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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,314 3,202 5,222
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 13.29% 18.98% 23.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.43% 20.23% 26.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,212 1,972 2,807
10th Percentile £40,825 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,466 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,079 £66,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% -1.48% +3.74%
75th Percentile £77,688 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £93,634 £132,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £63,076 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.55% - +3.29%

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 20,176 15,827 19,811
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.92% 93.82% 88.13%
Number of salaries quoted 14,403 8,473 11,816
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,750 £35,225
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,375
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,465
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.93% -2.56%

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 2 October 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
1 114 (3.44%) Confluence
2 92 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 28 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 27 (0.81%) CMS
5 18 (0.54%) Apache
6 17 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.42%) WordPress
8 13 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.39%) SAS
9 12 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 10 (0.30%) Jupyter
11 6 (0.18%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.15%) Umbraco
13 4 (0.12%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.12%) Camunda
13 4 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.12%) PowerFactory
14 3 (0.091%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.091%) OpenStack
14 3 (0.091%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 129 (3.89%) Microsoft Project
2 97 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
3 69 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
4 30 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 24 (0.72%) MS Visio
6 23 (0.69%) Chatbot
7 20 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 18 (0.54%) Trello
8 18 (0.54%) UserZoom
9 14 (0.42%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.15%) Revit
10 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.12%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.12%) Simulink
11 4 (0.12%) Windchill
12 3 (0.091%) Blender
12 3 (0.091%) Maya
12 3 (0.091%) Notion
12 3 (0.091%) Productboard
12 3 (0.091%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 76 (2.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.63%) Workfront
3 20 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.33%) Primavera
4 11 (0.33%) Workday HCM
5 10 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.21%) SAP CO
6 7 (0.21%) SAP FI
6 7 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
7 6 (0.18%) Elite 3E
7 6 (0.18%) Shopify
8 5 (0.15%) Fidessa
8 5 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
9 4 (0.12%) Raiser’s Edge
9 4 (0.12%) SAP GRC
10 3 (0.091%) Carpe Diem
10 3 (0.091%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.091%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.091%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,207 (36.42%) Azure
2 843 (25.44%) AWS
3 348 (10.50%) Azure DevOps
4 248 (7.48%) SaaS
5 219 (6.61%) Power Platform
6 206 (6.22%) GCP
7 192 (5.79%) GitHub
8 157 (4.74%) Serverless
9 117 (3.53%) Azure AI
10 99 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
11 91 (2.75%) GitHub Copilot
12 83 (2.50%) Power Automate
13 81 (2.44%) PowerApps
14 79 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
15 69 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
16 67 (2.02%) Microsoft Copilot
17 58 (1.75%) Amazon S3
17 58 (1.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 53 (1.60%) Azure Service Bus
19 50 (1.51%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 98 (2.96%) Broadband
2 41 (1.24%) Network Security
3 20 (0.60%) Internet
4 18 (0.54%) WAN
5 17 (0.51%) LAN
