Scrum Job Trends in the South East

Scrum
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Scrum skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 144 97
Rank change year-on-year +23 -47 -39
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 229 165 441
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.46% 1.93% 2.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 2.18% 3.17%
Number of salaries quoted 180 82 320
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,450
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,031 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,625 £87,500 £91,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +12.50% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,261 7,577 13,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.92% 88.68% 81.68%
Number of salaries quoted 8,004 3,964 9,702
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
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 South East

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

Scrum job vacancy trend in the South East

Scrum
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Scrum.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Scrum

Scrum
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the South East over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Scrum in the South East

Scrum
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 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
Thames Valley +4 77 £75,000 +20.00% 20
Hampshire -9 55 £67,500 +12.50% 18
Buckinghamshire +16 38 £75,000 - 5
Surrey -9 35 £60,000 -7.69% 15
Kent -5 22 £55,000 +46.67% 2
West Sussex -12 22 £57,500 -13.21% 4
Berkshire -23 20 £50,000 -31.03% 10
Oxfordshire -3 19 £85,000 +64.25% 5
East Sussex +2 17 £50,000 -48.72% 2
Middlesex +31 1 - -
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 11 (4.80%) Confluence
2 7 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.18%) Apache
3 5 (2.18%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.87%) Apache Qpid
4 2 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.87%) IIS
4 2 (0.87%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.87%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.44%) CMS
5 1 (0.44%) JBoss
5 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.44%) SAS
5 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.31%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.44%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.44%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 98 (42.79%) Azure
2 86 (37.55%) AWS
3 29 (12.66%) GitHub
4 25 (10.92%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (9.17%) GitHub Copilot
6 20 (8.73%) GCP
7 16 (6.99%) Serverless
8 11 (4.80%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (4.37%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (3.93%) Power Platform
11 8 (3.49%) Amazon S3
12 7 (3.06%) Power Automate
12 7 (3.06%) PowerApps
13 6 (2.62%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (2.62%) SaaS
14 5 (2.18%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (1.75%) Figma
15 4 (1.75%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.93%) MQTT
2 5 (2.18%) Firewall
2 5 (2.18%) VoIP
3 4 (1.75%) LAN
3 4 (1.75%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.75%) WAN
4 3 (1.31%) DHCP
4 3 (1.31%) DNS
5 2 (0.87%) ATM
6 1 (0.44%) Asterisk PBX
6 1 (0.44%) Broadband
6 1 (0.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (18.78%) MongoDB
2 39 (17.03%) Azure SQL Database
2 39 (17.03%) Elasticsearch
3 18 (7.86%) Relational Database
4 15 (6.55%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (5.24%) Metadata
6 11 (4.80%) MySQL
7 10 (4.37%) SQL Server
8 8 (3.49%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.31%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.31%) Power BI
10 3 (1.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.87%) Apache Hive
11 2 (0.87%) Impala
11 2 (0.87%) Parquet
11 2 (0.87%) Redis
11 2 (0.87%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (20.52%) Git
2 34 (14.85%) JIRA
3 31 (13.54%) GitLab
4 19 (8.30%) Visual Studio Code
5 16 (6.99%) Jenkins
6 6 (2.62%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.62%) Cypress.io
6 6 (2.62%) Zephyr
7 4 (1.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.31%) JMeter
8 3 (1.31%) JUnit
8 3 (1.31%) Selenium
9 2 (0.87%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.87%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (0.87%) Mockito
9 2 (0.87%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.87%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.44%) Eclipse RCP
10 1 (0.44%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.44%) ScriptRunner
General
1 68 (29.69%) Social Skills
2 42 (18.34%) Finance
3 29 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (10.04%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.68%) Law
6 11 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.37%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.62%) Retail
9 4 (1.75%) Banking
10 3 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.31%) Legal
10 3 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.87%) Advertising
11 2 (0.87%) Games
