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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,904 3,480 7,998
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.55% 23.06% 24.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.80% 24.25% 27.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,886 2,188 6,007
10th Percentile £41,963 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,468 £53,000 £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 £98,474 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £130,000 £100,474
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 15,443 14,352 29,572
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.71% 95.12% 90.93%
Number of salaries quoted 10,985 8,713 23,359
10th Percentile £34,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,684 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.53% +8.52% -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 17 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 98 (3.37%) Confluence
2 47 (1.62%) CMS
3 41 (1.41%) SharePoint
4 18 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 13 (0.45%) Apache
6 13 (0.45%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.34%) SAS
8 7 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.24%) WordPress
9 6 (0.21%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.17%) nginx
11 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.10%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.10%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.10%) PowerFactory
13 2 (0.069%) NServiceBus
13 2 (0.069%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.034%) Drupal
14 1 (0.034%) JBoss
Applications
1 77 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
2 70 (2.41%) Microsoft Project
3 44 (1.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 40 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
5 30 (1.03%) UserZoom
6 25 (0.86%) Adobe XD
7 18 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.31%) Sketch
9 8 (0.28%) Chatbot
10 7 (0.24%) MS Visio
11 6 (0.21%) Trello
12 5 (0.17%) InVision
13 4 (0.14%) AutoCAD
14 3 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
14 3 (0.10%) Photoshop
14 3 (0.10%) Revit
15 2 (0.069%) Avid Media Composer
15 2 (0.069%) Productboard
15 2 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
15 2 (0.069%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 33 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (1.03%) Workfront
3 18 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
3 18 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.52%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.24%) Shopify
6 4 (0.14%) Markit EDM
7 3 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.10%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.069%) Fidessa
8 2 (0.069%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.069%) Raiser’s Edge
8 2 (0.069%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.069%) SAP PM
9 1 (0.034%) HFM
9 1 (0.034%) Maximo
9 1 (0.034%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.034%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.034%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 858 (29.55%) Azure
2 649 (22.35%) AWS
3 240 (8.26%) Azure DevOps
4 199 (6.85%) GCP
5 182 (6.27%) Adobe Analytics
6 148 (5.10%) SaaS
7 147 (5.06%) Serverless
8 146 (5.03%) GitHub
8 146 (5.03%) Power Platform
9 125 (4.30%) Figma
10 92 (3.17%) Azure AI
10 92 (3.17%) Snowflake
11 65 (2.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 64 (2.20%) Azure Machine Learning
13 61 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
14 60 (2.07%) Amazon S3
15 55 (1.89%) Contentsquare
16 53 (1.83%) GitHub Copilot
17 47 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
18 46 (1.58%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 397 (13.67%) Broadband
2 23 (0.79%) CHAP
2 23 (0.79%) DNS
2 23 (0.79%) TCP/IP
3 17 (0.59%) Network Security
4 15 (0.52%) Ethernet
4 15 (0.52%) RS-232
5 14 (0.48%) 4G
6 12 (0.41%) Firewall
7 11 (0.38%) BGP
7 11 (0.38%) Cisco IOS
7 11 (0.38%) Ethernet VPN
7 11 (0.38%) IOS XR
7 11 (0.38%) MPLS
7 11 (0.38%) WAN
8 10 (0.34%) LAN
9 8 (0.28%) Internet
10 7 (0.24%) 5G
10 7 (0.24%) VPN
11 6 (0.21%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (5.92%) SQL Server
2 162 (5.58%) MongoDB
3 122 (4.20%) Azure SQL Database
4 108 (3.72%) NoSQL
5 98 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
6 92 (3.17%) Metadata
7 82 (2.82%) Power BI
8 60 (2.07%) MySQL
9 56 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
10 46 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
11 43 (1.48%) Relational Database
12 34 (1.17%) Data Lake
13 28 (0.96%) DynamoDB
14 22 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
14 22 (0.76%) Tableau
15 18 (0.62%) RDBMS
16 16 (0.55%) Redis
17 13 (0.45%) Big Data
18 10 (0.34%) BigQuery
19 9 (0.31%) Flink
Development Applications
1 222 (7.64%) JIRA
2 161 (5.54%) Git
3 118 (4.06%) Jenkins
4 104 (3.58%) GitLab
5 54 (1.86%) Selenium
6 42 (1.45%) Postman
7 40 (1.38%) SonarQube
8 35 (1.21%) Cypress.io
9 29 (1.00%) WebDriver
10 28 (0.96%) SoapUI
11 26 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
11 26 (0.90%) TeamCity
12 18 (0.62%) Jaeger
13 16 (0.55%) Axure RP
14 15 (0.52%) Balsamiq
14 15 (0.52%) JMeter
14 15 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
15 14 (0.48%) CircleCI
16 13 (0.45%) SpecFlow
17 12 (0.41%) Cucumber
General
1 808 (27.82%) Finance
1 808 (27.82%) Social Skills
2 398 (13.71%) Public Sector
3 300 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
4 296 (10.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 291 (10.02%) Games
6 199 (6.85%) Law
7 166 (5.72%) Marketing
8 154 (5.30%) Banking
9 136 (4.68%) Legal
10 121 (4.17%) Retail
11 74 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
12 58 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
13 55 (1.89%) Front Office
14 49 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
15 47 (1.62%) Telecoms
16 37 (1.27%) Back Office
17 35 (1.21%) Manufacturing
18 30 (1.03%) Financial Institution
19 29 (1.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 598 (20.59%) Senior
2 567 (19.52%) Developer
3 470 (16.18%) Lead
4 277 (9.54%) Analyst
5 219 (7.54%) Software Engineer
6 198 (6.82%) Architect
7 186 (6.40%) Project Manager
8 180 (6.20%) Business Analyst
9 166 (5.72%) Senior Manager
10 146 (5.03%) .NET Developer
11 113 (3.89%) Software Developer
12 93 (3.20%) Designer
13 84 (2.89%) Delivery Manager
14 83 (2.86%) C# Developer
15 80 (2.75%) Lead Developer
16 78 (2.69%) Engineering Manager
16 78 (2.69%) Product Owner
17 77 (2.65%) Product Manager
18 74 (2.55%) Graduate
19 73 (2.51%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 350 (12.05%) .NET
2 328 (11.29%) React
3 175 (6.03%) Node.js
4 155 (5.34%) CSS
5 154 (5.30%) HTML
6 142 (4.89%) .NET Core
7 141 (4.86%) RESTful
8 136 (4.68%) ASP.NET
9 122 (4.20%) REST
10 121 (4.17%) ASP.NET Core
11 98 (3.37%) SOAP
12 94 (3.24%) AngularJS
13 77 (2.65%) Kafka
14 75 (2.58%) Vue
15 67 (2.31%) Lightning Web Components
15 67 (2.31%) Spring
16 63 (2.17%) Entity Framework
17 54 (1.86%) Spring Boot
18 52 (1.79%) Blazor
18 52 (1.79%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 405 (13.95%) Product Ownership
2 237 (8.16%) Cloud Native
3 225 (7.75%) Social Media
4 82 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
5 79 (2.72%) Mobile App
6 74 (2.55%) Onboarding
7 66 (2.27%) Over-the-Top Content
8 60 (2.07%) Management Information System
9 56 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
10 53 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
11 49 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
12 45 (1.55%) Marketing Technology
13 43 (1.48%) Fixed Income
14 41 (1.41%) Virtual Team
15 40 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
16 32 (1.10%) Driving Licence
17 31 (1.07%) Low-Code
18 30 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
18 30 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
19 29 (1.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 134 (4.61%) Linux
