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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 95 64
Rank change year-on-year -7 -31 -15
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 650 607 838
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.59% 3.67% 4.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.21% 3.91% 4.58%
Number of salaries quoted 500 333 403
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,350 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £74,987 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £78,875 £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 20,270 15,511 18,315
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.62% 93.82% 87.95%
Number of salaries quoted 14,399 8,394 11,074
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,750 £35,700
25th Percentile £44,447 £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 £77,500 £81,250
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 15 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 49 (7.54%) Confluence
2 14 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 7 (1.08%) WebLogic
5 6 (0.92%) Apache
6 4 (0.62%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.62%) CMS
6 4 (0.62%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.62%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.46%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.46%) DNN
7 3 (0.46%) EPiServer
7 3 (0.46%) Immediacy CMS
7 3 (0.46%) Kentico
7 3 (0.46%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.46%) Sitefinity
7 3 (0.46%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.38%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.92%) Trello
5 4 (0.62%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.46%) Productboard
6 3 (0.46%) Sketch
6 3 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.31%) Simulink
8 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 18 (2.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.62%) SAP GRC
4 3 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.31%) Shopify
6 1 (0.15%) Actimize
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
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
1 310 (47.69%) Azure
2 273 (42.00%) AWS
3 93 (14.31%) Azure DevOps
4 66 (10.15%) GitHub
5 51 (7.85%) Power Platform
6 49 (7.54%) GCP
6 49 (7.54%) Serverless
7 44 (6.77%) GitHub Copilot
8 30 (4.62%) Power Automate
9 25 (3.85%) PowerApps
10 24 (3.69%) SaaS
11 20 (3.08%) Azure Functions
11 20 (3.08%) Azure Service Bus
12 18 (2.77%) Dynamics 365
12 18 (2.77%) PaaS
13 17 (2.62%) Azure Logic Apps
14 15 (2.31%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
16 12 (1.85%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.85%) VPN
2 6 (0.92%) Firewall
3 4 (0.62%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.62%) RS-232
4 3 (0.46%) WPA
5 2 (0.31%) ATM
6 1 (0.15%) Broadband
6 1 (0.15%) LAN
6 1 (0.15%) Network Security
6 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.15%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.15%) WAN
6 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (18.31%) MongoDB
2 102 (15.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 83 (12.77%) Elasticsearch
4 57 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
5 37 (5.69%) SQL Server
6 35 (5.38%) Power BI
7 31 (4.77%) Metadata
8 26 (4.00%) Relational Database
9 24 (3.69%) MySQL
9 24 (3.69%) NoSQL
10 21 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
11 15 (2.31%) DynamoDB
11 15 (2.31%) Redis
12 14 (2.15%) Star Schema
13 11 (1.69%) Data Lake
14 9 (1.38%) Amazon QuickSight
14 9 (1.38%) Snowflake Schema
15 7 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 6 (0.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 5 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 90 (13.85%) JIRA
2 73 (11.23%) Git
3 21 (3.23%) JUnit
4 20 (3.08%) Mockito
5 16 (2.46%) GitLab
6 14 (2.15%) Maven
7 9 (1.38%) Jenkins
7 9 (1.38%) Visual Studio
8 8 (1.23%) Claude Code
9 4 (0.62%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.62%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.62%) NUnit
9 4 (0.62%) Vagrant
10 3 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.46%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.46%) Mercurial
10 3 (0.46%) MSTest
10 3 (0.46%) Selenium
10 3 (0.46%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.46%) TeamCity
General
1 214 (32.92%) Social Skills
2 180 (27.69%) Finance
3 156 (24.00%) Public Sector
4 106 (16.31%) Law
5 105 (16.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 88 (13.54%) Analytical Skills
7 32 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
8 24 (3.69%) Legal
9 20 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
10 19 (2.92%) Marketing
10 19 (2.92%) Retail
11 10 (1.54%) Banking
11 10 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.38%) Games
13 8 (1.23%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.08%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.08%) Local Government
15 6 (0.92%) Social Housing
16 5 (0.77%) Police
Job Titles
1 203 (31.23%) Developer
2 178 (27.38%) Senior
