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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,918 4,312 6,270
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.16% 21.77% 28.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.55% 24.67% 29.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,901 2,492 5,206
10th Percentile £38,750 £42,608 £42,846
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.11% +0.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - - +3.85%

All Process and 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 14,924 17,477 20,966
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 92.89% 88.22% 95.01%
Number of salaries quoted 8,558 10,398 16,986
10th Percentile £29,750 £36,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,627
90th Percentile £99,800 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £54,285 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.53% - -

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 4 November 2025.

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
1 205 (7.03%) Confluence
2 143 (4.90%) Apache Airflow
3 79 (2.71%) Apache
4 42 (1.44%) SharePoint
5 29 (0.99%) CMS
6 22 (0.75%) IIS
7 19 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
8 15 (0.51%) Appian
9 10 (0.34%) Headless CMS
10 9 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 7 (0.24%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.24%) WordPress
12 6 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
13 5 (0.17%) Anypoint
13 5 (0.17%) Apache Spark
13 5 (0.17%) Drupal
13 5 (0.17%) SAS
14 4 (0.14%) WebLogic
15 3 (0.10%) nginx
15 3 (0.10%) Umbraco
Applications
1 72 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (1.23%) MS Visio
4 31 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
5 30 (1.03%) Adobe XD
6 25 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 12 (0.41%) Trello
8 9 (0.31%) Chatbot
9 7 (0.24%) Photoshop
9 7 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
10 6 (0.21%) Sketch
11 5 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
12 4 (0.14%) Oracle Smart View
13 3 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 3 (0.10%) InDesign
13 3 (0.10%) Notion
14 2 (0.069%) Elementor
15 1 (0.034%) Adobe After Effects
15 1 (0.034%) Adobe Premiere
15 1 (0.034%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 37 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 30 (1.03%) Oracle ERP
3 30 (1.03%) Shopify
4 10 (0.34%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
5 8 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
5 8 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (0.27%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.24%) Elite 3E
6 7 (0.24%) Magento
6 7 (0.24%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.24%) thinkFolio
7 6 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
7 6 (0.21%) Primavera
8 5 (0.17%) NEC Housing
9 4 (0.14%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 1,109 (38.01%) Azure
2 936 (32.08%) AWS
3 451 (15.46%) GCP
4 280 (9.60%) Azure DevOps
5 267 (9.15%) SaaS
6 228 (7.81%) Power Platform
7 152 (5.21%) dbt
8 147 (5.04%) GitHub
9 119 (4.08%) Snowflake
10 114 (3.91%) Serverless
11 90 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
12 81 (2.78%) Power Automate
13 76 (2.60%) Entra ID
14 74 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
15 70 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
16 68 (2.33%) PaaS
17 57 (1.95%) Figma
18 45 (1.54%) Amazon S3
19 43 (1.47%) Azure Service Bus
20 40 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 40 (1.37%) Broadband
1 40 (1.37%) Wireless
2 37 (1.27%) Software-Defined Radio
3 30 (1.03%) Firewall
4 27 (0.93%) TCP/IP
5 22 (0.75%) DNS
6 20 (0.69%) WAN
7 19 (0.65%) VPN
8 17 (0.58%) SD-WAN
9 8 (0.27%) Network Security
10 6 (0.21%) Internet
10 6 (0.21%) SSL
11 4 (0.14%) DMARC
11 4 (0.14%) Unified Communications
11 4 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.10%) BGP
12 3 (0.10%) HTTP
12 3 (0.10%) Intrusion Detection
