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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,422 3,954 7,041
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.13% 24.90% 25.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.48% 26.31% 27.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,686 2,295 5,913
10th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,290 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £95,063
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £63,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +6.30% -5.93%

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 13,857 15,028 25,736
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.54% 94.62% 92.71%
Number of salaries quoted 8,830 8,918 21,255
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.69% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,400 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 8 February 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 87 (3.59%) Confluence
2 44 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (1.73%) SharePoint
4 24 (0.99%) Apache
5 23 (0.95%) CMS
6 17 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 11 (0.45%) Apache Spark
8 10 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.41%) SAS
9 8 (0.33%) nginx
10 6 (0.25%) IIS
11 5 (0.21%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.21%) WordPress
12 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.12%) WebLogic Portal
13 2 (0.083%) Mendix
13 2 (0.083%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 63 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.61%) Adobe XD
3 36 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
4 28 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.62%) MS Visio
7 13 (0.54%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.45%) Sketch
9 6 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
9 6 (0.25%) Photoshop
10 5 (0.21%) Oracle Smart View
10 5 (0.21%) Trello
11 4 (0.17%) InVision
11 4 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.17%) UserZoom
12 2 (0.083%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.083%) Avid Media Composer
12 2 (0.083%) InDesign
12 2 (0.083%) Notion
12 2 (0.083%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 48 (1.98%) Oracle ERP
2 22 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.70%) Shopify
5 15 (0.62%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
6 9 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
7 8 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
7 8 (0.33%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.21%) NEC Housing
8 5 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.21%) Primavera
9 4 (0.17%) Hyperion Planning
9 4 (0.17%) Markit EDM
10 3 (0.12%) Maximo
10 3 (0.12%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 819 (33.82%) Azure
2 524 (21.64%) AWS
3 300 (12.39%) Azure DevOps
4 223 (9.21%) Power Platform
5 214 (8.84%) GitHub
6 209 (8.63%) SaaS
7 167 (6.90%) GCP
8 125 (5.16%) Serverless
9 100 (4.13%) Snowflake
10 80 (3.30%) dbt
11 75 (3.10%) GitHub Copilot
11 75 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
12 74 (3.06%) Entra ID
13 66 (2.73%) Figma
14 65 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
15 58 (2.39%) Amazon S3
16 56 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
17 49 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
18 47 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
19 45 (1.86%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 143 (5.90%) Broadband
2 24 (0.99%) TCP/IP
3 18 (0.74%) CHAP
4 17 (0.70%) DNS
5 14 (0.58%) 4G
6 11 (0.45%) BGP
6 11 (0.45%) Cisco IOS
6 11 (0.45%) Ethernet VPN
6 11 (0.45%) IOS XR
6 11 (0.45%) MPLS
7 9 (0.37%) WAN
8 8 (0.33%) Firewall
9 7 (0.29%) DHCP
10 6 (0.25%) Ethernet
10 6 (0.25%) RS-232
11 5 (0.21%) VPN
11 5 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.17%) LAN
12 4 (0.17%) Network Security
