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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 35 26
Rank change year-on-year -35 -9 +4
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 3,580 6,930 15,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.58% 6.97% 9.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.21% 7.29% 9.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,498 3,883 7,091
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,656 £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 £78,188
90th Percentile £90,000 £103,960 £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 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
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 £96,250
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 20 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 20 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 3,021 £60,000 -8.19% 826
UK excluding London -39 2,489 £55,000 -8.71% 559
Work from Home -14 1,666 £60,000 -7.69% 508
London -30 914 £70,000 -9.68% 319
North of England -33 586 £60,000 -1.32% 128
South East -33 539 £57,925 -7.32% 139
South West +11 497 £51,000 -15.00% 78
North West -28 336 £64,080 +5.39% 79
Midlands -63 327 £52,500 -8.43% 121
Scotland -50 289 £47,750 -20.42% 33
West Midlands -62 211 £52,500 -4.55% 88
Yorkshire -40 176 £55,000 -9.69% 37
East of England -33 151 £55,000 -8.94% 45
East Midlands -41 116 £55,000 -8.33% 31
Wales +11 85 £60,500 +5.22% 16
North East -7 74 £52,500 -4.55% 12
Northern Ireland -26 15 £95,000 +80.95% 9
Isle of Man - 5 £54,000 -

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 (7.96%) Confluence
2 80 (2.23%) SharePoint
3 66 (1.84%) Apache
4 60 (1.68%) CMS
5 46 (1.28%) WebLogic
6 44 (1.23%) Apache Spark
7 42 (1.17%) OpenStack
8 18 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
9 16 (0.45%) EPiServer
10 15 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
11 14 (0.39%) Umbraco
12 11 (0.31%) IIS
12 11 (0.31%) JBoss
12 11 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
13 10 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
14 9 (0.25%) Apache Solr
14 9 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 9 (0.25%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.22%) Anypoint
16 6 (0.17%) Kentico
Applications
1 49 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
1 49 (1.37%) 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 93 (2.60%) 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%) Primavera
11 1 (0.028%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 1,429 (39.92%) Azure
2 1,034 (28.88%) AWS
3 476 (13.30%) Azure DevOps
4 291 (8.13%) Power Platform
5 245 (6.84%) Serverless
6 217 (6.06%) GCP
7 182 (5.08%) SaaS
8 181 (5.06%) Dynamics 365
9 141 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
10 137 (3.83%) PowerApps
11 129 (3.60%) Power Automate
12 112 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
13 87 (2.43%) GitHub
14 80 (2.23%) Azure Functions
15 77 (2.15%) Amazon ECS
16 73 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
17 71 (1.98%) Azure Logic Apps
18 67 (1.87%) Azure Service Bus
19 58 (1.62%) Amazon SQS
20 52 (1.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 87 (2.43%) DNS
2 68 (1.90%) Firewall
3 58 (1.62%) TCP/IP
4 57 (1.59%) BGP
5 52 (1.45%) SSL
6 33 (0.92%) Internet
7 31 (0.87%) Broadband
8 27 (0.75%) AMQP
9 23 (0.64%) VPN
10 18 (0.50%) 5G
11 17 (0.47%) Network Security
12 16 (0.45%) Hyperconnected
13 15 (0.42%) Mobile Broadband
14 13 (0.36%) Ethernet VPN
14 13 (0.36%) MPLS
15 11 (0.31%) WAN
16 9 (0.25%) SD-WAN
17 8 (0.22%) HTTP
