Scrum jobs in the North East, average salaries and trends for Scrum skills

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for Scrum skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Scrum over the 6 months to 20 July 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Scrum England > North East
Location	6 months to 20 Jul 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	43	20	22
Rank change year-on-year	-23	+2	+1
Permanent jobs citing Scrum	58	156	177
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East	4.79%	10.22%	11.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	5.36%	11.73%	13.08%
Number of salaries quoted	45	129	179
North East median annual salary	£40,000	£37,900	£41,500
Median salary % change year-on-year	+5.54%	-8.67%	+18.57%
10th Percentile	£30,250	£29,350	£31,250
90th Percentile	£55,250	£54,500	£72,500
England median annual salary	£52,500	£52,500	£50,000
% change year-on-year	-	+5.00%	-

Scrum is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Process & Methodology Skills North East
Permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	1083	1330	1353
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North East	89.50%	87.16%	85.69%
Number of salaries quoted	956	1158	1125
North East median annual salary	£37,500	£38,000	£38,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	-1.32%	-	+8.57%
10th Percentile	£22,750	£23,500	£25,500
90th Percentile	£55,000	£63,750	£58,750
England median annual salary	£50,000	£50,000	£47,500
% change year-on-year	-	+5.26%	+5.56%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the North East

Scrum
Salary Trend in the North East

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Scrum in the North East.

Salary trend for Scrum in the North East

Scrum
Salary Histogram in the North East

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Scrum in the North East over the 6 months to 20 July 2017.

Salary histogram for Scrum in the North East

Scrum
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the North East region over the 6 months to 20 July 2017. 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 Job Vacancies
Tyne and Wear	-20	46	£40,000	+5.54%	10
Durham	-20	9	£45,000	+12.50%	1
Scrum England

Scrum
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in the North East

For the 6 months to 20 July 2017, IT jobs citing Scrum also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads across the North East region with a requirement for Scrum.

1	57 (98.28%)	Agile Software Development
2	25 (43.10%)	JavaScript
3	22 (37.93%)	C#
3	22 (37.93%)	.NET
3	22 (37.93%)	TDD
4	20 (34.48%)	CSS
5	19 (32.76%)	HTML
6	18 (31.03%)	AngularJS
7	17 (29.31%)	SDLC
7	17 (29.31%)	Web Services
8	16 (27.59%)	Software Engineering
9	15 (25.86%)	ASP.NET
9	15 (25.86%)	Java
9	15 (25.86%)	MVC
9	15 (25.86%)	Continuous Integration

10	14 (24.14%)	Test Automation
11	13 (22.41%)	.NET Framework
11	13 (22.41%)	SQL Server
11	13 (22.41%)	Git (software)
12	12 (20.69%)	HTML5
12	12 (20.69%)	Microsoft
13	11 (18.97%)	BDD
13	11 (18.97%)	ASP.NET MVC
14	10 (17.24%)	Microsoft Azure
14	10 (17.24%)	Amazon AWS
15	9 (15.52%)	Entity Framework
15	9 (15.52%)	Ajax
15	9 (15.52%)	jQuery
16	8 (13.79%)	Degree
16	8 (13.79%)	Advertising

Scrum
Co-occurring IT Skills in the North East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	5 (8.62%)	CMS
1	5 (8.62%)	Sitecore CMS
2	4 (6.90%)	Umbraco
3	2 (3.45%)	Confluence
3	2 (3.45%)	SAS

Applications
1	1 (1.72%)	Spreadsheet

Cloud Services
1	10 (17.24%)	Amazon AWS
1	10 (17.24%)	Microsoft Azure
2	2 (3.45%)	Amazon EC2
2	2 (3.45%)	SaaS

Communications & Networking
1	4 (6.90%)	SMS
2	3 (5.17%)	HTTP
3	1 (1.72%)	Bluetooth
3	1 (1.72%)	Ethernet
3	1 (1.72%)	RS-232
3	1 (1.72%)	RS-485
3	1 (1.72%)	TCP/IP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	13 (22.41%)	SQL Server
2	4 (6.90%)	MongoDB
3	3 (5.17%)	PostgreSQL
4	2 (3.45%)	Big Data
4	2 (3.45%)	Hadoop
4	2 (3.45%)	Qlik Sense
4	2 (3.45%)	Relational Database
5	1 (1.72%)	MySQL

Development Applications
1	13 (22.41%)	Git (software)
2	6 (10.34%)	Subversion
3	3 (5.17%)	Grunt
3	3 (5.17%)	gulp
3	3 (5.17%)	Selenium
3	3 (5.17%)	SonarQube
3	3 (5.17%)	Team Foundation Server
3	3 (5.17%)	WebDriver
4	2 (3.45%)	CircleCI
4	2 (3.45%)	Gradle
4	2 (3.45%)	Jenkins
4	2 (3.45%)	JIRA
4	2 (3.45%)	Maven
5	1 (1.72%)	Appium
5	1 (1.72%)	Atlassian Bamboo
5	1 (1.72%)	MSTest
5	1 (1.72%)	NUnit
5	1 (1.72%)	Octopus Deploy
5	1 (1.72%)	PHPUnit
5	1 (1.72%)	TeamCity

General
1	8 (13.79%)	Advertising
2	4 (6.90%)	Electronics
3	3 (5.17%)	Finance
4	2 (3.45%)	Legal
5	1 (1.72%)	Games
5	1 (1.72%)	Marketing

