Scrum Job Trends in Scotland

Scrum
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Scrum skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 85 88
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 -55
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 65 54 271
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.99% 2.77% 4.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.80% 2.97% 4.67%
Number of salaries quoted 27 30 79
10th Percentile £46,250 £49,118 £34,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.64% +17.50% -17.22%
75th Percentile £67,500 £81,875 £63,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £93,778 £74,008
UK median annual salary £67,136 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% +8.33% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,318 1,817 5,807
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.80% 93.28% 92.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,284 845 2,383
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £28,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,000 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Scrum job vacancy trend in Scotland

Scrum
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Scrum.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Scrum

Scrum
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Scotland over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Scrum in Scotland

Scrum
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 15 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 Lothian - 24 £65,000 -
Edinburgh -22 12 £50,000 -13.04% 15
Stirling - 9 - -
Fife +2 6 - -
Lanarkshire - 5 - - 4
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Glasgow -24 2 - - 11
Midlothian - 1 - - 10
Aberdeen - 1 - - 2
Scrum
UK

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (9.23%) Confluence
2 1 (1.54%) Apache
2 1 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.54%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (6.15%) Azure
2 3 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.08%) Figma
3 2 (3.08%) Firebase
3 2 (3.08%) GCP
3 2 (3.08%) GitHub
3 2 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (3.08%) Miro
4 1 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (1.54%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.54%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (1.54%) AWS
4 1 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.54%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.54%) Google Play
4 1 (1.54%) SaaS
4 1 (1.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 35 (53.85%) Broadband
2 14 (21.54%) Ethernet
2 14 (21.54%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 34 (52.31%) Jenkins
2 32 (49.23%) GitLab
2 32 (49.23%) SonarQube
3 8 (12.31%) JIRA
4 3 (4.62%) fastlane
4 3 (4.62%) Postman
5 2 (3.08%) Xcode
6 1 (1.54%) Android Studio
6 1 (1.54%) Appium
6 1 (1.54%) Crashlytics
6 1 (1.54%) Git
6 1 (1.54%) Gradle
6 1 (1.54%) MLflow
6 1 (1.54%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.54%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.54%) TestRail
6 1 (1.54%) XCTest
6 1 (1.54%) Zephyr
General
1 41 (63.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 32 (49.23%) Games
2 32 (49.23%) Marketing
3 8 (12.31%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.69%) Finance
5 4 (6.15%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.54%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (49.23%) Architect
2 31 (47.69%) Salesforce Architect
3 24 (36.92%) Senior
4 18 (27.69%) Salesforce Technical Architect
4 18 (27.69%) Technical Architect
5 14 (21.54%) Embedded Engineer
5 14 (21.54%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 14 (21.54%) Senior Embedded Engineer
5 14 (21.54%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
5 14 (21.54%) Senior Software Engineer
5 14 (21.54%) Software Engineer
6 9 (13.85%) Salesforce Solution Architect
6 9 (13.85%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (9.23%) Analyst
8 5 (7.69%) Business Analyst
9 4 (6.15%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (6.15%) Project Manager
9 4 (6.15%) Systems Architect
10 3 (4.62%) Product Owner
10 3 (4.62%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (55.38%) REST
2 32 (49.23%) Lightning Web Components
2 32 (49.23%) SOAP
2 32 (49.23%) Visualforce
3 14 (21.54%) Yocto
4 3 (4.62%) RESTful
5 1 (1.54%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (1.54%) Android SDK
5 1 (1.54%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.54%) iOS SDK
5 1 (1.54%) NumPy
5 1 (1.54%) OAuth
5 1 (1.54%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.54%) OpenCV
5 1 (1.54%) Pandas
5 1 (1.54%) pytest
5 1 (1.54%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (1.54%) SwiftUI
5 1 (1.54%) UIKit
5 1 (1.54%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 39 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 14 (21.54%) Device Driver
3 3 (4.62%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.54%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.54%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 14 (21.54%) Embedded Linux
1 14 (21.54%) Linux
2 2 (3.08%) Android
2 2 (3.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (100.00%) Agile
2 37 (56.92%) DevOps
3 36 (55.38%) CI/CD
3 36 (55.38%) Technical Analysis
4 34 (52.31%) Roadmaps
5 33 (50.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 33 (50.77%) Event-Driven
5 33 (50.77%) OO
5 33 (50.77%) Technology Roadmap
6 32 (49.23%) Community of Practice
6 32 (49.23%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
6 32 (49.23%) Continuous Delivery
6 32 (49.23%) Continuous Integration
6 32 (49.23%) Design Patterns
6 32 (49.23%) PLM
6 32 (49.23%) Static Code Analysis
6 32 (49.23%) TOGAF
7 16 (24.62%) Software Engineering
8 9 (13.85%) Kanban
9 7 (10.77%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 32 (49.23%) Apex Code
1 32 (49.23%) SOQL
1 32 (49.23%) SOSL
2 14 (21.54%) C
2 14 (21.54%) C++
2 14 (21.54%) Embedded C
3 5 (7.69%) SQL
4 3 (4.62%) C#
4 3 (4.62%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.54%) Java
5 1 (1.54%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.54%) Python
5 1 (1.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (3.08%) PMI Certification
1 2 (3.08%) PMP
2 1 (1.54%) CSPO
2 1 (1.54%) Degree
2 1 (1.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (1.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (1.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.69%) QA
2 4 (6.15%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.62%) WCAG
4 1 (1.54%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (1.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.54%) Grafana
1 1 (1.54%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (50.77%) Salesforce
2 32 (49.23%) Splunk
3 3 (4.62%) Google
4 2 (3.08%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.08%) Pega
5 1 (1.54%) Apple
5 1 (1.54%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.54%) SAP