Scrum
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 42 27
Rank change year-on-year -29 -15 +3
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 3,583 6,381 15,812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.49% 6.55% 9.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.14% 6.86% 9.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,479 3,773 7,142
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +9.25%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £90,000 £103,500 £93,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Scrum is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the UK

Scrum
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Scrum.

Salary trend for Scrum in the UK

Scrum
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scrum over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Scrum in the UK

Scrum
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
England -27 3,026 £60,000 -8.19% 771
UK excluding London -29 2,494 £55,000 -8.33% 532
Work from Home -17 1,662 £60,000 -7.69% 493
London -30 913 £70,000 -9.68% 279
North of England -34 587 £60,000 -1.32% 128
South East -31 542 £57,500 -10.85% 102
South West +12 501 £52,000 -13.69% 85
North West -21 342 £63,000 +3.62% 87
Midlands -64 327 £52,500 -8.43% 119
Scotland -44 287 £47,500 -20.83% 44
West Midlands -61 213 £52,500 -4.55% 85
Yorkshire -36 173 £55,000 -9.69% 30
East of England -27 149 £55,000 -8.33% 41
East Midlands -36 114 £55,000 -8.33% 33
Wales +6 84 £62,500 +11.11% 8
North East -8 72 £52,500 -4.55% 12
Northern Ireland -31 17 £95,000 +80.95% 13
Isle of Man - 5 £54,000 - 1

