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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 90 52
Rank change year-on-year +2 -38 -18
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 519 468 1,591
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.90% 3.50% 4.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.49% 3.70% 5.37%
Number of salaries quoted 353 311 1,338
10th Percentile £39,238 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £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 £78,125 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £105,000 £89,041
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 14,862 12,659 29,602
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.19% 94.70% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 10,395 8,961 23,539
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,206 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% +6.45% -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% -10.57%

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 22 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 29 (5.59%) Confluence
2 12 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.96%) ArcGIS
3 5 (0.96%) GeoServer
3 5 (0.96%) Oracle Spatial
4 3 (0.58%) Apache
4 3 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.58%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.58%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.39%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.39%) SAS
6 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.19%) JBoss
6 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 10 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.96%) Trello
4 4 (0.77%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.39%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.39%) Sketch
7 1 (0.19%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 11 (2.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.39%) Infor SunSystems
2 2 (0.39%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.39%) Shopify
3 1 (0.19%) Magento
3 1 (0.19%) Maximo
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.19%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 162 (31.21%) Azure
2 135 (26.01%) AWS
3 62 (11.95%) Azure DevOps
4 51 (9.83%) Serverless
5 48 (9.25%) GCP
6 26 (5.01%) Power Platform
7 22 (4.24%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (4.24%) SaaS
8 21 (4.05%) GitHub
9 20 (3.85%) Entra ID
10 18 (3.47%) Azure AKS
11 17 (3.28%) Amazon S3
12 16 (3.08%) Azure Service Bus
13 14 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
13 14 (2.70%) Cloud Functions
13 14 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (2.70%) PaaS
13 14 (2.70%) Power Automate
13 14 (2.70%) PowerApps
14 12 (2.31%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 77 (14.84%) Broadband
2 14 (2.70%) Ethernet
2 14 (2.70%) RS-232
3 6 (1.16%) Firewall
4 4 (0.77%) LAN
4 4 (0.77%) MQTT
4 4 (0.77%) 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 (0.19%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (8.48%) NoSQL
2 30 (5.78%) MongoDB
2 30 (5.78%) SQL Server
3 24 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (2.31%) Power BI
5 10 (1.93%) Metadata
6 9 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (1.54%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.16%) MySQL
9 5 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.96%) GIS
9 5 (0.96%) QGIS
10 4 (0.77%) Big Data
10 4 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.77%) Power Query
10 4 (0.77%) Qlik Sense
10 4 (0.77%) Tableau
11 3 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.58%) Star Schema
12 2 (0.39%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 82 (15.80%) JIRA
2 65 (12.52%) Jenkins
3 53 (10.21%) GitLab
4 52 (10.02%) Git
5 35 (6.74%) SonarQube
6 32 (6.17%) Postman
7 27 (5.20%) Selenium
7 27 (5.20%) SoapUI
8 25 (4.82%) Team Foundation Server
9 23 (4.43%) TeamCity
10 22 (4.24%) WebDriver
11 15 (2.89%) Cypress.io
12 12 (2.31%) CircleCI
13 7 (1.35%) SpecFlow
14 6 (1.16%) Visual Studio
15 4 (0.77%) JMeter
16 3 (0.58%) Oracle APEX
16 3 (0.58%) Storybook
17 2 (0.39%) REST Assured
17 2 (0.39%) Serenity BDD
General
1 193 (37.19%) Social Skills
2 103 (19.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 101 (19.46%) Finance
4 78 (15.03%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (13.68%) Public Sector
6 52 (10.02%) Law
7 51 (9.83%) Marketing
8 45 (8.67%) Games
9 30 (5.78%) Legal
10 21 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (2.89%) Health Technology
12 15 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (2.50%) Publishing
13 13 (2.50%) Tech for Good
14 11 (2.12%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.93%) Banking
16 8 (1.54%) Manufacturing
17 7 (1.35%) Advertising
18 6 (1.16%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 113 (21.77%) Senior
2 92 (17.73%) Developer
3 74 (14.26%) Lead
4 72 (13.87%) Software Engineer
5 63 (12.14%) Analyst
6 54 (10.40%) Architect
