Scrum Job Trends

Scrum
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Scrum skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 73 55
Rank change year-on-year -66 -18 -29
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 1,035 1,907 2,591
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.73% 3.56% 4.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 3.93% 5.17%
Number of salaries quoted 679 907 2,019
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,449 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £78,375
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -4.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,596 48,532 50,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.69% 89.94%
Number of salaries quoted 28,664 23,590 38,164
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Scrum relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Scrum job vacancy trend in the UK

Scrum
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Scrum.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Scrum

Scrum
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scrum over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Scrum in the UK

Scrum
Top 18 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 14 January 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
England -62 901 £65,000 - 746
UK excluding London -92 533 £60,000 -4.00% 693
Work from Home -43 410 £65,000 - 446
London -21 399 £75,000 -1.32% 162
South East -63 172 £52,500 -21.39% 224
North of England -72 133 £61,250 +4.49% 131
North West -46 79 £61,250 +2.08% 63
Midlands -38 77 £60,000 -4.00% 84
South West -60 60 £57,500 - 100
West Midlands -23 54 £68,250 +9.20% 42
Yorkshire -42 47 £62,500 +13.64% 50
Scotland -29 36 £65,000 +13.16% 26
East of England -52 36 £65,000 +8.33% 103
Wales -4 23 £60,000 +13.64% 30
East Midlands -27 23 £49,500 -17.50% 42
North East +9 7 £35,000 -41.67% 19
Northern Ireland -29 5 £24,500 -51.00% 12
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 85 (8.21%) Confluence
2 18 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.64%) Apache
4 13 (1.26%) OpenStack
5 9 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 8 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.77%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.68%) CMS
8 4 (0.39%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.39%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.39%) nginx
8 4 (0.39%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.19%) CICS
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.19%) WordPress
11 1 (0.097%) IIS
11 1 (0.097%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (2.32%) Microsoft Project
2 22 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (1.84%) MS Visio
4 14 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
6 12 (1.16%) Trello
7 4 (0.39%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.29%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 39 (3.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.48%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.39%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.39%) Shopify
4 3 (0.29%) Maximo
4 3 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
5 2 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.19%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.097%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.097%) Endur
6 1 (0.097%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 1 (0.097%) Magento
6 1 (0.097%) Primavera
6 1 (0.097%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 347 (33.53%) Azure
2 266 (25.70%) AWS
3 116 (11.21%) Azure DevOps
4 108 (10.43%) Serverless
5 98 (9.47%) Power Platform
6 63 (6.09%) SaaS
7 61 (5.89%) GitHub
8 60 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (4.83%) GCP
10 49 (4.73%) Dynamics 365
11 41 (3.96%) Amazon S3
12 38 (3.67%) PowerApps
13 37 (3.57%) Power Automate
14 32 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
15 27 (2.61%) Azure Logic Apps
16 25 (2.42%) Amazon ECS
16 25 (2.42%) Amazon SQS
