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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 99 52
Rank change year-on-year +17 -47 -17
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 581 553 1,550
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.01% 3.72% 4.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.67% 3.93% 5.14%
Number of salaries quoted 407 281 1,279
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,875 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +6.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,875 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £84,850 £97,528 £87,500
UK median annual salary £66,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.22% +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 15,830 14,077 30,138
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.08% 94.70% 89.69%
Number of salaries quoted 11,320 8,261 23,558
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £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% -9.69%

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 5 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 30 (5.16%) Confluence
2 11 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.52%) Apache
3 3 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.52%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.52%) ArcGIS
3 3 (0.52%) GeoServer
3 3 (0.52%) OpenStack
3 3 (0.52%) Oracle Spatial
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.34%) NServiceBus
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.34%) SAS
5 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.17%) JBoss
5 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 10 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.69%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.69%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.52%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.52%) Productboard
5 3 (0.52%) Sketch
6 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.34%) Trello
7 1 (0.17%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 16 (2.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.34%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.17%) Shopify
4 1 (0.17%) TIBCO iProcess
4 1 (0.17%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 214 (36.83%) Azure
2 181 (31.15%) AWS
3 70 (12.05%) Azure DevOps
4 56 (9.64%) GCP
5 49 (8.43%) Serverless
6 33 (5.68%) Power Platform
7 26 (4.48%) GitHub
8 23 (3.96%) Azure Service Bus
9 22 (3.79%) Azure AKS
9 22 (3.79%) Power Automate
9 22 (3.79%) PowerApps
9 22 (3.79%) SaaS
10 16 (2.75%) Azure Logic Apps
11 15 (2.58%) PaaS
12 14 (2.41%) Cloud Functions
13 13 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
13 13 (2.24%) Entra ID
13 13 (2.24%) GitHub Copilot
14 12 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (2.07%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 76 (13.08%) Broadband
2 15 (2.58%) Ethernet
2 15 (2.58%) RS-232
3 6 (1.03%) Firewall
4 5 (0.86%) LAN
4 5 (0.86%) WAN
5 4 (0.69%) MQTT
5 4 (0.69%) VPN
6 3 (0.52%) Network Security
6 3 (0.52%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.52%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.52%) Wireless
6 3 (0.52%) WPA
7 2 (0.34%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (0.17%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (10.67%) MongoDB
2 39 (6.71%) NoSQL
2 39 (6.71%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (4.99%) Azure SQL Database
4 28 (4.82%) Elasticsearch
5 20 (3.44%) SQL Server
6 18 (3.10%) Power BI
7 15 (2.58%) Metadata
8 10 (1.72%) Relational Database
9 8 (1.38%) MySQL
9 8 (1.38%) Redis
10 6 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.86%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.69%) Big Data
12 4 (0.69%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.69%) Star Schema
13 3 (0.52%) GIS
13 3 (0.52%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 84 (14.46%) JIRA
2 65 (11.19%) Jenkins
3 55 (9.47%) GitLab
4 49 (8.43%) Git
5 35 (6.02%) SonarQube
6 26 (4.48%) Postman
7 22 (3.79%) Selenium
7 22 (3.79%) TeamCity
8 21 (3.61%) SoapUI
9 19 (3.27%) Team Foundation Server
10 15 (2.58%) Cypress.io
10 15 (2.58%) WebDriver
11 12 (2.07%) CircleCI
12 10 (1.72%) JUnit
13 9 (1.55%) Maven
13 9 (1.55%) Mockito
14 6 (1.03%) SpecFlow
15 5 (0.86%) JMeter
15 5 (0.86%) Visual Studio
16 4 (0.69%) NUnit
General
1 185 (31.84%) Social Skills
2 123 (21.17%) Finance
3 117 (20.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 81 (13.94%) Public Sector
5 73 (12.56%) Law
6 67 (11.53%) Analytical Skills
7 47 (8.09%) Games
8 46 (7.92%) Marketing
9 31 (5.34%) Legal
10 24 (4.13%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.72%) Banking
12 8 (1.38%) Advertising
12 8 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.38%) Retail
13 6 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.03%) Health Technology
13 6 (1.03%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.86%) Social Housing
15 4 (0.69%) Publishing
15 4 (0.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 139 (23.92%) Senior
2 126 (21.69%) Developer
3 69 (11.88%) Software Engineer
