Agile Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Agile Software Development
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Agile over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,488 8,645 13,296
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 23.32% 25.55% 31.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 25.04% 27.87% 32.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,686 6,043 9,323
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,683 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,206 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.20% -5.84% +4.00%
75th Percentile £93,778 £79,600 £83,750
90th Percentile £122,500 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

All Process and 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 13,930 31,014 41,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.15% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,709 23,583 28,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,930 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Agile
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Agile trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Agile
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Agile.

Agile salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Agile over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Agile salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 243 (6.97%) Apache Airflow
2 201 (5.76%) Apache
3 106 (3.04%) Apache Spark
4 87 (2.49%) Confluence
5 76 (2.18%) Oracle Application Server
6 49 (1.40%) CMS
7 46 (1.32%) SharePoint
8 15 (0.43%) WordPress
9 14 (0.40%) Drupal
10 11 (0.32%) IIS
11 10 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
12 9 (0.26%) Umbraco
13 8 (0.23%) Headless CMS
13 8 (0.23%) SAS
14 4 (0.11%) OpenEdge
14 4 (0.11%) Tomcat
15 3 (0.086%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 3 (0.086%) ColdFusion
16 2 (0.057%) NServiceBus
16 2 (0.057%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 81 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
2 48 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 41 (1.18%) Simulink
4 31 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
5 26 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 23 (0.66%) Trello
7 13 (0.37%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.32%) MS Visio
9 10 (0.29%) Adobe XD
10 8 (0.23%) Photoshop
11 5 (0.14%) Sketch
12 2 (0.057%) Adobe Captivate
12 2 (0.057%) Adobe Premiere
12 2 (0.057%) Final Cut Pro
13 1 (0.029%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.029%) InVision
13 1 (0.029%) MicroStation
13 1 (0.029%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 49 (1.40%) Aladdin
2 48 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 28 (0.80%) thinkFolio
4 17 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
5 12 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.26%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.26%) Shopify
7 8 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.11%) Magento
9 4 (0.11%) Orchestrade
10 3 (0.086%) Elite 3E
11 2 (0.057%) Adobe Campaign
11 2 (0.057%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 2 (0.057%) Oracle BPM
11 2 (0.057%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 2 (0.057%) Payment Gateway
11 2 (0.057%) SAP ERP
12 1 (0.029%) SAP Oil and Gas
12 1 (0.029%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 794 (22.76%) Azure
2 793 (22.74%) AWS
3 368 (10.55%) GCP
4 234 (6.71%) dbt
5 213 (6.11%) SaaS
6 200 (5.73%) Serverless
7 190 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
8 157 (4.50%) Power Platform
9 156 (4.47%) AWS Lambda
10 147 (4.21%) Amazon ECS
11 131 (3.76%) GitHub
12 109 (3.13%) Snowflake
13 101 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
14 93 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
15 91 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
16 83 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
16 83 (2.38%) OpenShift
17 81 (2.32%) Amazon S3
18 69 (1.98%) Microsoft 365
19 52 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 40 (1.15%) HTTP
