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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 58 43
Rank change year-on-year -37 -15 -13
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 420 830 1,593
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.63% 5.21% 5.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.03% 5.51% 6.26%
Number of salaries quoted 301 329 1,355
10th Percentile £39,750 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £49,750 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -9.91%

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 13,845 15,075 25,445
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.66% 94.54% 92.80%
Number of salaries quoted 8,824 8,952 21,022
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £34,751
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.62% -7.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
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% -12.00%

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 6 February 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 21 (5.00%) Confluence
2 9 (2.14%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.95%) ArcGIS
4 4 (0.95%) GeoServer
4 4 (0.95%) Oracle Spatial
5 3 (0.71%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.48%) Apache
6 2 (0.48%) SAS
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.24%) CMS
7 1 (0.24%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.19%) Trello
3 3 (0.71%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.48%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.48%) Sketch
5 1 (0.24%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 11 (2.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.71%) Maximo
2 3 (0.71%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.48%) Shopify
4 1 (0.24%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.24%) Magento
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.24%) Primavera
4 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.24%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 139 (33.10%) Azure
2 103 (24.52%) AWS
3 57 (13.57%) Serverless
4 46 (10.95%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (7.86%) GitHub
6 30 (7.14%) SaaS
7 29 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
8 28 (6.67%) Power Platform
9 21 (5.00%) GCP
10 20 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (4.52%) Amazon S3
12 17 (4.05%) PaaS
13 15 (3.57%) Entra ID
14 14 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
14 14 (3.33%) Azure App Service
15 13 (3.10%) PowerApps
16 12 (2.86%) Power Automate
17 11 (2.62%) Amazon EKS
18 10 (2.38%) Azure Functions
19 9 (2.14%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 48 (11.43%) Broadband
2 6 (1.43%) Ethernet
2 6 (1.43%) RS-232
3 2 (0.48%) DNS
3 2 (0.48%) Firewall
3 2 (0.48%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.48%) VPN
4 1 (0.24%) AMQP
4 1 (0.24%) GPRS
4 1 (0.24%) HTTP
4 1 (0.24%) LTE
4 1 (0.24%) Modbus
4 1 (0.24%) MQTT
4 1 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (10.48%) SQL Server
2 27 (6.43%) MongoDB
2 27 (6.43%) NoSQL
3 24 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 21 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
5 19 (4.52%) Relational Database
6 18 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (2.86%) Power BI
8 10 (2.38%) MySQL
9 9 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.90%) DynamoDB
11 7 (1.67%) Tableau
12 6 (1.43%) Metadata
13 5 (1.19%) GIS
14 4 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.95%) BigQuery
14 4 (0.95%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.95%) QGIS
14 4 (0.95%) Qlik Sense
15 3 (0.71%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 68 (16.19%) JIRA
2 56 (13.33%) Git
2 56 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 38 (9.05%) Postman
4 35 (8.33%) Selenium
5 33 (7.86%) SoapUI
6 31 (7.38%) GitLab
6 31 (7.38%) WebDriver
7 30 (7.14%) Team Foundation Server
8 23 (5.48%) SonarQube
8 23 (5.48%) TeamCity
9 6 (1.43%) JMeter
9 6 (1.43%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.95%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.95%) SpecFlow
11 3 (0.71%) Storybook
12 2 (0.48%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.48%) LoadRunner
12 2 (0.48%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.48%) Serenity BDD
General
1 157 (37.38%) Social Skills
2 96 (22.86%) Finance
3 59 (14.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 52 (12.38%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (12.38%) Public Sector
5 44 (10.48%) Marketing
6 31 (7.38%) Games
7 24 (5.71%) Tech for Good
8 20 (4.76%) Health Technology
8 20 (4.76%) Law
8 20 (4.76%) Publishing
9 17 (4.05%) Influencing Skills
9 17 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (2.62%) Telecoms
12 10 (2.38%) Legal
13 8 (1.90%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.67%) Banking
15 6 (1.43%) Electronics
16 5 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 126 (30.00%) Developer
2 88 (20.95%) Senior
3 69 (16.43%) Lead
4 45 (10.71%) Software Engineer
