Scrum Contract Job Trends in the North East

Scrum
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Scrum skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 29 18
Rank change year-on-year +16 -11 +4
Contract jobs citing Scrum 90 9 18
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 10.78% 3.19% 6.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.86% 3.83% 7.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 7 11
10th Percentile £393 £422 £403
25th Percentile £413 £478 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £501
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +4.90% -9.00%
75th Percentile £490 £603 £572
90th Percentile £556 £653 £630
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 1 0
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £63.44 £49.63 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £53.61 -
Median % change year-on-year +30.57% - -
75th Percentile - £57.59 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £69.75 £55.00 £66.01
% change year-on-year +26.82% -16.68% +1.55%

All Process & 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 700 235 241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 83.83% 83.33% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 128 103
10th Percentile £313 £218 £311
25th Percentile £363 £400 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -2.11% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £597
90th Percentile £650 £629 £711
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 17 33
10th Percentile £14.73 £11.60 £13.75
25th Percentile £34.28 £13.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £17.30 £29.77
Median % change year-on-year +154.10% -41.89% +48.85%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.63 £46.18
90th Percentile - £42.40 £70.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.81%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Scrum relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Scrum job vacancy trend in the North East

Scrum
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Scrum.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Scrum

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the North East over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the North East

Scrum
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Scrum.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Scrum

Scrum
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scrum in the North East over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Hourly 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 15 September 2026. 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 +14 89 £450 -14.29% 48
Durham - 1 £513 - 2
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.44%) WebLogic
2 2 (2.22%) Apache
2 2 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.22%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.22%) Confluence
2 2 (2.22%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (32.22%) OpenShift
2 26 (28.89%) AWS
3 22 (24.44%) Azure
4 13 (14.44%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (13.33%) GitHub
5 12 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (8.89%) Firebase
8 4 (4.44%) Google Play
9 3 (3.33%) GCP
10 2 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.22%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.22%) Serverless
11 1 (1.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (1.11%) Miro
11 1 (1.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.11%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.89%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 29 (32.22%) SonarQube
2 12 (13.33%) JIRA
3 10 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 8 (8.89%) fastlane
5 6 (6.67%) Git
5 6 (6.67%) Postman
6 5 (5.56%) GitLab
7 4 (4.44%) Android Studio
7 4 (4.44%) Crashlytics
7 4 (4.44%) Gradle
7 4 (4.44%) Xcode
8 3 (3.33%) Cucumber
8 3 (3.33%) ScalaTest
8 3 (3.33%) Selenium
9 2 (2.22%) REST Assured
9 2 (2.22%) WebDriver
General
1 32 (35.56%) Public Sector
2 18 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (10.00%) Finance
4 8 (8.89%) Social Skills
5 3 (3.33%) Aerospace
5 3 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.22%) Aviation
6 2 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 40 (44.44%) Developer
2 19 (21.11%) Java Developer
3 11 (12.22%) Delivery Manager
3 11 (12.22%) Senior
3 11 (12.22%) Software Developer
4 10 (11.11%) Architect
4 10 (11.11%) Java Engineer
4 10 (11.11%) Software Architect
5 8 (8.89%) Agile Delivery Manager
5 8 (8.89%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 7 (7.78%) Lead
7 6 (6.67%) Senior Delivery Manager
7 6 (6.67%) Senior Manager
7 6 (6.67%) Software Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Test Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Scala Developer
8 5 (5.56%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
8 5 (5.56%) Software Test Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Agile Delivery Lead
9 4 (4.44%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 29 (32.22%) Quarkus
3 18 (20.00%) RESTful
3 18 (20.00%) Terraform
4 8 (8.89%) Play Framework
5 7 (7.78%) REST
6 5 (5.56%) Spring
6 5 (5.56%) Spring Boot
7 4 (4.44%) Android Jetpack
7 4 (4.44%) Android SDK
7 4 (4.44%) Core Data
7 4 (4.44%) iOS SDK
7 4 (4.44%) Jetpack Compose
7 4 (4.44%) Middleware
7 4 (4.44%) Retrofit
7 4 (4.44%) SwiftUI
7 4 (4.44%) UIKit
8 3 (3.33%) JWT
8 3 (3.33%) Node.js
8 3 (3.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 30 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.89%) Blog
2 8 (8.89%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.11%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.11%) IVR
4 1 (1.11%) Life Science
4 1 (1.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.44%) Android
1 4 (4.44%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.33%) Linux
3 1 (1.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (1.11%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (97.78%) Agile
2 54 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 42 (46.67%) Software Engineering
4 40 (44.44%) DevSecOps
4 40 (44.44%) Sprint Planning
5 33 (36.67%) SDLC
6 32 (35.56%) CI/CD
7 30 (33.33%) Kanban
7 30 (33.33%) Unit Testing
8 29 (32.22%) Front End Development
9 28 (31.11%) Sprint Review
10 24 (26.67%) DevOps
11 23 (25.56%) TDD
12 19 (21.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 18 (20.00%) Mentoring
13 18 (20.00%) Software Testing
14 14 (15.56%) Clean Code
15 13 (14.44%) Continuous Integration
16 11 (12.22%) API Development
17 10 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 41 (45.56%) Java
2 8 (8.89%) Scala
3 4 (4.44%) JavaScript
3 4 (4.44%) Kotlin
3 4 (4.44%) Swift
4 3 (3.33%) Python
5 2 (2.22%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.11%) Bash
6 1 (1.11%) Bicep
6 1 (1.11%) C#
6 1 (1.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 43 (47.78%) Security Cleared
2 42 (46.67%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.11%) Degree
4 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.11%) PMP
4 1 (1.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (1.11%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (37.78%) QA
2 17 (18.89%) Accessibility
3 12 (13.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (8.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 43 (47.78%) Kubernetes
2 29 (32.22%) Argo
3 9 (10.00%) Grafana
4 1 (1.11%) Ansible
4 1 (1.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (31.11%) Red Hat
2 8 (8.89%) Dynatrace
2 8 (8.89%) Splunk
3 5 (5.56%) Google
3 5 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.44%) Apple
5 2 (2.22%) Microsoft