12 4 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (5.90%) SQL Server
2 121 (5.00%) Power BI
3 113 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
4 85 (3.51%) NoSQL
5 80 (3.30%) MySQL
6 74 (3.06%) Relational Database
7 71 (2.93%) Data Lake
7 71 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
8 65 (2.68%) MongoDB
9 57 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
10 46 (1.90%) Tableau
11 41 (1.69%) Metadata
12 32 (1.32%) Apache Iceberg
13 31 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
14 28 (1.16%) Apache Arrow
14 28 (1.16%) Dremio
15 27 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
16 22 (0.91%) DynamoDB
16 22 (0.91%) RDBMS
17 17 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 216 (8.92%) JIRA
2 179 (7.39%) Git
3 124 (5.12%) Jenkins
4 68 (2.81%) GitLab
5 57 (2.35%) Selenium
6 48 (1.98%) Oracle Forms
7 41 (1.69%) Postman
8 38 (1.57%) WebDriver
9 33 (1.36%) SonarQube
10 32 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
11 31 (1.28%) SoapUI
12 30 (1.24%) Cypress.io
12 30 (1.24%) TeamCity
13 27 (1.11%) Balsamiq
14 26 (1.07%) Axure RP
15 19 (0.78%) Jaeger
16 12 (0.50%) ER Studio
16 12 (0.50%) ERwin
17 10 (0.41%) JMeter
18 9 (0.37%) Cucumber
General
1 833 (34.39%) Finance
2 778 (32.12%) Social Skills
3 292 (12.06%) Analytical Skills
4 263 (10.86%) Public Sector
5 220 (9.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 137 (5.66%) Law
7 116 (4.79%) Marketing
8 108 (4.46%) Games
9 99 (4.09%) Legal
10 97 (4.00%) Banking
11 71 (2.93%) Front Office
12 63 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
12 63 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
13 59 (2.44%) Retail
13 59 (2.44%) Telecoms
14 39 (1.61%) Manufacturing
15 38 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
16 34 (1.40%) Investment Banking
17 33 (1.36%) Tech for Good
18 31 (1.28%) Billing
Job Titles
1 574 (23.70%) Developer
2 516 (21.30%) Senior
3 300 (12.39%) Lead
4 265 (10.94%) Analyst
5 166 (6.85%) Software Engineer
6 154 (6.36%) Architect
7 149 (6.15%) Business Analyst
8 122 (5.04%) Software Developer
9 119 (4.91%) .NET Developer
10 107 (4.42%) Project Manager
11 86 (3.55%) Senior Manager
12 81 (3.34%) Data Engineer
13 74 (3.06%) Cloud Engineer
14 72 (2.97%) Senior Developer
15 67 (2.77%) C# Developer
16 64 (2.64%) Lead Developer
17 62 (2.56%) Python Developer
18 61 (2.52%) Designer
18 61 (2.52%) Product Manager
18 61 (2.52%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 376 (15.52%) .NET
2 292 (12.06%) React
3 183 (7.56%) HTML
4 166 (6.85%) CSS
5 148 (6.11%) RESTful
6 146 (6.03%) REST
7 141 (5.82%) SOAP
8 115 (4.75%) Node.js
9 100 (4.13%) AngularJS
10 85 (3.51%) .NET Core
11 79 (3.26%) ASP.NET
12 76 (3.14%) Vue
13 72 (2.97%) .NET Framework
14 66 (2.73%) Kafka
15 61 (2.52%) Spring
16 60 (2.48%) Lightning Web Components
17 58 (2.39%) Entity Framework
18 56 (2.31%) Web Services
19 55 (2.27%) Spring Boot
20 48 (1.98%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 326 (13.46%) Product Ownership
2 181 (7.47%) Cloud Native
3 77 (3.18%) Management Information System
4 69 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
5 68 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
6 60 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
7 59 (2.44%) Onboarding
8 56 (2.31%) Mobile App
9 54 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
10 53 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
11 50 (2.06%) Social Media
12 49 (2.02%) Low-Code
13 47 (1.94%) Fixed Income
14 46 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
15 33 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 30 (1.24%) Equities
16 30 (1.24%) NHS
17 29 (1.20%) Data Structures
18 25 (1.03%) Video\Live Streaming
19 23 (0.95%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 110 (4.54%) Linux
2 67 (2.77%) Windows
3 36 (1.49%) Unix
4 35 (1.45%) Android
