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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 36 26
Rank change year-on-year -34 -10 +4
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 3,608 7,027 14,603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.64% 6.93% 9.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.25% 7.25% 9.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,527 3,879 6,946
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 £103,760 £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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
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 9 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 9 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 -31 3,046 £60,000 -9.84% 733
UK excluding London -36 2,513 £55,000 -8.33% 505
Work from Home -17 1,679 £60,000 -7.69% 482
London -30 916 £72,250 -6.77% 265
North of England -29 597 £60,000 -1.32% 103
South East -38 541 £60,000 -4.00% 104
South West +10 509 £50,000 -16.67% 85
North West -29 343 £62,500 +2.80% 63
Midlands -64 324 £52,500 -4.55% 109
Scotland -54 289 £50,000 -17.22% 37
West Midlands -61 214 £52,500 -4.55% 75
Yorkshire -35 180 £54,500 -11.67% 34
East of England -26 150 £55,000 -4.35% 50
East Midlands -48 111 £55,000 -8.33% 32
Wales +6 86 £60,500 +7.56% 13
North East -11 74 £52,500 -4.55% 6
Northern Ireland -23 18 £95,000 +85.37% 10
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
1 293 (8.12%) Confluence
2 84 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 63 (1.75%) Apache
4 58 (1.61%) CMS
5 46 (1.27%) WebLogic
6 42 (1.16%) 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 (0.30%) JBoss
10 11 (0.30%) 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%) MS Visio
2 49 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
3 44 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 38 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
5 35 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.42%) 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 93 (2.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (1.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 14 (0.39%) SDL Web 8
4 11 (0.30%) 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 (0.055%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.055%) SAP S/4HANA
12 1 (0.028%) Endur
12 1 (0.028%) HFM
12 1 (0.028%) Primavera
12 1 (0.028%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 1,442 (39.97%) Azure
2 1,028 (28.49%) AWS
3 500 (13.86%) Azure DevOps
4 295 (8.18%) Power Platform
5 240 (6.65%) Serverless
6 215 (5.96%) GCP
7 185 (5.13%) SaaS
8 179 (4.96%) Dynamics 365
9 140 (3.88%) Amazon EKS
10 136 (3.77%) PowerApps
11 126 (3.49%) Power Automate
12 113 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
13 92 (2.55%) GitHub
14 79 (2.19%) Azure Functions
15 76 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
16 71 (1.97%) Azure Logic Apps
17 70 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
18 66 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
19 57 (1.58%) Amazon SQS
20 54 (1.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 87 (2.41%) DNS
2 65 (1.80%) Firewall
3 58 (1.61%) TCP/IP
4 57 (1.58%) BGP
5 52 (1.44%) SSL
6 33 (0.91%) Internet
7 30 (0.83%) Broadband
8 26 (0.72%) AMQP
9 23 (0.64%) VPN
10 17 (0.47%) 5G
10 17 (0.47%) Network Security
11 16 (0.44%) Hyperconnected
12 14 (0.39%) Ethernet VPN
12 14 (0.39%) Mobile Broadband
12 14 (0.39%) MPLS
13 12 (0.33%) WAN
14 9 (0.25%) SD-WAN
15 7 (0.19%) HTTP
15 7 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
15 7 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 592 (16.41%) SQL Server
2 302 (8.37%) MongoDB
3 251 (6.96%) Elasticsearch
4 170 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
4 170 (4.71%) Power BI
5 140 (3.88%) Relational Database
6 132 (3.66%) NoSQL
7 98 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
8 91 (2.52%) Looker
9 88 (2.44%) BigQuery
10 61 (1.69%) MySQL
11 59 (1.64%) Oracle Database
12 54 (1.50%) RDBMS
13 52 (1.44%) Big Data
14 50 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
15 49 (1.36%) Data Vault
16 47 (1.30%) Tableau
17 39 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
18 34 (0.94%) Data Lake
18 34 (0.94%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 662 (18.35%) JIRA
2 449 (12.44%) Git
3 189 (5.24%) Visual Studio
4 181 (5.02%) Jenkins
5 124 (3.44%) GitLab
6 123 (3.41%) Bitbucket
7 102 (2.83%) Selenium
8 80 (2.22%) Cucumber
9 73 (2.02%) Sourcetree
10 56 (1.55%) TeamCity
11 50 (1.39%) NUnit
12 46 (1.27%) JUnit
13 41 (1.14%) Postman
14 37 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
15 34 (0.94%) SpecFlow
16 32 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
17 29 (0.80%) Moq
18 26 (0.72%) SonarQube
19 25 (0.69%) SoapUI
19 25 (0.69%) WebDriver
General
1 934 (25.89%) Social Skills
2 763 (21.15%) Finance
3 455 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
4 337 (9.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 324 (8.98%) Marketing
6 291 (8.07%) Law
7 229 (6.35%) Presentation Skills
8 189 (5.24%) Public Sector
9 145 (4.02%) Games
10 121 (3.35%) Banking
11 111 (3.08%) Aerospace
12 110 (3.05%) Retail
13 86 (2.38%) Billing
14 70 (1.94%) Legal
