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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,132 3,335 8,126
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.73% 21.75% 23.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.22% 22.99% 26.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,049 2,049 5,966
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +14.37% -5.84%
75th Percentile £79,000 £98,474 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £132,500 £108,750
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 16,294 14,504 30,743
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.85% 94.61% 89.03%
Number of salaries quoted 11,745 8,418 23,751
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,848 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 16 June 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 99 (3.16%) Confluence
2 45 (1.44%) SharePoint
3 42 (1.34%) CMS
4 21 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.61%) Apache
6 15 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 15 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.32%) SAS
8 9 (0.29%) Jupyter
9 7 (0.22%) WordPress
10 6 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.13%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.13%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.13%) PowerFactory
12 3 (0.096%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.096%) nginx
12 3 (0.096%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.064%) Camunda
13 2 (0.064%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 111 (3.54%) Microsoft Project
2 93 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 45 (1.44%) UserZoom
5 44 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
6 22 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 21 (0.67%) Adobe XD
8 11 (0.35%) MS Visio
9 8 (0.26%) Trello
10 7 (0.22%) Sketch
11 6 (0.19%) Chatbot
12 4 (0.13%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.13%) InVision
12 4 (0.13%) Photoshop
12 4 (0.13%) Revit
12 4 (0.13%) Windchill
13 3 (0.096%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.096%) Blender
13 3 (0.096%) Maya
13 3 (0.096%) Productboard
Business Applications
1 55 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.28%) Workfront
3 18 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.32%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.19%) Shopify
7 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.096%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.096%) Fidessa
8 3 (0.096%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.096%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.096%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.096%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.096%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.096%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.064%) Infor SunSystems
9 2 (0.064%) Oracle Financials
9 2 (0.064%) Raiser’s Edge
9 2 (0.064%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 951 (30.36%) Azure
2 711 (22.70%) AWS
3 250 (7.98%) Azure DevOps
4 219 (6.99%) GCP
5 193 (6.16%) Adobe Analytics
6 162 (5.17%) Power Platform
7 159 (5.08%) SaaS
8 143 (4.57%) Serverless
9 135 (4.31%) GitHub
10 121 (3.86%) Azure AI
11 113 (3.61%) Figma
12 70 (2.23%) Contentsquare
12 70 (2.23%) Snowflake
13 65 (2.08%) Azure Machine Learning
14 62 (1.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 61 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
16 58 (1.85%) PowerApps
17 56 (1.79%) iPaaS
18 55 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
18 55 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 432 (13.79%) Broadband
2 26 (0.83%) TCP/IP
3 24 (0.77%) Network Security
4 20 (0.64%) CHAP
5 16 (0.51%) WAN
6 15 (0.48%) Ethernet
6 15 (0.48%) Firewall
6 15 (0.48%) RS-232
7 14 (0.45%) 4G
7 14 (0.45%) Internet
8 13 (0.42%) LAN
8 13 (0.42%) VPN
9 12 (0.38%) DNS
10 11 (0.35%) BGP
10 11 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
10 11 (0.35%) Ethernet VPN
