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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 144 83
Rank change year-on-year +19 -61 -24
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 81 59 134
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.08% 1.54% 2.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.70% 3.42%
Number of salaries quoted 49 35 48
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,500 £83,000
South East median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +2.80%

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 5,332 3,461 3,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.99% 90.48% 83.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,796 1,470 1,922
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,225 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £83,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.40% -11.82% -

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 October 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 October 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 +14 32 £76,250 +5.17% 26
Berkshire +2 29 £50,000 -10.71% 47
Oxfordshire -20 20 £62,500 -1.96% 29
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 (3.70%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.23%) Apache
2 1 (1.23%) CMS
2 1 (1.23%) Confluence
2 1 (1.23%) IIS
2 1 (1.23%) JBoss
2 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (1.23%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (9.88%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.47%) SAP BPC
1 2 (2.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.23%) Finacle
2 1 (1.23%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 41 (50.62%) Azure
2 29 (35.80%) AWS
3 22 (27.16%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (13.58%) Power Platform
5 9 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 9 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 7 (8.64%) Serverless
7 6 (7.41%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (4.94%) GitHub
8 4 (4.94%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (4.94%) Google Analytics
8 4 (4.94%) SaaS
9 3 (3.70%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.70%) GCP
10 2 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.47%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.47%) DHCP
1 2 (2.47%) DNS
1 2 (2.47%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (24.69%) Azure SQL Database
1 20 (24.69%) MongoDB
2 14 (17.28%) Metadata
3 12 (14.81%) NoSQL
3 12 (14.81%) SQL Server
4 11 (13.58%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (13.58%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (13.58%) Power BI
5 10 (12.35%) Relational Database
6 9 (11.11%) Amazon QuickSight
6 9 (11.11%) DynamoDB
6 9 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (11.11%) Snowflake Schema
6 9 (11.11%) Star Schema
7 2 (2.47%) SAP BW
7 2 (2.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (2.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.23%) GIS
Development Applications
1 18 (22.22%) Git
2 17 (20.99%) JIRA
3 6 (7.41%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.70%) Eclipse
4 3 (3.70%) Eclipse RCP
4 3 (3.70%) GitLab
4 3 (3.70%) IntelliJ
4 3 (3.70%) JUnit
4 3 (3.70%) Zephyr
5 2 (2.47%) JMeter
5 2 (2.47%) Mockito
5 2 (2.47%) Selenium
6 1 (1.23%) Bitbucket
General
1 30 (37.04%) Finance
2 21 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 13 (16.05%) Public Sector
4 10 (12.35%) Law
5 8 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (9.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (9.88%) Manufacturing
6 7 (8.64%) Telecoms
7 6 (7.41%) Retail
8 3 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.47%) Banking
9 2 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.47%) Legal
9 2 (2.47%) Marketing
9 2 (2.47%) Social Housing
10 1 (1.23%) Games
10 1 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (33.33%) Developer
2 14 (17.28%) Senior
3 11 (13.58%) .NET Developer
4 9 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (8.64%) Architect
5 7 (8.64%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (8.64%) Java Developer
5 7 (8.64%) Technical Manager
6 6 (7.41%) Delivery Manager
6 6 (7.41%) Head of IT
6 6 (7.41%) Telecoms Manager
7 5 (6.17%) Data Architect
7 5 (6.17%) Project Manager
8 4 (4.94%) Analyst
8 4 (4.94%) Analytics Manager
8 4 (4.94%) E-Commerce Manager
8 4 (4.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 4 (4.94%) OSS Project Manager
8 4 (4.94%) Technical Project Manager
9 3 (3.70%) Network Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.52%) .NET
2 14 (17.28%) Node.js
3 13 (16.05%) .NET Core
3 13 (16.05%) React
4 11 (13.58%) ASP.NET
4 11 (13.58%) ASP.NET Core
4 11 (13.58%) REST
5 9 (11.11%) AngularJS
5 9 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web API
6 8 (9.88%) Spring
7 7 (8.64%) .NET Framework
7 7 (8.64%) Blazor
7 7 (8.64%) Spring Boot
8 6 (7.41%) Web Services
9 5 (6.17%) Hibernate
9 5 (6.17%) HTML
9 5 (6.17%) Mustache
10 4 (4.94%) Vue
11 3 (3.70%) Apache Camel
11 3 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 20 (24.69%) Product Ownership
2 11 (13.58%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.17%) Life Science
4 5 (6.17%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (4.94%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.94%) Private Cloud
5 4 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.94%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.81%) Windows
2 1 (1.23%) Linux
2 1 (1.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (96.30%) Agile
2 36 (44.44%) DevOps
3 30 (37.04%) Computer Science
4 27 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 24 (29.63%) CI/CD
6 22 (27.16%) Full-Stack Development
6 22 (27.16%) Kanban
6 22 (27.16%) Microservices
7 17 (20.99%) Data Modelling
8 15 (18.52%) Data Architecture
9 14 (17.28%) Analytics
10 13 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (16.05%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (16.05%) TDD
11 11 (13.58%) Business Intelligence
11 11 (13.58%) Clean Code
11 11 (13.58%) ETL
11 11 (13.58%) Project Management
11 11 (13.58%) Waterfall
12 10 (12.35%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (34.57%) SQL
2 26 (32.10%) C#
3 18 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 16 (19.75%) Python
5 14 (17.28%) Java
6 6 (7.41%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.70%) Apex Code
7 3 (3.70%) C++
7 3 (3.70%) SOQL
8 2 (2.47%) Bash
8 2 (2.47%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.47%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 43 (53.09%) Degree
2 15 (18.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (9.88%) PMI Certification
3 8 (9.88%) PMP
4 7 (8.64%) SC Cleared
4 7 (8.64%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.70%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.70%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.47%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.81%) Data Quality
2 11 (13.58%) GDPR
2 11 (13.58%) QA
3 9 (11.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (2.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (18.52%) Docker
2 2 (2.47%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.47%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (18.52%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.94%) Ansible
3 3 (3.70%) Grafana
4 2 (2.47%) Kibana
4 2 (2.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (28.40%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.11%) Informatica
2 9 (11.11%) Talend
3 7 (8.64%) Pega
4 5 (6.17%) Google
5 4 (4.94%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.70%) Dynatrace
6 3 (3.70%) Sage
6 3 (3.70%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.47%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (2.47%) Oracle
7 2 (2.47%) SAP
7 2 (2.47%) Splunk
7 2 (2.47%) VMware
8 1 (1.23%) FIS
8 1 (1.23%) Temenos