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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 5 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,430 3,399 7,355
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.07% 20.55% 23.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.43% 22.02% 25.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,330 2,129 5,268
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,328 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,000 £52,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £78,500 £97,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £132,500 £118,750
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 17,655 15,436 28,345
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.70% 93.33% 88.79%
Number of salaries quoted 12,911 9,153 21,561
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

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 13 July 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
1 104 (3.03%) Confluence
2 59 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 42 (1.22%) CMS
4 21 (0.61%) Apache
4 21 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 16 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 16 (0.47%) SAS
6 12 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.26%) Jupyter
7 9 (0.26%) WordPress
8 5 (0.15%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.15%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.12%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.12%) PowerFactory
10 3 (0.087%) Camunda
10 3 (0.087%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.087%) Immediacy CMS
10 3 (0.087%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 122 (3.56%) Microsoft Project
2 95 (2.77%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 46 (1.34%) UserZoom
5 43 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
6 20 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 19 (0.55%) Chatbot
8 16 (0.47%) Trello
9 15 (0.44%) Adobe XD
10 11 (0.32%) MS Visio
11 5 (0.15%) Sketch
12 4 (0.12%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.12%) Revit
12 4 (0.12%) Windchill
13 3 (0.087%) Blender
13 3 (0.087%) Maya
13 3 (0.087%) Productboard
14 2 (0.058%) Photoshop
14 2 (0.058%) PlantUML
14 2 (0.058%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 67 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.17%) Workfront
3 18 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.20%) Elite 3E
5 6 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.17%) Shopify
6 5 (0.15%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.15%) SAP CO
6 5 (0.15%) SAP FI
6 5 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
6 5 (0.15%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.12%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.087%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.087%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.087%) Raiser’s Edge
9 2 (0.058%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,181 (34.43%) Azure
2 835 (24.34%) AWS
3 325 (9.48%) Azure DevOps
4 230 (6.71%) GCP
5 201 (5.86%) SaaS
6 193 (5.63%) Adobe Analytics
7 178 (5.19%) Power Platform
8 174 (5.07%) GitHub
9 157 (4.58%) Azure AI
9 157 (4.58%) Serverless
10 108 (3.15%) Figma
11 81 (2.36%) GitHub Copilot
12 76 (2.22%) PowerApps
13 71 (2.07%) Contentsquare
14 69 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
15 66 (1.92%) Snowflake
16 65 (1.90%) Azure Machine Learning
17 64 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
18 62 (1.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 59 (1.72%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 379 (11.05%) Broadband
2 28 (0.82%) Network Security
3 26 (0.76%) TCP/IP
4 21 (0.61%) Internet
4 21 (0.61%) VPN
5 19 (0.55%) WAN
6 16 (0.47%) LAN
7 15 (0.44%) Firewall
8 14 (0.41%) DNS
8 14 (0.41%) Ethernet
8 14 (0.41%) RS-232
9 13 (0.38%) CHAP
9 13 (0.38%) VoIP
10 11 (0.32%) CTI
11 10 (0.29%) 5G
12 9 (0.26%) SD-WAN
13 8 (0.23%) Wireless
14 7 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
14 7 (0.20%) Intranet