7 39 (7.51%) Business Analyst
8 33 (6.36%) Salesforce Architect
9 32 (6.17%) Delivery Manager
10 31 (5.97%) Product Manager
11 28 (5.39%) Lead Developer
11 28 (5.39%) Senior Software Engineer
12 22 (4.24%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 20 (3.85%) Lead Software Engineer
13 20 (3.85%) Senior Manager
13 20 (3.85%) Software Developer
14 19 (3.66%) Product Owner
15 18 (3.47%) .NET Developer
15 18 (3.47%) Senior Developer
15 18 (3.47%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (15.80%) .NET
2 80 (15.41%) React
3 62 (11.95%) SOAP
4 53 (10.21%) REST
5 52 (10.02%) HTML
6 49 (9.44%) RESTful
7 41 (7.90%) Node.js
8 38 (7.32%) Lightning Web Components
8 38 (7.32%) Visualforce
9 30 (5.78%) CSS
10 26 (5.01%) .NET Framework
11 25 (4.82%) Web Services
12 23 (4.43%) Akka
13 20 (3.85%) AngularJS
14 17 (3.28%) Spring
15 15 (2.89%) Playwright
15 15 (2.89%) Spring Boot
16 14 (2.70%) ASP.NET
16 14 (2.70%) Yocto
17 13 (2.50%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 166 (31.98%) Product Ownership
2 45 (8.67%) Cloud Native
3 23 (4.43%) Over-the-Top Content
3 23 (4.43%) Video\Live Streaming
4 15 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (2.89%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.70%) Device Driver
5 14 (2.70%) e-Learning
6 13 (2.50%) Podcast
7 11 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.35%) Culture of Ownership
10 6 (1.16%) PMI
11 4 (0.77%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.77%) Life Science
11 4 (0.77%) N-Tier
12 3 (0.58%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.58%) Housing Association
12 3 (0.58%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.94%) Linux
2 14 (2.70%) Embedded Linux
3 11 (2.12%) Unix
4 8 (1.54%) Windows
5 6 (1.16%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.19%) CentOS
6 1 (0.19%) Debian
6 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 486 (93.64%) Agile
2 202 (38.92%) Continuous Improvement
3 184 (35.45%) DevOps
4 181 (34.87%) Kanban
5 174 (33.53%) CI/CD
6 114 (21.97%) Problem-Solving
7 112 (21.58%) Roadmaps
8 104 (20.04%) Software Engineering
9 93 (17.92%) Mentoring
10 91 (17.53%) Coaching
11 89 (17.15%) User Stories
12 78 (15.03%) Acceptance Criteria
13 72 (13.87%) Community of Practice
14 70 (13.49%) Continuous Integration
15 68 (13.10%) Microservices
16 67 (12.91%) TDD
17 66 (12.72%) Full-Stack Development
18 63 (12.14%) Project Delivery
19 60 (11.56%) Continuous Delivery
20 58 (11.18%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 86 (16.57%) SQL
2 79 (15.22%) Java
3 72 (13.87%) JavaScript
4 70 (13.49%) C#
5 69 (13.29%) Python
6 55 (10.60%) TypeScript
7 38 (7.32%) Apex Code
8 34 (6.55%) SOQL
8 34 (6.55%) SOSL
9 23 (4.43%) Scala
10 20 (3.85%) C++
11 16 (3.08%) C
12 14 (2.70%) Embedded C
13 7 (1.35%) Bicep
14 6 (1.16%) Ruby
15 5 (0.96%) Bash
16 4 (0.77%) PHP
16 4 (0.77%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.77%) Rust
17 3 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 123 (23.70%) Degree
2 66 (12.72%) Security Cleared
3 56 (10.79%) SC Cleared
4 36 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (5.20%) ISTQB
6 21 (4.05%) DBS Check
7 19 (3.66%) PMI Certification
8 18 (3.47%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 14 (2.70%) PMP
10 13 (2.50%) Master's Degree
11 8 (1.54%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 6 (1.16%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.96%) CIPD
14 3 (0.58%) PhD
15 2 (0.39%) CCIE
15 2 (0.39%) CCNP
15 2 (0.39%) CCSA
15 2 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (16.57%) QA
2 18 (3.47%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.50%) GRC
4 8 (1.54%) PMO
5 6 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.58%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.58%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.39%) ECSS
7 2 (0.39%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.39%) WCAG
8 1 (0.19%) GDPR
8 1 (0.19%) GxP
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.19%) P3O
System Software
1 75 (14.45%) Docker
2 8 (1.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 64 (12.33%) Kubernetes
2 41 (7.90%) Terraform
3 21 (4.05%) Ansible
4 12 (2.31%) Podman
5 10 (1.93%) Argo
6 6 (1.16%) Grafana
7 5 (0.96%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.39%) Packer
8 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.19%) Kibana
9 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 67 (12.91%) Microsoft
2 46 (8.86%) Salesforce
3 34 (6.55%) Splunk
4 19 (3.66%) Google
5 13 (2.50%) Oracle
6 8 (1.54%) SAP
7 6 (1.16%) Red Hat
8 5 (0.96%) ESRI
9 4 (0.77%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.77%) Cisco
9 4 (0.77%) Databricks
9 4 (0.77%) Mercator
9 4 (0.77%) Palo Alto
9 4 (0.77%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.58%) Foundry
10 3 (0.58%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.39%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.39%) Infor
11 2 (0.39%) PagerDuty
11 2 (0.39%) SendGrid