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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,048 3,319 8,113
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.67% 21.96% 23.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.08% 23.21% 26.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,969 2,037 5,987
10th Percentile £42,425 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +14.37% -5.84%
75th Percentile £80,000 £98,474 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £132,500 £105,000
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 15,975 14,300 30,520
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.12% 94.60% 89.29%
Number of salaries quoted 11,436 8,372 23,726
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 10 June 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 99 (3.25%) Confluence
2 41 (1.35%) CMS
3 40 (1.31%) SharePoint
4 21 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.62%) Apache
6 15 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 15 (0.49%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.33%) SAS
8 9 (0.30%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.20%) WordPress
10 5 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.13%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.13%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.13%) PowerFactory
12 3 (0.098%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.098%) nginx
13 2 (0.066%) Camunda
13 2 (0.066%) NServiceBus
13 2 (0.066%) Umbraco
Applications
1 109 (3.58%) Microsoft Project
2 97 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 45 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
5 37 (1.21%) UserZoom
6 23 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 21 (0.69%) Adobe XD
8 9 (0.30%) MS Visio
9 8 (0.26%) Sketch
10 7 (0.23%) Chatbot
10 7 (0.23%) Trello
11 4 (0.13%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.13%) InVision
11 4 (0.13%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.13%) Revit
11 4 (0.13%) Windchill
12 3 (0.098%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.098%) Blender
12 3 (0.098%) Maya
12 3 (0.098%) Productboard
Business Applications
1 49 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.31%) Workfront
3 18 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.43%) SAP ERP
5 8 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.20%) Shopify
8 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
9 3 (0.098%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.098%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.098%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.098%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.098%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.098%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (0.066%) Fidessa
10 2 (0.066%) Infor SunSystems
10 2 (0.066%) Oracle Financials
10 2 (0.066%) Raiser’s Edge
10 2 (0.066%) SAP PM
10 2 (0.066%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 900 (29.53%) Azure
2 689 (22.60%) AWS
3 231 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
4 211 (6.92%) GCP
5 185 (6.07%) Adobe Analytics
6 154 (5.05%) Power Platform
6 154 (5.05%) SaaS
7 138 (4.53%) Serverless
8 131 (4.30%) GitHub
9 115 (3.77%) Figma
10 110 (3.61%) Azure AI
11 75 (2.46%) Snowflake
12 65 (2.13%) Azure Machine Learning
13 62 (2.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 62 (2.03%) Contentsquare
14 56 (1.84%) iPaaS
15 55 (1.80%) Amazon S3
15 55 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
16 53 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
16 53 (1.74%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 419 (13.75%) Broadband
2 26 (0.85%) TCP/IP
3 22 (0.72%) Network Security
4 20 (0.66%) CHAP
5 19 (0.62%) DNS
6 17 (0.56%) WAN
7 16 (0.52%) LAN
8 15 (0.49%) 4G
8 15 (0.49%) Ethernet
8 15 (0.49%) RS-232
9 13 (0.43%) Firewall
10 12 (0.39%) Internet
10 12 (0.39%) VPN
11 11 (0.36%) BGP
