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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,129 3,337 8,124
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.67% 21.74% 23.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.14% 22.99% 26.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,050 2,047 5,964
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +14.37% -5.84%
75th Percentile £79,030 £98,474 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,375 £132,500 £108,750
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 16,346 14,518 30,753
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.87% 94.57% 88.97%
Number of salaries quoted 11,794 8,418 23,762
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £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 17 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
1 100 (3.20%) Confluence
2 45 (1.44%) SharePoint
3 42 (1.34%) CMS
4 21 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.58%) Apache
6 15 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 15 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.32%) SAS
8 9 (0.29%) Jupyter
9 7 (0.22%) WordPress
10 6 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.13%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.13%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.13%) PowerFactory
12 3 (0.096%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.096%) nginx
12 3 (0.096%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.064%) Camunda
13 2 (0.064%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 111 (3.55%) Microsoft Project
2 93 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 45 (1.44%) UserZoom
5 44 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
6 22 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 21 (0.67%) Adobe XD
8 11 (0.35%) MS Visio
9 9 (0.29%) Trello
10 7 (0.22%) Chatbot
10 7 (0.22%) Sketch
11 4 (0.13%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.13%) InVision
11 4 (0.13%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.13%) Revit
11 4 (0.13%) Windchill
12 3 (0.096%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.096%) Blender
12 3 (0.096%) Maya
12 3 (0.096%) Productboard
Business Applications
1 55 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.28%) Workfront
3 18 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.32%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.19%) Shopify
6 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.096%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.096%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.096%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.096%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.096%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.096%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.096%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.096%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.064%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.064%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.064%) SAP PM
8 2 (0.064%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 951 (30.39%) Azure
2 714 (22.82%) AWS
3 250 (7.99%) Azure DevOps
4 219 (7.00%) GCP
5 192 (6.14%) Adobe Analytics
6 161 (5.15%) SaaS
7 160 (5.11%) Power Platform
8 143 (4.57%) Serverless
9 134 (4.28%) GitHub
10 121 (3.87%) Azure AI
11 112 (3.58%) Figma
12 70 (2.24%) Contentsquare
12 70 (2.24%) Snowflake
13 65 (2.08%) Azure Machine Learning
14 62 (1.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 61 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
16 58 (1.85%) PowerApps
17 56 (1.79%) iPaaS
18 55 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
18 55 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 430 (13.74%) Broadband
2 26 (0.83%) TCP/IP
3 24 (0.77%) Network Security
4 18 (0.58%) CHAP
5 16 (0.51%) WAN
6 15 (0.48%) Ethernet
6 15 (0.48%) Firewall
6 15 (0.48%) RS-232
7 14 (0.45%) 4G
7 14 (0.45%) Internet
8 13 (0.42%) LAN
8 13 (0.42%) VPN