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 282 (7.87%) Confluence
2 78 (2.18%) SharePoint
3 68 (1.90%) Apache
4 61 (1.70%) CMS
5 46 (1.28%) Apache Spark
5 46 (1.28%) WebLogic
6 40 (1.12%) OpenStack
7 19 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
8 16 (0.45%) EPiServer
9 15 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 14 (0.39%) Umbraco
11 12 (0.33%) IIS
12 10 (0.28%) Apache Solr
12 10 (0.28%) JBoss
12 10 (0.28%) Red Hat Fuse
12 10 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
13 9 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 9 (0.25%) WebSphere
14 8 (0.22%) Anypoint
15 6 (0.17%) DNN
Applications
1 48 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
1 48 (1.34%) MS Visio
2 38 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.50%) Photoshop
5 10 (0.28%) Adobe XD
6 9 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.25%) Trello
7 4 (0.11%) Simulink
8 3 (0.084%) S-PLUS
9 2 (0.056%) MadCap Flare
9 2 (0.056%) RoboHelp
9 2 (0.056%) Sketch
10 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.028%) Blender
10 1 (0.028%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.028%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.028%) InVision
10 1 (0.028%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 94 (2.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (1.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 17 (0.47%) SDL Web 8
4 16 (0.45%) Maximo
5 9 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
6 8 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.14%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.11%) Magento
8 4 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.11%) Visualfiles
9 3 (0.084%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.084%) SAP SD
9 3 (0.084%) Shopify
10 2 (0.056%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.056%) SAP S/4HANA
11 1 (0.028%) Elite 3E
11 1 (0.028%) Endur
11 1 (0.028%) Primavera
11 1 (0.028%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 1,442 (40.25%) Azure
2 1,053 (29.39%) AWS
3 474 (13.23%) Azure DevOps
4 292 (8.15%) Power Platform
5 244 (6.81%) Serverless
6 237 (6.61%) GCP
7 184 (5.14%) Dynamics 365
8 177 (4.94%) SaaS
9 139 (3.88%) PowerApps
10 138 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
11 131 (3.66%) Power Automate
12 111 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
13 80 (2.23%) GitHub
14 78 (2.18%) Azure Functions
15 74 (2.07%) Amazon ECS
15 74 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
16 70 (1.95%) Azure Logic Apps
17 66 (1.84%) Azure Service Bus
18 59 (1.65%) Amazon SQS
19 54 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 89 (2.48%) DNS
2 71 (1.98%) Firewall
3 58 (1.62%) BGP
4 57 (1.59%) TCP/IP
5 51 (1.42%) SSL
6 33 (0.92%) Internet
7 31 (0.87%) Broadband
8 28 (0.78%) AMQP
9 23 (0.64%) VPN
10 18 (0.50%) 5G
10 18 (0.50%) Network Security
11 16 (0.45%) Hyperconnected
12 15 (0.42%) Mobile Broadband
13 12 (0.33%) MPLS
14 11 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
15 10 (0.28%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.28%) WAN
16 8 (0.22%) HTTP
17 6 (0.17%) Unified Communications
18 5 (0.14%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 602 (16.80%) SQL Server
2 302 (8.43%) MongoDB
3 250 (6.98%) Elasticsearch
4 163 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
5 162 (4.52%) Power BI
6 139 (3.88%) NoSQL
7 136 (3.80%) Relational Database
8 92 (2.57%) Looker
9 91 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
10 89 (2.48%) BigQuery
11 58 (1.62%) MySQL
12 57 (1.59%) Oracle Database
13 55 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
14 54 (1.51%) RDBMS
15 50 (1.40%) Big Data
16 48 (1.34%) Data Vault
17 42 (1.17%) Tableau
18 38 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
19 36 (1.00%) Data Lake
20 33 (0.92%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 656 (18.31%) JIRA
2 444 (12.39%) Git
3 185 (5.16%) Visual Studio
4 167 (4.66%) Jenkins
5 113 (3.15%) GitLab
6 107 (2.99%) Bitbucket
7 99 (2.76%) Selenium
8 76 (2.12%) Sourcetree
9 71 (1.98%) Cucumber
10 57 (1.59%) TeamCity
11 52 (1.45%) NUnit
12 44 (1.23%) JUnit
12 44 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
13 41 (1.14%) Postman
14 39 (1.09%) SpecFlow
15 35 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
16 32 (0.89%) Moq
17 26 (0.73%) SonarQube
18 25 (0.70%) WebDriver
19 24 (0.67%) Cypress.io
General
1 950 (26.51%) Social Skills
2 748 (20.88%) Finance
3 437 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
4 326 (9.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 326 (9.10%) Marketing
5 291 (8.12%) Law
6 210 (5.86%) Presentation Skills
7 177 (4.94%) Public Sector
8 135 (3.77%) Games
9 126 (3.52%) Aerospace
10 114 (3.18%) Banking
11 109 (3.04%) Retail
12 87 (2.43%) Billing
13 69 (1.93%) Legal
14 53 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
15 50 (1.40%) Investment Banking
15 50 (1.40%) Manufacturing
16 47 (1.31%) Telecoms
17 30 (0.84%) Financial Institution
17 30 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,146 (31.98%) Developer
2 575 (16.05%) Senior
3 495 (13.82%) Lead
4 382 (10.66%) .NET Developer
5 354 (9.88%) Software Engineer
6 263 (7.34%) Senior Developer
7 249 (6.95%) Architect
8 221 (6.17%) Analyst
9 179 (5.00%) Project Manager
10 168 (4.69%) C# Developer
11 150 (4.19%) Delivery Manager
12 146 (4.07%) Business Analyst
13 140 (3.91%) Engineering Manager
14 133 (3.71%) Full Stack Developer
15 126 (3.52%) C# .NET Developer
16 124 (3.46%) Product Owner
17 119 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
18 107 (2.99%) DevOps Engineer
18 107 (2.99%) Senior Manager
19 102 (2.85%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 832 (23.22%) .NET
2 571 (15.94%) React
