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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,108 3,334 8,150
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.70% 21.79% 23.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.16% 23.03% 26.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,036 2,047 5,995
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 £79,081 £98,474 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £132,500 £108,750
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 16,218 14,474 30,737
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.95% 94.61% 89.18%
Number of salaries quoted 11,673 8,396 23,766
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £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% -8.73%
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% -9.69%

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 14 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 99 (3.19%) Confluence
2 44 (1.42%) SharePoint
3 43 (1.38%) CMS
4 21 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.61%) Apache
6 15 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 15 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.32%) SAS
8 9 (0.29%) Jupyter
9 7 (0.23%) WordPress
10 4 (0.13%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.13%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.13%) PowerFactory
11 3 (0.097%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.097%) nginx
11 3 (0.097%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.064%) Camunda
12 2 (0.064%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 112 (3.60%) Microsoft Project
2 95 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 45 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
5 37 (1.19%) UserZoom
6 23 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 21 (0.68%) Adobe XD
8 11 (0.35%) MS Visio
9 8 (0.26%) Trello
10 7 (0.23%) Sketch
11 6 (0.19%) Chatbot
12 4 (0.13%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.13%) InVision
12 4 (0.13%) Photoshop
12 4 (0.13%) Revit
12 4 (0.13%) Windchill
13 3 (0.097%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.097%) Blender
13 3 (0.097%) Maya
13 3 (0.097%) Productboard
Business Applications
1 52 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.29%) Workfront
3 18 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.32%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.19%) Shopify
7 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.097%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.097%) Fidessa
8 3 (0.097%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.097%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.097%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.097%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.097%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.097%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.064%) Infor SunSystems
9 2 (0.064%) Oracle Financials
9 2 (0.064%) Raiser’s Edge
9 2 (0.064%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 935 (30.08%) Azure
2 709 (22.81%) AWS
3 245 (7.88%) Azure DevOps
4 216 (6.95%) GCP
5 185 (5.95%) Adobe Analytics
6 159 (5.12%) Power Platform
7 158 (5.08%) SaaS
8 141 (4.54%) Serverless
9 132 (4.25%) GitHub
10 119 (3.83%) Azure AI
11 114 (3.67%) Figma
12 70 (2.25%) Snowflake
13 65 (2.09%) Azure Machine Learning
14 62 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 62 (1.99%) Contentsquare
15 57 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
15 57 (1.83%) PowerApps
16 56 (1.80%) iPaaS
17 55 (1.77%) Amazon S3
17 55 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 421 (13.55%) Broadband
2 26 (0.84%) TCP/IP
3 23 (0.74%) Network Security
4 20 (0.64%) CHAP
5 17 (0.55%) WAN
6 15 (0.48%) Ethernet
6 15 (0.48%) RS-232
7 14 (0.45%) Internet
7 14 (0.45%) LAN
8 13 (0.42%) 4G
8 13 (0.42%) DNS
8 13 (0.42%) Firewall
9 12 (0.39%) VPN
10 11 (0.35%) BGP
10 11 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
10 11 (0.35%) Ethernet VPN
