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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,402 3,208 5,295
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 14.23% 19.76% 22.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.41% 21.24% 25.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,247 2,021 3,027
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £78,312 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £134,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £63,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.93% +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 19,546 15,102 20,547
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.74% 93.04% 87.68%
Number of salaries quoted 14,050 8,683 12,951
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,750 £35,225
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 12 September 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
1 108 (3.17%) Confluence
2 88 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 31 (0.91%) CMS
4 27 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 20 (0.59%) Apache
6 16 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 15 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
8 13 (0.38%) WordPress
9 12 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 12 (0.35%) SAS
10 10 (0.29%) Jupyter
10 10 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.15%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.12%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.12%) Camunda
12 4 (0.12%) PowerFactory
13 3 (0.088%) Kentico
13 3 (0.088%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.088%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 128 (3.76%) Microsoft Project
2 96 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
3 71 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
4 51 (1.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 33 (0.97%) UserZoom
6 30 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 23 (0.68%) Chatbot
8 21 (0.62%) MS Visio
9 18 (0.53%) Trello
10 16 (0.47%) Adobe XD
11 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.12%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.12%) Revit
12 4 (0.12%) Simulink
12 4 (0.12%) Sketch
12 4 (0.12%) Windchill
13 3 (0.088%) Blender
13 3 (0.088%) Maya
13 3 (0.088%) Productboard
14 2 (0.059%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 68 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 38 (1.12%) Workfront
3 21 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.32%) Primavera
5 10 (0.29%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.21%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.21%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
8 6 (0.18%) Shopify
9 5 (0.15%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.12%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.12%) Raiser’s Edge
11 3 (0.088%) Carpe Diem
11 3 (0.088%) Dynamics NAV
11 3 (0.088%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.088%) Oracle Receivables
11 3 (0.088%) SAP BPC
11 3 (0.088%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 1,245 (36.60%) Azure
2 850 (24.99%) AWS
3 344 (10.11%) Azure DevOps
4 236 (6.94%) SaaS
5 220 (6.47%) GCP
6 202 (5.94%) Power Platform
7 182 (5.35%) GitHub
8 155 (4.56%) Azure AI
9 154 (4.53%) Serverless
10 90 (2.65%) Adobe Analytics
10 90 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
11 88 (2.59%) GitHub Copilot
12 77 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
12 77 (2.26%) PowerApps
13 76 (2.23%) Power Automate
14 75 (2.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 75 (2.20%) Snowflake
15 68 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
16 65 (1.91%) Azure Machine Learning
17 64 (1.88%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 203 (5.97%) Broadband
2 43 (1.26%) Network Security
3 20 (0.59%) WAN
4 19 (0.56%) Internet
4 19 (0.56%) LAN
5 18 (0.53%) VPN
6 17 (0.50%) TCP/IP
7 14 (0.41%) Firewall
8 13 (0.38%) VoIP
9 11 (0.32%) CTI
9 11 (0.32%) DNS
10 10 (0.29%) 5G
11 8 (0.24%) Ethernet
11 8 (0.24%) RS-232
11 8 (0.24%) SMS
11 8 (0.24%) Unified Communications
11 8 (0.24%) Wireless
