Scrum Contracts in the North of England

Scrum
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 64 31
Rank change year-on-year +13 -33 +3
Contract jobs citing Scrum 166 180 419
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.45% 3.28% 5.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.09% 3.65% 6.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 139 254
10th Percentile £375 £413 £381
25th Percentile £425 £496 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £550
90th Percentile £638 £696 £629
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 22
10th Percentile - - £32.88
25th Percentile £69.50 - £45.26
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 of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,055 4,938 6,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.20% 89.99% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,419 3,391 4,648
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +10.80%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £670 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 396 205 256
10th Percentile £11.09 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.72 £13.50
Median hourly rate £20.77 £26.50 £19.05
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% +39.14% +6.52%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £34.32
90th Percentile £63.75 £61.50 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% +44.00% +11.11%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the North of England

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the North of England

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the North of England over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the North of England

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in the North of England

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 7 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
Yorkshire +29 78 £538 +1.18% 35
North West -5 73 £500 -4.76% 85
North East +5 15 £513 -33.84% 9
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 15 (9.04%) Confluence
2 5 (3.01%) Apache
2 5 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.01%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.20%) Mule
4 1 (0.60%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.60%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (3.61%) SAP PM
1 6 (3.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.60%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 40 (24.10%) AWS
2 38 (22.89%) Azure
3 22 (13.25%) Power Platform
4 14 (8.43%) GitHub
5 11 (6.63%) GCP
6 10 (6.02%) Serverless
7 9 (5.42%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (5.42%) Amazon S3
7 9 (5.42%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (5.42%) Kong
8 8 (4.82%) SaaS
9 7 (4.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (3.61%) Apigee
10 6 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (3.61%) PaaS
11 5 (3.01%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (3.01%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (3.01%) IaaS
11 5 (3.01%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.02%) Firewall
2 9 (5.42%) DNS
2 9 (5.42%) HTTP
2 9 (5.42%) TCP/IP
2 9 (5.42%) VPN
3 5 (3.01%) FTP
4 3 (1.81%) BIG-IP
4 3 (1.81%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (1.81%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.81%) SSL
5 2 (1.20%) Internet
6 1 (0.60%) PPP
6 1 (0.60%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (16.27%) Relational Database
2 18 (10.84%) Power BI
3 15 (9.04%) MySQL
3 15 (9.04%) Qlik Sense
4 12 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (5.42%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (3.01%) Big Data
7 4 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.41%) Redis
7 4 (2.41%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.60%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.60%) DataStage
8 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.60%) Sisense
8 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (22.29%) Git
2 32 (19.28%) JIRA
3 21 (12.65%) GitLab
4 20 (12.05%) JUnit
5 18 (10.84%) Jenkins
6 9 (5.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (5.42%) CircleCI
6 9 (5.42%) Travis CI
7 5 (3.01%) Selenium
7 5 (3.01%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (2.41%) Jasmine
8 4 (2.41%) Karma Test Runner
8 4 (2.41%) Mocha
8 4 (2.41%) webpack
9 3 (1.81%) Postman
10 2 (1.20%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.20%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.20%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.20%) Liquibase
10 2 (1.20%) REST Assured
General
1 51 (30.72%) Social Skills
2 20 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (12.05%) Public Sector
