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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,501 3,278 5,601
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.25% 19.78% 22.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.51% 21.26% 25.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,305 2,054 3,586
10th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.63% +3.85% -0.54%
75th Percentile £78,312 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £132,500 £135,000
UK median annual salary £63,076 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.55% +3.85% -0.54%

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 18,916 15,419 21,639
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.38% 93.04% 87.53%
Number of salaries quoted 13,655 8,896 15,104
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £43,750
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 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 21 August 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
1 113 (3.23%) Confluence
2 78 (2.23%) SharePoint
3 42 (1.20%) CMS
4 25 (0.71%) Apache Spark
5 22 (0.63%) Apache
6 17 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
7 16 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.34%) SAS
9 11 (0.31%) WordPress
10 10 (0.29%) Jupyter
10 10 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.14%) Camunda
11 5 (0.14%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.14%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.11%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.11%) PowerFactory
13 3 (0.086%) EPiServer
13 3 (0.086%) Kentico
13 3 (0.086%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 125 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
2 98 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
3 70 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 53 (1.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 43 (1.23%) UserZoom
6 26 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 23 (0.66%) Chatbot
8 20 (0.57%) MS Visio
9 18 (0.51%) Adobe XD
9 18 (0.51%) Trello
10 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.11%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.11%) Revit
11 4 (0.11%) Sketch
11 4 (0.11%) Windchill
12 3 (0.086%) Blender
12 3 (0.086%) Maya
12 3 (0.086%) Productboard
13 2 (0.057%) PlantUML
13 2 (0.057%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 65 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.14%) Workfront
3 22 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.29%) Workday HCM
5 9 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
6 8 (0.23%) Primavera
7 7 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.20%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.20%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
8 6 (0.17%) Shopify
9 5 (0.14%) Elite 3E
9 5 (0.14%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.11%) Raiser’s Edge
11 3 (0.086%) Carpe Diem
11 3 (0.086%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 3 (0.086%) Oracle Applications
11 3 (0.086%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.086%) Oracle Receivables
11 3 (0.086%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,250 (35.70%) Azure
2 866 (24.74%) AWS
3 349 (9.97%) Azure DevOps
4 239 (6.83%) SaaS
5 225 (6.43%) GCP
6 191 (5.46%) Power Platform
7 190 (5.43%) GitHub
8 159 (4.54%) Azure AI
9 145 (4.14%) Adobe Analytics
10 144 (4.11%) Serverless
11 92 (2.63%) GitHub Copilot
12 88 (2.51%) Figma
13 81 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
14 75 (2.14%) Snowflake
15 71 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
16 70 (2.00%) PowerApps
17 67 (1.91%) Contentsquare
17 67 (1.91%) Power Automate
18 66 (1.89%) Azure Machine Learning
19 65 (1.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 283 (8.08%) Broadband
2 38 (1.09%) Network Security
3 20 (0.57%) Internet
4 19 (0.54%) TCP/IP
4 19 (0.54%) VPN
4 19 (0.54%) WAN
5 17 (0.49%) LAN
6 16 (0.46%) Firewall
7 13 (0.37%) DNS
7 13 (0.37%) VoIP
8 11 (0.31%) CTI
8 11 (0.31%) Ethernet
8 11 (0.31%) RS-232
9 10 (0.29%) 5G
10 8 (0.23%) CHAP
