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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 102 75
Rank change year-on-year +5 -27 -30
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 670 602 803
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.70% 3.64% 3.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.33% 3.88% 4.06%
Number of salaries quoted 513 338 442
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,600 £41,375
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £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 £76,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £64,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.77% +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 20,108 15,510 19,787
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.96% 93.68% 88.06%
Number of salaries quoted 14,355 8,405 11,799
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,750 £35,188
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,015 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%

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 29 September 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 49 (7.31%) Confluence
2 13 (1.94%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.90%) Apache
6 4 (0.60%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.60%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.60%) CMS
6 4 (0.60%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.60%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.45%) DNN
7 3 (0.45%) EPiServer
7 3 (0.45%) Immediacy CMS
7 3 (0.45%) Kentico
7 3 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.45%) Sitefinity
7 3 (0.45%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.30%) Appian
8 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.19%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.04%) Trello
6 4 (0.60%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.45%) Productboard
7 3 (0.45%) Sketch
7 3 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
8 2 (0.30%) Simulink
9 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 18 (2.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.60%) SAP GRC
4 3 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.30%) Shopify
6 1 (0.15%) Finacle
6 1 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.15%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.15%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.15%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 324 (48.36%) Azure
2 283 (42.24%) AWS
3 99 (14.78%) Azure DevOps
4 63 (9.40%) GitHub
5 58 (8.66%) GCP
6 52 (7.76%) Serverless
7 48 (7.16%) Power Platform
8 43 (6.42%) GitHub Copilot
9 28 (4.18%) Power Automate
10 23 (3.43%) Azure Service Bus
10 23 (3.43%) PowerApps
10 23 (3.43%) SaaS
11 20 (2.99%) Azure Functions
12 18 (2.69%) Dynamics 365
12 18 (2.69%) PaaS
13 17 (2.54%) Azure Logic Apps
14 15 (2.24%) Azure Data Factory
14 15 (2.24%) Azure Monitor
15 14 (2.09%) AWS Lambda
15 14 (2.09%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.79%) VPN
2 9 (1.34%) Broadband
3 7 (1.04%) Ethernet
3 7 (1.04%) RS-232
4 6 (0.90%) Firewall
5 3 (0.45%) 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 (19.10%) MongoDB
2 102 (15.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 83 (12.39%) Elasticsearch
4 61 (9.10%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (5.82%) SQL Server
6 32 (4.78%) Power BI
7 31 (4.63%) NoSQL
8 30 (4.48%) Metadata
9 27 (4.03%) Relational Database
10 24 (3.58%) MySQL
11 23 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
12 16 (2.39%) Redis
13 15 (2.24%) DynamoDB
13 15 (2.24%) Star Schema
14 11 (1.64%) Data Lake
15 9 (1.34%) Amazon QuickSight
15 9 (1.34%) Snowflake Schema
16 7 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 6 (0.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 5 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 93 (13.88%) JIRA
2 78 (11.64%) Git
3 19 (2.84%) GitLab
4 15 (2.24%) JUnit
5 14 (2.09%) Maven
5 14 (2.09%) Mockito
6 10 (1.49%) Cypress.io
6 10 (1.49%) Jenkins
6 10 (1.49%) Visual Studio
7 8 (1.19%) Claude Code
8 6 (0.90%) CircleCI
9 5 (0.75%) Postman
9 5 (0.75%) Selenium
10 4 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.60%) NUnit
10 4 (0.60%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.60%) SpecFlow
10 4 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.60%) Vagrant
11 3 (0.45%) Bitbucket
General
1 217 (32.39%) Social Skills
2 175 (26.12%) Finance
3 157 (23.43%) Public Sector
4 112 (16.72%) Law
5 111 (16.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 90 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
7 33 (4.93%) Presentation Skills
8 27 (4.03%) Legal
9 19 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (2.84%) Retail
10 18 (2.69%) Marketing
11 11 (1.64%) Games
12 9 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.04%) Local Government
13 7 (1.04%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.90%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.90%) Banking
14 6 (0.90%) Social Housing
15 5 (0.75%) Police
Job Titles
1 207 (30.90%) Developer
2 181 (27.01%) Senior
3 91 (13.58%) Analyst
4 82 (12.24%) .NET Developer
