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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 143 105
Rank change year-on-year -5 -38 -55
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 123 94 233
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.85% 1.63% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.91% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 61 73 152
10th Percentile £34,750 £45,750 £36,275
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +19.05% -12.50%
75th Percentile £64,750 £73,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,985 £77,250 £89,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.52% +5.60% -3.85%

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 10,067 4,914 8,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.88% 85.09% 77.79%
Number of salaries quoted 7,147 3,000 5,071
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,968 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -3 94 £60,000 -7.69% 56
East Midlands -18 28 £56,250 +7.14% 19
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 7 (5.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (4.88%) Confluence
3 2 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.07%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.63%) Simulink
3 1 (0.81%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.81%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (49.59%) Azure
2 53 (43.09%) AWS
3 15 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (8.13%) Power Platform
5 9 (7.32%) SaaS
6 6 (4.88%) GitHub
7 5 (4.07%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.44%) GCP
10 2 (1.63%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.63%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.63%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.63%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (1.63%) Dagster
10 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.63%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.63%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.63%) Prefect
10 2 (1.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.63%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.13%) Power BI
2 9 (7.32%) MongoDB
3 8 (6.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (6.50%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.44%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.63%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.63%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (1.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.81%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.81%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (12.20%) JUnit
1 15 (12.20%) Maven
2 14 (11.38%) Mockito
3 12 (9.76%) JIRA
4 9 (7.32%) Git
5 8 (6.50%) Jenkins
6 6 (4.88%) Postman
7 5 (4.07%) GitLab
7 5 (4.07%) JMeter
7 5 (4.07%) Selenium
7 5 (4.07%) SoapUI
8 4 (3.25%) Cucumber
8 4 (3.25%) XCUITest
9 3 (2.44%) Zephyr
10 2 (1.63%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.63%) Eclipse
10 2 (1.63%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.81%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.81%) NUnit
11 1 (0.81%) Subversion
General
1 30 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 28 (22.76%) Finance
3 17 (13.82%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.76%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.50%) Retail
6 7 (5.69%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (5.69%) Law
7 5 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.25%) Marketing
8 4 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.44%) Electronics
9 3 (2.44%) Legal
10 2 (1.63%) Banking
10 2 (1.63%) Games
10 2 (1.63%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.63%) Social Housing
11 1 (0.81%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.81%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 39 (31.71%) Developer
2 33 (26.83%) Senior
3 21 (17.07%) Lead
4 19 (15.45%) Senior Developer
5 16 (13.01%) Project Manager
6 12 (9.76%) Java Developer
7 11 (8.94%) Scrum Master
8 10 (8.13%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (8.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 9 (7.32%) Delivery Manager
9 9 (7.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 8 (6.50%) .NET Developer
10 8 (6.50%) React Developer
10 8 (6.50%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 8 (6.50%) Senior React Developer
11 7 (5.69%) Lead Developer
11 7 (5.69%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (5.69%) Senior Java Developer
12 6 (4.88%) Business Intelligence Manager
12 6 (4.88%) Digital Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (25.20%) React
2 22 (17.89%) REST
3 16 (13.01%) Spring
4 14 (11.38%) Playwright
5 11 (8.94%) .NET
5 11 (8.94%) .NET Core
6 9 (7.32%) Node.js
7 8 (6.50%) ASP.NET
7 8 (6.50%) ASP.NET Core
7 8 (6.50%) RESTful
8 7 (5.69%) AngularJS
8 7 (5.69%) Vue
9 6 (4.88%) JSON
10 5 (4.07%) XML
11 4 (3.25%) ASP.NET Web API
11 4 (3.25%) HTML
11 4 (3.25%) SOAP
11 4 (3.25%) SwiftUI
12 3 (2.44%) ADO
12 3 (2.44%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.38%) Product Ownership
2 12 (9.76%) Mobile App
3 8 (6.50%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.07%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (4.07%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.44%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.63%) CMDB
7 2 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.63%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.81%) FPGA
8 1 (0.81%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.81%) NHS
8 1 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.81%) Verilog
8 1 (0.81%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.26%) Linux
2 7 (5.69%) Unix
3 6 (4.88%) Windows
4 4 (3.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (86.99%) Agile
2 51 (41.46%) CI/CD
3 44 (35.77%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (30.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 36 (29.27%) Mentoring
6 32 (26.02%) DevOps
7 28 (22.76%) Sprint Planning
8 26 (21.14%) TDD
9 25 (20.33%) AI
9 25 (20.33%) Microservices
9 25 (20.33%) SDLC
10 23 (18.70%) Coaching
11 21 (17.07%) Stakeholder Management
12 20 (16.26%) Full-Stack Development
12 20 (16.26%) LLM
13 18 (14.63%) Technical Architecture
13 18 (14.63%) Technical Leadership
14 17 (13.82%) Time Management
15 16 (13.01%) Containerisation
15 16 (13.01%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 39 (31.71%) SQL
2 32 (26.02%) JavaScript
3 31 (25.20%) Java
4 15 (12.20%) TypeScript
5 14 (11.38%) PL/SQL
6 13 (10.57%) C#
7 11 (8.94%) Bash
8 6 (4.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (3.25%) Swift
10 3 (2.44%) Python
11 2 (1.63%) C
11 2 (1.63%) C++
11 2 (1.63%) Embedded C
11 2 (1.63%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.81%) Perl
12 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 39 (31.71%) Security Cleared
2 34 (27.64%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.57%) Degree
4 6 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.25%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.44%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.44%) ISEB
7 2 (1.63%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.81%) PMP
8 1 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (18.70%) QA
2 11 (8.94%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.44%) GDPR
4 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.81%) NIST
4 1 (0.81%) PMO
System Software
1 24 (19.51%) Docker
2 4 (3.25%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (3.25%) Firmware
3 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (21.95%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.07%) Terraform
3 1 (0.81%) Argo
3 1 (0.81%) Grafana
3 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (15.45%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.38%) Oracle
3 8 (6.50%) Databricks
4 7 (5.69%) Pega
5 6 (4.88%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.25%) Apple
6 4 (3.25%) SAP
7 3 (2.44%) Workday
8 2 (1.63%) IFS
8 2 (1.63%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.81%) Adobe
9 1 (0.81%) Altera
9 1 (0.81%) Infor
9 1 (0.81%) Microsemi
9 1 (0.81%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.81%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.81%) Splunk
9 1 (0.81%) Xilinx