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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,028 3,323 8,097
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.56% 22.02% 23.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.96% 23.27% 26.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,949 2,039 5,970
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% +14.37% -5.84%
75th Percentile £80,000 £98,474 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £132,500 £105,000
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 15,967 14,283 30,442
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.05% 94.63% 89.39%
Number of salaries quoted 11,428 8,372 23,637
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 9 June 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 97 (3.20%) Confluence
2 41 (1.35%) CMS
3 39 (1.29%) SharePoint
4 21 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.59%) Apache
6 16 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 10 (0.33%) SAS
9 9 (0.30%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.20%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.20%) WordPress
11 5 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.13%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.13%) PowerFactory
13 3 (0.099%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.099%) nginx
14 2 (0.066%) Camunda
14 2 (0.066%) Microsoft Exchange
14 2 (0.066%) NServiceBus
14 2 (0.066%) Umbraco
Applications
1 107 (3.53%) Microsoft Project
2 97 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.78%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 45 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
5 37 (1.22%) UserZoom
6 23 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 21 (0.69%) Adobe XD
8 9 (0.30%) MS Visio
9 8 (0.26%) Sketch
10 7 (0.23%) Chatbot
10 7 (0.23%) Trello
11 4 (0.13%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.13%) InVision
11 4 (0.13%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.13%) Revit
11 4 (0.13%) Windchill
12 3 (0.099%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.099%) Blender
12 3 (0.099%) Maya
12 3 (0.099%) Productboard
Business Applications
1 48 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.32%) Workfront
3 18 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.43%) SAP ERP
5 8 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.20%) Shopify
8 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
9 3 (0.099%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.099%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.099%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.099%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.099%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.099%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (0.066%) Fidessa
10 2 (0.066%) Infor SunSystems
10 2 (0.066%) Oracle Financials
10 2 (0.066%) Raiser’s Edge
10 2 (0.066%) SAP PM
10 2 (0.066%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 877 (28.96%) Azure
2 686 (22.66%) AWS
3 222 (7.33%) Azure DevOps
4 212 (7.00%) GCP
5 185 (6.11%) Adobe Analytics
6 155 (5.12%) SaaS
7 153 (5.05%) Power Platform
8 141 (4.66%) Serverless
9 130 (4.29%) GitHub
10 115 (3.80%) Figma
11 104 (3.43%) Azure AI
12 73 (2.41%) Snowflake
13 65 (2.15%) Azure Machine Learning
14 62 (2.05%) Contentsquare
15 61 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 56 (1.85%) iPaaS
17 55 (1.82%) Amazon S3
17 55 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
18 53 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
19 52 (1.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 419 (13.84%) Broadband
2 26 (0.86%) TCP/IP
3 22 (0.73%) Network Security
4 21 (0.69%) CHAP
5 19 (0.63%) DNS
6 17 (0.56%) WAN
7 16 (0.53%) LAN
8 15 (0.50%) Ethernet
8 15 (0.50%) RS-232
9 14 (0.46%) 4G
10 13 (0.43%) Firewall
11 11 (0.36%) BGP
11 11 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