3 565 (15.77%) AngularJS
4 443 (12.36%) .NET Framework
5 440 (12.28%) Node.js
6 424 (11.83%) .NET Core
7 387 (10.80%) ASP.NET
8 326 (9.10%) Entity Framework
9 324 (9.04%) Vue
10 292 (8.15%) ASP.NET MVC
11 288 (8.04%) ASP.NET Web API
12 284 (7.93%) REST
13 272 (7.59%) HTML
14 246 (6.87%) CSS
15 207 (5.78%) Spring Boot
16 178 (4.97%) Spring
17 166 (4.63%) Web Services
18 141 (3.94%) JSON
19 140 (3.91%) XML
20 131 (3.66%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 635 (17.72%) Product Ownership
2 224 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 116 (3.24%) Enterprise Software
4 114 (3.18%) Public Cloud
5 106 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
6 100 (2.79%) Data Structures
7 93 (2.60%) Management Information System
8 74 (2.07%) Virtual Reality
9 65 (1.81%) Mobile App
10 61 (1.70%) Private Cloud
11 59 (1.65%) Algorithms
12 58 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
13 56 (1.56%) Reinsurance
14 49 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
15 48 (1.34%) Onboarding
16 45 (1.26%) Virtual Team
17 42 (1.17%) Reference Data
18 37 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
19 34 (0.95%) Client/Server
20 31 (0.87%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 312 (8.71%) Linux
2 107 (2.99%) Windows
3 78 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 45 (1.26%) Unix
5 42 (1.17%) CentOS
6 39 (1.09%) Ubuntu
7 32 (0.89%) Windows Server
8 28 (0.78%) Debian
9 22 (0.61%) Android
10 14 (0.39%) Apple iOS
11 12 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
12 10 (0.28%) Solaris
13 5 (0.14%) VMS
14 2 (0.056%) Embedded Linux
14 2 (0.056%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.028%) VxWorks
15 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,198 (89.25%) Agile
2 1,122 (31.31%) DevOps
3 1,119 (31.23%) Kanban
4 814 (22.72%) Software Engineering
5 680 (18.98%) CI/CD
6 625 (17.44%) Microservices
7 623 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
8 582 (16.24%) TDD
9 525 (14.65%) Project Management
10 521 (14.54%) Full Stack Development
11 446 (12.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 440 (12.28%) SDLC
13 416 (11.61%) MVC
14 395 (11.02%) BDD
15 390 (10.88%) Roadmaps
16 389 (10.86%) Mentoring
17 386 (10.77%) Test Automation
18 377 (10.52%) Coaching
19 332 (9.27%) Collaborative Working
20 308 (8.60%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 968 (27.02%) C#
2 880 (24.56%) JavaScript
3 696 (19.43%) SQL
4 562 (15.69%) Java
5 503 (14.04%) Python
6 406 (11.33%) TypeScript
7 86 (2.40%) T-SQL
8 63 (1.76%) Kotlin
9 55 (1.54%) PowerShell
10 49 (1.37%) C++
11 46 (1.28%) Scala
12 43 (1.20%) PHP
13 33 (0.92%) Bicep
13 33 (0.92%) XPath
14 32 (0.89%) C
15 28 (0.78%) Shell Script
16 20 (0.56%) Apex Code
17 19 (0.53%) PL/SQL
18 14 (0.39%) Ruby
19 13 (0.36%) Go
Qualifications
1 658 (18.36%) Security Cleared
2 584 (16.30%) Degree
3 468 (13.06%) SC Cleared
4 169 (4.72%) DV Cleared
5 132 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 127 (3.54%) Azure Certification
7 117 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 97 (2.71%) AWS Certification
9 79 (2.20%) PMI Certification
10 59 (1.65%) PMP
11 55 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 55 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 49 (1.37%) Master's Degree
13 43 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
14 37 (1.03%) DBS Check
15 35 (0.98%) CSPO
16 27 (0.75%) ISTQB
17 25 (0.70%) MBA
18 24 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 21 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 420 (11.72%) QA
2 80 (2.23%) Data Quality
3 74 (2.07%) PMO
4 65 (1.81%) Accessibility
5 31 (0.87%) GDPR
6 15 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 10 (0.28%) SLA
8 8 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.17%) GRC
9 6 (0.17%) NIST
10 5 (0.14%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.11%) WCAG
12 3 (0.084%) IFRS
12 3 (0.084%) JTAG
12 3 (0.084%) PSD2
12 3 (0.084%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.056%) Automotive SPICE
13 2 (0.056%) AUTOSAR
13 2 (0.056%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.056%) NCSC
System Software
1 335 (9.35%) Docker
2 54 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 35 (0.98%) Hyper-V
4 22 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
6 19 (0.53%) Firmware
7 11 (0.31%) IAG
8 7 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.084%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.056%) VMware Infrastructure
12 1 (0.028%) etcd
12 1 (0.028%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.028%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 338 (9.43%) Kubernetes
2 248 (6.92%) Terraform
3 193 (5.39%) Ansible
4 39 (1.09%) Puppet
5 19 (0.53%) Grafana
5 19 (0.53%) Progress Chef
6 16 (0.45%) Prometheus
7 13 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
7 13 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.22%) Kibana
8 8 (0.22%) MIIS
9 5 (0.14%) SCOM
10 3 (0.084%) CSIRT
10 3 (0.084%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.084%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.084%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.084%) SCCM
11 2 (0.056%) Argo
11 2 (0.056%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.056%) Istio
Vendors
1 883 (24.64%) Microsoft
2 215 (6.00%) Google
3 201 (5.61%) Oracle
4 89 (2.48%) Databricks
5 82 (2.29%) Salesforce
6 54 (1.51%) Informatica
7 49 (1.37%) Sparx
8 43 (1.20%) ServiceNow
9 40 (1.12%) WSO2
10 38 (1.06%) SAP
11 35 (0.98%) Adobe
12 33 (0.92%) Red Hat
13 28 (0.78%) SaltStack
14 27 (0.75%) Atlassian
15 20 (0.56%) VMware
16 18 (0.50%) Cisco
17 17 (0.47%) Cognizant
18 16 (0.45%) Cadence
19 14 (0.39%) IBM
20 13 (0.36%) Sitecore