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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,511 3,237 5,624
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.34% 19.63% 22.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.61% 21.12% 25.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,304 2,034 3,638
10th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £50,481
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,875 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.81% +3.85% -0.54%
75th Percentile £78,312 £93,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £132,500 £128,750
UK median annual salary £63,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.85% -0.54%

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 18,869 15,328 21,676
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.42% 92.95% 87.55%
Number of salaries quoted 13,610 8,889 15,263
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 19 August 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
1 113 (3.22%) Confluence
2 79 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 42 (1.20%) CMS
4 25 (0.71%) Apache Spark
5 22 (0.63%) Apache
6 17 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
7 16 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.34%) SAS
9 10 (0.28%) Jupyter
9 10 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 10 (0.28%) WordPress
10 5 (0.14%) Camunda
10 5 (0.14%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.14%) Umbraco
11 4 (0.11%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.11%) PowerFactory
12 3 (0.085%) Kentico
12 3 (0.085%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.085%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 125 (3.56%) Microsoft Project
2 98 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
3 70 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
4 53 (1.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 43 (1.22%) UserZoom
6 25 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 23 (0.66%) Chatbot
8 20 (0.57%) MS Visio
9 19 (0.54%) Trello
10 17 (0.48%) Adobe XD
11 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.11%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.11%) Revit
12 4 (0.11%) Sketch
12 4 (0.11%) Windchill
13 3 (0.085%) Blender
13 3 (0.085%) Maya
13 3 (0.085%) Productboard
14 2 (0.057%) PlantUML
14 2 (0.057%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 64 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.14%) Workfront
3 22 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.28%) Workday HCM
5 9 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
6 8 (0.23%) Primavera
7 7 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.20%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.20%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
7 7 (0.20%) Shopify
8 5 (0.14%) Elite 3E
8 5 (0.14%) Fidessa
9 4 (0.11%) Raiser’s Edge
10 3 (0.085%) Carpe Diem
10 3 (0.085%) Dynamics NAV
10 3 (0.085%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 3 (0.085%) Oracle Applications
10 3 (0.085%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.085%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,250 (35.60%) Azure
2 869 (24.75%) AWS
3 349 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
4 239 (6.81%) SaaS
5 224 (6.38%) GCP
6 190 (5.41%) GitHub
6 190 (5.41%) Power Platform
7 159 (4.53%) Azure AI
8 151 (4.30%) Adobe Analytics
9 146 (4.16%) Serverless
10 93 (2.65%) Figma
11 92 (2.62%) GitHub Copilot
12 82 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
13 75 (2.14%) Snowflake
14 71 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
15 70 (1.99%) PowerApps
16 67 (1.91%) Contentsquare
16 67 (1.91%) Power Automate
17 66 (1.88%) Azure Machine Learning
18 64 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 289 (8.23%) Broadband
2 36 (1.03%) Network Security
3 20 (0.57%) Internet
4 19 (0.54%) TCP/IP
4 19 (0.54%) VPN
5 18 (0.51%) WAN
6 16 (0.46%) Firewall
6 16 (0.46%) LAN
7 13 (0.37%) DNS
7 13 (0.37%) VoIP
8 11 (0.31%) CTI
8 11 (0.31%) Ethernet
8 11 (0.31%) RS-232
9 10 (0.28%) 5G
