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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 37 25
Rank change year-on-year -8 -12 -1
Contract jobs citing Scrum 1,722 3,154 6,760
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.03% 5.42% 7.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.67% 6.04% 8.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,169 2,114 4,487
10th Percentile £375 £406 £410
25th Percentile £429 £472 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
75th Percentile £610 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 92 112
10th Percentile £31.71 £42.50 £35.24
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +44.44% -20.35%
75th Percentile £66.50 £74.06 £65.54
90th Percentile £70.00 £86.49 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £52.14
% change year-on-year - +24.68% -7.73%

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 36,868 52,242 79,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.23% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,721 36,208 56,080
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,718 1,919
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -6.98%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 13 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
England -5 1,457 £530 -7.83% 751
London +3 864 £550 -8.33% 272
UK excluding London -20 696 £500 -4.76% 514
Work from Home -10 573 £500 -9.05% 491
South East -20 220 £495 -8.33% 110
North of England +1 153 £500 -8.05% 109
Scotland -11 121 £475 -5.00% 34
Midlands -22 90 £500 -4.76% 114
North West +1 80 £488 -6.70% 62
West Midlands -20 72 £510 -5.20% 79
South West -56 63 £575 - 78
Yorkshire +7 62 £527 -0.75% 39
East of England -43 31 £538 +2.38% 57
Wales +23 20 £503 +16.86% 13
East Midlands +6 18 £413 -2.82% 33
North East +3 11 £525 -32.26% 8
Northern Ireland +2 1 £640 +60.00% 9

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
1 136 (7.90%) Confluence
2 33 (1.92%) Apache
3 31 (1.80%) CMS
4 20 (1.16%) Apache Spark
5 19 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (0.99%) SAS
7 14 (0.81%) CICS
7 14 (0.81%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.58%) Drupal
8 10 (0.58%) IIS
9 7 (0.41%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.29%) JBoss
11 4 (0.23%) WordPress
12 3 (0.17%) govService
12 3 (0.17%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.17%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.12%) GeoServer
13 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.12%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 32 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
3 14 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.58%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.35%) Trello
7 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.12%) InVision
7 2 (0.12%) Mingle
7 2 (0.12%) Sketch
8 1 (0.058%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.058%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.058%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.058%) InDesign
8 1 (0.058%) Marvel
8 1 (0.058%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 25 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.46%) Aladdin
4 7 (0.41%) SAP PM
5 6 (0.35%) Endur
5 6 (0.35%) SimCorp Dimension
6 5 (0.29%) SAP BPC
6 5 (0.29%) SAP QM
6 5 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.23%) Maximo
7 4 (0.23%) Shopify
8 3 (0.17%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
9 2 (0.12%) BusinessWorks
9 2 (0.12%) Loan IQ
9 2 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.12%) SAP MII
9 2 (0.12%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 457 (26.54%) Azure
2 246 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 234 (13.59%) AWS
4 89 (5.17%) Power Platform
5 88 (5.11%) Serverless
6 76 (4.41%) GitHub
7 72 (4.18%) GCP
8 71 (4.12%) Entra ID
9 56 (3.25%) Amazon S3
10 46 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
11 44 (2.56%) SaaS
12 42 (2.44%) PaaS
13 41 (2.38%) Azure Service Bus
14 38 (2.21%) Dynamics 365
15 33 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
16 32 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
17 27 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
18 24 (1.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 24 (1.39%) Azure Functions
19 23 (1.34%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.45%) DNS
