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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 96 55
Rank change year-on-year +17 -41 -20
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 637 563 1,562
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.16% 3.64% 4.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.86% 3.85% 5.06%
Number of salaries quoted 458 292 1,266
10th Percentile £42,350 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,468 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £64,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.71% +7.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £84,500 £97,528 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,313 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.24% +12.50% -7.69%

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 16,496 14,625 30,850
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.89% 94.51% 88.84%
Number of salaries quoted 11,943 8,513 23,831
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 20 June 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 36 (5.65%) Confluence
2 16 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.47%) Apache
4 3 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.31%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.31%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.31%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle Spatial
5 2 (0.31%) SAS
6 1 (0.16%) DNN
6 1 (0.16%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.16%) Immediacy CMS
6 1 (0.16%) Kentico
6 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.16%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 12 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.78%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.63%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.63%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.63%) Trello
5 3 (0.47%) Productboard
5 3 (0.47%) Sketch
6 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.16%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 20 (3.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.31%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.16%) Shopify
4 1 (0.16%) TIBCO iProcess
4 1 (0.16%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 263 (41.29%) Azure
2 211 (33.12%) AWS
3 83 (13.03%) Azure DevOps
4 60 (9.42%) GCP
5 52 (8.16%) Serverless
6 42 (6.59%) GitHub
7 40 (6.28%) Power Platform
8 28 (4.40%) Power Automate
9 26 (4.08%) Azure Service Bus
10 25 (3.92%) GitHub Copilot
10 25 (3.92%) PowerApps
11 21 (3.30%) Azure AKS
11 21 (3.30%) SaaS
12 20 (3.14%) Azure Logic Apps
12 20 (3.14%) PaaS
13 19 (2.98%) Azure Functions
14 17 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
15 15 (2.35%) Azure Key Vault
16 13 (2.04%) Cloud Functions
17 12 (1.88%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 75 (11.77%) Broadband
2 15 (2.35%) Ethernet
2 15 (2.35%) RS-232
3 10 (1.57%) VPN
4 8 (1.26%) Firewall
5 5 (0.78%) LAN
5 5 (0.78%) WAN
6 4 (0.63%) MQTT
7 3 (0.47%) Network Security
7 3 (0.47%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.47%) Wireless
7 3 (0.47%) WPA
8 2 (0.31%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (0.16%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (13.66%) MongoDB
2 60 (9.42%) Azure SQL Database
3 53 (8.32%) Elasticsearch
4 38 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
5 36 (5.65%) NoSQL
6 20 (3.14%) SQL Server
7 19 (2.98%) Metadata
7 19 (2.98%) Power BI
8 10 (1.57%) Redis
8 10 (1.57%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.41%) MySQL
10 6 (0.94%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.78%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.63%) Big Data
12 4 (0.63%) Star Schema
13 2 (0.31%) GIS
Development Applications
1 83 (13.03%) JIRA
2 63 (9.89%) Jenkins
3 55 (8.63%) GitLab
4 54 (8.48%) Git
5 35 (5.49%) SonarQube
6 22 (3.45%) TeamCity
7 19 (2.98%) Postman
8 16 (2.51%) Selenium
9 15 (2.35%) Cypress.io
10 14 (2.20%) SoapUI
11 12 (1.88%) CircleCI
11 12 (1.88%) Team Foundation Server
12 10 (1.57%) JUnit
13 9 (1.41%) Maven
13 9 (1.41%) Mockito
13 9 (1.41%) WebDriver
14 8 (1.26%) Visual Studio
15 6 (0.94%) NUnit
15 6 (0.94%) SpecFlow
16 5 (0.78%) JMeter
General
1 196 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 133 (20.88%) Finance
3 127 (19.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 88 (13.81%) Public Sector
5 81 (12.72%) Law
6 68 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
7 49 (7.69%) Games
8 44 (6.91%) Marketing
9 29 (4.55%) Legal
10 23 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (2.04%) Legal Technology
12 11 (1.73%) Retail
13 10 (1.57%) Banking
14 8 (1.26%) Advertising
14 8 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.94%) Health Technology
15 6 (0.94%) Social Housing
16 4 (0.63%) Publishing
16 4 (0.63%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 152 (23.86%) Developer
2 148 (23.23%) Senior
3 72 (11.30%) Analyst
4 70 (10.99%) Architect
5 69 (10.83%) Software Engineer
6 58 (9.11%) Lead
7 56 (8.79%) .NET Developer
8 51 (8.01%) Delivery Manager
