Scrum Contracts

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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 40 25
Rank change year-on-year -4 -15 -1
Contract jobs citing Scrum 1,763 2,880 6,749
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.07% 5.17% 7.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.78% 5.77% 8.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,199 1,954 4,493
10th Percentile £363 £405 £412
25th Percentile £425 £473 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £691 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 81 116
10th Percentile £32.00 £42.50 £36.22
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +44.44% -22.41%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.17 £65.54
90th Percentile £74.13 £85.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year - +21.50% -7.76%

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 36,910 49,947 79,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.25% 89.66% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,591 34,538 56,189
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £648
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,563 1,686 1,877
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.54 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +38.82% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 8 June 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 8 June 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 8 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
England -2 1,508 £525 -8.70% 724
London +5 891 £550 -8.33% 259
UK excluding London -24 714 £500 -4.76% 491
Work from Home -7 575 £500 -8.26% 422
South East -15 219 £490 -8.84% 101
North of England +9 166 £510 -7.27% 129
Scotland -6 124 £475 -5.00% 32
Midlands -22 91 £463 -11.90% 96
Yorkshire +31 78 £538 +1.18% 36
North West -6 73 £500 -4.76% 86
West Midlands -18 72 £500 -7.41% 70
South West -49 68 £575 - 79
East of England -47 29 £550 +4.76% 35
East Midlands -4 19 £398 -6.47% 26
Wales +21 18 £503 +16.86% 10
North East +8 15 £513 -33.84% 8
Northern Ireland -5 1 £640 +60.00% 15

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
1 138 (7.83%) Confluence
2 31 (1.76%) Apache
2 31 (1.76%) CMS
3 24 (1.36%) SAS
4 22 (1.25%) Apache Spark
5 17 (0.96%) SharePoint
6 16 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.79%) CICS
8 10 (0.57%) IIS
9 9 (0.51%) Drupal
10 7 (0.40%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.28%) JBoss
12 4 (0.23%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.17%) govService
13 3 (0.17%) WordPress
14 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.11%) EPiServer
14 2 (0.11%) Mule
14 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 34 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
3 16 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.51%) Trello
6 3 (0.17%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.11%) InVision
7 2 (0.11%) Mingle
7 2 (0.11%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.11%) Sketch
8 1 (0.057%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 26 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.40%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
4 6 (0.34%) Endur
4 6 (0.34%) SAP PM
5 5 (0.28%) Maximo
5 5 (0.28%) SAP BPC
5 5 (0.28%) Shopify
5 5 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.17%) SAP QM
7 2 (0.11%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.11%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.11%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.11%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 475 (26.94%) Azure
2 245 (13.90%) Azure DevOps
3 230 (13.05%) AWS
4 117 (6.64%) Power Platform
5 92 (5.22%) Serverless
6 77 (4.37%) GitHub
7 75 (4.25%) Entra ID
8 72 (4.08%) GCP
9 63 (3.57%) Amazon S3
10 49 (2.78%) SaaS
11 48 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
12 45 (2.55%) PaaS
13 42 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
14 40 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
15 36 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
16 30 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
17 29 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
18 27 (1.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 26 (1.47%) Azure Functions
19 26 (1.47%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.53%) DNS
