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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,400 3,398 7,655
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.12% 20.93% 23.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.54% 22.36% 26.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,301 2,123 5,553
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £78,312 £98,474 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £132,500 £115,000
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 17,396 15,199 29,273
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.50% 93.62% 88.90%
Number of salaries quoted 12,715 9,007 22,430
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £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% -8.71%

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 7 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
1 102 (3.00%) Confluence
2 58 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 42 (1.24%) CMS
4 21 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.56%) Apache
6 16 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 16 (0.47%) Apache Spark
7 14 (0.41%) SAS
8 12 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.26%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.24%) WordPress
11 5 (0.15%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.12%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.12%) PowerFactory
13 3 (0.088%) Camunda
13 3 (0.088%) EPiServer
13 3 (0.088%) Immediacy CMS
13 3 (0.088%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.088%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 118 (3.47%) Microsoft Project
2 94 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 46 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
4 46 (1.35%) UserZoom
5 22 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.44%) Adobe XD
6 15 (0.44%) Chatbot
6 15 (0.44%) Trello
7 11 (0.32%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.15%) Sketch
9 4 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.12%) Revit
9 4 (0.12%) Windchill
10 3 (0.088%) Blender
10 3 (0.088%) Maya
10 3 (0.088%) Productboard
11 2 (0.059%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.059%) PlantUML
11 2 (0.059%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 66 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.18%) Workfront
3 20 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.21%) Elite 3E
5 6 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.15%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.15%) Shopify
7 4 (0.12%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.12%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.12%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.12%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.088%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.088%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.088%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.088%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.059%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1,166 (34.29%) Azure
2 817 (24.03%) AWS
3 327 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
4 229 (6.74%) GCP
5 194 (5.71%) SaaS
6 193 (5.68%) Adobe Analytics
7 175 (5.15%) Power Platform
8 170 (5.00%) GitHub
9 161 (4.74%) Azure AI
10 155 (4.56%) Serverless
11 107 (3.15%) Figma
12 79 (2.32%) GitHub Copilot
13 73 (2.15%) PowerApps
14 71 (2.09%) Contentsquare
15 65 (1.91%) Azure Machine Learning
15 65 (1.91%) Snowflake
16 64 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
17 63 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
18 61 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 59 (1.74%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 405 (11.91%) Broadband
2 28 (0.82%) Network Security
3 26 (0.76%) TCP/IP
4 22 (0.65%) Internet
5 21 (0.62%) VPN
6 19 (0.56%) WAN
7 16 (0.47%) Firewall
7 16 (0.47%) LAN
8 15 (0.44%) CHAP
8 15 (0.44%) Ethernet
8 15 (0.44%) RS-232
9 14 (0.41%) DNS
10 13 (0.38%) 4G
11 10 (0.29%) 5G
11 10 (0.29%) BGP
11 10 (0.29%) Cisco IOS
11 10 (0.29%) Ethernet VPN
11 10 (0.29%) IOS XR
11 10 (0.29%) MPLS
12 9 (0.26%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 383 (11.26%) MongoDB
2 366 (10.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 186 (5.47%) SQL Server
4 156 (4.59%) Elasticsearch
5 129 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
6 104 (3.06%) NoSQL
7 102 (3.00%) Metadata
8 90 (2.65%) Power BI
9 76 (2.24%) MySQL
10 43 (1.26%) Relational Database
11 33 (0.97%) DynamoDB
12 32 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
13 28 (0.82%) Data Lake
14 23 (0.68%) Redis
15 21 (0.62%) Big Data
16 19 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
16 19 (0.56%) BigQuery
16 19 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 18 (0.53%) Semantic Layer
17 18 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 235 (6.91%) JIRA
2 161 (4.74%) Git
3 114 (3.35%) Jenkins
4 100 (2.94%) GitLab
5 41 (1.21%) SonarQube
6 34 (1.00%) Selenium
7 33 (0.97%) Cypress.io
8 24 (0.71%) Postman
9 21 (0.62%) Claude Code
10 19 (0.56%) JUnit
11 16 (0.47%) Cucumber
11 16 (0.47%) Visual Studio
12 15 (0.44%) JMeter
13 14 (0.41%) TeamCity
14 13 (0.38%) CircleCI
14 13 (0.38%) Maven
15 12 (0.35%) Jaeger
15 12 (0.35%) Mockito
16 11 (0.32%) SpecFlow
17 10 (0.29%) WebDriver
General
1 925 (27.21%) Social Skills
2 799 (23.50%) Finance
3 471 (13.85%) Public Sector
4 341 (10.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 325 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
6 307 (9.03%) Games
7 261 (7.68%) Law
8 188 (5.53%) Marketing
9 174 (5.12%) Retail
10 168 (4.94%) Legal
11 136 (4.00%) Banking
12 87 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
13 75 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
14 72 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
15 62 (1.82%) Advertising
16 50 (1.47%) Front Office
17 37 (1.09%) Telecoms
18 35 (1.03%) Back Office
18 35 (1.03%) Legal Technology
19 34 (1.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 835 (24.56%) Developer
2 676 (19.88%) Senior
3 479 (14.09%) Lead
4 384 (11.29%) .NET Developer
5 295 (8.68%) Analyst
6 272 (8.00%) Software Engineer
7 271 (7.97%) Architect
8 241 (7.09%) Project Manager
9 190 (5.59%) Senior Manager
10 188 (5.53%) Business Analyst
11 117 (3.44%) IT Manager
12 115 (3.38%) Delivery Manager
13 111 (3.26%) Software Developer
14 102 (3.00%) Senior Developer
15 99 (2.91%) Senior Project Manager
16 87 (2.56%) Product Owner
17 86 (2.53%) Engineering Manager
18 85 (2.50%) Consultant
19 81 (2.38%) Graduate
20 80 (2.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 596 (17.53%) .NET
2 464 (13.65%) React
3 386 (11.35%) ASP.NET
4 372 (10.94%) .NET Core
5 360 (10.59%) ASP.NET Core
6 306 (9.00%) Node.js
7 219 (6.44%) RESTful
8 202 (5.94%) CSS
9 192 (5.65%) HTML
10 175 (5.15%) Blazor
11 165 (4.85%) AngularJS
12 146 (4.29%) Entity Framework
13 142 (4.18%) Vue
14 127 (3.74%) ASP.NET Web API
14 127 (3.74%) REST
15 99 (2.91%) ML.NET
16 92 (2.71%) .NET Framework
17 82 (2.41%) Kafka
18 81 (2.38%) Spring
19 63 (1.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 414 (12.18%) Product Ownership
2 288 (8.47%) Cloud Native
3 258 (7.59%) Social Media
4 125 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
5 106 (3.12%) Greenfield Project
6 85 (2.50%) Mobile App
7 76 (2.24%) Management Information System
8 71 (2.09%) Onboarding
8 71 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
9 69 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
10 65 (1.91%) Over-the-Top Content
11 60 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
12 55 (1.62%) Marketing Technology
13 46 (1.35%) Driving Licence
13 46 (1.35%) Virtual Team
14 41 (1.21%) Fixed Income
15 34 (1.00%) Security Posture
16 33 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
17 32 (0.94%) Public Cloud
18 29 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 159 (4.68%) Linux
2 66 (1.94%) Android
3 65 (1.91%) Windows
4 53 (1.56%) Unix
5 44 (1.29%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
