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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,491 4,388 5,635
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.27% 23.02% 27.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.04% 25.27% 29.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,839 2,616 4,615
10th Percentile £38,750 £43,290 £43,000
25th Percentile £49,750 £52,500 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.11% +0.54%
75th Percentile £86,253 £95,000 £82,774
90th Percentile £115,000 £125,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - - +3.85%

All Process and 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 13,806 17,362 19,370
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.16% 91.08% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 8,722 10,500 15,642
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £36,426
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 4 December 2025.

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
1 110 (4.42%) Apache Airflow
2 101 (4.05%) Confluence
3 63 (2.53%) Apache
4 47 (1.89%) SharePoint
5 29 (1.16%) CMS
6 14 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 10 (0.40%) Headless CMS
7 10 (0.40%) IIS
8 8 (0.32%) Apache Spark
9 7 (0.28%) SAS
9 7 (0.28%) WordPress
10 5 (0.20%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.20%) nginx
10 5 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.12%) Drupal
11 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.12%) WebLogic Portal
12 2 (0.080%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 69 (2.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (1.49%) Adobe XD
4 32 (1.28%) MS Visio
5 28 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 27 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
7 12 (0.48%) Chatbot
8 9 (0.36%) Trello
9 6 (0.24%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.24%) Sketch
9 6 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.20%) Oracle Smart View
11 4 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.12%) InDesign
12 3 (0.12%) Notion
13 1 (0.040%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.040%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.040%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.040%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 42 (1.69%) Oracle ERP
2 29 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 28 (1.12%) Shopify
4 8 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
4 8 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
4 8 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
4 8 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
4 8 (0.32%) Workday HCM
5 7 (0.28%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
6 6 (0.24%) Primavera
7 5 (0.20%) Elite 3E
7 5 (0.20%) NEC Housing
7 5 (0.20%) SAP SCM
8 4 (0.16%) Hyperion Planning
8 4 (0.16%) Magento
9 3 (0.12%) Raiser’s Edge
9 3 (0.12%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 868 (34.85%) Azure
2 611 (24.53%) AWS
3 310 (12.44%) Azure DevOps
4 247 (9.92%) SaaS
5 217 (8.71%) Power Platform
6 202 (8.11%) GCP
7 194 (7.79%) GitHub
8 140 (5.62%) dbt
9 132 (5.30%) Serverless
10 129 (5.18%) Snowflake
11 80 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
11 80 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
12 68 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
12 68 (2.73%) Entra ID
13 63 (2.53%) GitHub Copilot
14 62 (2.49%) Figma
15 59 (2.37%) Amazon S3
16 56 (2.25%) Power Automate
17 54 (2.17%) PaaS
18 50 (2.01%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 33 (1.32%) Broadband
2 26 (1.04%) TCP/IP
3 21 (0.84%) Wireless
4 17 (0.68%) Software-Defined Radio
5 14 (0.56%) DNS
6 11 (0.44%) Firewall
7 8 (0.32%) WAN
8 6 (0.24%) CHAP
9 5 (0.20%) DHCP
10 4 (0.16%) Ethernet
10 4 (0.16%) Internet
10 4 (0.16%) Network Security
10 4 (0.16%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.16%) SSH
10 4 (0.16%) Unified Communications
10 4 (0.16%) VPN