14 7 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 380 (11.08%) MongoDB
2 360 (10.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 190 (5.54%) SQL Server
4 153 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
5 132 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
6 104 (3.03%) Metadata
7 100 (2.92%) NoSQL
8 90 (2.62%) Power BI
9 79 (2.30%) MySQL
10 39 (1.14%) Relational Database
11 34 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (0.99%) DynamoDB
12 30 (0.87%) Data Lake
13 25 (0.73%) Redis
14 22 (0.64%) Big Data
15 19 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (0.55%) BigQuery
15 19 (0.55%) Semantic Layer
15 19 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 18 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 241 (7.03%) JIRA
2 156 (4.55%) Git
3 104 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 101 (2.94%) GitLab
5 41 (1.20%) SonarQube
6 34 (0.99%) Cypress.io
6 34 (0.99%) Selenium
7 22 (0.64%) Postman
8 21 (0.61%) Claude Code
9 19 (0.55%) JUnit
10 16 (0.47%) Cucumber
10 16 (0.47%) Visual Studio
11 15 (0.44%) JMeter
12 13 (0.38%) CircleCI
12 13 (0.38%) Maven
13 12 (0.35%) Mockito
14 11 (0.32%) SpecFlow
15 9 (0.26%) WebDriver
16 8 (0.23%) Bitbucket
16 8 (0.23%) XCUITest
General
1 938 (27.35%) Social Skills
2 804 (23.44%) Finance
3 483 (14.08%) Public Sector
4 345 (10.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 324 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
6 305 (8.89%) Games
7 280 (8.16%) Law
8 190 (5.54%) Marketing
9 179 (5.22%) Legal
10 177 (5.16%) Retail
11 132 (3.85%) Banking
12 92 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
13 77 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
14 73 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
15 61 (1.78%) Advertising
16 49 (1.43%) Front Office
17 46 (1.34%) Legal Technology
18 35 (1.02%) Back Office
19 34 (0.99%) Manufacturing
20 29 (0.85%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 849 (24.75%) Developer
2 684 (19.94%) Senior
3 482 (14.05%) Lead
4 382 (11.14%) .NET Developer
5 297 (8.66%) Architect
6 290 (8.45%) Analyst
7 268 (7.81%) Software Engineer
8 250 (7.29%) Project Manager
9 189 (5.51%) Senior Manager
10 186 (5.42%) Business Analyst
11 126 (3.67%) IT Manager
12 117 (3.41%) Senior Developer
13 110 (3.21%) Delivery Manager
14 109 (3.18%) Software Developer
15 101 (2.94%) Senior Project Manager
16 86 (2.51%) Engineering Manager
17 85 (2.48%) Full-Stack Developer
18 84 (2.45%) Consultant
18 84 (2.45%) Product Owner
19 82 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 600 (17.49%) .NET
2 455 (13.27%) React
3 385 (11.22%) ASP.NET
4 365 (10.64%) .NET Core
5 354 (10.32%) ASP.NET Core
6 311 (9.07%) Node.js
7 219 (6.38%) RESTful
8 204 (5.95%) CSS
9 193 (5.63%) HTML
10 170 (4.96%) Blazor
11 162 (4.72%) AngularJS
12 150 (4.37%) Entity Framework
13 141 (4.11%) Vue
14 128 (3.73%) REST
15 126 (3.67%) ASP.NET Web API
16 96 (2.80%) .NET Framework
17 95 (2.77%) ML.NET
18 85 (2.48%) Kafka
19 83 (2.42%) Spring
20 66 (1.92%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 411 (11.98%) Product Ownership
2 291 (8.48%) Cloud Native
3 249 (7.26%) Social Media
4 128 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
5 103 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
6 86 (2.51%) Mobile App
7 75 (2.19%) Management Information System
8 73 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
8 73 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
9 70 (2.04%) Onboarding
10 60 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
11 55 (1.60%) Marketing Technology
11 55 (1.60%) Over-the-Top Content
12 47 (1.37%) Driving Licence
13 46 (1.34%) Virtual Team
14 41 (1.20%) Fixed Income
15 33 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
16 32 (0.93%) Public Cloud
16 32 (0.93%) Security Posture
17 31 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 155 (4.52%) Linux
2 67 (1.95%) Android
3 64 (1.87%) Windows
4 48 (1.40%) Unix
5 44 (1.28%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.44%) VMS
7 14 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