10 11 (0.35%) IOS XR
10 11 (0.35%) MPLS
11 10 (0.32%) 5G
12 7 (0.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 251 (8.01%) MongoDB
2 218 (6.96%) Azure SQL Database
3 171 (5.46%) SQL Server
4 115 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
5 111 (3.54%) NoSQL
6 102 (3.26%) Metadata
7 94 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
8 86 (2.75%) Power BI
9 72 (2.30%) MySQL
10 47 (1.50%) Relational Database
11 32 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
11 32 (1.02%) DynamoDB
12 31 (0.99%) Data Lake
13 20 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
14 19 (0.61%) BigQuery
14 19 (0.61%) Redis
15 18 (0.57%) RDBMS
15 18 (0.57%) Semantic Layer
15 18 (0.57%) Tableau
16 17 (0.54%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 229 (7.31%) JIRA
2 149 (4.76%) Git
3 120 (3.83%) Jenkins
4 101 (3.22%) GitLab
5 45 (1.44%) Selenium
6 40 (1.28%) SonarQube
7 36 (1.15%) Cypress.io
7 36 (1.15%) Postman
8 25 (0.80%) TeamCity
9 20 (0.64%) WebDriver
10 19 (0.61%) Claude Code
10 19 (0.61%) SoapUI
11 18 (0.57%) Jaeger
11 18 (0.57%) JUnit
12 16 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
13 15 (0.48%) Cucumber
13 15 (0.48%) JMeter
14 13 (0.42%) CircleCI
15 12 (0.38%) Maven
16 11 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 900 (28.74%) Social Skills
2 795 (25.38%) Finance
3 441 (14.08%) Public Sector
4 333 (10.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 323 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
6 309 (9.87%) Games
7 205 (6.55%) Law
8 178 (5.68%) Marketing
9 151 (4.82%) Retail
10 147 (4.69%) Banking
11 142 (4.53%) Legal
12 72 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
13 69 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
14 61 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
15 48 (1.53%) Front Office
16 45 (1.44%) Advertising
16 45 (1.44%) Telecoms
17 33 (1.05%) Back Office
18 30 (0.96%) Aviation
18 30 (0.96%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 654 (20.88%) Developer
2 643 (20.53%) Senior
3 467 (14.91%) Lead
4 299 (9.55%) Analyst
5 260 (8.30%) Software Engineer
6 237 (7.57%) Architect
7 236 (7.54%) .NET Developer
8 235 (7.50%) Project Manager
9 198 (6.32%) Business Analyst
10 189 (6.03%) Senior Manager
11 108 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
12 107 (3.42%) Software Developer
13 99 (3.16%) Senior Project Manager
14 88 (2.81%) Product Owner
15 87 (2.78%) IT Manager
16 86 (2.75%) Engineering Manager
17 82 (2.62%) Designer
18 81 (2.59%) Senior Developer
19 79 (2.52%) Graduate
20 77 (2.46%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 429 (13.70%) .NET
2 383 (12.23%) React
3 237 (7.57%) Node.js
4 232 (7.41%) .NET Core
4 232 (7.41%) ASP.NET
5 213 (6.80%) ASP.NET Core
6 172 (5.49%) CSS
7 169 (5.40%) HTML
8 160 (5.11%) RESTful
9 119 (3.80%) AngularJS
9 119 (3.80%) REST
10 103 (3.29%) Blazor
11 97 (3.10%) Vue
12 91 (2.91%) Entity Framework
13 77 (2.46%) Kafka
14 76 (2.43%) Spring
15 73 (2.33%) SOAP
16 72 (2.30%) ASP.NET Web API
17 61 (1.95%) .NET Framework
18 59 (1.88%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 414 (13.22%) Product Ownership
2 269 (8.59%) Cloud Native
3 253 (8.08%) Social Media
4 101 (3.22%) Enterprise Software
5 80 (2.55%) Mobile App
6 76 (2.43%) Over-the-Top Content
7 74 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
8 72 (2.30%) Onboarding
9 66 (2.11%) Management Information System
10 64 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
11 61 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
12 56 (1.79%) Marketing Technology
13 52 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
14 45 (1.44%) Driving Licence
15 43 (1.37%) Virtual Team
16 41 (1.31%) Fixed Income
17 33 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
18 30 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
19 29 (0.93%) Security Posture
20 28 (0.89%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 141 (4.50%) Linux
2 62 (1.98%) Android
3 46 (1.47%) Apple iOS
4 44 (1.40%) Unix
