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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,741 3,019 8,039
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.11% 22.44% 24.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.26% 23.68% 27.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,776 2,244 6,042
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +14.37% -5.84%
75th Percentile £81,250 £98,474 £79,600
90th Percentile £100,000 £125,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -3.85%

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 15,007 12,750 29,718
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.73% 94.76% 91.34%
Number of salaries quoted 10,534 8,864 23,587
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £33,881
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%

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 1 May 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
1 101 (3.68%) Confluence
2 48 (1.75%) CMS
3 45 (1.64%) SharePoint
4 19 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 12 (0.44%) Apache
6 12 (0.44%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.22%) nginx
8 6 (0.22%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.22%) SAS
9 5 (0.18%) WordPress
10 3 (0.11%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.11%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.036%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.036%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.036%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.036%) WildFly
Applications
1 43 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 43 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (1.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 30 (1.09%) UserZoom
4 29 (1.06%) Adobe XD
4 29 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.40%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.33%) MS Visio
8 7 (0.26%) Sketch
9 5 (0.18%) InVision
10 4 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.15%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.15%) Trello
11 2 (0.073%) Avid Media Composer
11 2 (0.073%) Pro Tools
11 2 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.036%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.036%) EngageOne
12 1 (0.036%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 24 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
3 20 (0.73%) Workfront
4 18 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
5 15 (0.55%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.26%) Shopify
7 6 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.15%) Markit EDM
9 3 (0.11%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.073%) Infor SunSystems
10 2 (0.073%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.073%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.073%) SAP PM
10 2 (0.073%) SAP SCM
11 1 (0.036%) Dynamics NAV
11 1 (0.036%) Magento
11 1 (0.036%) Maximo
11 1 (0.036%) Oracle General Ledger
11 1 (0.036%) Remedy ITSM
11 1 (0.036%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 785 (28.64%) Azure
2 623 (22.73%) AWS
3 227 (8.28%) Azure DevOps
4 199 (7.26%) GCP
5 183 (6.68%) Adobe Analytics
6 153 (5.58%) GitHub
7 146 (5.33%) Serverless
8 143 (5.22%) SaaS
9 142 (5.18%) Power Platform
10 130 (4.74%) Figma
11 103 (3.76%) Snowflake
12 68 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
12 68 (2.48%) Azure AI
12 68 (2.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 65 (2.37%) Amazon S3
14 64 (2.33%) Azure Machine Learning
15 55 (2.01%) Contentsquare
16 50 (1.82%) GitHub Copilot
17 48 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
18 45 (1.64%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 384 (14.01%) Broadband
2 27 (0.99%) CHAP
3 25 (0.91%) TCP/IP
4 23 (0.84%) DNS
5 14 (0.51%) 4G
5 14 (0.51%) Ethernet
5 14 (0.51%) Network Security
5 14 (0.51%) RS-232
6 13 (0.47%) Firewall
7 12 (0.44%) WAN
8 11 (0.40%) BGP
8 11 (0.40%) Cisco IOS
8 11 (0.40%) Ethernet VPN
8 11 (0.40%) IOS XR
8 11 (0.40%) MPLS
9 8 (0.29%) DHCP
