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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 98 65
Rank change year-on-year +21 -33 -26
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 701 584 1,064
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.23% 3.55% 3.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% 3.81% 4.25%
Number of salaries quoted 533 321 817
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,300
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,118 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,500 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.26% +10.83% -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 17,978 15,345 25,010
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.84% 93.19% 88.41%
Number of salaries quoted 13,054 9,077 18,589
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 24 July 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 47 (6.70%) Confluence
2 12 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.57%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.71%) Apache
5 3 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.43%) CMS
5 3 (0.43%) DNN
5 3 (0.43%) EPiServer
5 3 (0.43%) Immediacy CMS
5 3 (0.43%) Kentico
5 3 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.43%) Sitefinity
5 3 (0.43%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.29%) Appian
6 2 (0.29%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.29%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 13 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.14%) Trello
4 6 (0.86%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.57%) Adobe XD
5 4 (0.57%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.43%) Productboard
6 3 (0.43%) Sketch
7 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
8 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (2.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.43%) Shopify
3 2 (0.29%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.14%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 321 (45.79%) Azure
2 267 (38.09%) AWS
3 101 (14.41%) Azure DevOps
4 68 (9.70%) GCP
5 59 (8.42%) GitHub
6 51 (7.28%) Serverless
7 39 (5.56%) GitHub Copilot
8 36 (5.14%) Power Platform
9 26 (3.71%) Power Automate
10 25 (3.57%) SaaS
11 23 (3.28%) Azure Service Bus
11 23 (3.28%) PaaS
12 22 (3.14%) PowerApps
13 20 (2.85%) Azure Functions
14 19 (2.71%) Azure AKS
14 19 (2.71%) Azure Key Vault
15 18 (2.57%) Azure Logic Apps
16 17 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
17 15 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
18 13 (1.85%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (7.56%) Broadband
2 14 (2.00%) Ethernet
2 14 (2.00%) RS-232
2 14 (2.00%) VPN
3 9 (1.28%) Firewall
4 5 (0.71%) LAN
4 5 (0.71%) WAN
5 4 (0.57%) MQTT
6 3 (0.43%) Network Security
6 3 (0.43%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.43%) Wireless
6 3 (0.43%) WPA
7 2 (0.29%) ATM
7 2 (0.29%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (17.40%) MongoDB
2 94 (13.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 84 (11.98%) Elasticsearch
4 49 (6.99%) PostgreSQL
5 38 (5.42%) NoSQL
6 22 (3.14%) Metadata
6 22 (3.14%) SQL Server
7 20 (2.85%) Power BI
8 17 (2.43%) MySQL
9 15 (2.14%) Redis
10 13 (1.85%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.28%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.86%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 5 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (0.57%) Star Schema
16 3 (0.43%) Big Data
17 2 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 95 (13.55%) JIRA
2 60 (8.56%) Git
3 56 (7.99%) GitLab
4 40 (5.71%) Jenkins
5 35 (4.99%) SonarQube
6 15 (2.14%) Cypress.io
7 12 (1.71%) CircleCI
8 11 (1.57%) JUnit
9 10 (1.43%) Maven
9 10 (1.43%) Mockito
10 9 (1.28%) Visual Studio
11 7 (1.00%) Postman
12 6 (0.86%) Claude Code
13 5 (0.71%) Selenium
14 4 (0.57%) NUnit
14 4 (0.57%) SoapUI
14 4 (0.57%) SpecFlow
14 4 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
15 3 (0.43%) Oracle APEX
16 2 (0.29%) MSTest
General
1 209 (29.81%) Social Skills
2 157 (22.40%) Finance
3 142 (20.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 118 (16.83%) Public Sector
5 110 (15.69%) Law
6 78 (11.13%) Analytical Skills
7 48 (6.85%) Games
8 45 (6.42%) Marketing
9 32 (4.56%) Legal
10 24 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (2.14%) Retail
12 13 (1.85%) Legal Technology
13 8 (1.14%) Advertising
13 8 (1.14%) Banking
13 8 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.86%) Health Technology
14 6 (0.86%) Social Housing
15 4 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 192 (27.39%) Developer
2 160 (22.82%) Senior
3 87 (12.41%) Analyst
4 86 (12.27%) .NET Developer
5 73 (10.41%) Architect
6 57 (8.13%) Business Analyst
6 57 (8.13%) Software Engineer
7 54 (7.70%) Delivery Manager
7 54 (7.70%) Lead
8 38 (5.42%) Senior Developer
9 37 (5.28%) Agile Delivery Manager
10 35 (4.99%) Senior Analyst
