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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,339 3,207 5,282
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 13.68% 19.79% 22.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.83% 21.22% 25.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,229 2,007 2,915
10th Percentile £40,965 £40,931 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% - +3.74%
75th Percentile £78,312 £91,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £134,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £63,500 £67,500 £65,465
% change year-on-year -5.93% +3.11% +0.17%

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 19,841 15,111 20,359
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.27% 93.24% 87.81%
Number of salaries quoted 14,226 8,561 12,491
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 21 September 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
1 116 (3.47%) Confluence
2 90 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 32 (0.96%) CMS
4 28 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 19 (0.57%) Apache
6 15 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (0.39%) WordPress
8 12 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.36%) SAS
9 11 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 10 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.30%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.12%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.12%) Camunda
12 4 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.12%) PowerFactory
13 3 (0.090%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.090%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 128 (3.83%) Microsoft Project
2 97 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
3 72 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
4 36 (1.08%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 30 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 26 (0.78%) UserZoom
7 23 (0.69%) MS Visio
8 22 (0.66%) Chatbot
9 18 (0.54%) Trello
10 15 (0.45%) Adobe XD
11 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.12%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.12%) Revit
12 4 (0.12%) Simulink
12 4 (0.12%) Sketch
12 4 (0.12%) Windchill
13 3 (0.090%) Blender
13 3 (0.090%) Maya
13 3 (0.090%) Productboard
14 2 (0.060%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 71 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (0.90%) Workfront
3 21 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.33%) Primavera
5 10 (0.30%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.21%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.21%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
8 6 (0.18%) Shopify
9 5 (0.15%) Elite 3E
9 5 (0.15%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
10 4 (0.12%) Raiser’s Edge
10 4 (0.12%) SAP GRC
11 3 (0.090%) Carpe Diem
11 3 (0.090%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.090%) Oracle Receivables
11 3 (0.090%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,229 (36.81%) Azure
2 826 (24.74%) AWS
3 345 (10.33%) Azure DevOps
4 236 (7.07%) SaaS
5 211 (6.32%) Power Platform
6 208 (6.23%) GCP
7 186 (5.57%) GitHub
8 151 (4.52%) Serverless
9 136 (4.07%) Azure AI
10 95 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
11 89 (2.67%) GitHub Copilot
12 81 (2.43%) Power Automate
13 79 (2.37%) PowerApps
14 76 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
15 70 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
16 64 (1.92%) Snowflake
17 63 (1.89%) Adobe Analytics
18 62 (1.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 62 (1.86%) Microsoft Copilot
19 60 (1.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 143 (4.28%) Broadband
2 42 (1.26%) Network Security
3 20 (0.60%) Internet
4 19 (0.57%) WAN
5 18 (0.54%) LAN
6 17 (0.51%) VPN
7 16 (0.48%) TCP/IP
8 13 (0.39%) VoIP
9 12 (0.36%) Firewall
10 11 (0.33%) 5G
10 11 (0.33%) CTI
11 10 (0.30%) DNS
12 9 (0.27%) SMS
13 8 (0.24%) Unified Communications
14 7 (0.21%) Ethernet
14 7 (0.21%) RS-232
14 7 (0.21%) TETRA
14 7 (0.21%) Wireless
14 7 (0.21%) WLAN
