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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
15 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 5 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,418 3,376 7,347
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.01% 20.47% 23.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.37% 21.94% 25.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,299 2,120 5,267
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,369 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,971 £52,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £78,750 £97,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £132,500 £118,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -3.85%

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 17,646 15,385 28,336
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.65% 93.30% 88.77%
Number of salaries quoted 12,860 9,109 21,557
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,848 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.84%

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 15 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
1 104 (3.04%) Confluence
2 59 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 41 (1.20%) CMS
4 21 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.56%) Apache
6 16 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 16 (0.47%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.44%) SAS
8 12 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.26%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.26%) WordPress
10 5 (0.15%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.15%) Umbraco
11 4 (0.12%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.12%) PowerFactory
12 3 (0.088%) Camunda
12 3 (0.088%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.088%) Kentico
12 3 (0.088%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 122 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
2 95 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.58%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 45 (1.32%) UserZoom
5 44 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
6 20 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 19 (0.56%) Chatbot
8 17 (0.50%) Trello
9 15 (0.44%) Adobe XD
10 11 (0.32%) MS Visio
11 5 (0.15%) Sketch
12 4 (0.12%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.12%) Revit
12 4 (0.12%) Windchill
13 3 (0.088%) Blender
13 3 (0.088%) Maya
13 3 (0.088%) Productboard
14 2 (0.059%) InVision
14 2 (0.059%) PlantUML
15 1 (0.029%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 66 (1.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.17%) Workfront
3 18 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.20%) Elite 3E
5 6 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.15%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.15%) SAP CO
6 5 (0.15%) SAP FI
6 5 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
6 5 (0.15%) Shopify
6 5 (0.15%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.12%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.088%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.088%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.088%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.088%) Raiser’s Edge
9 2 (0.059%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 1,188 (34.76%) Azure
2 834 (24.40%) AWS
3 325 (9.51%) Azure DevOps
4 226 (6.61%) GCP
5 216 (6.32%) SaaS
6 191 (5.59%) Adobe Analytics
7 172 (5.03%) GitHub
7 172 (5.03%) Power Platform
8 157 (4.59%) Azure AI
9 152 (4.45%) Serverless
10 108 (3.16%) Figma
11 80 (2.34%) GitHub Copilot
12 73 (2.14%) PowerApps
13 70 (2.05%) Contentsquare
14 69 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
15 66 (1.93%) Snowflake
16 65 (1.90%) Azure Machine Learning
17 64 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
18 62 (1.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 60 (1.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 371 (10.85%) Broadband
2 27 (0.79%) Network Security
3 25 (0.73%) TCP/IP
4 21 (0.61%) Internet
4 21 (0.61%) VPN
5 19 (0.56%) WAN
6 16 (0.47%) LAN
7 14 (0.41%) DNS
7 14 (0.41%) Ethernet
