Scrum Contracts in England

Scrum
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 39 26
Rank change year-on-year -5 -13 -1
Contract jobs citing Scrum 1,479 2,397 5,338
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.01% 5.05% 7.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.68% 5.61% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,018 1,636 3,582
10th Percentile £369 £410 £413
25th Percentile £425 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £650
90th Percentile £703 £775 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 75 102
10th Percentile £31.77 £42.50 £34.38
25th Percentile £58.13 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +44.44% -22.41%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.44 £68.56
90th Percentile £73.38 £85.00 £78.63
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +44.44% -22.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,623 42,710 64,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.71% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,632 29,989 45,672
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,520 1,714
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in England

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum in England

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in England

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in England

Scrum
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scrum in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Scrum in England

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +6 885 £550 -8.33% 283
South East -16 224 £495 -7.91% 106
North of England +5 154 £510 -7.27% 118
Midlands -27 83 £475 -9.52% 111
North West -6 75 £500 -4.76% 83
Yorkshire +22 68 £550 +1.15% 27
West Midlands -20 66 £500 -7.41% 86
South West -59 61 £575 - 80
East of England -47 29 £550 +3.77% 33
East Midlands -6 17 £398 -6.47% 25
North East +5 11 £525 -32.26% 9
Scrum
UK

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 110 (7.44%) Confluence
2 31 (2.10%) Apache
2 31 (2.10%) CMS
3 18 (1.22%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.01%) SAS
6 11 (0.74%) CICS
6 11 (0.74%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.68%) IIS
8 8 (0.54%) Drupal
9 7 (0.47%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.34%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.34%) JBoss
11 3 (0.20%) govService
11 3 (0.20%) WordPress
12 2 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.14%) Mule
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.20%) Trello
7 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.14%) Mingle
8 1 (0.068%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.068%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.068%) InVision
8 1 (0.068%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.068%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 24 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.54%) Aladdin
4 7 (0.47%) SimCorp Dimension
5 6 (0.41%) Endur
5 6 (0.41%) SAP PM
6 5 (0.34%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.20%) Maximo
8 3 (0.20%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.20%) SAP QM
8 3 (0.20%) Shopify
9 2 (0.14%) BusinessWorks
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.14%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.14%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.14%) SAP SD
9 2 (0.14%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 412 (27.86%) Azure
2 219 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
3 166 (11.22%) AWS
4 93 (6.29%) Power Platform
5 71 (4.80%) Entra ID
6 63 (4.26%) Serverless
7 59 (3.99%) GCP
8 55 (3.72%) GitHub
9 42 (2.84%) SaaS
10 39 (2.64%) Azure Service Bus
11 38 (2.57%) PaaS
12 35 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
13 34 (2.30%) Amazon S3
14 29 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
15 25 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
15 25 (1.69%) PowerApps
16 23 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 23 (1.56%) Azure Functions
17 20 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
18 18 (1.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.76%) DNS
1 26 (1.76%) Firewall
2 24 (1.62%) TCP/IP
3 23 (1.56%) VPN
