Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 27 January 2022

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Scrum skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Scrum over the 6 months to 27 January 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Scrum
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
27 Jan 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 22 28 24
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 -8
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 2,851 1,033 675
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.62% 9.24% 9.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.12% 9.85% 9.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,933 915 554
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £38,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £78,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -

Scrum is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 28,177 10,482 6,829
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 95.04% 93.77% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 21,599 9,261 5,930
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -

Scrum
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Scrum trend for jobs with a WFH option

Scrum
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Scrum.

Scrum salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Scrum
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Scrum over the 6 months to 27 January 2022.

Scrum salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 27 January 2022, Scrum job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for Scrum.

1 2,558 (89.72%) Agile Software Development
2 940 (32.97%) Azure
3 839 (29.43%) C#
4 825 (28.94%) DevOps
5 749 (26.27%) JavaScript
6 748 (26.24%) Finance
7 730 (25.61%) Social Skills
8 706 (24.76%) CI/CD
9 686 (24.06%) .NET
10 675 (23.68%) AWS
11 643 (22.55%) Kanban
12 617 (21.64%) SQL
13 596 (20.90%) Software Engineering
14 573 (20.10%) Java
15 521 (18.27%) Git (software)
16 501 (17.57%) TDD
17 491 (17.22%) Microservices
18 485 (17.01%) Docker
19 482 (16.91%) Test Automation
20 474 (16.63%) Microsoft
21 448 (15.71%) React
22 438 (15.36%) HTML
23 430 (15.08%) Mentoring
24 395 (13.85%) Kubernetes
24 395 (13.85%) Full Stack Development
24 395 (13.85%) CSS
25 391 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
26 353 (12.38%) Project Management
27 351 (12.31%) BDD
28 345 (12.10%) SaaS

