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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 97 79
Rank change year-on-year +18 -18 -40
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 697 582 964
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.18% 3.54% 3.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.84% 3.80% 4.11%
Number of salaries quoted 532 326 725
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,213 £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 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,625 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,154 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.24% +8.59% -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 18,155 15,315 23,472
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.94% 93.04% 88.02%
Number of salaries quoted 13,190 9,035 17,224
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - +3.51% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 29 July 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 45 (6.46%) Confluence
2 12 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.86%) Apache
4 5 (0.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.43%) CMS
5 3 (0.43%) DNN
5 3 (0.43%) EPiServer
5 3 (0.43%) Immediacy CMS
5 3 (0.43%) Kentico
5 3 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.43%) Sitefinity
5 3 (0.43%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.29%) Appian
6 2 (0.29%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.29%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 13 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.58%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.15%) Trello
4 6 (0.86%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.57%) Adobe XD
5 4 (0.57%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.43%) Productboard
6 3 (0.43%) Sketch
7 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
8 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.43%) Shopify
3 2 (0.29%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.14%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 323 (46.34%) Azure
2 272 (39.02%) AWS
3 100 (14.35%) Azure DevOps
4 69 (9.90%) GCP
5 58 (8.32%) GitHub
6 52 (7.46%) Serverless
7 39 (5.60%) GitHub Copilot
8 37 (5.31%) Power Platform
9 27 (3.87%) Power Automate
10 25 (3.59%) SaaS
11 23 (3.30%) Azure Service Bus
11 23 (3.30%) PowerApps
12 22 (3.16%) PaaS
13 20 (2.87%) Azure Functions
14 19 (2.73%) Azure AKS
14 19 (2.73%) Azure Key Vault
15 18 (2.58%) Azure Logic Apps
16 17 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
17 15 (2.15%) Azure Monitor
18 13 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 45 (6.46%) Broadband
2 14 (2.01%) VPN
3 13 (1.87%) Ethernet
3 13 (1.87%) RS-232
4 9 (1.29%) Firewall
5 5 (0.72%) LAN
5 5 (0.72%) WAN
6 4 (0.57%) MQTT
7 3 (0.43%) Network Security
7 3 (0.43%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.43%) Wireless
7 3 (0.43%) WPA
8 2 (0.29%) ATM
8 2 (0.29%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (17.65%) MongoDB
2 94 (13.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 84 (12.05%) Elasticsearch
4 49 (7.03%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (5.60%) NoSQL
6 22 (3.16%) SQL Server
7 21 (3.01%) Metadata
7 21 (3.01%) Power BI
8 18 (2.58%) MySQL
9 15 (2.15%) Redis
10 14 (2.01%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.29%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.86%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (0.57%) Star Schema
16 3 (0.43%) Big Data
17 2 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 93 (13.34%) JIRA
2 60 (8.61%) Git
3 47 (6.74%) GitLab
4 32 (4.59%) Jenkins
5 28 (4.02%) SonarQube
6 15 (2.15%) Cypress.io
7 13 (1.87%) JUnit
8 12 (1.72%) CircleCI
8 12 (1.72%) Maven
8 12 (1.72%) Mockito
9 9 (1.29%) Visual Studio
10 7 (1.00%) Postman
11 6 (0.86%) Claude Code
12 5 (0.72%) Selenium
13 4 (0.57%) NUnit
13 4 (0.57%) SoapUI
13 4 (0.57%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
14 3 (0.43%) Oracle APEX
15 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 211 (30.27%) Social Skills
2 162 (23.24%) Finance
3 135 (19.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 120 (17.22%) Public Sector
5 113 (16.21%) Law
6 78 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
7 40 (5.74%) Games
8 37 (5.31%) Marketing
9 35 (5.02%) Legal
10 26 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (2.15%) Retail
12 13 (1.87%) Legal Technology
13 9 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.15%) Advertising
14 8 (1.15%) Banking
14 8 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (0.86%) Health Technology
15 6 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.86%) Social Housing
16 4 (0.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 194 (27.83%) Developer
2 164 (23.53%) Senior
3 87 (12.48%) Analyst
4 86 (12.34%) .NET Developer
5 64 (9.18%) Architect
6 58 (8.32%) Software Engineer
7 57 (8.18%) Business Analyst
8 56 (8.03%) Delivery Manager
9 55 (7.89%) Lead
10 42 (6.03%) Senior Developer
11 37 (5.31%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 35 (5.02%) Senior Analyst