2 64 (2.20%) Android
3 47 (1.62%) Apple iOS
4 43 (1.48%) Unix
4 43 (1.48%) Windows
5 15 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
6 7 (0.24%) CentOS
6 7 (0.24%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.14%) Debian
9 3 (0.10%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.10%) VMS
10 2 (0.069%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.034%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 695 (23.93%) Mentoring
2 672 (23.14%) DevOps
3 657 (22.62%) Roadmaps
4 651 (22.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 638 (21.97%) CI/CD
6 568 (19.56%) AI
7 539 (18.56%) Coaching
8 534 (18.39%) Scrum
9 447 (15.39%) Problem-Solving
10 427 (14.70%) Analytics
11 388 (13.36%) Software Engineering
12 338 (11.64%) Test Automation
13 337 (11.60%) Full-Stack Development
14 335 (11.54%) Customer Experience
15 323 (11.12%) Project Management
16 296 (10.19%) Decision-Making
17 281 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
18 278 (9.57%) Microservices
19 269 (9.26%) Product Roadmap
20 265 (9.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 568 (19.56%) SQL
2 403 (13.88%) Java
3 402 (13.84%) Python
4 393 (13.53%) C#
5 362 (12.47%) JavaScript
6 245 (8.44%) TypeScript
7 87 (3.00%) PHP
8 79 (2.72%) Go
9 78 (2.69%) C++
10 69 (2.38%) Apex Code
11 55 (1.89%) Bash
12 44 (1.52%) C
13 37 (1.27%) PowerShell
14 36 (1.24%) Scala
15 35 (1.21%) SOQL
16 34 (1.17%) SOSL
17 23 (0.79%) PL/SQL
18 19 (0.65%) Embedded C
18 19 (0.65%) VBA
19 16 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 404 (13.91%) Degree
2 320 (11.02%) Security Cleared
3 234 (8.06%) SC Cleared
4 86 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 79 (2.72%) PMI Certification
6 68 (2.34%) PMP
7 53 (1.83%) CISSP
8 52 (1.79%) DV Cleared
9 46 (1.58%) ISTQB
10 44 (1.52%) DBS Check
11 43 (1.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 39 (1.34%) CISM
13 34 (1.17%) AWS Certification
14 30 (1.03%) CISA
15 28 (0.96%) SANS
16 26 (0.90%) Azure Certification
17 23 (0.79%) CGEIT
17 23 (0.79%) FFIEC
18 18 (0.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
19 17 (0.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 355 (12.22%) Accessibility
2 233 (8.02%) QA
3 89 (3.06%) WCAG
4 77 (2.65%) Data Quality
5 56 (1.93%) GDPR
5 56 (1.93%) NIST
6 37 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (1.27%) PMO
7 26 (0.90%) COBIT
8 22 (0.76%) GRC
9 11 (0.38%) NCSC
10 10 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 8 (0.28%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.14%) IFRS
14 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 4 (0.14%) MiFID
14 4 (0.14%) NIST 800
System Software
1 233 (8.02%) Docker
2 59 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
3 42 (1.45%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.17%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.14%) Firmware
6 3 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.034%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.034%) vSphere
7 1 (0.034%) Xen
Systems Management
1 235 (8.09%) Kubernetes
2 207 (7.13%) Terraform
3 84 (2.89%) Ansible
4 43 (1.48%) Argo
5 41 (1.41%) Grafana
5 41 (1.41%) Prometheus
6 22 (0.76%) Kustomize
7 15 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (0.41%) Podman
9 6 (0.21%) Puppet
10 5 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.17%) Packer
11 4 (0.14%) Istio
11 4 (0.14%) logstash
11 4 (0.14%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.14%) SCCM
12 3 (0.10%) Control-M
12 3 (0.10%) Kibana
12 3 (0.10%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 497 (17.11%) Microsoft
2 254 (8.75%) Adobe
3 129 (4.44%) Google
4 113 (3.89%) Salesforce
5 106 (3.65%) Databricks
6 74 (2.55%) Oracle
7 65 (2.24%) ServiceNow
8 64 (2.20%) SAP
9 39 (1.34%) Splunk
10 20 (0.69%) IBM
11 16 (0.55%) Cisco
12 14 (0.48%) Facebook
12 14 (0.48%) MuleSoft
13 11 (0.38%) Okta
14 10 (0.34%) Apple
15 9 (0.31%) Atlassian
15 9 (0.31%) Foundry
15 9 (0.31%) VMware
16 8 (0.28%) Red Hat
17 7 (0.24%) Planon