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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,727 3,117 8,077
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.30% 23.40% 24.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.39% 24.69% 27.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,773 2,276 6,054
10th Percentile £41,000 £44,479 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 14,826 12,623 29,705
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.16% 94.77% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 10,367 8,945 23,614
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,202 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,205 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% +8.18% -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% -10.57%

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 20 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 99 (3.63%) Confluence
2 43 (1.58%) SharePoint
3 41 (1.50%) CMS
4 19 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 11 (0.40%) Apache
7 9 (0.33%) Apache Spark
8 8 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.26%) SAS
10 6 (0.22%) nginx
10 6 (0.22%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.18%) WordPress
12 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.11%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.11%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.037%) Camunda
13 1 (0.037%) Ethereum
13 1 (0.037%) Hyperledger
13 1 (0.037%) Mendix
13 1 (0.037%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 43 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (1.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 33 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
4 31 (1.14%) Adobe XD
5 30 (1.10%) UserZoom
6 18 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
7 17 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 13 (0.48%) Chatbot
9 10 (0.37%) Sketch
10 9 (0.33%) MS Visio
11 5 (0.18%) InVision
11 5 (0.18%) Trello
12 4 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
12 4 (0.15%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.073%) Avid Media Composer
13 2 (0.073%) Pro Tools
13 2 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
14 1 (0.037%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.037%) EngageOne
14 1 (0.037%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 22 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
1 22 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
2 21 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 20 (0.73%) Workfront
4 16 (0.59%) SAP ERP
5 10 (0.37%) Shopify
6 6 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.15%) Markit EDM
8 3 (0.11%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.073%) Infor SunSystems
9 2 (0.073%) Maximo
9 2 (0.073%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.073%) SAP IBP
9 2 (0.073%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.073%) SAP PM
9 2 (0.073%) SAP SCM
10 1 (0.037%) Primavera
10 1 (0.037%) SAP CO
10 1 (0.037%) SAP FI
10 1 (0.037%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 788 (28.90%) Azure
2 612 (22.44%) AWS
3 233 (8.54%) Azure DevOps
4 191 (7.00%) GCP
5 179 (6.56%) GitHub
6 171 (6.27%) Adobe Analytics
7 151 (5.54%) Serverless
8 147 (5.39%) SaaS
9 141 (5.17%) Power Platform
10 121 (4.44%) Figma
11 111 (4.07%) Snowflake
12 74 (2.71%) AWS Lambda
13 70 (2.57%) Amazon S3
13 70 (2.57%) Azure AI
14 69 (2.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 64 (2.35%) Azure Machine Learning
16 61 (2.24%) GitHub Copilot
17 52 (1.91%) dbt
18 51 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
19 50 (1.83%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 374 (13.71%) Broadband
2 26 (0.95%) TCP/IP
3 25 (0.92%) CHAP
4 23 (0.84%) DNS
5 14 (0.51%) 4G
5 14 (0.51%) Ethernet
5 14 (0.51%) RS-232
6 13 (0.48%) Firewall
6 13 (0.48%) Network Security
6 13 (0.48%) WAN
7 11 (0.40%) BGP
7 11 (0.40%) Cisco IOS
7 11 (0.40%) Ethernet VPN
7 11 (0.40%) IOS XR
7 11 (0.40%) MPLS
8 9 (0.33%) DHCP
9 8 (0.29%) LAN
