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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 58 51
Rank change year-on-year -36 -7 -26
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 409 878 1,083
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.67% 5.08% 5.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.02% 5.47% 5.74%
Number of salaries quoted 313 372 882
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,449 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.11%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

All Process and 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 13,541 16,057 18,863
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.44% 92.92% 94.34%
Number of salaries quoted 8,650 9,686 15,144
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,918 £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 25 December 2025.

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 26 (6.36%) Confluence
2 6 (1.47%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.98%) ArcGIS
3 4 (0.98%) CMS
3 4 (0.98%) GeoServer
3 4 (0.98%) Oracle Spatial
4 3 (0.73%) Apache
4 3 (0.73%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.24%) nginx
5 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.47%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.47%) Trello
4 2 (0.49%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.49%) Sketch
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.73%) Maximo
1 3 (0.73%) Shopify
2 2 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.49%) Magento
2 2 (0.49%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.24%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.24%) Primavera
3 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 148 (36.19%) Azure
2 105 (25.67%) AWS
3 63 (15.40%) Azure DevOps
4 57 (13.94%) Serverless
5 36 (8.80%) SaaS
6 35 (8.56%) AWS Lambda
6 35 (8.56%) GitHub
6 35 (8.56%) Power Platform
7 21 (5.13%) Power Automate
8 20 (4.89%) Amazon S3
9 19 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
9 19 (4.65%) GCP
9 19 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (4.16%) PaaS
11 16 (3.91%) Azure App Service
12 15 (3.67%) Amazon SQS
12 15 (3.67%) Entra ID
13 10 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (2.20%) PowerApps
15 8 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.40%) Broadband
2 4 (0.98%) Ethernet
3 3 (0.73%) RS-232
4 2 (0.49%) DNS
4 2 (0.49%) Firewall
4 2 (0.49%) GPRS
4 2 (0.49%) HTTP
4 2 (0.49%) LTE
4 2 (0.49%) Modbus
4 2 (0.49%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.49%) VPN
4 2 (0.49%) Wireless
5 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (13.45%) SQL Server
2 32 (7.82%) MongoDB
3 30 (7.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 30 (7.33%) Elasticsearch
4 29 (7.09%) NoSQL
5 22 (5.38%) Relational Database
6 17 (4.16%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (3.67%) MySQL
8 14 (3.42%) DynamoDB
9 13 (3.18%) Power BI
10 11 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.71%) Tableau
12 5 (1.22%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.22%) GIS
12 5 (1.22%) Metadata
13 4 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.98%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.98%) QGIS
13 4 (0.98%) Qlik Sense
14 3 (0.73%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 81 (19.80%) JIRA
2 63 (15.40%) Git
3 39 (9.54%) Postman
4 37 (9.05%) Selenium
5 33 (8.07%) Team Foundation Server
6 32 (7.82%) SoapUI
7 31 (7.58%) WebDriver
8 24 (5.87%) GitLab
8 24 (5.87%) Jenkins
9 17 (4.16%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.47%) Cypress.io
10 6 (1.47%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.98%) JMeter
12 3 (0.73%) Maven
12 3 (0.73%) Storybook
12 3 (0.73%) Subversion
12 3 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.49%) LoadRunner
13 2 (0.49%) SpecFlow
General
1 155 (37.90%) Social Skills
2 111 (27.14%) Finance
3 59 (14.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 53 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (12.22%) Marketing
6 46 (11.25%) Public Sector
7 31 (7.58%) Tech for Good
8 27 (6.60%) Health Technology
8 27 (6.60%) Publishing
9 26 (6.36%) Organisational Skills
10 22 (5.38%) Games
10 22 (5.38%) Law
10 22 (5.38%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (3.67%) Retail
13 11 (2.69%) Legal
13 11 (2.69%) Telecoms
14 10 (2.44%) Manufacturing
15 9 (2.20%) Front Office
16 6 (1.47%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 131 (32.03%) Developer
2 73 (17.85%) Lead
3 69 (16.87%) Senior
4 59 (14.43%) Analyst
5 47 (11.49%) .NET Developer
6 30 (7.33%) Lead Developer
6 30 (7.33%) Python Developer
7 28 (6.85%) React Developer
7 28 (6.85%) Senior Developer
8 26 (6.36%) Software Engineer
9 25 (6.11%) Architect
10 24 (5.87%) Test Analyst
11 22 (5.38%) AWS Developer
11 22 (5.38%) Business Analyst
