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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,079 3,319 8,113
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.68% 21.96% 23.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.10% 23.21% 26.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,998 2,037 5,987
10th Percentile £42,125 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +14.37% -5.84%
75th Percentile £79,932 £98,474 £81,250
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 16,117 14,300 30,520
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.10% 94.60% 89.29%
Number of salaries quoted 11,559 8,372 23,726
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% -9.54%

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 11 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
1 100 (3.25%) Confluence
2 42 (1.36%) CMS
3 41 (1.33%) SharePoint
4 21 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.62%) Apache
6 15 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 15 (0.49%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.32%) SAS
8 9 (0.29%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.19%) WordPress
10 5 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.13%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.13%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.13%) PowerFactory
12 3 (0.097%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.097%) nginx
12 3 (0.097%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.065%) Camunda
13 2 (0.065%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 110 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
2 97 (3.15%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 45 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
5 37 (1.20%) UserZoom
6 23 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 21 (0.68%) Adobe XD
8 10 (0.32%) MS Visio
9 8 (0.26%) Sketch
9 8 (0.26%) Trello
10 7 (0.23%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.13%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.13%) InVision
11 4 (0.13%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.13%) Revit
11 4 (0.13%) Windchill
12 3 (0.097%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.097%) Blender
12 3 (0.097%) Maya
12 3 (0.097%) Productboard
Business Applications
1 49 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.30%) Workfront
3 18 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.42%) SAP ERP
5 8 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.19%) Shopify
8 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
9 3 (0.097%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.097%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.097%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.097%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.097%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.097%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (0.065%) Fidessa
10 2 (0.065%) Infor SunSystems
10 2 (0.065%) Markit EDM
10 2 (0.065%) Oracle Financials
10 2 (0.065%) Raiser’s Edge
10 2 (0.065%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 919 (29.85%) Azure
2 696 (22.60%) AWS
3 240 (7.79%) Azure DevOps
4 212 (6.89%) GCP
5 185 (6.01%) Adobe Analytics
6 157 (5.10%) Power Platform
7 156 (5.07%) SaaS
8 140 (4.55%) Serverless
9 135 (4.38%) GitHub
10 115 (3.73%) Figma
11 111 (3.61%) Azure AI
12 75 (2.44%) Snowflake
13 65 (2.11%) Azure Machine Learning
14 62 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 62 (2.01%) Contentsquare
15 56 (1.82%) Amazon S3
15 56 (1.82%) iPaaS
16 55 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
16 55 (1.79%) PowerApps
17 54 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 420 (13.64%) Broadband
2 27 (0.88%) TCP/IP
3 22 (0.71%) Network Security
4 20 (0.65%) CHAP
5 19 (0.62%) DNS
6 17 (0.55%) WAN
7 16 (0.52%) LAN
8 15 (0.49%) 4G
8 15 (0.49%) Ethernet
8 15 (0.49%) RS-232
9 13 (0.42%) Firewall
9 13 (0.42%) Internet
10 12 (0.39%) VPN
11 11 (0.36%) BGP