11 11 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
11 11 (0.36%) Ethernet VPN
11 11 (0.36%) IOS XR
11 11 (0.36%) MPLS
12 9 (0.30%) 5G
13 7 (0.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (7.15%) MongoDB
2 175 (5.74%) Azure SQL Database
3 166 (5.45%) SQL Server
4 114 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
5 109 (3.58%) NoSQL
6 106 (3.48%) Metadata
7 86 (2.82%) Power BI
8 76 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
9 70 (2.30%) MySQL
10 47 (1.54%) Relational Database
11 34 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
12 33 (1.08%) Data Lake
13 30 (0.98%) DynamoDB
14 20 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (0.62%) Tableau
16 18 (0.59%) Big Data
16 18 (0.59%) RDBMS
16 18 (0.59%) Redis
17 17 (0.56%) BigQuery
18 15 (0.49%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 228 (7.48%) JIRA
2 149 (4.89%) Git
3 117 (3.84%) Jenkins
4 104 (3.41%) GitLab
5 48 (1.57%) Selenium
6 39 (1.28%) Postman
6 39 (1.28%) SonarQube
7 35 (1.15%) Cypress.io
8 25 (0.82%) TeamCity
9 23 (0.75%) WebDriver
10 22 (0.72%) SoapUI
11 19 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
12 18 (0.59%) Jaeger
12 18 (0.59%) JUnit
13 16 (0.52%) Claude Code
14 15 (0.49%) Cucumber
14 15 (0.49%) JMeter
15 13 (0.43%) CircleCI
16 11 (0.36%) Mockito
16 11 (0.36%) SpecFlow
General
1 886 (29.07%) Social Skills
2 783 (25.69%) Finance
3 435 (14.27%) Public Sector
4 332 (10.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 321 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
6 295 (9.68%) Games
7 204 (6.69%) Law
8 179 (5.87%) Marketing
9 149 (4.89%) Banking
10 146 (4.79%) Retail
11 141 (4.63%) Legal
12 70 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
13 67 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
14 55 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
15 48 (1.57%) Front Office
16 43 (1.41%) Telecoms
17 39 (1.28%) Advertising
18 33 (1.08%) Back Office
19 29 (0.95%) Aviation
19 29 (0.95%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 628 (20.60%) Senior
2 599 (19.65%) Developer
3 467 (15.32%) Lead
4 301 (9.88%) Analyst
5 245 (8.04%) Software Engineer
6 228 (7.48%) Architect
7 227 (7.45%) Project Manager
8 202 (6.63%) Business Analyst
9 197 (6.46%) .NET Developer
10 191 (6.27%) Senior Manager
11 105 (3.44%) Delivery Manager
12 103 (3.38%) Software Developer
13 98 (3.22%) Senior Project Manager
14 89 (2.92%) Product Owner
15 86 (2.82%) Engineering Manager
16 83 (2.72%) Designer
17 79 (2.59%) IT Manager
18 78 (2.56%) Product Manager
19 76 (2.49%) Senior Developer
20 74 (2.43%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 385 (12.63%) .NET
2 359 (11.78%) React
3 215 (7.05%) Node.js
4 191 (6.27%) .NET Core
5 189 (6.20%) ASP.NET
6 172 (5.64%) ASP.NET Core
7 163 (5.35%) CSS
8 161 (5.28%) HTML
9 148 (4.86%) RESTful
10 120 (3.94%) REST
11 109 (3.58%) AngularJS
12 88 (2.89%) Vue
13 80 (2.62%) Blazor
13 80 (2.62%) Entity Framework
14 79 (2.59%) SOAP
15 78 (2.56%) Kafka
16 75 (2.46%) Spring
17 58 (1.90%) Lightning Web Components
18 56 (1.84%) ASP.NET Web API
18 56 (1.84%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 416 (13.65%) Product Ownership
2 256 (8.40%) Cloud Native
3 242 (7.94%) Social Media
4 91 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
5 79 (2.59%) Mobile App
6 76 (2.49%) Over-the-Top Content
7 72 (2.36%) Onboarding
8 66 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
9 64 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
9 64 (2.10%) Management Information System
10 56 (1.84%) Marketing Technology
11 55 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
12 48 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
13 44 (1.44%) Driving Licence
14 41 (1.35%) Virtual Team
15 40 (1.31%) Fixed Income
16 33 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
17 30 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
18 28 (0.92%) Data Structures
18 28 (0.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 136 (4.46%) Linux