2 21 (0.60%) TCP/IP
3 18 (0.52%) Firewall
4 15 (0.43%) DNS
5 13 (0.37%) Internet
6 12 (0.34%) DHCP
7 9 (0.26%) Broadband
8 7 (0.20%) Network Security
8 7 (0.20%) WAN
9 6 (0.17%) LAN
9 6 (0.17%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.14%) NAS
10 5 (0.14%) SAN
10 5 (0.14%) SSL
10 5 (0.14%) VSAN
11 4 (0.11%) 5G
11 4 (0.11%) DMARC
11 4 (0.11%) VPN
11 4 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.086%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 236 (6.77%) SQL Server
2 231 (6.62%) Amazon Athena
3 226 (6.48%) Apache Iceberg
3 226 (6.48%) Dremio
4 219 (6.28%) Apache Arrow
5 215 (6.16%) Data Lake
6 194 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
7 170 (4.87%) Apache Ignite
8 132 (3.78%) Data Warehouse
9 106 (3.04%) MySQL
10 100 (2.87%) NoSQL
11 90 (2.58%) MongoDB
12 89 (2.55%) Power BI
13 85 (2.44%) Relational Database
14 84 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
15 79 (2.26%) Oracle Reports
16 75 (2.15%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 60 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
18 48 (1.38%) Tableau
19 42 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 256 (7.34%) Git
2 211 (6.05%) JIRA
3 91 (2.61%) Jenkins
4 75 (2.15%) Artifactory
5 47 (1.35%) Selenium
6 46 (1.32%) JUnit
6 46 (1.32%) Visual Studio
7 38 (1.09%) Cypress.io
8 37 (1.06%) webpack
9 33 (0.95%) Cucumber
9 33 (0.95%) SonarQube
10 29 (0.83%) GitLab
11 28 (0.80%) Jasmine
12 27 (0.77%) Mockito
13 26 (0.75%) Protractor
14 24 (0.69%) Karma Test Runner
15 22 (0.63%) Eclipse
15 22 (0.63%) IntelliJ
16 19 (0.54%) Appium
17 17 (0.49%) Postman
General
1 1,263 (36.21%) Finance
2 920 (26.38%) Social Skills
3 504 (14.45%) Banking
4 495 (14.19%) Front Office
5 494 (14.16%) Presentation Skills
6 431 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
7 225 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 129 (3.70%) Marketing
9 124 (3.56%) Public Sector
10 116 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
11 114 (3.27%) Legal
11 114 (3.27%) Retail
12 112 (3.21%) Investment Banking
13 102 (2.92%) Law
14 91 (2.61%) Games
15 84 (2.41%) Military
16 60 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
17 53 (1.52%) Manufacturing
18 48 (1.38%) Aerospace
19 47 (1.35%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 760 (21.79%) Developer
2 712 (20.41%) Senior
3 488 (13.99%) Systems Engineer
4 486 (13.93%) Software Engineer
5 354 (10.15%) Lead
6 268 (7.68%) AWS Engineer
7 232 (6.65%) Python Engineer
8 224 (6.42%) Analyst
9 180 (5.16%) Senior Software Engineer
10 166 (4.76%) Senior Developer
11 158 (4.53%) Architect
12 154 (4.42%) AWS Software Engineer
13 139 (3.99%) DevOps Engineer
14 129 (3.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 127 (3.64%) Software Developer
16 125 (3.58%) Business Analyst
17 119 (3.41%) Data Engineer
18 113 (3.24%) Java Engineer
19 112 (3.21%) Project Manager
19 112 (3.21%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 449 (12.87%) .NET
2 445 (12.76%) React
3 268 (7.68%) Node.js
4 263 (7.54%) AngularJS
5 236 (6.77%) CSS
6 223 (6.39%) HTML
7 190 (5.45%) Pandas
8 164 (4.70%) Kafka
9 162 (4.64%) RESTful
10 138 (3.96%) Vue
11 137 (3.93%) NumPy
11 137 (3.93%) SciPy
12 135 (3.87%) .NET Core
13 126 (3.61%) PySpark
14 124 (3.56%) ASP.NET
15 123 (3.53%) .NET Framework
16 121 (3.47%) REST
17 102 (2.92%) Redux
18 101 (2.90%) gRPC
19 99 (2.84%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 368 (10.55%) Fixed Income
2 286 (8.20%) Product Ownership
3 273 (7.83%) Hedge funds
4 266 (7.63%) Derivative
5 246 (7.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 241 (6.91%) Equities
7 95 (2.72%) Cloud Native
7 95 (2.72%) Management Information System
8 86 (2.47%) Mobile App
9 82 (2.35%) Algorithms
10 73 (2.09%) Onboarding
11 65 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
12 55 (1.58%) Virtual Team
13 53 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
14 51 (1.46%) Cyberattack
15 43 (1.23%) Public Cloud
16 42 (1.20%) Pricing Data
17 40 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
18 38 (1.09%) Driving Licence
19 36 (1.03%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 201 (5.76%) Linux
