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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 97 69
Rank change year-on-year -4 -28 -21
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 657 603 839
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.65% 3.59% 3.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.29% 3.83% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 507 334 425
10th Percentile £42,300 £41,400 £41,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,313 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +3.23% -4.62%
75th Percentile £74,987 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 19,983 15,760 19,273
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.57% 93.83% 88.14%
Number of salaries quoted 14,257 8,411 11,456
10th Percentile £33,900 £29,750 £35,134
25th Percentile £44,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 8 October 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 50 (7.61%) Confluence
2 13 (1.98%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.07%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.91%) Apache
6 5 (0.76%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.61%) CMS
8 3 (0.46%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.46%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.46%) DNN
8 3 (0.46%) EPiServer
8 3 (0.46%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.46%) Immediacy CMS
8 3 (0.46%) Kentico
8 3 (0.46%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.46%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (0.46%) Sitefinity
8 3 (0.46%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.22%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.91%) Trello
5 4 (0.61%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.46%) Productboard
6 3 (0.46%) Sketch
6 3 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.30%) Simulink
8 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 18 (2.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.61%) SAP GRC
4 3 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.30%) Shopify
6 1 (0.15%) Actimize
6 1 (0.15%) Finacle
6 1 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.15%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.15%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 312 (47.49%) Azure
2 282 (42.92%) AWS
3 94 (14.31%) Azure DevOps
4 64 (9.74%) GitHub
5 56 (8.52%) GCP
6 49 (7.46%) Serverless
7 48 (7.31%) Power Platform
8 43 (6.54%) GitHub Copilot
9 28 (4.26%) Power Automate
10 23 (3.50%) Azure Service Bus
10 23 (3.50%) PowerApps
10 23 (3.50%) SaaS
11 20 (3.04%) Azure Functions
12 18 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
12 18 (2.74%) PaaS
13 17 (2.59%) Azure Logic Apps
14 15 (2.28%) Azure Monitor
15 14 (2.13%) Azure AKS
16 13 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (1.98%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.83%) VPN
2 9 (1.37%) Broadband
3 6 (0.91%) Firewall
4 5 (0.76%) Ethernet
4 5 (0.76%) RS-232
5 3 (0.46%) WPA
6 2 (0.30%) ATM
7 1 (0.15%) LAN
7 1 (0.15%) Network Security
7 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.15%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.15%) WAN
7 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (19.48%) MongoDB
2 102 (15.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 83 (12.63%) Elasticsearch
4 58 (8.83%) PostgreSQL
5 38 (5.78%) SQL Server
6 34 (5.18%) Power BI
7 30 (4.57%) NoSQL
8 29 (4.41%) Metadata
9 27 (4.11%) Relational Database
10 24 (3.65%) MySQL
11 22 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
12 15 (2.28%) DynamoDB
12 15 (2.28%) Redis
13 14 (2.13%) Star Schema
14 11 (1.67%) Data Lake
15 9 (1.37%) Amazon QuickSight
15 9 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
16 7 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 6 (0.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 5 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 91 (13.85%) JIRA
2 72 (10.96%) Git
3 19 (2.89%) JUnit
4 18 (2.74%) GitLab
4 18 (2.74%) Mockito
5 14 (2.13%) Maven
6 10 (1.52%) Cypress.io
6 10 (1.52%) Visual Studio
7 8 (1.22%) Claude Code
7 8 (1.22%) Jenkins
8 6 (0.91%) CircleCI
9 5 (0.76%) Selenium
10 4 (0.61%) NUnit
10 4 (0.61%) Postman
10 4 (0.61%) SpecFlow
10 4 (0.61%) Vagrant
11 3 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.46%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.46%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.46%) SonarQube
General
1 212 (32.27%) Social Skills
2 177 (26.94%) Finance
3 158 (24.05%) Public Sector
4 108 (16.44%) Law
5 107 (16.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 89 (13.55%) Analytical Skills
7 33 (5.02%) Presentation Skills
8 25 (3.81%) Legal
9 20 (3.04%) Influencing Skills
10 19 (2.89%) Retail
11 17 (2.59%) Marketing
12 11 (1.67%) Games
13 10 (1.52%) Banking
14 9 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (1.07%) Local Government
15 7 (1.07%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.91%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.91%) Social Housing
17 5 (0.76%) Police
Job Titles
1 202 (30.75%) Developer
2 180 (27.40%) Senior
