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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,371 3,232 5,315
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 13.85% 19.81% 22.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.00% 21.25% 25.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,246 2,031 2,932
10th Percentile £40,825 £40,870 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% - +3.74%
75th Percentile £78,312 £91,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £132,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £63,500 £67,500 £65,500
% change year-on-year -5.93% +3.05% +0.23%

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 19,826 15,207 20,601
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.45% 93.22% 87.84%
Number of salaries quoted 14,213 8,631 12,628
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,812 £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 18 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
1 112 (3.32%) Confluence
2 88 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 32 (0.95%) CMS
4 27 (0.80%) Apache Spark
5 18 (0.53%) Apache
6 15 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (0.39%) WordPress
8 12 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.36%) SAS
9 11 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 10 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.30%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.12%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.12%) Camunda
12 4 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.12%) PowerFactory
13 3 (0.089%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.089%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.089%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 130 (3.86%) Microsoft Project
2 97 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
3 72 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 36 (1.07%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 29 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 26 (0.77%) UserZoom
7 22 (0.65%) Chatbot
7 22 (0.65%) MS Visio
8 18 (0.53%) Trello
9 15 (0.44%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.12%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.12%) Revit
11 4 (0.12%) Simulink
11 4 (0.12%) Sketch
11 4 (0.12%) Windchill
12 3 (0.089%) Blender
12 3 (0.089%) Maya
12 3 (0.089%) Productboard
13 2 (0.059%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 72 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (0.89%) Workfront
3 21 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.33%) Primavera
5 10 (0.30%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
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%) Elite 3E
9 5 (0.15%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
10 4 (0.12%) Raiser’s Edge
10 4 (0.12%) SAP GRC
11 3 (0.089%) Carpe Diem
11 3 (0.089%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.089%) Oracle Receivables
11 3 (0.089%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,244 (36.90%) Azure
2 831 (24.65%) AWS
3 345 (10.23%) Azure DevOps
4 238 (7.06%) SaaS
5 208 (6.17%) Power Platform
6 206 (6.11%) GCP
7 185 (5.49%) GitHub
8 152 (4.51%) Azure AI
9 151 (4.48%) Serverless
10 93 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
11 89 (2.64%) GitHub Copilot
12 79 (2.34%) Snowflake
13 78 (2.31%) Power Automate
14 77 (2.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 77 (2.28%) PowerApps
15 76 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
16 75 (2.22%) Adobe Analytics
17 68 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
18 63 (1.87%) Figma
19 62 (1.84%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 155 (4.60%) Broadband
2 42 (1.25%) Network Security
3 20 (0.59%) Internet
4 19 (0.56%) WAN
5 18 (0.53%) LAN
6 17 (0.50%) TCP/IP
6 17 (0.50%) VPN
7 13 (0.39%) VoIP
8 12 (0.36%) Firewall
9 11 (0.33%) 5G
9 11 (0.33%) CTI
10 10 (0.30%) DNS
11 9 (0.27%) SMS
12 8 (0.24%) Unified Communications
13 7 (0.21%) Ethernet
13 7 (0.21%) RS-232
13 7 (0.21%) TETRA
13 7 (0.21%) Wireless
13 7 (0.21%) WLAN