12 7 (0.21%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.21%) TETRA
12 7 (0.21%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 369 (10.85%) MongoDB
2 362 (10.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 203 (5.97%) SQL Server
4 142 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
5 134 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
6 131 (3.85%) Power BI
7 110 (3.23%) Metadata
8 81 (2.38%) NoSQL
9 77 (2.26%) MySQL
10 64 (1.88%) Relational Database
11 60 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
12 50 (1.47%) DynamoDB
13 48 (1.41%) Data Lake
14 29 (0.85%) Big Data
15 28 (0.82%) Tableau
16 25 (0.73%) Redis
17 21 (0.62%) Spark SQL
18 19 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
18 19 (0.56%) Semantic Layer
18 19 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 263 (7.73%) JIRA
2 202 (5.94%) Git
3 83 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 78 (2.29%) GitLab
5 34 (1.00%) Cypress.io
6 32 (0.94%) Selenium
7 30 (0.88%) JUnit
8 22 (0.65%) Claude Code
9 21 (0.62%) Postman
10 18 (0.53%) Maven
10 18 (0.53%) Mockito
11 17 (0.50%) SonarQube
12 15 (0.44%) Visual Studio
13 14 (0.41%) Cucumber
14 11 (0.32%) Bitbucket
14 11 (0.32%) CircleCI
15 9 (0.26%) Balsamiq
16 8 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 7 (0.21%) Axure RP
17 7 (0.21%) NUnit
General
1 1,030 (30.28%) Social Skills
2 832 (24.46%) Finance
3 555 (16.31%) Public Sector
4 401 (11.79%) Analytical Skills
5 376 (11.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 292 (8.58%) Law
7 208 (6.11%) Legal
8 185 (5.44%) Retail
9 177 (5.20%) Marketing
10 145 (4.26%) Games
11 115 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
12 110 (3.23%) Banking
13 100 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
14 87 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
15 86 (2.53%) Aerospace
16 61 (1.79%) Advertising
17 49 (1.44%) Manufacturing
18 46 (1.35%) Legal Technology
19 33 (0.97%) Back Office
20 31 (0.91%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 821 (24.13%) Developer
2 735 (21.60%) Senior
3 386 (11.35%) Lead
4 361 (10.61%) .NET Developer
5 311 (9.14%) Analyst
6 292 (8.58%) Architect
7 254 (7.47%) Project Manager
8 232 (6.82%) Software Engineer
9 207 (6.08%) Business Analyst
10 177 (5.20%) Senior Developer
11 153 (4.50%) Senior Manager
12 131 (3.85%) IT Manager
13 113 (3.32%) Delivery Manager
14 98 (2.88%) Software Developer
15 94 (2.76%) Senior Project Manager
16 92 (2.70%) Senior Analyst
17 81 (2.38%) Full-Stack Developer
18 80 (2.35%) Technical Architect
19 78 (2.29%) Data Engineer
19 78 (2.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 625 (18.37%) .NET
2 432 (12.70%) React
3 378 (11.11%) ASP.NET
4 371 (10.91%) .NET Core
5 347 (10.20%) ASP.NET Core
6 300 (8.82%) Node.js
7 213 (6.26%) RESTful
8 212 (6.23%) CSS
9 199 (5.85%) HTML
10 174 (5.11%) Blazor
11 167 (4.91%) Terraform
12 157 (4.61%) Entity Framework
13 156 (4.59%) AngularJS
14 131 (3.85%) Vue
15 123 (3.62%) ASP.NET Web API
15 123 (3.62%) REST
16 99 (2.91%) Spring
17 96 (2.82%) Middleware
18 93 (2.73%) .NET Framework
19 92 (2.70%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 376 (11.05%) Product Ownership
2 296 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 159 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
4 157 (4.61%) Social Media
5 97 (2.85%) Greenfield Project
6 96 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
7 76 (2.23%) Management Information System
8 63 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
8 63 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
9 62 (1.82%) Onboarding
10 61 (1.79%) Marketing Technology
11 58 (1.70%) Mobile App
12 54 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
13 52 (1.53%) Over-the-Top Content
14 47 (1.38%) Driving Licence
15 43 (1.26%) Virtual Team
16 38 (1.12%) AI Agents
17 36 (1.06%) Blog
18 34 (1.00%) Cyber Defence
19 32 (0.94%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 142 (4.17%) Linux
2 80 (2.35%) Windows
3 43 (1.26%) Unix
4 39 (1.15%) Android
5 16 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.44%) VMS
7 9 (0.26%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
9 6 (0.18%) CentOS
10 5 (0.15%) Debian
11 3 (0.088%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.059%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.059%) VxWorks
12 2 (0.059%) Windows Server
13 1 (0.029%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 872 (25.63%) CI/CD
2 865 (25.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 840 (24.69%) DevOps
4 768 (22.57%) AI
5 755 (22.19%) Mentoring
6 666 (19.58%) Scrum
7 650 (19.11%) Problem-Solving
8 601 (17.67%) Roadmaps
9 577 (16.96%) Coaching
10 566 (16.64%) Full-Stack Development
11 559 (16.43%) Stakeholder Management
12 510 (14.99%) Software Engineering
13 473 (13.90%) Microservices
14 463 (13.61%) Decision-Making
15 434 (12.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 420 (12.35%) Project Delivery
17 406 (11.93%) Analytics
18 374 (10.99%) Test Automation
19 359 (10.55%) Waterfall
20 348 (10.23%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 845 (24.84%) SQL
2 746 (21.93%) C#
3 552 (16.23%) JavaScript
4 379 (11.14%) Python
5 346 (10.17%) Java
6 308 (9.05%) TypeScript
7 97 (2.85%) C++
8 71 (2.09%) PHP
9 66 (1.94%) Bash
10 49 (1.44%) PowerShell
11 44 (1.29%) Ruby
12 35 (1.03%) C
13 32 (0.94%) Go
14 28 (0.82%) PL/SQL
15 20 (0.59%) T-SQL
16 18 (0.53%) Kotlin
17 17 (0.50%) Bicep
18 16 (0.47%) Apex Code
19 15 (0.44%) Rust
20 14 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 520 (15.29%) Security Cleared
2 507 (14.90%) Degree
3 407 (11.96%) SC Cleared
4 119 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 105 (3.09%) CISSP
6 104 (3.06%) PMI Certification
7 100 (2.94%) PMP
8 96 (2.82%) CISM
9 91 (2.67%) DV Cleared
10 77 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 77 (2.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 64 (1.88%) ITIL Certification
12 48 (1.41%) Azure Certification
13 37 (1.09%) DBS Check
14 35 (1.03%) Master's Degree
15 31 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
16 30 (0.88%) AWS Certification
17 29 (0.85%) ISTQB
18 24 (0.71%) CISA
19 21 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 328 (9.64%) Accessibility
2 288 (8.47%) QA
3 175 (5.14%) Data Quality
4 110 (3.23%) NIST
5 96 (2.82%) GDPR
6 75 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 63 (1.85%) WCAG
8 62 (1.82%) PMO
9 49 (1.44%) ISO 22301
10 35 (1.03%) GRC
11 34 (1.00%) NCSC
12 29 (0.85%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 14 (0.41%) NIST 800
14 12 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 12 (0.35%) SOC 2
15 11 (0.32%) COBIT
16 10 (0.29%) GxP
16 10 (0.29%) PCI DSS
17 9 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
17 9 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 295 (8.67%) Docker
2 61 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
3 38 (1.12%) Active Directory
4 16 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.38%) vSphere
6 12 (0.35%) Firmware
6 12 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.088%) IAG
9 2 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.029%) GPFS
10 1 (0.029%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.029%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 263 (7.73%) Kubernetes
2 50 (1.47%) Ansible
3 34 (1.00%) Grafana
4 29 (0.85%) Argo
5 25 (0.73%) Prometheus
6 11 (0.32%) Podman
7 8 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.24%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.15%) Istio
8 5 (0.15%) Packer
8 5 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.12%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.12%) Puppet
10 3 (0.088%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.059%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.059%) Kibana
12 1 (0.029%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.029%) HP Quality Center
12 1 (0.029%) linkerd
12 1 (0.029%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 820 (24.10%) Microsoft
2 173 (5.09%) Adobe
3 142 (4.17%) Google
4 117 (3.44%) Oracle
5 108 (3.17%) Databricks
6 92 (2.70%) SAP
7 83 (2.44%) Salesforce
8 67 (1.97%) ServiceNow
9 65 (1.91%) YouTube
10 41 (1.21%) Facebook
11 31 (0.91%) OpenAI
12 27 (0.79%) Cisco
13 24 (0.71%) Workday
14 20 (0.59%) VMware
15 19 (0.56%) IFS
15 19 (0.56%) Yahoo!
16 18 (0.53%) Apple
17 17 (0.50%) Informatica
17 17 (0.50%) Sony
18 16 (0.47%) Splunk