3 89 (13.55%) Analyst
4 82 (12.48%) .NET Developer
5 63 (9.59%) Delivery Manager
6 59 (8.98%) Business Analyst
7 49 (7.46%) Senior Developer
8 46 (7.00%) Lead
9 42 (6.39%) Software Engineer
10 40 (6.09%) Project Manager
11 38 (5.78%) DevOps Engineer
12 37 (5.63%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 35 (5.33%) Architect
14 33 (5.02%) Senior DevOps
14 33 (5.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 29 (4.41%) Senior Analyst
16 26 (3.96%) Senior Manager
17 23 (3.50%) Senior Business Analyst
18 20 (3.04%) Senior Delivery Manager
19 19 (2.89%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (20.40%) React
2 133 (20.24%) .NET
3 115 (17.50%) Node.js
4 96 (14.61%) .NET Core
5 86 (13.09%) ASP.NET
6 84 (12.79%) ASP.NET Core
7 70 (10.65%) AngularJS
8 63 (9.59%) .NET Framework
9 51 (7.76%) ASP.NET Web API
9 51 (7.76%) Terraform
10 49 (7.46%) Vue
11 44 (6.70%) RESTful
12 43 (6.54%) REST
13 41 (6.24%) Spring
14 35 (5.33%) HTML
15 34 (5.18%) Blazor
16 32 (4.87%) CSS
17 26 (3.96%) Entity Framework
18 23 (3.50%) JSON
18 23 (3.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 113 (17.20%) Product Ownership
2 47 (7.15%) Cloud Native
3 27 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (2.44%) Public Cloud
6 14 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (1.83%) Podcast
7 12 (1.83%) Security Posture
8 11 (1.67%) Blog
9 10 (1.52%) Mobile App
9 10 (1.52%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.37%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.07%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.07%) PMI
12 6 (0.91%) NHS
13 5 (0.76%) Device Driver
13 5 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (0.76%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 70 (10.65%) Linux
2 60 (9.13%) Windows
3 38 (5.78%) Unix
4 12 (1.83%) VMS
5 9 (1.37%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.76%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 626 (95.28%) Agile
2 226 (34.40%) Continuous Improvement
3 204 (31.05%) DevOps
4 195 (29.68%) CI/CD
5 191 (29.07%) Kanban
6 165 (25.11%) Mentoring
7 159 (24.20%) Microservices
8 142 (21.61%) Problem-Solving
9 124 (18.87%) Coaching
10 122 (18.57%) AI
10 122 (18.57%) Full-Stack Development
11 117 (17.81%) Stakeholder Management
12 116 (17.66%) TDD
13 112 (17.05%) Project Delivery
14 90 (13.70%) Community of Practice
15 85 (12.94%) Software Engineering
16 83 (12.63%) User Stories
17 76 (11.57%) Technology Strategy
18 74 (11.26%) Computer Science
18 74 (11.26%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 181 (27.55%) SQL
2 152 (23.14%) C#
3 145 (22.07%) JavaScript
4 102 (15.53%) TypeScript
5 71 (10.81%) Java
6 69 (10.50%) Python
7 29 (4.41%) Bash
8 24 (3.65%) Ruby
9 20 (3.04%) PowerShell
10 15 (2.28%) PL/SQL
11 13 (1.98%) Bicep
12 12 (1.83%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (1.67%) C++
14 8 (1.22%) T-SQL
15 7 (1.07%) C
16 5 (0.76%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.76%) Embedded C
16 5 (0.76%) SOQL
17 4 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 4 (0.61%) Scala
Qualifications
1 146 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 136 (20.70%) Degree
3 120 (18.26%) SC Cleared
4 48 (7.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.50%) Azure Certification
6 22 (3.35%) PMI Certification
7 17 (2.59%) PMP
8 16 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (1.83%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.67%) AWS Certification
10 11 (1.67%) DBS Check
11 8 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (1.22%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.91%) CISSP
13 4 (0.61%) APMP
13 4 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.61%) CISA
13 4 (0.61%) CSPO
13 4 (0.61%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (10.05%) QA
2 25 (3.81%) GDPR
3 24 (3.65%) Accessibility
4 20 (3.04%) Data Quality
5 19 (2.89%) PMO
6 16 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 10 (1.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 8 (1.22%) GRC
10 5 (0.76%) WCAG
11 4 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.46%) NCSC
13 2 (0.30%) NIST
14 1 (0.15%) GxP
14 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 121 (18.42%) Docker
2 15 (2.28%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.83%) vSphere
4 4 (0.61%) IAG
5 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 90 (13.70%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.13%) Argo
3 11 (1.67%) Ansible
4 6 (0.91%) Podman
5 4 (0.61%) Packer
5 4 (0.61%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.46%) Grafana
6 3 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 172 (26.18%) Microsoft
2 41 (6.24%) Oracle
3 23 (3.50%) Salesforce
4 15 (2.28%) Databricks
5 14 (2.13%) Google
5 14 (2.13%) Pega
6 13 (1.98%) VMware
7 12 (1.83%) SAP
7 12 (1.83%) ScienceLogic
8 11 (1.67%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.52%) Informatica
10 9 (1.37%) Talend
11 8 (1.22%) Adobe
11 8 (1.22%) YouTube
12 4 (0.61%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.61%) Epicor
12 4 (0.61%) IFS
12 4 (0.61%) Infor
12 4 (0.61%) Sage
12 4 (0.61%) UiPath