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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,543 4,306 6,080
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.75% 22.02% 28.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.28% 24.81% 29.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,899 2,485 5,022
10th Percentile £38,750 £43,469 £43,000
25th Percentile £49,750 £52,500 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.11% +0.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £118,750 £128,750 £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 13,910 17,357 20,597
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.63% 88.77% 95.01%
Number of salaries quoted 8,713 10,295 16,664
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,813
90th Percentile £98,750 £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 18 November 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
1 129 (5.07%) Apache Airflow
2 109 (4.29%) Confluence
3 73 (2.87%) Apache
4 48 (1.89%) SharePoint
5 29 (1.14%) CMS
6 18 (0.71%) IIS
6 18 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
7 14 (0.55%) Appian
8 11 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 10 (0.39%) Headless CMS
10 7 (0.28%) SAS
10 7 (0.28%) WordPress
11 6 (0.24%) Apache Spark
11 6 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
12 5 (0.20%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.20%) Drupal
13 4 (0.16%) nginx
13 4 (0.16%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.16%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.12%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 70 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (1.30%) Adobe XD
4 31 (1.22%) MS Visio
5 27 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
6 25 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 10 (0.39%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.31%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.31%) Trello
9 7 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
10 6 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
11 5 (0.20%) Sketch
12 4 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
13 3 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 3 (0.12%) InDesign
13 3 (0.12%) Notion
14 2 (0.079%) Elementor
15 1 (0.039%) Adobe After Effects
15 1 (0.039%) Adobe Premiere
15 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 35 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (1.34%) Oracle ERP
3 30 (1.18%) Shopify
4 29 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
5 8 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
5 8 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (0.31%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.28%) Elite 3E
7 6 (0.24%) Primavera
8 5 (0.20%) NEC Housing
8 5 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.20%) SAP SCM
9 4 (0.16%) Aladdin
9 4 (0.16%) Hyperion Planning
9 4 (0.16%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 832 (32.72%) Azure
2 642 (25.25%) AWS
3 280 (11.01%) Azure DevOps
4 253 (9.95%) SaaS
5 223 (8.77%) Power Platform
6 217 (8.53%) GCP
7 176 (6.92%) GitHub
8 147 (5.78%) dbt
9 125 (4.92%) Serverless
10 124 (4.88%) Snowflake
11 83 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
12 78 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
13 74 (2.91%) Dynamics 365
14 65 (2.56%) Entra ID
15 62 (2.44%) Figma
16 58 (2.28%) Power Automate
17 53 (2.08%) Amazon S3
18 52 (2.04%) PaaS
19 47 (1.85%) GitHub Copilot
20 45 (1.77%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.42%) Broadband
2 28 (1.10%) TCP/IP
3 26 (1.02%) Wireless
4 23 (0.90%) Software-Defined Radio
5 15 (0.59%) Firewall
6 9 (0.35%) WAN
7 8 (0.31%) DNS
8 7 (0.28%) Network Security
9 6 (0.24%) Internet
9 6 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (0.20%) DHCP
10 5 (0.20%) VPN
11 4 (0.16%) CHAP
11 4 (0.16%) Ethernet
11 4 (0.16%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.16%) SSH
11 4 (0.16%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.12%) GPON