2 23 (1.34%) VPN
3 22 (1.28%) Firewall
4 21 (1.22%) TCP/IP
5 17 (0.99%) SNMP
6 14 (0.81%) HTTP
6 14 (0.81%) Software-Defined Radio
7 13 (0.75%) MPLS
8 12 (0.70%) BGP
8 12 (0.70%) Ethernet VPN
9 11 (0.64%) Radio Access Network
10 7 (0.41%) DHCP
10 7 (0.41%) Modbus
10 7 (0.41%) RS-422
10 7 (0.41%) RS-485
10 7 (0.41%) SSH
10 7 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.35%) SSL
12 5 (0.29%) Network Security
12 5 (0.29%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (11.44%) SQL Server
2 109 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
3 73 (4.24%) Relational Database
4 69 (4.01%) Data Warehouse
5 67 (3.89%) Power BI
6 48 (2.79%) MySQL
7 45 (2.61%) MongoDB
7 45 (2.61%) NoSQL
8 41 (2.38%) Data Lake
9 34 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
9 34 (1.97%) Big Data
10 28 (1.63%) Redis
11 26 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
12 23 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
13 22 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 21 (1.22%) Tableau
15 20 (1.16%) DB2
16 17 (0.99%) Oracle Database
17 16 (0.93%) RDBMS
18 14 (0.81%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 331 (19.22%) JIRA
2 232 (13.47%) Git
3 102 (5.92%) Jenkins
4 80 (4.65%) GitLab
5 56 (3.25%) Selenium
6 48 (2.79%) JUnit
7 43 (2.50%) Postman
8 40 (2.32%) Robot Framework
8 40 (2.32%) SpecFlow
9 38 (2.21%) Visual Studio
10 37 (2.15%) Bitbucket
11 23 (1.34%) Cucumber
12 22 (1.28%) JMeter
13 21 (1.22%) Artifactory
14 19 (1.10%) Cypress.io
15 18 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
15 18 (1.05%) TestRail
16 17 (0.99%) TeamCity
17 16 (0.93%) WebDriver
18 15 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 482 (27.99%) Social Skills
2 280 (16.26%) Finance
3 200 (11.61%) Public Sector
4 189 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
5 115 (6.68%) Banking
6 55 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
7 48 (2.79%) Marketing
8 46 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
9 41 (2.38%) Retail
10 40 (2.32%) Telecoms
11 37 (2.15%) Front Office
12 30 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 27 (1.57%) Manufacturing
14 26 (1.51%) Back Office
14 26 (1.51%) Investment Banking
15 23 (1.34%) Electronics
16 21 (1.22%) Legal
17 19 (1.10%) Billing
18 18 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
19 17 (0.99%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 385 (22.36%) Developer
2 248 (14.40%) Senior
3 191 (11.09%) Analyst
4 173 (10.05%) Scrum Master
5 155 (9.00%) Project Manager
6 128 (7.43%) Business Analyst
7 107 (6.21%) Lead
8 100 (5.81%) Architect
9 89 (5.17%) Senior Developer
10 85 (4.94%) Java Developer
11 72 (4.18%) Software Engineer
12 66 (3.83%) Software Developer
13 62 (3.60%) Product Owner
14 58 (3.37%) Delivery Manager
15 51 (2.96%) Data Engineer
16 45 (2.61%) Consultant
16 45 (2.61%) Solutions Architect
17 43 (2.50%) Senior Manager
18 41 (2.38%) C# Developer
18 41 (2.38%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (10.45%) .NET
2 155 (9.00%) XML
3 121 (7.03%) REST
4 117 (6.79%) HTML
5 112 (6.50%) React
6 98 (5.69%) CSS
7 86 (4.99%) AngularJS
8 84 (4.88%) Spring
9 72 (4.18%) Web Services
10 70 (4.07%) .NET Framework
11 61 (3.54%) JSON
12 60 (3.48%) Spring Boot
13 57 (3.31%) .NET Core
14 49 (2.85%) Kafka
15 47 (2.73%) RESTful
16 46 (2.67%) SOAP
17 43 (2.50%) Hibernate
18 41 (2.38%) JPA
19 40 (2.32%) Node.js
20 29 (1.68%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 282 (16.38%) Product Ownership
2 41 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
3 36 (2.09%) Data Structures
3 36 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (1.97%) Mobile App
5 33 (1.92%) Management Information System
6 31 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
7 28 (1.63%) Algorithms
8 21 (1.22%) Hedge funds
8 21 (1.22%) Replication
8 21 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (1.16%) Onboarding
10 19 (1.10%) Mainframe
11 18 (1.05%) Cloud Native
12 17 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
13 16 (0.93%) Derivative
13 16 (0.93%) PKI
13 16 (0.93%) Virtual Team
14 15 (0.87%) IBM Mainframe
15 13 (0.75%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 148 (8.59%) Linux
2 81 (4.70%) Windows
3 69 (4.01%) Unix
4 34 (1.97%) Windows Server
5 19 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (0.93%) Android
