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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 99 53
Rank change year-on-year +19 -46 -18
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 569 544 1,563
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.03% 3.72% 4.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 3.92% 5.29%
Number of salaries quoted 396 269 1,308
10th Percentile £41,250 £44,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,500 £51,250 £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 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,528 £87,500
UK median annual salary £66,771 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.08% +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 15,563 13,877 29,569
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.79% 94.97% 90.86%
Number of salaries quoted 11,091 8,168 23,322
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £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 £80,500 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,648 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.59% +8.45% -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 22 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 (4.92%) Confluence
2 11 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.70%) ArcGIS
3 4 (0.70%) GeoServer
3 4 (0.70%) Oracle Spatial
4 3 (0.53%) Apache
4 3 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.53%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.53%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.35%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.35%) SAS
6 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.18%) JBoss
6 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.70%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.53%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.53%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.53%) Productboard
3 3 (0.53%) Sketch
3 3 (0.53%) Trello
4 1 (0.18%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 12 (2.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.35%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (0.35%) 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
4 1 (0.18%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 201 (35.33%) Azure
2 174 (30.58%) AWS
3 67 (11.78%) Azure DevOps
4 55 (9.67%) GCP
5 51 (8.96%) Serverless
6 26 (4.57%) Power Platform
7 24 (4.22%) GitHub
8 22 (3.87%) Azure AKS
8 22 (3.87%) Azure Service Bus
9 21 (3.69%) SaaS
10 18 (3.16%) Power Automate
10 18 (3.16%) PowerApps
11 16 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (2.46%) Cloud Functions
12 14 (2.46%) Entra ID
12 14 (2.46%) PaaS
13 13 (2.28%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (2.11%) Cloud Run
15 11 (1.93%) GitHub Copilot
16 10 (1.76%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 76 (13.36%) Broadband
2 14 (2.46%) Ethernet
2 14 (2.46%) RS-232
3 6 (1.05%) Firewall
4 5 (0.88%) LAN
4 5 (0.88%) WAN
5 4 (0.70%) MQTT
6 3 (0.53%) Network Security
6 3 (0.53%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.53%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.53%) Wireless
6 3 (0.53%) WPA
7 2 (0.35%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (0.35%) VPN
8 1 (0.18%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (9.49%) MongoDB
2 38 (6.68%) NoSQL
3 35 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (4.04%) Elasticsearch
4 23 (4.04%) SQL Server
5 21 (3.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (2.64%) Metadata
7 11 (1.93%) Power BI
8 10 (1.76%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.05%) Redis
10 5 (0.88%) MySQL
11 4 (0.70%) Big Data
11 4 (0.70%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.70%) GIS
11 4 (0.70%) QGIS
11 4 (0.70%) Star Schema
12 3 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.53%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 89 (15.64%) JIRA
2 65 (11.42%) Jenkins
3 57 (10.02%) GitLab
4 46 (8.08%) Git
5 35 (6.15%) SonarQube
6 32 (5.62%) Postman
7 28 (4.92%) Selenium
8 27 (4.75%) SoapUI
9 25 (4.39%) Team Foundation Server
10 22 (3.87%) TeamCity
10 22 (3.87%) WebDriver
11 15 (2.64%) Cypress.io
12 12 (2.11%) CircleCI
13 9 (1.58%) JUnit
14 8 (1.41%) Maven
14 8 (1.41%) Mockito
15 7 (1.23%) SpecFlow
16 5 (0.88%) JMeter
17 4 (0.70%) NUnit
17 4 (0.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 184 (32.34%) Social Skills
2 118 (20.74%) Finance
3 107 (18.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 77 (13.53%) Public Sector
5 67 (11.78%) Law
6 65 (11.42%) Analytical Skills
7 47 (8.26%) Games
8 46 (8.08%) Marketing
9 30 (5.27%) Legal
10 23 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (1.93%) Banking
13 10 (1.76%) Health Technology
14 8 (1.41%) Advertising
14 8 (1.41%) Publishing
14 8 (1.41%) Retail
14 8 (1.41%) Tech for Good
15 6 (1.05%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.88%) Aerospace
17 4 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 129 (22.67%) Senior
2 119 (20.91%) Developer
3 66 (11.60%) Architect