Scrum
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 121 (4.24%) Confluence
2 64 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 39 (1.37%) CMS
4 35 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
5 32 (1.12%) IIS
6 24 (0.84%) Apache
7 21 (0.74%) Documentum
8 18 (0.63%) Apache Spark
9 9 (0.32%) Appian
10 8 (0.28%) nginx
10 8 (0.28%) OnBase
11 6 (0.21%) Apache Solr
11 6 (0.21%) JBoss
11 6 (0.21%) SharePoint 2010
11 6 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
11 6 (0.21%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.14%) ColdFusion
12 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.11%) Mendix
13 3 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 57 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.56%) Windchill
4 14 (0.49%) InVision
5 13 (0.46%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 10 (0.35%) Sketch
8 7 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 7 (0.25%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.25%) SOLIDWORKS
9 6 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.21%) Zeplin
10 3 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.11%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.070%) EngageOne
11 2 (0.070%) Marvel
12 1 (0.035%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.035%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.035%) Final Cut Pro
12 1 (0.035%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 61 (2.14%) NetSuite
2 34 (1.19%) Payment Gateway
3 20 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.70%) Summit
3 20 (0.70%) TrackWise
4 18 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 10 (0.35%) Shopify
6 9 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
6 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
8 7 (0.25%) Maximo
9 5 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
10 3 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
10 3 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (0.11%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
11 2 (0.070%) Magento
11 2 (0.070%) osCommerce
11 2 (0.070%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 940 (32.97%) Azure
2 675 (23.68%) AWS
3 345 (12.10%) SaaS
4 228 (8.00%) GCP
5 144 (5.05%) Serverless
6 105 (3.68%) PaaS
7 92 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 63 (2.21%) Power Platform
9 59 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
10 56 (1.96%) GitHub
11 46 (1.61%) Amazon S3
12 45 (1.58%) OpenShift
13 42 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
13 42 (1.47%) IaaS
14 41 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
15 40 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
16 34 (1.19%) Amazon SQS
16 34 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
17 26 (0.91%) Firebase
17 26 (0.91%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 40 (1.40%) HTTP
2 32 (1.12%) Internet
3 22 (0.77%) VoIP
4 12 (0.42%) Network Security
5 9 (0.32%) MQTT
5 9 (0.32%) PPP
6 8 (0.28%) SSL
6 8 (0.28%) UPnP
7 7 (0.25%) FTP
7 7 (0.25%) IPv6
7 7 (0.25%) RTSP
7 7 (0.25%) SSH
8 5 (0.18%) DSL
8 5 (0.18%) VPN
9 3 (0.11%) DNS
9 3 (0.11%) SMTP
9 3 (0.11%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.070%) PuTTY
10 2 (0.070%) WebEx
10 2 (0.070%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 326 (11.43%) SQL Server
2 198 (6.94%) NoSQL
3 157 (5.51%) MySQL
4 131 (4.59%) Relational Database
5 117 (4.10%) MongoDB
6 116 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
7 105 (3.68%) Redis
8 95 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
9 62 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 60 (2.10%) Power BI
11 57 (2.00%) Big Data
12 38 (1.33%) Hadoop
12 38 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 32 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
14 30 (1.05%) Blockchain
15 25 (0.88%) InfluxDB
16 22 (0.77%) SQL Server 2012
17 21 (0.74%) Amazon DynamoDB
17 21 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
18 19 (0.67%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 521 (18.27%) Git (software)
2 320 (11.22%) JIRA
3 262 (9.19%) Jenkins
4 113 (3.96%) Selenium
5 112 (3.93%) GitLab
6 89 (3.12%) Team Foundation Server
7 81 (2.84%) Visual Studio
8 73 (2.56%) Bitbucket
9 61 (2.14%) Cucumber
10 60 (2.10%) SpecFlow
11 46 (1.61%) webpack
12 43 (1.51%) Cypress.io
13 41 (1.44%) SonarQube
14 34 (1.19%) WebDriver
15 32 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 32 (1.12%) Postman
16 29 (1.02%) TeamCity
17 27 (0.95%) Gradle
17 27 (0.95%) gulp
18 26 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 748 (26.24%) Finance
2 730 (25.61%) Social Skills
3 267 (9.37%) Analytical Skills
4 215 (7.54%) Retail
5 204 (7.16%) Public Sector
6 160 (5.61%) Banking
7 122 (4.28%) Marketing
8 87 (3.05%) Advertising
9 74 (2.60%) Telecoms
10 66 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 61 (2.14%) Manufacturing
12 56 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
13 53 (1.86%) Electronics
14 49 (1.72%) Legal
15 44 (1.54%) Law
16 42 (1.47%) Automotive
16 42 (1.47%) Games
17 41 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
18 35 (1.23%) Financial Institution
19 33 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 984 (34.51%) Developer
2 256 (8.98%) Software Engineer
3 216 (7.58%) Senior Developer
4 209 (7.33%) .NET Developer
5 204 (7.16%) C# Developer
6 198 (6.94%) Project Manager
7 173 (6.07%) Scrum Master
8 167 (5.86%) Analyst
8 167 (5.86%) Full Stack Developer
9 165 (5.79%) Java Developer
10 156 (5.47%) Software Developer
11 117 (4.10%) Senior Software Engineer
12 115 (4.03%) DevOps Engineer
