Scrum
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 33 24
Rank change year-on-year -12 -9 +1
Contract jobs citing Scrum 1,751 3,362 6,742
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.02% 5.63% 7.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 6.27% 8.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,184 2,246 4,506
10th Percentile £375 £408 £410
25th Percentile £430 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £549
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.20% +9.78%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £711 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +10.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 99 99
10th Percentile £42.13 £42.50 £32.72
25th Percentile £53.13 £51.88 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +44.44% -20.35%
75th Percentile - £75.50 £61.70
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.33 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.00
% change year-on-year - +38.30% -16.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,621 53,662 80,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.30% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,254 37,244 56,449
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.95 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +80.00% -7.24%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the UK

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the UK

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the UK

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in the UK

Scrum
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scrum over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Scrum in the UK

Scrum
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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
England -11 1,481 £538 -6.52% 812
London +1 876 £550 -8.33% 306
UK excluding London -26 712 £500 -4.76% 535
Work from Home -10 589 £500 -8.26% 519
South East -17 226 £500 -6.98% 111
North of England -5 158 £494 -8.14% 128
Scotland -17 115 £475 -5.00% 31
North West +7 92 £475 -9.52% 81
Midlands -23 88 £500 -7.06% 105
West Midlands -22 70 £510 -5.56% 70
South West -59 62 £575 - 85
Yorkshire -4 54 £509 -4.28% 35
East of England -40 34 £550 +3.77% 55
Wales +27 31 £514 +31.73% 15
East Midlands +4 18 £425 - 34
North East +8 12 £513 -33.84% 12
Northern Ireland +4 1 £640 +60.00% 11