11 11 (0.36%) Ethernet VPN
11 11 (0.36%) IOS XR
11 11 (0.36%) MPLS
12 10 (0.33%) VPN
13 9 (0.30%) Internet
14 8 (0.26%) 5G
15 7 (0.23%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (6.61%) MongoDB
2 167 (5.52%) SQL Server
3 155 (5.12%) Azure SQL Database
4 114 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
5 113 (3.73%) NoSQL
6 105 (3.47%) Metadata
7 86 (2.84%) Power BI
8 71 (2.34%) MySQL
9 67 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
10 45 (1.49%) Relational Database
11 34 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
12 33 (1.09%) Data Lake
13 30 (0.99%) DynamoDB
14 20 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (0.63%) Tableau
16 18 (0.59%) Big Data
16 18 (0.59%) BigQuery
16 18 (0.59%) RDBMS
17 17 (0.56%) Redis
18 14 (0.46%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 223 (7.36%) JIRA
2 152 (5.02%) Git
3 119 (3.93%) Jenkins
4 104 (3.43%) GitLab
5 48 (1.59%) Selenium
6 39 (1.29%) Postman
6 39 (1.29%) SonarQube
7 35 (1.16%) Cypress.io
8 25 (0.83%) TeamCity
9 23 (0.76%) WebDriver
10 22 (0.73%) SoapUI
11 19 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
12 18 (0.59%) Jaeger
12 18 (0.59%) JUnit
13 16 (0.53%) Claude Code
14 15 (0.50%) Cucumber
14 15 (0.50%) JMeter
15 13 (0.43%) CircleCI
16 11 (0.36%) Mockito
16 11 (0.36%) SpecFlow
General
1 885 (29.23%) Social Skills
2 785 (25.92%) Finance
3 435 (14.37%) Public Sector
4 329 (10.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 325 (10.73%) Analytical Skills
6 293 (9.68%) Games
7 203 (6.70%) Law
8 176 (5.81%) Marketing
9 149 (4.92%) Banking
10 144 (4.76%) Retail
11 141 (4.66%) Legal
12 70 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
13 65 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
14 56 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
15 47 (1.55%) Front Office
16 43 (1.42%) Telecoms
17 39 (1.29%) Advertising
18 33 (1.09%) Back Office
19 30 (0.99%) Manufacturing
20 29 (0.96%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 627 (20.71%) Senior
2 585 (19.32%) Developer
3 470 (15.52%) Lead
4 297 (9.81%) Analyst
5 242 (7.99%) Software Engineer
6 226 (7.46%) Project Manager
7 223 (7.36%) Architect
8 201 (6.64%) Business Analyst
9 191 (6.31%) Senior Manager
10 177 (5.85%) .NET Developer
11 104 (3.43%) Software Developer
12 103 (3.40%) Delivery Manager
13 98 (3.24%) Senior Project Manager
14 90 (2.97%) Product Owner
15 86 (2.84%) Engineering Manager
16 83 (2.74%) Designer
17 79 (2.61%) IT Manager
17 79 (2.61%) Product Manager
18 76 (2.51%) Senior Developer
19 74 (2.44%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 369 (12.19%) .NET
2 353 (11.66%) React
3 208 (6.87%) Node.js
4 174 (5.75%) .NET Core
5 169 (5.58%) ASP.NET
6 160 (5.28%) CSS
7 158 (5.22%) HTML
8 153 (5.05%) ASP.NET Core
9 140 (4.62%) RESTful
10 121 (4.00%) REST
11 103 (3.40%) AngularJS
12 83 (2.74%) Vue
13 79 (2.61%) Kafka
14 78 (2.58%) SOAP
15 77 (2.54%) Spring
16 73 (2.41%) Entity Framework
17 70 (2.31%) Blazor
18 58 (1.92%) Lightning Web Components
19 57 (1.88%) Spring Boot
20 51 (1.68%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 417 (13.77%) Product Ownership
2 255 (8.42%) Cloud Native
3 241 (7.96%) Social Media
4 89 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 79 (2.61%) Mobile App
6 76 (2.51%) Over-the-Top Content
7 72 (2.38%) Onboarding
8 65 (2.15%) Management Information System
9 63 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
10 62 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
11 56 (1.85%) Marketing Technology
12 55 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
13 51 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
14 43 (1.42%) Driving Licence
15 41 (1.35%) Virtual Team
16 40 (1.32%) Fixed Income
17 33 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
18 31 (1.02%) Data Structures
19 30 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
20 27 (0.89%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 134 (4.43%) Linux
