Scrum Contracts in the UK excluding London

Scrum
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 53 33 24
Rank change year-on-year -20 -9 0
Contract jobs citing Scrum 714 1,282 2,222
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.39% 5.64% 7.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.09% 6.33% 8.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 904 1,505
10th Percentile £358 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% +8.42%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £644 £688 £669
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 60 74
10th Percentile £57.75 £42.50 £32.58
25th Percentile £60.00 £50.94 £42.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £52.14
Median % change year-on-year - +24.68% -10.11%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £74.65 £75.09 £79.95
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +44.44% -23.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,473 20,238 27,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.84% 89.10% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,285 13,877 19,070
10th Percentile £250 £260 £245
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £585
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,170 1,255 1,342
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.68 £12.48
25th Percentile £15.40 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £74.92 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the UK excluding London

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the UK excluding London

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the UK excluding London

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scrum in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in the UK excluding London

Scrum
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scrum in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Scrum in the UK excluding London

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
South East -17 219 £490 -8.84% 103
North of England +9 166 £510 -7.27% 135
Scotland -8 124 £475 -5.00% 32
Midlands -21 91 £463 -11.90% 95
Yorkshire +27 78 £538 +1.18% 36
North West -11 73 £500 -4.76% 92
West Midlands -17 72 £500 -7.41% 70
South West -50 68 £575 - 84
East of England -50 29 £550 +4.76% 35
East Midlands -4 19 £398 -6.47% 25
Wales +23 18 £503 +16.86% 11
North East +9 15 £513 -33.84% 8
Northern Ireland -3 1 £640 +60.00% 15
Scrum
UK

