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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 103 65
Rank change year-on-year +22 -38 -28
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 694 582 1,093
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.20% 3.53% 3.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.86% 3.79% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 530 317 846
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,117 £49,118 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.26% +10.83% -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 17,957 15,368 25,424
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.85% 93.21% 88.45%
Number of salaries quoted 13,054 9,086 18,978
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,711
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,043 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.01% +0.08% -8.71%

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 23 July 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 45 (6.48%) Confluence
2 12 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.59%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.58%) Apache
5 3 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.43%) CMS
5 3 (0.43%) DNN
5 3 (0.43%) EPiServer
5 3 (0.43%) Immediacy CMS
5 3 (0.43%) Kentico
5 3 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.43%) Sitefinity
5 3 (0.43%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.29%) Appian
6 2 (0.29%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.29%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 12 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.15%) Trello
4 5 (0.72%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.58%) Adobe XD
5 4 (0.58%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.43%) Productboard
6 3 (0.43%) Sketch
7 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
8 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 18 (2.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.43%) Shopify
3 2 (0.29%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.14%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 318 (45.82%) Azure
2 262 (37.75%) AWS
3 101 (14.55%) Azure DevOps
4 66 (9.51%) GCP
5 58 (8.36%) GitHub
6 52 (7.49%) Serverless
7 39 (5.62%) GitHub Copilot
8 37 (5.33%) Power Platform
9 27 (3.89%) Power Automate
10 24 (3.46%) Azure Service Bus
10 24 (3.46%) SaaS
11 23 (3.31%) PaaS
11 23 (3.31%) PowerApps
12 21 (3.03%) Azure Functions
13 19 (2.74%) Azure AKS
13 19 (2.74%) Azure Key Vault
13 19 (2.74%) Azure Logic Apps
14 17 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
15 15 (2.16%) Azure Monitor
16 13 (1.87%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (7.64%) Broadband
2 14 (2.02%) Ethernet
2 14 (2.02%) RS-232
2 14 (2.02%) VPN
3 9 (1.30%) Firewall
4 5 (0.72%) LAN
4 5 (0.72%) WAN
5 4 (0.58%) MQTT
6 3 (0.43%) Network Security
6 3 (0.43%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.43%) Wireless
6 3 (0.43%) WPA
7 2 (0.29%) ATM
7 2 (0.29%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (17.58%) MongoDB
2 94 (13.54%) Azure SQL Database
3 84 (12.10%) Elasticsearch
4 48 (6.92%) PostgreSQL
5 38 (5.48%) NoSQL
6 22 (3.17%) Metadata
7 21 (3.03%) SQL Server
8 20 (2.88%) Power BI
9 16 (2.31%) MySQL
10 15 (2.16%) Redis
11 12 (1.73%) Relational Database
12 8 (1.15%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.86%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (0.58%) Star Schema
16 3 (0.43%) Big Data
17 2 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 93 (13.40%) JIRA
2 58 (8.36%) Git
3 56 (8.07%) GitLab
4 40 (5.76%) Jenkins
5 35 (5.04%) SonarQube
6 15 (2.16%) Cypress.io
7 12 (1.73%) CircleCI
8 11 (1.59%) JUnit
9 10 (1.44%) Maven
9 10 (1.44%) Mockito
10 9 (1.30%) Visual Studio
11 7 (1.01%) Postman
12 6 (0.86%) Claude Code
13 5 (0.72%) Selenium
14 4 (0.58%) NUnit
14 4 (0.58%) SoapUI
14 4 (0.58%) SpecFlow
14 4 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
15 3 (0.43%) Oracle APEX
16 2 (0.29%) Vagrant
General
1 208 (29.97%) Social Skills
2 155 (22.33%) Finance
3 140 (20.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 113 (16.28%) Public Sector
5 107 (15.42%) Law
6 77 (11.10%) Analytical Skills
7 48 (6.92%) Games
8 45 (6.48%) Marketing
9 30 (4.32%) Legal
10 24 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (2.16%) Retail
12 13 (1.87%) Legal Technology
13 9 (1.30%) Banking
14 8 (1.15%) Advertising
14 8 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.86%) Health Technology
15 6 (0.86%) Social Housing
16 4 (0.58%) Publishing
16 4 (0.58%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 190 (27.38%) Developer
2 156 (22.48%) Senior
3 85 (12.25%) .NET Developer
4 84 (12.10%) Analyst
5 73 (10.52%) Architect
6 59 (8.50%) Software Engineer
7 54 (7.78%) Business Analyst
7 54 (7.78%) Delivery Manager
8 52 (7.49%) Lead
9 37 (5.33%) Agile Delivery Manager
10 36 (5.19%) Senior Developer
11 35 (5.04%) Senior Analyst
