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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 102 56
Rank change year-on-year +26 -46 -20
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 658 563 1,555
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.23% 3.62% 4.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.94% 3.83% 5.06%
Number of salaries quoted 477 294 1,259
10th Percentile £42,300 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,468 £51,250 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +7.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £84,500 £97,528 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +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 16,683 14,689 30,701
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.00% 94.40% 88.80%
Number of salaries quoted 12,100 8,561 23,682
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,000 £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 £79,625 £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% -9.41%

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 23 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 37 (5.62%) Confluence
2 17 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.46%) Apache
4 3 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.46%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.30%) Appian
5 2 (0.30%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.30%) CMS
5 2 (0.30%) DNN
5 2 (0.30%) EPiServer
5 2 (0.30%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.30%) Immediacy CMS
5 2 (0.30%) Kentico
5 2 (0.30%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle Spatial
5 2 (0.30%) SAS
5 2 (0.30%) Sitefinity
5 2 (0.30%) Umbraco
Applications
1 12 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.76%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.61%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.61%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.61%) Trello
5 3 (0.46%) Productboard
5 3 (0.46%) Sketch
6 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 24 (3.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.30%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.15%) Shopify
4 1 (0.15%) TIBCO iProcess
4 1 (0.15%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 280 (42.55%) Azure
2 220 (33.43%) AWS
3 89 (13.53%) Azure DevOps
4 61 (9.27%) GCP
5 57 (8.66%) Serverless
6 46 (6.99%) GitHub
7 44 (6.69%) Power Platform
8 32 (4.86%) Power Automate
9 29 (4.41%) Azure Service Bus
10 28 (4.26%) PowerApps
11 27 (4.10%) GitHub Copilot
12 24 (3.65%) Azure Functions
12 24 (3.65%) Azure Logic Apps
13 22 (3.34%) PaaS
14 21 (3.19%) Azure AKS
14 21 (3.19%) SaaS
15 18 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
16 17 (2.58%) Azure Key Vault
17 13 (1.98%) Cloud Functions
18 12 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 75 (11.40%) Broadband
2 15 (2.28%) Ethernet
2 15 (2.28%) RS-232
3 12 (1.82%) VPN
4 8 (1.22%) Firewall
5 5 (0.76%) LAN
5 5 (0.76%) WAN
6 4 (0.61%) MQTT
7 3 (0.46%) Network Security
7 3 (0.46%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.46%) Wireless
7 3 (0.46%) WPA
8 2 (0.30%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (0.15%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (13.98%) MongoDB
2 67 (10.18%) Azure SQL Database
3 58 (8.81%) Elasticsearch
4 38 (5.78%) PostgreSQL
5 36 (5.47%) NoSQL
6 21 (3.19%) SQL Server
7 19 (2.89%) Metadata
7 19 (2.89%) Power BI
8 10 (1.52%) Redis
8 10 (1.52%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.37%) MySQL
10 7 (1.06%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.76%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.61%) Big Data
13 4 (0.61%) Star Schema
14 2 (0.30%) GIS
Development Applications
1 84 (12.77%) JIRA
2 63 (9.57%) Jenkins
3 57 (8.66%) Git
4 55 (8.36%) GitLab
5 35 (5.32%) SonarQube
6 22 (3.34%) TeamCity
7 19 (2.89%) Postman
8 16 (2.43%) Selenium
9 15 (2.28%) Cypress.io
10 14 (2.13%) SoapUI
11 12 (1.82%) CircleCI
11 12 (1.82%) Team Foundation Server
12 10 (1.52%) JUnit
13 9 (1.37%) Maven
13 9 (1.37%) Mockito
13 9 (1.37%) Visual Studio
13 9 (1.37%) WebDriver
14 6 (0.91%) NUnit
14 6 (0.91%) SpecFlow
15 5 (0.76%) JMeter
General
1 200 (30.40%) Social Skills
2 136 (20.67%) Finance
3 129 (19.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 92 (13.98%) Public Sector
5 85 (12.92%) Law
6 69 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
7 49 (7.45%) Games
8 44 (6.69%) Marketing
9 29 (4.41%) Legal
10 23 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (1.98%) Legal Technology
12 12 (1.82%) Retail
13 10 (1.52%) Banking
14 8 (1.22%) Advertising
14 8 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.91%) Health Technology
16 6 (0.91%) Social Housing
17 4 (0.61%) Publishing
17 4 (0.61%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 161 (24.47%) Developer
2 155 (23.56%) Senior
3 75 (11.40%) Analyst
4 71 (10.79%) Architect
5 69 (10.49%) Software Engineer
6 61 (9.27%) .NET Developer
7 59 (8.97%) Lead
8 51 (7.75%) Delivery Manager
9 46 (6.99%) Business Analyst
10 33 (5.02%) Agile Delivery Manager
10 33 (5.02%) Salesforce Architect