9 8 (0.29%) LAN
9 8 (0.29%) VPN
10 6 (0.22%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (6.79%) SQL Server
2 107 (3.90%) NoSQL
3 91 (3.32%) MongoDB
4 87 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
5 82 (2.99%) Power BI
6 81 (2.96%) Metadata
7 63 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
8 59 (2.15%) MySQL
9 47 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
9 47 (1.71%) Relational Database
10 40 (1.46%) Data Lake
11 28 (1.02%) DynamoDB
12 25 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
12 25 (0.91%) Tableau
13 24 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
14 19 (0.69%) RDBMS
15 14 (0.51%) Redis
16 11 (0.40%) Flink
17 10 (0.36%) Big Data
17 10 (0.36%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 215 (7.84%) JIRA
2 160 (5.84%) Git
3 125 (4.56%) Jenkins
4 108 (3.94%) GitLab
5 53 (1.93%) Selenium
6 42 (1.53%) Postman
6 42 (1.53%) SonarQube
7 31 (1.13%) Cypress.io
8 29 (1.06%) WebDriver
9 28 (1.02%) SoapUI
10 26 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
10 26 (0.95%) TeamCity
11 22 (0.80%) Axure RP
11 22 (0.80%) Balsamiq
12 19 (0.69%) Jaeger
12 19 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
13 15 (0.55%) JMeter
14 14 (0.51%) CircleCI
15 13 (0.47%) SpecFlow
16 12 (0.44%) Cucumber
General
1 808 (29.48%) Finance
2 785 (28.64%) Social Skills
3 366 (13.35%) Public Sector
4 300 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
5 287 (10.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 284 (10.36%) Games
7 197 (7.19%) Law
8 154 (5.62%) Banking
9 148 (5.40%) Marketing
10 124 (4.52%) Legal
11 107 (3.90%) Retail
12 70 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
13 57 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
14 56 (2.04%) Front Office
15 52 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
16 51 (1.86%) Telecoms
17 39 (1.42%) Manufacturing
18 36 (1.31%) Financial Institution
19 35 (1.28%) Back Office
20 27 (0.99%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 561 (20.47%) Senior
2 489 (17.84%) Developer
3 457 (16.67%) Lead
4 268 (9.78%) Analyst
5 207 (7.55%) Software Engineer
6 180 (6.57%) Architect
7 177 (6.46%) Business Analyst
8 151 (5.51%) Project Manager
9 135 (4.93%) Senior Manager
10 115 (4.20%) Software Developer
11 96 (3.50%) Designer
12 88 (3.21%) C# Developer
13 84 (3.06%) Lead Developer
14 80 (2.92%) Engineering Manager
15 79 (2.88%) Delivery Manager
15 79 (2.88%) Product Manager
16 76 (2.77%) Graduate
17 75 (2.74%) Graduate Developer
18 72 (2.63%) C# Software Developer
18 72 (2.63%) Graduate Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 286 (10.43%) React
2 280 (10.22%) .NET
3 145 (5.29%) CSS
3 145 (5.29%) Node.js
4 139 (5.07%) HTML
5 124 (4.52%) REST
6 116 (4.23%) RESTful
7 111 (4.05%) SOAP
8 83 (3.03%) Kafka
9 78 (2.85%) AngularJS
10 70 (2.55%) Lightning Web Components
11 66 (2.41%) .NET Core
12 64 (2.33%) Spring
13 58 (2.12%) ASP.NET
14 57 (2.08%) Vue
15 55 (2.01%) Spring Boot
16 53 (1.93%) GraphQL
16 53 (1.93%) Visualforce
17 47 (1.71%) .NET Framework
18 46 (1.68%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 400 (14.59%) Product Ownership
2 236 (8.61%) Cloud Native
3 210 (7.66%) Social Media
4 76 (2.77%) Mobile App
5 74 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
6 69 (2.52%) Onboarding
7 66 (2.41%) Management Information System
8 57 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
8 57 (2.08%) Over-the-Top Content
9 49 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
10 47 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
11 45 (1.64%) Fixed Income
12 42 (1.53%) Virtual Team
13 36 (1.31%) Marketing Technology
14 35 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
14 35 (1.28%) Low-Code
15 32 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
16 30 (1.09%) Data Structures
16 30 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
17 29 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 139 (5.07%) Linux
2 58 (2.12%) Android
3 51 (1.86%) Windows
4 47 (1.71%) Apple iOS
5 45 (1.64%) Unix