12 33 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
12 33 (4.76%) Salesforce Architect
13 30 (4.32%) Project Manager
13 30 (4.32%) Senior DevOps
13 30 (4.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 28 (4.03%) Senior Business Analyst
14 28 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
15 24 (3.46%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (20.32%) React
2 131 (18.88%) .NET
3 123 (17.72%) Node.js
4 92 (13.26%) ASP.NET
5 87 (12.54%) ASP.NET Core
6 84 (12.10%) .NET Core
7 69 (9.94%) AngularJS
8 64 (9.22%) REST
9 63 (9.08%) .NET Framework
10 55 (7.93%) Vue
11 54 (7.78%) ASP.NET Web API
12 53 (7.64%) RESTful
13 42 (6.05%) Lightning Web Components
14 40 (5.76%) HTML
15 39 (5.62%) SOAP
16 38 (5.48%) Visualforce
17 34 (4.90%) Spring
18 33 (4.76%) Blazor
19 32 (4.61%) CSS
20 23 (3.31%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 171 (24.64%) Product Ownership
2 60 (8.65%) Cloud Native
3 25 (3.60%) Podcast
4 19 (2.74%) Onboarding
4 19 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (2.02%) Device Driver
6 12 (1.73%) Public Cloud
6 12 (1.73%) Security Posture
7 11 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.30%) PMI
9 8 (1.15%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.15%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.01%) Culture of Ownership
10 7 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.01%) e-Learning
10 7 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.86%) AI Agents
11 6 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (0.72%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.72%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 64 (9.22%) Linux
2 41 (5.91%) Windows
3 28 (4.03%) Unix
4 14 (2.02%) Embedded Linux
5 12 (1.73%) VMS
6 8 (1.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 652 (93.95%) Agile
2 248 (35.73%) DevOps
3 242 (34.87%) Continuous Improvement
4 221 (31.84%) CI/CD
5 207 (29.83%) Kanban
6 170 (24.50%) Microservices
7 141 (20.32%) Full-Stack Development
8 137 (19.74%) Mentoring
9 121 (17.44%) Coaching
9 121 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
10 115 (16.57%) Roadmaps
11 113 (16.28%) AI
12 107 (15.42%) TDD
13 101 (14.55%) Software Engineering
14 98 (14.12%) Community of Practice
14 98 (14.12%) Project Delivery
15 97 (13.98%) User Stories
16 88 (12.68%) Stakeholder Management
17 85 (12.25%) Continuous Integration
18 84 (12.10%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 170 (24.50%) SQL
2 146 (21.04%) JavaScript
3 138 (19.88%) C#
4 110 (15.85%) TypeScript
5 68 (9.80%) Java
6 66 (9.51%) Python
7 39 (5.62%) Apex Code
8 35 (5.04%) SOQL
9 34 (4.90%) SOSL
10 24 (3.46%) Ruby
11 23 (3.31%) Bash
12 20 (2.88%) Bicep
12 20 (2.88%) C++
12 20 (2.88%) PowerShell
13 16 (2.31%) C
14 14 (2.02%) Embedded C
15 12 (1.73%) Kusto Query Language
16 11 (1.59%) PL/SQL
17 7 (1.01%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.58%) Rust
Qualifications
1 126 (18.16%) Degree
2 98 (14.12%) Security Cleared
3 87 (12.54%) SC Cleared
4 49 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.89%) PMI Certification
6 26 (3.75%) Azure Certification
7 20 (2.88%) PMP
8 17 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (1.44%) DBS Check
10 9 (1.30%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.86%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.72%) CIPD
12 5 (0.72%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.43%) CCIE Security
14 3 (0.43%) CCSA
14 3 (0.43%) CSPO
14 3 (0.43%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.43%) JNCIE
14 3 (0.43%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (10.52%) QA
2 22 (3.17%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.87%) GRC
3 13 (1.87%) PMO
4 11 (1.59%) GDPR
4 11 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 5 (0.72%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.72%) WCAG
7 4 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.14%) GxP
9 1 (0.14%) NIST
System Software
1 119 (17.15%) Docker
2 12 (1.73%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.73%) Virtual Desktop
2 12 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (1.73%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 83 (11.96%) Kubernetes
2 59 (8.50%) Terraform
3 14 (2.02%) Ansible
3 14 (2.02%) Argo
4 12 (1.73%) Podman
5 5 (0.72%) Grafana
6 4 (0.58%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.29%) Packer
7 2 (0.29%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.14%) Kibana
8 1 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 163 (23.49%) Microsoft
2 55 (7.93%) Salesforce
3 34 (4.90%) Splunk
4 23 (3.31%) Oracle
5 15 (2.16%) Google
6 14 (2.02%) Pega
7 12 (1.73%) Databricks
7 12 (1.73%) ScienceLogic
7 12 (1.73%) VMware
8 10 (1.44%) SAP
9 6 (0.86%) Infor
10 5 (0.72%) Adobe
10 5 (0.72%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.72%) Cisco
10 5 (0.72%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.58%) Epicor
11 4 (0.58%) IFS
11 4 (0.58%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.43%) Alterian
12 3 (0.43%) CheckPoint