Hybrid/Remote Agile Job Trends

Agile Software Development
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Agile skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 5 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,499 3,357 6,170
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.02% 20.34% 22.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.31% 21.85% 25.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,344 2,111 4,250
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £68,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.29% +4.62% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £132,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £64,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% +7.69% -

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 permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18,117 15,366 23,899
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.93% 93.09% 88.14%
Number of salaries quoted 13,146 9,081 17,628
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - +3.51% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Agile job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Agile
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Agile.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Agile

Agile
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Agile over the 6 months to 27 July 2026.

Agile salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work 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
1 112 (3.20%) Confluence
2 62 (1.77%) SharePoint
3 42 (1.20%) CMS
4 21 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (0.57%) Apache
5 20 (0.57%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 15 (0.43%) SAS
8 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.29%) WordPress
10 9 (0.26%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.14%) Umbraco
13 4 (0.11%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.11%) Camunda
13 4 (0.11%) PowerFactory
14 3 (0.086%) Kentico
14 3 (0.086%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.086%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 124 (3.54%) Microsoft Project
2 95 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
3 57 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 54 (1.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 44 (1.26%) UserZoom
6 22 (0.63%) Chatbot
6 22 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 18 (0.51%) Trello
8 16 (0.46%) Adobe XD
9 15 (0.43%) MS Visio
10 5 (0.14%) Sketch
11 4 (0.11%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.11%) Revit
11 4 (0.11%) Windchill
12 3 (0.086%) Blender
12 3 (0.086%) Maya
12 3 (0.086%) Productboard
13 2 (0.057%) InVision
13 2 (0.057%) PlantUML
13 2 (0.057%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 61 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.14%) Workfront
3 20 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.20%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.17%) SAP CO
5 6 (0.17%) SAP FI
5 6 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
6 5 (0.14%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.14%) Shopify
7 4 (0.11%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.11%) Raiser’s Edge
8 3 (0.086%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.086%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 3 (0.086%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.086%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,230 (35.15%) Azure
2 865 (24.72%) AWS
3 336 (9.60%) Azure DevOps
4 229 (6.54%) SaaS
5 227 (6.49%) GCP
6 181 (5.17%) Adobe Analytics
7 179 (5.12%) GitHub
8 172 (4.92%) Power Platform
9 158 (4.52%) Azure AI
10 144 (4.12%) Serverless
11 109 (3.12%) Figma
12 84 (2.40%) GitHub Copilot
13 74 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
14 71 (2.03%) Snowflake
15 69 (1.97%) Contentsquare
16 67 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
17 66 (1.89%) Azure Machine Learning
18 62 (1.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 61 (1.74%) PowerApps
20 59 (1.69%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 345 (9.86%) Broadband
2 29 (0.83%) Network Security
3 25 (0.71%) TCP/IP
4 21 (0.60%) Internet
5 19 (0.54%) VPN
5 19 (0.54%) WAN
6 16 (0.46%) LAN
7 15 (0.43%) Firewall
8 14 (0.40%) DNS
8 14 (0.40%) Ethernet
8 14 (0.40%) RS-232
9 13 (0.37%) VoIP
10 11 (0.31%) CHAP
10 11 (0.31%) CTI
11 10 (0.29%) 5G
12 9 (0.26%) SD-WAN
13 8 (0.23%) Wireless
14 7 (0.20%) Intranet
14 7 (0.20%) Unified Communications
14 7 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 377 (10.77%) MongoDB
2 360 (10.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 193 (5.52%) SQL Server
4 153 (4.37%) Elasticsearch
5 146 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
6 100 (2.86%) Power BI
7 96 (2.74%) Metadata
8 95 (2.72%) NoSQL
9 83 (2.37%) MySQL
10 40 (1.14%) Relational Database
11 35 (1.00%) DynamoDB
12 34 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
13 32 (0.91%) Data Lake
14 27 (0.77%) Redis
15 23 (0.66%) Big Data
16 21 (0.60%) Tableau
17 20 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 19 (0.54%) BigQuery
18 19 (0.54%) Semantic Layer
19 18 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 258 (7.37%) JIRA
2 177 (5.06%) Git
3 102 (2.92%) Jenkins
4 101 (2.89%) GitLab
5 36 (1.03%) Cypress.io
5 36 (1.03%) Selenium
6 35 (1.00%) SonarQube
7 26 (0.74%) JUnit
8 22 (0.63%) Postman
9 21 (0.60%) Claude Code
10 16 (0.46%) Cucumber
10 16 (0.46%) Maven
11 15 (0.43%) Mockito
12 14 (0.40%) Visual Studio
13 13 (0.37%) CircleCI
14 10 (0.29%) JMeter
15 8 (0.23%) Bitbucket
15 8 (0.23%) Gatling
15 8 (0.23%) SpecFlow
15 8 (0.23%) XCUITest
General
1 978 (27.95%) Social Skills
2 847 (24.21%) Finance
3 478 (13.66%) Public Sector
4 360 (10.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 344 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
6 292 (8.35%) Law
7 277 (7.92%) Games
8 223 (6.37%) Legal
9 193 (5.52%) Marketing
10 182 (5.20%) Retail
11 125 (3.57%) Banking
12 103 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
13 82 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
14 78 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
15 60 (1.71%) Advertising
16 49 (1.40%) Front Office
17 47 (1.34%) Legal Technology
18 41 (1.17%) Aerospace
19 40 (1.14%) Manufacturing
20 35 (1.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 892 (25.49%) Developer
2 706 (20.18%) Senior
3 465 (13.29%) Lead
4 379 (10.83%) .NET Developer
5 297 (8.49%) Analyst
6 277 (7.92%) Architect
7 274 (7.83%) Software Engineer
8 247 (7.06%) Project Manager
9 193 (5.52%) Business Analyst
10 166 (4.74%) Senior Manager
11 158 (4.52%) Senior Developer
12 138 (3.94%) IT Manager
13 112 (3.20%) Software Developer
14 107 (3.06%) Delivery Manager
15 94 (2.69%) Consultant
16 93 (2.66%) Full-Stack Developer
17 91 (2.60%) Senior Project Manager
18 84 (2.40%) Engineering Manager
18 84 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
19 82 (2.34%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 632 (18.06%) .NET
2 476 (13.60%) React
3 389 (11.12%) ASP.NET
4 370 (10.57%) .NET Core
5 354 (10.12%) ASP.NET Core
6 324 (9.26%) Node.js
7 225 (6.43%) RESTful
8 215 (6.14%) CSS
9 198 (5.66%) HTML
10 174 (4.97%) Blazor
11 165 (4.72%) AngularJS
12 154 (4.40%) Entity Framework
13 142 (4.06%) Vue
14 141 (4.03%) REST
15 126 (3.60%) ASP.NET Web API
16 98 (2.80%) .NET Framework
17 95 (2.72%) ML.NET
18 88 (2.52%) Spring
19 87 (2.49%) Kafka
20 84 (2.40%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 407 (11.63%) Product Ownership
2 303 (8.66%) Cloud Native
3 235 (6.72%) Social Media
4 136 (3.89%) Enterprise Software
5 105 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
6 88 (2.52%) Mobile App
7 79 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
8 75 (2.14%) Management Information System
9 71 (2.03%) Onboarding
10 64 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
11 60 (1.71%) Marketing Technology
12 59 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
13 54 (1.54%) Over-the-Top Content
14 51 (1.46%) Cyber Threat
15 48 (1.37%) Virtual Team
16 46 (1.31%) Driving Licence
17 41 (1.17%) Fixed Income
18 27 (0.77%) Data Centre
18 27 (0.77%) Security Posture
19 26 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 150 (4.29%) Linux
2 68 (1.94%) Android
3 67 (1.91%) Windows
4 44 (1.26%) Apple iOS
5 43 (1.23%) Unix
