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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 137 95
Rank change year-on-year -33 -42 -64
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 95 93 314
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.72% 1.86% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 2.08% 3.09%
Number of salaries quoted 46 66 250
10th Percentile £38,582 £45,625 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,563 £48,000 £43,747
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £66,719 £72,500 £67,188
90th Percentile £81,250 £75,625 £82,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £68,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.74% +13.33% -8.19%

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 9,602 4,475 10,147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 72.52% 89.52% 79.95%
Number of salaries quoted 5,873 2,450 7,406
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,968 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £49,943 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% +5.14% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,200
90th Percentile £83,100 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -35 69 £60,000 - 15
East Midlands -21 25 £61,750 -5.00% 13
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 (6.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (5.26%) Confluence
3 1 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.05%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.11%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.05%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.05%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.05%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.05%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.05%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (1.05%) Maximo
2 1 (1.05%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (52.63%) Azure
2 25 (26.32%) AWS
3 20 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (10.53%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.26%) SaaS
6 4 (4.21%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.11%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.11%) GitHub
7 2 (2.11%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.11%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.11%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.05%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.05%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.05%) Figma
8 1 (1.05%) GCP
8 1 (1.05%) Lucidchart
8 1 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.05%) Bluetooth
1 1 (1.05%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.53%) Power BI
2 4 (4.21%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.11%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (2.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.05%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.05%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.05%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 13 (13.68%) JUnit
1 13 (13.68%) Maven
1 13 (13.68%) Mockito
2 10 (10.53%) JIRA
3 9 (9.47%) Git
4 5 (5.26%) XCUITest
5 3 (3.16%) GitLab
6 2 (2.11%) Postman
6 2 (2.11%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.05%) Balsamiq
7 1 (1.05%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.05%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.05%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.05%) JMeter
7 1 (1.05%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.05%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.05%) Selenium
General
1 39 (41.05%) Social Skills
2 34 (35.79%) Finance
3 23 (24.21%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (12.63%) Public Sector
5 9 (9.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (7.37%) Retail
7 6 (6.32%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.16%) Marketing
8 3 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.11%) Law
9 2 (2.11%) Legal
9 2 (2.11%) Social Housing
10 1 (1.05%) Banking
10 1 (1.05%) Games
10 1 (1.05%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.05%) iGaming
10 1 (1.05%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 25 (26.32%) Developer
2 19 (20.00%) Senior
3 18 (18.95%) Lead
4 12 (12.63%) Delivery Manager
4 12 (12.63%) Senior Developer
5 10 (10.53%) Scrum Master
6 9 (9.47%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (9.47%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 9 (9.47%) Java Developer
7 7 (7.37%) Agile Scrum Master
8 6 (6.32%) Analyst
8 6 (6.32%) Business Intelligence Manager
8 6 (6.32%) Lead Developer
8 6 (6.32%) Release Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Release Train Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (6.32%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (5.26%) Business Analyst
9 5 (5.26%) Product Owner
9 5 (5.26%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.95%) React
2 15 (15.79%) REST
3 12 (12.63%) Spring
4 8 (8.42%) RESTful
5 5 (5.26%) Playwright
5 5 (5.26%) SwiftUI
6 4 (4.21%) .NET
6 4 (4.21%) .NET Core
6 4 (4.21%) Node.js
7 3 (3.16%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.16%) ASP.NET
7 3 (3.16%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (3.16%) Vue
8 2 (2.11%) EDI
8 2 (2.11%) HTML
8 2 (2.11%) Spring Boot
8 2 (2.11%) Web Services
9 1 (1.05%) JSON
9 1 (1.05%) XML
9 1 (1.05%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.95%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.42%) Mobile App
2 8 (8.42%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.21%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (4.21%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.05%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.05%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.05%) CMDB
6 1 (1.05%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.05%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.05%) NHS
6 1 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.63%) Linux
2 5 (5.26%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.16%) Windows
4 1 (1.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (92.63%) Agile
2 34 (35.79%) CI/CD
3 32 (33.68%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 29 (30.53%) Coaching
6 24 (25.26%) DevOps
7 23 (24.21%) Stakeholder Management
8 21 (22.11%) Sprint Planning
9 20 (21.05%) TDD
10 18 (18.95%) Mentoring
10 18 (18.95%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 17 (17.89%) Kanban
11 17 (17.89%) Microservices
12 15 (15.79%) AI
12 15 (15.79%) Release Train
12 15 (15.79%) SDLC
12 15 (15.79%) Unit Testing
13 14 (14.74%) Full-Stack Development
13 14 (14.74%) User Stories
14 12 (12.63%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 25 (26.32%) SQL
2 20 (21.05%) Java
3 19 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 13 (13.68%) PL/SQL
5 10 (10.53%) Bash
6 7 (7.37%) TypeScript
7 6 (6.32%) C#
7 6 (6.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (5.26%) Swift
9 4 (4.21%) C
9 4 (4.21%) R
10 2 (2.11%) C++
10 2 (2.11%) Python
11 1 (1.05%) Apex Code
11 1 (1.05%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (23.16%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.95%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.42%) Degree
4 6 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.21%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.05%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.05%) IBM Certification
7 1 (1.05%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (28.42%) QA
2 8 (8.42%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.21%) GDPR
4 1 (1.05%) GRC
4 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.05%) NIST
4 1 (1.05%) PMO
4 1 (1.05%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (16.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (16.84%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.05%) Argo
2 1 (1.05%) Grafana
2 1 (1.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (17.89%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.68%) Oracle
3 6 (6.32%) Databricks
4 5 (5.26%) Apple
5 3 (3.16%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.11%) IFS
7 1 (1.05%) Adobe
7 1 (1.05%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.05%) Conga
7 1 (1.05%) IBM
7 1 (1.05%) Infor
7 1 (1.05%) Jitterbit
7 1 (1.05%) Pardot
7 1 (1.05%) Pega
7 1 (1.05%) Planon
7 1 (1.05%) SAP
7 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.05%) Splunk