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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 98 79
Rank change year-on-year +15 -19 -42
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 715 592 874
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.17% 3.59% 3.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.83% 3.86% 3.94%
Number of salaries quoted 538 334 635
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,625 £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 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year - +5.69% -5.38%

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 18,662 15,317 22,161
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.81% 92.95% 87.77%
Number of salaries quoted 13,504 9,019 15,975
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,903 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,250 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% +0.77% -5.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 6 August 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 46 (6.43%) Confluence
2 12 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (1.68%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 6 (0.84%) Apache
5 4 (0.56%) CMS
6 3 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.42%) DNN
6 3 (0.42%) EPiServer
6 3 (0.42%) Immediacy CMS
6 3 (0.42%) Kentico
6 3 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.42%) Sitefinity
6 3 (0.42%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.28%) Appian
7 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.28%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.14%) JBoss
Applications
1 13 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.12%) Trello
4 6 (0.84%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.56%) Adobe XD
5 4 (0.56%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.42%) Productboard
6 3 (0.42%) Sketch
6 3 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
8 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 17 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.42%) Shopify
3 2 (0.28%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.14%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 327 (45.73%) Azure
2 281 (39.30%) AWS
3 100 (13.99%) Azure DevOps
4 69 (9.65%) GCP
5 59 (8.25%) GitHub
6 52 (7.27%) Serverless
7 41 (5.73%) GitHub Copilot
8 37 (5.17%) Power Platform
9 28 (3.92%) SaaS
10 27 (3.78%) Power Automate
11 23 (3.22%) Azure Service Bus
11 23 (3.22%) PowerApps
12 21 (2.94%) PaaS
13 20 (2.80%) Azure Functions
14 19 (2.66%) Azure Key Vault
15 18 (2.52%) Azure AKS
15 18 (2.52%) Azure Logic Apps
16 17 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
17 15 (2.10%) Azure Monitor
18 14 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 45 (6.29%) Broadband
2 14 (1.96%) VPN
3 12 (1.68%) Ethernet
3 12 (1.68%) RS-232
4 9 (1.26%) Firewall
5 5 (0.70%) LAN
5 5 (0.70%) WAN
6 3 (0.42%) MQTT
6 3 (0.42%) Network Security
6 3 (0.42%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.42%) Wireless
6 3 (0.42%) WPA
7 2 (0.28%) ATM
7 2 (0.28%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (17.20%) MongoDB
2 94 (13.15%) Azure SQL Database
3 84 (11.75%) Elasticsearch
4 55 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
5 37 (5.17%) NoSQL
6 25 (3.50%) SQL Server
7 22 (3.08%) Metadata
7 22 (3.08%) MySQL
8 21 (2.94%) Power BI
9 18 (2.52%) Relational Database
10 17 (2.38%) Redis
11 9 (1.26%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.84%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 5 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (0.56%) Star Schema
16 3 (0.42%) Big Data
17 2 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 96 (13.43%) JIRA
2 66 (9.23%) Git
3 46 (6.43%) GitLab
4 33 (4.62%) Jenkins
5 29 (4.06%) SonarQube
6 15 (2.10%) Cypress.io
6 15 (2.10%) JUnit
7 14 (1.96%) Maven
7 14 (1.96%) Mockito
8 12 (1.68%) CircleCI
9 9 (1.26%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.98%) Postman
11 6 (0.84%) Claude Code
12 5 (0.70%) Selenium
13 4 (0.56%) NUnit
13 4 (0.56%) SoapUI
13 4 (0.56%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
14 3 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 3 (0.42%) Oracle APEX
General
1 214 (29.93%) Social Skills
2 171 (23.92%) Finance
3 142 (19.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 131 (18.32%) Public Sector
5 119 (16.64%) Law
6 84 (11.75%) Analytical Skills
7 40 (5.59%) Games
8 38 (5.31%) Legal
8 38 (5.31%) Marketing
9 28 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (2.10%) Retail
11 13 (1.82%) Legal Technology
12 10 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.12%) Advertising
13 8 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (0.98%) Banking
15 6 (0.84%) Health Technology
15 6 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.84%) Social Housing
16 4 (0.56%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 206 (28.81%) Developer
2 174 (24.34%) Senior
3 90 (12.59%) Analyst
