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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 98 80
Rank change year-on-year +19 -18 -40
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 721 595 872
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.19% 3.61% 3.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% 3.88% 3.96%
Number of salaries quoted 538 337 634
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year - +5.69% -5.38%

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 18,735 15,321 22,033
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.88% 92.93% 87.73%
Number of salaries quoted 13,552 9,025 15,867
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,875 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,400 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +1.02% -5.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 7 August 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 47 (6.52%) Confluence
2 12 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (1.66%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.97%) Apache
3 7 (0.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.55%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.55%) CMS
5 3 (0.42%) DNN
5 3 (0.42%) EPiServer
5 3 (0.42%) Immediacy CMS
5 3 (0.42%) Kentico
5 3 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.42%) Sitefinity
5 3 (0.42%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.28%) Appian
6 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.28%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 14 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.11%) Trello
4 7 (0.97%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.55%) Adobe XD
5 4 (0.55%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.42%) Productboard
6 3 (0.42%) Sketch
6 3 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
8 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 17 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.42%) Shopify
3 2 (0.28%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.14%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 328 (45.49%) Azure
2 283 (39.25%) AWS
3 101 (14.01%) Azure DevOps
4 69 (9.57%) GCP
5 60 (8.32%) GitHub
6 53 (7.35%) Serverless
7 41 (5.69%) GitHub Copilot
8 38 (5.27%) Power Platform
9 27 (3.74%) Power Automate
9 27 (3.74%) SaaS
10 23 (3.19%) Azure Service Bus
10 23 (3.19%) PowerApps
11 21 (2.91%) PaaS
12 20 (2.77%) Azure Functions
13 19 (2.64%) Azure Key Vault
14 18 (2.50%) Azure AKS
14 18 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
15 17 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
16 15 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
16 15 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 46 (6.38%) Broadband
2 14 (1.94%) VPN
3 12 (1.66%) Ethernet
3 12 (1.66%) RS-232
4 9 (1.25%) Firewall
5 5 (0.69%) LAN
5 5 (0.69%) WAN
6 3 (0.42%) MQTT
6 3 (0.42%) Network Security
6 3 (0.42%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.42%) Wireless
6 3 (0.42%) WPA
7 2 (0.28%) ATM
7 2 (0.28%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (17.20%) MongoDB
2 95 (13.18%) Azure SQL Database
3 84 (11.65%) Elasticsearch
4 55 (7.63%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (5.41%) NoSQL
6 27 (3.74%) SQL Server
7 23 (3.19%) Metadata
8 22 (3.05%) MySQL
8 22 (3.05%) Power BI
9 18 (2.50%) Relational Database
10 17 (2.36%) Redis
11 10 (1.39%) Data Lake
12 9 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (0.97%) DynamoDB
14 6 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (0.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 5 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 5 (0.69%) Star Schema
16 3 (0.42%) Big Data
17 2 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 97 (13.45%) JIRA
2 68 (9.43%) Git
3 46 (6.38%) GitLab
4 33 (4.58%) Jenkins
5 29 (4.02%) SonarQube
6 15 (2.08%) Cypress.io
6 15 (2.08%) JUnit
7 14 (1.94%) Maven
7 14 (1.94%) Mockito
8 12 (1.66%) CircleCI
9 9 (1.25%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.97%) Postman
11 6 (0.83%) Claude Code
12 5 (0.69%) Selenium
13 4 (0.55%) NUnit
13 4 (0.55%) SoapUI
13 4 (0.55%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
14 3 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 3 (0.42%) Oracle APEX
General
1 216 (29.96%) Social Skills
2 174 (24.13%) Finance
3 143 (19.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 135 (18.72%) Public Sector
5 119 (16.50%) Law
6 86 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
7 41 (5.69%) Legal
8 40 (5.55%) Games
9 38 (5.27%) Marketing
10 29 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (2.08%) Retail
12 13 (1.80%) Legal Technology
13 10 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.11%) Advertising
14 8 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.97%) Banking
15 7 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.83%) Local Government
16 6 (0.83%) Social Housing
17 5 (0.69%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 207 (28.71%) Developer
2 175 (24.27%) Senior
3 92 (12.76%) Analyst
4 87 (12.07%) .NET Developer
5 65 (9.02%) Architect
