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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,661 3,130 7,476
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.64% 24.28% 23.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.74% 25.61% 26.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,727 2,263 6,040
10th Percentile £41,250 £44,965 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,468 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.90% -4.62%
75th Percentile £81,250 £97,514 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £125,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -4.36%

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 14,197 12,222 28,738
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.45% 94.81% 91.62%
Number of salaries quoted 9,911 8,883 23,314
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,375 £46,250 £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 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.50% +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 6 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 85 (3.19%) Confluence
2 39 (1.47%) SharePoint
3 37 (1.39%) CMS
4 22 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.56%) Apache
6 14 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 8 (0.30%) SAS
8 7 (0.26%) Apache Spark
9 6 (0.23%) nginx
9 6 (0.23%) WordPress
10 5 (0.19%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.11%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.11%) WebLogic Portal
12 2 (0.075%) IIS
12 2 (0.075%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 46 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (1.35%) Adobe XD
3 34 (1.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 32 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
5 30 (1.13%) UserZoom
6 22 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
7 18 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 16 (0.60%) Chatbot
9 11 (0.41%) MS Visio
10 10 (0.38%) Sketch
11 6 (0.23%) Trello
12 5 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
12 5 (0.19%) InVision
12 5 (0.19%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.075%) Avid Media Composer
13 2 (0.075%) Pro Tools
13 2 (0.075%) Spreadsheet
14 1 (0.038%) EngageOne
14 1 (0.038%) InDesign
14 1 (0.038%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 22 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
2 21 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (0.71%) Workfront
4 16 (0.60%) SAP ERP
5 12 (0.45%) Shopify
6 5 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.15%) Markit EDM
7 4 (0.15%) Primavera
8 3 (0.11%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.075%) Maximo
9 2 (0.075%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.075%) SAP IBP
9 2 (0.075%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.075%) SAP PM
9 2 (0.075%) SAP SCM
10 1 (0.038%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.038%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.038%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 769 (28.90%) Azure
2 607 (22.81%) AWS
3 231 (8.68%) Azure DevOps
4 183 (6.88%) GitHub
5 180 (6.76%) GCP
6 159 (5.98%) Adobe Analytics
7 152 (5.71%) SaaS
8 148 (5.56%) Power Platform
9 144 (5.41%) Serverless
10 112 (4.21%) Figma
11 97 (3.65%) Snowflake
12 72 (2.71%) AWS Lambda
13 68 (2.56%) Amazon S3
14 59 (2.22%) GitHub Copilot
15 57 (2.14%) dbt
16 56 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
17 53 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
18 51 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 50 (1.88%) Azure AI
19 50 (1.88%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 360 (13.53%) Broadband
2 27 (1.01%) TCP/IP
3 24 (0.90%) CHAP
4 22 (0.83%) DNS
5 14 (0.53%) 4G
5 14 (0.53%) Firewall
6 13 (0.49%) WAN
7 12 (0.45%) Ethernet
7 12 (0.45%) RS-232
8 11 (0.41%) BGP
8 11 (0.41%) Cisco IOS
8 11 (0.41%) Ethernet VPN
8 11 (0.41%) IOS XR
8 11 (0.41%) MPLS
9 10 (0.38%) DHCP
10 8 (0.30%) LAN