10 11 (0.35%) IOS XR
10 11 (0.35%) MPLS
11 9 (0.29%) 5G
12 7 (0.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 247 (7.95%) MongoDB
2 210 (6.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 171 (5.50%) SQL Server
4 115 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 111 (3.57%) NoSQL
6 106 (3.41%) Metadata
7 93 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
8 86 (2.77%) Power BI
9 71 (2.28%) MySQL
10 47 (1.51%) Relational Database
11 32 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
11 32 (1.03%) DynamoDB
12 31 (1.00%) Data Lake
13 20 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
14 19 (0.61%) Redis
15 18 (0.58%) RDBMS
15 18 (0.58%) Tableau
16 17 (0.55%) Big Data
16 17 (0.55%) BigQuery
17 16 (0.51%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 229 (7.37%) JIRA
2 145 (4.67%) Git
3 118 (3.80%) Jenkins
4 100 (3.22%) GitLab
5 45 (1.45%) Selenium
6 40 (1.29%) SonarQube
7 36 (1.16%) Cypress.io
7 36 (1.16%) Postman
8 25 (0.80%) TeamCity
9 20 (0.64%) WebDriver
10 19 (0.61%) SoapUI
11 18 (0.58%) Claude Code
11 18 (0.58%) Jaeger
11 18 (0.58%) JUnit
12 16 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
13 15 (0.48%) Cucumber
13 15 (0.48%) JMeter
14 13 (0.42%) CircleCI
15 12 (0.39%) Maven
16 11 (0.35%) Mockito
General
1 890 (28.64%) Social Skills
2 789 (25.39%) Finance
3 444 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 330 (10.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 322 (10.36%) Analytical Skills
6 300 (9.65%) Games
7 203 (6.53%) Law
8 179 (5.76%) Marketing
9 149 (4.79%) Banking
10 148 (4.76%) Retail
11 142 (4.57%) Legal
12 72 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
13 68 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
14 63 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
15 48 (1.54%) Front Office
16 44 (1.42%) Telecoms
17 42 (1.35%) Advertising
18 34 (1.09%) Back Office
19 29 (0.93%) Aviation
20 28 (0.90%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 646 (20.79%) Developer
2 640 (20.59%) Senior
3 462 (14.86%) Lead
4 296 (9.52%) Analyst
5 256 (8.24%) Software Engineer
6 233 (7.50%) Architect
6 233 (7.50%) Project Manager
7 231 (7.43%) .NET Developer
8 198 (6.37%) Business Analyst
9 189 (6.08%) Senior Manager
10 108 (3.47%) Delivery Manager
11 106 (3.41%) Software Developer
12 99 (3.19%) Senior Project Manager
13 88 (2.83%) Product Owner
14 86 (2.77%) Engineering Manager
15 84 (2.70%) IT Manager
16 83 (2.67%) Designer
17 79 (2.54%) Senior Developer
18 77 (2.48%) Graduate
18 77 (2.48%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 422 (13.58%) .NET
2 383 (12.32%) React
3 234 (7.53%) Node.js
4 227 (7.30%) .NET Core
5 226 (7.27%) ASP.NET
6 208 (6.69%) ASP.NET Core
7 168 (5.41%) CSS
8 164 (5.28%) HTML
9 159 (5.12%) RESTful
10 119 (3.83%) AngularJS
10 119 (3.83%) REST
11 102 (3.28%) Blazor
12 97 (3.12%) Vue
13 89 (2.86%) Entity Framework
14 77 (2.48%) Kafka
14 77 (2.48%) Spring
15 73 (2.35%) SOAP
16 71 (2.28%) ASP.NET Web API
17 61 (1.96%) .NET Framework
18 59 (1.90%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 413 (13.29%) Product Ownership
2 267 (8.59%) Cloud Native
3 245 (7.88%) Social Media
4 99 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
5 79 (2.54%) Mobile App
6 76 (2.45%) Over-the-Top Content
7 73 (2.35%) Onboarding
8 72 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
9 67 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
10 66 (2.12%) Management Information System
11 61 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
12 56 (1.80%) Marketing Technology
13 51 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
14 46 (1.48%) Driving Licence
15 41 (1.32%) Fixed Income
16 39 (1.25%) Virtual Team
17 33 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
18 30 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
19 28 (0.90%) Data Structures
19 28 (0.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 140 (4.50%) Linux
2 63 (2.03%) Android
3 47 (1.51%) Apple iOS
4 44 (1.42%) Unix
5 41 (1.32%) Windows
6 15 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (0.23%) CentOS
7 7 (0.23%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.23%) VMS
7 7 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.16%) Debian
8 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.064%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.032%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 724 (23.29%) Roadmaps
2 700 (22.52%) Mentoring
3 692 (22.27%) DevOps
4 683 (21.98%) Continuous Improvement
5 658 (21.17%) CI/CD
6 635 (20.43%) AI
7 572 (18.40%) Scrum
8 540 (17.37%) Coaching
9 480 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
10 441 (14.19%) Analytics
11 434 (13.96%) Full-Stack Development
12 420 (13.51%) Software Engineering
13 385 (12.39%) Customer Experience
14 366 (11.78%) Project Management
15 359 (11.55%) Stakeholder Management
16 351 (11.29%) Decision-Making
17 327 (10.52%) Test Automation
18 326 (10.49%) Microservices
19 295 (9.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 280 (9.01%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 646 (20.79%) SQL
2 480 (15.44%) C#
3 438 (14.09%) JavaScript
4 402 (12.93%) Java
5 389 (12.52%) Python
6 283 (9.11%) TypeScript
7 85 (2.73%) PHP
8 78 (2.51%) C++
9 76 (2.45%) Go
10 70 (2.25%) Bash
11 57 (1.83%) Apex Code
12 39 (1.25%) C
13 35 (1.13%) PowerShell
13 35 (1.13%) SOQL
14 34 (1.09%) SOSL
15 33 (1.06%) Scala
16 23 (0.74%) Ruby
17 20 (0.64%) VBA
18 19 (0.61%) PL/SQL
18 19 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 444 (14.29%) Degree
2 332 (10.68%) Security Cleared
3 256 (8.24%) SC Cleared
4 98 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 82 (2.64%) PMI Certification
6 74 (2.38%) PMP
7 70 (2.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 57 (1.83%) CISSP
9 47 (1.51%) DBS Check
9 47 (1.51%) DV Cleared
10 43 (1.38%) CISM
11 36 (1.16%) AWS Certification
12 35 (1.13%) ISTQB
13 30 (0.97%) Azure Certification
14 28 (0.90%) CISA
15 25 (0.80%) SANS
16 20 (0.64%) CGEIT
16 20 (0.64%) FFIEC
17 17 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
18 14 (0.45%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 358 (11.52%) Accessibility
2 240 (7.72%) QA
3 96 (3.09%) Data Quality
4 82 (2.64%) WCAG
5 67 (2.16%) GDPR
6 58 (1.87%) NIST
7 45 (1.45%) PMO
8 42 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 24 (0.77%) COBIT
10 22 (0.71%) GRC
11 15 (0.48%) NCSC
12 12 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 9 (0.29%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 5 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 4 (0.13%) ISO 9000
16 4 (0.13%) MiFID
16 4 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 271 (8.72%) Docker
2 59 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
3 35 (1.13%) Active Directory
4 9 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.16%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.16%) vSphere
6 3 (0.097%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.032%) Xen
Systems Management
1 256 (8.24%) Kubernetes
2 177 (5.69%) Terraform
3 81 (2.61%) Ansible
4 47 (1.51%) Prometheus
5 45 (1.45%) Argo
5 45 (1.45%) Grafana
6 22 (0.71%) Kustomize
7 12 (0.39%) 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%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.13%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.13%) SCCM
11 3 (0.097%) Kibana
11 3 (0.097%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.097%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.064%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.064%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 582 (18.73%) Microsoft
2 263 (8.46%) Adobe
3 135 (4.34%) Google
4 110 (3.54%) Salesforce
5 99 (3.19%) Databricks
6 90 (2.90%) Oracle
7 77 (2.48%) SAP
8 76 (2.45%) ServiceNow
9 40 (1.29%) Splunk
10 24 (0.77%) Facebook
11 19 (0.61%) Cisco
12 16 (0.51%) IBM
13 13 (0.42%) MuleSoft
13 13 (0.42%) VMware
14 12 (0.39%) Apple
14 12 (0.39%) IFS
15 11 (0.35%) OpenAI
15 11 (0.35%) Sony
15 11 (0.35%) Yahoo!
15 11 (0.35%) YouTube