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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 102 54
Rank change year-on-year +25 -48 -18
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 661 564 1,542
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.24% 3.62% 4.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.95% 3.84% 5.06%
Number of salaries quoted 479 295 1,250
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,468 £51,250 £47,250
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 £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +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 16,750 14,693 30,457
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.05% 94.39% 88.84%
Number of salaries quoted 12,187 8,560 23,487
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,969 £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 £78,750 £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 24 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 37 (5.60%) Confluence
2 17 (2.57%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.45%) Apache
4 3 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.45%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.30%) Appian
5 2 (0.30%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.30%) CMS
5 2 (0.30%) DNN
5 2 (0.30%) EPiServer
5 2 (0.30%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.30%) Immediacy CMS
5 2 (0.30%) Kentico
5 2 (0.30%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.30%) SAS
5 2 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.30%) Sitefinity
5 2 (0.30%) Umbraco
Applications
1 12 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.76%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.61%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.61%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.61%) Trello
5 3 (0.45%) Productboard
5 3 (0.45%) Sketch
6 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 24 (3.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.30%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.15%) Shopify
4 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
4 1 (0.15%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 283 (42.81%) Azure
2 222 (33.59%) AWS
3 90 (13.62%) Azure DevOps
4 62 (9.38%) GCP
5 59 (8.93%) Serverless
6 48 (7.26%) GitHub
7 44 (6.66%) Power Platform
8 32 (4.84%) Power Automate
9 29 (4.39%) Azure Service Bus
10 28 (4.24%) GitHub Copilot
10 28 (4.24%) PowerApps
11 26 (3.93%) Azure Functions
12 24 (3.63%) Azure Logic Apps
12 24 (3.63%) PaaS
13 21 (3.18%) Azure AKS
13 21 (3.18%) SaaS
14 19 (2.87%) Azure Key Vault
15 18 (2.72%) Dynamics 365
16 14 (2.12%) Azure Monitor
17 13 (1.97%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 75 (11.35%) Broadband
2 15 (2.27%) Ethernet
2 15 (2.27%) RS-232
3 14 (2.12%) VPN
4 8 (1.21%) Firewall
5 5 (0.76%) LAN
5 5 (0.76%) WAN
6 4 (0.61%) MQTT
7 3 (0.45%) Network Security
7 3 (0.45%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.45%) Wireless
7 3 (0.45%) WPA
8 2 (0.30%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (0.15%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (14.07%) MongoDB
2 69 (10.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 58 (8.77%) Elasticsearch
4 40 (6.05%) PostgreSQL
5 36 (5.45%) NoSQL
6 21 (3.18%) SQL Server
7 19 (2.87%) Metadata
7 19 (2.87%) Power BI
8 11 (1.66%) Redis
9 10 (1.51%) MySQL
9 10 (1.51%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.06%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.76%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.61%) Big Data
13 4 (0.61%) Star Schema
14 2 (0.30%) GIS
Development Applications
1 83 (12.56%) JIRA
2 63 (9.53%) Jenkins
3 58 (8.77%) Git
4 55 (8.32%) GitLab
5 35 (5.30%) SonarQube
6 22 (3.33%) TeamCity
7 18 (2.72%) Postman
8 15 (2.27%) Selenium
9 14 (2.12%) Cypress.io
10 13 (1.97%) SoapUI
11 12 (1.82%) CircleCI
12 11 (1.66%) Team Foundation Server
13 10 (1.51%) JUnit
14 9 (1.36%) Maven
14 9 (1.36%) Mockito
14 9 (1.36%) Visual Studio
15 8 (1.21%) WebDriver
16 6 (0.91%) NUnit
16 6 (0.91%) SpecFlow
17 5 (0.76%) JMeter
General
1 203 (30.71%) Social Skills
2 137 (20.73%) Finance
3 131 (19.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 92 (13.92%) Public Sector
5 87 (13.16%) Law
6 69 (10.44%) Analytical Skills
7 49 (7.41%) Games
8 43 (6.51%) Marketing
9 29 (4.39%) Legal
10 23 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (1.97%) Legal Technology
12 12 (1.82%) Retail
13 10 (1.51%) Banking
14 8 (1.21%) Advertising
14 8 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.91%) Health Technology
16 6 (0.91%) Social Housing
17 4 (0.61%) Publishing
17 4 (0.61%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 162 (24.51%) Developer
2 156 (23.60%) Senior
3 77 (11.65%) Analyst
4 71 (10.74%) Architect
5 70 (10.59%) Software Engineer
6 61 (9.23%) .NET Developer
7 59 (8.93%) Lead
8 51 (7.72%) Delivery Manager
9 46 (6.96%) Business Analyst
10 33 (4.99%) Agile Delivery Manager
10 33 (4.99%) Salesforce Architect
10 33 (4.99%) Senior Developer
11 29 (4.39%) Senior Analyst
11 29 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
12 27 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
13 26 (3.93%) Product Manager
14 24 (3.63%) Senior Manager
14 24 (3.63%) Senior Software Engineer
15 23 (3.48%) Senior DevOps
15 23 (3.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (18.31%) React
2 115 (17.40%) .NET
3 92 (13.92%) Node.js
4 66 (9.98%) ASP.NET
5 62 (9.38%) ASP.NET Core
6 61 (9.23%) REST
7 59 (8.93%) .NET Core
8 52 (7.87%) AngularJS
9 48 (7.26%) SOAP
10 46 (6.96%) .NET Framework
10 46 (6.96%) RESTful
11 42 (6.35%) HTML
12 41 (6.20%) Lightning Web Components
13 40 (6.05%) Vue
14 39 (5.90%) ASP.NET Web API
15 38 (5.75%) Visualforce
16 34 (5.14%) Spring
17 26 (3.93%) CSS
18 24 (3.63%) Web Services
19 23 (3.48%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 173 (26.17%) Product Ownership
2 58 (8.77%) Cloud Native
3 25 (3.78%) Podcast
4 22 (3.33%) Over-the-Top Content
4 22 (3.33%) Video\Live Streaming
5 18 (2.72%) Onboarding
5 18 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (2.27%) Device Driver
7 12 (1.82%) e-Learning
7 12 (1.82%) Public Cloud
7 12 (1.82%) Security Posture
8 11 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.21%) PMI
10 7 (1.06%) Culture of Ownership
11 6 (0.91%) AI Agents
11 6 (0.91%) Mobile App
11 6 (0.91%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.76%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 53 (8.02%) Linux
2 33 (4.99%) Windows
3 24 (3.63%) Unix
4 15 (2.27%) Embedded Linux
5 12 (1.82%) VMS
6 6 (0.91%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.15%) CentOS
7 1 (0.15%) Debian
7 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 623 (94.25%) Agile
2 244 (36.91%) Continuous Improvement
3 234 (35.40%) DevOps
4 217 (32.83%) Kanban
5 207 (31.32%) CI/CD
6 140 (21.18%) Microservices
7 125 (18.91%) Mentoring
8 121 (18.31%) Full-Stack Development
9 120 (18.15%) Roadmaps
10 119 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
11 110 (16.64%) Coaching
11 110 (16.64%) TDD
12 105 (15.89%) Software Engineering
13 96 (14.52%) AI
14 85 (12.86%) Community of Practice
15 83 (12.56%) User Stories
16 81 (12.25%) Stakeholder Management
17 78 (11.80%) Test Automation
18 76 (11.50%) Acceptance Criteria
18 76 (11.50%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 147 (22.24%) SQL
2 122 (18.46%) JavaScript
3 121 (18.31%) C#
4 94 (14.22%) TypeScript
5 78 (11.80%) Java
6 64 (9.68%) Python
7 38 (5.75%) Apex Code
8 34 (5.14%) SOQL
8 34 (5.14%) SOSL
9 22 (3.33%) Bash
9 22 (3.33%) Scala
10 21 (3.18%) C++
11 20 (3.03%) Bicep
12 19 (2.87%) PowerShell
13 17 (2.57%) Ruby
14 15 (2.27%) C
14 15 (2.27%) Embedded C
15 12 (1.82%) Kusto Query Language
16 10 (1.51%) PL/SQL
17 7 (1.06%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 124 (18.76%) Degree
2 82 (12.41%) Security Cleared
3 72 (10.89%) SC Cleared
4 45 (6.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.93%) Azure Certification
6 19 (2.87%) DBS Check
6 19 (2.87%) PMI Certification
7 17 (2.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (1.82%) PMP
9 11 (1.66%) ISTQB
10 8 (1.21%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.91%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 6 (0.91%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.76%) CIPD
12 5 (0.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.45%) CCIE
13 3 (0.45%) CCNP
13 3 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.45%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (12.25%) QA
2 22 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.82%) GRC
4 11 (1.66%) PMO
5 10 (1.51%) GDPR
6 7 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.76%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 4 (0.61%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.45%) WCAG
10 2 (0.30%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.15%) GxP
System Software
1 120 (18.15%) Docker
2 14 (2.12%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 92 (13.92%) Kubernetes
2 60 (9.08%) Terraform
3 16 (2.42%) Ansible
4 14 (2.12%) Argo
5 12 (1.82%) Podman
6 5 (0.76%) Grafana
7 4 (0.61%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.30%) Packer
8 2 (0.30%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.15%) Kibana
9 1 (0.15%) Puppet
9 1 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 144 (21.79%) Microsoft
2 51 (7.72%) Salesforce
3 34 (5.14%) Splunk
4 23 (3.48%) Oracle
5 16 (2.42%) Google
6 12 (1.82%) ScienceLogic
6 12 (1.82%) VMware
7 10 (1.51%) Databricks
8 9 (1.36%) SAP
9 7 (1.06%) Pega
10 6 (0.91%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.76%) Cisco
11 5 (0.76%) Infor
11 5 (0.76%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.61%) Adobe
13 3 (0.45%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.45%) CheckPoint
13 3 (0.45%) Epicor
13 3 (0.45%) Fortinet
13 3 (0.45%) Red Hat