Scrum Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Scrum
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Scrum skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 28 55
Rank change year-on-year -39 +27 -26
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 4 7 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.43% 2.87% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 3.15% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76,250 £31,250 £92,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £32,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +138.46% -65.79% +80.95%
75th Percentile £78,750 £33,750 £97,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 708 222 454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 76.13% 90.98% 85.66%
Number of salaries quoted 298 54 293
10th Percentile - £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £35,584 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,500 £53,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.35% +2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,313 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,083 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,684 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.53% +8.52% -9.84%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Scrum relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Scrum job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Scrum
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Scrum.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Scrum

Scrum
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 17 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
County Antrim -28 4 £77,500 +138.46% 4
Scrum
UK

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Product Backlog
3 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (25.00%) Rapid Prototyping
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) T-SQL
1 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform