Scrum
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Scrum skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Scrum over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 41 27
Rank change year-on-year -31 -14 +3
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 3,578 5,857 16,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.41% 6.19% 9.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.07% 6.48% 9.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,464 3,701 7,145
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +10.62%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £78,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Scrum is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the UK

Scrum
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Scrum.

Salary trend for Scrum in the UK

Scrum
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scrum over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Scrum in the UK

Scrum
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -26 3,027 £60,000 -7.69% 756
UK excluding London -25 2,485 £55,000 -8.33% 503
Work from Home -21 1,658 £60,000 -7.69% 414
London -27 916 £70,000 -9.68% 283
North of England -20 596 £60,000 -1.32% 118
South East -37 540 £57,500 -8.00% 106
South West +11 493 £52,250 -13.10% 80
North West -3 348 £62,500 +2.80% 83
Midlands -64 324 £52,500 -8.70% 111
Scotland -41 280 £47,750 -20.42% 40
West Midlands -62 212 £52,500 -4.55% 86
Yorkshire -33 176 £55,000 -9.54% 27
East of England -23 150 £55,000 -8.94% 33
East Midlands -28 112 £55,000 -8.33% 25
Wales +9 85 £61,500 +11.82% 6
North East -13 72 £52,500 -4.55% 9
Northern Ireland -26 17 £95,000 +80.95% 13
Isle of Man - 5 £54,000 - 1

