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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 8,644 13,209 24,097
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.55% 31.07% 35.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 27.88% 32.33% 36.57%
Number of salaries quoted 6,047 9,259 13,771
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 £79,600 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £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 31,001 40,855 65,893
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.62% 96.09% 96.91%
Number of salaries quoted 23,546 28,388 41,415
10th Percentile £33,759 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +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 3 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
1 322 (3.73%) SAS
2 250 (2.89%) Apache
3 239 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
4 221 (2.56%) ArcGIS
5 217 (2.51%) GeoServer
6 189 (2.19%) Confluence
7 155 (1.79%) SharePoint
8 88 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
9 57 (0.66%) Apache Spark
10 53 (0.61%) CMS
11 46 (0.53%) WebLogic
12 44 (0.51%) OpenStack
13 37 (0.43%) Tuxedo
14 35 (0.40%) IIS
15 21 (0.24%) WordPress
16 16 (0.19%) nginx
17 15 (0.17%) Anypoint
17 15 (0.17%) Umbraco
18 12 (0.14%) Kentico
19 11 (0.13%) EPiServer
Applications
1 605 (7.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 81 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
2 81 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 47 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
4 31 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 27 (0.31%) Adobe XD
6 17 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
7 15 (0.17%) Simulink
8 10 (0.12%) Sketch
9 8 (0.093%) Trello
10 7 (0.081%) Stateflow
11 6 (0.069%) Photoshop
12 5 (0.058%) InDesign
12 5 (0.058%) InVision
13 4 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 4 (0.046%) AutoCAD
13 4 (0.046%) Maya
14 3 (0.035%) UserZoom
15 2 (0.023%) EViews
15 2 (0.023%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 303 (3.51%) SAP ERP
2 136 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 56 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 42 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
5 25 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
6 21 (0.24%) NetSuite
7 16 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
8 13 (0.15%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 12 (0.14%) SAP CX
10 11 (0.13%) Magento
11 8 (0.093%) NEC Housing
11 8 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
11 8 (0.093%) Siebel CRM
12 7 (0.081%) Dynamics AX
13 6 (0.069%) Oracle EBS
13 6 (0.069%) Primavera
13 6 (0.069%) SAP GTS
13 6 (0.069%) SAP SD
14 5 (0.058%) Odoo
14 5 (0.058%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,812 (32.53%) Azure
2 2,088 (24.16%) AWS
3 663 (7.67%) GCP
4 541 (6.26%) Azure DevOps
5 475 (5.50%) Power Platform
6 440 (5.09%) SaaS
7 260 (3.01%) Serverless
8 259 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
9 245 (2.83%) dbt
10 232 (2.68%) Snowflake
11 216 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
12 183 (2.12%) GitHub
13 160 (1.85%) PowerApps
14 122 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
15 121 (1.40%) Power Automate
16 107 (1.24%) Cloud Computing
17 104 (1.20%) PaaS
18 92 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
19 64 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
20 62 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 796 (9.21%) Broadband
2 193 (2.23%) Internet
3 188 (2.17%) Firewall
4 173 (2.00%) DNS
5 138 (1.60%) TCP/IP
6 106 (1.23%) WAN
7 96 (1.11%) LAN
8 92 (1.06%) VPN
9 64 (0.74%) DHCP
10 57 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
11 56 (0.65%) Network Security
12 55 (0.64%) SSL
13 46 (0.53%) BGP
14 37 (0.43%) Wireless
15 26 (0.30%) HTTP
16 25 (0.29%) SAN
16 25 (0.29%) VLAN
17 22 (0.25%) MPLS
17 22 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
18 21 (0.24%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,139 (13.18%) SQL Server
2 412 (4.77%) PostgreSQL
3 321 (3.71%) MongoDB
4 295 (3.41%) Power BI
5 287 (3.32%) Elasticsearch
6 264 (3.05%) MySQL
7 234 (2.71%) Data Lake
8 223 (2.58%) GIS
9 216 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
10 214 (2.48%) QGIS
11 204 (2.36%) NoSQL
11 204 (2.36%) Relational Database
12 200 (2.31%) Amazon Athena
13 197 (2.28%) Apache Ignite
13 197 (2.28%) Azure SQL Database
13 197 (2.28%) Dremio
14 196 (2.27%) Apache Arrow
15 135 (1.56%) BigQuery
16 94 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
17 84 (0.97%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 593 (6.86%) Git
2 514 (5.95%) JIRA
3 284 (3.29%) Jenkins
4 192 (2.22%) GitLab
5 152 (1.76%) Visual Studio
6 116 (1.34%) Selenium
7 71 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
8 65 (0.75%) Cucumber
9 56 (0.65%) Maven
10 55 (0.64%) JUnit
11 54 (0.62%) Bitbucket
12 49 (0.57%) Postman
13 41 (0.47%) Cypress.io
14 38 (0.44%) JMeter
15 33 (0.38%) TeamCity
16 31 (0.36%) IBM UrbanCode
16 31 (0.36%) SpecFlow
17 29 (0.34%) webpack
18 27 (0.31%) NUnit
19 23 (0.27%) Subversion
General
1 2,728 (31.56%) Finance
2 2,726 (31.54%) Social Skills
3 1,036 (11.99%) Analytical Skills
4 650 (7.52%) Banking
5 544 (6.29%) Influencing Skills
6 541 (6.26%) Public Sector
7 424 (4.91%) Retail
8 414 (4.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 364 (4.21%) Front Office
10 288 (3.33%) Marketing
11 264 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
12 237 (2.74%) Legal
13 221 (2.56%) Investment Banking
14 178 (2.06%) Law
15 159 (1.84%) Games
16 118 (1.37%) Aerospace
17 113 (1.31%) Advertising
18 94 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
19 90 (1.04%) Manufacturing
20 88 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,233 (25.83%) Developer
2 1,920 (22.21%) Senior
3 1,089 (12.60%) Lead
4 1,086 (12.56%) Analyst
5 978 (11.31%) Software Engineer
6 976 (11.29%) .NET Developer
7 880 (10.18%) Architect
8 657 (7.60%) Project Manager
9 633 (7.32%) Solutions Architect
10 533 (6.17%) Senior Software Engineer
11 486 (5.62%) Senior Developer
12 369 (4.27%) C# Developer
13 326 (3.77%) Senior Analyst
14 319 (3.69%) Business Analyst
15 292 (3.38%) C# .NET Developer
16 284 (3.29%) Software Developer
17 216 (2.50%) Technical Leader
18 201 (2.33%) DevOps Engineer
19 183 (2.12%) Presales Manager
20 171 (1.98%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,827 (21.14%) .NET
2 1,118 (12.93%) .NET Core
3 1,012 (11.71%) React
4 940 (10.87%) AngularJS
5 920 (10.64%) ASP.NET
6 713 (8.25%) ASP.NET MVC
7 709 (8.20%) HTML
8 686 (7.94%) CSS
9 630 (7.29%) .NET Framework
10 607 (7.02%) Entity Framework
11 601 (6.95%) ASP.NET Web API
12 544 (6.29%) Node.js
13 521 (6.03%) RESTful
14 419 (4.85%) Vue
15 386 (4.47%) HTML5
16 306 (3.54%) REST
17 248 (2.87%) gRPC
18 240 (2.78%) Spring
19 216 (2.50%) PostGIS
20 214 (2.48%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 666 (7.70%) Product Ownership
2 340 (3.93%) Fixed Income
3 332 (3.84%) Greenfield Project
4 308 (3.56%) Hedge funds
5 300 (3.47%) Derivative
6 287 (3.32%) Equities
7 251 (2.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 242 (2.80%) Public Cloud
9 195 (2.26%) Cloud Native
10 193 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
11 191 (2.21%) Data Structures
12 190 (2.20%) Management Information System
13 157 (1.82%) Mobile App
14 142 (1.64%) Client/Server
15 134 (1.55%) Algorithms
16 133 (1.54%) Private Cloud
17 108 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
18 103 (1.19%) Onboarding
19 89 (1.03%) PMI
20 82 (0.95%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 525 (6.07%) Linux
2 369 (4.27%) Windows
3 150 (1.74%) Android
4 101 (1.17%) Apple iOS
5 92 (1.06%) Ubuntu
6 73 (0.84%) Windows Server
7 71 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 50 (0.58%) Unix
9 39 (0.45%) VMS
10 28 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
11 23 (0.27%) Mac OS
12 20 (0.23%) Windows 10
13 17 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
14 11 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
15 10 (0.12%) Windows 7
16 9 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
16 9 (0.10%) zOS
17 7 (0.081%) VME
17 7 (0.081%) Windows Server 2012
18 5 (0.058%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,868 (21.61%) Mentoring
2 1,757 (20.33%) Software Engineering
