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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 57 47
Rank change year-on-year -35 -10 -14
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 481 688 1,600
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.85% 5.13% 5.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.36% 5.39% 5.79%
Number of salaries quoted 319 317 1,351
10th Percentile £39,238 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% +11.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £79,375 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £89,041
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 14,314 12,772 27,639
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 84.91% 95.24% 92.04%
Number of salaries quoted 9,412 8,783 22,888
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
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 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 19 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 (5.41%) Confluence
2 8 (1.66%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.83%) ArcGIS
4 4 (0.83%) GeoServer
4 4 (0.83%) Oracle Spatial
5 3 (0.62%) Apache
5 3 (0.62%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.42%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.42%) SAS
7 1 (0.21%) CMS
7 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.25%) Trello
4 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.62%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.62%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.42%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.42%) Sketch
7 1 (0.21%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 11 (2.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.62%) Maximo
2 3 (0.62%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.42%) Shopify
4 1 (0.21%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.21%) Magento
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.21%) Primavera
4 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.21%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 137 (28.48%) Azure
2 111 (23.08%) AWS
3 53 (11.02%) Serverless
4 46 (9.56%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (7.48%) GCP
6 26 (5.41%) Power Platform
7 24 (4.99%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (4.99%) SaaS
8 23 (4.78%) GitHub
9 18 (3.74%) Amazon S3
9 18 (3.74%) Entra ID
10 16 (3.33%) PaaS
11 15 (3.12%) Amazon SQS
11 15 (3.12%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (2.49%) Azure App Service
12 12 (2.49%) PowerApps
13 10 (2.08%) Azure AKS
13 10 (2.08%) Power Automate
14 9 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (1.87%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 76 (15.80%) Broadband
2 11 (2.29%) Ethernet
2 11 (2.29%) RS-232
3 5 (1.04%) Firewall
4 4 (0.83%) MQTT
5 3 (0.62%) LAN
5 3 (0.62%) WAN
6 2 (0.42%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (0.42%) VPN
7 1 (0.21%) AMQP
7 1 (0.21%) Network Security
7 1 (0.21%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.21%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (7.90%) SQL Server
2 36 (7.48%) NoSQL
3 22 (4.57%) MongoDB
4 17 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (3.33%) Relational Database
6 13 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (2.70%) Power BI
7 9 (1.87%) MySQL
8 7 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (1.46%) Metadata
9 6 (1.25%) Tableau
10 4 (0.83%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.83%) GIS
10 4 (0.83%) QGIS
10 4 (0.83%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (0.62%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.62%) Power Query
12 2 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.42%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 71 (14.76%) Jenkins
2 69 (14.35%) JIRA
3 51 (10.60%) Git
3 51 (10.60%) GitLab
4 41 (8.52%) SonarQube
5 31 (6.44%) Postman
6 28 (5.82%) SoapUI
7 27 (5.61%) Selenium
8 25 (5.20%) WebDriver
9 24 (4.99%) Team Foundation Server
10 23 (4.78%) TeamCity
11 9 (1.87%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.25%) CircleCI
13 5 (1.04%) Visual Studio
14 4 (0.83%) JMeter
14 4 (0.83%) SpecFlow
15 3 (0.62%) Oracle APEX
15 3 (0.62%) Storybook
16 2 (0.42%) REST Assured
16 2 (0.42%) Serenity BDD
General
1 181 (37.63%) Social Skills
2 97 (20.17%) Finance
2 97 (20.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 74 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (12.68%) Public Sector
5 60 (12.47%) Marketing
6 48 (9.98%) Games
7 38 (7.90%) Law
8 23 (4.78%) Legal
9 19 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (3.33%) Health Technology
10 16 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (3.12%) Tech for Good
12 14 (2.91%) Publishing
13 11 (2.29%) Banking
13 11 (2.29%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.87%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.25%) Electronics
16 5 (1.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 106 (22.04%) Developer
2 97 (20.17%) Senior
3 71 (14.76%) Lead
