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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 58 48
Rank change year-on-year -37 -10 -15
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 460 729 1,599
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.77% 5.23% 5.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.25% 5.48% 5.80%
Number of salaries quoted 312 331 1,354
10th Percentile £39,238 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,688 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,125 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £89,712
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 14,163 13,299 27,577
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.18% 95.33% 92.18%
Number of salaries quoted 9,242 8,824 22,844
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,415 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%

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 11 March 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 26 (5.65%) Confluence
2 8 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.87%) ArcGIS
3 4 (0.87%) GeoServer
3 4 (0.87%) Oracle Spatial
4 3 (0.65%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.43%) Apache
5 2 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.43%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.43%) SAS
6 1 (0.22%) CMS
6 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.30%) Trello
2 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.65%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.43%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.43%) Sketch
6 1 (0.22%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 11 (2.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.65%) Maximo
2 3 (0.65%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.43%) Shopify
4 1 (0.22%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.22%) Magento
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.22%) Primavera
4 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.22%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 138 (30.00%) Azure
2 97 (21.09%) AWS
3 50 (10.87%) Serverless
4 45 (9.78%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (5.87%) GCP
5 27 (5.87%) Power Platform
5 27 (5.87%) SaaS
6 24 (5.22%) GitHub
7 22 (4.78%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (3.70%) Amazon S3
8 17 (3.70%) Entra ID
8 17 (3.70%) PaaS
9 16 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (3.04%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (2.83%) Azure App Service
12 12 (2.61%) PowerApps
13 10 (2.17%) Azure AKS
13 10 (2.17%) Power Automate
14 9 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 68 (14.78%) Broadband
2 9 (1.96%) Ethernet
2 9 (1.96%) RS-232
3 4 (0.87%) Firewall
3 4 (0.87%) MQTT
4 2 (0.43%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (0.43%) LAN
4 2 (0.43%) VPN
4 2 (0.43%) WAN
5 1 (0.22%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (9.13%) SQL Server
2 31 (6.74%) NoSQL
3 18 (3.91%) MongoDB
3 18 (3.91%) Relational Database
4 16 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (3.04%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (2.83%) Power BI
7 12 (2.61%) MySQL
8 8 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.52%) Metadata
9 7 (1.52%) Tableau
10 6 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.87%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.87%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.87%) GIS
11 4 (0.87%) QGIS
11 4 (0.87%) Qlik Sense
12 3 (0.65%) Power Query
13 2 (0.43%) Looker
13 2 (0.43%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 71 (15.43%) Jenkins
2 68 (14.78%) JIRA
3 54 (11.74%) Git
4 51 (11.09%) GitLab
5 40 (8.70%) SonarQube
6 32 (6.96%) Postman
7 29 (6.30%) SoapUI
8 28 (6.09%) Selenium
9 26 (5.65%) WebDriver
10 25 (5.43%) Team Foundation Server
11 23 (5.00%) TeamCity
12 5 (1.09%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.87%) JMeter
13 4 (0.87%) SpecFlow
14 3 (0.65%) Cypress.io
14 3 (0.65%) Oracle APEX
14 3 (0.65%) Storybook
15 2 (0.43%) Cucumber
15 2 (0.43%) REST Assured
15 2 (0.43%) Serenity BDD
General
1 172 (37.39%) Social Skills
2 92 (20.00%) Finance
2 92 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 70 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (13.04%) Marketing
5 57 (12.39%) Public Sector
6 47 (10.22%) Games
7 33 (7.17%) Law
8 20 (4.35%) Legal
9 19 (4.13%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (3.48%) Health Technology
10 16 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (3.26%) Tech for Good
12 14 (3.04%) Publishing
13 10 (2.17%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.96%) Banking
15 8 (1.74%) Manufacturing
16 6 (1.30%) Electronics
17 4 (0.87%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 103 (22.39%) Developer
2 91 (19.78%) Senior
3 72 (15.65%) Lead
4 57 (12.39%) Architect
5 56 (12.17%) Software Engineer
6 49 (10.65%) Analyst
