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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 36 26
Rank change year-on-year -36 -10 +4
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 3,589 6,830 15,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.56% 6.93% 9.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.20% 7.25% 9.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2,488 3,825 7,064
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,000 £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 £82,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,249 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.71% +4.78% +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 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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% +10.53%

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 23 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 23 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 -33 3,028 £60,000 -8.19% 734
UK excluding London -38 2,496 £55,000 -8.71% 491
Work from Home -17 1,661 £60,000 -7.69% 480
London -31 916 £70,500 -9.03% 265
North of England -35 589 £60,000 -1.32% 118
South East -31 542 £57,925 -7.32% 100
South West +9 497 £52,000 -13.69% 81
North West -28 338 £63,500 +4.44% 74
Midlands -68 327 £52,500 -8.16% 108
Scotland -47 290 £47,500 -20.83% 33
West Midlands -60 214 £52,500 -4.55% 76
Yorkshire -42 178 £55,000 -9.69% 35
East of England -30 149 £55,000 -9.54% 43
East Midlands -37 113 £55,000 -8.33% 31
Wales +12 85 £61,500 +11.82% 8
North East -12 73 £52,500 -4.55% 10
Northern Ireland -27 17 £95,000 +80.95% 8
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
1 285 (7.94%) Confluence
2 78 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 68 (1.89%) Apache
4 60 (1.67%) CMS
5 46 (1.28%) Apache Spark
5 46 (1.28%) WebLogic
6 41 (1.14%) OpenStack
7 19 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
8 16 (0.45%) EPiServer
9 15 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 14 (0.39%) Umbraco
11 12 (0.33%) IIS
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%) Kentico
Applications
1 48 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
1 48 (1.34%) MS Visio
2 39 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 38 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
4 34 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.47%) Photoshop
6 10 (0.28%) Adobe XD
7 9 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.25%) Trello
8 4 (0.11%) Simulink
9 3 (0.084%) S-PLUS
10 2 (0.056%) Sketch
11 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.028%) Blender
11 1 (0.028%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.028%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.028%) InVision
11 1 (0.028%) MadCap Flare
11 1 (0.028%) OmniGraffle
11 1 (0.028%) RoboHelp
Business Applications
1 94 (2.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (1.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 16 (0.45%) SDL Web 8
4 14 (0.39%) Maximo
5 9 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
6 8 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.14%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.11%) Magento
8 4 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.11%) Visualfiles
9 3 (0.084%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.084%) SAP SD
9 3 (0.084%) Shopify
10 2 (0.056%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.056%) SAP S/4HANA
11 1 (0.028%) Elite 3E
11 1 (0.028%) Endur
11 1 (0.028%) Oracle ERP
11 1 (0.028%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 1,446 (40.29%) Azure
2 1,056 (29.42%) AWS
3 476 (13.26%) Azure DevOps
4 291 (8.11%) Power Platform
5 247 (6.88%) Serverless
6 235 (6.55%) GCP
7 182 (5.07%) Dynamics 365
8 179 (4.99%) SaaS
9 141 (3.93%) Amazon EKS
10 137 (3.82%) PowerApps
11 129 (3.59%) Power Automate
12 109 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
13 83 (2.31%) GitHub
14 79 (2.20%) Azure Functions
15 76 (2.12%) Amazon ECS
16 75 (2.09%) AWS Lambda
17 70 (1.95%) Azure Logic Apps
18 66 (1.84%) Azure Service Bus
19 59 (1.64%) Amazon SQS
20 54 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 88 (2.45%) DNS