7 14 (0.41%) Firewall
7 14 (0.41%) RS-232
8 13 (0.38%) CHAP
8 13 (0.38%) VoIP
9 11 (0.32%) CTI
10 10 (0.29%) 5G
11 9 (0.26%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.23%) Wireless
13 7 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
13 7 (0.20%) Intranet
13 7 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 376 (11.00%) MongoDB
2 359 (10.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 187 (5.47%) SQL Server
4 153 (4.48%) Elasticsearch
5 133 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
6 100 (2.93%) Metadata
7 97 (2.84%) NoSQL
8 88 (2.57%) Power BI
9 78 (2.28%) MySQL
10 39 (1.14%) Relational Database
11 33 (0.97%) DynamoDB
12 29 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
13 28 (0.82%) Data Lake
14 25 (0.73%) Redis
15 22 (0.64%) Big Data
16 19 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
16 19 (0.56%) BigQuery
16 19 (0.56%) Semantic Layer
16 19 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 18 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 241 (7.05%) JIRA
2 152 (4.45%) Git
3 104 (3.04%) Jenkins
4 101 (2.95%) GitLab
5 41 (1.20%) SonarQube
6 35 (1.02%) Cypress.io
7 31 (0.91%) Selenium
8 21 (0.61%) Claude Code
9 19 (0.56%) JUnit
9 19 (0.56%) Postman
10 14 (0.41%) Cucumber
10 14 (0.41%) Visual Studio
11 13 (0.38%) CircleCI
11 13 (0.38%) Maven
12 12 (0.35%) JMeter
12 12 (0.35%) Mockito
13 9 (0.26%) SpecFlow
14 8 (0.23%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.23%) XCUITest
15 7 (0.20%) WebDriver
General
1 925 (27.06%) Social Skills
2 800 (23.41%) Finance
3 471 (13.78%) Public Sector
4 343 (10.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 317 (9.27%) Analytical Skills
6 296 (8.66%) Games
7 279 (8.16%) Law
8 196 (5.73%) Legal
9 190 (5.56%) Marketing
10 174 (5.09%) Retail
11 130 (3.80%) Banking
12 89 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
13 77 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
14 73 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
15 61 (1.78%) Advertising
16 49 (1.43%) Front Office
17 46 (1.35%) Legal Technology
18 35 (1.02%) Back Office
19 33 (0.97%) Manufacturing
20 27 (0.79%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 862 (25.22%) Developer
2 684 (20.01%) Senior
3 471 (13.78%) Lead
4 382 (11.18%) .NET Developer
5 286 (8.37%) Architect
6 285 (8.34%) Analyst
7 267 (7.81%) Software Engineer
8 249 (7.28%) Project Manager
9 184 (5.38%) Business Analyst
10 183 (5.35%) Senior Manager
11 141 (4.13%) IT Manager
12 134 (3.92%) Senior Developer
13 109 (3.19%) Software Developer
14 106 (3.10%) Delivery Manager
15 99 (2.90%) Senior Project Manager
16 84 (2.46%) Consultant
16 84 (2.46%) Engineering Manager
16 84 (2.46%) Full-Stack Developer
17 82 (2.40%) Product Owner
18 81 (2.37%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 615 (17.99%) .NET
2 450 (13.17%) React
3 385 (11.26%) ASP.NET
4 365 (10.68%) .NET Core
5 354 (10.36%) ASP.NET Core
6 309 (9.04%) Node.js
7 221 (6.47%) RESTful
8 202 (5.91%) CSS
9 190 (5.56%) HTML
10 170 (4.97%) Blazor
11 160 (4.68%) AngularJS
12 150 (4.39%) Entity Framework
13 140 (4.10%) Vue
14 126 (3.69%) ASP.NET Web API
15 123 (3.60%) REST
16 96 (2.81%) .NET Framework
17 95 (2.78%) ML.NET
18 83 (2.43%) Kafka
19 81 (2.37%) Spring
20 80 (2.34%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 405 (11.85%) Product Ownership
2 289 (8.46%) Cloud Native
3 247 (7.23%) Social Media
4 126 (3.69%) Enterprise Software
5 103 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
6 84 (2.46%) Mobile App
7 73 (2.14%) Management Information System
7 73 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
8 71 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
8 71 (2.08%) Onboarding
9 60 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
10 56 (1.64%) Marketing Technology
11 55 (1.61%) Over-the-Top Content
12 47 (1.38%) Driving Licence
13 46 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
13 46 (1.35%) Virtual Team
14 41 (1.20%) Fixed Income
15 30 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
15 30 (0.88%) Security Posture
16 28 (0.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 153 (4.48%) Linux
2 66 (1.93%) Android
3 63 (1.84%) Windows
4 46 (1.35%) Unix
