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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 102 55
Rank change year-on-year +22 -47 -19
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 622 560 1,558
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.12% 3.65% 4.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.82% 3.86% 5.07%
Number of salaries quoted 445 287 1,263
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,468 £51,250 £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 £76,250 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £84,500 £97,528 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,563 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.87% +12.50% -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 16,294 14,504 30,743
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.85% 94.61% 89.03%
Number of salaries quoted 11,745 8,418 23,751
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,848 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 16 June 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 34 (5.47%) Confluence
2 14 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.48%) Apache
4 3 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.32%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.32%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.32%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Spatial
5 2 (0.32%) SAS
6 1 (0.16%) DNN
6 1 (0.16%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.16%) Immediacy CMS
6 1 (0.16%) Kentico
6 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.16%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.80%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.64%) Adobe XD
5 4 (0.64%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.48%) Productboard
6 3 (0.48%) Sketch
7 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.32%) Trello
8 1 (0.16%) EngageOne
8 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 19 (3.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.32%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.16%) Shopify
4 1 (0.16%) TIBCO iProcess
4 1 (0.16%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 248 (39.87%) Azure
2 199 (31.99%) AWS
3 77 (12.38%) Azure DevOps
4 60 (9.65%) GCP
5 49 (7.88%) Serverless
6 37 (5.95%) Power Platform
7 35 (5.63%) GitHub
8 26 (4.18%) Power Automate
9 24 (3.86%) Azure Service Bus
10 23 (3.70%) PowerApps
11 22 (3.54%) Azure AKS
12 21 (3.38%) SaaS
13 20 (3.22%) GitHub Copilot
14 19 (3.05%) Azure Logic Apps
15 18 (2.89%) PaaS
16 17 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
17 16 (2.57%) Azure Functions
18 13 (2.09%) Azure Key Vault
18 13 (2.09%) Cloud Functions
19 12 (1.93%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 76 (12.22%) Broadband
2 15 (2.41%) Ethernet
2 15 (2.41%) RS-232
3 8 (1.29%) Firewall
3 8 (1.29%) VPN
4 5 (0.80%) LAN
4 5 (0.80%) WAN
5 4 (0.64%) MQTT
6 3 (0.48%) Network Security
6 3 (0.48%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.48%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.48%) Wireless
6 3 (0.48%) WPA
7 2 (0.32%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (0.16%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (12.54%) MongoDB
2 49 (7.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 44 (7.07%) Elasticsearch
4 37 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
5 36 (5.79%) NoSQL
6 19 (3.05%) Metadata
6 19 (3.05%) SQL Server
7 18 (2.89%) Power BI
8 10 (1.61%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.45%) MySQL
9 9 (1.45%) Redis
10 6 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.80%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.80%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.64%) Big Data
12 4 (0.64%) Star Schema
13 2 (0.32%) GIS
Development Applications
1 84 (13.50%) JIRA
2 63 (10.13%) Jenkins
3 55 (8.84%) GitLab
4 52 (8.36%) Git
5 35 (5.63%) SonarQube
6 23 (3.70%) Postman
7 22 (3.54%) TeamCity
8 19 (3.05%) Selenium
9 18 (2.89%) SoapUI
10 16 (2.57%) Team Foundation Server
11 15 (2.41%) Cypress.io
12 12 (1.93%) CircleCI
12 12 (1.93%) WebDriver
13 10 (1.61%) JUnit
14 9 (1.45%) Maven
14 9 (1.45%) Mockito
15 8 (1.29%) Visual Studio
16 6 (0.96%) SpecFlow
17 5 (0.80%) JMeter
17 5 (0.80%) NUnit
General
1 198 (31.83%) Social Skills
2 134 (21.54%) Finance
3 126 (20.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 85 (13.67%) Public Sector
5 80 (12.86%) Law
6 67 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
7 49 (7.88%) Games
8 44 (7.07%) Marketing
9 29 (4.66%) Legal
10 24 (3.86%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (2.09%) Legal Technology
12 10 (1.61%) Banking
13 9 (1.45%) Retail
14 8 (1.29%) Advertising
14 8 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (0.96%) Health Technology
16 6 (0.96%) Social Housing
17 5 (0.80%) Telecoms
18 4 (0.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 146 (23.47%) Senior
2 141 (22.67%) Developer
3 72 (11.58%) Analyst
4 70 (11.25%) Software Engineer