8 10 (0.29%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.20%) CentOS
10 6 (0.17%) Debian
11 5 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.087%) Windows Server
13 1 (0.029%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 837 (24.40%) DevOps
2 798 (23.27%) CI/CD
2 798 (23.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 764 (22.27%) Roadmaps
4 756 (22.04%) AI
5 751 (21.90%) Mentoring
6 647 (18.86%) Scrum
7 595 (17.35%) Full-Stack Development
8 563 (16.41%) Coaching
9 550 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
10 476 (13.88%) Software Engineering
11 450 (13.12%) Analytics
12 447 (13.03%) Microservices
13 401 (11.69%) Decision-Making
14 392 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
15 385 (11.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 384 (11.20%) Customer Experience
17 379 (11.05%) Test Automation
18 364 (10.61%) Project Management
19 354 (10.32%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 807 (23.53%) SQL
2 690 (20.12%) C#
3 534 (15.57%) JavaScript
4 396 (11.55%) Python
5 389 (11.34%) Java
6 336 (9.80%) TypeScript
7 89 (2.59%) PHP
8 84 (2.45%) C++
9 67 (1.95%) Bash
10 61 (1.78%) Go
11 54 (1.57%) Apex Code
12 44 (1.28%) PowerShell
13 41 (1.20%) C
14 35 (1.02%) Ruby
14 35 (1.02%) SOQL
15 34 (0.99%) SOSL
16 22 (0.64%) VBA
17 21 (0.61%) T-SQL
18 18 (0.52%) PL/SQL
19 17 (0.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 442 (12.89%) Degree
2 384 (11.20%) Security Cleared
3 300 (8.75%) SC Cleared
4 104 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 93 (2.71%) CISSP
6 89 (2.59%) PMI Certification
7 84 (2.45%) PMP
8 80 (2.33%) CISM
9 72 (2.10%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 45 (1.31%) Azure Certification
11 43 (1.25%) DBS Check
11 43 (1.25%) DV Cleared
12 39 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
13 30 (0.87%) CISA
14 27 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
15 26 (0.76%) AWS Certification
16 24 (0.70%) ISTQB
16 24 (0.70%) Master's Degree
17 18 (0.52%) SANS
18 17 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 373 (10.87%) Accessibility
2 270 (7.87%) QA
3 105 (3.06%) Data Quality
4 90 (2.62%) NIST
5 80 (2.33%) WCAG
6 75 (2.19%) GDPR
7 57 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 50 (1.46%) PMO
9 31 (0.90%) GRC
10 30 (0.87%) ISO 22301
11 20 (0.58%) COBIT
11 20 (0.58%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 20 (0.58%) NCSC
12 10 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.29%) NIST 800
12 10 (0.29%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.20%) SLA
13 7 (0.20%) SOC 1
13 7 (0.20%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 286 (8.34%) Docker
2 60 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
3 36 (1.05%) Active Directory
4 15 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.38%) vSphere
6 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.058%) Firmware
8 1 (0.029%) GPFS
8 1 (0.029%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.029%) Lustre
8 1 (0.029%) Xen
Systems Management
1 265 (7.73%) Kubernetes
2 166 (4.84%) Terraform
3 65 (1.90%) Ansible
4 43 (1.25%) Grafana
5 35 (1.02%) Argo
6 33 (0.96%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.35%) Podman
8 10 (0.29%) Kustomize
9 6 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.17%) Puppet
10 5 (0.15%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.15%) Istio
10 5 (0.15%) Packer
11 3 (0.087%) Kibana
11 3 (0.087%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.087%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.058%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.058%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.058%) SCCM
Vendors
1 782 (22.80%) Microsoft
2 265 (7.73%) Adobe
3 145 (4.23%) Google
4 105 (3.06%) Salesforce
5 103 (3.00%) Oracle
6 95 (2.77%) Databricks
7 84 (2.45%) ServiceNow
8 80 (2.33%) SAP
9 40 (1.17%) Facebook
9 40 (1.17%) Splunk
10 27 (0.79%) OpenAI
11 21 (0.61%) YouTube
12 20 (0.58%) Cisco
13 19 (0.55%) Yahoo!
14 18 (0.52%) Apple
15 17 (0.50%) IFS
15 17 (0.50%) Sony
15 17 (0.50%) VMware
16 16 (0.47%) IBM
17 15 (0.44%) MuleSoft