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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,979 3,273 8,045
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.73% 22.49% 24.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.97% 23.71% 27.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,905 2,006 6,012
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,468 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +14.37% -5.84%
75th Percentile £80,000 £100,001 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £132,500 £101,250
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 15,706 13,805 29,705
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.93% 94.87% 90.38%
Number of salaries quoted 11,181 8,074 23,429
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,231 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,250 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -9.84%

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 26 May 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 96 (3.22%) Confluence
2 44 (1.48%) CMS
3 40 (1.34%) SharePoint
4 20 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.50%) Apache
6 14 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 14 (0.47%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.34%) SAS
8 7 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.20%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.20%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.20%) WordPress
10 5 (0.17%) nginx
11 4 (0.13%) PowerFactory
12 3 (0.10%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.10%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.067%) NServiceBus
13 2 (0.067%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.034%) Drupal
14 1 (0.034%) JBoss
Applications
1 103 (3.46%) Microsoft Project
2 102 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.81%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 42 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
5 30 (1.01%) UserZoom
6 24 (0.81%) Adobe XD
7 20 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 10 (0.34%) Sketch
9 7 (0.23%) Chatbot
9 7 (0.23%) MS Visio
9 7 (0.23%) Trello
10 5 (0.17%) InVision
11 4 (0.13%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.13%) Revit
11 4 (0.13%) Windchill
12 3 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.10%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.10%) Productboard
13 2 (0.067%) Pro Tools
13 2 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 40 (1.34%) Workfront
2 37 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
5 14 (0.47%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.23%) Shopify
7 4 (0.13%) Markit EDM
8 3 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.10%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.067%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.067%) Infor SunSystems
9 2 (0.067%) Raiser’s Edge
9 2 (0.067%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.067%) SAP PM
9 2 (0.067%) Towers Watson Igloo
10 1 (0.034%) SAP CO
10 1 (0.034%) SAP FI
10 1 (0.034%) SAP FI/CO
10 1 (0.034%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 844 (28.33%) Azure
2 658 (22.09%) AWS
3 220 (7.39%) Azure DevOps
4 201 (6.75%) GCP
5 182 (6.11%) Adobe Analytics
6 149 (5.00%) SaaS
7 148 (4.97%) Serverless
8 145 (4.87%) Power Platform
9 141 (4.73%) GitHub
10 124 (4.16%) Figma
11 92 (3.09%) Azure AI
12 87 (2.92%) Snowflake
13 64 (2.15%) Azure Machine Learning
13 64 (2.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 60 (2.01%) Amazon S3
14 60 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
15 56 (1.88%) iPaaS
16 55 (1.85%) Contentsquare
17 48 (1.61%) GitHub Copilot
18 46 (1.54%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 411 (13.80%) Broadband
2 25 (0.84%) DNS
2 25 (0.84%) TCP/IP
3 21 (0.70%) CHAP
4 20 (0.67%) Network Security
5 15 (0.50%) Ethernet
5 15 (0.50%) RS-232
5 15 (0.50%) WAN
6 14 (0.47%) LAN
7 13 (0.44%) 4G
7 13 (0.44%) Firewall
8 11 (0.37%) BGP
8 11 (0.37%) Cisco IOS
