Agile Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Agile Software Development
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Agile over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 4,655 8,361 11,029
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.84% 24.25% 30.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 24.52% 27.14% 31.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,519 5,752 8,167
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,683 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £125,000 £112,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

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 18,981 30,804 34,537
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.14% 89.33% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 10,113 22,881 24,933
10th Percentile £25,313 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,772 £81,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,331
% change year-on-year - -8.84% +0.55%

Agile
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Agile trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Agile
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Agile.

Agile salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Agile over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Agile salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 319 (6.85%) Confluence
2 222 (4.77%) Apache Airflow
3 154 (3.31%) Apache
4 76 (1.63%) Oracle Application Server
5 62 (1.33%) Apache Spark
6 55 (1.18%) CMS
7 29 (0.62%) IIS
7 29 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 17 (0.37%) WordPress
9 16 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
10 15 (0.32%) Appian
11 12 (0.26%) Drupal
12 10 (0.21%) Headless CMS
13 9 (0.19%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.15%) Umbraco
15 4 (0.086%) ColdFusion
15 4 (0.086%) OpenEdge
15 4 (0.086%) SAS
16 3 (0.064%) Adobe Experience Manager
17 2 (0.043%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 164 (3.52%) Microsoft Office
2 64 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 41 (0.88%) Simulink
4 31 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
5 28 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (0.60%) MS Visio
6 20 (0.43%) Trello
7 17 (0.37%) Adobe XD
8 12 (0.26%) Chatbot
9 11 (0.24%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.086%) Sketch
11 3 (0.064%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.064%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.043%) Adobe Captivate
12 2 (0.043%) Adobe Premiere
12 2 (0.043%) Elementor
12 2 (0.043%) Final Cut Pro
13 1 (0.021%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.021%) CATIA
13 1 (0.021%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 53 (1.14%) Aladdin
2 52 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 39 (0.84%) thinkFolio
4 18 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
5 16 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
6 15 (0.32%) Shopify
7 14 (0.30%) NetSuite
8 9 (0.19%) Magento
9 7 (0.15%) Elite 3E
9 7 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
11 4 (0.086%) Orchestrade
11 4 (0.086%) SAP SCM
12 3 (0.064%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
13 2 (0.043%) Payment Gateway
13 2 (0.043%) Raiser’s Edge
13 2 (0.043%) SAP APO
13 2 (0.043%) SAP EWM
13 2 (0.043%) SAP SD
13 2 (0.043%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,672 (35.92%) AWS
2 1,426 (30.63%) Azure
3 876 (18.82%) GCP
4 417 (8.96%) Serverless
5 383 (8.23%) AWS Lambda
6 217 (4.66%) dbt
7 215 (4.62%) Pulumi
8 210 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
9 206 (4.43%) SaaS
10 169 (3.63%) Power Platform
11 115 (2.47%) GitHub
12 114 (2.45%) Amazon S3
13 107 (2.30%) Snowflake
14 94 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
15 85 (1.83%) Miro
16 78 (1.68%) Amazon EKS
17 74 (1.59%) Asana
17 74 (1.59%) AWS Step Functions
18 70 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
19 69 (1.48%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 796 (17.10%) Broadband
2 37 (0.79%) Firewall
3 31 (0.67%) DNS
4 27 (0.58%) HTTP
4 27 (0.58%) Software-Defined Radio
4 27 (0.58%) Wireless
5 22 (0.47%) TCP/IP
6 21 (0.45%) VPN