11 2 (0.87%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.87%) Social Housing
11 2 (0.87%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.44%) Automotive
12 1 (0.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 78 (34.06%) Developer
2 40 (17.47%) .NET Developer
3 30 (13.10%) Software Engineer
4 27 (11.79%) Senior
5 26 (11.35%) Analyst
6 19 (8.30%) Lead
7 17 (7.42%) Architect
8 14 (6.11%) Business Analyst
9 12 (5.24%) Data Engineer
9 12 (5.24%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (4.37%) Java Developer
10 10 (4.37%) JavaScript Developer
11 9 (3.93%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (3.49%) Senior Analyst
13 7 (3.06%) Data Architect
13 7 (3.06%) Head of IT
13 7 (3.06%) Test Analyst
14 6 (2.62%) Product Manager
14 6 (2.62%) Senior Business Analyst
15 5 (2.18%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (24.45%) .NET
2 55 (24.02%) React
3 47 (20.52%) ASP.NET
3 47 (20.52%) Node.js
4 45 (19.65%) ASP.NET Core
5 43 (18.78%) AngularJS
6 42 (18.34%) .NET Core
7 25 (10.92%) Vue
8 23 (10.04%) ASP.NET Web API
9 22 (9.61%) .NET Framework
10 17 (7.42%) HTML
11 15 (6.55%) REST
12 14 (6.11%) Blazor
12 14 (6.11%) Kafka
13 13 (5.68%) jQuery
14 12 (5.24%) CSS
15 11 (4.80%) Spring
16 9 (3.93%) RESTful
16 9 (3.93%) Spring Boot
16 9 (3.93%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 59 (25.76%) Product Ownership
2 16 (6.99%) Algorithms
3 12 (5.24%) Virtual Team
4 11 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.93%) Cloud Native
6 8 (3.49%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.62%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (2.62%) Life Science
8 6 (2.62%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (2.18%) Robotics
10 4 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.75%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.75%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.31%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.31%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.31%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 25 (10.92%) Linux
2 5 (2.18%) Debian
3 4 (1.75%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.31%) Windows
5 1 (0.44%) Android
5 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (98.25%) Agile
2 113 (49.34%) Kanban
3 77 (33.62%) DevOps
4 73 (31.88%) CI/CD
5 67 (29.26%) Microservices
6 65 (28.38%) TDD
7 61 (26.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 48 (20.96%) Full-Stack Development
9 47 (20.52%) Computer Science
10 46 (20.09%) Problem-Solving
11 42 (18.34%) BDD
12 40 (17.47%) Software Engineering
13 33 (14.41%) SDLC
14 32 (13.97%) Software Testing
15 31 (13.54%) User Stories
16 28 (12.23%) Mentoring
17 24 (10.48%) Analytics
18 23 (10.04%) Containerisation
19 22 (9.61%) Scaled Agile Framework
20 21 (9.17%) AI
Programming Languages
1 69 (30.13%) SQL
2 68 (29.69%) C#
3 55 (24.02%) Python
4 53 (23.14%) JavaScript
5 35 (15.28%) TypeScript
6 33 (14.41%) Java
7 18 (7.86%) C++
8 11 (4.80%) Rust
9 10 (4.37%) PHP
9 10 (4.37%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.18%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.75%) Bash
11 4 (1.75%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.75%) Ruby
11 4 (1.75%) Scala
11 4 (1.75%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.31%) C
13 2 (0.87%) Ada
13 2 (0.87%) Groovy
13 2 (0.87%) R
Qualifications
1 68 (29.69%) Degree
2 47 (20.52%) Security Cleared
3 39 (17.03%) SC Cleared
4 22 (9.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (6.99%) Master's Degree
6 9 (3.93%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.62%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.31%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.87%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (15.72%) QA
2 8 (3.49%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.18%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.75%) GDPR
5 3 (1.31%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.31%) ISO 8583
5 3 (1.31%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.31%) WCAG
6 2 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.87%) PMO
7 1 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
System Software
1 56 (24.45%) Docker
2 3 (1.31%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.31%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 47 (20.52%) Kubernetes
2 18 (7.86%) Ansible
3 17 (7.42%) Terraform
4 7 (3.06%) Grafana
4 7 (3.06%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.62%) Kibana
6 1 (0.44%) Podman
6 1 (0.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 54 (23.58%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.37%) Oracle
3 7 (3.06%) Google
3 7 (3.06%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.62%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.18%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.75%) Databricks
6 4 (1.75%) IBM
6 4 (1.75%) VMware
7 3 (1.31%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.31%) Infor
7 3 (1.31%) Splunk
8 2 (0.87%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.87%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.87%) SAP
8 2 (0.87%) Yahoo!
9 1 (0.44%) Cisco
9 1 (0.44%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.44%) Veracode
9 1 (0.44%) Workday