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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 73 49
Rank change year-on-year -15 -24 -15
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 499 543 1,630
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.88% 4.18% 5.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.46% 4.41% 5.63%
Number of salaries quoted 336 317 1,363
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,650 £42,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,500 £78,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £89,375 £105,000 £88,983
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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 14,438 12,307 28,972
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.43% 94.78% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 10,082 8,885 23,509
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £33,800
25th Percentile £44,447 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 10 April 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 26 (5.21%) Confluence
2 10 (2.00%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.80%) ArcGIS
4 4 (0.80%) GeoServer
4 4 (0.80%) Oracle Spatial
5 3 (0.60%) Apache
5 3 (0.60%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.60%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.40%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.40%) SAS
7 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.20%) Trello
3 4 (0.80%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.40%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.40%) Sketch
6 1 (0.20%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 11 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.40%) Infor SunSystems
2 2 (0.40%) Maximo
2 2 (0.40%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.40%) Shopify
3 1 (0.20%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.20%) Magento
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.20%) Primavera
3 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.20%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 150 (30.06%) Azure
2 125 (25.05%) AWS
3 54 (10.82%) Serverless
4 53 (10.62%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (9.02%) GCP
6 26 (5.21%) Power Platform
7 25 (5.01%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (4.41%) GitHub
9 21 (4.21%) SaaS
10 20 (4.01%) Amazon S3
10 20 (4.01%) Entra ID
11 15 (3.01%) Amazon SQS
11 15 (3.01%) PaaS
12 14 (2.81%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (2.61%) Azure AKS
14 12 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (2.40%) Power Automate
14 12 (2.40%) PowerApps
15 11 (2.20%) Azure App Service
15 11 (2.20%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 73 (14.63%) Broadband
2 13 (2.61%) Ethernet
2 13 (2.61%) RS-232
3 6 (1.20%) Firewall
4 4 (0.80%) LAN
4 4 (0.80%) MQTT
4 4 (0.80%) WAN
5 2 (0.40%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (0.40%) Network Security
5 2 (0.40%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.40%) VPN
5 2 (0.40%) Wireless
6 1 (0.20%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (8.02%) NoSQL
2 30 (6.01%) SQL Server
3 22 (4.41%) MongoDB
4 21 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (2.61%) Power BI
6 10 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (2.00%) Metadata
6 10 (2.00%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.60%) MySQL
8 5 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.00%) Tableau
9 4 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.80%) GIS
9 4 (0.80%) Power Query
9 4 (0.80%) QGIS
9 4 (0.80%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.60%) Big Data
10 3 (0.60%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.60%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 75 (15.03%) JIRA
2 66 (13.23%) Jenkins
3 54 (10.82%) Git
4 48 (9.62%) GitLab
5 35 (7.01%) SonarQube
6 31 (6.21%) Postman
7 26 (5.21%) Selenium
7 26 (5.21%) SoapUI
8 24 (4.81%) Team Foundation Server
9 23 (4.61%) TeamCity
10 22 (4.41%) WebDriver
11 11 (2.20%) Cypress.io
12 8 (1.60%) CircleCI
13 6 (1.20%) SpecFlow
13 6 (1.20%) Visual Studio
14 4 (0.80%) JMeter
15 3 (0.60%) Oracle APEX
15 3 (0.60%) Storybook
16 2 (0.40%) REST Assured
16 2 (0.40%) Serenity BDD
General
1 187 (37.47%) Social Skills
2 104 (20.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 99 (19.84%) Finance
4 76 (15.23%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (13.83%) Public Sector
6 52 (10.42%) Marketing
7 51 (10.22%) Law
8 42 (8.42%) Games
9 29 (5.81%) Legal
10 20 (4.01%) Organisational Skills
10 20 (4.01%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (3.21%) Health Technology
11 16 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (2.81%) Publishing
12 14 (2.81%) Tech for Good
13 12 (2.40%) Banking
13 12 (2.40%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.60%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.40%) Advertising
16 6 (1.20%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 106 (21.24%) Senior
2 98 (19.64%) Developer
