Scrum
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Scrum skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Scrum over the 6 months to 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 52 27 27
Rank change year-on-year -25 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 2,669 10,533 10,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.11% 8.62% 8.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.43% 9.00% 8.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,014 5,676 6,701
10th Percentile £41,575 £45,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,714 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +2.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Scrum is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 49,175 117,045 121,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.07% 95.76% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 35,535 71,782 82,169
10th Percentile £32,250 £34,575 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,519 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% +7.04% +4.17%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the UK

Scrum
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Scrum.

Salary trend for Scrum in the UK

Scrum
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scrum over the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Scrum in the UK

Scrum
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the UK over the 6 months to 10 December 2023. 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
England -26 2,250 £65,000 -3.70% 899
UK excluding London -31 1,574 £60,000 - 583
Work from Home -28 1,245 £65,000 -2.67% 527
London -22 876 £75,000 - 399
North of England -31 395 £60,000 -4.00% 148
South West -3 330 £57,500 -4.17% 77
South East -43 294 £65,000 - 158
Midlands -31 232 £60,000 +9.09% 93
North West -26 207 £60,000 - 88
Scotland -31 166 £59,526 -0.79% 37
Yorkshire -32 163 £57,500 -10.20% 43
West Midlands -37 141 £57,500 +4.55% 70
East Midlands -8 94 £65,000 +13.04% 23
East of England -10 85 £60,000 -2.04% 46
Wales -14 72 £55,119 -8.14% 22
North East -4 25 £57,500 +12.20% 17
Northern Ireland 0 15 £45,000 -11.76% 9

