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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,690 3,105 7,563
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.39% 23.70% 23.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.50% 25.00% 26.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,751 2,265 6,054
10th Percentile £41,250 £44,807 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £125,000 £96,539
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 14,543 12,420 29,040
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.23% 94.79% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 10,157 8,908 23,553
10th Percentile £32,250 £32,500 £33,754
25th Percentile £44,972 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 13 April 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 92 (3.42%) Confluence
2 41 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 36 (1.34%) CMS
4 19 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 11 (0.41%) Apache
7 9 (0.33%) Apache Spark
8 8 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.26%) SAS
10 6 (0.22%) nginx
11 5 (0.19%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.15%) WordPress
13 3 (0.11%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.11%) NServiceBus
13 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.11%) WebLogic Portal
14 2 (0.074%) Mendix
14 2 (0.074%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 45 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (1.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 31 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
4 30 (1.12%) Adobe XD
4 30 (1.12%) UserZoom
5 20 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
6 17 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 14 (0.52%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.37%) Sketch
9 9 (0.33%) MS Visio
10 6 (0.22%) Trello
11 5 (0.19%) InVision
12 4 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
12 4 (0.15%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.074%) Avid Media Composer
13 2 (0.074%) Pro Tools
13 2 (0.074%) Spreadsheet
14 1 (0.037%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.037%) EngageOne
14 1 (0.037%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 22 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 22 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
2 21 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 20 (0.74%) Workfront
4 16 (0.59%) SAP ERP
5 12 (0.45%) Shopify
6 6 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.15%) Markit EDM
7 4 (0.15%) Primavera
8 3 (0.11%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.074%) Infor SunSystems
9 2 (0.074%) Maximo
9 2 (0.074%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.074%) SAP IBP
9 2 (0.074%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.074%) SAP PM
9 2 (0.074%) SAP SCM
10 1 (0.037%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.037%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 785 (29.18%) Azure
2 607 (22.57%) AWS
3 234 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 189 (7.03%) GCP
5 181 (6.73%) GitHub
6 164 (6.10%) Adobe Analytics
7 150 (5.58%) SaaS
8 148 (5.50%) Serverless
9 144 (5.35%) Power Platform
10 113 (4.20%) Figma
11 112 (4.16%) Snowflake
12 74 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
13 70 (2.60%) Amazon S3
13 70 (2.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 69 (2.57%) Azure AI
15 62 (2.30%) Azure Machine Learning
16 59 (2.19%) GitHub Copilot
17 53 (1.97%) dbt
18 52 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
19 51 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 363 (13.49%) Broadband
2 27 (1.00%) TCP/IP
3 25 (0.93%) CHAP
4 23 (0.86%) DNS
5 14 (0.52%) 4G
5 14 (0.52%) Firewall
6 13 (0.48%) Ethernet
6 13 (0.48%) RS-232
6 13 (0.48%) WAN
7 11 (0.41%) BGP
7 11 (0.41%) Cisco IOS
7 11 (0.41%) Ethernet VPN
7 11 (0.41%) IOS XR
7 11 (0.41%) MPLS
7 11 (0.41%) Network Security
8 9 (0.33%) DHCP
9 8 (0.30%) LAN
9 8 (0.30%) VPN
10 6 (0.22%) Internet
