Hybrid/Remote Scrum Job Trends

Scrum
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Scrum skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 55 46
Rank change year-on-year -44 -9 -16
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 429 849 1,520
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.72% 5.23% 5.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 5.54% 6.25%
Number of salaries quoted 307 339 1,285
10th Percentile £39,900 £45,000 £42,200
25th Percentile £49,750 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £78,625 £81,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,500 £91,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -6.16%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,702 15,325 24,328
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.77% 94.40% 92.93%
Number of salaries quoted 8,707 9,051 20,015
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.13%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% -9.60%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Scrum and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Scrum job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Scrum
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Scrum.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Scrum

Scrum
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Scrum over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Scrum salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 23 (5.36%) Confluence
2 11 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.93%) ArcGIS
4 4 (0.93%) GeoServer
4 4 (0.93%) Oracle Spatial
5 3 (0.70%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.47%) Apache
6 2 (0.47%) SAS
7 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.23%) CMS
7 1 (0.23%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 8 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.17%) Trello
4 4 (0.93%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.47%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.47%) Sketch
6 1 (0.23%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 11 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.70%) Maximo
3 2 (0.47%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.47%) Shopify
4 1 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.23%) Magento
4 1 (0.23%) Primavera
4 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.23%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 142 (33.10%) Azure
2 102 (23.78%) AWS
3 60 (13.99%) Serverless
4 51 (11.89%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (7.93%) GitHub
6 32 (7.46%) Power Platform
7 31 (7.23%) AWS Lambda
7 31 (7.23%) SaaS
8 20 (4.66%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (4.43%) Amazon S3
9 19 (4.43%) GCP
10 17 (3.96%) PaaS
11 16 (3.73%) Power Automate
11 16 (3.73%) PowerApps
12 15 (3.50%) Azure App Service
12 15 (3.50%) Entra ID
13 14 (3.26%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (2.56%) Azure Functions
15 10 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 48 (11.19%) Broadband
2 5 (1.17%) Ethernet
2 5 (1.17%) RS-232
3 2 (0.47%) DNS
3 2 (0.47%) Firewall
3 2 (0.47%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.47%) VPN
4 1 (0.23%) AMQP
4 1 (0.23%) GPRS
4 1 (0.23%) HTTP
4 1 (0.23%) LTE
4 1 (0.23%) Modbus
4 1 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (10.49%) SQL Server
2 28 (6.53%) NoSQL
3 27 (6.29%) MongoDB
4 26 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
5 23 (5.36%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (4.66%) Relational Database
7 18 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (3.03%) Power BI
9 11 (2.56%) MySQL
10 10 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (2.33%) DynamoDB
11 7 (1.63%) Tableau
12 6 (1.40%) Metadata
13 5 (1.17%) Data Lake
13 5 (1.17%) GIS
14 4 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.93%) BigQuery
14 4 (0.93%) QGIS
14 4 (0.93%) Qlik Sense
15 3 (0.70%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 75 (17.48%) JIRA
2 58 (13.52%) Git
3 57 (13.29%) Jenkins
4 41 (9.56%) Postman
5 38 (8.86%) Selenium
6 35 (8.16%) SoapUI
7 33 (7.69%) WebDriver
8 32 (7.46%) Team Foundation Server
9 31 (7.23%) GitLab
10 23 (5.36%) SonarQube
10 23 (5.36%) TeamCity
11 7 (1.63%) JMeter
11 7 (1.63%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.93%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.93%) SpecFlow
13 3 (0.70%) Storybook
14 2 (0.47%) Cucumber
14 2 (0.47%) REST Assured
14 2 (0.47%) Serenity BDD
14 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 163 (38.00%) Social Skills
2 98 (22.84%) Finance
3 62 (14.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 55 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (12.35%) Public Sector
6 44 (10.26%) Marketing
7 31 (7.23%) Games
8 26 (6.06%) Tech for Good
9 22 (5.13%) Health Technology
9 22 (5.13%) Publishing
10 20 (4.66%) Law
11 18 (4.20%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (3.96%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (2.56%) Telecoms
14 10 (2.33%) Legal
15 8 (1.86%) Manufacturing
16 6 (1.40%) Banking
16 6 (1.40%) Electronics
16 6 (1.40%) Retail
Job Titles
1 131 (30.54%) Developer
