Scrum Contracts in the North West

Scrum
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North 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 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 64 58 37
Rank change year-on-year -6 -21 -4
Contract jobs citing Scrum 75 106 218
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.74% 3.50% 5.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.22% 3.90% 6.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 89 104
10th Percentile £375 £413 £382
25th Percentile £413 £488 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +2.43%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £642 £638
England median daily rate £531 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -7.61% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 20
10th Percentile - - £38.20
25th Percentile £69.50 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £72.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £74.50 - £77.50
90th Percentile - - £81.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +44.44% -22.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North 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 North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,330 2,719 3,588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.10% 89.71% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,452 1,906 2,612
10th Percentile £308 £313 £240
25th Percentile £401 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £680 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 143 158
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.04 £10.63
25th Percentile £14.00 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -23.83% +50.72% +29.66%
75th Percentile £46.18 £46.59 £52.67
90th Percentile £66.61 £65.95 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the North West

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the North West

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North West 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
Manchester -5 49 £500 -2.44% 56
Cheshire +7 20 £400 -28.95% 12
Merseyside 0 4 £510 -5.12% 8
Cumbria - 2 £515 - 3
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 5 (6.67%) Apache
1 5 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.67%) Mule
3 1 (1.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.33%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 19 (25.33%) AWS
2 14 (18.67%) Azure
3 9 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (12.00%) Amazon S3
3 9 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (12.00%) Serverless
4 5 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
4 5 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 5 (6.67%) Snowflake
5 4 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.33%) npm
5 4 (5.33%) OCI
5 4 (5.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (5.33%) Yarn
6 3 (4.00%) SaaS
7 2 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.67%) Miro
8 1 (1.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.67%) FTP
2 2 (2.67%) Internet
3 1 (1.33%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (8.00%) Relational Database
2 5 (6.67%) Big Data
3 4 (5.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.33%) Redis
4 3 (4.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.33%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.33%) DataStage
5 1 (1.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.33%) Power BI
5 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (20.00%) Git
2 13 (17.33%) JIRA
3 6 (8.00%) JUnit
4 5 (6.67%) GitLab
5 4 (5.33%) Jasmine
5 4 (5.33%) Karma Test Runner
5 4 (5.33%) Mocha
5 4 (5.33%) webpack
6 2 (2.67%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.67%) Liquibase
6 2 (2.67%) Log4j
6 2 (2.67%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.33%) ERwin
7 1 (1.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (29.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 8 (10.67%) Finance
4 7 (9.33%) Manufacturing
5 6 (8.00%) Banking
5 6 (8.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.33%) Legal
7 4 (5.33%) Marketing
8 3 (4.00%) Law
9 2 (2.67%) Front Office
10 1 (1.33%) Billing
10 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (33.33%) Developer
2 10 (13.33%) Scrum Master
3 8 (10.67%) Java Developer
4 7 (9.33%) Salesforce Developer
5 6 (8.00%) Project Manager
6 5 (6.67%) .NET Developer
6 5 (6.67%) Architect
6 5 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Data Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Snowflake Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Analyst
7 4 (5.33%) AWS DevOps
7 4 (5.33%) Business Analyst
7 4 (5.33%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (5.33%) Development Manager
7 4 (5.33%) Software Development Manager
7 4 (5.33%) Software Manager
7 4 (5.33%) Systems Developer
8 3 (4.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (17.33%) .NET
1 13 (17.33%) React
2 9 (12.00%) REST
3 8 (10.67%) Hibernate
4 7 (9.33%) Spring
4 7 (9.33%) Spring Boot
4 7 (9.33%) Web Services
5 6 (8.00%) JPA
5 6 (8.00%) JSON
5 6 (8.00%) Kafka
5 6 (8.00%) XML
6 5 (6.67%) .NET Core
6 5 (6.67%) .NET Framework
6 5 (6.67%) RESTful
7 4 (5.33%) AngularJS
8 3 (4.00%) HTML
9 2 (2.67%) CSS
9 2 (2.67%) OAuth
9 2 (2.67%) OAuth2
9 2 (2.67%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.67%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 4 (5.33%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.33%) IoT
4 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.33%) PMI
4 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.33%) Linux
1 1 (1.33%) Unix
1 1 (1.33%) Windows
1 1 (1.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (88.00%) Agile
2 23 (30.67%) DevOps
3 15 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 12 (16.00%) Kanban
4 12 (16.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 12 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (16.00%) Unit Testing
5 10 (13.33%) Project Management
5 10 (13.33%) SDLC
5 10 (13.33%) Test Automation
6 9 (12.00%) Containerisation
6 9 (12.00%) Design Patterns
6 9 (12.00%) OO
6 9 (12.00%) OOP
7 8 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (10.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 8 (10.67%) Mentoring
7 8 (10.67%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (10.67%) Software Engineering
8 7 (9.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 20 (26.67%) C#
2 19 (25.33%) Java
3 12 (16.00%) SQL
4 11 (14.67%) Python
5 9 (12.00%) TypeScript
6 8 (10.67%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (17.33%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.33%) Degree
4 4 (5.33%) PMI Certification
5 3 (4.00%) PMP
6 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.33%) QA
2 3 (4.00%) GDPR
3 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.67%) Ansible
2 5 (6.67%) Terraform
3 1 (1.33%) Grafana
3 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (17.33%) Salesforce
2 5 (6.67%) Informatica
2 5 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.67%) Talend
3 4 (5.33%) Oracle
4 2 (2.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.33%) Cisco
5 1 (1.33%) Embarcadero
5 1 (1.33%) Meraki
5 1 (1.33%) PagerDuty
5 1 (1.33%) VMware
5 1 (1.33%) Workday