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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
5 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,485 4,385 5,655
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.21% 22.99% 27.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.99% 25.22% 29.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,834 2,612 4,635
10th Percentile £38,750 £43,254 £43,000
25th Percentile £49,750 £52,500 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.11% +0.54%
75th Percentile £86,252 £95,000 £82,797
90th Percentile £115,000 £125,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - - +3.85%

All Process and 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 13,815 17,389 19,463
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.14% 91.15% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 8,716 10,513 15,727
10th Percentile £29,675 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 5 December 2025.

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
1 106 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
2 101 (4.06%) Confluence
3 59 (2.37%) Apache
4 47 (1.89%) SharePoint
5 29 (1.17%) CMS
6 14 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 10 (0.40%) Headless CMS
7 10 (0.40%) IIS
8 8 (0.32%) Apache Spark
9 7 (0.28%) SAS
9 7 (0.28%) WordPress
10 6 (0.24%) nginx
11 5 (0.20%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.12%) Drupal
12 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.12%) WebLogic Portal
13 2 (0.080%) EPiServer
Applications
1 68 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (1.53%) Adobe XD
4 31 (1.25%) MS Visio
5 28 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.48%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.36%) Trello
8 6 (0.24%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.24%) Sketch
8 6 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.20%) Oracle Smart View
10 4 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.12%) InDesign
11 3 (0.12%) Notion
12 1 (0.040%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.040%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.040%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.040%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 41 (1.65%) Oracle ERP
2 30 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 29 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 28 (1.13%) Shopify
5 8 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
5 8 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
5 8 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (0.32%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.28%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
7 6 (0.24%) Primavera
8 5 (0.20%) Elite 3E
8 5 (0.20%) NEC Housing
8 5 (0.20%) SAP SCM
9 4 (0.16%) Hyperion Planning
9 4 (0.16%) Magento
10 3 (0.12%) Maximo
10 3 (0.12%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 869 (34.97%) Azure
2 607 (24.43%) AWS
3 312 (12.56%) Azure DevOps
4 248 (9.98%) SaaS
5 217 (8.73%) Power Platform
6 203 (8.17%) GCP
7 194 (7.81%) GitHub
8 136 (5.47%) dbt
9 132 (5.31%) Serverless
10 125 (5.03%) Snowflake
11 81 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
12 80 (3.22%) AWS Lambda
13 69 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
14 68 (2.74%) Entra ID
15 63 (2.54%) Figma
15 63 (2.54%) GitHub Copilot
16 59 (2.37%) Amazon S3
17 57 (2.29%) Power Automate
18 54 (2.17%) PaaS
19 50 (2.01%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 33 (1.33%) Broadband
2 27 (1.09%) TCP/IP
3 21 (0.85%) Wireless
4 17 (0.68%) Software-Defined Radio
5 14 (0.56%) DNS
6 11 (0.44%) Firewall
7 8 (0.32%) WAN
8 6 (0.24%) CHAP
9 5 (0.20%) DHCP
10 4 (0.16%) Ethernet
10 4 (0.16%) Internet
10 4 (0.16%) Network Security
10 4 (0.16%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.16%) SSH
10 4 (0.16%) Unified Communications
10 4 (0.16%) VPN
10 4 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.12%) GPON
11 3 (0.12%) Modbus