12 3 (0.12%) Modbus
12 3 (0.12%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (7.98%) SQL Server
2 130 (5.11%) Power BI
3 119 (4.68%) Amazon Athena
3 119 (4.68%) Apache Iceberg
3 119 (4.68%) PostgreSQL
4 116 (4.56%) Apache Arrow
4 116 (4.56%) Dremio
4 116 (4.56%) MySQL
5 108 (4.25%) Data Warehouse
6 107 (4.21%) Data Lake
7 96 (3.78%) MongoDB
8 77 (3.03%) NoSQL
9 69 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
10 63 (2.48%) Relational Database
11 61 (2.40%) Apache Ignite
12 52 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
13 42 (1.65%) Tableau
14 40 (1.57%) DynamoDB
15 23 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 18 (0.71%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 241 (9.48%) JIRA
2 166 (6.53%) Git
3 89 (3.50%) Jenkins
4 51 (2.01%) Selenium
5 50 (1.97%) Cypress.io
5 50 (1.97%) GitLab
6 37 (1.45%) Oracle Forms
7 31 (1.22%) Postman
8 29 (1.14%) SonarQube
9 24 (0.94%) Balsamiq
9 24 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
10 23 (0.90%) WebDriver
11 22 (0.87%) Axure RP
12 18 (0.71%) SoapUI
13 14 (0.55%) TeamCity
14 10 (0.39%) ERwin
15 9 (0.35%) git-flow
15 9 (0.35%) webpack
16 8 (0.31%) ER Studio
16 8 (0.31%) Storybook
General
1 953 (37.48%) Finance
2 825 (32.44%) Social Skills
3 289 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
4 201 (7.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 196 (7.71%) Front Office
6 176 (6.92%) Public Sector
7 157 (6.17%) Law
8 145 (5.70%) Marketing
9 137 (5.39%) Banking
10 115 (4.52%) Legal
11 97 (3.81%) Retail
12 82 (3.22%) Investment Banking
13 72 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
14 67 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
15 61 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
16 46 (1.81%) Manufacturing
17 45 (1.77%) Local Government
18 44 (1.73%) Games
19 41 (1.61%) Tech for Good
20 35 (1.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 740 (29.10%) Developer
2 525 (20.64%) Senior
3 292 (11.48%) Analyst
4 279 (10.97%) Software Engineer
5 242 (9.52%) Lead
6 158 (6.21%) Architect
7 145 (5.70%) Business Analyst
8 133 (5.23%) .NET Developer
9 132 (5.19%) Senior Developer
10 129 (5.07%) Python Engineer
11 127 (4.99%) AWS Engineer
12 121 (4.76%) Software Developer
13 118 (4.64%) AWS Software Engineer
14 114 (4.48%) Python Software Engineer
15 109 (4.29%) Project Manager
16 107 (4.21%) Python Developer
17 94 (3.70%) Java Engineer
17 94 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
18 88 (3.46%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 86 (3.38%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 409 (16.08%) .NET
2 394 (15.49%) React
3 225 (8.85%) CSS
4 211 (8.30%) HTML
5 207 (8.14%) Node.js
6 173 (6.80%) AngularJS
7 170 (6.69%) RESTful
8 140 (5.51%) REST
9 139 (5.47%) Vue
10 122 (4.80%) Pandas
11 118 (4.64%) NumPy
12 116 (4.56%) SciPy
13 108 (4.25%) ASP.NET
14 103 (4.05%) .NET Core
15 100 (3.93%) SOAP
16 99 (3.89%) .NET Framework
17 88 (3.46%) Kafka
18 82 (3.22%) GraphQL
19 79 (3.11%) Entity Framework
20 74 (2.91%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 294 (11.56%) Product Ownership
2 171 (6.72%) Cloud Native
3 158 (6.21%) Fixed Income
4 132 (5.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 126 (4.95%) Equities
6 108 (4.25%) Management Information System
7 82 (3.22%) Derivative
8 76 (2.99%) Hedge funds
9 75 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
10 64 (2.52%) Mobile App
10 64 (2.52%) Onboarding
11 63 (2.48%) Pricing Data
12 61 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
13 56 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
14 51 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
15 44 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
16 42 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
17 36 (1.42%) NHS
18 33 (1.30%) Virtual Team
19 31 (1.22%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 106 (4.17%) Linux
2 68 (2.67%) Windows
3 30 (1.18%) Apple iOS
4 26 (1.02%) Android