2 70 (1.95%) Firewall
3 58 (1.62%) BGP
4 57 (1.59%) TCP/IP
5 51 (1.42%) SSL
6 33 (0.92%) Internet
7 31 (0.86%) Broadband
8 28 (0.78%) 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 13 (0.36%) MPLS
14 12 (0.33%) Ethernet VPN
15 11 (0.31%) WAN
16 10 (0.28%) SD-WAN
17 8 (0.22%) HTTP
18 6 (0.17%) Unified Communications
18 6 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 599 (16.69%) SQL Server
2 301 (8.39%) MongoDB
3 250 (6.97%) Elasticsearch
4 164 (4.57%) Power BI
5 163 (4.54%) Data Warehouse
6 139 (3.87%) NoSQL
7 138 (3.85%) Relational Database
8 93 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
9 92 (2.56%) Looker
10 89 (2.48%) BigQuery
11 58 (1.62%) MySQL
11 58 (1.62%) Oracle Database
12 55 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
13 54 (1.50%) RDBMS
14 51 (1.42%) Big Data
15 48 (1.34%) Data Vault
16 41 (1.14%) Tableau
17 38 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
18 35 (0.98%) Data Lake
19 33 (0.92%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 655 (18.25%) JIRA
2 446 (12.43%) Git
3 183 (5.10%) Visual Studio
4 170 (4.74%) Jenkins
5 114 (3.18%) GitLab
6 109 (3.04%) Bitbucket
7 96 (2.67%) Selenium
8 75 (2.09%) Sourcetree
9 72 (2.01%) Cucumber
10 56 (1.56%) TeamCity
11 52 (1.45%) NUnit
12 44 (1.23%) JUnit
13 43 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
14 40 (1.11%) Postman
15 37 (1.03%) SpecFlow
16 34 (0.95%) Octopus Deploy
17 31 (0.86%) Moq
18 26 (0.72%) SonarQube
19 24 (0.67%) WebDriver
20 23 (0.64%) Cypress.io
General
1 953 (26.55%) Social Skills
2 752 (20.95%) Finance
3 442 (12.32%) Analytical Skills
4 331 (9.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 325 (9.06%) Marketing
6 293 (8.16%) Law
7 217 (6.05%) Presentation Skills
8 180 (5.02%) Public Sector
9 136 (3.79%) Games
10 123 (3.43%) Aerospace
11 115 (3.20%) Banking
12 107 (2.98%) Retail
13 87 (2.42%) Billing
14 69 (1.92%) Legal
15 53 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
16 51 (1.42%) Investment Banking
17 49 (1.37%) Manufacturing
18 47 (1.31%) Telecoms
19 32 (0.89%) Financial Institution
20 30 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,145 (31.90%) Developer
2 577 (16.08%) Senior
3 497 (13.85%) Lead
4 380 (10.59%) .NET Developer
5 355 (9.89%) Software Engineer
6 261 (7.27%) Senior Developer
7 248 (6.91%) Architect
8 222 (6.19%) Analyst
9 181 (5.04%) Project Manager
10 165 (4.60%) C# Developer
11 152 (4.24%) Delivery Manager
12 146 (4.07%) Business Analyst
13 140 (3.90%) Engineering Manager
14 131 (3.65%) Full Stack Developer
15 124 (3.46%) C# .NET Developer
15 124 (3.46%) Product Owner
16 120 (3.34%) Solutions Architect
17 107 (2.98%) Senior Manager
18 106 (2.95%) DevOps Engineer
19 103 (2.87%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 830 (23.13%) .NET
2 566 (15.77%) React
3 563 (15.69%) AngularJS
4 441 (12.29%) .NET Framework
4 441 (12.29%) Node.js
5 424 (11.81%) .NET Core
6 386 (10.76%) ASP.NET
7 325 (9.06%) Entity Framework
8 323 (9.00%) Vue
9 290 (8.08%) ASP.NET MVC
9 290 (8.08%) ASP.NET Web API
10 285 (7.94%) REST
11 269 (7.50%) HTML
12 242 (6.74%) CSS
13 211 (5.88%) Spring Boot
14 182 (5.07%) Spring
15 165 (4.60%) Web Services
16 143 (3.98%) JSON
17 141 (3.93%) XML
18 129 (3.59%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 637 (17.75%) Product Ownership
2 229 (6.38%) Cloud Native
3 117 (3.26%) Public Cloud
4 116 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 106 (2.95%) Greenfield Project
6 102 (2.84%) Data Structures
7 94 (2.62%) Management Information System
8 76 (2.12%) Virtual Reality
9 65 (1.81%) Mobile App
10 61 (1.70%) Private Cloud
11 59 (1.64%) Algorithms
11 59 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
12 57 (1.59%) Reinsurance
13 52 (1.45%) Onboarding
14 49 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
15 48 (1.34%) Virtual Team
16 42 (1.17%) Reference Data
17 36 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
18 32 (0.89%) Client/Server
19 30 (0.84%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 308 (8.58%) Linux
2 106 (2.95%) Windows
3 78 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 45 (1.25%) Unix
5 42 (1.17%) CentOS
