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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,275 3,171 5,055
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 13.20% 18.88% 23.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.39% 20.12% 26.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,183 1,942 2,745
10th Percentile £40,825 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,250 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,900 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% -3.70% +3.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £91,215 £132,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £62,740 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.05% - +3.29%

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 19,983 15,760 19,273
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.57% 93.83% 88.14%
Number of salaries quoted 14,257 8,411 11,456
10th Percentile £33,900 £29,750 £35,134
25th Percentile £44,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 8 October 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
1 110 (3.36%) Confluence
2 92 (2.81%) SharePoint
3 27 (0.82%) Apache Spark
4 26 (0.79%) CMS
5 19 (0.58%) Apache
6 17 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 14 (0.43%) WordPress
8 13 (0.40%) SAS
9 12 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 11 (0.34%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.24%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.15%) Umbraco
13 4 (0.12%) Camunda
13 4 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.12%) PowerFactory
14 3 (0.092%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.092%) DNN
14 3 (0.092%) EPiServer
14 3 (0.092%) Immediacy CMS
Applications
1 127 (3.88%) Microsoft Project
2 96 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
3 67 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
4 30 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 24 (0.73%) MS Visio
6 22 (0.67%) Chatbot
7 20 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 18 (0.55%) UserZoom
9 17 (0.52%) Trello
10 14 (0.43%) Adobe XD
11 5 (0.15%) Revit
11 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.12%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.12%) Notion
12 4 (0.12%) Simulink
12 4 (0.12%) Windchill
13 3 (0.092%) Blender
13 3 (0.092%) Maya
13 3 (0.092%) Productboard
13 3 (0.092%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 78 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.64%) Workfront
3 19 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.34%) Primavera
4 11 (0.34%) Workday HCM
5 10 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.21%) SAP CO
6 7 (0.21%) SAP FI
6 7 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
7 6 (0.18%) Elite 3E
7 6 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.18%) Shopify
8 5 (0.15%) Fidessa
8 5 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
9 4 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
9 4 (0.12%) Raiser’s Edge
9 4 (0.12%) SAP GRC
10 3 (0.092%) Carpe Diem
10 3 (0.092%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.092%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,178 (35.97%) Azure
2 830 (25.34%) AWS
3 346 (10.56%) Azure DevOps
4 252 (7.69%) SaaS
5 222 (6.78%) Power Platform
6 197 (6.02%) GCP
7 194 (5.92%) GitHub
8 152 (4.64%) Serverless
9 101 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
10 96 (2.93%) Azure AI
11 93 (2.84%) GitHub Copilot
12 86 (2.63%) Power Automate
13 83 (2.53%) PowerApps
14 76 (2.32%) AWS Lambda
15 71 (2.17%) Microsoft Copilot
16 68 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
17 58 (1.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 55 (1.68%) Amazon S3
19 53 (1.62%) Azure Service Bus
20 51 (1.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 98 (2.99%) Broadband
2 39 (1.19%) Network Security
3 20 (0.61%) Internet
4 17 (0.52%) LAN
4 17 (0.52%) VPN
4 17 (0.52%) WAN
5 14 (0.43%) TCP/IP
6 13 (0.40%) VoIP
7 11 (0.34%) 5G
7 11 (0.34%) CTI
7 11 (0.34%) Firewall
8 10 (0.31%) DNS
9 9 (0.27%) SMS
9 9 (0.27%) Unified Communications
10 7 (0.21%) TETRA
10 7 (0.21%) WLAN
11 6 (0.18%) HTTP
11 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
11 6 (0.18%) Wireless
12 5 (0.15%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 368 (11.24%) MongoDB
2 352 (10.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 148 (4.52%) SQL Server
4 145 (4.43%) Power BI
5 142 (4.34%) Elasticsearch
6 140 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
7 90 (2.75%) Metadata
8 80 (2.44%) MySQL
9 74 (2.26%) NoSQL
10 71 (2.17%) Relational Database
11 66 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
12 49 (1.50%) DynamoDB
13 47 (1.44%) Data Lake
14 30 (0.92%) Tableau
15 29 (0.89%) Big Data
16 27 (0.82%) Redis
17 21 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
17 21 (0.64%) Spark SQL
17 21 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 20 (0.61%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 270 (8.24%) JIRA
2 214 (6.53%) Git
3 79 (2.41%) GitLab
4 69 (2.11%) Jenkins
5 34 (1.04%) JUnit
6 30 (0.92%) Selenium
7 28 (0.85%) Cypress.io
8 27 (0.82%) Claude Code
9 22 (0.67%) Mockito
10 20 (0.61%) Postman
11 18 (0.55%) Maven
12 16 (0.49%) Visual Studio
13 13 (0.40%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.40%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
15 9 (0.27%) SonarQube
16 8 (0.24%) Balsamiq
17 7 (0.21%) NUnit
18 6 (0.18%) Axure RP
18 6 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,029 (31.42%) Social Skills
2 763 (23.30%) Finance
3 573 (17.50%) Public Sector
4 416 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
5 367 (11.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 270 (8.24%) Law
7 214 (6.53%) Legal
8 190 (5.80%) Retail
9 149 (4.55%) Marketing
10 127 (3.88%) Influencing Skills
11 106 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
12 90 (2.75%) Aerospace
13 85 (2.60%) Games
14 83 (2.53%) Banking
15 82 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
16 56 (1.71%) Advertising
17 50 (1.53%) Manufacturing
18 42 (1.28%) Legal Technology
19 31 (0.95%) Back Office
20 30 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 828 (25.28%) Developer
2 748 (22.84%) Senior
3 360 (10.99%) .NET Developer
4 358 (10.93%) Lead
5 291 (8.89%) Analyst
6 278 (8.49%) Architect
7 241 (7.36%) Project Manager
8 218 (6.66%) Software Engineer
9 196 (5.98%) Business Analyst
10 185 (5.65%) Senior Developer
11 154 (4.70%) Senior Manager
12 139 (4.24%) Delivery Manager
13 134 (4.09%) IT Manager
14 93 (2.84%) Senior Project Manager
15 85 (2.60%) Software Developer
16 82 (2.50%) Senior Analyst
17 79 (2.41%) Data Engineer
17 79 (2.41%) DevOps Engineer
17 79 (2.41%) Full-Stack Developer
17 79 (2.41%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 622 (18.99%) .NET
2 406 (12.40%) React
3 379 (11.57%) ASP.NET
4 371 (11.33%) .NET Core
5 343 (10.47%) ASP.NET Core
6 289 (8.82%) Node.js
7 214 (6.53%) RESTful
8 197 (6.02%) CSS
8 197 (6.02%) HTML
9 173 (5.28%) Blazor
10 164 (5.01%) Terraform
11 156 (4.76%) Entity Framework
12 151 (4.61%) AngularJS
13 134 (4.09%) REST
14 125 (3.82%) Vue
15 120 (3.66%) ASP.NET Web API
16 109 (3.33%) Spring
17 103 (3.15%) Middleware
18 94 (2.87%) .NET Framework
19 91 (2.78%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 308 (9.40%) Product Ownership
2 283 (8.64%) Cloud Native
3 163 (4.98%) Enterprise Software
4 100 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
5 98 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
6 81 (2.47%) Social Media
7 79 (2.41%) Management Information System
8 65 (1.98%) Onboarding
9 64 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
10 62 (1.89%) Mobile App
11 58 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
12 55 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
13 46 (1.40%) Driving Licence
14 40 (1.22%) AI Agents
15 36 (1.10%) Blog
16 35 (1.07%) Cyber Defence
17 33 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 32 (0.98%) Virtual Team
19 31 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
20 30 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 133 (4.06%) Linux
2 88 (2.69%) Windows
3 53 (1.62%) Unix
4 44 (1.34%) Android
5 21 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.37%) VMS
7 8 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.12%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.061%) CentOS
