Agile Jobs with Work from Home Options

Agile Software Development
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 8,663 12,276 26,605
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.22% 30.87% 36.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 27.86% 32.13% 37.37%
Number of salaries quoted 6,015 8,719 14,216
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,206 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.84% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Agile 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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,100 38,207 71,189
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.53% 96.06% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 23,476 26,508 41,843
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,621 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +4.37% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Agile
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Agile trend for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Agile.

Agile salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Agile over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Agile salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 363 (4.19%) Apache
2 362 (4.18%) Apache Airflow
3 314 (3.62%) SAS
4 221 (2.55%) ArcGIS
5 217 (2.50%) GeoServer
6 180 (2.08%) Confluence
7 151 (1.74%) SharePoint
8 91 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
9 53 (0.61%) CMS
10 46 (0.53%) WebLogic
11 42 (0.48%) Apache Spark
11 42 (0.48%) OpenStack
12 38 (0.44%) IIS
13 37 (0.43%) Tuxedo
14 19 (0.22%) WordPress
15 16 (0.18%) nginx
16 13 (0.15%) Umbraco
17 12 (0.14%) Kentico
18 10 (0.12%) EPiServer
19 8 (0.092%) Drupal
Applications
1 585 (6.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 88 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 75 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
4 48 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
5 30 (0.35%) MS Visio
6 25 (0.29%) Adobe XD
7 17 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
8 16 (0.18%) Simulink
9 8 (0.092%) Trello
10 7 (0.081%) Stateflow
11 6 (0.069%) Sketch
12 4 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.046%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.046%) Maya
13 3 (0.035%) InVision
13 3 (0.035%) S-PLUS
13 3 (0.035%) UserZoom
14 2 (0.023%) Zeplin
15 1 (0.012%) Elementor
15 1 (0.012%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 303 (3.50%) SAP ERP
2 139 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 56 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 40 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 24 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
6 21 (0.24%) NetSuite
7 14 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
8 13 (0.15%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 11 (0.13%) Magento
9 11 (0.13%) SAP CX
10 9 (0.10%) NEC Housing
11 8 (0.092%) Dynamics AX
11 8 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
12 7 (0.081%) Siebel CRM
13 6 (0.069%) Primavera
14 5 (0.058%) Dynamics GP
14 5 (0.058%) Odoo
14 5 (0.058%) Oracle EBS
14 5 (0.058%) SAP GTS
14 5 (0.058%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 2,832 (32.69%) Azure
2 2,220 (25.63%) AWS
3 666 (7.69%) GCP
4 523 (6.04%) Azure DevOps
5 452 (5.22%) Power Platform
6 407 (4.70%) SaaS
7 364 (4.20%) dbt
8 331 (3.82%) Snowflake
9 255 (2.94%) Serverless
10 252 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
11 215 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
12 162 (1.87%) GitHub
13 160 (1.85%) PowerApps
14 135 (1.56%) Power Automate
15 124 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
16 104 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
17 98 (1.13%) Entra ID
18 95 (1.10%) PaaS
19 87 (1.00%) Amazon EKS
20 64 (0.74%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 799 (9.22%) Broadband
2 200 (2.31%) Firewall
3 198 (2.29%) Internet
4 172 (1.99%) DNS
5 138 (1.59%) TCP/IP
6 106 (1.22%) WAN
7 96 (1.11%) LAN
8 85 (0.98%) VPN
9 64 (0.74%) Network Security
10 63 (0.73%) DHCP
11 52 (0.60%) SSL
12 51 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
13 46 (0.53%) BGP
14 37 (0.43%) Wireless
15 26 (0.30%) HTTP
16 24 (0.28%) SAN