3 85 (13.08%) Analyst
4 82 (12.62%) .NET Developer
5 65 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
6 56 (8.62%) Business Analyst
7 50 (7.69%) Senior Developer
8 47 (7.23%) Lead
9 42 (6.46%) Project Manager
10 38 (5.85%) Software Engineer
11 36 (5.54%) Agile Delivery Manager
11 36 (5.54%) Architect
12 35 (5.38%) DevOps Engineer
13 30 (4.62%) Senior DevOps
13 30 (4.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 28 (4.31%) Senior Analyst
15 26 (4.00%) Senior Manager
16 22 (3.38%) Senior Business Analyst
17 20 (3.08%) Senior Delivery Manager
18 19 (2.92%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (20.62%) .NET
2 127 (19.54%) React
3 106 (16.31%) Node.js
4 96 (14.77%) .NET Core
5 87 (13.38%) ASP.NET
6 85 (13.08%) ASP.NET Core
7 70 (10.77%) AngularJS
8 63 (9.69%) .NET Framework
9 51 (7.85%) ASP.NET Web API
10 49 (7.54%) Terraform
11 48 (7.38%) Vue
12 45 (6.92%) REST
13 44 (6.77%) Spring
14 43 (6.62%) RESTful
15 34 (5.23%) Blazor
16 32 (4.92%) HTML
17 30 (4.62%) CSS
18 26 (4.00%) Entity Framework
18 26 (4.00%) Spring Boot
19 22 (3.38%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 114 (17.54%) Product Ownership
2 49 (7.54%) Cloud Native
3 27 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (2.46%) Public Cloud
6 14 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (1.85%) Blog
7 12 (1.85%) Podcast
7 12 (1.85%) Security Posture
8 10 (1.54%) Mobile App
8 10 (1.54%) Virtual Team
9 9 (1.38%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.08%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (0.92%) NHS
11 6 (0.92%) PMI
12 5 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 4 (0.62%) Culture of Ownership
13 4 (0.62%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 67 (10.31%) Linux
2 57 (8.77%) Windows
3 35 (5.38%) Unix
4 12 (1.85%) VMS
5 10 (1.54%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.62%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 618 (95.08%) Agile
2 219 (33.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 202 (31.08%) DevOps
4 189 (29.08%) CI/CD
5 183 (28.15%) Kanban
6 168 (25.85%) Mentoring
7 158 (24.31%) Microservices
8 142 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
9 124 (19.08%) AI
10 122 (18.77%) Stakeholder Management
11 121 (18.62%) Coaching
12 119 (18.31%) TDD
13 112 (17.23%) Full-Stack Development
14 110 (16.92%) Project Delivery
15 89 (13.69%) Community of Practice
16 81 (12.46%) Software Engineering
17 79 (12.15%) User Stories
18 74 (11.38%) Technology Strategy
18 74 (11.38%) User Experience
19 72 (11.08%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 178 (27.38%) SQL
2 152 (23.38%) C#
3 139 (21.38%) JavaScript
4 102 (15.69%) TypeScript
5 69 (10.62%) Java
5 69 (10.62%) Python
6 29 (4.46%) Bash
7 24 (3.69%) Ruby
8 22 (3.38%) PowerShell
9 15 (2.31%) PL/SQL
10 13 (2.00%) Bicep
11 12 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
12 10 (1.54%) C++
13 7 (1.08%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.92%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.92%) C
14 6 (0.92%) SOQL
15 4 (0.62%) ABAP
15 4 (0.62%) Embedded C
15 4 (0.62%) Scala
Qualifications
1 149 (22.92%) Security Cleared
2 137 (21.08%) Degree
3 124 (19.08%) SC Cleared
4 45 (6.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.54%) Azure Certification
6 21 (3.23%) PMI Certification
7 18 (2.77%) PMP
8 16 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.69%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.69%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.38%) DBS Check
11 8 (1.23%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.92%) APMP
12 6 (0.92%) CISSP
13 4 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.62%) CISA
13 4 (0.62%) CSPO
13 4 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (9.54%) QA
2 25 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 25 (3.85%) GDPR
3 20 (3.08%) Data Quality
4 19 (2.92%) PMO
5 16 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 10 (1.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 8 (1.23%) GRC
9 5 (0.77%) WCAG
10 4 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.46%) NCSC
12 2 (0.31%) NIST
13 1 (0.15%) GxP
13 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 118 (18.15%) Docker
2 15 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.85%) vSphere
4 4 (0.62%) IAG
5 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 93 (14.31%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.85%) Ansible
3 11 (1.69%) Argo
4 4 (0.62%) Grafana
4 4 (0.62%) Packer
4 4 (0.62%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 175 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 44 (6.77%) Oracle
3 25 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 15 (2.31%) Databricks
5 14 (2.15%) Pega
6 13 (2.00%) VMware
7 12 (1.85%) SAP
7 12 (1.85%) ScienceLogic
8 11 (1.69%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.54%) Informatica
10 9 (1.38%) Adobe
10 9 (1.38%) Talend
11 8 (1.23%) Google
11 8 (1.23%) YouTube
12 5 (0.77%) Sage
13 4 (0.62%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.62%) Epicor
13 4 (0.62%) ESRI
13 4 (0.62%) Infor
13 4 (0.62%) Red Hat