Scrum
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 38 25
Rank change year-on-year -8 -13 -1
Contract jobs citing Scrum 1,728 3,041 6,718
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.06% 5.34% 7.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% 5.95% 8.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,177 2,048 4,460
10th Percentile £375 £406 £411
25th Percentile £430 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £549
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.20% +9.78%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 92 115
10th Percentile £31.84 £42.50 £35.97
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +44.44% -20.35%
75th Percentile £68.50 £74.06 £65.54
90th Percentile £70.00 £86.49 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year - +21.50% -5.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the UK

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the UK

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the UK

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in the UK

Scrum
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scrum over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Scrum in the UK

Scrum
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 May 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
England -6 1,460 £531 -7.61% 737
London +2 867 £550 -8.33% 276
UK excluding London -23 698 £500 -4.76% 513
Work from Home -7 577 £500 -9.09% 464
South East -14 221 £500 -7.83% 124
North of England +9 154 £500 -9.09% 112
Scotland -8 125 £475 -5.00% 27
Midlands -22 87 £475 -9.52% 117
North West +5 80 £500 -4.76% 70
West Midlands -19 70 £500 -7.06% 82
Yorkshire +5 64 £550 -0.90% 32
South West -59 64 £575 - 72
East of England -43 29 £550 +4.76% 48
Wales +19 20 £503 +14.20% 15
East Midlands -2 17 £405 -4.65% 33
North East +4 10 £525 -32.26% 10
Northern Ireland -1 1 £640 +60.00% 9