10 8 (0.23%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.23%) SMS
10 8 (0.23%) Wireless
11 7 (0.20%) Intranet
11 7 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 375 (10.71%) MongoDB
2 366 (10.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 210 (6.00%) SQL Server
4 147 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
5 144 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
6 122 (3.48%) Power BI
7 103 (2.94%) Metadata
8 85 (2.43%) NoSQL
9 80 (2.29%) MySQL
10 58 (1.66%) Relational Database
11 51 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
12 48 (1.37%) DynamoDB
13 39 (1.11%) Data Lake
14 28 (0.80%) Big Data
15 27 (0.77%) Tableau
16 24 (0.69%) Redis
17 21 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 19 (0.54%) Semantic Layer
19 18 (0.51%) BigQuery
20 14 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 265 (7.57%) JIRA
2 198 (5.66%) Git
3 97 (2.77%) GitLab
4 95 (2.71%) Jenkins
5 36 (1.03%) Cypress.io
6 34 (0.97%) Selenium
7 29 (0.83%) JUnit
7 29 (0.83%) SonarQube
8 21 (0.60%) Claude Code
8 21 (0.60%) Postman
9 17 (0.49%) Maven
9 17 (0.49%) Mockito
10 16 (0.46%) Cucumber
11 15 (0.43%) Visual Studio
12 12 (0.34%) CircleCI
13 11 (0.31%) Balsamiq
14 10 (0.29%) Bitbucket
14 10 (0.29%) JMeter
15 9 (0.26%) Axure RP
15 9 (0.26%) Gatling
General
1 1,047 (29.91%) Social Skills
2 881 (25.16%) Finance
3 514 (14.68%) Public Sector
4 403 (11.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 392 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
6 308 (8.80%) Law
7 232 (6.63%) Legal
8 218 (6.23%) Games
9 194 (5.54%) Marketing
10 184 (5.26%) Retail
11 122 (3.48%) Banking
12 115 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
13 97 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
14 90 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
15 79 (2.26%) Aerospace
16 64 (1.83%) Advertising
17 49 (1.40%) Legal Technology
18 43 (1.23%) Manufacturing
19 36 (1.03%) Back Office
20 29 (0.83%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 865 (24.71%) Developer
2 724 (20.68%) Senior
3 430 (12.28%) Lead
4 374 (10.68%) .NET Developer
5 318 (9.08%) Analyst
6 284 (8.11%) Architect
7 267 (7.63%) Project Manager
8 262 (7.48%) Software Engineer
9 213 (6.08%) Business Analyst
10 174 (4.97%) Senior Developer
11 155 (4.43%) Senior Manager
12 138 (3.94%) IT Manager
13 111 (3.17%) Software Developer
14 98 (2.80%) Delivery Manager
15 96 (2.74%) Senior Project Manager
16 95 (2.71%) Senior Analyst
17 91 (2.60%) Full-Stack Developer
18 87 (2.49%) Product Owner
19 79 (2.26%) Consultant
19 79 (2.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 639 (18.25%) .NET
2 476 (13.60%) React
3 393 (11.23%) ASP.NET
4 384 (10.97%) .NET Core
5 357 (10.20%) ASP.NET Core
6 321 (9.17%) Node.js
7 224 (6.40%) CSS
8 219 (6.26%) RESTful
9 207 (5.91%) HTML
10 178 (5.08%) Blazor
11 173 (4.94%) Terraform
12 165 (4.71%) AngularJS
13 163 (4.66%) Entity Framework
14 139 (3.97%) Vue
15 132 (3.77%) REST
16 126 (3.60%) ASP.NET Web API
17 101 (2.88%) .NET Framework
18 96 (2.74%) ML.NET
19 95 (2.71%) Spring
20 87 (2.49%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 403 (11.51%) Product Ownership
2 302 (8.63%) Cloud Native
3 201 (5.74%) Social Media
4 153 (4.37%) Enterprise Software
5 101 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
6 88 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
7 75 (2.14%) Mobile App
8 72 (2.06%) Management Information System
9 64 (1.83%) Onboarding
10 63 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
10 63 (1.80%) Marketing Technology
11 62 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
12 54 (1.54%) Over-the-Top Content
13 52 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
14 49 (1.40%) Driving Licence
15 44 (1.26%) Virtual Team
16 33 (0.94%) AI Agents
16 33 (0.94%) Blog
17 30 (0.86%) Cyber Defence
18 28 (0.80%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 141 (4.03%) Linux
2 69 (1.97%) Windows
3 51 (1.46%) Android
4 37 (1.06%) Unix
5 27 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.43%) VMS
7 11 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