12 3 (0.10%) Modbus
12 3 (0.10%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 358 (12.27%) SQL Server
2 134 (4.59%) Power BI
3 133 (4.56%) Amazon Athena
3 133 (4.56%) Apache Iceberg
4 130 (4.46%) Apache Arrow
4 130 (4.46%) Dremio
5 128 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
6 120 (4.11%) MySQL
7 116 (3.98%) Data Lake
8 97 (3.32%) MongoDB
9 94 (3.22%) Data Warehouse
10 74 (2.54%) NoSQL
11 65 (2.23%) Apache Ignite
11 65 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
12 58 (1.99%) Relational Database
13 54 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
14 39 (1.34%) DynamoDB
15 38 (1.30%) Tableau
16 23 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 20 (0.69%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 413 (14.15%) JIRA
2 224 (7.68%) Selenium
3 209 (7.16%) GitLab
4 195 (6.68%) SonarQube
5 173 (5.93%) Git
6 170 (5.83%) Maven
7 169 (5.79%) Sonatype Nexus
8 168 (5.76%) Cucumber
9 167 (5.72%) Bitbucket
10 85 (2.91%) Jenkins
11 54 (1.85%) Cypress.io
12 33 (1.13%) Oracle Forms
13 29 (0.99%) Postman
14 24 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
14 24 (0.82%) WebDriver
15 19 (0.65%) Balsamiq
16 18 (0.62%) Axure RP
16 18 (0.62%) SoapUI
17 16 (0.55%) TeamCity
18 11 (0.38%) ERwin
General
1 1,179 (40.40%) Finance
2 823 (28.20%) Social Skills
3 483 (16.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 363 (12.44%) Banking
5 278 (9.53%) Analytical Skills
6 215 (7.37%) Front Office
7 169 (5.79%) Law
8 167 (5.72%) Retail
9 165 (5.65%) Public Sector
10 155 (5.31%) Investment Banking
11 146 (5.00%) Marketing
12 125 (4.28%) Legal
13 78 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
14 73 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
15 69 (2.36%) Corporate Banking
16 64 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
17 46 (1.58%) Local Government
18 44 (1.51%) Games
18 44 (1.51%) Manufacturing
19 37 (1.27%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 736 (25.22%) Developer
2 707 (24.23%) Senior
3 601 (20.60%) Software Engineer
4 293 (10.04%) Analyst
5 234 (8.02%) Lead
6 220 (7.54%) Senior Software Engineer
7 184 (6.31%) Architect
8 143 (4.90%) Business Analyst
9 140 (4.80%) Python Engineer
10 139 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
11 136 (4.66%) Senior Developer
12 132 (4.52%) AWS Software Engineer
13 131 (4.49%) .NET Developer
14 124 (4.25%) Python Software Engineer
15 112 (3.84%) Python Developer
16 111 (3.80%) Project Manager
17 106 (3.63%) Software Developer
18 102 (3.50%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 102 (3.50%) Java Engineer
19 97 (3.32%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 574 (19.67%) React
2 537 (18.40%) .NET
3 374 (12.82%) CSS
4 369 (12.65%) HTML
5 338 (11.58%) Node.js
6 249 (8.53%) Kafka
7 231 (7.92%) RESTful
8 219 (7.51%) Spring Boot
9 217 (7.44%) Redux
9 217 (7.44%) Spring
10 210 (7.20%) REST
11 181 (6.20%) AngularJS
12 167 (5.72%) JPA
13 146 (5.00%) Vue
14 137 (4.69%) Pandas
15 132 (4.52%) NumPy
16 130 (4.46%) SciPy
17 121 (4.15%) HTML5
18 106 (3.63%) ASP.NET
19 105 (3.60%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 452 (15.49%) Product Ownership
2 219 (7.51%) Enterprise Software
3 201 (6.89%) Self-Motivation
4 178 (6.10%) Fixed Income
5 160 (5.48%) Cloud Native
6 150 (5.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 144 (4.93%) Equities
8 125 (4.28%) Cyberattack
8 125 (4.28%) Linux Command Line
9 107 (3.67%) Management Information System
10 90 (3.08%) Derivative
11 85 (2.91%) Hedge funds
12 73 (2.50%) Onboarding
13 70 (2.40%) Pricing Data
14 63 (2.16%) Mobile App
15 61 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
16 52 (1.78%) NHS
17 50 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
18 43 (1.47%) e-Learning
19 41 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 240 (8.22%) Linux
2 71 (2.43%) Windows
3 39 (1.34%) Embedded Linux
4 30 (1.03%) Apple iOS
5 26 (0.89%) Android
6 22 (0.75%) Unix
6 22 (0.75%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.10%) VMS
