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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,786 3,395 8,032
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.17% 23.83% 24.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.36% 25.11% 27.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,809 2,253 6,044
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £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 £80,500 £98,474 £79,600
90th Percentile £100,000 £128,750 £97,500
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 15,172 13,521 29,708
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.63% 94.90% 91.28%
Number of salaries quoted 10,708 8,881 23,561
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £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 £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,773 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +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 7 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
1 100 (3.59%) Confluence
2 49 (1.76%) CMS
3 43 (1.54%) SharePoint
4 19 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 13 (0.47%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.43%) Apache
8 8 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.25%) SAS
10 6 (0.22%) nginx
10 6 (0.22%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.22%) WordPress
11 3 (0.11%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.11%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.036%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.036%) Ethereum
12 1 (0.036%) Hyperledger
12 1 (0.036%) WildFly
Applications
1 43 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (1.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 31 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
5 30 (1.08%) UserZoom
6 28 (1.01%) Adobe XD
7 19 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 10 (0.36%) Chatbot
9 9 (0.32%) MS Visio
10 8 (0.29%) Sketch
11 5 (0.18%) InVision
12 4 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
12 4 (0.14%) Photoshop
12 4 (0.14%) Trello
13 2 (0.072%) AutoCAD
13 2 (0.072%) Avid Media Composer
13 2 (0.072%) Pro Tools
13 2 (0.072%) Spreadsheet
14 1 (0.036%) Oracle Smart View
14 1 (0.036%) Productboard
Business Applications
1 29 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
3 20 (0.72%) Workfront
4 19 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
5 15 (0.54%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.25%) Shopify
7 6 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.14%) Markit EDM
9 3 (0.11%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.072%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.072%) Infor SunSystems
10 2 (0.072%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.072%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.072%) SAP PM
10 2 (0.072%) SAP SCM
11 1 (0.036%) Maximo
11 1 (0.036%) Oracle General Ledger
11 1 (0.036%) Remedy ITSM
11 1 (0.036%) SAP MM
11 1 (0.036%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 813 (29.18%) Azure
2 633 (22.72%) AWS
3 235 (8.44%) Azure DevOps
4 201 (7.21%) GCP
5 183 (6.57%) Adobe Analytics
6 155 (5.56%) GitHub
7 148 (5.31%) SaaS
8 147 (5.28%) Power Platform
9 146 (5.24%) Serverless
10 129 (4.63%) Figma
11 101 (3.63%) Snowflake
12 74 (2.66%) Azure AI
13 67 (2.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 65 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
15 64 (2.30%) Azure Machine Learning
16 61 (2.19%) Amazon S3
17 55 (1.97%) Contentsquare
17 55 (1.97%) GitHub Copilot
18 46 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
19 45 (1.62%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 385 (13.82%) Broadband
2 27 (0.97%) CHAP
3 26 (0.93%) TCP/IP
4 23 (0.83%) DNS
5 16 (0.57%) Network Security
6 14 (0.50%) 4G
6 14 (0.50%) Ethernet
6 14 (0.50%) RS-232
7 13 (0.47%) Firewall
8 12 (0.43%) WAN
9 11 (0.39%) BGP
9 11 (0.39%) Cisco IOS
9 11 (0.39%) Ethernet VPN
9 11 (0.39%) IOS XR
9 11 (0.39%) MPLS
10 10 (0.36%) LAN
