Scrum
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Scrum skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Scrum over the 6 months leading up to 6 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 66 29
Rank change year-on-year -33 -37 +2
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 1,639 3,282 8,471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.90% 4.01% 7.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.09% 4.55% 7.97%
Number of salaries quoted 842 2,488 4,521
10th Percentile £43,254 £39,087 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,781 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,305 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.46% -8.33% +9.09%

All Process and 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 53,030 72,159 106,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.89% 88.20% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 25,155 53,246 63,311
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,440 £34,500
25th Percentile £45,442 £40,000 £45,639
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,793 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.59% -9.09% +5.77%

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 6 March 2025.

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 6 March 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
England -33 1,494 £65,000 +8.33% 939
UK excluding London -36 1,087 £61,305 +11.46% 647
Work from Home -19 758 £67,500 +12.50% 891
London -27 533 £76,000 +4.83% 362
South East +10 342 £70,000 +16.67% 159
North of England -36 271 £57,500 -4.17% 201
North West -31 191 £60,000 -7.69% 118
Midlands -59 141 £60,000 +9.09% 85
South West -49 123 £60,000 +20.00% 80
East of England -1 106 £60,000 +9.09% 60
West Midlands -47 100 £61,250 +11.36% 54
Yorkshire -10 74 £55,000 +4.76% 49
Scotland -52 55 £58,750 +11.90% 54
East Midlands -19 41 £60,000 +4.35% 30
Northern Ireland +37 26 £32,500 -65.79% 7
Wales -4 26 £48,518 -22.37% 14
North East -21 8 £45,000 -14.29% 34

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
1 117 (7.14%) Confluence
2 40 (2.44%) CMS
3 18 (1.10%) SharePoint
4 17 (1.04%) Kentico
5 13 (0.79%) JBoss
5 13 (0.79%) Red Hat Fuse
6 12 (0.73%) nginx
6 12 (0.73%) OpenStack
7 11 (0.67%) Umbraco
8 9 (0.55%) Drupal
8 9 (0.55%) WordPress
9 8 (0.49%) Apache
9 8 (0.49%) Apache Spark
10 7 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
10 7 (0.43%) Sitefinity
11 6 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
12 4 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
14 2 (0.12%) IIS
14 2 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 29 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (1.71%) Trello
3 24 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
4 22 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
5 14 (0.85%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (0.55%) Simulink
8 7 (0.43%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.18%) Productboard
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.061%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.061%) Notion
11 1 (0.061%) Sketch
11 1 (0.061%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
2 6 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.18%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.12%) iTrent
5 2 (0.12%) Maximo
5 2 (0.12%) Shopify
5 2 (0.12%) Siebel CRM
5 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.061%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.061%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.061%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.061%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.061%) SDL Web 8
6 1 (0.061%) TIBCO iProcess
6 1 (0.061%) TrackWise
6 1 (0.061%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 595 (36.30%) AWS
2 403 (24.59%) Azure
3 335 (20.44%) Serverless
4 279 (17.02%) GitHub
5 276 (16.84%) Amazon S3
6 268 (16.35%) AWS Lambda
7 266 (16.23%) Amazon SQS
8 233 (14.22%) Amazon Kinesis
9 117 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
10 103 (6.28%) GCP
11 90 (5.49%) SaaS
12 69 (4.21%) Power Platform
13 33 (2.01%) Amazon ECS
13 33 (2.01%) Azure Data Factory
14 31 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
15 30 (1.83%) Azure Functions