7 15 (0.87%) zOS
8 13 (0.75%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.52%) VMS
10 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
12 4 (0.23%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.058%) CentOS
14 1 (0.058%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.058%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,537 (89.26%) Agile
2 473 (27.47%) DevOps
3 375 (21.78%) Kanban
4 323 (18.76%) CI/CD
5 258 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
6 255 (14.81%) Project Management
7 215 (12.49%) Test Automation
8 211 (12.25%) Software Engineering
9 180 (10.45%) User Stories
10 172 (9.99%) SDLC
11 169 (9.81%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 162 (9.41%) Stakeholder Management
13 160 (9.29%) Roadmaps
14 150 (8.71%) Project Delivery
15 139 (8.07%) Continuous Integration
16 137 (7.96%) Continuous Improvement
16 137 (7.96%) TDD
17 136 (7.90%) Microservices
18 129 (7.49%) Analytics
19 120 (6.97%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 293 (17.02%) SQL
2 254 (14.75%) Java
3 222 (12.89%) C#
4 212 (12.31%) Python
5 172 (9.99%) PowerShell
6 166 (9.64%) JavaScript
7 89 (5.17%) TypeScript
8 56 (3.25%) C++
9 52 (3.02%) Bicep
10 45 (2.61%) Bash
11 39 (2.26%) C
12 28 (1.63%) Scala
13 25 (1.45%) Shell Script
14 24 (1.39%) PL/SQL
14 24 (1.39%) T-SQL
15 19 (1.10%) Perl
16 17 (0.99%) COBOL
17 16 (0.93%) REXX
18 15 (0.87%) SELCOPY
19 14 (0.81%) CLIST
Qualifications
1 282 (16.38%) Security Cleared
2 215 (12.49%) SC Cleared
3 189 (10.98%) Degree
4 64 (3.72%) DV Cleared
5 56 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 55 (3.19%) PMP
7 52 (3.02%) PMI Certification
8 28 (1.63%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (0.99%) AWS Certification
11 11 (0.64%) CSPO
12 9 (0.52%) Azure Certification
12 9 (0.52%) CBAP
13 8 (0.46%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.35%) APMP
14 6 (0.35%) ISEB
14 6 (0.35%) MBA
15 5 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 5 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
16 4 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (8.65%) QA
2 43 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 28 (1.63%) PMO
4 27 (1.57%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.64%) GDPR
6 9 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
6 9 (0.52%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.41%) RMADS
7 7 (0.41%) WCAG
8 6 (0.35%) SLA
9 5 (0.29%) GxP
9 5 (0.29%) NIST
9 5 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
10 4 (0.23%) P3O
11 3 (0.17%) GRC
11 3 (0.17%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.17%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.17%) JTAG
12 2 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 2 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 154 (8.94%) Docker
2 92 (5.34%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.87%) Firmware
6 11 (0.64%) vSphere
7 6 (0.35%) VirtualBox
7 6 (0.35%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.29%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.058%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.058%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.058%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.058%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.058%) XenApp
10 1 (0.058%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 118 (6.85%) Kubernetes
2 109 (6.33%) Terraform
3 105 (6.10%) Ansible
4 69 (4.01%) Grafana
5 42 (2.44%) Puppet
6 27 (1.57%) Prometheus
7 21 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (1.05%) Progress Chef
9 17 (0.99%) Kibana
10 11 (0.64%) logstash
11 9 (0.52%) HP ALM
12 8 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
13 7 (0.41%) vRealize
14 6 (0.35%) Argo
14 6 (0.35%) Packer
15 5 (0.29%) SCCM
16 3 (0.17%) Netcool
16 3 (0.17%) VxRail
17 2 (0.12%) TIBCO Hawk
17 2 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 254 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 105 (6.10%) Oracle
3 76 (4.41%) SAP
4 68 (3.95%) Salesforce
5 50 (2.90%) Google
6 44 (2.56%) ServiceNow
7 35 (2.03%) VMware
8 34 (1.97%) Atlassian
9 32 (1.86%) Splunk
10 24 (1.39%) IBM
11 23 (1.34%) Talend
12 22 (1.28%) Databricks
13 16 (0.93%) Denodo
13 16 (0.93%) Syncsort
14 14 (0.81%) Informatica
15 11 (0.64%) Adobe
15 11 (0.64%) Red Hat
16 10 (0.58%) Dell
16 10 (0.58%) HP
17 9 (0.52%) Cadence