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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,738 3,098 8,094
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.29% 23.15% 24.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.39% 24.44% 27.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,776 2,271 6,067
10th Percentile £41,250 £44,708 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +14.37% -5.84%
75th Percentile £81,250 £98,474 £78,750
90th Percentile £101,250 £125,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -3.94%

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 14,887 12,677 29,712
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.14% 94.72% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 10,419 8,968 23,636
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,206 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% +6.45% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 23 April 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
1 101 (3.69%) Confluence
2 48 (1.75%) CMS
3 44 (1.61%) SharePoint
4 17 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 11 (0.40%) Apache
7 9 (0.33%) Apache Spark
8 8 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.22%) nginx
9 6 (0.22%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.22%) SAS
10 5 (0.18%) WordPress
11 3 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.11%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.073%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.037%) Camunda
13 1 (0.037%) Ethereum
13 1 (0.037%) Hyperledger
13 1 (0.037%) Red Hat Fuse
13 1 (0.037%) WildFly
Applications
1 42 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (1.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 35 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (1.13%) Adobe XD
4 30 (1.10%) UserZoom
5 20 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
6 18 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 12 (0.44%) Chatbot
8 9 (0.33%) MS Visio
8 9 (0.33%) Sketch
9 5 (0.18%) InVision
10 4 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.15%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.15%) Trello
11 2 (0.073%) Avid Media Composer
11 2 (0.073%) Pro Tools
11 2 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.037%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.037%) EngageOne
12 1 (0.037%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 24 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
3 21 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
4 20 (0.73%) Workfront
5 15 (0.55%) SAP ERP
6 8 (0.29%) Shopify
7 6 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.15%) Markit EDM
9 3 (0.11%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.073%) Infor SunSystems
10 2 (0.073%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.073%) SAP IBP
10 2 (0.073%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.073%) SAP PM
10 2 (0.073%) SAP SCM
11 1 (0.037%) Maximo
11 1 (0.037%) Oracle EBS
11 1 (0.037%) Primavera
11 1 (0.037%) SAP HR
11 1 (0.037%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 787 (28.74%) Azure
2 620 (22.64%) AWS
3 232 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
4 192 (7.01%) GCP
5 183 (6.68%) Adobe Analytics
6 169 (6.17%) GitHub
7 150 (5.48%) Serverless
8 146 (5.33%) SaaS
9 138 (5.04%) Power Platform
10 133 (4.86%) Figma
11 107 (3.91%) Snowflake
12 73 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
13 70 (2.56%) Azure AI
14 68 (2.48%) Amazon S3
14 68 (2.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 64 (2.34%) Azure Machine Learning
16 56 (2.05%) GitHub Copilot
17 55 (2.01%) Contentsquare
18 50 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
19 49 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 386 (14.10%) Broadband
2 26 (0.95%) CHAP
2 26 (0.95%) TCP/IP
3 23 (0.84%) DNS
4 14 (0.51%) 4G
4 14 (0.51%) Ethernet
4 14 (0.51%) RS-232
5 13 (0.47%) Network Security
5 13 (0.47%) WAN
6 12 (0.44%) Firewall
7 11 (0.40%) BGP
7 11 (0.40%) Cisco IOS
7 11 (0.40%) Ethernet VPN
7 11 (0.40%) IOS XR
7 11 (0.40%) MPLS
8 9 (0.33%) DHCP
9 8 (0.29%) LAN
9 8 (0.29%) VPN
10 6 (0.22%) Internet
10 6 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (6.87%) SQL Server
2 112 (4.09%) NoSQL
3 90 (3.29%) MongoDB
4 82 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
5 79 (2.89%) Power BI
6 78 (2.85%) Metadata
7 67 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
8 63 (2.30%) MySQL
9 50 (1.83%) Relational Database
10 48 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
11 42 (1.53%) Data Lake
12 27 (0.99%) DynamoDB
13 26 (0.95%) Tableau
14 25 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
15 20 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
15 20 (0.73%) RDBMS
16 12 (0.44%) Redis
17 10 (0.37%) Flink
17 10 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 8 (0.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 217 (7.93%) JIRA
2 173 (6.32%) Git
3 118 (4.31%) Jenkins
4 102 (3.73%) GitLab
5 52 (1.90%) Selenium
6 42 (1.53%) Postman
6 42 (1.53%) SonarQube
7 34 (1.24%) Cypress.io
8 28 (1.02%) SoapUI
8 28 (1.02%) WebDriver
9 27 (0.99%) Team Foundation Server
9 27 (0.99%) TeamCity
10 25 (0.91%) Balsamiq
11 24 (0.88%) Axure RP
12 19 (0.69%) Jaeger
13 18 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
14 15 (0.55%) JMeter
15 14 (0.51%) CircleCI
16 13 (0.47%) Cucumber
16 13 (0.47%) SpecFlow
General
1 819 (29.91%) Finance
2 794 (29.00%) Social Skills
3 351 (12.82%) Public Sector
4 301 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
5 284 (10.37%) Games
6 278 (10.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 192 (7.01%) Law
8 152 (5.55%) Banking
9 151 (5.51%) Marketing
10 121 (4.42%) Legal
11 101 (3.69%) Retail
12 70 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
13 60 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
14 57 (2.08%) Front Office
15 53 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
15 53 (1.94%) Telecoms
16 40 (1.46%) Manufacturing
17 36 (1.31%) Back Office
18 35 (1.28%) Financial Institution
19 25 (0.91%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 554 (20.23%) Senior
2 502 (18.33%) Developer
3 460 (16.80%) Lead
4 258 (9.42%) Analyst
5 213 (7.78%) Software Engineer
6 175 (6.39%) Architect
7 173 (6.32%) Business Analyst
8 140 (5.11%) Project Manager
9 128 (4.67%) Senior Manager
10 108 (3.94%) Software Developer
11 98 (3.58%) Designer
12 88 (3.21%) Lead Developer
13 84 (3.07%) C# Developer
14 79 (2.89%) Delivery Manager
15 78 (2.85%) Engineering Manager
16 77 (2.81%) Product Manager
17 76 (2.78%) Product Owner
18 71 (2.59%) Consultant
18 71 (2.59%) Data Engineer
18 71 (2.59%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 294 (10.74%) React
2 288 (10.52%) .NET
3 156 (5.70%) CSS
4 152 (5.55%) HTML
5 140 (5.11%) Node.js
6 126 (4.60%) REST
7 119 (4.35%) RESTful
8 113 (4.13%) SOAP
9 83 (3.03%) Kafka
10 78 (2.85%) AngularJS
11 72 (2.63%) Lightning Web Components
12 68 (2.48%) .NET Core
13 63 (2.30%) Spring
14 60 (2.19%) ASP.NET
15 58 (2.12%) Vue
16 56 (2.05%) GraphQL
17 54 (1.97%) Visualforce
18 53 (1.94%) Spring Boot
19 48 (1.75%) .NET Framework
20 47 (1.72%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 406 (14.83%) Product Ownership
2 231 (8.44%) Cloud Native
3 210 (7.67%) Social Media
4 78 (2.85%) Mobile App
5 70 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
5 70 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 67 (2.45%) Management Information System
7 58 (2.12%) Over-the-Top Content
8 56 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
9 51 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
9 51 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
10 46 (1.68%) Fixed Income
11 40 (1.46%) Virtual Team
12 36 (1.31%) Low-Code
12 36 (1.31%) Marketing Technology
13 35 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
14 33 (1.21%) Data Structures
15 31 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
16 29 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
17 27 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 140 (5.11%) Linux
2 61 (2.23%) Android
3 49 (1.79%) Windows
4 48 (1.75%) Apple iOS
5 44 (1.61%) Unix
6 14 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
7 10 (0.37%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.33%) CentOS
9 6 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.15%) Debian
10 4 (0.15%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.11%) VMS
12 2 (0.073%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.073%) OpenWrt
13 1 (0.037%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 660 (24.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 652 (23.81%) DevOps
3 647 (23.63%) Mentoring
4 624 (22.79%) Roadmaps
5 622 (22.72%) CI/CD
6 535 (19.54%) AI
7 502 (18.33%) Coaching
8 488 (17.82%) Scrum
9 447 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
10 423 (15.45%) Analytics
11 395 (14.43%) Software Engineering
12 330 (12.05%) Test Automation
13 282 (10.30%) Customer Experience
14 269 (9.82%) Decision-Making
15 267 (9.75%) Project Management
15 267 (9.75%) Stakeholder Management
16 263 (9.61%) Full-Stack Development
17 259 (9.46%) Product Roadmap
18 258 (9.42%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
19 249 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 491 (17.93%) SQL
2 419 (15.30%) Python
3 392 (14.32%) Java
4 331 (12.09%) JavaScript
5 324 (11.83%) C#
6 221 (8.07%) TypeScript
7 91 (3.32%) PHP
8 84 (3.07%) C++
9 82 (2.99%) Go
10 75 (2.74%) Apex Code
11 56 (2.05%) Bash
12 50 (1.83%) C
12 50 (1.83%) PowerShell
13 35 (1.28%) Scala
13 35 (1.28%) SOQL
14 34 (1.24%) SOSL
15 22 (0.80%) Shell Script
16 20 (0.73%) PL/SQL
16 20 (0.73%) VBA
17 19 (0.69%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 350 (12.78%) Degree
2 306 (11.18%) Security Cleared
3 214 (7.82%) SC Cleared
4 89 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (2.41%) PMI Certification
6 62 (2.26%) DV Cleared
7 53 (1.94%) PMP
8 51 (1.86%) CISSP
9 46 (1.68%) ISTQB
10 44 (1.61%) DBS Check
11 37 (1.35%) CISM
12 31 (1.13%) CISA
12 31 (1.13%) SANS
13 30 (1.10%) AWS Certification
14 26 (0.95%) CGEIT
14 26 (0.95%) FFIEC
15 23 (0.84%) Master's Degree
16 20 (0.73%) Azure Certification
17 18 (0.66%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
18 15 (0.55%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 349 (12.75%) Accessibility
2 227 (8.29%) QA
3 96 (3.51%) WCAG
4 58 (2.12%) Data Quality
5 55 (2.01%) NIST
6 53 (1.94%) GDPR
7 33 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 30 (1.10%) PMO
9 28 (1.02%) COBIT
10 21 (0.77%) GRC
11 10 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
12 9 (0.33%) NCSC
13 7 (0.26%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 4 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.15%) IFRS
15 4 (0.15%) MiFID
15 4 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.11%) GAAP
16 3 (0.11%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 229 (8.36%) Docker
2 60 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
3 48 (1.75%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.22%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (0.18%) Firmware
5 5 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.073%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.037%) vSphere
8 1 (0.037%) Xen
Systems Management
1 226 (8.25%) Kubernetes
2 222 (8.11%) Terraform
3 82 (2.99%) Ansible
4 49 (1.79%) Argo
5 46 (1.68%) Grafana
6 43 (1.57%) Prometheus
7 23 (0.84%) Kustomize
8 19 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.44%) Podman
10 8 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (0.26%) Puppet
12 5 (0.18%) AWS Copilot
13 4 (0.15%) Istio
13 4 (0.15%) logstash
13 4 (0.15%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.15%) SCCM
14 3 (0.11%) Control-M
14 3 (0.11%) Kibana
14 3 (0.11%) Packer
14 3 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 408 (14.90%) Microsoft
2 251 (9.17%) Adobe
3 119 (4.35%) Google
4 117 (4.27%) Databricks
5 111 (4.05%) Salesforce
6 74 (2.70%) Oracle
7 69 (2.52%) SAP
8 55 (2.01%) ServiceNow
9 41 (1.50%) Splunk
10 20 (0.73%) IBM
11 18 (0.66%) MuleSoft
12 15 (0.55%) Cisco
13 13 (0.47%) Okta
14 11 (0.40%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.40%) Foundry
14 11 (0.40%) Red Hat
15 10 (0.37%) VMware
16 8 (0.29%) IFS
16 8 (0.29%) PagerDuty
17 7 (0.26%) Workday