Scrum Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Scrum
South East > Thames Valley

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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 127 85
Rank change year-on-year +7 -42 -31
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 78 75 125
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.11% 1.93% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 2.15% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 54 31 49
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £49,063 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £70,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% +22.81% -6.25%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £94,500 £82,500 £72,500
South East median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +2.63%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,918 3,484 4,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.10% 89.47% 81.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,509 1,476 2,230
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £53,050
% change year-on-year +10.00% -5.75% -3.55%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Scrum job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Scrum
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Scrum.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Scrum

Scrum
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 6 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Scrum in the Thames Valley

Scrum
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 6 September 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
Buckinghamshire +15 36 £75,000 - 10
Berkshire -11 22 £50,000 -20.00% 16
Oxfordshire -22 20 £62,500 +8.70% 13
Scrum
South East

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (2.56%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.28%) Apache
2 1 (1.28%) CMS
2 1 (1.28%) Confluence
2 1 (1.28%) IIS
2 1 (1.28%) JBoss
2 1 (1.28%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (1.28%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.56%) SAP BPC
1 2 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.28%) Finacle
2 1 (1.28%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.28%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 38 (48.72%) Azure
2 31 (39.74%) AWS
3 14 (17.95%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (12.82%) Serverless
5 9 (11.54%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (11.54%) Power Platform
6 8 (10.26%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (10.26%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (8.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (8.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (5.13%) GitHub
8 4 (5.13%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (5.13%) Google Analytics
9 3 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.85%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (2.56%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.85%) DHCP
1 3 (3.85%) DNS
1 3 (3.85%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (23.08%) Azure SQL Database
1 18 (23.08%) MongoDB
2 13 (16.67%) Metadata
3 12 (15.38%) Relational Database
4 11 (14.10%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (14.10%) SQL Server
5 10 (12.82%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (11.54%) NoSQL
6 9 (11.54%) Power BI
7 7 (8.97%) Amazon QuickSight
7 7 (8.97%) DynamoDB
7 7 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (8.97%) Snowflake Schema
7 7 (8.97%) Star Schema
8 2 (2.56%) SAP BW
8 2 (2.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.28%) GIS
9 1 (1.28%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 18 (23.08%) Git
2 10 (12.82%) JIRA
3 9 (11.54%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.41%) Zephyr
5 4 (5.13%) GitLab
6 3 (3.85%) Eclipse
6 3 (3.85%) Eclipse RCP
6 3 (3.85%) JUnit
7 2 (2.56%) IntelliJ
7 2 (2.56%) JMeter
7 2 (2.56%) Mockito
7 2 (2.56%) Selenium
8 1 (1.28%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.28%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 20 (25.64%) Finance
3 18 (23.08%) Public Sector
4 10 (12.82%) Law
4 10 (12.82%) Manufacturing
5 8 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (10.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (8.97%) Retail
7 2 (2.56%) Banking
7 2 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.56%) Legal
7 2 (2.56%) Marketing
7 2 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.56%) Social Housing
8 1 (1.28%) Games
Job Titles
1 27 (34.62%) Developer
2 11 (14.10%) .NET Developer
2 11 (14.10%) Senior
3 10 (12.82%) Java Developer
4 9 (11.54%) Architect
5 7 (8.97%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (7.69%) Data Architect
6 6 (7.69%) Head of IT
7 4 (5.13%) Analyst
7 4 (5.13%) Analytics Manager
7 4 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) E-Commerce Manager
7 4 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (3.85%) Backend Developer
8 3 (3.85%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 3 (3.85%) Java Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) QA Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (21.79%) React
2 14 (17.95%) .NET
3 13 (16.67%) .NET Core
3 13 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 13 (16.67%) Node.js
3 13 (16.67%) REST
4 11 (14.10%) ASP.NET
4 11 (14.10%) ASP.NET Core
4 11 (14.10%) Spring
5 9 (11.54%) ASP.NET Web API
5 9 (11.54%) Spring Boot
6 8 (10.26%) Terraform
6 8 (10.26%) Web Services
7 7 (8.97%) .NET Framework
7 7 (8.97%) Blazor
7 7 (8.97%) JPA
8 6 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (7.69%) Jakarta EE
9 5 (6.41%) HTML
10 4 (5.13%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 21 (26.92%) Product Ownership
2 9 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (11.54%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (8.97%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (7.69%) Life Science
4 6 (7.69%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (6.41%) Private Cloud
5 5 (6.41%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (6.41%) Virtual Team
6 4 (5.13%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.85%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.56%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.28%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.54%) Windows
2 2 (2.56%) Linux
3 1 (1.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (97.44%) Agile
2 35 (44.87%) DevOps
3 30 (38.46%) Computer Science
4 29 (37.18%) Kanban
5 25 (32.05%) Microservices
6 24 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (29.49%) CI/CD
8 19 (24.36%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (21.79%) Data Modelling
10 16 (20.51%) TDD
11 14 (17.95%) Data Architecture
12 13 (16.67%) Analytics
12 13 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (16.67%) Test Automation
13 12 (15.38%) BDD
13 12 (15.38%) ITIL
14 11 (14.10%) Clean Code
14 11 (14.10%) ITSM
14 11 (14.10%) Technology Strategy
15 10 (12.82%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 31 (39.74%) SQL
2 23 (29.49%) C#
3 16 (20.51%) JavaScript
3 16 (20.51%) Python
4 14 (17.95%) Java
5 6 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.13%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.85%) Bash
7 3 (3.85%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.85%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.56%) Apex Code
8 2 (2.56%) C++
8 2 (2.56%) SOQL
9 1 (1.28%) Groovy
9 1 (1.28%) Perl
9 1 (1.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 35 (44.87%) Degree
2 17 (21.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (12.82%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.82%) Security Cleared
4 5 (6.41%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.56%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.56%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.28%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.95%) QA
2 11 (14.10%) Data Quality
3 9 (11.54%) GDPR
4 7 (8.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (3.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (24.36%) Docker
2 3 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.85%) Hyper-V
2 3 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (24.36%) Kubernetes
2 9 (11.54%) Ansible
3 6 (7.69%) Kibana
4 3 (3.85%) Grafana
4 3 (3.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.97%) Informatica
2 7 (8.97%) Talend
3 6 (7.69%) Oracle
4 5 (6.41%) AppDynamics
4 5 (6.41%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.13%) Google
5 4 (5.13%) IBM
6 3 (3.85%) VMware
7 2 (2.56%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (2.56%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.56%) Sage
7 2 (2.56%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.56%) SAP
7 2 (2.56%) Splunk
8 1 (1.28%) Databricks
8 1 (1.28%) FIS
8 1 (1.28%) Temenos