Scrum Contracts in the South East

Scrum
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 28 29
Rank change year-on-year -17 +1 -9
Contract jobs citing Scrum 219 392 516
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.85% 6.93% 6.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 7.79% 7.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 252 342
10th Percentile £351 £406 £391
25th Percentile £413 £431 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.84% +2.38% +5.74%
75th Percentile £584 £615 £625
90th Percentile £638 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 26 23
10th Percentile £63.00 - -
25th Percentile - £42.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £53.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.23% +7.50% -20.63%
75th Percentile £73.75 £59.69 £62.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £71.86 £65.43
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +44.44% -23.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,709 5,035 6,914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.69% 89.04% 89.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,713 3,459 4,700
10th Percentile £255 £250 £244
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% +0.20% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 465 221 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.27
25th Percentile £18.32 £24.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.97
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +138.96% -12.12%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.94 £75.00 £63.55
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the South East over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scrum in the South East over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Scrum in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Hampshire +3 89 £543 +2.36% 27
Thames Valley -45 72 £500 -9.09% 34
Berkshire -40 63 £501 -8.07% 13
Surrey -11 28 £433 -17.62% 14
West Sussex +17 17 £425 -24.58% 6
Kent +11 6 £613 +22.50% 8
Buckinghamshire -5 6 £444 -24.47% 16
East Sussex +5 3 £490 -2.00% 4
Oxfordshire -1 3 £488 -3.47% 5
Middlesex -2 3 - -
Home Counties - 1 - -
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 31 (14.16%) Confluence
2 8 (3.65%) SAS
3 7 (3.20%) Apache
4 6 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.83%) CICS
6 3 (1.37%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.91%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.46%) Drupal
8 1 (0.46%) IIS
8 1 (0.46%) JBoss
8 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.46%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.83%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.46%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (1.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.91%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.91%) VisionPLUS
3 1 (0.46%) Maximo
3 1 (0.46%) SAP MII
3 1 (0.46%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (15.98%) Azure
2 19 (8.68%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (6.85%) AWS
4 14 (6.39%) Power Platform
5 10 (4.57%) SaaS
5 10 (4.57%) Serverless
6 7 (3.20%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (3.20%) IaaS
7 6 (2.74%) Azure Functions
7 6 (2.74%) PaaS
8 5 (2.28%) GCP
8 5 (2.28%) GitHub
9 4 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.83%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.37%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.91%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (0.91%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (0.91%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.22%) SNMP
2 17 (7.76%) Software-Defined Radio
3 8 (3.65%) BGP
3 8 (3.65%) MPLS
3 8 (3.65%) TCP/IP
3 8 (3.65%) VPN
4 7 (3.20%) Firewall
5 6 (2.74%) Ethernet VPN
5 6 (2.74%) Radio Access Network
6 3 (1.37%) Network Security
7 2 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (0.91%) DMVPN
7 2 (0.91%) DNS
7 2 (0.91%) IPsec
7 2 (0.91%) OSPF
7 2 (0.91%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.91%) SAN
7 2 (0.91%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.91%) Sourcefire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (14.16%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (7.76%) MongoDB
3 14 (6.39%) SQL Server
4 12 (5.48%) Relational Database
5 10 (4.57%) MySQL
5 10 (4.57%) Power BI
6 8 (3.65%) RDBMS
7 6 (2.74%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.28%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (2.28%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.83%) Couchbase
9 4 (1.83%) DB2
9 4 (1.83%) GIS
9 4 (1.83%) IDMS
10 3 (1.37%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.91%) Big Data
11 2 (0.91%) CouchDB
11 2 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (25.57%) JIRA
2 51 (23.29%) Git
3 34 (15.53%) Robot Framework
4 24 (10.96%) Bitbucket
5 18 (8.22%) Eclipse
5 18 (8.22%) GitLab
5 18 (8.22%) GoogleTest
6 17 (7.76%) Jenkins
7 10 (4.57%) TestRail
8 8 (3.65%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (2.28%) ClearCase
9 5 (2.28%) ClearQuest
10 4 (1.83%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.83%) Rational DOORS
10 4 (1.83%) Selenium
10 4 (1.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (1.37%) Subversion
12 2 (0.91%) JUnit
12 2 (0.91%) Postman
13 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (17.81%) Social Skills
2 23 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (7.31%) Finance
4 12 (5.48%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.57%) Telecoms
6 9 (4.11%) Billing
7 8 (3.65%) Aerospace
8 5 (2.28%) Automotive
8 5 (2.28%) Marketing