5 17 (0.51%) VPN
6 15 (0.45%) TCP/IP
7 13 (0.39%) VoIP
8 11 (0.33%) 5G
8 11 (0.33%) CTI
8 11 (0.33%) Firewall
9 10 (0.30%) DNS
10 9 (0.27%) SMS
10 9 (0.27%) Unified Communications
11 7 (0.21%) TETRA
11 7 (0.21%) WLAN
12 6 (0.18%) Ethernet
12 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
12 6 (0.18%) RS-232
12 6 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 368 (11.10%) MongoDB
2 358 (10.80%) Azure SQL Database
3 167 (5.04%) SQL Server
4 143 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
4 143 (4.32%) Power BI
5 142 (4.28%) Elasticsearch
6 86 (2.60%) Metadata
7 79 (2.38%) MySQL
8 75 (2.26%) NoSQL
9 73 (2.20%) Relational Database
10 66 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
11 51 (1.54%) DynamoDB
12 49 (1.48%) Data Lake
13 30 (0.91%) Big Data
13 30 (0.91%) Tableau
14 29 (0.88%) Redis
15 21 (0.63%) Spark SQL
15 21 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 20 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
16 20 (0.60%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 280 (8.45%) JIRA
2 217 (6.55%) Git
3 80 (2.41%) GitLab
4 73 (2.20%) Jenkins
5 32 (0.97%) JUnit
6 30 (0.91%) Selenium
7 28 (0.84%) Cypress.io
8 25 (0.75%) Claude Code
9 21 (0.63%) Postman
10 20 (0.60%) Mockito
11 18 (0.54%) Maven
12 16 (0.48%) Visual Studio
13 13 (0.39%) Cucumber
14 12 (0.36%) Bitbucket
15 10 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
15 10 (0.30%) SonarQube
16 8 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 8 (0.24%) Balsamiq
17 7 (0.21%) NUnit
18 6 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,047 (31.59%) Social Skills
2 793 (23.93%) Finance
3 577 (17.41%) Public Sector
4 418 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
5 370 (11.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 276 (8.33%) Law
7 212 (6.40%) Legal
8 191 (5.76%) Retail
9 146 (4.41%) Marketing
10 124 (3.74%) Influencing Skills
11 108 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
12 92 (2.78%) Banking
13 90 (2.72%) Aerospace
14 86 (2.60%) Games
15 84 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
16 56 (1.69%) Advertising
17 51 (1.54%) Manufacturing
18 43 (1.30%) Legal Technology
19 31 (0.94%) Back Office
20 29 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 827 (24.95%) Developer
2 757 (22.84%) Senior
3 359 (10.83%) .NET Developer
4 354 (10.68%) Lead
5 300 (9.05%) Analyst
6 285 (8.60%) Architect
7 248 (7.48%) Project Manager
8 223 (6.73%) Software Engineer
9 202 (6.10%) Business Analyst
10 187 (5.64%) Senior Developer
11 154 (4.65%) Senior Manager
12 135 (4.07%) IT Manager
13 129 (3.89%) Delivery Manager
14 92 (2.78%) Senior Project Manager
15 88 (2.66%) Senior Analyst
16 85 (2.56%) Software Developer
17 82 (2.47%) Data Engineer
17 82 (2.47%) Technical Architect
18 78 (2.35%) Full-Stack Developer
19 76 (2.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 624 (18.83%) .NET
2 413 (12.46%) React
3 379 (11.44%) ASP.NET
4 370 (11.16%) .NET Core
5 344 (10.38%) ASP.NET Core
6 292 (8.81%) Node.js
7 218 (6.58%) RESTful
8 197 (5.94%) CSS
9 196 (5.91%) HTML
10 172 (5.19%) Blazor
11 165 (4.98%) Terraform
12 156 (4.71%) Entity Framework
13 154 (4.65%) AngularJS
14 131 (3.95%) REST
15 125 (3.77%) Vue
16 120 (3.62%) ASP.NET Web API
17 110 (3.32%) Spring
18 105 (3.17%) Middleware
19 95 (2.87%) .NET Framework
20 91 (2.75%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 322 (9.72%) Product Ownership
2 289 (8.72%) Cloud Native
3 162 (4.89%) Enterprise Software
4 100 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
5 99 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
6 81 (2.44%) Social Media
7 80 (2.41%) Management Information System
8 67 (2.02%) Onboarding
9 65 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
10 62 (1.87%) Mobile App
11 60 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
12 54 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
13 47 (1.42%) Driving Licence
14 42 (1.27%) AI Agents
15 36 (1.09%) Blog
16 34 (1.03%) Cyber Defence
16 34 (1.03%) Virtual Team
17 33 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
18 31 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 31 (0.94%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 140 (4.22%) Linux
2 89 (2.69%) Windows
3 53 (1.60%) Unix
4 44 (1.33%) Android