11 33 (4.71%) DevOps Engineer
11 33 (4.71%) Salesforce Architect
12 32 (4.56%) Project Manager
13 30 (4.28%) Senior DevOps
13 30 (4.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 28 (3.99%) Senior Business Analyst
14 28 (3.99%) Solutions Architect
15 24 (3.42%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (20.54%) React
2 132 (18.83%) .NET
3 124 (17.69%) Node.js
4 92 (13.12%) ASP.NET
5 87 (12.41%) ASP.NET Core
6 85 (12.13%) .NET Core
7 70 (9.99%) AngularJS
8 65 (9.27%) REST
9 64 (9.13%) .NET Framework
10 54 (7.70%) ASP.NET Web API
10 54 (7.70%) RESTful
10 54 (7.70%) Vue
11 42 (5.99%) Lightning Web Components
12 41 (5.85%) HTML
13 39 (5.56%) SOAP
14 38 (5.42%) Visualforce
15 34 (4.85%) Spring
16 33 (4.71%) Blazor
16 33 (4.71%) CSS
17 24 (3.42%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 174 (24.82%) Product Ownership
2 60 (8.56%) Cloud Native
3 25 (3.57%) Podcast
4 19 (2.71%) Onboarding
4 19 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (2.00%) Device Driver
6 13 (1.85%) Public Cloud
7 12 (1.71%) Security Posture
8 10 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.28%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.28%) PMI
9 9 (1.28%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.00%) Culture of Ownership
10 7 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.00%) e-Learning
10 7 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.86%) AI Agents
11 6 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (0.71%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.71%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 63 (8.99%) Linux
2 41 (5.85%) Windows
3 28 (3.99%) Unix
4 14 (2.00%) Embedded Linux
5 12 (1.71%) VMS
6 8 (1.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 658 (93.87%) Agile
2 250 (35.66%) DevOps
3 243 (34.66%) Continuous Improvement
4 222 (31.67%) CI/CD
5 210 (29.96%) Kanban
6 170 (24.25%) Microservices
7 141 (20.11%) Full-Stack Development
8 138 (19.69%) Mentoring
9 124 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
10 122 (17.40%) Coaching
11 115 (16.41%) Roadmaps
12 114 (16.26%) AI
13 109 (15.55%) TDD
14 102 (14.55%) Community of Practice
15 101 (14.41%) Software Engineering
16 100 (14.27%) Project Delivery
16 100 (14.27%) User Stories
17 88 (12.55%) Stakeholder Management
18 85 (12.13%) Continuous Integration
19 84 (11.98%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 171 (24.39%) SQL
2 148 (21.11%) JavaScript
3 138 (19.69%) C#
4 109 (15.55%) TypeScript
5 68 (9.70%) Java
6 66 (9.42%) Python
7 39 (5.56%) Apex Code
8 35 (4.99%) SOQL
9 34 (4.85%) SOSL
10 24 (3.42%) Ruby
11 23 (3.28%) Bash
12 20 (2.85%) Bicep
12 20 (2.85%) PowerShell
13 19 (2.71%) C++
14 16 (2.28%) C
15 14 (2.00%) Embedded C
16 12 (1.71%) Kusto Query Language
17 11 (1.57%) PL/SQL
18 7 (1.00%) T-SQL
19 4 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 130 (18.54%) Degree
2 105 (14.98%) Security Cleared
3 93 (13.27%) SC Cleared
4 50 (7.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.71%) Azure Certification
5 26 (3.71%) PMI Certification
6 19 (2.71%) PMP
7 17 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (1.57%) DBS Check
9 10 (1.43%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.86%) DV Cleared
10 6 (0.86%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.71%) CIPD
12 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.43%) CCIE Security
13 3 (0.43%) CSPO
13 3 (0.43%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.43%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (10.56%) QA
2 24 (3.42%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.00%) PMO
4 13 (1.85%) GRC
5 11 (1.57%) GDPR
5 11 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 7 (1.00%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.71%) WCAG
9 4 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.14%) GxP
11 1 (0.14%) NCSC
11 1 (0.14%) NIST
System Software
1 121 (17.26%) Docker
2 12 (1.71%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
2 12 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (1.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 84 (11.98%) Kubernetes
2 60 (8.56%) Terraform
3 14 (2.00%) Ansible
3 14 (2.00%) Argo
4 12 (1.71%) Podman
5 5 (0.71%) Grafana
6 4 (0.57%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.29%) Packer
7 2 (0.29%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.14%) Kibana
8 1 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 161 (22.97%) Microsoft
2 57 (8.13%) Salesforce
3 34 (4.85%) Splunk
4 23 (3.28%) Oracle
5 15 (2.14%) Google
6 14 (2.00%) Databricks
6 14 (2.00%) Pega
7 12 (1.71%) ScienceLogic
7 12 (1.71%) VMware
8 10 (1.43%) SAP
9 6 (0.86%) Infor
10 5 (0.71%) Adobe
10 5 (0.71%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.71%) Cisco
10 5 (0.71%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.57%) Epicor
11 4 (0.57%) IFS
11 4 (0.57%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.43%) CheckPoint
12 3 (0.43%) Sitecore