10 8 (0.23%) CHAP
10 8 (0.23%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.23%) SMS
10 8 (0.23%) Wireless
11 7 (0.20%) Intranet
11 7 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 374 (10.65%) MongoDB
2 365 (10.40%) Azure SQL Database
3 209 (5.95%) SQL Server
4 147 (4.19%) Elasticsearch
5 144 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
6 121 (3.45%) Power BI
7 102 (2.91%) Metadata
8 85 (2.42%) NoSQL
9 80 (2.28%) MySQL
10 55 (1.57%) Relational Database
11 48 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
12 47 (1.34%) DynamoDB
13 38 (1.08%) Data Lake
14 27 (0.77%) Big Data
14 27 (0.77%) Tableau
15 24 (0.68%) Redis
16 21 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 19 (0.54%) Semantic Layer
18 18 (0.51%) BigQuery
19 14 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 267 (7.60%) JIRA
2 199 (5.67%) Git
3 98 (2.79%) GitLab
4 96 (2.73%) Jenkins
5 37 (1.05%) Cypress.io
5 37 (1.05%) Selenium
6 29 (0.83%) JUnit
6 29 (0.83%) SonarQube
7 21 (0.60%) Claude Code
7 21 (0.60%) Postman
8 17 (0.48%) Maven
8 17 (0.48%) Mockito
9 16 (0.46%) Cucumber
10 15 (0.43%) Visual Studio
11 12 (0.34%) CircleCI
12 10 (0.28%) Balsamiq
12 10 (0.28%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.28%) JMeter
13 9 (0.26%) Gatling
14 8 (0.23%) Axure RP
General
1 1,047 (29.82%) Social Skills
2 886 (25.23%) Finance
3 512 (14.58%) Public Sector
4 398 (11.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 386 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
6 303 (8.63%) Law
7 233 (6.64%) Legal
8 225 (6.41%) Games
9 193 (5.50%) Marketing
10 186 (5.30%) Retail
11 122 (3.47%) Banking
12 112 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
13 98 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
14 87 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
15 79 (2.25%) Aerospace
16 64 (1.82%) Advertising
17 48 (1.37%) Legal Technology
18 43 (1.22%) Manufacturing
19 36 (1.03%) Back Office
20 29 (0.83%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 867 (24.69%) Developer
2 724 (20.62%) Senior
3 439 (12.50%) Lead
4 375 (10.68%) .NET Developer
5 319 (9.09%) Analyst
6 285 (8.12%) Architect
7 266 (7.58%) Project Manager
8 262 (7.46%) Software Engineer
9 212 (6.04%) Business Analyst
10 175 (4.98%) Senior Developer
11 154 (4.39%) Senior Manager
12 139 (3.96%) IT Manager
13 113 (3.22%) Software Developer
14 96 (2.73%) Delivery Manager
14 96 (2.73%) Senior Project Manager
15 94 (2.68%) Senior Analyst
16 92 (2.62%) Full-Stack Developer
17 86 (2.45%) Product Owner
18 81 (2.31%) Consultant
18 81 (2.31%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 642 (18.29%) .NET
2 481 (13.70%) React
3 392 (11.16%) ASP.NET
4 385 (10.97%) .NET Core
5 357 (10.17%) ASP.NET Core
6 321 (9.14%) Node.js
7 222 (6.32%) CSS
8 219 (6.24%) RESTful
9 205 (5.84%) HTML
10 178 (5.07%) Blazor
11 165 (4.70%) AngularJS
12 163 (4.64%) Entity Framework
13 139 (3.96%) Vue
14 134 (3.82%) REST
15 126 (3.59%) ASP.NET Web API
16 102 (2.91%) .NET Framework
17 96 (2.73%) ML.NET
18 94 (2.68%) Spring
19 87 (2.48%) Middleware
20 69 (1.97%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 401 (11.42%) Product Ownership
2 302 (8.60%) Cloud Native
3 207 (5.90%) Social Media
4 150 (4.27%) Enterprise Software
5 103 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
6 86 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
7 75 (2.14%) Mobile App
8 74 (2.11%) Management Information System
9 64 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
10 63 (1.79%) Marketing Technology
11 62 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
11 62 (1.77%) Onboarding
12 54 (1.54%) Over-the-Top Content
13 52 (1.48%) Cyber Threat
14 49 (1.40%) Driving Licence
15 43 (1.22%) Virtual Team
16 33 (0.94%) AI Agents
16 33 (0.94%) Blog
17 30 (0.85%) Cyber Defence
18 28 (0.80%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 142 (4.04%) Linux
2 68 (1.94%) Windows
3 52 (1.48%) Android
4 38 (1.08%) Unix
5 28 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.43%) VMS
7 11 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
8 9 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.14%) CentOS
