Scrum Job Trends in the South West

Scrum
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Scrum skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 61 37
Rank change year-on-year -60 -24 -1
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 60 162 302
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.19% 3.90% 6.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 4.56% 7.07%
Number of salaries quoted 36 93 260
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £31,500
25th Percentile £46,875 £45,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.79%
75th Percentile £72,750 £76,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £86,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £63,250
% change year-on-year - +2.77% -6.30%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,620 3,550 4,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.51% 85.42% 89.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,491 1,780 3,234
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,450 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,875 £40,236 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,439 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% +3.69% +2.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £81,100
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 West

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

Scrum job vacancy trend in the South West

Scrum
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Scrum

Scrum
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the South West over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Scrum in the South West

Scrum
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the South West region over the 6 months to 13 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
Bristol -2 24 £57,500 +6.98% 18
Gloucestershire -5 15 £65,000 -3.70% 23
Somerset -16 7 £35,000 -28.21% 16
Dorset -20 7 £65,000 +30.00% 7
Devon 0 2 £52,500 -12.50% 9
Cornwall -14 2 - - 8
Wiltshire -28 1 £42,500 -45.16% 8
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 13 (21.67%) Confluence
2 4 (6.67%) Apache
3 2 (3.33%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (5.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 17 (28.33%) AWS
2 12 (20.00%) Azure
3 8 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (11.67%) Amazon S3
5 6 (10.00%) SaaS
6 5 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (8.33%) Serverless
7 3 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (5.00%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.33%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (3.33%) GitHub
8 2 (3.33%) iPaaS
8 2 (3.33%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.67%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 1 (1.67%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (1.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) Broadband
2 2 (3.33%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 7 (11.67%) MongoDB
3 6 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (5.00%) MySQL
5 3 (5.00%) Power BI
6 2 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.33%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.33%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.67%) DB2
7 1 (1.67%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 11 (18.33%) JIRA
2 10 (16.67%) Git
3 6 (10.00%) GitLab
4 5 (8.33%) Jenkins
5 4 (6.67%) Bitbucket
5 4 (6.67%) JUnit
6 3 (5.00%) Subversion
6 3 (5.00%) TeamCity
7 2 (3.33%) DBeaver
7 2 (3.33%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.67%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.67%) Gradle
8 1 (1.67%) Postman
8 1 (1.67%) Selenium
General
1 16 (26.67%) Finance
2 11 (18.33%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (13.33%) Aerospace
5 6 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 5 (8.33%) Telecoms
7 4 (6.67%) Electronics
7 4 (6.67%) Manufacturing
7 4 (6.67%) Marketing
8 2 (3.33%) Social Housing
8 2 (3.33%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.67%) Games
9 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (15.00%) Developer
1 9 (15.00%) Lead
1 9 (15.00%) Software Engineer
2 7 (11.67%) Senior
3 6 (10.00%) Analyst
3 6 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (10.00%) Tester
4 5 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 5 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 4 (6.67%) Manual Tester
6 3 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (5.00%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (5.00%) Software Tester
7 2 (3.33%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
7 2 (3.33%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
7 2 (3.33%) Java Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Product Owner
7 2 (3.33%) Scala Developer
7 2 (3.33%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.67%) React
2 8 (13.33%) Spring
3 6 (10.00%) Spring Boot
4 4 (6.67%) .NET
4 4 (6.67%) Apache NiFi
4 4 (6.67%) Hibernate
4 4 (6.67%) JSF
5 3 (5.00%) Akka
5 3 (5.00%) Kafka
5 3 (5.00%) PrimeFaces
5 3 (5.00%) Spring MVC
6 2 (3.33%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.33%) CSS
6 2 (3.33%) HTML
6 2 (3.33%) J2EE
6 2 (3.33%) Middleware
6 2 (3.33%) RESTful
6 2 (3.33%) ZeroMQ
7 1 (1.67%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.67%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.00%) IoT
3 3 (5.00%) Over-the-Top Content
3 3 (5.00%) Video\Live Streaming
4 2 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.33%) PMI
4 2 (3.33%) Smart Home
5 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.67%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (91.67%) Agile
2 23 (38.33%) Kanban
3 22 (36.67%) DevOps
4 15 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 14 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (21.67%) Software Engineering
7 12 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 12 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
8 8 (13.33%) API Testing
8 8 (13.33%) Collaborative Culture
8 8 (13.33%) Mentoring
8 8 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (13.33%) Regression Testing
8 8 (13.33%) SDLC
8 8 (13.33%) Sprint Retrospective
8 8 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (13.33%) User Stories
9 7 (11.67%) Acceptance Criteria
9 7 (11.67%) Coaching
9 7 (11.67%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 18 (30.00%) Java
2 17 (28.33%) Python
3 16 (26.67%) SQL
4 13 (21.67%) JavaScript
5 9 (15.00%) TypeScript
6 6 (10.00%) Bash
6 6 (10.00%) C++
7 3 (5.00%) Go
7 3 (5.00%) Scala
8 2 (3.33%) C#
9 1 (1.67%) C
Qualifications
1 19 (31.67%) Security Cleared
2 13 (21.67%) DV Cleared
3 8 (13.33%) ISTQB
4 7 (11.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 6 (10.00%) Degree
6 4 (6.67%) SC Cleared
7 3 (5.00%) PMI Certification
8 2 (3.33%) CBAP
8 2 (3.33%) CCNA
8 2 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (3.33%) IIBA
9 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.67%) PMP
9 1 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.00%) QA
2 2 (3.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (21.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.33%) Kibana
3 3 (5.00%) Argo
3 3 (5.00%) Rancher
3 3 (5.00%) yum
4 2 (3.33%) Terraform
5 1 (1.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (11.67%) Oracle
2 5 (8.33%) Atlassian
3 4 (6.67%) SAP
4 3 (5.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.33%) Cisco
5 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow