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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 111 52
Rank change year-on-year -24 -59 -21
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 80 182 240
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.41% 2.04% 4.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 2.52% 5.09%
Number of salaries quoted 59 99 196
10th Percentile £45,100 £39,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,674 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £74,375 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,500 £78,750 £73,750
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 4,810 7,213 4,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 84.71% 80.93% 92.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,047 3,268 3,622
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,500 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £52,398 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.26% +4.80% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £63,982
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 7 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 7 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 -18 55 £71,250 +16.33% 73
East Midlands +3 25 £49,500 -10.00% 42
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 8 (10.00%) Confluence
2 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.75%) Apache
3 3 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (2.50%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.25%) Appian
Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.50%) Maximo
3 1 (1.25%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.25%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (31.25%) Azure
2 19 (23.75%) AWS
3 15 (18.75%) SaaS
4 11 (13.75%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (10.00%) Power Platform
7 7 (8.75%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (8.75%) Amazon S3
8 6 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (7.50%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (7.50%) AWS KMS
8 6 (7.50%) PowerApps
8 6 (7.50%) Route 53
9 3 (3.75%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.75%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (2.50%) Miro
10 2 (2.50%) Serverless
11 1 (1.25%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.25%) DHCP
1 5 (6.25%) DNS
1 5 (6.25%) VPN
2 1 (1.25%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.75%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (7.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (7.50%) DynamoDB
2 6 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.75%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.75%) Snowflake Schema
4 3 (3.75%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.50%) Power BI
6 1 (1.25%) Metadata
6 1 (1.25%) MySQL
6 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (17.50%) JIRA
2 11 (13.75%) Maven
3 10 (12.50%) Git
3 10 (12.50%) JUnit
3 10 (12.50%) Mockito
4 7 (8.75%) Jenkins
5 6 (7.50%) Bitbucket Server
5 6 (7.50%) DbUnit
5 6 (7.50%) jMock
5 6 (7.50%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.75%) Katalon Studio
6 3 (3.75%) Selenium
7 1 (1.25%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.25%) Moq
7 1 (1.25%) MSTest
7 1 (1.25%) NSubstitute
7 1 (1.25%) NUnit
7 1 (1.25%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (1.25%) SoapUI
General
1 23 (28.75%) Finance
2 22 (27.50%) Social Skills
3 19 (23.75%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.50%) Law
5 5 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.50%) Marketing
7 2 (2.50%) Retail
8 1 (1.25%) Automotive
8 1 (1.25%) Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Electronics
8 1 (1.25%) Legal
8 1 (1.25%) Local Government
8 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (27.50%) Lead
2 21 (26.25%) Developer
3 13 (16.25%) Analyst
4 12 (15.00%) Java Developer
4 12 (15.00%) Senior
5 8 (10.00%) Lead Developer
6 6 (7.50%) Applications Engineer
6 6 (7.50%) Scrum Master
7 5 (6.25%) Applications Support
7 5 (6.25%) Applications Support Analyst
7 5 (6.25%) Applications Support Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Business Analyst
7 5 (6.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
7 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Project Manager
7 5 (6.25%) Support Analyst
7 5 (6.25%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.00%) Spring
2 10 (12.50%) React
2 10 (12.50%) RESTful
3 9 (11.25%) .NET
4 8 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 8 (10.00%) Spring Boot
5 7 (8.75%) REST
5 7 (8.75%) SOAP
6 6 (7.50%) ActiveMQ
6 6 (7.50%) Bootstrap
6 6 (7.50%) CSS
6 6 (7.50%) Hibernate
6 6 (7.50%) HTML
6 6 (7.50%) JPA
6 6 (7.50%) PowerMock
6 6 (7.50%) Spring Batch
6 6 (7.50%) Spring Integration
6 6 (7.50%) Web Services
7 5 (6.25%) .NET Framework
7 5 (6.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.50%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.00%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (3.75%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.75%) Legacy Code
4 3 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.50%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) CMDB
6 1 (1.25%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.25%) FPGA
6 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.25%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.25%) Verilog
6 1 (1.25%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.00%) Linux
2 7 (8.75%) Windows
3 5 (6.25%) Mac OS
3 5 (6.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (93.75%) Agile
2 25 (31.25%) DevOps
3 19 (23.75%) CI/CD
4 16 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
5 15 (18.75%) Kanban
5 15 (18.75%) Microservices
5 15 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (18.75%) TDD
6 13 (16.25%) CRM
7 11 (13.75%) Decision-Making
7 11 (13.75%) Mentoring
8 10 (12.50%) Project Delivery
9 9 (11.25%) SDLC
9 9 (11.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (11.25%) Test Automation
9 9 (11.25%) User Stories
10 8 (10.00%) Migration
10 8 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 18 (22.50%) Java
2 17 (21.25%) JavaScript
3 14 (17.50%) SQL
4 11 (13.75%) TypeScript
5 10 (12.50%) C#
6 7 (8.75%) Python
7 5 (6.25%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.75%) Groovy
9 2 (2.50%) Bash
9 2 (2.50%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.25%) PHP
10 1 (1.25%) XAML
Qualifications
1 12 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.00%) Degree
4 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (6.25%) MCP
6 3 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.50%) IBM Certification
8 1 (1.25%) APMG
8 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.25%) CSPO
8 1 (1.25%) HND
8 1 (1.25%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.25%) PMP
8 1 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.00%) QA
2 5 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (3.75%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (15.00%) Docker
2 5 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.50%) Postfix
4 1 (1.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.50%) Grafana
2 2 (2.50%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.50%) Atlassian
2 6 (7.50%) Oracle
3 5 (6.25%) Guidewire
4 3 (3.75%) SAP
5 2 (2.50%) IBM
5 2 (2.50%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.25%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.25%) JD Edwards
6 1 (1.25%) Mentor Graphics
6 1 (1.25%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.25%) Workday
6 1 (1.25%) Xilinx
6 1 (1.25%) Zend