16 25 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
16 25 (2.42%) PaaS
17 22 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 39 (3.77%) Broadband
2 18 (1.74%) DNS
3 14 (1.35%) HTTP
4 8 (0.77%) Multicast
5 6 (0.58%) Firewall
6 5 (0.48%) AMQP
6 5 (0.48%) SSL
6 5 (0.48%) VPN
7 4 (0.39%) Ethernet
7 4 (0.39%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.39%) LAN
7 4 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.39%) RS-232
7 4 (0.39%) WAN
7 4 (0.39%) Wireless
8 3 (0.29%) BGP
8 3 (0.29%) DHCP
8 3 (0.29%) MPLS
8 3 (0.29%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (10.24%) SQL Server
2 67 (6.47%) Relational Database
3 60 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
4 58 (5.60%) NoSQL
5 57 (5.51%) Power BI
6 54 (5.22%) MongoDB
7 38 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
8 36 (3.48%) Azure SQL Database
9 32 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
10 22 (2.13%) DynamoDB
11 21 (2.03%) MySQL
12 18 (1.74%) DB2
13 15 (1.45%) Data Lake
14 10 (0.97%) Tableau
15 9 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
15 9 (0.87%) Metadata
16 8 (0.77%) BigQuery
17 7 (0.68%) RDBMS
18 6 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
18 6 (0.58%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 184 (17.78%) JIRA
2 145 (14.01%) Git
3 101 (9.76%) Jenkins
4 75 (7.25%) Selenium
5 48 (4.64%) Postman
6 46 (4.44%) GitLab
7 38 (3.67%) Team Foundation Server
7 38 (3.67%) Visual Studio
8 36 (3.48%) SoapUI
8 36 (3.48%) WebDriver
9 33 (3.19%) TeamCity
10 22 (2.13%) SonarQube
11 20 (1.93%) JUnit
12 15 (1.45%) Bitbucket
12 15 (1.45%) Robot Framework
12 15 (1.45%) Snyk
13 14 (1.35%) Cucumber
14 13 (1.26%) Cypress.io
14 13 (1.26%) Maven
15 10 (0.97%) Mockito
General
1 387 (37.39%) Social Skills
2 305 (29.47%) Finance
3 161 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (7.73%) Public Sector
5 75 (7.25%) Marketing
6 70 (6.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 52 (5.02%) Law
8 50 (4.83%) Banking
9 44 (4.25%) Organisational Skills
10 36 (3.48%) Tech for Good
11 35 (3.38%) Legal
12 34 (3.29%) Retail
13 31 (3.00%) Health Technology
14 30 (2.90%) Publishing
15 26 (2.51%) Games
16 25 (2.42%) Telecoms
17 24 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
18 18 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
19 17 (1.64%) Manufacturing
20 15 (1.45%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 265 (25.60%) Developer
2 201 (19.42%) Senior
3 181 (17.49%) Lead
4 130 (12.56%) Analyst
5 77 (7.44%) Business Analyst
6 71 (6.86%) Software Engineer
7 67 (6.47%) Senior Developer
8 57 (5.51%) .NET Developer
8 57 (5.51%) Java Developer
9 48 (4.64%) Full-Stack Developer
10 46 (4.44%) Product Owner
10 46 (4.44%) Project Manager
11 44 (4.25%) Architect
12 42 (4.06%) Lead Developer
13 37 (3.57%) Delivery Manager
14 34 (3.29%) Test Analyst
15 33 (3.19%) Senior Manager
16 32 (3.09%) Python Developer
16 32 (3.09%) Scrum Master
17 31 (3.00%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (17.29%) .NET
2 164 (15.85%) React
3 126 (12.17%) REST
4 109 (10.53%) RESTful
5 108 (10.43%) HTML
6 86 (8.31%) SOAP
7 83 (8.02%) AngularJS
8 78 (7.54%) Node.js
9 73 (7.05%) CSS
10 63 (6.09%) Spring
11 61 (5.89%) .NET Framework
12 55 (5.31%) Spring Boot
13 47 (4.54%) .NET Core
13 47 (4.54%) Web Services
14 44 (4.25%) ASP.NET Web API
15 42 (4.06%) Entity Framework
15 42 (4.06%) Vue
16 38 (3.67%) ASP.NET
17 27 (2.61%) Akka
17 27 (2.61%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 230 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 54 (5.22%) Cloud Native
3 43 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
4 38 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
5 37 (3.57%) Onboarding
6 35 (3.38%) Management Information System
7 24 (2.32%) Over-the-Top Content
8 22 (2.13%) Video\Live Streaming
9 18 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 18 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
10 15 (1.45%) Fixed Income
10 15 (1.45%) Virtual Team
11 13 (1.26%) Low-Code
12 12 (1.16%) Public Cloud
13 11 (1.06%) CMDB