4 65 (11.19%) Architect
5 64 (11.02%) Analyst
6 60 (10.33%) Lead
7 44 (7.57%) Business Analyst
7 44 (7.57%) Delivery Manager
8 34 (5.85%) .NET Developer
9 33 (5.68%) Salesforce Architect
10 31 (5.34%) Agile Delivery Manager
11 29 (4.99%) Senior Developer
12 28 (4.82%) Product Manager
13 26 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
14 25 (4.30%) Senior Software Engineer
15 24 (4.13%) Senior Analyst
16 23 (3.96%) Senior Manager
17 21 (3.61%) Full-Stack Developer
18 20 (3.44%) Java Developer
18 20 (3.44%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (18.59%) React
2 91 (15.66%) .NET
3 65 (11.19%) Node.js
4 64 (11.02%) REST
5 56 (9.64%) SOAP
6 50 (8.61%) HTML
7 45 (7.75%) RESTful
8 41 (7.06%) Lightning Web Components
9 38 (6.54%) Visualforce
10 35 (6.02%) ASP.NET
10 35 (6.02%) Spring
11 33 (5.68%) AngularJS
12 30 (5.16%) ASP.NET Core
13 29 (4.99%) .NET Core
13 29 (4.99%) .NET Framework
14 27 (4.65%) CSS
14 27 (4.65%) Web Services
15 22 (3.79%) Akka
15 22 (3.79%) ASP.NET Web API
15 22 (3.79%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 169 (29.09%) Product Ownership
2 58 (9.98%) Cloud Native
3 22 (3.79%) Over-the-Top Content
3 22 (3.79%) Video\Live Streaming
4 18 (3.10%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.58%) Device Driver
5 15 (2.58%) Podcast
6 14 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (2.24%) e-Learning
8 11 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.20%) Culture of Ownership
11 6 (1.03%) PMI
12 5 (0.86%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 4 (0.69%) Housing Association
13 4 (0.69%) Life Science
13 4 (0.69%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.52%) Management Information System
14 3 (0.52%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 46 (7.92%) Linux
2 17 (2.93%) Unix
3 16 (2.75%) Windows
4 15 (2.58%) Embedded Linux
5 6 (1.03%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.34%) VMS
7 1 (0.17%) CentOS
7 1 (0.17%) Debian
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (93.29%) Agile
2 220 (37.87%) Continuous Improvement
3 202 (34.77%) DevOps
4 191 (32.87%) Kanban
5 183 (31.50%) CI/CD
6 115 (19.79%) Mentoring
7 114 (19.62%) Roadmaps
8 111 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
9 108 (18.59%) Microservices
10 103 (17.73%) Software Engineering
11 95 (16.35%) Full-Stack Development
12 90 (15.49%) Coaching
13 86 (14.80%) TDD
14 83 (14.29%) User Stories
15 82 (14.11%) Community of Practice
16 76 (13.08%) Stakeholder Management
17 74 (12.74%) AI
18 69 (11.88%) Acceptance Criteria
19 67 (11.53%) Test Automation
20 66 (11.36%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 106 (18.24%) SQL
2 105 (18.07%) JavaScript
3 90 (15.49%) C#
4 89 (15.32%) Java
5 72 (12.39%) TypeScript
6 61 (10.50%) Python
7 38 (6.54%) Apex Code
8 34 (5.85%) SOQL
8 34 (5.85%) SOSL
9 22 (3.79%) Scala
10 18 (3.10%) C++
11 15 (2.58%) C
11 15 (2.58%) Embedded C
12 13 (2.24%) Ruby
13 12 (2.07%) Bash
14 10 (1.72%) Bicep
14 10 (1.72%) PL/SQL
15 7 (1.20%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.69%) Rust
17 3 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 130 (22.38%) Degree
2 83 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 72 (12.39%) SC Cleared
4 44 (7.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.27%) DBS Check
6 18 (3.10%) ISTQB
7 17 (2.93%) PMI Certification
8 13 (2.24%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 12 (2.07%) Azure Certification
9 12 (2.07%) PMP
10 7 (1.20%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.86%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.86%) CIPD
11 5 (0.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.69%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.52%) CCIE
13 3 (0.52%) CCNP
13 3 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (13.25%) QA
2 23 (3.96%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.07%) GRC
4 9 (1.55%) PMO
5 7 (1.20%) GDPR
6 5 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.69%) WCAG
8 3 (0.52%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.34%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.17%) GxP
10 1 (0.17%) P3O
System Software
1 104 (17.90%) Docker
2 5 (0.86%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 81 (13.94%) Kubernetes
2 50 (8.61%) Terraform
3 19 (3.27%) Ansible
4 14 (2.41%) Argo
5 12 (2.07%) Podman
6 5 (0.86%) Grafana
7 4 (0.69%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.34%) Packer
8 2 (0.34%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.17%) Kibana
9 1 (0.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 90 (15.49%) Microsoft
2 49 (8.43%) Salesforce
3 34 (5.85%) Splunk
4 20 (3.44%) Oracle
5 17 (2.93%) Google
6 10 (1.72%) Databricks
7 7 (1.20%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.03%) SAP
9 5 (0.86%) Cisco
9 5 (0.86%) Palo Alto
10 4 (0.69%) Adobe
10 4 (0.69%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.52%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.52%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.52%) ESRI
11 3 (0.52%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.52%) Foundry
12 2 (0.34%) Facebook
12 2 (0.34%) Infor
12 2 (0.34%) VMware