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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 78 48
Rank change year-on-year -9 -30 -14
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 508 524 1,632
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.89% 3.97% 5.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.48% 4.19% 5.51%
Number of salaries quoted 342 319 1,360
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,700 £42,000
25th Percentile £51,441 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,500 £78,750 £73,950
90th Percentile £89,875 £105,000 £89,137
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 14,599 12,506 29,639
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.18% 94.79% 91.57%
Number of salaries quoted 10,195 8,884 23,673
10th Percentile £32,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £45,000 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.54%

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 16 April 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 (5.31%) Confluence
2 11 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.79%) ArcGIS
4 4 (0.79%) GeoServer
4 4 (0.79%) Oracle Spatial
5 3 (0.59%) Apache
5 3 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.39%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.39%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.39%) SAS
7 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.98%) Trello
4 4 (0.79%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.39%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.39%) Sketch
7 1 (0.20%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 11 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.39%) Infor SunSystems
2 2 (0.39%) Maximo
2 2 (0.39%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.39%) Shopify
3 1 (0.20%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.20%) Magento
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.20%) Primavera
3 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.20%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 151 (29.72%) Azure
2 130 (25.59%) AWS
3 54 (10.63%) Azure DevOps
4 52 (10.24%) Serverless
5 47 (9.25%) GCP
6 25 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
6 25 (4.92%) Power Platform
7 22 (4.33%) SaaS
8 21 (4.13%) GitHub
9 20 (3.94%) Amazon S3
9 20 (3.94%) Entra ID
10 15 (2.95%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (2.76%) Cloud Functions
11 14 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (2.76%) PaaS
12 13 (2.56%) Azure AKS
12 13 (2.56%) Power Automate
12 13 (2.56%) PowerApps
13 12 (2.36%) Cloud Run
14 11 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 77 (15.16%) Broadband
2 14 (2.76%) Ethernet
2 14 (2.76%) RS-232
3 6 (1.18%) Firewall
4 4 (0.79%) LAN
4 4 (0.79%) MQTT
4 4 (0.79%) WAN
5 2 (0.39%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (0.39%) Network Security
5 2 (0.39%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.39%) VPN
5 2 (0.39%) Wireless
6 1 (0.20%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (8.66%) NoSQL
2 29 (5.71%) SQL Server
3 25 (4.92%) MongoDB
4 18 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (2.36%) Metadata
6 11 (2.17%) Power BI
7 9 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (1.57%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.38%) MySQL
10 4 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.79%) GIS
10 4 (0.79%) QGIS
10 4 (0.79%) Qlik Sense
10 4 (0.79%) Tableau
11 3 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.59%) Big Data
11 3 (0.59%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.59%) Power Query
12 2 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 78 (15.35%) JIRA
2 64 (12.60%) Jenkins
3 51 (10.04%) Git
4 48 (9.45%) GitLab
5 35 (6.89%) SonarQube
6 32 (6.30%) Postman
7 27 (5.31%) SoapUI
8 26 (5.12%) Selenium
9 25 (4.92%) Team Foundation Server
10 23 (4.53%) TeamCity
11 22 (4.33%) WebDriver
12 15 (2.95%) Cypress.io
13 12 (2.36%) CircleCI
14 6 (1.18%) SpecFlow
15 5 (0.98%) Visual Studio
16 4 (0.79%) JMeter
17 3 (0.59%) Oracle APEX
17 3 (0.59%) Storybook
18 2 (0.39%) REST Assured
18 2 (0.39%) Serenity BDD
General
1 189 (37.20%) Social Skills
2 104 (20.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 102 (20.08%) Finance
4 76 (14.96%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (13.19%) Public Sector
6 51 (10.04%) Law
6 51 (10.04%) Marketing
7 43 (8.46%) Games
8 30 (5.91%) Legal
9 20 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
9 20 (3.94%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (3.15%) Health Technology
10 16 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (2.76%) Publishing
11 14 (2.76%) Tech for Good
12 12 (2.36%) Telecoms
13 11 (2.17%) Banking
14 8 (1.57%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.38%) Advertising
16 6 (1.18%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 107 (21.06%) Senior
2 95 (18.70%) Developer
3 73 (14.37%) Lead
