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

 6 months to
28 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,521 3,694 6,927
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.32% 24.69% 24.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.87% 25.97% 26.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,704 2,242 5,802
10th Percentile £38,750 £44,296 £42,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £54,439 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,241 £95,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £95,063
UK median annual salary £65,000 £68,338 £62,783
% change year-on-year -4.88% +8.85% -5.99%

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 14,107 14,225 25,790
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.74% 95.08% 92.67%
Number of salaries quoted 9,181 8,743 21,428
10th Percentile £31,000 £35,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £76,250
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 28 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 84 (3.33%) Confluence
2 41 (1.63%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.15%) CMS
4 28 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.63%) Apache
6 14 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 11 (0.44%) SAS
8 8 (0.32%) Apache Spark
9 7 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.28%) nginx
10 6 (0.24%) IIS
10 6 (0.24%) WordPress
11 5 (0.20%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.12%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.12%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.12%) WebLogic Portal
13 2 (0.079%) Mendix
Applications
1 50 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (1.47%) Adobe XD
3 33 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.56%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.56%) MS Visio
7 13 (0.52%) UserZoom
8 10 (0.40%) Sketch
9 6 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
9 6 (0.24%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.24%) Trello
10 4 (0.16%) InVision
10 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.079%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.079%) Avid Media Composer
11 2 (0.079%) InDesign
11 2 (0.079%) Oracle Smart View
11 2 (0.079%) Pro Tools
12 1 (0.040%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 39 (1.55%) Oracle ERP
2 22 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 18 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 16 (0.63%) Shopify
5 15 (0.60%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.20%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.16%) Markit EDM
7 4 (0.16%) Primavera
8 3 (0.12%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.12%) Maximo
8 3 (0.12%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.079%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.079%) SAP IBP
9 2 (0.079%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 789 (31.30%) Azure
2 559 (22.17%) AWS
3 276 (10.95%) Azure DevOps
4 215 (8.53%) Power Platform
5 206 (8.17%) GitHub
6 187 (7.42%) SaaS
7 178 (7.06%) GCP
8 131 (5.20%) Serverless
9 88 (3.49%) Figma
10 82 (3.25%) Snowflake
11 78 (3.09%) Adobe Analytics
12 71 (2.82%) dbt
13 70 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
14 69 (2.74%) GitHub Copilot
15 66 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
15 66 (2.62%) Entra ID
16 64 (2.54%) Amazon S3
17 55 (2.18%) Azure Data Factory
18 54 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
19 47 (1.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 217 (8.61%) Broadband
2 29 (1.15%) TCP/IP
3 21 (0.83%) CHAP
4 20 (0.79%) DNS
5 14 (0.56%) 4G
6 11 (0.44%) BGP
6 11 (0.44%) Cisco IOS
6 11 (0.44%) Ethernet VPN
6 11 (0.44%) IOS XR
6 11 (0.44%) MPLS
6 11 (0.44%) WAN
7 10 (0.40%) DHCP
8 8 (0.32%) Ethernet
8 8 (0.32%) Firewall
8 8 (0.32%) RS-232
9 6 (0.24%) LAN
9 6 (0.24%) VPN
10 5 (0.20%) Network Security
