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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,437 3,201 5,302
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 14.33% 19.71% 22.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.51% 21.18% 25.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,274 2,013 3,041
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,700 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.59% - +3.74%
75th Percentile £78,312 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £135,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £63,076 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.55% +3.85% -0.54%

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 19,633 15,114 20,558
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.88% 93.04% 87.64%
Number of salaries quoted 14,127 8,686 12,990
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,750 £35,250
25th Percentile £44,750 £40,250 £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 11 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
1 108 (3.14%) Confluence
2 88 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 32 (0.93%) CMS
4 27 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 20 (0.58%) Apache
6 16 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 15 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
8 13 (0.38%) WordPress
9 12 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 12 (0.35%) SAS
10 10 (0.29%) Jupyter
10 10 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.15%) Camunda
11 5 (0.15%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.12%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.12%) PowerFactory
13 3 (0.087%) Kentico
13 3 (0.087%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.087%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 129 (3.75%) Microsoft Project
2 97 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
3 71 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
4 51 (1.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 33 (0.96%) UserZoom
6 29 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 23 (0.67%) Chatbot
8 21 (0.61%) MS Visio
9 18 (0.52%) Trello
10 16 (0.47%) 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 (0.087%) Blender
13 3 (0.087%) Maya
13 3 (0.087%) Productboard
14 2 (0.058%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 69 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 38 (1.11%) Workfront
3 22 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.32%) Primavera
5 10 (0.29%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.20%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.20%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
8 6 (0.17%) Shopify
9 5 (0.15%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.12%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.12%) Raiser’s Edge
11 3 (0.087%) Carpe Diem
11 3 (0.087%) Dynamics NAV
11 3 (0.087%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 3 (0.087%) Oracle Applications
11 3 (0.087%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.087%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,255 (36.51%) Azure
2 860 (25.02%) AWS
3 348 (10.13%) Azure DevOps
4 242 (7.04%) SaaS
5 221 (6.43%) GCP
6 202 (5.88%) Power Platform
7 187 (5.44%) GitHub
8 159 (4.63%) Azure AI
9 157 (4.57%) Serverless
10 92 (2.68%) GitHub Copilot
11 90 (2.62%) Adobe Analytics
11 90 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
12 78 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
13 77 (2.24%) PowerApps
14 76 (2.21%) Power Automate
15 75 (2.18%) Snowflake
16 74 (2.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 69 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
18 65 (1.89%) Azure Machine Learning
19 64 (1.86%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 204 (5.94%) Broadband
2 43 (1.25%) Network Security
3 20 (0.58%) Internet
3 20 (0.58%) WAN
4 19 (0.55%) LAN
5 18 (0.52%) VPN
6 17 (0.49%) TCP/IP
7 14 (0.41%) Firewall
8 13 (0.38%) VoIP
9 11 (0.32%) CTI
9 11 (0.32%) DNS
10 10 (0.29%) 5G
11 9 (0.26%) Ethernet
11 9 (0.26%) RS-232
12 8 (0.23%) SMS
12 8 (0.23%) Unified Communications
12 8 (0.23%) Wireless
13 7 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
