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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,516 3,251 5,605
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.35% 19.66% 22.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.63% 21.15% 25.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,310 2,033 3,640
10th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £50,475
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% +3.85% -0.54%
75th Percentile £78,312 £93,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £132,500 £128,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +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 18,872 15,371 21,572
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.41% 92.94% 87.56%
Number of salaries quoted 13,617 8,911 15,260
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 £97,500
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 18 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 (3.21%) Confluence
2 79 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 42 (1.19%) CMS
4 25 (0.71%) Apache Spark
5 22 (0.63%) Apache
6 17 (0.48%) 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 (0.28%) Jupyter
10 10 (0.28%) 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 (0.085%) Kentico
13 3 (0.085%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.085%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 126 (3.58%) Microsoft Project
2 98 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
3 68 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
4 53 (1.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 43 (1.22%) UserZoom
6 24 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 23 (0.65%) Chatbot
8 19 (0.54%) MS Visio
8 19 (0.54%) Trello
9 17 (0.48%) Adobe XD
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 (0.085%) Blender
12 3 (0.085%) Maya
12 3 (0.085%) Productboard
13 2 (0.057%) PlantUML
13 2 (0.057%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 64 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.14%) Workfront
3 22 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.28%) 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
7 7 (0.20%) Shopify
8 5 (0.14%) Elite 3E
8 5 (0.14%) Fidessa
9 4 (0.11%) Raiser’s Edge
10 3 (0.085%) Carpe Diem
10 3 (0.085%) Dynamics NAV
10 3 (0.085%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 3 (0.085%) Oracle Applications
10 3 (0.085%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.085%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,256 (35.72%) Azure
2 876 (24.91%) AWS
3 350 (9.95%) Azure DevOps
4 239 (6.80%) SaaS
5 226 (6.43%) GCP
6 191 (5.43%) GitHub
7 189 (5.38%) Power Platform
8 159 (4.52%) Azure AI
9 151 (4.29%) Adobe Analytics
10 147 (4.18%) Serverless
11 93 (2.65%) Figma
12 92 (2.62%) GitHub Copilot
13 83 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
14 75 (2.13%) Snowflake
15 71 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
16 69 (1.96%) PowerApps
17 67 (1.91%) Azure Machine Learning
17 67 (1.91%) Contentsquare
18 66 (1.88%) Power Automate
19 64 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 290 (8.25%) Broadband
2 36 (1.02%) Network Security
3 20 (0.57%) Internet
3 20 (0.57%) TCP/IP
4 19 (0.54%) VPN
4 19 (0.54%) WAN
5 17 (0.48%) LAN
6 16 (0.46%) Firewall
7 14 (0.40%) DNS
8 13 (0.37%) VoIP
9 11 (0.31%) CTI
9 11 (0.31%) Ethernet
9 11 (0.31%) RS-232
10 10 (0.28%) 5G
11 8 (0.23%) CHAP
11 8 (0.23%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.23%) SMS
11 8 (0.23%) Wireless
12 7 (0.20%) DHCP
12 7 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 374 (10.64%) MongoDB
2 365 (10.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 215 (6.11%) SQL Server
4 147 (4.18%) Elasticsearch
5 144 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
6 119 (3.38%) Power BI
7 102 (2.90%) Metadata
8 85 (2.42%) NoSQL
9 84 (2.39%) MySQL
10 55 (1.56%) Relational Database
11 48 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
12 47 (1.34%) DynamoDB
13 38 (1.08%) Data Lake
14 27 (0.77%) Big Data
15 26 (0.74%) Tableau
16 24 (0.68%) 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
1 268 (7.62%) JIRA
2 200 (5.69%) Git
3 97 (2.76%) GitLab
3 97 (2.76%) Jenkins
4 37 (1.05%) Cypress.io
5 36 (1.02%) Selenium
6 29 (0.82%) JUnit
6 29 (0.82%) SonarQube
7 21 (0.60%) Claude Code
7 21 (0.60%) Postman
8 17 (0.48%) Maven
8 17 (0.48%) Mockito
9 16 (0.46%) Cucumber
10 15 (0.43%) Visual Studio
11 13 (0.37%) CircleCI
12 10 (0.28%) Balsamiq
12 10 (0.28%) JMeter
13 9 (0.26%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.26%) Gatling
13 9 (0.26%) TeamCity
General
1 1,036 (29.47%) Social Skills
2 889 (25.28%) Finance
3 508 (14.45%) Public Sector
4 398 (11.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 383 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
6 304 (8.65%) Law
7 235 (6.68%) Legal
8 225 (6.40%) Games
9 193 (5.49%) Marketing
10 186 (5.29%) Retail
11 123 (3.50%) Banking
12 111 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
13 97 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
14 87 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
15 80 (2.28%) Aerospace
16 64 (1.82%) Advertising
17 48 (1.37%) Legal Technology
18 43 (1.22%) Manufacturing
19 36 (1.02%) Back Office
20 29 (0.82%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 873 (24.83%) Developer
2 728 (20.71%) Senior
3 439 (12.49%) Lead
4 377 (10.72%) .NET Developer
5 323 (9.19%) Analyst
6 286 (8.13%) Architect
7 267 (7.59%) Project Manager
8 262 (7.45%) Software Engineer
9 217 (6.17%) Business Analyst
10 175 (4.98%) Senior Developer
11 154 (4.38%) Senior Manager