5 64 (9.55%) Delivery Manager
6 61 (9.10%) Business Analyst
7 50 (7.46%) Senior Developer
8 48 (7.16%) Lead
9 47 (7.01%) Software Engineer
10 40 (5.97%) Project Manager
11 38 (5.67%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 36 (5.37%) Architect
13 34 (5.07%) DevOps Engineer
14 31 (4.63%) Senior Analyst
15 29 (4.33%) Senior DevOps
15 29 (4.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 27 (4.03%) Senior Manager
17 25 (3.73%) Senior Business Analyst
18 20 (2.99%) Java Developer
19 19 (2.84%) Senior Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (21.34%) React
2 135 (20.15%) .NET
3 116 (17.31%) Node.js
4 96 (14.33%) .NET Core
5 87 (12.99%) ASP.NET
6 85 (12.69%) ASP.NET Core
7 75 (11.19%) AngularJS
8 63 (9.40%) .NET Framework
9 54 (8.06%) Terraform
10 51 (7.61%) ASP.NET Web API
11 50 (7.46%) Vue
12 48 (7.16%) RESTful
13 42 (6.27%) REST
14 39 (5.82%) Spring
15 37 (5.52%) HTML
16 34 (5.07%) Blazor
17 33 (4.93%) CSS
18 26 (3.88%) Entity Framework
19 25 (3.73%) JSON
20 24 (3.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 126 (18.81%) Product Ownership
2 48 (7.16%) Cloud Native
3 26 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (2.39%) Public Cloud
6 14 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.09%) Podcast
7 12 (1.79%) Security Posture
8 11 (1.64%) Blog
8 11 (1.64%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.64%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.49%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.04%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.04%) Device Driver
10 7 (1.04%) e-Learning
10 7 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.04%) PMI
11 6 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (0.90%) NHS
12 5 (0.75%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 70 (10.45%) Linux
2 60 (8.96%) Windows
3 34 (5.07%) Unix
4 12 (1.79%) VMS
5 10 (1.49%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.04%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 636 (94.93%) Agile
2 231 (34.48%) Continuous Improvement
3 205 (30.60%) DevOps
4 198 (29.55%) Kanban
5 192 (28.66%) CI/CD
6 159 (23.73%) Mentoring
6 159 (23.73%) Microservices
7 145 (21.64%) Problem-Solving
8 127 (18.96%) Full-Stack Development
9 124 (18.51%) Coaching
10 122 (18.21%) AI
11 116 (17.31%) Stakeholder Management
11 116 (17.31%) TDD
12 115 (17.16%) Project Delivery
13 94 (14.03%) Software Engineering
14 92 (13.73%) Community of Practice
15 87 (12.99%) User Stories
16 78 (11.64%) Technology Strategy
16 78 (11.64%) User Experience
17 76 (11.34%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 183 (27.31%) SQL
2 154 (22.99%) C#
3 152 (22.69%) JavaScript
4 107 (15.97%) TypeScript
5 77 (11.49%) Python
6 74 (11.04%) Java
7 29 (4.33%) Bash
8 25 (3.73%) Ruby
9 20 (2.99%) PowerShell
10 16 (2.39%) PL/SQL
11 14 (2.09%) Bicep
12 13 (1.94%) C++
13 12 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (1.34%) C
15 8 (1.19%) T-SQL
16 7 (1.04%) Embedded C
17 5 (0.75%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.75%) SOQL
18 4 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 4 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 146 (21.79%) Security Cleared
2 141 (21.04%) Degree
3 120 (17.91%) SC Cleared
4 50 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.58%) Azure Certification
6 23 (3.43%) PMI Certification
7 18 (2.69%) PMP
8 16 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (2.09%) DBS Check
10 11 (1.64%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.49%) AWS Certification
12 8 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (1.19%) DV Cleared
13 6 (0.90%) CISSP
14 5 (0.75%) CSPO
15 4 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.60%) CISA
15 4 (0.60%) ISTQB
16 3 (0.45%) APMP
16 3 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (10.45%) QA
2 25 (3.73%) Accessibility
2 25 (3.73%) GDPR
3 20 (2.99%) Data Quality
4 19 (2.84%) PMO
5 17 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 11 (1.64%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 10 (1.49%) GRC
9 5 (0.75%) WCAG
10 4 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.45%) NCSC
12 2 (0.30%) NIST
13 1 (0.15%) GxP
13 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 123 (18.36%) Docker
2 15 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.79%) vSphere
4 4 (0.60%) IAG
5 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 89 (13.28%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.09%) Ansible
2 14 (2.09%) Argo
3 6 (0.90%) Podman
4 4 (0.60%) Packer
4 4 (0.60%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.45%) Grafana
5 3 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.15%) Kibana
6 1 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 174 (25.97%) Microsoft
2 38 (5.67%) Oracle
3 24 (3.58%) Salesforce
4 17 (2.54%) Databricks
5 14 (2.09%) Google
5 14 (2.09%) Pega
6 13 (1.94%) VMware
7 12 (1.79%) SAP
7 12 (1.79%) ScienceLogic
8 11 (1.64%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.49%) Informatica
10 9 (1.34%) Talend
11 8 (1.19%) Adobe
11 8 (1.19%) YouTube
12 5 (0.75%) Infor
13 4 (0.60%) Epicor
13 4 (0.60%) ESRI
13 4 (0.60%) IFS
13 4 (0.60%) Red Hat
13 4 (0.60%) Sage