9 3 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.37%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.91%) Banking
10 2 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.91%) Retail
11 1 (0.46%) French Language
11 1 (0.46%) Legal
11 1 (0.46%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 41 (18.72%) Developer
2 37 (16.89%) Software Engineer
3 30 (13.70%) Analyst
4 25 (11.42%) Senior
5 21 (9.59%) C++ Software Engineer
6 18 (8.22%) Scrum Master
7 12 (5.48%) Project Manager
8 11 (5.02%) Architect
9 10 (4.57%) Embedded Engineer
9 10 (4.57%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 10 (4.57%) Java Developer
9 10 (4.57%) Linux Engineer
9 10 (4.57%) Senior Software Engineer
9 10 (4.57%) Test Engineer
10 9 (4.11%) Product Owner
11 8 (3.65%) Business Analyst
11 8 (3.65%) Embedded C++ Engineer
11 8 (3.65%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
11 8 (3.65%) Product Analyst
12 7 (3.20%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (12.79%) HTML
2 25 (11.42%) CSS
3 17 (7.76%) REST
4 14 (6.39%) XML
5 13 (5.94%) SOAP
6 11 (5.02%) Kafka
7 9 (4.11%) React
8 8 (3.65%) .NET
8 8 (3.65%) AngularJS
8 8 (3.65%) Spring
9 7 (3.20%) RESTful
9 7 (3.20%) YANG
10 6 (2.74%) NETCONF
10 6 (2.74%) Node.js
10 6 (2.74%) RESTCONF
10 6 (2.74%) Web Services
11 5 (2.28%) ASP.NET
11 5 (2.28%) ASP.NET MVC
11 5 (2.28%) Spring Boot
12 4 (1.83%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.61%) Product Ownership
2 12 (5.48%) PKI
3 10 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.65%) Smart Meter
5 7 (3.20%) Client/Server
5 7 (3.20%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (3.20%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (2.74%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.83%) Credit Risk
7 4 (1.83%) IBM Mainframe
7 4 (1.83%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.37%) Clustering
8 3 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.37%) Replication
8 3 (1.37%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.91%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.91%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.91%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 70 (31.96%) Linux
2 43 (19.63%) Windows
3 19 (8.68%) Windows Server
4 13 (5.94%) Unix
5 12 (5.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (3.20%) Embedded Linux
6 7 (3.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (2.74%) VMS
8 4 (1.83%) zOS
9 1 (0.46%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (82.65%) Agile
2 60 (27.40%) Kanban
3 56 (25.57%) Software Engineering
4 38 (17.35%) Test Automation
5 33 (15.07%) DevOps
6 27 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (11.87%) CI/CD
7 26 (11.87%) OO
8 25 (11.42%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 23 (10.50%) UML
10 20 (9.13%) TDD
11 19 (8.68%) Stakeholder Management
11 19 (8.68%) User Stories
12 18 (8.22%) Analytics
12 18 (8.22%) Computer Science
12 18 (8.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 17 (7.76%) Project Delivery
13 17 (7.76%) Project Management
13 17 (7.76%) SysML
14 16 (7.31%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 52 (23.74%) Python
2 41 (18.72%) SQL
3 40 (18.26%) C++
3 40 (18.26%) Java
3 40 (18.26%) JavaScript
4 18 (8.22%) C#
5 14 (6.39%) C
5 14 (6.39%) PowerShell
6 13 (5.94%) Bash
7 9 (4.11%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.28%) VBScript
9 4 (1.83%) CLIST
9 4 (1.83%) COBOL
9 4 (1.83%) F#
9 4 (1.83%) Perl
9 4 (1.83%) R
9 4 (1.83%) REXX
10 3 (1.37%) Go
10 3 (1.37%) SELCOPY
11 2 (0.91%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 64 (29.22%) Security Cleared
2 41 (18.72%) SC Cleared
3 24 (10.96%) Degree
4 7 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (3.20%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.74%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.28%) ISTQB
6 5 (2.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 5 (2.28%) PMP
7 4 (1.83%) CSPO
7 4 (1.83%) HNC
8 3 (1.37%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.91%) CCNA
9 2 (0.91%) CCNP
9 2 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.59%) QA
2 7 (3.20%) RMADS
3 5 (2.28%) PMO
4 4 (1.83%) GDPR
5 3 (1.37%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.46%) GxP
6 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (7.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (7.31%) Docker
2 16 (7.31%) Firmware
3 15 (6.85%) Active Directory
4 9 (4.11%) vSphere
5 6 (2.74%) VirtualBox
6 4 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.91%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.91%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.46%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 17 (7.76%) Ansible
2 13 (5.94%) Kubernetes
3 11 (5.02%) Terraform
4 7 (3.20%) vRealize
5 6 (2.74%) Packer
6 4 (1.83%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.91%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.91%) VxRail
8 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.46%) Kibana
8 1 (0.46%) SCCM
8 1 (0.46%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (10.50%) VMware
2 21 (9.59%) Google
3 18 (8.22%) Oracle
4 17 (7.76%) Atlassian
5 16 (7.31%) Microsoft
6 6 (2.74%) SAP
7 5 (2.28%) Ab Initio
7 5 (2.28%) Arqiva
7 5 (2.28%) Veritas
8 4 (1.83%) HP
8 4 (1.83%) IBM
8 4 (1.83%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.83%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.83%) Syncsort
9 3 (1.37%) Adobe
9 3 (1.37%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (1.37%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.37%) Sparx
10 2 (0.91%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.91%) Zscaler