Hybrid/Remote Agile Contract Job Trends

Agile Software Development
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,573 2,088 2,356
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 19.07% 21.61% 18.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.05% 23.52% 21.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,771 1,511 1,672
10th Percentile £367 £358 £363
25th Percentile £427 £421 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £660
90th Percentile £675 £800 £850
UK median daily rate £518 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +1.12% -6.82% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 40 32
10th Percentile £37.95 £54.93 £21.33
25th Percentile £60.00 £60.94 £35.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +36.84% -28.17%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.16 £74.95
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £59.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.70% -8.85% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Agile falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,221 8,879 11,022
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.59% 91.90% 88.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,667 5,890 6,946
10th Percentile £358 £325 £325
25th Percentile £429 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -1.69%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 777 278 264
10th Percentile £15.81 £13.25 £19.39
25th Percentile £30.00 £20.50 £29.63
Median hourly rate £50.00 £35.70 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.08% -16.99% -18.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £82.50 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.16
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.38% -8.38%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Agile and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Agile job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Agile
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Agile.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Agile

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Agile over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Agile daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Agile.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Agile

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Agile over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Agile hourly rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid working options

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 250 (9.72%) Confluence
2 55 (2.14%) SharePoint
3 44 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
4 39 (1.52%) Apache Spark
5 38 (1.48%) Apache
6 30 (1.17%) SAS
7 23 (0.89%) CMS
8 18 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 9 (0.35%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.31%) WordPress
11 7 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
12 6 (0.23%) Kentico
12 6 (0.23%) OpenStack
12 6 (0.23%) WebLogic
12 6 (0.23%) WebLogic Portal
13 5 (0.19%) Camunda
13 5 (0.19%) CICS
13 5 (0.19%) IIS
13 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 61 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
5 22 (0.86%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.35%) Trello
7 6 (0.23%) Sketch
8 5 (0.19%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.12%) DaVinci Resolve
9 3 (0.12%) NUKE
10 2 (0.078%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.078%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.078%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.078%) Houdini
11 1 (0.039%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.039%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.039%) Simulink
11 1 (0.039%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 36 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.66%) Workday HCM
4 13 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
5 11 (0.43%) SAP MDG
6 10 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
7 8 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.27%) Aladdin
8 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
8 7 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.16%) HFM
10 4 (0.16%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.16%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (0.16%) SAP HCM
10 4 (0.16%) Temenos T24
11 3 (0.12%) Maximo
11 3 (0.12%) Primavera
11 3 (0.12%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 623 (24.21%) Azure
2 613 (23.82%) AWS
3 224 (8.71%) Azure DevOps
4 197 (7.66%) GitHub
5 191 (7.42%) Power Platform
6 177 (6.88%) GCP
7 122 (4.74%) Serverless
8 109 (4.24%) GitHub Actions