9 5 (0.14%) Debian
10 3 (0.085%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.057%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.028%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 883 (25.15%) CI/CD
2 879 (25.04%) Continuous Improvement
3 864 (24.61%) DevOps
4 805 (22.93%) AI
5 721 (20.54%) Mentoring
6 696 (19.82%) Roadmaps
7 677 (19.28%) Scrum
8 634 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
9 598 (17.03%) Full-Stack Development
10 532 (15.15%) Software Engineering
11 527 (15.01%) Coaching
12 520 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
13 480 (13.67%) Microservices
14 450 (12.82%) Decision-Making
15 439 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 436 (12.42%) Analytics
17 406 (11.56%) Project Delivery
17 406 (11.56%) Test Automation
18 365 (10.40%) Project Management
19 355 (10.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 846 (24.10%) SQL
2 763 (21.73%) C#
3 563 (16.04%) JavaScript
4 395 (11.25%) Python
5 354 (10.08%) Java
6 336 (9.57%) TypeScript
7 85 (2.42%) C++
7 85 (2.42%) PHP
8 67 (1.91%) Bash
9 46 (1.31%) Go
10 45 (1.28%) Ruby
11 41 (1.17%) PowerShell
12 37 (1.05%) C
13 32 (0.91%) Apex Code
14 25 (0.71%) PL/SQL
15 22 (0.63%) T-SQL
16 21 (0.60%) SOQL
17 20 (0.57%) SOSL
18 17 (0.48%) Bicep
19 15 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 500 (14.24%) Degree
2 493 (14.04%) Security Cleared
3 392 (11.16%) SC Cleared
4 122 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 109 (3.10%) PMI Certification
6 106 (3.02%) CISSP
7 103 (2.93%) PMP
8 97 (2.76%) CISM
9 88 (2.51%) DV Cleared
10 76 (2.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 74 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
12 64 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
13 47 (1.34%) Azure Certification
14 38 (1.08%) DBS Check
15 34 (0.97%) Master's Degree
16 30 (0.85%) AWS Certification
17 29 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
18 25 (0.71%) CISA
19 23 (0.66%) ISTQB
20 17 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 385 (10.97%) Accessibility
2 309 (8.80%) QA
3 134 (3.82%) Data Quality
4 112 (3.19%) NIST
5 90 (2.56%) WCAG
6 89 (2.53%) GDPR
7 71 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 62 (1.77%) PMO
9 49 (1.40%) ISO 22301
10 35 (1.00%) GRC
11 31 (0.88%) NCSC
12 27 (0.77%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 15 (0.43%) COBIT
14 14 (0.40%) NIST 800
15 12 (0.34%) SOC 2
16 10 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
16 10 (0.28%) GxP
16 10 (0.28%) PCI DSS
17 9 (0.26%) SLA
18 8 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 302 (8.60%) Docker
2 60 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
3 35 (1.00%) Active Directory
4 16 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.37%) vSphere
6 12 (0.34%) Firmware
6 12 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.028%) GPFS
9 1 (0.028%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.028%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 268 (7.63%) Kubernetes
2 173 (4.93%) Terraform
3 53 (1.51%) Ansible
4 37 (1.05%) Grafana
5 29 (0.83%) Argo
6 26 (0.74%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.34%) Podman
8 8 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.14%) Istio
10 5 (0.14%) Puppet
11 4 (0.11%) Kustomize
12 3 (0.085%) Packer
12 3 (0.085%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.085%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.057%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.028%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.028%) Kibana
14 1 (0.028%) linkerd
14 1 (0.028%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 807 (22.98%) Microsoft
2 234 (6.66%) Adobe
3 141 (4.02%) Google
4 110 (3.13%) Oracle
5 106 (3.02%) Databricks
6 92 (2.62%) Salesforce
7 91 (2.59%) SAP
8 63 (1.79%) ServiceNow
9 40 (1.14%) Facebook
10 39 (1.11%) YouTube
11 31 (0.88%) OpenAI
12 26 (0.74%) Splunk
13 24 (0.68%) Cisco
14 21 (0.60%) Workday
15 20 (0.57%) VMware
16 19 (0.54%) Yahoo!
17 18 (0.51%) Apple
17 18 (0.51%) IFS
18 17 (0.48%) Sony
19 16 (0.46%) IBM