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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 57 45
Rank change year-on-year -42 -12 -13
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 444 767 1,607
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.70% 5.18% 5.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.15% 5.45% 6.11%
Number of salaries quoted 308 320 1,372
10th Percentile £39,238 £45,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +15.42% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £84,063 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 14,089 14,066 26,312
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.67% 95.04% 92.45%
Number of salaries quoted 9,153 8,711 21,850
10th Percentile £31,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,300 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 1 March 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 26 (5.86%) Confluence
2 8 (1.80%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.90%) ArcGIS
4 4 (0.90%) GeoServer
4 4 (0.90%) Oracle Spatial
5 3 (0.68%) Apache
5 3 (0.68%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.45%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.45%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.45%) SAS
7 1 (0.23%) CMS
7 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.35%) Trello
2 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.68%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.45%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.45%) Sketch
6 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.23%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 11 (2.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.68%) Maximo
2 3 (0.68%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.68%) Shopify
3 2 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.23%) Magento
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.23%) Primavera
4 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.23%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 137 (30.86%) Azure
2 99 (22.30%) AWS
3 50 (11.26%) Serverless
4 44 (9.91%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (6.53%) SaaS
6 27 (6.08%) GitHub
7 26 (5.86%) Power Platform
8 24 (5.41%) GCP
9 21 (4.73%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (3.83%) Amazon S3
10 17 (3.83%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (3.83%) PaaS
11 15 (3.38%) Entra ID
12 14 (3.15%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (2.93%) Azure App Service
14 12 (2.70%) PowerApps
15 10 (2.25%) Power Automate
16 9 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
16 9 (2.03%) Azure Functions
17 8 (1.80%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 61 (13.74%) Broadband
2 8 (1.80%) Ethernet
2 8 (1.80%) RS-232
3 4 (0.90%) Firewall
3 4 (0.90%) MQTT
4 2 (0.45%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (0.45%) LAN
4 2 (0.45%) VPN
4 2 (0.45%) WAN
5 1 (0.23%) AMQP
5 1 (0.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (9.68%) SQL Server
2 30 (6.76%) NoSQL
3 22 (4.95%) MongoDB
4 20 (4.50%) Relational Database
5 17 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
5 17 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.70%) Power BI
7 11 (2.48%) MySQL
8 9 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (1.58%) Metadata
9 7 (1.58%) Tableau
10 4 (0.90%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.90%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.90%) GIS
10 4 (0.90%) QGIS
10 4 (0.90%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (0.68%) Power Query
12 2 (0.45%) Looker
12 2 (0.45%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 69 (15.54%) JIRA
2 64 (14.41%) Jenkins
3 54 (12.16%) Git
4 44 (9.91%) GitLab
5 34 (7.66%) Postman
6 33 (7.43%) SonarQube
7 29 (6.53%) Selenium
7 29 (6.53%) SoapUI
8 27 (6.08%) WebDriver
9 26 (5.86%) Team Foundation Server
10 23 (5.18%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.13%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.90%) JMeter
12 4 (0.90%) SpecFlow
13 3 (0.68%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.68%) Oracle APEX
13 3 (0.68%) Storybook
14 2 (0.45%) Cucumber
14 2 (0.45%) REST Assured
14 2 (0.45%) Serenity BDD
General
1 169 (38.06%) Social Skills
2 91 (20.50%) Finance
3 77 (17.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 64 (14.41%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (12.39%) Public Sector
6 52 (11.71%) Marketing
7 42 (9.46%) Games
8 25 (5.63%) Law
9 20 (4.50%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (3.60%) Health Technology
10 16 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (3.60%) Tech for Good
11 14 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (3.15%) Publishing
12 11 (2.48%) Legal
13 10 (2.25%) Telecoms
14 9 (2.03%) Banking
15 8 (1.80%) Manufacturing
16 6 (1.35%) Electronics
17 5 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 110 (24.77%) Developer
2 87 (19.59%) Senior
3 71 (15.99%) Lead
4 53 (11.94%) Software Engineer
5 49 (11.04%) Architect