9 8 (0.29%) VPN
10 6 (0.22%) Internet
10 6 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (6.86%) SQL Server
2 113 (4.14%) NoSQL
3 85 (3.12%) MongoDB
4 84 (3.08%) Power BI
5 81 (2.97%) Metadata
6 76 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
7 71 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
8 68 (2.49%) MySQL
9 52 (1.91%) Relational Database
10 50 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
11 46 (1.69%) Data Lake
12 26 (0.95%) Tableau
13 25 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
13 25 (0.92%) DynamoDB
14 20 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
14 20 (0.73%) RDBMS
15 13 (0.48%) Redis
15 13 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 11 (0.40%) Flink
17 9 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 217 (7.96%) JIRA
2 174 (6.38%) Git
3 121 (4.44%) Jenkins
4 96 (3.52%) GitLab
5 51 (1.87%) Selenium
6 43 (1.58%) SonarQube
7 41 (1.50%) Postman
8 34 (1.25%) Cypress.io
9 28 (1.03%) SoapUI
9 28 (1.03%) WebDriver
10 27 (0.99%) Team Foundation Server
10 27 (0.99%) TeamCity
11 26 (0.95%) Balsamiq
12 24 (0.88%) Axure RP
13 19 (0.70%) Jaeger
14 17 (0.62%) JMeter
14 17 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
15 14 (0.51%) CircleCI
15 14 (0.51%) Cucumber
16 13 (0.48%) SpecFlow
General
1 825 (30.25%) Finance
2 804 (29.48%) Social Skills
3 337 (12.36%) Public Sector
4 303 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 281 (10.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 272 (9.97%) Games
7 194 (7.11%) Law
8 152 (5.57%) Marketing
9 151 (5.54%) Banking
10 116 (4.25%) Legal
11 89 (3.26%) Retail
12 68 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
13 62 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
14 58 (2.13%) Front Office
15 52 (1.91%) Telecoms
16 49 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
17 38 (1.39%) Manufacturing
18 36 (1.32%) Back Office
19 34 (1.25%) Financial Institution
20 25 (0.92%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 548 (20.10%) Senior
2 506 (18.56%) Developer
3 447 (16.39%) Lead
4 253 (9.28%) Analyst
5 211 (7.74%) Software Engineer
6 176 (6.45%) Architect
7 172 (6.31%) Business Analyst
8 138 (5.06%) Project Manager
9 127 (4.66%) Senior Manager
10 110 (4.03%) Software Developer
11 92 (3.37%) Designer
12 88 (3.23%) Lead Developer
13 83 (3.04%) C# Developer
14 80 (2.93%) Delivery Manager
15 78 (2.86%) Engineering Manager
16 75 (2.75%) Product Owner
17 73 (2.68%) Product Manager
18 72 (2.64%) Consultant
18 72 (2.64%) Data Engineer
19 71 (2.60%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 290 (10.63%) React
2 289 (10.60%) .NET
3 162 (5.94%) CSS
4 155 (5.68%) HTML
5 133 (4.88%) Node.js
6 129 (4.73%) REST
7 122 (4.47%) RESTful
8 117 (4.29%) SOAP
9 87 (3.19%) Kafka
10 77 (2.82%) AngularJS
11 74 (2.71%) Lightning Web Components
12 68 (2.49%) .NET Core
13 65 (2.38%) Spring
14 62 (2.27%) ASP.NET
15 59 (2.16%) GraphQL
16 58 (2.13%) Vue
17 55 (2.02%) Visualforce
18 54 (1.98%) Spring Boot
19 48 (1.76%) Middleware
20 47 (1.72%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 401 (14.70%) Product Ownership
2 228 (8.36%) Cloud Native
3 204 (7.48%) Social Media
4 78 (2.86%) Mobile App
5 71 (2.60%) Onboarding
6 66 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
7 64 (2.35%) Management Information System
8 58 (2.13%) Over-the-Top Content
9 56 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
10 55 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
11 52 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
12 47 (1.72%) Fixed Income
13 40 (1.47%) Low-Code
14 39 (1.43%) Virtual Team
15 36 (1.32%) Marketing Technology
16 34 (1.25%) Data Structures
17 33 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
18 29 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
19 28 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
20 27 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 142 (5.21%) Linux
2 61 (2.24%) Android
3 51 (1.87%) Windows
4 48 (1.76%) Apple iOS
5 39 (1.43%) Unix
