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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,228 5,319 7,128
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 19.81% 22.69% 29.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.26% 25.85% 30.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,027 2,953 6,011
10th Percentile £40,772 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year - +3.74% +0.10%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £84,000
90th Percentile £133,300 £142,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,465 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.11% +0.17% +0.54%

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 15,185 20,575 23,400
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.17% 87.78% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 8,609 12,675 19,261
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +1.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

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 Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Agile.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Agile

Agile
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Agile over the 6 months to 18 September 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
1 258 (7.99%) Confluence
2 198 (6.13%) Apache Airflow
3 104 (3.22%) Apache
4 39 (1.21%) CMS
5 38 (1.18%) SharePoint
6 29 (0.90%) IIS
7 21 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
8 16 (0.50%) Headless CMS
9 15 (0.46%) Appian
10 9 (0.28%) Tomcat
11 8 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.19%) Apache Spark
12 6 (0.19%) Umbraco
13 5 (0.15%) Drupal
13 5 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
13 5 (0.15%) WordPress
14 3 (0.093%) ColdFusion
14 3 (0.093%) EPiServer
14 3 (0.093%) nginx
14 3 (0.093%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 70 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
4 37 (1.15%) MS Visio
5 24 (0.74%) Adobe XD
5 24 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.37%) Trello
7 11 (0.34%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.25%) Chatbot
9 7 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.15%) Sketch
11 4 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
12 3 (0.093%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.093%) Adobe Premiere
12 3 (0.093%) Notion
13 2 (0.062%) Adobe Captivate
13 2 (0.062%) Elementor
13 2 (0.062%) Final Cut Pro
13 2 (0.062%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 44 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (1.12%) Aladdin
3 33 (1.02%) thinkFolio
4 28 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
5 27 (0.84%) Shopify
6 24 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
7 9 (0.28%) Magento
7 9 (0.28%) NetSuite
8 8 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
8 8 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
8 8 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
8 8 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
8 8 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
9 7 (0.22%) Elite 3E
10 6 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
10 6 (0.19%) Workday HCM
11 5 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
12 4 (0.12%) Hyperion Planning
12 4 (0.12%) NEC Housing
12 4 (0.12%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 1,244 (38.54%) Azure
2 1,172 (36.31%) AWS
3 603 (18.68%) GCP
4 257 (7.96%) SaaS
5 251 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
6 200 (6.20%) Power Platform
7 198 (6.13%) dbt
8 126 (3.90%) Snowflake
9 112 (3.47%) GitHub
10 98 (3.04%) Serverless
11 82 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
12 78 (2.42%) Power Automate
13 75 (2.32%) Dynamics 365
14 66 (2.04%) Entra ID
15 64 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
16 62 (1.92%) PaaS
17 60 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
18 58 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
19 48 (1.49%) Figma
20 41 (1.27%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.27%) Wireless
2 38 (1.18%) Software-Defined Radio
3 31 (0.96%) Firewall
4 28 (0.87%) DNS
5 23 (0.71%) TCP/IP
6 21 (0.65%) Broadband
6 21 (0.65%) VPN
7 20 (0.62%) WAN
8 18 (0.56%) SD-WAN
