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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,003 3,293 8,076
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.57% 22.15% 24.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.97% 23.39% 26.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,921 2,023 5,984
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% +14.37% -5.84%
75th Percentile £80,000 £98,474 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £132,500 £105,000
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 15,830 14,077 30,138
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.08% 94.70% 89.69%
Number of salaries quoted 11,320 8,261 23,558
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £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% -9.69%

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 5 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 98 (3.26%) Confluence
2 42 (1.40%) CMS
3 38 (1.27%) SharePoint
4 21 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.60%) Apache
6 16 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 10 (0.33%) SAS
9 9 (0.30%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.20%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.20%) WordPress
11 5 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.13%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.13%) PowerFactory
13 3 (0.100%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.100%) nginx
14 2 (0.067%) Camunda
14 2 (0.067%) Microsoft Exchange
14 2 (0.067%) NServiceBus
14 2 (0.067%) Umbraco
Applications
1 106 (3.53%) Microsoft Project
2 96 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 42 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
5 38 (1.27%) UserZoom
6 22 (0.73%) Adobe XD
7 20 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.30%) Sketch
9 8 (0.27%) MS Visio
10 6 (0.20%) Chatbot
10 6 (0.20%) Trello
11 5 (0.17%) InVision
12 4 (0.13%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.13%) Photoshop
12 4 (0.13%) Revit
12 4 (0.13%) Windchill
13 3 (0.100%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.100%) Blender
13 3 (0.100%) Maya
13 3 (0.100%) Productboard
Business Applications
1 46 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.33%) Workfront
3 18 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.43%) SAP ERP
5 8 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.20%) Shopify
8 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
9 3 (0.100%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.100%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.100%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.100%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (0.067%) Fidessa
10 2 (0.067%) Infor SunSystems
10 2 (0.067%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.067%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.067%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.067%) Raiser’s Edge
10 2 (0.067%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.067%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 859 (28.60%) Azure
2 676 (22.51%) AWS
3 217 (7.23%) Azure DevOps
4 209 (6.96%) GCP
5 188 (6.26%) Adobe Analytics
6 153 (5.09%) SaaS
7 150 (5.00%) Power Platform
8 141 (4.70%) Serverless
9 127 (4.23%) GitHub
10 117 (3.90%) Figma
11 101 (3.36%) Azure AI
12 72 (2.40%) Snowflake
13 65 (2.16%) Azure Machine Learning
14 63 (2.10%) Contentsquare
15 61 (2.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 56 (1.86%) iPaaS
17 55 (1.83%) Amazon S3
18 53 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
18 53 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
19 52 (1.73%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 421 (14.02%) Broadband
2 26 (0.87%) TCP/IP
3 21 (0.70%) CHAP
3 21 (0.70%) Network Security
4 19 (0.63%) DNS
5 17 (0.57%) WAN
6 16 (0.53%) LAN
7 15 (0.50%) Ethernet
7 15 (0.50%) RS-232
8 14 (0.47%) 4G
9 13 (0.43%) Firewall
10 11 (0.37%) BGP
10 11 (0.37%) Cisco IOS
10 11 (0.37%) Ethernet VPN
