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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 23 19
Rank change year-on-year -9 -4 +12
Contract jobs citing Scrum 11 14 13
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 3.48% 4.93% 5.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.04% 5.34% 6.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 12
10th Percentile £436 £379 £461
25th Percentile £505 £408 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £445 £538
Median % change year-on-year +23.60% -17.21% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £566 £578
90th Percentile £645 £598 £599
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - -
Median hourly rate £48.00 - -
75th Percentile £51.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £68.51 £65.00
% change year-on-year -19.72% +5.40% -0.38%

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 272 262 204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 86.08% 92.25% 87.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 98 157
10th Percentile £174 £325 £310
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £575
90th Percentile £604 £691 £650
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 35 11
10th Percentile £13.98 £14.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.08 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.25 £29.77 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +48.85% +14.29%
75th Percentile £20.63 £46.18 £39.97
90th Percentile £46.85 £70.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -9.38% +27.14%

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 24 October 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 24 October 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 11 £550 +23.60% 14
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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Chatbot
1 1 (9.09%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Data Pipeline
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) Google Analytics
2 1 (9.09%) Google Tag Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Miro
2 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
1 1 (9.09%) Looker
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Cucumber
1 3 (27.27%) Selenium
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) JMeter
3 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
3 1 (9.09%) Gatling
3 1 (9.09%) GitLab
3 1 (9.09%) Postman
3 1 (9.09%) REST Assured
3 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
3 1 (9.09%) TestRail
General
1 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Analyst
1 2 (18.18%) Business Analyst
1 2 (18.18%) Lead
1 2 (18.18%) QA Automation Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) QA Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) QA Test Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Senior
1 2 (18.18%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Test Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Agile Coach
2 1 (9.09%) Automation Tester
2 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Lead Developer
2 1 (9.09%) QA Automation Tester
2 1 (9.09%) Senior Business Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
1 1 (9.09%) Gherkin
1 1 (9.09%) Playwright
1 1 (9.09%) Quarkus
1 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
4 3 (27.27%) API Testing
4 3 (27.27%) BDD
4 3 (27.27%) Coaching
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
4 3 (27.27%) QA Automation
4 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (18.18%) Business Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (18.18%) Kanban
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) SDLC
5 2 (18.18%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (18.18%) Sprint Review
5 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (18.18%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) C#
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (9.09%) CSPO
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) ISTQB
2 1 (9.09%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) QA
2 3 (27.27%) Accessibility
3 2 (18.18%) WCAG
4 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
4 1 (9.09%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Argo
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Google
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle
1 1 (9.09%) Red Hat