12 19 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
13 18 (4.40%) Software Developer
14 17 (4.16%) Consultant
14 17 (4.16%) Project Manager
15 16 (3.91%) Azure Developer
16 15 (3.67%) Lead Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (28.85%) .NET
2 81 (19.80%) React
3 65 (15.89%) RESTful
4 56 (13.69%) HTML
4 56 (13.69%) SOAP
5 43 (10.51%) .NET Framework
6 41 (10.02%) ASP.NET Web API
7 39 (9.54%) REST
8 38 (9.29%) Entity Framework
9 37 (9.05%) Node.js
10 36 (8.80%) .NET Core
11 34 (8.31%) AngularJS
12 31 (7.58%) Vue
13 27 (6.60%) CSS
14 23 (5.62%) ASP.NET
15 19 (4.65%) ASP.NET MVC
16 17 (4.16%) Web Services
17 15 (3.67%) Lightning Web Components
17 15 (3.67%) Swagger
17 15 (3.67%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 69 (16.87%) Product Ownership
2 25 (6.11%) Management Information System
3 22 (5.38%) Cloud Native
4 12 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.96%) Public Cloud
7 7 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.22%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.22%) Mobile App
9 4 (0.98%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.73%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.73%) Device Driver
10 3 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.73%) IoT
10 3 (0.73%) N-Tier
10 3 (0.73%) PMI
10 3 (0.73%) Replication
10 3 (0.73%) Social Media
11 2 (0.49%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.91%) Linux
2 4 (0.98%) Ubuntu
2 4 (0.98%) Windows
3 3 (0.73%) Android
3 3 (0.73%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.73%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.49%) VMS
5 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (93.15%) Agile
2 140 (34.23%) DevOps
3 128 (31.30%) CI/CD
4 119 (29.10%) Mentoring
5 115 (28.12%) Kanban
6 112 (27.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 95 (23.23%) Problem-Solving
8 68 (16.63%) Microservices
9 66 (16.14%) Stakeholder Management
10 64 (15.65%) TDD
11 62 (15.16%) Full-Stack Development
11 62 (15.16%) Software Testing
12 59 (14.43%) Roadmaps
12 59 (14.43%) Software Engineering
13 58 (14.18%) User Stories
14 55 (13.45%) Project Delivery
15 52 (12.71%) Continuous Integration
16 49 (11.98%) Project Management
17 45 (11.00%) API Testing
17 45 (11.00%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 123 (30.07%) SQL
2 103 (25.18%) C#
3 71 (17.36%) JavaScript
4 68 (16.63%) TypeScript
5 63 (15.40%) Java
6 55 (13.45%) Python
7 15 (3.67%) Apex Code
7 15 (3.67%) SOQL
7 15 (3.67%) SOSL
8 8 (1.96%) C++
9 7 (1.71%) VB.NET
10 6 (1.47%) Bash
10 6 (1.47%) C
11 5 (1.22%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.98%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.73%) Embedded C
13 3 (0.73%) Erlang
13 3 (0.73%) PHP
13 3 (0.73%) Scala
13 3 (0.73%) Swift
Qualifications
1 108 (26.41%) Degree
2 41 (10.02%) ISTQB
3 38 (9.29%) Security Cleared
4 37 (9.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (7.09%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 27 (6.60%) SC Cleared
7 21 (5.13%) Master's Degree
8 9 (2.20%) PMI Certification
8 9 (2.20%) PMP
9 8 (1.96%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 7 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.22%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.98%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.73%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.73%) IBM Certification
13 3 (0.73%) ISEB
14 2 (0.49%) CBAP
14 2 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (24.94%) QA
2 17 (4.16%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.47%) WCAG
4 5 (1.22%) PMO
4 5 (1.22%) SLA
5 3 (0.73%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (0.49%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.49%) ECSS
6 2 (0.49%) GDPR
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.24%) GRC
7 1 (0.24%) HL7
7 1 (0.24%) IFRS
7 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.24%) P3O
System Software
1 28 (6.85%) Docker
2 13 (3.18%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (6.11%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.16%) Terraform
3 15 (3.67%) Ansible
4 3 (0.73%) Grafana
4 3 (0.73%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.49%) Argo
6 1 (0.24%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 97 (23.72%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.13%) Salesforce
3 15 (3.67%) Splunk
4 11 (2.69%) ServiceNow
5 10 (2.44%) SAP
6 9 (2.20%) Google
6 9 (2.20%) Mercator
7 7 (1.71%) DevExpress
7 7 (1.71%) Oracle
8 5 (1.22%) ESRI
8 5 (1.22%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.98%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.73%) Adobe
10 3 (0.73%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.73%) IBM
11 2 (0.49%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.49%) PagerDuty
11 2 (0.49%) Pega
11 2 (0.49%) SendGrid
11 2 (0.49%) Zend