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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 104 82
Rank change year-on-year +8 -22 -27
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 80 86 200
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.38% 2.55% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 2.75% 3.37%
Number of salaries quoted 55 31 119
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £46,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,188 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +27.27% -12.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,125 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £78,750
South East median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +21.74% -8.00%

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 4,158 3,131 5,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.76% 92.83% 82.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,878 1,206 4,007
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +7.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 14 June 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 14 June 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 +27 40 £75,000 +6.76% 6
Berkshire -30 23 £50,000 -31.03% 13
Oxfordshire -7 17 £85,000 +33.33% 6
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 5 (6.25%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.25%) Apache
2 1 (1.25%) CMS
2 1 (1.25%) IIS
2 1 (1.25%) JBoss
2 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (1.25%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.25%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 39 (48.75%) AWS
2 32 (40.00%) Azure
3 13 (16.25%) Serverless
4 12 (15.00%) Amazon ECS
4 12 (15.00%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (7.50%) Amazon S3
5 6 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (6.25%) GCP
7 4 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (5.00%) GitHub
7 4 (5.00%) Google Analytics
8 3 (3.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (3.75%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (2.50%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.75%) DHCP
1 3 (3.75%) DNS
1 3 (3.75%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.75%) Relational Database
2 10 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (8.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (8.75%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (8.75%) Metadata
3 7 (8.75%) MongoDB
4 6 (7.50%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.75%) MySQL
6 2 (2.50%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.50%) Power BI
6 2 (2.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (16.25%) JIRA
2 12 (15.00%) Git
2 12 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (7.50%) Zephyr
4 5 (6.25%) Selenium
5 3 (3.75%) GitLab
5 3 (3.75%) JUnit
5 3 (3.75%) Postman
5 3 (3.75%) SoapUI
5 3 (3.75%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (3.75%) WebDriver
6 2 (2.50%) JMeter
6 2 (2.50%) Mockito
7 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.25%) SonarQube
General
1 30 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 19 (23.75%) Public Sector
3 13 (16.25%) Finance
3 13 (16.25%) Law
4 11 (13.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (11.25%) Manufacturing
6 7 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (8.75%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (6.25%) Retail
8 2 (2.50%) Legal
8 2 (2.50%) Social Housing
9 1 (1.25%) Games
9 1 (1.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (30.00%) Developer
2 15 (18.75%) Architect
3 12 (15.00%) Java Developer
4 9 (11.25%) Senior
5 8 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (8.75%) .NET Developer
6 7 (8.75%) Data Architect
6 7 (8.75%) Head of IT
7 5 (6.25%) Analyst
7 5 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (5.00%) Analytics Manager
8 4 (5.00%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) E-Commerce Manager
8 4 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (5.00%) QA Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Senior Test Analyst
8 4 (5.00%) Test Analyst
9 3 (3.75%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 3 (3.75%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (25.00%) React
2 15 (18.75%) .NET
3 13 (16.25%) REST
3 13 (16.25%) Spring
4 12 (15.00%) Node.js
5 11 (13.75%) Spring Boot
5 11 (13.75%) Web Services
6 9 (11.25%) .NET Core
6 9 (11.25%) AngularJS
6 9 (11.25%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (10.00%) ASP.NET
7 8 (10.00%) HTML
8 7 (8.75%) ASP.NET Core
8 7 (8.75%) Mustache
9 6 (7.50%) ASP.NET Web API
9 6 (7.50%) JPA
10 5 (6.25%) Java EE
10 5 (6.25%) RESTful
10 5 (6.25%) SOAP
11 4 (5.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.25%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 8 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 5 (6.25%) Life Science
4 5 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
4 5 (6.25%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.75%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.75%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.25%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.25%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.50%) Linux
1 2 (2.50%) Windows
2 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (96.25%) Agile
2 36 (45.00%) Kanban
3 32 (40.00%) DevOps
4 25 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 24 (30.00%) Computer Science
5 24 (30.00%) Microservices
6 21 (26.25%) CI/CD
7 19 (23.75%) TDD
8 18 (22.50%) ITIL
9 16 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 15 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (17.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 14 (17.50%) Technology Strategy
12 13 (16.25%) ITSM
13 12 (15.00%) BDD
14 11 (13.75%) Community of Practice
14 11 (13.75%) Data Modelling
14 11 (13.75%) Software Testing
14 11 (13.75%) Test Automation
15 10 (12.50%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 23 (28.75%) SQL
2 17 (21.25%) Java
3 16 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 15 (18.75%) C#
5 11 (13.75%) Python
6 5 (6.25%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.00%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.75%) Bash
8 3 (3.75%) PHP
8 3 (3.75%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.75%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.50%) R
10 1 (1.25%) Groovy
10 1 (1.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 32 (40.00%) Degree
2 19 (23.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (15.00%) Security Cleared
4 9 (11.25%) ISTQB
5 3 (3.75%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 2 (2.50%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (20.00%) QA
2 3 (3.75%) GDPR
2 3 (3.75%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (27.50%) Docker
2 3 (3.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.75%) Hyper-V
2 3 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (11.25%) Ansible
3 8 (10.00%) Terraform
4 6 (7.50%) Kibana
5 3 (3.75%) Grafana
5 3 (3.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (13.75%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.75%) Oracle
3 6 (7.50%) Google
3 6 (7.50%) ServiceNow
4 5 (6.25%) AppDynamics
5 4 (5.00%) IBM
6 3 (3.75%) Databricks
6 3 (3.75%) VMware
7 2 (2.50%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.50%) Splunk