15 52 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
15 52 (1.44%) Investment Banking
16 50 (1.39%) Manufacturing
17 45 (1.25%) Telecoms
18 32 (0.89%) Financial Institution
19 31 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,155 (32.01%) Developer
2 582 (16.13%) Senior
3 487 (13.50%) Lead
4 377 (10.45%) .NET Developer
5 351 (9.73%) Software Engineer
6 253 (7.01%) Senior Developer
7 243 (6.74%) Architect
8 233 (6.46%) Analyst
9 188 (5.21%) Project Manager
10 159 (4.41%) C# Developer
11 151 (4.19%) Delivery Manager
12 148 (4.10%) Business Analyst
13 139 (3.85%) Engineering Manager
14 126 (3.49%) Product Owner
15 122 (3.38%) Full Stack Developer
16 121 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
17 119 (3.30%) C# .NET Developer
18 107 (2.97%) Senior Manager
19 105 (2.91%) DevOps Engineer
20 104 (2.88%) Agile Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 825 (22.87%) .NET
2 556 (15.41%) AngularJS
3 549 (15.22%) React
4 437 (12.11%) .NET Framework
5 428 (11.86%) Node.js
6 418 (11.59%) .NET Core
7 382 (10.59%) ASP.NET
8 323 (8.95%) Entity Framework
8 323 (8.95%) Vue
9 291 (8.07%) ASP.NET Web API
10 288 (7.98%) ASP.NET MVC
11 280 (7.76%) REST
12 269 (7.46%) HTML
13 239 (6.62%) CSS
14 215 (5.96%) Spring Boot
15 181 (5.02%) Spring
16 170 (4.71%) Web Services
17 140 (3.88%) XML
18 137 (3.80%) JSON
19 134 (3.71%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 635 (17.60%) Product Ownership
2 214 (5.93%) Cloud Native
3 131 (3.63%) Public Cloud
4 117 (3.24%) Enterprise Software
5 115 (3.19%) Data Structures
6 109 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
7 90 (2.49%) Management Information System
8 88 (2.44%) Virtual Reality
9 72 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
10 66 (1.83%) Mobile App
11 59 (1.64%) Onboarding
12 57 (1.58%) Private Cloud
13 55 (1.52%) Algorithms
14 53 (1.47%) Reinsurance
15 52 (1.44%) Virtual Team
16 46 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
17 42 (1.16%) Reference Data
18 37 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
19 31 (0.86%) PMI
20 30 (0.83%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 304 (8.43%) Linux
2 112 (3.10%) Windows
3 77 (2.13%) 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 (0.055%) 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 3,211 (89.00%) Agile
2 1,138 (31.54%) DevOps
3 1,107 (30.68%) Kanban
4 834 (23.12%) Software Engineering
5 674 (18.68%) CI/CD
6 631 (17.49%) Microservices
7 628 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
8 577 (15.99%) TDD
9 535 (14.83%) Project Management
10 510 (14.14%) Full Stack Development
11 436 (12.08%) SDLC
12 432 (11.97%) Continuous Improvement
13 409 (11.34%) MVC
14 394 (10.92%) BDD
15 391 (10.84%) Roadmaps
16 385 (10.67%) Coaching
17 380 (10.53%) Test Automation
18 374 (10.37%) Mentoring
19 325 (9.01%) Collaborative Working
20 313 (8.68%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 971 (26.91%) C#
2 864 (23.95%) JavaScript
3 704 (19.51%) SQL
4 547 (15.16%) Java
5 497 (13.77%) Python
6 403 (11.17%) TypeScript
7 86 (2.38%) T-SQL
8 71 (1.97%) PowerShell
9 47 (1.30%) C++
9 47 (1.30%) Kotlin
10 45 (1.25%) PHP
11 39 (1.08%) Scala
12 34 (0.94%) Bicep
13 33 (0.91%) C
14 31 (0.86%) Shell Script
15 30 (0.83%) XPath
16 25 (0.69%) Bash
16 25 (0.69%) PL/SQL
17 20 (0.55%) Apex Code
18 16 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 646 (17.90%) Security Cleared
2 582 (16.13%) Degree
3 460 (12.75%) SC Cleared
4 155 (4.30%) DV Cleared
5 137 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 119 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 114 (3.16%) Azure Certification
8 82 (2.27%) AWS Certification
9 80 (2.22%) PMI Certification
10 62 (1.72%) PMP
11 58 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
12 53 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 46 (1.27%) Master's Degree
14 43 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
15 36 (1.00%) 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
1 409 (11.34%) QA
2 82 (2.27%) Data Quality
3 77 (2.13%) PMO
4 66 (1.83%) Accessibility
5 31 (0.86%) GDPR
6 29 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 11 (0.30%) SLA
8 9 (0.25%) GRC
9 7 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (0.17%) NIST
11 5 (0.14%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.11%) Automotive SPICE
12 4 (0.11%) AUTOSAR
12 4 (0.11%) WCAG
13 3 (0.083%) IFRS
13 3 (0.083%) JTAG
13 3 (0.083%) PSD2
14 2 (0.055%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.055%) IEC 61508
14 2 (0.055%) NCSC
System Software
1 342 (9.48%) Docker
2 56 (1.55%) 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 (0.30%) 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
1 335 (9.28%) Kubernetes
2 239 (6.62%) Terraform
3 194 (5.38%) Ansible
4 37 (1.03%) Puppet
5 32 (0.89%) Grafana
6 27 (0.75%) Prometheus
7 18 (0.50%) Progress Chef
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 (0.055%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 897 (24.86%) Microsoft
2 214 (5.93%) Oracle
3 211 (5.85%) Google
4 89 (2.47%) Databricks
5 79 (2.19%) Salesforce
6 56 (1.55%) Informatica
7 49 (1.36%) Sparx
8 42 (1.16%) WSO2
9 39 (1.08%) ServiceNow
10 37 (1.03%) SAP
11 33 (0.91%) 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