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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 5 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,516 3,349 5,864
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.83% 20.25% 22.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.06% 21.78% 25.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,345 2,106 3,947
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,850 £68,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.51% +4.62% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £95,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £132,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £63,907 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.71% +7.69% -

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 18,446 15,378 22,855
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.04% 92.99% 87.83%
Number of salaries quoted 13,393 9,086 16,698
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,000 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - +3.51% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.41%

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 1 August 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
1 112 (3.19%) Confluence
2 63 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 43 (1.22%) CMS
4 20 (0.57%) Apache
4 20 (0.57%) Apache Spark
5 17 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 13 (0.37%) SAS
8 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
9 11 (0.31%) WordPress
10 9 (0.26%) Jupyter
10 9 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.14%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.14%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.11%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.11%) Camunda
12 4 (0.11%) PowerFactory
13 3 (0.085%) Kentico
13 3 (0.085%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.085%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 124 (3.53%) Microsoft Project
2 96 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
3 59 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
4 53 (1.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 45 (1.28%) UserZoom
6 22 (0.63%) Chatbot
6 22 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 18 (0.51%) Trello
8 17 (0.48%) Adobe XD
9 15 (0.43%) MS Visio
10 4 (0.11%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.11%) Revit
10 4 (0.11%) Sketch
10 4 (0.11%) Windchill
11 3 (0.085%) Blender
11 3 (0.085%) Maya
11 3 (0.085%) Productboard
11 3 (0.085%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.057%) PlantUML
13 1 (0.028%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 59 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.14%) Workfront
3 22 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
5 8 (0.23%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.20%) Elite 3E
6 7 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.20%) SAP CO
6 7 (0.20%) SAP FI
6 7 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
7 6 (0.17%) Shopify
8 5 (0.14%) Fidessa
9 4 (0.11%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.11%) Raiser’s Edge
10 3 (0.085%) Carpe Diem
10 3 (0.085%) Dynamics NAV
10 3 (0.085%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 3 (0.085%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,245 (35.41%) Azure
2 884 (25.14%) AWS
3 339 (9.64%) Azure DevOps
4 234 (6.66%) SaaS
5 230 (6.54%) GCP
6 180 (5.12%) GitHub
7 176 (5.01%) Power Platform
8 173 (4.92%) Adobe Analytics
9 159 (4.52%) Azure AI
10 143 (4.07%) Serverless
11 103 (2.93%) Figma
12 84 (2.39%) GitHub Copilot
13 74 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
14 72 (2.05%) Snowflake
15 69 (1.96%) Contentsquare
16 66 (1.88%) Azure Machine Learning
17 65 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
18 62 (1.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 62 (1.76%) PowerApps
19 59 (1.68%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 328 (9.33%) Broadband
2 31 (0.88%) Network Security
3 25 (0.71%) TCP/IP
4 21 (0.60%) Internet
5 19 (0.54%) VPN
6 18 (0.51%) WAN
7 16 (0.46%) LAN
8 15 (0.43%) Firewall
9 14 (0.40%) DNS
10 13 (0.37%) Ethernet