9 12 (0.37%) SSL
10 10 (0.31%) Internet
10 10 (0.31%) Network Security
11 9 (0.28%) DMARC
12 5 (0.15%) HTTP
13 4 (0.12%) DHCP
13 4 (0.12%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.12%) Unified Communications
14 3 (0.093%) BGP
14 3 (0.093%) LAN
14 3 (0.093%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 463 (14.34%) SQL Server
2 192 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
3 187 (5.79%) Amazon Athena
4 186 (5.76%) Apache Arrow
4 186 (5.76%) Apache Iceberg
4 186 (5.76%) Dremio
5 126 (3.90%) Data Lake
6 120 (3.72%) MySQL
7 117 (3.62%) Power BI
8 114 (3.53%) Elasticsearch
9 111 (3.44%) MongoDB
10 89 (2.76%) Apache Ignite
11 79 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
12 65 (2.01%) NoSQL
13 58 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
14 54 (1.67%) Relational Database
15 43 (1.33%) DynamoDB
16 35 (1.08%) Tableau
17 16 (0.50%) Data Hub
17 16 (0.50%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 498 (15.43%) JIRA
2 316 (9.79%) Selenium
3 282 (8.74%) GitLab
4 265 (8.21%) SonarQube
5 253 (7.84%) Maven
6 251 (7.78%) Sonatype Nexus
7 248 (7.68%) Bitbucket
7 248 (7.68%) Cucumber
8 169 (5.24%) Git
9 63 (1.95%) Jenkins
10 45 (1.39%) Cypress.io
11 29 (0.90%) Postman
12 24 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
13 22 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
14 19 (0.59%) Balsamiq
14 19 (0.59%) WebDriver
15 18 (0.56%) Axure RP
16 16 (0.50%) SoapUI
17 12 (0.37%) Appium
17 12 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 1,372 (42.50%) Finance
2 834 (25.84%) Social Skills
3 644 (19.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 548 (16.98%) Banking
5 339 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
6 314 (9.73%) Front Office
7 199 (6.16%) Investment Banking
8 195 (6.04%) Retail
9 168 (5.20%) Law
9 168 (5.20%) Marketing
10 161 (4.99%) Public Sector
11 109 (3.38%) Legal
12 104 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
13 90 (2.79%) Corporate Banking
14 76 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
15 52 (1.61%) Manufacturing
16 48 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
17 46 (1.43%) Tech for Good
18 42 (1.30%) Health Technology
19 38 (1.18%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 849 (26.30%) Senior
2 824 (25.53%) Developer
3 807 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 301 (9.32%) Senior Software Engineer
5 279 (8.64%) Analyst
6 217 (6.72%) Lead
7 191 (5.92%) AWS Engineer
8 188 (5.82%) AWS Software Engineer
9 181 (5.61%) Python Engineer
10 167 (5.17%) Architect
11 163 (5.05%) Python Software Engineer
11 163 (5.05%) Senior Developer
12 150 (4.65%) Software Developer
13 148 (4.58%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 143 (4.43%) Java Engineer
15 142 (4.40%) Business Analyst
16 137 (4.24%) Java Software Engineer
17 135 (4.18%) .NET Developer
18 132 (4.09%) Python Developer
19 124 (3.84%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 697 (21.59%) React
2 637 (19.73%) .NET
3 477 (14.78%) Node.js
4 447 (13.85%) CSS
5 438 (13.57%) HTML
6 336 (10.41%) Kafka
7 317 (9.82%) Redux
8 300 (9.29%) Spring
9 299 (9.26%) Spring Boot
10 251 (7.78%) JPA
11 247 (7.65%) RESTful
12 242 (7.50%) Pandas
13 216 (6.69%) AngularJS
14 211 (6.54%) REST
15 188 (5.82%) NumPy
16 186 (5.76%) SciPy
17 181 (5.61%) Vue
18 165 (5.11%) Hibernate
19 144 (4.46%) HTML5
20 120 (3.72%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 509 (15.77%) Product Ownership
2 301 (9.32%) Enterprise Software
3 273 (8.46%) Fixed Income
4 254 (7.87%) Self-Motivation
5 227 (7.03%) Cyberattack
6 212 (6.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 208 (6.44%) Equities
8 178 (5.51%) Linux Command Line
9 145 (4.49%) Derivative
10 139 (4.31%) Hedge funds
11 134 (4.15%) Cloud Native
12 117 (3.62%) Management Information System
13 103 (3.19%) Onboarding
14 95 (2.94%) Pricing Data
15 59 (1.83%) Mobile App
16 49 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
17 46 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
18 45 (1.39%) e-Learning
18 45 (1.39%) Virtual Team
19 40 (1.24%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 346 (10.72%) Linux
2 86 (2.66%) Windows
3 77 (2.39%) Android
4 38 (1.18%) Embedded Linux
5 28 (0.87%) Apple iOS