10 8 (0.30%) Network Security
10 8 (0.30%) VPN
11 6 (0.23%) SD-WAN
11 6 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (6.13%) SQL Server
2 107 (4.02%) NoSQL
3 86 (3.23%) Power BI
4 78 (2.93%) MongoDB
5 76 (2.86%) Metadata
6 74 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
7 72 (2.71%) MySQL
7 72 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
8 55 (2.07%) Relational Database
9 53 (1.99%) Azure SQL Database
10 52 (1.95%) Data Lake
11 25 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
12 24 (0.90%) Tableau
13 23 (0.86%) DynamoDB
14 22 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
15 20 (0.75%) RDBMS
16 14 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 13 (0.49%) Redis
18 10 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
18 10 (0.38%) Flink
Development Applications
1 201 (7.55%) JIRA
2 172 (6.46%) Git
3 126 (4.74%) Jenkins
4 94 (3.53%) GitLab
5 50 (1.88%) Selenium
6 49 (1.84%) SonarQube
7 39 (1.47%) Postman
8 32 (1.20%) Cypress.io
9 31 (1.16%) WebDriver
10 29 (1.09%) TeamCity
11 27 (1.01%) SoapUI
12 26 (0.98%) Balsamiq
12 26 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
13 24 (0.90%) Axure RP
14 19 (0.71%) Jaeger
14 19 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
15 17 (0.64%) JMeter
16 14 (0.53%) Cucumber
17 10 (0.38%) SpecFlow
18 8 (0.30%) CircleCI
General
1 797 (29.95%) Finance
2 778 (29.24%) Social Skills
3 326 (12.25%) Public Sector
4 289 (10.86%) Analytical Skills
5 287 (10.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 269 (10.11%) Games
7 186 (6.99%) Law
8 163 (6.13%) Marketing
9 143 (5.37%) Banking
10 109 (4.10%) Legal
11 81 (3.04%) Retail
12 62 (2.33%) Front Office
13 61 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
13 61 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
14 57 (2.14%) Telecoms
15 48 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
16 41 (1.54%) Manufacturing
17 36 (1.35%) Back Office
18 34 (1.28%) Financial Institution
19 29 (1.09%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 535 (20.11%) Senior
2 523 (19.65%) Developer
3 431 (16.20%) Lead
4 235 (8.83%) Analyst
5 215 (8.08%) Software Engineer
6 180 (6.76%) Architect
7 158 (5.94%) Business Analyst
8 134 (5.04%) Project Manager
9 121 (4.55%) Senior Manager
10 101 (3.80%) Software Developer
11 85 (3.19%) Designer
11 85 (3.19%) Lead Developer
12 78 (2.93%) .NET Developer
13 76 (2.86%) C# Developer
14 75 (2.82%) Product Owner
15 73 (2.74%) Consultant
16 72 (2.71%) Delivery Manager
17 71 (2.67%) Data Engineer
18 68 (2.56%) Engineering Manager
18 68 (2.56%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 302 (11.35%) React
2 300 (11.27%) .NET
3 170 (6.39%) HTML
4 169 (6.35%) CSS
5 138 (5.19%) REST
6 130 (4.89%) Node.js
6 130 (4.89%) RESTful
7 124 (4.66%) SOAP
8 89 (3.34%) Kafka
9 87 (3.27%) AngularJS
10 80 (3.01%) Lightning Web Components
11 78 (2.93%) .NET Core
12 68 (2.56%) Spring
13 66 (2.48%) ASP.NET
14 64 (2.41%) Vue
15 61 (2.29%) Visualforce
16 58 (2.18%) Spring Boot
17 57 (2.14%) GraphQL
18 56 (2.10%) .NET Framework
19 46 (1.73%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 385 (14.47%) Product Ownership
2 214 (8.04%) Cloud Native
3 196 (7.37%) Social Media
4 78 (2.93%) Mobile App
5 70 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 61 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
7 60 (2.25%) Management Information System
8 59 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
8 59 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
9 57 (2.14%) Over-the-Top Content
10 54 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
11 51 (1.92%) Fixed Income
11 51 (1.92%) Low-Code
12 35 (1.32%) Marketing Technology
13 34 (1.28%) Data Structures
13 34 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
13 34 (1.28%) Virtual Team
14 29 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
15 27 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
16 25 (0.94%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 137 (5.15%) Linux
2 57 (2.14%) Android
