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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,945 3,316 8,036
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.67% 22.69% 24.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.92% 23.90% 27.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,881 2,044 6,018
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £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 £102,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £132,500 £101,250
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 15,563 13,877 29,569
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.79% 94.97% 90.86%
Number of salaries quoted 11,091 8,168 23,322
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,500 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,648 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.59% +8.45% -9.84%

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 May 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 97 (3.29%) Confluence
2 45 (1.53%) CMS
3 40 (1.36%) SharePoint
4 18 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 13 (0.44%) Apache
6 13 (0.44%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.34%) SAS
8 7 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.20%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.20%) WordPress
10 5 (0.17%) nginx
11 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.10%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.10%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.10%) PowerFactory
13 2 (0.068%) NServiceBus
13 2 (0.068%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.034%) Drupal
14 1 (0.034%) JBoss
Applications
1 102 (3.46%) Microsoft Office
2 101 (3.43%) Microsoft Project
3 54 (1.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 40 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
5 30 (1.02%) UserZoom
6 24 (0.81%) Adobe XD
7 18 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 10 (0.34%) Sketch
9 8 (0.27%) Chatbot
10 7 (0.24%) MS Visio
11 6 (0.20%) Trello
12 5 (0.17%) InVision
13 3 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.10%) AutoCAD
13 3 (0.10%) Photoshop
13 3 (0.10%) Productboard
13 3 (0.10%) Revit
13 3 (0.10%) Windchill
14 2 (0.068%) Pro Tools
14 2 (0.068%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 40 (1.36%) Workfront
2 35 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
5 14 (0.48%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.24%) Shopify
7 4 (0.14%) Markit EDM
8 3 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.10%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.068%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.068%) Infor SunSystems
9 2 (0.068%) Raiser’s Edge
9 2 (0.068%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.068%) SAP PM
9 2 (0.068%) Towers Watson Igloo
10 1 (0.034%) SAP CO
10 1 (0.034%) SAP FI
10 1 (0.034%) SAP FI/CO
10 1 (0.034%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 844 (28.66%) Azure
2 649 (22.04%) AWS
3 224 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
4 202 (6.86%) GCP
5 182 (6.18%) Adobe Analytics
6 147 (4.99%) SaaS
7 146 (4.96%) Serverless
8 142 (4.82%) Power Platform
9 138 (4.69%) GitHub
10 124 (4.21%) Figma
11 92 (3.12%) Azure AI
12 87 (2.95%) Snowflake
13 64 (2.17%) Azure Machine Learning
13 64 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 59 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
15 58 (1.97%) Amazon S3
16 56 (1.90%) iPaaS
17 55 (1.87%) Contentsquare
18 47 (1.60%) GitHub Copilot
19 46 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 411 (13.96%) Broadband
2 24 (0.81%) DNS
2 24 (0.81%) TCP/IP
3 21 (0.71%) CHAP
4 19 (0.65%) Network Security
5 14 (0.48%) Ethernet
5 14 (0.48%) RS-232
6 13 (0.44%) 4G
7 12 (0.41%) Firewall
7 12 (0.41%) WAN
8 11 (0.37%) BGP
8 11 (0.37%) Cisco IOS
8 11 (0.37%) Ethernet VPN
8 11 (0.37%) IOS XR
8 11 (0.37%) LAN
8 11 (0.37%) MPLS
9 8 (0.27%) Internet
10 7 (0.24%) VPN
11 6 (0.20%) 5G
11 6 (0.20%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (5.70%) SQL Server
2 167 (5.67%) MongoDB
3 121 (4.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 109 (3.70%) NoSQL
5 104 (3.53%) Metadata
5 104 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
6 80 (2.72%) Power BI
7 61 (2.07%) MySQL
8 56 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
9 43 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
10 42 (1.43%) Relational Database
11 32 (1.09%) Data Lake
12 27 (0.92%) DynamoDB
13 22 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
14 21 (0.71%) Tableau
15 18 (0.61%) RDBMS
16 17 (0.58%) Redis
17 14 (0.48%) Big Data
17 14 (0.48%) BigQuery
18 11 (0.37%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 222 (7.54%) JIRA
2 156 (5.30%) Git
3 119 (4.04%) Jenkins
4 104 (3.53%) GitLab
5 53 (1.80%) Selenium
6 42 (1.43%) Postman
7 40 (1.36%) SonarQube
8 36 (1.22%) Cypress.io
9 29 (0.98%) WebDriver
10 28 (0.95%) SoapUI
11 26 (0.88%) TeamCity
12 25 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
13 18 (0.61%) Jaeger
14 15 (0.51%) JMeter
15 14 (0.48%) Axure RP
16 13 (0.44%) Balsamiq
16 13 (0.44%) CircleCI
16 13 (0.44%) JUnit
16 13 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
16 13 (0.44%) SpecFlow
General
1 837 (28.42%) Social Skills
2 799 (27.13%) Finance
3 411 (13.96%) Public Sector
4 308 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
5 306 (10.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 287 (9.75%) Games
7 197 (6.69%) Law
8 179 (6.08%) Marketing
9 152 (5.16%) Banking
10 141 (4.79%) Legal
11 126 (4.28%) Retail
12 74 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
13 56 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
14 53 (1.80%) Front Office
15 48 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
16 44 (1.49%) Telecoms
17 36 (1.22%) Back Office
18 31 (1.05%) Manufacturing
19 30 (1.02%) Advertising
20 28 (0.95%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 623 (21.15%) Senior
2 560 (19.02%) Developer
3 471 (15.99%) Lead
4 285 (9.68%) Analyst
5 224 (7.61%) Software Engineer
6 215 (7.30%) Project Manager
7 203 (6.89%) Architect
8 192 (6.52%) Senior Manager
9 191 (6.49%) Business Analyst
10 143 (4.86%) .NET Developer
11 109 (3.70%) Software Developer
12 98 (3.33%) Senior Project Manager
13 91 (3.09%) Designer
14 88 (2.99%) Delivery Manager
15 86 (2.92%) Product Owner
16 80 (2.72%) Product Manager
17 78 (2.65%) C# Developer
18 77 (2.61%) Engineering Manager
19 76 (2.58%) Lead Developer
20 71 (2.41%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 340 (11.54%) .NET
2 329 (11.17%) React
3 185 (6.28%) Node.js
4 154 (5.23%) HTML
5 152 (5.16%) CSS
6 142 (4.82%) .NET Core
7 138 (4.69%) RESTful
8 136 (4.62%) ASP.NET
9 122 (4.14%) ASP.NET Core
9 122 (4.14%) REST
10 97 (3.29%) AngularJS
11 94 (3.19%) SOAP
12 76 (2.58%) Vue
13 75 (2.55%) Kafka
14 70 (2.38%) Spring
15 65 (2.21%) Lightning Web Components
16 62 (2.11%) Entity Framework
17 54 (1.83%) Spring Boot
18 53 (1.80%) Blazor
19 51 (1.73%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 419 (14.23%) Product Ownership
2 241 (8.18%) Cloud Native
3 236 (8.01%) Social Media
4 82 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 78 (2.65%) Mobile App
6 76 (2.58%) Over-the-Top Content
7 72 (2.44%) Onboarding
8 58 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
8 58 (1.97%) Management Information System
9 56 (1.90%) Marketing Technology
9 56 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
10 51 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
11 42 (1.43%) Fixed Income
12 41 (1.39%) Virtual Team
13 39 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
14 35 (1.19%) Driving Licence
15 32 (1.09%) Low-Code
16 30 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
16 30 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
17 29 (0.98%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 133 (4.52%) Linux
2 63 (2.14%) Android
3 47 (1.60%) Apple iOS
4 43 (1.46%) Unix
5 41 (1.39%) Windows
6 14 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (0.24%) CentOS
7 7 (0.24%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.14%) Debian
10 3 (0.10%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.10%) VMS
11 2 (0.068%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.034%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 699 (23.74%) Mentoring
2 684 (23.23%) Roadmaps
3 653 (22.17%) DevOps
4 652 (22.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 629 (21.36%) CI/CD
6 575 (19.52%) AI
7 563 (19.12%) Coaching
8 531 (18.03%) Scrum
9 455 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
10 424 (14.40%) Analytics
11 380 (12.90%) Software Engineering
12 371 (12.60%) Customer Experience
13 353 (11.99%) Project Management
14 336 (11.41%) Test Automation
15 331 (11.24%) Full-Stack Development
16 316 (10.73%) Decision-Making
17 300 (10.19%) Stakeholder Management
18 276 (9.37%) Microservices
19 274 (9.30%) Project Delivery
20 269 (9.13%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 561 (19.05%) SQL
2 401 (13.62%) Java
3 393 (13.34%) Python
4 386 (13.11%) C#
5 370 (12.56%) JavaScript
6 244 (8.29%) TypeScript
7 80 (2.72%) Go
8 79 (2.68%) PHP
9 73 (2.48%) C++
10 66 (2.24%) Apex Code
11 57 (1.94%) Bash
12 42 (1.43%) C
13 36 (1.22%) Scala
14 35 (1.19%) SOQL
15 34 (1.15%) PowerShell
15 34 (1.15%) SOSL
16 25 (0.85%) PL/SQL
17 19 (0.65%) VBA
18 17 (0.58%) Embedded C
19 16 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 434 (14.74%) Degree
2 320 (10.87%) Security Cleared
3 237 (8.05%) SC Cleared
4 84 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 82 (2.78%) PMI Certification
6 72 (2.44%) PMP
7 68 (2.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 52 (1.77%) CISSP
9 51 (1.73%) DV Cleared
10 45 (1.53%) ISTQB
11 44 (1.49%) DBS Check
12 38 (1.29%) CISM
13 34 (1.15%) AWS Certification
14 28 (0.95%) CISA
15 26 (0.88%) Azure Certification
15 26 (0.88%) SANS
16 21 (0.71%) CGEIT
16 21 (0.71%) FFIEC
17 18 (0.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
18 16 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 358 (12.16%) Accessibility
2 233 (7.91%) QA
3 89 (3.02%) WCAG
4 85 (2.89%) Data Quality
5 57 (1.94%) GDPR
6 54 (1.83%) NIST
7 39 (1.32%) PMO
8 36 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 24 (0.81%) COBIT
10 21 (0.71%) GRC
11 11 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 11 (0.37%) NCSC
12 10 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 8 (0.27%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.14%) IFRS
15 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 4 (0.14%) MiFID
15 4 (0.14%) NIST 800
System Software
1 236 (8.01%) Docker
2 59 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
3 39 (1.32%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.17%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.10%) Firmware
5 3 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.034%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.034%) vSphere
6 1 (0.034%) Xen
Systems Management
1 235 (7.98%) Kubernetes
2 199 (6.76%) Terraform
3 84 (2.85%) Ansible
4 44 (1.49%) Argo
5 43 (1.46%) Grafana
5 43 (1.46%) Prometheus
6 22 (0.75%) Kustomize
7 13 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (0.41%) Podman
9 6 (0.20%) Puppet
10 5 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.17%) Packer
11 4 (0.14%) Istio
11 4 (0.14%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.14%) SCCM
12 3 (0.10%) Control-M
12 3 (0.10%) Kibana
12 3 (0.10%) logstash
12 3 (0.10%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 493 (16.74%) Microsoft
2 263 (8.93%) Adobe
3 128 (4.35%) Google
4 112 (3.80%) Salesforce
5 101 (3.43%) Databricks
6 80 (2.72%) Oracle
7 68 (2.31%) ServiceNow
8 65 (2.21%) SAP
9 39 (1.32%) Splunk
10 20 (0.68%) IBM
11 17 (0.58%) Cisco
12 14 (0.48%) Facebook
13 13 (0.44%) MuleSoft
14 10 (0.34%) Apple
14 10 (0.34%) Okta
15 9 (0.31%) Atlassian
15 9 (0.31%) Foundry
15 9 (0.31%) VMware
16 7 (0.24%) Planon
16 7 (0.24%) Red Hat