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 132 (7.54%) Confluence
2 36 (2.06%) Apache
3 32 (1.83%) CMS
4 23 (1.31%) Apache Spark
5 21 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (0.97%) SAS
7 16 (0.91%) SharePoint
8 14 (0.80%) CICS
9 11 (0.63%) Drupal
10 9 (0.51%) OpenStack
11 8 (0.46%) IIS
12 5 (0.29%) JBoss
12 5 (0.29%) WordPress
13 4 (0.23%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.17%) EPiServer
14 3 (0.17%) govService
15 2 (0.11%) Apache Solr
15 2 (0.11%) Headless CMS
15 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 2 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 48 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
3 14 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.46%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.29%) Trello
7 3 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) InVision
8 2 (0.11%) Mingle
8 2 (0.11%) Sketch
9 1 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.057%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.057%) InDesign
9 1 (0.057%) Marvel
9 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 24 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.40%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.40%) Primavera
3 7 (0.40%) SAP PM
4 6 (0.34%) Endur
5 5 (0.29%) SAP BPC
5 5 (0.29%) SimCorp Dimension
5 5 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.23%) Maximo
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.23%) SAP Hybris
6 4 (0.23%) SAP QM
7 3 (0.17%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.17%) Shopify
8 2 (0.11%) HFM
8 2 (0.11%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.11%) SAP SD
8 2 (0.11%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 471 (26.90%) Azure
2 260 (14.85%) AWS
3 244 (13.93%) Azure DevOps
4 97 (5.54%) Serverless
5 84 (4.80%) Power Platform
6 82 (4.68%) GitHub
7 75 (4.28%) GCP
8 64 (3.66%) Entra ID
9 60 (3.43%) Amazon S3
10 50 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
11 44 (2.51%) PaaS
12 41 (2.34%) SaaS
13 38 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
14 36 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
15 35 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
15 35 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
16 27 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
16 27 (1.54%) Azure Functions
17 25 (1.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 25 (1.43%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 28 (1.60%) VPN
2 25 (1.43%) Firewall
3 24 (1.37%) DNS
4 19 (1.09%) TCP/IP
5 18 (1.03%) BGP
6 16 (0.91%) MPLS
6 16 (0.91%) SNMP
7 13 (0.74%) Ethernet VPN
7 13 (0.74%) Software-Defined Radio
8 12 (0.69%) HTTP
8 12 (0.69%) Radio Access Network
9 10 (0.57%) PPP
10 9 (0.51%) DHCP
10 9 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.46%) Modbus
11 8 (0.46%) Network Security
11 8 (0.46%) RS-422
11 8 (0.46%) RS-485
12 7 (0.40%) 5G
12 7 (0.40%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (10.97%) SQL Server
2 111 (6.34%) PostgreSQL
3 73 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
4 72 (4.11%) Relational Database
5 63 (3.60%) Power BI
6 49 (2.80%) NoSQL
7 47 (2.68%) MongoDB
8 46 (2.63%) MySQL
9 45 (2.57%) Data Lake
10 40 (2.28%) Big Data
11 33 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
12 29 (1.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 27 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
14 21 (1.20%) Redis
15 20 (1.14%) DB2
15 20 (1.14%) Tableau
16 19 (1.09%) Oracle Database
17 18 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
18 15 (0.86%) RDBMS
19 14 (0.80%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 327 (18.68%) JIRA
2 233 (13.31%) Git
3 103 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 79 (4.51%) GitLab
5 54 (3.08%) Selenium
6 45 (2.57%) JUnit
7 40 (2.28%) Robot Framework
7 40 (2.28%) SpecFlow
8 39 (2.23%) Visual Studio
9 38 (2.17%) Postman
10 36 (2.06%) Bitbucket
11 23 (1.31%) Cucumber
12 19 (1.09%) JMeter
12 19 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
13 18 (1.03%) Artifactory
13 18 (1.03%) Cypress.io
13 18 (1.03%) TestRail
14 16 (0.91%) TeamCity
14 16 (0.91%) WebDriver
15 15 (0.86%) Maven
General
1 499 (28.50%) Social Skills
2 276 (15.76%) Finance
3 208 (11.88%) Public Sector
4 193 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
5 109 (6.23%) Banking
6 49 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
6 49 (2.80%) Marketing
7 47 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
8 43 (2.46%) Telecoms
9 40 (2.28%) Retail
10 38 (2.17%) Front Office
10 38 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 31 (1.77%) Manufacturing
12 27 (1.54%) Electronics
13 26 (1.48%) Investment Banking
14 24 (1.37%) Back Office
15 18 (1.03%) Billing
15 18 (1.03%) Legal
16 15 (0.86%) Law
17 14 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 389 (22.22%) Developer
2 250 (14.28%) Senior
3 188 (10.74%) Analyst
4 173 (9.88%) Scrum Master
5 167 (9.54%) Project Manager
6 130 (7.42%) Business Analyst
7 115 (6.57%) Lead
8 99 (5.65%) Architect
9 89 (5.08%) Java Developer
10 85 (4.85%) Senior Developer
11 71 (4.05%) Software Engineer
12 64 (3.66%) Delivery Manager
12 64 (3.66%) Software Developer
13 59 (3.37%) Product Owner
14 54 (3.08%) Data Engineer
15 47 (2.68%) Consultant
16 45 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
17 44 (2.51%) Senior Manager
18 41 (2.34%) C# Developer
19 38 (2.17%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (9.99%) .NET
2 143 (8.17%) XML
3 127 (7.25%) REST
4 107 (6.11%) React
5 104 (5.94%) HTML
6 87 (4.97%) AngularJS