9 12 (0.38%) DNS
10 11 (0.35%) BGP
10 11 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
10 11 (0.35%) Ethernet VPN
10 11 (0.35%) IOS XR
10 11 (0.35%) MPLS
11 10 (0.32%) 5G
12 7 (0.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 251 (8.02%) MongoDB
2 220 (7.03%) Azure SQL Database
3 171 (5.47%) SQL Server
4 116 (3.71%) PostgreSQL
5 109 (3.48%) NoSQL
6 102 (3.26%) Metadata
7 95 (3.04%) Elasticsearch
8 85 (2.72%) Power BI
9 73 (2.33%) MySQL
10 47 (1.50%) Relational Database
11 32 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
11 32 (1.02%) DynamoDB
12 30 (0.96%) Data Lake
13 20 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
13 20 (0.64%) Redis
14 19 (0.61%) BigQuery
15 18 (0.58%) RDBMS
15 18 (0.58%) Semantic Layer
15 18 (0.58%) Tableau
16 17 (0.54%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 229 (7.32%) JIRA
2 150 (4.79%) Git
3 120 (3.84%) Jenkins
4 102 (3.26%) GitLab
5 43 (1.37%) Selenium
6 40 (1.28%) SonarQube
7 35 (1.12%) Cypress.io
7 35 (1.12%) Postman
8 25 (0.80%) TeamCity
9 19 (0.61%) Claude Code
10 18 (0.58%) Jaeger
10 18 (0.58%) JUnit
10 18 (0.58%) SoapUI
10 18 (0.58%) WebDriver
11 15 (0.48%) Cucumber
11 15 (0.48%) JMeter
11 15 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
12 13 (0.42%) CircleCI
13 12 (0.38%) Maven
14 11 (0.35%) Mockito
General
1 896 (28.64%) Social Skills
2 792 (25.31%) Finance
3 445 (14.22%) Public Sector
4 333 (10.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 320 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
6 308 (9.84%) Games
7 204 (6.52%) Law
8 177 (5.66%) Marketing
9 153 (4.89%) Retail
10 145 (4.63%) Banking
11 142 (4.54%) Legal
12 72 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
13 71 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
14 63 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
15 48 (1.53%) Front Office
16 45 (1.44%) Advertising
16 45 (1.44%) Telecoms
17 34 (1.09%) Back Office
18 31 (0.99%) Manufacturing
19 30 (0.96%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 657 (21.00%) Developer
2 644 (20.58%) Senior
3 465 (14.86%) Lead
4 297 (9.49%) Analyst
5 260 (8.31%) Software Engineer
6 239 (7.64%) Architect
7 237 (7.57%) .NET Developer
8 235 (7.51%) Project Manager
9 198 (6.33%) Business Analyst
10 189 (6.04%) Senior Manager
11 109 (3.48%) Delivery Manager
12 107 (3.42%) Software Developer
13 99 (3.16%) Senior Project Manager
14 87 (2.78%) IT Manager
14 87 (2.78%) Product Owner
15 86 (2.75%) Engineering Manager
16 82 (2.62%) Senior Developer
17 81 (2.59%) Designer
18 79 (2.52%) Graduate
19 77 (2.46%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 429 (13.71%) .NET
2 383 (12.24%) React
3 239 (7.64%) Node.js
4 234 (7.48%) ASP.NET
5 233 (7.45%) .NET Core
6 214 (6.84%) ASP.NET Core
7 171 (5.47%) CSS
8 167 (5.34%) HTML
9 163 (5.21%) RESTful
10 120 (3.84%) AngularJS
11 118 (3.77%) REST
12 103 (3.29%) Blazor
13 99 (3.16%) Vue
14 91 (2.91%) Entity Framework
15 76 (2.43%) Kafka
16 75 (2.40%) Spring
17 72 (2.30%) ASP.NET Web API
17 72 (2.30%) SOAP
18 61 (1.95%) .NET Framework
19 59 (1.89%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 411 (13.14%) Product Ownership
2 271 (8.66%) Cloud Native
3 252 (8.05%) Social Media
4 101 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 79 (2.52%) Mobile App
6 76 (2.43%) Over-the-Top Content
7 74 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
8 72 (2.30%) Onboarding
9 65 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
9 65 (2.08%) Management Information System
10 63 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
11 55 (1.76%) Marketing Technology
12 52 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
13 45 (1.44%) Driving Licence
14 44 (1.41%) Virtual Team
15 41 (1.31%) Fixed Income
16 33 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
17 30 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
18 29 (0.93%) Security Posture
19 27 (0.86%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 143 (4.57%) Linux
2 62 (1.98%) Android
3 46 (1.47%) Apple iOS
