Scrum Contracts in the UK excluding London

Scrum
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 33 23
Rank change year-on-year -22 -10 +2
Contract jobs citing Scrum 695 1,305 2,195
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.34% 5.73% 7.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.01% 6.42% 8.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 919 1,477
10th Percentile £363 £400 £397
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £594
90th Percentile £644 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.32% +9.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 62 72
10th Percentile £57.00 £42.50 £32.53
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.56 £42.46
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -5.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £74.05 £75.77 £80.65
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +44.44% -22.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,325 20,337 27,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.38% 89.23% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,289 13,953 19,001
10th Percentile £250 £260 £238
25th Percentile £375 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,130 1,241 1,347
10th Percentile £12.42 £10.63 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.50 £62.35
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the UK excluding London

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the UK excluding London

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the UK excluding London

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scrum in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in the UK excluding London

Scrum
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scrum in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Scrum in the UK excluding London

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
South East -15 224 £495 -8.33% 110
North of England +8 154 £510 -7.27% 129
Scotland -9 126 £475 -5.00% 45
Midlands -27 83 £475 -9.52% 109
North West -6 75 £500 -4.76% 87
Yorkshire +18 68 £550 +1.15% 32
West Midlands -20 66 £500 -7.41% 84
South West -58 61 £575 - 86
East of England -46 29 £550 +4.76% 39
Wales +26 19 £503 +16.86% 7
East Midlands -5 17 £398 -6.47% 25
North East +5 11 £525 -32.26% 11
Northern Ireland -3 1 £640 +60.00% 12
Scrum
UK

