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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 109 56
Rank change year-on-year -48 -53 -25
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 78 183 244
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.41% 2.03% 4.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 2.51% 4.92%
Number of salaries quoted 56 100 201
10th Percentile £44,125 £33,500 £38,500
25th Percentile £51,885 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,250 £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 4,791 7,301 4,961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.79% 80.82% 93.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,808 3,309 3,787
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,768
25th Percentile £31,938 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,000 £52,350
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -0.67% +4.70%
75th Percentile £63,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -8.33% -0.41% +0.42%

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 20 October 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 20 October 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 -12 56 £70,000 +16.67% 57
East Midlands -6 22 £50,000 -9.09% 43
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 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (6.41%) Confluence
3 4 (5.13%) Apache
3 4 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.85%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.28%) Appian
5 1 (1.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.28%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.28%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (12.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.28%) Maximo
2 1 (1.28%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.28%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (29.49%) Azure
2 19 (24.36%) AWS
3 14 (17.95%) SaaS
4 11 (14.10%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (14.10%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (11.54%) Amazon S3
5 9 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (10.26%) Power Platform
7 7 (8.97%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (7.69%) AWS KMS
8 6 (7.69%) PowerApps
8 6 (7.69%) Route 53
9 4 (5.13%) Snowflake
10 3 (3.85%) Power Automate
11 2 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (2.56%) GitHub
11 2 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.26%) DHCP
1 8 (10.26%) DNS
2 5 (6.41%) VPN
3 3 (3.85%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.28%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.28%) Firewall
4 1 (1.28%) SAN
4 1 (1.28%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (10.26%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (8.97%) DynamoDB
4 4 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (5.13%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.13%) NoSQL
4 4 (5.13%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.85%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (2.56%) Power BI
7 1 (1.28%) Metadata
7 1 (1.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (15.38%) Git
1 12 (15.38%) JIRA
2 11 (14.10%) Maven
3 10 (12.82%) Jenkins
4 9 (11.54%) JUnit
4 9 (11.54%) Mockito
5 7 (8.97%) SonarQube
6 6 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
6 6 (7.69%) DbUnit
6 6 (7.69%) jMock
7 3 (3.85%) Katalon Studio
7 3 (3.85%) Selenium
8 1 (1.28%) LoadRunner
8 1 (1.28%) Moq
8 1 (1.28%) MSTest
8 1 (1.28%) NSubstitute
8 1 (1.28%) NUnit
8 1 (1.28%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (1.28%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 21 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 20 (25.64%) Public Sector
3 18 (23.08%) Finance
4 10 (12.82%) Law
5 7 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.56%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.56%) Marketing
7 2 (2.56%) Retail
8 1 (1.28%) Automotive
8 1 (1.28%) Electronics
8 1 (1.28%) Local Government
8 1 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (28.21%) Lead
2 19 (24.36%) Developer
3 12 (15.38%) Java Developer
4 10 (12.82%) Analyst
4 10 (12.82%) Lead Developer
4 10 (12.82%) Senior
5 7 (8.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
6 6 (7.69%) Lead Java Developer
6 6 (7.69%) Scrum Master
7 5 (6.41%) Applications Support
7 5 (6.41%) Applications Support Analyst
7 5 (6.41%) Applications Support Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 5 (6.41%) Infrastructure Support
7 5 (6.41%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
7 5 (6.41%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) Support Analyst
7 5 (6.41%) Support Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.38%) Spring
2 10 (12.82%) Spring Boot
3 9 (11.54%) .NET
3 9 (11.54%) AngularJS
3 9 (11.54%) RESTful
3 9 (11.54%) SOAP
4 8 (10.26%) ActiveMQ
5 7 (8.97%) Bootstrap
5 7 (8.97%) JPA
5 7 (8.97%) REST
5 7 (8.97%) Web Services
6 6 (7.69%) Hibernate
6 6 (7.69%) PowerMock
6 6 (7.69%) Spring Batch
6 6 (7.69%) Spring Integration
7 5 (6.41%) .NET Framework
7 5 (6.41%) React
8 4 (5.13%) Kafka
9 3 (3.85%) CSS
9 3 (3.85%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.23%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.41%) Data Structures
2 5 (6.41%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.13%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (5.13%) Legacy Code
4 3 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.56%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.56%) SCADA
6 1 (1.28%) CMDB
6 1 (1.28%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.28%) FPGA
6 1 (1.28%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.28%) Verilog
6 1 (1.28%) VHDL
6 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.82%) Windows
2 9 (11.54%) Linux
3 5 (6.41%) Mac OS
3 5 (6.41%) Windows 10
4 3 (3.85%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.28%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (92.31%) Agile
2 24 (30.77%) DevOps
3 18 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 18 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (21.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (20.51%) Continuous Integration
5 16 (20.51%) Microservices
6 15 (19.23%) TDD
7 14 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (17.95%) Kanban
8 12 (15.38%) CRM
9 11 (14.10%) Mentoring
10 10 (12.82%) Project Delivery
10 10 (12.82%) Test Automation
11 9 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (11.54%) Decision-Making
11 9 (11.54%) SDLC
12 8 (10.26%) BDD
12 8 (10.26%) Containerisation
12 8 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (21.79%) Java
2 13 (16.67%) SQL
3 11 (14.10%) JavaScript
4 10 (12.82%) C#
4 10 (12.82%) Python
5 8 (10.26%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.85%) Bash
6 3 (3.85%) Groovy
6 3 (3.85%) PL/SQL
6 3 (3.85%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.56%) Perl
8 1 (1.28%) XAML
Qualifications
1 15 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.82%) Degree
2 10 (12.82%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (6.41%) MCP
5 3 (3.85%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.56%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.28%) APMG
7 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.28%) CSPO
7 1 (1.28%) HND
7 1 (1.28%) IBM Certification
7 1 (1.28%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.28%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.28%) PMP
7 1 (1.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (1.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.10%) QA
2 5 (6.41%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (6.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (3.85%) PMO
4 2 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.28%) PMBOK
5 1 (1.28%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (16.67%) Docker
2 6 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.56%) Postfix
4 1 (1.28%) Firmware
4 1 (1.28%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (6.41%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.85%) Ansible
2 3 (3.85%) Grafana
2 3 (3.85%) Progress Chef
2 3 (3.85%) Prometheus
2 3 (3.85%) Puppet
2 3 (3.85%) SCOM
3 2 (2.56%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.28%) SCCM
4 1 (1.28%) SCOrch
4 1 (1.28%) SCSM
4 1 (1.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.69%) Atlassian
2 6 (7.69%) Oracle
3 3 (3.85%) SAP
3 3 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.56%) ArcSight
4 2 (2.56%) Guidewire
4 2 (2.56%) HP
4 2 (2.56%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (2.56%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.56%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.56%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.56%) Splunk
5 1 (1.28%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.28%) IBM
5 1 (1.28%) Mentor Graphics
5 1 (1.28%) VMware
5 1 (1.28%) Workday
5 1 (1.28%) Xilinx