Scrum Contracts with Work from Home Options

Scrum
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 46 39 22
Rank change year-on-year -7 -17 +4
Contract jobs citing Scrum 575 1,236 3,474
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.91% 5.16% 7.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.47% 5.75% 8.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 850 2,282
10th Percentile £360 £400 £406
25th Percentile £414 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £534
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +2.89% +7.50%
75th Percentile £580 £638 £625
90th Percentile £651 £735 £725
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 53 83
10th Percentile £34.05 £42.50 -
25th Percentile £45.11 £46.25 £39.75
Median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +44.44% -26.83%
75th Percentile £63.63 £66.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £70.15 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +44.44% -22.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,873 21,488 40,445
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.49% 89.70% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,658 15,241 29,441
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +3.62% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £730
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 501 519
10th Percentile £14.91 £17.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £23.81 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.94
90th Percentile £74.35 £78.00 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +10.45%

Scrum
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Scrum trend for jobs with a WFH option

Scrum
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Scrum.

Scrum daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Scrum over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Scrum daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Scrum
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Scrum.

Scrum hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Scrum
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Scrum over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Scrum hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 41 (7.13%) Confluence
2 10 (1.74%) CMS
2 10 (1.74%) SAS
3 9 (1.57%) CICS
4 8 (1.39%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.87%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.70%) Apache
7 2 (0.35%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.35%) WordPress
8 1 (0.17%) Drupal
8 1 (0.17%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.17%) IIS
8 1 (0.17%) Mule
8 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.87%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.52%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.52%) Trello
7 2 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.35%) InVision
7 2 (0.35%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.35%) Sketch
8 1 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 10 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.52%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.35%) BusinessWorks
4 2 (0.35%) Endur
4 2 (0.35%) Maximo
4 2 (0.35%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.17%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 154 (26.78%) Azure
2 83 (14.43%) AWS
2 83 (14.43%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (6.26%) Power Platform
4 35 (6.09%) Serverless
5 28 (4.87%) GCP
6 27 (4.70%) SaaS
7 24 (4.17%) Amazon S3
7 24 (4.17%) Entra ID
8 21 (3.65%) GitHub
9 20 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (2.96%) OpenShift
12 16 (2.78%) PaaS
13 14 (2.43%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
14 13 (2.26%) Azure Service Bus
15 10 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (1.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 10 (1.74%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.57%) TCP/IP
2 8 (1.39%) DNS
3 6 (1.04%) Firewall
4 5 (0.87%) HTTP
5 4 (0.70%) 5G
5 4 (0.70%) Internet
5 4 (0.70%) VPN
6 3 (0.52%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.52%) SNMP
7 2 (0.35%) DHCP
7 2 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.17%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.17%) DMZ
8 1 (0.17%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.17%) Intranet
8 1 (0.17%) MPLS
8 1 (0.17%) PPP
8 1 (0.17%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.17%) SSL
8 1 (0.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (12.17%) SQL Server
2 33 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (4.17%) Power BI
5 22 (3.83%) MySQL
6 16 (2.78%) MongoDB
7 15 (2.61%) Relational Database
8 13 (2.26%) DB2
9 12 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (1.74%) Data Lake
11 10 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (1.57%) IDMS
13 8 (1.39%) Big Data
13 8 (1.39%) NoSQL
14 7 (1.22%) GIS
14 7 (1.22%) Informix
14 7 (1.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 107 (18.61%) JIRA
2 66 (11.48%) Git
3 38 (6.61%) Jenkins
4 24 (4.17%) GitLab
5 20 (3.48%) Selenium
6 18 (3.13%) JMeter
7 17 (2.96%) Postman
8 13 (2.26%) SpecFlow
9 12 (2.09%) Cypress.io
10 11 (1.91%) Visual Studio
11 10 (1.74%) Artifactory
11 10 (1.74%) Bitbucket
12 7 (1.22%) Appium
12 7 (1.22%) JUnit
13 6 (1.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 5 (0.87%) Maven
14 5 (0.87%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
14 5 (0.87%) TeamCity
14 5 (0.87%) WebDriver
General
1 180 (31.30%) Social Skills
2 104 (18.09%) Finance
3 72 (12.52%) Public Sector
4 45 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (7.13%) Banking
6 27 (4.70%) Marketing
7 25 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
8 18 (3.13%) Manufacturing
9 14 (2.43%) Legal
10 13 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.09%) Retail