13 34 (4.88%) Project Manager
14 32 (4.59%) DevOps Engineer
15 29 (4.16%) Senior DevOps
15 29 (4.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 28 (4.02%) Senior Business Analyst
17 26 (3.73%) Salesforce Architect
17 26 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
18 25 (3.59%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (21.23%) React
2 134 (19.23%) .NET
3 124 (17.79%) Node.js
4 91 (13.06%) ASP.NET
5 87 (12.48%) .NET Core
5 87 (12.48%) ASP.NET Core
6 70 (10.04%) AngularJS
7 65 (9.33%) .NET Framework
8 59 (8.46%) REST
9 54 (7.75%) ASP.NET Web API
9 54 (7.75%) Vue
10 52 (7.46%) RESTful
11 40 (5.74%) HTML
12 36 (5.16%) Spring
13 34 (4.88%) Lightning Web Components
14 33 (4.73%) Blazor
14 33 (4.73%) CSS
15 31 (4.45%) SOAP
16 30 (4.30%) Visualforce
17 25 (3.59%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 161 (23.10%) Product Ownership
2 61 (8.75%) Cloud Native
3 25 (3.59%) Podcast
4 22 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (2.73%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.87%) Device Driver
6 13 (1.87%) Public Cloud
7 12 (1.72%) Security Posture
8 11 (1.58%) Mobile App
9 10 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.29%) PMI
10 9 (1.29%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.00%) Culture of Ownership
11 7 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.00%) e-Learning
11 7 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (0.86%) AI Agents
12 6 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (0.72%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 64 (9.18%) Linux
2 41 (5.88%) Windows
3 28 (4.02%) Unix
4 13 (1.87%) Embedded Linux
5 12 (1.72%) VMS
6 8 (1.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 652 (93.54%) Agile
2 243 (34.86%) DevOps
3 239 (34.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 216 (30.99%) CI/CD
5 214 (30.70%) Kanban
6 171 (24.53%) Microservices
7 143 (20.52%) Full-Stack Development
8 141 (20.23%) Mentoring
9 126 (18.08%) Problem-Solving
10 123 (17.65%) Coaching
11 120 (17.22%) AI
12 113 (16.21%) TDD
13 108 (15.49%) Roadmaps
14 106 (15.21%) Project Delivery
15 103 (14.78%) Software Engineering
16 98 (14.06%) User Stories
17 95 (13.63%) Community of Practice
18 87 (12.48%) Stakeholder Management
19 84 (12.05%) Test Automation
20 81 (11.62%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 173 (24.82%) SQL
2 151 (21.66%) JavaScript
3 138 (19.80%) C#
4 108 (15.49%) TypeScript
5 74 (10.62%) Java
6 70 (10.04%) Python
7 31 (4.45%) Apex Code
8 27 (3.87%) SOQL
9 26 (3.73%) SOSL
10 25 (3.59%) Bash
10 25 (3.59%) Ruby
11 20 (2.87%) Bicep
11 20 (2.87%) PowerShell
12 18 (2.58%) C++
13 15 (2.15%) C
14 13 (1.87%) Embedded C
14 13 (1.87%) PL/SQL
15 12 (1.72%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (1.00%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.57%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 131 (18.79%) Degree
2 110 (15.78%) Security Cleared
3 96 (13.77%) SC Cleared
4 50 (7.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.73%) Azure Certification
5 26 (3.73%) PMI Certification
6 19 (2.73%) PMP
7 17 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (1.58%) DBS Check
9 10 (1.43%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.00%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.00%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.72%) CIPD
12 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.43%) CCIE Security
13 3 (0.43%) CSPO
13 3 (0.43%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.43%) JNCIE
13 3 (0.43%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (10.62%) QA
2 25 (3.59%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.01%) PMO
4 13 (1.87%) GRC
5 12 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.58%) GDPR
7 9 (1.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 8 (1.15%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.72%) WCAG
10 4 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.14%) GxP
12 1 (0.14%) NCSC
12 1 (0.14%) NIST
System Software
1 122 (17.50%) Docker
2 12 (1.72%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
2 12 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (1.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 86 (12.34%) Kubernetes
2 60 (8.61%) Terraform
3 14 (2.01%) Ansible
3 14 (2.01%) Argo
4 12 (1.72%) Podman
5 5 (0.72%) Grafana
6 4 (0.57%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.29%) Packer
7 2 (0.29%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.14%) Kibana
8 1 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 161 (23.10%) Microsoft
2 49 (7.03%) Salesforce
3 26 (3.73%) Splunk
4 25 (3.59%) Oracle
5 16 (2.30%) Google
6 14 (2.01%) Databricks
6 14 (2.01%) Pega
7 12 (1.72%) ScienceLogic
7 12 (1.72%) VMware
8 10 (1.43%) SAP
9 6 (0.86%) Infor
10 5 (0.72%) Adobe
10 5 (0.72%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.72%) Cisco
10 5 (0.72%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.57%) Epicor
11 4 (0.57%) IFS
11 4 (0.57%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.43%) Alterian
12 3 (0.43%) Fortinet