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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 99 59
Rank change year-on-year +22 -40 -22
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 670 578 1,406
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.22% 3.58% 4.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% 3.82% 4.77%
Number of salaries quoted 501 310 1,129
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,725 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,468 £51,250 £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 £78,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £84,500 £97,503 £90,000
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 17,173 15,146 29,476
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.44% 93.69% 88.91%
Number of salaries quoted 12,544 8,967 22,622
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,750
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 £80,000 £75,772
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% -9.09%

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 4 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 39 (5.82%) Confluence
2 17 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.45%) Apache
4 3 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.45%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.45%) CMS
4 3 (0.45%) DNN
4 3 (0.45%) EPiServer
4 3 (0.45%) Immediacy CMS
4 3 (0.45%) Kentico
4 3 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.45%) Sitefinity
4 3 (0.45%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.30%) Appian
5 2 (0.30%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.30%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 12 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.75%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.75%) Trello
5 4 (0.60%) Adobe XD
5 4 (0.60%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.45%) Productboard
6 3 (0.45%) Sketch
7 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
8 1 (0.15%) EngageOne
8 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 25 (3.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.30%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (0.30%) Shopify
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%) TIBCO iProcess
4 1 (0.15%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 297 (44.33%) Azure
2 241 (35.97%) AWS
3 90 (13.43%) Azure DevOps
4 62 (9.25%) GCP
5 59 (8.81%) Serverless
6 52 (7.76%) GitHub
7 43 (6.42%) Power Platform
8 33 (4.93%) GitHub Copilot
8 33 (4.93%) Power Automate
9 30 (4.48%) Azure Service Bus
10 29 (4.33%) PowerApps
11 27 (4.03%) Azure Functions
12 25 (3.73%) Azure Logic Apps
13 24 (3.58%) PaaS
14 21 (3.13%) Azure AKS
14 21 (3.13%) SaaS
15 19 (2.84%) Azure Key Vault
16 18 (2.69%) Dynamics 365
17 14 (2.09%) Azure Monitor
18 13 (1.94%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (9.55%) Broadband
2 15 (2.24%) Ethernet
2 15 (2.24%) RS-232
3 14 (2.09%) VPN
4 8 (1.19%) Firewall
5 5 (0.75%) LAN
5 5 (0.75%) WAN
6 4 (0.60%) MQTT
7 3 (0.45%) Network Security
7 3 (0.45%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.45%) Wireless
7 3 (0.45%) WPA
8 2 (0.30%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (0.15%) AMQP
9 1 (0.15%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (16.12%) MongoDB
2 83 (12.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 73 (10.90%) Elasticsearch
4 42 (6.27%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (5.22%) NoSQL
6 21 (3.13%) SQL Server
7 19 (2.84%) Metadata
7 19 (2.84%) Power BI
8 12 (1.79%) Redis
9 10 (1.49%) MySQL
9 10 (1.49%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.04%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.75%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.60%) Big Data
13 4 (0.60%) Star Schema
14 2 (0.30%) GIS
Development Applications
1 82 (12.24%) JIRA
2 55 (8.21%) Git
2 55 (8.21%) GitLab
3 52 (7.76%) Jenkins
4 35 (5.22%) SonarQube
5 14 (2.09%) Cypress.io
6 13 (1.94%) Postman
7 12 (1.79%) CircleCI
8 11 (1.64%) TeamCity
9 10 (1.49%) JUnit
9 10 (1.49%) Selenium
9 10 (1.49%) Visual Studio
10 9 (1.34%) Maven
10 9 (1.34%) Mockito
11 8 (1.19%) SoapUI
12 6 (0.90%) NUnit
12 6 (0.90%) SpecFlow
12 6 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (0.75%) Claude Code
13 5 (0.75%) JMeter
General
1 196 (29.25%) Social Skills
2 139 (20.75%) Finance
3 131 (19.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 95 (14.18%) Public Sector
5 93 (13.88%) Law
6 71 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
7 49 (7.31%) Games
8 44 (6.57%) Marketing
9 29 (4.33%) Legal
10 22 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (1.94%) Legal Technology
11 13 (1.94%) Retail
12 10 (1.49%) Banking
13 8 (1.19%) Advertising
13 8 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.90%) Health Technology
14 6 (0.90%) Social Housing
15 4 (0.60%) Publishing
15 4 (0.60%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 173 (25.82%) Developer
2 157 (23.43%) Senior
