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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 157 118
Rank change year-on-year +5 -39 -65
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 137 76 193
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.90% 1.35% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.58% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 59 58 118
10th Percentile £35,850 £45,750 £32,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,462 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,522 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% +22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £74,985 £77,875 £88,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -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 10,622 4,812 7,833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.49% 85.33% 78.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7,570 2,882 4,087
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £28,750
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 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.93%

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 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 14 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 +17 110 £59,761 -14.63% 85
East Midlands -28 26 £52,500 -4.55% 16
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 10 (7.30%) Confluence
2 7 (5.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (5.84%) 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%) AWS
2 55 (40.15%) Azure
3 9 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (6.57%) SaaS
4 8 (5.84%) GitHub
4 8 (5.84%) Power Platform
5 6 (4.38%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (3.65%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.46%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.46%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.46%) Dagster
8 2 (1.46%) GCP
8 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.46%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.46%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.46%) Prefect
8 2 (1.46%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.84%) 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
2 8 (5.84%) Power BI
3 5 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.65%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.46%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.46%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.73%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.73%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.73%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.73%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (15.33%) JIRA
2 15 (10.95%) JUnit
2 15 (10.95%) Maven
3 14 (10.22%) Mockito
4 13 (9.49%) Git
5 9 (6.57%) Jenkins
6 8 (5.84%) Eclipse
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%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.73%) Gradle
11 1 (0.73%) REST Assured
General
1 44 (32.12%) Social Skills
2 25 (18.25%) Finance
3 23 (16.79%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.22%) Public Sector
5 13 (9.49%) Electronics
6 9 (6.57%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (6.57%) Retail
7 7 (5.11%) Law
8 6 (4.38%) Games
8 6 (4.38%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.19%) Banking
10 3 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.19%) Legal
11 2 (1.46%) Marketing
11 2 (1.46%) Social Housing
12 1 (0.73%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.73%) iGaming
12 1 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (29.93%) Developer
2 36 (26.28%) Senior
3 31 (22.63%) 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%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 8 (5.84%) .NET Developer
10 8 (5.84%) Applications Engineer
10 8 (5.84%) Delivery Manager
10 8 (5.84%) Senior Front-End Developer
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 33 (24.09%) React
2 24 (17.52%) 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%) JSON
7 8 (5.84%) RESTful
8 7 (5.11%) AngularJS
8 7 (5.11%) Vue
8 7 (5.11%) XML
9 6 (4.38%) CSS
9 6 (4.38%) SOAP
10 5 (3.65%) ADO
10 5 (3.65%) Terraform
10 5 (3.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.76%) Product Ownership
2 11 (8.03%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (7.30%) Mobile App
4 9 (6.57%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (4.38%) CMDB
5 6 (4.38%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.65%) FPGA
6 5 (3.65%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.65%) Renewable Energy
6 5 (3.65%) Verilog
6 5 (3.65%) VHDL
7 3 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.19%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.19%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.19%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.46%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.46%) IoT
9 1 (0.73%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.73%) NHS
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 53 (38.69%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (36.50%) CI/CD
4 42 (30.66%) Mentoring
5 38 (27.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 32 (23.36%) Sprint Planning
7 28 (20.44%) DevOps
8 27 (19.71%) AI
9 26 (18.98%) TDD
10 25 (18.25%) Microservices
10 25 (18.25%) SDLC
10 25 (18.25%) Stakeholder Management
11 23 (16.79%) Coaching
11 23 (16.79%) Software Testing
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%) Test Automation
15 16 (11.68%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (29.93%) Java
2 39 (28.47%) SQL
3 35 (25.55%) JavaScript
4 17 (12.41%) TypeScript
5 14 (10.22%) PL/SQL
6 13 (9.49%) C#
7 10 (7.30%) Bash
8 8 (5.84%) C
8 8 (5.84%) Embedded C
8 8 (5.84%) MATLAB
9 6 (4.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (3.65%) Perl
10 5 (3.65%) Python
11 2 (1.46%) C++
11 2 (1.46%) Swift
Qualifications
1 44 (32.12%) Security Cleared
2 37 (27.01%) SC Cleared
3 26 (18.98%) Degree
4 9 (6.57%) 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%) DV Cleared
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 24 (17.52%) Docker
2 11 (8.03%) Embedded Firmware
2 11 (8.03%) Firmware
3 3 (2.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (20.44%) 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%) Databricks
4 8 (5.84%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.38%) SAP
5 6 (4.38%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.65%) Altera
6 5 (3.65%) Microsemi
6 5 (3.65%) Xilinx
7 3 (2.19%) Workday
8 2 (1.46%) Apple
8 2 (1.46%) IFS
8 2 (1.46%) Planon
9 1 (0.73%) Adobe
9 1 (0.73%) Google
9 1 (0.73%) Infor
9 1 (0.73%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.73%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.73%) YouTube