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 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 70 71
Rank change year-on-year -26 +1 -27
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 75 101 226
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.36% 3.46% 3.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 3.73% 4.08%
Number of salaries quoted 48 41 145
10th Percentile £43,125 £46,250 £46,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% +11.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,375 £90,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £65,000 £67,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.35% +12.08% -7.69%

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 4,005 2,707 5,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 72.58% 92.77% 84.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,593 1,219 4,036
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +13 40 £75,000 +14.50% 14
Berkshire -39 22 £51,000 -18.40% 13
Oxfordshire -17 13 £85,000 +21.43% 6
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 7 (9.33%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.33%) JBoss
2 1 (1.33%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 30 (40.00%) AWS
2 22 (29.33%) Azure
3 13 (17.33%) Serverless
4 12 (16.00%) Amazon ECS
4 12 (16.00%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (10.67%) Amazon S3
6 6 (8.00%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (8.00%) GCP
7 4 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (5.33%) Google Analytics
8 3 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (4.00%) GitHub
9 2 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.67%) Miro
9 2 (2.67%) Smartsheet
10 1 (1.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.33%) DHCP
1 1 (1.33%) DNS
1 1 (1.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.33%) Relational Database
2 12 (16.00%) SQL Server
3 9 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (6.67%) Metadata
5 3 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.67%) MySQL
6 2 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (20.00%) Git
1 15 (20.00%) JIRA
2 12 (16.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.67%) GitLab
3 5 (6.67%) Postman
3 5 (6.67%) Selenium
3 5 (6.67%) SoapUI
3 5 (6.67%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (6.67%) WebDriver
4 3 (4.00%) Zephyr
5 2 (2.67%) JUnit
6 1 (1.33%) SonarQube
General
1 33 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (22.67%) Public Sector
3 10 (13.33%) Finance
3 10 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (13.33%) Law
4 8 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.67%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 5 (6.67%) Retail
6 1 (1.33%) Automotive
6 1 (1.33%) Aviation
6 1 (1.33%) Games
6 1 (1.33%) Publishing
6 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (24.00%) Developer
2 12 (16.00%) Architect
2 12 (16.00%) Java Developer
3 10 (13.33%) Senior
4 7 (9.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (9.33%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (8.00%) Analyst
6 5 (6.67%) Data Architect
6 5 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
6 5 (6.67%) Head of IT
6 5 (6.67%) Lead
7 4 (5.33%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 4 (5.33%) Analytics Manager
7 4 (5.33%) E-Commerce Manager
7 4 (5.33%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Test Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) ASP.NET Developer
8 3 (4.00%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Data Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (22.67%) React
2 15 (20.00%) REST
3 14 (18.67%) .NET
4 13 (17.33%) Spring
5 11 (14.67%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (14.67%) Spring Boot
6 10 (13.33%) Web Services
7 7 (9.33%) ASP.NET
7 7 (9.33%) Mustache
7 7 (9.33%) Node.js
7 7 (9.33%) SOAP
8 6 (8.00%) AngularJS
8 6 (8.00%) Kafka
9 5 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC
9 5 (6.67%) HTML
9 5 (6.67%) Java EE
10 4 (5.33%) JMS
10 4 (5.33%) JPA
10 4 (5.33%) Middleware
10 4 (5.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.33%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (12.00%) Cloud Native
2 9 (12.00%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.67%) Life Science
4 4 (5.33%) N-Tier
5 3 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.00%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (4.00%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.67%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.33%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (96.00%) Agile
2 30 (40.00%) Kanban
3 29 (38.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 28 (37.33%) DevOps
5 22 (29.33%) CI/CD
6 18 (24.00%) Microservices
7 17 (22.67%) TDD
8 16 (21.33%) Computer Science
9 15 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (17.33%) Software Testing
10 13 (17.33%) Technology Strategy
11 12 (16.00%) ITIL
11 12 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 11 (14.67%) Software Engineering
13 10 (13.33%) Community of Practice
13 10 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
14 9 (12.00%) Collaborative Culture
14 9 (12.00%) Data Modelling
14 9 (12.00%) Mentoring
14 9 (12.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 21 (28.00%) Java
1 21 (28.00%) SQL
2 14 (18.67%) C#
3 9 (12.00%) JavaScript
3 9 (12.00%) Python
4 4 (5.33%) PL/SQL
5 3 (4.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.67%) C
6 2 (2.67%) C++
6 2 (2.67%) PHP
6 2 (2.67%) R
7 1 (1.33%) Bash
7 1 (1.33%) Groovy
7 1 (1.33%) Perl
7 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (38.67%) Degree
2 13 (17.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (16.00%) Security Cleared
4 11 (14.67%) SC Cleared
5 8 (10.67%) ISTQB
6 5 (6.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.67%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.00%) QA
2 4 (5.33%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.67%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.67%) ECSS
4 1 (1.33%) GDPR
4 1 (1.33%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (22.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.33%) Ansible
3 6 (8.00%) Terraform
4 4 (5.33%) Kibana
5 1 (1.33%) Grafana
5 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (9.33%) Oracle
2 6 (8.00%) Google
3 5 (6.67%) AppDynamics
3 5 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.33%) IBM
5 3 (4.00%) Databricks
5 3 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.00%) Telerik
6 1 (1.33%) VMware