6 21 (0.45%) WAN
7 19 (0.41%) SD-WAN
8 14 (0.30%) Internet
9 12 (0.26%) DHCP
10 11 (0.24%) Network Security
10 11 (0.24%) SSL
11 9 (0.19%) DMARC
12 6 (0.13%) Intrusion Detection
12 6 (0.13%) SAN
13 5 (0.11%) LAN
13 5 (0.11%) NAS
13 5 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 495 (10.63%) SQL Server
2 287 (6.17%) NoSQL
3 273 (5.86%) Relational Database
4 221 (4.75%) RDBMS
5 212 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
6 211 (4.53%) Apache Arrow
6 211 (4.53%) Apache Iceberg
6 211 (4.53%) Dremio
7 200 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
8 167 (3.59%) Elasticsearch
9 147 (3.16%) Data Lake
10 133 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
11 129 (2.77%) MySQL
12 119 (2.56%) Apache Ignite
13 114 (2.45%) Power BI
14 107 (2.30%) MongoDB
15 99 (2.13%) DynamoDB
16 85 (1.83%) Oracle Reports
17 75 (1.61%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 58 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 767 (16.48%) JIRA
2 300 (6.44%) Selenium
3 279 (5.99%) SonarQube
4 274 (5.89%) Cucumber
5 272 (5.84%) GitLab
6 261 (5.61%) Sonatype Nexus
7 256 (5.50%) Maven
8 250 (5.37%) Bitbucket
9 228 (4.90%) Git
10 215 (4.62%) Jaeger
11 75 (1.61%) Jenkins
12 47 (1.01%) Cypress.io
13 46 (0.99%) Artifactory
14 36 (0.77%) Visual Studio
15 29 (0.62%) JUnit
16 21 (0.45%) Appium
17 19 (0.41%) webpack
18 18 (0.39%) Jasmine
19 15 (0.32%) NUnit
19 15 (0.32%) Postman
General
1 1,567 (33.66%) Finance
2 929 (19.96%) Social Skills
3 864 (18.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 704 (15.12%) Banking
5 627 (13.47%) Analytical Skills
6 529 (11.36%) Presentation Skills
7 401 (8.61%) Front Office
8 199 (4.27%) Investment Banking
8 199 (4.27%) Retail
9 159 (3.42%) Law
10 146 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
11 138 (2.96%) Public Sector
12 137 (2.94%) Marketing
13 127 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
14 90 (1.93%) Corporate Banking
15 84 (1.80%) Legal
15 84 (1.80%) Military
16 50 (1.07%) Manufacturing
17 48 (1.03%) Games
18 45 (0.97%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1,203 (25.84%) Senior
2 884 (18.99%) Developer
3 881 (18.93%) Software Engineer
4 520 (11.17%) Lead
5 510 (10.96%) Systems Engineer
6 318 (6.83%) Analyst
7 315 (6.77%) Senior Software Engineer
8 297 (6.38%) Team Leader
9 245 (5.26%) Embedded Engineer
10 236 (5.07%) Senior Developer
11 220 (4.73%) Release Engineer
12 219 (4.70%) AWS Engineer
13 216 (4.64%) Machine Learning Engineer
14 193 (4.15%) Python Engineer
15 180 (3.87%) Architect
16 178 (3.82%) AWS Developer
17 170 (3.65%) AWS Software Engineer
18 161 (3.46%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 137 (2.94%) Java Engineer
20 129 (2.77%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 761 (16.35%) React
2 621 (13.34%) .NET
3 472 (10.14%) CSS
4 469 (10.08%) Node.js
5 444 (9.54%) HTML
6 386 (8.29%) Kafka
7 331 (7.11%) Redux
8 328 (7.05%) Spring
9 324 (6.96%) Spring Boot
10 264 (5.67%) JPA
11 262 (5.63%) Middleware
12 253 (5.44%) AngularJS
13 233 (5.01%) RESTful
14 229 (4.92%) Elastic Stack
15 226 (4.85%) REST
16 223 (4.79%) OpenTelemetry
17 212 (4.55%) Pandas
18 175 (3.76%) Hibernate
18 175 (3.76%) Vue
19 155 (3.33%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 575 (12.35%) Product Ownership
2 516 (11.08%) Self-Motivation
3 332 (7.13%) Fixed Income
4 275 (5.91%) Enterprise Software
5 241 (5.18%) Embedded Systems
6 229 (4.92%) Cyberattack
7 226 (4.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 223 (4.79%) Equities
9 212 (4.55%) Hedge funds
10 205 (4.40%) Derivative
11 179 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
12 100 (2.15%) Cloud Native
13 96 (2.06%) Management Information System
14 90 (1.93%) Onboarding
15 72 (1.55%) Over-the-Top Content
15 72 (1.55%) Video\Live Streaming
16 68 (1.46%) Pricing Data
17 62 (1.33%) Mobile App
17 62 (1.33%) Virtual Team
18 57 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 582 (12.50%) Linux
2 238 (5.11%) Unix
3 100 (2.15%) Android
4 83 (1.78%) Windows
5 60 (1.29%) Apple iOS
6 27 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
7 19 (0.41%) Windows Server
8 10 (0.21%) Windows Vista
9 6 (0.13%) zOS