9 105 (4.08%) Amazon S3
10 89 (3.46%) AWS Lambda
11 67 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 57 (2.22%) Entra ID
13 56 (2.18%) Amazon EC2
14 53 (2.06%) AWS CloudFormation
15 52 (2.02%) Snowflake
16 51 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
17 48 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
18 47 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
19 45 (1.75%) Figma
19 45 (1.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.83%) Firewall
2 34 (1.32%) DNS
3 29 (1.13%) Network Security
4 26 (1.01%) TCP/IP
5 21 (0.82%) Broadband
6 15 (0.58%) HTTP
7 13 (0.51%) DHCP
8 12 (0.47%) VPN
9 10 (0.39%) Ethernet
9 10 (0.39%) Wireless
10 9 (0.35%) BIG-IP
11 8 (0.31%) Internet
11 8 (0.31%) WAN
12 7 (0.27%) 4G
12 7 (0.27%) 5G
12 7 (0.27%) BGP
12 7 (0.27%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 7 (0.27%) MPLS
12 7 (0.27%) Software-Defined Radio
12 7 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (5.52%) Power BI
2 125 (4.86%) Data Warehouse
3 96 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
4 92 (3.58%) SQL Server
5 81 (3.15%) Data Lake
6 78 (3.03%) MongoDB
7 59 (2.29%) Relational Database
8 53 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
9 52 (2.02%) NoSQL
10 51 (1.98%) Metadata
11 39 (1.52%) MySQL
12 36 (1.40%) Tableau
13 31 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
13 31 (1.20%) Oracle Database
14 27 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
15 26 (1.01%) DynamoDB
15 26 (1.01%) Pentaho
16 24 (0.93%) Big Data
17 23 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
17 23 (0.89%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 458 (17.80%) JIRA
2 266 (10.34%) Git
3 186 (7.23%) Jenkins
4 176 (6.84%) GitLab
5 63 (2.45%) Selenium
6 56 (2.18%) Postman
7 45 (1.75%) SonarQube
8 40 (1.55%) JUnit
9 39 (1.52%) Cucumber
10 38 (1.48%) Maven
11 33 (1.28%) Cypress.io
12 28 (1.09%) REST Assured
13 27 (1.05%) Gradle
14 25 (0.97%) Mockito
15 24 (0.93%) Zephyr
16 23 (0.89%) Bitbucket
17 21 (0.82%) Gatling
18 20 (0.78%) JMeter
19 19 (0.74%) Visual Studio
20 16 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,002 (38.94%) Social Skills
2 619 (24.06%) Public Sector
3 587 (22.81%) Finance
4 368 (14.30%) Analytical Skills
5 197 (7.66%) Banking
6 107 (4.16%) Retail
7 84 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
8 83 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 66 (2.57%) Marketing
10 60 (2.33%) Legal
11 58 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
11 58 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
12 54 (2.10%) Investment Banking
13 45 (1.75%) Military
14 44 (1.71%) Local Government
15 41 (1.59%) Telecoms
16 40 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
17 37 (1.44%) Aerospace
18 33 (1.28%) Front Office
19 30 (1.17%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 480 (18.66%) Developer
2 404 (15.70%) Senior
3 328 (12.75%) Analyst
4 247 (9.60%) Business Analyst
5 224 (8.71%) Lead
6 186 (7.23%) Project Manager
7 168 (6.53%) Architect
8 120 (4.66%) Data Engineer
9 98 (3.81%) Delivery Manager
10 97 (3.77%) Software Engineer
11 90 (3.50%) Java Developer
12 88 (3.42%) Senior Developer
13 81 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
14 80 (3.11%) Designer
15 78 (3.03%) Product Manager
16 77 (2.99%) Senior Manager
17 69 (2.68%) Solutions Architect
18 67 (2.60%) User Researcher
19 66 (2.57%) Consultant
20 61 (2.37%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (9.44%) REST
2 227 (8.82%) Terraform
3 157 (6.10%) .NET
4 151 (5.87%) React
5 141 (5.48%) RESTful
6 128 (4.97%) Node.js
7 106 (4.12%) Spring
8 103 (4.00%) Kafka
9 90 (3.50%) HTML
10 87 (3.38%) AngularJS
11 86 (3.34%) Spring Boot
12 85 (3.30%) CSS
13 69 (2.68%) Playwright
14 64 (2.49%) SOAP
15 56 (2.18%) JSON
15 56 (2.18%) Web Services
16 48 (1.87%) OAuth
17 44 (1.71%) Middleware
18 41 (1.59%) PySpark
19 36 (1.40%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 345 (13.41%) Product Ownership
2 242 (9.41%) Cloud Native
3 100 (3.89%) Onboarding
4 83 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
5 74 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
6 66 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
7 52 (2.02%) Management Information System
8 47 (1.83%) Data Structures
9 46 (1.79%) NHS
9 46 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
10 41 (1.59%) AI Agents
11 37 (1.44%) Virtual Team
12 29 (1.13%) Data Centre
13 26 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
14 25 (0.97%) Mobile App
15 23 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
16 21 (0.82%) Low-Code
17 20 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
