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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 121 50
Rank change year-on-year -16 -71 -18
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 78 174 233
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.32% 1.95% 4.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 2.38% 4.95%
Number of salaries quoted 56 93 189
10th Percentile £44,125 £40,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £51,885 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £74,063 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,625 £78,750 £74,400
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

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 4,924 7,306 4,710
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 83.64% 81.71% 93.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,158 3,242 3,612
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,768
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,398 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.35% +4.80% -0.10%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,613 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

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 14 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 14 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 -14 53 £70,000 +12.00% 47
East Midlands 0 25 £49,500 -10.00% 25
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 (8.97%) Confluence
2 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.85%) Apache
3 3 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (2.56%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.28%) Appian
Applications
1 6 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.28%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (12.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.56%) Maximo
3 1 (1.28%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.28%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (32.05%) Azure
2 18 (23.08%) AWS
3 15 (19.23%) SaaS
4 10 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (12.82%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (10.26%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (8.97%) Power Platform
7 6 (7.69%) PowerApps
8 5 (6.41%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (6.41%) Amazon S3
9 4 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (5.13%) AWS KMS
9 4 (5.13%) Route 53
10 3 (3.85%) Power Automate
10 3 (3.85%) Snowflake
11 2 (2.56%) Miro
11 2 (2.56%) Serverless
12 1 (1.28%) Azure Functions
12 1 (1.28%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.41%) DHCP
1 5 (6.41%) DNS
1 5 (6.41%) VPN
2 1 (1.28%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.41%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (5.13%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (5.13%) DynamoDB
2 4 (5.13%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.85%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.85%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (3.85%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.56%) Power BI
5 1 (1.28%) Metadata
5 1 (1.28%) MySQL
5 1 (1.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (17.95%) JIRA
2 9 (11.54%) Maven
3 8 (10.26%) Git
3 8 (10.26%) JUnit
3 8 (10.26%) Mockito
4 5 (6.41%) Jenkins
5 4 (5.13%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (5.13%) DbUnit
5 4 (5.13%) jMock
5 4 (5.13%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.85%) Katalon Studio
6 3 (3.85%) Selenium
7 1 (1.28%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.28%) Moq
7 1 (1.28%) MSTest
7 1 (1.28%) NSubstitute
7 1 (1.28%) NUnit
7 1 (1.28%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (1.28%) SoapUI
General
1 24 (30.77%) Finance
2 22 (28.21%) Social Skills
3 17 (21.79%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (6.41%) Law
5 3 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.56%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.56%) Marketing
6 2 (2.56%) Retail
7 1 (1.28%) Automotive
7 1 (1.28%) Banking
7 1 (1.28%) Electronics
7 1 (1.28%) Legal
7 1 (1.28%) Local Government
7 1 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (26.92%) Lead
2 19 (24.36%) Developer
3 13 (16.67%) Senior
4 12 (15.38%) Analyst
5 10 (12.82%) Java Developer
6 7 (8.97%) Lead Developer
7 6 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
7 6 (7.69%) Project Manager
7 6 (7.69%) Scrum Master
8 5 (6.41%) Applications Support
8 5 (6.41%) Applications Support Analyst
8 5 (6.41%) Applications Support Engineer
8 5 (6.41%) Business Analyst
8 5 (6.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 5 (6.41%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 5 (6.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (6.41%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
8 5 (6.41%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 5 (6.41%) Support Analyst
8 5 (6.41%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.82%) React
1 10 (12.82%) Spring
2 8 (10.26%) .NET
2 8 (10.26%) RESTful
3 6 (7.69%) AngularJS
3 6 (7.69%) CSS
3 6 (7.69%) HTML
3 6 (7.69%) REST
3 6 (7.69%) Spring Boot
4 5 (6.41%) Node.js
4 5 (6.41%) SOAP
5 4 (5.13%) .NET Framework
5 4 (5.13%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (5.13%) Bootstrap
5 4 (5.13%) Hibernate
5 4 (5.13%) JPA
5 4 (5.13%) PowerMock
5 4 (5.13%) Spring Batch
5 4 (5.13%) Spring Integration
5 4 (5.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.08%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.41%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.13%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.85%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.85%) Legacy Code
4 3 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.56%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.28%) CMDB
6 1 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.28%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.28%) FPGA
6 1 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.28%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.28%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.28%) Verilog
6 1 (1.28%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.97%) Windows
2 6 (7.69%) Linux
3 5 (6.41%) Mac OS
3 5 (6.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (93.59%) Agile
2 24 (30.77%) DevOps
3 19 (24.36%) CI/CD
4 16 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (17.95%) Kanban
7 13 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (16.67%) CRM
7 13 (16.67%) Microservices
7 13 (16.67%) TDD
8 12 (15.38%) Mentoring
9 11 (14.10%) Project Delivery
10 10 (12.82%) Decision-Making
10 10 (12.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (11.54%) SDLC
11 9 (11.54%) User Stories
12 8 (10.26%) Migration
12 8 (10.26%) Test Automation
13 7 (8.97%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (20.51%) Java
1 16 (20.51%) JavaScript
2 12 (15.38%) SQL
3 11 (14.10%) TypeScript
4 9 (11.54%) C#
5 6 (7.69%) Python
6 5 (6.41%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.85%) Groovy
8 2 (2.56%) Bash
8 2 (2.56%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.28%) PHP
9 1 (1.28%) XAML
Qualifications
1 10 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.54%) Degree
3 8 (10.26%) SC Cleared
4 6 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (6.41%) MCP
6 3 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.56%) IBM Certification
7 2 (2.56%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.56%) PMP
8 1 (1.28%) APMG
8 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.28%) CSPO
8 1 (1.28%) HND
8 1 (1.28%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (1.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.38%) QA
2 5 (6.41%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (6.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (3.85%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (12.82%) Docker
2 5 (6.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.28%) Firmware
3 1 (1.28%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 6 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.28%) Grafana
2 1 (1.28%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (14.10%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.69%) Oracle
3 5 (6.41%) Guidewire
4 4 (5.13%) Atlassian
5 3 (3.85%) SAP
6 2 (2.56%) IBM
7 1 (1.28%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.28%) HubSpot
7 1 (1.28%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (1.28%) JD Edwards
7 1 (1.28%) Mentor Graphics
7 1 (1.28%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.28%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.28%) Workday
7 1 (1.28%) Xilinx
7 1 (1.28%) Zend