15 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 366 (10.96%) MongoDB
2 362 (10.84%) Azure SQL Database
3 184 (5.51%) SQL Server
4 143 (4.28%) Elasticsearch
5 137 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
5 137 (4.10%) Power BI
6 101 (3.02%) Metadata
7 78 (2.34%) MySQL
8 76 (2.28%) NoSQL
9 68 (2.04%) Relational Database
10 63 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
11 51 (1.53%) DynamoDB
12 49 (1.47%) Data Lake
13 30 (0.90%) Tableau
14 29 (0.87%) Big Data
15 26 (0.78%) Redis
16 21 (0.63%) Spark SQL
17 20 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
17 20 (0.60%) BigQuery
18 19 (0.57%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 273 (8.18%) JIRA
2 212 (6.35%) Git
3 81 (2.43%) GitLab
4 77 (2.31%) Jenkins
5 30 (0.90%) JUnit
5 30 (0.90%) Selenium
6 28 (0.84%) Cypress.io
7 24 (0.72%) Claude Code
8 21 (0.63%) Postman
9 18 (0.54%) Maven
9 18 (0.54%) Mockito
10 16 (0.48%) SonarQube
10 16 (0.48%) Visual Studio
11 14 (0.42%) Cucumber
12 12 (0.36%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
14 8 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 8 (0.24%) Balsamiq
15 7 (0.21%) NUnit
16 6 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,026 (30.73%) Social Skills
2 814 (24.38%) Finance
3 558 (16.71%) Public Sector
4 406 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
5 373 (11.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 284 (8.51%) Law
7 211 (6.32%) Legal
8 180 (5.39%) Retail
9 163 (4.88%) Marketing
10 117 (3.50%) Games
10 117 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
11 105 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
12 97 (2.91%) Banking
13 88 (2.64%) Aerospace
14 83 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
15 60 (1.80%) Advertising
16 51 (1.53%) Manufacturing
17 43 (1.29%) Legal Technology
18 29 (0.87%) Telecoms
19 28 (0.84%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 821 (24.59%) Developer
2 738 (22.10%) Senior
3 370 (11.08%) Lead
4 361 (10.81%) .NET Developer
5 306 (9.16%) Analyst
6 290 (8.69%) Architect
7 251 (7.52%) Project Manager
8 223 (6.68%) Software Engineer
9 205 (6.14%) Business Analyst
10 180 (5.39%) Senior Developer
11 151 (4.52%) Senior Manager
12 131 (3.92%) IT Manager
13 119 (3.56%) Delivery Manager
14 92 (2.76%) Senior Analyst
15 91 (2.73%) Senior Project Manager
16 90 (2.70%) Software Developer
17 83 (2.49%) Data Engineer
18 82 (2.46%) Technical Architect
19 79 (2.37%) Full-Stack Developer
20 77 (2.31%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 623 (18.66%) .NET
2 419 (12.55%) React
3 377 (11.29%) ASP.NET
4 369 (11.05%) .NET Core
5 344 (10.30%) ASP.NET Core
6 296 (8.86%) Node.js
7 213 (6.38%) RESTful
8 203 (6.08%) CSS
9 196 (5.87%) HTML
10 173 (5.18%) Blazor
11 166 (4.97%) Terraform
12 158 (4.73%) AngularJS
13 156 (4.67%) Entity Framework
14 129 (3.86%) Vue
15 126 (3.77%) REST
16 122 (3.65%) ASP.NET Web API
17 101 (3.02%) Middleware
18 100 (2.99%) Spring
19 93 (2.79%) .NET Framework
20 91 (2.73%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 354 (10.60%) Product Ownership
2 283 (8.48%) Cloud Native
3 161 (4.82%) Enterprise Software
4 114 (3.41%) Social Media
5 97 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
6 96 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
7 77 (2.31%) Management Information System
8 67 (2.01%) Onboarding
9 62 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
10 61 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
11 59 (1.77%) Mobile App
12 54 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
13 48 (1.44%) Marketing Technology
14 47 (1.41%) Driving Licence
15 40 (1.20%) AI Agents
16 39 (1.17%) Virtual Team
17 37 (1.11%) Over-the-Top Content
18 36 (1.08%) Blog
19 32 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
20 31 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 137 (4.10%) Linux
2 87 (2.61%) Windows
3 47 (1.41%) Unix
4 41 (1.23%) Android
5 18 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.42%) VMS
7 9 (0.27%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
9 5 (0.15%) CentOS
10 4 (0.12%) Debian
11 3 (0.090%) Windows Server