4 60 (12.47%) Software Engineer
5 59 (12.27%) Architect
6 52 (10.81%) Analyst
7 39 (8.11%) Salesforce Architect
8 30 (6.24%) Business Analyst
9 28 (5.82%) .NET Developer
9 28 (5.82%) Lead Developer
10 26 (5.41%) Product Manager
11 25 (5.20%) Senior Software Engineer
12 22 (4.57%) Delivery Manager
13 21 (4.37%) Salesforce Technical Architect
13 21 (4.37%) Technical Architect
14 20 (4.16%) Senior Developer
14 20 (4.16%) Software Developer
15 19 (3.95%) Product Owner
16 18 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
17 16 (3.33%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (18.71%) .NET
2 71 (14.76%) SOAP
3 65 (13.51%) React
4 58 (12.06%) REST
5 51 (10.60%) HTML
5 51 (10.60%) RESTful
6 45 (9.36%) Lightning Web Components
6 45 (9.36%) Visualforce
7 34 (7.07%) .NET Framework
8 29 (6.03%) CSS
8 29 (6.03%) Node.js
9 28 (5.82%) Akka
10 23 (4.78%) ASP.NET Web API
11 21 (4.37%) Entity Framework
12 20 (4.16%) AngularJS
13 19 (3.95%) .NET Core
14 16 (3.33%) Web Services
15 15 (3.12%) Spring
16 14 (2.91%) ASP.NET
16 14 (2.91%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 142 (29.52%) Product Ownership
2 35 (7.28%) Cloud Native
3 23 (4.78%) Over-the-Top Content
3 23 (4.78%) Video\Live Streaming
4 13 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (2.49%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.29%) Device Driver
6 11 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.66%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.46%) e-Learning
9 7 (1.46%) Podcast
10 6 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.25%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.04%) PMI
12 4 (0.83%) Culture of Ownership
12 4 (0.83%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.83%) N-Tier
13 3 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.62%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.57%) Linux
2 11 (2.29%) Embedded Linux
3 5 (1.04%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.62%) Unix
5 2 (0.42%) VMS
6 1 (0.21%) CentOS
6 1 (0.21%) Debian
6 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (92.10%) Agile
2 179 (37.21%) Continuous Improvement
3 163 (33.89%) DevOps
4 159 (33.06%) CI/CD
5 157 (32.64%) Kanban
6 109 (22.66%) Roadmaps
7 101 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
8 96 (19.96%) Mentoring
9 86 (17.88%) Software Engineering
10 83 (17.26%) User Stories
11 70 (14.55%) Acceptance Criteria
11 70 (14.55%) Community of Practice
12 68 (14.14%) TDD
13 67 (13.93%) Coaching
14 66 (13.72%) Continuous Delivery
14 66 (13.72%) Continuous Integration
14 66 (13.72%) Stakeholder Management
15 64 (13.31%) Microservices
16 61 (12.68%) OO
17 56 (11.64%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 88 (18.30%) SQL
2 75 (15.59%) C#
3 71 (14.76%) Java
4 61 (12.68%) JavaScript
5 53 (11.02%) Python
6 48 (9.98%) TypeScript
7 45 (9.36%) Apex Code
8 41 (8.52%) SOQL
8 41 (8.52%) SOSL
9 23 (4.78%) Scala
10 17 (3.53%) C++
11 13 (2.70%) C
12 11 (2.29%) Embedded C
13 5 (1.04%) Ruby
14 4 (0.83%) Bash
14 4 (0.83%) Bicep
14 4 (0.83%) PHP
14 4 (0.83%) Rust
15 3 (0.62%) Erlang
16 2 (0.42%) Go
Qualifications
1 112 (23.28%) Degree
2 59 (12.27%) Security Cleared
3 50 (10.40%) SC Cleared
4 29 (6.03%) ISTQB
5 26 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (4.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 16 (3.33%) Master's Degree
8 15 (3.12%) PMI Certification
9 14 (2.91%) DBS Check
10 12 (2.49%) PMP
11 7 (1.46%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 6 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (1.04%) CIPD
14 4 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.62%) AWS Certification
15 3 (0.62%) IBM Certification
15 3 (0.62%) PhD
16 2 (0.42%) CBAP
16 2 (0.42%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (16.01%) QA
2 16 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.46%) GRC
4 6 (1.25%) PMO
5 3 (0.62%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.42%) ECSS
6 2 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (0.42%) WCAG
7 1 (0.21%) IFRS
7 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.21%) P3O
System Software
1 64 (13.31%) Docker
2 10 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (12.06%) Kubernetes
2 31 (6.44%) Terraform
3 17 (3.53%) Ansible
4 6 (1.25%) Grafana
4 6 (1.25%) Podman
5 5 (1.04%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.42%) Argo
6 2 (0.42%) Packer
6 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.21%) Puppet
Vendors
1 65 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 55 (11.43%) Salesforce
3 41 (8.52%) Splunk
4 16 (3.33%) Google
5 12 (2.49%) Oracle
6 10 (2.08%) SAP
7 9 (1.87%) Mercator
8 7 (1.46%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.04%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.04%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.83%) ESRI
11 3 (0.62%) Cisco
11 3 (0.62%) Foundry
11 3 (0.62%) Guidewire
11 3 (0.62%) IBM
11 3 (0.62%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.42%) Adobe
12 2 (0.42%) PagerDuty
12 2 (0.42%) SendGrid
12 2 (0.42%) Zend