11 11 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
11 11 (0.36%) Ethernet VPN
11 11 (0.36%) IOS XR
11 11 (0.36%) MPLS
12 9 (0.29%) 5G
13 7 (0.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (7.47%) MongoDB
2 189 (6.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 169 (5.49%) SQL Server
4 114 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 110 (3.57%) NoSQL
6 107 (3.48%) Metadata
7 87 (2.83%) Power BI
8 84 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
9 70 (2.27%) MySQL
10 47 (1.53%) Relational Database
11 34 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
12 33 (1.07%) Data Lake
13 31 (1.01%) DynamoDB
14 20 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (0.62%) Tableau
16 18 (0.58%) Big Data
16 18 (0.58%) BigQuery
16 18 (0.58%) RDBMS
16 18 (0.58%) Redis
17 16 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 231 (7.50%) JIRA
2 150 (4.87%) Git
3 118 (3.83%) Jenkins
4 104 (3.38%) GitLab
5 48 (1.56%) Selenium
6 39 (1.27%) Postman
6 39 (1.27%) SonarQube
7 35 (1.14%) Cypress.io
8 25 (0.81%) TeamCity
9 23 (0.75%) WebDriver
10 22 (0.71%) SoapUI
11 19 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
12 18 (0.58%) Jaeger
12 18 (0.58%) JUnit
13 16 (0.52%) Claude Code
14 15 (0.49%) Cucumber
14 15 (0.49%) JMeter
15 13 (0.42%) CircleCI
16 11 (0.36%) Mockito
16 11 (0.36%) SpecFlow
General
1 891 (28.94%) Social Skills
2 790 (25.66%) Finance
3 437 (14.19%) Public Sector
4 332 (10.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 322 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
6 295 (9.58%) Games
7 204 (6.63%) Law
8 180 (5.85%) Marketing
9 151 (4.90%) Banking
10 147 (4.77%) Retail
11 141 (4.58%) Legal
12 70 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
13 67 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
14 55 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
15 49 (1.59%) Front Office
16 44 (1.43%) Telecoms
17 41 (1.33%) Advertising
18 33 (1.07%) Back Office
19 29 (0.94%) Investment Banking
19 29 (0.94%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 632 (20.53%) Senior
2 619 (20.10%) Developer
3 468 (15.20%) Lead
4 303 (9.84%) Analyst
5 247 (8.02%) Software Engineer
6 228 (7.41%) Architect
7 227 (7.37%) Project Manager
8 211 (6.85%) .NET Developer
9 204 (6.63%) Business Analyst
10 191 (6.20%) Senior Manager
11 105 (3.41%) Delivery Manager
12 104 (3.38%) Software Developer
13 98 (3.18%) Senior Project Manager
14 89 (2.89%) Product Owner
15 86 (2.79%) Engineering Manager
16 83 (2.70%) Designer
17 80 (2.60%) IT Manager
18 78 (2.53%) Product Manager
18 78 (2.53%) Senior Developer
19 74 (2.40%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 403 (13.09%) .NET
2 370 (12.02%) React
3 225 (7.31%) Node.js
4 206 (6.69%) .NET Core
5 205 (6.66%) ASP.NET
6 188 (6.11%) ASP.NET Core
7 167 (5.42%) CSS
8 165 (5.36%) HTML
9 149 (4.84%) RESTful
10 120 (3.90%) REST
11 113 (3.67%) AngularJS
12 92 (2.99%) Vue
13 87 (2.83%) Blazor
14 86 (2.79%) Entity Framework
15 79 (2.57%) SOAP
16 78 (2.53%) Kafka
17 75 (2.44%) Spring
18 63 (2.05%) ASP.NET Web API
19 58 (1.88%) Lightning Web Components
20 56 (1.82%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 418 (13.58%) Product Ownership
2 258 (8.38%) Cloud Native
3 242 (7.86%) Social Media
4 95 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
5 80 (2.60%) Mobile App
6 76 (2.47%) Over-the-Top Content
7 72 (2.34%) Onboarding
8 68 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
9 65 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
9 65 (2.11%) Management Information System
10 56 (1.82%) Marketing Technology
11 55 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
12 49 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
13 44 (1.43%) Driving Licence
14 41 (1.33%) Fixed Income
14 41 (1.33%) Virtual Team
15 33 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
16 30 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
17 28 (0.91%) Data Structures
17 28 (0.91%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 138 (4.48%) Linux
2 65 (2.11%) Android