10 11 (0.37%) IOS XR
10 11 (0.37%) MPLS
11 10 (0.33%) VPN
12 8 (0.27%) 5G
12 8 (0.27%) Internet
13 7 (0.23%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (6.36%) MongoDB
2 166 (5.53%) SQL Server
3 147 (4.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 112 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
5 110 (3.66%) NoSQL
6 102 (3.40%) Metadata
7 84 (2.80%) Power BI
8 69 (2.30%) MySQL
9 65 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
10 45 (1.50%) Relational Database
11 34 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
12 33 (1.10%) Data Lake
13 30 (1.00%) DynamoDB
14 20 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
15 18 (0.60%) Big Data
15 18 (0.60%) RDBMS
16 17 (0.57%) Redis
16 17 (0.57%) Tableau
17 16 (0.53%) BigQuery
18 13 (0.43%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 218 (7.26%) JIRA
2 150 (5.00%) Git
3 118 (3.93%) Jenkins
4 104 (3.46%) GitLab
5 48 (1.60%) Selenium
6 39 (1.30%) SonarQube
7 38 (1.27%) Postman
8 34 (1.13%) Cypress.io
9 25 (0.83%) TeamCity
10 23 (0.77%) WebDriver
11 22 (0.73%) SoapUI
12 19 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
13 18 (0.60%) Jaeger
13 18 (0.60%) JUnit
14 16 (0.53%) Claude Code
15 15 (0.50%) Cucumber
15 15 (0.50%) JMeter
16 13 (0.43%) CircleCI
17 11 (0.37%) Axure RP
17 11 (0.37%) Mockito
General
1 870 (28.97%) Social Skills
2 781 (26.01%) Finance
3 433 (14.42%) Public Sector
4 324 (10.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 321 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
6 295 (9.82%) Games
7 203 (6.76%) Law
8 177 (5.89%) Marketing
9 150 (5.00%) Banking
10 141 (4.70%) Legal
11 139 (4.63%) Retail
12 71 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
13 62 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
14 55 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
15 47 (1.57%) Front Office
16 44 (1.47%) Telecoms
17 37 (1.23%) Advertising
18 33 (1.10%) Back Office
19 30 (1.00%) Manufacturing
20 28 (0.93%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 624 (20.78%) Senior
2 577 (19.21%) Developer
3 471 (15.68%) Lead
4 296 (9.86%) Analyst
5 242 (8.06%) Software Engineer
6 222 (7.39%) Project Manager
7 214 (7.13%) Architect
8 202 (6.73%) Business Analyst
9 190 (6.33%) Senior Manager
10 167 (5.56%) .NET Developer
11 104 (3.46%) Software Developer
12 102 (3.40%) Delivery Manager
13 98 (3.26%) Senior Project Manager
14 90 (3.00%) Product Owner
15 86 (2.86%) Designer
16 84 (2.80%) Engineering Manager
17 79 (2.63%) Product Manager
18 76 (2.53%) Senior Developer
19 75 (2.50%) IT Manager
20 73 (2.43%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 358 (11.92%) .NET
2 348 (11.59%) React
3 204 (6.79%) Node.js
4 165 (5.49%) .NET Core
5 160 (5.33%) ASP.NET
6 158 (5.26%) CSS
7 156 (5.19%) HTML
8 144 (4.80%) ASP.NET Core
9 136 (4.53%) RESTful
10 121 (4.03%) REST
11 100 (3.33%) AngularJS
12 80 (2.66%) Vue
13 79 (2.63%) Kafka
13 79 (2.63%) SOAP
14 77 (2.56%) Spring
15 69 (2.30%) Entity Framework
16 66 (2.20%) Blazor
17 59 (1.96%) Lightning Web Components
18 57 (1.90%) Spring Boot
19 51 (1.70%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 419 (13.95%) Product Ownership
2 253 (8.42%) Cloud Native
3 244 (8.13%) Social Media
4 86 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
5 77 (2.56%) Mobile App
6 76 (2.53%) Over-the-Top Content
7 73 (2.43%) Onboarding
8 63 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
9 62 (2.06%) Management Information System
10 58 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
11 56 (1.86%) Marketing Technology
12 55 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
13 47 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
14 42 (1.40%) Driving Licence
15 40 (1.33%) Fixed Income
15 40 (1.33%) Virtual Team
16 32 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
17 30 (1.00%) Data Structures
17 30 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
18 27 (0.90%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 133 (4.43%) Linux