5 69 (11.09%) Architect
6 58 (9.32%) Lead
7 50 (8.04%) Delivery Manager
8 48 (7.72%) .NET Developer
9 45 (7.23%) Business Analyst
10 34 (5.47%) Agile Delivery Manager
11 33 (5.31%) Salesforce Architect
12 31 (4.98%) Senior Developer
13 27 (4.34%) Product Manager
13 27 (4.34%) Senior Analyst
13 27 (4.34%) Solutions Architect
14 25 (4.02%) Senior Software Engineer
15 24 (3.86%) Senior Manager
16 20 (3.22%) Lead Software Engineer
16 20 (3.22%) Project Manager
16 20 (3.22%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (18.33%) React
2 104 (16.72%) .NET
3 78 (12.54%) Node.js
4 62 (9.97%) REST
5 53 (8.52%) SOAP
6 51 (8.20%) ASP.NET
7 47 (7.56%) ASP.NET Core
7 47 (7.56%) HTML
8 45 (7.23%) .NET Core
9 44 (7.07%) RESTful
10 42 (6.75%) AngularJS
11 41 (6.59%) Lightning Web Components
12 38 (6.11%) .NET Framework
12 38 (6.11%) Visualforce
13 33 (5.31%) Spring
14 31 (4.98%) ASP.NET Web API
15 30 (4.82%) Vue
16 27 (4.34%) CSS
17 25 (4.02%) Web Services
18 22 (3.54%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 170 (27.33%) Product Ownership
2 60 (9.65%) Cloud Native
3 22 (3.54%) Over-the-Top Content
3 22 (3.54%) Video\Live Streaming
4 19 (3.05%) Podcast
5 18 (2.89%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.41%) Device Driver
6 15 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (2.09%) e-Learning
8 10 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.13%) Culture of Ownership
10 7 (1.13%) PMI
11 6 (0.96%) Public Cloud
11 6 (0.96%) Security Posture
11 6 (0.96%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.80%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (0.80%) Housing Association
12 5 (0.80%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 46 (7.40%) Linux
2 20 (3.22%) Windows
3 17 (2.73%) Unix
4 15 (2.41%) Embedded Linux
5 6 (0.96%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.96%) VMS
6 1 (0.16%) CentOS
6 1 (0.16%) Debian
6 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 583 (93.73%) Agile
2 232 (37.30%) Continuous Improvement
3 210 (33.76%) DevOps
4 206 (33.12%) Kanban
5 191 (30.71%) CI/CD
6 121 (19.45%) Microservices
7 118 (18.97%) Mentoring
8 116 (18.65%) Problem-Solving
8 116 (18.65%) Roadmaps
9 107 (17.20%) Full-Stack Development
10 104 (16.72%) Software Engineering
11 96 (15.43%) Coaching
11 96 (15.43%) TDD
12 86 (13.83%) Community of Practice
13 83 (13.34%) AI
14 81 (13.02%) User Stories
15 80 (12.86%) Stakeholder Management
16 72 (11.58%) Acceptance Criteria
17 69 (11.09%) Test Automation
18 67 (10.77%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 129 (20.74%) SQL
2 113 (18.17%) JavaScript
3 106 (17.04%) C#
4 84 (13.50%) Java
5 82 (13.18%) TypeScript
6 62 (9.97%) Python
7 38 (6.11%) Apex Code
8 34 (5.47%) SOQL
8 34 (5.47%) SOSL
9 22 (3.54%) Scala
10 19 (3.05%) C++
11 16 (2.57%) Bash
12 15 (2.41%) C
12 15 (2.41%) Embedded C
12 15 (2.41%) Ruby
13 14 (2.25%) Bicep
14 12 (1.93%) PowerShell
15 10 (1.61%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 129 (20.74%) Degree
2 83 (13.34%) Security Cleared
3 73 (11.74%) SC Cleared
4 45 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.22%) DBS Check
6 18 (2.89%) PMI Certification
7 17 (2.73%) Azure Certification
8 15 (2.41%) ISTQB
9 12 (1.93%) PMP
10 10 (1.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 9 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.96%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.96%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.80%) CIPD
13 5 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.48%) CCIE
14 3 (0.48%) CCNP
14 3 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.48%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (12.86%) QA
2 22 (3.54%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.93%) GRC
3 12 (1.93%) PMO
4 8 (1.29%) GDPR
5 5 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.64%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (0.48%) WCAG
8 2 (0.32%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.16%) GxP
9 1 (0.16%) P3O
System Software
1 110 (17.68%) Docker
2 8 (1.29%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 86 (13.83%) Kubernetes
2 54 (8.68%) Terraform
3 16 (2.57%) Ansible
4 14 (2.25%) Argo
5 12 (1.93%) Podman
6 5 (0.80%) Grafana
7 4 (0.64%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.32%) Packer
8 2 (0.32%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.16%) Kibana
9 1 (0.16%) Puppet
9 1 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 116 (18.65%) Microsoft
2 51 (8.20%) Salesforce
3 34 (5.47%) Splunk
4 21 (3.38%) Oracle
5 16 (2.57%) Google
6 10 (1.61%) Databricks
7 7 (1.13%) SAP
8 6 (0.96%) ScienceLogic
8 6 (0.96%) ServiceNow
8 6 (0.96%) VMware
9 5 (0.80%) Cisco
9 5 (0.80%) Palo Alto
10 4 (0.64%) Adobe
11 3 (0.48%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.48%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.48%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.48%) Foundry
11 3 (0.48%) Infor
11 3 (0.48%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.32%) Facebook