10 4 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.12%) Modbus
11 3 (0.12%) RS-232
11 3 (0.12%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (7.55%) SQL Server
2 129 (5.18%) Power BI
3 117 (4.70%) Data Warehouse
4 108 (4.34%) MySQL
4 108 (4.34%) PostgreSQL
5 103 (4.13%) Data Lake
6 101 (4.05%) Amazon Athena
6 101 (4.05%) Apache Iceberg
7 98 (3.93%) Apache Arrow
7 98 (3.93%) Dremio
8 87 (3.49%) MongoDB
9 83 (3.33%) NoSQL
10 70 (2.81%) Azure SQL Database
11 65 (2.61%) Relational Database
12 53 (2.13%) Apache Ignite
13 44 (1.77%) Tableau
14 42 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
15 35 (1.41%) DynamoDB
16 19 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 18 (0.72%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 239 (9.59%) JIRA
2 171 (6.86%) Git
3 93 (3.73%) Jenkins
4 57 (2.29%) GitLab
5 54 (2.17%) Selenium
6 48 (1.93%) Cypress.io
7 43 (1.73%) Oracle Forms
8 34 (1.36%) Postman
9 29 (1.16%) Team Foundation Server
10 28 (1.12%) Balsamiq
10 28 (1.12%) SonarQube
10 28 (1.12%) WebDriver
11 26 (1.04%) Axure RP
12 21 (0.84%) SoapUI
13 10 (0.40%) git-flow
13 10 (0.40%) TeamCity
14 9 (0.36%) ER Studio
14 9 (0.36%) ERwin
15 8 (0.32%) JMeter
15 8 (0.32%) Storybook
General
1 933 (37.45%) Finance
2 816 (32.76%) Social Skills
3 298 (11.96%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (7.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 176 (7.07%) Public Sector
6 167 (6.70%) Front Office
7 154 (6.18%) Law
8 148 (5.94%) Marketing
9 116 (4.66%) Banking
10 113 (4.54%) Legal
11 89 (3.57%) Retail
12 72 (2.89%) Investment Banking
12 72 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
13 70 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
14 58 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
15 49 (1.97%) Manufacturing
16 42 (1.69%) Games
16 42 (1.69%) Local Government
16 42 (1.69%) Tech for Good
17 38 (1.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 684 (27.46%) Developer
2 503 (20.19%) Senior
3 279 (11.20%) Analyst
4 258 (10.36%) Lead
5 246 (9.88%) Software Engineer
6 158 (6.34%) Architect
7 142 (5.70%) Business Analyst
8 133 (5.34%) Software Developer
9 129 (5.18%) .NET Developer
10 115 (4.62%) Python Engineer
11 111 (4.46%) AWS Engineer
12 109 (4.38%) Project Manager
13 106 (4.26%) Senior Developer
14 101 (4.05%) Python Software Engineer
15 100 (4.01%) AWS Software Engineer
16 99 (3.97%) Python Developer
17 87 (3.49%) Senior Software Engineer
18 79 (3.17%) AWS Developer
18 79 (3.17%) Java Engineer
19 74 (2.97%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 398 (15.98%) .NET
2 362 (14.53%) React
3 203 (8.15%) CSS
4 197 (7.91%) HTML
5 190 (7.63%) Node.js
6 177 (7.11%) RESTful
7 154 (6.18%) AngularJS
8 137 (5.50%) REST
9 120 (4.82%) Vue
10 110 (4.42%) SOAP
11 102 (4.09%) .NET Core
11 102 (4.09%) Pandas
12 101 (4.05%) ASP.NET
13 98 (3.93%) NumPy
13 98 (3.93%) SciPy
14 91 (3.65%) .NET Framework
15 83 (3.33%) Kafka
16 82 (3.29%) GraphQL
17 75 (3.01%) Entity Framework
18 67 (2.69%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 292 (11.72%) Product Ownership
2 188 (7.55%) Cloud Native
3 136 (5.46%) Fixed Income
4 110 (4.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 103 (4.13%) Equities
6 101 (4.05%) Management Information System
7 75 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
8 64 (2.57%) Derivative
9 63 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
10 60 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
10 60 (2.41%) Mobile App
11 59 (2.37%) Hedge funds
11 59 (2.37%) Onboarding
12 53 (2.13%) Pricing Data
13 49 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
14 47 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
15 39 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
16 35 (1.41%) NHS
17 31 (1.24%) Low-Code
18 30 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 101 (4.05%) Linux
2 65 (2.61%) Windows
3 25 (1.00%) Apple iOS
4 22 (0.88%) Android
5 20 (0.80%) Embedded Linux