13 7 (0.20%) SD-WAN
13 7 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 378 (11.00%) MongoDB
2 370 (10.77%) Azure SQL Database
3 205 (5.96%) SQL Server
4 146 (4.25%) Elasticsearch
5 137 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
6 131 (3.81%) Power BI
7 110 (3.20%) Metadata
8 82 (2.39%) NoSQL
9 79 (2.30%) MySQL
10 65 (1.89%) Relational Database
11 60 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
12 51 (1.48%) DynamoDB
13 47 (1.37%) Data Lake
14 29 (0.84%) Big Data
15 28 (0.81%) Tableau
16 25 (0.73%) Redis
17 21 (0.61%) Spark SQL
18 20 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 19 (0.55%) Semantic Layer
20 18 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 267 (7.77%) JIRA
2 207 (6.02%) Git
3 84 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 80 (2.33%) GitLab
5 36 (1.05%) Cypress.io
6 33 (0.96%) Selenium
7 30 (0.87%) JUnit
8 22 (0.64%) Claude Code
9 21 (0.61%) Postman
10 18 (0.52%) Maven
10 18 (0.52%) Mockito
11 17 (0.49%) SonarQube
12 15 (0.44%) Visual Studio
13 14 (0.41%) Cucumber
14 12 (0.35%) CircleCI
15 11 (0.32%) Bitbucket
16 9 (0.26%) Balsamiq
17 8 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 8 (0.23%) Gatling
17 8 (0.23%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1,038 (30.20%) Social Skills
2 842 (24.50%) Finance
3 553 (16.09%) Public Sector
4 400 (11.64%) Analytical Skills
5 385 (11.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 299 (8.70%) Law
7 210 (6.11%) Legal
8 189 (5.50%) Retail
9 184 (5.35%) Marketing
10 146 (4.25%) Games
11 116 (3.38%) Banking
12 115 (3.35%) Influencing Skills
13 100 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
14 91 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
15 86 (2.50%) Aerospace
16 62 (1.80%) Advertising
17 49 (1.43%) Manufacturing
18 47 (1.37%) Legal Technology
19 39 (1.13%) Back Office
20 32 (0.93%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 839 (24.41%) Developer
2 742 (21.59%) Senior
3 387 (11.26%) Lead
4 369 (10.74%) .NET Developer
5 310 (9.02%) Analyst
6 291 (8.47%) Architect
7 257 (7.48%) Project Manager
8 233 (6.78%) Software Engineer
9 206 (5.99%) Business Analyst
10 181 (5.27%) Senior Developer
11 152 (4.42%) Senior Manager
12 132 (3.84%) IT Manager
13 113 (3.29%) Delivery Manager
14 99 (2.88%) Software Developer
15 93 (2.71%) Senior Analyst
15 93 (2.71%) Senior Project Manager
16 83 (2.41%) Full-Stack Developer
17 79 (2.30%) Technical Architect
18 78 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
19 77 (2.24%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 634 (18.45%) .NET
2 443 (12.89%) React
3 387 (11.26%) ASP.NET
4 379 (11.03%) .NET Core
5 355 (10.33%) ASP.NET Core
6 307 (8.93%) Node.js
7 217 (6.31%) RESTful
8 216 (6.28%) CSS
9 203 (5.91%) HTML
10 178 (5.18%) Blazor
11 171 (4.98%) Terraform
12 160 (4.66%) Entity Framework
13 157 (4.57%) AngularJS
14 134 (3.90%) Vue
15 125 (3.64%) ASP.NET Web API
15 125 (3.64%) REST
16 100 (2.91%) Spring
17 96 (2.79%) Middleware
17 96 (2.79%) ML.NET
18 95 (2.76%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 378 (11.00%) Product Ownership
2 301 (8.76%) Cloud Native
3 159 (4.63%) Enterprise Software
4 157 (4.57%) Social Media
5 99 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
6 95 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
7 75 (2.18%) Management Information System
8 64 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
9 63 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
10 62 (1.80%) Onboarding
11 61 (1.77%) Marketing Technology
12 58 (1.69%) Mobile App
13 54 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
14 52 (1.51%) Over-the-Top Content
15 47 (1.37%) Driving Licence
16 43 (1.25%) Virtual Team
17 38 (1.11%) AI Agents
18 36 (1.05%) Blog
19 34 (0.99%) Cyber Defence
20 32 (0.93%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 144 (4.19%) Linux
2 82 (2.39%) Windows
3 43 (1.25%) Unix
4 41 (1.19%) Android
5 18 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.44%) VMS
7 9 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
7 9 (0.26%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.17%) CentOS
9 5 (0.15%) Debian
