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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 108 78
Rank change year-on-year -42 -30 -54
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 80 147 262
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.92% 2.46% 3.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 2.68% 3.68%
Number of salaries quoted 41 88 234
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,125 £36,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £46,250 £42,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £73,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -7.41%

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 6,864 5,484 7,127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 79.19% 91.80% 85.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3,854 2,451 5,817
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £34,571
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £49,990
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.02% -4.78%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,967 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 13 February 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 13 February 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 63 £63,750 +2.00% 45
East Midlands -38 17 £57,500 -4.17% 10
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 (7.50%) Confluence
1 6 (7.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.50%) SAS
3 1 (1.25%) Apache
3 1 (1.25%) Appian
3 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Trello
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.25%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Maximo
2 2 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.25%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (1.25%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.25%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 32 (40.00%) Azure
2 17 (21.25%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (18.75%) AWS
4 7 (8.75%) SaaS
5 3 (3.75%) GCP
5 3 (3.75%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.75%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.50%) Asana
6 2 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.25%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.25%) Figma
7 1 (1.25%) Lucidchart
7 1 (1.25%) Miro
7 1 (1.25%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) Bluetooth
1 1 (1.25%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.50%) MySQL
1 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.25%) Metadata
2 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.25%) Pentaho
2 1 (1.25%) Power BI
2 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.25%) SAS Visual Analytics
2 1 (1.25%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (20.00%) JIRA
2 10 (12.50%) Git
3 8 (10.00%) JUnit
3 8 (10.00%) Maven
3 8 (10.00%) Mockito
4 1 (1.25%) Balsamiq
4 1 (1.25%) GitLab
4 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.25%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.25%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.25%) XCUITest
General
1 39 (48.75%) Finance
2 36 (45.00%) Social Skills
3 19 (23.75%) Public Sector
4 15 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (16.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.50%) Banking
6 2 (2.50%) Law
6 2 (2.50%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.50%) Retail
7 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Legal
7 1 (1.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 19 (23.75%) Lead
2 17 (21.25%) Developer
3 12 (15.00%) Senior
4 11 (13.75%) Scrum Master
5 10 (12.50%) Analyst
6 9 (11.25%) Agile Scrum Master
6 9 (11.25%) Business Analyst
7 8 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 8 (10.00%) Java Developer
7 8 (10.00%) Senior Developer
8 6 (7.50%) Delivery Manager
8 6 (7.50%) Project Manager
8 6 (7.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (7.50%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (3.75%) IT Manager
9 3 (3.75%) Lead Developer
9 3 (3.75%) Product Owner
9 3 (3.75%) Release Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Software Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.00%) REST
2 7 (8.75%) React
3 5 (6.25%) Spring
4 4 (5.00%) CSS
4 4 (5.00%) HTML
5 3 (3.75%) .NET
5 3 (3.75%) Node.js
5 3 (3.75%) RESTful
6 2 (2.50%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.50%) EDI
6 2 (2.50%) Laravel
7 1 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.25%) JSON
7 1 (1.25%) Kafka
7 1 (1.25%) SOAP
7 1 (1.25%) SwiftUI
7 1 (1.25%) Visualforce
7 1 (1.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (21.25%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.75%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.75%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.75%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.50%) CMDB
5 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.25%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.25%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.25%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.50%) Linux
2 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (93.75%) Agile
2 25 (31.25%) DevOps
3 23 (28.75%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (28.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 18 (22.50%) Kanban
6 17 (21.25%) CI/CD
7 15 (18.75%) Project Management
7 15 (18.75%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 14 (17.50%) Decision-Making
9 13 (16.25%) User Stories
10 12 (15.00%) Coaching
10 12 (15.00%) Mentoring
10 12 (15.00%) Sprint Planning
10 12 (15.00%) TDD
11 11 (13.75%) Project Delivery
11 11 (13.75%) SDLC
12 10 (12.50%) Software Engineering
12 10 (12.50%) Unit Testing
13 9 (11.25%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (15.00%) Java
2 11 (13.75%) JavaScript
2 11 (13.75%) SQL
3 8 (10.00%) PL/SQL
3 8 (10.00%) TypeScript
4 7 (8.75%) Bash
5 4 (5.00%) C
5 4 (5.00%) R
6 3 (3.75%) C#
6 3 (3.75%) Python
7 2 (2.50%) PHP
7 2 (2.50%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.25%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.25%) Swift
Qualifications
1 11 (13.75%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.25%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.50%) Degree
4 4 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.75%) IBM Certification
5 3 (3.75%) PMI Certification
5 3 (3.75%) PMP
6 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.25%) CSPO
7 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.25%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (40.00%) QA
2 2 (2.50%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.50%) GDPR
2 2 (2.50%) PMO
3 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.25%) GRC
3 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.25%) NIST
3 1 (1.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (11.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (11.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.25%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 10 (12.50%) Oracle
2 3 (3.75%) Guidewire
2 3 (3.75%) IBM
2 3 (3.75%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.50%) SAP
3 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.50%) Zend
4 1 (1.25%) Apple
4 1 (1.25%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.25%) Conga
4 1 (1.25%) Denodo
4 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.25%) HubSpot
4 1 (1.25%) JD Edwards
4 1 (1.25%) Jitterbit
4 1 (1.25%) Pardot
4 1 (1.25%) Splunk
4 1 (1.25%) Talend
4 1 (1.25%) Workday