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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,283 3,366 7,833
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.84% 21.18% 23.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.28% 22.57% 26.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,226 2,100 5,720
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £78,750 £98,474 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £132,500 £112,500
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 17,029 14,914 29,776
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.18% 93.86% 89.06%
Number of salaries quoted 12,466 8,777 22,909
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,809 £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 £75,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%

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 1 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
1 103 (3.14%) Confluence
2 57 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 43 (1.31%) CMS
4 21 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.58%) Apache
6 16 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 16 (0.49%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.37%) SAS
8 9 (0.27%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.24%) WordPress
10 5 (0.15%) Umbraco
11 4 (0.12%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.12%) PowerFactory
12 3 (0.091%) Camunda
12 3 (0.091%) Kentico
12 3 (0.091%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.091%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.091%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 116 (3.53%) Microsoft Project
2 93 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.64%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 46 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
4 46 (1.40%) UserZoom
5 22 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 16 (0.49%) Adobe XD
7 14 (0.43%) Chatbot
7 14 (0.43%) Trello
8 11 (0.34%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.15%) Sketch
10 4 (0.12%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.12%) Revit
10 4 (0.12%) Windchill
11 3 (0.091%) Blender
11 3 (0.091%) Maya
11 3 (0.091%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.091%) Productboard
12 2 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.061%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 65 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.22%) Workfront
3 20 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.18%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.18%) Shopify
5 5 (0.15%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.12%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.12%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.12%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.091%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.091%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.091%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.091%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.061%) Carpe Diem
8 2 (0.061%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 1,084 (33.02%) Azure
2 772 (23.52%) AWS
3 304 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
4 226 (6.88%) GCP
5 193 (5.88%) Adobe Analytics
6 172 (5.24%) Power Platform
7 169 (5.15%) SaaS
8 162 (4.93%) GitHub
9 154 (4.69%) Serverless
10 150 (4.57%) Azure AI
11 108 (3.29%) Figma
12 72 (2.19%) PowerApps
13 71 (2.16%) Contentsquare
14 70 (2.13%) GitHub Copilot
15 65 (1.98%) Azure Machine Learning
15 65 (1.98%) Snowflake
16 63 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
17 62 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
18 61 (1.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 59 (1.80%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 405 (12.34%) Broadband
2 27 (0.82%) Network Security
2 27 (0.82%) TCP/IP
3 21 (0.64%) VPN
4 20 (0.61%) Internet
5 18 (0.55%) WAN
6 15 (0.46%) CHAP
6 15 (0.46%) Ethernet
6 15 (0.46%) Firewall
6 15 (0.46%) LAN
6 15 (0.46%) RS-232
7 14 (0.43%) DNS
8 13 (0.40%) 4G
