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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 36 26
Rank change year-on-year -32 -10 +2
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 3,622 7,224 14,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.67% 6.96% 9.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.27% 7.28% 9.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,545 4,007 7,027
10th Percentile £39,750 £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 £102,500 £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 84,746 99,225 149,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 59,834 58,281 83,297
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,750 £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 3 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 3 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 -29 3,051 £60,000 -11.11% 738
UK excluding London -37 2,519 £55,000 -8.33% 510
Work from Home -14 1,690 £60,000 -7.69% 496
London -28 920 £72,500 -6.45% 263
North of England -35 593 £60,000 -1.32% 103
South East -33 541 £60,000 -4.00% 105
South West +13 514 £50,000 -16.00% 83
North West -26 336 £62,500 +2.80% 67
Midlands -62 322 £52,750 -7.18% 108
Scotland -50 295 £52,500 -13.65% 33
West Midlands -60 213 £52,500 -4.55% 69
Yorkshire -37 183 £55,000 -12.00% 29
East of England -28 151 £55,000 -4.35% 61
East Midlands -40 112 £55,000 -8.33% 36
Wales +2 84 £60,500 +4.76% 15
North East -8 74 £52,500 -4.55% 7
Northern Ireland -19 19 £95,000 +90.00% 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 (8.06%) Confluence
2 85 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 61 (1.68%) Apache
4 57 (1.57%) CMS
5 46 (1.27%) WebLogic
6 42 (1.16%) OpenStack
7 40 (1.10%) Apache Spark
8 16 (0.44%) EPiServer
9 14 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
9 14 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
9 14 (0.39%) Umbraco
10 11 (0.30%) JBoss
10 11 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
11 10 (0.28%) IIS
11 10 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
12 9 (0.25%) Apache Solr
12 9 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 8 (0.22%) Anypoint
13 8 (0.22%) WebSphere
14 7 (0.19%) nginx
Applications
1 50 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
2 48 (1.33%) MS Visio
3 45 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 39 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
5 35 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.41%) Photoshop
7 11 (0.30%) Adobe XD
8 9 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.25%) Trello
9 3 (0.083%) Simulink
10 2 (0.055%) Sketch
10 2 (0.055%) S-PLUS
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%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 94 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (1.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 14 (0.39%) SDL Web 8
4 10 (0.28%) 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%) Visualfiles
8 5 (0.14%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.083%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.083%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.083%) SAP SD
9 3 (0.083%) Shopify
10 2 (0.055%) SAP S/4HANA
11 1 (0.028%) Dynamics NAV
11 1 (0.028%) Elite 3E
11 1 (0.028%) Endur
11 1 (0.028%) HFM
11 1 (0.028%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 1,440 (39.76%) Azure
2 1,028 (28.38%) AWS
3 502 (13.86%) Azure DevOps
4 296 (8.17%) Power Platform
5 242 (6.68%) Serverless
6 219 (6.05%) GCP
7 185 (5.11%) SaaS
8 179 (4.94%) Dynamics 365
9 140 (3.87%) Amazon EKS
10 135 (3.73%) PowerApps
11 125 (3.45%) Power Automate
12 114 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
13 94 (2.60%) GitHub
14 83 (2.29%) Azure Functions
15 75 (2.07%) Amazon ECS
15 75 (2.07%) Azure Logic Apps
16 67 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
16 67 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
17 55 (1.52%) PaaS
18 54 (1.49%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 87 (2.40%) DNS
2 64 (1.77%) Firewall
3 58 (1.60%) TCP/IP
4 57 (1.57%) BGP
5 52 (1.44%) SSL
6 34 (0.94%) Internet
7 29 (0.80%) Broadband