6 15 (0.43%) VMS
7 14 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
8 9 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.14%) CentOS
9 5 (0.14%) Debian
10 3 (0.086%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.086%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.029%) AIX
11 1 (0.029%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 855 (24.44%) CI/CD
2 847 (24.21%) DevOps
3 841 (24.04%) Continuous Improvement
4 786 (22.46%) AI
5 741 (21.18%) Roadmaps
6 739 (21.12%) Mentoring
7 663 (18.95%) Scrum
8 609 (17.40%) Full-Stack Development
8 609 (17.40%) Problem-Solving
9 530 (15.15%) Coaching
10 501 (14.32%) Software Engineering
11 486 (13.89%) Microservices
12 447 (12.78%) Analytics
13 435 (12.43%) Stakeholder Management
14 425 (12.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 422 (12.06%) Decision-Making
16 408 (11.66%) Test Automation
17 370 (10.57%) Customer Experience
18 368 (10.52%) Project Delivery
19 356 (10.17%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 832 (23.78%) SQL
2 740 (21.15%) C#
3 554 (15.83%) JavaScript
4 409 (11.69%) Python
5 388 (11.09%) Java
6 342 (9.77%) TypeScript
7 89 (2.54%) PHP
8 85 (2.43%) C++
9 63 (1.80%) Bash
10 57 (1.63%) Go
11 47 (1.34%) Apex Code
12 42 (1.20%) PowerShell
13 41 (1.17%) C
14 39 (1.11%) Ruby
15 30 (0.86%) SOQL
16 29 (0.83%) SOSL
17 22 (0.63%) PL/SQL
18 21 (0.60%) T-SQL
19 17 (0.49%) Bicep
20 14 (0.40%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 469 (13.40%) Degree
2 430 (12.29%) Security Cleared
3 345 (9.86%) SC Cleared
4 113 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 110 (3.14%) CISSP
6 99 (2.83%) PMI Certification
7 98 (2.80%) CISM
8 93 (2.66%) PMP
9 72 (2.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 60 (1.71%) ITIL Certification
11 54 (1.54%) DV Cleared
12 44 (1.26%) Azure Certification
13 34 (0.97%) DBS Check
14 31 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
15 28 (0.80%) CISA
16 26 (0.74%) Master's Degree
16 26 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
17 23 (0.66%) ISTQB
18 21 (0.60%) AWS Certification
19 18 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 386 (11.03%) Accessibility
2 301 (8.60%) QA
3 119 (3.40%) Data Quality
4 111 (3.17%) NIST
5 87 (2.49%) WCAG
6 77 (2.20%) GDPR
7 62 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 53 (1.51%) PMO
9 49 (1.40%) ISO 22301
10 34 (0.97%) GRC
11 26 (0.74%) NCSC
12 24 (0.69%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 18 (0.51%) COBIT
14 12 (0.34%) NIST 800
15 10 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.29%) PCI DSS
15 10 (0.29%) SOC 2
16 8 (0.23%) SLA
17 7 (0.20%) SOC 1
18 6 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 296 (8.46%) Docker
2 60 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (0.91%) Active Directory
4 15 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.37%) vSphere
6 6 (0.17%) Firmware
7 4 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.029%) GPFS
8 1 (0.029%) Lustre
8 1 (0.029%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.029%) Xen
Systems Management
1 271 (7.75%) Kubernetes
2 163 (4.66%) Terraform
3 57 (1.63%) Ansible
4 43 (1.23%) Grafana
5 29 (0.83%) Argo
6 28 (0.80%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.34%) Podman
8 8 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.20%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.14%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.14%) Istio
10 5 (0.14%) Packer
10 5 (0.14%) Puppet
11 4 (0.11%) Kustomize
12 3 (0.086%) Kibana
12 3 (0.086%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.057%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.057%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.029%) linkerd
14 1 (0.029%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 775 (22.15%) Microsoft
2 257 (7.34%) Adobe
3 132 (3.77%) Google
4 105 (3.00%) Oracle
4 105 (3.00%) Salesforce
5 103 (2.94%) Databricks
6 83 (2.37%) SAP
7 78 (2.23%) ServiceNow
8 40 (1.14%) Facebook
9 33 (0.94%) Splunk
10 26 (0.74%) OpenAI
11 21 (0.60%) YouTube
12 20 (0.57%) Cisco
13 19 (0.54%) Apple
13 19 (0.54%) Yahoo!
14 18 (0.51%) IFS
15 17 (0.49%) IBM
15 17 (0.49%) Sony
15 17 (0.49%) VMware
16 16 (0.46%) Workday