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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 98 79
Rank change year-on-year +2 -19 -33
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 678 606 802
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.72% 3.59% 3.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.36% 3.83% 4.05%
Number of salaries quoted 520 341 441
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +3.23% -4.62%
75th Percentile £74,987 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 20,176 15,827 19,811
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.92% 93.82% 88.13%
Number of salaries quoted 14,403 8,473 11,816
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,750 £35,225
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,375
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,465
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.93% -2.56%

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 2 October 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 51 (7.52%) Confluence
2 13 (1.92%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.88%) Apache
6 4 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.59%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.59%) CMS
6 4 (0.59%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.59%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.44%) DNN
7 3 (0.44%) EPiServer
7 3 (0.44%) Immediacy CMS
7 3 (0.44%) Kentico
7 3 (0.44%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.44%) Sitefinity
7 3 (0.44%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.44%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.29%) Appian
Applications
1 12 (1.77%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.18%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.03%) Trello
6 4 (0.59%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.44%) Productboard
7 3 (0.44%) Sketch
7 3 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
8 2 (0.29%) Simulink
9 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 18 (2.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.59%) SAP GRC
4 3 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.29%) Shopify
6 1 (0.15%) Actimize
6 1 (0.15%) Finacle
6 1 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.15%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.15%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.15%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 322 (47.49%) Azure
2 289 (42.63%) AWS
3 99 (14.60%) Azure DevOps
4 64 (9.44%) GitHub
5 58 (8.55%) GCP
6 51 (7.52%) Serverless
7 49 (7.23%) Power Platform
8 43 (6.34%) GitHub Copilot
9 28 (4.13%) Power Automate
10 23 (3.39%) Azure Service Bus
10 23 (3.39%) PowerApps
10 23 (3.39%) SaaS
11 20 (2.95%) Azure Functions
12 18 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
12 18 (2.65%) PaaS
13 17 (2.51%) Azure Logic Apps
14 15 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
14 15 (2.21%) Azure Monitor
15 14 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
15 14 (2.06%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.77%) VPN
2 9 (1.33%) Broadband
3 6 (0.88%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.88%) Firewall
3 6 (0.88%) RS-232
4 3 (0.44%) WPA
5 2 (0.29%) ATM
6 1 (0.15%) LAN
6 1 (0.15%) Network Security
6 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.15%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.15%) WAN
6 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (18.88%) MongoDB
2 102 (15.04%) Azure SQL Database
3 83 (12.24%) Elasticsearch
4 60 (8.85%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (5.75%) SQL Server
6 33 (4.87%) Power BI
7 30 (4.42%) Metadata
7 30 (4.42%) NoSQL
8 27 (3.98%) Relational Database
9 24 (3.54%) MySQL
10 23 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
11 16 (2.36%) Redis
12 15 (2.21%) DynamoDB
12 15 (2.21%) Star Schema
13 11 (1.62%) Data Lake
14 9 (1.33%) Amazon QuickSight
14 9 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
15 8 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 6 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 5 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 97 (14.31%) JIRA
2 77 (11.36%) Git
3 19 (2.80%) GitLab
4 17 (2.51%) JUnit
5 16 (2.36%) Mockito
6 14 (2.06%) Maven
7 10 (1.47%) Cypress.io
7 10 (1.47%) Jenkins
7 10 (1.47%) Visual Studio
8 8 (1.18%) Claude Code
9 6 (0.88%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.74%) Postman
10 5 (0.74%) Selenium
11 4 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.59%) NUnit
11 4 (0.59%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.59%) SpecFlow
11 4 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.59%) Vagrant
12 3 (0.44%) Bitbucket
General
1 221 (32.60%) Social Skills
2 181 (26.70%) Finance
3 160 (23.60%) Public Sector
4 111 (16.37%) Law
5 110 (16.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 90 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (5.01%) Presentation Skills
8 27 (3.98%) Legal
9 20 (2.95%) Retail
10 19 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
11 17 (2.51%) Marketing
12 11 (1.62%) Games
13 10 (1.47%) Banking
13 10 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.03%) Local Government
14 7 (1.03%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.88%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.88%) Social Housing
