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 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 119 81
Rank change year-on-year +3 -38 -24
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 77 82 140
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.12% 2.16% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 2.40% 3.33%
Number of salaries quoted 52 33 64
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,375
25th Percentile £48,438 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% +6.38% -3.37%
75th Percentile £84,063 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £82,500 £77,750
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 4,837 3,419 4,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.37% 89.95% 81.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,410 1,475 2,545
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,432 £41,220
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.85% -4.45%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £81,454
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 +22 39 £75,000 - 6
Berkshire -19 21 £50,000 -20.00% 13
Oxfordshire -16 17 £62,500 +12.61% 7
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 (2.60%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.30%) Apache
2 1 (1.30%) CMS
2 1 (1.30%) Confluence
2 1 (1.30%) IIS
2 1 (1.30%) JBoss
2 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (1.30%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) SAP BPC
1 2 (2.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.30%) Finacle
2 1 (1.30%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.30%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 35 (45.45%) Azure
2 33 (42.86%) AWS
3 10 (12.99%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (12.99%) Serverless
4 9 (11.69%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (10.39%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (6.49%) Power Platform
7 4 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (5.19%) GitHub
7 4 (5.19%) GitHub Copilot
7 4 (5.19%) Google Analytics
8 3 (3.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.90%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (3.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.60%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.60%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.60%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.90%) DHCP
1 3 (3.90%) DNS
1 3 (3.90%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
1 14 (18.18%) MongoDB
2 12 (15.58%) Relational Database
3 11 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (11.69%) Metadata
5 8 (10.39%) SQL Server
6 7 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (7.79%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (6.49%) NoSQL
8 5 (6.49%) Power BI
9 3 (3.90%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (3.90%) DynamoDB
9 3 (3.90%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (3.90%) Star Schema
10 2 (2.60%) SAP BW
10 2 (2.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (2.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (1.30%) GIS
11 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (18.18%) Git
2 10 (12.99%) JIRA
3 9 (11.69%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.49%) Zephyr
5 4 (5.19%) GitLab
6 3 (3.90%) Eclipse
6 3 (3.90%) Eclipse RCP
6 3 (3.90%) JUnit
7 2 (2.60%) IntelliJ
7 2 (2.60%) JMeter
7 2 (2.60%) Mockito
7 2 (2.60%) Selenium
8 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.30%) SonarQube
General
1 24 (31.17%) Social Skills
2 20 (25.97%) Finance
3 19 (24.68%) Public Sector
4 11 (14.29%) Law
5 10 (12.99%) Manufacturing
6 9 (11.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (7.79%) Retail
9 4 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.60%) Banking
10 2 (2.60%) Legal
10 2 (2.60%) Social Housing
11 1 (1.30%) Games
11 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.30%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 28 (36.36%) Developer
2 11 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 10 (12.99%) Architect
3 10 (12.99%) Java Developer
4 8 (10.39%) Senior
5 7 (9.09%) Head of IT
6 6 (7.79%) Data Architect
7 4 (5.19%) Analyst
7 4 (5.19%) Analytics Manager
7 4 (5.19%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) E-Commerce Manager
7 4 (5.19%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.90%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Backend Developer
8 3 (3.90%) Delivery Manager
8 3 (3.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 3 (3.90%) Java Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) QA Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (23.38%) React
2 15 (19.48%) .NET
3 13 (16.88%) .NET Core
3 13 (16.88%) AngularJS
3 13 (16.88%) Node.js
3 13 (16.88%) REST
4 12 (15.58%) ASP.NET
5 11 (14.29%) ASP.NET Core
5 11 (14.29%) Spring
6 9 (11.69%) ASP.NET Web API
6 9 (11.69%) Spring Boot
7 8 (10.39%) Terraform
7 8 (10.39%) Web Services
8 7 (9.09%) .NET Framework
8 7 (9.09%) Blazor
8 7 (9.09%) JPA
9 6 (7.79%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (7.79%) Jakarta EE
10 5 (6.49%) HTML
11 4 (5.19%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.78%) Product Ownership
2 10 (12.99%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (7.79%) Life Science
3 6 (7.79%) Renewable Energy
4 5 (6.49%) Cloud Native
4 5 (6.49%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (6.49%) Private Cloud
4 5 (6.49%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (6.49%) Virtual Team
5 4 (5.19%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.90%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.60%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.30%) N-Tier
8 1 (1.30%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.49%) Windows
2 2 (2.60%) Linux
3 1 (1.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (97.40%) Agile
2 32 (41.56%) DevOps
2 32 (41.56%) Kanban
3 27 (35.06%) Computer Science
4 26 (33.77%) Microservices
5 25 (32.47%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (24.68%) CI/CD
6 19 (24.68%) Full-Stack Development
7 17 (22.08%) TDD
8 13 (16.88%) Data Modelling
8 13 (16.88%) ITIL
8 13 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (16.88%) Technology Strategy
8 13 (16.88%) Test Automation
9 12 (15.58%) BDD
9 12 (15.58%) ITSM
10 10 (12.99%) Data Architecture
10 10 (12.99%) Design Patterns
10 10 (12.99%) Software Engineering
10 10 (12.99%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 27 (35.06%) SQL
2 20 (25.97%) C#
3 17 (22.08%) JavaScript
4 14 (18.18%) Java
5 12 (15.58%) Python
6 6 (7.79%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.19%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.90%) Bash
8 3 (3.90%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.90%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.60%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.60%) C++
9 2 (2.60%) SOQL
10 1 (1.30%) Groovy
10 1 (1.30%) Perl
10 1 (1.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 32 (41.56%) Degree
2 18 (23.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 11 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 5 (6.49%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.60%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.60%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.30%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (18.18%) QA
2 7 (9.09%) Data Quality
3 5 (6.49%) GDPR
4 3 (3.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (3.90%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (24.68%) Docker
2 3 (3.90%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.90%) Hyper-V
2 3 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (24.68%) Kubernetes
2 9 (11.69%) Ansible
3 6 (7.79%) Kibana
4 3 (3.90%) Grafana
4 3 (3.90%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (23.38%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.79%) Oracle
3 5 (6.49%) AppDynamics
3 5 (6.49%) ServiceNow
4 4 (5.19%) Google
4 4 (5.19%) IBM
5 3 (3.90%) Informatica
5 3 (3.90%) Talend
5 3 (3.90%) VMware
6 2 (2.60%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.60%) Sage
6 2 (2.60%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.60%) SAP
6 2 (2.60%) Splunk
7 1 (1.30%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.30%) Databricks
7 1 (1.30%) FIS
7 1 (1.30%) Temenos