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 167 (6.26%) Confluence
2 101 (3.78%) SharePoint
3 36 (1.35%) CMS
4 19 (0.71%) Tomcat
5 18 (0.67%) Apache
5 18 (0.67%) OpenStack
6 12 (0.45%) IIS
7 11 (0.41%) JBoss
7 11 (0.41%) Oracle Application Server
8 10 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
9 9 (0.34%) Apache Spark
9 9 (0.34%) nginx
10 8 (0.30%) Jetty
10 8 (0.30%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.26%) Umbraco
12 6 (0.22%) Apache Solr
12 6 (0.22%) Drupal
12 6 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
12 6 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
12 6 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 47 (1.76%) Microsoft Project
2 44 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (1.57%) MS Visio
4 23 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
5 16 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.41%) Trello
7 7 (0.26%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.075%) Simulink
9 1 (0.037%) InVision
9 1 (0.037%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.037%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 35 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.49%) Visualfiles
3 12 (0.45%) Unit4 Business World
4 11 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 8 (0.30%) Distributed Ledger
6 6 (0.22%) Maximo
7 5 (0.19%) Magento
8 4 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
8 4 (0.15%) Endur
9 3 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
9 3 (0.11%) Teamcenter
10 2 (0.075%) Dynamics GP
10 2 (0.075%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.075%) OpenLink RightAngle
10 2 (0.075%) Remedy ITSM
10 2 (0.075%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.075%) SDL Web 8
11 1 (0.037%) Oracle Receivables
11 1 (0.037%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 923 (34.58%) Azure
2 584 (21.88%) AWS
3 300 (11.24%) Azure DevOps
4 241 (9.03%) Power Platform
5 178 (6.67%) SaaS
6 176 (6.59%) GCP
7 141 (5.28%) Serverless
8 117 (4.38%) GitHub
9 89 (3.33%) PaaS
10 81 (3.03%) IaaS
11 68 (2.55%) PowerApps
12 67 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
13 61 (2.29%) Azure Data Factory
14 53 (1.99%) Azure Logic Apps
15 52 (1.95%) Amazon ECS
16 51 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
16 51 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
17 50 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
18 44 (1.65%) Azure Service Bus
19 41 (1.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 20 (0.75%) AMQP
2 15 (0.56%) DNS
3 14 (0.52%) Internet
4 10 (0.37%) HTTP
5 8 (0.30%) Firewall
5 8 (0.30%) MPLS
5 8 (0.30%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.30%) WAN
6 6 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.22%) Wireless
7 5 (0.19%) Ethernet VPN
7 5 (0.19%) NaaS
7 5 (0.19%) SNMP
7 5 (0.19%) VXLAN
7 5 (0.19%) WebEx
8 4 (0.15%) Intranet
8 4 (0.15%) LAN
9 3 (0.11%) Ethernet
9 3 (0.11%) VoIP
9 3 (0.11%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 250 (9.37%) SQL Server
2 165 (6.18%) Power BI
3 149 (5.58%) Data Warehouse
4 116 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
5 109 (4.08%) Relational Database
6 76 (2.85%) NoSQL
7 75 (2.81%) MongoDB
8 54 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 53 (1.99%) MySQL
10 49 (1.84%) Redis
11 48 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
12 45 (1.69%) Oracle Database
13 40 (1.50%) Tableau
14 38 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 34 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
16 30 (1.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 26 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
18 25 (0.94%) Big Data
19 23 (0.86%) Data Lake
20 21 (0.79%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 348 (13.04%) JIRA
2 337 (12.63%) Git
3 206 (7.72%) Jenkins
4 107 (4.01%) Selenium
5 102 (3.82%) GitLab
6 93 (3.48%) Cucumber
7 62 (2.32%) Visual Studio
8 61 (2.29%) Bitbucket
9 60 (2.25%) Postman
10 56 (2.10%) JUnit
11 54 (2.02%) Maven
12 44 (1.65%) JMeter
13 40 (1.50%) Team Foundation Server
14 38 (1.42%) SoapUI
15 33 (1.24%) REST Assured
15 33 (1.24%) SpecFlow
16 27 (1.01%) LoadRunner
17 26 (0.97%) Robot Framework
18 24 (0.90%) TeamCity
19 23 (0.86%) SonarQube
General
1 680 (25.48%) Social Skills
2 564 (21.13%) Finance
3 300 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
4 252 (9.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 168 (6.29%) Public Sector
6 160 (5.99%) Banking
7 138 (5.17%) Marketing
8 135 (5.06%) Retail
9 120 (4.50%) Presentation Skills
10 71 (2.66%) Manufacturing
11 64 (2.40%) Games
12 57 (2.14%) Law
13 40 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
14 39 (1.46%) Electronics
14 39 (1.46%) Legal
15 35 (1.31%) Telecoms
16 24 (0.90%) Local Government
17 22 (0.82%) Automotive
18 21 (0.79%) Investment Banking
19 19 (0.71%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 668 (25.03%) Developer
2 622 (23.30%) Senior
3 274 (10.27%) Lead
4 250 (9.37%) Analyst
4 250 (9.37%) Project Manager
5 240 (8.99%) Software Engineer
6 205 (7.68%) Architect
7 172 (6.44%) Senior Developer
8 146 (5.47%) Senior Manager
9 142 (5.32%) Solutions Architect
10 137 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
11 135 (5.06%) Business Analyst
12 122 (4.57%) Senior Project Manager
13 116 (4.35%) Product Owner
14 101 (3.78%) .NET Developer
15 98 (3.67%) Java Developer
16 87 (3.26%) C# Developer
17 84 (3.15%) Delivery Manager
18 82 (3.07%) Scrum Master
19 81 (3.03%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 463 (17.35%) .NET
2 268 (10.04%) AngularJS
3 262 (9.82%) CSS