10 6 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (6.88%) SQL Server
2 109 (4.05%) NoSQL
3 87 (3.23%) Power BI
4 79 (2.94%) Metadata
5 78 (2.90%) MongoDB
6 73 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
7 72 (2.68%) MySQL
7 72 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
8 54 (2.01%) Relational Database
9 51 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
10 47 (1.75%) Data Lake
11 25 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
11 25 (0.93%) DynamoDB
11 25 (0.93%) Tableau
12 20 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
12 20 (0.74%) RDBMS
13 14 (0.52%) Redis
14 13 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 11 (0.41%) Flink
16 9 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 210 (7.81%) JIRA
2 170 (6.32%) Git
3 119 (4.42%) Jenkins
4 94 (3.49%) GitLab
5 52 (1.93%) Selenium
6 43 (1.60%) SonarQube
7 40 (1.49%) Postman
8 33 (1.23%) Cypress.io
9 30 (1.12%) WebDriver
10 28 (1.04%) TeamCity
11 27 (1.00%) SoapUI
12 26 (0.97%) Balsamiq
12 26 (0.97%) Team Foundation Server
13 24 (0.89%) Axure RP
14 19 (0.71%) Jaeger
14 19 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
15 17 (0.63%) JMeter
16 14 (0.52%) Cucumber
17 12 (0.45%) SpecFlow
18 10 (0.37%) CircleCI
General
1 819 (30.45%) Finance
2 796 (29.59%) Social Skills
3 333 (12.38%) Public Sector
4 294 (10.93%) Analytical Skills
5 279 (10.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 263 (9.78%) Games
7 193 (7.17%) Law
8 157 (5.84%) Marketing
9 151 (5.61%) Banking
10 112 (4.16%) Legal
11 82 (3.05%) Retail
12 65 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
13 61 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
14 58 (2.16%) Front Office
15 55 (2.04%) Telecoms
16 48 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
17 40 (1.49%) Manufacturing
18 37 (1.38%) Back Office
19 35 (1.30%) Financial Institution
20 27 (1.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 543 (20.19%) Senior
2 512 (19.03%) Developer
3 435 (16.17%) Lead
4 241 (8.96%) Analyst
5 209 (7.77%) Software Engineer
6 171 (6.36%) Architect
7 164 (6.10%) Business Analyst
8 137 (5.09%) Project Manager
9 125 (4.65%) Senior Manager
10 109 (4.05%) Software Developer
11 88 (3.27%) Designer
11 88 (3.27%) Lead Developer
12 83 (3.09%) C# Developer
13 80 (2.97%) Engineering Manager
14 75 (2.79%) Delivery Manager
14 75 (2.79%) Product Owner
15 73 (2.71%) Consultant
16 72 (2.68%) Data Engineer
17 71 (2.64%) Product Manager
18 70 (2.60%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 292 (10.86%) .NET
2 291 (10.82%) React
3 166 (6.17%) CSS
4 159 (5.91%) HTML
5 129 (4.80%) REST
6 124 (4.61%) Node.js
7 122 (4.54%) RESTful
8 118 (4.39%) SOAP
9 90 (3.35%) Kafka
10 76 (2.83%) AngularJS
11 74 (2.75%) Lightning Web Components
12 69 (2.57%) .NET Core
13 66 (2.45%) Spring
14 61 (2.27%) ASP.NET
15 60 (2.23%) Vue
16 58 (2.16%) GraphQL
17 56 (2.08%) Spring Boot
18 55 (2.04%) Visualforce
19 49 (1.82%) .NET Framework
20 45 (1.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 393 (14.61%) Product Ownership
2 224 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 202 (7.51%) Social Media
4 76 (2.83%) Mobile App
5 70 (2.60%) Onboarding
6 64 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
7 62 (2.30%) Management Information System
8 58 (2.16%) Over-the-Top Content
8 58 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
9 53 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
10 50 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
11 47 (1.75%) Fixed Income
11 47 (1.75%) Low-Code
12 38 (1.41%) Virtual Team
13 36 (1.34%) Marketing Technology
14 35 (1.30%) Data Structures
15 31 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
16 28 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
17 27 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
18 26 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 143 (5.32%) Linux
2 59 (2.19%) Android
3 51 (1.90%) Windows
4 47 (1.75%) Apple iOS
5 41 (1.52%) Unix