16 5 (0.74%) Police
Job Titles
1 207 (30.53%) Developer
2 186 (27.43%) Senior
3 92 (13.57%) Analyst
4 82 (12.09%) .NET Developer
5 65 (9.59%) Delivery Manager
6 61 (9.00%) Business Analyst
7 50 (7.37%) Senior Developer
8 48 (7.08%) Lead
9 46 (6.78%) Software Engineer
10 40 (5.90%) Project Manager
11 38 (5.60%) Agile Delivery Manager
11 38 (5.60%) DevOps Engineer
12 36 (5.31%) Architect
13 33 (4.87%) Senior DevOps
13 33 (4.87%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 31 (4.57%) Senior Analyst
15 28 (4.13%) Senior Manager
16 25 (3.69%) Senior Business Analyst
17 20 (2.95%) Java Developer
17 20 (2.95%) Senior Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (20.94%) React
2 136 (20.06%) .NET
3 116 (17.11%) Node.js
4 96 (14.16%) .NET Core
5 87 (12.83%) ASP.NET
6 85 (12.54%) ASP.NET Core
7 73 (10.77%) AngularJS
8 63 (9.29%) .NET Framework
9 53 (7.82%) Terraform
10 51 (7.52%) ASP.NET Web API
11 49 (7.23%) Vue
12 47 (6.93%) RESTful
13 43 (6.34%) REST
14 41 (6.05%) Spring
15 37 (5.46%) HTML
16 34 (5.01%) Blazor
17 33 (4.87%) CSS
18 26 (3.83%) Entity Framework
19 25 (3.69%) JSON
19 25 (3.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 124 (18.29%) Product Ownership
2 49 (7.23%) Cloud Native
3 27 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (2.36%) Public Cloud
6 14 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.06%) Podcast
7 12 (1.77%) Security Posture
8 11 (1.62%) Blog
8 11 (1.62%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.62%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.47%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.18%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.03%) e-Learning
11 7 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.03%) PMI
12 6 (0.88%) Device Driver
12 6 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (0.88%) NHS
13 5 (0.74%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 73 (10.77%) Linux
2 60 (8.85%) Windows
3 38 (5.60%) Unix
4 12 (1.77%) VMS
5 10 (1.47%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.88%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 644 (94.99%) Agile
2 235 (34.66%) Continuous Improvement
3 213 (31.42%) DevOps
4 199 (29.35%) Kanban
5 198 (29.20%) CI/CD
6 165 (24.34%) Mentoring
7 161 (23.75%) Microservices
8 146 (21.53%) Problem-Solving
9 127 (18.73%) Coaching
10 126 (18.58%) Full-Stack Development
11 125 (18.44%) AI
12 119 (17.55%) Stakeholder Management
13 117 (17.26%) TDD
14 115 (16.96%) Project Delivery
15 93 (13.72%) Software Engineering
16 91 (13.42%) Community of Practice
17 86 (12.68%) User Stories
18 78 (11.50%) User Experience
19 77 (11.36%) Technology Strategy
20 75 (11.06%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 185 (27.29%) SQL
2 154 (22.71%) C#
3 151 (22.27%) JavaScript
4 106 (15.63%) TypeScript
5 78 (11.50%) Python
6 75 (11.06%) Java
7 29 (4.28%) Bash
8 25 (3.69%) Ruby
9 21 (3.10%) PowerShell
10 16 (2.36%) PL/SQL
11 14 (2.06%) Bicep
12 12 (1.77%) C++
12 12 (1.77%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.18%) C
13 8 (1.18%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.88%) Embedded C
15 5 (0.74%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.74%) SOQL
16 4 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.59%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 147 (21.68%) Security Cleared
2 142 (20.94%) Degree
3 121 (17.85%) SC Cleared
4 49 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.54%) Azure Certification
6 23 (3.39%) PMI Certification
7 18 (2.65%) PMP
8 16 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (2.06%) DBS Check
10 12 (1.77%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.62%) AWS Certification
12 8 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (1.18%) DV Cleared
13 6 (0.88%) CISSP
14 5 (0.74%) CSPO
15 4 (0.59%) APMP
15 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.59%) CISA
15 4 (0.59%) ISTQB
16 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (10.32%) QA
2 25 (3.69%) Accessibility
2 25 (3.69%) GDPR
3 20 (2.95%) Data Quality
4 19 (2.80%) PMO
5 17 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 11 (1.62%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 10 (1.47%) GRC
9 5 (0.74%) WCAG
10 4 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.44%) NCSC
12 2 (0.29%) NIST
13 1 (0.15%) GxP
13 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 124 (18.29%) Docker
2 15 (2.21%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.77%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.77%) vSphere
4 4 (0.59%) IAG
5 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 91 (13.42%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.06%) Ansible
2 14 (2.06%) Argo
3 6 (0.88%) Podman
4 4 (0.59%) Packer
4 4 (0.59%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.44%) Grafana
5 3 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.15%) Kibana
6 1 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 174 (25.66%) Microsoft
2 41 (6.05%) Oracle
3 23 (3.39%) Salesforce
4 17 (2.51%) Databricks
5 15 (2.21%) Google
6 14 (2.06%) Pega
7 13 (1.92%) VMware
8 12 (1.77%) SAP
8 12 (1.77%) ScienceLogic
9 11 (1.62%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.47%) Informatica
11 9 (1.33%) Talend
12 8 (1.18%) Adobe
12 8 (1.18%) YouTube
13 5 (0.74%) Infor
14 4 (0.59%) Atlassian
14 4 (0.59%) Epicor
14 4 (0.59%) ESRI
14 4 (0.59%) Red Hat
14 4 (0.59%) Sage