5 20 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 16 (0.64%) Unix
7 4 (0.16%) CentOS
8 3 (0.12%) OpenWrt
8 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.12%) VMS
9 2 (0.080%) Solaris
9 2 (0.080%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 641 (25.73%) DevOps
2 589 (23.65%) Continuous Improvement
3 543 (21.80%) CI/CD
4 491 (19.71%) Software Engineering
5 470 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
6 442 (17.74%) Mentoring
7 394 (15.82%) Scrum
8 365 (14.65%) AI
9 354 (14.21%) Roadmaps
10 351 (14.09%) Coaching
11 295 (11.84%) Asset Management
12 279 (11.20%) Analytics
13 270 (10.84%) Stakeholder Management
14 269 (10.80%) Microservices
15 264 (10.60%) Test Automation
16 258 (10.36%) Project Management
17 242 (9.71%) Full-Stack Development
18 220 (8.83%) User Experience
19 209 (8.39%) Project Delivery
20 194 (7.79%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 580 (23.28%) SQL
2 511 (20.51%) Python
3 480 (19.27%) JavaScript
4 408 (16.38%) C#
5 382 (15.34%) Java
6 358 (14.37%) TypeScript
7 104 (4.18%) C++
8 96 (3.85%) PHP
9 90 (3.61%) PowerShell
10 57 (2.29%) C
11 48 (1.93%) Bash
11 48 (1.93%) Go
12 47 (1.89%) Shell Script
13 42 (1.69%) PL/SQL
14 40 (1.61%) Apex Code
15 23 (0.92%) Scala
16 21 (0.84%) Kotlin
17 19 (0.76%) Ruby
18 18 (0.72%) Swift
19 17 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 364 (14.61%) Degree
2 245 (9.84%) Security Cleared
3 195 (7.83%) SC Cleared
4 132 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (2.17%) Master's Degree
6 51 (2.05%) ISTQB
7 47 (1.89%) DV Cleared
8 40 (1.61%) PMI Certification
9 36 (1.45%) PMP
10 33 (1.32%) Azure Certification
11 31 (1.24%) AWS Certification
12 21 (0.84%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 19 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
14 17 (0.68%) DBS Check
15 14 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 12 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 11 (0.44%) CISSP
18 10 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 10 (0.40%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (8.75%) QA
2 160 (6.42%) Accessibility
3 56 (2.25%) GDPR
4 49 (1.97%) PMO
5 48 (1.93%) WCAG
6 35 (1.41%) Data Quality
7 27 (1.08%) NIST
8 21 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.40%) NCSC
10 7 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.28%) COBIT
10 7 (0.28%) HIPAA
10 7 (0.28%) SLA
11 6 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.20%) P3O
13 3 (0.12%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.080%) ECSS
14 2 (0.080%) GRC
14 2 (0.080%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 160 (6.42%) Docker
2 56 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 24 (0.96%) Firmware
4 21 (0.84%) Embedded Firmware
4 21 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.040%) HDFS
7 1 (0.040%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.040%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 164 (6.58%) Terraform
2 126 (5.06%) Kubernetes
3 41 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
4 32 (1.28%) Ansible
5 29 (1.16%) Grafana
6 22 (0.88%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
8 15 (0.60%) Argo
9 8 (0.32%) SCCM
10 7 (0.28%) Kibana
11 3 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.12%) Puppet
12 2 (0.080%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.080%) logstash
13 1 (0.040%) Automic
13 1 (0.040%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.040%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.040%) QRadar
13 1 (0.040%) Rancher
Vendors
1 398 (15.98%) Microsoft
2 90 (3.61%) Oracle
3 80 (3.21%) SAP
4 77 (3.09%) Databricks
5 69 (2.77%) Salesforce
6 68 (2.73%) Google
7 51 (2.05%) Adobe
8 45 (1.81%) Blue Prism
9 27 (1.08%) MuleSoft
10 26 (1.04%) ServiceNow
10 26 (1.04%) Splunk
11 21 (0.84%) Guidewire
12 18 (0.72%) IBM
12 18 (0.72%) Workday
13 17 (0.68%) Okta
14 10 (0.40%) Apple
15 9 (0.36%) Informatica
15 9 (0.36%) Mercator
15 9 (0.36%) Talend
16 8 (0.32%) IFS