Scrum Contracts in the West Midlands

Scrum
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 22 18
Rank change year-on-year -22 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing Scrum 69 164 345
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.65% 7.23% 9.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.36% 8.20% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 124 260
10th Percentile £358 £413 £402
25th Percentile £365 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £535
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% +0.56% +25.29%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £655
England median daily rate £531 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -7.61% +4.55% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,583 2,001 3,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.71% 88.19% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 1,364 2,356
10th Percentile £275 £263 £274
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +4.59% +15.29%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 51 67
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.50 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.03 £13.51 £13.81
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +24.64% +3.09%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.00 £47.50 £22.10
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
Shropshire +1 29 £358 -33.58% 2
Birmingham +12 25 £538 -2.27% 22
Warwickshire -3 12 £650 +8.33% 24
Coventry -16 1 - - 9
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 9 (13.04%) CICS
1 9 (13.04%) SAS
2 3 (4.35%) CMS
2 3 (4.35%) Drupal
3 1 (1.45%) Confluence
3 1 (1.45%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (2.90%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (4.35%) NetSuite
2 2 (2.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.90%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 12 (17.39%) Azure
2 10 (14.49%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (7.25%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (5.80%) Boomi
5 3 (4.35%) AWS
5 3 (4.35%) GCP
5 3 (4.35%) GitHub
6 2 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.90%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.45%) Miro
7 1 (1.45%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.45%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.45%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.45%) SaaS
7 1 (1.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.45%) Serverless
7 1 (1.45%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.35%) DNS
1 3 (4.35%) SSL
2 2 (2.90%) LAN
2 2 (2.90%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.90%) VPN
2 2 (2.90%) WAN
3 1 (1.45%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.84%) Amazon Redshift
1 13 (18.84%) MySQL
2 9 (13.04%) DB2
2 9 (13.04%) IDMS
3 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.45%) Big Data
4 1 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.45%) Flink
4 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (40.58%) Git
2 6 (8.70%) JIRA
3 4 (5.80%) Ant
3 4 (5.80%) Artifactory
4 3 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.35%) Selenium
4 3 (4.35%) Subversion
5 2 (2.90%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.45%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.45%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.14%) Finance
3 5 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.80%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.35%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Banking
7 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (30.43%) Developer
2 9 (13.04%) IBM Mainframe Developer
2 9 (13.04%) Mainframe Developer
3 8 (11.59%) SQL Developer
4 6 (8.70%) Analyst
4 6 (8.70%) Architect
4 6 (8.70%) Business Analyst
4 6 (8.70%) Project Manager
5 4 (5.80%) Infrastructure Manager
5 4 (5.80%) Network Infrastructure Manager
5 4 (5.80%) Network Manager
6 3 (4.35%) Infrastructure Test Manager
6 3 (4.35%) Lead
6 3 (4.35%) Salesforce Architect
6 3 (4.35%) Salesforce Solution Architect
6 3 (4.35%) Senior
6 3 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.35%) Test Manager
7 2 (2.90%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
7 2 (2.90%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.25%) HTML
2 4 (5.80%) XML
3 3 (4.35%) CSS
4 2 (2.90%) ADO
4 2 (2.90%) JSON
4 2 (2.90%) OAuth
4 2 (2.90%) SAML
4 2 (2.90%) Spring
4 2 (2.90%) Visualforce
4 2 (2.90%) Web Services
5 1 (1.45%) .NET
5 1 (1.45%) Ajax
5 1 (1.45%) Guice
5 1 (1.45%) JDBC
5 1 (1.45%) Kafka
5 1 (1.45%) Node.js
5 1 (1.45%) ODBC
5 1 (1.45%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.04%) IBM Mainframe
1 9 (13.04%) Mainframe
2 7 (10.14%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.25%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.35%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.35%) Private Cloud
4 3 (4.35%) Taxonomies
5 2 (2.90%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.90%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.45%) CMDB
6 1 (1.45%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.49%) Unix
2 9 (13.04%) zOS
3 2 (2.90%) Linux
4 1 (1.45%) Windows
4 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (94.20%) Agile
2 23 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 18 (26.09%) Continuous Integration
4 17 (24.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (23.19%) Configuration Management
5 16 (23.19%) Test Strategy
6 15 (21.74%) Analytics
6 15 (21.74%) Software Engineering
7 14 (20.29%) Data Analytics
7 14 (20.29%) Data Extraction
7 14 (20.29%) ETL
8 13 (18.84%) Dashboard Development
9 12 (17.39%) DevOps
10 11 (15.94%) Process Improvement
11 10 (14.49%) Project Management
11 10 (14.49%) Software Testing
12 8 (11.59%) Business Transformation
12 8 (11.59%) System Testing
12 8 (11.59%) User Stories
12 8 (11.59%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.04%) CLIST
1 9 (13.04%) COBOL
1 9 (13.04%) REXX
1 9 (13.04%) SELCOPY
1 9 (13.04%) SQL
2 7 (10.14%) Bash
2 7 (10.14%) Bourne shell
2 7 (10.14%) Korn
2 7 (10.14%) PL/SQL
3 5 (7.25%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.35%) Java
4 3 (4.35%) Perl
5 2 (2.90%) Apex Code
5 2 (2.90%) Python
5 2 (2.90%) SOQL
6 1 (1.45%) C#
6 1 (1.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (28.99%) SC Cleared
1 20 (28.99%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (7.25%) Degree
4 4 (5.80%) PMI Certification
4 4 (5.80%) PMP
5 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.45%) APMG
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.45%) CCNA
6 1 (1.45%) CCNP
6 1 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.14%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.90%) Docker
2 1 (1.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (18.84%) Grafana
2 4 (5.80%) Ansible
3 2 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.90%) Terraform
4 1 (1.45%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.45%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.45%) Puppet
4 1 (1.45%) Rancher
Vendors
1 13 (18.84%) Denodo
1 13 (18.84%) Talend
2 11 (15.94%) IBM
2 11 (15.94%) Salesforce
3 9 (13.04%) Oracle
3 9 (13.04%) Syncsort
4 5 (7.25%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.80%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.35%) SAP
7 2 (2.90%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.45%) Dell
8 1 (1.45%) Guidewire
8 1 (1.45%) Planview
8 1 (1.45%) Sage
8 1 (1.45%) VMware