5 43 (1.26%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.44%) VMS
7 14 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
8 10 (0.29%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.20%) CentOS
10 6 (0.18%) Debian
11 5 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.059%) Windows Server
13 1 (0.029%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 837 (24.49%) DevOps
2 807 (23.61%) CI/CD
3 799 (23.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 753 (22.03%) Roadmaps
5 751 (21.97%) AI
6 738 (21.59%) Mentoring
7 645 (18.87%) Scrum
8 591 (17.29%) Full-Stack Development
9 562 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
10 548 (16.03%) Coaching
11 467 (13.66%) Software Engineering
12 461 (13.49%) Microservices
13 443 (12.96%) Analytics
14 396 (11.59%) Decision-Making
15 393 (11.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 392 (11.47%) Stakeholder Management
17 389 (11.38%) Test Automation
18 376 (11.00%) Customer Experience
19 358 (10.47%) Project Management
20 356 (10.42%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 799 (23.38%) SQL
2 707 (20.68%) C#
3 528 (15.45%) JavaScript
4 388 (11.35%) Python
5 379 (11.09%) Java
6 333 (9.74%) TypeScript
7 88 (2.57%) PHP
8 84 (2.46%) C++
9 67 (1.96%) Bash
10 60 (1.76%) Go
11 52 (1.52%) Apex Code
12 43 (1.26%) PowerShell
13 40 (1.17%) C
14 36 (1.05%) Ruby
15 35 (1.02%) SOQL
16 34 (0.99%) SOSL
17 21 (0.61%) T-SQL
18 20 (0.59%) VBA
19 18 (0.53%) PL/SQL
20 17 (0.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 435 (12.73%) Degree
2 376 (11.00%) Security Cleared
3 296 (8.66%) SC Cleared
4 107 (3.13%) CISSP
5 103 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 95 (2.78%) CISM
7 89 (2.60%) PMI Certification
8 85 (2.49%) PMP
9 72 (2.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 54 (1.58%) ITIL Certification
11 43 (1.26%) Azure Certification
12 40 (1.17%) DV Cleared
13 37 (1.08%) DBS Check
14 30 (0.88%) CISA
15 26 (0.76%) AWS Certification
16 25 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
17 24 (0.70%) Master's Degree
18 22 (0.64%) ISTQB
19 18 (0.53%) SANS
20 17 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 370 (10.83%) Accessibility
2 282 (8.25%) QA
3 104 (3.04%) Data Quality
4 103 (3.01%) NIST
5 81 (2.37%) WCAG
6 74 (2.17%) GDPR
7 56 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 50 (1.46%) PMO
9 45 (1.32%) ISO 22301
10 31 (0.91%) GRC
11 20 (0.59%) COBIT
11 20 (0.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 20 (0.59%) NCSC
12 10 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.29%) NIST 800
13 9 (0.26%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.20%) SLA
14 7 (0.20%) SOC 1
14 7 (0.20%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 282 (8.25%) Docker
2 60 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
3 35 (1.02%) Active Directory
4 14 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.38%) vSphere
6 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.059%) Firmware
8 1 (0.029%) GPFS
8 1 (0.029%) Lustre
8 1 (0.029%) Xen
Systems Management
1 262 (7.67%) Kubernetes
2 162 (4.74%) Terraform
3 63 (1.84%) Ansible
4 43 (1.26%) Grafana
5 35 (1.02%) Argo
6 33 (0.97%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.35%) Podman
8 10 (0.29%) Kustomize
9 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.18%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.18%) Puppet
10 5 (0.15%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.15%) Istio
10 5 (0.15%) Packer
11 3 (0.088%) Kibana
11 3 (0.088%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.088%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.059%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.059%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.029%) linkerd
Vendors
1 774 (22.64%) Microsoft
2 264 (7.72%) Adobe
3 140 (4.10%) Google
4 102 (2.98%) Oracle
4 102 (2.98%) Salesforce
5 95 (2.78%) Databricks
6 81 (2.37%) ServiceNow
7 79 (2.31%) SAP
8 40 (1.17%) Facebook
8 40 (1.17%) Splunk
9 26 (0.76%) OpenAI
10 21 (0.61%) YouTube
11 20 (0.59%) Cisco
12 19 (0.56%) Yahoo!
13 18 (0.53%) Apple
14 17 (0.50%) IFS
14 17 (0.50%) Sony
15 16 (0.47%) IBM
15 16 (0.47%) VMware
16 15 (0.44%) Workday
2,568 hybrid/remote Agile jobs