2 91 (21.21%) Senior
3 71 (16.55%) Lead
4 49 (11.42%) Analyst
5 42 (9.79%) Software Engineer
6 39 (9.09%) .NET Developer
7 35 (8.16%) Architect
8 31 (7.23%) Lead Developer
8 31 (7.23%) Senior Developer
9 25 (5.83%) Python Developer
9 25 (5.83%) React Developer
10 22 (5.13%) Business Analyst
11 21 (4.90%) Salesforce Architect
12 20 (4.66%) Senior Software Engineer
12 20 (4.66%) Software Developer
12 20 (4.66%) Test Analyst
13 19 (4.43%) AWS Developer
14 18 (4.20%) Delivery Manager
14 18 (4.20%) Scrum Master
15 15 (3.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (24.71%) .NET
2 76 (17.72%) React
3 67 (15.62%) SOAP
4 57 (13.29%) RESTful
5 53 (12.35%) HTML
6 44 (10.26%) REST
7 37 (8.62%) .NET Framework
8 34 (7.93%) ASP.NET Web API
9 33 (7.69%) Node.js
10 32 (7.46%) Entity Framework
11 30 (6.99%) .NET Core
12 28 (6.53%) Akka
13 26 (6.06%) AngularJS
14 23 (5.36%) CSS
14 23 (5.36%) Lightning Web Components
14 23 (5.36%) Visualforce
14 23 (5.36%) Vue
15 19 (4.43%) ASP.NET
15 19 (4.43%) Web Services
16 16 (3.73%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 93 (21.68%) Product Ownership
2 23 (5.36%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.36%) Over-the-Top Content
2 23 (5.36%) Video\Live Streaming
3 12 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (1.86%) Public Cloud
6 7 (1.63%) e-Learning
7 6 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.17%) Device Driver
9 4 (0.93%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.93%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.70%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.70%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.70%) N-Tier
10 3 (0.70%) PMI
10 3 (0.70%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.20%) Linux
2 5 (1.17%) Embedded Linux
2 5 (1.17%) Ubuntu
3 3 (0.70%) Android
3 3 (0.70%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.70%) Unix
4 2 (0.47%) VMS
5 1 (0.23%) CentOS
5 1 (0.23%) Debian
5 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 403 (93.94%) Agile
2 145 (33.80%) Kanban
3 143 (33.33%) DevOps
4 140 (32.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 129 (30.07%) CI/CD
6 103 (24.01%) Mentoring
7 93 (21.68%) Problem-Solving
8 78 (18.18%) TDD
9 74 (17.25%) Roadmaps
10 70 (16.32%) Software Engineering
11 64 (14.92%) Microservices
12 62 (14.45%) Stakeholder Management
13 58 (13.52%) Acceptance Criteria
14 57 (13.29%) Full-Stack Development
14 57 (13.29%) Software Testing
14 57 (13.29%) User Stories
15 52 (12.12%) Project Delivery
16 50 (11.66%) Coaching
17 49 (11.42%) Continuous Delivery
18 48 (11.19%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 113 (26.34%) SQL
2 96 (22.38%) C#
3 70 (16.32%) Java
3 70 (16.32%) TypeScript
4 65 (15.15%) JavaScript
5 57 (13.29%) Python
6 25 (5.83%) Scala
7 23 (5.36%) Apex Code
7 23 (5.36%) SOQL
7 23 (5.36%) SOSL
8 12 (2.80%) C++
9 8 (1.86%) Bash
9 8 (1.86%) C
10 5 (1.17%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.70%) Erlang
11 3 (0.70%) Groovy
11 3 (0.70%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.70%) PHP
11 3 (0.70%) Swift
11 3 (0.70%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 100 (23.31%) Degree
2 46 (10.72%) Security Cleared
3 39 (9.09%) ISTQB
4 35 (8.16%) SC Cleared
5 29 (6.76%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 28 (6.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (4.66%) Master's Degree
8 13 (3.03%) DBS Check
9 11 (2.56%) PMI Certification
10 9 (2.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 9 (2.10%) PMP
11 8 (1.86%) DV Cleared
12 7 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.93%) AWS Certification
15 3 (0.70%) Azure Certification
15 3 (0.70%) IBM Certification
16 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 2 (0.47%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (20.05%) QA
2 16 (3.73%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.17%) WCAG
4 4 (0.93%) PMO
5 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.47%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.47%) ECSS
6 2 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.23%) GDPR
7 1 (0.23%) GRC
7 1 (0.23%) IFRS
7 1 (0.23%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.23%) P3O
7 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (12.12%) Docker
2 14 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 49 (11.42%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.43%) Terraform
3 14 (3.26%) Ansible
4 3 (0.70%) Grafana
4 3 (0.70%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.47%) Argo
6 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 85 (19.81%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.99%) Salesforce
3 23 (5.36%) Splunk
4 14 (3.26%) ServiceNow
5 10 (2.33%) Google
6 9 (2.10%) Mercator
6 9 (2.10%) Oracle
6 9 (2.10%) SAP
7 5 (1.17%) ESRI
7 5 (1.17%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.70%) DevExpress
8 3 (0.70%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.70%) Guidewire
8 3 (0.70%) IBM
9 2 (0.47%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.47%) Databricks
9 2 (0.47%) Foundry
9 2 (0.47%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.47%) Pega
9 2 (0.47%) Zend