17 20 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
18 19 (0.74%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 131 (5.09%) Linux
2 56 (2.18%) Windows
3 52 (2.02%) Unix
4 19 (0.74%) Apple iOS
5 17 (0.66%) Android
6 14 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
8 8 (0.31%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.23%) VMS
10 5 (0.19%) zOS
11 4 (0.16%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.078%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.039%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 838 (32.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 770 (29.93%) CI/CD
3 670 (26.04%) DevOps
4 558 (21.69%) Scrum
5 537 (20.87%) Continuous Improvement
6 500 (19.43%) Problem-Solving
7 432 (16.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 388 (15.08%) Test Automation
9 324 (12.59%) Software Engineering
10 318 (12.36%) AI
11 311 (12.09%) Roadmaps
12 295 (11.47%) Decision-Making
13 277 (10.77%) User Stories
14 269 (10.45%) Migration
15 262 (10.18%) Microservices
16 257 (9.99%) Workshop Facilitation
17 251 (9.76%) Analytics
18 248 (9.64%) Data Modelling
19 247 (9.60%) Digital Transformation Programme
20 237 (9.21%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 479 (18.62%) SQL
2 379 (14.73%) Python
3 321 (12.48%) Java
4 207 (8.05%) JavaScript
5 144 (5.60%) C#
6 136 (5.29%) TypeScript
7 71 (2.76%) Bash
8 66 (2.57%) PowerShell
9 60 (2.33%) Scala
10 43 (1.67%) PL/SQL
11 34 (1.32%) Apex Code
12 29 (1.13%) C++
13 24 (0.93%) Bicep
14 23 (0.89%) C
15 19 (0.74%) Korn
15 19 (0.74%) Shell Script
16 16 (0.62%) Kotlin
16 16 (0.62%) T-SQL
17 15 (0.58%) Go
18 13 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 769 (29.89%) Security Cleared
2 678 (26.35%) SC Cleared
3 196 (7.62%) Degree
4 160 (6.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 92 (3.58%) PMI Certification
6 85 (3.30%) PMP
7 80 (3.11%) DV Cleared
8 44 (1.71%) AWS Certification
9 36 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
10 31 (1.20%) Azure Certification
11 28 (1.09%) ISTQB
12 23 (0.89%) CISSP
13 21 (0.82%) Master's Degree
14 20 (0.78%) IIBA
15 17 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
16 14 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
17 13 (0.51%) CBAP
18 12 (0.47%) CSPO
19 11 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 11 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 294 (11.43%) QA
2 190 (7.38%) Accessibility
3 174 (6.76%) Data Quality
4 89 (3.46%) PMO
5 71 (2.76%) WCAG
6 39 (1.52%) GDPR
7 28 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 26 (1.01%) NCSC
9 25 (0.97%) NIST
10 21 (0.82%) GRC
11 18 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
12 13 (0.51%) SLA
13 11 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
14 6 (0.23%) IFRS
15 5 (0.19%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.19%) P3O
16 4 (0.16%) ISO 20022
16 4 (0.16%) PSD2
17 3 (0.12%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 295 (11.47%) Docker
2 52 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.39%) Firmware
5 9 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.27%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.27%) vSphere
7 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.16%) Ceph
8 4 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.078%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.078%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.078%) RACF
9 2 (0.078%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.039%) GPFS
10 1 (0.039%) NFS
10 1 (0.039%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.039%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 315 (12.24%) Kubernetes
2 75 (2.91%) Grafana
3 64 (2.49%) Ansible
4 52 (2.02%) Prometheus
5 31 (1.20%) Argo
6 28 (1.09%) Kibana
7 17 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.35%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.27%) Puppet
10 6 (0.23%) HP ALM
10 6 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (0.19%) Istio
12 4 (0.16%) Consul
12 4 (0.16%) Control-M
12 4 (0.16%) Kustomize
12 4 (0.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 4 (0.16%) Packer
13 3 (0.12%) Check_MK
13 3 (0.12%) HP Quality Center
13 3 (0.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 282 (10.96%) Microsoft
2 179 (6.96%) Oracle
3 111 (4.31%) ServiceNow
4 99 (3.85%) Salesforce
5 92 (3.58%) Databricks
5 92 (3.58%) SAP
6 64 (2.49%) Google
7 37 (1.44%) Splunk
8 36 (1.40%) Talend
9 35 (1.36%) Adobe
10 33 (1.28%) Red Hat
11 31 (1.20%) MuleSoft
12 29 (1.13%) Informatica
13 27 (1.05%) Workday
14 26 (1.01%) VMware
15 25 (0.97%) Denodo
16 19 (0.74%) Pega
17 18 (0.70%) IBM
18 17 (0.66%) Dynatrace
18 17 (0.66%) UiPath