5 33 (1.36%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.91%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.25%) CentOS
7 6 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.12%) OpenWrt
10 2 (0.083%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.083%) Solaris
10 2 (0.083%) VMS
11 1 (0.041%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 663 (27.37%) DevOps
2 617 (25.47%) Continuous Improvement
3 569 (23.49%) CI/CD
4 521 (21.51%) Mentoring
5 477 (19.69%) Coaching
6 426 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
7 412 (17.01%) Software Engineering
8 410 (16.93%) Roadmaps
9 399 (16.47%) AI
10 390 (16.10%) Scrum
11 313 (12.92%) Analytics
12 275 (11.35%) Test Automation
13 268 (11.07%) Stakeholder Management
14 257 (10.61%) Asset Management
15 241 (9.95%) Project Management
16 239 (9.87%) Microservices
17 211 (8.71%) Full-Stack Development
18 209 (8.63%) Data Modelling
19 206 (8.51%) User Experience
20 187 (7.72%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 552 (22.79%) SQL
2 456 (18.83%) Python
3 374 (15.44%) JavaScript
4 354 (14.62%) C#
5 352 (14.53%) Java
6 238 (9.83%) TypeScript
7 90 (3.72%) PowerShell
8 72 (2.97%) C++
9 71 (2.93%) PHP
10 64 (2.64%) Bash
11 62 (2.56%) Apex Code
12 59 (2.44%) Go
13 53 (2.19%) Shell Script
14 44 (1.82%) C
14 44 (1.82%) Scala
15 43 (1.78%) PL/SQL
16 24 (0.99%) SOQL
16 24 (0.99%) SOSL
17 21 (0.87%) VBA
18 17 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 339 (14.00%) Degree
2 275 (11.35%) Security Cleared
3 198 (8.18%) SC Cleared
4 97 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (2.60%) DV Cleared
6 47 (1.94%) ISTQB
6 47 (1.94%) PMI Certification
7 42 (1.73%) Master's Degree
8 35 (1.45%) AWS Certification
9 34 (1.40%) PMP
10 28 (1.16%) DBS Check
11 25 (1.03%) CISSP
11 25 (1.03%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 20 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
13 19 (0.78%) CISM
13 19 (0.78%) SANS
14 18 (0.74%) Azure Certification
14 18 (0.74%) CGEIT
14 18 (0.74%) CISA
14 18 (0.74%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (8.30%) QA
2 198 (8.18%) Accessibility
3 49 (2.02%) GDPR
3 49 (2.02%) WCAG
4 41 (1.69%) Data Quality
5 31 (1.28%) NIST
5 31 (1.28%) PMO
6 19 (0.78%) COBIT
6 19 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.25%) P3O
8 6 (0.25%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.21%) NCSC
10 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.12%) SLA
11 2 (0.083%) ECSS
11 2 (0.083%) GRC
11 2 (0.083%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.041%) PERC
12 1 (0.041%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 187 (7.72%) Docker
2 73 (3.01%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.25%) Firmware
5 6 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
7 4 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.041%) HDFS
8 1 (0.041%) vCloud
8 1 (0.041%) Xen
Systems Management
1 219 (9.04%) Terraform
2 177 (7.31%) Kubernetes
3 55 (2.27%) Ansible
4 49 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
5 35 (1.45%) Argo
5 35 (1.45%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.03%) Grafana
7 23 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (0.78%) Kustomize
9 11 (0.45%) SCCM
10 7 (0.29%) Kibana
11 4 (0.17%) logstash
11 4 (0.17%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.17%) Puppet
12 3 (0.12%) Control-M
12 3 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 2 (0.083%) Docker Swarm
14 1 (0.041%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.041%) Packer
14 1 (0.041%) Rancher
Vendors
1 410 (16.93%) Microsoft
2 94 (3.88%) Oracle
3 93 (3.84%) Salesforce
4 91 (3.76%) Google
5 79 (3.26%) Databricks
5 79 (3.26%) SAP
6 73 (3.01%) Adobe
7 45 (1.86%) Blue Prism
8 39 (1.61%) ServiceNow
9 34 (1.40%) Splunk
10 30 (1.24%) MuleSoft
11 21 (0.87%) Okta
12 20 (0.83%) IBM
13 18 (0.74%) Workday
14 11 (0.45%) Cisco
15 10 (0.41%) Guidewire
15 10 (0.41%) Talend
16 9 (0.37%) Mercator
17 8 (0.33%) IFS
18 7 (0.29%) Xamarin