4 86 (12.03%) .NET Developer
5 66 (9.23%) Architect
6 60 (8.39%) Business Analyst
7 57 (7.97%) Delivery Manager
7 57 (7.97%) Software Engineer
8 54 (7.55%) Lead
9 50 (6.99%) Senior Developer
10 37 (5.17%) Agile Delivery Manager
10 37 (5.17%) Senior Analyst
11 36 (5.03%) Project Manager
12 32 (4.48%) DevOps Engineer
13 30 (4.20%) Senior Business Analyst
14 29 (4.06%) Senior DevOps
14 29 (4.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 27 (3.78%) Solutions Architect
16 26 (3.64%) Salesforce Architect
16 26 (3.64%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (21.68%) React
2 138 (19.30%) .NET
3 124 (17.34%) Node.js
4 92 (12.87%) .NET Core
5 91 (12.73%) ASP.NET
6 87 (12.17%) ASP.NET Core
7 75 (10.49%) AngularJS
8 67 (9.37%) .NET Framework
9 63 (8.81%) REST
10 54 (7.55%) RESTful
10 54 (7.55%) Vue
11 53 (7.41%) ASP.NET Web API
12 44 (6.15%) HTML
13 38 (5.31%) CSS
14 37 (5.17%) Spring
15 36 (5.03%) Lightning Web Components
16 33 (4.62%) Blazor
17 31 (4.34%) SOAP
18 30 (4.20%) Visualforce
19 27 (3.78%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 162 (22.66%) Product Ownership
2 59 (8.25%) Cloud Native
3 25 (3.50%) Podcast
3 25 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (2.66%) Onboarding
5 13 (1.82%) Public Cloud
6 12 (1.68%) Device Driver
6 12 (1.68%) Mobile App
6 12 (1.68%) Security Posture
7 9 (1.26%) PMI
7 9 (1.26%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (0.98%) AI Agents
9 7 (0.98%) Culture of Ownership
9 7 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (0.98%) e-Learning
9 7 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.70%) Data Centre
11 5 (0.70%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 65 (9.09%) Linux
2 41 (5.73%) Windows
3 28 (3.92%) Unix
4 12 (1.68%) Embedded Linux
4 12 (1.68%) VMS
5 8 (1.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 668 (93.43%) Agile
2 244 (34.13%) Continuous Improvement
2 244 (34.13%) DevOps
3 222 (31.05%) CI/CD
4 217 (30.35%) Kanban
5 173 (24.20%) Microservices
6 144 (20.14%) Full-Stack Development
6 144 (20.14%) Mentoring
7 134 (18.74%) Problem-Solving
8 128 (17.90%) AI
9 124 (17.34%) Coaching
10 116 (16.22%) TDD
11 110 (15.38%) Roadmaps
12 109 (15.24%) Project Delivery
13 107 (14.97%) Software Engineering
14 103 (14.41%) Community of Practice
15 100 (13.99%) User Stories
16 88 (12.31%) Stakeholder Management
17 84 (11.75%) Test Automation
18 80 (11.19%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 174 (24.34%) SQL
2 161 (22.52%) JavaScript
3 143 (20.00%) C#
4 107 (14.97%) TypeScript
5 78 (10.91%) Java
6 72 (10.07%) Python
7 33 (4.62%) Apex Code
8 29 (4.06%) SOQL
9 28 (3.92%) Bash
9 28 (3.92%) Ruby
10 27 (3.78%) SOSL
11 20 (2.80%) Bicep
11 20 (2.80%) PowerShell
12 17 (2.38%) C++
13 15 (2.10%) PL/SQL
14 14 (1.96%) C
15 12 (1.68%) Embedded C
15 12 (1.68%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.98%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.56%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 137 (19.16%) Degree
2 122 (17.06%) Security Cleared
3 106 (14.83%) SC Cleared
4 52 (7.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.64%) Azure Certification
6 25 (3.50%) PMI Certification
7 18 (2.52%) PMP
8 17 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (1.68%) DBS Check
10 11 (1.54%) AWS Certification
11 9 (1.26%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.98%) DV Cleared
13 5 (0.70%) CIPD
14 4 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.42%) CCIE Security
15 3 (0.42%) CSPO
15 3 (0.42%) ISTQB
15 3 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 3 (0.42%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (10.49%) QA
2 29 (4.06%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.96%) PMO
4 13 (1.82%) GRC
4 13 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.54%) GDPR
6 10 (1.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 8 (1.12%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.70%) WCAG
9 4 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.28%) NCSC
11 1 (0.14%) GxP
11 1 (0.14%) NIST
System Software
1 126 (17.62%) Docker
2 12 (1.68%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
2 12 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (1.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 87 (12.17%) Kubernetes
2 59 (8.25%) Terraform
3 14 (1.96%) Ansible
3 14 (1.96%) Argo
4 12 (1.68%) Podman
5 4 (0.56%) Grafana
6 3 (0.42%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.14%) Kibana
7 1 (0.14%) Packer
7 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 161 (22.52%) Microsoft
2 51 (7.13%) Salesforce
3 26 (3.64%) Oracle
3 26 (3.64%) Splunk
4 17 (2.38%) Google
5 14 (1.96%) Databricks
5 14 (1.96%) Pega
6 12 (1.68%) ScienceLogic
6 12 (1.68%) VMware
7 9 (1.26%) SAP
8 6 (0.84%) Infor
9 5 (0.70%) Adobe
9 5 (0.70%) Atlassian
9 5 (0.70%) Cisco
9 5 (0.70%) Palo Alto
10 4 (0.56%) Epicor
10 4 (0.56%) IFS
10 4 (0.56%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.42%) Alterian
11 3 (0.42%) CheckPoint