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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,161 3,356 8,147
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.69% 21.69% 23.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.16% 22.95% 26.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,085 2,075 5,996
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +14.37% -5.84%
75th Percentile £78,790 £98,474 £81,786
90th Percentile £97,000 £132,500 £110,000
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 16,496 14,625 30,850
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.89% 94.51% 88.84%
Number of salaries quoted 11,943 8,513 23,831
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £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 20 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
1 100 (3.16%) Confluence
2 48 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 42 (1.33%) CMS
4 21 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.60%) Apache
6 16 (0.51%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 11 (0.35%) SAS
9 9 (0.28%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.22%) WordPress
12 4 (0.13%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.13%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.13%) PowerFactory
13 3 (0.095%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.095%) nginx
13 3 (0.095%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.095%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.063%) Camunda
14 2 (0.063%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 112 (3.54%) Microsoft Project
2 93 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 45 (1.42%) UserZoom
5 43 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
6 22 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 19 (0.60%) Adobe XD
8 11 (0.35%) MS Visio
8 11 (0.35%) Trello
9 7 (0.22%) Chatbot
9 7 (0.22%) Sketch
10 4 (0.13%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.13%) InVision
10 4 (0.13%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.13%) Revit
10 4 (0.13%) Windchill
11 3 (0.095%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.095%) Blender
11 3 (0.095%) Maya
11 3 (0.095%) Productboard
Business Applications
1 57 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.27%) Workfront
3 18 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.25%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.19%) Shopify
6 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.13%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.095%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.095%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.095%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.095%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.095%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.095%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.095%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.063%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.063%) Raiser’s Edge
8 2 (0.063%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.063%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 991 (31.35%) Azure
2 730 (23.09%) AWS
3 267 (8.45%) Azure DevOps
4 223 (7.05%) GCP
5 192 (6.07%) Adobe Analytics
6 165 (5.22%) SaaS
7 163 (5.16%) Power Platform
8 146 (4.62%) Serverless
9 141 (4.46%) GitHub
10 130 (4.11%) Azure AI
11 110 (3.48%) Figma
12 70 (2.21%) Contentsquare
13 65 (2.06%) Azure Machine Learning
13 65 (2.06%) Snowflake
14 61 (1.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 61 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
14 61 (1.93%) PowerApps
15 57 (1.80%) iPaaS
15 57 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
16 54 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 429 (13.57%) Broadband
2 27 (0.85%) TCP/IP
3 24 (0.76%) Network Security
4 17 (0.54%) CHAP
4 17 (0.54%) Internet
5 16 (0.51%) VPN
5 16 (0.51%) WAN
6 15 (0.47%) Ethernet
6 15 (0.47%) Firewall
6 15 (0.47%) RS-232
7 13 (0.41%) 4G
7 13 (0.41%) DNS
7 13 (0.41%) LAN
8 10 (0.32%) 5G
8 10 (0.32%) BGP
8 10 (0.32%) Cisco IOS
8 10 (0.32%) Ethernet VPN
8 10 (0.32%) IOS XR
8 10 (0.32%) MPLS
9 7 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 280 (8.86%) MongoDB
2 254 (8.04%) Azure SQL Database
3 175 (5.54%) SQL Server
4 120 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
5 111 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
5 111 (3.51%) NoSQL
6 102 (3.23%) Metadata
7 84 (2.66%) Power BI
8 74 (2.34%) MySQL
9 49 (1.55%) Relational Database
10 32 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
10 32 (1.01%) DynamoDB
11 30 (0.95%) Data Lake
12 20 (0.63%) BigQuery
12 20 (0.63%) Redis
13 19 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
14 18 (0.57%) Big Data
14 18 (0.57%) RDBMS
14 18 (0.57%) Semantic Layer
14 18 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 232 (7.34%) JIRA
2 155 (4.90%) Git
3 123 (3.89%) Jenkins
4 104 (3.29%) GitLab
5 42 (1.33%) Selenium
6 41 (1.30%) SonarQube
7 36 (1.14%) Cypress.io
8 32 (1.01%) Postman
9 25 (0.79%) TeamCity
10 19 (0.60%) Claude Code
10 19 (0.60%) JUnit
11 18 (0.57%) Jaeger
12 16 (0.51%) Cucumber
12 16 (0.51%) WebDriver
13 15 (0.47%) JMeter
13 15 (0.47%) SoapUI
14 13 (0.41%) CircleCI
14 13 (0.41%) Maven
15 12 (0.38%) Mockito
15 12 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 889 (28.12%) Social Skills
2 775 (24.52%) Finance
3 441 (13.95%) Public Sector
4 330 (10.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 317 (10.03%) Analytical Skills
6 310 (9.81%) Games
7 200 (6.33%) Law
8 179 (5.66%) Marketing
9 158 (5.00%) Retail
10 141 (4.46%) Banking
11 140 (4.43%) Legal
12 75 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
13 72 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
14 64 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
15 49 (1.55%) Advertising
15 49 (1.55%) Front Office
16 43 (1.36%) Telecoms
17 34 (1.08%) Back Office
18 32 (1.01%) Aviation
18 32 (1.01%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 692 (21.89%) Developer
2 640 (20.25%) Senior
3 468 (14.81%) Lead
4 292 (9.24%) Analyst
5 269 (8.51%) .NET Developer
6 263 (8.32%) Software Engineer
7 248 (7.85%) Architect
8 234 (7.40%) Project Manager
9 191 (6.04%) Business Analyst
10 187 (5.92%) Senior Manager
11 110 (3.48%) Delivery Manager
12 107 (3.39%) Software Developer
13 97 (3.07%) Senior Project Manager
14 89 (2.82%) IT Manager
15 87 (2.75%) Engineering Manager
15 87 (2.75%) Product Owner
16 83 (2.63%) Senior Developer
17 80 (2.53%) Graduate
18 79 (2.50%) Designer
18 79 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 462 (14.62%) .NET
2 404 (12.78%) React
3 269 (8.51%) ASP.NET
4 264 (8.35%) .NET Core
5 256 (8.10%) Node.js
6 248 (7.85%) ASP.NET Core
7 182 (5.76%) CSS
8 175 (5.54%) HTML
9 174 (5.50%) RESTful
10 129 (4.08%) AngularJS
11 121 (3.83%) Blazor
12 120 (3.80%) REST
13 108 (3.42%) Vue
14 102 (3.23%) Entity Framework
15 84 (2.66%) ASP.NET Web API
16 80 (2.53%) Kafka
17 78 (2.47%) Spring
18 69 (2.18%) SOAP
19 68 (2.15%) ML.NET
20 65 (2.06%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 410 (12.97%) Product Ownership
2 274 (8.67%) Cloud Native
3 252 (7.97%) Social Media
4 104 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
5 82 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
6 80 (2.53%) Mobile App
7 76 (2.40%) Over-the-Top Content
8 72 (2.28%) Onboarding
9 66 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
9 66 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
10 65 (2.06%) Management Information System
11 55 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
11 55 (1.74%) Marketing Technology
12 46 (1.46%) Driving Licence
13 45 (1.42%) Virtual Team
14 41 (1.30%) Fixed Income
15 33 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
16 32 (1.01%) Security Posture
17 30 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
18 28 (0.89%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 152 (4.81%) Linux
2 62 (1.96%) Android
3 48 (1.52%) Unix
3 48 (1.52%) Windows
4 45 (1.42%) Apple iOS
5 15 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
6 11 (0.35%) VMS
7 8 (0.25%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.22%) CentOS
9 6 (0.19%) Debian
10 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.16%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.032%) AIX
11 1 (0.032%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 745 (23.57%) Roadmaps
2 728 (23.03%) DevOps
3 707 (22.37%) Mentoring
4 698 (22.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 692 (21.89%) CI/CD
6 668 (21.13%) AI
7 598 (18.92%) Scrum
8 538 (17.02%) Coaching
9 481 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
10 472 (14.93%) Full-Stack Development
11 440 (13.92%) Analytics
12 428 (13.54%) Software Engineering
13 391 (12.37%) Customer Experience
14 363 (11.48%) Decision-Making
14 363 (11.48%) Stakeholder Management
15 361 (11.42%) Project Management
16 352 (11.14%) Microservices
17 325 (10.28%) Test Automation
18 293 (9.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 283 (8.95%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 690 (21.83%) SQL
2 527 (16.67%) C#
3 464 (14.68%) JavaScript
4 397 (12.56%) Java
5 388 (12.27%) Python
6 293 (9.27%) TypeScript
7 89 (2.82%) PHP
8 82 (2.59%) C++
9 75 (2.37%) Bash
10 72 (2.28%) Go
11 55 (1.74%) Apex Code
12 40 (1.27%) C
13 39 (1.23%) PowerShell
14 35 (1.11%) SOQL
15 34 (1.08%) SOSL
16 30 (0.95%) Scala
17 26 (0.82%) Ruby
18 20 (0.63%) T-SQL
18 20 (0.63%) VBA
19 17 (0.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 440 (13.92%) Degree
2 337 (10.66%) Security Cleared
3 257 (8.13%) SC Cleared
4 99 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 78 (2.47%) PMI Certification
6 71 (2.25%) PMP
7 70 (2.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 57 (1.80%) CISSP
9 46 (1.46%) DBS Check
10 45 (1.42%) DV Cleared
11 43 (1.36%) CISM
12 38 (1.20%) Azure Certification
13 37 (1.17%) AWS Certification
14 33 (1.04%) ISTQB
15 27 (0.85%) CISA
16 23 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
17 22 (0.70%) SANS
18 17 (0.54%) CGEIT
18 17 (0.54%) FFIEC
19 14 (0.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 360 (11.39%) Accessibility
2 244 (7.72%) QA
3 93 (2.94%) Data Quality
4 80 (2.53%) WCAG
5 67 (2.12%) GDPR
6 58 (1.83%) NIST
7 44 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 44 (1.39%) PMO
8 23 (0.73%) GRC
9 22 (0.70%) COBIT
10 17 (0.54%) NCSC
11 13 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 10 (0.32%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 5 (0.16%) NIST 800
14 5 (0.16%) SOC 1
14 5 (0.16%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.13%) Def Stans
System Software
1 291 (9.21%) Docker
2 60 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
3 35 (1.11%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.28%) vSphere
6 3 (0.095%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.095%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.032%) Xen
Systems Management
1 271 (8.57%) Kubernetes
2 176 (5.57%) Terraform
3 82 (2.59%) Ansible
4 47 (1.49%) Prometheus
5 45 (1.42%) Argo
5 45 (1.42%) Grafana
6 22 (0.70%) Kustomize
7 12 (0.38%) Podman
8 6 (0.19%) Puppet
9 5 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.16%) Istio
9 5 (0.16%) Packer
9 5 (0.16%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.13%) SCCM
11 3 (0.095%) Kibana
11 3 (0.095%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.095%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.063%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.063%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 625 (19.77%) Microsoft
2 267 (8.45%) Adobe
3 137 (4.33%) Google
4 109 (3.45%) Salesforce
5 98 (3.10%) Databricks
6 92 (2.91%) Oracle
7 77 (2.44%) ServiceNow
8 76 (2.40%) SAP
9 40 (1.27%) Splunk
10 29 (0.92%) Facebook
11 19 (0.60%) Cisco
12 15 (0.47%) IFS
12 15 (0.47%) VMware
12 15 (0.47%) YouTube
13 14 (0.44%) IBM
13 14 (0.44%) MuleSoft
14 13 (0.41%) Apple
15 12 (0.38%) OpenAI
15 12 (0.38%) Sony
15 12 (0.38%) Yahoo!