4 45 (1.44%) Unix
5 43 (1.37%) Windows
6 15 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
7 9 (0.29%) VMS
8 7 (0.22%) CentOS
8 7 (0.22%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.16%) Debian
9 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.16%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.032%) AIX
10 1 (0.032%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 738 (23.59%) Roadmaps
2 710 (22.69%) Mentoring
3 694 (22.18%) DevOps
4 693 (22.15%) Continuous Improvement
5 672 (21.48%) CI/CD
6 652 (20.84%) AI
7 585 (18.70%) Scrum
8 543 (17.35%) Coaching
9 479 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
10 440 (14.06%) Full-Stack Development
11 439 (14.03%) Analytics
12 425 (13.58%) Software Engineering
13 391 (12.50%) Customer Experience
14 364 (11.63%) Project Management
14 364 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
15 356 (11.38%) Decision-Making
16 331 (10.58%) Microservices
17 328 (10.48%) Test Automation
18 292 (9.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 282 (9.01%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 662 (21.16%) SQL
2 493 (15.76%) C#
3 438 (14.00%) JavaScript
4 398 (12.72%) Java
5 388 (12.40%) Python
6 284 (9.08%) TypeScript
7 87 (2.78%) PHP
8 80 (2.56%) C++
9 74 (2.36%) Go
10 72 (2.30%) Bash
11 56 (1.79%) Apex Code
12 40 (1.28%) C
13 37 (1.18%) PowerShell
14 35 (1.12%) SOQL
15 34 (1.09%) SOSL
16 29 (0.93%) Scala
17 24 (0.77%) Ruby
18 21 (0.67%) T-SQL
19 20 (0.64%) VBA
20 19 (0.61%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 443 (14.16%) Degree
2 333 (10.64%) Security Cleared
3 258 (8.25%) SC Cleared
4 97 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 81 (2.59%) PMI Certification
6 74 (2.36%) PMP
7 70 (2.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 57 (1.82%) CISSP
9 47 (1.50%) DBS Check
10 45 (1.44%) DV Cleared
11 43 (1.37%) CISM
12 37 (1.18%) AWS Certification
13 35 (1.12%) Azure Certification
14 34 (1.09%) ISTQB
15 27 (0.86%) CISA
16 23 (0.74%) SANS
17 20 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
18 18 (0.58%) CGEIT
18 18 (0.58%) FFIEC
19 14 (0.45%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 367 (11.73%) Accessibility
2 242 (7.73%) QA
3 94 (3.00%) Data Quality
4 82 (2.62%) WCAG
5 67 (2.14%) GDPR
6 58 (1.85%) NIST
7 44 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 44 (1.41%) PMO
8 23 (0.74%) COBIT
9 22 (0.70%) GRC
10 17 (0.54%) NCSC
11 13 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 10 (0.32%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 5 (0.16%) SOC 1
14 5 (0.16%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 15288
15 4 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 279 (8.92%) Docker
2 60 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
3 35 (1.12%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.22%) vSphere
6 3 (0.096%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.096%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.032%) Xen
Systems Management
1 259 (8.28%) Kubernetes
2 175 (5.59%) Terraform
3 80 (2.56%) Ansible
4 47 (1.50%) Prometheus
5 45 (1.44%) Argo
5 45 (1.44%) Grafana
6 22 (0.70%) Kustomize
7 12 (0.38%) Podman
8 6 (0.19%) Puppet
9 5 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.16%) Istio
9 5 (0.16%) Packer
9 5 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.13%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.13%) SCCM
11 3 (0.096%) Kibana
11 3 (0.096%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.064%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.064%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 594 (18.98%) Microsoft
2 269 (8.60%) Adobe
3 134 (4.28%) Google
4 107 (3.42%) Salesforce
5 100 (3.20%) Databricks
6 91 (2.91%) Oracle
7 78 (2.49%) SAP
8 76 (2.43%) ServiceNow
9 40 (1.28%) Splunk
10 25 (0.80%) Facebook
11 20 (0.64%) Cisco
12 14 (0.45%) IBM
13 13 (0.42%) IFS
13 13 (0.42%) MuleSoft
13 13 (0.42%) VMware
14 12 (0.38%) Apple
14 12 (0.38%) YouTube
15 11 (0.35%) OpenAI
15 11 (0.35%) Sony
15 11 (0.35%) Yahoo!