16 29 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
17 27 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
18 25 (1.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 23 (1.40%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 46 (2.81%) Firewall
2 30 (1.83%) DNS
3 13 (0.79%) IPv6
3 13 (0.79%) Reverse Proxy
4 12 (0.73%) Wireless
5 11 (0.67%) Bluetooth
6 9 (0.55%) HTTP
6 9 (0.55%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.43%) GSM
7 7 (0.43%) J1939
7 7 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.31%) 3G
8 5 (0.31%) GPRS
8 5 (0.31%) LTE
8 5 (0.31%) Modbus
9 4 (0.24%) Broadband
9 4 (0.24%) DHCP
9 4 (0.24%) Intranet
9 4 (0.24%) Network Security
9 4 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 313 (19.10%) PostgreSQL
2 247 (15.07%) Redis
3 237 (14.46%) DynamoDB
4 126 (7.69%) Relational Database
5 114 (6.96%) SQL Server
6 59 (3.60%) MongoDB
7 58 (3.54%) NoSQL
8 53 (3.23%) Power BI
9 46 (2.81%) Azure SQL Database
10 43 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
10 43 (2.62%) MySQL
11 32 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
12 19 (1.16%) Tableau
13 15 (0.92%) Big Data
14 12 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.73%) RDBMS
15 11 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 11 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 10 (0.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 9 (0.55%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 329 (20.07%) Jenkins
2 275 (16.78%) JIRA
3 184 (11.23%) Git
4 54 (3.29%) JUnit
5 46 (2.81%) Selenium
6 41 (2.50%) GitLab
7 27 (1.65%) Postman
8 22 (1.34%) Cypress.io
9 21 (1.28%) eggPlant
9 21 (1.28%) JMeter
9 21 (1.28%) Visual Studio
10 19 (1.16%) Cucumber
11 18 (1.10%) Mockito
12 17 (1.04%) NUnit
12 17 (1.04%) SpecFlow
13 12 (0.73%) Subversion
14 11 (0.67%) Gatling
14 11 (0.67%) webpack
15 10 (0.61%) Bitbucket
16 9 (0.55%) SoapUI
General
1 529 (32.28%) Social Skills
2 310 (18.91%) Finance
3 308 (18.79%) Marketing
4 305 (18.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 236 (14.40%) Advertising
6 208 (12.69%) Analytical Skills
7 115 (7.02%) Public Sector
8 68 (4.15%) Banking
9 55 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
9 55 (3.36%) Retail
10 54 (3.29%) Law
11 41 (2.50%) Manufacturing
12 39 (2.38%) Publishing
13 37 (2.26%) Electronics
14 35 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
15 32 (1.95%) Automotive
16 31 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
17 26 (1.59%) Health Technology
17 26 (1.59%) Legal
18 24 (1.46%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 411 (25.08%) Software Engineer
2 326 (19.89%) Developer
3 249 (15.19%) Senior
4 185 (11.29%) Lead
5 130 (7.93%) Analyst
6 82 (5.00%) Architect
7 70 (4.27%) Business Analyst
8 68 (4.15%) Delivery Manager
9 67 (4.09%) Product Owner
9 67 (4.09%) Senior Developer
10 62 (3.78%) Project Manager
11 53 (3.23%) Senior Software Engineer
12 50 (3.05%) .NET Developer
13 49 (2.99%) Java Developer
14 47 (2.87%) Full-Stack Developer
15 45 (2.75%) Lead Developer
15 45 (2.75%) Product Manager
16 44 (2.68%) Software Developer
17 39 (2.38%) Senior Analyst
18 37 (2.26%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 431 (26.30%) React
2 371 (22.64%) AngularJS
2 371 (22.64%) REST
3 344 (20.99%) Node.js
4 242 (14.77%) Tailwind CSS
5 198 (12.08%) .NET
6 157 (9.58%) HTML
7 139 (8.48%) CSS
8 130 (7.93%) RESTful
9 105 (6.41%) Web Services
10 69 (4.21%) Spring
11 67 (4.09%) .NET Framework
12 60 (3.66%) Spring Boot
13 59 (3.60%) ASP.NET
14 53 (3.23%) .NET Core
15 45 (2.75%) SOAP
16 44 (2.68%) HTML5
17 43 (2.62%) Kafka
18 39 (2.38%) XML
19 35 (2.14%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 232 (14.15%) Blog
1 232 (14.15%) Digital Media
1 232 (14.15%) Product Ownership
2 48 (2.93%) Management Information System
3 46 (2.81%) Mobile App
4 44 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
5 38 (2.32%) Cloud Native
6 34 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
7 26 (1.59%) IoT
7 26 (1.59%) Virtual Team
8 24 (1.46%) Algorithms
9 21 (1.28%) Onboarding
10 18 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.10%) Data Structures
10 18 (1.10%) Legacy Code
11 16 (0.98%) Public Cloud
12 15 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (0.85%) Private Cloud
