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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 35 26
Rank change year-on-year -37 -9 +4
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 3,586 6,923 15,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.59% 6.98% 9.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.21% 7.30% 9.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,504 3,869 7,027
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,634 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £104,200 £95,000
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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
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% +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 18 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 18 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 3,028 £60,000 -8.19% 737
UK excluding London -40 2,489 £55,000 -8.71% 506
Work from Home -16 1,669 £60,000 -7.69% 483
London -30 919 £70,000 -9.68% 278
North of England -36 590 £60,000 -1.32% 112
South East -36 535 £57,500 -8.00% 124
South West +13 499 £50,500 -15.83% 70
North West -27 340 £63,750 +4.85% 71
Midlands -66 325 £52,500 -8.70% 115
Scotland -51 288 £48,000 -20.00% 26
West Midlands -57 212 £52,500 -4.55% 80
Yorkshire -41 177 £54,500 -10.51% 31
East of England -34 151 £55,000 -8.94% 47
East Midlands -38 113 £55,000 -8.33% 33
Wales +10 85 £60,500 +5.22% 15
North East -11 73 £52,500 -4.55% 10
Northern Ireland -29 16 £95,000 +80.95% 8
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
1 287 (8.00%) Confluence
2 82 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 65 (1.81%) Apache
4 59 (1.65%) CMS
5 46 (1.28%) WebLogic
6 44 (1.23%) Apache Spark
7 41 (1.14%) 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
13 10 (0.28%) JBoss
13 10 (0.28%) 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%) nginx
Applications
1 51 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
1 51 (1.42%) MS Visio
2 43 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 40 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
4 35 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.45%) 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 (2.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (1.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 15 (0.42%) 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 1,432 (39.93%) Azure
2 1,032 (28.78%) AWS
3 478 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 293 (8.17%) Power Platform
5 244 (6.80%) Serverless
6 218 (6.08%) GCP
7 182 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
8 181 (5.05%) SaaS
9 140 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
10 137 (3.82%) PowerApps
11 129 (3.60%) Power Automate
12 112 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
13 88 (2.45%) GitHub
14 80 (2.23%) Azure Functions
15 76 (2.12%) Amazon ECS
16 72 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
17 71 (1.98%) Azure Logic Apps
18 67 (1.87%) Azure Service Bus
19 58 (1.62%) Amazon SQS
20 53 (1.48%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 87 (2.43%) DNS
2 67 (1.87%) Firewall
3 58 (1.62%) TCP/IP
4 57 (1.59%) BGP
5 52 (1.45%) SSL
6 33 (0.92%) Internet
7 31 (0.86%) 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%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 598 (16.68%) SQL Server
2 302 (8.42%) MongoDB
3 250 (6.97%) Elasticsearch
4 165 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
4 165 (4.60%) Power BI
5 138 (3.85%) Relational Database
6 136 (3.79%) NoSQL
7 94 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
8 91 (2.54%) Looker
9 88 (2.45%) BigQuery
10 59 (1.65%) MySQL
10 59 (1.65%) Oracle Database
11 54 (1.51%) RDBMS
12 52 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
12 52 (1.45%) Big Data
13 48 (1.34%) Data Vault
14 42 (1.17%) Tableau
15 39 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
16 34 (0.95%) Data Lake
17 32 (0.89%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 645 (17.99%) JIRA
2 446 (12.44%) Git
3 184 (5.13%) Visual Studio
4 162 (4.52%) Jenkins
5 113 (3.15%) Bitbucket
5 113 (3.15%) GitLab
6 100 (2.79%) Selenium
7 75 (2.09%) Cucumber
8 74 (2.06%) Sourcetree
9 55 (1.53%) TeamCity
10 52 (1.45%) NUnit
11 44 (1.23%) JUnit
12 41 (1.14%) Team Foundation Server
13 40 (1.12%) Postman
14 36 (1.00%) SpecFlow
15 33 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
16 30 (0.84%) Moq
17 24 (0.67%) Cypress.io
17 24 (0.67%) WebDriver
18 22 (0.61%) git-flow
General
1 941 (26.24%) Social Skills
2 756 (21.08%) Finance
3 449 (12.52%) Analytical Skills
4 334 (9.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 326 (9.09%) Marketing
6 293 (8.17%) Law
7 218 (6.08%) Presentation Skills
8 184 (5.13%) Public Sector
9 139 (3.88%) Games
10 118 (3.29%) Aerospace
11 117 (3.26%) Banking
12 109 (3.04%) Retail
13 86 (2.40%) Billing
14 69 (1.92%) Legal
15 52 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
16 51 (1.42%) Investment Banking
17 50 (1.39%) Manufacturing
18 47 (1.31%) Telecoms
19 32 (0.89%) Financial Institution
20 31 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,149 (32.04%) Developer
