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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,842 3,561 8,020
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.41% 24.36% 24.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.63% 25.63% 27.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,865 2,264 6,028
10th Percentile £41,925 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,500 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,290 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +14.37% -5.84%
75th Percentile £80,000 £99,063 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £130,000 £100,000
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 15,256 13,894 29,639
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.75% 95.05% 91.08%
Number of salaries quoted 10,822 8,909 23,455
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,208 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.35% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

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 11 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 98 (3.45%) Confluence
2 49 (1.72%) CMS
3 42 (1.48%) SharePoint
4 19 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 12 (0.42%) Apache
6 12 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 12 (0.42%) SAS
7 8 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.25%) WordPress
9 6 (0.21%) nginx
9 6 (0.21%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.11%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.11%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.070%) PowerFactory
11 2 (0.070%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.035%) Drupal
12 1 (0.035%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 53 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 41 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
4 35 (1.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 30 (1.06%) UserZoom
6 28 (0.99%) Adobe XD
7 20 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.32%) Chatbot
8 9 (0.32%) MS Visio
8 9 (0.32%) Sketch
9 5 (0.18%) InVision
9 5 (0.18%) Trello
10 4 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.14%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.11%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.070%) Avid Media Composer
12 2 (0.070%) Productboard
12 2 (0.070%) Revit
12 2 (0.070%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.070%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 31 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
2 20 (0.70%) Workfront
3 19 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.53%) SAP ERP
5 8 (0.28%) Shopify
6 6 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.14%) Markit EDM
8 3 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.11%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.070%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.070%) Infor SunSystems
9 2 (0.070%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.070%) SAP PM
9 2 (0.070%) SAP SCM
10 1 (0.035%) Maximo
10 1 (0.035%) NetSuite
10 1 (0.035%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.035%) SAP MM
10 1 (0.035%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 859 (30.23%) Azure
2 637 (22.41%) AWS
3 254 (8.94%) Azure DevOps
4 201 (7.07%) GCP
5 182 (6.40%) Adobe Analytics
6 155 (5.45%) GitHub
7 150 (5.28%) SaaS
8 148 (5.21%) Power Platform
9 147 (5.17%) Serverless
10 127 (4.47%) Figma
11 95 (3.34%) Snowflake
12 92 (3.24%) Azure AI
13 67 (2.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 64 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
14 64 (2.25%) Azure Machine Learning
15 62 (2.18%) Amazon S3
16 58 (2.04%) GitHub Copilot
17 55 (1.94%) Contentsquare
18 48 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
19 44 (1.55%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 387 (13.62%) Broadband
2 27 (0.95%) CHAP
3 24 (0.84%) TCP/IP
4 23 (0.81%) DNS
5 16 (0.56%) Network Security
6 14 (0.49%) 4G
6 14 (0.49%) Ethernet
6 14 (0.49%) RS-232
7 12 (0.42%) Firewall
7 12 (0.42%) WAN
8 11 (0.39%) BGP
8 11 (0.39%) Cisco IOS
8 11 (0.39%) Ethernet VPN
8 11 (0.39%) IOS XR
8 11 (0.39%) LAN
8 11 (0.39%) MPLS
9 8 (0.28%) VPN
10 7 (0.25%) 5G
10 7 (0.25%) DHCP
10 7 (0.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (6.26%) SQL Server
2 155 (5.45%) MongoDB
3 125 (4.40%) Azure SQL Database
4 102 (3.59%) NoSQL
5 91 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
6 84 (2.96%) Power BI
7 81 (2.85%) Metadata
8 56 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
9 55 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
10 54 (1.90%) MySQL
11 45 (1.58%) Relational Database
12 38 (1.34%) Data Lake
13 27 (0.95%) DynamoDB
14 23 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
14 23 (0.81%) Tableau
15 18 (0.63%) RDBMS
16 15 (0.53%) Redis
17 11 (0.39%) Big Data
18 10 (0.35%) BigQuery
18 10 (0.35%) Flink
Development Applications
1 221 (7.78%) JIRA
2 160 (5.63%) Git
3 120 (4.22%) Jenkins
4 103 (3.62%) GitLab
5 53 (1.86%) Selenium
6 42 (1.48%) Postman
7 40 (1.41%) SonarQube
8 32 (1.13%) Cypress.io
9 29 (1.02%) WebDriver
10 28 (0.99%) SoapUI
11 26 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
11 26 (0.91%) TeamCity
12 19 (0.67%) Axure RP
13 18 (0.63%) Balsamiq
13 18 (0.63%) Jaeger
14 17 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
15 15 (0.53%) JMeter
16 14 (0.49%) CircleCI
17 13 (0.46%) SpecFlow
18 11 (0.39%) Cucumber
General
1 802 (28.22%) Finance
2 789 (27.76%) Social Skills
3 376 (13.23%) Public Sector
4 300 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
5 290 (10.20%) Games
6 287 (10.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 197 (6.93%) Law
8 157 (5.52%) Banking
9 156 (5.49%) Marketing
10 130 (4.57%) Legal
11 119 (4.19%) Retail
12 72 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
13 57 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
14 56 (1.97%) Front Office
15 52 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
16 51 (1.79%) Telecoms
17 39 (1.37%) Manufacturing
18 35 (1.23%) Back Office
19 34 (1.20%) Financial Institution
20 30 (1.06%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 568 (19.99%) Developer
2 565 (19.88%) Senior
3 456 (16.05%) Lead
4 275 (9.68%) Analyst
5 203 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 191 (6.72%) Architect
7 181 (6.37%) Business Analyst
8 161 (5.67%) Project Manager
9 147 (5.17%) .NET Developer
10 140 (4.93%) Senior Manager
11 115 (4.05%) Software Developer
12 95 (3.34%) Designer
13 83 (2.92%) C# Developer
14 81 (2.85%) Delivery Manager
15 80 (2.81%) Lead Developer
16 78 (2.74%) Engineering Manager
17 75 (2.64%) Product Manager
18 74 (2.60%) Graduate
19 73 (2.57%) Consultant
19 73 (2.57%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 357 (12.56%) .NET
2 324 (11.40%) React
3 168 (5.91%) Node.js
4 161 (5.67%) CSS
5 158 (5.56%) HTML
6 140 (4.93%) .NET Core
7 137 (4.82%) ASP.NET
8 133 (4.68%) RESTful
9 124 (4.36%) REST
10 121 (4.26%) ASP.NET Core
11 103 (3.62%) SOAP
12 94 (3.31%) AngularJS
13 78 (2.74%) Kafka
14 76 (2.67%) Vue
15 69 (2.43%) Lightning Web Components
16 64 (2.25%) Spring
17 63 (2.22%) Entity Framework
18 53 (1.86%) GraphQL
19 52 (1.83%) Blazor
19 52 (1.83%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 402 (14.14%) Product Ownership
2 240 (8.44%) Cloud Native
3 214 (7.53%) Social Media
4 83 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
5 80 (2.81%) Mobile App
6 74 (2.60%) Onboarding
7 64 (2.25%) Management Information System
8 57 (2.01%) Over-the-Top Content
9 55 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
10 50 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
11 46 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
12 44 (1.55%) Fixed Income
13 42 (1.48%) Virtual Team
14 39 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
