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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 105 86
Rank change year-on-year +16 -19 -42
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 709 582 789
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.96% 3.58% 3.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.61% 3.85% 3.84%
Number of salaries quoted 536 326 499
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £64,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.39% +3.23% -4.62%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £81,750 £88,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +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 19,633 15,114 20,558
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.88% 93.04% 87.64%
Number of salaries quoted 14,127 8,686 12,990
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,750 £35,250
25th Percentile £44,750 £40,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -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 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 11 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 48 (6.77%) Confluence
2 13 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.85%) Apache
6 4 (0.56%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.56%) CMS
6 4 (0.56%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.56%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.42%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.42%) DNN
7 3 (0.42%) EPiServer
7 3 (0.42%) Immediacy CMS
7 3 (0.42%) Kentico
7 3 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.42%) Sitefinity
7 3 (0.42%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.28%) Appian
8 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 16 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 16 (2.26%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.99%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.99%) Trello
4 4 (0.56%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.42%) Productboard
5 3 (0.42%) Sketch
5 3 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.28%) Simulink
7 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 18 (2.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.42%) SAP GRC
4 2 (0.28%) Infor SunSystems
4 2 (0.28%) Shopify
5 1 (0.14%) Finacle
5 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.14%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.14%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 334 (47.11%) Azure
2 293 (41.33%) AWS
3 104 (14.67%) Azure DevOps
4 69 (9.73%) GCP
5 62 (8.74%) GitHub
6 52 (7.33%) Serverless
7 46 (6.49%) Power Platform
8 42 (5.92%) GitHub Copilot
9 27 (3.81%) Power Automate
10 24 (3.39%) SaaS
11 23 (3.24%) Azure Service Bus
11 23 (3.24%) PowerApps
12 20 (2.82%) Azure Functions
13 19 (2.68%) PaaS
14 18 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
15 17 (2.40%) Azure Key Vault
15 17 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
16 15 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
16 15 (2.12%) Azure Monitor
17 14 (1.97%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.24%) Broadband
2 12 (1.69%) VPN
3 9 (1.27%) Ethernet
3 9 (1.27%) RS-232
4 8 (1.13%) Firewall
5 3 (0.42%) LAN
5 3 (0.42%) Network Security
5 3 (0.42%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (0.42%) WAN
5 3 (0.42%) Wireless
5 3 (0.42%) WPA
6 2 (0.28%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (18.62%) MongoDB
2 101 (14.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 84 (11.85%) Elasticsearch
4 60 (8.46%) PostgreSQL
5 38 (5.36%) SQL Server
6 37 (5.22%) NoSQL
7 30 (4.23%) Power BI
8 28 (3.95%) Metadata
9 26 (3.67%) Relational Database
10 23 (3.24%) MySQL
11 19 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
12 17 (2.40%) Redis
13 13 (1.83%) DynamoDB
14 12 (1.69%) Star Schema
15 11 (1.55%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.99%) Amazon QuickSight
16 7 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
16 7 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 6 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 5 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 97 (13.68%) JIRA
2 78 (11.00%) Git
3 24 (3.39%) GitLab
4 15 (2.12%) Cypress.io
4 15 (2.12%) Jenkins
4 15 (2.12%) JUnit
5 14 (1.97%) Maven
5 14 (1.97%) Mockito
6 12 (1.69%) CircleCI
7 11 (1.55%) SonarQube
8 9 (1.27%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.85%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.71%) Selenium
11 4 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.56%) NUnit
11 4 (0.56%) Postman
11 4 (0.56%) SpecFlow
11 4 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
12 3 (0.42%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.42%) SoapUI
General
1 224 (31.59%) Social Skills
2 184 (25.95%) Finance
3 161 (22.71%) Public Sector
4 128 (18.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 123 (17.35%) Law
6 88 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (4.80%) Legal
8 32 (4.51%) Presentation Skills
9 25 (3.53%) Marketing
10 21 (2.96%) Games
11 19 (2.68%) Retail
12 18 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.27%) Banking
13 9 (1.27%) Legal Technology
13 9 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (0.99%) Local Government
15 6 (0.85%) Advertising