2 572 (15.95%) Senior
3 493 (13.75%) Lead
4 381 (10.62%) .NET Developer
5 354 (9.87%) Software Engineer
6 259 (7.22%) Senior Developer
7 245 (6.83%) Architect
8 230 (6.41%) Analyst
9 186 (5.19%) Project Manager
10 164 (4.57%) C# Developer
11 151 (4.21%) Delivery Manager
12 150 (4.18%) Business Analyst
13 141 (3.93%) Engineering Manager
14 125 (3.49%) Full Stack Developer
14 125 (3.49%) Product Owner
15 123 (3.43%) C# .NET Developer
16 120 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
17 107 (2.98%) Senior Manager
18 103 (2.87%) Software Developer
19 102 (2.84%) Agile Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 834 (23.26%) .NET
2 560 (15.62%) AngularJS
2 560 (15.62%) React
3 441 (12.30%) .NET Framework
4 429 (11.96%) Node.js
5 421 (11.74%) .NET Core
6 384 (10.71%) ASP.NET
7 326 (9.09%) Entity Framework
8 324 (9.04%) Vue
9 292 (8.14%) ASP.NET Web API
10 289 (8.06%) ASP.NET MVC
11 282 (7.86%) REST
12 270 (7.53%) HTML
13 240 (6.69%) CSS
14 212 (5.91%) Spring Boot
15 182 (5.08%) Spring
16 166 (4.63%) Web Services
17 141 (3.93%) XML
18 139 (3.88%) JSON
19 129 (3.60%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 629 (17.54%) Product Ownership
2 215 (6.00%) Cloud Native
3 118 (3.29%) Public Cloud
4 116 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 109 (3.04%) Greenfield Project
6 101 (2.82%) Data Structures
7 92 (2.57%) Management Information System
8 79 (2.20%) Virtual Reality
9 66 (1.84%) Mobile App
10 60 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
11 58 (1.62%) Private Cloud
12 57 (1.59%) Algorithms
13 55 (1.53%) 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 33 (0.92%) PMI
19 31 (0.86%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 299 (8.34%) Linux
2 103 (2.87%) Windows
3 77 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 42 (1.17%) Unix
5 41 (1.14%) 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 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.25%) Solaris
13 6 (0.17%) 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 3,196 (89.12%) Agile
2 1,116 (31.12%) DevOps
3 1,103 (30.76%) Kanban
4 819 (22.84%) Software Engineering
5 665 (18.54%) CI/CD
6 625 (17.43%) Microservices
7 624 (17.40%) Problem-Solving
8 581 (16.20%) TDD
9 536 (14.95%) Project Management
10 516 (14.39%) Full Stack Development
11 435 (12.13%) Continuous Improvement
12 434 (12.10%) SDLC
13 412 (11.49%) MVC
14 395 (11.02%) BDD
15 392 (10.93%) Roadmaps
16 381 (10.62%) Coaching
17 376 (10.49%) Mentoring
18 372 (10.37%) Test Automation
19 326 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
20 311 (8.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 973 (27.13%) C#
2 866 (24.15%) JavaScript
3 699 (19.49%) SQL
4 551 (15.37%) Java
5 489 (13.64%) Python
6 402 (11.21%) TypeScript
7 85 (2.37%) T-SQL
8 56 (1.56%) PowerShell
9 55 (1.53%) Kotlin
10 50 (1.39%) C++
11 45 (1.25%) PHP
12 42 (1.17%) Scala
13 34 (0.95%) Bicep
13 34 (0.95%) C
14 31 (0.86%) XPath
15 30 (0.84%) Shell Script
16 23 (0.64%) PL/SQL
17 20 (0.56%) Apex Code
18 14 (0.39%) Ruby
19 13 (0.36%) Go
Qualifications
1 640 (17.85%) Security Cleared
2 590 (16.45%) Degree
3 455 (12.69%) SC Cleared
4 161 (4.49%) DV Cleared
5 130 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 124 (3.46%) BPSS Clearance
7 114 (3.18%) Azure Certification
8 84 (2.34%) AWS Certification
9 82 (2.29%) PMI Certification
10 62 (1.73%) PMP
11 59 (1.65%) 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 (1.00%) DBS Check
16 34 (0.95%) CSPO
17 27 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 25 (0.70%) MBA
19 22 (0.61%) ISTQB
20 21 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 415 (11.57%) QA
2 80 (2.23%) Data Quality
3 77 (2.15%) PMO
4 67 (1.87%) Accessibility
5 31 (0.86%) GDPR
6 20 (0.56%) 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%) 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%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 327 (9.12%) Docker
2 55 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.00%) Hyper-V
4 20 (0.56%) Firmware
5 19 (0.53%) 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 (9.04%) Kubernetes
2 233 (6.50%) Terraform
3 180 (5.02%) 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%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
10 8 (0.22%) Kibana
10 8 (0.22%) MIIS
11 5 (0.14%) SCOM
12 3 (0.084%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.084%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.084%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (0.084%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.084%) SCCM
12 3 (0.084%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.056%) HP ALM
13 2 (0.056%) Istio
Vendors
1 899 (25.07%) Microsoft
2 212 (5.91%) Google
3 211 (5.88%) Oracle
4 88 (2.45%) Databricks
5 80 (2.23%) Salesforce
6 54 (1.51%) Informatica
7 49 (1.37%) Sparx
8 41 (1.14%) WSO2
9 38 (1.06%) SAP
10 35 (0.98%) ServiceNow
11 33 (0.92%) Adobe
12 32 (0.89%) Red Hat
13 27 (0.75%) SaltStack
14 26 (0.73%) Atlassian
15 23 (0.64%) VMware
16 17 (0.47%) Cadence
16 17 (0.47%) Cisco
17 15 (0.42%) Cognizant
17 15 (0.42%) IBM
18 13 (0.36%) Sitecore