11 3 (0.12%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (7.65%) SQL Server
2 128 (5.15%) Power BI
3 117 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
4 109 (4.39%) MySQL
5 108 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
6 99 (3.98%) Data Lake
7 97 (3.90%) Amazon Athena
7 97 (3.90%) Apache Iceberg
8 94 (3.78%) Apache Arrow
8 94 (3.78%) Dremio
9 88 (3.54%) MongoDB
10 83 (3.34%) NoSQL
11 70 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
12 66 (2.66%) Relational Database
13 49 (1.97%) Apache Ignite
14 44 (1.77%) Tableau
15 42 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
16 35 (1.41%) DynamoDB
17 19 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 18 (0.72%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 240 (9.66%) JIRA
2 169 (6.80%) Git
3 93 (3.74%) Jenkins
4 57 (2.29%) GitLab
5 53 (2.13%) Selenium
6 47 (1.89%) Cypress.io
7 43 (1.73%) Oracle Forms
8 34 (1.37%) Postman
9 29 (1.17%) Balsamiq
9 29 (1.17%) Team Foundation Server
10 28 (1.13%) SonarQube
10 28 (1.13%) WebDriver
11 27 (1.09%) Axure RP
12 21 (0.85%) SoapUI
13 10 (0.40%) git-flow
13 10 (0.40%) TeamCity
14 9 (0.36%) ER Studio
14 9 (0.36%) ERwin
15 8 (0.32%) JMeter
15 8 (0.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 932 (37.51%) Finance
2 816 (32.84%) Social Skills
3 298 (11.99%) Analytical Skills
4 194 (7.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 174 (7.00%) Public Sector
6 163 (6.56%) Front Office
7 154 (6.20%) Law
8 149 (6.00%) Marketing
9 114 (4.59%) Legal
10 113 (4.55%) Banking
11 89 (3.58%) Retail
12 72 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
13 69 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
13 69 (2.78%) Investment Banking
14 58 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
15 49 (1.97%) Manufacturing
16 42 (1.69%) Games
16 42 (1.69%) Tech for Good
17 41 (1.65%) Local Government
18 38 (1.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 687 (27.65%) Developer
2 497 (20.00%) Senior
3 278 (11.19%) Analyst
4 258 (10.38%) Lead
5 244 (9.82%) Software Engineer
6 158 (6.36%) Architect
7 141 (5.67%) Business Analyst
8 133 (5.35%) Software Developer
9 130 (5.23%) .NET Developer
10 111 (4.47%) Python Engineer
11 109 (4.39%) Project Manager
12 107 (4.31%) AWS Engineer
13 106 (4.27%) Senior Developer
14 99 (3.98%) Python Developer
15 97 (3.90%) Python Software Engineer
16 96 (3.86%) AWS Software Engineer
17 84 (3.38%) Senior Software Engineer
18 79 (3.18%) AWS Developer
19 75 (3.02%) Java Engineer
20 74 (2.98%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 400 (16.10%) .NET
2 361 (14.53%) React
3 205 (8.25%) CSS
4 199 (8.01%) HTML
5 190 (7.65%) Node.js
6 177 (7.12%) RESTful
7 153 (6.16%) AngularJS
8 137 (5.51%) REST
9 118 (4.75%) Vue
10 110 (4.43%) SOAP
11 103 (4.14%) .NET Core
12 102 (4.10%) ASP.NET
13 98 (3.94%) Pandas
14 94 (3.78%) NumPy
14 94 (3.78%) SciPy
15 92 (3.70%) .NET Framework
16 83 (3.34%) Kafka
17 82 (3.30%) GraphQL
18 76 (3.06%) Entity Framework
19 63 (2.54%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 292 (11.75%) Product Ownership
2 189 (7.61%) Cloud Native
3 132 (5.31%) Fixed Income
4 106 (4.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 101 (4.06%) Management Information System
6 99 (3.98%) Equities
7 76 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
8 63 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
9 61 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
10 60 (2.41%) Derivative
11 59 (2.37%) Mobile App
11 59 (2.37%) Onboarding
12 55 (2.21%) Hedge funds
13 50 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
14 49 (1.97%) Pricing Data
15 47 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
16 39 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
17 35 (1.41%) NHS
18 32 (1.29%) Low-Code
19 30 (1.21%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 101 (4.06%) Linux
2 65 (2.62%) Windows
3 24 (0.97%) Apple iOS
4 21 (0.85%) Android
5 20 (0.80%) Embedded Linux