4 20 (1.35%) SNMP
5 16 (1.08%) Software-Defined Radio
6 15 (1.01%) HTTP
7 12 (0.81%) MPLS
8 11 (0.74%) BGP
9 9 (0.61%) Ethernet VPN
9 9 (0.61%) Radio Access Network
9 9 (0.61%) SSH
10 7 (0.47%) DHCP
10 7 (0.47%) Internet
10 7 (0.47%) RS-485
10 7 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.41%) FTP
11 6 (0.41%) Modbus
11 6 (0.41%) RS-422
11 6 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (12.24%) SQL Server
2 75 (5.07%) PostgreSQL
3 69 (4.67%) Power BI
3 69 (4.67%) Relational Database
4 55 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
5 45 (3.04%) MySQL
6 44 (2.97%) NoSQL
7 37 (2.50%) Big Data
7 37 (2.50%) MongoDB
8 35 (2.37%) Data Lake
9 29 (1.96%) Tableau
10 26 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
11 25 (1.69%) Redis
12 22 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (1.01%) DB2
13 15 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 14 (0.95%) RDBMS
15 13 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
16 12 (0.81%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
16 12 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 271 (18.32%) JIRA
2 224 (15.15%) Git
3 97 (6.56%) Jenkins
4 71 (4.80%) GitLab
5 58 (3.92%) Selenium
6 53 (3.58%) JUnit
7 46 (3.11%) Postman
8 40 (2.70%) SpecFlow
9 39 (2.64%) Robot Framework
10 35 (2.37%) Visual Studio
11 32 (2.16%) Bitbucket
12 23 (1.56%) JMeter
13 20 (1.35%) Cucumber
14 18 (1.22%) Cypress.io
15 17 (1.15%) Artifactory
15 17 (1.15%) Eclipse
15 17 (1.15%) GoogleTest
16 15 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 15 (1.01%) TestRail
16 15 (1.01%) WebDriver
General
1 402 (27.18%) Social Skills
2 264 (17.85%) Finance
3 156 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
4 143 (9.67%) Public Sector
5 111 (7.51%) Banking
6 48 (3.25%) Marketing
7 41 (2.77%) Front Office
7 41 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
8 37 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
8 37 (2.50%) Telecoms
9 35 (2.37%) Retail
10 31 (2.10%) Investment Banking
11 29 (1.96%) Manufacturing
12 27 (1.83%) Back Office
13 19 (1.28%) Electronics
13 19 (1.28%) Local Government
14 17 (1.15%) Legal
15 16 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 15 (1.01%) Billing
17 14 (0.95%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 348 (23.53%) Developer
2 215 (14.54%) Senior
3 155 (10.48%) Analyst
4 136 (9.20%) Scrum Master
5 135 (9.13%) Project Manager
6 97 (6.56%) Business Analyst
7 91 (6.15%) Architect
8 88 (5.95%) Senior Developer
9 78 (5.27%) Lead
10 67 (4.53%) Software Engineer
11 66 (4.46%) Java Developer
12 61 (4.12%) Software Developer
13 51 (3.45%) Product Owner
14 49 (3.31%) Delivery Manager
15 41 (2.77%) Senior Analyst
16 40 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
17 37 (2.50%) C# Developer
18 36 (2.43%) DevOps Engineer
18 36 (2.43%) Senior Software Developer
18 36 (2.43%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (11.49%) .NET
2 156 (10.55%) XML
3 111 (7.51%) HTML
4 104 (7.03%) React
5 101 (6.83%) REST
6 92 (6.22%) CSS
7 90 (6.09%) AngularJS
8 71 (4.80%) Spring
9 69 (4.67%) .NET Framework
10 62 (4.19%) Web Services
11 58 (3.92%) .NET Core
11 58 (3.92%) JSON
12 50 (3.38%) Spring Boot
13 44 (2.97%) Hibernate
13 44 (2.97%) JPA
14 42 (2.84%) Kafka
15 41 (2.77%) SOAP
16 34 (2.30%) RESTful
17 32 (2.16%) Node.js
18 27 (1.83%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 232 (15.69%) Product Ownership
2 34 (2.30%) Mobile App
3 33 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
4 30 (2.03%) Algorithms
5 29 (1.96%) Data Structures
5 29 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
6 26 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
7 21 (1.42%) Hedge funds
7 21 (1.42%) Management Information System
8 20 (1.35%) Derivative
8 20 (1.35%) Onboarding
9 19 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
10 17 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (1.15%) Virtual Team
11 15 (1.01%) Mainframe
12 13 (0.88%) PKI
13 12 (0.81%) Cloud Native
13 12 (0.81%) IBM Mainframe
14 11 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
14 11 (0.74%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 146 (9.87%) Linux
2 74 (5.00%) Windows
3 62 (4.19%) Unix
4 33 (2.23%) Windows Server
5 17 (1.15%) Android
