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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 140 107
Rank change year-on-year -21 -33 -60
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 96 96 300
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.74% 1.77% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 2.05% 2.78%
Number of salaries quoted 50 70 219
10th Percentile £36,472 £46,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,188 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +23.81% -8.70%
75th Percentile £67,813 £73,750 £68,125
90th Percentile £75,238 £77,500 £82,993
England median annual salary £67,500 £68,513 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.48% +14.19% -7.69%

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 9,049 4,687 10,781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.68% 86.60% 79.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,411 2,756 7,333
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% +2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,781 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 6 July 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 6 July 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 -23 72 £60,000 -0.41% 36
East Midlands -20 23 £63,500 -5.93% 17
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 5 (5.21%) Confluence
2 3 (3.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.04%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.08%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.04%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.04%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.04%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.04%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.04%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (1.04%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (52.08%) Azure
2 28 (29.17%) AWS
3 18 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (10.42%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.21%) GitHub
5 5 (5.21%) GitHub Copilot
5 5 (5.21%) SaaS
6 4 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.08%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.08%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.04%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.04%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.04%) GCP
8 1 (1.04%) Lucidchart
8 1 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.04%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.42%) Power BI
2 9 (9.38%) MongoDB
3 8 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.04%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.04%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.04%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (11.46%) JIRA
2 10 (10.42%) JUnit
2 10 (10.42%) Maven
2 10 (10.42%) Mockito
3 7 (7.29%) Git
4 4 (4.17%) XCUITest
5 3 (3.13%) GitLab
6 2 (2.08%) Postman
6 2 (2.08%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.04%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.04%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.04%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.04%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.04%) JMeter
7 1 (1.04%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.04%) NUnit
7 1 (1.04%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.04%) Selenium
General
1 32 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 24 (25.00%) Finance
3 21 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (13.54%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.29%) Retail
6 6 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.13%) Law
7 3 (3.13%) Marketing
8 2 (2.08%) Legal
8 2 (2.08%) Social Housing
9 1 (1.04%) Banking
9 1 (1.04%) Electronics
9 1 (1.04%) Games
9 1 (1.04%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.04%) iGaming
9 1 (1.04%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (29.17%) Developer
2 20 (20.83%) Senior
3 17 (17.71%) Lead
4 10 (10.42%) Delivery Manager
4 10 (10.42%) Senior Developer
5 8 (8.33%) .NET Developer
5 8 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 8 (8.33%) Scrum Master
6 7 (7.29%) Lead Developer
6 7 (7.29%) Project Manager
7 6 (6.25%) Analyst
7 6 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Manager
7 6 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (6.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 5 (5.21%) Business Analyst
8 5 (5.21%) Lead Java Developer
8 5 (5.21%) Release Engineer
8 5 (5.21%) Release Train Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Java Team Leader
9 4 (4.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (20.83%) React
2 12 (12.50%) REST
2 12 (12.50%) Spring
3 10 (10.42%) .NET
3 10 (10.42%) .NET Core
4 9 (9.38%) Node.js
5 8 (8.33%) ASP.NET
5 8 (8.33%) ASP.NET Core
6 7 (7.29%) RESTful
7 6 (6.25%) AngularJS
7 6 (6.25%) Vue
8 5 (5.21%) Playwright
9 4 (4.17%) ASP.NET Web API
9 4 (4.17%) SwiftUI
10 3 (3.13%) Blazor
11 2 (2.08%) HTML
11 2 (2.08%) Spring Boot
11 2 (2.08%) Web Services
12 1 (1.04%) XML
12 1 (1.04%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.33%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.21%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.08%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.08%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.04%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.04%) CMDB
7 1 (1.04%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.04%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.50%) Linux
2 6 (6.25%) Windows
3 4 (4.17%) Apple iOS
3 4 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (90.63%) Agile
2 35 (36.46%) CI/CD
3 30 (31.25%) Coaching
3 30 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 28 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (26.04%) DevOps
6 24 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 23 (23.96%) TDD
8 22 (22.92%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (20.83%) Microservices
10 19 (19.79%) Kanban
11 18 (18.75%) Sprint Planning
12 16 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
13 15 (15.63%) AI
14 14 (14.58%) Release Train
14 14 (14.58%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 13 (13.54%) SDLC
15 13 (13.54%) Technical Leadership
15 13 (13.54%) User Stories
16 12 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (29.17%) SQL
2 20 (20.83%) JavaScript
3 19 (19.79%) Java
4 12 (12.50%) C#
5 10 (10.42%) PL/SQL
5 10 (10.42%) TypeScript
6 7 (7.29%) Bash
7 6 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (4.17%) Swift
9 2 (2.08%) C
9 2 (2.08%) C++
9 2 (2.08%) Python
10 1 (1.04%) Embedded C
10 1 (1.04%) MATLAB
10 1 (1.04%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.04%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (19.79%) Security Cleared
2 15 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.38%) Degree
4 6 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.13%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.04%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.04%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (21.88%) QA
2 8 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.17%) GDPR
4 1 (1.04%) GRC
4 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.04%) NIST
4 1 (1.04%) PMO
4 1 (1.04%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.04%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.04%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.04%) Argo
2 1 (1.04%) Grafana
2 1 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (19.79%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.42%) Oracle
3 6 (6.25%) Databricks
4 4 (4.17%) Apple
4 4 (4.17%) Pega
5 3 (3.13%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.08%) IFS
7 1 (1.04%) Adobe
7 1 (1.04%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.04%) Infor
7 1 (1.04%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.04%) Planon
7 1 (1.04%) SAP
7 1 (1.04%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.04%) Splunk