14 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 367 (10.89%) MongoDB
2 363 (10.77%) Azure SQL Database
3 204 (6.05%) SQL Server
4 143 (4.24%) Elasticsearch
5 136 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
5 136 (4.03%) Power BI
6 101 (3.00%) Metadata
7 78 (2.31%) MySQL
8 76 (2.25%) NoSQL
9 67 (1.99%) Relational Database
10 63 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
11 51 (1.51%) DynamoDB
12 48 (1.42%) Data Lake
13 30 (0.89%) Tableau
14 29 (0.86%) Big Data
15 25 (0.74%) Redis
16 21 (0.62%) Spark SQL
17 20 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
17 20 (0.59%) BigQuery
18 19 (0.56%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 271 (8.04%) JIRA
2 210 (6.23%) Git
3 79 (2.34%) GitLab
4 77 (2.28%) Jenkins
5 30 (0.89%) JUnit
5 30 (0.89%) Selenium
6 28 (0.83%) Cypress.io
7 24 (0.71%) Claude Code
8 21 (0.62%) Postman
9 18 (0.53%) Maven
9 18 (0.53%) Mockito
10 16 (0.47%) SonarQube
11 15 (0.44%) Visual Studio
12 14 (0.42%) Cucumber
13 12 (0.36%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 8 (0.24%) Balsamiq
14 8 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
15 7 (0.21%) NUnit
16 6 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,032 (30.61%) Social Skills
2 835 (24.77%) Finance
3 560 (16.61%) Public Sector
4 405 (12.01%) Analytical Skills
5 374 (11.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 287 (8.51%) Law
7 211 (6.26%) Legal
8 185 (5.49%) Retail
9 163 (4.84%) Marketing
10 129 (3.83%) Games
11 117 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
12 104 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
13 102 (3.03%) Banking
14 87 (2.58%) Aerospace
15 85 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
16 60 (1.78%) Advertising
17 51 (1.51%) Manufacturing
18 44 (1.31%) Legal Technology
19 31 (0.92%) Back Office
20 29 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 825 (24.47%) Developer
2 738 (21.89%) Senior
3 376 (11.15%) Lead
4 361 (10.71%) .NET Developer
5 306 (9.08%) Analyst
6 294 (8.72%) Architect
7 256 (7.59%) Project Manager
8 222 (6.59%) Software Engineer
9 205 (6.08%) Business Analyst
10 181 (5.37%) Senior Developer
11 154 (4.57%) Senior Manager
12 133 (3.95%) IT Manager
13 115 (3.41%) Delivery Manager
14 95 (2.82%) Software Developer
15 94 (2.79%) Senior Project Manager
16 91 (2.70%) Senior Analyst
17 83 (2.46%) Data Engineer
18 82 (2.43%) Technical Architect
19 80 (2.37%) Full-Stack Developer
20 77 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 622 (18.45%) .NET
2 422 (12.52%) React
3 377 (11.18%) ASP.NET
4 371 (11.01%) .NET Core
5 345 (10.23%) ASP.NET Core
6 296 (8.78%) Node.js
7 213 (6.32%) RESTful
8 209 (6.20%) CSS
9 196 (5.81%) HTML
10 174 (5.16%) Blazor
11 166 (4.92%) Terraform
12 158 (4.69%) AngularJS
13 156 (4.63%) Entity Framework
14 131 (3.89%) Vue
15 125 (3.71%) REST
16 122 (3.62%) ASP.NET Web API
17 100 (2.97%) Middleware
17 100 (2.97%) Spring
18 93 (2.76%) .NET Framework
19 92 (2.73%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 353 (10.47%) Product Ownership
2 288 (8.54%) Cloud Native
3 163 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
4 127 (3.77%) Social Media
5 97 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
6 96 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
7 77 (2.28%) Management Information System
8 66 (1.96%) Onboarding
9 63 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
10 61 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
11 59 (1.75%) Mobile App
12 54 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
13 48 (1.42%) Driving Licence
14 47 (1.39%) Marketing Technology
15 44 (1.31%) Virtual Team
16 40 (1.19%) AI Agents
17 37 (1.10%) Over-the-Top Content
18 36 (1.07%) Blog
19 33 (0.98%) Cyber Defence
20 32 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 139 (4.12%) Linux
2 86 (2.55%) Windows
3 48 (1.42%) Unix
4 41 (1.22%) Android
5 18 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.42%) VMS
7 9 (0.27%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
9 5 (0.15%) CentOS
10 4 (0.12%) Debian
11 3 (0.089%) Windows Server