12 11 (1.91%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.74%) Front Office
14 9 (1.57%) Electronics
15 8 (1.39%) Back Office
15 8 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (1.22%) Investment Banking
17 5 (0.87%) Law
18 4 (0.70%) German Language
18 4 (0.70%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 122 (21.22%) Developer
2 88 (15.30%) Senior
3 77 (13.39%) Analyst
4 64 (11.13%) Project Manager
5 51 (8.87%) Scrum Master
6 49 (8.52%) Business Analyst
7 39 (6.78%) Senior Developer
8 28 (4.87%) Lead
9 27 (4.70%) Software Developer
10 24 (4.17%) Architect
11 20 (3.48%) Product Owner
12 19 (3.30%) Azure Developer
12 19 (3.30%) Delivery Manager
13 17 (2.96%) Consultant
13 17 (2.96%) Data Engineer
13 17 (2.96%) Java Developer
14 16 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
14 16 (2.78%) Senior Software Developer
15 15 (2.61%) Test Analyst
16 14 (2.43%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (10.09%) .NET
2 49 (8.52%) XML
3 37 (6.43%) React
4 32 (5.57%) HTML
5 31 (5.39%) CSS
6 29 (5.04%) AngularJS
7 28 (4.87%) REST
8 22 (3.83%) .NET Framework
8 22 (3.83%) RESTful
9 21 (3.65%) Web Services
10 18 (3.13%) AWS CDK
11 17 (2.96%) Spring Boot
12 16 (2.78%) .NET Core
12 16 (2.78%) Node.js
13 15 (2.61%) JSON
13 15 (2.61%) OAuth
13 15 (2.61%) Spring
14 13 (2.26%) GraphQL
15 12 (2.09%) ARM Templates
16 11 (1.91%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 82 (14.26%) Product Ownership
2 11 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (1.91%) Mainframe
3 10 (1.74%) Algorithms
3 10 (1.74%) Data Structures
3 10 (1.74%) IBM Mainframe
3 10 (1.74%) Mobile App
4 9 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (1.57%) Replication
5 8 (1.39%) Over-the-Top Content
5 8 (1.39%) Video\Live Streaming
6 7 (1.22%) Derivative
6 7 (1.22%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.22%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.04%) Contactless
7 6 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (1.04%) Public Cloud
8 5 (0.87%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 35 (6.09%) Linux
2 23 (4.00%) Windows
3 19 (3.30%) Unix
4 9 (1.57%) zOS
5 8 (1.39%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.70%) Android
7 4 (0.70%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.35%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.35%) VMS
8 2 (0.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 509 (88.52%) Agile
2 138 (24.00%) DevOps
3 128 (22.26%) Kanban
4 108 (18.78%) CI/CD
5 86 (14.96%) Project Management
6 85 (14.78%) Stakeholder Management
7 84 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
8 68 (11.83%) Test Automation
9 63 (10.96%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 63 (10.96%) Software Engineering
9 63 (10.96%) User Stories
10 61 (10.61%) Analytics
11 54 (9.39%) Continuous Integration
12 52 (9.04%) Roadmaps
13 48 (8.35%) SDLC
14 47 (8.17%) User Experience
15 45 (7.83%) Project Delivery
16 44 (7.65%) Business Analysis
16 44 (7.65%) Requirements Gathering
17 43 (7.48%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 92 (16.00%) SQL
2 69 (12.00%) Java
3 67 (11.65%) C#
4 59 (10.26%) JavaScript
5 54 (9.39%) Python
6 53 (9.22%) PowerShell
7 35 (6.09%) TypeScript
8 22 (3.83%) Bicep
9 14 (2.43%) Bash
10 11 (1.91%) COBOL
10 11 (1.91%) REXX
10 11 (1.91%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.74%) SELCOPY
12 9 (1.57%) CLIST
12 9 (1.57%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.39%) C++
13 8 (1.39%) Scala
14 6 (1.04%) Perl
15 5 (0.87%) PHP
15 5 (0.87%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (12.00%) Degree
2 65 (11.30%) Security Cleared
3 53 (9.22%) SC Cleared
4 22 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.65%) PMP
6 20 (3.48%) PMI Certification
7 12 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.22%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.70%) ISEB
9 4 (0.70%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.52%) APMP
10 3 (0.52%) CBAP
10 3 (0.52%) CSPO
10 3 (0.52%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.35%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.17%) CRISC
12 1 (0.17%) IIBA
12 1 (0.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (9.22%) QA
2 15 (2.61%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.39%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.39%) PMO
4 5 (0.87%) GDPR
4 5 (0.87%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (0.52%) GxP
5 3 (0.52%) P3O
6 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 2 (0.35%) PSD2
7 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.17%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.17%) NIST
7 1 (0.17%) SEPA
7 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (5.91%) Docker
2 27 (4.70%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.52%) VirtualBox
5 2 (0.35%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (6.26%) Grafana
2 35 (6.09%) Kubernetes
3 28 (4.87%) Terraform
4 26 (4.52%) Ansible
5 11 (1.91%) Puppet
6 9 (1.57%) Kibana
6 9 (1.57%) Prometheus
7 8 (1.39%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.04%) logstash
9 4 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.35%) Argo
11 2 (0.35%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.35%) TIBCO Hawk
12 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.17%) PingFederate
12 1 (0.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 93 (16.17%) Microsoft
2 43 (7.48%) Oracle
3 22 (3.83%) Salesforce
4 20 (3.48%) SAP
5 14 (2.43%) Google
5 14 (2.43%) IBM
5 14 (2.43%) ServiceNow
6 13 (2.26%) Splunk
7 11 (1.91%) Denodo
7 11 (1.91%) Syncsort
7 11 (1.91%) Talend
8 6 (1.04%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.04%) Cadence
8 6 (1.04%) Databricks
9 4 (0.70%) Adobe
9 4 (0.70%) Cisco
9 4 (0.70%) Conga
9 4 (0.70%) DocuSign
9 4 (0.70%) Informatica
9 4 (0.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud