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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,437 3,968 6,924
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.27% 24.84% 25.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.61% 26.27% 27.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,698 2,308 5,821
10th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +12.00% -3.94%
75th Percentile £82,241 £95,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £63,749
% change year-on-year -3.70% +5.88% -5.56%

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 13,835 15,102 25,325
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.68% 94.55% 92.81%
Number of salaries quoted 8,819 8,974 20,920
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £34,759
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £58,478
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.73% -6.43%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 5 February 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 90 (3.69%) Confluence
2 44 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (1.81%) SharePoint
3 24 (0.98%) Apache
3 24 (0.98%) CMS
4 17 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 11 (0.45%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.41%) SAS
7 8 (0.33%) nginx
8 6 (0.25%) IIS
9 5 (0.21%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.21%) WordPress
10 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.12%) WebLogic Portal
11 2 (0.082%) Luigi
11 2 (0.082%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 61 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (1.56%) Adobe XD
3 37 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
4 27 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.66%) MS Visio
7 13 (0.53%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.45%) Sketch
9 6 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
9 6 (0.25%) Photoshop
10 5 (0.21%) Oracle Smart View
10 5 (0.21%) Trello
11 4 (0.16%) InVision
11 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.16%) UserZoom
12 3 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.12%) Notion
13 2 (0.082%) Avid Media Composer
13 2 (0.082%) InDesign
13 2 (0.082%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 48 (1.97%) Oracle ERP
2 22 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.70%) Shopify
5 15 (0.62%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
6 9 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
7 8 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
7 8 (0.33%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.21%) NEC Housing
8 5 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.21%) Primavera
9 4 (0.16%) Hyperion Planning
9 4 (0.16%) Markit EDM
10 3 (0.12%) Maximo
10 3 (0.12%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 818 (33.57%) Azure
2 522 (21.42%) AWS
3 300 (12.31%) Azure DevOps
4 222 (9.11%) Power Platform
5 216 (8.86%) GitHub
6 210 (8.62%) SaaS
7 164 (6.73%) GCP
8 130 (5.33%) Serverless
9 101 (4.14%) Snowflake
10 81 (3.32%) dbt
11 75 (3.08%) GitHub Copilot
12 74 (3.04%) Entra ID
12 74 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
13 68 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
14 65 (2.67%) Figma
15 59 (2.42%) Amazon S3
16 56 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
17 51 (2.09%) GitHub Actions
18 47 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
19 45 (1.85%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 142 (5.83%) Broadband
2 26 (1.07%) TCP/IP
3 19 (0.78%) DNS
4 18 (0.74%) CHAP
5 14 (0.57%) 4G
6 11 (0.45%) BGP
6 11 (0.45%) Cisco IOS
6 11 (0.45%) Ethernet VPN
6 11 (0.45%) IOS XR
6 11 (0.45%) MPLS
7 9 (0.37%) WAN
8 8 (0.33%) Firewall
9 7 (0.29%) DHCP
9 7 (0.29%) VPN
10 5 (0.21%) Ethernet
10 5 (0.21%) RS-232
10 5 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.16%) Network Security
11 4 (0.16%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.16%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (5.91%) SQL Server
2 121 (4.97%) Power BI
3 114 (4.68%) Data Warehouse
4 87 (3.57%) NoSQL
5 80 (3.28%) MySQL
6 75 (3.08%) Relational Database
7 73 (3.00%) Data Lake
8 71 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
9 67 (2.75%) MongoDB
10 57 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
11 46 (1.89%) Tableau
12 40 (1.64%) Metadata
13 33 (1.35%) Apache Iceberg
14 32 (1.31%) Amazon Athena
15 29 (1.19%) Apache Arrow
15 29 (1.19%) Dremio
15 29 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
16 26 (1.07%) DynamoDB
17 22 (0.90%) RDBMS
18 19 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 223 (9.15%) JIRA
2 180 (7.39%) Git
3 125 (5.13%) Jenkins
4 68 (2.79%) GitLab
5 59 (2.42%) Selenium
6 48 (1.97%) Oracle Forms
7 43 (1.76%) Postman
8 40 (1.64%) WebDriver
9 35 (1.44%) Team Foundation Server
10 33 (1.35%) SoapUI
11 32 (1.31%) SonarQube
12 31 (1.27%) Cypress.io
13 30 (1.23%) TeamCity
14 26 (1.07%) Balsamiq
15 25 (1.03%) Axure RP
16 19 (0.78%) Jaeger
17 12 (0.49%) ER Studio
17 12 (0.49%) ERwin
18 11 (0.45%) JMeter
19 10 (0.41%) git-flow
General
1 830 (34.06%) Finance
2 791 (32.46%) Social Skills
3 295 (12.11%) Analytical Skills
4 264 (10.83%) Public Sector
5 218 (8.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 136 (5.58%) Law
7 118 (4.84%) Marketing
8 106 (4.35%) Games
9 102 (4.19%) Legal
10 98 (4.02%) Banking
11 66 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
12 65 (2.67%) Front Office
12 65 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
13 64 (2.63%) Retail
14 61 (2.50%) Telecoms
15 41 (1.68%) Manufacturing
16 35 (1.44%) Investment Banking
16 35 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
16 35 (1.44%) Tech for Good
17 32 (1.31%) Billing
Job Titles
1 571 (23.43%) Developer
2 527 (21.62%) Senior
3 297 (12.19%) Lead
4 271 (11.12%) Analyst
5 160 (6.57%) Software Engineer
6 155 (6.36%) Business Analyst
7 154 (6.32%) Architect
8 122 (5.01%) Software Developer
9 120 (4.92%) .NET Developer
10 107 (4.39%) Project Manager
11 85 (3.49%) Senior Manager
12 81 (3.32%) Data Engineer
13 79 (3.24%) Senior Developer
14 74 (3.04%) Cloud Engineer
15 65 (2.67%) C# Developer
16 64 (2.63%) Python Developer
17 62 (2.54%) Product Manager
18 61 (2.50%) Designer
18 61 (2.50%) Senior Software Engineer
19 59 (2.42%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 377 (15.47%) .NET
2 290 (11.90%) React
3 185 (7.59%) HTML
4 166 (6.81%) CSS
5 150 (6.16%) RESTful
6 144 (5.91%) REST
7 141 (5.79%) SOAP
8 109 (4.47%) Node.js
9 96 (3.94%) AngularJS
10 86 (3.53%) .NET Core
11 77 (3.16%) ASP.NET
12 74 (3.04%) Vue
13 72 (2.95%) .NET Framework
14 60 (2.46%) Spring
15 58 (2.38%) Entity Framework
15 58 (2.38%) Lightning Web Components
16 57 (2.34%) Kafka
17 56 (2.30%) Web Services
18 54 (2.22%) Spring Boot
19 46 (1.89%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 329 (13.50%) Product Ownership
2 183 (7.51%) Cloud Native
3 80 (3.28%) Management Information System
4 70 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
5 69 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
6 60 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
7 59 (2.42%) Onboarding
8 57 (2.34%) Mobile App
9 55 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
10 52 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
11 50 (2.05%) Social Media
12 49 (2.01%) Low-Code
13 46 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
14 40 (1.64%) Fixed Income
15 34 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 31 (1.27%) Equities
17 29 (1.19%) Data Structures
18 28 (1.15%) NHS
19 25 (1.03%) Video\Live Streaming