18 6 (0.17%) Unified Communications
18 6 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 600 (16.76%) SQL Server
2 302 (8.44%) MongoDB
3 250 (6.98%) Elasticsearch
4 165 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
5 164 (4.58%) Power BI
6 139 (3.88%) Relational Database
7 136 (3.80%) NoSQL
8 95 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
9 91 (2.54%) Looker
10 88 (2.46%) BigQuery
11 59 (1.65%) MySQL
11 59 (1.65%) Oracle Database
12 54 (1.51%) RDBMS
13 53 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
14 51 (1.42%) Big Data
15 48 (1.34%) Data Vault
16 41 (1.15%) Tableau
17 39 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
18 34 (0.95%) Data Lake
19 32 (0.89%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 643 (17.96%) JIRA
2 445 (12.43%) Git
3 184 (5.14%) Visual Studio
4 162 (4.53%) Jenkins
5 113 (3.16%) GitLab
6 111 (3.10%) Bitbucket
7 99 (2.77%) Selenium
8 75 (2.09%) Sourcetree
9 73 (2.04%) Cucumber
10 56 (1.56%) TeamCity
11 52 (1.45%) NUnit
12 45 (1.26%) JUnit
13 41 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
14 40 (1.12%) Postman
15 37 (1.03%) SpecFlow
16 34 (0.95%) Octopus Deploy
17 31 (0.87%) Moq
18 24 (0.67%) WebDriver
19 23 (0.64%) Cypress.io
19 23 (0.64%) git-flow
General
1 943 (26.34%) Social Skills
2 748 (20.89%) Finance
3 445 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
4 331 (9.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 326 (9.11%) Marketing
6 292 (8.16%) Law
7 215 (6.01%) Presentation Skills
8 184 (5.14%) Public Sector
9 137 (3.83%) Games
10 118 (3.30%) Aerospace
11 115 (3.21%) Banking
12 108 (3.02%) Retail
13 86 (2.40%) Billing
14 69 (1.93%) Legal
15 52 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
16 50 (1.40%) Investment Banking
17 49 (1.37%) Manufacturing
18 47 (1.31%) Telecoms
19 32 (0.89%) Financial Institution
20 31 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,144 (31.96%) Developer
2 575 (16.06%) Senior
3 496 (13.85%) Lead
4 379 (10.59%) .NET Developer
5 356 (9.94%) Software Engineer
6 260 (7.26%) Senior Developer
7 246 (6.87%) Architect
8 227 (6.34%) Analyst
9 183 (5.11%) Project Manager
10 165 (4.61%) C# Developer
11 152 (4.25%) Delivery Manager
12 149 (4.16%) Business Analyst
13 141 (3.94%) Engineering Manager
14 128 (3.58%) Full Stack Developer
15 124 (3.46%) Product Owner
16 123 (3.44%) C# .NET Developer
17 120 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
18 105 (2.93%) Senior Manager
19 103 (2.88%) Software Developer
20 102 (2.85%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 834 (23.30%) .NET
2 563 (15.73%) AngularJS
3 562 (15.70%) React
4 440 (12.29%) .NET Framework
5 430 (12.01%) Node.js
6 423 (11.82%) .NET Core
7 387 (10.81%) ASP.NET
8 325 (9.08%) Entity Framework
9 324 (9.05%) Vue
10 292 (8.16%) ASP.NET MVC
11 290 (8.10%) ASP.NET Web API
12 280 (7.82%) REST
13 271 (7.57%) HTML
14 243 (6.79%) CSS
15 212 (5.92%) Spring Boot
16 182 (5.08%) Spring
17 165 (4.61%) Web Services
18 141 (3.94%) XML
19 139 (3.88%) JSON
20 132 (3.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 624 (17.43%) Product Ownership
2 214 (5.98%) Cloud Native
3 118 (3.30%) Public Cloud
4 117 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
5 107 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
6 101 (2.82%) Data Structures
7 93 (2.60%) Management Information System
8 77 (2.15%) Virtual Reality
9 65 (1.82%) Mobile App
10 61 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
11 59 (1.65%) Private Cloud
12 57 (1.59%) Algorithms
13 55 (1.54%) Reinsurance
14 54 (1.51%) Onboarding
15 49 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
