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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,345 3,186 5,181
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 13.66% 19.74% 22.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.80% 21.16% 25.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,236 1,986 2,876
10th Percentile £41,000 £40,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,250 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% -0.37% +3.74%
75th Percentile £78,312 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £132,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £63,500 £67,500 £66,000
% change year-on-year -5.93% +2.27% +0.99%

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 19,905 15,060 19,973
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.30% 93.30% 87.74%
Number of salaries quoted 14,270 8,510 12,254
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 22 September 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
1 117 (3.50%) Confluence
2 91 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 32 (0.96%) CMS
4 28 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 19 (0.57%) Apache
6 15 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.39%) WordPress
8 12 (0.36%) SAS
9 11 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 10 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.30%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.12%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.12%) Camunda
12 4 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.12%) PowerFactory
13 3 (0.090%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.090%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 128 (3.83%) Microsoft Project
2 97 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
3 72 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 36 (1.08%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 30 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 26 (0.78%) UserZoom
7 23 (0.69%) MS Visio
8 22 (0.66%) Chatbot
9 18 (0.54%) Trello
10 15 (0.45%) Adobe XD
11 6 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.12%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.12%) Revit
12 4 (0.12%) Simulink
12 4 (0.12%) Sketch
12 4 (0.12%) Windchill
13 3 (0.090%) Blender
13 3 (0.090%) Maya
13 3 (0.090%) Productboard
14 2 (0.060%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 71 (2.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (0.90%) Workfront
3 21 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.33%) Primavera
5 10 (0.30%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.21%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.21%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
8 6 (0.18%) Shopify
9 5 (0.15%) Elite 3E
9 5 (0.15%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
10 4 (0.12%) Raiser’s Edge
10 4 (0.12%) SAP GRC
11 3 (0.090%) Carpe Diem
11 3 (0.090%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.090%) Oracle Receivables
11 3 (0.090%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,231 (36.80%) Azure
2 829 (24.78%) AWS
3 347 (10.37%) Azure DevOps
4 240 (7.17%) SaaS
5 214 (6.40%) Power Platform
6 207 (6.19%) GCP
7 190 (5.68%) GitHub
8 154 (4.60%) Serverless
9 136 (4.07%) Azure AI
10 97 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
11 89 (2.66%) GitHub Copilot
12 82 (2.45%) Power Automate
13 80 (2.39%) PowerApps
14 76 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
15 70 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
16 64 (1.91%) Microsoft Copilot
16 64 (1.91%) Snowflake
17 62 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 59 (1.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 57 (1.70%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 137 (4.10%) Broadband
2 42 (1.26%) Network Security
3 20 (0.60%) Internet
4 19 (0.57%) WAN
5 18 (0.54%) LAN
6 17 (0.51%) VPN
7 16 (0.48%) TCP/IP
8 13 (0.39%) VoIP
9 12 (0.36%) Firewall
10 11 (0.33%) 5G
10 11 (0.33%) CTI
11 9 (0.27%) DNS
11 9 (0.27%) SMS
12 8 (0.24%) Unified Communications
13 7 (0.21%) Ethernet
13 7 (0.21%) RS-232
13 7 (0.21%) TETRA
