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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,427 4,051 6,289
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.61% 24.71% 25.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.97% 26.28% 27.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,707 2,315 5,218
10th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £42,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -2.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £80,070
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -3.70%

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 13,505 15,416 22,701
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.89% 94.03% 93.11%
Number of salaries quoted 8,586 9,080 18,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,125 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £96,539
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 January 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 93 (3.83%) Confluence
2 54 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (1.98%) SharePoint
4 33 (1.36%) Apache
5 25 (1.03%) CMS
6 17 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 11 (0.45%) Apache Spark
8 10 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.33%) nginx
9 8 (0.33%) SAS
10 6 (0.25%) IIS
11 5 (0.21%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.16%) WordPress
13 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.12%) WebLogic Portal
14 2 (0.082%) Drupal
14 2 (0.082%) EPiServer
Applications
1 63 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (1.65%) Adobe XD
3 39 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
4 28 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
6 17 (0.70%) MS Visio
7 13 (0.54%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.41%) Sketch
9 8 (0.33%) Photoshop
10 6 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
10 6 (0.25%) Trello
11 5 (0.21%) Oracle Smart View
11 5 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.12%) InVision
12 3 (0.12%) Notion
12 3 (0.12%) UserZoom
13 2 (0.082%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.082%) Avid Media Composer
13 2 (0.082%) InDesign
13 2 (0.082%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 48 (1.98%) Oracle ERP
2 21 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (0.70%) Shopify
5 15 (0.62%) SAP ERP
6 8 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
6 8 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
6 8 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
6 8 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
6 8 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
6 8 (0.33%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.21%) NEC Housing
7 5 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.21%) Primavera
8 4 (0.16%) Hyperion Planning
8 4 (0.16%) Markit EDM
9 3 (0.12%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.12%) Maximo
9 3 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 823 (33.91%) Azure
2 530 (21.84%) AWS
3 312 (12.86%) Azure DevOps
4 222 (9.15%) Power Platform
5 216 (8.90%) GitHub
5 216 (8.90%) SaaS
6 165 (6.80%) GCP
7 134 (5.52%) Serverless
8 109 (4.49%) Snowflake
9 92 (3.79%) dbt
10 77 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
11 76 (3.13%) Entra ID
12 75 (3.09%) GitHub Copilot
13 70 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
14 61 (2.51%) Figma
15 57 (2.35%) Amazon S3
16 56 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
17 51 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
18 47 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
18 47 (1.94%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 108 (4.45%) Broadband
2 25 (1.03%) TCP/IP
3 21 (0.87%) DNS
4 16 (0.66%) CHAP
5 14 (0.58%) 4G
6 13 (0.54%) BGP
7 11 (0.45%) Cisco IOS
7 11 (0.45%) Ethernet VPN
7 11 (0.45%) IOS XR
7 11 (0.45%) MPLS
8 10 (0.41%) Firewall
9 8 (0.33%) WAN
9 8 (0.33%) Wireless
10 7 (0.29%) DHCP
10 7 (0.29%) VPN