5 43 (10.24%) Analyst
6 38 (9.05%) .NET Developer
7 35 (8.33%) Architect
8 30 (7.14%) Lead Developer
9 28 (6.67%) Senior Developer
10 23 (5.48%) Python Developer
10 23 (5.48%) React Developer
11 22 (5.24%) Senior Software Engineer
12 21 (5.00%) Salesforce Architect
13 20 (4.76%) Business Analyst
14 19 (4.52%) Software Developer
15 18 (4.29%) AWS Developer
15 18 (4.29%) Delivery Manager
15 18 (4.29%) Scrum Master
15 18 (4.29%) Test Analyst
16 15 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (24.52%) .NET
2 74 (17.62%) React
3 63 (15.00%) SOAP
4 54 (12.86%) RESTful
5 49 (11.67%) HTML
6 43 (10.24%) REST
7 38 (9.05%) .NET Framework
8 34 (8.10%) ASP.NET Web API
9 33 (7.86%) Node.js
10 32 (7.62%) Entity Framework
11 29 (6.90%) .NET Core
12 28 (6.67%) Akka
13 26 (6.19%) AngularJS
14 23 (5.48%) Lightning Web Components
14 23 (5.48%) Visualforce
15 22 (5.24%) Vue
16 21 (5.00%) CSS
17 19 (4.52%) ASP.NET
17 19 (4.52%) Web Services
18 16 (3.81%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 94 (22.38%) Product Ownership
2 24 (5.71%) Cloud Native
3 23 (5.48%) Over-the-Top Content
3 23 (5.48%) Video\Live Streaming
4 11 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.38%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.90%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.67%) e-Learning
9 6 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.43%) Device Driver
10 4 (0.95%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.95%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.71%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.71%) N-Tier
11 3 (0.71%) PMI
11 3 (0.71%) Social Media
12 2 (0.48%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.29%) Linux
2 6 (1.43%) Embedded Linux
3 5 (1.19%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.71%) Android
4 3 (0.71%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.71%) Unix
5 2 (0.48%) VMS
6 1 (0.24%) CentOS
6 1 (0.24%) Debian
6 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (93.81%) Agile
2 145 (34.52%) Kanban
3 142 (33.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 138 (32.86%) DevOps
5 129 (30.71%) CI/CD
6 102 (24.29%) Mentoring
7 89 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
8 77 (18.33%) TDD
9 75 (17.86%) Roadmaps
10 72 (17.14%) Software Engineering
11 64 (15.24%) Stakeholder Management
12 63 (15.00%) Microservices
13 58 (13.81%) Acceptance Criteria
14 56 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
14 56 (13.33%) User Stories
15 52 (12.38%) Software Testing
16 51 (12.14%) Project Delivery
17 50 (11.90%) Coaching
18 49 (11.67%) Continuous Integration
19 47 (11.19%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 107 (25.48%) SQL
2 93 (22.14%) C#
3 69 (16.43%) Java
3 69 (16.43%) TypeScript
4 62 (14.76%) JavaScript
5 54 (12.86%) Python
6 24 (5.71%) Scala
7 23 (5.48%) Apex Code
7 23 (5.48%) SOQL
7 23 (5.48%) SOSL
8 13 (3.10%) C++
9 9 (2.14%) C
10 7 (1.67%) Bash
11 6 (1.43%) Embedded C
12 3 (0.71%) Erlang
12 3 (0.71%) Groovy
12 3 (0.71%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.71%) PHP
12 3 (0.71%) Swift
12 3 (0.71%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 97 (23.10%) Degree
2 46 (10.95%) Security Cleared
3 37 (8.81%) ISTQB
4 36 (8.57%) SC Cleared
5 27 (6.43%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 26 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (4.52%) Master's Degree
8 13 (3.10%) DBS Check
9 10 (2.38%) PMI Certification
10 9 (2.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 8 (1.90%) PMP
12 7 (1.67%) DV Cleared
13 6 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.95%) AWS Certification
16 3 (0.71%) IBM Certification
17 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 2 (0.48%) CBAP
17 2 (0.48%) IIBA
17 2 (0.48%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (20.00%) QA
2 14 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.95%) PMO
3 4 (0.95%) WCAG
4 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.48%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.48%) ECSS
5 2 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.24%) GDPR
6 1 (0.24%) GRC
6 1 (0.24%) IFRS
6 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.24%) P3O
System Software
1 53 (12.62%) Docker
2 13 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 51 (12.14%) Kubernetes
2 21 (5.00%) Terraform
3 14 (3.33%) Ansible
4 4 (0.95%) Grafana
4 4 (0.95%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.48%) Argo
5 2 (0.48%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.24%) Packer
6 1 (0.24%) Puppet
Vendors
1 79 (18.81%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.14%) Salesforce
3 23 (5.48%) Splunk
4 12 (2.86%) ServiceNow
5 10 (2.38%) Google
5 10 (2.38%) Oracle
5 10 (2.38%) SAP
6 9 (2.14%) Mercator
7 5 (1.19%) ESRI
7 5 (1.19%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.71%) DevExpress
8 3 (0.71%) Guidewire
8 3 (0.71%) IBM
9 2 (0.48%) Adobe
9 2 (0.48%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.48%) Foundry
9 2 (0.48%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.48%) Pega
9 2 (0.48%) SendGrid
9 2 (0.48%) Zend