3 48 (1.80%) Apple iOS
3 48 (1.80%) Windows
4 38 (1.43%) Unix
5 16 (0.60%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
7 8 (0.30%) CentOS
8 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.15%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.11%) Debian
10 3 (0.11%) OpenWrt
10 3 (0.11%) VMS
11 2 (0.075%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.038%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 655 (24.61%) DevOps
2 644 (24.20%) Continuous Improvement
3 608 (22.85%) CI/CD
4 597 (22.44%) Mentoring
5 573 (21.53%) Roadmaps
6 507 (19.05%) AI
7 475 (17.85%) Coaching
8 458 (17.21%) Scrum
9 442 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
10 409 (15.37%) Software Engineering
11 394 (14.81%) Analytics
12 307 (11.54%) Test Automation
13 268 (10.07%) Stakeholder Management
14 266 (10.00%) Customer Experience
15 261 (9.81%) Project Management
16 259 (9.73%) Full-Stack Development
17 239 (8.98%) Decision-Making
18 236 (8.87%) Microservices
19 229 (8.61%) Product Roadmap
20 227 (8.53%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 492 (18.49%) SQL
2 432 (16.23%) Python
3 392 (14.73%) Java
4 351 (13.19%) JavaScript
5 325 (12.21%) C#
6 221 (8.31%) TypeScript
7 82 (3.08%) Apex Code
7 82 (3.08%) Go
7 82 (3.08%) PHP
8 79 (2.97%) C++
9 52 (1.95%) Bash
10 51 (1.92%) PowerShell
11 47 (1.77%) C
12 40 (1.50%) SOQL
12 40 (1.50%) SOSL
13 36 (1.35%) Scala
14 26 (0.98%) Shell Script
15 21 (0.79%) PL/SQL
16 20 (0.75%) VBA
17 17 (0.64%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 343 (12.89%) Degree
2 312 (11.72%) Security Cleared
3 219 (8.23%) SC Cleared
4 86 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 67 (2.52%) PMI Certification
6 66 (2.48%) DV Cleared
7 53 (1.99%) PMP
8 40 (1.50%) CISSP
9 37 (1.39%) ISTQB
10 35 (1.32%) DBS Check
11 31 (1.16%) AWS Certification
12 29 (1.09%) SANS
13 27 (1.01%) Master's Degree
14 26 (0.98%) CISM
15 24 (0.90%) CGEIT
15 24 (0.90%) CISA
15 24 (0.90%) FFIEC
16 20 (0.75%) Azure Certification
17 19 (0.71%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
18 15 (0.56%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 335 (12.59%) Accessibility
2 220 (8.27%) QA
3 88 (3.31%) WCAG
4 55 (2.07%) Data Quality
5 48 (1.80%) GDPR
6 41 (1.54%) NIST
7 29 (1.09%) PMO
8 25 (0.94%) COBIT
9 20 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 18 (0.68%) GRC
11 10 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.19%) P3O
12 5 (0.19%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.15%) IFRS
13 4 (0.15%) MiFID
13 4 (0.15%) NCSC
13 4 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.11%) GAAP
15 2 (0.075%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 230 (8.64%) Docker
2 49 (1.84%) Active Directory
3 43 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (0.19%) Firmware
6 4 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.075%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.038%) vCloud
9 1 (0.038%) Xen
Systems Management
1 220 (8.27%) Kubernetes
2 218 (8.19%) Terraform
3 78 (2.93%) Ansible
4 43 (1.62%) Grafana
5 40 (1.50%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.32%) Argo
7 19 (0.71%) Kustomize
7 19 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.23%) Kibana
9 6 (0.23%) Podman
9 6 (0.23%) Puppet
10 5 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
11 4 (0.15%) logstash
11 4 (0.15%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.11%) Control-M
12 3 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.11%) SCCM
13 2 (0.075%) Packer
13 2 (0.075%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 390 (14.66%) Microsoft
2 232 (8.72%) Adobe
3 118 (4.43%) Salesforce
4 115 (4.32%) Google
5 101 (3.80%) Databricks
6 73 (2.74%) SAP
7 70 (2.63%) Oracle
8 50 (1.88%) Splunk
9 47 (1.77%) ServiceNow
10 25 (0.94%) IBM
11 22 (0.83%) MuleSoft
12 15 (0.56%) Cisco
13 13 (0.49%) Okta
14 11 (0.41%) Atlassian
15 10 (0.38%) Foundry
15 10 (0.38%) Talend
15 10 (0.38%) Workday
16 9 (0.34%) IFS
17 8 (0.30%) Informatica
17 8 (0.30%) PagerDuty