11 6 (0.25%) Software-Defined Radio
12 5 (0.21%) Network Security
12 5 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.16%) Ethernet
13 4 (0.16%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (6.18%) SQL Server
2 121 (4.99%) Power BI
3 120 (4.94%) Data Warehouse
4 89 (3.67%) NoSQL
5 87 (3.58%) MySQL
6 82 (3.38%) Data Lake
7 76 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
8 75 (3.09%) Relational Database
9 68 (2.80%) MongoDB
10 59 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
11 47 (1.94%) Apache Iceberg
12 46 (1.90%) Amazon Athena
12 46 (1.90%) Tableau
13 43 (1.77%) Apache Arrow
13 43 (1.77%) Dremio
14 39 (1.61%) Metadata
15 33 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
16 30 (1.24%) DynamoDB
17 23 (0.95%) Apache Ignite
17 23 (0.95%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 233 (9.60%) JIRA
2 183 (7.54%) Git
3 118 (4.86%) Jenkins
4 66 (2.72%) Selenium
5 60 (2.47%) GitLab
6 50 (2.06%) Postman
7 48 (1.98%) Oracle Forms
8 42 (1.73%) WebDriver
9 38 (1.57%) Team Foundation Server
10 36 (1.48%) SoapUI
11 34 (1.40%) Cypress.io
12 30 (1.24%) TeamCity
13 29 (1.19%) Balsamiq
14 28 (1.15%) Axure RP
15 24 (0.99%) SonarQube
16 19 (0.78%) Jaeger
17 13 (0.54%) JMeter
18 12 (0.49%) ER Studio
18 12 (0.49%) ERwin
19 10 (0.41%) git-flow
General
1 852 (35.11%) Finance
2 801 (33.00%) Social Skills
3 303 (12.48%) Analytical Skills
4 242 (9.97%) Public Sector
5 215 (8.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 141 (5.81%) Law
7 119 (4.90%) Marketing
8 107 (4.41%) Legal
9 102 (4.20%) Banking
10 81 (3.34%) Front Office
11 72 (2.97%) Games
12 66 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
13 65 (2.68%) Retail
14 62 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
14 62 (2.55%) Telecoms
15 43 (1.77%) Investment Banking
15 43 (1.77%) Manufacturing
16 39 (1.61%) Tech for Good
17 36 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
18 35 (1.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 583 (24.02%) Developer
2 519 (21.38%) Senior
3 281 (11.58%) Lead
4 278 (11.45%) Analyst
5 173 (7.13%) Software Engineer
6 154 (6.35%) Business Analyst
7 149 (6.14%) Architect
8 123 (5.07%) Software Developer
9 121 (4.99%) .NET Developer
10 105 (4.33%) Project Manager
11 87 (3.58%) Senior Developer
12 80 (3.30%) Data Engineer
13 73 (3.01%) Cloud Engineer
13 73 (3.01%) Python Developer
14 71 (2.93%) Senior Manager
15 67 (2.76%) Senior Software Engineer
16 63 (2.60%) C# Developer
16 63 (2.60%) Python Engineer
17 62 (2.55%) Product Manager
18 59 (2.43%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 381 (15.70%) .NET
2 303 (12.48%) React
3 193 (7.95%) HTML
4 175 (7.21%) CSS
5 160 (6.59%) RESTful
6 137 (5.64%) SOAP
7 134 (5.52%) REST
8 120 (4.94%) Node.js
9 102 (4.20%) AngularJS
10 86 (3.54%) .NET Core
11 80 (3.30%) ASP.NET
11 80 (3.30%) Vue
12 75 (3.09%) .NET Framework
13 59 (2.43%) Entity Framework
14 58 (2.39%) Kafka
15 57 (2.35%) Web Services
16 56 (2.31%) Spring
17 50 (2.06%) Spring Boot
18 48 (1.98%) Lightning Web Components
19 47 (1.94%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 316 (13.02%) Product Ownership
2 189 (7.79%) Cloud Native
3 87 (3.58%) Management Information System
4 76 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
5 66 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
6 61 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
7 56 (2.31%) Onboarding
8 55 (2.27%) Mobile App
9 52 (2.14%) Fixed Income
10 51 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
11 49 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 46 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
13 44 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
13 44 (1.81%) Low-Code
14 43 (1.77%) Equities
15 31 (1.28%) Hedge funds
16 30 (1.24%) Social Media
17 28 (1.15%) Derivative
18 27 (1.11%) Data Structures
18 27 (1.11%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 113 (4.66%) Linux
2 66 (2.72%) Windows
3 36 (1.48%) Unix
4 25 (1.03%) Android
4 25 (1.03%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.87%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
7 6 (0.25%) CentOS
8 4 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.16%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.12%) OpenWrt
10 2 (0.082%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.082%) Solaris
10 2 (0.082%) VMS
11 1 (0.041%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 677 (27.89%) DevOps
2 607 (25.01%) Continuous Improvement
3 559 (23.03%) CI/CD
4 506 (20.85%) Mentoring
5 457 (18.83%) Coaching
6 442 (18.21%) Problem-Solving
7 421 (17.35%) Software Engineering
8 392 (16.15%) Scrum
9 386 (15.90%) Roadmaps
10 380 (15.66%) AI
11 302 (12.44%) Analytics
12 282 (11.62%) Test Automation
13 276 (11.37%) Asset Management
14 263 (10.84%) Stakeholder Management
15 245 (10.09%) Microservices
16 239 (9.85%) Project Management
17 210 (8.65%) Data Modelling
18 207 (8.53%) Full-Stack Development
19 203 (8.36%) User Experience
20 192 (7.91%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 562 (23.16%) SQL
2 464 (19.12%) Python
3 382 (15.74%) JavaScript
4 364 (15.00%) C#
5 352 (14.50%) Java
6 252 (10.38%) TypeScript
7 90 (3.71%) PowerShell
8 80 (3.30%) C++
9 76 (3.13%) PHP
10 66 (2.72%) Bash
11 53 (2.18%) Go
12 52 (2.14%) Shell Script
13 50 (2.06%) Apex Code
14 47 (1.94%) C
15 46 (1.90%) Scala
16 44 (1.81%) PL/SQL
17 18 (0.74%) VBA
18 17 (0.70%) T-SQL
19 15 (0.62%) Ruby
19 15 (0.62%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 352 (14.50%) Degree
2 264 (10.88%) Security Cleared
3 191 (7.87%) SC Cleared
4 104 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 62 (2.55%) DV Cleared
6 56 (2.31%) ISTQB
7 50 (2.06%) PMI Certification
8 44 (1.81%) Master's Degree
9 36 (1.48%) AWS Certification
9 36 (1.48%) PMP
10 31 (1.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 29 (1.19%) DBS Check
12 23 (0.95%) CISSP
13 20 (0.82%) Azure Certification
13 20 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
14 19 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
15 17 (0.70%) CISM
15 17 (0.70%) SANS
16 16 (0.66%) CGEIT
16 16 (0.66%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (8.69%) QA
2 181 (7.46%) Accessibility
3 51 (2.10%) WCAG
4 49 (2.02%) GDPR
5 41 (1.69%) Data Quality
6 40 (1.65%) PMO
7 32 (1.32%) NIST
8 18 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 17 (0.70%) COBIT
10 7 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.25%) NCSC
11 6 (0.25%) P3O
11 6 (0.25%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.21%) SLA
13 4 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.082%) ECSS
14 2 (0.082%) GRC
14 2 (0.082%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 1 (0.041%) IFRS
15 1 (0.041%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 186 (7.66%) Docker
2 77 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (0.49%) Firmware
4 12 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.041%) HDFS
8 1 (0.041%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 221 (9.11%) Terraform
2 173 (7.13%) Kubernetes
3 56 (2.31%) Ansible
4 50 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
5 39 (1.61%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.48%) Argo
7 28 (1.15%) Grafana
8 23 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (0.78%) Kustomize
10 11 (0.45%) SCCM
11 7 (0.29%) Kibana
12 4 (0.16%) logstash
12 4 (0.16%) Puppet
13 3 (0.12%) Control-M
13 3 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.082%) Docker Swarm
15 1 (0.041%) HP Fortify
15 1 (0.041%) Rancher
Vendors
1 410 (16.89%) Microsoft
2 94 (3.87%) Oracle
3 92 (3.79%) Google
4 81 (3.34%) SAP
5 79 (3.26%) Databricks
6 78 (3.21%) Salesforce
7 57 (2.35%) Adobe
8 45 (1.85%) Blue Prism
9 36 (1.48%) ServiceNow
10 27 (1.11%) MuleSoft
11 25 (1.03%) Splunk
12 21 (0.87%) Okta
13 20 (0.82%) IBM
14 18 (0.74%) Workday
15 12 (0.49%) Guidewire
16 11 (0.45%) Cisco
17 10 (0.41%) Talend
18 9 (0.37%) Mercator
19 8 (0.33%) IFS
20 7 (0.29%) Informatica