6 62 (8.60%) Business Analyst
7 58 (8.04%) Software Engineer
8 57 (7.91%) Delivery Manager
9 56 (7.77%) Lead
10 50 (6.93%) Senior Developer
11 38 (5.27%) Senior Analyst
12 36 (4.99%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 36 (4.99%) Project Manager
13 32 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
14 31 (4.30%) Senior Business Analyst
15 29 (4.02%) Senior DevOps
15 29 (4.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 26 (3.61%) Salesforce Architect
16 26 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
17 25 (3.47%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (21.64%) React
2 140 (19.42%) .NET
3 124 (17.20%) Node.js
4 93 (12.90%) .NET Core
5 91 (12.62%) ASP.NET
6 87 (12.07%) ASP.NET Core
7 75 (10.40%) AngularJS
8 67 (9.29%) .NET Framework
9 64 (8.88%) REST
10 54 (7.49%) RESTful
10 54 (7.49%) Vue
11 53 (7.35%) ASP.NET Web API
12 44 (6.10%) HTML
13 39 (5.41%) CSS
14 38 (5.27%) Spring
15 36 (4.99%) Lightning Web Components
16 33 (4.58%) Blazor
17 31 (4.30%) SOAP
18 30 (4.16%) Visualforce
19 27 (3.74%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 164 (22.75%) Product Ownership
2 58 (8.04%) Cloud Native
3 26 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
4 25 (3.47%) Podcast
5 19 (2.64%) Onboarding
6 14 (1.94%) Public Cloud
7 12 (1.66%) Device Driver
7 12 (1.66%) Mobile App
7 12 (1.66%) Security Posture
8 9 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.25%) PMI
8 9 (1.25%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (0.97%) AI Agents
10 7 (0.97%) Blog
10 7 (0.97%) Culture of Ownership
10 7 (0.97%) e-Learning
11 6 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (0.69%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 65 (9.02%) Linux
2 42 (5.83%) Windows
3 28 (3.88%) Unix
4 12 (1.66%) Embedded Linux
4 12 (1.66%) VMS
5 8 (1.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 676 (93.76%) Agile
2 248 (34.40%) DevOps
3 246 (34.12%) Continuous Improvement
4 225 (31.21%) CI/CD
5 219 (30.37%) Kanban
6 173 (23.99%) Microservices
7 145 (20.11%) Full-Stack Development
7 145 (20.11%) Mentoring
8 137 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
9 130 (18.03%) AI
10 128 (17.75%) Coaching
11 118 (16.37%) TDD
12 110 (15.26%) Project Delivery
13 109 (15.12%) Roadmaps
13 109 (15.12%) Software Engineering
14 105 (14.56%) Community of Practice
15 102 (14.15%) User Stories
16 90 (12.48%) Stakeholder Management
17 86 (11.93%) Test Automation
18 82 (11.37%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 177 (24.55%) SQL
2 161 (22.33%) JavaScript
3 146 (20.25%) C#
4 107 (14.84%) TypeScript
5 79 (10.96%) Java
6 73 (10.12%) Python
7 33 (4.58%) Apex Code
8 29 (4.02%) Ruby
8 29 (4.02%) SOQL
9 28 (3.88%) Bash
10 27 (3.74%) SOSL
11 20 (2.77%) Bicep
11 20 (2.77%) PowerShell
12 17 (2.36%) C++
13 15 (2.08%) PL/SQL
14 14 (1.94%) C
15 12 (1.66%) Embedded C
15 12 (1.66%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.97%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 141 (19.56%) Degree
2 126 (17.48%) Security Cleared
3 110 (15.26%) SC Cleared
4 54 (7.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.61%) Azure Certification
6 25 (3.47%) PMI Certification
7 18 (2.50%) PMP
8 17 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (1.66%) DBS Check
10 11 (1.53%) AWS Certification
11 9 (1.25%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.97%) DV Cleared
13 5 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.69%) CIPD
14 4 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.42%) CCIE Security
15 3 (0.42%) CSPO
15 3 (0.42%) ISTQB
15 3 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 3 (0.42%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (10.68%) QA
2 29 (4.02%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.94%) PMO
4 13 (1.80%) GRC
4 13 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.66%) GDPR
6 11 (1.53%) Data Quality
7 10 (1.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 5 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.69%) WCAG
9 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.28%) NCSC
10 1 (0.14%) GxP
10 1 (0.14%) NIST
System Software
1 128 (17.75%) Docker
2 12 (1.66%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.66%) Virtual Desktop
2 12 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (1.66%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 88 (12.21%) Kubernetes
2 60 (8.32%) Terraform
3 14 (1.94%) Ansible
3 14 (1.94%) Argo
4 12 (1.66%) Podman
5 4 (0.55%) Grafana
6 3 (0.42%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.14%) Kibana
7 1 (0.14%) Packer
7 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 162 (22.47%) Microsoft
2 52 (7.21%) Salesforce
3 27 (3.74%) Oracle
4 26 (3.61%) Splunk
5 17 (2.36%) Google
6 15 (2.08%) Databricks
7 14 (1.94%) Pega
8 12 (1.66%) ScienceLogic
8 12 (1.66%) VMware
9 9 (1.25%) SAP
10 6 (0.83%) Infor
11 5 (0.69%) Adobe
11 5 (0.69%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.69%) Cisco
11 5 (0.69%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.55%) Epicor
12 4 (0.55%) IFS
12 4 (0.55%) ServiceNow
13 3 (0.42%) CheckPoint
13 3 (0.42%) Sage