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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 36 26
Rank change year-on-year -34 -10 +4
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 3,597 7,002 14,660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.63% 6.93% 9.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.24% 7.25% 9.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,528 3,875 6,972
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £103,250 £95,000
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 84,917 96,578 150,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.59% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,883 56,844 82,330
10th Percentile £29,008 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -32 3,037 £60,000 -9.77% 726
UK excluding London -37 2,505 £55,000 -8.33% 504
Work from Home -18 1,681 £60,000 -7.69% 490
London -29 914 £72,000 -7.10% 260
North of England -36 594 £60,000 -1.32% 108
South East -34 540 £60,000 -4.00% 101
South West +12 509 £50,000 -16.67% 82
North West -29 342 £62,500 +2.80% 66
Midlands -62 321 £52,500 -4.55% 110
Scotland -49 289 £50,000 -16.67% 36
West Midlands -60 211 £52,500 -4.55% 76
Yorkshire -38 179 £55,000 -12.00% 35
East of England -27 151 £55,000 -4.35% 50
East Midlands -46 111 £55,000 -8.33% 32
Wales +9 85 £60,500 +7.56% 15
North East -10 73 £52,500 -4.55% 7
Northern Ireland -30 17 £95,000 +85.37% 9
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
1 292 (8.12%) Confluence
2 83 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 63 (1.75%) Apache
4 58 (1.61%) CMS
5 46 (1.28%) WebLogic
6 42 (1.17%) OpenStack
7 41 (1.14%) Apache Spark
8 16 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
8 16 (0.44%) EPiServer
9 14 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
9 14 (0.39%) Umbraco
10 11 (0.31%) JBoss
10 11 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
11 10 (0.28%) Apache Solr
11 10 (0.28%) IIS
11 10 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
12 9 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 9 (0.25%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.22%) Anypoint
14 6 (0.17%) DNN
Applications
1 50 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
1 50 (1.39%) MS Visio
2 44 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 38 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
4 35 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.42%) Photoshop
6 11 (0.31%) Adobe XD
7 9 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.25%) Trello
8 3 (0.083%) Simulink
9 2 (0.056%) Sketch
9 2 (0.056%) 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%) InVision
10 1 (0.028%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 93 (2.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (1.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 14 (0.39%) SDL Web 8
4 13 (0.36%) Maximo
5 9 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
6 7 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.14%) Magento
8 5 (0.14%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.11%) Visualfiles
10 3 (0.083%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.083%) SAP SD
10 3 (0.083%) Shopify
11 2 (0.056%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.056%) SAP S/4HANA
12 1 (0.028%) Endur
12 1 (0.028%) HFM
12 1 (0.028%) Oracle ERP
12 1 (0.028%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 1,428 (39.70%) Azure
2 1,032 (28.69%) AWS
3 486 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
4 293 (8.15%) Power Platform
5 241 (6.70%) Serverless
6 216 (6.01%) GCP
7 183 (5.09%) SaaS
8 180 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
9 140 (3.89%) Amazon EKS
10 136 (3.78%) PowerApps
11 127 (3.53%) Power Automate
12 113 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
13 92 (2.56%) GitHub
14 79 (2.20%) Azure Functions
15 76 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
16 71 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
17 70 (1.95%) Azure Logic Apps
18 65 (1.81%) Azure Service Bus
19 57 (1.58%) Amazon SQS
20 54 (1.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 87 (2.42%) DNS
2 65 (1.81%) Firewall
3 58 (1.61%) TCP/IP
4 57 (1.58%) BGP
5 52 (1.45%) SSL
6 33 (0.92%) Internet
7 30 (0.83%) Broadband
8 26 (0.72%) AMQP
9 23 (0.64%) VPN