5 42 (1.34%) Windows
6 15 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
7 9 (0.29%) VMS
8 7 (0.22%) CentOS
8 7 (0.22%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.16%) Debian
9 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.16%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.032%) AIX
10 1 (0.032%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 738 (23.56%) Roadmaps
2 706 (22.54%) Mentoring
3 695 (22.19%) DevOps
4 693 (22.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 669 (21.36%) CI/CD
6 653 (20.85%) AI
7 583 (18.61%) Scrum
8 540 (17.24%) Coaching
9 486 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
10 444 (14.18%) Analytics
11 439 (14.02%) Full-Stack Development
12 425 (13.57%) Software Engineering
13 393 (12.55%) Customer Experience
14 366 (11.69%) Project Management
15 364 (11.62%) Stakeholder Management
16 354 (11.30%) Decision-Making
17 330 (10.54%) Test Automation
18 329 (10.50%) Microservices
19 295 (9.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 282 (9.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 664 (21.20%) SQL
2 492 (15.71%) C#
3 439 (14.02%) JavaScript
4 401 (12.80%) Java
5 391 (12.48%) Python
6 283 (9.04%) TypeScript
7 87 (2.78%) PHP
8 79 (2.52%) C++
9 76 (2.43%) Go
10 72 (2.30%) Bash
11 57 (1.82%) Apex Code
12 40 (1.28%) C
13 37 (1.18%) PowerShell
14 35 (1.12%) SOQL
15 34 (1.09%) SOSL
16 29 (0.93%) Scala
17 23 (0.73%) Ruby
18 21 (0.67%) T-SQL
19 20 (0.64%) VBA
20 19 (0.61%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 443 (14.14%) Degree
2 334 (10.66%) Security Cleared
3 258 (8.24%) SC Cleared
4 98 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 81 (2.59%) PMI Certification
6 74 (2.36%) PMP
7 70 (2.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 58 (1.85%) CISSP
9 47 (1.50%) DBS Check
10 46 (1.47%) DV Cleared
11 44 (1.40%) CISM
12 37 (1.18%) AWS Certification
13 35 (1.12%) Azure Certification
13 35 (1.12%) ISTQB
14 28 (0.89%) CISA
15 25 (0.80%) SANS
16 20 (0.64%) CGEIT
16 20 (0.64%) FFIEC
16 20 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
17 14 (0.45%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 366 (11.69%) Accessibility
2 244 (7.79%) QA
3 94 (3.00%) Data Quality
4 82 (2.62%) WCAG
5 68 (2.17%) GDPR
6 59 (1.88%) NIST
7 44 (1.40%) PMO
8 43 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 24 (0.77%) COBIT
10 22 (0.70%) GRC
11 16 (0.51%) NCSC
12 13 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 9 (0.29%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 4 (0.13%) Def Stans
16 4 (0.13%) IFRS
16 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 15288
16 4 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 276 (8.81%) Docker
2 60 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
3 35 (1.12%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.22%) vSphere
6 3 (0.096%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.096%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.032%) Xen
Systems Management
1 259 (8.27%) Kubernetes
2 176 (5.62%) Terraform
3 80 (2.55%) Ansible
4 47 (1.50%) Prometheus
5 45 (1.44%) Argo
5 45 (1.44%) Grafana
6 22 (0.70%) Kustomize
7 12 (0.38%) Podman
8 6 (0.19%) Puppet
9 5 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.16%) Istio
9 5 (0.16%) Packer
9 5 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.13%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.13%) SCCM
11 3 (0.096%) Kibana
11 3 (0.096%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.064%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.064%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 594 (18.97%) Microsoft
2 271 (8.65%) Adobe
3 135 (4.31%) Google
4 109 (3.48%) Salesforce
5 100 (3.19%) Databricks
6 91 (2.91%) Oracle
7 78 (2.49%) SAP
8 76 (2.43%) ServiceNow
9 40 (1.28%) Splunk
10 25 (0.80%) Facebook
11 19 (0.61%) Cisco
12 14 (0.45%) IBM
13 13 (0.42%) IFS
13 13 (0.42%) MuleSoft
13 13 (0.42%) VMware
14 12 (0.38%) Apple
14 12 (0.38%) YouTube
15 11 (0.35%) OpenAI
15 11 (0.35%) Sony
15 11 (0.35%) Yahoo!