4 26 (1.02%) Embedded Linux
5 24 (0.94%) Windows Server
6 17 (0.67%) Unix
7 4 (0.16%) CentOS
8 3 (0.12%) OpenWrt
8 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.12%) VMS
9 2 (0.079%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 616 (24.22%) DevOps
2 589 (23.16%) Continuous Improvement
3 517 (20.33%) Software Engineering
4 516 (20.29%) CI/CD
5 478 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
6 423 (16.63%) Mentoring
7 395 (15.53%) Scrum
8 355 (13.96%) Roadmaps
9 344 (13.53%) AI
10 298 (11.72%) Coaching
11 294 (11.56%) Asset Management
12 286 (11.25%) Stakeholder Management
13 272 (10.70%) Analytics
14 263 (10.34%) Microservices
15 262 (10.30%) Project Management
16 251 (9.87%) Full-Stack Development
17 245 (9.63%) Test Automation
18 222 (8.73%) User Experience
19 208 (8.18%) Project Delivery
20 201 (7.90%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 572 (22.49%) SQL
2 533 (20.96%) JavaScript
3 527 (20.72%) Python
4 420 (16.52%) C#
5 406 (15.97%) Java
6 391 (15.38%) TypeScript
7 111 (4.36%) C++
8 95 (3.74%) PHP
9 83 (3.26%) PowerShell
10 59 (2.32%) C
11 48 (1.89%) Go
12 44 (1.73%) Bash
13 41 (1.61%) Shell Script
14 37 (1.45%) PL/SQL
15 36 (1.42%) Apex Code
16 23 (0.90%) Scala
17 22 (0.87%) Ruby
18 20 (0.79%) Kotlin
18 20 (0.79%) T-SQL
19 19 (0.75%) Swift
Qualifications
1 378 (14.86%) Degree
2 245 (9.63%) Security Cleared
3 204 (8.02%) SC Cleared
4 147 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 50 (1.97%) Master's Degree
6 46 (1.81%) DV Cleared
6 46 (1.81%) ISTQB
7 44 (1.73%) PMI Certification
8 43 (1.69%) PMP
9 35 (1.38%) AWS Certification
10 34 (1.34%) Azure Certification
11 20 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
12 18 (0.71%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 16 (0.63%) DBS Check
14 14 (0.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 12 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 12 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
16 11 (0.43%) CISSP
17 10 (0.39%) CISM
17 10 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (8.97%) QA
2 145 (5.70%) Accessibility
3 56 (2.20%) GDPR
4 53 (2.08%) PMO
5 43 (1.69%) WCAG
6 33 (1.30%) Data Quality
7 26 (1.02%) NIST
8 20 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.39%) NCSC
10 8 (0.31%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.28%) SLA
12 6 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.20%) COBIT
13 5 (0.20%) P3O
14 3 (0.12%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
15 2 (0.079%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.079%) GxP
15 2 (0.079%) HL7
15 2 (0.079%) MiFID
System Software
1 160 (6.29%) Docker
2 49 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.06%) Firmware
4 24 (0.94%) Embedded Firmware
5 21 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.039%) HDFS
8 1 (0.039%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.039%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 150 (5.90%) Terraform
2 126 (4.95%) Kubernetes
3 36 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
4 31 (1.22%) Ansible
5 28 (1.10%) Grafana
6 22 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
6 22 (0.87%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.55%) Argo
8 9 (0.35%) Kibana
9 8 (0.31%) SCCM
10 3 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.12%) Puppet
11 2 (0.079%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.039%) Automic
12 1 (0.039%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.039%) logstash
12 1 (0.039%) QRadar
12 1 (0.039%) Rancher
Vendors
1 411 (16.16%) Microsoft
2 92 (3.62%) Oracle
3 83 (3.26%) SAP
4 73 (2.87%) Google
5 71 (2.79%) Databricks
6 70 (2.75%) Salesforce
7 46 (1.81%) Adobe
8 45 (1.77%) Blue Prism
9 28 (1.10%) ServiceNow
9 28 (1.10%) Splunk
10 27 (1.06%) Guidewire
11 26 (1.02%) MuleSoft
12 19 (0.75%) Workday
13 17 (0.67%) IBM
14 15 (0.59%) Okta
15 11 (0.43%) DevExpress
16 9 (0.35%) Apple
16 9 (0.35%) iManage
16 9 (0.35%) Informatica
16 9 (0.35%) VMware
2,972 hybrid/remote Agile jobs