Scrum Master Jobs

Scrum Master
UK

The median Scrum Master salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 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
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 681 808 708
Rank change year-on-year +127 -100 -148
Permanent jobs requiring a Scrum Master 30 86 252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.086% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.091% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 22 48 144
10th Percentile £43,650 £43,099 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,813 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,250 £64,029
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -4.34% -0.50%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £73,047
90th Percentile £77,250 £78,250 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 49,357 94,770 90,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.42% 94.70% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 25,605 67,694 56,964
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,622 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £53,438
% change year-on-year +3.29% -6.43% +6.88%

Scrum Master
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum Master in the UK

Scrum Master
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Scrum Master in the UK

Scrum Master
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scrum Master over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Scrum Master in the UK

Scrum Master
Top 13 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 23 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
England +132 28 £60,000 -11.11% 57
UK excluding London +151 20 £60,000 +11.11% 46
London +92 8 £72,500 -3.33% 23
South East +92 7 £70,000 +36.59% 12
North of England +29 6 £45,000 -19.64% 15
Work from Home +101 5 £45,000 -40.00% 32
Yorkshire +65 5 £44,500 -17.59%
East of England - 3 £60,000 - 6
South West +99 2 £53,750 -20.37% 2
Scotland +113 1 - - 6
West Midlands +68 1 - - 2
Midlands +68 1 - - 3
North West -15 1 £64,500 +11.21% 15

Scrum Master Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 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 featuring Scrum Master in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Scrum
1 30 (100.00%) Agile
2 18 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 18 (60.00%) Product Ownership
3 17 (56.67%) Social Skills
4 13 (43.33%) Sprint Retrospective
5 12 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
6 11 (36.67%) Coaching
6 11 (36.67%) DevOps
7 9 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (26.67%) Conflict Resolution
9 7 (23.33%) Product Backlog
9 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (23.33%) Project Management
9 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
10 6 (20.00%) Kanban
11 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
11 5 (16.67%) Azure
11 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
11 5 (16.67%) Finance
11 5 (16.67%) JIRA
11 5 (16.67%) Banking
11 5 (16.67%) Sprint Review
11 5 (16.67%) Backlog Management
11 5 (16.67%) Servant Leadership
12 4 (13.33%) Decision-Making
12 4 (13.33%) Backlog Refinement
12 4 (13.33%) Burndown Charts
12 4 (13.33%) Retail
12 4 (13.33%) TDD

Scrum Master Skill Set
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 2 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Productboard
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.67%) Trello
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.67%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (13.33%) SaaS
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.33%) Miro
4 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) GIS
1 1 (3.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 17 (56.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Banking
2 5 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Retail
4 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) FastAPI
1 2 (6.67%) OpenAPI
1 2 (6.67%) Spring
1 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
1 2 (6.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.67%) N-Tier
2 2 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) Agile
1 30 (100.00%) Scrum
2 18 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (43.33%) Sprint Retrospective
4 12 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
5 11 (36.67%) Coaching
5 11 (36.67%) DevOps
6 9 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (26.67%) Conflict Resolution
8 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (23.33%) Product Backlog
8 7 (23.33%) Project Management
9 6 (20.00%) Kanban
10 5 (16.67%) Backlog Management
10 5 (16.67%) Servant Leadership
10 5 (16.67%) Sprint Review
11 4 (13.33%) Backlog Refinement
11 4 (13.33%) Burndown Charts
11 4 (13.33%) Decision-Making
11 4 (13.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) C#
1 3 (10.00%) Python
2 2 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) Degree
3 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.33%) Databricks
2 1 (3.33%) ESRI