8 2 (0.069%) CentOS
8 2 (0.069%) OpenWrt
8 2 (0.069%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.069%) Solaris
8 2 (0.069%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.034%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 827 (28.34%) Software Engineering
2 768 (26.32%) DevOps
3 673 (23.06%) CI/CD
4 655 (22.45%) Continuous Improvement
5 608 (20.84%) Mentoring
6 555 (19.02%) Microservices
7 534 (18.30%) Scrum
8 482 (16.52%) User Experience
9 476 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
10 409 (14.02%) Test Automation
11 408 (13.98%) Full-Stack Development
12 398 (13.64%) Roadmaps
13 367 (12.58%) SDLC
14 357 (12.23%) Stakeholder Management
15 346 (11.86%) Project Management
16 337 (11.55%) AI
17 298 (10.21%) Asset Management
18 271 (9.29%) Containerisation
19 270 (9.25%) Analytics
20 269 (9.22%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 845 (28.96%) JavaScript
2 738 (25.29%) SQL
3 695 (23.82%) Java
4 658 (22.55%) Python
5 472 (16.18%) TypeScript
6 412 (14.12%) C#
7 241 (8.26%) C++
8 173 (5.93%) Go
9 125 (4.28%) Rust
10 93 (3.19%) PowerShell
11 88 (3.02%) PHP
12 70 (2.40%) C
13 39 (1.34%) Bash
14 37 (1.27%) Shell Script
15 33 (1.13%) PL/SQL
16 32 (1.10%) Apex Code
17 22 (0.75%) Bicep
17 22 (0.75%) Scala
18 20 (0.69%) Ruby
18 20 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 369 (12.65%) Degree
2 363 (12.44%) Security Cleared
3 206 (7.06%) SC Cleared
4 164 (5.62%) AWS Certification
5 163 (5.59%) DV Cleared
6 140 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 139 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 127 (4.35%) AWS Certified Developer
9 52 (1.78%) Azure Certification
10 51 (1.75%) ISTQB
10 51 (1.75%) Master's Degree
11 49 (1.68%) PMP
12 48 (1.64%) PMI Certification
13 30 (1.03%) DBS Check
14 22 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
15 18 (0.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 15 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 14 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
18 12 (0.41%) SAP Certification
18 12 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 399 (13.67%) QA
2 264 (9.05%) Accessibility
3 55 (1.88%) GDPR
3 55 (1.88%) PMO
4 39 (1.34%) WCAG
5 32 (1.10%) Data Quality
6 25 (0.86%) NIST
7 24 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.38%) HIPAA
8 11 (0.38%) NCSC
9 8 (0.27%) SLA
10 6 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.14%) P3O
12 3 (0.10%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.069%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.069%) ECSS
13 2 (0.069%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 2 (0.069%) ITGC
13 2 (0.069%) MiFID
System Software
1 318 (10.90%) Docker
2 46 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 41 (1.41%) Firmware
4 38 (1.30%) Embedded Firmware
5 36 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.034%) HDFS
8 1 (0.034%) KVM
8 1 (0.034%) Varnish
8 1 (0.034%) vCloud
8 1 (0.034%) Xen
Systems Management
1 287 (9.84%) Kubernetes
2 133 (4.56%) Terraform
3 50 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
4 29 (0.99%) Ansible
5 27 (0.93%) Grafana
6 25 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
6 25 (0.86%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.31%) Argo
7 9 (0.31%) Kibana
8 8 (0.27%) SCCM
9 5 (0.17%) Automic
10 4 (0.14%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.10%) Puppet
12 2 (0.069%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.034%) CFEngine
13 1 (0.034%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.034%) logstash
13 1 (0.034%) QRadar
Vendors
1 413 (14.15%) Microsoft
2 166 (5.69%) Solace
3 90 (3.08%) SAP
4 89 (3.05%) Oracle
5 76 (2.60%) Databricks
6 75 (2.57%) Google
7 70 (2.40%) Salesforce
8 45 (1.54%) Blue Prism
9 44 (1.51%) Adobe
10 30 (1.03%) ServiceNow
11 28 (0.96%) Guidewire
12 26 (0.89%) MuleSoft
13 25 (0.86%) Splunk
14 19 (0.65%) Workday
15 16 (0.55%) IBM
16 15 (0.51%) Meraki
17 13 (0.45%) Okta
18 12 (0.41%) DevExpress
18 12 (0.41%) VMware
19 11 (0.38%) Charles River