6 47 (10.59%) Analyst
7 33 (7.43%) .NET Developer
8 31 (6.98%) Salesforce Architect
9 30 (6.76%) Lead Developer
10 25 (5.63%) Business Analyst
11 24 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
12 20 (4.50%) Delivery Manager
12 20 (4.50%) Senior Developer
13 18 (4.05%) React Developer
13 18 (4.05%) Software Developer
14 16 (3.60%) Python Developer
14 16 (3.60%) Salesforce Technical Architect
14 16 (3.60%) Scrum Master
14 16 (3.60%) Technical Architect
15 15 (3.38%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (21.85%) .NET
2 67 (15.09%) SOAP
3 62 (13.96%) React
4 52 (11.71%) REST
5 50 (11.26%) RESTful
6 48 (10.81%) HTML
7 35 (7.88%) .NET Framework
7 35 (7.88%) Lightning Web Components
7 35 (7.88%) Visualforce
8 28 (6.31%) Akka
8 28 (6.31%) ASP.NET Web API
9 26 (5.86%) Entity Framework
10 25 (5.63%) Node.js
11 24 (5.41%) CSS
12 22 (4.95%) .NET Core
13 21 (4.73%) AngularJS
14 18 (4.05%) Web Services
15 14 (3.15%) ASP.NET
15 14 (3.15%) Vue
16 13 (2.93%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 116 (26.13%) Product Ownership
2 27 (6.08%) Cloud Native
3 23 (5.18%) Over-the-Top Content
3 23 (5.18%) Video\Live Streaming
4 11 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.80%) Device Driver
6 8 (1.80%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.80%) Public Cloud
7 7 (1.58%) e-Learning
7 7 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.35%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.13%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.90%) PMI
11 3 (0.68%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.68%) N-Tier
11 3 (0.68%) Social Media
12 2 (0.45%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.50%) Linux
2 8 (1.80%) Embedded Linux
3 5 (1.13%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.68%) Android
4 3 (0.68%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.68%) Unix
5 2 (0.45%) VMS
6 1 (0.23%) CentOS
6 1 (0.23%) Debian
6 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (92.12%) Agile
2 159 (35.81%) Continuous Improvement
3 153 (34.46%) Kanban
4 151 (34.01%) DevOps
5 142 (31.98%) CI/CD
6 100 (22.52%) Mentoring
7 96 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
8 89 (20.05%) Roadmaps
9 75 (16.89%) Software Engineering
10 72 (16.22%) User Stories
11 69 (15.54%) Acceptance Criteria
12 67 (15.09%) TDD
13 66 (14.86%) Microservices
14 62 (13.96%) Stakeholder Management
15 59 (13.29%) Coaching
16 58 (13.06%) Continuous Integration
17 56 (12.61%) Community of Practice
18 54 (12.16%) Continuous Delivery
19 52 (11.71%) Software Testing
20 51 (11.49%) OO
Programming Languages
1 100 (22.52%) SQL
2 83 (18.69%) C#
3 70 (15.77%) Java
4 55 (12.39%) TypeScript
5 54 (12.16%) JavaScript
6 53 (11.94%) Python
7 35 (7.88%) Apex Code
8 33 (7.43%) SOQL
8 33 (7.43%) SOSL
9 24 (5.41%) Scala
10 15 (3.38%) C++
11 11 (2.48%) C
12 8 (1.80%) Embedded C
13 5 (1.13%) Bash
14 4 (0.90%) PHP
14 4 (0.90%) Rust
15 3 (0.68%) Erlang
15 3 (0.68%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.68%) Swift
16 2 (0.45%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 105 (23.65%) Degree
2 58 (13.06%) Security Cleared
3 47 (10.59%) SC Cleared
4 33 (7.43%) ISTQB
5 25 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (5.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 18 (4.05%) Master's Degree
8 13 (2.93%) DBS Check
9 11 (2.48%) PMI Certification
10 9 (2.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 8 (1.80%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.80%) PMP
12 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (1.13%) CIPD
14 3 (0.68%) IBM Certification
15 2 (0.45%) AWS Certification
15 2 (0.45%) CBAP
15 2 (0.45%) IIBA
15 2 (0.45%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (18.24%) QA
2 13 (2.93%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.13%) PMO
4 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.68%) WCAG
5 2 (0.45%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.45%) ECSS
5 2 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.23%) GDPR
6 1 (0.23%) GRC
6 1 (0.23%) IFRS
6 1 (0.23%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.23%) P3O
System Software
1 56 (12.61%) Docker
2 12 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 55 (12.39%) Kubernetes
2 24 (5.41%) Terraform
3 17 (3.83%) Ansible
4 5 (1.13%) Grafana
4 5 (1.13%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.45%) Argo
5 2 (0.45%) Packer
5 2 (0.45%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 69 (15.54%) Microsoft
2 44 (9.91%) Salesforce
3 33 (7.43%) Splunk
4 13 (2.93%) Oracle
5 10 (2.25%) Google
6 9 (2.03%) Mercator
6 9 (2.03%) SAP
6 9 (2.03%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.13%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.13%) ESRI
7 5 (1.13%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.68%) Foundry
8 3 (0.68%) Guidewire
8 3 (0.68%) IBM
9 2 (0.45%) Adobe
9 2 (0.45%) Cisco
9 2 (0.45%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.45%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.45%) SendGrid
9 2 (0.45%) Zend