6 16 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 14 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
8 11 (0.40%) CentOS
9 7 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.18%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.15%) Debian
12 3 (0.11%) VMS
13 2 (0.073%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.073%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.037%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 659 (24.17%) Continuous Improvement
2 656 (24.06%) DevOps
3 629 (23.07%) Mentoring
4 620 (22.74%) CI/CD
5 610 (22.37%) Roadmaps
6 530 (19.44%) AI
7 496 (18.19%) Coaching
8 489 (17.93%) Scrum
9 453 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
10 413 (15.14%) Analytics
11 398 (14.59%) Software Engineering
12 322 (11.81%) Test Automation
13 272 (9.97%) Customer Experience
14 268 (9.83%) Stakeholder Management
15 263 (9.64%) Project Management
16 258 (9.46%) Decision-Making
16 258 (9.46%) Full-Stack Development
17 245 (8.98%) Product Roadmap
18 242 (8.87%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
19 237 (8.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 505 (18.52%) SQL
2 424 (15.55%) Python
3 386 (14.15%) Java
4 331 (12.14%) JavaScript
5 329 (12.06%) C#
6 216 (7.92%) TypeScript
7 91 (3.34%) PHP
8 85 (3.12%) C++
9 80 (2.93%) Go
10 77 (2.82%) Apex Code
11 57 (2.09%) Bash
12 55 (2.02%) PowerShell
13 50 (1.83%) C
14 35 (1.28%) Scala
14 35 (1.28%) SOQL
15 34 (1.25%) SOSL
16 23 (0.84%) Shell Script
17 20 (0.73%) VBA
18 19 (0.70%) Embedded C
18 19 (0.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 355 (13.02%) Degree
2 313 (11.48%) Security Cleared
3 217 (7.96%) SC Cleared
4 91 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 67 (2.46%) PMI Certification
6 66 (2.42%) DV Cleared
7 52 (1.91%) PMP
8 47 (1.72%) CISSP
9 43 (1.58%) ISTQB
10 40 (1.47%) DBS Check
11 33 (1.21%) CISM
12 31 (1.14%) AWS Certification
13 30 (1.10%) SANS
14 27 (0.99%) CISA
15 25 (0.92%) CGEIT
15 25 (0.92%) FFIEC
16 24 (0.88%) Master's Degree
17 21 (0.77%) Azure Certification
18 18 (0.66%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
19 15 (0.55%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 336 (12.32%) Accessibility
2 226 (8.29%) QA
3 92 (3.37%) WCAG
4 61 (2.24%) Data Quality
5 50 (1.83%) GDPR
5 50 (1.83%) NIST
6 31 (1.14%) PMO
7 29 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 26 (0.95%) COBIT
9 19 (0.70%) GRC
10 10 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.26%) NCSC
12 6 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 6 (0.22%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.15%) IFRS
13 4 (0.15%) MiFID
13 4 (0.15%) P3O
13 4 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.11%) GAAP
System Software
1 234 (8.58%) Docker
2 61 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
3 47 (1.72%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.22%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (0.18%) Firmware
5 5 (0.18%) 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
1 228 (8.36%) Kubernetes
2 224 (8.21%) Terraform
3 85 (3.12%) Ansible
4 49 (1.80%) Grafana
5 44 (1.61%) Prometheus
6 42 (1.54%) Argo
7 21 (0.77%) Kustomize
8 19 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.44%) Podman
10 9 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (0.26%) Puppet
12 5 (0.18%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.18%) Kibana
13 4 (0.15%) logstash
13 4 (0.15%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.15%) SCCM
14 3 (0.11%) Control-M
14 3 (0.11%) Packer
14 3 (0.11%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.073%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 406 (14.89%) Microsoft
2 238 (8.73%) Adobe
3 120 (4.40%) Google
4 118 (4.33%) Databricks
5 113 (4.14%) Salesforce
6 71 (2.60%) Oracle
6 71 (2.60%) SAP
7 51 (1.87%) ServiceNow
8 45 (1.65%) Splunk
9 22 (0.81%) IBM
10 20 (0.73%) MuleSoft
11 15 (0.55%) Cisco
12 13 (0.48%) Okta
13 11 (0.40%) Atlassian
13 11 (0.40%) Foundry
14 10 (0.37%) Red Hat
14 10 (0.37%) VMware
15 8 (0.29%) PagerDuty
15 8 (0.29%) Talend
15 8 (0.29%) Workday