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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 70 64
Rank change year-on-year -56 -6 -30
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 51 159 138
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.40% 3.67% 4.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 4.28% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 37 56 89
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,625 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,938 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +6.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,500 £93,125 £80,500
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 3,096 3,717 3,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.17% 85.78% 93.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,642 1,823 2,188
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £44,178 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £48,500 £56,252 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.78% +2.28% -

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 24 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 24 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 -67 21 £47,500 -19.66% 20
Buckinghamshire +13 19 £65,000 +13.04% 8
Oxfordshire +12 11 £70,000 - 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 3 (5.88%) Confluence
1 3 (5.88%) IIS
2 2 (3.92%) JBoss
2 2 (3.92%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.92%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (1.96%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 19 (37.25%) AWS
1 19 (37.25%) Azure
2 4 (7.84%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (7.84%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (7.84%) Cloudflare
2 4 (7.84%) Serverless
3 3 (5.88%) Amazon S3
3 3 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (5.88%) Collibra
3 3 (5.88%) GitHub
3 3 (5.88%) Miro
3 3 (5.88%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.92%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.92%) GCP
4 2 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (3.92%) PaaS
4 2 (3.92%) SaaS
4 2 (3.92%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (19.61%) SQL Server
2 6 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (7.84%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (7.84%) MySQL
3 4 (7.84%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.88%) Data Lake
4 3 (5.88%) Data Mining
4 3 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (5.88%) Metadata
4 3 (5.88%) SAP BW
4 3 (5.88%) SAP HANA
5 2 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.96%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.96%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (27.45%) Git
2 13 (25.49%) JIRA
3 10 (19.61%) Jenkins
4 7 (13.73%) Postman
4 7 (13.73%) Selenium
4 7 (13.73%) SoapUI
4 7 (13.73%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (13.73%) WebDriver
5 5 (9.80%) GitLab
5 5 (9.80%) SonarQube
6 4 (7.84%) NUnit
6 4 (7.84%) TeamCity
7 3 (5.88%) ERwin
7 3 (5.88%) Jasmine
7 3 (5.88%) JUnit
7 3 (5.88%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (1.96%) DbUnit
8 1 (1.96%) jMock
8 1 (1.96%) Maven
8 1 (1.96%) Mockito
General
1 33 (64.71%) Social Skills
2 13 (25.49%) Finance
3 5 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.80%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.84%) Banking
4 4 (7.84%) Games
4 4 (7.84%) Law
4 4 (7.84%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (7.84%) Publishing
5 3 (5.88%) Automotive
5 3 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Aviation
6 1 (1.96%) Back Office
6 1 (1.96%) Marketing
6 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (27.45%) Developer
2 12 (23.53%) Senior
3 10 (19.61%) Analyst
4 8 (15.69%) .NET Developer
5 7 (13.73%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 7 (13.73%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (11.76%) Java Developer
7 5 (9.80%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (7.84%) ASP.NET Developer
8 4 (7.84%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (7.84%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (7.84%) Senior .NET Developer
8 4 (7.84%) Senior Developer
8 4 (7.84%) Senior Test Analyst
8 4 (7.84%) Software Engineer
8 4 (7.84%) Test Analyst
9 3 (5.88%) Data Model Manager
9 3 (5.88%) SAP Data Manager
9 3 (5.88%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (5.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (37.25%) .NET
2 11 (21.57%) HTML
2 11 (21.57%) SOAP
3 10 (19.61%) ASP.NET
4 9 (17.65%) React
5 8 (15.69%) ASP.NET Core
5 8 (15.69%) REST
6 7 (13.73%) .NET Framework
6 7 (13.73%) RESTful
6 7 (13.73%) Spring
6 7 (13.73%) Spring Boot
7 5 (9.80%) AngularJS
7 5 (9.80%) Web Services
8 4 (7.84%) ASP.NET MVC
8 4 (7.84%) CSS3
8 4 (7.84%) Kafka
8 4 (7.84%) Kendo UI
8 4 (7.84%) Sass
8 4 (7.84%) SignalR
8 4 (7.84%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
1 6 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 5 (9.80%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (7.84%) Management Information System
3 4 (7.84%) Online Games
4 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.92%) Life Science
5 2 (3.92%) N-Tier
5 2 (3.92%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.96%) Contactless
6 1 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.96%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.96%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.80%) Linux
2 4 (7.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (88.24%) Agile
2 18 (35.29%) CI/CD
3 14 (27.45%) DevOps
3 14 (27.45%) Mentoring
4 12 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (19.61%) Kanban
5 10 (19.61%) MVC
5 10 (19.61%) Software Testing
6 9 (17.65%) Microservices
7 8 (15.69%) Containerisation
7 8 (15.69%) TDD
8 7 (13.73%) API Testing
8 7 (13.73%) Cross-Browser Testing
8 7 (13.73%) Data Management
8 7 (13.73%) Non-Functional Testing
8 7 (13.73%) Test Management
8 7 (13.73%) Test Scripting
8 7 (13.73%) Validation
9 6 (11.76%) Computer Science
9 6 (11.76%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (39.22%) SQL
2 19 (37.25%) C#
3 17 (33.33%) Java
4 9 (17.65%) Python
5 8 (15.69%) JavaScript
5 8 (15.69%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.92%) C
6 2 (3.92%) C++
Qualifications
1 19 (37.25%) Degree
2 7 (13.73%) ISTQB
2 7 (13.73%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 5 (9.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (9.80%) Master's Degree
4 4 (7.84%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.84%) Security Cleared
5 3 (5.88%) PMI Certification
5 3 (5.88%) PMP
5 3 (5.88%) SAP Certification
6 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.73%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.84%) QA
2 4 (7.84%) SLA
3 3 (5.88%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.92%) ECSS
4 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.96%) GAAP
5 1 (1.96%) IFRS
5 1 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (23.53%) Docker
2 4 (7.84%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 11 (21.57%) Kubernetes
2 6 (11.76%) Ansible
3 4 (7.84%) Docker Swarm
3 4 (7.84%) Rundeck
3 4 (7.84%) Terraform
4 1 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.84%) Rollbar
2 4 (7.84%) SAP
2 4 (7.84%) Telerik
2 4 (7.84%) VMware
3 1 (1.96%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.96%) Databricks
3 1 (1.96%) Google
3 1 (1.96%) HubSpot
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle