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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 96 69
Rank change year-on-year +16 -27 -31
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 708 586 1,030
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.26% 3.56% 3.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.93% 3.82% 4.21%
Number of salaries quoted 535 324 788
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,773
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,404 £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 £83,250 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -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 18,035 15,327 24,491
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.95% 93.18% 88.34%
Number of salaries quoted 13,088 9,060 18,139
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,981
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 £77,181
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £96,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 25 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 (6.64%) Confluence
2 12 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.55%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.71%) Apache
5 4 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.42%) CMS
6 3 (0.42%) DNN
6 3 (0.42%) EPiServer
6 3 (0.42%) Immediacy CMS
6 3 (0.42%) Kentico
6 3 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.42%) Sitefinity
6 3 (0.42%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.28%) Appian
7 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.28%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
7 2 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.13%) Trello
4 6 (0.85%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.56%) Adobe XD
5 4 (0.56%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.42%) Productboard
6 3 (0.42%) Sketch
7 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
8 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (2.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.42%) Shopify
3 2 (0.28%) 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
1 324 (45.76%) Azure
2 270 (38.14%) AWS
3 101 (14.27%) Azure DevOps
4 69 (9.75%) GCP
5 58 (8.19%) GitHub
6 51 (7.20%) Serverless
7 39 (5.51%) GitHub Copilot
8 36 (5.08%) Power Platform
9 26 (3.67%) Power Automate
10 25 (3.53%) SaaS
11 23 (3.25%) Azure Service Bus
12 22 (3.11%) PaaS
12 22 (3.11%) PowerApps
13 20 (2.82%) Azure Functions
14 19 (2.68%) Azure AKS
14 19 (2.68%) Azure Key Vault
15 18 (2.54%) Azure Logic Apps
16 17 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
17 15 (2.12%) Azure Monitor
18 12 (1.69%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 53 (7.49%) Broadband
2 14 (1.98%) Ethernet
2 14 (1.98%) RS-232
2 14 (1.98%) VPN
3 9 (1.27%) Firewall
4 5 (0.71%) LAN
4 5 (0.71%) WAN
5 4 (0.56%) MQTT
6 3 (0.42%) Network Security
6 3 (0.42%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.42%) Wireless
6 3 (0.42%) WPA
7 2 (0.28%) ATM
7 2 (0.28%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (17.23%) MongoDB
2 94 (13.28%) Azure SQL Database
3 84 (11.86%) Elasticsearch
4 50 (7.06%) PostgreSQL
5 38 (5.37%) NoSQL
6 23 (3.25%) SQL Server
7 22 (3.11%) Metadata
8 20 (2.82%) Power BI
9 18 (2.54%) MySQL
10 15 (2.12%) Redis
11 14 (1.98%) Relational Database
12 9 (1.27%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.85%) DynamoDB
14 6 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (0.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 5 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 4 (0.56%) Star Schema
17 3 (0.42%) Big Data
18 2 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 94 (13.28%) JIRA
2 61 (8.62%) Git
3 55 (7.77%) GitLab
4 40 (5.65%) Jenkins
5 36 (5.08%) SonarQube
6 15 (2.12%) Cypress.io
7 12 (1.69%) CircleCI
7 12 (1.69%) JUnit
8 11 (1.55%) Maven
8 11 (1.55%) Mockito
9 9 (1.27%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.99%) Postman
11 6 (0.85%) Claude Code
12 5 (0.71%) Selenium
13 4 (0.56%) NUnit
13 4 (0.56%) SoapUI
13 4 (0.56%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
14 3 (0.42%) Oracle APEX
15 2 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 211 (29.80%) Social Skills
2 160 (22.60%) Finance
3 145 (20.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 123 (17.37%) Public Sector
5 113 (15.96%) Law
6 80 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
7 48 (6.78%) Games
8 45 (6.36%) Marketing
9 33 (4.66%) Legal
10 25 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (2.12%) Retail
12 13 (1.84%) Legal Technology
13 8 (1.13%) Advertising
13 8 (1.13%) Banking
13 8 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.85%) Health Technology
14 6 (0.85%) Social Housing
15 5 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.56%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 195 (27.54%) Developer
2 163 (23.02%) Senior
3 88 (12.43%) Analyst
4 86 (12.15%) .NET Developer
5 73 (10.31%) Architect
6 58 (8.19%) Business Analyst
6 58 (8.19%) Software Engineer
7 56 (7.91%) Delivery Manager
8 54 (7.63%) Lead
9 41 (5.79%) Senior Developer
10 38 (5.37%) Agile Delivery Manager
11 35 (4.94%) Senior Analyst
12 33 (4.66%) Salesforce Architect
13 32 (4.52%) DevOps Engineer
13 32 (4.52%) Project Manager
14 29 (4.10%) Senior DevOps
14 29 (4.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 28 (3.95%) Senior Business Analyst
15 28 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
16 25 (3.53%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (20.76%) React
2 134 (18.93%) .NET
3 124 (17.51%) Node.js
4 92 (12.99%) ASP.NET
5 87 (12.29%) ASP.NET Core
6 86 (12.15%) .NET Core
7 71 (10.03%) AngularJS
8 67 (9.46%) REST
9 65 (9.18%) .NET Framework
10 54 (7.63%) ASP.NET Web API
10 54 (7.63%) Vue
11 53 (7.49%) RESTful
12 42 (5.93%) HTML
12 42 (5.93%) Lightning Web Components
13 39 (5.51%) SOAP
14 38 (5.37%) Visualforce
15 35 (4.94%) Spring
16 34 (4.80%) CSS
17 33 (4.66%) Blazor
18 25 (3.53%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 174 (24.58%) Product Ownership
2 61 (8.62%) Cloud Native
3 25 (3.53%) Podcast
4 22 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (2.68%) Onboarding
6 14 (1.98%) Device Driver
7 13 (1.84%) Public Cloud
8 12 (1.69%) Security Posture
9 10 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.27%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.27%) PMI
10 9 (1.27%) Virtual Team
11 7 (0.99%) Culture of Ownership
11 7 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (0.99%) e-Learning
11 7 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (0.85%) AI Agents
12 6 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (0.71%) Data Centre
13 5 (0.71%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 64 (9.04%) Linux
2 41 (5.79%) Windows
3 28 (3.95%) Unix
4 14 (1.98%) Embedded Linux
5 12 (1.69%) VMS
6 8 (1.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 665 (93.93%) Agile
2 250 (35.31%) DevOps
3 246 (34.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 224 (31.64%) CI/CD
5 214 (30.23%) Kanban
6 170 (24.01%) Microservices
7 142 (20.06%) Full-Stack Development
8 141 (19.92%) Mentoring
9 126 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
10 123 (17.37%) Coaching
11 117 (16.53%) AI
12 115 (16.24%) Roadmaps
13 110 (15.54%) TDD
14 105 (14.83%) Community of Practice
15 103 (14.55%) Project Delivery
15 103 (14.55%) Software Engineering
16 100 (14.12%) User Stories
17 89 (12.57%) Stakeholder Management
18 85 (12.01%) Test Automation
19 84 (11.86%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 172 (24.29%) SQL
2 152 (21.47%) JavaScript
3 139 (19.63%) C#
4 110 (15.54%) TypeScript
5 71 (10.03%) Java
6 68 (9.60%) Python
7 39 (5.51%) Apex Code
8 35 (4.94%) SOQL
9 34 (4.80%) SOSL
10 24 (3.39%) Bash
10 24 (3.39%) Ruby
11 20 (2.82%) Bicep
11 20 (2.82%) PowerShell
12 19 (2.68%) C++
13 16 (2.26%) C
14 14 (1.98%) Embedded C
15 12 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
15 12 (1.69%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.99%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 132 (18.64%) Degree
2 112 (15.82%) Security Cleared
3 99 (13.98%) SC Cleared
4 51 (7.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.67%) Azure Certification
5 26 (3.67%) PMI Certification
6 19 (2.68%) PMP
7 17 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (1.55%) DBS Check
9 10 (1.41%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.99%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.85%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.71%) CIPD
13 4 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.42%) CCIE Security
14 3 (0.42%) CSPO
14 3 (0.42%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.42%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (10.59%) QA
2 25 (3.53%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.98%) PMO
4 13 (1.84%) GRC
5 11 (1.55%) GDPR
5 11 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 7 (0.99%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.71%) WCAG
9 4 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.14%) GxP
11 1 (0.14%) NCSC
11 1 (0.14%) NIST
System Software
1 122 (17.23%) Docker
2 12 (1.69%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
2 12 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (1.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 85 (12.01%) Kubernetes
2 59 (8.33%) Terraform
3 14 (1.98%) Ansible
3 14 (1.98%) Argo
4 12 (1.69%) Podman
5 5 (0.71%) Grafana
6 4 (0.56%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.28%) Packer
7 2 (0.28%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.14%) Kibana
8 1 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 161 (22.74%) Microsoft
2 57 (8.05%) Salesforce
3 34 (4.80%) Splunk
4 24 (3.39%) Oracle
5 16 (2.26%) Google
6 14 (1.98%) Databricks
6 14 (1.98%) Pega
7 12 (1.69%) ScienceLogic
7 12 (1.69%) VMware
8 10 (1.41%) SAP
9 6 (0.85%) Infor
10 5 (0.71%) Adobe
10 5 (0.71%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.71%) Cisco
10 5 (0.71%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.56%) Epicor
11 4 (0.56%) IFS
11 4 (0.56%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.42%) Alterian
12 3 (0.42%) CheckPoint