10 18 (0.50%) 5G
11 17 (0.47%) Network Security
12 16 (0.44%) Hyperconnected
13 14 (0.39%) Ethernet VPN
13 14 (0.39%) Mobile Broadband
13 14 (0.39%) MPLS
14 12 (0.33%) WAN
15 9 (0.25%) SD-WAN
16 7 (0.19%) HTTP
16 7 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
16 7 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 593 (16.49%) SQL Server
2 303 (8.42%) MongoDB
3 252 (7.01%) Elasticsearch
4 168 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
5 167 (4.64%) Power BI
6 140 (3.89%) Relational Database
7 132 (3.67%) NoSQL
8 99 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
9 91 (2.53%) Looker
10 88 (2.45%) BigQuery
11 61 (1.70%) MySQL
12 59 (1.64%) Oracle Database
13 54 (1.50%) RDBMS
14 52 (1.45%) Big Data
15 51 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
16 49 (1.36%) Data Vault
17 46 (1.28%) Tableau
18 39 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
19 34 (0.95%) Delta Lake
20 33 (0.92%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 660 (18.35%) JIRA
2 449 (12.48%) Git
3 188 (5.23%) Visual Studio
4 168 (4.67%) Jenkins
5 122 (3.39%) Bitbucket
6 112 (3.11%) GitLab
7 104 (2.89%) Selenium
8 80 (2.22%) Cucumber
9 73 (2.03%) Sourcetree
10 55 (1.53%) TeamCity
11 50 (1.39%) NUnit
12 46 (1.28%) JUnit
13 40 (1.11%) Postman
14 37 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
15 34 (0.95%) SpecFlow
16 32 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
17 29 (0.81%) Moq
18 25 (0.70%) SoapUI
18 25 (0.70%) WebDriver
19 24 (0.67%) Cypress.io
General
1 937 (26.05%) Social Skills
2 764 (21.24%) Finance
3 456 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
4 337 (9.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 325 (9.04%) Marketing
6 291 (8.09%) Law
7 227 (6.31%) Presentation Skills
8 189 (5.25%) Public Sector
9 144 (4.00%) Games
10 121 (3.36%) Banking
11 111 (3.09%) Aerospace
12 110 (3.06%) Retail
13 86 (2.39%) Billing
14 70 (1.95%) Legal
15 52 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
15 52 (1.45%) Investment Banking
16 50 (1.39%) Manufacturing
17 46 (1.28%) Telecoms
18 32 (0.89%) Financial Institution
19 30 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,156 (32.14%) Developer
2 584 (16.24%) Senior
3 491 (13.65%) Lead
4 378 (10.51%) .NET Developer
5 349 (9.70%) Software Engineer
6 254 (7.06%) Senior Developer
7 243 (6.76%) Architect
8 234 (6.51%) Analyst
9 188 (5.23%) Project Manager
10 160 (4.45%) C# Developer
11 151 (4.20%) Delivery Manager
12 150 (4.17%) Business Analyst
13 139 (3.86%) Engineering Manager
14 126 (3.50%) Product Owner
15 123 (3.42%) Full Stack Developer
16 121 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
17 120 (3.34%) C# .NET Developer
18 107 (2.97%) Senior Manager
19 104 (2.89%) Agile Delivery Manager
19 104 (2.89%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 828 (23.02%) .NET
2 557 (15.49%) AngularJS
3 551 (15.32%) React
4 439 (12.20%) .NET Framework
5 429 (11.93%) Node.js
6 420 (11.68%) .NET Core
7 383 (10.65%) ASP.NET
8 325 (9.04%) Entity Framework
9 324 (9.01%) Vue
10 292 (8.12%) ASP.NET Web API
11 289 (8.03%) ASP.NET MVC
12 280 (7.78%) REST
13 270 (7.51%) HTML
14 240 (6.67%) CSS
15 214 (5.95%) Spring Boot
16 181 (5.03%) Spring
17 170 (4.73%) Web Services
18 140 (3.89%) XML
19 137 (3.81%) JSON
20 133 (3.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 635 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 214 (5.95%) Cloud Native
3 119 (3.31%) Public Cloud
4 118 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
5 116 (3.22%) Data Structures
6 109 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
7 90 (2.50%) Management Information System
8 87 (2.42%) Virtual Reality
9 66 (1.83%) Mobile App
10 60 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
11 59 (1.64%) Onboarding
12 57 (1.58%) Algorithms
12 57 (1.58%) Private Cloud
13 53 (1.47%) Reinsurance
14 51 (1.42%) Virtual Team
15 47 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
16 42 (1.17%) Reference Data
17 37 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
18 31 (0.86%) PMI
19 30 (0.83%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 293 (8.15%) Linux
2 100 (2.78%) Windows
3 77 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 41 (1.14%) Unix
5 40 (1.11%) CentOS
6 35 (0.97%) Ubuntu
7 27 (0.75%) Windows Server