10 13 (0.37%) RS-232
10 13 (0.37%) VoIP
11 11 (0.31%) CTI
12 10 (0.28%) 5G
12 10 (0.28%) CHAP
13 8 (0.23%) SD-WAN
13 8 (0.23%) Wireless
14 7 (0.20%) Intranet
14 7 (0.20%) SMS
14 7 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 378 (10.75%) MongoDB
2 361 (10.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 194 (5.52%) SQL Server
4 153 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
5 148 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
6 105 (2.99%) Power BI
7 96 (2.73%) Metadata
8 93 (2.65%) NoSQL
9 84 (2.39%) MySQL
10 40 (1.14%) Relational Database
11 38 (1.08%) DynamoDB
12 34 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
13 32 (0.91%) Data Lake
14 28 (0.80%) Redis
15 23 (0.65%) Big Data
16 21 (0.60%) Tableau
17 20 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 19 (0.54%) BigQuery
18 19 (0.54%) Semantic Layer
19 16 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 263 (7.48%) JIRA
2 181 (5.15%) Git
3 101 (2.87%) Jenkins
4 100 (2.84%) GitLab
5 37 (1.05%) Selenium
6 36 (1.02%) Cypress.io
7 32 (0.91%) SonarQube
8 27 (0.77%) JUnit
9 23 (0.65%) Postman
10 21 (0.60%) Claude Code
11 17 (0.48%) Maven
12 16 (0.46%) Cucumber
12 16 (0.46%) Mockito
13 15 (0.43%) Visual Studio
14 13 (0.37%) CircleCI
15 10 (0.28%) JMeter
16 9 (0.26%) Balsamiq
16 9 (0.26%) Gatling
17 8 (0.23%) Axure RP
17 8 (0.23%) Bitbucket
General
1 999 (28.41%) Social Skills
2 869 (24.72%) Finance
3 483 (13.74%) Public Sector
4 372 (10.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 356 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
6 303 (8.62%) Law
7 258 (7.34%) Games
8 228 (6.48%) Legal
9 194 (5.52%) Marketing
10 191 (5.43%) Retail
11 125 (3.56%) Banking
12 104 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
13 86 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
14 84 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
15 61 (1.73%) Advertising
16 49 (1.39%) Front Office
17 48 (1.37%) Legal Technology
18 47 (1.34%) Aerospace
19 41 (1.17%) Manufacturing
20 37 (1.05%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 892 (25.37%) Developer
2 714 (20.31%) Senior
3 466 (13.25%) Lead
4 377 (10.72%) .NET Developer
5 299 (8.50%) Analyst
6 280 (7.96%) Architect
7 279 (7.94%) Software Engineer
8 252 (7.17%) Project Manager
9 201 (5.72%) Business Analyst
10 162 (4.61%) Senior Manager
11 161 (4.58%) Senior Developer
12 136 (3.87%) IT Manager
13 109 (3.10%) Software Developer
14 106 (3.01%) Delivery Manager
15 95 (2.70%) Full-Stack Developer
16 94 (2.67%) Consultant
17 90 (2.56%) Senior Project Manager
18 88 (2.50%) Senior Analyst
19 85 (2.42%) Product Owner
20 82 (2.33%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 631 (17.95%) .NET
2 487 (13.85%) React
3 390 (11.09%) ASP.NET
4 374 (10.64%) .NET Core
5 356 (10.13%) ASP.NET Core
6 330 (9.39%) Node.js
7 226 (6.43%) RESTful
8 217 (6.17%) CSS
9 200 (5.69%) HTML
10 177 (5.03%) Blazor
11 165 (4.69%) AngularJS
12 155 (4.41%) Entity Framework
13 143 (4.07%) Vue
14 139 (3.95%) REST
15 125 (3.56%) ASP.NET Web API
16 99 (2.82%) .NET Framework
17 96 (2.73%) ML.NET
18 88 (2.50%) Spring
19 86 (2.45%) Kafka
20 85 (2.42%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 402 (11.43%) Product Ownership
2 310 (8.82%) Cloud Native
3 227 (6.46%) Social Media
4 137 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
5 105 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
6 84 (2.39%) Mobile App
7 82 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
8 76 (2.16%) Management Information System
9 68 (1.93%) Onboarding
10 64 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
11 61 (1.73%) Marketing Technology
12 59 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
13 54 (1.54%) Over-the-Top Content
14 52 (1.48%) Cyber Threat
15 47 (1.34%) Driving Licence
15 47 (1.34%) Virtual Team
16 41 (1.17%) Fixed Income
17 27 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 27 (0.77%) Security Posture
18 26 (0.74%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 150 (4.27%) Linux
2 67 (1.91%) Windows
3 63 (1.79%) Android
4 43 (1.22%) Unix
5 39 (1.11%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.43%) VMS
7 13 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
