Scrum Master Jobs in England

Scrum Master
UK > England

The median Scrum Master salary in England is £64,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 665 755 694
Rank change year-on-year +90 -61 -153
Permanent jobs requiring a Scrum Master 28 68 234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.056% 0.079% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.083% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 21 41 135
10th Percentile £43,500 £42,500 £45,950
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £67,500 £64,029
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +5.42% -1.49%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £74,625
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £64,500 £61,250 £64,029
% change year-on-year +5.31% -4.34% +0.05%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 45,134 81,676 80,812
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.05% 94.55% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 24,494 60,830 51,454
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,126 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £53,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.60% -12.83% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Scrum Master
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Scrum Master in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum Master in England

Scrum Master
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Scrum Master in England

Scrum Master
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scrum Master in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Scrum Master in England

Scrum Master
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum Master within the England region over the 6 months to 18 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +98 9 £75,000 - 17
South East +87 7 £70,000 +36.59% 6
North of England +31 6 £45,000 -19.64% 6
Yorkshire +69 5 £44,500 -17.59%
South West +103 2 £53,750 -20.37% 2
East of England - 2 £62,500 - 6
Midlands +60 1 - - 4
West Midlands +48 1 - - 3
North West -17 1 £64,500 +11.21% 5
Scrum Master
UK

Scrum Master Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 May 2025, Scrum Master job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Scrum Master in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Scrum
1 28 (100.00%) Agile
2 16 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 16 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 16 (57.14%) Product Ownership
3 13 (46.43%) Sprint Retrospective
3 13 (46.43%) Sprint Planning
4 11 (39.29%) DevOps
5 9 (32.14%) Coaching
5 9 (32.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
7 7 (25.00%) Project Management
7 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (25.00%) Conflict Resolution
8 6 (21.43%) Kanban
9 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
9 5 (17.86%) JIRA
9 5 (17.86%) Banking
9 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
9 5 (17.86%) Azure
9 5 (17.86%) Product Backlog
9 5 (17.86%) Sprint Review
10 4 (14.29%) Burndown Charts
10 4 (14.29%) Backlog Management
10 4 (14.29%) Backlog Refinement
10 4 (14.29%) SaaS
10 4 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (14.29%) Finance
10 4 (14.29%) Retail
11 3 (10.71%) TDD

Scrum Master Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Productboard
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (7.14%) Trello
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) Azure
2 4 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (14.29%) SaaS
3 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.57%) Miro
4 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) GIS
1 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) JIRA
General
1 16 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Banking
3 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 4 (14.29%) Retail
4 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) FastAPI
1 2 (7.14%) OpenAPI
1 2 (7.14%) Spring
1 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
1 2 (7.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (57.14%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.14%) N-Tier
2 2 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Agile
1 28 (100.00%) Scrum
2 16 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (46.43%) Sprint Planning
3 13 (46.43%) Sprint Retrospective
4 11 (39.29%) DevOps
5 9 (32.14%) Coaching
5 9 (32.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (25.00%) Conflict Resolution
6 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (25.00%) Project Management
7 6 (21.43%) Kanban
8 5 (17.86%) Product Backlog
8 5 (17.86%) Sprint Review
9 4 (14.29%) Backlog Management
9 4 (14.29%) Backlog Refinement
9 4 (14.29%) Burndown Charts
10 3 (10.71%) Decision-Making
10 3 (10.71%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 3 (10.71%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) C#
1 3 (10.71%) Python
2 2 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) DV Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.57%) Databricks
2 1 (3.57%) ESRI