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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 82 50
Rank change year-on-year -2 -32 -16
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 549 576 1,589
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.99% 4.01% 4.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.62% 4.22% 5.36%
Number of salaries quoted 380 308 1,326
10th Percentile £41,125 £43,290 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,229 £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 £78,250 £77,813 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,528 £89,041
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +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 15,177 13,659 29,626
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.75% 95.05% 91.11%
Number of salaries quoted 10,750 8,839 23,447
10th Percentile £33,500 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,498 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +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 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

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 9 May 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 28 (5.10%) Confluence
2 11 (2.00%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.73%) ArcGIS
3 4 (0.73%) GeoServer
3 4 (0.73%) Oracle Spatial
4 3 (0.55%) Apache
4 3 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.55%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.55%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.36%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.36%) SAS
6 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.18%) JBoss
6 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 8 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.73%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.55%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.55%) Trello
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.18%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.18%) Productboard
5 1 (0.18%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 11 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.36%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (0.36%) Shopify
4 1 (0.18%) Magento
4 1 (0.18%) Maximo
4 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.18%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 188 (34.24%) Azure
2 161 (29.33%) AWS
3 68 (12.39%) Azure DevOps
4 55 (10.02%) Serverless
5 54 (9.84%) GCP
6 25 (4.55%) Power Platform
7 24 (4.37%) Azure AKS
8 22 (4.01%) Azure Service Bus
9 20 (3.64%) GitHub
9 20 (3.64%) SaaS
10 19 (3.46%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (3.10%) Power Automate
11 17 (3.10%) PowerApps
12 16 (2.91%) Entra ID
12 16 (2.91%) PaaS
13 14 (2.55%) Cloud Functions
14 12 (2.19%) Amazon S3
14 12 (2.19%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (2.19%) Cloud Run
15 10 (1.82%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 76 (13.84%) Broadband
2 14 (2.55%) Ethernet
2 14 (2.55%) RS-232
3 6 (1.09%) Firewall
4 5 (0.91%) LAN
4 5 (0.91%) WAN
5 4 (0.73%) MQTT
6 3 (0.55%) Network Security
6 3 (0.55%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.55%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.55%) Wireless
7 2 (0.36%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (0.36%) VPN
8 1 (0.18%) AMQP
8 1 (0.18%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (8.74%) MongoDB
2 41 (7.47%) NoSQL
3 31 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (4.74%) SQL Server
5 18 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
6 17 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (2.55%) Metadata
8 10 (1.82%) Power BI
8 10 (1.82%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.91%) MySQL
11 4 (0.73%) Big Data
11 4 (0.73%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.73%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.73%) GIS
11 4 (0.73%) QGIS
11 4 (0.73%) Redis
11 4 (0.73%) Star Schema
12 3 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.36%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 87 (15.85%) JIRA
2 65 (11.84%) Jenkins
3 57 (10.38%) GitLab
4 47 (8.56%) Git
5 35 (6.38%) SonarQube
6 32 (5.83%) Postman
7 27 (4.92%) Selenium
7 27 (4.92%) SoapUI
8 25 (4.55%) Team Foundation Server
9 22 (4.01%) TeamCity
9 22 (4.01%) WebDriver
10 13 (2.37%) Cypress.io
11 12 (2.19%) CircleCI
12 7 (1.28%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.73%) JMeter
13 4 (0.73%) NUnit
13 4 (0.73%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.55%) JUnit
14 3 (0.55%) Oracle APEX
14 3 (0.55%) Storybook
General
1 186 (33.88%) Social Skills
2 107 (19.49%) Finance
3 104 (18.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 77 (14.03%) Public Sector
5 67 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
6 65 (11.84%) Law
7 47 (8.56%) Games
7 47 (8.56%) Marketing
8 31 (5.65%) Legal
9 22 (4.01%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (2.55%) Health Technology
12 12 (2.19%) Publishing
12 12 (2.19%) Tech for Good
13 11 (2.00%) Banking
14 10 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.64%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.46%) Advertising
17 6 (1.09%) Manufacturing
17 6 (1.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 124 (22.59%) Senior