3 47 (1.53%) Apple iOS
4 44 (1.43%) Unix
4 44 (1.43%) Windows
5 15 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
6 7 (0.23%) CentOS
6 7 (0.23%) VMS
6 7 (0.23%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.19%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.16%) Debian
8 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.065%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.032%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 727 (23.61%) Roadmaps
2 707 (22.96%) Mentoring
3 688 (22.34%) DevOps
4 681 (22.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 663 (21.53%) CI/CD
6 622 (20.20%) AI
7 557 (18.09%) Scrum
8 546 (17.73%) Coaching
9 478 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
10 440 (14.29%) Analytics
11 407 (13.22%) Full-Stack Development
11 407 (13.22%) Software Engineering
12 386 (12.54%) Customer Experience
13 360 (11.69%) Project Management
14 355 (11.53%) Stakeholder Management
15 346 (11.24%) Decision-Making
16 329 (10.69%) Test Automation
17 311 (10.10%) Microservices
18 293 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 274 (8.90%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 634 (20.59%) SQL
2 459 (14.91%) C#
3 420 (13.64%) JavaScript
4 403 (13.09%) Java
5 393 (12.76%) Python
6 276 (8.96%) TypeScript
7 81 (2.63%) PHP
8 79 (2.57%) C++
8 79 (2.57%) Go
9 69 (2.24%) Bash
10 59 (1.92%) Apex Code
11 40 (1.30%) C
12 38 (1.23%) PowerShell
13 35 (1.14%) Scala
13 35 (1.14%) SOQL
14 34 (1.10%) SOSL
15 22 (0.71%) Ruby
16 21 (0.68%) PL/SQL
17 20 (0.65%) T-SQL
17 20 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 443 (14.39%) Degree
2 328 (10.65%) Security Cleared
3 252 (8.18%) SC Cleared
4 93 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 81 (2.63%) PMI Certification
6 74 (2.40%) PMP
7 69 (2.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 54 (1.75%) CISSP
9 50 (1.62%) DV Cleared
10 46 (1.49%) DBS Check
11 40 (1.30%) CISM
12 38 (1.23%) ISTQB
13 35 (1.14%) AWS Certification
14 29 (0.94%) Azure Certification
15 27 (0.88%) CISA
16 25 (0.81%) SANS
17 20 (0.65%) CGEIT
17 20 (0.65%) FFIEC
18 16 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
19 14 (0.45%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 354 (11.50%) Accessibility
2 240 (7.79%) QA
3 98 (3.18%) Data Quality
4 83 (2.70%) WCAG
5 63 (2.05%) GDPR
6 55 (1.79%) NIST
7 43 (1.40%) PMO
8 38 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 23 (0.75%) COBIT
10 22 (0.71%) GRC
11 14 (0.45%) NCSC
12 12 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.23%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.16%) 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
1 259 (8.41%) Docker
2 59 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
3 39 (1.27%) Active Directory
4 9 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.16%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.16%) vSphere
6 3 (0.097%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.032%) Xen
Systems Management
1 249 (8.09%) Kubernetes
2 191 (6.20%) Terraform
3 80 (2.60%) Ansible
4 46 (1.49%) Argo
4 46 (1.49%) Prometheus
5 44 (1.43%) Grafana
6 22 (0.71%) Kustomize
7 12 (0.39%) Podman
8 7 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.19%) Puppet
10 5 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.16%) Packer
11 4 (0.13%) Istio
11 4 (0.13%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.13%) SCCM
12 3 (0.097%) Control-M
12 3 (0.097%) Kibana
12 3 (0.097%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.065%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 567 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 263 (8.54%) Adobe
3 131 (4.25%) Google
4 112 (3.64%) Salesforce
5 100 (3.25%) Databricks
6 90 (2.92%) Oracle
7 79 (2.57%) SAP
8 75 (2.44%) ServiceNow
9 40 (1.30%) Splunk
10 21 (0.68%) Facebook
11 19 (0.62%) Cisco
12 17 (0.55%) IBM
13 13 (0.42%) MuleSoft
13 13 (0.42%) VMware
14 12 (0.39%) IFS
15 11 (0.36%) Apple
15 11 (0.36%) OpenAI
15 11 (0.36%) YouTube
16 9 (0.29%) Foundry
17 8 (0.26%) Yahoo!