6 14 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
7 10 (0.36%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.33%) CentOS
9 6 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.15%) Debian
10 4 (0.15%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.11%) VMS
12 2 (0.073%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.036%) AIX
13 1 (0.036%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 659 (24.04%) Mentoring
2 649 (23.68%) Continuous Improvement
3 645 (23.53%) DevOps
4 628 (22.91%) Roadmaps
5 614 (22.40%) CI/CD
6 535 (19.52%) AI
7 508 (18.53%) Coaching
8 491 (17.91%) Scrum
9 440 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
10 422 (15.40%) Analytics
11 380 (13.86%) Software Engineering
12 335 (12.22%) Test Automation
13 289 (10.54%) Customer Experience
14 279 (10.18%) Project Management
15 273 (9.96%) Decision-Making
16 268 (9.78%) Stakeholder Management
17 263 (9.60%) Product Roadmap
18 258 (9.41%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
19 257 (9.38%) Full-Stack Development
19 257 (9.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 493 (17.99%) SQL
2 415 (15.14%) Python
3 396 (14.45%) Java
4 322 (11.75%) C#
5 313 (11.42%) JavaScript
6 219 (7.99%) TypeScript
7 92 (3.36%) PHP
8 83 (3.03%) C++
9 81 (2.96%) Go
10 73 (2.66%) Apex Code
11 56 (2.04%) Bash
12 47 (1.71%) C
13 46 (1.68%) PowerShell
14 36 (1.31%) Scala
15 35 (1.28%) SOQL
16 34 (1.24%) SOSL
17 22 (0.80%) PL/SQL
18 21 (0.77%) Shell Script
18 21 (0.77%) VBA
19 18 (0.66%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 363 (13.24%) Degree
2 312 (11.38%) Security Cleared
3 221 (8.06%) SC Cleared
4 89 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 69 (2.52%) PMI Certification
6 60 (2.19%) DV Cleared
7 56 (2.04%) PMP
8 54 (1.97%) CISSP
9 47 (1.71%) ISTQB
10 46 (1.68%) DBS Check
11 40 (1.46%) CISM
12 33 (1.20%) CISA
13 32 (1.17%) SANS
14 30 (1.09%) AWS Certification
15 27 (0.99%) CGEIT
15 27 (0.99%) FFIEC
16 22 (0.80%) Azure Certification
17 21 (0.77%) Master's Degree
18 18 (0.66%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
19 15 (0.55%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 346 (12.62%) Accessibility
2 230 (8.39%) QA
3 94 (3.43%) WCAG
4 68 (2.48%) Data Quality
5 58 (2.12%) NIST
6 53 (1.93%) GDPR
7 35 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 29 (1.06%) COBIT
8 29 (1.06%) PMO
9 22 (0.80%) GRC
10 10 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
10 10 (0.36%) NCSC
11 7 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 7 (0.26%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.15%) IFRS
13 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 4 (0.15%) MiFID
13 4 (0.15%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 220 (8.03%) Docker
2 59 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
3 46 (1.68%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.22%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (0.15%) Firmware
7 3 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.036%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.036%) vSphere
8 1 (0.036%) Xen
Systems Management
1 220 (8.03%) Kubernetes
2 219 (7.99%) Terraform
3 84 (3.06%) Ansible
4 49 (1.79%) Argo
5 46 (1.68%) Grafana
6 43 (1.57%) Prometheus
7 23 (0.84%) Kustomize
8 19 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.44%) Podman
10 7 (0.26%) Puppet
11 5 (0.18%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.18%) Packer
12 4 (0.15%) Istio
12 4 (0.15%) logstash
12 4 (0.15%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.15%) SCCM
13 3 (0.11%) Control-M
13 3 (0.11%) Kibana
13 3 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 408 (14.89%) Microsoft
2 250 (9.12%) Adobe
3 121 (4.41%) Google
4 116 (4.23%) Databricks
5 109 (3.98%) Salesforce
6 75 (2.74%) Oracle
7 64 (2.33%) SAP
8 57 (2.08%) ServiceNow
9 41 (1.50%) Splunk
10 19 (0.69%) IBM
11 16 (0.58%) MuleSoft
12 15 (0.55%) Cisco
13 13 (0.47%) Okta
14 11 (0.40%) Red Hat
15 10 (0.36%) Atlassian
15 10 (0.36%) VMware
16 9 (0.33%) Foundry
17 7 (0.26%) IFS
17 7 (0.26%) Informatica
17 7 (0.26%) Planon