2 64 (2.10%) Android
3 47 (1.54%) Apple iOS
4 44 (1.44%) Unix
4 44 (1.44%) Windows
5 15 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
6 7 (0.23%) CentOS
6 7 (0.23%) VMS
6 7 (0.23%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.16%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.13%) Debian
9 2 (0.066%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.033%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 726 (23.82%) Roadmaps
2 702 (23.03%) Mentoring
3 676 (22.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 676 (22.18%) DevOps
4 652 (21.39%) CI/CD
5 615 (20.18%) AI
6 549 (18.01%) Scrum
7 542 (17.78%) Coaching
8 476 (15.62%) Problem-Solving
9 437 (14.34%) Analytics
10 404 (13.25%) Software Engineering
11 392 (12.86%) Full-Stack Development
12 385 (12.63%) Customer Experience
13 359 (11.78%) Project Management
14 352 (11.55%) Stakeholder Management
15 342 (11.22%) Decision-Making
16 328 (10.76%) Test Automation
17 301 (9.88%) Microservices
18 291 (9.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 274 (8.99%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 616 (20.21%) SQL
2 440 (14.44%) C#
3 409 (13.42%) JavaScript
4 402 (13.19%) Java
5 390 (12.80%) Python
6 269 (8.83%) TypeScript
7 80 (2.62%) PHP
8 79 (2.59%) Go
9 78 (2.56%) C++
10 68 (2.23%) Bash
11 59 (1.94%) Apex Code
12 40 (1.31%) C
13 36 (1.18%) PowerShell
14 35 (1.15%) Scala
14 35 (1.15%) SOQL
15 34 (1.12%) SOSL
16 21 (0.69%) Ruby
17 20 (0.66%) PL/SQL
17 20 (0.66%) VBA
18 18 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 438 (14.37%) Degree
2 328 (10.76%) Security Cleared
3 252 (8.27%) SC Cleared
4 92 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 80 (2.62%) PMI Certification
6 73 (2.40%) PMP
7 68 (2.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 53 (1.74%) CISSP
9 50 (1.64%) DV Cleared
10 46 (1.51%) DBS Check
11 39 (1.28%) CISM
12 38 (1.25%) ISTQB
13 35 (1.15%) AWS Certification
14 29 (0.95%) Azure Certification
15 27 (0.89%) CISA
16 25 (0.82%) SANS
17 20 (0.66%) CGEIT
17 20 (0.66%) FFIEC
18 16 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
19 14 (0.46%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 354 (11.61%) Accessibility
2 239 (7.84%) QA
3 97 (3.18%) Data Quality
4 83 (2.72%) WCAG
5 61 (2.00%) GDPR
6 55 (1.80%) NIST
7 43 (1.41%) PMO
8 37 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 23 (0.75%) COBIT
10 22 (0.72%) GRC
11 14 (0.46%) NCSC
12 12 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.23%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.16%) 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
1 257 (8.43%) Docker
2 59 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
3 39 (1.28%) Active Directory
4 9 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.16%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.16%) vSphere
6 3 (0.098%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.033%) Xen
Systems Management
1 247 (8.10%) Kubernetes
2 189 (6.20%) Terraform
3 79 (2.59%) Ansible
4 46 (1.51%) Argo
4 46 (1.51%) Prometheus
5 44 (1.44%) Grafana
6 22 (0.72%) Kustomize
7 12 (0.39%) Podman
8 7 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.20%) Puppet
10 5 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.16%) Packer
11 4 (0.13%) Istio
11 4 (0.13%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.13%) SCCM
12 3 (0.098%) Control-M
12 3 (0.098%) Kibana
12 3 (0.098%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.066%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 552 (18.11%) Microsoft
2 263 (8.63%) Adobe
3 130 (4.27%) Google
4 111 (3.64%) Salesforce
5 99 (3.25%) Databricks
6 90 (2.95%) Oracle
7 79 (2.59%) SAP
8 75 (2.46%) ServiceNow
9 40 (1.31%) Splunk
10 19 (0.62%) Cisco
10 19 (0.62%) Facebook
11 17 (0.56%) IBM
12 13 (0.43%) MuleSoft
12 13 (0.43%) VMware
13 12 (0.39%) IFS
14 11 (0.36%) Apple
15 9 (0.30%) Foundry
15 9 (0.30%) YouTube
16 8 (0.26%) OpenAI
16 8 (0.26%) Yahoo!