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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 103 65
Rank change year-on-year +22 -38 -26
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 692 585 1,109
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.20% 3.55% 3.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.87% 3.81% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 529 319 861
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,468 £49,500 £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 £83,750 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.26% +10.83% -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 17,875 15,362 25,786
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.74% 93.25% 88.48%
Number of salaries quoted 13,022 9,082 19,277
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,089
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.84%

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 21 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 42 (6.07%) Confluence
2 12 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.58%) Apache
4 3 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.43%) CMS
4 3 (0.43%) DNN
4 3 (0.43%) EPiServer
4 3 (0.43%) Immediacy CMS
4 3 (0.43%) Kentico
4 3 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.43%) Sitefinity
4 3 (0.43%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.29%) Appian
5 2 (0.29%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.29%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle Spatial
5 2 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (1.16%) Trello
3 4 (0.58%) Adobe XD
3 4 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.58%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.43%) Productboard
4 3 (0.43%) Sketch
5 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 21 (3.03%) 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
1 320 (46.24%) Azure
2 261 (37.72%) AWS
3 101 (14.60%) Azure DevOps
4 66 (9.54%) GCP
5 58 (8.38%) GitHub
6 55 (7.95%) Serverless
7 40 (5.78%) Power Platform
8 38 (5.49%) GitHub Copilot
9 29 (4.19%) Power Automate
10 26 (3.76%) Azure Service Bus
11 25 (3.61%) PowerApps
12 24 (3.47%) PaaS
12 24 (3.47%) SaaS
13 23 (3.32%) Azure Functions
14 21 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
15 19 (2.75%) Azure AKS
15 19 (2.75%) Azure Key Vault
16 18 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
17 15 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
18 13 (1.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (7.66%) Broadband
2 14 (2.02%) Ethernet
2 14 (2.02%) RS-232
2 14 (2.02%) VPN
3 8 (1.16%) Firewall
4 5 (0.72%) LAN
4 5 (0.72%) WAN
5 4 (0.58%) MQTT
6 3 (0.43%) Network Security
6 3 (0.43%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.43%) Wireless
6 3 (0.43%) WPA
7 2 (0.29%) ATM
7 2 (0.29%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (17.63%) MongoDB
2 94 (13.58%) Azure SQL Database
3 84 (12.14%) Elasticsearch
4 46 (6.65%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (5.64%) NoSQL
6 22 (3.18%) Metadata
7 21 (3.03%) SQL Server
8 20 (2.89%) Power BI
9 15 (2.17%) MySQL
10 14 (2.02%) Redis
11 11 (1.59%) Relational Database
12 8 (1.16%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.87%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (0.58%) Star Schema
16 3 (0.43%) Big Data
17 2 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 90 (13.01%) JIRA
2 57 (8.24%) Git
3 56 (8.09%) GitLab
4 40 (5.78%) Jenkins
5 35 (5.06%) SonarQube
6 15 (2.17%) Cypress.io
7 12 (1.73%) CircleCI
8 11 (1.59%) JUnit
9 10 (1.45%) Maven
9 10 (1.45%) Mockito
10 9 (1.30%) Visual Studio
11 7 (1.01%) Postman
12 6 (0.87%) Claude Code
13 5 (0.72%) Selenium
14 4 (0.58%) NUnit
14 4 (0.58%) SoapUI
14 4 (0.58%) SpecFlow
14 4 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
15 3 (0.43%) Oracle APEX
16 2 (0.29%) MSTest
General
1 206 (29.77%) Social Skills
2 156 (22.54%) Finance
3 138 (19.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 109 (15.75%) Public Sector
5 105 (15.17%) Law
6 75 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
7 48 (6.94%) Games
8 46 (6.65%) Marketing
9 30 (4.34%) Legal
10 24 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (2.31%) Retail
12 13 (1.88%) Legal Technology
13 9 (1.30%) Banking
14 8 (1.16%) Advertising
14 8 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.87%) Health Technology
15 6 (0.87%) Social Housing
16 4 (0.58%) Tech for Good
16 4 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 190 (27.46%) Developer
2 156 (22.54%) Senior
3 86 (12.43%) .NET Developer
4 82 (11.85%) Analyst
5 74 (10.69%) Architect
6 59 (8.53%) Software Engineer
7 54 (7.80%) Delivery Manager
8 52 (7.51%) Business Analyst
8 52 (7.51%) Lead
9 37 (5.35%) Agile Delivery Manager
10 36 (5.20%) Senior Developer
11 33 (4.77%) DevOps Engineer