8 11 (0.37%) Ethernet VPN
8 11 (0.37%) IOS XR
8 11 (0.37%) MPLS
9 8 (0.27%) Internet
9 8 (0.27%) VPN
10 7 (0.23%) 5G
10 7 (0.23%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (5.67%) MongoDB
2 168 (5.64%) SQL Server
3 120 (4.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 109 (3.66%) NoSQL
5 106 (3.56%) PostgreSQL
6 104 (3.49%) Metadata
7 82 (2.75%) Power BI
8 62 (2.08%) MySQL
9 55 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
10 43 (1.44%) Relational Database
11 41 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
12 32 (1.07%) Data Lake
13 28 (0.94%) DynamoDB
14 23 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
15 20 (0.67%) Tableau
16 18 (0.60%) RDBMS
17 17 (0.57%) Redis
18 16 (0.54%) Big Data
19 13 (0.44%) BigQuery
20 11 (0.37%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 225 (7.55%) JIRA
2 158 (5.30%) Git
3 121 (4.06%) Jenkins
4 109 (3.66%) GitLab
5 51 (1.71%) Selenium
6 42 (1.41%) Postman
7 39 (1.31%) SonarQube
8 34 (1.14%) Cypress.io
9 28 (0.94%) SoapUI
9 28 (0.94%) WebDriver
10 26 (0.87%) TeamCity
11 25 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
12 18 (0.60%) Jaeger
13 15 (0.50%) JMeter
13 15 (0.50%) JUnit
14 14 (0.47%) Axure RP
15 13 (0.44%) Balsamiq
15 13 (0.44%) CircleCI
15 13 (0.44%) Claude Code
15 13 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
General
1 857 (28.77%) Social Skills
2 802 (26.92%) Finance
3 418 (14.03%) Public Sector
4 320 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
5 309 (10.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 288 (9.67%) Games
7 197 (6.61%) Law
8 181 (6.08%) Marketing
9 152 (5.10%) Banking
10 143 (4.80%) Legal
11 129 (4.33%) Retail
12 72 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
13 58 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
14 54 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
15 53 (1.78%) Front Office
16 44 (1.48%) Telecoms
17 36 (1.21%) Back Office
18 31 (1.04%) Manufacturing
19 30 (1.01%) Advertising
20 28 (0.94%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 633 (21.25%) Senior
2 562 (18.87%) Developer
3 478 (16.05%) Lead
4 287 (9.63%) Analyst
5 225 (7.55%) Software Engineer
6 215 (7.22%) Project Manager
7 213 (7.15%) Architect
8 192 (6.45%) Business Analyst
9 191 (6.41%) Senior Manager
10 144 (4.83%) .NET Developer
11 108 (3.63%) Software Developer
12 98 (3.29%) Senior Project Manager
13 93 (3.12%) Delivery Manager
14 91 (3.05%) Designer
15 87 (2.92%) Product Owner
16 79 (2.65%) Product Manager
17 78 (2.62%) Engineering Manager
18 76 (2.55%) C# Developer
19 75 (2.52%) Lead Developer
19 75 (2.52%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 341 (11.45%) .NET
2 331 (11.11%) React
3 185 (6.21%) Node.js
4 155 (5.20%) HTML
5 151 (5.07%) CSS
6 143 (4.80%) .NET Core
7 140 (4.70%) RESTful
8 137 (4.60%) ASP.NET
9 123 (4.13%) ASP.NET Core
9 123 (4.13%) REST
10 97 (3.26%) AngularJS
11 94 (3.16%) SOAP
12 77 (2.58%) Kafka
13 75 (2.52%) Vue
14 73 (2.45%) Spring
15 65 (2.18%) Lightning Web Components
16 62 (2.08%) Entity Framework
17 56 (1.88%) Spring Boot
18 54 (1.81%) Blazor
19 51 (1.71%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 421 (14.13%) Product Ownership
2 255 (8.56%) Cloud Native
3 236 (7.92%) Social Media
4 84 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
5 76 (2.55%) Mobile App
5 76 (2.55%) Over-the-Top Content
6 73 (2.45%) Onboarding
7 59 (1.98%) Management Information System
8 58 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
8 58 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
9 56 (1.88%) Marketing Technology
10 50 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
11 42 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
11 42 (1.41%) Fixed Income
11 42 (1.41%) Virtual Team
12 36 (1.21%) Driving Licence
13 31 (1.04%) Low-Code
14 30 (1.01%) Data Structures
14 30 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
14 30 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 135 (4.53%) Linux
2 62 (2.08%) Android
3 46 (1.54%) Apple iOS