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 64 (8.96%) Confluence
2 15 (2.10%) SAS
3 12 (1.68%) Apache
4 11 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.54%) CICS
5 8 (1.12%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.98%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.56%) CMS
7 4 (0.56%) Drupal
7 4 (0.56%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.28%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.28%) Mendix
8 2 (0.28%) Mule
9 1 (0.14%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.14%) IIS
9 1 (0.14%) JBoss
9 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.84%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.42%) Trello
5 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 8 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.84%) SAP PM
3 4 (0.56%) Maximo
4 3 (0.42%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.28%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.28%) VisionPLUS
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.14%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.14%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.14%) SAP MII
6 1 (0.14%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 135 (18.91%) Azure
2 109 (15.27%) AWS
3 56 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
4 51 (7.14%) Serverless
5 45 (6.30%) Power Platform
6 41 (5.74%) Amazon S3
7 33 (4.62%) GitHub
8 32 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
9 26 (3.64%) GCP
10 24 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
11 22 (3.08%) SaaS
12 21 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
13 17 (2.38%) OpenShift
13 17 (2.38%) PaaS
14 16 (2.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 15 (2.10%) IaaS
16 10 (1.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 10 (1.40%) AWS CodePipeline
16 10 (1.40%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.80%) TCP/IP
1 20 (2.80%) VPN
2 18 (2.52%) Firewall
2 18 (2.52%) SNMP
3 17 (2.38%) Software-Defined Radio
4 16 (2.24%) DNS
5 9 (1.26%) HTTP
6 8 (1.12%) BGP
6 8 (1.12%) MPLS
7 7 (0.98%) Radio Access Network
7 7 (0.98%) RS-485
8 6 (0.84%) Ethernet VPN
8 6 (0.84%) Modbus
8 6 (0.84%) RS-422
8 6 (0.84%) SSL
9 5 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 5 (0.70%) FTP
9 5 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.56%) WAN
11 3 (0.42%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (10.08%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (7.56%) MySQL
3 46 (6.44%) Relational Database
4 31 (4.34%) Power BI
5 29 (4.06%) MongoDB
6 25 (3.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (3.22%) SQL Server
8 19 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (2.10%) Qlik Sense
10 13 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (1.68%) Amazon Aurora
12 11 (1.54%) DB2
12 11 (1.54%) IDMS
13 10 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (1.12%) Informix
14 8 (1.12%) RDBMS
15 7 (0.98%) Big Data
15 7 (0.98%) InfluxDB
15 7 (0.98%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 159 (22.27%) JIRA
2 142 (19.89%) Git
3 50 (7.00%) GitLab
4 43 (6.02%) Jenkins
5 34 (4.76%) Robot Framework
6 27 (3.78%) Bitbucket
7 24 (3.36%) JUnit
8 18 (2.52%) Eclipse
8 18 (2.52%) GoogleTest
9 16 (2.24%) Postman
10 13 (1.82%) Selenium
10 13 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
11 12 (1.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 10 (1.40%) Artifactory
12 10 (1.40%) TestRail
13 9 (1.26%) CircleCI
13 9 (1.26%) Travis CI
14 8 (1.12%) Visual Studio
14 8 (1.12%) webpack
15 7 (0.98%) NUnit
General
1 179 (25.07%) Social Skills
2 101 (14.15%) Public Sector
3 72 (10.08%) Finance
4 67 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (2.80%) Telecoms
6 19 (2.66%) Banking
7 18 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (2.24%) Manufacturing
8 16 (2.24%) Marketing
9 14 (1.96%) Aerospace
9 14 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.40%) Billing
10 10 (1.40%) Electronics
11 9 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (0.84%) Legal
13 6 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.70%) Automotive
15 4 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 143 (20.03%) Developer
2 86 (12.04%) Analyst
3 71 (9.94%) Senior
4 65 (9.10%) Project Manager
5 54 (7.56%) Software Engineer
6 52 (7.28%) Scrum Master
7 50 (7.00%) Business Analyst
8 43 (6.02%) Java Developer
9 38 (5.32%) Architect
10 37 (5.18%) Lead
11 27 (3.78%) C++ Software Engineer
11 27 (3.78%) Delivery Manager
11 27 (3.78%) Test Engineer
12 22 (3.08%) Senior Manager
13 20 (2.80%) Consultant
13 20 (2.80%) Data Engineer
14 18 (2.52%) DevOps Engineer
15 15 (2.10%) Product Owner
15 15 (2.10%) Tester
16 14 (1.96%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (8.96%) HTML
2 60 (8.40%) CSS
3 48 (6.72%) REST
4 45 (6.30%) React
5 39 (5.46%) AngularJS
5 39 (5.46%) Spring
6 33 (4.62%) .NET
6 33 (4.62%) XML
7 32 (4.48%) Spring Boot
8 29 (4.06%) Web Services
9 27 (3.78%) Kafka
10 25 (3.50%) AWS CDK
11 24 (3.36%) JSON
12 21 (2.94%) RESTful
13 18 (2.52%) OAuth
14 16 (2.24%) Hibernate
14 16 (2.24%) SOAP
15 15 (2.10%) GraphQL
16 14 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
16 14 (1.96%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 84 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 24 (3.36%) Data Structures
3 22 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
5 13 (1.82%) Mainframe
6 12 (1.68%) PKI
6 12 (1.68%) Replication
7 11 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (1.54%) IBM Mainframe
8 10 (1.40%) Algorithms
8 10 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.40%) Management Information System
8 10 (1.40%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.12%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.12%) Smart Meter
11 7 (0.98%) Client/Server
11 7 (0.98%) Cloud Native
11 7 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 97 (13.59%) Linux
2 55 (7.70%) Windows
3 32 (4.48%) Unix
4 23 (3.22%) Windows Server
5 19 (2.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (1.54%) zOS
7 8 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (0.98%) Embedded Linux
9 6 (0.84%) VMS
10 3 (0.42%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.28%) Android
11 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.14%) CentOS
12 1 (0.14%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 626 (87.68%) Agile
2 168 (23.53%) Kanban
3 150 (21.01%) DevOps
4 123 (17.23%) Software Engineering
5 108 (15.13%) CI/CD
6 101 (14.15%) Test Automation
7 96 (13.45%) Project Management
8 95 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
9 90 (12.61%) Stakeholder Management
10 80 (11.20%) User Stories
11 71 (9.94%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 68 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
13 65 (9.10%) Continuous Improvement
14 62 (8.68%) Analytics
15 58 (8.12%) Requirements Gathering
15 58 (8.12%) Roadmaps
16 57 (7.98%) Waterfall
17 55 (7.70%) Coaching
17 55 (7.70%) SDLC
18 53 (7.42%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 129 (18.07%) Java
2 123 (17.23%) SQL
3 102 (14.29%) Python
4 91 (12.75%) JavaScript
5 52 (7.28%) C#
6 50 (7.00%) C++
7 49 (6.86%) TypeScript
8 37 (5.18%) Bash
9 35 (4.90%) PowerShell
10 25 (3.50%) C
11 14 (1.96%) PL/SQL
12 11 (1.54%) CLIST
12 11 (1.54%) COBOL
12 11 (1.54%) Perl
12 11 (1.54%) REXX
12 11 (1.54%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.40%) SELCOPY
14 8 (1.12%) PHP
14 8 (1.12%) Scala
15 7 (0.98%) Korn
Qualifications
1 159 (22.27%) Security Cleared
2 114 (15.97%) SC Cleared
3 83 (11.62%) Degree
4 36 (5.04%) DV Cleared
5 35 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (4.48%) PMP
7 31 (4.34%) PMI Certification
8 21 (2.94%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (1.40%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.70%) CBAP
11 5 (0.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.56%) CSPO
12 4 (0.56%) HNC
12 4 (0.56%) ISEB
12 4 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.42%) APMP
13 3 (0.42%) CCNA
13 3 (0.42%) CCNP
13 3 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (10.50%) QA
2 18 (2.52%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.54%) PMO
4 10 (1.40%) Disclosure Scotland
5 7 (0.98%) GDPR
5 7 (0.98%) RMADS
6 4 (0.56%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.42%) WCAG
8 2 (0.28%) IFRS
8 2 (0.28%) P3O
8 2 (0.28%) SLA
8 2 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.14%) GRC
9 1 (0.14%) GxP
9 1 (0.14%) JTAG
9 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 77 (10.78%) Docker
2 20 (2.80%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.24%) Firmware
4 9 (1.26%) vSphere
5 6 (0.84%) VirtualBox
6 4 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.42%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.28%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.14%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.14%) XenApp
9 1 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 61 (8.54%) Grafana
2 59 (8.26%) Ansible
3 57 (7.98%) Kubernetes
4 42 (5.88%) Terraform
5 18 (2.52%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.68%) Kibana
6 12 (1.68%) Puppet
7 11 (1.54%) Progress Chef
8 9 (1.26%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (1.26%) logstash
9 7 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.98%) vRealize
10 6 (0.84%) Argo
10 6 (0.84%) Packer
11 4 (0.56%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.56%) SCCM
12 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.28%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.28%) VxRail
13 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 50 (7.00%) Microsoft
1 50 (7.00%) Oracle
2 35 (4.90%) ServiceNow
3 33 (4.62%) Salesforce
4 32 (4.48%) Atlassian
5 29 (4.06%) VMware
6 26 (3.64%) Google
6 26 (3.64%) Talend
7 22 (3.08%) SAP
8 21 (2.94%) Denodo
9 15 (2.10%) Splunk
10 14 (1.96%) IBM
11 11 (1.54%) Syncsort
12 10 (1.40%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.26%) Cadence
14 6 (0.84%) PagerDuty
14 6 (0.84%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 5 (0.70%) Arqiva
15 5 (0.70%) F5
15 5 (0.70%) Informatica