12 2 (0.059%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.059%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.059%) VxWorks
13 1 (0.030%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 864 (25.63%) Continuous Improvement
2 862 (25.57%) CI/CD
3 840 (24.92%) DevOps
4 756 (22.43%) Mentoring
5 746 (22.13%) AI
6 660 (19.58%) Problem-Solving
7 649 (19.25%) Scrum
8 574 (17.03%) Coaching
9 572 (16.97%) Stakeholder Management
10 562 (16.67%) Roadmaps
11 559 (16.58%) Full-Stack Development
12 502 (14.89%) Software Engineering
13 470 (13.94%) Microservices
14 447 (13.26%) Decision-Making
15 435 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 422 (12.52%) Project Delivery
17 400 (11.87%) Analytics
18 365 (10.83%) Test Automation
19 362 (10.74%) Waterfall
20 351 (10.41%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 860 (25.51%) SQL
2 750 (22.25%) C#
3 542 (16.08%) JavaScript
4 376 (11.15%) Python
5 334 (9.91%) Java
6 306 (9.08%) TypeScript
7 95 (2.82%) C++
8 71 (2.11%) PHP
9 65 (1.93%) Bash
10 50 (1.48%) PowerShell
11 42 (1.25%) Ruby
12 34 (1.01%) Go
13 33 (0.98%) C
14 30 (0.89%) PL/SQL
15 21 (0.62%) T-SQL
16 19 (0.56%) Kotlin
17 17 (0.50%) Bicep
18 15 (0.44%) Rust
19 14 (0.42%) Apex Code
19 14 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 522 (15.49%) Security Cleared
2 513 (15.22%) Degree
3 410 (12.16%) SC Cleared
4 120 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 105 (3.11%) CISSP
6 103 (3.06%) PMI Certification
7 99 (2.94%) PMP
8 95 (2.82%) CISM
9 90 (2.67%) DV Cleared
10 77 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
10 77 (2.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 64 (1.90%) ITIL Certification
12 50 (1.48%) Azure Certification
13 39 (1.16%) DBS Check
14 34 (1.01%) Master's Degree
15 31 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
16 29 (0.86%) AWS Certification
16 29 (0.86%) ISTQB
17 24 (0.71%) CISA
18 21 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 311 (9.23%) Accessibility
2 286 (8.48%) QA
3 180 (5.34%) Data Quality
4 109 (3.23%) NIST
5 103 (3.06%) GDPR
6 78 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 63 (1.87%) PMO
8 54 (1.60%) WCAG
9 49 (1.45%) ISO 22301
10 34 (1.01%) NCSC
11 33 (0.98%) GRC
12 29 (0.86%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 14 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 14 (0.42%) NIST 800
14 12 (0.36%) SOC 2
15 10 (0.30%) COBIT
15 10 (0.30%) GxP
15 10 (0.30%) PCI DSS
16 9 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
16 9 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 295 (8.75%) Docker
2 57 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
3 38 (1.13%) Active Directory
4 16 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.39%) vSphere
6 12 (0.36%) Firmware
6 12 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.12%) IAG
8 3 (0.089%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.030%) GPFS
10 1 (0.030%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.030%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 267 (7.92%) Kubernetes
2 48 (1.42%) Ansible
3 31 (0.92%) Grafana
4 29 (0.86%) Argo
5 25 (0.74%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.24%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.18%) Podman
8 5 (0.15%) Istio
8 5 (0.15%) Packer
8 5 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.12%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.089%) Puppet
11 2 (0.059%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.059%) Kibana
11 2 (0.059%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.030%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.030%) linkerd
12 1 (0.030%) logstash
12 1 (0.030%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 830 (24.62%) Microsoft
2 144 (4.27%) Adobe
3 129 (3.83%) Google
4 122 (3.62%) Oracle
5 109 (3.23%) Databricks
6 93 (2.76%) SAP
7 83 (2.46%) Salesforce
8 70 (2.08%) YouTube
9 67 (1.99%) ServiceNow
10 41 (1.22%) Facebook
11 31 (0.92%) OpenAI
12 26 (0.77%) Cisco
13 24 (0.71%) Workday
14 20 (0.59%) VMware
15 19 (0.56%) IFS
15 19 (0.56%) Informatica
15 19 (0.56%) Yahoo!
16 18 (0.53%) Apple
17 17 (0.50%) Sony
18 15 (0.44%) Splunk