3 66 (11.60%) Lead
4 65 (11.42%) Software Engineer
5 63 (11.07%) Analyst
6 41 (7.21%) Delivery Manager
7 40 (7.03%) Business Analyst
8 33 (5.80%) Salesforce Architect
9 30 (5.27%) .NET Developer
9 30 (5.27%) Product Manager
10 29 (5.10%) Agile Delivery Manager
11 27 (4.75%) Senior Developer
12 26 (4.57%) Solutions Architect
13 23 (4.04%) Senior Software Engineer
14 22 (3.87%) Senior Manager
15 21 (3.69%) Senior Analyst
16 20 (3.51%) DevOps Engineer
16 20 (3.51%) Lead Developer
17 19 (3.34%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (17.40%) React
2 90 (15.82%) .NET
3 63 (11.07%) REST
4 62 (10.90%) SOAP
5 59 (10.37%) Node.js
6 53 (9.31%) HTML
7 45 (7.91%) RESTful
8 41 (7.21%) Lightning Web Components
9 38 (6.68%) Visualforce
10 30 (5.27%) AngularJS
10 30 (5.27%) Spring
11 29 (5.10%) ASP.NET
12 27 (4.75%) .NET Framework
12 27 (4.75%) Web Services
13 25 (4.39%) ASP.NET Core
14 24 (4.22%) CSS
15 23 (4.04%) .NET Core
16 22 (3.87%) Akka
16 22 (3.87%) Playwright
17 19 (3.34%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 166 (29.17%) Product Ownership
2 55 (9.67%) Cloud Native
3 22 (3.87%) Over-the-Top Content
3 22 (3.87%) Video\Live Streaming
4 18 (3.16%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.46%) Device Driver
6 13 (2.28%) e-Learning
6 13 (2.28%) Podcast
6 13 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.23%) Culture of Ownership
10 6 (1.05%) PMI
11 5 (0.88%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.70%) Life Science
12 4 (0.70%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.53%) AI Agents
13 3 (0.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 3 (0.53%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 46 (8.08%) Linux
2 17 (2.99%) Unix
3 14 (2.46%) Embedded Linux
3 14 (2.46%) Windows
4 5 (0.88%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.18%) CentOS
5 1 (0.18%) Debian
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 531 (93.32%) Agile
2 216 (37.96%) Continuous Improvement
3 198 (34.80%) DevOps
4 189 (33.22%) Kanban
5 181 (31.81%) CI/CD
6 119 (20.91%) Mentoring
7 114 (20.04%) Roadmaps
8 109 (19.16%) Problem-Solving
9 97 (17.05%) Microservices
9 97 (17.05%) Software Engineering
10 94 (16.52%) Coaching
11 85 (14.94%) Full-Stack Development
11 85 (14.94%) TDD
12 84 (14.76%) User Stories
13 78 (13.71%) Community of Practice
14 73 (12.83%) Acceptance Criteria
15 71 (12.48%) Stakeholder Management
16 69 (12.13%) Continuous Integration
17 68 (11.95%) AI
18 66 (11.60%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 101 (17.75%) SQL
2 93 (16.34%) Java
3 92 (16.17%) JavaScript
4 86 (15.11%) C#
5 67 (11.78%) TypeScript
6 64 (11.25%) Python
7 38 (6.68%) Apex Code
8 34 (5.98%) SOQL
8 34 (5.98%) SOSL
9 22 (3.87%) Scala
10 18 (3.16%) C++
11 14 (2.46%) C
11 14 (2.46%) Embedded C
12 10 (1.76%) Bash
12 10 (1.76%) Ruby
13 9 (1.58%) PL/SQL
14 7 (1.23%) Bicep
15 4 (0.70%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.70%) Rust
16 3 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 131 (23.02%) Degree
2 81 (14.24%) Security Cleared
3 70 (12.30%) SC Cleared
4 39 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (4.75%) ISTQB
6 19 (3.34%) DBS Check
7 18 (3.16%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 18 (3.16%) PMI Certification
8 13 (2.28%) PMP
9 10 (1.76%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.58%) Azure Certification
11 8 (1.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 5 (0.88%) CIPD
13 4 (0.70%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.70%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.53%) CCIE Security
14 3 (0.53%) CCSA
14 3 (0.53%) CCSE
14 3 (0.53%) JNCIE
14 3 (0.53%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (13.53%) QA
2 23 (4.04%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.11%) GRC
4 8 (1.41%) PMO
5 5 (0.88%) GDPR
5 5 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.70%) WCAG
7 3 (0.53%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.35%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.18%) GxP
9 1 (0.18%) P3O
System Software
1 97 (17.05%) Docker
2 4 (0.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 78 (13.71%) Kubernetes
2 48 (8.44%) Terraform
3 21 (3.69%) Ansible
4 14 (2.46%) Argo
5 12 (2.11%) Podman
6 6 (1.05%) Grafana
7 5 (0.88%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.35%) Packer
8 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.18%) Kibana
9 1 (0.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 81 (14.24%) Microsoft
2 49 (8.61%) Salesforce
3 34 (5.98%) Splunk
4 20 (3.51%) Oracle
5 18 (3.16%) Google
6 8 (1.41%) Databricks
7 7 (1.23%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.05%) SAP
9 5 (0.88%) Adobe
9 5 (0.88%) Cisco
9 5 (0.88%) Palo Alto
9 5 (0.88%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.70%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.70%) ESRI
11 3 (0.53%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.53%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.53%) Foundry
12 2 (0.35%) Facebook
12 2 (0.35%) IBM
12 2 (0.35%) Infor