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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 132 90
Rank change year-on-year +7 -42 -37
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 84 70 123
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.14% 1.82% 2.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 2.03% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 54 35 41
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £94,500 £85,500 £72,500
South East median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +2.80%

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 5,214 3,456 4,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.04% 89.93% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,690 1,464 2,067
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £41,235
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,520 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.74% -13.60% -
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 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

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 20 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 20 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 +17 34 £75,000 +3.45% 19
Berkshire -6 28 £50,000 -20.00% 37
Oxfordshire -16 22 £62,500 -1.96% 18
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 3 (3.57%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.19%) Apache
2 1 (1.19%) CMS
2 1 (1.19%) Confluence
2 1 (1.19%) IIS
2 1 (1.19%) JBoss
2 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (1.19%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) SAP BPC
1 2 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.19%) Finacle
2 1 (1.19%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.19%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 43 (51.19%) Azure
2 33 (39.29%) AWS
3 19 (22.62%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (13.10%) Power Platform
4 11 (13.10%) Serverless
5 10 (11.90%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (11.90%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (10.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 9 (10.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (4.76%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (4.76%) GitHub
7 4 (4.76%) GitHub Copilot
7 4 (4.76%) Google Analytics
7 4 (4.76%) SaaS
8 3 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.38%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.57%) DHCP
1 3 (3.57%) DNS
1 3 (3.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (23.81%) Azure SQL Database
1 20 (23.81%) MongoDB
2 15 (17.86%) Metadata
3 13 (15.48%) Relational Database
3 13 (15.48%) SQL Server
4 12 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (13.10%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (13.10%) NoSQL
5 11 (13.10%) Power BI
6 9 (10.71%) Amazon QuickSight
6 9 (10.71%) DynamoDB
6 9 (10.71%) Snowflake Schema
6 9 (10.71%) Star Schema
7 8 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.38%) SAP BW
8 2 (2.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.19%) MySQL
9 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 22 (26.19%) Git
2 14 (16.67%) JIRA
3 10 (11.90%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.76%) GitLab
4 4 (4.76%) Zephyr
5 3 (3.57%) Eclipse
5 3 (3.57%) Eclipse RCP
5 3 (3.57%) IntelliJ
5 3 (3.57%) JUnit
6 2 (2.38%) JMeter
6 2 (2.38%) Mockito
6 2 (2.38%) Selenium
7 1 (1.19%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.19%) SonarQube
General
1 24 (28.57%) Finance
2 21 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 18 (21.43%) Public Sector
4 10 (11.90%) Law
5 9 (10.71%) Manufacturing
6 8 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (7.14%) Retail
8 3 (3.57%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.38%) Banking
9 2 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.38%) Legal
9 2 (2.38%) Marketing
9 2 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.38%) Social Housing
10 1 (1.19%) Games
Job Titles
1 30 (35.71%) Developer
2 13 (15.48%) Senior
3 11 (13.10%) .NET Developer
4 10 (11.90%) Java Developer
5 9 (10.71%) Architect
5 9 (10.71%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (7.14%) Data Architect
6 6 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (7.14%) Head of IT
7 4 (4.76%) Analyst
7 4 (4.76%) Analytics Manager
7 4 (4.76%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) E-Commerce Manager
8 3 (3.57%) Azure Data Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Backend Developer
8 3 (3.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 3 (3.57%) Java Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Salesforce Developer
8 3 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (21.43%) React
2 15 (17.86%) .NET
2 15 (17.86%) REST
3 14 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 14 (16.67%) Node.js
4 13 (15.48%) .NET Core
5 12 (14.29%) Spring
6 11 (13.10%) ASP.NET
6 11 (13.10%) ASP.NET Core
7 10 (11.90%) Spring Boot
8 9 (10.71%) ASP.NET Web API
8 9 (10.71%) Web Services
9 8 (9.52%) Terraform
10 7 (8.33%) .NET Framework
10 7 (8.33%) Blazor
10 7 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (8.33%) JPA
11 6 (7.14%) Jakarta EE
12 5 (5.95%) HTML
12 5 (5.95%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 21 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 11 (13.10%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (11.90%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (10.71%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (7.14%) Life Science
5 6 (7.14%) Renewable Energy
6 5 (5.95%) Private Cloud
6 5 (5.95%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (5.95%) Virtual Team
7 4 (4.76%) Cloud Native
8 3 (3.57%) Public Cloud
9 2 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (2.38%) Linux
3 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (96.43%) Agile
2 38 (45.24%) DevOps
3 32 (38.10%) Computer Science
4 28 (33.33%) Kanban
5 27 (32.14%) CI/CD
5 27 (32.14%) Microservices
6 25 (29.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (22.62%) Data Modelling
9 17 (20.24%) TDD
10 16 (19.05%) Data Architecture
11 15 (17.86%) Analytics
12 13 (15.48%) Clean Code
12 13 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (14.29%) BDD
14 11 (13.10%) Business Intelligence
14 11 (13.10%) ETL
14 11 (13.10%) Test Automation
15 10 (11.90%) Data Management
15 10 (11.90%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 33 (39.29%) SQL
2 26 (30.95%) C#
3 18 (21.43%) JavaScript
3 18 (21.43%) Python
4 17 (20.24%) Java
5 6 (7.14%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.76%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.57%) Apex Code
7 3 (3.57%) Bash
7 3 (3.57%) C++
7 3 (3.57%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.57%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.57%) SOQL
8 1 (1.19%) Groovy
8 1 (1.19%) Perl
8 1 (1.19%) PHP
Qualifications
1 40 (47.62%) Degree
2 17 (20.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.90%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.76%) ISTQB
4 4 (4.76%) PMI Certification
4 4 (4.76%) PMP
5 2 (2.38%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.38%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.48%) Data Quality
1 13 (15.48%) QA
2 11 (13.10%) GDPR
3 9 (10.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (3.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (23.81%) Docker
2 3 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.57%) Hyper-V
2 3 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.71%) Ansible
3 6 (7.14%) Kibana
4 3 (3.57%) Grafana
4 3 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (27.38%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.71%) Informatica
2 9 (10.71%) Talend
3 6 (7.14%) Oracle
4 5 (5.95%) AppDynamics
5 4 (4.76%) Google
5 4 (4.76%) IBM
5 4 (4.76%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.57%) Pega
6 3 (3.57%) Sage
6 3 (3.57%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.57%) VMware
7 2 (2.38%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (2.38%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.38%) SAP
7 2 (2.38%) Splunk
8 1 (1.19%) Databricks
8 1 (1.19%) FIS
8 1 (1.19%) Temenos