13 111 (3.89%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 102 (3.58%) Product Owner
15 101 (3.54%) Architect
16 100 (3.51%) Java Engineer
17 97 (3.40%) React Developer
18 94 (3.30%) Business Analyst
19 84 (2.95%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 686 (24.06%) .NET
2 448 (15.71%) React
3 438 (15.36%) HTML
4 395 (13.85%) CSS
5 309 (10.84%) .NET Core
6 283 (9.93%) Node.js
7 276 (9.68%) AngularJS
8 270 (9.47%) REST
9 224 (7.86%) RESTful
10 218 (7.65%) JSON
11 201 (7.05%) Web Services
12 200 (7.02%) Spring
13 177 (6.21%) XML
14 166 (5.82%) ASP.NET
15 164 (5.75%) Spring Boot
16 156 (5.47%) .NET Framework
17 154 (5.40%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 152 (5.33%) HTML5
19 148 (5.19%) jQuery
20 127 (4.45%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 283 (9.93%) User Experience
2 166 (5.82%) Self-Motivation
3 140 (4.91%) Mobile App
4 87 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
5 85 (2.98%) Public Cloud
6 78 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
7 65 (2.28%) iPad
8 64 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
9 63 (2.21%) Cloud Native
10 49 (1.72%) Virtual Team
11 45 (1.58%) Management Information System
12 43 (1.51%) Tandem
13 34 (1.19%) Data Structures
13 34 (1.19%) Life Science
14 32 (1.12%) Algorithms
15 30 (1.05%) N-Tier
16 28 (0.98%) Video\Live Streaming
17 22 (0.77%) e-Health
18 21 (0.74%) Handset
18 21 (0.74%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 225 (7.89%) Linux
2 145 (5.09%) Windows
3 78 (2.74%) Android
4 62 (2.17%) Apple iOS
5 42 (1.47%) Unix
6 30 (1.05%) Windows Server
7 13 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
8 11 (0.39%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.35%) Debian
10 8 (0.28%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.11%) VMS
12 1 (0.035%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,558 (89.72%) Agile Software Development
2 825 (28.94%) DevOps
3 706 (24.76%) CI/CD
4 643 (22.55%) Kanban
5 596 (20.90%) Software Engineering
6 501 (17.57%) TDD
7 491 (17.22%) Microservices
8 482 (16.91%) Test Automation
9 430 (15.08%) Mentoring
10 395 (13.85%) Full Stack Development
11 391 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
12 353 (12.38%) Project Management
13 351 (12.31%) BDD
14 344 (12.07%) Coaching
15 307 (10.77%) SDLC
16 306 (10.73%) Continuous Integration
17 276 (9.68%) User Stories
18 273 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
19 251 (8.80%) Analytics
20 250 (8.77%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 839 (29.43%) C#
2 749 (26.27%) JavaScript
3 617 (21.64%) SQL
4 573 (20.10%) Java
5 314 (11.01%) Python
6 288 (10.10%) TypeScript
7 113 (3.96%) PHP
8 100 (3.51%) PowerShell
9 91 (3.19%) Kotlin
10 81 (2.84%) Ruby
11 70 (2.46%) C
12 69 (2.42%) T-SQL
13 61 (2.14%) Scala
14 47 (1.65%) VB.NET
15 45 (1.58%) C++
16 43 (1.51%) Go
17 41 (1.44%) Java 8
18 39 (1.37%) Bash
19 29 (1.02%) Apple Swift
20 26 (0.91%) Java 11
Qualifications
1 272 (9.54%) Degree
2 99 (3.47%) Security Cleared
3 80 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 78 (2.74%) SC Cleared
5 58 (2.03%) ISTQB
6 50 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 37 (1.30%) PMI Certification
8 34 (1.19%) DBS Check
9 28 (0.98%) ISEB
10 27 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
10 27 (0.95%) PMP
11 18 (0.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 16 (0.56%) Master's Degree
13 15 (0.53%) CSPO
14 13 (0.46%) AWS Certification
15 11 (0.39%) CISSP
16 10 (0.35%) DV Cleared
16 10 (0.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 10 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 9 (0.32%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 333 (11.68%) QA
2 59 (2.07%) Accessibility
3 38 (1.33%) PMO
4 19 (0.67%) WCAG
5 16 (0.56%) ISO 13485
6 15 (0.53%) Data Quality
7 14 (0.49%) SLA
8 9 (0.32%) NIST
9 8 (0.28%) GxP
10 5 (0.18%) COBIT
11 4 (0.14%) DICOM
11 4 (0.14%) GDPR
11 4 (0.14%) MiFID
12 3 (0.11%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.11%) GRC
13 2 (0.070%) HL7
13 2 (0.070%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 2 (0.070%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.035%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 1 (0.035%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 485 (17.01%) Docker
2 19 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (0.42%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.11%) Ceph
5 3 (0.11%) NFS
6 2 (0.070%) Firmware
7 1 (0.035%) GlusterFS
7 1 (0.035%) iptables
7 1 (0.035%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 395 (13.85%) Kubernetes
2 215 (7.54%) Terraform
3 149 (5.23%) Ansible
4 117 (4.10%) Opscode Chef
5 116 (4.07%) Puppet
6 74 (2.60%) Prometheus
7 46 (1.61%) Grafana
8 31 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
9 18 (0.63%) HP ALM
10 12 (0.42%) HP Quality Center
10 12 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
11 11 (0.39%) Kibana
12 8 (0.28%) Hadoop YARN
13 7 (0.25%) Consul
13 7 (0.25%) FreeIPA
14 5 (0.18%) logstash
15 4 (0.14%) Graphite
15 4 (0.14%) Istio
15 4 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
15 4 (0.14%) Nagios
Vendors
1 474 (16.63%) Microsoft
2 138 (4.84%) Google
3 124 (4.35%) Oracle
4 62 (2.17%) SAP
5 59 (2.07%) Mercator
6 55 (1.93%) Adobe
7 37 (1.30%) Salesforce.com
8 33 (1.16%) VMware
9 31 (1.09%) Apple
10 30 (1.05%) NEC
10 30 (1.05%) Northgate
11 28 (0.98%) Xamarin
12 27 (0.95%) Atlassian
12 27 (0.95%) HP
13 23 (0.81%) IBM
14 21 (0.74%) Telerik
15 20 (0.70%) Bloomberg
15 20 (0.70%) HubSpot
15 20 (0.70%) ServiceNow
16 18 (0.63%) Sparx