10 5 (0.11%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.086%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.043%) Debian
12 2 (0.043%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.021%) AIX
13 1 (0.021%) CentOS
13 1 (0.021%) ThreadX
13 1 (0.021%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.021%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,257 (27.00%) CI/CD
2 1,198 (25.74%) Software Engineering
3 1,197 (25.71%) Mentoring
4 1,138 (24.45%) DevOps
5 836 (17.96%) Roadmaps
6 758 (16.28%) Microservices
7 740 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
8 681 (14.63%) Containerisation
9 577 (12.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 576 (12.37%) User Experience
11 557 (11.97%) Clean Code
12 545 (11.71%) Scrum
13 532 (11.43%) Performance Optimisation
14 513 (11.02%) Cybersecurity
14 513 (11.02%) Systems Engineering
15 498 (10.70%) SysML
16 485 (10.42%) Test Automation
17 478 (10.27%) UML
18 464 (9.97%) Stakeholder Management
19 461 (9.90%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1,382 (29.69%) JavaScript
2 1,379 (29.62%) Python
3 1,222 (26.25%) Java
4 795 (17.08%) TypeScript
5 793 (17.04%) SQL
6 528 (11.34%) Go
7 443 (9.52%) MATLAB
8 426 (9.15%) C#
9 349 (7.50%) C++
10 244 (5.24%) Bash
11 230 (4.94%) Rust
12 117 (2.51%) PHP
13 65 (1.40%) PowerShell
14 58 (1.25%) C
15 25 (0.54%) Swift
16 22 (0.47%) Bicep
17 21 (0.45%) Ruby
17 21 (0.45%) T-SQL
18 18 (0.39%) Scala
19 16 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,048 (22.51%) Degree
2 512 (11.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 497 (10.68%) AWS Certification
4 419 (9.00%) Security Cleared
5 268 (5.76%) DV Cleared
6 219 (4.70%) PhD
7 196 (4.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 178 (3.82%) AWS Certified Developer
9 149 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
10 148 (3.18%) DBS Check
11 142 (3.05%) SC Cleared
12 69 (1.48%) Azure Certification
13 68 (1.46%) PMI Certification
14 56 (1.20%) PMP
15 41 (0.88%) Master's Degree
16 37 (0.79%) ISTQB
17 36 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
18 31 (0.67%) CISSP
19 30 (0.64%) Chartered Engineer
20 20 (0.43%) MRICS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 502 (10.78%) QA
2 276 (5.93%) Accessibility
3 50 (1.07%) Data Quality
4 47 (1.01%) GDPR
5 38 (0.82%) PMO
6 36 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 22 (0.47%) NIST
8 19 (0.41%) MiFID
9 18 (0.39%) WCAG
10 16 (0.34%) ISO 9001
11 15 (0.32%) HIPAA
12 13 (0.28%) PCI DSS
13 12 (0.26%) ITGC
14 10 (0.21%) GRC
15 9 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.13%) CDISC
18 5 (0.11%) NCSC
18 5 (0.11%) SOC 2
19 4 (0.086%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 784 (16.84%) Docker
2 28 (0.60%) Firmware
3 27 (0.58%) Active Directory
4 26 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
5 24 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
7 6 (0.13%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.064%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.021%) KVM
9 1 (0.021%) Varnish
9 1 (0.021%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.021%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.021%) Xen
Systems Management
1 727 (15.62%) Kubernetes
2 413 (8.87%) Terraform
3 288 (6.19%) Ansible
4 242 (5.20%) Prometheus
5 220 (4.73%) Argo
6 216 (4.64%) Kustomize
7 35 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (0.45%) Grafana
9 10 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (0.19%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.11%) Automic
11 5 (0.11%) Puppet
11 5 (0.11%) SCCM
12 3 (0.064%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.064%) Kibana
12 3 (0.064%) Packer
13 2 (0.043%) logstash
13 2 (0.043%) SCOM
14 1 (0.021%) EMC NetWorker
14 1 (0.021%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 524 (11.26%) Microsoft
2 357 (7.67%) Google
3 248 (5.33%) Solace
4 169 (3.63%) Oracle
5 140 (3.01%) Salesforce
6 86 (1.85%) SAP
7 55 (1.18%) Databricks
8 51 (1.10%) BISAM
9 45 (0.97%) Charles River
10 40 (0.86%) MathWorks
11 39 (0.84%) Calypso
11 39 (0.84%) SimCorp
12 35 (0.75%) IBM
13 32 (0.69%) Adobe
13 32 (0.69%) VMware
14 29 (0.62%) ServiceNow
15 23 (0.49%) Apple
16 18 (0.39%) MuleSoft
17 16 (0.34%) Meraki
18 15 (0.32%) Cisco