10 5 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.16%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (5.08%) SQL Server
2 111 (4.40%) Power BI
3 99 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
4 95 (3.77%) NoSQL
5 76 (3.01%) MySQL
6 75 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
7 70 (2.78%) Relational Database
8 64 (2.54%) MongoDB
9 60 (2.38%) Data Lake
10 46 (1.82%) Metadata
11 44 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
12 36 (1.43%) Tableau
13 24 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
14 21 (0.83%) RDBMS
15 20 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
15 20 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
16 18 (0.71%) Apache Iceberg
16 18 (0.71%) DynamoDB
17 15 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 15 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 207 (8.21%) JIRA
2 179 (7.10%) Git
3 129 (5.12%) Jenkins
4 80 (3.17%) GitLab
5 56 (2.22%) Selenium
6 42 (1.67%) SonarQube
7 41 (1.63%) Postman
8 38 (1.51%) WebDriver
9 36 (1.43%) Oracle Forms
10 29 (1.15%) Cypress.io
10 29 (1.15%) SoapUI
10 29 (1.15%) TeamCity
11 28 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
12 26 (1.03%) Balsamiq
13 25 (0.99%) Axure RP
14 19 (0.75%) Jaeger
15 12 (0.48%) Cucumber
16 11 (0.44%) JMeter
17 10 (0.40%) SpecFlow
18 9 (0.36%) git-flow
General
1 812 (32.21%) Finance
2 781 (30.98%) Social Skills
3 309 (12.26%) Public Sector
4 290 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
5 251 (9.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 178 (7.06%) Games
7 152 (6.03%) Law
8 115 (4.56%) Marketing
9 113 (4.48%) Legal
10 105 (4.17%) Banking
11 69 (2.74%) Front Office
11 69 (2.74%) Retail
12 67 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
13 64 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
14 61 (2.42%) Telecoms
15 47 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
16 43 (1.71%) Manufacturing
17 30 (1.19%) Financial Institution
18 29 (1.15%) Tech for Good
19 28 (1.11%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 552 (21.90%) Developer
2 524 (20.79%) Senior
3 369 (14.64%) Lead
4 257 (10.19%) Analyst
5 194 (7.70%) Software Engineer
6 167 (6.62%) Architect
7 153 (6.07%) Business Analyst
8 111 (4.40%) Project Manager
9 110 (4.36%) Software Developer
10 105 (4.17%) Senior Manager
11 98 (3.89%) .NET Developer
12 80 (3.17%) Lead Developer
13 79 (3.13%) Data Engineer
14 73 (2.90%) Consultant
15 70 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
15 70 (2.78%) Designer
16 64 (2.54%) C# Developer
16 64 (2.54%) Delivery Manager
17 63 (2.50%) Full-Stack Developer
18 57 (2.26%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 340 (13.49%) .NET
2 289 (11.46%) React
3 178 (7.06%) HTML
4 161 (6.39%) CSS
5 151 (5.99%) REST
6 144 (5.71%) SOAP
7 142 (5.63%) RESTful
8 116 (4.60%) Node.js
9 94 (3.73%) AngularJS
10 84 (3.33%) Kafka
11 76 (3.01%) .NET Core
12 75 (2.98%) Lightning Web Components
13 68 (2.70%) Vue
14 67 (2.66%) Spring
15 66 (2.62%) .NET Framework
16 60 (2.38%) Spring Boot
17 57 (2.26%) GraphQL
18 56 (2.22%) ASP.NET
19 52 (2.06%) Visualforce
20 50 (1.98%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 339 (13.45%) Product Ownership
2 203 (8.05%) Cloud Native
3 93 (3.69%) Social Media
4 72 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
5 71 (2.82%) Mobile App
6 67 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
7 66 (2.62%) Management Information System
8 65 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
9 64 (2.54%) Onboarding
10 56 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
11 52 (2.06%) Fixed Income
12 50 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
13 48 (1.90%) Low-Code
14 37 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
15 29 (1.15%) NHS
16 28 (1.11%) Data Structures
17 26 (1.03%) Public Cloud
18 25 (0.99%) Video\Live Streaming
19 24 (0.95%) Over-the-Top Content
19 24 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 119 (4.72%) Linux
2 58 (2.30%) Windows
3 53 (2.10%) Android