13 11 (1.06%) Mobile App
14 9 (0.87%) Equities
14 9 (0.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 8 (0.77%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 63 (6.09%) Linux
2 34 (3.29%) Windows
3 9 (0.87%) Android
4 7 (0.68%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.68%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (0.39%) Unix
7 3 (0.29%) CentOS
7 3 (0.29%) Debian
7 3 (0.29%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.29%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 957 (92.46%) Agile
2 312 (30.14%) CI/CD
3 309 (29.86%) DevOps
4 277 (26.76%) Kanban
5 253 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
6 235 (22.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 199 (19.23%) Mentoring
8 178 (17.20%) Roadmaps
9 175 (16.91%) Stakeholder Management
10 154 (14.88%) Microservices
11 145 (14.01%) Software Engineering
12 133 (12.85%) TDD
13 128 (12.37%) User Stories
14 122 (11.79%) Sprint Planning
15 120 (11.59%) Full-Stack Development
15 120 (11.59%) Project Management
16 116 (11.21%) Test Automation
17 114 (11.01%) SDLC
18 111 (10.72%) Project Delivery
19 109 (10.53%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 250 (24.15%) SQL
2 189 (18.26%) Java
3 186 (17.97%) JavaScript
4 164 (15.85%) C#
5 152 (14.69%) Python
6 127 (12.27%) TypeScript
7 28 (2.71%) Scala
8 22 (2.13%) Bash
9 18 (1.74%) C++
10 16 (1.55%) Apex Code
10 16 (1.55%) C
11 15 (1.45%) SOQL
11 15 (1.45%) SOSL
12 10 (0.97%) PL/SQL
12 10 (0.97%) PowerShell
13 9 (0.87%) Groovy
14 7 (0.68%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.58%) Go
16 5 (0.48%) Swift
17 4 (0.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 183 (17.68%) Degree
2 118 (11.40%) Security Cleared
3 62 (5.99%) ISTQB
4 60 (5.80%) SC Cleared
5 57 (5.51%) DV Cleared
6 50 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (3.86%) PMI Certification
8 34 (3.29%) PMP
9 33 (3.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 31 (3.00%) Master's Degree
11 18 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (1.16%) AWS Certification
13 12 (1.16%) Azure Certification
14 11 (1.06%) DBS Check
14 11 (1.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 10 (0.97%) ISEB
16 8 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
17 7 (0.68%) CSPO
18 5 (0.48%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (16.04%) QA
2 40 (3.86%) Accessibility
3 20 (1.93%) Data Quality
4 12 (1.16%) PMO
5 11 (1.06%) SLA
6 8 (0.77%) GDPR
7 7 (0.68%) SEPA
7 7 (0.68%) Software Quality Assurance
7 7 (0.68%) WCAG
8 6 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.58%) MiFID
9 5 (0.48%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.39%) GRC
10 4 (0.39%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.39%) PMBOK
10 4 (0.39%) TARGET2
11 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.29%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 112 (10.82%) Docker
2 18 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.39%) Firmware
4 2 (0.19%) RACF
4 2 (0.19%) vCloud
4 2 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 114 (11.01%) Kubernetes
2 64 (6.18%) Terraform
3 51 (4.93%) Ansible
4 12 (1.16%) Grafana
5 9 (0.87%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.68%) Kibana
7 5 (0.48%) Argo
8 4 (0.39%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.39%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.29%) Puppet
9 3 (0.29%) Rancher
9 3 (0.29%) yum
9 3 (0.29%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.19%) logstash
10 2 (0.19%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.19%) Rundeck
10 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 165 (15.94%) Microsoft
2 47 (4.54%) Oracle
3 38 (3.67%) Salesforce
4 31 (3.00%) Google
5 29 (2.80%) ServiceNow
6 27 (2.61%) Atlassian
7 26 (2.51%) SAP
8 25 (2.42%) Splunk
9 18 (1.74%) Guidewire
10 15 (1.45%) Black Duck
10 15 (1.45%) Coverity
11 13 (1.26%) Mercator
12 11 (1.06%) Red Hat
13 10 (0.97%) Databricks
13 10 (0.97%) IBM
14 7 (0.68%) Bloomberg
14 7 (0.68%) Dynatrace
14 7 (0.68%) Fortinet
14 7 (0.68%) MuleSoft
15 6 (0.58%) Pega