13 7 (0.21%) Wireless
13 7 (0.21%) WLAN
14 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 366 (10.94%) MongoDB
2 362 (10.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 185 (5.53%) SQL Server
4 142 (4.25%) Elasticsearch
5 138 (4.13%) Power BI
6 137 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
7 101 (3.02%) Metadata
8 78 (2.33%) MySQL
9 76 (2.27%) NoSQL
10 69 (2.06%) Relational Database
11 64 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
12 51 (1.52%) DynamoDB
13 50 (1.49%) Data Lake
14 30 (0.90%) Tableau
15 29 (0.87%) Big Data
16 27 (0.81%) Redis
17 21 (0.63%) Spark SQL
18 20 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
18 20 (0.60%) BigQuery
19 19 (0.57%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 275 (8.22%) JIRA
2 213 (6.37%) Git
3 81 (2.42%) GitLab
4 77 (2.30%) Jenkins
5 30 (0.90%) JUnit
5 30 (0.90%) Selenium
6 28 (0.84%) Cypress.io
7 24 (0.72%) Claude Code
8 21 (0.63%) Postman
9 18 (0.54%) Maven
9 18 (0.54%) Mockito
10 16 (0.48%) SonarQube
10 16 (0.48%) Visual Studio
11 14 (0.42%) Cucumber
12 12 (0.36%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
14 8 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 8 (0.24%) Balsamiq
15 7 (0.21%) NUnit
16 6 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,031 (30.82%) Social Skills
2 816 (24.39%) Finance
3 563 (16.83%) Public Sector
4 405 (12.11%) Analytical Skills
5 374 (11.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 283 (8.46%) Law
7 210 (6.28%) Legal
8 181 (5.41%) Retail
9 163 (4.87%) Marketing
10 118 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
11 111 (3.32%) Games
12 106 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
13 98 (2.93%) Banking
14 88 (2.63%) Aerospace
15 84 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
16 60 (1.79%) Advertising
17 51 (1.52%) Manufacturing
18 43 (1.29%) Legal Technology
19 29 (0.87%) Back Office
19 29 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 823 (24.60%) Developer
2 745 (22.27%) Senior
3 368 (11.00%) Lead
4 360 (10.76%) .NET Developer
5 305 (9.12%) Analyst
6 293 (8.76%) Architect
7 251 (7.50%) Project Manager
8 222 (6.64%) Software Engineer
9 204 (6.10%) Business Analyst
10 181 (5.41%) Senior Developer
11 151 (4.51%) Senior Manager
12 131 (3.92%) IT Manager
13 120 (3.59%) Delivery Manager
14 92 (2.75%) Senior Analyst
15 91 (2.72%) Senior Project Manager
16 90 (2.69%) Software Developer
17 84 (2.51%) Technical Architect
18 83 (2.48%) Data Engineer
19 79 (2.36%) Full-Stack Developer
20 77 (2.30%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 623 (18.62%) .NET
2 422 (12.62%) React
3 377 (11.27%) ASP.NET
4 369 (11.03%) .NET Core
5 344 (10.28%) ASP.NET Core
6 295 (8.82%) Node.js
7 214 (6.40%) RESTful
8 202 (6.04%) CSS
9 196 (5.86%) HTML
10 173 (5.17%) Blazor
11 170 (5.08%) Terraform
12 158 (4.72%) AngularJS
13 156 (4.66%) Entity Framework
14 129 (3.86%) REST
14 129 (3.86%) Vue
15 122 (3.65%) ASP.NET Web API
16 102 (3.05%) Middleware
16 102 (3.05%) Spring
17 94 (2.81%) .NET Framework
18 91 (2.72%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 353 (10.55%) Product Ownership
2 284 (8.49%) Cloud Native
3 162 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
4 108 (3.23%) Social Media
5 98 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
6 96 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
7 79 (2.36%) Management Information System
8 69 (2.06%) Onboarding
9 63 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
10 61 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
11 60 (1.79%) Mobile App
12 54 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
13 48 (1.43%) Marketing Technology
14 47 (1.41%) Driving Licence
15 41 (1.23%) AI Agents
16 39 (1.17%) Virtual Team
17 37 (1.11%) Over-the-Top Content
18 36 (1.08%) Blog
19 32 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
20 31 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 138 (4.13%) Linux
2 87 (2.60%) Windows
3 48 (1.43%) Unix
4 42 (1.26%) Android
5 19 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.42%) VMS
7 9 (0.27%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
9 5 (0.15%) CentOS
