Scrum Contracts in the North East

Scrum
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring Scrum skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Scrum over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 26 35
Rank change year-on-year -4 +9 -16
Contract jobs citing Scrum 8 12 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 2.50% 3.55% 5.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.07% 4.44% 6.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 18
10th Percentile £443 £436 £470
25th Percentile £533 £453 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £513 £775
Median % change year-on-year +18.24% -33.84% +51.22%
75th Percentile £669 £549 £844
90th Percentile £675 £587 £850
England median daily rate £500 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -6.98% -6.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £49.63 - -
Median hourly rate £53.61 - -
75th Percentile £57.59 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.25 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.31% - +46.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

Scrum falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 261 270 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 81.56% 79.88% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 127 300
10th Percentile £225 £242 £254
25th Percentile £358 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £625
90th Percentile £650 £660 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 47 2
10th Percentile - £11.44 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.81 £35.56
Median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%
75th Percentile £46.82 £47.47 £45.56
90th Percentile £51.68 £50.00 £47.93
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the North East

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the North East

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the North East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the North East

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Tyne and Wear -9 7 £606 +21.13% 22
Northumberland - 1 - -
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 2 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (12.50%) nginx
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Chatbot
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) AWS CodeCommit
1 1 (12.50%) AWS CodeDeploy
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Kong
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (12.50%) Miro
1 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Postman
2 1 (12.50%) REST Assured
General
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Agile Coach
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) QA Tester
2 1 (12.50%) Scrum Master
2 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (12.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (37.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (37.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 2 (25.00%) Backlog Refinement
3 2 (25.00%) Coaching
3 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) Kanban
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) CSPO
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
1 1 (12.50%) Kibana
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) logstash
1 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
1 1 (12.50%) Databricks
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft