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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,454 4,167 5,320
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.02% 24.01% 26.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.01% 25.86% 28.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,785 2,469 4,348
10th Percentile £38,750 £43,231 £43,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.74% +0.10%
75th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £82,705
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £98,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - - +3.38%

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 13,628 16,112 18,809
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.97% 92.82% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 8,711 9,753 15,128
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +2.46% -2.40%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -3.23%

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 20 December 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 96 (3.91%) Confluence
2 87 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (2.00%) Apache
4 47 (1.92%) SharePoint
5 26 (1.06%) CMS
6 17 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 10 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.41%) Headless CMS
7 10 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.29%) SAS
9 6 (0.24%) IIS
9 6 (0.24%) nginx
10 5 (0.20%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
10 5 (0.20%) WordPress
11 3 (0.12%) Drupal
11 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.12%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 64 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (1.55%) Adobe XD
4 27 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
5 25 (1.02%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.53%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.33%) Sketch
8 7 (0.29%) Trello
9 6 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.20%) Oracle Smart View
10 5 (0.20%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.12%) Notion
12 2 (0.081%) InDesign
13 1 (0.041%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.041%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.041%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.041%) InVision
Business Applications
1 47 (1.92%) Oracle ERP
2 29 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 28 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 28 (1.14%) Shopify
4 8 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
4 8 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
4 8 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
4 8 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
4 8 (0.33%) SAP ERP
4 8 (0.33%) Workday HCM
5 5 (0.20%) NEC Housing
5 5 (0.20%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.20%) Primavera
5 5 (0.20%) SAP SCM
6 4 (0.16%) Hyperion Planning
6 4 (0.16%) Markit EDM
7 3 (0.12%) Maximo
7 3 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 869 (35.41%) Azure
2 570 (23.23%) AWS
3 324 (13.20%) Azure DevOps
4 228 (9.29%) SaaS
5 221 (9.01%) Power Platform
6 210 (8.56%) GitHub
7 181 (7.38%) GCP
8 131 (5.34%) Snowflake
9 130 (5.30%) Serverless
10 126 (5.13%) dbt
11 81 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
12 79 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
13 75 (3.06%) GitHub Copilot
14 72 (2.93%) Entra ID
15 69 (2.81%) Figma
16 68 (2.77%) Dynamics 365
17 67 (2.73%) Amazon S3
18 56 (2.28%) Azure Data Factory
18 56 (2.28%) Power Automate
19 51 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.67%) Broadband
2 26 (1.06%) TCP/IP
3 20 (0.81%) DNS
4 19 (0.77%) Wireless
5 15 (0.61%) Software-Defined Radio
6 10 (0.41%) CHAP
7 9 (0.37%) WAN
8 8 (0.33%) Firewall
9 6 (0.24%) DHCP
10 5 (0.20%) LAN
10 5 (0.20%) VPN
10 5 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.16%) 4G
11 4 (0.16%) Ethernet