4 43 (1.44%) Unix
5 41 (1.38%) Windows
6 15 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (0.23%) CentOS
7 7 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.13%) Debian
9 4 (0.13%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.10%) VMS
11 2 (0.067%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.034%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 708 (23.77%) Mentoring
2 693 (23.26%) Roadmaps
3 666 (22.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 659 (22.12%) DevOps
5 643 (21.58%) CI/CD
6 580 (19.47%) AI
7 571 (19.17%) Coaching
8 534 (17.93%) Scrum
9 467 (15.68%) Problem-Solving
10 429 (14.40%) Analytics
11 386 (12.96%) Software Engineering
12 374 (12.55%) Customer Experience
13 354 (11.88%) Project Management
14 339 (11.38%) Test Automation
15 334 (11.21%) Full-Stack Development
16 325 (10.91%) Decision-Making
17 314 (10.54%) Stakeholder Management
18 285 (9.57%) Microservices
19 275 (9.23%) Project Delivery
20 271 (9.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 560 (18.80%) SQL
2 406 (13.63%) Java
3 400 (13.43%) Python
4 385 (12.92%) C#
5 379 (12.72%) JavaScript
6 247 (8.29%) TypeScript
7 80 (2.69%) Go
8 77 (2.58%) PHP
9 75 (2.52%) C++
10 66 (2.22%) Apex Code
11 63 (2.11%) Bash
12 43 (1.44%) C
13 39 (1.31%) PowerShell
14 36 (1.21%) Scala
15 35 (1.17%) SOQL
16 34 (1.14%) SOSL
17 25 (0.84%) PL/SQL
18 19 (0.64%) VBA
19 18 (0.60%) Embedded C
20 17 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 437 (14.67%) Degree
2 332 (11.14%) Security Cleared
3 248 (8.32%) SC Cleared
4 84 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 83 (2.79%) PMI Certification
6 73 (2.45%) PMP
7 68 (2.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 52 (1.75%) CISSP
8 52 (1.75%) DV Cleared
9 44 (1.48%) DBS Check
10 43 (1.44%) ISTQB
11 38 (1.28%) CISM
12 34 (1.14%) AWS Certification
13 28 (0.94%) CISA
14 26 (0.87%) Azure Certification
14 26 (0.87%) SANS
15 21 (0.70%) CGEIT
15 21 (0.70%) FFIEC
16 18 (0.60%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 16 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 361 (12.12%) Accessibility
2 237 (7.96%) QA
3 89 (2.99%) WCAG
4 87 (2.92%) Data Quality
5 61 (2.05%) GDPR
6 54 (1.81%) NIST
7 40 (1.34%) PMO
8 37 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 24 (0.81%) COBIT
10 22 (0.74%) GRC
11 11 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 11 (0.37%) NCSC
12 10 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 8 (0.27%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.13%) Def Stans
15 4 (0.13%) IFRS
15 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 15288
15 4 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 245 (8.22%) Docker
2 59 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
3 41 (1.38%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.17%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.10%) Firmware
5 3 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.034%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.034%) vSphere
6 1 (0.034%) Xen
Systems Management
1 240 (8.06%) Kubernetes
2 206 (6.92%) Terraform
3 84 (2.82%) Ansible
4 48 (1.61%) Argo
5 47 (1.58%) Grafana
5 47 (1.58%) Prometheus
6 22 (0.74%) Kustomize
7 13 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (0.40%) Podman
9 6 (0.20%) Puppet
10 5 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.17%) Packer
11 4 (0.13%) Istio
11 4 (0.13%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.13%) SCCM
12 3 (0.10%) Control-M
12 3 (0.10%) Kibana
12 3 (0.10%) logstash
12 3 (0.10%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 500 (16.78%) Microsoft
2 263 (8.83%) Adobe
3 128 (4.30%) Google
4 112 (3.76%) Salesforce
5 100 (3.36%) Databricks
6 82 (2.75%) Oracle
7 69 (2.32%) ServiceNow
8 67 (2.25%) SAP
9 39 (1.31%) Splunk
10 20 (0.67%) IBM
11 19 (0.64%) Cisco
12 14 (0.47%) Facebook
13 13 (0.44%) MuleSoft
14 10 (0.34%) Okta
15 9 (0.30%) Apple
15 9 (0.30%) Atlassian
15 9 (0.30%) Foundry
15 9 (0.30%) VMware
16 7 (0.23%) IFS
16 7 (0.23%) Red Hat