2 63 (2.10%) Android
3 47 (1.57%) Apple iOS
4 43 (1.43%) Unix
5 42 (1.40%) Windows
6 15 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (0.23%) CentOS
7 7 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.17%) VMS
9 4 (0.13%) Debian
10 2 (0.067%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.033%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 718 (23.91%) Roadmaps
2 694 (23.11%) Mentoring
3 668 (22.24%) Continuous Improvement
4 660 (21.98%) DevOps
5 639 (21.28%) CI/CD
6 600 (19.98%) AI
7 542 (18.05%) Scrum
8 539 (17.95%) Coaching
9 469 (15.62%) Problem-Solving
10 432 (14.39%) Analytics
11 399 (13.29%) Software Engineering
12 385 (12.82%) Customer Experience
13 365 (12.15%) Full-Stack Development
14 358 (11.92%) Project Management
15 340 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
16 335 (11.16%) Decision-Making
17 324 (10.79%) Test Automation
18 294 (9.79%) Microservices
19 286 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 277 (9.22%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 579 (19.28%) SQL
2 407 (13.55%) C#
3 403 (13.42%) Java
4 398 (13.25%) JavaScript
5 387 (12.89%) Python
6 259 (8.62%) TypeScript
7 78 (2.60%) C++
7 78 (2.60%) Go
7 78 (2.60%) PHP
8 66 (2.20%) Bash
9 60 (2.00%) Apex Code
10 41 (1.37%) C
11 36 (1.20%) Scala
12 35 (1.17%) SOQL
13 34 (1.13%) PowerShell
13 34 (1.13%) SOSL
14 20 (0.67%) PL/SQL
14 20 (0.67%) Ruby
14 20 (0.67%) VBA
15 17 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 439 (14.62%) Degree
2 335 (11.16%) Security Cleared
3 256 (8.52%) SC Cleared
4 92 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 81 (2.70%) PMI Certification
6 72 (2.40%) PMP
7 68 (2.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 53 (1.76%) CISSP
8 53 (1.76%) DV Cleared
9 45 (1.50%) DBS Check
10 39 (1.30%) CISM
11 38 (1.27%) ISTQB
12 35 (1.17%) AWS Certification
13 28 (0.93%) Azure Certification
13 28 (0.93%) CISA
14 26 (0.87%) SANS
15 21 (0.70%) CGEIT
15 21 (0.70%) FFIEC
16 15 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
17 14 (0.47%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 359 (11.95%) Accessibility
2 238 (7.93%) QA
3 93 (3.10%) Data Quality
4 87 (2.90%) WCAG
5 62 (2.06%) GDPR
6 55 (1.83%) NIST
7 40 (1.33%) PMO
8 36 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 24 (0.80%) COBIT
10 22 (0.73%) GRC
11 12 (0.40%) NCSC
12 11 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.23%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.13%) Def Stans
15 4 (0.13%) IFRS
15 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 15288
15 4 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 253 (8.42%) Docker
2 59 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
3 37 (1.23%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.100%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.100%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.100%) vSphere
7 1 (0.033%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.033%) Firmware
7 1 (0.033%) Xen
Systems Management
1 246 (8.19%) Kubernetes
2 185 (6.16%) Terraform
3 82 (2.73%) Ansible
4 46 (1.53%) Argo
4 46 (1.53%) Prometheus
5 44 (1.47%) Grafana
6 22 (0.73%) Kustomize
7 12 (0.40%) Podman
8 7 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.20%) Puppet
10 5 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.17%) Packer
11 4 (0.13%) Istio
11 4 (0.13%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.13%) SCCM
12 3 (0.100%) Control-M
12 3 (0.100%) Kibana
12 3 (0.100%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.067%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 516 (17.18%) Microsoft
2 267 (8.89%) Adobe
3 129 (4.30%) Google
4 111 (3.70%) Salesforce
5 100 (3.33%) Databricks
6 84 (2.80%) Oracle
7 76 (2.53%) SAP
8 74 (2.46%) ServiceNow
9 40 (1.33%) Splunk
10 19 (0.63%) Cisco
11 17 (0.57%) Facebook
11 17 (0.57%) IBM
12 13 (0.43%) MuleSoft
13 11 (0.37%) IFS
13 11 (0.37%) VMware
14 10 (0.33%) Apple
15 9 (0.30%) Foundry
16 8 (0.27%) Atlassian
16 8 (0.27%) OpenAI
16 8 (0.27%) YouTube