3 1,714 (19.83%) DevOps
4 1,565 (18.11%) Scrum
5 1,213 (14.03%) Problem-Solving
6 1,209 (13.99%) Actionable Insight
7 1,197 (13.85%) Microservices
8 1,192 (13.79%) Full Stack Development
9 1,099 (12.71%) Project Management
10 1,096 (12.68%) Coaching
11 1,083 (12.53%) Roadmaps
12 992 (11.48%) TDD
13 931 (10.77%) CI/CD
14 892 (10.32%) Decision-Making
15 825 (9.54%) MVC
16 785 (9.08%) SDLC
17 772 (8.93%) Kanban
18 674 (7.80%) Analytics
19 672 (7.77%) Project Delivery
20 575 (6.65%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 1,988 (23.00%) JavaScript
2 1,845 (21.34%) C#
3 1,364 (15.78%) SQL
4 1,300 (15.04%) Python
5 1,035 (11.97%) Java
6 881 (10.19%) TypeScript
7 161 (1.86%) PHP
8 155 (1.79%) PowerShell
9 145 (1.68%) T-SQL
10 143 (1.65%) C
10 143 (1.65%) C++
11 112 (1.30%) Go
12 90 (1.04%) Kotlin
13 80 (0.93%) R
14 74 (0.86%) COBOL
15 73 (0.84%) Micro Focus COBOL
16 64 (0.74%) Groovy
17 59 (0.68%) Bash
18 56 (0.65%) Ruby
19 46 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,198 (13.86%) Security Cleared
2 933 (10.79%) Degree
3 830 (9.60%) SC Cleared
4 469 (5.43%) ACCA
5 465 (5.38%) CIMA
6 232 (2.68%) DV Cleared
7 227 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 152 (1.76%) PMI Certification
9 125 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 110 (1.27%) Azure Certification
11 106 (1.23%) DBS Check
12 103 (1.19%) PMP
13 88 (1.02%) AWS Certification
14 85 (0.98%) Master's Degree
15 57 (0.66%) CISSP
16 55 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
17 53 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 52 (0.60%) APMP
19 50 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
20 43 (0.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 497 (5.75%) QA
2 155 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 141 (1.63%) Accessibility
4 99 (1.15%) PMO
5 46 (0.53%) WCAG
6 43 (0.50%) GDPR
7 38 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 28 (0.32%) NIST
9 26 (0.30%) SLA
10 25 (0.29%) PCI DSS
11 21 (0.24%) NCSC
12 19 (0.22%) ISO 9001
13 16 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
13 16 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
14 14 (0.16%) ITGC
15 12 (0.14%) MISRA
16 9 (0.10%) CRD IV
16 9 (0.10%) PSD2
17 8 (0.093%) SEPA
18 7 (0.081%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 682 (7.89%) Docker
2 154 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 80 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 55 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 52 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 46 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
7 42 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
8 21 (0.24%) Firmware
9 19 (0.22%) vSphere
10 18 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.069%) DFS Replication
11 6 (0.069%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.046%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.023%) Apache Flume
13 2 (0.023%) Terminal Server
14 1 (0.012%) Ceph
14 1 (0.012%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.012%) NFS
14 1 (0.012%) Time Sharing Option
14 1 (0.012%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 583 (6.74%) Kubernetes
2 437 (5.06%) Terraform
3 273 (3.16%) Ansible
4 60 (0.69%) Grafana
5 58 (0.67%) Progress Chef
6 56 (0.65%) Puppet
7 54 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
8 37 (0.43%) WSUS
9 32 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 32 (0.37%) SCCM
10 28 (0.32%) Prometheus
11 22 (0.25%) Kibana
11 22 (0.25%) ZABBIX
12 19 (0.22%) SCOM
13 13 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
13 13 (0.15%) Nmap
13 13 (0.15%) vCenter Server
14 12 (0.14%) Opsgenie
14 12 (0.14%) Salt
14 12 (0.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2,160 (24.99%) Microsoft
2 564 (6.52%) Oracle
3 454 (5.25%) SAP
4 358 (4.14%) Google
5 300 (3.47%) Hyperion
6 299 (3.46%) Anaplan
7 219 (2.53%) ESRI
8 128 (1.48%) Salesforce
9 88 (1.02%) Facebook
10 86 (0.99%) VMware
11 84 (0.97%) ServiceNow
12 81 (0.94%) Databricks
13 73 (0.84%) Micro Focus
14 65 (0.75%) Atlassian
15 62 (0.72%) Cisco
16 56 (0.65%) Sparx
17 55 (0.64%) Adobe
18 54 (0.62%) IBM
19 42 (0.49%) Apple
20 41 (0.47%) Splunk