20 23 (0.94%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 110 (4.51%) Linux
2 65 (2.67%) Windows
3 36 (1.48%) Unix
4 33 (1.35%) Android
5 31 (1.27%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.86%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.25%) CentOS
7 6 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
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
1 667 (27.37%) DevOps
2 619 (25.40%) Continuous Improvement
3 574 (23.55%) CI/CD
4 526 (21.58%) Mentoring
5 478 (19.61%) Coaching
6 429 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
7 411 (16.86%) Roadmaps
8 410 (16.82%) Software Engineering
9 404 (16.58%) AI
10 394 (16.17%) Scrum
11 315 (12.93%) Analytics
12 275 (11.28%) Test Automation
13 271 (11.12%) Stakeholder Management
14 260 (10.67%) Asset Management
15 245 (10.05%) Project Management
16 242 (9.93%) Microservices
17 211 (8.66%) Data Modelling
18 207 (8.49%) User Experience
19 205 (8.41%) Full-Stack Development
20 189 (7.76%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 557 (22.86%) SQL
2 453 (18.59%) Python
3 367 (15.06%) JavaScript
4 359 (14.73%) C#
5 345 (14.16%) Java
6 235 (9.64%) TypeScript
7 89 (3.65%) PowerShell
8 73 (3.00%) C++
9 72 (2.95%) PHP
10 67 (2.75%) Bash
11 60 (2.46%) Apex Code
12 52 (2.13%) Shell Script
13 51 (2.09%) Go
14 44 (1.81%) C
14 44 (1.81%) Scala
15 43 (1.76%) PL/SQL
16 23 (0.94%) SOQL
16 23 (0.94%) SOSL
17 21 (0.86%) VBA
18 17 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 341 (13.99%) Degree
2 277 (11.37%) Security Cleared
3 198 (8.12%) SC Cleared
4 98 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 67 (2.75%) DV Cleared
6 50 (2.05%) ISTQB
7 47 (1.93%) PMI Certification
8 41 (1.68%) Master's Degree
9 37 (1.52%) AWS Certification
10 34 (1.40%) PMP
11 28 (1.15%) DBS Check
12 27 (1.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 25 (1.03%) CISSP
14 20 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
15 19 (0.78%) CISM
15 19 (0.78%) SANS
16 18 (0.74%) Azure Certification
16 18 (0.74%) CGEIT
16 18 (0.74%) CISA
16 18 (0.74%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (8.37%) QA
2 200 (8.21%) Accessibility
3 49 (2.01%) GDPR
3 49 (2.01%) WCAG
4 40 (1.64%) Data Quality
5 33 (1.35%) PMO
6 32 (1.31%) NIST
7 19 (0.78%) COBIT
7 19 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.25%) P3O
9 6 (0.25%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.21%) NCSC
11 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.12%) SLA
12 2 (0.082%) ECSS
12 2 (0.082%) GRC
12 2 (0.082%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.082%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 1 (0.041%) NIST 800
System Software
1 190 (7.80%) Docker
2 73 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.29%) Firmware
6 6 (0.25%) 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
1 223 (9.15%) Terraform
2 180 (7.39%) Kubernetes
3 56 (2.30%) Ansible
4 49 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
5 37 (1.52%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.44%) Argo
7 26 (1.07%) Grafana
8 23 (0.94%) 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%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.16%) Puppet
13 3 (0.12%) Control-M
13 3 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 2 (0.082%) Docker Swarm
15 1 (0.041%) HP Fortify
15 1 (0.041%) Packer
15 1 (0.041%) Rancher
Vendors
1 409 (16.78%) Microsoft
2 94 (3.86%) Oracle
3 91 (3.73%) Google
4 90 (3.69%) Salesforce
5 83 (3.41%) SAP
6 79 (3.24%) Databricks
7 73 (3.00%) Adobe
8 45 (1.85%) Blue Prism
9 40 (1.64%) ServiceNow
10 33 (1.35%) Splunk
11 29 (1.19%) MuleSoft
12 21 (0.86%) Okta
13 20 (0.82%) IBM
14 19 (0.78%) Workday
15 11 (0.45%) Cisco
16 10 (0.41%) Guidewire
16 10 (0.41%) Talend
17 9 (0.37%) Mercator
18 8 (0.33%) IFS
19 7 (0.29%) Telerik