17 23 (0.27%) RS-232
18 21 (0.24%) VLAN
19 19 (0.22%) MPLS
19 19 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,144 (13.21%) SQL Server
2 405 (4.68%) PostgreSQL
3 331 (3.82%) Data Lake
4 328 (3.79%) MongoDB
5 315 (3.64%) Dremio
6 310 (3.58%) Amazon Athena
7 307 (3.54%) Apache Ignite
8 306 (3.53%) Apache Arrow
9 291 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
10 279 (3.22%) Power BI
11 254 (2.93%) MySQL
12 224 (2.59%) GIS
13 214 (2.47%) QGIS
14 206 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
14 206 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
15 201 (2.32%) Relational Database
16 198 (2.29%) NoSQL
17 122 (1.41%) BigQuery
18 101 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
19 86 (0.99%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 590 (6.81%) Git
2 494 (5.70%) JIRA
3 253 (2.92%) Jenkins
4 191 (2.20%) GitLab
5 156 (1.80%) Visual Studio
6 113 (1.30%) Selenium
7 72 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
8 57 (0.66%) Cucumber
9 54 (0.62%) JUnit
10 52 (0.60%) Bitbucket
11 43 (0.50%) Postman
12 41 (0.47%) Maven
13 39 (0.45%) Cypress.io
14 36 (0.42%) JMeter
15 35 (0.40%) TeamCity
16 34 (0.39%) SpecFlow
17 27 (0.31%) NUnit
18 26 (0.30%) webpack
19 24 (0.28%) Subversion
20 23 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 2,789 (32.19%) Finance
2 2,688 (31.03%) Social Skills
3 987 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
4 695 (8.02%) Banking
5 529 (6.11%) Influencing Skills
6 505 (5.83%) Public Sector
7 473 (5.46%) Front Office
8 423 (4.88%) Retail
9 409 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 315 (3.64%) Investment Banking
11 285 (3.29%) Marketing
12 282 (3.26%) Legal
13 231 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
14 168 (1.94%) Law
15 158 (1.82%) Games
16 132 (1.52%) Aerospace
17 109 (1.26%) Advertising
18 96 (1.11%) Manufacturing
18 96 (1.11%) Telecoms
19 89 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2,271 (26.21%) Developer
2 1,942 (22.42%) Senior
3 1,101 (12.71%) Analyst
4 1,095 (12.64%) Lead
5 1,033 (11.92%) Software Engineer
6 989 (11.42%) .NET Developer
7 860 (9.93%) Architect
8 617 (7.12%) Solutions Architect
9 615 (7.10%) Project Manager
10 557 (6.43%) Senior Software Engineer
11 473 (5.46%) Senior Developer
12 395 (4.56%) C# Developer
13 364 (4.20%) Senior Analyst
14 310 (3.58%) C# .NET Developer
15 308 (3.56%) Software Developer
16 296 (3.42%) Business Analyst
17 230 (2.65%) Technical Leader
18 208 (2.40%) Python Engineer
19 200 (2.31%) Java Engineer
20 198 (2.29%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,832 (21.15%) .NET
2 1,123 (12.96%) .NET Core
3 1,032 (11.91%) React
4 966 (11.15%) AngularJS
5 926 (10.69%) ASP.NET
6 725 (8.37%) ASP.NET MVC
7 699 (8.07%) HTML
8 673 (7.77%) CSS
9 639 (7.38%) .NET Framework
10 620 (7.16%) Entity Framework
11 603 (6.96%) ASP.NET Web API
12 548 (6.33%) Node.js
13 520 (6.00%) RESTful
14 436 (5.03%) Vue
15 392 (4.52%) HTML5
16 361 (4.17%) gRPC
17 326 (3.76%) Pandas
18 316 (3.65%) Protocol Buffers
19 298 (3.44%) REST
20 297 (3.43%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 654 (7.55%) Product Ownership
2 447 (5.16%) Fixed Income
3 407 (4.70%) Hedge funds
4 400 (4.62%) Derivative
5 389 (4.49%) Equities
6 356 (4.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 323 (3.73%) Greenfield Project
8 241 (2.78%) Management Information System
9 229 (2.64%) Public Cloud
10 197 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
11 185 (2.14%) Cloud Native
12 164 (1.89%) Data Structures
13 161 (1.86%) Mobile App
14 148 (1.71%) Client/Server
15 133 (1.54%) Algorithms
16 124 (1.43%) Private Cloud
17 107 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
18 94 (1.09%) Onboarding
19 82 (0.95%) Data Centre
20 81 (0.94%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 521 (6.01%) Linux
2 364 (4.20%) Windows
3 155 (1.79%) Android
4 100 (1.15%) Apple iOS
5 93 (1.07%) Ubuntu
6 71 (0.82%) Windows Server
7 63 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 46 (0.53%) Unix
9 42 (0.48%) VMS
10 32 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
11 20 (0.23%) Windows 10
11 20 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
12 14 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
12 14 (0.16%) Mac OS