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 284 (7.94%) Confluence
2 69 (1.93%) Apache
3 67 (1.87%) SharePoint
4 65 (1.82%) CMS
5 49 (1.37%) Apache Spark
6 46 (1.29%) WebLogic
7 36 (1.01%) OpenStack
8 19 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
9 16 (0.45%) EPiServer
10 15 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
11 14 (0.39%) IIS
11 14 (0.39%) Umbraco
12 10 (0.28%) Apache Solr
12 10 (0.28%) JBoss
12 10 (0.28%) Red Hat Fuse
12 10 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
13 9 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 9 (0.25%) WebSphere
14 8 (0.22%) Anypoint
15 6 (0.17%) DNN
Applications
1 39 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (1.06%) MS Visio
3 37 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
4 35 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (0.56%) Photoshop
6 10 (0.28%) Trello
7 9 (0.25%) Adobe XD
7 9 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.11%) Simulink
9 3 (0.084%) MadCap Flare
9 3 (0.084%) RoboHelp
9 3 (0.084%) S-PLUS
10 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.028%) Blender
10 1 (0.028%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.028%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.028%) OmniGraffle
10 1 (0.028%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 95 (2.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 48 (1.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 19 (0.53%) SDL Web 8
4 16 (0.45%) Maximo
5 8 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.14%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.11%) Magento
7 4 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.11%) Visualfiles
8 3 (0.084%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.084%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.084%) Shopify
9 2 (0.056%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.028%) Elite 3E
10 1 (0.028%) Endur
10 1 (0.028%) Primavera
10 1 (0.028%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 1,435 (40.11%) Azure
2 1,041 (29.09%) AWS
3 474 (13.25%) Azure DevOps
4 299 (8.36%) Power Platform
5 244 (6.82%) GCP
6 241 (6.74%) Serverless
7 187 (5.23%) Dynamics 365
8 175 (4.89%) SaaS
9 141 (3.94%) PowerApps
10 135 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
11 133 (3.72%) Power Automate
12 103 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
13 82 (2.29%) GitHub
14 77 (2.15%) Azure Functions
15 75 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
16 72 (2.01%) Azure Logic Apps
17 70 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
18 66 (1.84%) Azure Service Bus
19 59 (1.65%) Amazon SQS
20 55 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 89 (2.49%) DNS
2 71 (1.98%) Firewall
3 58 (1.62%) BGP
4 57 (1.59%) TCP/IP
5 51 (1.43%) SSL
6 33 (0.92%) Internet
7 31 (0.87%) Broadband
8 29 (0.81%) AMQP
9 23 (0.64%) VPN
10 18 (0.50%) 5G
10 18 (0.50%) Network Security
11 16 (0.45%) Hyperconnected
12 15 (0.42%) Mobile Broadband
13 12 (0.34%) MPLS
14 11 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
15 10 (0.28%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.28%) WAN
16 8 (0.22%) HTTP
17 6 (0.17%) Unified Communications
18 5 (0.14%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 608 (16.99%) SQL Server
2 300 (8.38%) MongoDB
3 250 (6.99%) Elasticsearch
4 165 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
4 165 (4.61%) Power BI
5 137 (3.83%) NoSQL
6 134 (3.75%) Relational Database
7 93 (2.60%) Looker
8 90 (2.52%) BigQuery
9 87 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
10 60 (1.68%) MySQL
11 57 (1.59%) Oracle Database
12 55 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
12 55 (1.54%) RDBMS
13 51 (1.43%) Big Data
14 47 (1.31%) Data Vault
15 44 (1.23%) Tableau
16 41 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
17 39 (1.09%) Data Lake
18 34 (0.95%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 659 (18.42%) JIRA
2 443 (12.38%) Git
3 185 (5.17%) Visual Studio
4 162 (4.53%) Jenkins
5 110 (3.07%) GitLab
6 105 (2.93%) Bitbucket
7 99 (2.77%) Selenium
8 78 (2.18%) Sourcetree
9 71 (1.98%) Cucumber
10 59 (1.65%) TeamCity
11 54 (1.51%) NUnit
12 44 (1.23%) JUnit
12 44 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
13 41 (1.15%) Postman
13 41 (1.15%) SpecFlow
14 37 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
15 34 (0.95%) Moq
16 26 (0.73%) SonarQube
17 25 (0.70%) git-flow
17 25 (0.70%) WebDriver
General
1 947 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 753 (21.05%) Finance
3 438 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
4 327 (9.14%) Marketing
5 319 (8.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 286 (7.99%) Law
7 197 (5.51%) Presentation Skills
8 178 (4.97%) Public Sector
9 133 (3.72%) Games
10 126 (3.52%) Aerospace
11 114 (3.19%) Banking
12 111 (3.10%) Retail
13 87 (2.43%) Billing
14 69 (1.93%) Legal
15 52 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
16 51 (1.43%) Manufacturing
17 49 (1.37%) Investment Banking
18 47 (1.31%) Telecoms
19 29 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
20 28 (0.78%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,151 (32.17%) Developer
2 589 (16.46%) Senior
3 496 (13.86%) Lead
4 384 (10.73%) .NET Developer
5 351 (9.81%) Software Engineer
6 274 (7.66%) Senior Developer
7 253 (7.07%) Architect
8 219 (6.12%) Analyst
9 172 (4.81%) C# Developer
10 167 (4.67%) Project Manager
11 152 (4.25%) Delivery Manager
12 144 (4.02%) Business Analyst
13 138 (3.86%) Engineering Manager
14 135 (3.77%) Full Stack Developer
15 127 (3.55%) C# .NET Developer
16 126 (3.52%) Product Owner
17 119 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
