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 11 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 58 52
Rank change year-on-year -42 -6 -28
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 414 917 1,170
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.71% 4.88% 5.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.01% 5.34% 5.97%
Number of salaries quoted 324 392 961
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,231 £41,750
25th Percentile £50,500 £48,938 £49,502
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,108 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% -1.37% -
75th Percentile £77,813 £77,500 £78,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

All Process and 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 13,775 17,158 19,587
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.07% 91.24% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 8,682 10,397 15,831
10th Percentile £29,750 £36,250 £36,270
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

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 11 December 2025.

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 27 (6.52%) Confluence
2 6 (1.45%) CMS
2 6 (1.45%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.97%) Apache
5 3 (0.72%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.72%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.72%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.24%) nginx
6 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (1.93%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.69%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.45%) Trello
4 2 (0.48%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.48%) Sketch
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Magento
2 3 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.72%) Maximo
2 3 (0.72%) Shopify
3 2 (0.48%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.24%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.24%) Primavera
4 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 154 (37.20%) Azure
2 106 (25.60%) AWS
3 68 (16.43%) Azure DevOps
4 54 (13.04%) Serverless
5 41 (9.90%) SaaS
6 37 (8.94%) Power Platform
7 36 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
8 33 (7.97%) GitHub
9 25 (6.04%) Power Automate
10 21 (5.07%) Amazon S3
10 21 (5.07%) Dynamics 365
11 19 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (4.11%) PaaS
13 16 (3.86%) GCP
14 15 (3.62%) Amazon SQS
14 15 (3.62%) Azure App Service
15 14 (3.38%) Entra ID
16 10 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (2.42%) Snowflake
17 9 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.11%) Broadband
2 4 (0.97%) Ethernet
3 3 (0.72%) RS-232
4 2 (0.48%) DNS
4 2 (0.48%) Firewall
4 2 (0.48%) GPRS
4 2 (0.48%) HTTP
4 2 (0.48%) LTE
4 2 (0.48%) Modbus
4 2 (0.48%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.48%) VPN
4 2 (0.48%) Wireless
5 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (13.29%) SQL Server
2 37 (8.94%) MongoDB
3 34 (8.21%) Azure SQL Database
4 33 (7.97%) Elasticsearch
5 24 (5.80%) NoSQL
6 23 (5.56%) Relational Database
7 16 (3.86%) MySQL
8 15 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (3.38%) DynamoDB
10 13 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (3.14%) Power BI
11 7 (1.69%) Tableau
12 5 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.21%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.97%) GIS
13 4 (0.97%) Metadata
14 3 (0.72%) Power Query
14 3 (0.72%) QGIS
14 3 (0.72%) Qlik Sense
14 3 (0.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 74 (17.87%) JIRA
2 60 (14.49%) Git
3 32 (7.73%) Selenium
4 30 (7.25%) Postman
5 26 (6.28%) Team Foundation Server
6 24 (5.80%) GitLab
7 23 (5.56%) Jenkins
7 23 (5.56%) SoapUI
7 23 (5.56%) WebDriver
8 19 (4.59%) SonarQube
9 8 (1.93%) Cypress.io
10 6 (1.45%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.97%) JMeter
12 3 (0.72%) Maven
12 3 (0.72%) Subversion
12 3 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.48%) LoadRunner
13 2 (0.48%) SpecFlow
14 1 (0.24%) Gradle
General
1 147 (35.51%) Social Skills
2 107 (25.85%) Finance
3 58 (14.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 51 (12.32%) Marketing
5 48 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
6 45 (10.87%) Public Sector
7 31 (7.49%) Tech for Good
8 30 (7.25%) Organisational Skills
9 27 (6.52%) Health Technology
9 27 (6.52%) Publishing
10 24 (5.80%) Law
11 22 (5.31%) Games
12 20 (4.83%) Influencing Skills
12 20 (4.83%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (3.86%) Retail
14 9 (2.17%) Front Office
14 9 (2.17%) Legal
14 9 (2.17%) Manufacturing
14 9 (2.17%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.21%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 132 (31.88%) Developer
2 68 (16.43%) Lead
3 65 (15.70%) Senior
4 55 (13.29%) Analyst
5 51 (12.32%) .NET Developer
6 30 (7.25%) Python Developer
