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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 59 57
Rank change year-on-year -61 -2 -22
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 50 165 141
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.28% 4.43% 4.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 4.92% 4.71%
Number of salaries quoted 32 63 94
10th Percentile £33,850 £46,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,625 £50,625 £50,369
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70,625 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £92,500 £83,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% - -

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 3,231 3,357 2,994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 82.51% 90.05% 92.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,733 1,631 2,138
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,463
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £69,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £54,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +5.50% -0.91%

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 December 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 14 December 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
Buckinghamshire +7 23 £65,000 +6.03% 19
Berkshire -66 22 £47,500 -19.66% 26
Oxfordshire -8 5 £50,000 -28.57% 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 (10.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (2.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 18 (36.00%) Azure
2 15 (30.00%) AWS
3 5 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 5 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (10.00%) Serverless
4 3 (6.00%) Collibra
4 3 (6.00%) GCP
4 3 (6.00%) GitHub
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.00%) Miro
5 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.00%) SaaS
5 2 (4.00%) Smartsheet
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (6.00%) Data Mining
4 3 (6.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (6.00%) Metadata
4 3 (6.00%) SAP BW
4 3 (6.00%) SAP HANA
5 2 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (4.00%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (28.00%) JIRA
2 10 (20.00%) Git
2 10 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 9 (18.00%) Postman
3 9 (18.00%) Selenium
3 9 (18.00%) SoapUI
3 9 (18.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 9 (18.00%) WebDriver
4 5 (10.00%) GitLab
5 4 (8.00%) SonarQube
6 3 (6.00%) ERwin
6 3 (6.00%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (2.00%) JUnit
General
1 31 (62.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (26.00%) Finance
3 6 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.00%) Automotive
5 3 (6.00%) Law
5 3 (6.00%) Publishing
6 2 (4.00%) Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Aviation
7 1 (2.00%) Back Office
7 1 (2.00%) Marketing
7 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (24.00%) Analyst
2 11 (22.00%) Developer
3 8 (16.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 8 (16.00%) Senior
4 6 (12.00%) Java Developer
4 6 (12.00%) Test Analyst
5 5 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
5 5 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (8.00%) .NET Developer
6 4 (8.00%) ASP.NET Developer
6 4 (8.00%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 4 (8.00%) Senior Test Analyst
6 4 (8.00%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Business Analyst
7 3 (6.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Lead
7 3 (6.00%) SAP Data Manager
7 3 (6.00%) SAP Delivery Manager
7 3 (6.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (34.00%) .NET
2 10 (20.00%) SOAP
3 9 (18.00%) HTML
3 9 (18.00%) REST
4 8 (16.00%) React
5 7 (14.00%) ASP.NET
6 6 (12.00%) Kafka
6 6 (12.00%) Spring
6 6 (12.00%) Spring Boot
7 5 (10.00%) .NET Framework
7 5 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 5 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (10.00%) Mustache
7 5 (10.00%) Node.js
8 4 (8.00%) ASP.NET Core
8 4 (8.00%) gRPC
8 4 (8.00%) Middleware
8 4 (8.00%) Razor View Engine
8 4 (8.00%) Sass
8 4 (8.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Distributed Systems
1 8 (16.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (8.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.00%) N-Tier
5 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (4.00%) Life Science
5 2 (4.00%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.00%) Linux
1 4 (8.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (90.00%) Agile
2 16 (32.00%) Mentoring
3 15 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 13 (26.00%) Software Testing
5 12 (24.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 11 (22.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (22.00%) DevOps
7 9 (18.00%) API Testing
7 9 (18.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
7 9 (18.00%) Kanban
7 9 (18.00%) Microservices
7 9 (18.00%) Non-Functional Testing
7 9 (18.00%) TDD
7 9 (18.00%) Test Management
7 9 (18.00%) Test Scripting
8 8 (16.00%) Roadmaps
8 8 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (14.00%) Containerisation
9 7 (14.00%) Data Management
9 7 (14.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 20 (40.00%) SQL
2 17 (34.00%) C#
2 17 (34.00%) Java
3 7 (14.00%) Python
4 6 (12.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.00%) C
6 2 (4.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 22 (44.00%) Degree
2 9 (18.00%) ISTQB
2 9 (18.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 5 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (10.00%) Master's Degree
4 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (6.00%) PMI Certification
4 3 (6.00%) PMP
4 3 (6.00%) SAP Certification
4 3 (6.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (8.00%) QA
3 3 (6.00%) Data Quality
4 2 (4.00%) ECSS
4 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.00%) SLA
5 1 (2.00%) GAAP
5 1 (2.00%) IFRS
5 1 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (22.00%) Docker
2 4 (8.00%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 11 (22.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.00%) Ansible
2 4 (8.00%) Docker Swarm
2 4 (8.00%) Rundeck
3 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (8.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (8.00%) SAP
1 4 (8.00%) Telerik
1 4 (8.00%) VMware
2 1 (2.00%) HubSpot
2 1 (2.00%) Oracle