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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 82 51
Rank change year-on-year +1 -31 -18
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 557 586 1,582
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.02% 4.03% 4.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 4.24% 5.33%
Number of salaries quoted 385 304 1,322
10th Percentile £40,500 £43,290 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,229 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +6.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,528 £89,012
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 15,280 13,822 29,655
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.76% 95.02% 91.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,821 8,823 23,459
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%

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 12 May 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 28 (5.03%) Confluence
2 11 (1.97%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.72%) ArcGIS
3 4 (0.72%) GeoServer
3 4 (0.72%) Oracle Spatial
4 3 (0.54%) Apache
4 3 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.54%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.54%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.36%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.36%) SAS
6 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.18%) JBoss
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 8 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.72%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.54%) Trello
5 2 (0.36%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.36%) Productboard
5 2 (0.36%) Sketch
6 1 (0.18%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 11 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.36%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (0.36%) Shopify
4 1 (0.18%) Magento
4 1 (0.18%) Maximo
4 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.18%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 196 (35.19%) Azure
2 168 (30.16%) AWS
3 68 (12.21%) Azure DevOps
4 54 (9.69%) GCP
4 54 (9.69%) Serverless
5 25 (4.49%) Power Platform
6 23 (4.13%) Azure AKS
6 23 (4.13%) GitHub
7 22 (3.95%) Azure Service Bus
8 19 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (3.41%) SaaS
9 17 (3.05%) Power Automate
9 17 (3.05%) PowerApps
10 15 (2.69%) Entra ID
10 15 (2.69%) PaaS
11 14 (2.51%) Cloud Functions
12 12 (2.15%) Amazon S3
12 12 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (2.15%) Cloud Run
13 10 (1.80%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 76 (13.64%) Broadband
2 14 (2.51%) Ethernet
2 14 (2.51%) RS-232
3 6 (1.08%) Firewall
4 5 (0.90%) LAN
4 5 (0.90%) WAN
5 4 (0.72%) MQTT
6 3 (0.54%) Network Security
6 3 (0.54%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.54%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.54%) Wireless
7 2 (0.36%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (0.36%) VPN
7 2 (0.36%) WPA
8 1 (0.18%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (9.52%) MongoDB
2 39 (7.00%) NoSQL
3 32 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (4.49%) SQL Server
5 23 (4.13%) Elasticsearch
6 22 (3.95%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (2.51%) Metadata
8 10 (1.80%) Power BI
8 10 (1.80%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.90%) MySQL
11 4 (0.72%) Big Data
11 4 (0.72%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.72%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.72%) GIS
11 4 (0.72%) QGIS
11 4 (0.72%) Redis
11 4 (0.72%) Star Schema
12 3 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.36%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 87 (15.62%) JIRA
2 65 (11.67%) Jenkins
3 57 (10.23%) GitLab
4 47 (8.44%) Git
5 35 (6.28%) SonarQube
6 32 (5.75%) Postman
7 28 (5.03%) Selenium
8 27 (4.85%) SoapUI
9 25 (4.49%) Team Foundation Server
10 22 (3.95%) TeamCity
10 22 (3.95%) WebDriver
11 13 (2.33%) Cypress.io
12 12 (2.15%) CircleCI
13 7 (1.26%) SpecFlow
14 6 (1.08%) JUnit
15 5 (0.90%) JMeter
15 5 (0.90%) Maven
15 5 (0.90%) Mockito
16 4 (0.72%) NUnit
16 4 (0.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 184 (33.03%) Social Skills
2 115 (20.65%) Finance
3 104 (18.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 77 (13.82%) Public Sector
5 67 (12.03%) Analytical Skills
6 65 (11.67%) Law
7 48 (8.62%) Marketing
8 47 (8.44%) Games
9 31 (5.57%) Legal
10 22 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (2.51%) Health Technology
13 12 (2.15%) Publishing
13 12 (2.15%) Tech for Good
14 11 (1.97%) Banking
15 10 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (1.62%) Telecoms
17 8 (1.44%) Advertising
18 7 (1.26%) Retail
19 6 (1.08%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 124 (22.26%) Senior
2 117 (21.01%) Developer
3 70 (12.57%) Lead
4 64 (11.49%) Architect
5 63 (11.31%) Software Engineer
6 60 (10.77%) Analyst
7 38 (6.82%) Delivery Manager
8 37 (6.64%) Business Analyst
