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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 117 88
Rank change year-on-year -61 -29 -61
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 80 106 310
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.63% 2.12% 2.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 2.38% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 39 76 254
10th Percentile £41,100 £42,865 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,875 £48,000 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +18.48% -4.09%
75th Percentile £69,000 £71,563 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £79,625
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,307 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.19% +8.85% -11.11%

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 9,279 4,450 9,456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 72.88% 89.05% 82.21%
Number of salaries quoted 5,517 2,601 7,118
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £61,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 1 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 1 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 -52 55 £60,000 - 32
East Midlands -48 24 £61,750 -5.00% 15
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 (6.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (5.00%) Confluence
3 2 (2.50%) SAS
4 1 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.25%) Sketch
1 1 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
1 1 (1.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (1.25%) Maximo
1 1 (1.25%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (46.25%) Azure
2 22 (27.50%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (16.25%) AWS
4 8 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 4 (5.00%) SaaS
6 2 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.50%) GCP
7 1 (1.25%) Asana
7 1 (1.25%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.25%) Figma
7 1 (1.25%) Lucidchart
7 1 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) Bluetooth
1 1 (1.25%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (1.25%) Data Mining
2 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.25%) MySQL
2 1 (1.25%) Pentaho
2 1 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.25%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 13 (16.25%) JIRA
2 11 (13.75%) Git
3 6 (7.50%) JUnit
3 6 (7.50%) Maven
3 6 (7.50%) Mockito
4 5 (6.25%) XCUITest
5 3 (3.75%) GitLab
6 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.50%) Postman
6 2 (2.50%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.25%) Balsamiq
7 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.25%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.25%) JMeter
7 1 (1.25%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.25%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.25%) Selenium
General
1 40 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 29 (36.25%) Finance
3 26 (32.50%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (15.00%) Public Sector
5 11 (13.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (10.00%) Retail
7 6 (7.50%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.75%) Banking
8 3 (3.75%) Marketing
8 3 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.50%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.25%) Games
10 1 (1.25%) iGaming
10 1 (1.25%) Legal
10 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (20.00%) Senior
2 13 (16.25%) Developer
2 13 (16.25%) Lead
3 12 (15.00%) Delivery Manager
4 9 (11.25%) Scrum Master
4 9 (11.25%) Senior Developer
5 7 (8.75%) Agile Scrum Master
5 7 (8.75%) Analyst
6 6 (7.50%) Business Analyst
6 6 (7.50%) Business Intelligence Manager
6 6 (7.50%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (7.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 6 (7.50%) Java Developer
6 6 (7.50%) Product Owner
6 6 (7.50%) Release Engineer
6 6 (7.50%) Release Train Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.75%) REST
2 6 (7.50%) RESTful
3 5 (6.25%) React
3 5 (6.25%) SwiftUI
4 3 (3.75%) Node.js
4 3 (3.75%) Spring
5 2 (2.50%) CSS
5 2 (2.50%) EDI
5 2 (2.50%) HTML
6 1 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.25%) JSON
6 1 (1.25%) Laravel
6 1 (1.25%) Playwright
6 1 (1.25%) Visualforce
6 1 (1.25%) XML
6 1 (1.25%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 20 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.75%) Mobile App
3 6 (7.50%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (6.25%) Management Information System
5 4 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.25%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.25%) CMDB
7 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.25%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.50%) Linux
2 5 (6.25%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.25%) Unix
3 1 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (92.50%) Agile
2 29 (36.25%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (35.00%) Coaching
4 27 (33.75%) DevOps
5 26 (32.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 23 (28.75%) CI/CD
7 20 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 19 (23.75%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (21.25%) Kanban
10 15 (18.75%) Release Train
11 14 (17.50%) Sprint Planning
11 14 (17.50%) User Stories
12 12 (15.00%) Backlog Refinement
12 12 (15.00%) Project Management
12 12 (15.00%) Technology Strategy
13 11 (13.75%) Analytics
13 11 (13.75%) Roadmaps
14 10 (12.50%) Data Modelling
14 10 (12.50%) SDLC
15 9 (11.25%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 15 (18.75%) SQL
2 11 (13.75%) Java
3 7 (8.75%) JavaScript
4 6 (7.50%) Bash
4 6 (7.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (7.50%) PL/SQL
5 5 (6.25%) Swift
6 4 (5.00%) C
6 4 (5.00%) R
6 4 (5.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.50%) Python
8 1 (1.25%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.25%) PHP
8 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (16.25%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.25%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.75%) Degree
4 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.50%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.50%) PMP
5 2 (2.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.25%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (32.50%) QA
2 5 (6.25%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.50%) GDPR
4 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.25%) GRC
4 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.25%) NIST
4 1 (1.25%) PMO
4 1 (1.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.25%) Argo
2 1 (1.25%) Grafana
2 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.75%) Oracle
3 6 (7.50%) Databricks
4 5 (6.25%) Apple
5 3 (3.75%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.50%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.25%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.25%) Conga
7 1 (1.25%) Denodo
7 1 (1.25%) IBM
7 1 (1.25%) IFS
7 1 (1.25%) Infor
7 1 (1.25%) Jitterbit
7 1 (1.25%) Pardot
7 1 (1.25%) Planon
7 1 (1.25%) SAP
7 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.25%) Splunk
7 1 (1.25%) Talend
7 1 (1.25%) Zend