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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 158 112
Rank change year-on-year +5 -46 -58
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 137 77 201
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.88% 1.38% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.61% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 60 59 119
10th Percentile £35,988 £45,750 £32,250
25th Percentile £45,313 £52,299 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £74,985 £79,000 £88,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,500 £63,112
% change year-on-year -2.26% +5.37% -2.90%

All Process & 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 10,928 4,792 7,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.84% 85.69% 78.90%
Number of salaries quoted 7,736 2,872 3,979
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £29,462
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,560
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.45% -7.90%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Scrum job vacancy trend 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 21 September 2026.

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 21 September 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
West Midlands +2 111 £60,000 -14.29% 108
East Midlands -29 25 £52,500 - 24
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 9 (6.57%) Confluence
2 7 (5.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (6.57%) Simulink
2 5 (3.65%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.73%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.73%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.73%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.46%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 56 (40.88%) Azure
2 55 (40.15%) AWS
3 9 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (5.84%) GitHub
4 8 (5.84%) SaaS
5 7 (5.11%) Power Platform
6 6 (4.38%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (3.65%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.46%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.46%) Dagster
9 2 (1.46%) dbt
9 2 (1.46%) GCP
9 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.46%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.46%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.46%) Prefect
9 2 (1.46%) Serverless
9 2 (1.46%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.57%) Wireshark
2 2 (1.46%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.57%) MongoDB
2 8 (5.84%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (5.84%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (5.11%) Power BI
4 5 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.65%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.46%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.46%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.73%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.73%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.73%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (14.60%) JIRA
2 15 (10.95%) JUnit
2 15 (10.95%) Maven
3 14 (10.22%) Mockito
4 12 (8.76%) Git
5 9 (6.57%) Eclipse
5 9 (6.57%) Jenkins
6 8 (5.84%) GitLab
7 6 (4.38%) Cucumber
7 6 (4.38%) JMeter
7 6 (4.38%) Postman
7 6 (4.38%) Selenium
8 5 (3.65%) SoapUI
8 5 (3.65%) Subversion
8 5 (3.65%) Zephyr
9 3 (2.19%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.46%) XCUITest
11 1 (0.73%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.73%) TestNG
11 1 (0.73%) WebDriver
General
1 44 (32.12%) Social Skills
2 25 (18.25%) Finance
3 23 (16.79%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.22%) Electronics
4 14 (10.22%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.84%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (5.84%) Retail
6 7 (5.11%) Law
7 6 (4.38%) Games
7 6 (4.38%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.19%) Banking
9 3 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.19%) Legal
10 2 (1.46%) Marketing
10 2 (1.46%) Social Housing
11 1 (0.73%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.73%) iGaming
11 1 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (29.93%) Developer
2 36 (26.28%) Senior
3 32 (23.36%) Lead
4 19 (13.87%) Senior Developer
5 16 (11.68%) Project Manager
6 14 (10.22%) Scrum Master
7 12 (8.76%) Java Developer
8 10 (7.30%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (7.30%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 10 (7.30%) React Developer
8 10 (7.30%) Senior React Developer
9 9 (6.57%) Applications Engineer
9 9 (6.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 8 (5.84%) .NET Developer
10 8 (5.84%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 7 (5.11%) Delivery Manager
11 7 (5.11%) IT Manager
11 7 (5.11%) Lead Developer
11 7 (5.11%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (5.11%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (23.36%) React
2 23 (16.79%) REST
3 17 (12.41%) Playwright
4 16 (11.68%) Spring
5 11 (8.03%) .NET
5 11 (8.03%) .NET Core
6 9 (6.57%) Node.js
7 8 (5.84%) ASP.NET
7 8 (5.84%) ASP.NET Core
7 8 (5.84%) HTML
7 8 (5.84%) RESTful
8 7 (5.11%) ADO
8 7 (5.11%) AngularJS
8 7 (5.11%) JSON
8 7 (5.11%) Vue
9 6 (4.38%) CSS
9 6 (4.38%) SOAP
9 6 (4.38%) XML
10 5 (3.65%) Terraform
10 5 (3.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.76%) Analytical Mindset
1 12 (8.76%) Product Ownership
2 10 (7.30%) Mobile App
3 9 (6.57%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.38%) CMDB
4 6 (4.38%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.65%) FPGA
5 5 (3.65%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.65%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (3.65%) Verilog
5 5 (3.65%) VHDL
6 3 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.19%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.19%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.19%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.46%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.46%) IoT
8 1 (0.73%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.73%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.60%) Linux
2 7 (5.11%) Unix
3 6 (4.38%) Windows
4 2 (1.46%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (86.86%) Agile
2 52 (37.96%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (35.77%) CI/CD
4 41 (29.93%) Mentoring
5 36 (26.28%) Continuous Improvement
6 31 (22.63%) Sprint Planning
7 28 (20.44%) DevOps
8 26 (18.98%) AI
8 26 (18.98%) Stakeholder Management
8 26 (18.98%) TDD
9 25 (18.25%) Microservices
10 24 (17.52%) SDLC
10 24 (17.52%) Software Testing
11 21 (15.33%) Coaching
12 20 (14.60%) Full-Stack Development
12 20 (14.60%) LLM
13 19 (13.87%) Technical Architecture
14 18 (13.14%) Technical Leadership
15 16 (11.68%) Time Management
16 15 (10.95%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 41 (29.93%) Java
2 38 (27.74%) SQL
3 34 (24.82%) JavaScript
4 16 (11.68%) TypeScript
5 14 (10.22%) PL/SQL
6 13 (9.49%) C#
7 10 (7.30%) Bash
8 9 (6.57%) C
8 9 (6.57%) Embedded C
8 9 (6.57%) MATLAB
9 5 (3.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (3.65%) Perl
9 5 (3.65%) Python
10 2 (1.46%) C++
10 2 (1.46%) Swift
Qualifications
1 43 (31.39%) Security Cleared
2 37 (27.01%) SC Cleared
3 26 (18.98%) Degree
4 8 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.38%) ISTQB
6 5 (3.65%) ISEB
7 2 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.73%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.73%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (15.33%) QA
2 11 (8.03%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.46%) GDPR
3 2 (1.46%) NCSC
3 2 (1.46%) PMO
3 2 (1.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (16.79%) Docker
2 12 (8.76%) Embedded Firmware
2 12 (8.76%) Firmware
3 3 (2.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (19.71%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.73%) Argo
Vendors
1 22 (16.06%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.22%) Oracle
3 12 (8.76%) Pega
4 8 (5.84%) Salesforce
5 7 (5.11%) Databricks
6 6 (4.38%) SAP
6 6 (4.38%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.65%) Altera
7 5 (3.65%) Microsemi
7 5 (3.65%) Xilinx
8 3 (2.19%) Workday
9 2 (1.46%) Apple
9 2 (1.46%) IFS
9 2 (1.46%) Planon
10 1 (0.73%) Adobe
10 1 (0.73%) Google
10 1 (0.73%) Infor
10 1 (0.73%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.73%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.73%) YouTube