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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 100 80
Rank change year-on-year +1 -20 -32
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 668 605 797
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.68% 3.60% 3.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.32% 3.83% 4.05%
Number of salaries quoted 513 339 437
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,650 £42,500
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £79,750 £90,000 £94,250
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 20,104 15,790 19,699
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.81% 93.84% 88.14%
Number of salaries quoted 14,346 8,455 11,710
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,750 £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 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.30% -2.17%

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 3 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 51 (7.63%) Confluence
2 13 (1.95%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.90%) Apache
6 4 (0.60%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.60%) CMS
7 3 (0.45%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.45%) DNN
7 3 (0.45%) EPiServer
7 3 (0.45%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.45%) Immediacy CMS
7 3 (0.45%) Kentico
7 3 (0.45%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.45%) Sitefinity
7 3 (0.45%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.45%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.30%) Appian
8 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.20%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.05%) 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%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
8 2 (0.30%) Simulink
9 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 18 (2.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.60%) SAP GRC
4 3 (0.45%) 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%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.15%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.15%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 316 (47.31%) Azure
2 284 (42.51%) AWS
3 96 (14.37%) Azure DevOps
4 64 (9.58%) GitHub
5 57 (8.53%) GCP
6 49 (7.34%) Power Platform
6 49 (7.34%) Serverless
7 43 (6.44%) GitHub Copilot
8 28 (4.19%) Power Automate
9 23 (3.44%) Azure Service Bus
9 23 (3.44%) PowerApps
9 23 (3.44%) SaaS
10 20 (2.99%) Azure Functions
11 18 (2.69%) Dynamics 365
11 18 (2.69%) PaaS
12 17 (2.54%) Azure Logic Apps
13 15 (2.25%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (2.10%) Azure AKS
14 14 (2.10%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.80%) VPN
2 9 (1.35%) Broadband
3 6 (0.90%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.90%) Firewall
3 6 (0.90%) RS-232
4 3 (0.45%) WPA
5 2 (0.30%) ATM
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
1 128 (19.16%) MongoDB
2 102 (15.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 83 (12.43%) Elasticsearch
4 59 (8.83%) PostgreSQL
5 38 (5.69%) SQL Server
6 33 (4.94%) Power BI
7 30 (4.49%) Metadata
7 30 (4.49%) NoSQL
8 27 (4.04%) Relational Database
9 24 (3.59%) MySQL
10 23 (3.44%) Data Warehouse
11 16 (2.40%) Redis
12 15 (2.25%) DynamoDB
12 15 (2.25%) Star Schema
13 11 (1.65%) Data Lake
14 9 (1.35%) Amazon QuickSight
14 9 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
15 8 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 6 (0.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 5 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 96 (14.37%) JIRA
2 74 (11.08%) Git
3 18 (2.69%) GitLab
4 17 (2.54%) JUnit
5 16 (2.40%) Mockito
6 14 (2.10%) Maven
7 10 (1.50%) Cypress.io
7 10 (1.50%) Visual Studio
8 8 (1.20%) Claude Code
8 8 (1.20%) Jenkins
9 6 (0.90%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.75%) Selenium
11 4 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.60%) NUnit
11 4 (0.60%) Postman
11 4 (0.60%) SpecFlow
11 4 (0.60%) Vagrant
12 3 (0.45%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.45%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.45%) SonarQube
General
1 218 (32.63%) Social Skills
2 181 (27.10%) Finance
3 158 (23.65%) Public Sector
4 108 (16.17%) Law
5 107 (16.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 89 (13.32%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (5.09%) Presentation Skills
8 25 (3.74%) Legal
9 20 (2.99%) Retail
10 19 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
11 17 (2.54%) Marketing
12 11 (1.65%) Games
13 10 (1.50%) Banking
13 10 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.05%) Local Government
14 7 (1.05%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.90%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.90%) Social Housing
16 5 (0.75%) Police
Job Titles
1 205 (30.69%) Developer
2 183 (27.40%) Senior
3 90 (13.47%) Analyst
4 82 (12.28%) .NET Developer
5 65 (9.73%) Delivery Manager
