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 25 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 53 25
Rank change year-on-year +6 -28 +10
Contract jobs citing Scrum 60 94 223
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.98% 3.47% 7.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.29% 3.96% 8.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 54 151
10th Percentile £405 £404 £413
25th Percentile £470 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% +3.91%
75th Percentile £568 £605 £638
90th Percentile £620 £634 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £544
% change year-on-year -0.20% -7.82% -1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £48.00 - £70.00
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £66.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -14.34% +47.22% -26.32%

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 1,397 2,372 2,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.70% 87.46% 91.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 847 1,331 1,870
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.48% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 171 63
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.48 £18.70
25th Percentile £14.78 £19.71 £25.23
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -14.29% +200.00%
75th Percentile £62.37 £65.00 £68.11
90th Percentile £77.75 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

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 25 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 25 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 +3 50 £500 -7.32% 29
Buckinghamshire +6 5 £575 -4.17% 13
Oxfordshire +4 5 £550 +13.40% 21
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 (3.33%) Appian
2 1 (1.67%) Apache
2 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Primavera
2 1 (1.67%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (1.67%) Maximo
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 12 (20.00%) AWS
2 9 (15.00%) Azure
3 6 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (10.00%) GitHub
3 6 (10.00%) Serverless
4 5 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.67%) SaaS
6 3 (5.00%) Oracle CX
7 2 (3.33%) GCP
7 2 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.33%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.67%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.67%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.67%) IaaS
8 1 (1.67%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.67%) Route 53
8 1 (1.67%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) HTTP
2 3 (5.00%) Broadband
3 1 (1.67%) BGP
3 1 (1.67%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (1.67%) GPON
3 1 (1.67%) MPLS
3 1 (1.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.33%) DocumentDB
2 1 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.67%) Big Data
2 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.67%) GIS
2 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.67%) MySQL
2 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.67%) Power BI
2 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (11.67%) JIRA
2 4 (6.67%) Git
3 2 (3.33%) GitLab
3 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (1.67%) DbUnit
4 1 (1.67%) jMock
4 1 (1.67%) JUnit
4 1 (1.67%) Maven
4 1 (1.67%) Mockito
4 1 (1.67%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (21.67%) Telecoms
3 7 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Finance
5 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.67%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.67%) Billing
6 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Legal
6 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.67%) Marketing
6 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (16.67%) Scrum Master
2 9 (15.00%) Lead
3 8 (13.33%) Analyst
4 7 (11.67%) Business Analyst
4 7 (11.67%) Developer
4 7 (11.67%) Product Owner
5 6 (10.00%) Architect
5 6 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Junior
6 5 (8.33%) Senior
7 3 (5.00%) .NET Developer
7 3 (5.00%) C++ Developer
7 3 (5.00%) Junior Scrum Master
7 3 (5.00%) Product Analyst
7 3 (5.00%) ServiceNow Architect
7 3 (5.00%) Telecoms Architect
8 2 (3.33%) Agile Business Analyst
8 2 (3.33%) Agile Scrum Master
8 2 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
8 2 (3.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.00%) Web Services
2 8 (13.33%) REST
2 8 (13.33%) SOAP
3 7 (11.67%) JSON
4 5 (8.33%) CSS
4 5 (8.33%) HTML
4 5 (8.33%) XML
5 4 (6.67%) Ajax
6 3 (5.00%) .NET
7 2 (3.33%) .NET Core
7 2 (3.33%) .NET Framework
7 2 (3.33%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (3.33%) Entity Framework
7 2 (3.33%) NHibernate
8 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (1.67%) Blazor
8 1 (1.67%) NETCONF
8 1 (1.67%) PyTorch
8 1 (1.67%) RESTCONF
8 1 (1.67%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.67%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.67%) CMDB
3 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.33%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.67%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.67%) IoT
4 1 (1.67%) Life Science
4 1 (1.67%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.67%) PKI
4 1 (1.67%) PMI
4 1 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.67%) Linux
2 2 (3.33%) Windows
3 1 (1.67%) CentOS
3 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.67%) Unix
3 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (71.67%) Agile
2 16 (26.67%) Roadmaps
2 16 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (25.00%) DevOps
4 14 (23.33%) User Stories
5 13 (21.67%) CI/CD
5 13 (21.67%) Kanban
6 11 (18.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 10 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 9 (15.00%) Analytics
8 9 (15.00%) ITIL
8 9 (15.00%) Sprint Planning
9 8 (13.33%) Product Roadmap
10 7 (11.67%) Coaching
10 7 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (10.00%) Decision-Making
11 6 (10.00%) IT Asset Management
11 6 (10.00%) ITSM
11 6 (10.00%) Service Management
11 6 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.67%) Python
2 9 (15.00%) SQL
3 5 (8.33%) C#
4 3 (5.00%) Assembly Language
4 3 (5.00%) C++
5 2 (3.33%) Java
5 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.67%) Magik
6 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.67%) R
6 1 (1.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (8.33%) Degree
2 4 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.67%) CISA
4 1 (1.67%) CISM
4 1 (1.67%) CISSP
4 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.67%) PgMP
4 1 (1.67%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.33%) QA
2 2 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.67%) GDPR
3 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.67%) NIST
3 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.67%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (18.33%) Docker
2 2 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.67%) Postfix
3 1 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.33%) Terraform
3 1 (1.67%) Grafana
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 8 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 7 (11.67%) Oracle
4 3 (5.00%) Cisco
4 3 (5.00%) Snow
5 2 (3.33%) Blue Prism
5 2 (3.33%) Genesys
5 2 (3.33%) Nokia
5 2 (3.33%) Rakuten
5 2 (3.33%) VMware
5 2 (3.33%) Xamarin
6 1 (1.67%) Adobe
6 1 (1.67%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.67%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.67%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.67%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.67%) IBM
6 1 (1.67%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.67%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.67%) SAP