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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 58 47
Rank change year-on-year -34 -11 -14
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 479 709 1,599
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.84% 5.22% 5.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.33% 5.48% 5.79%
Number of salaries quoted 319 328 1,350
10th Percentile £39,238 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,813 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £89,137
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 14,370 12,931 27,637
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.06% 95.25% 92.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,432 8,809 22,885
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%

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 17 March 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 26 (5.43%) Confluence
2 8 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.84%) ArcGIS
4 4 (0.84%) GeoServer
4 4 (0.84%) Oracle Spatial
5 3 (0.63%) Apache
5 3 (0.63%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.42%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.42%) SAS
7 1 (0.21%) CMS
7 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.25%) Trello
4 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.63%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.42%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.42%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.42%) Sketch
7 1 (0.21%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 11 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.63%) Maximo
2 3 (0.63%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.42%) Shopify
4 1 (0.21%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.21%) Magento
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.21%) Primavera
4 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.21%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 140 (29.23%) Azure
2 108 (22.55%) AWS
3 50 (10.44%) Serverless
4 48 (10.02%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (7.31%) GCP
6 26 (5.43%) Power Platform
6 26 (5.43%) SaaS
7 24 (5.01%) GitHub
8 23 (4.80%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (3.76%) Amazon S3
9 18 (3.76%) Entra ID
10 16 (3.34%) PaaS
11 15 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
11 15 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (2.51%) Azure App Service
12 12 (2.51%) PowerApps
13 10 (2.09%) Azure AKS
13 10 (2.09%) Power Automate
14 9 (1.88%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (1.88%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 74 (15.45%) Broadband
2 10 (2.09%) Ethernet
2 10 (2.09%) RS-232
3 4 (0.84%) Firewall
3 4 (0.84%) MQTT
4 2 (0.42%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (0.42%) LAN
4 2 (0.42%) VPN
4 2 (0.42%) WAN
5 1 (0.21%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (8.77%) SQL Server
2 36 (7.52%) NoSQL
3 25 (5.22%) MongoDB
4 17 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.55%) Relational Database
5 14 (2.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (2.71%) Power BI
7 12 (2.51%) MySQL
8 7 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (1.46%) Metadata
8 7 (1.46%) Tableau
9 4 (0.84%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.84%) GIS
9 4 (0.84%) QGIS
9 4 (0.84%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (0.63%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.63%) Power Query
11 2 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.42%) Looker
Development Applications
1 70 (14.61%) Jenkins
2 68 (14.20%) JIRA
3 54 (11.27%) Git
4 51 (10.65%) GitLab
5 40 (8.35%) SonarQube
6 31 (6.47%) Postman
7 28 (5.85%) SoapUI
8 27 (5.64%) Selenium
9 25 (5.22%) WebDriver
10 24 (5.01%) Team Foundation Server
11 23 (4.80%) TeamCity
12 9 (1.88%) Cypress.io
13 6 (1.25%) CircleCI
14 5 (1.04%) Visual Studio
15 4 (0.84%) JMeter
15 4 (0.84%) SpecFlow
16 3 (0.63%) Oracle APEX
16 3 (0.63%) Storybook
17 2 (0.42%) REST Assured
17 2 (0.42%) Serenity BDD
General
1 182 (38.00%) Social Skills
2 95 (19.83%) Finance
2 95 (19.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 73 (15.24%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (12.94%) Marketing
5 59 (12.32%) Public Sector
6 47 (9.81%) Games
7 37 (7.72%) Law
8 23 (4.80%) Legal
9 19 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (3.34%) Health Technology
10 16 (3.34%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (3.13%) Tech for Good
12 14 (2.92%) Publishing
13 10 (2.09%) Banking
13 10 (2.09%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.88%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.25%) Electronics
16 5 (1.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 106 (22.13%) Developer
2 95 (19.83%) Senior
3 71 (14.82%) Lead
4 59 (12.32%) Software Engineer
5 57 (11.90%) Architect
6 51 (10.65%) Analyst
7 38 (7.93%) Salesforce Architect
8 29 (6.05%) .NET Developer
8 29 (6.05%) Business Analyst
9 28 (5.85%) Lead Developer
10 26 (5.43%) Product Manager
11 25 (5.22%) Senior Software Engineer
12 22 (4.59%) Delivery Manager
13 20 (4.18%) Salesforce Technical Architect
13 20 (4.18%) Senior Developer
13 20 (4.18%) Technical Architect
14 19 (3.97%) Software Developer
15 18 (3.76%) Product Owner
15 18 (3.76%) Solutions Architect
16 16 (3.34%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (19.83%) .NET
2 70 (14.61%) SOAP
3 66 (13.78%) React
4 57 (11.90%) REST
5 52 (10.86%) HTML
5 52 (10.86%) RESTful
6 44 (9.19%) Lightning Web Components
6 44 (9.19%) Visualforce
7 34 (7.10%) .NET Framework
8 30 (6.26%) CSS
9 29 (6.05%) Node.js
10 28 (5.85%) Akka
11 23 (4.80%) ASP.NET Web API
12 21 (4.38%) Entity Framework
13 20 (4.18%) .NET Core
13 20 (4.18%) AngularJS
14 16 (3.34%) Web Services
15 14 (2.92%) ASP.NET
16 13 (2.71%) Spring
17 12 (2.51%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 138 (28.81%) Product Ownership
2 36 (7.52%) Cloud Native
3 23 (4.80%) Over-the-Top Content
3 23 (4.80%) Video\Live Streaming
4 13 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (2.51%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.09%) Device Driver
6 10 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.67%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.46%) e-Learning
9 7 (1.46%) Podcast
10 6 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.04%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.84%) Culture of Ownership
12 4 (0.84%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.84%) N-Tier
12 4 (0.84%) PMI
13 3 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.63%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.59%) Linux
2 10 (2.09%) Embedded Linux
3 5 (1.04%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.63%) Android
4 3 (0.63%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.63%) Unix
5 2 (0.42%) VMS
6 1 (0.21%) CentOS
6 1 (0.21%) Debian
6 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (92.07%) Agile
2 182 (38.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 166 (34.66%) DevOps
4 162 (33.82%) CI/CD
5 160 (33.40%) Kanban
6 105 (21.92%) Roadmaps
7 101 (21.09%) Problem-Solving
8 96 (20.04%) Mentoring
9 88 (18.37%) Software Engineering
10 82 (17.12%) User Stories
11 70 (14.61%) Acceptance Criteria
12 68 (14.20%) Community of Practice
13 66 (13.78%) TDD
14 65 (13.57%) Coaching
14 65 (13.57%) Continuous Integration
14 65 (13.57%) Microservices
14 65 (13.57%) Stakeholder Management
15 64 (13.36%) Continuous Delivery
16 60 (12.53%) OO
17 54 (11.27%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 93 (19.42%) SQL
2 79 (16.49%) C#
3 69 (14.41%) Java
4 62 (12.94%) JavaScript
5 52 (10.86%) Python
6 48 (10.02%) TypeScript
7 44 (9.19%) Apex Code
8 40 (8.35%) SOQL
8 40 (8.35%) SOSL
9 23 (4.80%) Scala
10 17 (3.55%) C++
11 13 (2.71%) C
12 10 (2.09%) Embedded C
13 5 (1.04%) Bash
13 5 (1.04%) Ruby
14 4 (0.84%) Bicep
14 4 (0.84%) PHP
14 4 (0.84%) Rust
15 3 (0.63%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.63%) Swift
Qualifications
1 113 (23.59%) Degree
2 59 (12.32%) Security Cleared
3 49 (10.23%) SC Cleared
4 29 (6.05%) ISTQB
5 25 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (4.38%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 16 (3.34%) Master's Degree
8 14 (2.92%) DBS Check
8 14 (2.92%) PMI Certification
9 11 (2.30%) PMP
10 7 (1.46%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 6 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (1.04%) CIPD
13 3 (0.63%) IBM Certification
14 2 (0.42%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.42%) IIBA
14 2 (0.42%) PhD
14 2 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (16.91%) QA
2 16 (3.34%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.46%) GRC
4 6 (1.25%) PMO
5 3 (0.63%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.42%) ECSS
6 2 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (0.42%) WCAG
7 1 (0.21%) IFRS
7 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.21%) P3O
System Software
1 63 (13.15%) Docker
2 10 (2.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 57 (11.90%) Kubernetes
2 28 (5.85%) Terraform
3 17 (3.55%) Ansible
4 6 (1.25%) Grafana
4 6 (1.25%) Podman
5 5 (1.04%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.42%) Argo
6 2 (0.42%) Packer
6 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.21%) Puppet
Vendors
1 67 (13.99%) Microsoft
2 54 (11.27%) Salesforce
3 40 (8.35%) Splunk
4 16 (3.34%) Google
5 12 (2.51%) Oracle
6 10 (2.09%) SAP
7 9 (1.88%) Mercator
8 7 (1.46%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.04%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.04%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.84%) ESRI
11 3 (0.63%) Foundry
11 3 (0.63%) Guidewire
11 3 (0.63%) IBM
12 2 (0.42%) Adobe
12 2 (0.42%) Cisco
12 2 (0.42%) PagerDuty
12 2 (0.42%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.42%) SendGrid
12 2 (0.42%) Zend