3 70 (14.03%) Lead
4 67 (13.43%) Software Engineer
5 60 (12.02%) Analyst
6 53 (10.62%) Architect
7 36 (7.21%) Business Analyst
8 33 (6.61%) Salesforce Architect
9 31 (6.21%) Product Manager
10 29 (5.81%) Lead Developer
11 27 (5.41%) Delivery Manager
11 27 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
12 21 (4.21%) Software Developer
13 19 (3.81%) .NET Developer
13 19 (3.81%) Product Owner
13 19 (3.81%) Senior Developer
13 19 (3.81%) Senior Manager
14 18 (3.61%) Agile Delivery Manager
14 18 (3.61%) Lead Software Engineer
14 18 (3.61%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (16.23%) .NET
2 74 (14.83%) React
3 60 (12.02%) SOAP
4 53 (10.62%) REST
5 51 (10.22%) HTML
6 49 (9.82%) RESTful
7 38 (7.62%) Lightning Web Components
7 38 (7.62%) Visualforce
8 33 (6.61%) Node.js
9 30 (6.01%) CSS
10 28 (5.61%) .NET Framework
11 24 (4.81%) Akka
12 23 (4.61%) Web Services
13 22 (4.41%) AngularJS
14 18 (3.61%) Spring
15 16 (3.21%) Spring Boot
16 15 (3.01%) Entity Framework
17 14 (2.81%) ASP.NET Web API
18 13 (2.61%) Yocto
19 12 (2.40%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 160 (32.06%) Product Ownership
2 46 (9.22%) Cloud Native
3 23 (4.61%) Over-the-Top Content
3 23 (4.61%) Video\Live Streaming
4 15 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (3.01%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.61%) Device Driver
5 13 (2.61%) Podcast
6 12 (2.40%) e-Learning
7 11 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.40%) Culture of Ownership
10 5 (1.00%) PMI
11 4 (0.80%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.80%) N-Tier
11 4 (0.80%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.80%) Social Media
12 3 (0.60%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 28 (5.61%) Linux
2 13 (2.61%) Embedded Linux
3 6 (1.20%) Unix
4 5 (1.00%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.60%) Windows
6 1 (0.20%) CentOS
6 1 (0.20%) Debian
6 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 468 (93.79%) Agile
2 188 (37.68%) Continuous Improvement
3 174 (34.87%) DevOps
4 167 (33.47%) Kanban
5 161 (32.26%) CI/CD
6 113 (22.65%) Roadmaps
7 112 (22.44%) Problem-Solving
8 100 (20.04%) Software Engineering
9 90 (18.04%) Mentoring
10 88 (17.64%) User Stories
11 83 (16.63%) Coaching
12 76 (15.23%) Acceptance Criteria
13 70 (14.03%) Community of Practice
14 68 (13.63%) TDD
15 65 (13.03%) Microservices
16 63 (12.63%) Continuous Integration
17 61 (12.22%) Full-Stack Development
18 59 (11.82%) Continuous Delivery
18 59 (11.82%) Project Delivery
19 57 (11.42%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 85 (17.03%) SQL
2 74 (14.83%) Java
3 68 (13.63%) C#
3 68 (13.63%) JavaScript
4 64 (12.83%) Python
5 52 (10.42%) TypeScript
6 38 (7.62%) Apex Code
7 34 (6.81%) SOQL
7 34 (6.81%) SOSL
8 23 (4.61%) Scala
9 19 (3.81%) C++
10 15 (3.01%) C
11 13 (2.61%) Embedded C
12 7 (1.40%) Bicep
13 6 (1.20%) Ruby
14 4 (0.80%) Bash
14 4 (0.80%) PHP
14 4 (0.80%) Rust
15 3 (0.60%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.40%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 117 (23.45%) Degree
2 67 (13.43%) Security Cleared
3 57 (11.42%) SC Cleared
4 33 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (5.21%) ISTQB
6 19 (3.81%) DBS Check
7 18 (3.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 16 (3.21%) PMI Certification
9 12 (2.40%) Master's Degree
9 12 (2.40%) PMP
10 7 (1.40%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.00%) CIPD
13 4 (0.80%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.80%) Azure Certification
14 3 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.60%) PhD
15 2 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.40%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (16.03%) QA
2 18 (3.61%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.61%) GRC
4 6 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.00%) PMO
6 4 (0.80%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.40%) ECSS
8 2 (0.40%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.40%) WCAG
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.20%) P3O
System Software
1 68 (13.63%) Docker
2 8 (1.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (12.42%) Kubernetes
2 38 (7.62%) Terraform
3 20 (4.01%) Ansible
4 8 (1.60%) Podman
5 6 (1.20%) Grafana
6 5 (1.00%) Argo
6 5 (1.00%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.40%) Packer
7 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.20%) Kibana
8 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 63 (12.63%) Microsoft
2 46 (9.22%) Salesforce
3 34 (6.81%) Splunk
4 17 (3.41%) Google
5 12 (2.40%) Oracle
6 8 (1.60%) SAP
7 6 (1.20%) Mercator
8 5 (1.00%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.00%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.80%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.80%) Cisco
9 4 (0.80%) ESRI
9 4 (0.80%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.60%) Foundry
10 3 (0.60%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.60%) IBM
11 2 (0.40%) Adobe
11 2 (0.40%) Infor
11 2 (0.40%) SendGrid
11 2 (0.40%) Zend