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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 103 51
Rank change year-on-year +17 -52 -17
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 524 409 1,591
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.89% 3.04% 4.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.49% 3.21% 5.35%
Number of salaries quoted 364 305 1,328
10th Percentile £40,200 £43,290 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.30% +6.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,313 £77,500 £74,423
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,528 £89,041
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 15,018 12,758 29,714
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.78% 94.74% 91.33%
Number of salaries quoted 10,546 8,888 23,579
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £33,794
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £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 £58,396 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.67% +9.09% -10.57%

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 2 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 27 (5.15%) Confluence
2 12 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.95%) ArcGIS
3 5 (0.95%) GeoServer
3 5 (0.95%) Oracle Spatial
4 3 (0.57%) Apache
4 3 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.57%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.57%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.38%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.38%) SAS
6 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.19%) JBoss
6 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 8 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.76%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.57%) Trello
5 2 (0.38%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.19%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 10 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.38%) Infor SunSystems
2 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.38%) Shopify
3 1 (0.19%) Magento
3 1 (0.19%) Maximo
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.19%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 169 (32.25%) Azure
2 141 (26.91%) AWS
3 69 (13.17%) Azure DevOps
4 53 (10.11%) Serverless
5 49 (9.35%) GCP
6 24 (4.58%) Azure AKS
7 23 (4.39%) Power Platform
8 22 (4.20%) Azure Service Bus
9 21 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (3.63%) SaaS
11 18 (3.44%) Entra ID
12 16 (3.05%) GitHub
13 15 (2.86%) Power Automate
13 15 (2.86%) PowerApps
14 14 (2.67%) Amazon S3
14 14 (2.67%) Cloud Functions
14 14 (2.67%) PaaS
15 12 (2.29%) Cloud Run
16 11 (2.10%) Amazon SQS
16 11 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 76 (14.50%) Broadband
2 14 (2.67%) Ethernet
2 14 (2.67%) RS-232
3 6 (1.15%) Firewall
4 4 (0.76%) LAN
4 4 (0.76%) MQTT
4 4 (0.76%) WAN
5 2 (0.38%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (0.38%) Network Security
5 2 (0.38%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.38%) VPN
5 2 (0.38%) Wireless
6 1 (0.19%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (8.02%) NoSQL
2 36 (6.87%) MongoDB
3 31 (5.92%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (5.34%) SQL Server
5 13 (2.48%) Metadata
6 9 (1.72%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.53%) Power BI
8 7 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.95%) GIS
10 5 (0.95%) MySQL
10 5 (0.95%) QGIS
11 4 (0.76%) Big Data
11 4 (0.76%) Star Schema
12 3 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.57%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.57%) Redis
13 2 (0.38%) SAS Visual Analytics
13 2 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 83 (15.84%) JIRA
2 64 (12.21%) Jenkins
3 57 (10.88%) GitLab
4 47 (8.97%) Git
5 35 (6.68%) SonarQube
6 32 (6.11%) Postman
7 27 (5.15%) Selenium
7 27 (5.15%) SoapUI
8 25 (4.77%) Team Foundation Server
9 22 (4.20%) TeamCity
9 22 (4.20%) WebDriver
10 13 (2.48%) Cypress.io
11 12 (2.29%) CircleCI
12 7 (1.34%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.76%) JMeter
13 4 (0.76%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.57%) NUnit
14 3 (0.57%) Oracle APEX
14 3 (0.57%) Storybook
15 2 (0.38%) Serenity BDD
General
1 186 (35.50%) Social Skills
2 103 (19.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 96 (18.32%) Finance
4 77 (14.69%) Public Sector
5 71 (13.55%) Analytical Skills
6 61 (11.64%) Law
7 46 (8.78%) Games
7 46 (8.78%) Marketing
8 30 (5.73%) Legal
9 20 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (2.86%) Health Technology
12 13 (2.48%) Publishing
12 13 (2.48%) Tech for Good
13 12 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.91%) Banking
15 8 (1.53%) Telecoms
16 7 (1.34%) Advertising
17 6 (1.15%) Manufacturing
18 5 (0.95%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 119 (22.71%) Senior
2 93 (17.75%) Developer
3 72 (13.74%) Lead
4 66 (12.60%) Software Engineer
5 60 (11.45%) Analyst
6 59 (11.26%) Architect
7 37 (7.06%) Business Analyst
8 36 (6.87%) Delivery Manager
9 33 (6.30%) Salesforce Architect
10 31 (5.92%) Product Manager
11 26 (4.96%) Senior Software Engineer
12 25 (4.77%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 25 (4.77%) Lead Developer
13 21 (4.01%) DevOps Engineer
13 21 (4.01%) Software Developer
13 21 (4.01%) Solutions Architect
14 20 (3.82%) Lead Software Engineer
14 20 (3.82%) Senior Developer
14 20 (3.82%) Senior Manager
15 18 (3.44%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (15.46%) .NET
2 79 (15.08%) React
3 63 (12.02%) SOAP
4 53 (10.11%) REST
5 51 (9.73%) HTML
6 48 (9.16%) RESTful
7 44 (8.40%) Node.js
8 38 (7.25%) Lightning Web Components
8 38 (7.25%) Visualforce
9 26 (4.96%) CSS
9 26 (4.96%) Web Services
10 25 (4.77%) .NET Framework
11 22 (4.20%) Akka
12 20 (3.82%) AngularJS
13 18 (3.44%) Spring
14 15 (2.86%) Playwright
14 15 (2.86%) Spring Boot
15 14 (2.67%) ASP.NET
15 14 (2.67%) Yocto
16 12 (2.29%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 160 (30.53%) Product Ownership
2 48 (9.16%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.20%) Over-the-Top Content
3 22 (4.20%) Video\Live Streaming
4 15 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.67%) Device Driver
5 14 (2.67%) e-Learning
6 13 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (2.48%) Podcast
7 11 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.34%) Culture of Ownership
10 6 (1.15%) PMI
11 4 (0.76%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.76%) Life Science
12 3 (0.57%) Housing Association
12 3 (0.57%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.57%) N-Tier
12 3 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (8.02%) Linux
2 17 (3.24%) Unix
3 14 (2.67%) Embedded Linux
3 14 (2.67%) Windows
4 6 (1.15%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.19%) CentOS
5 1 (0.19%) Debian
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 489 (93.32%) Agile
2 205 (39.12%) Continuous Improvement
3 194 (37.02%) DevOps
4 179 (34.16%) Kanban
5 174 (33.21%) CI/CD
6 110 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
7 109 (20.80%) Roadmaps
8 101 (19.27%) Mentoring
9 97 (18.51%) Coaching
10 96 (18.32%) Software Engineering
11 82 (15.65%) User Stories
12 76 (14.50%) Community of Practice
13 75 (14.31%) Microservices
14 74 (14.12%) Continuous Integration
15 73 (13.93%) Acceptance Criteria
16 68 (12.98%) TDD
17 65 (12.40%) Test Automation
18 64 (12.21%) Full-Stack Development
19 63 (12.02%) Continuous Delivery
19 63 (12.02%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 83 (15.84%) Java
2 82 (15.65%) SQL
3 71 (13.55%) JavaScript
4 70 (13.36%) C#
5 68 (12.98%) Python
6 54 (10.31%) TypeScript
7 38 (7.25%) Apex Code
8 34 (6.49%) SOQL
8 34 (6.49%) SOSL
9 22 (4.20%) Scala
10 18 (3.44%) C++
11 15 (2.86%) C
12 14 (2.67%) Embedded C
13 7 (1.34%) Bicep
13 7 (1.34%) Ruby
14 5 (0.95%) Bash
14 5 (0.95%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.76%) Rust
16 3 (0.57%) PHP
16 3 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 126 (24.05%) Degree
2 69 (13.17%) Security Cleared
3 58 (11.07%) SC Cleared
4 36 (6.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (5.15%) ISTQB
6 20 (3.82%) DBS Check
7 19 (3.63%) PMI Certification
8 18 (3.44%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 14 (2.67%) PMP
10 13 (2.48%) Master's Degree
11 8 (1.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 7 (1.34%) Azure Certification
13 6 (1.15%) DV Cleared
14 5 (0.95%) CIPD
14 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (0.57%) PhD
16 2 (0.38%) CCIE
16 2 (0.38%) CCNP
16 2 (0.38%) CCSA
16 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (16.03%) QA
2 16 (3.05%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.48%) GRC
4 8 (1.53%) PMO
5 6 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.57%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.38%) GDPR
7 2 (0.38%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.38%) WCAG
8 1 (0.19%) GxP
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.19%) P3O
System Software
1 73 (13.93%) Docker
2 7 (1.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (11.83%) Kubernetes
2 46 (8.78%) Terraform
3 21 (4.01%) Ansible
4 15 (2.86%) Argo
5 12 (2.29%) Podman
6 6 (1.15%) Grafana
7 5 (0.95%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.38%) Packer
8 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.19%) Kibana
9 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 69 (13.17%) Microsoft
2 46 (8.78%) Salesforce
3 34 (6.49%) Splunk
4 18 (3.44%) Google
5 14 (2.67%) Oracle
6 8 (1.53%) SAP
7 6 (1.15%) Databricks
7 6 (1.15%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.15%) ServiceNow
8 5 (0.95%) ESRI
9 4 (0.76%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.76%) Cisco
9 4 (0.76%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.57%) Foundry
11 2 (0.38%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.38%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.38%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.38%) IBM
11 2 (0.38%) Infor
11 2 (0.38%) SendGrid