8 9 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.14%) CentOS
9 5 (0.14%) Debian
10 3 (0.086%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.057%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.029%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 880 (25.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 877 (25.05%) CI/CD
3 860 (24.56%) DevOps
4 800 (22.85%) AI
5 721 (20.59%) Mentoring
6 689 (19.68%) Roadmaps
7 681 (19.45%) Scrum
8 637 (18.19%) Problem-Solving
9 595 (17.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 533 (15.22%) Software Engineering
11 526 (15.02%) Coaching
12 523 (14.94%) Stakeholder Management
13 478 (13.65%) Microservices
14 451 (12.88%) Decision-Making
15 442 (12.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 432 (12.34%) Analytics
17 410 (11.71%) Project Delivery
18 394 (11.25%) Test Automation
19 369 (10.54%) Project Management
20 357 (10.20%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 844 (24.11%) SQL
2 761 (21.74%) C#
3 563 (16.08%) JavaScript
4 394 (11.25%) Python
5 353 (10.08%) Java
6 332 (9.48%) TypeScript
7 85 (2.43%) C++
8 84 (2.40%) PHP
9 67 (1.91%) Bash
10 46 (1.31%) Go
11 45 (1.29%) Ruby
12 41 (1.17%) PowerShell
13 37 (1.06%) C
14 32 (0.91%) Apex Code
15 25 (0.71%) PL/SQL
16 22 (0.63%) T-SQL
17 21 (0.60%) SOQL
18 20 (0.57%) SOSL
19 17 (0.49%) Bicep
20 16 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 505 (14.42%) Degree
2 497 (14.20%) Security Cleared
3 395 (11.28%) SC Cleared
4 124 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 109 (3.11%) PMI Certification
6 105 (3.00%) CISSP
7 104 (2.97%) PMP
8 98 (2.80%) CISM
9 87 (2.49%) DV Cleared
10 76 (2.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 75 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
12 64 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
13 47 (1.34%) Azure Certification
14 37 (1.06%) DBS Check
15 34 (0.97%) Master's Degree
16 30 (0.86%) AWS Certification
17 29 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
18 25 (0.71%) CISA
19 23 (0.66%) ISTQB
20 17 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 380 (10.85%) Accessibility
2 303 (8.65%) QA
3 137 (3.91%) Data Quality
4 113 (3.23%) NIST
5 90 (2.57%) WCAG
6 88 (2.51%) GDPR
7 72 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 63 (1.80%) PMO
9 49 (1.40%) ISO 22301
10 36 (1.03%) GRC
11 32 (0.91%) NCSC
12 28 (0.80%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 15 (0.43%) COBIT
14 14 (0.40%) NIST 800
15 12 (0.34%) SOC 2
16 10 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
16 10 (0.29%) GxP
16 10 (0.29%) PCI DSS
17 9 (0.26%) SLA
18 8 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 302 (8.63%) Docker
2 60 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
3 37 (1.06%) Active Directory
4 16 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.37%) vSphere
6 12 (0.34%) Firmware
6 12 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.029%) GPFS
9 1 (0.029%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.029%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 268 (7.65%) Kubernetes
2 53 (1.51%) Ansible
3 37 (1.06%) Grafana
4 29 (0.83%) Argo
5 26 (0.74%) Prometheus
6 12 (0.34%) Podman
7 8 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.14%) Istio
9 5 (0.14%) Puppet
9 5 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.11%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.086%) Packer
11 3 (0.086%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.057%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.029%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.029%) HP Quality Center
13 1 (0.029%) linkerd
13 1 (0.029%) Rundeck
13 1 (0.029%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 812 (23.19%) Microsoft
2 229 (6.54%) Adobe
3 140 (4.00%) Google
4 109 (3.11%) Oracle
5 106 (3.03%) Databricks
6 94 (2.68%) Salesforce
7 92 (2.63%) SAP
8 64 (1.83%) ServiceNow
9 41 (1.17%) YouTube
10 40 (1.14%) Facebook
11 31 (0.89%) OpenAI
12 26 (0.74%) Splunk
13 25 (0.71%) Cisco
14 21 (0.60%) Workday
15 20 (0.57%) VMware
16 19 (0.54%) IFS
16 19 (0.54%) Yahoo!
17 18 (0.51%) Apple
18 17 (0.49%) Sony
19 16 (0.46%) IBM