Job Titles
1	31 (53.45%)	Developer
2	15 (25.86%)	Software Developer
3	14 (24.14%)	.NET Developer
4	11 (18.97%)	.NET Software Developer
5	8 (13.79%)	Software Engineer
6	7 (12.07%)	C# .NET Developer
6	7 (12.07%)	C# Developer
6	7 (12.07%)	Lead Developer
6	7 (12.07%)	Team Leader
7	6 (10.34%)	Java Developer
7	6 (10.34%)	Lead .NET Developer
7	6 (10.34%)	Lead Software Developer
8	5 (8.62%)	Architect
8	5 (8.62%)	ASP.NET Developer
8	5 (8.62%)	C# ASP.NET Developer
8	5 (8.62%)	C# Software Developer
8	5 (8.62%)	Development Team Leader
8	5 (8.62%)	Java Engineer
8	5 (8.62%)	Java Software Engineer
8	5 (8.62%)	Software Architect

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	22 (37.93%)	.NET
2	20 (34.48%)	CSS
3	19 (32.76%)	HTML
4	18 (31.03%)	AngularJS
5	17 (29.31%)	Web Services
6	15 (25.86%)	ASP.NET
7	13 (22.41%)	.NET Framework
8	12 (20.69%)	HTML5
9	11 (18.97%)	ASP.NET MVC
10	9 (15.52%)	Ajax
10	9 (15.52%)	Entity Framework
10	9 (15.52%)	jQuery
11	7 (12.07%)	ASP.NET Web API
11	7 (12.07%)	CSS3
11	7 (12.07%)	Spring
12	5 (8.62%)	Backbone.js
12	5 (8.62%)	Node.js
12	5 (8.62%)	React
12	5 (8.62%)	REST
12	5 (8.62%)	WCF

Miscellaneous
1	8 (13.79%)	Greenfield Project
2	5 (8.62%)	Mobile App
3	3 (5.17%)	Analytical Skills
3	3 (5.17%)	User Experience
4	2 (3.45%)	Embedded Systems
5	1 (1.72%)	CCTV
5	1 (1.72%)	Enterprise Software
5	1 (1.72%)	Management Information System
5	1 (1.72%)	Mobile Games
5	1 (1.72%)	NHS
5	1 (1.72%)	Smartphone

Operating Systems
1	5 (8.62%)	Linux
2	2 (3.45%)	Apple iOS
2	2 (3.45%)	Debian
2	2 (3.45%)	Windows
3	1 (1.72%)	Android
3	1 (1.72%)	OpenVMS

Processes & Methodologies
1	57 (98.28%)	Agile Software Development
2	22 (37.93%)	TDD
3	17 (29.31%)	SDLC
4	16 (27.59%)	Software Engineering
5	15 (25.86%)	Continuous Integration
5	15 (25.86%)	MVC
6	14 (24.14%)	Test Automation
7	11 (18.97%)	BDD
8	8 (13.79%)	Waterfall
9	7 (12.07%)	Front End Development
9	7 (12.07%)	Mentoring
9	7 (12.07%)	Project Management
9	7 (12.07%)	SOLID
10	6 (10.34%)	Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
10	6 (10.34%)	OO
10	6 (10.34%)	Regression Testing
11	5 (8.62%)	Coaching
11	5 (8.62%)	Kanban
11	5 (8.62%)	Unit Testing
11	5 (8.62%)	User Stories

Programming Languages
1	25 (43.10%)	JavaScript
2	22 (37.93%)	C#
3	15 (25.86%)	Java
4	7 (12.07%)	SQL
5	6 (10.34%)	C++
6	4 (6.90%)	Scala
6	4 (6.90%)	TypeScript
6	4 (6.90%)	VB.NET
7	3 (5.17%)	PHP
7	3 (5.17%)	Python
8	2 (3.45%)	Go
8	2 (3.45%)	Perl
8	2 (3.45%)	T-SQL
8	2 (3.45%)	VB
8	2 (3.45%)	VB6
9	1 (1.72%)	Apple Swift
9	1 (1.72%)	Delphi
9	1 (1.72%)	Objective-C
9	1 (1.72%)	Pascal

Qualifications
1	8 (13.79%)	Degree
2	2 (3.45%)	SC Cleared
2	2 (3.45%)	Security Cleared
3	1 (1.72%)	Microsoft Certification
3	1 (1.72%)	PRINCE2 Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	5 (8.62%)	QA
2	1 (1.72%)	MISRA

System Software
1	4 (6.90%)	Docker

Systems Management
1	2 (3.45%)	Kubernetes
1	2 (3.45%)	Puppet
1	2 (3.45%)	Terraform

Vendors
1	12 (20.69%)	Microsoft
2	5 (8.62%)	Sitecore
3	3 (5.17%)	Cognizant
3	3 (5.17%)	Perforce
3	3 (5.17%)	Xamarin
4	2 (3.45%)	Atlassian
4	2 (3.45%)	Tableau
5	1 (1.72%)	Apple
5	1 (1.72%)	ILOG

1006 Scrum job vacancies in England

Business Analyst

Sunderland, Tyne and Wear

Nigel Wright Consultancy

Salary: £32000 Per Annum Up to £32,000

Posted: Yesterday

Software Test Analyst

Gateshead, Tyne and Wear

Solutions Recruitment

Salary: From £25,000 to £35,000 per annum

Posted: Yesterday

Principle Software Engineer, PHP

Darlington, County Durham

Evolution Recruitment Solutions

Salary: 50,000 - 58,000 plus car allowance

Posted: Yesterday

Software Engineer