9 33 (5.92%) Salesforce Architect
10 32 (5.75%) .NET Developer
11 31 (5.57%) Product Manager
12 27 (4.85%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 26 (4.67%) Senior Developer
14 25 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
15 24 (4.31%) Lead Developer
15 24 (4.31%) Senior Software Engineer
16 21 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
16 21 (3.77%) Software Developer
17 20 (3.59%) Senior Manager
18 19 (3.41%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (16.70%) .NET
2 92 (16.52%) React
3 62 (11.13%) SOAP
4 59 (10.59%) REST
5 57 (10.23%) Node.js
6 52 (9.34%) HTML
7 48 (8.62%) RESTful
8 40 (7.18%) Lightning Web Components
9 38 (6.82%) Visualforce
10 29 (5.21%) .NET Framework
10 29 (5.21%) ASP.NET
11 27 (4.85%) AngularJS
12 26 (4.67%) CSS
12 26 (4.67%) Web Services
13 25 (4.49%) ASP.NET Core
13 25 (4.49%) Spring
14 22 (3.95%) .NET Core
14 22 (3.95%) Akka
15 19 (3.41%) Playwright
15 19 (3.41%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 162 (29.08%) Product Ownership
2 51 (9.16%) Cloud Native
3 22 (3.95%) Over-the-Top Content
3 22 (3.95%) Video\Live Streaming
4 17 (3.05%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.51%) Device Driver
6 13 (2.33%) e-Learning
6 13 (2.33%) Podcast
7 12 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.26%) Culture of Ownership
11 6 (1.08%) PMI
12 5 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.90%) Data Centre
13 4 (0.72%) Life Science
14 3 (0.54%) AI Agents
14 3 (0.54%) Housing Association
14 3 (0.54%) Management Information System
14 3 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (7.90%) Linux
2 17 (3.05%) Unix
3 14 (2.51%) Embedded Linux
3 14 (2.51%) Windows
4 5 (0.90%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.18%) CentOS
5 1 (0.18%) Debian
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 522 (93.72%) Agile
2 211 (37.88%) Continuous Improvement
3 195 (35.01%) DevOps
4 190 (34.11%) Kanban
5 179 (32.14%) CI/CD
6 114 (20.47%) Mentoring
7 112 (20.11%) Roadmaps
8 111 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
9 99 (17.77%) Coaching
10 95 (17.06%) Microservices
10 95 (17.06%) Software Engineering
11 84 (15.08%) TDD
12 83 (14.90%) User Stories
13 82 (14.72%) Full-Stack Development
14 76 (13.64%) Community of Practice
15 73 (13.11%) Acceptance Criteria
15 73 (13.11%) Continuous Integration
16 67 (12.03%) Test Automation
17 64 (11.49%) Continuous Delivery
17 64 (11.49%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 100 (17.95%) SQL
2 89 (15.98%) Java
3 87 (15.62%) JavaScript
4 85 (15.26%) C#
5 68 (12.21%) Python
6 63 (11.31%) TypeScript
7 38 (6.82%) Apex Code
8 34 (6.10%) SOQL
8 34 (6.10%) SOSL
9 22 (3.95%) Scala
10 18 (3.23%) C++
11 14 (2.51%) C
11 14 (2.51%) Embedded C
12 8 (1.44%) Bash
12 8 (1.44%) Ruby
13 7 (1.26%) Bicep
14 6 (1.08%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.90%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.72%) Rust
17 3 (0.54%) PHP
Qualifications
1 126 (22.62%) Degree
2 79 (14.18%) Security Cleared
3 65 (11.67%) SC Cleared
4 36 (6.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (4.85%) ISTQB
6 19 (3.41%) DBS Check
6 19 (3.41%) PMI Certification
7 18 (3.23%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 14 (2.51%) PMP
9 11 (1.97%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.44%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 7 (1.26%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.90%) CIPD
13 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.54%) CCIE
14 3 (0.54%) CCNP
14 3 (0.54%) CCSA
14 3 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (14.54%) QA
2 19 (3.41%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.33%) GRC
4 8 (1.44%) PMO
5 6 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.72%) GDPR
7 3 (0.54%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.36%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.36%) WCAG
9 1 (0.18%) GxP
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.18%) P3O
System Software
1 90 (16.16%) Docker
2 5 (0.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 75 (13.46%) Kubernetes
2 48 (8.62%) Terraform
3 21 (3.77%) Ansible
4 14 (2.51%) Argo
5 12 (2.15%) Podman
6 6 (1.08%) Grafana
7 5 (0.90%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.36%) Packer
8 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.18%) Kibana
9 1 (0.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 84 (15.08%) Microsoft
2 48 (8.62%) Salesforce
3 34 (6.10%) Splunk
4 18 (3.23%) Google
5 17 (3.05%) Oracle
6 9 (1.62%) SAP
7 8 (1.44%) Databricks
8 7 (1.26%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.90%) Cisco
9 5 (0.90%) Palo Alto
9 5 (0.90%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.72%) Adobe
10 4 (0.72%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.72%) ESRI
11 3 (0.54%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.54%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.54%) Foundry
12 2 (0.36%) Facebook
12 2 (0.36%) Infor
12 2 (0.36%) SendGrid