10 3 (0.087%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.058%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.029%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.029%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.029%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 881 (25.63%) CI/CD
2 872 (25.37%) Continuous Improvement
3 847 (24.64%) DevOps
4 774 (22.52%) AI
5 757 (22.03%) Mentoring
6 671 (19.52%) Scrum
7 651 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
8 609 (17.72%) Roadmaps
9 582 (16.93%) Full-Stack Development
10 579 (16.85%) Coaching
11 562 (16.35%) Stakeholder Management
12 512 (14.90%) Software Engineering
13 475 (13.82%) Microservices
14 467 (13.59%) Decision-Making
15 434 (12.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 421 (12.25%) Project Delivery
17 404 (11.75%) Analytics
18 382 (11.11%) Test Automation
19 363 (10.56%) Waterfall
20 351 (10.21%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 857 (24.93%) SQL
2 757 (22.03%) C#
3 561 (16.32%) JavaScript
4 380 (11.06%) Python
5 349 (10.15%) Java
6 315 (9.16%) TypeScript
7 98 (2.85%) C++
8 73 (2.12%) PHP
9 66 (1.92%) Bash
10 49 (1.43%) PowerShell
11 44 (1.28%) Ruby
12 35 (1.02%) C
13 32 (0.93%) Go
14 28 (0.81%) PL/SQL
15 21 (0.61%) T-SQL
16 19 (0.55%) Kotlin
17 16 (0.47%) Apex Code
17 16 (0.47%) Bicep
18 15 (0.44%) Rust
19 14 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 519 (15.10%) Security Cleared
2 506 (14.72%) Degree
3 406 (11.81%) SC Cleared
4 120 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 106 (3.08%) PMI Certification
6 105 (3.05%) CISSP
7 102 (2.97%) PMP
8 96 (2.79%) CISM
9 92 (2.68%) DV Cleared
10 78 (2.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 77 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 64 (1.86%) ITIL Certification
13 49 (1.43%) Azure Certification
14 36 (1.05%) DBS Check
15 34 (0.99%) Master's Degree
16 31 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
17 30 (0.87%) AWS Certification
18 29 (0.84%) ISTQB
19 24 (0.70%) CISA
20 21 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 328 (9.54%) Accessibility
2 288 (8.38%) QA
3 174 (5.06%) Data Quality
4 110 (3.20%) NIST
5 95 (2.76%) GDPR
6 76 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 63 (1.83%) WCAG
8 62 (1.80%) PMO
9 49 (1.43%) ISO 22301
10 36 (1.05%) GRC
11 34 (0.99%) NCSC
12 29 (0.84%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 14 (0.41%) NIST 800
14 12 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 12 (0.35%) SOC 2
15 11 (0.32%) COBIT
15 11 (0.32%) PCI DSS
16 10 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
16 10 (0.29%) GxP
17 9 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 302 (8.79%) Docker
2 61 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
3 38 (1.11%) Active Directory
4 16 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.38%) vSphere
6 12 (0.35%) Firmware
6 12 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.087%) IAG
9 2 (0.058%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.029%) GPFS
10 1 (0.029%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.029%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 268 (7.80%) Kubernetes
2 51 (1.48%) Ansible
3 35 (1.02%) Grafana
4 29 (0.84%) Argo
5 26 (0.76%) Prometheus
6 12 (0.35%) Podman
7 8 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.23%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.15%) Istio
8 5 (0.15%) Packer
8 5 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.12%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.12%) Puppet
10 3 (0.087%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.058%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.058%) Kibana
12 1 (0.029%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.029%) HP Quality Center
12 1 (0.029%) linkerd
12 1 (0.029%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 829 (24.12%) Microsoft
2 173 (5.03%) Adobe
3 143 (4.16%) Google
4 117 (3.40%) Oracle
5 108 (3.14%) Databricks
6 94 (2.73%) SAP
7 84 (2.44%) Salesforce
8 68 (1.98%) ServiceNow
9 64 (1.86%) YouTube
10 41 (1.19%) Facebook
11 31 (0.90%) OpenAI
12 27 (0.79%) Cisco
13 23 (0.67%) Workday
14 20 (0.58%) VMware
15 19 (0.55%) IFS
15 19 (0.55%) Yahoo!
16 18 (0.52%) Apple
17 17 (0.49%) Informatica
17 17 (0.49%) Sony
18 16 (0.47%) Splunk