12 138 (3.92%) IT Manager
13 117 (3.33%) Software Developer
14 98 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
15 95 (2.70%) Delivery Manager
15 95 (2.70%) Senior Project Manager
16 94 (2.67%) Full-Stack Developer
17 85 (2.42%) Product Owner
18 82 (2.33%) Consultant
19 81 (2.30%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 644 (18.32%) .NET
2 481 (13.68%) React
3 392 (11.15%) ASP.NET
4 387 (11.01%) .NET Core
5 357 (10.15%) ASP.NET Core
6 321 (9.13%) Node.js
7 229 (6.51%) CSS
8 219 (6.23%) RESTful
9 208 (5.92%) HTML
10 178 (5.06%) Blazor
11 167 (4.75%) AngularJS
12 165 (4.69%) Entity Framework
13 139 (3.95%) Vue
14 134 (3.81%) REST
15 126 (3.58%) ASP.NET Web API
16 104 (2.96%) .NET Framework
17 96 (2.73%) ML.NET
18 94 (2.67%) Spring
19 88 (2.50%) Middleware
20 69 (1.96%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 405 (11.52%) Product Ownership
2 304 (8.65%) Cloud Native
3 207 (5.89%) Social Media
4 150 (4.27%) Enterprise Software
5 103 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
6 87 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
7 74 (2.10%) Management Information System
7 74 (2.10%) Mobile App
8 64 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
9 63 (1.79%) Marketing Technology
10 62 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
11 61 (1.73%) Onboarding
12 54 (1.54%) Over-the-Top Content
13 51 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
14 49 (1.39%) Driving Licence
15 44 (1.25%) Virtual Team
16 33 (0.94%) AI Agents
16 33 (0.94%) Blog
17 30 (0.85%) Cyber Defence
18 28 (0.80%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 144 (4.10%) Linux
2 68 (1.93%) Windows
3 52 (1.48%) Android
4 38 (1.08%) Unix
5 28 (0.80%) 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 (0.085%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.057%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.028%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 883 (25.11%) CI/CD
2 873 (24.83%) Continuous Improvement
3 864 (24.57%) DevOps
4 799 (22.72%) AI
5 725 (20.62%) Mentoring
6 696 (19.80%) Roadmaps
7 680 (19.34%) Scrum
8 634 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
9 600 (17.06%) Full-Stack Development
10 531 (15.10%) Software Engineering
11 528 (15.02%) Coaching
12 520 (14.79%) Stakeholder Management
13 482 (13.71%) Microservices
14 449 (12.77%) Decision-Making
15 435 (12.37%) Analytics
16 434 (12.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 406 (11.55%) Project Delivery
18 404 (11.49%) Test Automation
19 366 (10.41%) Project Management
20 355 (10.10%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 848 (24.12%) SQL
2 768 (21.84%) C#
3 563 (16.01%) JavaScript
4 396 (11.26%) Python
5 359 (10.21%) Java
6 338 (9.61%) TypeScript
7 90 (2.56%) C++
7 90 (2.56%) PHP
8 68 (1.93%) Bash
9 46 (1.31%) Go
10 45 (1.28%) Ruby
11 40 (1.14%) PowerShell
12 38 (1.08%) C
13 32 (0.91%) Apex Code
14 24 (0.68%) PL/SQL
15 22 (0.63%) T-SQL
16 21 (0.60%) SOQL
17 20 (0.57%) SOSL
18 17 (0.48%) Bicep
19 15 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 508 (14.45%) Degree
2 497 (14.14%) Security Cleared
3 396 (11.26%) SC Cleared
4 126 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 108 (3.07%) PMI Certification
6 107 (3.04%) CISSP
7 104 (2.96%) PMP
8 97 (2.76%) CISM
9 87 (2.47%) DV Cleared
10 76 (2.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 74 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
12 64 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
13 47 (1.34%) Azure Certification
14 38 (1.08%) DBS Check
15 34 (0.97%) Master's Degree
16 30 (0.85%) AWS Certification
17 29 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
18 25 (0.71%) CISA
19 23 (0.65%) ISTQB
20 17 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 386 (10.98%) Accessibility
2 307 (8.73%) QA
3 133 (3.78%) Data Quality
4 113 (3.21%) NIST
5 90 (2.56%) WCAG
6 89 (2.53%) GDPR
7 71 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 62 (1.76%) PMO
9 49 (1.39%) ISO 22301
10 35 (1.00%) GRC
11 31 (0.88%) NCSC
12 27 (0.77%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 15 (0.43%) COBIT
14 14 (0.40%) NIST 800
15 12 (0.34%) SOC 2
16 10 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
16 10 (0.28%) GxP
16 10 (0.28%) PCI DSS
17 9 (0.26%) SLA
18 7 (0.20%) MiFID
System Software
1 303 (8.62%) Docker
2 60 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
3 37 (1.05%) 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 (0.028%) GPFS
9 1 (0.028%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.028%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 269 (7.65%) Kubernetes
2 173 (4.92%) Terraform
3 54 (1.54%) Ansible
4 37 (1.05%) Grafana
5 29 (0.82%) Argo
6 26 (0.74%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.34%) Podman
8 8 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.14%) Istio
10 5 (0.14%) Puppet
11 4 (0.11%) Kustomize
12 3 (0.085%) Packer
12 3 (0.085%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.085%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.057%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.057%) Kibana
14 1 (0.028%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.028%) linkerd
14 1 (0.028%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 807 (22.95%) Microsoft
2 234 (6.66%) Adobe
3 143 (4.07%) Google
4 110 (3.13%) Oracle
5 106 (3.01%) Databricks
6 92 (2.62%) Salesforce
7 91 (2.59%) SAP
8 64 (1.82%) ServiceNow
9 40 (1.14%) Facebook
10 33 (0.94%) YouTube
11 31 (0.88%) 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%) Apple
16 19 (0.54%) Yahoo!
17 18 (0.51%) IFS
18 17 (0.48%) Sony
19 16 (0.46%) IBM