Scrum Master Jobs in the UK excluding London

Scrum Master
UK > UK excluding London

The median Scrum Master salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 553 702 596
Rank change year-on-year +149 -106 -156
Permanent jobs requiring a Scrum Master 26 60 152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.066% 0.080% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.084% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 20 27 82
10th Percentile £43,500 £39,455 £43,750
25th Percentile £48,438 £48,750 £49,952
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -9.24% -0.04%
75th Percentile £65,813 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £71,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,806 71,101 51,023
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.94% 89.01%
Number of salaries quoted 18,138 50,103 29,550
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.49%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Scrum Master
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Scrum Master in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum Master in the UK excluding London

Scrum Master
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Scrum Master in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Scrum Master in the UK excluding London

Scrum Master
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scrum Master in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Scrum Master in the UK excluding London

Scrum Master
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum Master within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
North of England +28 9 £50,000 -11.50% 7
South East +75 7 £70,000 +36.59% 2
Yorkshire +58 5 £44,500 -18.35% 2
North West -9 4 £64,500 +11.21% 5
East of England - 3 £60,000 - 1
Scotland +115 2 - - 3
South West +106 2 £53,750 -20.37% 3
Midlands +61 2 - -
West Midlands +56 2 - -
Wales +35 1 £62,500 +4.17% 2
Scrum Master
UK

Scrum Master Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, Scrum Master job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Scrum Master in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) Agile
1 26 (100.00%) Scrum
2 18 (69.23%) Product Ownership
3 16 (61.54%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (50.00%) Coaching
5 12 (46.15%) Sprint Retrospective
5 12 (46.15%) Sprint Planning
5 12 (46.15%) Social Skills
6 11 (42.31%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (34.62%) DevOps
8 8 (30.77%) Conflict Resolution
8 8 (30.77%) Product Backlog
9 7 (26.92%) Project Management
10 6 (23.08%) TDD
10 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
10 6 (23.08%) Servant Leadership
11 5 (19.23%) Sprint Review
11 5 (19.23%) Project Delivery
11 5 (19.23%) Azure
11 5 (19.23%) Decision-Making
11 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
11 5 (19.23%) JIRA
12 4 (15.38%) Extreme Programming
12 4 (15.38%) Finance
12 4 (15.38%) Kanban
12 4 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
12 4 (15.38%) Banking
12 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (15.38%) SaaS
12 4 (15.38%) Test Automation

Scrum Master Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Productboard
2 2 (7.69%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 5 (19.23%) Azure
2 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (15.38%) SaaS
3 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.85%) AWS
4 1 (3.85%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) GIS
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) JIRA
General
1 12 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Banking
2 4 (15.38%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.54%) Retail
4 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) Spring
1 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (69.23%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.69%) N-Tier
2 2 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) Agile
1 26 (100.00%) Scrum
2 16 (61.54%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (50.00%) Coaching
4 12 (46.15%) Sprint Planning
4 12 (46.15%) Sprint Retrospective
5 11 (42.31%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (34.62%) DevOps
7 8 (30.77%) Conflict Resolution
7 8 (30.77%) Product Backlog
8 7 (26.92%) Project Management
9 6 (23.08%) Servant Leadership
9 6 (23.08%) TDD
10 5 (19.23%) Decision-Making
10 5 (19.23%) Project Delivery
10 5 (19.23%) Sprint Review
11 4 (15.38%) Backlog Management
11 4 (15.38%) Extreme Programming
11 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
11 4 (15.38%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) C#
2 1 (3.85%) Java
2 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.85%) Databricks
2 1 (3.85%) ESRI