15 6 (0.85%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.85%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 212 (29.90%) Developer
2 185 (26.09%) Senior
3 94 (13.26%) Analyst
4 84 (11.85%) .NET Developer
5 64 (9.03%) Business Analyst
6 62 (8.74%) Delivery Manager
7 52 (7.33%) Lead
7 52 (7.33%) Senior Developer
8 51 (7.19%) Software Engineer
9 46 (6.49%) Architect
10 41 (5.78%) Project Manager
11 38 (5.36%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 33 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
13 32 (4.51%) Senior Analyst
14 29 (4.09%) Senior DevOps
14 29 (4.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 29 (4.09%) Senior Manager
15 26 (3.67%) Senior Business Analyst
16 22 (3.10%) Java Developer
17 20 (2.82%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (21.30%) React
2 137 (19.32%) .NET
3 122 (17.21%) Node.js
4 97 (13.68%) .NET Core
5 89 (12.55%) ASP.NET
6 87 (12.27%) ASP.NET Core
7 78 (11.00%) AngularJS
8 65 (9.17%) .NET Framework
9 59 (8.32%) Terraform
10 52 (7.33%) ASP.NET Web API
10 52 (7.33%) Vue
11 47 (6.63%) RESTful
12 46 (6.49%) REST
13 43 (6.06%) HTML
14 39 (5.50%) CSS
15 36 (5.08%) Spring
16 34 (4.80%) Blazor
17 27 (3.81%) Entity Framework
17 27 (3.81%) Playwright
18 25 (3.53%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 146 (20.59%) Product Ownership
2 53 (7.48%) Cloud Native
3 26 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (2.96%) Podcast
5 16 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (2.12%) Public Cloud
7 14 (1.97%) Onboarding
8 12 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.69%) Security Posture
8 12 (1.69%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.55%) Blog
9 11 (1.55%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.27%) Device Driver
11 8 (1.13%) PMI
12 7 (0.99%) AI Agents
12 7 (0.99%) e-Learning
12 7 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (0.99%) NHS
13 5 (0.71%) Culture of Ownership
13 5 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 72 (10.16%) Linux
2 57 (8.04%) Windows
3 34 (4.80%) Unix
4 12 (1.69%) VMS
5 10 (1.41%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.27%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 671 (94.64%) Agile
2 241 (33.99%) Continuous Improvement
3 223 (31.45%) DevOps
4 209 (29.48%) Kanban
5 208 (29.34%) CI/CD
6 159 (22.43%) Microservices
7 154 (21.72%) Mentoring
8 138 (19.46%) Full-Stack Development
9 137 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
10 134 (18.90%) Coaching
11 130 (18.34%) AI
12 126 (17.77%) Project Delivery
13 117 (16.50%) Stakeholder Management
13 117 (16.50%) TDD
14 103 (14.53%) Software Engineering
15 101 (14.25%) Community of Practice
16 93 (13.12%) User Stories
17 89 (12.55%) Roadmaps
18 83 (11.71%) Technology Strategy
19 78 (11.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 184 (25.95%) SQL
2 163 (22.99%) JavaScript
3 152 (21.44%) C#
4 105 (14.81%) TypeScript
5 76 (10.72%) Python
6 75 (10.58%) Java
7 29 (4.09%) Bash
8 27 (3.81%) Ruby
9 20 (2.82%) PowerShell
10 17 (2.40%) Bicep
11 16 (2.26%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.97%) C++
13 13 (1.83%) Apex Code
14 12 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
14 12 (1.69%) SOQL
15 11 (1.55%) C
16 9 (1.27%) Embedded C
16 9 (1.27%) SOSL
17 8 (1.13%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.56%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 149 (21.02%) Degree
2 144 (20.31%) Security Cleared
3 118 (16.64%) SC Cleared
4 56 (7.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (3.95%) PMI Certification
6 26 (3.67%) Azure Certification
7 22 (3.10%) PMP
8 16 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (1.97%) DBS Check
10 12 (1.69%) AWS Certification
11 11 (1.55%) Master's Degree
12 8 (1.13%) DV Cleared
13 6 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.71%) CISSP
14 5 (0.71%) CSPO
15 4 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.56%) ISTQB
16 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
16 3 (0.42%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (10.30%) QA
2 30 (4.23%) Accessibility
3 22 (3.10%) GDPR
4 19 (2.68%) Data Quality
4 19 (2.68%) PMO
5 17 (2.40%) GRC
5 17 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 11 (1.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 5 (0.71%) WCAG
8 3 (0.42%) NCSC
8 3 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.28%) NIST
10 1 (0.14%) GxP
10 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 128 (18.05%) Docker
2 15 (2.12%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.69%) vSphere
4 3 (0.42%) IAG
5 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 88 (12.41%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.12%) Ansible
3 14 (1.97%) Argo
4 12 (1.69%) Podman
5 3 (0.42%) Grafana
5 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.28%) Packer
6 2 (0.28%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.14%) Kibana
7 1 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 176 (24.82%) Microsoft
2 34 (4.80%) Oracle
3 32 (4.51%) Salesforce
4 20 (2.82%) Google
5 16 (2.26%) Databricks
6 14 (1.97%) Pega
7 13 (1.83%) VMware
8 12 (1.69%) SAP
8 12 (1.69%) ScienceLogic
9 10 (1.41%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.27%) Splunk
11 8 (1.13%) Informatica
12 7 (0.99%) Talend
13 6 (0.85%) Adobe
13 6 (0.85%) Infor
13 6 (0.85%) YouTube
14 4 (0.56%) Epicor
14 4 (0.56%) ESRI
14 4 (0.56%) Red Hat
14 4 (0.56%) Sage