11 8 (0.29%) DHCP
11 8 (0.29%) VPN
12 6 (0.22%) SSL
13 5 (0.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (6.42%) SQL Server
2 115 (4.13%) MongoDB
3 105 (3.77%) NoSQL
4 91 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
5 85 (3.05%) Power BI
6 81 (2.91%) Metadata
7 73 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
8 62 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
9 55 (1.97%) MySQL
10 45 (1.62%) Relational Database
11 39 (1.40%) Data Lake
12 37 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
13 27 (0.97%) DynamoDB
14 25 (0.90%) Tableau
15 22 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
16 19 (0.68%) RDBMS
17 15 (0.54%) Redis
18 11 (0.39%) Big Data
19 10 (0.36%) BigQuery
19 10 (0.36%) Flink
Development Applications
1 221 (7.93%) JIRA
2 161 (5.78%) Git
3 127 (4.56%) Jenkins
4 107 (3.84%) GitLab
5 54 (1.94%) Selenium
6 42 (1.51%) Postman
6 42 (1.51%) SonarQube
7 32 (1.15%) Cypress.io
8 29 (1.04%) WebDriver
9 28 (1.01%) SoapUI
10 26 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
10 26 (0.93%) TeamCity
11 20 (0.72%) Axure RP
11 20 (0.72%) Balsamiq
12 19 (0.68%) Jaeger
12 19 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
13 15 (0.54%) JMeter
14 14 (0.50%) CircleCI
15 13 (0.47%) SpecFlow
16 12 (0.43%) Cucumber
General
1 808 (29.00%) Finance
2 789 (28.32%) Social Skills
3 371 (13.32%) Public Sector
4 298 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
5 293 (10.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 286 (10.27%) Games
7 196 (7.04%) Law
8 157 (5.64%) Banking
9 152 (5.46%) Marketing
10 124 (4.45%) Legal
11 111 (3.98%) Retail
12 70 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
13 56 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
14 55 (1.97%) Front Office
15 51 (1.83%) Telecoms
16 50 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
17 38 (1.36%) Manufacturing
18 36 (1.29%) Back Office
19 35 (1.26%) Financial Institution
20 27 (0.97%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 561 (20.14%) Senior
2 514 (18.45%) Developer
3 459 (16.48%) Lead
4 267 (9.58%) Analyst
5 207 (7.43%) Software Engineer
6 188 (6.75%) Architect
7 177 (6.35%) Business Analyst
8 152 (5.46%) Project Manager
9 133 (4.77%) Senior Manager
10 113 (4.06%) Software Developer
11 95 (3.41%) .NET Developer
11 95 (3.41%) Designer
12 85 (3.05%) C# Developer
13 81 (2.91%) Lead Developer
14 80 (2.87%) Delivery Manager
14 80 (2.87%) Engineering Manager
15 78 (2.80%) Product Manager
16 75 (2.69%) Graduate
17 74 (2.66%) Graduate Developer
18 72 (2.58%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 304 (10.91%) .NET
2 300 (10.77%) React
3 153 (5.49%) Node.js
4 144 (5.17%) CSS
5 142 (5.10%) HTML
6 123 (4.41%) REST
7 121 (4.34%) RESTful
8 108 (3.88%) SOAP
9 90 (3.23%) .NET Core
10 85 (3.05%) ASP.NET
11 83 (2.98%) AngularJS
12 80 (2.87%) Kafka
13 71 (2.55%) Lightning Web Components
14 64 (2.30%) Vue
15 63 (2.26%) ASP.NET Core
16 62 (2.23%) Spring
17 54 (1.94%) GraphQL
18 53 (1.90%) Visualforce
19 51 (1.83%) Spring Boot
20 50 (1.79%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 403 (14.47%) Product Ownership
2 242 (8.69%) Cloud Native
3 210 (7.54%) Social Media
4 78 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
5 76 (2.73%) Mobile App
6 71 (2.55%) Onboarding
7 63 (2.26%) Management Information System
8 59 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
9 57 (2.05%) Over-the-Top Content
10 49 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
11 44 (1.58%) Fixed Income
12 43 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
13 42 (1.51%) Virtual Team
14 40 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
15 36 (1.29%) Marketing Technology
16 34 (1.22%) Low-Code
17 32 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
18 30 (1.08%) Data Structures
18 30 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
19 28 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 140 (5.03%) Linux
2 59 (2.12%) Android
3 50 (1.79%) Windows
4 47 (1.69%) Apple iOS
5 44 (1.58%) Unix