5 20 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 16 (0.64%) Unix
7 4 (0.16%) CentOS
8 3 (0.12%) OpenWrt
8 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.12%) VMS
9 2 (0.080%) Solaris
9 2 (0.080%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 640 (25.75%) DevOps
2 588 (23.66%) Continuous Improvement
3 543 (21.85%) CI/CD
4 488 (19.64%) Software Engineering
5 470 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
6 443 (17.83%) Mentoring
7 389 (15.65%) Scrum
8 364 (14.65%) AI
9 355 (14.29%) Roadmaps
10 351 (14.12%) Coaching
11 292 (11.75%) Asset Management
12 280 (11.27%) Analytics
13 270 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
14 269 (10.82%) Microservices
15 265 (10.66%) Test Automation
16 255 (10.26%) Project Management
17 242 (9.74%) Full-Stack Development
18 221 (8.89%) User Experience
19 208 (8.37%) Project Delivery
20 195 (7.85%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 580 (23.34%) SQL
2 508 (20.44%) Python
3 477 (19.20%) JavaScript
4 409 (16.46%) C#
5 379 (15.25%) Java
6 355 (14.29%) TypeScript
7 105 (4.23%) C++
8 97 (3.90%) PHP
9 90 (3.62%) PowerShell
10 58 (2.33%) C
11 49 (1.97%) Go
12 48 (1.93%) Bash
13 47 (1.89%) Shell Script
14 42 (1.69%) PL/SQL
15 40 (1.61%) Apex Code
16 23 (0.93%) Scala
17 20 (0.80%) Kotlin
18 19 (0.76%) Ruby
19 17 (0.68%) Swift
19 17 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 366 (14.73%) Degree
2 247 (9.94%) Security Cleared
3 196 (7.89%) SC Cleared
4 132 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (2.17%) Master's Degree
6 51 (2.05%) ISTQB
7 47 (1.89%) DV Cleared
8 40 (1.61%) PMI Certification
9 36 (1.45%) PMP
10 33 (1.33%) Azure Certification
11 31 (1.25%) AWS Certification
12 21 (0.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 19 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
14 17 (0.68%) DBS Check
15 14 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 12 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 11 (0.44%) CISSP
18 10 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 10 (0.40%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (8.81%) QA
2 161 (6.48%) Accessibility
3 56 (2.25%) GDPR
4 49 (1.97%) WCAG
5 48 (1.93%) PMO
6 35 (1.41%) Data Quality
7 27 (1.09%) NIST
8 21 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.40%) NCSC
10 7 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.28%) COBIT
10 7 (0.28%) HIPAA
10 7 (0.28%) SLA
11 6 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.20%) P3O
13 3 (0.12%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.080%) GRC
14 2 (0.080%) GxP
14 2 (0.080%) HL7
System Software
1 160 (6.44%) Docker
2 57 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 24 (0.97%) Firmware
4 21 (0.85%) Embedded Firmware
4 21 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.040%) HDFS
7 1 (0.040%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.040%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 165 (6.64%) Terraform
2 126 (5.07%) Kubernetes
3 41 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
4 32 (1.29%) Ansible
5 30 (1.21%) Grafana
6 22 (0.89%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
8 15 (0.60%) Argo
9 8 (0.32%) SCCM
10 7 (0.28%) Kibana
11 3 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.12%) Puppet
12 2 (0.080%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.080%) logstash
13 1 (0.040%) Automic
13 1 (0.040%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.040%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.040%) QRadar
13 1 (0.040%) Rancher
Vendors
1 399 (16.06%) Microsoft
2 90 (3.62%) Oracle
3 80 (3.22%) SAP
4 77 (3.10%) Databricks
5 69 (2.78%) Google
6 68 (2.74%) Salesforce
7 52 (2.09%) Adobe
8 45 (1.81%) Blue Prism
9 27 (1.09%) MuleSoft
10 26 (1.05%) ServiceNow
10 26 (1.05%) Splunk
11 21 (0.85%) Guidewire
12 19 (0.76%) IBM
13 18 (0.72%) Workday
14 17 (0.68%) Okta
15 10 (0.40%) Apple
16 9 (0.36%) Informatica
16 9 (0.36%) Mercator
16 9 (0.36%) Talend
17 8 (0.32%) iManage
1,406 hybrid/remote Agile jobs