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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 85 53
Rank change year-on-year -51 -32 -3
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 70 126 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.81% 2.59% 4.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 3.16% 5.01%
Number of salaries quoted 35 43 121
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £50,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,500 £71,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £60,250 £62,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year -3.60% +2.80% -2.72%

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 3,475 3,989 3,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.03% 82.01% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,472 2,097 2,433
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £32,400
25th Percentile £35,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -15 46 £62,500 +13.64% 49
Buckinghamshire -22 14 £72,500 +27.19% 13
Oxfordshire -3 10 £63,750 +21.43% 16
Scrum
South East

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (10.00%) JBoss
1 7 (10.00%) Red Hat Fuse
2 6 (8.57%) Confluence
3 4 (5.71%) IIS
4 2 (2.86%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (1.43%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 37 (52.86%) AWS
2 16 (22.86%) Amazon ECS
2 16 (22.86%) Amazon EKS
2 16 (22.86%) Serverless
3 14 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 14 (20.00%) Azure
4 9 (12.86%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (11.43%) Amazon S3
6 6 (8.57%) AWS KMS
7 5 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (7.14%) Cloudflare
7 5 (7.14%) Collibra
7 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (7.14%) Route 53
8 4 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.71%) Power Platform
9 3 (4.29%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (4.29%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (4.29%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (4.29%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (22.86%) Relational Database
3 7 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (10.00%) RDBMS
4 5 (7.14%) DynamoDB
4 5 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (7.14%) MySQL
4 5 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.29%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.43%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.43%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 29 (41.43%) Jenkins
2 24 (34.29%) Git
3 22 (31.43%) JUnit
4 14 (20.00%) JIRA
4 14 (20.00%) Mockito
5 11 (15.71%) SonarQube
6 8 (11.43%) Maven
7 7 (10.00%) JMeter
8 6 (8.57%) DbUnit
8 6 (8.57%) jMock
9 5 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (7.14%) NUnit
9 5 (7.14%) Postman
9 5 (7.14%) Selenium
9 5 (7.14%) SoapUI
9 5 (7.14%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (7.14%) TeamCity
9 5 (7.14%) WebDriver
10 4 (5.71%) Jasmine
11 3 (4.29%) GitLab
General
1 25 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 22 (31.43%) Finance
2 22 (31.43%) Public Sector
3 16 (22.86%) Law
4 11 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.14%) Games
5 5 (7.14%) Manufacturing
6 4 (5.71%) Banking
6 4 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.86%) Automotive
8 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.43%) Back Office
9 1 (1.43%) Legal
9 1 (1.43%) Marketing
9 1 (1.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (42.86%) Developer
2 25 (35.71%) Java Developer
3 16 (22.86%) Senior
4 13 (18.57%) Analyst
5 12 (17.14%) Lead
6 7 (10.00%) Product Manager
6 7 (10.00%) Senior Developer
7 5 (7.14%) .NET Developer
7 5 (7.14%) Lead Developer
7 5 (7.14%) Lead Java Developer
7 5 (7.14%) Senior .NET Developer
8 4 (5.71%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Business Analyst
8 4 (5.71%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 4 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (5.71%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (5.71%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (5.71%) Senior Test Analyst
8 4 (5.71%) Test Analyst
9 2 (2.86%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (37.14%) Spring
2 25 (35.71%) Spring Boot
3 23 (32.86%) Web Services
4 21 (30.00%) REST
4 21 (30.00%) SOAP
5 18 (25.71%) RESTful
6 17 (24.29%) HTML
7 15 (21.43%) ActiveMQ
8 14 (20.00%) Apache Camel
8 14 (20.00%) Hibernate
9 13 (18.57%) .NET
10 12 (17.14%) AngularJS
11 8 (11.43%) JPA
11 8 (11.43%) React
12 7 (10.00%) Bootstrap
12 7 (10.00%) J2EE
12 7 (10.00%) jQuery
12 7 (10.00%) WireMock
13 6 (8.57%) Spring Batch
13 6 (8.57%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 19 (27.14%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (12.86%) Product Ownership
3 6 (8.57%) FMCG
3 6 (8.57%) PMI
4 5 (7.14%) Online Games
4 5 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.29%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.86%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.43%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.43%) Contactless
7 1 (1.43%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.86%) Linux
2 4 (5.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (88.57%) Agile
2 27 (38.57%) Kanban
3 26 (37.14%) Microservices
4 25 (35.71%) TDD
5 23 (32.86%) DevOps
6 21 (30.00%) CI/CD
7 20 (28.57%) BDD
8 11 (15.71%) Containerisation
9 10 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (12.86%) Artificial Intelligence
10 9 (12.86%) Business Strategy
10 9 (12.86%) Mentoring
11 8 (11.43%) Analytics
11 8 (11.43%) Budget Management
11 8 (11.43%) Coaching
11 8 (11.43%) ITIL
11 8 (11.43%) Service Management
11 8 (11.43%) Workflow
12 7 (10.00%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 32 (45.71%) Java
2 17 (24.29%) JavaScript
3 16 (22.86%) SQL
4 15 (21.43%) Python
5 13 (18.57%) C#
6 7 (10.00%) Shell Script
7 5 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (27.14%) SC Cleared
1 19 (27.14%) Security Cleared
2 14 (20.00%) Degree
3 6 (8.57%) PMI Certification
4 5 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (7.14%) ISTQB
4 5 (7.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 5 (7.14%) Master's Degree
4 5 (7.14%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.86%) SLA
2 5 (7.14%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.86%) QA
4 1 (1.43%) GAAP
4 1 (1.43%) IFRS
4 1 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (40.00%) Docker
2 4 (5.71%) vCloud
3 2 (2.86%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 21 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (15.71%) Ansible
3 7 (10.00%) Kibana
4 5 (7.14%) Terraform
5 4 (5.71%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (5.71%) Rundeck
6 2 (2.86%) Grafana
6 2 (2.86%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (12.86%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.00%) Dynatrace
2 7 (10.00%) Splunk
3 5 (7.14%) Atlassian
3 5 (7.14%) Informatica
3 5 (7.14%) Rollbar
4 4 (5.71%) VMware
5 3 (4.29%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.43%) Databricks
6 1 (1.43%) Google
6 1 (1.43%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.43%) Oracle
6 1 (1.43%) SAP