11 33 (4.77%) Salesforce Architect
11 33 (4.77%) Senior Analyst
12 30 (4.34%) Project Manager
12 30 (4.34%) Senior DevOps
12 30 (4.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 29 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
14 26 (3.76%) Senior Business Analyst
14 26 (3.76%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (20.23%) React
2 131 (18.93%) .NET
3 122 (17.63%) Node.js
4 92 (13.29%) ASP.NET
5 87 (12.57%) ASP.NET Core
6 83 (11.99%) .NET Core
7 68 (9.83%) AngularJS
8 64 (9.25%) REST
9 63 (9.10%) .NET Framework
10 55 (7.95%) ASP.NET Web API
10 55 (7.95%) Vue
11 52 (7.51%) RESTful
12 42 (6.07%) Lightning Web Components
13 39 (5.64%) HTML
13 39 (5.64%) SOAP
14 38 (5.49%) Visualforce
15 34 (4.91%) Spring
16 33 (4.77%) Blazor
17 31 (4.48%) CSS
18 23 (3.32%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 171 (24.71%) Product Ownership
2 60 (8.67%) Cloud Native
3 25 (3.61%) Podcast
4 19 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (2.60%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.02%) Device Driver
7 12 (1.73%) Public Cloud
7 12 (1.73%) Security Posture
8 11 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.16%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.16%) PMI
9 8 (1.16%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.01%) Culture of Ownership
10 7 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.01%) e-Learning
10 7 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.87%) AI Agents
11 6 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (0.72%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.72%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 64 (9.25%) Linux
2 41 (5.92%) Windows
3 28 (4.05%) Unix
4 14 (2.02%) Embedded Linux
5 12 (1.73%) VMS
6 8 (1.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 651 (94.08%) Agile
2 249 (35.98%) DevOps
3 244 (35.26%) Continuous Improvement
4 222 (32.08%) CI/CD
5 207 (29.91%) Kanban
6 171 (24.71%) Microservices
7 142 (20.52%) Full-Stack Development
8 136 (19.65%) Mentoring
9 122 (17.63%) Problem-Solving
10 119 (17.20%) Coaching
11 118 (17.05%) Roadmaps
12 113 (16.33%) AI
13 107 (15.46%) TDD
14 100 (14.45%) Software Engineering
15 97 (14.02%) Project Delivery
16 96 (13.87%) Community of Practice
17 95 (13.73%) User Stories
18 86 (12.43%) Stakeholder Management
19 85 (12.28%) Continuous Integration
19 85 (12.28%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 170 (24.57%) SQL
2 146 (21.10%) JavaScript
3 138 (19.94%) C#
4 112 (16.18%) TypeScript
5 68 (9.83%) Java
6 67 (9.68%) Python
7 39 (5.64%) Apex Code
8 35 (5.06%) SOQL
9 34 (4.91%) SOSL
10 23 (3.32%) Bash
10 23 (3.32%) Ruby
11 20 (2.89%) Bicep
11 20 (2.89%) C++
11 20 (2.89%) PowerShell
12 16 (2.31%) C
13 14 (2.02%) Embedded C
14 12 (1.73%) Kusto Query Language
15 11 (1.59%) PL/SQL
16 7 (1.01%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.58%) Rust
Qualifications
1 126 (18.21%) Degree
2 94 (13.58%) Security Cleared
3 83 (11.99%) SC Cleared
4 49 (7.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.76%) Azure Certification
6 25 (3.61%) PMI Certification
7 19 (2.75%) PMP
8 18 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.59%) DBS Check
10 9 (1.30%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.87%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.87%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.72%) CIPD
13 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.43%) CCIE Security
14 3 (0.43%) CCSA
14 3 (0.43%) CCSE
14 3 (0.43%) CSPO
14 3 (0.43%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.43%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (10.55%) QA
2 22 (3.18%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.88%) PMO
4 12 (1.73%) GRC
5 11 (1.59%) GDPR
6 10 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 5 (0.72%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.72%) WCAG
9 4 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.14%) GxP
System Software
1 118 (17.05%) Docker
2 14 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.73%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.73%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 83 (11.99%) Kubernetes
2 59 (8.53%) Terraform
3 14 (2.02%) Ansible
3 14 (2.02%) Argo
4 12 (1.73%) Podman
5 5 (0.72%) Grafana
6 4 (0.58%) 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
1 164 (23.70%) Microsoft
2 55 (7.95%) Salesforce
3 34 (4.91%) Splunk
4 23 (3.32%) Oracle
5 15 (2.17%) Google
6 13 (1.88%) Pega
7 12 (1.73%) ScienceLogic
7 12 (1.73%) VMware
8 11 (1.59%) Databricks
9 10 (1.45%) SAP
10 6 (0.87%) Infor
11 5 (0.72%) Adobe
11 5 (0.72%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.72%) Cisco
11 5 (0.72%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.72%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.58%) Epicor
12 4 (0.58%) IFS
13 3 (0.43%) Alterian
13 3 (0.43%) CheckPoint