12 2 (0.060%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.060%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.060%) VxWorks
13 1 (0.030%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 867 (25.97%) Continuous Improvement
2 864 (25.88%) CI/CD
3 840 (25.16%) DevOps
4 751 (22.49%) Mentoring
5 719 (21.53%) AI
6 661 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
7 652 (19.53%) Scrum
8 573 (17.16%) Stakeholder Management
9 570 (17.07%) Coaching
10 557 (16.68%) Full-Stack Development
11 531 (15.90%) Roadmaps
12 501 (15.00%) Software Engineering
13 472 (14.14%) Microservices
14 449 (13.45%) Decision-Making
15 436 (13.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 421 (12.61%) Project Delivery
17 391 (11.71%) Analytics
18 364 (10.90%) Test Automation
19 361 (10.81%) Waterfall
20 350 (10.48%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 837 (25.07%) SQL
2 746 (22.34%) C#
3 539 (16.14%) JavaScript
4 372 (11.14%) Python
5 328 (9.82%) Java
6 307 (9.19%) TypeScript
7 90 (2.70%) C++
8 66 (1.98%) PHP
9 65 (1.95%) Bash
10 50 (1.50%) PowerShell
11 42 (1.26%) Ruby
12 34 (1.02%) Go
13 32 (0.96%) C
14 30 (0.90%) PL/SQL
15 21 (0.63%) T-SQL
16 19 (0.57%) Kotlin
17 17 (0.51%) Bicep
18 15 (0.45%) Rust
19 14 (0.42%) Apex Code
19 14 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 526 (15.75%) Security Cleared
2 509 (15.24%) Degree
3 413 (12.37%) SC Cleared
4 115 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 105 (3.14%) CISSP
6 102 (3.05%) PMI Certification
7 98 (2.94%) PMP
8 95 (2.85%) CISM
9 90 (2.70%) DV Cleared
10 78 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 78 (2.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 64 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
12 50 (1.50%) Azure Certification
13 42 (1.26%) DBS Check
14 34 (1.02%) Master's Degree
15 31 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
16 29 (0.87%) AWS Certification
16 29 (0.87%) ISTQB
17 24 (0.72%) CISA
18 21 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 298 (8.92%) Accessibility
2 286 (8.57%) QA
3 179 (5.36%) Data Quality
4 110 (3.29%) NIST
5 102 (3.05%) GDPR
6 78 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 63 (1.89%) PMO
8 51 (1.53%) WCAG
9 49 (1.47%) ISO 22301
10 35 (1.05%) NCSC
11 31 (0.93%) GRC
12 29 (0.87%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 14 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 14 (0.42%) NIST 800
14 12 (0.36%) SOC 2
15 10 (0.30%) COBIT
15 10 (0.30%) PCI DSS
16 9 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
16 9 (0.27%) GxP
16 9 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 296 (8.86%) Docker
2 42 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
3 38 (1.14%) Active Directory
4 16 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.39%) vSphere
6 12 (0.36%) Firmware
6 12 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.12%) IAG
8 3 (0.090%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.030%) GPFS
10 1 (0.030%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.030%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 267 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 48 (1.44%) Ansible
3 31 (0.93%) Grafana
4 29 (0.87%) Argo
5 25 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.24%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.18%) Podman
8 5 (0.15%) Istio
8 5 (0.15%) Packer
8 5 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.12%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.090%) Puppet
11 2 (0.060%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.060%) Kibana
11 2 (0.060%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.030%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.030%) linkerd
12 1 (0.030%) logstash
12 1 (0.030%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 811 (24.29%) Microsoft
2 133 (3.98%) Adobe
3 128 (3.83%) Google
4 121 (3.62%) Oracle
5 95 (2.85%) Databricks
6 92 (2.76%) SAP
7 84 (2.52%) Salesforce
8 70 (2.10%) YouTube
9 66 (1.98%) ServiceNow
10 40 (1.20%) Facebook
11 31 (0.93%) OpenAI
12 26 (0.78%) Cisco
13 24 (0.72%) Workday
14 20 (0.60%) VMware
15 19 (0.57%) IFS
15 19 (0.57%) Informatica
16 18 (0.54%) Yahoo!
17 17 (0.51%) Apple
18 16 (0.48%) Sony
19 15 (0.45%) Splunk