3 19 (11.45%) Finance
4 7 (4.22%) Manufacturing
4 7 (4.22%) Marketing
5 6 (3.61%) Banking
5 6 (3.61%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.41%) Legal
8 3 (1.81%) Law
9 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Front Office
9 2 (1.20%) Retail
10 1 (0.60%) Billing
10 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (25.30%) Developer
2 18 (10.84%) Java Developer
3 17 (10.24%) Analyst
4 14 (8.43%) Business Analyst
4 14 (8.43%) Data Scientist
4 14 (8.43%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (7.83%) Scrum Master
6 11 (6.63%) Project Manager
7 9 (5.42%) Senior
8 8 (4.82%) Automation Engineer
9 7 (4.22%) Architect
9 7 (4.22%) Delivery Manager
9 7 (4.22%) Lead
9 7 (4.22%) Salesforce Developer
9 7 (4.22%) Test Engineer
10 6 (3.61%) DevOps Automation Engineer
10 6 (3.61%) SAP Analyst
10 6 (3.61%) SAP Business Analyst
11 5 (3.01%) Data Engineer
11 5 (3.01%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (13.86%) HTML
2 22 (13.25%) AngularJS
2 22 (13.25%) CSS
3 20 (12.05%) React
4 17 (10.24%) JSON
4 17 (10.24%) REST
5 15 (9.04%) Hibernate
5 15 (9.04%) XML
6 14 (8.43%) Spring
6 14 (8.43%) Spring Boot
7 13 (7.83%) .NET
8 12 (7.23%) JPA
9 11 (6.63%) Web Services
10 10 (6.02%) YAML
11 9 (5.42%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (4.82%) Gherkin
13 6 (3.61%) Kafka
14 5 (3.01%) .NET Core
14 5 (3.01%) OAuth
14 5 (3.01%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.45%) Product Ownership
2 13 (7.83%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.82%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.41%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.41%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.81%) CMDB
7 3 (1.81%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.81%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.60%) IoT
9 1 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.60%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.60%) PMI
9 1 (0.60%) Replication
9 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.82%) Linux
2 6 (3.61%) Unix
3 3 (1.81%) Windows
4 2 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.60%) Android
5 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (84.94%) Agile
2 59 (35.54%) DevOps
3 39 (23.49%) CI/CD
3 39 (23.49%) Kanban
4 37 (22.29%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (18.07%) Test Automation
6 29 (17.47%) Stakeholder Management
7 26 (15.66%) Unit Testing
8 24 (14.46%) User Stories
9 23 (13.86%) ITIL
9 23 (13.86%) Project Management
10 21 (12.65%) Computer Science
10 21 (12.65%) Data Modelling
10 21 (12.65%) ITSM
10 21 (12.65%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 19 (11.45%) Business Intelligence
11 19 (11.45%) Containerisation
12 18 (10.84%) Continuous Integration
12 18 (10.84%) Service Management
12 18 (10.84%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 44 (26.51%) Java
2 31 (18.67%) JavaScript
3 27 (16.27%) SQL
4 23 (13.86%) Python
5 19 (11.45%) C#
6 15 (9.04%) TypeScript
7 13 (7.83%) Bash
8 12 (7.23%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.81%) ActionScript
9 3 (1.81%) Scala
10 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.60%) Swift
Qualifications
1 26 (15.66%) Security Cleared
2 24 (14.46%) Degree
3 23 (13.86%) SC Cleared
4 21 (12.65%) PMI Certification
5 19 (11.45%) PMP
6 14 (8.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (7.83%) Master's Degree
8 12 (7.23%) DV Cleared
9 4 (2.41%) CBAP
10 3 (1.81%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.20%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.60%) CAPM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (18.67%) QA
2 4 (2.41%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.81%) GDPR
4 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.20%) WCAG
5 1 (0.60%) GRC
System Software
1 29 (17.47%) Docker
2 2 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 29 (17.47%) Kubernetes
2 21 (12.65%) Ansible
2 21 (12.65%) Terraform
3 16 (9.64%) Prometheus
4 15 (9.04%) Grafana
5 10 (6.02%) Progress Chef
5 10 (6.02%) Puppet
6 9 (5.42%) Docker Swarm
6 9 (5.42%) Kibana
6 9 (5.42%) logstash
7 4 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.60%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 21 (12.65%) ServiceNow
2 16 (9.64%) Salesforce
3 10 (6.02%) Splunk
4 7 (4.22%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.22%) Oracle
4 7 (4.22%) SAP
5 6 (3.61%) PagerDuty
6 5 (3.01%) Informatica
6 5 (3.01%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 5 (3.01%) Talend
7 3 (1.81%) F5
7 3 (1.81%) Google
8 2 (1.20%) VMware
9 1 (0.60%) Ariba
9 1 (0.60%) Cisco
9 1 (0.60%) Databricks
9 1 (0.60%) Embarcadero
9 1 (0.60%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.60%) Meraki
9 1 (0.60%) Workday