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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 51 49
Rank change year-on-year -47 -2 -22
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 405 865 1,257
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.69% 5.25% 5.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.08% 5.62% 6.25%
Number of salaries quoted 303 357 1,042
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,750 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -6.42%
75th Percentile £78,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £92,500
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 13,165 15,405 20,125
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.43% 93.51% 93.50%
Number of salaries quoted 8,370 9,087 16,278
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,875 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 10 January 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 23 (5.68%) Confluence
2 7 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.99%) ArcGIS
3 4 (0.99%) GeoServer
3 4 (0.99%) Oracle Spatial
4 3 (0.74%) Apache
4 3 (0.74%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.49%) CMS
6 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.25%) nginx
6 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.48%) Trello
4 4 (0.99%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.49%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.49%) Sketch
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.74%) Maximo
1 3 (0.74%) Shopify
2 2 (0.49%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.25%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.25%) Magento
3 1 (0.25%) Primavera
3 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 142 (35.06%) Azure
2 102 (25.19%) AWS
3 58 (14.32%) Serverless
4 56 (13.83%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (8.64%) AWS Lambda
5 35 (8.64%) GitHub
6 33 (8.15%) SaaS
7 30 (7.41%) Power Platform
8 20 (4.94%) Amazon S3
9 19 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (4.44%) GCP
11 17 (4.20%) PaaS
12 16 (3.95%) Azure App Service
13 15 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
13 15 (3.70%) Entra ID
13 15 (3.70%) Power Automate
14 12 (2.96%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (2.47%) PowerApps
16 9 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 30 (7.41%) Broadband
2 3 (0.74%) Ethernet
2 3 (0.74%) RS-232
3 2 (0.49%) DNS
3 2 (0.49%) Firewall
3 2 (0.49%) HTTP
3 2 (0.49%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.49%) VPN
4 1 (0.25%) GPRS
4 1 (0.25%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.25%) LTE
4 1 (0.25%) Modbus
4 1 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.25%) SSL
4 1 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (12.35%) SQL Server
2 30 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
2 30 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
2 30 (7.41%) NoSQL
3 29 (7.16%) MongoDB
4 21 (5.19%) Relational Database
5 17 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (3.46%) DynamoDB
6 14 (3.46%) MySQL
7 13 (3.21%) Power BI
8 11 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.73%) Tableau
10 5 (1.23%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.23%) GIS
10 5 (1.23%) Metadata
11 4 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.99%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.99%) QGIS
11 4 (0.99%) Qlik Sense
12 3 (0.74%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 79 (19.51%) JIRA
2 58 (14.32%) Git
3 42 (10.37%) Postman
4 39 (9.63%) Selenium
5 36 (8.89%) Jenkins
5 36 (8.89%) SoapUI
6 35 (8.64%) Team Foundation Server
7 34 (8.40%) WebDriver
8 21 (5.19%) GitLab
9 15 (3.70%) SonarQube
10 13 (3.21%) TeamCity
11 6 (1.48%) Visual Studio
12 5 (1.23%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.99%) JMeter
14 3 (0.74%) Storybook
14 3 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
15 2 (0.49%) LoadRunner
15 2 (0.49%) SpecFlow
16 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 1 (0.25%) Bugzilla
General
1 163 (40.25%) Social Skills
2 104 (25.68%) Finance
3 55 (13.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 49 (12.10%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (12.10%) Public Sector
5 40 (9.88%) Marketing
6 31 (7.65%) Tech for Good
7 27 (6.67%) Health Technology
7 27 (6.67%) Publishing
8 23 (5.68%) Organisational Skills
9 22 (5.43%) Games
9 22 (5.43%) Law
10 18 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (2.47%) Legal
12 10 (2.47%) Telecoms
13 9 (2.22%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.98%) Front Office
14 8 (1.98%) Retail
15 6 (1.48%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 134 (33.09%) Developer
2 76 (18.77%) Senior
3 73 (18.02%) Lead
4 55 (13.58%) Analyst
5 45 (11.11%) .NET Developer
6 32 (7.90%) Lead Developer
6 32 (7.90%) Senior Developer
7 30 (7.41%) Python Developer
8 29 (7.16%) Software Engineer
9 28 (6.91%) React Developer
10 24 (5.93%) Architect