2 26 (1.47%) Firewall
3 24 (1.36%) TCP/IP
4 22 (1.25%) SNMP
4 22 (1.25%) VPN
5 17 (0.96%) Software-Defined Radio
6 15 (0.85%) HTTP
7 11 (0.62%) MPLS
8 10 (0.57%) BGP
9 9 (0.51%) SSH
10 8 (0.45%) Ethernet VPN
10 8 (0.45%) Radio Access Network
11 7 (0.40%) DHCP
11 7 (0.40%) Internet
11 7 (0.40%) RS-485
11 7 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (0.34%) FTP
12 6 (0.34%) Modbus
12 6 (0.34%) RS-422
12 6 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (11.00%) SQL Server
2 106 (6.01%) PostgreSQL
3 89 (5.05%) Relational Database
4 88 (4.99%) Power BI
5 70 (3.97%) MySQL
6 62 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
7 50 (2.84%) MongoDB
8 49 (2.78%) NoSQL
9 38 (2.16%) Big Data
10 36 (2.04%) Data Lake
11 33 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
12 32 (1.82%) Tableau
13 31 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
14 27 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
15 25 (1.42%) Redis
16 19 (1.08%) DB2
17 17 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
17 17 (0.96%) RDBMS
18 16 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 15 (0.85%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 342 (19.40%) JIRA
2 258 (14.63%) Git
3 110 (6.24%) Jenkins
4 84 (4.76%) GitLab
5 62 (3.52%) Selenium
6 54 (3.06%) JUnit
7 53 (3.01%) Postman
8 43 (2.44%) SpecFlow
9 39 (2.21%) Robot Framework
10 37 (2.10%) Visual Studio
11 33 (1.87%) Bitbucket
12 24 (1.36%) JMeter
13 21 (1.19%) Artifactory
13 21 (1.19%) Cucumber
14 20 (1.13%) Cypress.io
15 18 (1.02%) Eclipse
15 18 (1.02%) GoogleTest
15 18 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
16 16 (0.91%) Maven
17 15 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 492 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 282 (16.00%) Finance
3 207 (11.74%) Public Sector
4 186 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
5 121 (6.86%) Banking
6 52 (2.95%) Marketing
7 51 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
8 49 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
9 41 (2.33%) Front Office
9 41 (2.33%) Telecoms
10 40 (2.27%) Retail
11 33 (1.87%) Investment Banking
12 31 (1.76%) Manufacturing
13 27 (1.53%) Back Office
14 26 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 23 (1.30%) Electronics
16 22 (1.25%) Legal
17 20 (1.13%) Local Government
18 18 (1.02%) Billing
19 17 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 390 (22.12%) Developer
2 255 (14.46%) Senior
3 207 (11.74%) Analyst
4 160 (9.08%) Project Manager
5 145 (8.22%) Scrum Master
6 127 (7.20%) Business Analyst
7 106 (6.01%) Lead
8 101 (5.73%) Architect
9 99 (5.62%) Senior Developer
10 82 (4.65%) Software Engineer
11 81 (4.59%) Java Developer
12 65 (3.69%) Delivery Manager
12 65 (3.69%) Software Developer
13 60 (3.40%) Product Owner
14 48 (2.72%) Data Engineer
15 46 (2.61%) Consultant
16 45 (2.55%) Senior Analyst
17 44 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
18 42 (2.38%) DevOps Engineer
19 41 (2.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (10.61%) .NET
2 159 (9.02%) XML
3 132 (7.49%) HTML
4 119 (6.75%) React
5 116 (6.58%) CSS
6 114 (6.47%) REST
7 99 (5.62%) AngularJS
8 86 (4.88%) Spring
9 75 (4.25%) .NET Framework
10 74 (4.20%) Web Services
11 64 (3.63%) Spring Boot
12 63 (3.57%) .NET Core
12 63 (3.57%) JSON
13 48 (2.72%) Kafka
14 47 (2.67%) RESTful
15 45 (2.55%) JPA
16 44 (2.50%) Hibernate
17 43 (2.44%) SOAP
18 39 (2.21%) Node.js
19 28 (1.59%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 263 (14.92%) Product Ownership
2 40 (2.27%) Data Structures
3 37 (2.10%) Mobile App
4 36 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
5 35 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
5 35 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
6 34 (1.93%) Algorithms
7 31 (1.76%) Management Information System
8 25 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
9 21 (1.19%) Derivative
9 21 (1.19%) Hedge funds
9 21 (1.19%) Onboarding
10 20 (1.13%) Mainframe
10 20 (1.13%) Replication
11 19 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
12 18 (1.02%) Cloud Native
13 17 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
13 17 (0.96%) Virtual Team
14 15 (0.85%) IBM Mainframe
15 13 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 160 (9.08%) Linux
2 80 (4.54%) Windows
3 73 (4.14%) Unix
4 34 (1.93%) Windows Server