7 29 (7.00%) Lead Developer
7 29 (7.00%) Senior Developer
8 27 (6.52%) React Developer
9 24 (5.80%) Architect
10 23 (5.56%) Software Engineer
11 22 (5.31%) AWS Developer
12 20 (4.83%) Business Analyst
13 19 (4.59%) Project Manager
13 19 (4.59%) Software Developer
13 19 (4.59%) Test Analyst
14 18 (4.35%) Consultant
15 17 (4.11%) Delivery Manager
16 16 (3.86%) Full-Stack Developer
17 15 (3.62%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (28.02%) .NET
2 85 (20.53%) React
3 63 (15.22%) RESTful
4 51 (12.32%) HTML
5 48 (11.59%) .NET Framework
5 48 (11.59%) SOAP
6 45 (10.87%) ASP.NET Web API
7 42 (10.14%) Entity Framework
8 41 (9.90%) .NET Core
9 39 (9.42%) Node.js
10 38 (9.18%) AngularJS
11 36 (8.70%) REST
12 34 (8.21%) Vue
13 30 (7.25%) CSS
14 25 (6.04%) ASP.NET
15 21 (5.07%) ASP.NET MVC
16 16 (3.86%) Web Services
17 15 (3.62%) Lightning Web Components
17 15 (3.62%) Swagger
17 15 (3.62%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 67 (16.18%) Product Ownership
2 26 (6.28%) Management Information System
3 20 (4.83%) Cloud Native
4 12 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (1.93%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.21%) Mobile App
6 5 (1.21%) Onboarding
7 4 (0.97%) Data Structures
7 4 (0.97%) Virtual Team
8 3 (0.72%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.72%) Device Driver
8 3 (0.72%) IoT
8 3 (0.72%) Legacy Code
8 3 (0.72%) PMI
8 3 (0.72%) Replication
8 3 (0.72%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.38%) Linux
2 4 (0.97%) Windows
3 3 (0.72%) Android
3 3 (0.72%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (0.72%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.48%) VMS
5 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (93.96%) Agile
2 143 (34.54%) DevOps
3 129 (31.16%) CI/CD
4 116 (28.02%) Kanban
4 116 (28.02%) Mentoring
5 106 (25.60%) Continuous Improvement
6 86 (20.77%) Problem-Solving
7 71 (17.15%) Microservices
8 68 (16.43%) Stakeholder Management
9 63 (15.22%) TDD
10 62 (14.98%) Full-Stack Development
11 58 (14.01%) Project Delivery
11 58 (14.01%) Roadmaps
11 58 (14.01%) User Stories
12 56 (13.53%) Project Management
13 55 (13.29%) Software Engineering
13 55 (13.29%) Software Testing
14 54 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
15 44 (10.63%) Coaching
16 43 (10.39%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 121 (29.23%) SQL
2 102 (24.64%) C#
3 81 (19.57%) JavaScript
4 69 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 58 (14.01%) Python
6 52 (12.56%) Java
7 15 (3.62%) Apex Code
7 15 (3.62%) SOQL
7 15 (3.62%) SOSL
8 7 (1.69%) C++
8 7 (1.69%) VB.NET
9 6 (1.45%) C
10 5 (1.21%) Bash
11 4 (0.97%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.72%) Embedded C
12 3 (0.72%) Erlang
12 3 (0.72%) Groovy
12 3 (0.72%) Scala
12 3 (0.72%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.72%) Swift
Qualifications
1 96 (23.19%) Degree
2 35 (8.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 35 (8.45%) Security Cleared
3 33 (7.97%) ISTQB
4 25 (6.04%) SC Cleared
5 21 (5.07%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 21 (5.07%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.17%) PMI Certification
6 9 (2.17%) PMP
7 7 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.21%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.97%) APMG
10 4 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.72%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.72%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.72%) IBM Certification
11 3 (0.72%) ISEB
12 2 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (23.91%) QA
2 15 (3.62%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.21%) PMO
3 5 (1.21%) SLA
4 4 (0.97%) WCAG
5 3 (0.72%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.72%) GDPR
5 3 (0.72%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (0.48%) ECSS
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.24%) GRC
7 1 (0.24%) GxP
7 1 (0.24%) HL7
7 1 (0.24%) IFRS
7 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 28 (6.76%) Docker
2 12 (2.90%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (5.07%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.35%) Terraform
3 12 (2.90%) Ansible
4 4 (0.97%) Grafana
5 3 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.48%) Argo
7 1 (0.24%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 105 (25.36%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.07%) Salesforce
3 15 (3.62%) Splunk
4 10 (2.42%) SAP
4 10 (2.42%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.17%) Mercator
6 7 (1.69%) DevExpress
6 7 (1.69%) Google
6 7 (1.69%) Oracle
7 5 (1.21%) Adobe
8 4 (0.97%) Dynatrace
8 4 (0.97%) ESRI
8 4 (0.97%) Guidewire
8 4 (0.97%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.72%) Databricks
9 3 (0.72%) IBM
10 2 (0.48%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.48%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.48%) Pega
10 2 (0.48%) Zend