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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,744 3,021 8,030
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.15% 22.44% 24.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.31% 23.68% 27.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,775 2,243 6,032
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,850 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +14.37% -5.84%
75th Percentile £81,250 £98,474 £79,063
90th Percentile £103,000 £125,000 £97,500
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 14,989 12,756 29,693
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.76% 94.75% 91.33%
Number of salaries quoted 10,524 8,871 23,569
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £33,930
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £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 £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%

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 30 April 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
1 101 (3.68%) Confluence
2 48 (1.75%) CMS
3 45 (1.64%) SharePoint
4 19 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 12 (0.44%) Apache
7 11 (0.40%) Apache Spark
8 8 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.22%) nginx
9 6 (0.22%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.22%) SAS
10 5 (0.18%) WordPress
11 3 (0.11%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.11%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.073%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.036%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.036%) Ethereum
13 1 (0.036%) Hyperledger
13 1 (0.036%) WildFly
Applications
1 43 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (1.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 30 (1.09%) Adobe XD
4 30 (1.09%) UserZoom
5 29 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
6 18 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 12 (0.44%) Chatbot
8 9 (0.33%) MS Visio
8 9 (0.33%) Sketch
9 5 (0.18%) InVision
10 4 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.15%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.15%) Trello
11 2 (0.073%) Avid Media Composer
11 2 (0.073%) Pro Tools
11 2 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.036%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.036%) EngageOne
12 1 (0.036%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 25 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
3 20 (0.73%) Workfront
4 18 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
5 15 (0.55%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.26%) Shopify
7 6 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.15%) Markit EDM
9 3 (0.11%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.073%) Infor SunSystems
10 2 (0.073%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.073%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.073%) SAP PM
10 2 (0.073%) SAP SCM
11 1 (0.036%) Dynamics NAV
11 1 (0.036%) Maximo
11 1 (0.036%) Oracle General Ledger
11 1 (0.036%) Remedy ITSM
11 1 (0.036%) SAP MM
11 1 (0.036%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 784 (28.57%) Azure
2 627 (22.85%) AWS
3 225 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
4 197 (7.18%) GCP
5 183 (6.67%) Adobe Analytics
6 154 (5.61%) GitHub
7 148 (5.39%) Serverless
8 146 (5.32%) SaaS
9 139 (5.07%) Power Platform
10 132 (4.81%) Figma
11 103 (3.75%) Snowflake
12 69 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
13 68 (2.48%) Azure AI
13 68 (2.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 67 (2.44%) Amazon S3
15 64 (2.33%) Azure Machine Learning
16 55 (2.00%) Contentsquare
17 50 (1.82%) GitHub Copilot
18 48 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
19 45 (1.64%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 386 (14.07%) Broadband
2 27 (0.98%) CHAP
3 25 (0.91%) TCP/IP
4 23 (0.84%) DNS
5 14 (0.51%) 4G
5 14 (0.51%) Ethernet
5 14 (0.51%) Network Security
5 14 (0.51%) RS-232
6 13 (0.47%) Firewall
7 12 (0.44%) WAN
8 11 (0.40%) BGP
8 11 (0.40%) Cisco IOS
8 11 (0.40%) Ethernet VPN
8 11 (0.40%) IOS XR
8 11 (0.40%) MPLS
9 8 (0.29%) DHCP
9 8 (0.29%) LAN
9 8 (0.29%) VPN
10 6 (0.22%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (6.81%) SQL Server
2 107 (3.90%) NoSQL
3 91 (3.32%) MongoDB
4 87 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
5 80 (2.92%) Power BI
6 79 (2.88%) Metadata
7 63 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
8 59 (2.15%) MySQL
9 47 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
9 47 (1.71%) Relational Database
10 39 (1.42%) Data Lake
11 29 (1.06%) DynamoDB
12 25 (0.91%) Tableau
13 24 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
13 24 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
14 19 (0.69%) RDBMS
15 14 (0.51%) Redis
16 11 (0.40%) Flink
17 9 (0.33%) Big Data
17 9 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 215 (7.84%) JIRA
2 160 (5.83%) Git
3 123 (4.48%) Jenkins
4 108 (3.94%) GitLab
5 53 (1.93%) Selenium
6 42 (1.53%) Postman
6 42 (1.53%) SonarQube
7 33 (1.20%) Cypress.io
8 29 (1.06%) WebDriver
9 28 (1.02%) SoapUI
10 27 (0.98%) TeamCity
11 26 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
12 22 (0.80%) Axure RP
12 22 (0.80%) Balsamiq
13 19 (0.69%) Jaeger
13 19 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
14 15 (0.55%) JMeter
15 14 (0.51%) CircleCI
16 13 (0.47%) Cucumber
16 13 (0.47%) SpecFlow
General
1 812 (29.59%) Finance
2 785 (28.61%) Social Skills
3 366 (13.34%) Public Sector
4 300 (10.93%) Analytical Skills
5 285 (10.39%) Games
6 282 (10.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 196 (7.14%) Law
8 156 (5.69%) Banking
9 148 (5.39%) Marketing
10 124 (4.52%) Legal
11 106 (3.86%) Retail
12 70 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
13 57 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
14 56 (2.04%) Front Office
15 52 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
16 51 (1.86%) Telecoms
17 38 (1.38%) Manufacturing
18 36 (1.31%) Financial Institution
19 35 (1.28%) Back Office
20 27 (0.98%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 562 (20.48%) Senior
2 495 (18.04%) Developer
3 459 (16.73%) Lead
4 266 (9.69%) Analyst
5 210 (7.65%) Software Engineer
6 178 (6.49%) Architect
7 176 (6.41%) Business Analyst
8 151 (5.50%) Project Manager
9 135 (4.92%) Senior Manager
10 113 (4.12%) Software Developer
11 96 (3.50%) Designer
12 89 (3.24%) C# Developer
13 84 (3.06%) Lead Developer
14 80 (2.92%) Delivery Manager
14 80 (2.92%) Engineering Manager
15 79 (2.88%) Product Manager
16 76 (2.77%) Graduate
17 75 (2.73%) Graduate Developer
18 72 (2.62%) C# Software Developer
18 72 (2.62%) Graduate Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 290 (10.57%) React
2 280 (10.20%) .NET
3 149 (5.43%) CSS
4 143 (5.21%) Node.js
5 142 (5.17%) HTML
6 125 (4.56%) REST
7 115 (4.19%) RESTful
8 112 (4.08%) SOAP
9 83 (3.02%) Kafka
10 78 (2.84%) AngularJS
11 71 (2.59%) Lightning Web Components
12 65 (2.37%) .NET Core
13 64 (2.33%) Spring
14 58 (2.11%) Vue
15 57 (2.08%) ASP.NET
16 55 (2.00%) GraphQL
16 55 (2.00%) Spring Boot
17 54 (1.97%) Visualforce
18 47 (1.71%) .NET Framework
18 47 (1.71%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 398 (14.50%) Product Ownership
2 235 (8.56%) Cloud Native
3 210 (7.65%) Social Media
4 77 (2.81%) Mobile App
5 74 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
6 69 (2.51%) Onboarding
7 66 (2.41%) Management Information System
8 58 (2.11%) Over-the-Top Content
9 56 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
10 50 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
11 49 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
12 45 (1.64%) Fixed Income
13 42 (1.53%) Virtual Team
14 36 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
14 36 (1.31%) Marketing Technology
15 35 (1.28%) Low-Code
16 32 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
17 31 (1.13%) Data Structures
18 30 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
19 29 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 139 (5.07%) Linux
2 60 (2.19%) Android
3 51 (1.86%) Windows
4 47 (1.71%) Apple iOS
5 45 (1.64%) Unix
6 14 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
7 10 (0.36%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.33%) CentOS
9 6 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.15%) Debian
10 4 (0.15%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.11%) VMS
12 2 (0.073%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.036%) AIX
13 1 (0.036%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 658 (23.98%) Mentoring
2 651 (23.72%) Continuous Improvement
3 646 (23.54%) DevOps
4 624 (22.74%) Roadmaps
5 617 (22.49%) CI/CD
6 533 (19.42%) AI
7 508 (18.51%) Coaching
8 492 (17.93%) Scrum
9 441 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
10 421 (15.34%) Analytics
11 388 (14.14%) Software Engineering
12 334 (12.17%) Test Automation
13 290 (10.57%) Customer Experience
14 276 (10.06%) Project Management
15 272 (9.91%) Decision-Making
16 267 (9.73%) Stakeholder Management
17 260 (9.48%) Product Roadmap
18 258 (9.40%) Full-Stack Development
19 255 (9.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 255 (9.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 488 (17.78%) SQL
2 414 (15.09%) Python
3 400 (14.58%) Java
4 322 (11.73%) C#
5 320 (11.66%) JavaScript
6 221 (8.05%) TypeScript
7 92 (3.35%) PHP
8 83 (3.02%) C++
9 81 (2.95%) Go
10 74 (2.70%) Apex Code
11 56 (2.04%) Bash
12 47 (1.71%) C
13 45 (1.64%) PowerShell
14 37 (1.35%) Scala
15 35 (1.28%) SOQL
16 34 (1.24%) SOSL
17 22 (0.80%) PL/SQL
18 21 (0.77%) Shell Script
19 20 (0.73%) VBA
20 18 (0.66%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 360 (13.12%) Degree
2 314 (11.44%) Security Cleared
3 222 (8.09%) SC Cleared
4 89 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (2.48%) PMI Certification
6 61 (2.22%) DV Cleared
7 55 (2.00%) PMP
8 54 (1.97%) CISSP
9 47 (1.71%) ISTQB
10 46 (1.68%) DBS Check
11 40 (1.46%) CISM
12 33 (1.20%) CISA
13 32 (1.17%) AWS Certification
13 32 (1.17%) SANS
14 27 (0.98%) CGEIT
14 27 (0.98%) FFIEC
15 22 (0.80%) Azure Certification
16 21 (0.77%) Master's Degree
17 18 (0.66%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
18 15 (0.55%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 344 (12.54%) Accessibility
2 229 (8.35%) QA
3 94 (3.43%) WCAG
4 62 (2.26%) Data Quality
5 58 (2.11%) NIST
6 53 (1.93%) GDPR
7 35 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 29 (1.06%) COBIT
8 29 (1.06%) PMO
9 22 (0.80%) GRC
10 11 (0.40%) NCSC
11 10 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 7 (0.26%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.15%) IFRS
14 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 4 (0.15%) MiFID
14 4 (0.15%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 222 (8.09%) Docker
2 59 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
3 46 (1.68%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.22%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (0.15%) Firmware
7 3 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.036%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.036%) vSphere
8 1 (0.036%) Xen
Systems Management
1 220 (8.02%) Kubernetes
1 220 (8.02%) Terraform
2 84 (3.06%) Ansible
3 49 (1.79%) Argo
4 46 (1.68%) Grafana
5 43 (1.57%) Prometheus
6 23 (0.84%) Kustomize
7 19 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (0.44%) Podman
9 7 (0.26%) Puppet
10 5 (0.18%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.18%) Packer
11 4 (0.15%) Istio
11 4 (0.15%) logstash
11 4 (0.15%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.15%) SCCM
12 3 (0.11%) Control-M
12 3 (0.11%) Kibana
12 3 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 408 (14.87%) Microsoft
2 250 (9.11%) Adobe
3 121 (4.41%) Google
4 115 (4.19%) Databricks
5 110 (4.01%) Salesforce
6 75 (2.73%) Oracle
7 64 (2.33%) SAP
8 57 (2.08%) ServiceNow
9 41 (1.49%) Splunk
10 19 (0.69%) IBM
11 17 (0.62%) MuleSoft
12 15 (0.55%) Cisco
13 13 (0.47%) Okta
14 11 (0.40%) Red Hat
15 10 (0.36%) Atlassian
15 10 (0.36%) VMware
16 9 (0.33%) Foundry
17 7 (0.26%) IFS
17 7 (0.26%) Informatica
17 7 (0.26%) Planon