8 9 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.14%) CentOS
9 5 (0.14%) Debian
10 3 (0.085%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.085%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.028%) AIX
11 1 (0.028%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 860 (24.46%) CI/CD
2 854 (24.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 848 (24.12%) DevOps
4 787 (22.38%) AI
5 748 (21.27%) Mentoring
6 725 (20.62%) Roadmaps
7 660 (18.77%) Scrum
8 620 (17.63%) Problem-Solving
9 612 (17.41%) Full-Stack Development
10 534 (15.19%) Coaching
11 512 (14.56%) Software Engineering
12 489 (13.91%) Microservices
13 455 (12.94%) Stakeholder Management
14 438 (12.46%) Analytics
15 434 (12.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 424 (12.06%) Decision-Making
17 407 (11.58%) Test Automation
18 378 (10.75%) Project Delivery
19 362 (10.30%) Customer Experience
20 358 (10.18%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 833 (23.69%) SQL
2 744 (21.16%) C#
3 561 (15.96%) JavaScript
4 411 (11.69%) Python
5 385 (10.95%) Java
6 343 (9.76%) TypeScript
7 91 (2.59%) PHP
8 86 (2.45%) C++
9 64 (1.82%) Bash
10 58 (1.65%) Go
11 43 (1.22%) Apex Code
12 42 (1.19%) PowerShell
13 41 (1.17%) C
13 41 (1.17%) Ruby
14 27 (0.77%) SOQL
15 26 (0.74%) SOSL
16 23 (0.65%) PL/SQL
17 21 (0.60%) T-SQL
18 17 (0.48%) Bicep
19 13 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 480 (13.65%) Degree
2 436 (12.40%) Security Cleared
3 351 (9.98%) SC Cleared
4 114 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 110 (3.13%) CISSP
6 103 (2.93%) PMI Certification
7 98 (2.79%) CISM
8 97 (2.76%) PMP
9 74 (2.10%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 62 (1.76%) ITIL Certification
11 55 (1.56%) DV Cleared
12 45 (1.28%) Azure Certification
13 35 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
13 35 (1.00%) DBS Check
14 29 (0.82%) Master's Degree
15 27 (0.77%) CISA
16 26 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
17 22 (0.63%) AWS Certification
17 22 (0.63%) ISTQB
18 19 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 383 (10.89%) Accessibility
2 297 (8.45%) QA
3 121 (3.44%) Data Quality
4 112 (3.19%) NIST
5 91 (2.59%) WCAG
6 81 (2.30%) GDPR
7 65 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 56 (1.59%) PMO
9 49 (1.39%) ISO 22301
10 34 (0.97%) GRC
11 27 (0.77%) NCSC
12 25 (0.71%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 17 (0.48%) COBIT
14 13 (0.37%) NIST 800
15 10 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.28%) PCI DSS
15 10 (0.28%) SOC 2
16 8 (0.23%) SLA
17 7 (0.20%) GxP
17 7 (0.20%) SOC 1
System Software
1 294 (8.36%) Docker
2 60 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (0.91%) Active Directory
4 15 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.37%) vSphere
6 8 (0.23%) Firmware
7 4 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.028%) GPFS
8 1 (0.028%) Lustre
8 1 (0.028%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.028%) Xen
Systems Management
1 269 (7.65%) Kubernetes
2 168 (4.78%) Terraform
3 56 (1.59%) Ansible
4 43 (1.22%) Grafana
5 29 (0.82%) Argo
6 28 (0.80%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.34%) Podman
8 8 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.20%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.14%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.14%) Istio
10 5 (0.14%) Puppet
11 4 (0.11%) Kustomize
11 4 (0.11%) Packer
12 3 (0.085%) Kibana
12 3 (0.085%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.057%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.057%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.028%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.028%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 782 (22.24%) Microsoft
2 250 (7.11%) Adobe
3 139 (3.95%) Google
4 106 (3.01%) Oracle
5 103 (2.93%) Databricks
5 103 (2.93%) Salesforce
6 85 (2.42%) SAP
7 75 (2.13%) ServiceNow
8 40 (1.14%) Facebook
9 30 (0.85%) Splunk
10 28 (0.80%) OpenAI
11 23 (0.65%) Cisco
12 21 (0.60%) YouTube
13 19 (0.54%) Apple
13 19 (0.54%) Yahoo!
14 18 (0.51%) IFS
15 17 (0.48%) IBM
15 17 (0.48%) Sony
15 17 (0.48%) VMware
15 17 (0.48%) Workday