10 24 (5.93%) Test Analyst
11 22 (5.43%) AWS Developer
12 20 (4.94%) Business Analyst
12 20 (4.94%) Software Developer
13 17 (4.20%) Full-Stack Developer
14 16 (3.95%) Azure Developer
14 16 (3.95%) Scrum Master
15 15 (3.70%) Project Manager
15 15 (3.70%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (29.63%) .NET
2 83 (20.49%) React
3 64 (15.80%) RESTful
4 60 (14.81%) SOAP
5 58 (14.32%) HTML
6 42 (10.37%) .NET Framework
7 39 (9.63%) ASP.NET Web API
8 37 (9.14%) Node.js
9 36 (8.89%) .NET Core
9 36 (8.89%) Entity Framework
10 33 (8.15%) REST
11 29 (7.16%) AngularJS
11 29 (7.16%) Vue
12 25 (6.17%) CSS
13 23 (5.68%) ASP.NET
14 19 (4.69%) ASP.NET MVC
15 18 (4.44%) Akka
16 15 (3.70%) Lightning Web Components
16 15 (3.70%) Swagger
16 15 (3.70%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 72 (17.78%) Product Ownership
2 23 (5.68%) Cloud Native
3 17 (4.20%) Management Information System
4 13 (3.21%) Over-the-Top Content
4 13 (3.21%) Video\Live Streaming
5 12 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.98%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.23%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.23%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.99%) e-Learning
10 4 (0.99%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.74%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.74%) Device Driver
11 3 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.74%) N-Tier
11 3 (0.74%) PMI
11 3 (0.74%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.21%) Linux
2 4 (0.99%) Ubuntu
3 3 (0.74%) Android
3 3 (0.74%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (0.74%) Windows
4 2 (0.49%) VMS
5 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (93.09%) Agile
2 135 (33.33%) DevOps
3 130 (32.10%) Kanban
4 123 (30.37%) CI/CD
5 115 (28.40%) Continuous Improvement
6 112 (27.65%) Mentoring
7 89 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
8 75 (18.52%) TDD
9 65 (16.05%) Microservices
9 65 (16.05%) Software Testing
10 62 (15.31%) Full-Stack Development
11 59 (14.57%) Software Engineering
12 58 (14.32%) Roadmaps
13 57 (14.07%) Stakeholder Management
14 54 (13.33%) User Stories
15 52 (12.84%) Project Delivery
16 49 (12.10%) API Testing
17 45 (11.11%) Coaching
17 45 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
18 41 (10.12%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 124 (30.62%) SQL
2 105 (25.93%) C#
3 70 (17.28%) TypeScript
4 69 (17.04%) JavaScript
5 65 (16.05%) Java
6 57 (14.07%) Python
7 15 (3.70%) Apex Code
7 15 (3.70%) Scala
7 15 (3.70%) SOQL
7 15 (3.70%) SOSL
8 8 (1.98%) C++
9 6 (1.48%) Bash
9 6 (1.48%) C
10 5 (1.23%) VB.NET
11 3 (0.74%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.74%) Erlang
11 3 (0.74%) Groovy
11 3 (0.74%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.74%) PHP
11 3 (0.74%) Swift
Qualifications
1 100 (24.69%) Degree
2 43 (10.62%) ISTQB
3 36 (8.89%) Security Cleared
4 32 (7.90%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 31 (7.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (6.42%) SC Cleared
7 20 (4.94%) Master's Degree
8 9 (2.22%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.98%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.98%) PMP
10 7 (1.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 7 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.48%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.99%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.74%) IBM Certification
14 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.49%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.49%) CBAP
14 2 (0.49%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (23.46%) QA
2 16 (3.95%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.48%) WCAG
4 4 (0.99%) PMO
5 3 (0.74%) SLA
6 2 (0.49%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.49%) ECSS
6 2 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.25%) GDPR
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) IFRS
7 1 (0.25%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 37 (9.14%) Docker
2 13 (3.21%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 37 (9.14%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.20%) Terraform
3 12 (2.96%) Ansible
4 3 (0.74%) Grafana
4 3 (0.74%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.49%) Argo
6 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 89 (21.98%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.19%) Salesforce
3 15 (3.70%) Splunk
4 12 (2.96%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.22%) Google
5 9 (2.22%) Mercator
5 9 (2.22%) SAP
6 7 (1.73%) Oracle
7 5 (1.23%) DevExpress
7 5 (1.23%) ESRI
7 5 (1.23%) Red Hat
8 4 (0.99%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.74%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.74%) IBM
10 2 (0.49%) Adobe
10 2 (0.49%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.49%) Foundry
10 2 (0.49%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.49%) SendGrid
10 2 (0.49%) Zend