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (16.25%) User Stories
6 13 (16.25%) Workflow
7 12 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (12.50%) Project Delivery
8 10 (12.50%) Project Management
9 9 (11.25%) Analytics
9 9 (11.25%) Integration Testing
9 9 (11.25%) Performance Testing
9 9 (11.25%) Unit Testing
9 9 (11.25%) User Acceptance Testing
10 7 (8.75%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (8.75%) Data Protection
10 7 (8.75%) Regression Testing
10 7 (8.75%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (26.25%) SQL
2 15 (18.75%) Python
3 12 (15.00%) Java
4 8 (10.00%) C#
4 8 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 4 (5.00%) VBScript
6 3 (3.75%) F#
6 3 (3.75%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.50%) PHP
8 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (11.25%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.25%) Degree
2 5 (6.25%) PMP
2 5 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.75%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.50%) CCNA
5 2 (2.50%) CCNP
5 2 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.25%) CSPO
6 1 (1.25%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.25%) QA
2 4 (5.00%) GDPR
3 3 (3.75%) PMO
4 2 (2.50%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (13.75%) Docker
2 4 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.25%) Ansible
2 1 (1.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (21.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.00%) Ab Initio
2 4 (5.00%) VMware
3 3 (3.75%) Google
3 3 (3.75%) Oracle
3 3 (3.75%) SAP
4 2 (2.50%) Adobe
4 2 (2.50%) Aruba
4 2 (2.50%) Blue Coat
4 2 (2.50%) CheckPoint
4 2 (2.50%) Cisco
4 2 (2.50%) F5
4 2 (2.50%) Fortinet
4 2 (2.50%) Juniper
4 2 (2.50%) McAfee
4 2 (2.50%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.50%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.50%) Zscaler
5 1 (1.25%) Databricks
5 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace