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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,697 3,092 8,064
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.37% 23.44% 24.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.47% 24.72% 27.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,747 2,258 6,077
10th Percentile £41,250 £44,987 £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 £97,528 £78,750
90th Percentile £103,500 £125,000 £96,539
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 14,599 12,506 29,639
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.18% 94.79% 91.57%
Number of salaries quoted 10,195 8,884 23,673
10th Percentile £32,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.54%

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 16 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 96 (3.56%) Confluence
2 41 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 40 (1.48%) CMS
4 19 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 11 (0.41%) Apache
7 9 (0.33%) Apache Spark
8 8 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.26%) SAS
10 6 (0.22%) nginx
11 5 (0.19%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.15%) WordPress
13 3 (0.11%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.11%) NServiceBus
14 2 (0.074%) Microsoft Exchange
14 2 (0.074%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.074%) WebLogic
14 2 (0.074%) WebLogic Portal
15 1 (0.037%) IIS
Applications
1 43 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (1.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 31 (1.15%) Adobe XD
3 31 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
4 30 (1.11%) UserZoom
5 19 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
6 17 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 13 (0.48%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.37%) Sketch
9 9 (0.33%) MS Visio
10 5 (0.19%) InVision
10 5 (0.19%) Trello
11 4 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.15%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.074%) Avid Media Composer
12 2 (0.074%) Pro Tools
12 2 (0.074%) Spreadsheet
13 1 (0.037%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.037%) EngageOne
13 1 (0.037%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 22 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 22 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
2 21 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 20 (0.74%) Workfront
4 16 (0.59%) SAP ERP
5 12 (0.44%) Shopify
6 6 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.15%) Markit EDM
8 3 (0.11%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.11%) Primavera
9 2 (0.074%) Infor SunSystems
9 2 (0.074%) Maximo
9 2 (0.074%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.074%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.074%) SAP IBP
9 2 (0.074%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.074%) SAP PM
9 2 (0.074%) SAP SCM
10 1 (0.037%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.037%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 781 (28.96%) Azure
2 609 (22.58%) AWS
3 233 (8.64%) Azure DevOps
4 190 (7.04%) GCP
5 178 (6.60%) GitHub
6 171 (6.34%) Adobe Analytics
7 148 (5.49%) Serverless
8 147 (5.45%) SaaS
9 140 (5.19%) Power Platform
10 121 (4.49%) Figma
11 111 (4.12%) Snowflake
12 75 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
13 71 (2.63%) Amazon S3
14 69 (2.56%) Azure AI
14 69 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 62 (2.30%) Azure Machine Learning
16 59 (2.19%) GitHub Copilot
17 52 (1.93%) dbt
18 51 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
18 51 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 374 (13.87%) Broadband
2 26 (0.96%) TCP/IP
3 25 (0.93%) CHAP
4 23 (0.85%) DNS
5 14 (0.52%) 4G
5 14 (0.52%) Ethernet
5 14 (0.52%) Firewall
5 14 (0.52%) RS-232
6 13 (0.48%) WAN
7 11 (0.41%) BGP
7 11 (0.41%) Cisco IOS
7 11 (0.41%) Ethernet VPN
7 11 (0.41%) IOS XR
7 11 (0.41%) MPLS
7 11 (0.41%) Network Security
8 9 (0.33%) DHCP
9 8 (0.30%) LAN
9 8 (0.30%) VPN
10 6 (0.22%) Internet
10 6 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (6.79%) SQL Server
2 113 (4.19%) NoSQL
3 82 (3.04%) MongoDB
3 82 (3.04%) Power BI
4 81 (3.00%) Metadata
5 73 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
6 71 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
7 70 (2.60%) MySQL
8 54 (2.00%) Relational Database
9 50 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
10 46 (1.71%) Data Lake
11 26 (0.96%) DynamoDB
12 25 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
12 25 (0.93%) Tableau
13 20 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
13 20 (0.74%) RDBMS
14 13 (0.48%) Redis
14 13 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 11 (0.41%) Flink
16 9 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 212 (7.86%) JIRA
2 170 (6.30%) Git
3 120 (4.45%) Jenkins
4 94 (3.49%) GitLab
5 52 (1.93%) Selenium
6 43 (1.59%) SonarQube
7 41 (1.52%) Postman
8 37 (1.37%) Cypress.io
9 30 (1.11%) WebDriver
10 28 (1.04%) SoapUI
11 27 (1.00%) Team Foundation Server
11 27 (1.00%) TeamCity
12 26 (0.96%) Balsamiq
13 24 (0.89%) Axure RP
14 19 (0.70%) Jaeger
15 18 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
16 17 (0.63%) JMeter
17 14 (0.52%) CircleCI
17 14 (0.52%) Cucumber
18 12 (0.44%) SpecFlow
General
1 818 (30.33%) Finance
2 799 (29.63%) Social Skills
3 333 (12.35%) Public Sector
4 294 (10.90%) Analytical Skills
5 279 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 270 (10.01%) Games
7 194 (7.19%) Law
8 155 (5.75%) Marketing
9 150 (5.56%) Banking
10 116 (4.30%) Legal
11 83 (3.08%) Retail
12 67 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
13 61 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
14 58 (2.15%) Front Office
15 54 (2.00%) Telecoms
16 49 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
17 40 (1.48%) Manufacturing
18 37 (1.37%) Back Office
19 34 (1.26%) Financial Institution
20 26 (0.96%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 547 (20.28%) Senior
2 506 (18.76%) Developer
3 441 (16.35%) Lead
4 240 (8.90%) Analyst
5 210 (7.79%) Software Engineer
6 176 (6.53%) Architect
7 164 (6.08%) Business Analyst
8 137 (5.08%) Project Manager
9 126 (4.67%) Senior Manager
10 109 (4.04%) Software Developer
11 92 (3.41%) Designer
12 87 (3.23%) Lead Developer
13 84 (3.11%) C# Developer
14 79 (2.93%) Engineering Manager
15 76 (2.82%) Delivery Manager
16 75 (2.78%) Product Owner
17 73 (2.71%) Consultant
18 72 (2.67%) Data Engineer
19 71 (2.63%) Product Manager
20 70 (2.60%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 292 (10.83%) .NET
2 291 (10.79%) React
3 163 (6.04%) CSS
4 157 (5.82%) HTML
5 129 (4.78%) Node.js
6 128 (4.75%) REST
7 123 (4.56%) RESTful
8 118 (4.38%) SOAP
9 88 (3.26%) Kafka
10 76 (2.82%) AngularJS
11 74 (2.74%) Lightning Web Components
12 69 (2.56%) .NET Core
13 65 (2.41%) Spring
14 62 (2.30%) ASP.NET
15 58 (2.15%) GraphQL
15 58 (2.15%) Vue
16 55 (2.04%) Visualforce
17 54 (2.00%) Spring Boot
18 49 (1.82%) .NET Framework
19 46 (1.71%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 393 (14.57%) Product Ownership
2 227 (8.42%) Cloud Native
3 204 (7.56%) Social Media
4 76 (2.82%) Mobile App
5 71 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 65 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
7 62 (2.30%) Management Information System
8 58 (2.15%) Over-the-Top Content
9 57 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
10 54 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
11 50 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
12 47 (1.74%) Fixed Income
13 44 (1.63%) Low-Code
14 39 (1.45%) Virtual Team
15 36 (1.33%) Marketing Technology
16 33 (1.22%) Data Structures
17 32 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
18 29 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
19 28 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
20 27 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 143 (5.30%) Linux
2 59 (2.19%) Android
3 51 (1.89%) Windows
4 47 (1.74%) Apple iOS
5 40 (1.48%) Unix
6 16 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 14 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
8 11 (0.41%) CentOS
9 7 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.19%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.15%) Debian
12 3 (0.11%) VMS
13 2 (0.074%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.074%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.037%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 655 (24.29%) DevOps
2 647 (23.99%) Continuous Improvement
3 613 (22.73%) CI/CD
3 613 (22.73%) Mentoring
4 602 (22.32%) Roadmaps
5 527 (19.54%) AI
6 483 (17.91%) Coaching
7 478 (17.72%) Scrum
8 453 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
9 411 (15.24%) Analytics
10 396 (14.68%) Software Engineering
11 314 (11.64%) Test Automation
12 273 (10.12%) Customer Experience
13 266 (9.86%) Stakeholder Management
14 258 (9.57%) Full-Stack Development
14 258 (9.57%) Project Management
15 250 (9.27%) Decision-Making
16 243 (9.01%) Product Roadmap
16 243 (9.01%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 232 (8.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 500 (18.54%) SQL
2 422 (15.65%) Python
3 385 (14.28%) Java
4 335 (12.42%) JavaScript
5 329 (12.20%) C#
6 215 (7.97%) TypeScript
7 87 (3.23%) PHP
8 85 (3.15%) C++
9 80 (2.97%) Go
10 77 (2.86%) Apex Code
11 56 (2.08%) Bash
12 54 (2.00%) PowerShell
13 49 (1.82%) C
14 35 (1.30%) Scala
14 35 (1.30%) SOQL
15 34 (1.26%) SOSL
16 25 (0.93%) Shell Script
17 20 (0.74%) PL/SQL
17 20 (0.74%) VBA
18 19 (0.70%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 345 (12.79%) Degree
2 315 (11.68%) Security Cleared
3 218 (8.08%) SC Cleared
4 89 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 67 (2.48%) DV Cleared
6 66 (2.45%) PMI Certification
7 52 (1.93%) PMP
8 44 (1.63%) CISSP
9 41 (1.52%) DBS Check
9 41 (1.52%) ISTQB
10 31 (1.15%) AWS Certification
11 30 (1.11%) CISM
11 30 (1.11%) SANS
12 26 (0.96%) CISA
13 25 (0.93%) CGEIT
13 25 (0.93%) FFIEC
13 25 (0.93%) Master's Degree
14 21 (0.78%) Azure Certification
15 18 (0.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 15 (0.56%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 339 (12.57%) Accessibility
2 224 (8.31%) QA
3 92 (3.41%) WCAG
4 58 (2.15%) Data Quality
5 51 (1.89%) GDPR
6 46 (1.71%) NIST
7 28 (1.04%) PMO
8 26 (0.96%) COBIT
9 25 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 18 (0.67%) GRC
11 10 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.22%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 5 (0.19%) NCSC
14 4 (0.15%) IFRS
14 4 (0.15%) MiFID
14 4 (0.15%) P3O
14 4 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.11%) GAAP
15 3 (0.11%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 230 (8.53%) Docker
2 61 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
3 47 (1.74%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.22%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (0.19%) Firmware
5 5 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.037%) vCloud
7 1 (0.037%) vSphere
7 1 (0.037%) Xen
Systems Management
1 225 (8.34%) Kubernetes
2 220 (8.16%) Terraform
3 83 (3.08%) Ansible
4 49 (1.82%) Grafana
5 44 (1.63%) Prometheus
6 40 (1.48%) Argo
7 21 (0.78%) Kustomize
8 19 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.44%) Podman
10 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (0.26%) Puppet
12 6 (0.22%) Kibana
13 5 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
14 4 (0.15%) logstash
14 4 (0.15%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.15%) SCCM
15 3 (0.11%) Control-M
15 3 (0.11%) Packer
15 3 (0.11%) ZABBIX
16 2 (0.074%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 401 (14.87%) Microsoft
2 238 (8.82%) Adobe
3 119 (4.41%) Google
4 118 (4.38%) Databricks
5 113 (4.19%) Salesforce
6 73 (2.71%) Oracle
7 72 (2.67%) SAP
8 52 (1.93%) ServiceNow
9 45 (1.67%) Splunk
10 24 (0.89%) IBM
11 22 (0.82%) MuleSoft
12 15 (0.56%) Cisco
13 13 (0.48%) Okta
14 11 (0.41%) Atlassian
15 10 (0.37%) Foundry
15 10 (0.37%) IFS
15 10 (0.37%) Red Hat
15 10 (0.37%) Talend
15 10 (0.37%) Workday
16 9 (0.33%) VMware