7 38 (8.26%) Salesforce Architect
8 30 (6.52%) .NET Developer
8 30 (6.52%) Lead Developer
9 27 (5.87%) Business Analyst
10 24 (5.22%) Product Manager
10 24 (5.22%) Senior Software Engineer
11 23 (5.00%) Delivery Manager
12 20 (4.35%) Salesforce Technical Architect
12 20 (4.35%) Technical Architect
13 19 (4.13%) Senior Developer
14 18 (3.91%) Software Developer
14 18 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
15 17 (3.70%) Product Owner
15 17 (3.70%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (20.65%) .NET
2 71 (15.43%) SOAP
3 60 (13.04%) React
4 57 (12.39%) REST
5 51 (11.09%) RESTful
6 50 (10.87%) HTML
7 43 (9.35%) Lightning Web Components
7 43 (9.35%) Visualforce
8 34 (7.39%) .NET Framework
9 28 (6.09%) Akka
10 27 (5.87%) CSS
11 24 (5.22%) ASP.NET Web API
12 22 (4.78%) Entity Framework
12 22 (4.78%) Node.js
13 19 (4.13%) .NET Core
13 19 (4.13%) AngularJS
14 16 (3.48%) Web Services
15 13 (2.83%) Spring
16 12 (2.61%) ASP.NET
16 12 (2.61%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 132 (28.70%) Product Ownership
2 33 (7.17%) Cloud Native
3 23 (5.00%) Over-the-Top Content
3 23 (5.00%) Video\Live Streaming
4 13 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (1.96%) Device Driver
6 9 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.74%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.52%) e-Learning
9 5 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.09%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.87%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.87%) N-Tier
10 4 (0.87%) PMI
10 4 (0.87%) Podcast
11 3 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.65%) Social Media
12 2 (0.43%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.57%) Linux
2 9 (1.96%) Embedded Linux
3 5 (1.09%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.65%) Android
4 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.65%) Unix
5 2 (0.43%) VMS
6 1 (0.22%) CentOS
6 1 (0.22%) Debian
6 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (91.96%) Agile
2 172 (37.39%) Continuous Improvement
3 160 (34.78%) DevOps
4 153 (33.26%) CI/CD
5 150 (32.61%) Kanban
6 101 (21.96%) Problem-Solving
6 101 (21.96%) Roadmaps
7 98 (21.30%) Mentoring
8 82 (17.83%) Software Engineering
9 77 (16.74%) User Stories
10 69 (15.00%) Acceptance Criteria
11 67 (14.57%) Community of Practice
12 65 (14.13%) Microservices
12 65 (14.13%) TDD
13 64 (13.91%) Continuous Integration
14 63 (13.70%) Continuous Delivery
15 61 (13.26%) Coaching
15 61 (13.26%) Stakeholder Management
16 59 (12.83%) OO
17 55 (11.96%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 93 (20.22%) SQL
2 79 (17.17%) C#
3 70 (15.22%) Java
4 53 (11.52%) JavaScript
5 51 (11.09%) Python
6 49 (10.65%) TypeScript
7 43 (9.35%) Apex Code
8 40 (8.70%) SOQL
8 40 (8.70%) SOSL
9 24 (5.22%) Scala
10 16 (3.48%) C++
11 12 (2.61%) C
12 9 (1.96%) Embedded C
13 5 (1.09%) Bash
14 4 (0.87%) PHP
14 4 (0.87%) Rust
15 3 (0.65%) Erlang
15 3 (0.65%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.65%) Ruby
15 3 (0.65%) Swift
Qualifications
1 110 (23.91%) Degree
2 59 (12.83%) Security Cleared
3 49 (10.65%) SC Cleared
4 31 (6.74%) ISTQB
5 26 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (4.78%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 17 (3.70%) Master's Degree
8 14 (3.04%) DBS Check
9 12 (2.61%) PMI Certification
10 9 (1.96%) PMP
11 8 (1.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 7 (1.52%) DV Cleared
12 7 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (1.09%) CIPD
14 3 (0.65%) IBM Certification
15 2 (0.43%) AWS Certification
15 2 (0.43%) CBAP
15 2 (0.43%) IIBA
15 2 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (17.39%) QA
2 13 (2.83%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.09%) PMO
4 3 (0.65%) GRC
4 3 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.43%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.43%) ECSS
5 2 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (0.43%) WCAG
6 1 (0.22%) IFRS
6 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.22%) P3O
System Software
1 54 (11.74%) Docker
2 11 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 55 (11.96%) Kubernetes
2 26 (5.65%) Terraform
3 17 (3.70%) Ansible
4 5 (1.09%) Grafana
4 5 (1.09%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.43%) Argo
5 2 (0.43%) Packer
5 2 (0.43%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 66 (14.35%) Microsoft
2 52 (11.30%) Salesforce
3 40 (8.70%) Splunk
4 12 (2.61%) Oracle
5 10 (2.17%) Google
6 9 (1.96%) Mercator
6 9 (1.96%) SAP
7 7 (1.52%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.09%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.09%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.87%) ESRI
10 3 (0.65%) Foundry
10 3 (0.65%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.65%) IBM
11 2 (0.43%) Adobe
11 2 (0.43%) Cisco
11 2 (0.43%) PagerDuty
11 2 (0.43%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.43%) SendGrid
11 2 (0.43%) Zend