5 21 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.39%) VMS
7 9 (0.27%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.12%) CentOS
9 4 (0.12%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.091%) Debian
11 2 (0.060%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.060%) VxWorks
12 1 (0.030%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 884 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 879 (26.52%) CI/CD
3 846 (25.53%) DevOps
4 759 (22.90%) Mentoring
5 692 (20.88%) AI
6 680 (20.52%) Problem-Solving
7 644 (19.43%) Scrum
8 601 (18.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 585 (17.65%) Coaching
10 552 (16.66%) Full-Stack Development
11 516 (15.57%) Software Engineering
12 479 (14.45%) Microservices
13 473 (14.27%) Roadmaps
14 437 (13.19%) Decision-Making
14 437 (13.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 419 (12.64%) Project Delivery
16 382 (11.53%) Analytics
17 373 (11.26%) Test Automation
18 356 (10.74%) Waterfall
19 354 (10.68%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 822 (24.80%) SQL
2 742 (22.39%) C#
3 535 (16.14%) JavaScript
4 381 (11.50%) Python
5 334 (10.08%) Java
6 302 (9.11%) TypeScript
7 84 (2.53%) C++
8 68 (2.05%) Bash
9 63 (1.90%) PHP
10 53 (1.60%) PowerShell
11 42 (1.27%) Ruby
12 39 (1.18%) Go
13 31 (0.94%) PL/SQL
14 30 (0.91%) C
15 24 (0.72%) T-SQL
16 19 (0.57%) Kotlin
17 18 (0.54%) Bicep
18 15 (0.45%) Rust
19 14 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
19 14 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 536 (16.17%) Security Cleared
2 509 (15.36%) Degree
3 424 (12.79%) SC Cleared
4 108 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 104 (3.14%) CISSP
6 95 (2.87%) CISM
6 95 (2.87%) PMI Certification
7 92 (2.78%) PMP
8 90 (2.72%) DV Cleared
9 83 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 82 (2.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 64 (1.93%) ITIL Certification
12 49 (1.48%) Azure Certification
13 44 (1.33%) DBS Check
14 34 (1.03%) Master's Degree
15 30 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
16 29 (0.88%) AWS Certification
17 28 (0.84%) ISTQB
18 24 (0.72%) CISA
18 24 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 284 (8.57%) Accessibility
2 279 (8.42%) QA
3 179 (5.40%) Data Quality
4 110 (3.32%) NIST
5 108 (3.26%) GDPR
6 77 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 63 (1.90%) PMO
8 52 (1.57%) ISO 22301
9 44 (1.33%) WCAG
10 36 (1.09%) NCSC
11 29 (0.88%) GRC
11 29 (0.88%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 14 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 14 (0.42%) NIST 800
13 12 (0.36%) SOC 2
14 10 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.30%) COBIT
14 10 (0.30%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.30%) SLA
15 9 (0.27%) GxP
System Software
1 307 (9.26%) Docker
2 40 (1.21%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.39%) vSphere
6 12 (0.36%) Firmware
6 12 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.12%) IAG
8 2 (0.060%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.030%) GPFS
9 1 (0.030%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.030%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 287 (8.66%) Kubernetes
2 44 (1.33%) Ansible
3 33 (1.00%) Grafana
4 29 (0.88%) Argo
5 26 (0.78%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.30%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.21%) Packer
9 6 (0.18%) Podman
10 5 (0.15%) Istio
10 5 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.12%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.060%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.060%) Kibana
12 2 (0.060%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.060%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.060%) Puppet
12 2 (0.060%) SQL Sentry
13 1 (0.030%) HP Quality Center
13 1 (0.030%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 797 (24.05%) Microsoft
2 131 (3.95%) Oracle
3 128 (3.86%) Google
4 95 (2.87%) Adobe
5 90 (2.72%) SAP
6 82 (2.47%) YouTube
7 80 (2.41%) Salesforce
8 77 (2.32%) Databricks
9 66 (1.99%) ServiceNow
10 41 (1.24%) Facebook
11 31 (0.94%) OpenAI
12 27 (0.81%) Workday
13 25 (0.75%) Cisco
14 21 (0.63%) VMware
15 20 (0.60%) IFS
16 18 (0.54%) Informatica
16 18 (0.54%) Yahoo!
17 17 (0.51%) Apple
18 16 (0.48%) Sony
19 14 (0.42%) IBM