6 26 (0.81%) Windows Server
7 23 (0.71%) Unix
8 4 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.062%) Solaris
10 1 (0.031%) AIX
10 1 (0.031%) CentOS
10 1 (0.031%) Debian
10 1 (0.031%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.031%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.031%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,078 (33.40%) Software Engineering
2 803 (24.88%) DevOps
3 742 (22.99%) CI/CD
4 707 (21.90%) Microservices
5 658 (20.38%) Mentoring
6 638 (19.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 601 (18.62%) User Experience
8 570 (17.66%) Scrum
9 513 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
10 484 (14.99%) Full-Stack Development
10 484 (14.99%) Test Automation
11 443 (13.72%) SDLC
12 423 (13.10%) Stakeholder Management
13 417 (12.92%) Project Management
14 411 (12.73%) Containerisation
15 392 (12.14%) Roadmaps
16 355 (11.00%) Asset Management
17 342 (10.59%) Front End Development
18 324 (10.04%) TDD
19 310 (9.60%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 1,104 (34.20%) JavaScript
2 923 (28.59%) Java
3 829 (25.68%) Python
4 804 (24.91%) SQL
5 569 (17.63%) TypeScript
6 403 (12.48%) C#
7 346 (10.72%) C++
8 269 (8.33%) Go
9 228 (7.06%) Rust
10 87 (2.70%) PHP
11 85 (2.63%) PowerShell
12 65 (2.01%) C
13 33 (1.02%) Bash
14 26 (0.81%) Shell Script
15 24 (0.74%) PL/SQL
16 21 (0.65%) Bicep
17 20 (0.62%) Scala
18 18 (0.56%) Ruby
19 17 (0.53%) Swift
20 16 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 452 (14.00%) Security Cleared
2 389 (12.05%) Degree
3 275 (8.52%) DV Cleared
4 224 (6.94%) AWS Certification
5 197 (6.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 181 (5.61%) SC Cleared
7 179 (5.55%) AWS Certified Developer
8 144 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (2.04%) PMI Certification
10 65 (2.01%) Azure Certification
11 55 (1.70%) ISTQB
11 55 (1.70%) PMP
12 47 (1.46%) Master's Degree
13 41 (1.27%) DBS Check
14 31 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
15 21 (0.65%) CISSP
15 21 (0.65%) MRICS
16 19 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
17 16 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
18 15 (0.46%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 519 (16.08%) QA
2 314 (9.73%) Accessibility
3 53 (1.64%) PMO
4 49 (1.52%) GDPR
5 37 (1.15%) WCAG
6 29 (0.90%) Data Quality
7 27 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 25 (0.77%) NIST
9 14 (0.43%) HIPAA
10 10 (0.31%) ITGC
11 9 (0.28%) ISO 9001
12 8 (0.25%) NCSC
13 7 (0.22%) SLA
14 5 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.12%) 21 CFR Part 11
15 4 (0.12%) Good Clinical Practice
15 4 (0.12%) GRC
16 3 (0.093%) Cyber Essentials
16 3 (0.093%) PCI DSS
16 3 (0.093%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 454 (14.06%) Docker
2 41 (1.27%) Firmware
3 39 (1.21%) Active Directory
4 38 (1.18%) Embedded Firmware
5 31 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
7 12 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.093%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.031%) HDFS
9 1 (0.031%) KVM
9 1 (0.031%) Varnish
9 1 (0.031%) Xen
Systems Management
1 427 (13.23%) Kubernetes
2 157 (4.86%) Terraform
3 78 (2.42%) Ansible
4 51 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
5 27 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.77%) Grafana
7 23 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.19%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.19%) SCCM
9 5 (0.15%) Argo
9 5 (0.15%) Automic
9 5 (0.15%) Puppet
10 4 (0.12%) Kibana
11 2 (0.062%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.062%) SCOM
12 1 (0.031%) CFEngine
12 1 (0.031%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.031%) logstash
12 1 (0.031%) Marathon
12 1 (0.031%) QRadar
Vendors
1 421 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 248 (7.68%) Solace
3 102 (3.16%) SAP
4 95 (2.94%) Oracle
5 80 (2.48%) Google
6 72 (2.23%) Databricks
7 65 (2.01%) Salesforce
8 43 (1.33%) Adobe
9 35 (1.08%) Charles River
10 33 (1.02%) BISAM
10 33 (1.02%) Calypso
10 33 (1.02%) SimCorp
11 31 (0.96%) ServiceNow
12 28 (0.87%) Blue Prism
13 25 (0.77%) Guidewire
14 23 (0.71%) VMware
15 18 (0.56%) MuleSoft
16 16 (0.50%) Meraki
17 14 (0.43%) Workday
18 13 (0.40%) DevExpress