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 140 (8.10%) Confluence
2 32 (1.85%) Apache
3 31 (1.79%) CMS
4 20 (1.16%) Apache Spark
5 19 (1.10%) SAS
6 17 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.81%) CICS
7 14 (0.81%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.58%) IIS
9 9 (0.52%) Drupal
10 7 (0.41%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.29%) JBoss
12 4 (0.23%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.23%) WordPress
13 3 (0.17%) govService
13 3 (0.17%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.12%) GeoServer
14 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
14 2 (0.12%) ThingWorx
14 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 32 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
3 13 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.58%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.35%) Trello
7 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.12%) InVision
7 2 (0.12%) Mingle
7 2 (0.12%) Sketch
8 1 (0.058%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.058%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.058%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.058%) InDesign
8 1 (0.058%) Marvel
8 1 (0.058%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 27 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.41%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.41%) SAP PM
4 6 (0.35%) Endur
4 6 (0.35%) SimCorp Dimension
5 5 (0.29%) SAP BPC
5 5 (0.29%) SAP QM
5 5 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.23%) Maximo
6 4 (0.23%) Shopify
7 3 (0.17%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
8 2 (0.12%) BusinessWorks
8 2 (0.12%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.12%) SAP SD
8 2 (0.12%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 461 (26.68%) Azure
2 248 (14.35%) Azure DevOps
3 231 (13.37%) AWS
4 89 (5.15%) Serverless
5 88 (5.09%) Power Platform
6 77 (4.46%) GCP
7 75 (4.34%) GitHub
8 73 (4.22%) Entra ID
9 60 (3.47%) Amazon S3
10 51 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
11 43 (2.49%) PaaS
11 43 (2.49%) SaaS
12 42 (2.43%) Azure Service Bus
13 40 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
14 32 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
15 31 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
15 31 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
16 26 (1.50%) OpenShift
17 25 (1.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 23 (1.33%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 28 (1.62%) DNS
2 24 (1.39%) VPN
3 23 (1.33%) Firewall
3 23 (1.33%) TCP/IP
4 19 (1.10%) SNMP
5 15 (0.87%) HTTP
5 15 (0.87%) Software-Defined Radio
6 12 (0.69%) MPLS
7 11 (0.64%) BGP
7 11 (0.64%) Ethernet VPN
7 11 (0.64%) Radio Access Network
8 8 (0.46%) DHCP
8 8 (0.46%) Internet
9 7 (0.41%) Modbus
9 7 (0.41%) RS-422
9 7 (0.41%) RS-485
9 7 (0.41%) SSH
9 7 (0.41%) SSL
9 7 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.35%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (11.28%) SQL Server
2 110 (6.37%) PostgreSQL
3 72 (4.17%) Relational Database
4 66 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
5 64 (3.70%) Power BI
6 49 (2.84%) MySQL
7 44 (2.55%) MongoDB
8 43 (2.49%) NoSQL
9 39 (2.26%) Data Lake
10 34 (1.97%) Big Data
11 32 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
12 28 (1.62%) Redis
13 25 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
14 23 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
15 21 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 21 (1.22%) Tableau
16 20 (1.16%) DB2
17 17 (0.98%) Oracle Database
18 16 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
18 16 (0.93%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 336 (19.44%) JIRA
2 235 (13.60%) Git
3 101 (5.84%) Jenkins
4 83 (4.80%) GitLab
5 55 (3.18%) Selenium
6 49 (2.84%) JUnit
7 46 (2.66%) Postman
8 40 (2.31%) Robot Framework
8 40 (2.31%) SpecFlow
9 37 (2.14%) Bitbucket
9 37 (2.14%) Visual Studio
10 24 (1.39%) JMeter
11 21 (1.22%) Artifactory
11 21 (1.22%) Cucumber
11 21 (1.22%) Cypress.io
12 18 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
13 17 (0.98%) TestRail
14 16 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 16 (0.93%) TeamCity
15 15 (0.87%) WebDriver
General
1 480 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 284 (16.44%) Finance
3 199 (11.52%) Public Sector
4 187 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
5 114 (6.60%) Banking
6 52 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
7 51 (2.95%) Marketing
8 46 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
9 41 (2.37%) Retail
9 41 (2.37%) Telecoms
10 37 (2.14%) Front Office
11 31 (1.79%) Manufacturing
12 29 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 28 (1.62%) Investment Banking
14 26 (1.50%) Back Office
15 23 (1.33%) Electronics
16 21 (1.22%) Legal
17 18 (1.04%) Billing
18 17 (0.98%) Local Government
18 17 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 390 (22.57%) Developer
2 251 (14.53%) Senior
3 195 (11.28%) Analyst
4 172 (9.95%) Scrum Master
5 157 (9.09%) Project Manager
6 126 (7.29%) Business Analyst
7 107 (6.19%) Lead
8 103 (5.96%) Architect
9 91 (5.27%) Senior Developer
10 82 (4.75%) Java Developer
11 72 (4.17%) Software Engineer
12 68 (3.94%) Software Developer
13 60 (3.47%) Product Owner
14 59 (3.41%) Delivery Manager
15 48 (2.78%) Data Engineer
16 47 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
17 43 (2.49%) Consultant
18 42 (2.43%) Senior Manager
19 41 (2.37%) C# Developer
19 41 (2.37%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (10.59%) .NET
2 158 (9.14%) XML
3 119 (6.89%) HTML
4 116 (6.71%) REST