8 25 (0.69%) AMQP
9 23 (0.64%) VPN
10 18 (0.50%) 5G
11 16 (0.44%) Hyperconnected
11 16 (0.44%) Network Security
12 15 (0.41%) Ethernet VPN
12 15 (0.41%) MPLS
13 13 (0.36%) Mobile Broadband
14 12 (0.33%) WAN
15 8 (0.22%) SD-WAN
16 7 (0.19%) NaaS
16 7 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
16 7 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 585 (16.15%) SQL Server
2 301 (8.31%) MongoDB
3 248 (6.85%) Elasticsearch
4 173 (4.78%) Power BI
5 170 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
6 137 (3.78%) Relational Database
7 127 (3.51%) NoSQL
8 102 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
9 91 (2.51%) Looker
10 89 (2.46%) BigQuery
11 64 (1.77%) MySQL
12 59 (1.63%) Oracle Database
13 52 (1.44%) Big Data
13 52 (1.44%) RDBMS
14 50 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
15 48 (1.33%) Data Vault
15 48 (1.33%) Tableau
16 38 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
17 34 (0.94%) Delta Lake
18 33 (0.91%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 664 (18.33%) JIRA
2 447 (12.34%) Git
3 188 (5.19%) Jenkins
4 186 (5.14%) Visual Studio
5 127 (3.51%) GitLab
6 124 (3.42%) Bitbucket
7 101 (2.79%) Selenium
8 82 (2.26%) Cucumber
9 73 (2.02%) Sourcetree
10 55 (1.52%) TeamCity
11 50 (1.38%) NUnit
12 46 (1.27%) JUnit
13 41 (1.13%) Postman
14 37 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
15 33 (0.91%) SpecFlow
16 32 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
17 29 (0.80%) Moq
18 27 (0.75%) WebDriver
19 26 (0.72%) SonarQube
20 24 (0.66%) Cypress.io
General
1 936 (25.84%) Social Skills
2 765 (21.12%) Finance
3 458 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
4 337 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 324 (8.95%) Marketing
6 285 (7.87%) Law
7 231 (6.38%) Presentation Skills
8 192 (5.30%) Public Sector
9 145 (4.00%) Games
10 124 (3.42%) Banking
11 110 (3.04%) Retail
12 107 (2.95%) Aerospace
13 86 (2.37%) Billing
14 68 (1.88%) Legal
15 52 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
15 52 (1.44%) Investment Banking
16 51 (1.41%) Manufacturing
17 45 (1.24%) Telecoms
18 34 (0.94%) Financial Institution
19 31 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,160 (32.03%) Developer
2 604 (16.68%) Senior
3 488 (13.47%) Lead
4 371 (10.24%) .NET Developer
5 345 (9.53%) Software Engineer
6 261 (7.21%) Senior Developer
7 244 (6.74%) Architect
8 237 (6.54%) Analyst
9 193 (5.33%) Project Manager
10 156 (4.31%) C# Developer
11 151 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
12 150 (4.14%) Business Analyst
13 137 (3.78%) Engineering Manager
14 127 (3.51%) Product Owner
15 123 (3.40%) Full Stack Developer
15 123 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
16 116 (3.20%) C# .NET Developer
17 108 (2.98%) Java Developer
18 106 (2.93%) Senior Manager
19 105 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 816 (22.53%) .NET
2 549 (15.16%) AngularJS
3 543 (14.99%) React
4 428 (11.82%) .NET Framework
5 424 (11.71%) Node.js
6 408 (11.26%) .NET Core
7 377 (10.41%) ASP.NET
8 319 (8.81%) Entity Framework
9 318 (8.78%) Vue
10 286 (7.90%) ASP.NET Web API
11 282 (7.79%) REST
12 281 (7.76%) ASP.NET MVC
13 267 (7.37%) HTML
14 235 (6.49%) CSS
15 219 (6.05%) Spring Boot
16 184 (5.08%) Spring
17 166 (4.58%) Web Services
18 138 (3.81%) XML
19 136 (3.75%) JSON
20 132 (3.64%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 643 (17.75%) Product Ownership
2 214 (5.91%) Cloud Native
3 131 (3.62%) Public Cloud
4 126 (3.48%) Data Structures
5 120 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
6 109 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
7 88 (2.43%) Management Information System
7 88 (2.43%) Virtual Reality
8 71 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
9 64 (1.77%) Mobile App
10 62 (1.71%) Onboarding
11 55 (1.52%) Algorithms
12 54 (1.49%) Virtual Team
13 53 (1.46%) Private Cloud
13 53 (1.46%) Reinsurance
14 46 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
15 41 (1.13%) Reference Data
16 37 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
17 31 (0.86%) PMI
18 30 (0.83%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 300 (8.28%) Linux