11 4 (0.16%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.16%) SSH
11 4 (0.16%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.12%) BGP
12 3 (0.12%) Modbus
12 3 (0.12%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (6.85%) SQL Server
2 132 (5.38%) Power BI
3 120 (4.89%) Data Warehouse
4 98 (3.99%) MySQL
4 98 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
5 96 (3.91%) Data Lake
6 83 (3.38%) NoSQL
7 80 (3.26%) Apache Iceberg
8 79 (3.22%) Amazon Athena
9 76 (3.10%) Apache Arrow
9 76 (3.10%) Dremio
10 73 (2.97%) MongoDB
11 64 (2.61%) Relational Database
12 63 (2.57%) Azure SQL Database
13 48 (1.96%) Tableau
14 41 (1.67%) Apache Ignite
15 36 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
16 34 (1.39%) DynamoDB
17 28 (1.14%) Metadata
18 18 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 241 (9.82%) JIRA
2 173 (7.05%) Git
3 99 (4.03%) Jenkins
4 63 (2.57%) GitLab
5 60 (2.44%) Selenium
6 48 (1.96%) Oracle Forms
7 43 (1.75%) Cypress.io
7 43 (1.75%) Postman
8 37 (1.51%) Team Foundation Server
8 37 (1.51%) WebDriver
9 30 (1.22%) SoapUI
10 29 (1.18%) Balsamiq
11 28 (1.14%) Axure RP
12 25 (1.02%) SonarQube
13 12 (0.49%) ER Studio
13 12 (0.49%) ERwin
14 10 (0.41%) git-flow
14 10 (0.41%) TeamCity
15 9 (0.37%) Storybook
15 9 (0.37%) Subversion
General
1 915 (37.29%) Finance
2 794 (32.36%) Social Skills
3 301 (12.27%) Analytical Skills
4 201 (8.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 196 (7.99%) Public Sector
6 157 (6.40%) Law
7 142 (5.79%) Marketing
8 136 (5.54%) Front Office
9 116 (4.73%) Legal
10 112 (4.56%) Banking
11 86 (3.50%) Retail
12 69 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
13 63 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
14 60 (2.44%) Investment Banking
15 55 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
16 53 (2.16%) Manufacturing
17 46 (1.87%) Games
18 41 (1.67%) Tech for Good
19 40 (1.63%) Telecoms
20 39 (1.59%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 636 (25.92%) Developer
2 495 (20.17%) Senior
3 287 (11.70%) Analyst
4 269 (10.96%) Lead
5 211 (8.60%) Software Engineer
6 152 (6.19%) Business Analyst
7 147 (5.99%) Architect
8 131 (5.34%) Software Developer
9 117 (4.77%) .NET Developer
10 100 (4.07%) Project Manager
10 100 (4.07%) Senior Developer
11 95 (3.87%) Python Engineer
12 93 (3.79%) Python Developer
13 89 (3.63%) AWS Engineer
14 83 (3.38%) Python Software Engineer
15 78 (3.18%) AWS Software Engineer
16 76 (3.10%) Senior Software Engineer
17 75 (3.06%) Data Engineer
18 70 (2.85%) AWS Developer
19 68 (2.77%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 387 (15.77%) .NET
2 336 (13.69%) React
3 196 (7.99%) HTML
4 186 (7.58%) CSS
5 183 (7.46%) RESTful
6 161 (6.56%) Node.js
7 140 (5.70%) REST
8 127 (5.18%) AngularJS
8 127 (5.18%) SOAP
9 100 (4.07%) Vue
10 92 (3.75%) .NET Core
11 89 (3.63%) ASP.NET
12 79 (3.22%) .NET Framework
13 78 (3.18%) Pandas
14 76 (3.10%) Kafka
14 76 (3.10%) NumPy
14 76 (3.10%) SciPy
15 74 (3.02%) GraphQL
16 67 (2.73%) Entity Framework
17 59 (2.40%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 301 (12.27%) Product Ownership
2 196 (7.99%) Cloud Native
3 102 (4.16%) Fixed Income
4 96 (3.91%) Management Information System
5 84 (3.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 77 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
7 76 (3.10%) Equities
8 66 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
9 63 (2.57%) Mobile App
10 60 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
11 55 (2.24%) Onboarding
12 53 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
13 51 (2.08%) Derivative
14 48 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
15 46 (1.87%) Hedge funds
16 42 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
17 41 (1.67%) Pricing Data
18 33 (1.34%) Low-Code
18 33 (1.34%) NHS
19 31 (1.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 103 (4.20%) Linux
2 65 (2.65%) Windows
3 26 (1.06%) Apple iOS
4 23 (0.94%) Android
5 18 (0.73%) Embedded Linux
