Scrum Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Scrum
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 21 29
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 -12
Contract jobs citing Scrum 7 11 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 2.87% 4.53% 6.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% 5.29% 7.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 18
10th Percentile £443 £431 £470
25th Percentile £533 £452 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £501 £775
Median % change year-on-year +21.13% -35.42% +51.22%
75th Percentile £669 £549 £844
90th Percentile £675 £599 £850
North East median daily rate £606 £513 £775
% change year-on-year +18.24% -33.84% +51.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 203 208 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 83.20% 85.60% 93.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 98 255
10th Percentile £213 £297 £319
25th Percentile £350 £371 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £566 £589 £650
90th Percentile £626 £650 £736
North East median daily rate £470 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 36 0
10th Percentile - £11.50 -
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £50.70 £50.00 -
North East median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
% change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in Tyne and Wear

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Scrum in Tyne and Wear

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Tyne and Wear

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -13 7 £606 +21.13% 30
Scrum
North East

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (28.57%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 1 (14.29%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Chatbot
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) AWS CodeCommit
1 1 (14.29%) AWS CodeDeploy
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Kong
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (14.29%) Miro
1 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Postman
2 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
General
1 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Product Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Agile Coach
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) QA Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (42.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Agile Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Business Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Kanban
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) UML
4 1 (14.29%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CSPO
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Kibana
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) logstash
1 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks