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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 57 42
Rank change year-on-year -37 -15 -11
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 427 818 1,606
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.64% 5.22% 5.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.05% 5.51% 6.28%
Number of salaries quoted 301 320 1,373
10th Percentile £39,238 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £49,750 £51,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.35% +12.08% -10.16%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,813 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -9.91%

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 14,010 14,842 25,591
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.46% 94.70% 92.66%
Number of salaries quoted 8,916 8,853 21,164
10th Percentile £30,165 £36,250 £34,760
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,381
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.69% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 11 February 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 24 (5.62%) Confluence
2 8 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.94%) ArcGIS
4 4 (0.94%) GeoServer
4 4 (0.94%) Oracle Spatial
5 3 (0.70%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.47%) Apache
6 2 (0.47%) SAS
7 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.23%) CMS
7 1 (0.23%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.17%) Trello
3 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.70%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.47%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.47%) Sketch
6 1 (0.23%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 11 (2.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.70%) Maximo
2 3 (0.70%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.47%) Shopify
4 1 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.23%) Magento
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.23%) Primavera
4 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.23%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 141 (33.02%) Azure
2 101 (23.65%) AWS
3 52 (12.18%) Serverless
4 46 (10.77%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (7.26%) SaaS
6 30 (7.03%) GitHub
7 27 (6.32%) Power Platform
8 24 (5.62%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (5.15%) GCP
10 17 (3.98%) Amazon S3
10 17 (3.98%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (3.98%) PaaS
11 15 (3.51%) Entra ID
12 14 (3.28%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (3.28%) Azure App Service
13 13 (3.04%) PowerApps
14 11 (2.58%) Power Automate
15 10 (2.34%) Azure Functions
16 9 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
16 9 (2.11%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 54 (12.65%) Broadband
2 6 (1.41%) Ethernet
2 6 (1.41%) RS-232
3 2 (0.47%) Firewall
3 2 (0.47%) MQTT
4 1 (0.23%) AMQP
4 1 (0.23%) GPRS
4 1 (0.23%) HTTP
4 1 (0.23%) LTE
4 1 (0.23%) Modbus
4 1 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (10.30%) SQL Server
2 27 (6.32%) MongoDB
2 27 (6.32%) NoSQL
3 24 (5.62%) Azure SQL Database
4 19 (4.45%) Elasticsearch
4 19 (4.45%) Relational Database
5 18 (4.22%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.81%) Power BI
7 10 (2.34%) MySQL
8 9 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.64%) Metadata
9 7 (1.64%) Tableau
10 5 (1.17%) GIS
11 4 (0.94%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.94%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.94%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.94%) QGIS
11 4 (0.94%) Qlik Sense
12 3 (0.70%) Power Query
13 2 (0.47%) Looker
Development Applications
1 70 (16.39%) JIRA
2 59 (13.82%) Jenkins
3 57 (13.35%) Git
4 37 (8.67%) GitLab
4 37 (8.67%) Postman
5 33 (7.73%) Selenium
6 31 (7.26%) SoapUI
7 29 (6.79%) WebDriver
8 28 (6.56%) SonarQube
8 28 (6.56%) Team Foundation Server
9 23 (5.39%) TeamCity
10 6 (1.41%) JMeter
10 6 (1.41%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.94%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.94%) SpecFlow
12 3 (0.70%) Storybook
13 2 (0.47%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.47%) LoadRunner
13 2 (0.47%) NUnit
13 2 (0.47%) Serenity BDD
General
1 159 (37.24%) Social Skills
2 94 (22.01%) Finance
3 66 (15.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 56 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (12.65%) Public Sector
6 48 (11.24%) Marketing
7 36 (8.43%) Games
8 22 (5.15%) Tech for Good
9 21 (4.92%) Law
10 19 (4.45%) Health Technology
11 18 (4.22%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (4.22%) Publishing
12 16 (3.75%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (2.58%) Telecoms
14 10 (2.34%) Legal
15 8 (1.87%) Manufacturing
16 7 (1.64%) Banking
17 6 (1.41%) Electronics
18 5 (1.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 123 (28.81%) Developer
2 83 (19.44%) Senior
3 68 (15.93%) Lead
4 46 (10.77%) Software Engineer
5 43 (10.07%) Analyst
6 42 (9.84%) Architect
7 38 (8.90%) .NET Developer
8 30 (7.03%) Lead Developer
9 26 (6.09%) Salesforce Architect
10 25 (5.85%) Senior Developer
11 22 (5.15%) React Developer
11 22 (5.15%) Senior Software Engineer
12 21 (4.92%) Python Developer
13 20 (4.68%) Business Analyst
14 18 (4.22%) Delivery Manager
14 18 (4.22%) Scrum Master
14 18 (4.22%) Software Developer
15 17 (3.98%) AWS Developer
15 17 (3.98%) Test Analyst
16 15 (3.51%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (23.89%) .NET
2 71 (16.63%) React
3 66 (15.46%) SOAP
4 52 (12.18%) RESTful
5 48 (11.24%) REST
6 47 (11.01%) HTML
7 38 (8.90%) .NET Framework
8 34 (7.96%) ASP.NET Web API
9 33 (7.73%) Node.js
10 32 (7.49%) Entity Framework
11 29 (6.79%) .NET Core
11 29 (6.79%) Lightning Web Components
11 29 (6.79%) Visualforce
12 28 (6.56%) Akka
13 26 (6.09%) AngularJS
14 22 (5.15%) Vue
15 21 (4.92%) CSS
16 19 (4.45%) ASP.NET
16 19 (4.45%) Web Services
17 16 (3.75%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 103 (24.12%) Product Ownership
2 23 (5.39%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.39%) Over-the-Top Content
2 23 (5.39%) Video\Live Streaming
3 11 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (2.11%) Management Information System
4 9 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (1.87%) Public Cloud
6 7 (1.64%) e-Learning
7 6 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (1.41%) Device Driver
8 5 (1.17%) Onboarding
9 4 (0.94%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.70%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.70%) N-Tier
10 3 (0.70%) PMI
10 3 (0.70%) Social Media
11 2 (0.47%) Animation
11 2 (0.47%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.22%) Linux
2 6 (1.41%) Embedded Linux
3 5 (1.17%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.70%) Android
4 3 (0.70%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.70%) Unix
5 2 (0.47%) VMS
6 1 (0.23%) CentOS
6 1 (0.23%) Debian
6 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (93.21%) Agile
2 149 (34.89%) Kanban
3 148 (34.66%) Continuous Improvement
4 141 (33.02%) DevOps
5 134 (31.38%) CI/CD
6 96 (22.48%) Mentoring
7 90 (21.08%) Problem-Solving
8 83 (19.44%) Roadmaps
9 75 (17.56%) TDD
10 71 (16.63%) Software Engineering
11 65 (15.22%) Microservices
12 62 (14.52%) Stakeholder Management
13 61 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
13 61 (14.29%) User Stories
14 56 (13.11%) Full-Stack Development
15 53 (12.41%) Continuous Integration
16 52 (12.18%) Coaching
17 50 (11.71%) Project Delivery
17 50 (11.71%) Software Testing
18 49 (11.48%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 106 (24.82%) SQL
2 91 (21.31%) C#
3 68 (15.93%) Java
4 66 (15.46%) TypeScript
5 62 (14.52%) JavaScript
6 53 (12.41%) Python
7 29 (6.79%) Apex Code
8 28 (6.56%) SOQL
8 28 (6.56%) SOSL
9 24 (5.62%) Scala
10 13 (3.04%) C++
11 9 (2.11%) C
12 6 (1.41%) Embedded C
13 5 (1.17%) Bash
14 3 (0.70%) Erlang
14 3 (0.70%) Groovy
14 3 (0.70%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.70%) PHP
14 3 (0.70%) Swift
14 3 (0.70%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 97 (22.72%) Degree
2 47 (11.01%) Security Cleared
3 37 (8.67%) SC Cleared
4 35 (8.20%) ISTQB
5 26 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (5.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 19 (4.45%) Master's Degree
8 13 (3.04%) DBS Check
9 10 (2.34%) PMI Certification
10 9 (2.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 8 (1.87%) PMP
12 7 (1.64%) DV Cleared
13 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.70%) IBM Certification
16 2 (0.47%) Azure Certification
16 2 (0.47%) CBAP
16 2 (0.47%) IIBA
16 2 (0.47%) SAFe Agilist
16 2 (0.47%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (19.67%) QA
2 14 (3.28%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.94%) PMO
3 4 (0.94%) WCAG
4 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.47%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.47%) ECSS
5 2 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.23%) GDPR
6 1 (0.23%) GRC
6 1 (0.23%) IFRS
6 1 (0.23%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.23%) P3O
System Software
1 51 (11.94%) Docker
2 13 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 49 (11.48%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.45%) Terraform
3 15 (3.51%) Ansible
4 3 (0.70%) Grafana
4 3 (0.70%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.47%) Argo
6 1 (0.23%) Packer
6 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 78 (18.27%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.67%) Salesforce
3 28 (6.56%) Splunk
4 12 (2.81%) ServiceNow
5 11 (2.58%) Oracle
6 10 (2.34%) Google
6 10 (2.34%) SAP
7 9 (2.11%) Mercator
8 5 (1.17%) ESRI
8 5 (1.17%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.70%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.70%) DevExpress
9 3 (0.70%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.70%) IBM
10 2 (0.47%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.47%) Foundry
10 2 (0.47%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.47%) Pega
10 2 (0.47%) SendGrid
10 2 (0.47%) Zend