5 21 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.08%) Android
7 16 (0.91%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.91%) zOS
8 9 (0.51%) VMS
9 8 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
11 4 (0.23%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.057%) CentOS
13 1 (0.057%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,558 (88.37%) Agile
2 471 (26.72%) DevOps
3 392 (22.23%) Kanban
4 336 (19.06%) CI/CD
5 255 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
6 252 (14.29%) Project Management
7 242 (13.73%) Software Engineering
8 229 (12.99%) Test Automation
9 190 (10.78%) User Stories
10 180 (10.21%) Stakeholder Management
11 169 (9.59%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 166 (9.42%) SDLC
13 161 (9.13%) Continuous Integration
14 158 (8.96%) Roadmaps
15 157 (8.91%) Analytics
16 143 (8.11%) Project Delivery
17 138 (7.83%) TDD
18 136 (7.71%) Microservices
19 132 (7.49%) Migration
20 129 (7.32%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 316 (17.92%) SQL
2 264 (14.97%) Java
3 224 (12.71%) C#
4 206 (11.68%) Python
5 182 (10.32%) JavaScript
6 171 (9.70%) PowerShell
7 100 (5.67%) TypeScript
8 61 (3.46%) C++
9 53 (3.01%) Bicep
10 45 (2.55%) Bash
11 36 (2.04%) C
12 29 (1.64%) Scala
13 28 (1.59%) PL/SQL
14 25 (1.42%) Shell Script
15 21 (1.19%) T-SQL
16 20 (1.13%) Perl
17 17 (0.96%) COBOL
17 17 (0.96%) REXX
18 15 (0.85%) SELCOPY
19 14 (0.79%) CLIST
Qualifications
1 273 (15.48%) Security Cleared
2 207 (11.74%) SC Cleared
3 206 (11.68%) Degree
4 66 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 64 (3.63%) PMP
6 63 (3.57%) PMI Certification
7 61 (3.46%) DV Cleared
8 35 (1.99%) Master's Degree
9 23 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (0.74%) AWS Certification
11 10 (0.57%) ISTQB
12 9 (0.51%) CBAP
12 9 (0.51%) CSPO
13 8 (0.45%) Azure Certification
14 7 (0.40%) APMP
15 5 (0.28%) CCNP
15 5 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 5 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
16 4 (0.23%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (9.53%) QA
2 43 (2.44%) Accessibility
3 38 (2.16%) Data Quality
4 29 (1.64%) PMO
5 10 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
6 9 (0.51%) GDPR
6 9 (0.51%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.45%) WCAG
8 7 (0.40%) RMADS
9 6 (0.34%) P3O
10 5 (0.28%) SLA
10 5 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
11 4 (0.23%) GxP
12 3 (0.17%) GRC
12 3 (0.17%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.17%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.17%) NIST
13 2 (0.11%) IFRS
13 2 (0.11%) PSD2
13 2 (0.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 154 (8.74%) Docker
2 97 (5.50%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.96%) Firmware
6 11 (0.62%) vSphere
7 6 (0.34%) VirtualBox
8 4 (0.23%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.23%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.057%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.057%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.057%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.057%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.057%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.057%) XenApp
10 1 (0.057%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 125 (7.09%) Kubernetes
2 112 (6.35%) Ansible
2 112 (6.35%) Terraform
3 81 (4.59%) Grafana
4 41 (2.33%) Puppet
5 29 (1.64%) Prometheus
6 20 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (1.08%) Progress Chef
8 15 (0.85%) Kibana
9 12 (0.68%) logstash
10 9 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (0.51%) vRealize
11 8 (0.45%) HP ALM
12 6 (0.34%) Argo
12 6 (0.34%) Packer
13 4 (0.23%) Podman
13 4 (0.23%) SCCM
14 3 (0.17%) Netcool
14 3 (0.17%) VxRail
15 2 (0.11%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 258 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 105 (5.96%) Oracle
3 76 (4.31%) SAP
4 66 (3.74%) ServiceNow
5 65 (3.69%) Salesforce
6 53 (3.01%) Google
7 38 (2.16%) Atlassian
8 35 (1.99%) VMware
9 33 (1.87%) Talend
10 32 (1.82%) Splunk
11 26 (1.47%) Denodo
12 22 (1.25%) IBM
13 18 (1.02%) Databricks
14 16 (0.91%) Syncsort
15 14 (0.79%) Informatica
16 12 (0.68%) Cadence
16 12 (0.68%) Red Hat
17 11 (0.62%) Adobe
18 10 (0.57%) CyberArk
19 9 (0.51%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud