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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 68 68
Rank change year-on-year -58 0 -33
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 55 154 138
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.55% 3.55% 4.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 4.19% 4.34%
Number of salaries quoted 39 51 88
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £50,956
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,305 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.03% +2.18% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £92,500 £80,750
South East median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +4.00%

All Process and 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 3,074 3,679 3,180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 86.40% 84.87% 93.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,614 1,777 2,218
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £31,963
25th Percentile £34,000 £44,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.18% +1.82% -

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025. 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
Berkshire -60 24 £47,500 -19.66% 27
Buckinghamshire +8 20 £65,000 +13.54% 12
Oxfordshire +14 11 £70,000 - 17
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 4 (7.27%) Confluence
1 4 (7.27%) IIS
2 3 (5.45%) JBoss
2 3 (5.45%) Red Hat Fuse
3 2 (3.64%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (1.82%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 23 (41.82%) AWS
2 19 (34.55%) Azure
3 6 (10.91%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (10.91%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (10.91%) Serverless
4 5 (9.09%) Cloudflare
5 4 (7.27%) Amazon S3
5 4 (7.27%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (5.45%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (5.45%) Collibra
6 3 (5.45%) GitHub
6 3 (5.45%) Miro
6 3 (5.45%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.64%) AWS KMS
7 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.64%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (16.36%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (10.91%) Relational Database
4 5 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (9.09%) MySQL
5 3 (5.45%) Data Lake
5 3 (5.45%) Data Mining
5 3 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (5.45%) Metadata
5 3 (5.45%) SAP BW
5 3 (5.45%) SAP HANA
6 2 (3.64%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.64%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.82%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.82%) Power BI
7 1 (1.82%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (30.91%) Git
2 14 (25.45%) JIRA
3 13 (23.64%) Jenkins
4 7 (12.73%) Postman
4 7 (12.73%) Selenium
4 7 (12.73%) SoapUI
4 7 (12.73%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (12.73%) WebDriver
5 6 (10.91%) JUnit
5 6 (10.91%) SonarQube
6 5 (9.09%) GitLab
6 5 (9.09%) NUnit
6 5 (9.09%) TeamCity
7 4 (7.27%) Jasmine
8 3 (5.45%) ERwin
8 3 (5.45%) Mockito
8 3 (5.45%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (3.64%) DbUnit
9 2 (3.64%) jMock
9 2 (3.64%) Maven
General
1 34 (61.82%) Social Skills
2 13 (23.64%) Finance
3 8 (14.55%) Public Sector
4 5 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.09%) Games
5 4 (7.27%) Banking
5 4 (7.27%) Law
5 4 (7.27%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (7.27%) Publishing
6 3 (5.45%) Automotive
6 3 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Aviation
7 1 (1.82%) Back Office
7 1 (1.82%) Marketing
7 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (32.73%) Developer
2 13 (23.64%) Senior
3 10 (18.18%) Analyst
4 9 (16.36%) .NET Developer
4 9 (16.36%) Java Developer
5 8 (14.55%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 8 (14.55%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (9.09%) Senior .NET Developer
6 5 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (9.09%) Senior Developer
7 4 (7.27%) ASP.NET Developer
7 4 (7.27%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (7.27%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (7.27%) Senior Test Analyst
7 4 (7.27%) Software Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Test Analyst
8 3 (5.45%) SAP Data Manager
8 3 (5.45%) SAP Delivery Manager
8 3 (5.45%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (36.36%) .NET
2 13 (23.64%) HTML
2 13 (23.64%) SOAP
3 11 (20.00%) ASP.NET
4 10 (18.18%) React
4 10 (18.18%) REST
4 10 (18.18%) RESTful
4 10 (18.18%) Spring
4 10 (18.18%) Spring Boot
5 9 (16.36%) ASP.NET Core
6 8 (14.55%) Web Services
7 7 (12.73%) .NET Framework
7 7 (12.73%) AngularJS
8 5 (9.09%) CSS
8 5 (9.09%) CSS3
8 5 (9.09%) HTML5
8 5 (9.09%) Vue
9 4 (7.27%) gRPC
9 4 (7.27%) htmx
9 4 (7.27%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (10.91%) Product Ownership
3 5 (9.09%) Online Games
3 5 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (7.27%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.45%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.64%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.64%) Life Science
6 2 (3.64%) N-Tier
6 2 (3.64%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.82%) Contactless
7 1 (1.82%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.82%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.91%) Linux
2 4 (7.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (89.09%) Agile
2 20 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 15 (27.27%) DevOps
4 14 (25.45%) Mentoring
5 13 (23.64%) Full-Stack Development
5 13 (23.64%) Kanban
6 12 (21.82%) Microservices
7 11 (20.00%) MVC
7 11 (20.00%) TDD
8 10 (18.18%) Software Testing
9 9 (16.36%) Containerisation
10 7 (12.73%) API Testing
10 7 (12.73%) Cross-Browser Testing
10 7 (12.73%) Data Management
10 7 (12.73%) Non-Functional Testing
10 7 (12.73%) Test Management
10 7 (12.73%) Test Scripting
10 7 (12.73%) Validation
11 6 (10.91%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (10.91%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (36.36%) C#
1 20 (36.36%) Java
1 20 (36.36%) SQL
2 10 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 10 (18.18%) Python
3 9 (16.36%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.64%) C
4 2 (3.64%) C++
5 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (34.55%) Degree
2 7 (12.73%) ISTQB
2 7 (12.73%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 7 (12.73%) SC Cleared
2 7 (12.73%) Security Cleared
3 5 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (9.09%) Master's Degree
4 3 (5.45%) PMI Certification
4 3 (5.45%) PMP
4 3 (5.45%) SAP Certification
5 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.73%) Accessibility
2 5 (9.09%) SLA
3 4 (7.27%) QA
4 3 (5.45%) Data Quality
5 2 (3.64%) ECSS
5 2 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.82%) GAAP
6 1 (1.82%) IFRS
6 1 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (27.27%) Docker
2 4 (7.27%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 13 (23.64%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.73%) Ansible
3 5 (9.09%) Terraform
4 4 (7.27%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (7.27%) Rundeck
5 1 (1.82%) Kibana
5 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.09%) Rollbar
3 4 (7.27%) SAP
3 4 (7.27%) Telerik
3 4 (7.27%) VMware
4 2 (3.64%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.82%) Databricks
5 1 (1.82%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.82%) Google
5 1 (1.82%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle
5 1 (1.82%) Splunk