7 86 (4.91%) Spring
8 85 (4.85%) CSS
9 71 (4.05%) .NET Framework
9 71 (4.05%) Web Services
10 61 (3.48%) Spring Boot
11 58 (3.31%) JSON
12 52 (2.97%) .NET Core
13 51 (2.91%) RESTful
14 48 (2.74%) Kafka
14 48 (2.74%) SOAP
15 43 (2.46%) Hibernate
16 40 (2.28%) JPA
16 40 (2.28%) Node.js
17 24 (1.37%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 276 (15.76%) Product Ownership
2 41 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
3 40 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (1.88%) Mobile App
5 32 (1.83%) Data Structures
5 32 (1.83%) Management Information System
6 27 (1.54%) Algorithms
7 25 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
7 25 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (1.26%) Cloud Native
8 22 (1.26%) Replication
9 21 (1.20%) Hedge funds
10 19 (1.09%) Mainframe
10 19 (1.09%) Onboarding
11 17 (0.97%) Derivative
12 16 (0.91%) PKI
13 15 (0.86%) Fixed Income
13 15 (0.86%) IBM Mainframe
13 15 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
14 14 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 147 (8.40%) Linux
2 85 (4.85%) Windows
3 68 (3.88%) Unix
4 33 (1.88%) Windows Server
5 19 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (0.91%) Android
7 15 (0.86%) zOS
8 12 (0.69%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.51%) VMS
10 8 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
10 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.29%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.057%) CentOS
13 1 (0.057%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.057%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,561 (89.15%) Agile
2 480 (27.41%) DevOps
3 383 (21.87%) Kanban
4 325 (18.56%) CI/CD
5 267 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
6 250 (14.28%) Project Management
7 208 (11.88%) Software Engineering
8 205 (11.71%) Test Automation
9 188 (10.74%) User Stories
10 181 (10.34%) SDLC
11 168 (9.59%) Stakeholder Management
12 163 (9.31%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 162 (9.25%) Project Delivery
14 160 (9.14%) Roadmaps
15 153 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
16 146 (8.34%) Microservices
17 135 (7.71%) Continuous Integration
18 134 (7.65%) TDD
19 125 (7.14%) Analytics
20 123 (7.02%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 292 (16.68%) SQL
2 257 (14.68%) Java
3 221 (12.62%) C#
4 218 (12.45%) Python
5 161 (9.19%) JavaScript
5 161 (9.19%) PowerShell
6 82 (4.68%) TypeScript
7 55 (3.14%) C++
8 46 (2.63%) Bicep
9 43 (2.46%) Bash
10 39 (2.23%) C
11 29 (1.66%) PL/SQL
12 28 (1.60%) Scala
12 28 (1.60%) T-SQL
13 27 (1.54%) Shell Script
14 19 (1.09%) Perl
15 18 (1.03%) PHP
16 17 (0.97%) COBOL
17 16 (0.91%) REXX
18 15 (0.86%) SELCOPY
Qualifications
1 300 (17.13%) Security Cleared
2 229 (13.08%) SC Cleared
3 207 (11.82%) Degree
4 69 (3.94%) DV Cleared
5 55 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 55 (3.14%) PMP
6 51 (2.91%) PMI Certification
7 25 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 24 (1.37%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.03%) AWS Certification
10 11 (0.63%) CSPO
11 9 (0.51%) Azure Certification
11 9 (0.51%) CBAP
12 7 (0.40%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.34%) ISEB
13 6 (0.34%) MBA
14 5 (0.29%) APMP
14 5 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.23%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (8.11%) QA
2 43 (2.46%) Accessibility
3 29 (1.66%) Data Quality
4 24 (1.37%) PMO
5 11 (0.63%) GDPR
6 9 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
7 8 (0.46%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.46%) WCAG
8 7 (0.40%) RMADS
9 6 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 6 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.34%) SLA
10 5 (0.29%) NIST
10 5 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
11 4 (0.23%) GxP
11 4 (0.23%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.17%) GRC
12 3 (0.17%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.17%) JTAG
12 3 (0.17%) P3O
System Software
1 152 (8.68%) Docker
2 86 (4.91%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.80%) Firmware
6 11 (0.63%) vSphere
7 6 (0.34%) VirtualBox
7 6 (0.34%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.29%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.057%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.057%) HDFS
11 1 (0.057%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.057%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.057%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.057%) XenApp
11 1 (0.057%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 123 (7.02%) Terraform
2 117 (6.68%) Kubernetes
3 103 (5.88%) Ansible
4 60 (3.43%) Grafana
5 40 (2.28%) Puppet
6 25 (1.43%) Prometheus
7 19 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.86%) Kibana
8 15 (0.86%) Progress Chef
9 12 (0.69%) Argo
10 9 (0.51%) HP ALM
10 9 (0.51%) logstash
11 7 (0.40%) vRealize
12 6 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (0.34%) Packer
12 6 (0.34%) SCCM
13 3 (0.17%) Netcool
13 3 (0.17%) VxRail
14 2 (0.11%) TIBCO Hawk
14 2 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 259 (14.79%) Microsoft
2 100 (5.71%) Oracle
3 77 (4.40%) SAP
4 72 (4.11%) Salesforce
5 52 (2.97%) Google
6 41 (2.34%) Atlassian
7 38 (2.17%) ServiceNow
8 33 (1.88%) VMware
9 27 (1.54%) Splunk
10 25 (1.43%) IBM
11 23 (1.31%) Databricks
12 20 (1.14%) Talend
13 16 (0.91%) Informatica
13 16 (0.91%) Syncsort
14 12 (0.69%) Adobe
14 12 (0.69%) Red Hat
15 11 (0.63%) Denodo
16 10 (0.57%) Cisco
16 10 (0.57%) Dell
16 10 (0.57%) HP