4 256 (9.59%) HTML
5 247 (9.25%) React
6 212 (7.94%) REST
7 154 (5.77%) ASP.NET
7 154 (5.77%) Spring
8 153 (5.73%) RESTful
9 150 (5.62%) .NET Core
10 149 (5.58%) Node.js
11 141 (5.28%) Web Services
12 137 (5.13%) .NET Framework
13 127 (4.76%) Spring Boot
14 119 (4.46%) JSON
15 103 (3.86%) XML
16 102 (3.82%) SOAP
17 98 (3.67%) ASP.NET Web API
18 88 (3.30%) ASP.NET MVC
19 81 (3.03%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 400 (14.99%) Product Ownership
2 173 (6.48%) Cloud Native
3 160 (5.99%) Management Information System
4 156 (5.84%) Virtual Team
5 111 (4.16%) Data Structures
6 97 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
7 82 (3.07%) Public Cloud
8 78 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
9 71 (2.66%) Mobile App
10 54 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
11 53 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
12 40 (1.50%) Onboarding
13 38 (1.42%) Low-Code
14 37 (1.39%) Virtual Reality
15 32 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
16 29 (1.09%) Client/Server
17 27 (1.01%) Private Cloud
18 25 (0.94%) Cyberattack
19 21 (0.79%) Driving Licence
20 20 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 193 (7.23%) Linux
2 88 (3.30%) Windows
3 68 (2.55%) Android
4 40 (1.50%) Windows Server
5 35 (1.31%) Unix
6 33 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 25 (0.94%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.26%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.22%) CentOS
11 5 (0.19%) Debian
12 3 (0.11%) VMS
13 2 (0.075%) QNX Neutrino
14 1 (0.037%) VxWorks
14 1 (0.037%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.037%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,278 (85.35%) Agile
2 743 (27.84%) DevOps
3 555 (20.79%) Kanban
4 506 (18.96%) Software Engineering
5 497 (18.62%) CI/CD
6 424 (15.89%) Project Management
7 403 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
8 390 (14.61%) Project Delivery
9 387 (14.50%) SDLC
10 360 (13.49%) Microservices
11 350 (13.11%) Test Automation
12 329 (12.33%) Mentoring
13 303 (11.35%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 296 (11.09%) Roadmaps
15 295 (11.05%) Computer Science
16 268 (10.04%) TDD
17 243 (9.10%) Design Patterns
18 241 (9.03%) Continuous Improvement
19 240 (8.99%) Continuous Integration
19 240 (8.99%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 590 (22.11%) SQL
2 519 (19.45%) C#
3 475 (17.80%) JavaScript
4 450 (16.86%) Java
5 369 (13.83%) Python
6 174 (6.52%) TypeScript
7 102 (3.82%) PowerShell
8 94 (3.52%) Bash
9 74 (2.77%) C++
10 69 (2.59%) T-SQL
11 68 (2.55%) C
12 41 (1.54%) Rust
13 36 (1.35%) Ruby
14 33 (1.24%) PHP
15 32 (1.20%) Go
15 32 (1.20%) PL/SQL
16 30 (1.12%) VBScript
17 29 (1.09%) Bicep
18 23 (0.86%) Kotlin
19 22 (0.82%) R
Qualifications
1 465 (17.42%) Degree
2 361 (13.53%) Security Cleared
3 242 (9.07%) SC Cleared
4 210 (7.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 81 (3.03%) TOGAF Certification
6 73 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 58 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 54 (2.02%) Azure Certification
9 53 (1.99%) AWS Certification
10 50 (1.87%) DV Cleared
11 44 (1.65%) PMI Certification
12 38 (1.42%) PMP
13 31 (1.16%) ISTQB
14 30 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 26 (0.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 25 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
17 24 (0.90%) ISEB
18 19 (0.71%) Master's Degree
19 13 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
20 12 (0.45%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 290 (10.87%) QA
2 58 (2.17%) PMO
3 41 (1.54%) Data Quality
4 35 (1.31%) Accessibility
5 29 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 13 (0.49%) GRC
6 13 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.45%) GDPR
8 10 (0.37%) EMIR
8 10 (0.37%) MiFID
9 8 (0.30%) SLA
10 7 (0.26%) IEC 61508
11 6 (0.22%) DICOM
11 6 (0.22%) HL7
11 6 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
11 6 (0.22%) WCAG
12 5 (0.19%) DO-178B
12 5 (0.19%) NIST
13 4 (0.15%) COBIT
14 3 (0.11%) Automotive SPICE
System Software
1 278 (10.42%) Docker
2 51 (1.91%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.97%) Firmware
5 14 (0.52%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
8 4 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.075%) Postfix
11 1 (0.037%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.037%) Ceph
11 1 (0.037%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.037%) Gluster
11 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.037%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 305 (11.43%) Kubernetes
2 217 (8.13%) Terraform
3 159 (5.96%) Ansible
4 39 (1.46%) Grafana
5 26 (0.97%) Prometheus
6 21 (0.79%) HP Quality Center
7 16 (0.60%) Packer
8 12 (0.45%) Puppet
9 11 (0.41%) Kibana
10 8 (0.30%) vCenter Server
11 7 (0.26%) Argo
11 7 (0.26%) HP ALM
12 4 (0.15%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.11%) Consul
13 3 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.075%) Red Hat Satellite
15 1 (0.037%) Docker Swarm
15 1 (0.037%) Nagios
15 1 (0.037%) SCCM
15 1 (0.037%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 436 (16.34%) Microsoft
2 169 (6.33%) Salesforce
3 158 (5.92%) Oracle
4 118 (4.42%) Google
5 109 (4.08%) NEC
6 46 (1.72%) SAP
7 44 (1.65%) VMware
8 35 (1.31%) Databricks
9 32 (1.20%) ServiceNow
10 30 (1.12%) HP
11 29 (1.09%) Splunk
12 17 (0.64%) Dynatrace
12 17 (0.64%) WSO2
13 16 (0.60%) Atlassian
14 12 (0.45%) Cadence
14 12 (0.45%) Civica
14 12 (0.45%) Informatica
14 12 (0.45%) MKS
14 12 (0.45%) Northgate
14 12 (0.45%) Red Hat