2 112 (3.09%) Windows
3 77 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 40 (1.10%) Unix
5 39 (1.08%) CentOS
6 34 (0.94%) Ubuntu
7 27 (0.75%) Windows Server
8 25 (0.69%) Debian
9 22 (0.61%) Android
10 14 (0.39%) Apple iOS
11 11 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (0.22%) Solaris
13 6 (0.17%) VMS
14 2 (0.055%) 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 3,219 (88.87%) Agile
2 1,142 (31.53%) DevOps
3 1,103 (30.45%) Kanban
4 829 (22.89%) Software Engineering
5 686 (18.94%) CI/CD
6 630 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
7 622 (17.17%) Microservices
8 573 (15.82%) TDD
9 534 (14.74%) Project Management
10 506 (13.97%) Full Stack Development
11 438 (12.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 437 (12.07%) SDLC
13 404 (11.15%) MVC
14 394 (10.88%) Roadmaps
15 392 (10.82%) BDD
16 382 (10.55%) Coaching
17 375 (10.35%) Mentoring
17 375 (10.35%) Test Automation
18 325 (8.97%) Collaborative Working
19 315 (8.70%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 961 (26.53%) C#
2 856 (23.63%) JavaScript
3 698 (19.27%) SQL
4 549 (15.16%) Java
5 488 (13.47%) Python
6 401 (11.07%) TypeScript
7 87 (2.40%) T-SQL
8 72 (1.99%) PowerShell
9 49 (1.35%) C++
10 46 (1.27%) PHP
11 43 (1.19%) Kotlin
12 40 (1.10%) Scala
13 35 (0.97%) C
14 34 (0.94%) Bicep
15 33 (0.91%) Shell Script
16 30 (0.83%) XPath
17 28 (0.77%) Bash
18 25 (0.69%) PL/SQL
19 20 (0.55%) Apex Code
20 16 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 647 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 585 (16.15%) Degree
3 460 (12.70%) SC Cleared
4 154 (4.25%) DV Cleared
5 140 (3.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 122 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 114 (3.15%) Azure Certification
8 82 (2.26%) AWS Certification
9 80 (2.21%) PMI Certification
10 62 (1.71%) PMP
11 60 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 53 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 47 (1.30%) Master's Degree
14 44 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
15 35 (0.97%) DBS Check
16 34 (0.94%) CSPO
17 26 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 25 (0.69%) MBA
19 23 (0.64%) ISTQB
20 21 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 404 (11.15%) QA
2 79 (2.18%) Data Quality
3 77 (2.13%) PMO
4 64 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 32 (0.88%) GDPR
6 29 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 11 (0.30%) SLA
8 8 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.19%) GRC
9 7 (0.19%) 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
13 2 (0.055%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.055%) IEC 61508
13 2 (0.055%) NCSC
System Software
1 352 (9.72%) Docker
2 56 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 36 (0.99%) Hyper-V
4 20 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
5 19 (0.52%) Firmware
6 15 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
8 11 (0.30%) IAG
9 7 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
11 3 (0.083%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.028%) etcd
12 1 (0.028%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 339 (9.36%) Kubernetes
2 238 (6.57%) Terraform
3 192 (5.30%) Ansible
4 37 (1.02%) Puppet
5 32 (0.88%) Grafana
6 27 (0.75%) Prometheus
7 17 (0.47%) Progress Chef
8 12 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
10 8 (0.22%) Kibana
10 8 (0.22%) MIIS
11 5 (0.14%) SCOM
12 4 (0.11%) Consul
13 3 (0.083%) CSIRT
13 3 (0.083%) HAProxy
13 3 (0.083%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.083%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.083%) SCCM
13 3 (0.083%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.055%) Packer
Vendors
1 896 (24.74%) Microsoft
2 217 (5.99%) Google
3 215 (5.94%) Oracle
4 87 (2.40%) Databricks
5 79 (2.18%) Salesforce
6 55 (1.52%) Informatica
7 49 (1.35%) Sparx
8 42 (1.16%) WSO2
9 39 (1.08%) SAP
9 39 (1.08%) ServiceNow
10 33 (0.91%) Adobe
11 30 (0.83%) Red Hat
12 27 (0.75%) Atlassian
13 25 (0.69%) SaltStack
14 23 (0.64%) VMware
15 18 (0.50%) Cadence
16 17 (0.47%) Cisco
17 16 (0.44%) Splunk
18 15 (0.41%) IBM
19 14 (0.39%) Cognizant