Scrum Job Trends in Durham

Scrum
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Durham requiring Scrum skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 32 37
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 5 1 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Durham 1.11% 0.64% 3.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 0.69% 4.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 11
10th Percentile - - £55,000
25th Percentile £57,000 £57,500 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -14.29% +15.04%
75th Percentile £61,000 £62,500 £79,375
90th Percentile - - £83,750
North East median annual salary £52,500 £44,424 £52,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% -4.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Durham

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 308 145 370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 68.60% 92.95% 86.65%
Number of salaries quoted 117 45 260
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,552 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -16.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £60,000 £72,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £74,440 £77,600 £70,000
North East median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -2.06%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Scrum relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Durham.

Scrum job vacancy trend in Durham

Scrum
Salary Trend in Durham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Scrum.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Scrum

Scrum
Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Durham region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Peterlee - 2 £59,000 - 1
Darlington - 1 - -
Scrum
North East

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) TestRail
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
1 4 (80.00%) ARM Templates
1 4 (80.00%) YAML
2 1 (20.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) AI
2 4 (80.00%) Customer Experience
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Kanban
2 4 (80.00%) Observability
2 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (20.00%) Data Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Test Management
4 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash
1 4 (80.00%) Bicep
1 4 (80.00%) C#
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (80.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft