Agile Jobs with Work from Home Options

Agile Software Development
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 6,478 18,448 15,914
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 28.93% 34.19% 31.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 30.31% 35.57% 32.87%
Number of salaries quoted 4,587 12,398 11,925
10th Percentile £42,874 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,750 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,351 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,548 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.84% +3.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Agile is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,371 51,865 48,409
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 95.44% 96.12% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 15,602 36,195 36,353
10th Percentile £36,270 £37,500 £35,745
25th Percentile £46,306 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% +9.09%

Agile
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Agile trend for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Agile.

Agile salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Agile over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Agile salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 229 (3.54%) Confluence
2 145 (2.24%) Apache
3 115 (1.78%) SharePoint
4 89 (1.37%) Apache Spark
5 85 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
6 54 (0.83%) SAS
7 28 (0.43%) Tomcat
8 24 (0.37%) CMS
9 18 (0.28%) Umbraco
10 16 (0.25%) MS Exchange
11 14 (0.22%) JBoss
12 13 (0.20%) nginx
12 13 (0.20%) WebSphere
13 12 (0.19%) Anypoint
13 12 (0.19%) Jetty
13 12 (0.19%) NServiceBus
13 12 (0.19%) OpenStack
14 11 (0.17%) Drupal
14 11 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
14 11 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 125 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 117 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 54 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
4 38 (0.59%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.19%) Sketch
6 11 (0.17%) Adobe XD
7 10 (0.15%) Trello
8 8 (0.12%) InDesign
8 8 (0.12%) Photoshop
9 5 (0.077%) Simulink
10 4 (0.062%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.062%) CATIA
10 4 (0.062%) InVision
10 4 (0.062%) LibreOffice
11 3 (0.046%) 3ds Max
11 3 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.046%) Blender
11 3 (0.046%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.046%) Maya
Business Applications
1 362 (5.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (0.56%) Endur
3 20 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
4 16 (0.25%) Siebel CRM
5 14 (0.22%) Cloudability
6 13 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
6 13 (0.20%) Visualfiles
7 10 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
8 8 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
8 8 (0.12%) SAP EWM
9 6 (0.093%) Magento
9 6 (0.093%) Oracle Cash Management
10 5 (0.077%) ProductWriter
10 5 (0.077%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.077%) SAP SD
10 5 (0.077%) Teamcenter
11 4 (0.062%) Dynamics GP
11 4 (0.062%) ENOVIA
11 4 (0.062%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 2,229 (34.41%) Azure
2 1,370 (21.15%) AWS
3 859 (13.26%) Power Platform
4 846 (13.06%) GCP
5 726 (11.21%) Azure DevOps
6 706 (10.90%) SaaS
7 624 (9.63%) Dynamics 365
8 489 (7.55%) PaaS
9 483 (7.46%) Serverless
10 415 (6.41%) IaaS
11 283 (4.37%) GitHub
12 252 (3.89%) Azure Functions
13 209 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
14 117 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
15 108 (1.67%) OpenShift
16 105 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
17 103 (1.59%) dbt
18 81 (1.25%) PowerApps
19 68 (1.05%) Entra ID
20 66 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 153 (2.36%) Firewall
2 88 (1.36%) VPN
3 77 (1.19%) DNS
4 69 (1.07%) Internet
5 57 (0.88%) WAN
6 50 (0.77%) SAN
7 43 (0.66%) LAN
8 34 (0.52%) TCP/IP
9 33 (0.51%) HTTP
10 30 (0.46%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 30 (0.46%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 29 (0.45%) DHCP
11 29 (0.45%) Network Security
12 23 (0.36%) NGFW
13 22 (0.34%) VLAN
14 19 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
15 17 (0.26%) AMQP
15 17 (0.26%) SSL
16 14 (0.22%) SD-WAN
17 13 (0.20%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 527 (8.14%) SQL Server
2 373 (5.76%) Power BI
3 278 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
4 257 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
5 256 (3.95%) NoSQL
6 252 (3.89%) MySQL
7 243 (3.75%) Relational Database
8 186 (2.87%) MongoDB
9 173 (2.67%) Data Lake
10 165 (2.55%) Big Data
11 107 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
12 104 (1.61%) Tableau
13 93 (1.44%) BigQuery
14 91 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 89 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 86 (1.33%) Metadata
17 81 (1.25%) RDBMS
18 74 (1.14%) Hadoop
19 71 (1.10%) Oracle Database
20 65 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 576 (8.89%) Git
2 482 (7.44%) JIRA
3 442 (6.82%) Jenkins
4 138 (2.13%) Selenium
5 134 (2.07%) Cucumber
6 114 (1.76%) GitLab
7 96 (1.48%) Cypress.io
7 96 (1.48%) Maven
8 72 (1.11%) Postman
9 61 (0.94%) Bitbucket
10 55 (0.85%) SonarQube
11 51 (0.79%) IBM UrbanCode
12 50 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
13 48 (0.74%) Artifactory
14 46 (0.71%) SoapUI
15 45 (0.69%) Visual Studio
16 44 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
17 42 (0.65%) Spinnaker
18 40 (0.62%) JUnit
19 37 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2,592 (40.01%) Finance
2 1,722 (26.58%) Social Skills
3 1,223 (18.88%) Banking
4 606 (9.35%) Retail
5 546 (8.43%) Analytical Skills
6 533 (8.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 345 (5.33%) Public Sector
8 257 (3.97%) Marketing
9 221 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
10 208 (3.21%) Front Office
11 202 (3.12%) Influencing Skills
12 150 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
13 137 (2.11%) Legal
14 109 (1.68%) Games
15 95 (1.47%) Manufacturing
16 85 (1.31%) Investment Banking
17 72 (1.11%) Law
18 71 (1.10%) Retail Banking
19 63 (0.97%) Aerospace
20 57 (0.88%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,452 (22.41%) Developer
2 1,114 (17.20%) Senior
3 1,105 (17.06%) Architect
4 732 (11.30%) Software Engineer
5 552 (8.52%) Lead
6 526 (8.12%) Solutions Architect
7 489 (7.55%) Analyst
8 413 (6.38%) Dynamics 365 Architect
9 364 (5.62%) Project Manager
10 347 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
11 315 (4.86%) Senior Developer
12 231 (3.57%) Business Analyst
13 228 (3.52%) .NET Developer
14 221 (3.41%) CRM Architect
15 220 (3.40%) Dynamics CRM Architect
16 214 (3.30%) Java Developer
17 209 (3.23%) Software Developer
18 198 (3.06%) Full Stack Developer
19 169 (2.61%) Data Engineer
20 162 (2.50%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 878 (13.55%) .NET
2 634 (9.79%) React
3 578 (8.92%) HTML
4 524 (8.09%) CSS
5 446 (6.88%) Node.js
6 401 (6.19%) AngularJS
7 313 (4.83%) REST
8 309 (4.77%) .NET Core
9 306 (4.72%) RESTful
10 266 (4.11%) Spring
11 265 (4.09%) Kafka
12 248 (3.83%) .NET Framework
13 224 (3.46%) Spring Boot
13 224 (3.46%) Web Services
14 219 (3.38%) JSON
15 202 (3.12%) ASP.NET
16 161 (2.49%) SOAP
17 139 (2.15%) XML
18 130 (2.01%) ASP.NET Web API
19 122 (1.88%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 574 (8.86%) Product Ownership
2 394 (6.08%) Public Cloud
3 303 (4.68%) Cloud Native
4 201 (3.10%) Virtual Team
5 184 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
6 162 (2.50%) Private Cloud
7 155 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
8 145 (2.24%) Data Structures
9 112 (1.73%) Management Information System
10 91 (1.40%) Fixed Income
11 80 (1.23%) Derivative
12 79 (1.22%) Data Centre
13 78 (1.20%) Mobile App
14 77 (1.19%) Mainframe
15 76 (1.17%) Onboarding
16 73 (1.13%) Blockchain
17 71 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
18 67 (1.03%) Cyberattack
18 67 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
19 66 (1.02%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 426 (6.58%) Linux
2 303 (4.68%) Windows
3 164 (2.53%) Unix
4 109 (1.68%) Android
5 60 (0.93%) Windows Server
6 39 (0.60%) Apple iOS
7 36 (0.56%) Ubuntu
7 36 (0.56%) Windows 10
8 33 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 20 (0.31%) VMS
10 18 (0.28%) Windows 7
11 16 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
12 15 (0.23%) zOS
13 14 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
14 11 (0.17%) AIX