6 14 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
7 10 (0.36%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.32%) CentOS
9 6 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.14%) Debian
10 4 (0.14%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.11%) VMS
12 2 (0.072%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.036%) AIX
13 1 (0.036%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 666 (23.91%) Mentoring
2 657 (23.58%) DevOps
3 653 (23.44%) Continuous Improvement
4 636 (22.83%) Roadmaps
5 622 (22.33%) CI/CD
6 549 (19.71%) AI
7 506 (18.16%) Scrum
8 505 (18.13%) Coaching
9 446 (16.01%) Problem-Solving
10 429 (15.40%) Analytics
11 377 (13.53%) Software Engineering
12 336 (12.06%) Test Automation
13 288 (10.34%) Customer Experience
14 285 (10.23%) Project Management
15 283 (10.16%) Full-Stack Development
16 274 (9.83%) Decision-Making
17 273 (9.80%) Stakeholder Management
18 267 (9.58%) Product Roadmap
19 264 (9.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 258 (9.26%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 514 (18.45%) SQL
2 411 (14.75%) Python
3 388 (13.93%) Java
4 347 (12.46%) C#
5 324 (11.63%) JavaScript
6 230 (8.26%) TypeScript
7 89 (3.19%) PHP
8 81 (2.91%) Go
9 80 (2.87%) C++
10 73 (2.62%) Apex Code
11 58 (2.08%) Bash
12 47 (1.69%) C
13 45 (1.62%) PowerShell
14 37 (1.33%) Scala
15 35 (1.26%) SOQL
16 34 (1.22%) SOSL
17 24 (0.86%) PL/SQL
18 20 (0.72%) Shell Script
18 20 (0.72%) VBA
19 18 (0.65%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 365 (13.10%) Degree
2 317 (11.38%) Security Cleared
3 226 (8.11%) SC Cleared
4 86 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 71 (2.55%) PMI Certification
6 60 (2.15%) DV Cleared
7 59 (2.12%) PMP
8 55 (1.97%) CISSP
9 47 (1.69%) ISTQB
10 46 (1.65%) DBS Check
11 41 (1.47%) CISM
12 33 (1.18%) CISA
13 32 (1.15%) SANS
14 31 (1.11%) AWS Certification
15 27 (0.97%) CGEIT
15 27 (0.97%) FFIEC
16 24 (0.86%) Azure Certification
17 19 (0.68%) Master's Degree
18 18 (0.65%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
19 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 349 (12.53%) Accessibility
2 231 (8.29%) QA
3 92 (3.30%) WCAG
4 71 (2.55%) Data Quality
5 58 (2.08%) NIST
6 55 (1.97%) GDPR
7 35 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 29 (1.04%) COBIT
8 29 (1.04%) PMO
9 22 (0.79%) GRC
10 10 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
10 10 (0.36%) NCSC
11 8 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 7 (0.25%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.14%) IFRS
14 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 4 (0.14%) MiFID
14 4 (0.14%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 228 (8.18%) Docker
2 59 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
3 46 (1.65%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.22%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (0.14%) Firmware
7 3 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.036%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.036%) vSphere
8 1 (0.036%) Xen
Systems Management
1 226 (8.11%) Kubernetes
2 217 (7.79%) Terraform
3 86 (3.09%) Ansible
4 48 (1.72%) Argo
5 46 (1.65%) Grafana
6 43 (1.54%) Prometheus
7 23 (0.83%) Kustomize
8 19 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.43%) Podman
10 7 (0.25%) Puppet
11 5 (0.18%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.18%) Packer
12 4 (0.14%) Istio
12 4 (0.14%) logstash
12 4 (0.14%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.14%) SCCM
13 3 (0.11%) Control-M
13 3 (0.11%) Kibana
13 3 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 442 (15.87%) Microsoft
2 249 (8.94%) Adobe
3 122 (4.38%) Google
4 111 (3.98%) Databricks
4 111 (3.98%) Salesforce
5 79 (2.84%) Oracle
6 64 (2.30%) SAP
7 60 (2.15%) ServiceNow
8 41 (1.47%) Splunk
9 18 (0.65%) IBM
10 16 (0.57%) Cisco
11 15 (0.54%) MuleSoft
12 13 (0.47%) Okta
13 11 (0.39%) Red Hat
14 10 (0.36%) Atlassian
14 10 (0.36%) VMware
15 9 (0.32%) Foundry
16 8 (0.29%) Facebook
17 7 (0.25%) Apple
17 7 (0.25%) Planon