6 60 (8.98%) Business Analyst
7 49 (7.34%) Senior Developer
8 46 (6.89%) Lead
9 44 (6.59%) Software Engineer
10 40 (5.99%) Project Manager
11 38 (5.69%) Agile Delivery Manager
11 38 (5.69%) DevOps Engineer
12 35 (5.24%) Architect
13 33 (4.94%) Senior DevOps
13 33 (4.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 30 (4.49%) Senior Analyst
15 28 (4.19%) Senior Manager
16 24 (3.59%) Senior Business Analyst
17 20 (2.99%) Senior Delivery Manager
18 19 (2.84%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (20.36%) React
2 134 (20.06%) .NET
3 115 (17.22%) Node.js
4 96 (14.37%) .NET Core
5 87 (13.02%) ASP.NET
6 85 (12.72%) ASP.NET Core
7 71 (10.63%) AngularJS
8 63 (9.43%) .NET Framework
9 51 (7.63%) ASP.NET Web API
9 51 (7.63%) Terraform
10 49 (7.34%) Vue
11 46 (6.89%) RESTful
12 42 (6.29%) REST
13 39 (5.84%) Spring
14 35 (5.24%) HTML
15 34 (5.09%) Blazor
16 32 (4.79%) CSS
17 26 (3.89%) Entity Framework
18 25 (3.74%) JSON
19 22 (3.29%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 120 (17.96%) Product Ownership
2 47 (7.04%) Cloud Native
3 27 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (2.40%) Public Cloud
6 14 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (1.80%) Podcast
7 12 (1.80%) Security Posture
8 11 (1.65%) Blog
8 11 (1.65%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.50%) Mobile App
9 10 (1.50%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.20%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.05%) PMI
12 6 (0.90%) Device Driver
12 6 (0.90%) NHS
13 5 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (0.75%) e-Learning
13 5 (0.75%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 71 (10.63%) Linux
2 60 (8.98%) Windows
3 38 (5.69%) Unix
4 12 (1.80%) VMS
5 9 (1.35%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.90%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 636 (95.21%) Agile
2 230 (34.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 208 (31.14%) DevOps
4 197 (29.49%) CI/CD
5 195 (29.19%) Kanban
6 166 (24.85%) Mentoring
7 158 (23.65%) Microservices
8 145 (21.71%) Problem-Solving
9 125 (18.71%) Coaching
10 123 (18.41%) Full-Stack Development
11 122 (18.26%) AI
12 118 (17.66%) Stakeholder Management
13 115 (17.22%) TDD
14 112 (16.77%) Project Delivery
15 90 (13.47%) Community of Practice
16 89 (13.32%) Software Engineering
17 85 (12.72%) User Stories
18 76 (11.38%) Technology Strategy
19 75 (11.23%) User Experience
20 74 (11.08%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 183 (27.40%) SQL
2 153 (22.90%) C#
3 148 (22.16%) JavaScript
4 104 (15.57%) TypeScript
5 73 (10.93%) Python
6 71 (10.63%) Java
7 29 (4.34%) Bash
8 25 (3.74%) Ruby
9 21 (3.14%) PowerShell
10 15 (2.25%) PL/SQL
11 13 (1.95%) Bicep
12 12 (1.80%) C++
12 12 (1.80%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.20%) C
13 8 (1.20%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.90%) Embedded C
15 5 (0.75%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.75%) SOQL
16 4 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 144 (21.56%) Security Cleared
2 139 (20.81%) Degree
3 118 (17.66%) SC Cleared
4 48 (7.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.59%) Azure Certification
6 23 (3.44%) PMI Certification
7 18 (2.69%) PMP
8 16 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (1.80%) DBS Check
9 12 (1.80%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.65%) AWS Certification
11 8 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (1.20%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.90%) CISSP
13 5 (0.75%) CSPO
14 4 (0.60%) APMP
14 4 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.60%) CISA
14 4 (0.60%) ISTQB
15 3 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (10.18%) QA
2 25 (3.74%) GDPR
3 24 (3.59%) Accessibility
4 20 (2.99%) Data Quality
5 19 (2.84%) PMO
6 16 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 10 (1.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 9 (1.35%) GRC
10 5 (0.75%) WCAG
11 4 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.45%) NCSC
13 2 (0.30%) NIST
14 1 (0.15%) GxP
14 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 121 (18.11%) Docker
2 15 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.80%) vSphere
4 4 (0.60%) IAG
5 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 89 (13.32%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.10%) Argo
3 11 (1.65%) Ansible
4 6 (0.90%) Podman
5 4 (0.60%) Packer
5 4 (0.60%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.45%) Grafana
6 3 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 173 (25.90%) Microsoft
2 39 (5.84%) Oracle
3 23 (3.44%) Salesforce
4 16 (2.40%) Databricks
5 15 (2.25%) Google
6 14 (2.10%) Pega
7 13 (1.95%) VMware
8 12 (1.80%) SAP
8 12 (1.80%) ScienceLogic
9 11 (1.65%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.50%) Informatica
11 9 (1.35%) Talend
12 8 (1.20%) Adobe
12 8 (1.20%) YouTube
13 5 (0.75%) Infor
14 4 (0.60%) Atlassian
14 4 (0.60%) Epicor
14 4 (0.60%) IFS
14 4 (0.60%) Sage
14 4 (0.60%) UiPath