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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 51 65
Rank change year-on-year -63 +14 -40
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 172 447 334
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.66% 4.98% 3.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 5.65% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 138 177 227
10th Percentile £33,450 £47,500 £43,250
25th Percentile £44,063 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £66,788 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.39% +11.31% -4.00%
75th Percentile £69,688 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £81,125 £96,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%

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 8,324 7,915 7,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.21% 88.16% 88.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,975 3,773 5,421
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 -65 54 £53,000 -18.46% 47
Hampshire -25 41 £60,000 -14.29% 29
Surrey -30 29 £42,500 -34.62% 25
Buckinghamshire +11 25 £65,000 +1.96% 12
Berkshire -65 25 £45,000 -23.89% 24
East Sussex +15 19 £52,500 +5.00% 13
West Sussex -6 15 £62,500 -7.41% 14
Kent -57 15 £37,500 -50.00% 25
Oxfordshire -14 4 £60,000 -14.29% 11
Middlesex +4 3 £37,500 - 10
Sussex +2 2 £55,000 -
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 6 (3.49%) Confluence
1 6 (3.49%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.16%) CMS
3 1 (0.58%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 57 (33.14%) Azure
2 34 (19.77%) AWS
3 32 (18.60%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (5.23%) Power Platform
5 7 (4.07%) GCP
5 7 (4.07%) GitHub
5 7 (4.07%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (3.49%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (3.49%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (3.49%) Amazon S3
6 6 (3.49%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (3.49%) Serverless
7 4 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (2.33%) Google Ads
7 4 (2.33%) SaaS
8 3 (1.74%) Collibra
8 3 (1.74%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.16%) dbt
9 2 (1.16%) Fivetran
9 2 (1.16%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.98%) DNS
2 3 (1.74%) HTTP
3 1 (0.58%) GPRS
3 1 (0.58%) LTE
3 1 (0.58%) Modbus
3 1 (0.58%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.72%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.07%) Power BI
3 7 (4.07%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.74%) Data Mining
6 3 (1.74%) Metadata
6 3 (1.74%) SAP BW
6 3 (1.74%) SAP HANA
7 2 (1.16%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.16%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.16%) Looker
7 2 (1.16%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.58%) DB2
8 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.58%) MySQL
8 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 49 (28.49%) JIRA
2 46 (26.74%) Selenium
3 39 (22.67%) Postman
4 37 (21.51%) Git
5 33 (19.19%) SoapUI
5 33 (19.19%) Team Foundation Server
6 30 (17.44%) WebDriver
7 15 (8.72%) Robot Framework
7 15 (8.72%) Snyk
8 12 (6.98%) Jenkins
9 5 (2.91%) GitLab
10 3 (1.74%) ERwin
10 3 (1.74%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (1.16%) Charles Proxy
11 2 (1.16%) Fiddler
11 2 (1.16%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.16%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.16%) TestRail
12 1 (0.58%) mountebank
General
1 89 (51.74%) Social Skills
2 44 (25.58%) Finance
3 31 (18.02%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.23%) Marketing
5 8 (4.65%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.07%) Legal
7 6 (3.49%) Advertising
7 6 (3.49%) Law
7 6 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.33%) Banking
9 3 (1.74%) Automotive
9 3 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.74%) Publishing
10 2 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.58%) Electronics
11 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.58%) Games
11 1 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (21.51%) Analyst
2 31 (18.02%) Developer
3 30 (17.44%) Test Analyst
4 25 (14.53%) Senior
5 23 (13.37%) Lead
6 13 (7.56%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (6.40%) .NET Developer
7 11 (6.40%) Product Manager
7 11 (6.40%) Product Owner
7 11 (6.40%) Senior Analyst
8 10 (5.81%) Senior Test Analyst
