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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,017 3,296 8,085
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.59% 22.14% 23.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.01% 23.39% 26.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,933 2,027 5,979
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% +14.37% -5.84%
75th Percentile £80,000 £98,474 £80,000
90th Percentile £99,500 £131,000 £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 15,867 14,093 30,256
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.01% 94.67% 89.67%
Number of salaries quoted 11,345 8,291 23,580
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 6 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 98 (3.25%) Confluence
2 42 (1.39%) CMS
3 39 (1.29%) SharePoint
4 21 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.60%) Apache
6 16 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 10 (0.33%) SAS
9 9 (0.30%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.20%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.20%) WordPress
11 5 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.13%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.13%) PowerFactory
13 3 (0.099%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.099%) nginx
14 2 (0.066%) Camunda
14 2 (0.066%) Microsoft Exchange
14 2 (0.066%) NServiceBus
14 2 (0.066%) Umbraco
Applications
1 106 (3.51%) Microsoft Project
2 97 (3.22%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 44 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
5 38 (1.26%) UserZoom
6 22 (0.73%) Adobe XD
6 22 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (0.30%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.30%) Sketch
8 7 (0.23%) Trello
9 6 (0.20%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.17%) InVision
11 4 (0.13%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.13%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.13%) Revit
11 4 (0.13%) Windchill
12 3 (0.099%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.099%) Blender
12 3 (0.099%) Maya
12 3 (0.099%) Productboard
Business Applications
1 46 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.33%) Workfront
3 18 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.43%) SAP ERP
5 8 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.20%) Shopify
8 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
9 3 (0.099%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.099%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.099%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.099%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.099%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.099%) 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
1 865 (28.67%) Azure
2 682 (22.61%) AWS
3 217 (7.19%) Azure DevOps
4 210 (6.96%) GCP
5 188 (6.23%) Adobe Analytics
6 154 (5.10%) SaaS
7 152 (5.04%) Power Platform
8 141 (4.67%) Serverless
9 127 (4.21%) GitHub
10 117 (3.88%) Figma
11 101 (3.35%) Azure AI
12 72 (2.39%) Snowflake
13 65 (2.15%) Azure Machine Learning
14 63 (2.09%) Contentsquare
15 61 (2.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 56 (1.86%) iPaaS
17 55 (1.82%) Amazon S3
18 54 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
19 53 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
20 52 (1.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 421 (13.95%) Broadband
2 26 (0.86%) TCP/IP
3 22 (0.73%) Network Security
4 21 (0.70%) CHAP
5 19 (0.63%) DNS
6 17 (0.56%) WAN
7 16 (0.53%) LAN
8 15 (0.50%) Ethernet
8 15 (0.50%) RS-232
9 14 (0.46%) 4G
10 13 (0.43%) Firewall
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 10 (0.33%) VPN
13 8 (0.27%) 5G
13 8 (0.27%) Internet
14 7 (0.23%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (6.40%) MongoDB
2 166 (5.50%) SQL Server
3 147 (4.87%) Azure SQL Database
4 114 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
5 112 (3.71%) NoSQL
6 105 (3.48%) Metadata
7 86 (2.85%) Power BI
8 71 (2.35%) MySQL
9 65 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
10 45 (1.49%) Relational Database
11 34 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
12 33 (1.09%) Data Lake
13 30 (0.99%) DynamoDB
14 20 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (0.63%) Tableau
16 18 (0.60%) Big Data
16 18 (0.60%) RDBMS
17 17 (0.56%) Redis
18 16 (0.53%) BigQuery
19 13 (0.43%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 220 (7.29%) JIRA
2 150 (4.97%) Git
3 118 (3.91%) Jenkins
4 104 (3.45%) GitLab
5 48 (1.59%) Selenium
6 39 (1.29%) SonarQube
7 38 (1.26%) Postman
8 34 (1.13%) Cypress.io
9 25 (0.83%) TeamCity
10 23 (0.76%) WebDriver
11 22 (0.73%) SoapUI
12 19 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
13 18 (0.60%) Jaeger
13 18 (0.60%) JUnit
14 16 (0.53%) Claude Code
15 15 (0.50%) Cucumber
15 15 (0.50%) JMeter
16 13 (0.43%) CircleCI
17 11 (0.36%) Axure RP
17 11 (0.36%) Mockito
General
1 881 (29.20%) Social Skills
2 785 (26.02%) Finance
3 438 (14.52%) Public Sector
4 329 (10.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 326 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
6 295 (9.78%) Games
7 205 (6.79%) Law
8 177 (5.87%) Marketing
9 150 (4.97%) Banking
10 143 (4.74%) Legal
11 141 (4.67%) Retail
12 71 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
13 64 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
14 56 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
15 47 (1.56%) Front Office
16 44 (1.46%) Telecoms
17 37 (1.23%) Advertising
18 33 (1.09%) Back Office
19 30 (0.99%) Manufacturing
20 28 (0.93%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 625 (20.72%) Senior
2 577 (19.12%) Developer
3 473 (15.68%) Lead
4 298 (9.88%) Analyst
5 242 (8.02%) Software Engineer
6 224 (7.42%) Project Manager
7 222 (7.36%) Architect
8 203 (6.73%) Business Analyst
9 190 (6.30%) Senior Manager
10 167 (5.54%) .NET Developer
11 104 (3.45%) Software Developer
12 102 (3.38%) Delivery Manager
13 98 (3.25%) Senior Project Manager
14 90 (2.98%) Product Owner
15 86 (2.85%) Designer
16 84 (2.78%) Engineering Manager
17 79 (2.62%) Product Manager
18 76 (2.52%) IT Manager
18 76 (2.52%) Senior Developer
19 74 (2.45%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 358 (11.87%) .NET
2 348 (11.53%) React
3 205 (6.79%) Node.js
4 165 (5.47%) .NET Core
5 160 (5.30%) ASP.NET
6 158 (5.24%) CSS
7 156 (5.17%) HTML
8 144 (4.77%) ASP.NET Core
9 136 (4.51%) RESTful
10 122 (4.04%) REST
11 100 (3.31%) AngularJS
12 80 (2.65%) Vue
13 79 (2.62%) Kafka
13 79 (2.62%) SOAP
14 77 (2.55%) Spring
15 69 (2.29%) Entity Framework
16 66 (2.19%) Blazor
17 59 (1.96%) Lightning Web Components
18 57 (1.89%) Spring Boot
19 51 (1.69%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 419 (13.89%) Product Ownership
2 254 (8.42%) Cloud Native
3 244 (8.09%) Social Media
4 86 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
5 77 (2.55%) Mobile App
6 76 (2.52%) Over-the-Top Content
7 73 (2.42%) Onboarding
8 64 (2.12%) Management Information System
9 63 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
10 58 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
11 56 (1.86%) Marketing Technology
12 55 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
13 48 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
14 42 (1.39%) Driving Licence
15 40 (1.33%) Fixed Income
15 40 (1.33%) Virtual Team
16 33 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
17 31 (1.03%) Data Structures
18 30 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
19 27 (0.89%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 134 (4.44%) Linux
2 63 (2.09%) Android
3 47 (1.56%) Apple iOS
4 43 (1.43%) Unix
5 42 (1.39%) Windows
6 15 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (0.23%) CentOS
7 7 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.17%) VMS
9 4 (0.13%) Debian
10 2 (0.066%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.033%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 723 (23.96%) Roadmaps
2 696 (23.07%) Mentoring
3 676 (22.41%) Continuous Improvement
4 661 (21.91%) DevOps
5 641 (21.25%) CI/CD
6 600 (19.89%) AI
7 544 (18.03%) Scrum
8 539 (17.87%) Coaching
9 473 (15.68%) Problem-Solving
10 434 (14.39%) Analytics
11 401 (13.29%) Software Engineering
12 387 (12.83%) Customer Experience
13 366 (12.13%) Full-Stack Development
14 360 (11.93%) Project Management
15 345 (11.44%) Stakeholder Management
16 338 (11.20%) Decision-Making
17 325 (10.77%) Test Automation
18 294 (9.74%) Microservices
19 288 (9.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 278 (9.21%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 580 (19.22%) SQL
2 407 (13.49%) C#
3 403 (13.36%) Java
4 398 (13.19%) JavaScript
5 388 (12.86%) Python
6 260 (8.62%) TypeScript
7 78 (2.59%) C++
7 78 (2.59%) Go
7 78 (2.59%) PHP
8 66 (2.19%) Bash
9 60 (1.99%) Apex Code
10 41 (1.36%) C
11 36 (1.19%) Scala
12 35 (1.16%) SOQL
13 34 (1.13%) PowerShell
13 34 (1.13%) SOSL
14 20 (0.66%) PL/SQL
14 20 (0.66%) Ruby
14 20 (0.66%) VBA
15 17 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 441 (14.62%) Degree
2 337 (11.17%) Security Cleared
3 258 (8.55%) SC Cleared
4 93 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 81 (2.68%) PMI Certification
6 73 (2.42%) PMP
7 68 (2.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 54 (1.79%) CISSP
9 53 (1.76%) DV Cleared
10 46 (1.52%) DBS Check
11 40 (1.33%) CISM
12 38 (1.26%) ISTQB
13 35 (1.16%) AWS Certification
14 28 (0.93%) Azure Certification
14 28 (0.93%) CISA
15 26 (0.86%) SANS
16 21 (0.70%) CGEIT
16 21 (0.70%) FFIEC
17 15 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
18 14 (0.46%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 359 (11.90%) Accessibility
2 238 (7.89%) QA
3 95 (3.15%) Data Quality
4 87 (2.88%) WCAG
5 62 (2.06%) GDPR
6 56 (1.86%) NIST
7 42 (1.39%) PMO
8 37 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 24 (0.80%) COBIT
10 22 (0.73%) GRC
11 13 (0.43%) NCSC
12 12 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.23%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.17%) 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
1 253 (8.39%) Docker
2 59 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
3 37 (1.23%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.099%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.099%) vSphere
7 1 (0.033%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.033%) Firmware
7 1 (0.033%) Xen
Systems Management
1 246 (8.15%) Kubernetes
2 186 (6.17%) Terraform
3 82 (2.72%) Ansible
4 46 (1.52%) Argo
4 46 (1.52%) Prometheus
5 44 (1.46%) Grafana
6 22 (0.73%) Kustomize
7 12 (0.40%) Podman
8 7 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.20%) Puppet
10 5 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.17%) Packer
11 4 (0.13%) Istio
11 4 (0.13%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.13%) SCCM
12 3 (0.099%) Control-M
12 3 (0.099%) Kibana
12 3 (0.099%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.066%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 519 (17.20%) Microsoft
2 267 (8.85%) Adobe
3 130 (4.31%) Google
4 111 (3.68%) Salesforce
5 100 (3.31%) Databricks
6 87 (2.88%) Oracle
7 77 (2.55%) SAP
8 74 (2.45%) ServiceNow
9 40 (1.33%) Splunk
10 19 (0.63%) Cisco
11 17 (0.56%) Facebook
11 17 (0.56%) IBM
12 13 (0.43%) MuleSoft
13 12 (0.40%) IFS
14 11 (0.36%) VMware
15 10 (0.33%) Apple
16 9 (0.30%) Foundry
17 8 (0.27%) Atlassian
17 8 (0.27%) OpenAI
17 8 (0.27%) YouTube