6 15 (0.44%) VMS
7 8 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.21%) CentOS
9 6 (0.18%) Debian
10 5 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.12%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.029%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 831 (24.44%) DevOps
2 769 (22.62%) CI/CD
3 765 (22.50%) Roadmaps
4 761 (22.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 746 (21.94%) Mentoring
6 745 (21.91%) AI
7 653 (19.21%) Scrum
8 596 (17.53%) Full-Stack Development
9 556 (16.35%) Coaching
10 528 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
11 465 (13.68%) Software Engineering
12 454 (13.35%) Analytics
13 437 (12.85%) Microservices
14 388 (11.41%) Decision-Making
15 385 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
16 382 (11.24%) Customer Experience
17 367 (10.79%) Test Automation
18 366 (10.76%) Project Management
19 349 (10.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 337 (9.91%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 809 (23.79%) SQL
2 678 (19.94%) C#
3 533 (15.68%) JavaScript
4 403 (11.85%) Python
5 395 (11.62%) Java
6 333 (9.79%) TypeScript
7 89 (2.62%) PHP
8 84 (2.47%) C++
9 73 (2.15%) Bash
10 68 (2.00%) Go
11 54 (1.59%) Apex Code
12 44 (1.29%) PowerShell
13 42 (1.24%) C
14 35 (1.03%) SOQL
15 34 (1.00%) SOSL
16 31 (0.91%) Ruby
17 22 (0.65%) VBA
18 21 (0.62%) T-SQL
19 19 (0.56%) Scala
20 17 (0.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 440 (12.94%) Degree
2 360 (10.59%) Security Cleared
3 281 (8.26%) SC Cleared
4 101 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 87 (2.56%) CISSP
6 85 (2.50%) PMI Certification
7 81 (2.38%) PMP
8 74 (2.18%) CISM
9 72 (2.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 45 (1.32%) DBS Check
11 44 (1.29%) Azure Certification
11 44 (1.29%) DV Cleared
12 34 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
13 31 (0.91%) AWS Certification
14 30 (0.88%) CISA
15 27 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
16 25 (0.74%) ISTQB
17 22 (0.65%) Master's Degree
18 20 (0.59%) SANS
19 15 (0.44%) CGEIT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 368 (10.82%) Accessibility
2 256 (7.53%) QA
3 100 (2.94%) Data Quality
4 85 (2.50%) NIST
5 79 (2.32%) WCAG
6 74 (2.18%) GDPR
7 54 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 48 (1.41%) PMO
9 28 (0.82%) GRC
10 24 (0.71%) ISO 22301
11 22 (0.65%) COBIT
12 19 (0.56%) NCSC
13 18 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 11 (0.32%) PCI DSS
15 10 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
16 8 (0.24%) NIST 800
17 7 (0.21%) SLA
17 7 (0.21%) SOC 1
17 7 (0.21%) SOC 2
18 5 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 301 (8.85%) Docker
2 60 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
3 37 (1.09%) Active Directory
4 16 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.38%) vSphere
6 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.059%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.029%) Firmware
8 1 (0.029%) GPFS
8 1 (0.029%) Lustre
8 1 (0.029%) Xen
Systems Management
1 281 (8.26%) Kubernetes
2 171 (5.03%) Terraform
3 72 (2.12%) Ansible
4 43 (1.26%) Grafana
5 41 (1.21%) Argo
6 39 (1.15%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.47%) Kustomize
8 12 (0.35%) Podman
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%) SCCM
11 3 (0.088%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.088%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.059%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.059%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 771 (22.68%) Microsoft
2 265 (7.79%) Adobe
3 147 (4.32%) Google
4 103 (3.03%) Salesforce
5 100 (2.94%) Oracle
6 95 (2.79%) Databricks
7 83 (2.44%) ServiceNow
8 76 (2.24%) SAP
9 41 (1.21%) Facebook
10 40 (1.18%) Splunk
11 25 (0.74%) Cisco
12 21 (0.62%) YouTube
13 20 (0.59%) OpenAI
13 20 (0.59%) Yahoo!
14 19 (0.56%) Apple
15 18 (0.53%) Sony
15 18 (0.53%) VMware
16 16 (0.47%) IBM
16 16 (0.47%) IFS
17 14 (0.41%) Workday