10 33 (5.02%) Senior Developer
11 29 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
12 28 (4.26%) Senior Analyst
13 27 (4.10%) DevOps Engineer
14 26 (3.95%) Product Manager
15 24 (3.65%) Senior Manager
15 24 (3.65%) Senior Software Engineer
16 23 (3.50%) Senior DevOps
16 23 (3.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (18.39%) React
2 116 (17.63%) .NET
3 92 (13.98%) Node.js
4 66 (10.03%) ASP.NET
5 62 (9.42%) ASP.NET Core
5 62 (9.42%) REST
6 59 (8.97%) .NET Core
7 52 (7.90%) AngularJS
8 49 (7.45%) SOAP
9 46 (6.99%) .NET Framework
10 44 (6.69%) RESTful
11 43 (6.53%) HTML
12 41 (6.23%) Lightning Web Components
13 40 (6.08%) Vue
14 39 (5.93%) ASP.NET Web API
15 38 (5.78%) Visualforce
16 33 (5.02%) Spring
17 27 (4.10%) CSS
18 24 (3.65%) Web Services
19 23 (3.50%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 173 (26.29%) Product Ownership
2 58 (8.81%) Cloud Native
3 23 (3.50%) Podcast
4 22 (3.34%) Over-the-Top Content
4 22 (3.34%) Video\Live Streaming
5 18 (2.74%) Onboarding
6 17 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (2.28%) Device Driver
8 12 (1.82%) e-Learning
9 10 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.52%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.52%) Security Posture
10 8 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.06%) Culture of Ownership
11 7 (1.06%) PMI
12 6 (0.91%) AI Agents
12 6 (0.91%) Mobile App
12 6 (0.91%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.76%) Data Centre
13 5 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 53 (8.05%) Linux
2 31 (4.71%) Windows
3 24 (3.65%) Unix
4 15 (2.28%) Embedded Linux
5 10 (1.52%) VMS
6 6 (0.91%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.15%) CentOS
7 1 (0.15%) Debian
7 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 619 (94.07%) Agile
2 243 (36.93%) Continuous Improvement
3 233 (35.41%) DevOps
4 216 (32.83%) Kanban
5 205 (31.16%) CI/CD
6 139 (21.12%) Microservices
7 124 (18.84%) Mentoring
8 120 (18.24%) Full-Stack Development
9 119 (18.09%) Roadmaps
10 117 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
11 110 (16.72%) Coaching
12 109 (16.57%) TDD
13 103 (15.65%) Software Engineering
14 92 (13.98%) AI
15 85 (12.92%) Community of Practice
16 83 (12.61%) User Stories
17 80 (12.16%) Stakeholder Management
18 78 (11.85%) Test Automation
19 77 (11.70%) Acceptance Criteria
20 75 (11.40%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 146 (22.19%) SQL
2 122 (18.54%) JavaScript
3 121 (18.39%) C#
4 94 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 79 (12.01%) Java
6 63 (9.57%) Python
7 38 (5.78%) Apex Code
8 34 (5.17%) SOQL
8 34 (5.17%) SOSL
9 22 (3.34%) Scala
10 20 (3.04%) Bash
10 20 (3.04%) C++
11 18 (2.74%) Bicep
12 17 (2.58%) PowerShell
13 16 (2.43%) Ruby
14 15 (2.28%) C
14 15 (2.28%) Embedded C
15 10 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
15 10 (1.52%) PL/SQL
16 7 (1.06%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 125 (19.00%) Degree
2 82 (12.46%) Security Cleared
3 72 (10.94%) SC Cleared
4 45 (6.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.65%) Azure Certification
6 19 (2.89%) DBS Check
7 18 (2.74%) PMI Certification
8 15 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (1.82%) ISTQB
9 12 (1.82%) PMP
10 8 (1.22%) AWS Certification
11 7 (1.06%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 6 (0.91%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.76%) CIPD
13 5 (0.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.46%) CCSA
14 3 (0.46%) CCSE
14 3 (0.46%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.46%) JNCIE
14 3 (0.46%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (12.46%) QA
2 22 (3.34%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.82%) GRC
4 11 (1.67%) PMO
5 10 (1.52%) GDPR
6 7 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.76%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 4 (0.61%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.46%) WCAG
10 2 (0.30%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.15%) GxP
System Software
1 118 (17.93%) Docker
2 12 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
3 10 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 92 (13.98%) Kubernetes
2 58 (8.81%) Terraform
3 16 (2.43%) Ansible
4 14 (2.13%) Argo
5 12 (1.82%) Podman
6 5 (0.76%) Grafana
7 4 (0.61%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.30%) Packer
8 2 (0.30%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.15%) Kibana
9 1 (0.15%) Puppet
9 1 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 141 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 51 (7.75%) Salesforce
3 34 (5.17%) Splunk
4 23 (3.50%) Oracle
5 16 (2.43%) Google
6 10 (1.52%) Databricks
6 10 (1.52%) ScienceLogic
6 10 (1.52%) VMware
7 9 (1.37%) SAP
8 7 (1.06%) Pega
9 6 (0.91%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.76%) Cisco
10 5 (0.76%) Infor
10 5 (0.76%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.61%) Adobe
12 3 (0.46%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.46%) CheckPoint
12 3 (0.46%) Epicor
12 3 (0.46%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.46%) Red Hat