9 10 (0.30%) 5G
9 10 (0.30%) BGP
9 10 (0.30%) Cisco IOS
9 10 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
9 10 (0.30%) IOS XR
9 10 (0.30%) MPLS
10 9 (0.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 347 (10.57%) MongoDB
2 328 (9.99%) Azure SQL Database
3 181 (5.51%) SQL Server
4 139 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
5 129 (3.93%) PostgreSQL
6 105 (3.20%) NoSQL
7 102 (3.11%) Metadata
8 88 (2.68%) Power BI
9 76 (2.31%) MySQL
10 43 (1.31%) Relational Database
11 33 (1.01%) DynamoDB
12 30 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
13 28 (0.85%) Data Lake
14 23 (0.70%) Redis
15 19 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (0.58%) Big Data
15 19 (0.58%) BigQuery
16 18 (0.55%) Semantic Layer
16 18 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 18 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 229 (6.98%) JIRA
2 161 (4.90%) Git
3 115 (3.50%) Jenkins
4 101 (3.08%) GitLab
5 41 (1.25%) SonarQube
6 33 (1.01%) Selenium
7 31 (0.94%) Cypress.io
8 24 (0.73%) Postman
9 20 (0.61%) Claude Code
10 19 (0.58%) JUnit
11 16 (0.49%) Cucumber
12 15 (0.46%) JMeter
13 14 (0.43%) TeamCity
13 14 (0.43%) Visual Studio
14 13 (0.40%) CircleCI
14 13 (0.40%) Maven
15 12 (0.37%) Jaeger
15 12 (0.37%) Mockito
16 11 (0.34%) SpecFlow
16 11 (0.34%) WebDriver
General
1 905 (27.57%) Social Skills
2 790 (24.06%) Finance
3 468 (14.26%) Public Sector
4 329 (10.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 321 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
6 304 (9.26%) Games
7 213 (6.49%) Law
8 184 (5.60%) Marketing
9 171 (5.21%) Retail
10 149 (4.54%) Legal
11 138 (4.20%) Banking
12 84 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
13 75 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
14 68 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
15 57 (1.74%) Advertising
16 50 (1.52%) Front Office
17 37 (1.13%) Telecoms
18 35 (1.07%) Back Office
19 34 (1.04%) Manufacturing
20 31 (0.94%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 772 (23.52%) Developer
2 654 (19.92%) Senior
3 473 (14.41%) Lead
4 340 (10.36%) .NET Developer
5 293 (8.92%) Analyst
6 267 (8.13%) Software Engineer
7 258 (7.86%) Architect
8 240 (7.31%) Project Manager
9 190 (5.79%) Senior Manager
10 189 (5.76%) Business Analyst
11 112 (3.41%) Delivery Manager
12 108 (3.29%) Software Developer
13 99 (3.02%) Senior Project Manager
14 93 (2.83%) IT Manager
15 88 (2.68%) Engineering Manager
15 88 (2.68%) Product Owner
16 84 (2.56%) Senior Developer
17 81 (2.47%) Consultant
17 81 (2.47%) Graduate
18 80 (2.44%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 533 (16.24%) .NET
2 443 (13.49%) React
3 341 (10.39%) ASP.NET
4 334 (10.17%) .NET Core
5 320 (9.75%) ASP.NET Core
6 288 (8.77%) Node.js
7 206 (6.27%) RESTful
8 194 (5.91%) CSS
9 185 (5.64%) HTML
10 154 (4.69%) Blazor
11 153 (4.66%) AngularJS
12 132 (4.02%) Vue
13 129 (3.93%) Entity Framework
14 124 (3.78%) REST
15 112 (3.41%) ASP.NET Web API
16 88 (2.68%) ML.NET
17 81 (2.47%) Kafka
17 81 (2.47%) Spring
18 79 (2.41%) .NET Framework
19 63 (1.92%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 415 (12.64%) Product Ownership
2 282 (8.59%) Cloud Native
3 256 (7.80%) Social Media
4 117 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
5 97 (2.95%) Greenfield Project
6 84 (2.56%) Mobile App
7 72 (2.19%) Management Information System
7 72 (2.19%) Onboarding
8 70 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
9 69 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
10 65 (1.98%) Over-the-Top Content
11 58 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
12 55 (1.68%) Marketing Technology
13 47 (1.43%) Virtual Team
14 45 (1.37%) Driving Licence
15 41 (1.25%) Fixed Income
16 34 (1.04%) Security Posture
17 33 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
18 32 (0.97%) Public Cloud
19 29 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 157 (4.78%) Linux
2 65 (1.98%) Android
3 63 (1.92%) Windows
4 53 (1.61%) Unix
5 44 (1.34%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
6 15 (0.46%) VMS
7 8 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.21%) CentOS
9 6 (0.18%) Debian
10 5 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.12%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.030%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 779 (23.73%) DevOps
2 758 (23.09%) Roadmaps
3 736 (22.42%) CI/CD
4 734 (22.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 734 (22.36%) Mentoring
5 722 (21.99%) AI
6 630 (19.19%) Scrum
7 555 (16.91%) Coaching
8 551 (16.78%) Full-Stack Development
9 501 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
10 448 (13.65%) Analytics
11 438 (13.34%) Software Engineering
12 398 (12.12%) Microservices
13 386 (11.76%) Decision-Making
14 383 (11.67%) Customer Experience
15 381 (11.61%) Stakeholder Management
16 361 (11.00%) Project Management
17 339 (10.33%) Test Automation
18 308 (9.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 306 (9.32%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 767 (23.36%) SQL
2 612 (18.64%) C#
3 504 (15.35%) JavaScript
4 398 (12.12%) Python
5 394 (12.00%) Java
6 320 (9.75%) TypeScript
7 89 (2.71%) PHP
8 84 (2.56%) C++
9 74 (2.25%) Bash
10 68 (2.07%) Go
11 54 (1.64%) Apex Code
12 44 (1.34%) PowerShell
13 40 (1.22%) C
14 35 (1.07%) SOQL
15 34 (1.04%) SOSL
16 31 (0.94%) Ruby
17 22 (0.67%) VBA
18 21 (0.64%) T-SQL
19 19 (0.58%) Scala
20 17 (0.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 436 (13.28%) Degree
2 344 (10.48%) Security Cleared
3 266 (8.10%) SC Cleared
4 99 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 79 (2.41%) PMI Certification
6 76 (2.31%) PMP
7 72 (2.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 60 (1.83%) CISSP
9 47 (1.43%) CISM
10 44 (1.34%) Azure Certification
10 44 (1.34%) DBS Check
11 43 (1.31%) DV Cleared
12 31 (0.94%) AWS Certification
13 28 (0.85%) CISA
14 27 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
15 25 (0.76%) ISTQB
16 20 (0.61%) SANS
17 19 (0.58%) Master's Degree
18 15 (0.46%) FFIEC
18 15 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 368 (11.21%) Accessibility
2 236 (7.19%) QA
3 96 (2.92%) Data Quality
4 79 (2.41%) WCAG
5 71 (2.16%) GDPR
6 58 (1.77%) NIST
7 51 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 47 (1.43%) PMO
9 25 (0.76%) GRC
10 22 (0.67%) COBIT
11 18 (0.55%) NCSC
12 17 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 11 (0.34%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.21%) SOC 1
15 7 (0.21%) SOC 2
16 6 (0.18%) NIST 800
17 5 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
17 5 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 5 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 291 (8.86%) Docker
2 60 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
3 37 (1.13%) Active Directory
4 16 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.40%) vSphere
6 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.061%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.030%) GPFS
8 1 (0.030%) Lustre
8 1 (0.030%) Xen
Systems Management
1 273 (8.32%) Kubernetes
2 173 (5.27%) Terraform
3 72 (2.19%) Ansible
4 43 (1.31%) Grafana
5 41 (1.25%) Argo
6 39 (1.19%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.49%) Kustomize
8 12 (0.37%) Podman
9 6 (0.18%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.18%) Puppet
10 5 (0.15%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.15%) Istio
10 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.15%) Packer
11 3 (0.091%) Kibana
11 3 (0.091%) SCCM
11 3 (0.091%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.091%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.061%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.061%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 717 (21.84%) Microsoft
2 266 (8.10%) Adobe
3 139 (4.23%) Google
4 105 (3.20%) Salesforce
5 98 (2.99%) Oracle
6 94 (2.86%) Databricks
7 80 (2.44%) ServiceNow
8 76 (2.31%) SAP
9 40 (1.22%) Splunk
10 37 (1.13%) Facebook
11 25 (0.76%) Cisco
12 19 (0.58%) YouTube
13 18 (0.55%) VMware
14 17 (0.52%) Apple
15 16 (0.49%) IFS
15 16 (0.49%) Sony
15 16 (0.49%) Yahoo!
16 15 (0.46%) IBM
17 14 (0.43%) OpenAI
18 13 (0.40%) MuleSoft