5 113 (6.54%) React
6 98 (5.67%) CSS
7 86 (4.98%) AngularJS
8 82 (4.75%) Spring
9 70 (4.05%) .NET Framework
9 70 (4.05%) Web Services
10 61 (3.53%) JSON
11 58 (3.36%) .NET Core
12 57 (3.30%) Spring Boot
13 49 (2.84%) Kafka
14 43 (2.49%) RESTful
14 43 (2.49%) SOAP
15 42 (2.43%) Hibernate
16 40 (2.31%) JPA
17 39 (2.26%) Node.js
18 30 (1.74%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 281 (16.26%) Product Ownership
2 40 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
3 37 (2.14%) Data Structures
4 35 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
5 34 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
6 32 (1.85%) Management Information System
6 32 (1.85%) Mobile App
7 28 (1.62%) Algorithms
8 21 (1.22%) Hedge funds
8 21 (1.22%) Onboarding
8 21 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (1.16%) Replication
10 19 (1.10%) Cloud Native
10 19 (1.10%) Mainframe
11 18 (1.04%) Derivative
12 17 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
13 15 (0.87%) IBM Mainframe
13 15 (0.87%) PKI
13 15 (0.87%) Virtual Team
14 13 (0.75%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 151 (8.74%) Linux
2 81 (4.69%) Windows
3 71 (4.11%) Unix
4 33 (1.91%) Windows Server
5 19 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (0.93%) Android
7 15 (0.87%) zOS
8 13 (0.75%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.52%) VMS
10 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
12 4 (0.23%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.058%) CentOS
14 1 (0.058%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.058%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,540 (89.12%) Agile
2 479 (27.72%) DevOps
3 385 (22.28%) Kanban
4 325 (18.81%) CI/CD
5 258 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
6 253 (14.64%) Project Management
7 219 (12.67%) Test Automation
8 215 (12.44%) Software Engineering
9 181 (10.47%) User Stories
10 173 (10.01%) SDLC
11 172 (9.95%) Stakeholder Management
12 168 (9.72%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 160 (9.26%) Roadmaps
14 147 (8.51%) Project Delivery
15 143 (8.28%) Continuous Integration
16 137 (7.93%) TDD
17 135 (7.81%) Continuous Improvement
18 132 (7.64%) Analytics
18 132 (7.64%) Microservices
19 118 (6.83%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 293 (16.96%) SQL
2 252 (14.58%) Java
3 222 (12.85%) C#
4 218 (12.62%) Python
5 173 (10.01%) PowerShell
6 167 (9.66%) JavaScript
7 93 (5.38%) TypeScript
8 57 (3.30%) C++
9 52 (3.01%) Bicep
10 46 (2.66%) Bash
11 39 (2.26%) C
12 27 (1.56%) Scala
13 26 (1.50%) Shell Script
14 24 (1.39%) PL/SQL
15 23 (1.33%) T-SQL
16 19 (1.10%) Perl
17 17 (0.98%) COBOL
18 16 (0.93%) REXX
19 15 (0.87%) SELCOPY
20 14 (0.81%) CLIST
Qualifications
1 276 (15.97%) Security Cleared
2 212 (12.27%) SC Cleared
3 186 (10.76%) Degree
4 63 (3.65%) DV Cleared
5 54 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (3.13%) PMP
6 53 (3.07%) PMI Certification
7 27 (1.56%) Master's Degree
8 26 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (0.98%) AWS Certification
10 11 (0.64%) CSPO
11 9 (0.52%) Azure Certification
11 9 (0.52%) CBAP
12 8 (0.46%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.41%) APMP
14 6 (0.35%) ISEB
15 5 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 5 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.29%) MBA
16 4 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (8.80%) QA
2 45 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 28 (1.62%) PMO
4 27 (1.56%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.64%) GDPR
6 10 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
7 9 (0.52%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.41%) RMADS
8 7 (0.41%) WCAG
9 6 (0.35%) SLA
10 5 (0.29%) GxP
10 5 (0.29%) NIST
10 5 (0.29%) P3O
10 5 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
11 3 (0.17%) GRC
11 3 (0.17%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.17%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.17%) JTAG
12 2 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 2 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 156 (9.03%) Docker
2 93 (5.38%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.93%) Firmware
6 11 (0.64%) vSphere
7 6 (0.35%) VirtualBox
7 6 (0.35%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.29%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.058%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.058%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.058%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.058%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.058%) XenApp
10 1 (0.058%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 124 (7.18%) Kubernetes
2 108 (6.25%) Terraform
3 106 (6.13%) Ansible
4 73 (4.22%) Grafana
5 43 (2.49%) Puppet
6 27 (1.56%) Prometheus
7 21 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.10%) Progress Chef
9 18 (1.04%) Kibana
10 12 (0.69%) logstash
11 9 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
11 9 (0.52%) HP ALM
12 8 (0.46%) vRealize
13 6 (0.35%) Argo
13 6 (0.35%) Packer
14 4 (0.23%) SCCM
15 3 (0.17%) Netcool
15 3 (0.17%) VxRail
16 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
16 2 (0.12%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 255 (14.76%) Microsoft
2 105 (6.08%) Oracle
3 75 (4.34%) SAP
4 66 (3.82%) Salesforce
5 54 (3.13%) Google
6 48 (2.78%) ServiceNow
7 35 (2.03%) Atlassian
7 35 (2.03%) VMware
8 34 (1.97%) Splunk
9 23 (1.33%) IBM
9 23 (1.33%) Talend
10 19 (1.10%) Databricks
11 16 (0.93%) Denodo
11 16 (0.93%) Syncsort
12 14 (0.81%) Informatica
13 11 (0.64%) Adobe
13 11 (0.64%) Red Hat
14 10 (0.58%) Dell
15 9 (0.52%) Cadence
15 9 (0.52%) HP