4 48 (1.90%) Apple iOS
5 37 (1.47%) Unix
6 16 (0.63%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
8 6 (0.24%) CentOS
9 4 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.16%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.12%) OpenWrt
11 2 (0.079%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.079%) VMS
12 1 (0.040%) AIX
12 1 (0.040%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 674 (26.74%) DevOps
2 639 (25.35%) Continuous Improvement
3 595 (23.60%) CI/CD
4 586 (23.24%) Mentoring
5 504 (19.99%) Coaching
6 461 (18.29%) Roadmaps
7 428 (16.98%) AI
8 427 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
9 419 (16.62%) Software Engineering
10 410 (16.26%) Scrum
11 351 (13.92%) Analytics
12 294 (11.66%) Test Automation
13 261 (10.35%) Stakeholder Management
14 251 (9.96%) Project Management
15 240 (9.52%) Microservices
16 227 (9.00%) Full-Stack Development
17 211 (8.37%) User Experience
18 204 (8.09%) Data Modelling
19 198 (7.85%) Asset Management
20 191 (7.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 520 (20.63%) SQL
2 440 (17.45%) Python
3 378 (14.99%) Java
4 348 (13.80%) JavaScript
5 324 (12.85%) C#
6 227 (9.00%) TypeScript
7 77 (3.05%) Apex Code
8 75 (2.98%) PowerShell
9 73 (2.90%) Go
10 65 (2.58%) PHP
11 63 (2.50%) C++
12 61 (2.42%) Bash
13 46 (1.82%) C
14 41 (1.63%) Shell Script
15 38 (1.51%) Scala
16 36 (1.43%) PL/SQL
17 33 (1.31%) SOQL
17 33 (1.31%) SOSL
18 21 (0.83%) VBA
19 17 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 344 (13.65%) Degree
2 315 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 226 (8.96%) SC Cleared
4 86 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 67 (2.66%) DV Cleared
6 54 (2.14%) PMI Certification
7 42 (1.67%) ISTQB
8 41 (1.63%) PMP
9 39 (1.55%) Master's Degree
10 35 (1.39%) CISSP
11 32 (1.27%) AWS Certification
12 30 (1.19%) DBS Check
13 25 (0.99%) SANS
14 23 (0.91%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 22 (0.87%) CISM
16 21 (0.83%) CGEIT
16 21 (0.83%) CISA
16 21 (0.83%) FFIEC
17 20 (0.79%) Azure Certification
17 20 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 245 (9.72%) Accessibility
2 213 (8.45%) QA
3 61 (2.42%) WCAG
4 53 (2.10%) GDPR
5 44 (1.75%) Data Quality
6 37 (1.47%) NIST
7 30 (1.19%) PMO
8 22 (0.87%) COBIT
9 19 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 10 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.24%) P3O
12 5 (0.20%) GRC
13 4 (0.16%) NCSC
13 4 (0.16%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.12%) SLA
15 2 (0.079%) ECSS
15 2 (0.079%) HL7
15 2 (0.079%) IFRS
15 2 (0.079%) MiFID
System Software
1 210 (8.33%) Docker
2 69 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.24%) Firmware
5 6 (0.24%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
7 4 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.040%) vCloud
8 1 (0.040%) Xen
Systems Management
1 222 (8.81%) Terraform
2 197 (7.81%) Kubernetes
3 62 (2.46%) Ansible
4 39 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
5 38 (1.51%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.39%) Argo
6 35 (1.39%) Grafana
7 19 (0.75%) Kustomize
8 17 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (0.32%) Kibana
9 8 (0.32%) SCCM
10 5 (0.20%) AWS Copilot
11 4 (0.16%) logstash
12 3 (0.12%) Control-M
12 3 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 2 (0.079%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.079%) Opsgenie
13 2 (0.079%) Packer
13 2 (0.079%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.079%) Puppet
Vendors
1 395 (15.67%) Microsoft
2 120 (4.76%) Adobe
3 112 (4.44%) Salesforce
4 104 (4.13%) Google
5 82 (3.25%) Oracle
6 72 (2.86%) Databricks
6 72 (2.86%) SAP
7 48 (1.90%) ServiceNow
8 45 (1.79%) Blue Prism
9 43 (1.71%) Splunk
10 29 (1.15%) MuleSoft
11 21 (0.83%) Okta
12 20 (0.79%) IBM
13 15 (0.60%) Workday
14 13 (0.52%) Cisco
15 10 (0.40%) Atlassian
15 10 (0.40%) Talend
16 9 (0.36%) Mercator
17 8 (0.32%) PagerDuty
17 8 (0.32%) Xamarin
1,176 hybrid/remote Agile jobs