2 110 (20.04%) Developer
3 68 (12.39%) Lead
4 64 (11.66%) Architect
4 64 (11.66%) Software Engineer
5 60 (10.93%) Analyst
6 38 (6.92%) Delivery Manager
7 37 (6.74%) Business Analyst
8 33 (6.01%) Salesforce Architect
9 31 (5.65%) Product Manager
10 28 (5.10%) .NET Developer
11 27 (4.92%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 25 (4.55%) Senior Developer
12 25 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
12 25 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
13 23 (4.19%) Lead Developer
14 21 (3.83%) DevOps Engineer
14 21 (3.83%) Software Developer
15 20 (3.64%) Senior Manager
16 19 (3.46%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (16.39%) .NET
2 88 (16.03%) React
3 62 (11.29%) SOAP
4 56 (10.20%) REST
5 52 (9.47%) HTML
5 52 (9.47%) Node.js
6 49 (8.93%) RESTful
7 39 (7.10%) Lightning Web Components
8 38 (6.92%) Visualforce
9 29 (5.28%) .NET Framework
10 26 (4.74%) CSS
10 26 (4.74%) Web Services
11 25 (4.55%) AngularJS
12 24 (4.37%) ASP.NET
13 22 (4.01%) Akka
13 22 (4.01%) Spring
14 18 (3.28%) Playwright
15 17 (3.10%) .NET Core
15 17 (3.10%) Spring Boot
15 17 (3.10%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 163 (29.69%) Product Ownership
2 52 (9.47%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.01%) Over-the-Top Content
3 22 (4.01%) Video\Live Streaming
4 16 (2.91%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.55%) Device Driver
6 13 (2.37%) e-Learning
6 13 (2.37%) Podcast
7 11 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.28%) Culture of Ownership
10 6 (1.09%) PMI
11 5 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (0.91%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.73%) Life Science
13 3 (0.55%) AI Agents
13 3 (0.55%) Housing Association
13 3 (0.55%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (7.65%) Linux
2 17 (3.10%) Unix
3 14 (2.55%) Embedded Linux
3 14 (2.55%) Windows
4 5 (0.91%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.18%) CentOS
5 1 (0.18%) Debian
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 514 (93.62%) Agile
2 211 (38.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 195 (35.52%) DevOps
4 188 (34.24%) Kanban
5 176 (32.06%) CI/CD
6 113 (20.58%) Roadmaps
7 111 (20.22%) Problem-Solving
8 110 (20.04%) Mentoring
9 99 (18.03%) Coaching
10 96 (17.49%) Software Engineering
11 88 (16.03%) Microservices
12 84 (15.30%) User Stories
13 78 (14.21%) TDD
14 76 (13.84%) Community of Practice
14 76 (13.84%) Full-Stack Development
15 73 (13.30%) Acceptance Criteria
15 73 (13.30%) Continuous Integration
16 67 (12.20%) Test Automation
17 64 (11.66%) Continuous Delivery
17 64 (11.66%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 94 (17.12%) SQL
2 85 (15.48%) Java
3 82 (14.94%) JavaScript
4 81 (14.75%) C#
5 68 (12.39%) Python
6 61 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 38 (6.92%) Apex Code
8 34 (6.19%) SOQL
8 34 (6.19%) SOSL
9 22 (4.01%) Scala
10 18 (3.28%) C++
11 14 (2.55%) C
11 14 (2.55%) Embedded C
12 8 (1.46%) Ruby
13 7 (1.28%) Bicep
14 6 (1.09%) Bash
15 5 (0.91%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.73%) Rust
17 3 (0.55%) PHP
17 3 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 127 (23.13%) Degree
2 75 (13.66%) Security Cleared
3 61 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 37 (6.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (4.92%) ISTQB
6 19 (3.46%) DBS Check
6 19 (3.46%) PMI Certification
7 18 (3.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 14 (2.55%) PMP
9 12 (2.19%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.46%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 6 (1.09%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.91%) CIPD
13 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.55%) CCIE Security
14 3 (0.55%) CCSA
14 3 (0.55%) CCSE
14 3 (0.55%) JNCIE
14 3 (0.55%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (14.94%) QA
2 18 (3.28%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.37%) GRC
4 8 (1.46%) PMO
5 6 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.73%) GDPR
7 3 (0.55%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.36%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.36%) WCAG
9 1 (0.18%) GxP
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.18%) P3O
System Software
1 83 (15.12%) Docker
2 6 (1.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 69 (12.57%) Kubernetes
2 48 (8.74%) Terraform
3 21 (3.83%) Ansible
4 14 (2.55%) Argo
5 12 (2.19%) Podman
6 6 (1.09%) Grafana
7 5 (0.91%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.36%) Packer
8 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.18%) Kibana
9 1 (0.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 79 (14.39%) Microsoft
2 47 (8.56%) Salesforce
3 34 (6.19%) Splunk
4 18 (3.28%) Google
5 14 (2.55%) Oracle
6 9 (1.64%) SAP
7 8 (1.46%) Databricks
8 7 (1.28%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.91%) Cisco
9 5 (0.91%) Palo Alto
9 5 (0.91%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.73%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.73%) ESRI
11 3 (0.55%) Adobe
11 3 (0.55%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.55%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.55%) Foundry
12 2 (0.36%) Facebook
12 2 (0.36%) IBM
12 2 (0.36%) Infor