10 2 (0.061%) Debian
10 2 (0.061%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.061%) VxWorks
11 1 (0.031%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 873 (26.66%) Continuous Improvement
2 871 (26.60%) CI/CD
3 841 (25.68%) DevOps
4 755 (23.05%) Mentoring
5 674 (20.58%) Problem-Solving
6 672 (20.52%) AI
7 626 (19.11%) Scrum
8 606 (18.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 575 (17.56%) Coaching
10 547 (16.70%) Full-Stack Development
11 507 (15.48%) Software Engineering
12 471 (14.38%) Microservices
13 444 (13.56%) Roadmaps
14 434 (13.25%) Decision-Making
15 423 (12.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 408 (12.46%) Project Delivery
17 380 (11.60%) Analytics
18 371 (11.33%) Test Automation
19 349 (10.66%) Waterfall
20 345 (10.53%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 798 (24.37%) SQL
2 740 (22.60%) C#
3 535 (16.34%) JavaScript
4 373 (11.39%) Python
5 325 (9.92%) Java
6 296 (9.04%) TypeScript
7 81 (2.47%) C++
8 67 (2.05%) Bash
9 64 (1.95%) PHP
10 52 (1.59%) PowerShell
11 41 (1.25%) Go
11 41 (1.25%) Ruby
12 30 (0.92%) PL/SQL
13 28 (0.85%) C
14 25 (0.76%) T-SQL
15 20 (0.61%) Bicep
16 19 (0.58%) Kotlin
17 16 (0.49%) Rust
18 14 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
18 14 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 537 (16.40%) Security Cleared
2 505 (15.42%) Degree
3 427 (13.04%) SC Cleared
4 107 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 102 (3.11%) CISSP
6 92 (2.81%) CISM
6 92 (2.81%) PMI Certification
7 91 (2.78%) DV Cleared
8 89 (2.72%) PMP
9 83 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
10 82 (2.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 64 (1.95%) ITIL Certification
12 52 (1.59%) Azure Certification
13 41 (1.25%) DBS Check
14 33 (1.01%) Master's Degree
15 29 (0.89%) AWS Certification
15 29 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
16 26 (0.79%) ISTQB
16 26 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
17 23 (0.70%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (8.79%) Accessibility
2 270 (8.24%) QA
3 181 (5.53%) Data Quality
4 108 (3.30%) GDPR
5 107 (3.27%) NIST
6 74 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 62 (1.89%) PMO
8 52 (1.59%) ISO 22301
9 45 (1.37%) WCAG
10 36 (1.10%) NCSC
11 27 (0.82%) GRC
11 27 (0.82%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 14 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 14 (0.43%) NIST 800
13 12 (0.37%) SOC 2
14 10 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.31%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.31%) SLA
15 9 (0.27%) COBIT
15 9 (0.27%) GxP
System Software
1 305 (9.31%) Docker
2 41 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.37%) Firmware
4 12 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (0.37%) vSphere
5 4 (0.12%) IAG
6 3 (0.092%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.031%) GPFS
8 1 (0.031%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.031%) Lustre
8 1 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 282 (8.61%) Kubernetes
2 37 (1.13%) Ansible
3 31 (0.95%) Grafana
4 29 (0.89%) Argo
5 24 (0.73%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.27%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.18%) Packer
8 6 (0.18%) Podman
9 5 (0.15%) Istio
9 5 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.12%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.092%) SQL Sentry
12 2 (0.061%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.061%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.061%) Oracle RMAN
13 1 (0.031%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.031%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.031%) HP Quality Center
13 1 (0.031%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 780 (23.82%) Microsoft
2 132 (4.03%) Oracle
3 126 (3.85%) Google
4 95 (2.90%) Adobe
5 89 (2.72%) SAP
6 82 (2.50%) YouTube
7 81 (2.47%) Salesforce
8 59 (1.80%) ServiceNow
9 56 (1.71%) Databricks
10 41 (1.25%) Facebook
11 31 (0.95%) OpenAI
12 27 (0.82%) Workday
13 25 (0.76%) Cisco
14 20 (0.61%) VMware
15 19 (0.58%) IFS
16 18 (0.55%) Informatica
16 18 (0.55%) Yahoo!
17 17 (0.52%) Apple
18 16 (0.49%) Sony
19 14 (0.43%) Pega