13 9 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
13 9 (0.10%) Windows 7
13 9 (0.10%) zOS
14 8 (0.092%) VME
15 5 (0.058%) ThreadX
15 5 (0.058%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,840 (21.24%) Mentoring
2 1,833 (21.16%) Software Engineering
3 1,680 (19.39%) DevOps
4 1,541 (17.79%) Scrum
5 1,220 (14.08%) Full Stack Development
6 1,204 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
7 1,172 (13.53%) Microservices
8 1,142 (13.18%) Coaching
9 1,124 (12.97%) Roadmaps
10 1,122 (12.95%) Actionable Insight
11 1,064 (12.28%) Project Management
12 993 (11.46%) TDD
13 929 (10.72%) CI/CD
14 862 (9.95%) Decision-Making
15 831 (9.59%) MVC
16 780 (9.00%) Kanban
17 749 (8.65%) SDLC
18 670 (7.73%) Analytics
19 622 (7.18%) Project Delivery
20 580 (6.70%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 2,098 (24.22%) JavaScript
2 1,879 (21.69%) C#
3 1,405 (16.22%) Python
4 1,395 (16.10%) SQL
5 1,083 (12.50%) Java
6 980 (11.31%) TypeScript
7 206 (2.38%) PowerShell
8 156 (1.80%) PHP
9 152 (1.75%) C
10 142 (1.64%) C++
11 136 (1.57%) T-SQL
12 113 (1.30%) Go
13 82 (0.95%) Kotlin
14 75 (0.87%) COBOL
15 74 (0.85%) Micro Focus COBOL
16 66 (0.76%) R
17 64 (0.74%) Groovy
18 54 (0.62%) Bash
19 51 (0.59%) Ruby
20 45 (0.52%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,194 (13.78%) Security Cleared
2 937 (10.82%) Degree
3 818 (9.44%) SC Cleared
4 469 (5.41%) ACCA
5 465 (5.37%) CIMA
6 248 (2.86%) DV Cleared
7 245 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 149 (1.72%) PMI Certification
9 115 (1.33%) Azure Certification
9 115 (1.33%) DBS Check
10 109 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 106 (1.22%) PMP
12 99 (1.14%) AWS Certification
13 86 (0.99%) Master's Degree
14 61 (0.70%) CISSP
15 54 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 53 (0.61%) ISTQB
17 52 (0.60%) APMP
18 51 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
19 50 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 486 (5.61%) QA
2 196 (2.26%) Data Quality
3 131 (1.51%) Accessibility
4 94 (1.09%) PMO
5 46 (0.53%) GDPR
6 42 (0.48%) WCAG
7 41 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (0.37%) SLA
9 30 (0.35%) NIST
10 25 (0.29%) PCI DSS
11 21 (0.24%) NCSC
12 20 (0.23%) ISO 9001
13 17 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
14 13 (0.15%) ITGC
14 13 (0.15%) MISRA
15 9 (0.10%) PSD2
16 7 (0.081%) Actionable Recommendations
17 6 (0.069%) ISO 20022
18 5 (0.058%) NEBOSH
18 5 (0.058%) SEPA
System Software
1 655 (7.56%) Docker
2 206 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 68 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 53 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
5 50 (0.58%) RACF
6 49 (0.57%) Hyper-V
7 46 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
8 35 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
9 23 (0.27%) Firmware
10 19 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 15 (0.17%) vSphere
12 6 (0.069%) Embedded Firmware
13 5 (0.058%) DFS Replication
14 4 (0.046%) Microsoft App-V
15 2 (0.023%) Terminal Server
16 1 (0.012%) Ceph
16 1 (0.012%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 1 (0.012%) NFS
16 1 (0.012%) Time Sharing Option
16 1 (0.012%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 557 (6.43%) Kubernetes
2 443 (5.11%) Terraform
3 286 (3.30%) Ansible
4 64 (0.74%) Grafana
5 57 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 51 (0.59%) Progress Chef
7 47 (0.54%) Puppet
8 37 (0.43%) WSUS
9 36 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 35 (0.40%) SCCM
11 30 (0.35%) Prometheus
12 22 (0.25%) Kibana
12 22 (0.25%) SCOM
12 22 (0.25%) ZABBIX
13 15 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
14 13 (0.15%) Nmap
14 13 (0.15%) VxRail
15 12 (0.14%) Opsgenie
16 10 (0.12%) Nagios
16 10 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2,224 (25.67%) Microsoft
2 538 (6.21%) Oracle
3 448 (5.17%) SAP
4 327 (3.77%) Google
5 299 (3.45%) Anaplan
5 299 (3.45%) Hyperion
6 219 (2.53%) ESRI
7 110 (1.27%) Salesforce
8 88 (1.02%) Facebook
9 85 (0.98%) Databricks
10 78 (0.90%) ServiceNow
11 77 (0.89%) VMware
12 74 (0.85%) Micro Focus
13 61 (0.70%) Atlassian
14 60 (0.69%) Cisco
15 56 (0.65%) Sparx
16 50 (0.58%) CyberArk
17 46 (0.53%) IBM
18 43 (0.50%) Adobe
19 42 (0.48%) Apple