Scrum Contracts in the South West

Scrum
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 83 33 22
Rank change year-on-year -50 -11 +3
Contract jobs citing Scrum 68 180 270
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.08% 5.32% 7.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 5.97% 8.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 136 184
10th Percentile £396 £400 £400
25th Percentile £444 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% +5.19%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £628
90th Percentile £691 £714 £688
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 14 6
10th Percentile - £60.87 £46.55
25th Percentile - £61.82 £53.98
Median hourly rate - £65.50 £63.60
Median % change year-on-year - +2.99% +15.64%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £79.65
90th Percentile - £80.85 £85.38
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +44.44% -23.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,686 3,015 3,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.07% 89.10% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,682 2,172 2,330
10th Percentile £238 £313 £300
25th Percentile £401 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 366 317 205
10th Percentile £13.85 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £28.44 £15.40 £23.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £48.74
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +17.97% +8.31%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.31 £69.36
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Gloucestershire -14 16 £563 - 22
Bristol -29 16 £580 +0.43% 21
Wiltshire -28 14 £570 +8.57% 10
Somerset -5 9 £575 -13.21% 10
Devon -8 5 £656 +9.37% 9
Cornwall - 1 - -
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (4.41%) Confluence
2 2 (2.94%) Mendix
2 2 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.47%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 15 (22.06%) Azure
2 7 (10.29%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (7.35%) AWS
4 4 (5.88%) Serverless
5 2 (2.94%) Azure Functions
5 2 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.94%) PaaS
5 2 (2.94%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.94%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.94%) PowerApps
5 2 (2.94%) SaaS
6 1 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.47%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.47%) GCP
6 1 (1.47%) IaaS
6 1 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.47%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) DNS
1 2 (2.94%) Tactical Data Link
2 1 (1.47%) 5G
2 1 (1.47%) DHCP
2 1 (1.47%) Firewall
2 1 (1.47%) LTE
2 1 (1.47%) NetScaler
2 1 (1.47%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.47%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.47%) VPN
2 1 (1.47%) WAAS
2 1 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.94%) Data Lake
1 2 (2.94%) MongoDB
1 2 (2.94%) MySQL
1 2 (2.94%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.47%) DataStage
2 1 (1.47%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.47%) InfluxDB
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (19.12%) Git
2 8 (11.76%) JIRA
2 8 (11.76%) Postman
3 7 (10.29%) Visual Studio
4 6 (8.82%) NUnit
5 3 (4.41%) Cypress.io
5 3 (4.41%) GitLab
6 2 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (2.94%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.94%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (1.47%) Babel
7 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.47%) ESLint
7 1 (1.47%) Gradle
7 1 (1.47%) JUnit
7 1 (1.47%) Maven
7 1 (1.47%) MSI
7 1 (1.47%) Selenium
7 1 (1.47%) Vite
7 1 (1.47%) webpack
General
1 16 (23.53%) Finance
1 16 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.12%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.88%) Electronics
4 4 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 4 (5.88%) Marketing
4 4 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.41%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (20.59%) Project Manager
2 11 (16.18%) Senior
3 9 (13.24%) Developer
4 6 (8.82%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
4 6 (8.82%) Senior Test Engineer
4 6 (8.82%) Test Automation Engineer
4 6 (8.82%) Test Engineer
4 6 (8.82%) Tester
5 5 (7.35%) Software Developer
6 4 (5.88%) Analyst
6 4 (5.88%) Architect
6 4 (5.88%) Consultant
6 4 (5.88%) Digital Project Manager
6 4 (5.88%) Junior
6 4 (5.88%) Scrum Master
6 4 (5.88%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Administrator
7 3 (4.41%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (4.41%) Junior Project Manager
7 3 (4.41%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.29%) .NET
1 7 (10.29%) AngularJS
2 5 (7.35%) GraphQL
2 5 (7.35%) Playwright
3 3 (4.41%) OAuth
3 3 (4.41%) React
4 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (2.94%) Vue
5 1 (1.47%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.47%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.47%) EJB
5 1 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.47%) Flask
5 1 (1.47%) Jest
5 1 (1.47%) Kafka
5 1 (1.47%) Material-UI
5 1 (1.47%) Node.js
5 1 (1.47%) OpenID
5 1 (1.47%) Parceljs
5 1 (1.47%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.35%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (2.94%) Low-Code
2 2 (2.94%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.47%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.47%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.24%) Linux
2 7 (10.29%) Windows
3 3 (4.41%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.47%) CentOS
4 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.47%) Unix
4 1 (1.47%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (94.12%) Agile
2 18 (26.47%) Test Automation
3 14 (20.59%) Kanban
4 13 (19.12%) DevOps
5 12 (17.65%) CI/CD
5 12 (17.65%) Project Management
6 11 (16.18%) Project Delivery
6 11 (16.18%) Waterfall
7 10 (14.71%) Performance Testing
7 10 (14.71%) PRINCE2
8 9 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (13.24%) Customer Requirements
8 9 (13.24%) Software Engineering
8 9 (13.24%) TDD
9 8 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (10.29%) BDD
10 7 (10.29%) Regression Testing
10 7 (10.29%) Task Automation
10 7 (10.29%) Test Scripting
11 6 (8.82%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (22.06%) SQL
2 10 (14.71%) Java
3 9 (13.24%) TypeScript
4 8 (11.76%) Python
5 6 (8.82%) C#
6 5 (7.35%) C
6 5 (7.35%) PowerShell
7 4 (5.88%) C++
8 3 (4.41%) JavaScript
8 3 (4.41%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.94%) Bash
9 2 (2.94%) Bicep
10 1 (1.47%) Rust
10 1 (1.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 18 (26.47%) DV Cleared
3 16 (23.53%) SC Cleared
4 5 (7.35%) Degree
5 3 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.94%) APMP
6 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.47%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.24%) QA
2 6 (8.82%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.94%) PMO
3 2 (2.94%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (1.47%) JTAG
4 1 (1.47%) SLA
4 1 (1.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (11.76%) Docker
2 2 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.47%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.47%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.47%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.47%) XenApp
3 1 (1.47%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (8.82%) Ansible
2 5 (7.35%) Terraform
3 2 (2.94%) SCCM
4 1 (1.47%) Grafana
4 1 (1.47%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.47%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.47%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.47%) Puppet
4 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (10.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.88%) SAP
3 3 (4.41%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.41%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.41%) VMware
4 2 (2.94%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.94%) Cadence
4 2 (2.94%) Oracle
4 2 (2.94%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.47%) CA
5 1 (1.47%) Citrix
5 1 (1.47%) Google
5 1 (1.47%) Ivanti