9 9 (5.23%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 9 (5.23%) JavaScript Developer
9 9 (5.23%) Software Engineer
10 8 (4.65%) Delivery Manager
10 8 (4.65%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 6 (3.49%) Java Developer
12 5 (2.91%) Business Analyst
12 5 (2.91%) Senior Software Engineer
12 5 (2.91%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (33.14%) .NET
2 46 (26.74%) HTML
3 37 (21.51%) SOAP
4 23 (13.37%) React
5 16 (9.30%) REST
6 14 (8.14%) AngularJS
7 13 (7.56%) CSS
8 12 (6.98%) ASP.NET
9 10 (5.81%) RESTful
10 9 (5.23%) jQuery
10 9 (5.23%) Kafka
11 8 (4.65%) ASP.NET Core
12 6 (3.49%) .NET Framework
12 6 (3.49%) Elastic Stack
12 6 (3.49%) Mustache
12 6 (3.49%) Node.js
12 6 (3.49%) Spring
12 6 (3.49%) Spring Boot
12 6 (3.49%) Web Services
13 5 (2.91%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 49 (28.49%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.49%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.33%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.74%) N-Tier
7 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.16%) Life Science
7 2 (1.16%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.58%) CMDB
8 1 (0.58%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.58%) IoT
8 1 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.58%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.58%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.58%) NB-IoT
8 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.58%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.63%) Windows
2 17 (9.88%) Linux
3 4 (2.33%) Android
4 3 (1.74%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (91.86%) Agile
2 60 (34.88%) Mentoring
3 56 (32.56%) CI/CD
4 51 (29.65%) Test Management
5 48 (27.91%) DevOps
6 47 (27.33%) Software Testing
7 44 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (22.09%) Roadmaps
9 35 (20.35%) API Testing
10 33 (19.19%) Cross-Browser Testing
10 33 (19.19%) Non-Functional Testing
11 31 (18.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (18.02%) Test Scripting
12 29 (16.86%) Kanban
13 23 (13.37%) Logistics
13 23 (13.37%) Test Automation
14 22 (12.79%) Infrastructure as Code
15 21 (12.21%) TDD
16 19 (11.05%) Sprint Planning
17 18 (10.47%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 66 (38.37%) SQL
2 57 (33.14%) C#
3 43 (25.00%) Java
4 22 (12.79%) JavaScript
5 7 (4.07%) Python
6 6 (3.49%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.74%) C
7 3 (1.74%) C++
8 2 (1.16%) Go
9 1 (0.58%) Delphi
9 1 (0.58%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.58%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.58%) Swift
9 1 (0.58%) VB
9 1 (0.58%) VB6
Qualifications
1 52 (30.23%) Degree
2 36 (20.93%) ISTQB
3 30 (17.44%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 27 (15.70%) Security Cleared
5 21 (12.21%) DV Cleared
6 9 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (4.65%) SC Cleared
8 6 (3.49%) ISEB
9 5 (2.91%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.74%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.74%) PMP
10 3 (1.74%) SAP Certification
11 2 (1.16%) APMP
11 2 (1.16%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.58%) Six Sigma Black Belt
12 1 (0.58%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.63%) QA
2 7 (4.07%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.49%) Software Quality Assurance
4 5 (2.91%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.16%) ECSS
5 2 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.16%) SLA
6 1 (0.58%) GDPR
6 1 (0.58%) GRC
6 1 (0.58%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 13 (7.56%) Docker
2 2 (1.16%) vCloud
3 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.58%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (11.63%) Ansible
2 18 (10.47%) Terraform
3 13 (7.56%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.74%) ZABBIX
5 2 (1.16%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (1.16%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (12.21%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.72%) Black Duck
2 15 (8.72%) Coverity
3 4 (2.33%) Oracle
3 4 (2.33%) SAP
3 4 (2.33%) Telerik
4 3 (1.74%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.16%) Databricks
5 2 (1.16%) Google
5 2 (1.16%) Roku
5 2 (1.16%) VMware
6 1 (0.58%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.58%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.58%) Okta
6 1 (0.58%) ServiceNow