14 13 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 88 (5.37%) Linux
2 39 (2.38%) Windows
3 36 (2.20%) Android
4 29 (1.77%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.79%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.61%) Unix
7 8 (0.49%) VxWorks
8 5 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.12%) VMS
10 1 (0.061%) CentOS
10 1 (0.061%) Debian
10 1 (0.061%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,472 (89.81%) Agile
2 569 (34.72%) Software Engineering
3 359 (21.90%) Full-Stack Development
4 337 (20.56%) User Experience
5 335 (20.44%) CI/CD
6 327 (19.95%) DevOps
7 300 (18.30%) Kanban
8 289 (17.63%) Problem-Solving
9 282 (17.21%) Continuous Delivery
10 273 (16.66%) E-Commerce
11 270 (16.47%) Epics
12 248 (15.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 242 (14.77%) Test Automation
14 226 (13.79%) Mentoring
15 223 (13.61%) Roadmaps
16 217 (13.24%) Microservices
17 206 (12.57%) Project Management
18 188 (11.47%) Stakeholder Management
19 166 (10.13%) SDLC
20 161 (9.82%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 370 (22.57%) TypeScript
2 269 (16.41%) JavaScript
3 237 (14.46%) Python
4 223 (13.61%) Java
5 215 (13.12%) SQL
6 202 (12.32%) C#
7 47 (2.87%) C++
8 31 (1.89%) C
8 31 (1.89%) PowerShell
9 24 (1.46%) Go
10 15 (0.92%) Ruby
11 14 (0.85%) Bash
12 13 (0.79%) PHP
12 13 (0.79%) Shell Script
13 12 (0.73%) T-SQL
14 11 (0.67%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.55%) Apex Code
15 9 (0.55%) MATLAB
16 8 (0.49%) Scala
16 8 (0.49%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 274 (16.72%) Degree
2 220 (13.42%) Security Cleared
3 149 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 89 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 73 (4.45%) DV Cleared
6 50 (3.05%) Master's Degree
7 43 (2.62%) PMP
8 42 (2.56%) PMI Certification
9 37 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 33 (2.01%) Azure Certification
11 25 (1.53%) ISTQB
12 18 (1.10%) CSPO
13 16 (0.98%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 11 (0.67%) CISSP
14 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (0.61%) ISEB
16 9 (0.55%) PhD
17 8 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Certification
18 7 (0.43%) AWS Certification
18 7 (0.43%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (10.07%) QA
2 38 (2.32%) Accessibility
3 20 (1.22%) PMO
4 16 (0.98%) SLA
5 15 (0.92%) Data Quality
6 13 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.67%) GRC
8 10 (0.61%) GDPR
8 10 (0.61%) IEC 62304
8 10 (0.61%) ISO 13485
9 9 (0.55%) ISO 20022
10 8 (0.49%) Automotive SPICE
10 8 (0.49%) AUTOSAR
11 7 (0.43%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.37%) NIST
13 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
14 4 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.18%) WCAG
16 2 (0.12%) HIPAA
System Software
1 372 (22.70%) Docker
2 26 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.16%) Firmware
4 12 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
5 9 (0.55%) NDS
5 9 (0.55%) NetIQ eDirectory
5 9 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
7 5 (0.31%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.31%) vSphere
8 3 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.061%) Postfix
9 1 (0.061%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 373 (22.76%) Kubernetes
2 46 (2.81%) Terraform
3 41 (2.50%) Ansible
4 24 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (1.04%) Kibana
6 9 (0.55%) Istio
6 9 (0.55%) NetIQ Identity Manager
6 9 (0.55%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.49%) Grafana
8 7 (0.43%) HP ALM
8 7 (0.43%) Puppet
9 5 (0.31%) Argo
9 5 (0.31%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.24%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.24%) SCCM
11 2 (0.12%) HP Quality Center
11 2 (0.12%) logstash
11 2 (0.12%) MIIS
11 2 (0.12%) Nagios
Vendors
1 209 (12.75%) Microsoft
2 65 (3.97%) Google
3 50 (3.05%) Salesforce
4 45 (2.75%) ServiceNow
5 43 (2.62%) Oracle
6 35 (2.14%) SAP
7 31 (1.89%) Atlassian
8 27 (1.65%) Databricks
9 21 (1.28%) Keysight
10 16 (0.98%) IBM
11 14 (0.85%) Splunk
11 14 (0.85%) VMware
12 9 (0.55%) CyberArk
12 9 (0.55%) ForgeRock
12 9 (0.55%) NetIQ
12 9 (0.55%) Novell
12 9 (0.55%) Red Hat
12 9 (0.55%) Trayport
13 8 (0.49%) Wind River
13 8 (0.49%) Xamarin