5 18 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 16 (0.65%) Unix
7 4 (0.16%) CentOS
8 3 (0.12%) OpenWrt
8 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.081%) Solaris
9 2 (0.081%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.081%) VMS
10 1 (0.041%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 656 (26.73%) DevOps
2 580 (23.63%) Continuous Improvement
3 569 (23.19%) CI/CD
4 472 (19.23%) Mentoring
5 461 (18.79%) Problem-Solving
6 456 (18.58%) Software Engineering
7 398 (16.22%) Coaching
8 384 (15.65%) Scrum
9 379 (15.44%) AI
10 358 (14.59%) Roadmaps
11 302 (12.31%) Asset Management
12 290 (11.82%) Analytics
13 286 (11.65%) Test Automation
14 265 (10.80%) Stakeholder Management
15 263 (10.72%) Microservices
16 241 (9.82%) Project Management
17 224 (9.13%) Full-Stack Development
18 217 (8.84%) User Experience
19 203 (8.27%) Data Modelling
20 197 (8.03%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 591 (24.08%) SQL
2 508 (20.70%) Python
3 427 (17.40%) JavaScript
4 396 (16.14%) C#
5 370 (15.08%) Java
6 316 (12.88%) TypeScript
7 97 (3.95%) PowerShell
8 96 (3.91%) C++
9 83 (3.38%) PHP
10 56 (2.28%) C
11 54 (2.20%) Shell Script
12 50 (2.04%) Go
13 48 (1.96%) PL/SQL
14 47 (1.92%) Bash
15 46 (1.87%) Apex Code
16 30 (1.22%) Scala
17 18 (0.73%) Kotlin
17 18 (0.73%) Ruby
17 18 (0.73%) T-SQL
18 17 (0.69%) Swift
Qualifications
1 366 (14.91%) Degree
2 249 (10.15%) Security Cleared
3 195 (7.95%) SC Cleared
4 121 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (2.20%) ISTQB
6 53 (2.16%) Master's Degree
7 47 (1.92%) DV Cleared
8 40 (1.63%) PMI Certification
9 35 (1.43%) PMP
10 32 (1.30%) Azure Certification
11 30 (1.22%) AWS Certification
12 28 (1.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 20 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
14 19 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
15 15 (0.61%) DBS Check
16 14 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 13 (0.53%) CISSP
18 12 (0.49%) CISM
19 11 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
20 10 (0.41%) CGEIT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (8.76%) QA
2 180 (7.33%) Accessibility
3 50 (2.04%) GDPR
3 50 (2.04%) WCAG
4 45 (1.83%) PMO
5 41 (1.67%) Data Quality
6 29 (1.18%) NIST
7 21 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.45%) COBIT
9 10 (0.41%) NCSC
10 7 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.29%) SLA
11 5 (0.20%) P3O
11 5 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.16%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.12%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.081%) GRC
14 2 (0.081%) HL7
14 2 (0.081%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 158 (6.44%) Docker
2 67 (2.73%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.94%) Firmware
4 20 (0.81%) Embedded Firmware
5 18 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.041%) HDFS
8 1 (0.041%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 199 (8.11%) Terraform
2 139 (5.66%) Kubernetes
3 47 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
4 37 (1.51%) Ansible
5 29 (1.18%) Grafana
6 23 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
7 22 (0.90%) Prometheus
8 19 (0.77%) Argo
9 8 (0.33%) SCCM
10 7 (0.29%) Kibana
11 4 (0.16%) logstash
12 3 (0.12%) Control-M
12 3 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.12%) Puppet
13 2 (0.081%) Docker Swarm
14 1 (0.041%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.041%) Kustomize
14 1 (0.041%) QRadar
14 1 (0.041%) Rancher
Vendors
1 406 (16.54%) Microsoft
2 92 (3.75%) Oracle
3 86 (3.50%) SAP
4 83 (3.38%) Databricks
5 72 (2.93%) Salesforce
6 66 (2.69%) Google
7 55 (2.24%) Adobe
8 45 (1.83%) Blue Prism
9 28 (1.14%) ServiceNow
10 24 (0.98%) MuleSoft
11 23 (0.94%) Splunk
12 21 (0.86%) IBM
13 20 (0.81%) Okta
14 18 (0.73%) Workday
15 17 (0.69%) Guidewire
16 12 (0.49%) Apple
17 10 (0.41%) Talend
18 9 (0.37%) Mercator
19 8 (0.33%) Ariba
19 8 (0.33%) IFS