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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 116 53
Rank change year-on-year -20 -63 -22
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 79 177 233
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.32% 2.02% 4.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 2.41% 5.06%
Number of salaries quoted 54 95 194
10th Percentile £43,475 £42,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,813 £50,000 £45,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,125 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,375 £78,750 £73,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -1.52%

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 4,905 7,331 4,605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.80% 83.66% 92.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,286 3,278 3,564
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,425 £26,768
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%

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 25 November 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 25 November 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 -3 55 £68,250 +9.20% 38
East Midlands +6 24 £49,250 -17.92% 21
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 6 (7.59%) Confluence
2 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.53%) Apache
3 2 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (2.53%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.27%) Appian
4 1 (1.27%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (7.59%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.53%) Trello
3 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (12.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.53%) Maximo
3 1 (1.27%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (34.18%) Azure
2 16 (20.25%) AWS
3 12 (15.19%) SaaS
4 11 (13.92%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (12.66%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (10.13%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (8.86%) Power Platform
8 6 (7.59%) PowerApps
9 3 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.80%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.80%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.53%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (2.53%) Asana
10 2 (2.53%) AWS KMS
10 2 (2.53%) GCP
10 2 (2.53%) Miro
10 2 (2.53%) Route 53
10 2 (2.53%) Serverless
10 2 (2.53%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.33%) DHCP
1 5 (6.33%) DNS
1 5 (6.33%) VPN
2 1 (1.27%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (3.80%) NoSQL
1 3 (3.80%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.53%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.53%) DynamoDB
2 2 (2.53%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.53%) MySQL
2 2 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.53%) Power BI
2 2 (2.53%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (1.27%) Metadata
3 1 (1.27%) Pentaho
3 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (20.25%) JIRA
2 8 (10.13%) Git
3 7 (8.86%) Maven
4 6 (7.59%) JUnit
4 6 (7.59%) Mockito
5 4 (5.06%) Jenkins
6 3 (3.80%) Katalon Studio
6 3 (3.80%) Selenium
7 2 (2.53%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (2.53%) DbUnit
7 2 (2.53%) jMock
7 2 (2.53%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.27%) LoadRunner
8 1 (1.27%) Moq
8 1 (1.27%) MSTest
8 1 (1.27%) NSubstitute
8 1 (1.27%) NUnit
8 1 (1.27%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (1.27%) SoapUI
General
1 26 (32.91%) Finance
1 26 (32.91%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.99%) Public Sector
3 7 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.06%) Law
5 4 (5.06%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.80%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.53%) Banking
7 2 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.53%) Marketing
7 2 (2.53%) Retail
8 1 (1.27%) Automotive
8 1 (1.27%) Electronics
8 1 (1.27%) Legal
8 1 (1.27%) Local Government
8 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (27.85%) Lead
2 18 (22.78%) Developer
3 14 (17.72%) Senior
4 13 (16.46%) Analyst
5 8 (10.13%) Java Developer
6 7 (8.86%) Project Manager
7 6 (7.59%) Applications Engineer
7 6 (7.59%) Business Analyst
7 6 (7.59%) Lead Developer
7 6 (7.59%) Scrum Master
8 5 (6.33%) Applications Support
8 5 (6.33%) Applications Support Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (6.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 5 (6.33%) Infrastructure Support
8 5 (6.33%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
8 5 (6.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Senior Developer
8 5 (6.33%) Support Analyst
8 5 (6.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.66%) React
2 8 (10.13%) .NET
2 8 (10.13%) Spring
3 7 (8.86%) RESTful
4 6 (7.59%) CSS
4 6 (7.59%) HTML
5 5 (6.33%) Node.js
5 5 (6.33%) REST
6 4 (5.06%) .NET Framework
6 4 (5.06%) AngularJS
6 4 (5.06%) Spring Boot
7 3 (3.80%) SOAP
8 2 (2.53%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (2.53%) Bootstrap
8 2 (2.53%) Hibernate
8 2 (2.53%) JPA
8 2 (2.53%) Laravel
8 2 (2.53%) Spring Batch
8 2 (2.53%) Web Services
8 2 (2.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (21.52%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.33%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.80%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.80%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.53%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.53%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.53%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.27%) CMDB
5 1 (1.27%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.27%) FPGA
5 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.27%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.27%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.27%) Verilog
5 1 (1.27%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.86%) Windows
2 5 (6.33%) Mac OS
2 5 (6.33%) Windows 10
3 4 (5.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (93.67%) Agile
2 25 (31.65%) DevOps
3 20 (25.32%) CI/CD
3 20 (25.32%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (24.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (21.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (17.72%) CRM
6 14 (17.72%) Kanban
7 11 (13.92%) Mentoring
7 11 (13.92%) Project Management
7 11 (13.92%) TDD
8 10 (12.66%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (12.66%) Decision-Making
8 10 (12.66%) Microservices
8 10 (12.66%) Project Delivery
8 10 (12.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 10 (12.66%) User Stories
9 8 (10.13%) Migration
9 8 (10.13%) SDLC
9 8 (10.13%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (20.25%) JavaScript
2 14 (17.72%) Java
3 12 (15.19%) TypeScript
4 11 (13.92%) SQL
5 9 (11.39%) C#
6 5 (6.33%) PL/SQL
6 5 (6.33%) Python
7 3 (3.80%) Groovy
8 2 (2.53%) Bash
8 2 (2.53%) PHP
8 2 (2.53%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.27%) XAML
Qualifications
1 10 (12.66%) Degree
2 8 (10.13%) Security Cleared
3 6 (7.59%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (7.59%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.33%) MCP
5 3 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.80%) PMI Certification
5 3 (3.80%) PMP
6 2 (2.53%) IBM Certification
7 1 (1.27%) APMG
7 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.27%) CSPO
7 1 (1.27%) HND
7 1 (1.27%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (20.25%) QA
2 5 (6.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (6.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (3.80%) PMO
4 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (11.39%) Docker
2 5 (6.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.27%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (8.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (13.92%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.86%) Oracle
3 5 (6.33%) Guidewire
4 3 (3.80%) SAP
5 2 (2.53%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.53%) IBM
5 2 (2.53%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.53%) Zend
6 1 (1.27%) Denodo
6 1 (1.27%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.27%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.27%) JD Edwards
6 1 (1.27%) Mentor Graphics
6 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.27%) Talend
6 1 (1.27%) Workday
6 1 (1.27%) Xilinx