8 26 (0.72%) Debian
9 21 (0.58%) Android
10 13 (0.36%) Apple iOS
11 12 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (0.22%) Solaris
13 6 (0.17%) VMS
14 2 (0.056%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.028%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,199 (88.94%) Agile
2 1,124 (31.25%) DevOps
3 1,095 (30.44%) Kanban
4 822 (22.85%) Software Engineering
5 661 (18.38%) CI/CD
6 630 (17.51%) Problem-Solving
7 618 (17.18%) Microservices
8 575 (15.99%) TDD
9 536 (14.90%) Project Management
10 512 (14.23%) Full Stack Development
11 438 (12.18%) SDLC
12 436 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
13 410 (11.40%) MVC
14 394 (10.95%) BDD
15 389 (10.81%) Roadmaps
16 385 (10.70%) Coaching
17 377 (10.48%) Test Automation
18 375 (10.43%) Mentoring
19 324 (9.01%) Collaborative Working
20 314 (8.73%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 972 (27.02%) C#
2 864 (24.02%) JavaScript
3 705 (19.60%) SQL
4 549 (15.26%) Java
5 496 (13.79%) Python
6 404 (11.23%) TypeScript
7 86 (2.39%) T-SQL
8 59 (1.64%) PowerShell
9 49 (1.36%) C++
10 47 (1.31%) Kotlin
11 45 (1.25%) PHP
12 39 (1.08%) Scala
13 34 (0.95%) Bicep
14 33 (0.92%) C
15 31 (0.86%) Shell Script
16 30 (0.83%) XPath
17 25 (0.70%) PL/SQL
18 20 (0.56%) Apex Code
19 16 (0.44%) R
20 14 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 647 (17.99%) Security Cleared
2 586 (16.29%) Degree
3 461 (12.82%) SC Cleared
4 155 (4.31%) DV Cleared
5 136 (3.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 122 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 114 (3.17%) Azure Certification
8 82 (2.28%) AWS Certification
9 80 (2.22%) PMI Certification
10 62 (1.72%) PMP
11 59 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
12 53 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 48 (1.33%) Master's Degree
14 43 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
15 36 (1.00%) DBS Check
16 34 (0.95%) CSPO
17 27 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 25 (0.70%) MBA
19 23 (0.64%) ISTQB
20 21 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 411 (11.43%) QA
2 82 (2.28%) Data Quality
3 77 (2.14%) PMO
4 64 (1.78%) Accessibility
5 30 (0.83%) GDPR
6 28 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 11 (0.31%) SLA
8 8 (0.22%) GRC
8 8 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.17%) NIST
10 5 (0.14%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.11%) Automotive SPICE
11 4 (0.11%) AUTOSAR
11 4 (0.11%) WCAG
12 3 (0.083%) IFRS
12 3 (0.083%) JTAG
12 3 (0.083%) PSD2
12 3 (0.083%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.056%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.056%) NCSC
System Software
1 329 (9.15%) Docker
2 56 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.00%) Hyper-V
4 19 (0.53%) Firmware
4 19 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
5 15 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.31%) IAG
7 10 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
8 7 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.083%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.028%) etcd
11 1 (0.028%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 324 (9.01%) Kubernetes
2 227 (6.31%) Terraform
3 182 (5.06%) Ansible
4 37 (1.03%) Puppet
5 20 (0.56%) Grafana
6 18 (0.50%) Progress Chef
7 15 (0.42%) Prometheus
8 12 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
8 12 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.22%) Kibana
9 8 (0.22%) MIIS
10 5 (0.14%) SCOM
11 3 (0.083%) Consul
11 3 (0.083%) CSIRT
11 3 (0.083%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.083%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.083%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.083%) SCCM
11 3 (0.083%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.056%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 897 (24.94%) Microsoft
2 215 (5.98%) Oracle
3 212 (5.89%) Google
4 88 (2.45%) Databricks
5 79 (2.20%) Salesforce
6 56 (1.56%) Informatica
7 49 (1.36%) Sparx
8 42 (1.17%) WSO2
9 38 (1.06%) ServiceNow
10 37 (1.03%) SAP
11 33 (0.92%) Adobe
12 31 (0.86%) Red Hat
13 26 (0.72%) Atlassian
13 26 (0.72%) SaltStack
14 22 (0.61%) VMware
15 18 (0.50%) Cadence
16 17 (0.47%) Cisco
17 15 (0.42%) IBM
17 15 (0.42%) Splunk
18 14 (0.39%) Cognizant