6 39 (1.09%) Ubuntu
7 31 (0.86%) Windows Server
8 28 (0.78%) Debian
9 22 (0.61%) Android
10 14 (0.39%) Apple iOS
11 12 (0.33%) 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 3,201 (89.19%) Agile
2 1,129 (31.46%) DevOps
3 1,115 (31.07%) Kanban
4 817 (22.76%) Software Engineering
5 683 (19.03%) CI/CD
6 628 (17.50%) Microservices
7 622 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
8 585 (16.30%) TDD
9 529 (14.74%) Project Management
10 523 (14.57%) Full Stack Development
11 451 (12.57%) Continuous Improvement
12 438 (12.20%) SDLC
13 414 (11.54%) MVC
14 396 (11.03%) BDD
15 392 (10.92%) Roadmaps
16 389 (10.84%) Mentoring
17 383 (10.67%) Test Automation
18 381 (10.62%) Coaching
19 329 (9.17%) Collaborative Working
20 308 (8.58%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 964 (26.86%) C#
2 881 (24.55%) JavaScript
3 697 (19.42%) SQL
4 560 (15.60%) Java
5 504 (14.04%) Python
6 405 (11.28%) TypeScript
7 85 (2.37%) T-SQL
8 60 (1.67%) Kotlin
9 55 (1.53%) PowerShell
10 50 (1.39%) C++
11 44 (1.23%) Scala
12 43 (1.20%) PHP
13 33 (0.92%) Bicep
13 33 (0.92%) C
14 32 (0.89%) XPath
15 30 (0.84%) Shell Script
16 21 (0.59%) PL/SQL
17 20 (0.56%) Apex Code
18 15 (0.42%) Ruby
19 13 (0.36%) Go
Qualifications
1 656 (18.28%) Security Cleared
2 586 (16.33%) Degree
3 469 (13.07%) SC Cleared
4 165 (4.60%) DV Cleared
5 134 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 128 (3.57%) Azure Certification
7 120 (3.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 98 (2.73%) AWS Certification
9 78 (2.17%) PMI Certification
10 59 (1.64%) PMP
11 57 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
12 55 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 49 (1.37%) Master's Degree
14 43 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
15 36 (1.00%) DBS Check
16 35 (0.98%) CSPO
17 25 (0.70%) MBA
18 24 (0.67%) ISTQB
18 24 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 21 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 420 (11.70%) QA
2 80 (2.23%) Data Quality
3 74 (2.06%) PMO
4 65 (1.81%) Accessibility
5 31 (0.86%) GDPR
6 17 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 10 (0.28%) SLA
8 8 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.17%) GRC
9 6 (0.17%) NIST
10 5 (0.14%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.11%) WCAG
12 3 (0.084%) Automotive SPICE
12 3 (0.084%) AUTOSAR
12 3 (0.084%) IFRS
12 3 (0.084%) JTAG
12 3 (0.084%) PSD2
12 3 (0.084%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.056%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.056%) NCSC
System Software
1 340 (9.47%) Docker
2 55 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.00%) Hyper-V
4 21 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (0.56%) Firmware
5 20 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
6 11 (0.31%) IAG
7 7 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
9 4 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.084%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.028%) etcd
11 1 (0.028%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 339 (9.45%) Kubernetes
2 249 (6.94%) Terraform
3 195 (5.43%) Ansible
4 39 (1.09%) Puppet
5 20 (0.56%) Grafana
6 19 (0.53%) Progress Chef
7 16 (0.45%) Prometheus
8 13 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
8 13 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.22%) Kibana
9 8 (0.22%) MIIS
10 5 (0.14%) SCOM
11 3 (0.084%) CSIRT
11 3 (0.084%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.084%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.084%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.084%) SCCM
11 3 (0.084%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.056%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.056%) Istio
Vendors
1 890 (24.80%) Microsoft
2 215 (5.99%) Google
3 206 (5.74%) Oracle
4 90 (2.51%) Databricks
5 82 (2.28%) Salesforce
6 54 (1.50%) Informatica
7 49 (1.37%) Sparx
8 43 (1.20%) ServiceNow
9 41 (1.14%) WSO2
10 38 (1.06%) SAP
11 34 (0.95%) Adobe
12 33 (0.92%) Red Hat
13 28 (0.78%) SaltStack
14 27 (0.75%) Atlassian
15 23 (0.64%) VMware
16 18 (0.50%) Cisco
17 16 (0.45%) Cadence
17 16 (0.45%) Cognizant
18 14 (0.39%) IBM
19 13 (0.36%) Sitecore