2 64 (2.11%) Android
3 47 (1.55%) Apple iOS
4 43 (1.42%) Unix
5 42 (1.39%) Windows
6 15 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (0.23%) CentOS
7 7 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.17%) VMS
9 4 (0.13%) Debian
10 2 (0.066%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.033%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 723 (23.88%) Roadmaps
2 699 (23.08%) Mentoring
3 681 (22.49%) Continuous Improvement
4 667 (22.03%) DevOps
5 648 (21.40%) CI/CD
6 605 (19.98%) AI
7 546 (18.03%) Scrum
8 542 (17.90%) Coaching
9 474 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
10 433 (14.30%) Analytics
11 403 (13.31%) Software Engineering
12 385 (12.71%) Customer Experience
13 377 (12.45%) Full-Stack Development
14 361 (11.92%) Project Management
15 351 (11.59%) Stakeholder Management
16 339 (11.20%) Decision-Making
17 328 (10.83%) Test Automation
18 297 (9.81%) Microservices
19 289 (9.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 276 (9.11%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 592 (19.55%) SQL
2 419 (13.84%) C#
3 403 (13.31%) Java
4 400 (13.21%) JavaScript
5 390 (12.88%) Python
6 265 (8.75%) TypeScript
7 79 (2.61%) Go
8 78 (2.58%) C++
8 78 (2.58%) PHP
9 66 (2.18%) Bash
10 59 (1.95%) Apex Code
11 41 (1.35%) C
12 36 (1.19%) Scala
13 35 (1.16%) SOQL
14 34 (1.12%) PowerShell
14 34 (1.12%) SOSL
15 20 (0.66%) PL/SQL
15 20 (0.66%) Ruby
15 20 (0.66%) VBA
16 18 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 439 (14.50%) Degree
2 332 (10.96%) Security Cleared
3 254 (8.39%) SC Cleared
4 94 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 81 (2.68%) PMI Certification
6 73 (2.41%) PMP
7 68 (2.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 54 (1.78%) CISSP
9 52 (1.72%) DV Cleared
10 46 (1.52%) DBS Check
11 40 (1.32%) CISM
12 38 (1.25%) ISTQB
13 35 (1.16%) AWS Certification
14 28 (0.92%) Azure Certification
14 28 (0.92%) CISA
15 26 (0.86%) SANS
16 21 (0.69%) CGEIT
16 21 (0.69%) FFIEC
17 15 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
18 14 (0.46%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 355 (11.72%) Accessibility
2 240 (7.93%) QA
3 97 (3.20%) Data Quality
4 84 (2.77%) WCAG
5 62 (2.05%) GDPR
6 56 (1.85%) NIST
7 42 (1.39%) PMO
8 37 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 24 (0.79%) COBIT
10 22 (0.73%) GRC
11 13 (0.43%) NCSC
12 12 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.23%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.13%) Def Stans
15 4 (0.13%) IFRS
15 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 15288
15 4 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 256 (8.45%) Docker
2 59 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
3 37 (1.22%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.099%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.099%) vSphere
7 1 (0.033%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.033%) Firmware
7 1 (0.033%) Xen
Systems Management
1 247 (8.16%) Kubernetes
2 187 (6.18%) Terraform
3 81 (2.68%) Ansible
4 46 (1.52%) Argo
4 46 (1.52%) Prometheus
5 44 (1.45%) Grafana
6 22 (0.73%) Kustomize
7 12 (0.40%) Podman
8 7 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.20%) Puppet
10 5 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.17%) Packer
11 4 (0.13%) Istio
11 4 (0.13%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.13%) SCCM
12 3 (0.099%) Control-M
12 3 (0.099%) Kibana
12 3 (0.099%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.066%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 529 (17.47%) Microsoft
2 263 (8.69%) Adobe
3 131 (4.33%) Google
4 110 (3.63%) Salesforce
5 99 (3.27%) Databricks
6 88 (2.91%) Oracle
7 77 (2.54%) SAP
8 75 (2.48%) ServiceNow
9 40 (1.32%) Splunk
10 19 (0.63%) Cisco
11 18 (0.59%) Facebook
12 17 (0.56%) IBM
13 12 (0.40%) IFS
13 12 (0.40%) MuleSoft
14 11 (0.36%) VMware
15 10 (0.33%) Apple
16 9 (0.30%) Foundry
16 9 (0.30%) YouTube
17 8 (0.26%) Atlassian
17 8 (0.26%) OpenAI