2 112 (3.21%) Android
3 88 (2.52%) Windows
4 67 (1.92%) Apple iOS
5 22 (0.63%) Unix
6 11 (0.32%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.17%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.17%) zOS
8 4 (0.11%) Windows Vista
9 3 (0.086%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.086%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.057%) Debian
11 1 (0.029%) AIX
11 1 (0.029%) CentOS
11 1 (0.029%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.029%) ThreadX
11 1 (0.029%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 951 (27.26%) Software Engineering
2 785 (22.51%) DevOps
3 562 (16.11%) CI/CD
4 541 (15.51%) Problem-Solving
5 501 (14.36%) Cybersecurity
6 490 (14.05%) Systems Engineering
7 484 (13.88%) SysML
8 472 (13.53%) Mentoring
9 456 (13.07%) UML
10 420 (12.04%) MODAF
11 402 (11.53%) Roadmaps
12 391 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
13 369 (10.58%) Microservices
14 366 (10.49%) Asset Management
15 358 (10.26%) Project Management
16 353 (10.12%) Scrum
17 323 (9.26%) Investment Management
18 314 (9.00%) Analytics
19 286 (8.20%) Data Management
20 275 (7.88%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 795 (22.79%) Python
2 714 (20.47%) JavaScript
3 644 (18.46%) Java
4 571 (16.37%) SQL
5 441 (12.64%) C#
6 425 (12.18%) MATLAB
7 419 (12.01%) TypeScript
8 170 (4.87%) Go
9 148 (4.24%) C++
10 125 (3.58%) PHP
11 54 (1.55%) Rust
12 48 (1.38%) PowerShell
13 44 (1.26%) Kotlin
14 43 (1.23%) C
15 33 (0.95%) Bash
16 29 (0.83%) Swift
17 28 (0.80%) T-SQL
18 26 (0.75%) Scala
19 20 (0.57%) Ruby
20 18 (0.52%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 838 (24.03%) Degree
2 502 (14.39%) BPSS Clearance
3 202 (5.79%) Security Cleared
4 143 (4.10%) DBS Check
5 138 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 108 (3.10%) SC Cleared
7 84 (2.41%) DV Cleared
8 83 (2.38%) Master's Degree
9 59 (1.69%) PMI Certification
10 52 (1.49%) PMP
11 44 (1.26%) Azure Certification
12 40 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
13 37 (1.06%) PhD
14 36 (1.03%) Chartered Engineer
15 32 (0.92%) AWS Certification
16 29 (0.83%) CISSP
17 23 (0.66%) ISTQB
18 17 (0.49%) CISA
18 17 (0.49%) MRICS
19 16 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 265 (7.60%) QA
2 120 (3.44%) Accessibility
3 63 (1.81%) Data Quality
4 55 (1.58%) MiFID
5 31 (0.89%) GDPR
6 30 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (0.86%) PMO
7 17 (0.49%) ISO 9001
7 17 (0.49%) PCI DSS
8 16 (0.46%) ITGC
9 14 (0.40%) NIST
10 13 (0.37%) GRC
11 9 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.23%) Basel III
12 8 (0.23%) IFRS
12 8 (0.23%) IFRS 9
12 8 (0.23%) WCAG
13 7 (0.20%) Basel II
13 7 (0.20%) Dodd-Frank
13 7 (0.20%) HIPAA
System Software
1 428 (12.27%) Docker
2 28 (0.80%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.17%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.057%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.029%) Firmware
8 1 (0.029%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.029%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 369 (10.58%) Kubernetes
2 253 (7.25%) Terraform
3 76 (2.18%) Ansible
4 26 (0.75%) Prometheus
5 17 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (0.34%) Grafana
7 11 (0.32%) Progress Chef
8 10 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.26%) Argo
10 7 (0.20%) Puppet
11 5 (0.14%) SCCM
12 4 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
13 3 (0.086%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.086%) Marathon
13 3 (0.086%) Packer
13 3 (0.086%) Rundeck
13 3 (0.086%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.057%) SCOM
15 1 (0.029%) HP Quality Center
15 1 (0.029%) Nagios
Vendors
1 464 (13.30%) Microsoft
2 173 (4.96%) Google
3 152 (4.36%) Oracle
4 67 (1.92%) IBM
4 67 (1.92%) SAP
5 63 (1.81%) Salesforce
6 52 (1.49%) ServiceNow
7 49 (1.40%) BISAM
8 48 (1.38%) Databricks
9 40 (1.15%) MathWorks
10 34 (0.97%) Charles River
11 30 (0.86%) Apple
12 28 (0.80%) Calypso
12 28 (0.80%) SimCorp
13 26 (0.75%) VMware
14 23 (0.66%) Adobe
15 17 (0.49%) Cisco
16 15 (0.43%) MuleSoft
16 15 (0.43%) New Relic
17 11 (0.32%) OpenAI