Scrum Job Trends in Kent

Scrum
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Kent requiring Scrum skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 16 48
Rank change year-on-year -57 +32 -19
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 14 69 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 1.33% 9.69% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 10.90% 3.72%
Number of salaries quoted 12 11 18
10th Percentile £32,850 £53,750 £39,150
25th Percentile £33,750 £60,625 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £75,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +30.43% +2.22%
75th Percentile £53,000 - £66,875
90th Percentile £64,250 - £70,500
South East median annual salary £52,500 £66,144 £60,000
% change year-on-year -20.63% +10.24% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 860 633 511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 81.98% 88.90% 78.74%
Number of salaries quoted 450 201 407
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,500 £23,650
25th Percentile £30,000 £41,250 £33,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £68,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £67,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Scrum job vacancy trend in Kent

Scrum
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Scrum.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Scrum

Scrum
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Kent over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Scrum in Kent

Scrum
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Kent region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Tunbridge Wells -12 1 - - 1
West Malling - 1 £65,000 -
Sandwich - 1 £55,000 - 1
Scrum
South East

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
1 1 (7.14%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Service Fabric
3 1 (7.14%) PaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) RDBMS
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) JIRA
2 4 (28.57%) Postman
2 4 (28.57%) Selenium
2 4 (28.57%) SoapUI
2 4 (28.57%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (28.57%) WebDriver
3 1 (7.14%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) LabVIEW
3 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Electronics
3 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Analyst
1 9 (64.29%) Test Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Lead Test Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Product Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Validation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Validation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Verification Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Software Validation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Software Verification Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Transformation Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Validation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) .NET
2 5 (35.71%) SOAP
3 4 (28.57%) HTML
4 1 (7.14%) ADO
4 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET
4 1 (7.14%) OAuth
4 1 (7.14%) OAuth2
4 1 (7.14%) OpenID
4 1 (7.14%) REST
4 1 (7.14%) WCF
4 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Driving Licence
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Agile
2 11 (78.57%) Software Testing
3 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (50.00%) DevOps
3 7 (50.00%) Logistics
3 7 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (35.71%) Code Quality
6 4 (28.57%) API Testing
6 4 (28.57%) Cross-Browser Testing
6 4 (28.57%) Non-Functional Testing
6 4 (28.57%) Test Management
6 4 (28.57%) Test Scripting
7 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
7 3 (21.43%) SDLC
8 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 1 (7.14%) Computer Science
9 1 (7.14%) Process Improvement
9 1 (7.14%) Product Management
9 1 (7.14%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) C#
3 4 (28.57%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) C
4 1 (7.14%) C++
4 1 (7.14%) Delphi
4 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) VB
4 1 (7.14%) VB6
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) ISTQB
2 6 (42.86%) Degree
3 5 (35.71%) ISEB
4 4 (28.57%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
6 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) QA
1 5 (35.71%) Software Quality Assurance
2 1 (7.14%) GRC
2 1 (7.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Firmware
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Salesforce