4 71 (13.98%) Software Engineer
5 60 (11.81%) Analyst
6 54 (10.63%) Architect
7 36 (7.09%) Business Analyst
8 33 (6.50%) Salesforce Architect
9 31 (6.10%) Product Manager
10 29 (5.71%) Lead Developer
11 28 (5.51%) Delivery Manager
11 28 (5.51%) Senior Software Engineer
12 21 (4.13%) Software Developer
13 20 (3.94%) Senior Manager
14 19 (3.74%) Agile Delivery Manager
14 19 (3.74%) Lead Software Engineer
14 19 (3.74%) Product Owner
15 18 (3.54%) .NET Developer
15 18 (3.54%) Salesforce Technical Architect
15 18 (3.54%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (16.14%) .NET
2 80 (15.75%) React
3 61 (12.01%) SOAP
4 52 (10.24%) HTML
4 52 (10.24%) REST
5 50 (9.84%) RESTful
6 38 (7.48%) Lightning Web Components
6 38 (7.48%) Visualforce
7 35 (6.89%) Node.js
8 30 (5.91%) CSS
9 27 (5.31%) .NET Framework
10 23 (4.53%) Akka
10 23 (4.53%) Web Services
11 20 (3.94%) AngularJS
12 16 (3.15%) Spring
13 15 (2.95%) Playwright
14 14 (2.76%) ASP.NET
14 14 (2.76%) Entity Framework
14 14 (2.76%) Spring Boot
14 14 (2.76%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 161 (31.69%) Product Ownership
2 46 (9.06%) Cloud Native
3 23 (4.53%) Over-the-Top Content
3 23 (4.53%) Video\Live Streaming
4 15 (2.95%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.76%) Device Driver
5 14 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (2.56%) e-Learning
6 13 (2.56%) Podcast
7 11 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.38%) Culture of Ownership
10 5 (0.98%) PMI
11 4 (0.79%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.79%) N-Tier
11 4 (0.79%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.59%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.59%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 30 (5.91%) Linux
2 14 (2.76%) Embedded Linux
3 6 (1.18%) Unix
4 5 (0.98%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.59%) Windows
6 1 (0.20%) CentOS
6 1 (0.20%) Debian
6 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 478 (94.09%) Agile
2 194 (38.19%) Continuous Improvement
3 174 (34.25%) DevOps
4 172 (33.86%) Kanban
5 165 (32.48%) CI/CD
6 113 (22.24%) Roadmaps
7 112 (22.05%) Problem-Solving
8 104 (20.47%) Software Engineering
9 90 (17.72%) Mentoring
10 88 (17.32%) User Stories
11 84 (16.54%) Coaching
12 76 (14.96%) Acceptance Criteria
13 70 (13.78%) Community of Practice
14 67 (13.19%) TDD
15 65 (12.80%) Continuous Integration
15 65 (12.80%) Full-Stack Development
16 62 (12.20%) Microservices
17 59 (11.61%) Continuous Delivery
17 59 (11.61%) Project Delivery
18 56 (11.02%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 83 (16.34%) SQL
2 74 (14.57%) Java
3 72 (14.17%) JavaScript
4 69 (13.58%) C#
5 65 (12.80%) Python
6 54 (10.63%) TypeScript
7 38 (7.48%) Apex Code
8 34 (6.69%) SOQL
8 34 (6.69%) SOSL
9 23 (4.53%) Scala
10 20 (3.94%) C++
11 16 (3.15%) C
12 14 (2.76%) Embedded C
13 7 (1.38%) Bicep
14 6 (1.18%) Ruby
15 4 (0.79%) Bash
15 4 (0.79%) PHP
15 4 (0.79%) Rust
16 3 (0.59%) PowerShell
16 3 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 117 (23.03%) Degree
2 66 (12.99%) Security Cleared
3 55 (10.83%) SC Cleared
4 34 (6.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (5.12%) ISTQB
6 20 (3.94%) DBS Check
7 18 (3.54%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 17 (3.35%) PMI Certification
9 13 (2.56%) PMP
10 11 (2.17%) Master's Degree
11 8 (1.57%) DV Cleared
12 7 (1.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 6 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.98%) CIPD
15 4 (0.79%) AWS Certification
15 4 (0.79%) Azure Certification
16 3 (0.59%) PhD
17 2 (0.39%) CCIE
17 2 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
17 2 (0.39%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (15.94%) QA
2 18 (3.54%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.56%) GRC
4 6 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.98%) PMO
6 3 (0.59%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.39%) ECSS
7 2 (0.39%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.39%) WCAG
8 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.20%) P3O
System Software
1 73 (14.37%) Docker
2 8 (1.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (12.20%) Kubernetes
2 38 (7.48%) Terraform
3 19 (3.74%) Ansible
4 12 (2.36%) Podman
5 6 (1.18%) Grafana
6 5 (0.98%) Argo
6 5 (0.98%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.39%) Packer
7 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.20%) Kibana
8 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 64 (12.60%) Microsoft
2 46 (9.06%) Salesforce
3 34 (6.69%) Splunk
4 19 (3.74%) Google
5 12 (2.36%) Oracle
6 8 (1.57%) SAP
7 5 (0.98%) Mercator
7 5 (0.98%) Red Hat
7 5 (0.98%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.79%) Atlassian
8 4 (0.79%) Cisco
8 4 (0.79%) ESRI
8 4 (0.79%) Palo Alto
9 3 (0.59%) Foundry
9 3 (0.59%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.59%) IBM
10 2 (0.39%) Adobe
10 2 (0.39%) Infor
10 2 (0.39%) SendGrid
10 2 (0.39%) Zend