3 79 (11.79%) Analyst
4 75 (11.19%) .NET Developer
5 70 (10.45%) Architect
6 67 (10.00%) Software Engineer
7 56 (8.36%) Lead
8 53 (7.91%) Delivery Manager
9 49 (7.31%) Business Analyst
10 34 (5.07%) Agile Delivery Manager
11 33 (4.93%) Salesforce Architect
12 32 (4.78%) DevOps Engineer
13 31 (4.63%) Senior Developer
14 30 (4.48%) Senior Analyst
15 28 (4.18%) Senior DevOps
15 28 (4.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 28 (4.18%) Solutions Architect
16 26 (3.88%) Senior Manager
17 25 (3.73%) Product Manager
18 24 (3.58%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (19.40%) React
2 122 (18.21%) .NET
3 106 (15.82%) Node.js
4 80 (11.94%) ASP.NET
5 76 (11.34%) ASP.NET Core
6 71 (10.60%) .NET Core
7 62 (9.25%) REST
8 60 (8.96%) AngularJS
9 56 (8.36%) .NET Framework
10 48 (7.16%) ASP.NET Web API
10 48 (7.16%) Vue
11 46 (6.87%) RESTful
12 43 (6.42%) SOAP
13 41 (6.12%) Lightning Web Components
14 38 (5.67%) Visualforce
15 36 (5.37%) HTML
16 34 (5.07%) Spring
17 28 (4.18%) Blazor
18 25 (3.73%) CSS
19 23 (3.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 171 (25.52%) Product Ownership
2 59 (8.81%) Cloud Native
3 25 (3.73%) Podcast
4 18 (2.69%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (2.24%) Device Driver
7 12 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (1.79%) Public Cloud
7 12 (1.79%) Security Posture
8 11 (1.64%) e-Learning
8 11 (1.64%) Over-the-Top Content
8 11 (1.64%) Video\Live Streaming
9 9 (1.34%) PMI
10 8 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.04%) Culture of Ownership
11 7 (1.04%) Mobile App
12 6 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (0.90%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.75%) Housing Association
13 5 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 60 (8.96%) Linux
2 39 (5.82%) Windows
3 29 (4.33%) Unix
4 15 (2.24%) Embedded Linux
5 12 (1.79%) VMS
6 6 (0.90%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.15%) CentOS
7 1 (0.15%) Debian
7 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 633 (94.48%) Agile
2 248 (37.01%) Continuous Improvement
3 238 (35.52%) DevOps
4 213 (31.79%) Kanban
5 210 (31.34%) CI/CD
6 155 (23.13%) Microservices
7 131 (19.55%) Full-Stack Development
8 126 (18.81%) Mentoring
9 119 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
10 118 (17.61%) Roadmaps
11 115 (17.16%) Coaching
12 108 (16.12%) TDD
13 102 (15.22%) Software Engineering
14 97 (14.48%) AI
15 88 (13.13%) Community of Practice
16 87 (12.99%) User Stories
17 84 (12.54%) Stakeholder Management
18 83 (12.39%) Test Automation
19 81 (12.09%) Continuous Integration
20 80 (11.94%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 156 (23.28%) SQL
2 132 (19.70%) JavaScript
3 129 (19.25%) C#
4 103 (15.37%) TypeScript
5 73 (10.90%) Java
6 66 (9.85%) Python
7 38 (5.67%) Apex Code
8 34 (5.07%) SOQL
8 34 (5.07%) SOSL
9 22 (3.28%) Bash
10 21 (3.13%) C++
11 20 (2.99%) Bicep
12 19 (2.84%) PowerShell
13 18 (2.69%) Ruby
14 16 (2.39%) C
15 15 (2.24%) Embedded C
16 12 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
17 11 (1.64%) Scala
18 10 (1.49%) PL/SQL
19 7 (1.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 121 (18.06%) Degree
2 87 (12.99%) Security Cleared
3 77 (11.49%) SC Cleared
4 44 (6.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.88%) Azure Certification
6 22 (3.28%) PMI Certification
7 18 (2.69%) DBS Check
8 17 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (2.09%) PMP
10 8 (1.19%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.90%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.90%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.75%) CIPD
12 5 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.60%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.45%) CCIE
14 3 (0.45%) CCNP
14 3 (0.45%) CCSA
14 3 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (11.19%) QA
2 21 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.79%) GRC
3 12 (1.79%) PMO
4 10 (1.49%) GDPR
5 8 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.60%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.30%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.30%) WCAG
10 1 (0.15%) GxP
System Software
1 117 (17.46%) Docker
2 14 (2.09%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 86 (12.84%) Kubernetes
2 60 (8.96%) Terraform
3 16 (2.39%) Ansible
4 14 (2.09%) Argo
5 12 (1.79%) Podman
6 5 (0.75%) Grafana
7 4 (0.60%) 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
1 154 (22.99%) Microsoft
2 52 (7.76%) Salesforce
3 34 (5.07%) Splunk
4 23 (3.43%) Oracle
5 15 (2.24%) Google
6 13 (1.94%) Pega
7 12 (1.79%) ScienceLogic
7 12 (1.79%) VMware
8 10 (1.49%) Databricks
9 9 (1.34%) SAP
10 6 (0.90%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.75%) Adobe
11 5 (0.75%) Cisco
11 5 (0.75%) Infor
11 5 (0.75%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.60%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.45%) CheckPoint
13 3 (0.45%) Epicor
13 3 (0.45%) Fortinet
13 3 (0.45%) Sitecore