15 49 (1.37%) Virtual Team
16 42 (1.17%) Reference Data
17 37 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
18 32 (0.89%) PMI
19 30 (0.84%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 301 (8.41%) Linux
2 102 (2.85%) Windows
3 77 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 42 (1.17%) Unix
5 41 (1.15%) CentOS
6 37 (1.03%) Ubuntu
7 29 (0.81%) Windows Server
8 27 (0.75%) Debian
9 22 (0.61%) Android
10 14 (0.39%) Apple iOS
11 12 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.25%) 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 3,191 (89.13%) Agile
2 1,115 (31.15%) DevOps
3 1,106 (30.89%) Kanban
4 819 (22.88%) Software Engineering
5 666 (18.60%) CI/CD
6 626 (17.49%) Microservices
6 626 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
7 581 (16.23%) TDD
8 534 (14.92%) Project Management
9 519 (14.50%) Full Stack Development
10 438 (12.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 436 (12.18%) SDLC
12 415 (11.59%) MVC
13 396 (11.06%) BDD
14 389 (10.87%) Roadmaps
15 382 (10.67%) Coaching
16 378 (10.56%) Mentoring
17 371 (10.36%) Test Automation
18 325 (9.08%) Collaborative Working
19 309 (8.63%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 969 (27.07%) C#
2 869 (24.27%) JavaScript
3 695 (19.41%) SQL
4 553 (15.45%) Java
5 487 (13.60%) Python
6 403 (11.26%) TypeScript
7 86 (2.40%) T-SQL
8 58 (1.62%) Kotlin
9 55 (1.54%) PowerShell
10 50 (1.40%) C++
11 45 (1.26%) PHP
12 43 (1.20%) Scala
13 34 (0.95%) C
14 33 (0.92%) Bicep
15 32 (0.89%) XPath
16 30 (0.84%) Shell Script
17 23 (0.64%) PL/SQL
18 20 (0.56%) Apex Code
19 14 (0.39%) Ruby
20 13 (0.36%) Go
Qualifications
1 642 (17.93%) Security Cleared
2 587 (16.40%) Degree
3 456 (12.74%) SC Cleared
4 161 (4.50%) DV Cleared
5 132 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 122 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 114 (3.18%) Azure Certification
8 85 (2.37%) AWS Certification
9 81 (2.26%) PMI Certification
10 60 (1.68%) PMP
11 58 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
12 54 (1.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 49 (1.37%) Master's Degree
14 43 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
15 36 (1.01%) DBS Check
16 34 (0.95%) CSPO
17 25 (0.70%) MBA
17 25 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 24 (0.67%) ISTQB
19 21 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 418 (11.68%) QA
2 80 (2.23%) Data Quality
3 74 (2.07%) PMO
4 66 (1.84%) Accessibility
5 31 (0.87%) GDPR
6 18 (0.50%) 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
1 327 (9.13%) Docker
2 55 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.01%) Hyper-V
4 20 (0.56%) Firmware
4 20 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
6 11 (0.31%) IAG
7 8 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
8 7 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
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
1 324 (9.05%) Kubernetes
2 234 (6.54%) Terraform
3 182 (5.08%) Ansible
4 38 (1.06%) 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%) Consul
12 2 (0.056%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 895 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 213 (5.95%) Google
3 211 (5.89%) Oracle
4 89 (2.49%) Databricks
5 80 (2.23%) Salesforce
6 54 (1.51%) Informatica
7 49 (1.37%) Sparx
8 42 (1.17%) WSO2
9 38 (1.06%) SAP
10 34 (0.95%) Adobe
10 34 (0.95%) ServiceNow
11 32 (0.89%) Red Hat
12 27 (0.75%) SaltStack
13 26 (0.73%) Atlassian
14 23 (0.64%) VMware
15 17 (0.47%) Cadence
15 17 (0.47%) Cisco
16 16 (0.45%) Cognizant
17 14 (0.39%) IBM
18 13 (0.36%) Sitecore