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

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 66 74
Rank change year-on-year -63 +8 -36
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 58 144 136
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.58% 3.31% 4.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 3.93% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 38 45 88
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,563 £50,000 £50,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,125 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.94% -1.46% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £71,563
90th Percentile £84,000 £93,250 £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 3,264 3,666 3,123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 89.13% 84.14% 93.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,528 1,753 2,151
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,800 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,982 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £56,509 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% +2.74% -
75th Percentile £66,290 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,375 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

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 3 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 3 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 -48 29 £47,500 -13.64% 56
Buckinghamshire -3 18 £65,000 +13.54% 11
Oxfordshire +13 11 £70,000 - 16
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 6 (10.34%) Confluence
2 5 (8.62%) JBoss
2 5 (8.62%) Red Hat Fuse
3 4 (6.90%) IIS
4 2 (3.45%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (1.72%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 30 (51.72%) AWS
2 19 (32.76%) Azure
3 8 (13.79%) Amazon ECS
3 8 (13.79%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (13.79%) Amazon S3
3 8 (13.79%) Amazon SQS
3 8 (13.79%) Serverless
4 7 (12.07%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (8.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (8.62%) AWS KMS
5 5 (8.62%) Cloudflare
5 5 (8.62%) Route 53
6 3 (5.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.17%) Collibra
6 3 (5.17%) GitHub
6 3 (5.17%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.45%) GCP
7 2 (3.45%) PaaS
7 2 (3.45%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (27.59%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (13.79%) Relational Database
2 8 (13.79%) SQL Server
3 7 (12.07%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (10.34%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (8.62%) DynamoDB
5 5 (8.62%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (8.62%) MySQL
6 3 (5.17%) Data Lake
6 3 (5.17%) Data Mining
6 3 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (5.17%) Metadata
6 3 (5.17%) SAP BW
6 3 (5.17%) SAP HANA
7 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.72%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.72%) Power BI
7 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 23 (39.66%) Git
2 20 (34.48%) Jenkins
3 14 (24.14%) JIRA
4 13 (22.41%) JUnit
5 10 (17.24%) SonarQube
6 7 (12.07%) Maven
6 7 (12.07%) Mockito
6 7 (12.07%) Postman
6 7 (12.07%) Selenium
6 7 (12.07%) SoapUI
6 7 (12.07%) Team Foundation Server
6 7 (12.07%) WebDriver
7 5 (8.62%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (8.62%) DbUnit
7 5 (8.62%) GitLab
7 5 (8.62%) jMock
7 5 (8.62%) NUnit
7 5 (8.62%) TeamCity
8 4 (6.90%) Jasmine
9 3 (5.17%) ERwin
General
1 30 (51.72%) Social Skills
2 14 (24.14%) Public Sector
3 13 (22.41%) Finance
4 7 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.62%) Games
6 4 (6.90%) Banking
6 4 (6.90%) Law
6 4 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (6.90%) Publishing
7 3 (5.17%) Automotive
7 3 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (5.17%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Aviation
8 1 (1.72%) Back Office
8 1 (1.72%) Legal
8 1 (1.72%) Marketing
8 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (39.66%) Developer
2 16 (27.59%) Java Developer
3 14 (24.14%) Senior
4 11 (18.97%) Analyst
5 7 (12.07%) .NET Developer
5 7 (12.07%) Senior Developer
6 6 (10.34%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 6 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (8.62%) Lead
7 5 (8.62%) Lead Developer
7 5 (8.62%) Lead Java Developer
7 5 (8.62%) Senior .NET Developer
7 5 (8.62%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (6.90%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (6.90%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (6.90%) Senior Test Analyst
8 4 (6.90%) Test Analyst
9 3 (5.17%) SAP Data Manager
9 3 (5.17%) SAP Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (34.48%) SOAP
2 17 (29.31%) .NET
2 17 (29.31%) Spring
2 17 (29.31%) Spring Boot
3 15 (25.86%) RESTful
4 14 (24.14%) REST
4 14 (24.14%) Web Services
5 13 (22.41%) HTML
6 12 (20.69%) AngularJS
7 9 (15.52%) React
8 8 (13.79%) ActiveMQ
8 8 (13.79%) ASP.NET
9 7 (12.07%) ASP.NET Core
9 7 (12.07%) Bootstrap
9 7 (12.07%) Hibernate
9 7 (12.07%) JPA
10 6 (10.34%) Apache Camel
10 6 (10.34%) Spring Batch
10 6 (10.34%) Spring Integration
11 5 (8.62%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.97%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (10.34%) Product Ownership
3 5 (8.62%) Online Games
3 5 (8.62%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (6.90%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.17%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.45%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.72%) Contactless
7 1 (1.72%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.72%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.52%) Linux
2 4 (6.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (89.66%) Agile
2 19 (32.76%) CI/CD
3 18 (31.03%) Kanban
3 18 (31.03%) Microservices
4 17 (29.31%) DevOps
4 17 (29.31%) TDD
5 14 (24.14%) Mentoring
6 13 (22.41%) Containerisation
7 11 (18.97%) BDD
7 11 (18.97%) Full-Stack Development
8 9 (15.52%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (15.52%) Software Testing
9 8 (13.79%) MVC
10 7 (12.07%) API Testing
10 7 (12.07%) Data Management
10 7 (12.07%) Non-Functional Testing
10 7 (12.07%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (12.07%) Test Management
10 7 (12.07%) Test Scripting
10 7 (12.07%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 27 (46.55%) Java
2 22 (37.93%) SQL
3 17 (29.31%) C#
4 10 (17.24%) JavaScript
4 10 (17.24%) Python
5 7 (12.07%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.45%) C++
7 1 (1.72%) C
7 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (29.31%) Degree
2 11 (18.97%) SC Cleared
2 11 (18.97%) Security Cleared
3 7 (12.07%) ISTQB
3 7 (12.07%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 5 (8.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.17%) Master's Degree
5 3 (5.17%) PMI Certification
5 3 (5.17%) PMP
5 3 (5.17%) SAP Certification
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.07%) SLA
2 5 (8.62%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.17%) Data Quality
3 3 (5.17%) QA
4 2 (3.45%) ECSS
4 2 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.72%) GAAP
5 1 (1.72%) IFRS
5 1 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (37.93%) Docker
2 4 (6.90%) vCloud
3 1 (1.72%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 15 (25.86%) Kubernetes
2 9 (15.52%) Ansible
3 5 (8.62%) Terraform
4 4 (6.90%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (6.90%) Rundeck
5 2 (3.45%) Grafana
5 2 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.72%) Kibana
6 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (15.52%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.62%) Atlassian
2 5 (8.62%) Rollbar
3 4 (6.90%) SAP
3 4 (6.90%) VMware
4 3 (5.17%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (3.45%) Telerik
6 1 (1.72%) Databricks
6 1 (1.72%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.72%) Google
6 1 (1.72%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle
6 1 (1.72%) Splunk