18 108 (3.02%) Senior Manager
19 107 (2.99%) DevOps Engineer
20 104 (2.91%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 837 (23.39%) .NET
2 574 (16.04%) React
3 560 (15.65%) AngularJS
4 446 (12.47%) .NET Framework
5 434 (12.13%) Node.js
6 426 (11.91%) .NET Core
7 392 (10.96%) ASP.NET
8 328 (9.17%) Entity Framework
9 323 (9.03%) Vue
10 293 (8.19%) ASP.NET MVC
11 289 (8.08%) ASP.NET Web API
12 281 (7.85%) REST
13 280 (7.83%) HTML
14 252 (7.04%) CSS
15 203 (5.67%) Spring Boot
16 174 (4.86%) Spring
17 169 (4.72%) Web Services
18 140 (3.91%) JSON
19 138 (3.86%) XML
20 135 (3.77%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 641 (17.92%) Product Ownership
2 221 (6.18%) Cloud Native
3 115 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
4 111 (3.10%) Public Cloud
5 108 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
6 101 (2.82%) Data Structures
7 94 (2.63%) Management Information System
8 71 (1.98%) Virtual Reality
9 66 (1.84%) Mobile App
10 58 (1.62%) Algorithms
10 58 (1.62%) Private Cloud
11 57 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
12 55 (1.54%) Reinsurance
13 50 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
14 49 (1.37%) Onboarding
15 44 (1.23%) Virtual Team
16 40 (1.12%) Reference Data
17 38 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
18 34 (0.95%) Client/Server
19 30 (0.84%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 314 (8.78%) Linux
2 108 (3.02%) Windows
3 79 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 45 (1.26%) Unix
5 43 (1.20%) CentOS
6 40 (1.12%) Ubuntu
7 33 (0.92%) Windows Server
8 29 (0.81%) Debian
9 23 (0.64%) Android
10 15 (0.42%) Apple iOS
11 12 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
12 10 (0.28%) Solaris
13 5 (0.14%) VMS
14 2 (0.056%) Embedded Linux
14 2 (0.056%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.028%) VxWorks
15 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,192 (89.21%) Agile
2 1,119 (31.27%) DevOps
3 1,117 (31.22%) Kanban
4 809 (22.61%) Software Engineering
5 679 (18.98%) CI/CD
6 626 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
7 621 (17.36%) Microservices
8 578 (16.15%) TDD
9 518 (14.48%) Full Stack Development
10 514 (14.37%) Project Management
11 447 (12.49%) Continuous Improvement
12 435 (12.16%) SDLC
13 417 (11.65%) MVC
14 397 (11.10%) Mentoring
15 394 (11.01%) Roadmaps
16 391 (10.93%) BDD
17 387 (10.82%) Test Automation
18 382 (10.68%) Coaching
19 336 (9.39%) Collaborative Working
20 307 (8.58%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 973 (27.19%) C#
2 877 (24.51%) JavaScript
3 698 (19.51%) SQL
4 556 (15.54%) Java
5 501 (14.00%) Python
6 402 (11.24%) TypeScript
7 88 (2.46%) T-SQL
8 64 (1.79%) Kotlin
9 56 (1.57%) PowerShell
10 50 (1.40%) C++
11 48 (1.34%) Scala
12 44 (1.23%) PHP
13 35 (0.98%) XPath
14 33 (0.92%) Bicep
15 31 (0.87%) C
16 28 (0.78%) Shell Script
17 21 (0.59%) Apex Code
18 19 (0.53%) PL/SQL
19 14 (0.39%) Ruby
20 13 (0.36%) Go
Qualifications
1 651 (18.19%) Security Cleared
2 580 (16.21%) Degree
3 465 (13.00%) SC Cleared
4 173 (4.84%) DV Cleared
5 135 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 126 (3.52%) Azure Certification
7 114 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 95 (2.66%) AWS Certification
9 78 (2.18%) PMI Certification
10 58 (1.62%) PMP
11 55 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 55 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 54 (1.51%) Master's Degree
13 43 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
14 38 (1.06%) DBS Check
15 35 (0.98%) CSPO
16 27 (0.75%) ISTQB
17 25 (0.70%) MBA
18 22 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 21 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 421 (11.77%) QA
2 81 (2.26%) Data Quality
3 74 (2.07%) PMO
4 65 (1.82%) Accessibility
5 32 (0.89%) GDPR
6 12 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 10 (0.28%) SLA
8 8 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.17%) NIST
10 5 (0.14%) GRC
10 5 (0.14%) NIST 800
10 5 (0.14%) WCAG
11 3 (0.084%) IFRS
11 3 (0.084%) JTAG
11 3 (0.084%) PSD2
11 3 (0.084%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.056%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.056%) NCSC
13 1 (0.028%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.028%) SOC 2
System Software
1 330 (9.22%) Docker
2 55 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 30 (0.84%) Hyper-V
4 23 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
6 18 (0.50%) Firmware
7 11 (0.31%) IAG
8 7 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.084%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.028%) etcd
11 1 (0.028%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.028%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 336 (9.39%) Kubernetes
2 246 (6.88%) Terraform
3 189 (5.28%) Ansible
4 40 (1.12%) Puppet
5 19 (0.53%) Progress Chef
6 18 (0.50%) Grafana
7 16 (0.45%) Prometheus
8 14 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (0.25%) Kibana
11 8 (0.22%) MIIS
12 5 (0.14%) SCOM
13 3 (0.084%) CSIRT
13 3 (0.084%) HAProxy
13 3 (0.084%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.084%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.084%) SCCM
14 2 (0.056%) Argo
14 2 (0.056%) HP ALM
14 2 (0.056%) Istio
Vendors
1 887 (24.79%) Microsoft
2 209 (5.84%) Google
3 199 (5.56%) Oracle
4 90 (2.52%) Databricks
5 77 (2.15%) Salesforce
6 55 (1.54%) Informatica
7 48 (1.34%) Sparx
8 43 (1.20%) ServiceNow
9 39 (1.09%) SAP
10 38 (1.06%) Adobe
11 36 (1.01%) WSO2
12 34 (0.95%) Red Hat
13 29 (0.81%) SaltStack
14 27 (0.75%) Atlassian
15 19 (0.53%) Cognizant
15 19 (0.53%) VMware
16 18 (0.50%) Cisco
17 16 (0.45%) Cadence
18 14 (0.39%) IBM
19 13 (0.36%) Sitecore