15 36 (1.27%) Marketing Technology
16 33 (1.16%) Low-Code
17 31 (1.09%) Driving Licence
18 30 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
18 30 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
19 29 (1.02%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 135 (4.75%) Linux
2 64 (2.25%) Android
3 47 (1.65%) Apple iOS
4 46 (1.62%) Windows
5 43 (1.51%) Unix
6 14 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
7 8 (0.28%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.25%) CentOS
9 5 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.14%) Debian
11 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.11%) VMS
12 2 (0.070%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.035%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 677 (23.82%) DevOps
2 665 (23.40%) Mentoring
3 648 (22.80%) Continuous Improvement
4 635 (22.34%) Roadmaps
5 634 (22.31%) CI/CD
6 567 (19.95%) AI
7 520 (18.30%) Scrum
8 503 (17.70%) Coaching
9 436 (15.34%) Analytics
9 436 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
10 368 (12.95%) Software Engineering
11 336 (11.82%) Full-Stack Development
12 328 (11.54%) Test Automation
13 300 (10.56%) Customer Experience
14 294 (10.34%) Project Management
15 280 (9.85%) Decision-Making
16 276 (9.71%) Stakeholder Management
17 269 (9.47%) Microservices
18 268 (9.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 266 (9.36%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 572 (20.13%) SQL
2 410 (14.43%) Python
3 398 (14.00%) C#
4 388 (13.65%) Java
5 347 (12.21%) JavaScript
6 240 (8.44%) TypeScript
7 89 (3.13%) PHP
8 80 (2.81%) Go
9 78 (2.74%) C++
10 70 (2.46%) Apex Code
11 54 (1.90%) Bash
12 44 (1.55%) C
13 39 (1.37%) PowerShell
14 36 (1.27%) Scala
15 35 (1.23%) SOQL
16 34 (1.20%) SOSL
17 24 (0.84%) PL/SQL
18 19 (0.67%) VBA
19 18 (0.63%) Embedded C
19 18 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 368 (12.95%) Degree
2 318 (11.19%) Security Cleared
3 228 (8.02%) SC Cleared
4 86 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 72 (2.53%) PMI Certification
6 60 (2.11%) PMP
7 58 (2.04%) DV Cleared
8 55 (1.94%) CISSP
9 46 (1.62%) ISTQB
10 45 (1.58%) DBS Check
11 41 (1.44%) CISM
12 33 (1.16%) CISA
13 32 (1.13%) SANS
14 31 (1.09%) AWS Certification
15 27 (0.95%) CGEIT
15 27 (0.95%) FFIEC
16 24 (0.84%) Azure Certification
17 18 (0.63%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 18 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 17 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 347 (12.21%) Accessibility
2 230 (8.09%) QA
3 90 (3.17%) WCAG
4 72 (2.53%) Data Quality
5 58 (2.04%) NIST
6 56 (1.97%) GDPR
7 35 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 29 (1.02%) COBIT
8 29 (1.02%) PMO
9 22 (0.77%) GRC
10 10 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
10 10 (0.35%) NCSC
11 8 (0.28%) 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
1 234 (8.23%) Docker
2 59 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
3 45 (1.58%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.21%) 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 (0.035%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.035%) vSphere
8 1 (0.035%) Xen
Systems Management
1 233 (8.20%) Kubernetes
2 208 (7.32%) Terraform
3 84 (2.96%) Ansible
4 45 (1.58%) Argo
5 41 (1.44%) Grafana
6 40 (1.41%) Prometheus
7 22 (0.77%) Kustomize
8 17 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.42%) 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
1 500 (17.59%) Microsoft
2 248 (8.73%) Adobe
3 127 (4.47%) Google
4 111 (3.91%) Salesforce
5 110 (3.87%) Databricks
6 78 (2.74%) Oracle
7 65 (2.29%) SAP
8 63 (2.22%) ServiceNow
9 38 (1.34%) Splunk
10 19 (0.67%) IBM
11 16 (0.56%) Cisco
12 14 (0.49%) Facebook
12 14 (0.49%) MuleSoft
13 12 (0.42%) Okta
14 10 (0.35%) Apple
14 10 (0.35%) Red Hat
14 10 (0.35%) VMware
15 9 (0.32%) Atlassian
15 9 (0.32%) Foundry
16 7 (0.25%) Planon