6 16 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 13 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
8 10 (0.37%) CentOS
9 7 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.19%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.15%) Debian
12 3 (0.11%) VMS
13 2 (0.074%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.074%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.037%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 656 (24.39%) DevOps
2 641 (23.83%) Continuous Improvement
3 609 (22.64%) CI/CD
4 605 (22.49%) Mentoring
5 593 (22.04%) Roadmaps
6 523 (19.44%) AI
7 479 (17.81%) Coaching
8 467 (17.36%) Scrum
9 452 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
10 406 (15.09%) Analytics
11 398 (14.80%) Software Engineering
12 314 (11.67%) Test Automation
13 267 (9.93%) Stakeholder Management
14 266 (9.89%) Customer Experience
15 258 (9.59%) Project Management
16 256 (9.52%) Full-Stack Development
17 246 (9.14%) Decision-Making
18 236 (8.77%) Product Roadmap
19 234 (8.70%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
20 230 (8.55%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 508 (18.88%) SQL
2 428 (15.91%) Python
3 390 (14.50%) Java
4 338 (12.57%) JavaScript
5 326 (12.12%) C#
6 214 (7.96%) TypeScript
7 87 (3.23%) PHP
8 85 (3.16%) C++
9 82 (3.05%) Go
10 77 (2.86%) Apex Code
11 53 (1.97%) Bash
11 53 (1.97%) PowerShell
12 49 (1.82%) C
13 35 (1.30%) Scala
13 35 (1.30%) SOQL
14 34 (1.26%) SOSL
15 25 (0.93%) Shell Script
16 21 (0.78%) PL/SQL
17 20 (0.74%) VBA
18 18 (0.67%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 345 (12.83%) Degree
2 315 (11.71%) Security Cleared
3 221 (8.22%) SC Cleared
4 90 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (2.45%) DV Cleared
5 66 (2.45%) PMI Certification
6 52 (1.93%) PMP
7 45 (1.67%) CISSP
8 40 (1.49%) ISTQB
9 39 (1.45%) DBS Check
10 31 (1.15%) AWS Certification
10 31 (1.15%) CISM
11 30 (1.12%) SANS
12 26 (0.97%) CISA
13 25 (0.93%) CGEIT
13 25 (0.93%) FFIEC
13 25 (0.93%) Master's Degree
14 21 (0.78%) Azure Certification
15 18 (0.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 16 (0.59%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 331 (12.30%) Accessibility
2 222 (8.25%) QA
3 88 (3.27%) WCAG
4 59 (2.19%) Data Quality
5 51 (1.90%) GDPR
6 47 (1.75%) NIST
7 29 (1.08%) PMO
8 27 (1.00%) COBIT
9 26 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 18 (0.67%) GRC
11 10 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.22%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 5 (0.19%) NCSC
13 5 (0.19%) P3O
14 4 (0.15%) IFRS
14 4 (0.15%) MiFID
14 4 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.11%) GAAP
15 3 (0.11%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 229 (8.51%) Docker
2 61 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
3 48 (1.78%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.22%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (0.19%) Firmware
5 5 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.037%) vCloud
7 1 (0.037%) vSphere
7 1 (0.037%) Xen
Systems Management
1 224 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 222 (8.25%) Terraform
3 82 (3.05%) Ansible
4 46 (1.71%) Grafana
5 42 (1.56%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.41%) Argo
7 19 (0.71%) Kustomize
7 19 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.30%) Podman
9 7 (0.26%) Puppet
10 6 (0.22%) Kibana
11 5 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
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%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 3 (0.11%) Packer
13 3 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 403 (14.98%) Microsoft
2 230 (8.55%) Adobe
3 119 (4.42%) Databricks
4 117 (4.35%) Google
5 113 (4.20%) Salesforce
6 73 (2.71%) Oracle
6 73 (2.71%) SAP
7 52 (1.93%) ServiceNow
8 45 (1.67%) Splunk
9 24 (0.89%) IBM
10 22 (0.82%) MuleSoft
11 15 (0.56%) Cisco
12 13 (0.48%) Okta
13 11 (0.41%) Atlassian
14 10 (0.37%) Foundry
14 10 (0.37%) IFS
14 10 (0.37%) Talend
14 10 (0.37%) Workday
15 9 (0.33%) VMware
16 8 (0.30%) Informatica