9 46 (7.22%) Business Analyst
10 33 (5.18%) Agile Delivery Manager
10 33 (5.18%) Salesforce Architect
11 31 (4.87%) Senior Developer
12 28 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
13 27 (4.24%) Senior Analyst
14 26 (4.08%) Product Manager
15 24 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
15 24 (3.77%) Senior Manager
15 24 (3.77%) Senior Software Engineer
16 21 (3.30%) Senior Business Analyst
17 20 (3.14%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (18.52%) React
2 110 (17.27%) .NET
3 87 (13.66%) Node.js
4 62 (9.73%) REST
5 61 (9.58%) ASP.NET
6 57 (8.95%) ASP.NET Core
7 54 (8.48%) .NET Core
8 49 (7.69%) AngularJS
8 49 (7.69%) SOAP
9 44 (6.91%) RESTful
10 43 (6.75%) HTML
11 42 (6.59%) .NET Framework
12 41 (6.44%) Lightning Web Components
13 38 (5.97%) Visualforce
14 37 (5.81%) Vue
15 36 (5.65%) ASP.NET Web API
16 33 (5.18%) Spring
17 27 (4.24%) CSS
18 24 (3.77%) Web Services
19 22 (3.45%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 170 (26.69%) Product Ownership
2 58 (9.11%) Cloud Native
3 22 (3.45%) Over-the-Top Content
3 22 (3.45%) Video\Live Streaming
4 21 (3.30%) Podcast
5 18 (2.83%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (2.35%) Device Driver
8 12 (1.88%) e-Learning
9 10 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.26%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.26%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.10%) Culture of Ownership
11 7 (1.10%) PMI
12 6 (0.94%) AI Agents
12 6 (0.94%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.78%) Data Centre
13 5 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.78%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 50 (7.85%) Linux
2 26 (4.08%) Windows
3 21 (3.30%) Unix
4 15 (2.35%) Embedded Linux
5 8 (1.26%) VMS
6 6 (0.94%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.16%) CentOS
7 1 (0.16%) Debian
7 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 598 (93.88%) Agile
2 237 (37.21%) Continuous Improvement
3 221 (34.69%) DevOps
4 212 (33.28%) Kanban
5 199 (31.24%) CI/CD
6 131 (20.57%) Microservices
7 120 (18.84%) Mentoring
8 117 (18.37%) Roadmaps
9 116 (18.21%) Problem-Solving
10 115 (18.05%) Full-Stack Development
11 106 (16.64%) Coaching
11 106 (16.64%) TDD
12 102 (16.01%) Software Engineering
13 86 (13.50%) AI
14 85 (13.34%) Community of Practice
15 81 (12.72%) User Stories
16 80 (12.56%) Stakeholder Management
17 74 (11.62%) Test Automation
18 72 (11.30%) Acceptance Criteria
18 72 (11.30%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 137 (21.51%) SQL
2 117 (18.37%) JavaScript
3 113 (17.74%) C#
4 89 (13.97%) TypeScript
5 79 (12.40%) Java
6 61 (9.58%) Python
7 38 (5.97%) Apex Code
8 34 (5.34%) SOQL
8 34 (5.34%) SOSL
9 22 (3.45%) Scala
10 20 (3.14%) C++
11 18 (2.83%) Bash
12 16 (2.51%) Bicep
12 16 (2.51%) Ruby
13 15 (2.35%) C
13 15 (2.35%) Embedded C
13 15 (2.35%) PowerShell
14 10 (1.57%) PL/SQL
15 8 (1.26%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 125 (19.62%) Degree
2 82 (12.87%) Security Cleared
3 72 (11.30%) SC Cleared
4 45 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.14%) Azure Certification
6 19 (2.98%) DBS Check
7 18 (2.83%) PMI Certification
8 12 (1.88%) ISTQB
8 12 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (1.88%) PMP
9 7 (1.10%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.10%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 6 (0.94%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.78%) CIPD
11 5 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.47%) CCIE
12 3 (0.47%) CCNP
12 3 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.47%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.47%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (12.56%) QA
2 22 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.88%) GRC
3 12 (1.88%) PMO
4 9 (1.41%) GDPR
5 5 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.63%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (0.47%) WCAG
8 2 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.31%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.16%) GxP
9 1 (0.16%) P3O
System Software
1 116 (18.21%) Docker
2 10 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 90 (14.13%) Kubernetes
2 56 (8.79%) Terraform
3 16 (2.51%) Ansible
4 14 (2.20%) Argo
5 12 (1.88%) Podman
6 5 (0.78%) Grafana
7 4 (0.63%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.31%) Packer
8 2 (0.31%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.16%) Kibana
9 1 (0.16%) Puppet
9 1 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 130 (20.41%) Microsoft
2 51 (8.01%) Salesforce
3 34 (5.34%) Splunk
4 22 (3.45%) Oracle
5 16 (2.51%) Google
6 10 (1.57%) Databricks
7 8 (1.26%) SAP
7 8 (1.26%) ScienceLogic
7 8 (1.26%) VMware
8 6 (0.94%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.78%) Cisco
9 5 (0.78%) Palo Alto
10 4 (0.63%) Adobe
10 4 (0.63%) Infor
10 4 (0.63%) Pega
11 3 (0.47%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.47%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.47%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.47%) Foundry
11 3 (0.47%) Red Hat