Scrum Job Trends in the Midlands

Scrum
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Scrum skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 120 54
Rank change year-on-year -31 -66 -26
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 75 194 271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.34% 1.93% 4.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 2.47% 5.00%
Number of salaries quoted 57 115 206
10th Percentile £45,750 £31,750 £44,375
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,000 £89,000 £74,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,112 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.99% -2.90% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,776 7,865 5,418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 85.39% 78.45% 94.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,857 4,012 3,893
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,822 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.26% +3.33%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the Midlands

Scrum
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Scrum.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Scrum

Scrum
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Scrum in the Midlands

Scrum
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
West Midlands -15 53 £70,000 +21.74% 94
East Midlands -12 22 £52,500 -4.55% 62
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.33%) Apache
2 4 (5.33%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (5.33%) Confluence
3 2 (2.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.33%) Appian
4 1 (1.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (9.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.33%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 10 (13.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.67%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (24.00%) SaaS
2 16 (21.33%) AWS
3 15 (20.00%) Azure
4 13 (17.33%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (12.00%) Amazon S3
7 7 (9.33%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (9.33%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (8.00%) AWS KMS
8 6 (8.00%) Power Platform
8 6 (8.00%) Route 53
9 4 (5.33%) PowerApps
9 4 (5.33%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.67%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.67%) Miro
10 2 (2.67%) PaaS
10 2 (2.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.67%) DHCP
1 8 (10.67%) DNS
2 5 (6.67%) VPN
3 3 (4.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.33%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.33%) Firewall
4 1 (1.33%) SAN
4 1 (1.33%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.00%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (10.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (10.67%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (9.33%) DynamoDB
4 4 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (5.33%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.33%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (4.00%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.33%) Metadata
6 1 (1.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (18.67%) JIRA
2 11 (14.67%) Git
3 10 (13.33%) Jenkins
4 9 (12.00%) Maven
5 7 (9.33%) JUnit
5 7 (9.33%) Mockito
5 7 (9.33%) SonarQube
6 6 (8.00%) Bitbucket Server
6 6 (8.00%) DbUnit
6 6 (8.00%) jMock
7 5 (6.67%) Selenium
8 3 (4.00%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (1.33%) Moq
9 1 (1.33%) MSTest
9 1 (1.33%) NSubstitute
9 1 (1.33%) NUnit
9 1 (1.33%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (1.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 22 (29.33%) Social Skills
2 17 (22.67%) Finance
3 13 (17.33%) Public Sector
4 10 (13.33%) Law
5 8 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.00%) Marketing
7 2 (2.67%) Electronics
7 2 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Advertising
8 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.33%) Automotive
8 1 (1.33%) Banking
8 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.33%) Military
8 1 (1.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (24.00%) Lead
2 16 (21.33%) Developer
3 13 (17.33%) Senior
4 10 (13.33%) Analyst
4 10 (13.33%) Java Developer
5 9 (12.00%) Lead Developer
6 7 (9.33%) Engineering Manager
6 7 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Applications Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Lead Java Developer
8 5 (6.67%) Applications Support
8 5 (6.67%) Applications Support Analyst
8 5 (6.67%) Applications Support Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 5 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support
8 5 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
8 5 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) Support Analyst
8 5 (6.67%) Support Engineer
9 4 (5.33%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.33%) Spring
1 10 (13.33%) Spring Boot
2 9 (12.00%) AngularJS
2 9 (12.00%) RESTful
3 8 (10.67%) .NET
3 8 (10.67%) ActiveMQ
3 8 (10.67%) SOAP
4 7 (9.33%) Bootstrap
4 7 (9.33%) JPA
4 7 (9.33%) Web Services
5 6 (8.00%) Hibernate
5 6 (8.00%) PowerMock
5 6 (8.00%) Spring Batch
5 6 (8.00%) Spring Integration
6 5 (6.67%) REST
7 4 (5.33%) .NET Framework
7 4 (5.33%) Kafka
7 4 (5.33%) Middleware
8 3 (4.00%) React
8 3 (4.00%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 17 (22.67%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 5 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.33%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (5.33%) Legacy Code
3 4 (5.33%) SCADA
4 3 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.67%) FPGA
5 2 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.67%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.67%) VHDL
6 1 (1.33%) ASIC
6 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.33%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.33%) Verilog
6 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.33%) VLSI
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.33%) Windows
2 8 (10.67%) Linux
3 5 (6.67%) Mac OS
3 5 (6.67%) Windows 10
4 3 (4.00%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (93.33%) Agile
2 20 (26.67%) DevOps
2 20 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (25.33%) CI/CD
4 17 (22.67%) Kanban
5 15 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (18.67%) Continuous Integration
6 14 (18.67%) Microservices
7 13 (17.33%) CRM
7 13 (17.33%) SDLC
7 13 (17.33%) Test Automation
8 12 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (16.00%) Roadmaps
9 11 (14.67%) Project Delivery
9 11 (14.67%) Software Testing
10 10 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
10 10 (13.33%) Mentoring
10 10 (13.33%) Project Management
10 10 (13.33%) TDD
11 9 (12.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 14 (18.67%) Java
2 11 (14.67%) C#
3 10 (13.33%) SQL
4 9 (12.00%) Python
5 8 (10.67%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.67%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.00%) Groovy
7 3 (4.00%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.67%) Bash
8 2 (2.67%) Perl
9 1 (1.33%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.33%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.33%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.33%) XAML
Qualifications
1 14 (18.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.67%) Degree
3 10 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 7 (9.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (6.67%) MCP
6 3 (4.00%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.67%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.67%) ISTQB
7 2 (2.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.33%) APMG
8 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.33%) CSPO
8 1 (1.33%) HND
8 1 (1.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.33%) QA
2 5 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (4.00%) PMBOK
4 2 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.33%) DO-254
5 1 (1.33%) PMO
5 1 (1.33%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (14.67%) Docker
2 6 (8.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.67%) Firmware
3 2 (2.67%) Postfix
4 1 (1.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.33%) HP ALM
2 3 (4.00%) Ansible
2 3 (4.00%) Grafana
2 3 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.00%) Progress Chef
2 3 (4.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (4.00%) Puppet
2 3 (4.00%) SCOM
3 1 (1.33%) SCCM
3 1 (1.33%) SCOrch
3 1 (1.33%) SCSM
3 1 (1.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (21.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.00%) Atlassian
2 6 (8.00%) Salesforce
3 5 (6.67%) Oracle
4 4 (5.33%) HP
4 4 (5.33%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.67%) ArcSight
5 2 (2.67%) Guidewire
5 2 (2.67%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (2.67%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.67%) SAP
5 2 (2.67%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.67%) Splunk
5 2 (2.67%) Xilinx
6 1 (1.33%) Mentor Graphics
6 1 (1.33%) VMware