14 11 (0.17%) Solaris
15 10 (0.15%) Mac OS
16 9 (0.14%) CentOS
17 7 (0.11%) Debian
18 6 (0.093%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,866 (28.81%) DevOps
2 1,309 (20.21%) Software Engineering
3 1,173 (18.11%) Scrum
4 1,052 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
5 1,011 (15.61%) Actionable Insight
6 997 (15.39%) Mentoring
7 985 (15.21%) CI/CD
8 849 (13.11%) Roadmaps
9 740 (11.42%) Microservices
10 718 (11.08%) Analytics
11 706 (10.90%) Project Management
12 626 (9.66%) SDLC
13 560 (8.64%) Infrastructure as Code
14 512 (7.90%) Test Automation
15 495 (7.64%) CRM
16 487 (7.52%) Project Delivery
17 476 (7.35%) Full Stack Development
18 475 (7.33%) Waterfall
19 468 (7.22%) TDD
20 467 (7.21%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,141 (17.61%) SQL
2 1,091 (16.84%) JavaScript
3 1,090 (16.83%) Java
4 1,003 (15.48%) Python
5 900 (13.89%) C#
6 489 (7.55%) TypeScript
7 277 (4.28%) PowerShell
8 182 (2.81%) Bash
9 146 (2.25%) C++
10 117 (1.81%) T-SQL
11 93 (1.44%) PHP
12 88 (1.36%) Go
13 85 (1.31%) Ruby
14 82 (1.27%) C
15 81 (1.25%) VB
16 74 (1.14%) Kotlin
17 69 (1.07%) Groovy
18 62 (0.96%) PL/SQL
19 60 (0.93%) Rust
20 58 (0.90%) Scala
Qualifications
1 891 (13.75%) Security Cleared
2 706 (10.90%) Degree
3 638 (9.85%) SC Cleared
4 167 (2.58%) DV Cleared
5 131 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 89 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
7 86 (1.33%) AWS Certification
8 75 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 63 (0.97%) Azure Certification
10 52 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
11 45 (0.69%) ISTQB
12 44 (0.68%) Master's Degree
12 44 (0.68%) PMI Certification
13 33 (0.51%) PMP
14 32 (0.49%) ISEB
15 30 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 29 (0.45%) OCP
16 29 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
17 25 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
18 24 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 372 (5.74%) QA
2 136 (2.10%) Data Quality
3 96 (1.48%) Accessibility
4 86 (1.33%) PMO
5 53 (0.82%) GDPR
6 32 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
7 31 (0.48%) WCAG
8 29 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 25 (0.39%) SEPA
10 24 (0.37%) PCI DSS
11 22 (0.34%) NIST
12 19 (0.29%) COBIT
12 19 (0.29%) SLA
13 18 (0.28%) IFRS
13 18 (0.28%) IFRS 9
14 17 (0.26%) ISO 20022
15 11 (0.17%) GRC
16 9 (0.14%) CRD IV
16 9 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.093%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 689 (10.64%) Docker
2 187 (2.89%) Active Directory
3 82 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 52 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 48 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
6 38 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
7 28 (0.43%) vSphere
8 24 (0.37%) Firmware
9 20 (0.31%) Hyper-V
10 16 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
11 9 (0.14%) Terminal Server
12 6 (0.093%) BitLocker
12 6 (0.093%) Embedded Firmware
13 5 (0.077%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.062%) DFS Replication
14 4 (0.062%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.046%) KVM
15 3 (0.046%) Time Sharing Option
16 2 (0.031%) Apache Flume
16 2 (0.031%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 748 (11.55%) Kubernetes
2 609 (9.40%) Terraform
3 343 (5.29%) Ansible
4 68 (1.05%) Puppet
5 62 (0.96%) SCCM
6 52 (0.80%) Grafana
7 46 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
7 46 (0.71%) Progress Chef
8 41 (0.63%) Prometheus
9 39 (0.60%) WSUS
10 35 (0.54%) Istio
11 31 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 27 (0.42%) Kibana
13 25 (0.39%) SCOM
14 20 (0.31%) Nagios
15 17 (0.26%) HP Quality Center
16 15 (0.23%) Packer
17 11 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
18 9 (0.14%) vCenter Server
19 8 (0.12%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 1,220 (18.83%) Microsoft
2 440 (6.79%) Google
3 397 (6.13%) Oracle
4 122 (1.88%) Salesforce
5 103 (1.59%) ServiceNow
6 96 (1.48%) VMware
7 79 (1.22%) Splunk
8 78 (1.20%) IBM
9 69 (1.07%) SAP
10 58 (0.90%) Atlassian
11 46 (0.71%) Databricks
12 45 (0.69%) HP
12 45 (0.69%) New Relic
13 44 (0.68%) Cisco
14 39 (0.60%) Citrix
14 39 (0.60%) Sybase
15 37 (0.57%) TIBCO
16 36 (0.56%) OpenLink
17 34 (0.52%) F5
18 33 (0.51%) Teradata