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 64 (9.21%) Confluence
2 13 (1.87%) Apache
2 13 (1.87%) SAS
3 12 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.58%) CICS
5 8 (1.15%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.86%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.58%) CMS
7 4 (0.58%) Drupal
7 4 (0.58%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.29%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.29%) Mule
8 2 (0.29%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.14%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.14%) IIS
9 1 (0.14%) JBoss
9 1 (0.14%) Mendix
9 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 14 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.86%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.29%) Trello
5 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.86%) SAP PM
3 4 (0.58%) Maximo
4 3 (0.43%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.29%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.29%) VisionPLUS
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.14%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.14%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.14%) SAP MII
6 1 (0.14%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 136 (19.57%) Azure
2 107 (15.40%) AWS
3 58 (8.35%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (6.91%) Serverless
5 39 (5.61%) Amazon S3
5 39 (5.61%) Power Platform
6 33 (4.75%) GitHub
7 32 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (3.74%) GCP
9 24 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
10 22 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 21 (3.02%) SaaS
12 20 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
13 19 (2.73%) PaaS
14 15 (2.16%) IaaS
14 15 (2.16%) OpenShift
15 13 (1.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (1.44%) PowerApps
17 9 (1.29%) Azure Functions
17 9 (1.29%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.02%) VPN
2 20 (2.88%) TCP/IP
3 18 (2.59%) Firewall
4 17 (2.45%) SNMP
5 16 (2.30%) DNS
5 16 (2.30%) Software-Defined Radio
6 9 (1.29%) BGP
6 9 (1.29%) HTTP
6 9 (1.29%) MPLS
7 8 (1.15%) Radio Access Network
8 7 (1.01%) Ethernet VPN
8 7 (1.01%) RS-485
9 6 (0.86%) Modbus
9 6 (0.86%) RS-422
9 6 (0.86%) SSL
10 5 (0.72%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 5 (0.72%) FTP
10 5 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (0.58%) WAN
12 3 (0.43%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (10.50%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (5.76%) MySQL
2 40 (5.76%) Relational Database
3 27 (3.88%) MongoDB
4 26 (3.74%) Power BI
5 25 (3.60%) SQL Server
6 18 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (2.59%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (1.87%) DB2
8 11 (1.58%) Amazon Aurora
8 11 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (1.58%) IDMS
9 10 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (1.15%) NoSQL
10 8 (1.15%) Oracle Database
10 8 (1.15%) RDBMS
11 7 (1.01%) Big Data
11 7 (1.01%) Qlik Sense
12 6 (0.86%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 160 (23.02%) JIRA
2 135 (19.42%) Git
3 49 (7.05%) GitLab
4 45 (6.47%) Jenkins
5 34 (4.89%) Robot Framework
6 28 (4.03%) Bitbucket
7 23 (3.31%) JUnit
8 17 (2.45%) Eclipse
8 17 (2.45%) GoogleTest
9 15 (2.16%) Postman
10 13 (1.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 13 (1.87%) Sonatype Nexus
11 11 (1.58%) CircleCI
11 11 (1.58%) Selenium
11 11 (1.58%) TestRail
12 10 (1.44%) Artifactory
13 9 (1.29%) Travis CI
13 9 (1.29%) Visual Studio
14 8 (1.15%) webpack
15 7 (1.01%) Cypress.io
General
1 173 (24.89%) Social Skills
2 95 (13.67%) Public Sector
3 74 (10.65%) Finance
4 66 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (2.88%) Telecoms
6 19 (2.73%) Banking
7 18 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (2.30%) Manufacturing
8 16 (2.30%) Marketing
9 14 (2.01%) Aerospace
10 11 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.44%) Billing
11 10 (1.44%) Electronics
11 10 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (0.86%) Legal
14 5 (0.72%) Automotive
14 5 (0.72%) Law
14 5 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 150 (21.58%) Developer
2 84 (12.09%) Analyst
3 69 (9.93%) Senior
4 64 (9.21%) Project Manager
5 53 (7.63%) Scrum Master
6 49 (7.05%) Business Analyst
7 48 (6.91%) Software Engineer
8 44 (6.33%) Java Developer
9 38 (5.47%) Architect
9 38 (5.47%) Lead
10 28 (4.03%) Test Engineer
11 25 (3.60%) C++ Software Engineer
12 23 (3.31%) Delivery Manager
13 21 (3.02%) Senior Manager
14 20 (2.88%) Data Engineer
15 19 (2.73%) Consultant
16 17 (2.45%) DevOps Engineer
17 15 (2.16%) Product Owner
18 13 (1.87%) Software Developer
19 12 (1.73%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (7.91%) HTML
2 51 (7.34%) CSS
3 50 (7.19%) REST
4 45 (6.47%) React
5 41 (5.90%) Spring
6 35 (5.04%) .NET
7 33 (4.75%) XML
8 32 (4.60%) Spring Boot
9 31 (4.46%) AngularJS
10 28 (4.03%) Web Services
11 27 (3.88%) Kafka
12 25 (3.60%) JSON