10 4 (0.12%) Debian
11 3 (0.090%) Windows Server
12 2 (0.060%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.060%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.060%) VxWorks
13 1 (0.030%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 874 (26.13%) Continuous Improvement
2 868 (25.95%) CI/CD
3 844 (25.23%) DevOps
4 756 (22.60%) Mentoring
5 718 (21.46%) AI
6 665 (19.88%) Problem-Solving
7 653 (19.52%) Scrum
8 577 (17.25%) Stakeholder Management
9 576 (17.22%) Coaching
10 556 (16.62%) Full-Stack Development
11 528 (15.78%) Roadmaps
12 507 (15.16%) Software Engineering
13 472 (14.11%) Microservices
14 451 (13.48%) Decision-Making
15 438 (13.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 420 (12.56%) Project Delivery
17 389 (11.63%) Analytics
18 369 (11.03%) Test Automation
19 361 (10.79%) Waterfall
20 350 (10.46%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 837 (25.02%) SQL
2 746 (22.30%) C#
3 539 (16.11%) JavaScript
4 376 (11.24%) Python
5 328 (9.81%) Java
6 310 (9.27%) TypeScript
7 90 (2.69%) C++
8 66 (1.97%) Bash
8 66 (1.97%) PHP
9 51 (1.52%) PowerShell
10 42 (1.26%) Ruby
11 34 (1.02%) Go
12 32 (0.96%) C
13 30 (0.90%) PL/SQL
14 21 (0.63%) T-SQL
15 20 (0.60%) Kotlin
16 18 (0.54%) Bicep
17 15 (0.45%) Rust
18 14 (0.42%) Apex Code
18 14 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 526 (15.72%) Security Cleared
2 508 (15.19%) Degree
3 414 (12.38%) SC Cleared
4 114 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 104 (3.11%) CISSP
6 102 (3.05%) PMI Certification
7 98 (2.93%) PMP
8 95 (2.84%) CISM
9 90 (2.69%) DV Cleared
10 80 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 78 (2.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 64 (1.91%) ITIL Certification
13 51 (1.52%) Azure Certification
14 42 (1.26%) DBS Check
15 34 (1.02%) Master's Degree
16 31 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
17 29 (0.87%) AWS Certification
17 29 (0.87%) ISTQB
18 24 (0.72%) CISA
19 22 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 291 (8.70%) Accessibility
2 286 (8.55%) QA
3 179 (5.35%) Data Quality
4 109 (3.26%) NIST
5 102 (3.05%) GDPR
6 78 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 63 (1.88%) PMO
8 50 (1.49%) WCAG
9 49 (1.46%) ISO 22301
10 35 (1.05%) NCSC
11 31 (0.93%) GRC
12 29 (0.87%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 14 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 14 (0.42%) NIST 800
14 12 (0.36%) SOC 2
15 10 (0.30%) COBIT
15 10 (0.30%) PCI DSS
16 9 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
16 9 (0.27%) GxP
16 9 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 299 (8.94%) Docker
2 42 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
3 37 (1.11%) Active Directory
4 16 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.39%) vSphere
6 12 (0.36%) Firmware
6 12 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.12%) IAG
8 3 (0.090%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.030%) GPFS
10 1 (0.030%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.030%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 271 (8.10%) Kubernetes
2 47 (1.41%) Ansible
3 34 (1.02%) Grafana
4 29 (0.87%) Argo
5 26 (0.78%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.30%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.21%) Packer
9 6 (0.18%) Podman
10 5 (0.15%) Istio
10 5 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.12%) Kustomize
12 3 (0.090%) Puppet
13 2 (0.060%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.060%) Kibana
13 2 (0.060%) ZABBIX
14 1 (0.030%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.030%) linkerd
14 1 (0.030%) logstash
14 1 (0.030%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 816 (24.39%) Microsoft
2 127 (3.80%) Adobe
2 127 (3.80%) Google
3 122 (3.65%) Oracle
4 95 (2.84%) Databricks
5 93 (2.78%) SAP
6 84 (2.51%) Salesforce
7 74 (2.21%) YouTube
8 66 (1.97%) ServiceNow
9 40 (1.20%) Facebook
10 31 (0.93%) OpenAI
11 26 (0.78%) Cisco
12 25 (0.75%) Workday
13 20 (0.60%) VMware
14 19 (0.57%) IFS
14 19 (0.57%) Informatica
15 18 (0.54%) Yahoo!
16 17 (0.51%) Apple
17 16 (0.48%) Sony
18 15 (0.45%) Splunk