6 15 (1.01%) Apple iOS
6 15 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.81%) zOS
8 9 (0.61%) VMS
9 8 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
11 4 (0.27%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.068%) CentOS
12 1 (0.068%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,320 (89.25%) Agile
2 424 (28.67%) DevOps
3 329 (22.24%) Kanban
4 293 (19.81%) CI/CD
5 210 (14.20%) Project Management
6 206 (13.93%) Problem-Solving
6 206 (13.93%) Software Engineering
7 204 (13.79%) Test Automation
8 157 (10.62%) User Stories
9 150 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
10 145 (9.80%) SDLC
11 137 (9.26%) Continuous Integration
11 137 (9.26%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 133 (8.99%) TDD
13 130 (8.79%) Project Delivery
14 122 (8.25%) Analytics
15 116 (7.84%) Microservices
16 114 (7.71%) Roadmaps
17 111 (7.51%) Continuous Improvement
18 104 (7.03%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 259 (17.51%) SQL
2 225 (15.21%) Java
3 206 (13.93%) C#
4 185 (12.51%) Python
5 165 (11.16%) PowerShell
6 154 (10.41%) JavaScript
7 73 (4.94%) TypeScript
8 59 (3.99%) C++
9 52 (3.52%) Bicep
10 40 (2.70%) Bash
11 35 (2.37%) C
12 23 (1.56%) PL/SQL
13 21 (1.42%) Shell Script
14 19 (1.28%) Scala
15 18 (1.22%) T-SQL
16 16 (1.08%) Perl
17 14 (0.95%) COBOL
18 13 (0.88%) REXX
19 12 (0.81%) SELCOPY
20 11 (0.74%) CLIST
Qualifications
1 239 (16.16%) Security Cleared
2 180 (12.17%) SC Cleared
3 151 (10.21%) Degree
4 57 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 51 (3.45%) PMP
6 50 (3.38%) PMI Certification
7 44 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (1.83%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (0.95%) AWS Certification
11 8 (0.54%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.47%) APMP
12 7 (0.47%) CBAP
12 7 (0.47%) CSPO
13 5 (0.34%) CCNP
13 5 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.27%) HNC
14 4 (0.27%) ISEB
14 4 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (9.53%) QA
2 33 (2.23%) Accessibility
3 32 (2.16%) Data Quality
4 24 (1.62%) PMO
5 7 (0.47%) GDPR
5 7 (0.47%) PCI DSS
5 7 (0.47%) RMADS
5 7 (0.47%) WCAG
6 5 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
7 4 (0.27%) P3O
7 4 (0.27%) SLA
8 3 (0.20%) GRC
8 3 (0.20%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.20%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.20%) JTAG
8 3 (0.20%) NIST
9 2 (0.14%) GxP
9 2 (0.14%) IFRS
9 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 1 (0.068%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 126 (8.52%) Docker
2 94 (6.36%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.15%) Firmware
5 15 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.68%) vSphere
7 6 (0.41%) VirtualBox
8 5 (0.34%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.27%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.068%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.068%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.068%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.068%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.068%) XenApp
11 1 (0.068%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 105 (7.10%) Kubernetes
2 95 (6.42%) Terraform
3 91 (6.15%) Ansible
4 44 (2.97%) Grafana
5 39 (2.64%) Puppet
6 27 (1.83%) Prometheus
7 18 (1.22%) Progress Chef
8 16 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.88%) Kibana
10 12 (0.81%) logstash
11 9 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
12 8 (0.54%) vRealize
13 6 (0.41%) Packer
14 5 (0.34%) HP ALM
15 4 (0.27%) Podman
16 3 (0.20%) Netcool
16 3 (0.20%) SCCM
16 3 (0.20%) VxRail
17 2 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
17 2 (0.14%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 229 (15.48%) Microsoft
2 77 (5.21%) Oracle
3 67 (4.53%) SAP
4 57 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 57 (3.85%) ServiceNow
5 43 (2.91%) Google
6 32 (2.16%) VMware
7 28 (1.89%) Splunk
8 25 (1.69%) Atlassian
9 22 (1.49%) Talend
10 19 (1.28%) IBM
11 18 (1.22%) Databricks
12 15 (1.01%) Denodo
13 13 (0.88%) Informatica
13 13 (0.88%) Syncsort
14 10 (0.68%) Dell
15 8 (0.54%) Adobe
15 8 (0.54%) CA Agile Central
15 8 (0.54%) Cisco
15 8 (0.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud