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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 90 70
Rank change year-on-year -11 -20 -25
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 73 95 220
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.30% 3.05% 3.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 3.28% 4.01%
Number of salaries quoted 47 39 139
10th Percentile £42,675 £46,250 £45,800
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,625 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.50% +13.91% -8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,250 £89,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £65,000 £67,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.99% +11.67% -4.00%

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 4,070 2,894 5,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 72.41% 92.99% 84.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,660 1,228 3,986
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,087 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% +14.17% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,375 £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 4 May 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 4 May 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 37 £75,000 +14.50% 11
Berkshire -42 23 £46,750 -25.20% 19
Oxfordshire -8 13 £85,000 +21.43% 5
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 (9.59%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.37%) Apache
2 1 (1.37%) CMS
2 1 (1.37%) IIS
2 1 (1.37%) JBoss
2 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (1.37%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.37%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 30 (41.10%) AWS
2 19 (26.03%) Azure
3 13 (17.81%) Serverless
4 12 (16.44%) Amazon ECS
4 12 (16.44%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (10.96%) Amazon S3
6 6 (8.22%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (8.22%) GCP
7 4 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (5.48%) Google Analytics
8 3 (4.11%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.74%) Miro
9 2 (2.74%) Smartsheet
10 1 (1.37%) GitHub
10 1 (1.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.74%) DHCP
1 2 (2.74%) DNS
1 2 (2.74%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.81%) Relational Database
2 10 (13.70%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (12.33%) SQL Server
4 5 (6.85%) Metadata
5 3 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (4.11%) MySQL
6 2 (2.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.37%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (20.55%) JIRA
2 14 (19.18%) Git
3 12 (16.44%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.85%) Postman
4 5 (6.85%) Selenium
4 5 (6.85%) SoapUI
4 5 (6.85%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (6.85%) WebDriver
5 3 (4.11%) GitLab
5 3 (4.11%) Zephyr
6 2 (2.74%) JUnit
7 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.37%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (42.47%) Social Skills
2 17 (23.29%) Public Sector
3 10 (13.70%) Finance
3 10 (13.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (13.70%) Law
4 9 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (10.96%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (8.22%) Manufacturing
7 5 (6.85%) Retail
8 1 (1.37%) Games
8 1 (1.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (24.66%) Developer
2 13 (17.81%) Architect
3 12 (16.44%) Java Developer
4 8 (10.96%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (9.59%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (9.59%) Senior
6 6 (8.22%) Analyst
7 5 (6.85%) Data Architect
7 5 (6.85%) Delivery Manager
7 5 (6.85%) Head of IT
7 5 (6.85%) Lead
8 4 (5.48%) Agile Delivery Manager
8 4 (5.48%) Analytics Manager
8 4 (5.48%) E-Commerce Manager
8 4 (5.48%) Test Analyst
9 3 (4.11%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Backend Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Data Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 3 (4.11%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.55%) React
1 15 (20.55%) REST
2 13 (17.81%) Spring
3 11 (15.07%) .NET
3 11 (15.07%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (15.07%) Spring Boot
4 10 (13.70%) Web Services
5 7 (9.59%) Mustache
5 7 (9.59%) Node.js
5 7 (9.59%) SOAP
6 6 (8.22%) AngularJS
6 6 (8.22%) HTML
6 6 (8.22%) Kafka
7 5 (6.85%) Java EE
8 4 (5.48%) ASP.NET
8 4 (5.48%) ASP.NET MVC
8 4 (5.48%) JMS
8 4 (5.48%) JPA
8 4 (5.48%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (4.11%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.55%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (12.33%) Product Ownership
3 7 (9.59%) Cloud Native
4 6 (8.22%) Life Science
5 4 (5.48%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (5.48%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.74%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.74%) N-Tier
6 2 (2.74%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.74%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.37%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.37%) Linux
1 1 (1.37%) Windows
1 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (95.89%) Agile
2 32 (43.84%) Kanban
3 27 (36.99%) Continuous Improvement
4 26 (35.62%) DevOps
5 20 (27.40%) CI/CD
6 16 (21.92%) Microservices
7 15 (20.55%) Computer Science
7 15 (20.55%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (20.55%) TDD
8 13 (17.81%) ITIL
8 13 (17.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 13 (17.81%) Technology Strategy
9 11 (15.07%) Software Testing
10 10 (13.70%) Community of Practice
11 9 (12.33%) Collaborative Culture
11 9 (12.33%) Data Modelling
11 9 (12.33%) Mentoring
11 9 (12.33%) SDLC
12 8 (10.96%) Full-Stack Development
12 8 (10.96%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 19 (26.03%) Java
2 17 (23.29%) SQL
3 11 (15.07%) C#
4 10 (13.70%) JavaScript
5 8 (10.96%) Python
6 4 (5.48%) PL/SQL
7 3 (4.11%) PHP
8 2 (2.74%) Bash
8 2 (2.74%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.74%) R
8 2 (2.74%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.37%) Groovy
9 1 (1.37%) Perl
9 1 (1.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (38.36%) Degree
2 12 (16.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 12 (16.44%) Security Cleared
3 11 (15.07%) SC Cleared
4 8 (10.96%) ISTQB
5 5 (6.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 2 (2.74%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.37%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.07%) QA
2 3 (4.11%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.74%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.74%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.37%) GDPR
4 1 (1.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (21.92%) Docker
2 2 (2.74%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.74%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (19.18%) Kubernetes
2 8 (10.96%) Ansible
3 7 (9.59%) Terraform
4 4 (5.48%) Kibana
5 2 (2.74%) Grafana
5 2 (2.74%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (9.59%) Oracle
2 6 (8.22%) Google
3 5 (6.85%) AppDynamics
4 4 (5.48%) IBM
5 3 (4.11%) Databricks
5 3 (4.11%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.11%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.74%) Telerik
6 2 (2.74%) VMware