13 24 (3.45%) AWS CDK
14 21 (3.02%) RESTful
15 17 (2.45%) OAuth
15 17 (2.45%) SOAP
16 16 (2.30%) Hibernate
17 15 (2.16%) GraphQL
18 14 (2.01%) Elastic Stack
18 14 (2.01%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 87 (12.52%) Product Ownership
2 24 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 22 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (2.01%) Mainframe
6 12 (1.73%) PKI
6 12 (1.73%) Replication
7 11 (1.58%) Algorithms
7 11 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (1.58%) IBM Mainframe
8 9 (1.29%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.29%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.15%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.15%) Smart Meter
10 7 (1.01%) Client/Server
10 7 (1.01%) Cloud Native
10 7 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 97 (13.96%) Linux
2 54 (7.77%) Windows
3 34 (4.89%) Unix
4 23 (3.31%) Windows Server
5 18 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (1.58%) zOS
7 8 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (1.01%) Embedded Linux
9 6 (0.86%) VMS
10 3 (0.43%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.29%) Android
11 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.14%) CentOS
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.14%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 613 (88.20%) Agile
2 166 (23.88%) Kanban
3 152 (21.87%) DevOps
4 114 (16.40%) Software Engineering
5 106 (15.25%) CI/CD
6 98 (14.10%) Test Automation
7 96 (13.81%) Project Management
8 95 (13.67%) Problem-Solving
9 87 (12.52%) Stakeholder Management
10 80 (11.51%) User Stories
11 67 (9.64%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 63 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 58 (8.35%) Roadmaps
14 56 (8.06%) Continuous Integration
14 56 (8.06%) Waterfall
15 55 (7.91%) SDLC
16 54 (7.77%) Analytics
16 54 (7.77%) Unit Testing
17 52 (7.48%) Coaching
17 52 (7.48%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 128 (18.42%) Java
2 118 (16.98%) SQL
3 105 (15.11%) Python
4 83 (11.94%) JavaScript
5 52 (7.48%) C#
6 49 (7.05%) C++
7 46 (6.62%) TypeScript
8 37 (5.32%) Bash
9 36 (5.18%) PowerShell
10 25 (3.60%) C
11 13 (1.87%) PL/SQL
11 13 (1.87%) Shell Script
12 11 (1.58%) CLIST
12 11 (1.58%) COBOL
12 11 (1.58%) Perl
12 11 (1.58%) REXX
13 10 (1.44%) SELCOPY
14 8 (1.15%) PHP
15 7 (1.01%) Bourne shell
15 7 (1.01%) Korn
Qualifications
1 151 (21.73%) Security Cleared
2 111 (15.97%) SC Cleared
3 75 (10.79%) Degree
4 32 (4.60%) DV Cleared
5 27 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (3.45%) PMP
7 23 (3.31%) PMI Certification
8 15 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (2.16%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.15%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.72%) CBAP
10 5 (0.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.58%) CSPO
11 4 (0.58%) HNC
11 4 (0.58%) ISEB
11 4 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.43%) APMP
12 3 (0.43%) CCNA
12 3 (0.43%) CCNP
12 3 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (9.78%) QA
2 18 (2.59%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.58%) PMO
4 10 (1.44%) Disclosure Scotland
5 7 (1.01%) GDPR
5 7 (1.01%) RMADS
6 4 (0.58%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.43%) WCAG
8 2 (0.29%) IFRS
8 2 (0.29%) JTAG
8 2 (0.29%) P3O
8 2 (0.29%) SLA
8 2 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.14%) GRC
9 1 (0.14%) GxP
9 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 78 (11.22%) Docker
2 21 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.88%) Active Directory
4 16 (2.30%) Firmware
5 9 (1.29%) vSphere
6 6 (0.86%) VirtualBox
7 5 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.58%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.43%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.14%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.14%) XenApp
10 1 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 58 (8.35%) Kubernetes
2 55 (7.91%) Ansible
3 51 (7.34%) Grafana
4 40 (5.76%) Terraform
5 17 (2.45%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.87%) Kibana
6 13 (1.87%) Puppet
7 11 (1.58%) Progress Chef
8 9 (1.29%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (1.29%) logstash
9 7 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (1.01%) vRealize
10 6 (0.86%) Argo
10 6 (0.86%) Packer
11 4 (0.58%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.58%) SCCM
12 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.29%) PowerCLI
12 2 (0.29%) VxRail
Vendors
1 53 (7.63%) Microsoft
2 49 (7.05%) Oracle
3 34 (4.89%) Salesforce
4 31 (4.46%) Atlassian
5 29 (4.17%) VMware
6 27 (3.88%) ServiceNow
7 25 (3.60%) Google
8 22 (3.17%) SAP
9 19 (2.73%) Talend
10 15 (2.16%) Splunk
11 14 (2.01%) Denodo
11 14 (2.01%) IBM
12 11 (1.58%) Syncsort
13 8 (1.15%) Red Hat
14 7 (1.01%) Cadence
15 6 (0.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 5 (0.72%) Ab Initio
16 5 (0.72%) Arqiva
16 5 (0.72%) F5
16 5 (0.72%) PagerDuty