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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,278 3,162 5,010
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 13.19% 18.96% 23.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.38% 20.21% 26.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,176 1,938 2,707
10th Percentile £40,825 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,289 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,875 £66,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% -5.71% +7.11%
75th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £91,269 £132,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £62,881 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.84% - +3.29%

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 20,009 15,647 19,099
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.51% 93.83% 88.21%
Number of salaries quoted 14,244 8,419 11,293
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,540
25th Percentile £44,447 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,312 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 10 October 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
1 108 (3.29%) Confluence
2 92 (2.81%) SharePoint
3 27 (0.82%) Apache Spark
4 24 (0.73%) CMS
5 19 (0.58%) Apache
6 17 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 14 (0.43%) WordPress
8 13 (0.40%) SAS
9 12 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 11 (0.34%) Jupyter
11 9 (0.27%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.15%) Umbraco
13 4 (0.12%) Camunda
13 4 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.12%) PowerFactory
14 3 (0.092%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.092%) DNN
14 3 (0.092%) EPiServer
14 3 (0.092%) Immediacy CMS
Applications
1 129 (3.94%) Microsoft Project
2 98 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
4 29 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 24 (0.73%) MS Visio
6 23 (0.70%) Chatbot
7 19 (0.58%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 18 (0.55%) UserZoom
9 17 (0.52%) Trello
10 14 (0.43%) Adobe XD
11 6 (0.18%) Revit
12 5 (0.15%) Notion
12 5 (0.15%) Simulink
12 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
13 4 (0.12%) AutoCAD
13 4 (0.12%) Windchill
14 3 (0.092%) Blender
14 3 (0.092%) Maya
14 3 (0.092%) Productboard
14 3 (0.092%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 80 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.61%) Workfront
3 19 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.34%) Primavera
4 11 (0.34%) Workday HCM
5 10 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.21%) SAP CO
6 7 (0.21%) SAP FI
6 7 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
7 6 (0.18%) Elite 3E
7 6 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.18%) Shopify
8 5 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
8 5 (0.15%) Fidessa
8 5 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
9 4 (0.12%) Raiser’s Edge
9 4 (0.12%) SAP GRC
10 3 (0.092%) Carpe Diem
10 3 (0.092%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.092%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,170 (35.69%) Azure
2 818 (24.95%) AWS
3 344 (10.49%) Azure DevOps
4 253 (7.72%) SaaS
5 224 (6.83%) Power Platform
6 198 (6.04%) GitHub
7 193 (5.89%) GCP
8 150 (4.58%) Serverless
9 103 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
10 96 (2.93%) Azure AI
11 93 (2.84%) GitHub Copilot
12 86 (2.62%) Power Automate
13 83 (2.53%) PowerApps
14 74 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
15 72 (2.20%) Microsoft Copilot
16 69 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
17 60 (1.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 53 (1.62%) Amazon S3
19 52 (1.59%) PaaS
20 51 (1.56%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 88 (2.68%) Broadband
2 40 (1.22%) Network Security
3 19 (0.58%) Internet
4 18 (0.55%) LAN
4 18 (0.55%) WAN
5 17 (0.52%) VPN
6 15 (0.46%) TCP/IP
7 13 (0.40%) VoIP
8 11 (0.34%) 5G
8 11 (0.34%) CTI
8 11 (0.34%) Firewall
9 10 (0.31%) DNS
10 9 (0.27%) SMS
10 9 (0.27%) Unified Communications
11 7 (0.21%) HTTP
11 7 (0.21%) TETRA
11 7 (0.21%) WLAN
12 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
12 6 (0.18%) Wireless
13 5 (0.15%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 365 (11.13%) MongoDB
2 355 (10.83%) Azure SQL Database
3 146 (4.45%) Power BI
4 145 (4.42%) SQL Server
5 142 (4.33%) Elasticsearch
6 140 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
7 89 (2.72%) Metadata
8 80 (2.44%) MySQL
9 72 (2.20%) Relational Database
10 71 (2.17%) NoSQL
11 66 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
12 47 (1.43%) Data Lake
12 47 (1.43%) DynamoDB
13 30 (0.92%) Tableau
14 29 (0.88%) Big Data
15 27 (0.82%) Redis
16 21 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
16 21 (0.64%) Spark SQL
16 21 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 20 (0.61%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 270 (8.24%) JIRA
2 217 (6.62%) Git
3 73 (2.23%) GitLab
4 69 (2.10%) Jenkins
5 35 (1.07%) JUnit
6 27 (0.82%) Claude Code
6 27 (0.82%) Selenium
7 26 (0.79%) Cypress.io
8 23 (0.70%) Mockito
9 18 (0.55%) Maven
9 18 (0.55%) Postman
10 15 (0.46%) Visual Studio
11 13 (0.40%) Bitbucket
11 13 (0.40%) Cucumber
12 11 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
13 9 (0.27%) SonarQube
14 8 (0.24%) Balsamiq
15 7 (0.21%) NUnit
16 6 (0.18%) Axure RP
16 6 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,029 (31.39%) Social Skills
2 759 (23.15%) Finance
3 578 (17.63%) Public Sector
4 421 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
5 366 (11.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 265 (8.08%) Law
7 211 (6.44%) Legal
8 189 (5.77%) Retail
9 147 (4.48%) Marketing
10 129 (3.94%) Influencing Skills
11 107 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
12 94 (2.87%) Aerospace
13 81 (2.47%) Banking
13 81 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
14 78 (2.38%) Games
15 55 (1.68%) Advertising
16 50 (1.53%) Manufacturing
17 42 (1.28%) Legal Technology
18 30 (0.92%) Aviation
18 30 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 831 (25.35%) Developer
2 751 (22.91%) Senior
3 363 (11.07%) .NET Developer
4 359 (10.95%) Lead
5 291 (8.88%) Analyst
6 280 (8.54%) Architect
7 245 (7.47%) Project Manager
8 220 (6.71%) Software Engineer
9 195 (5.95%) Business Analyst
10 189 (5.77%) Senior Developer
11 155 (4.73%) Senior Manager
12 147 (4.48%) Delivery Manager
13 139 (4.24%) IT Manager
14 93 (2.84%) Senior Project Manager
15 86 (2.62%) Senior Analyst
16 82 (2.50%) Software Developer
17 80 (2.44%) Full-Stack Developer
18 79 (2.41%) Data Engineer
18 79 (2.41%) Technical Architect
19 77 (2.35%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 625 (19.07%) .NET
2 401 (12.23%) React
3 380 (11.59%) ASP.NET
4 371 (11.32%) .NET Core
5 344 (10.49%) ASP.NET Core
6 282 (8.60%) Node.js
7 219 (6.68%) RESTful
8 197 (6.01%) HTML
9 193 (5.89%) CSS
10 173 (5.28%) Blazor
11 161 (4.91%) Terraform
12 156 (4.76%) Entity Framework
13 151 (4.61%) AngularJS
14 136 (4.15%) REST
15 125 (3.81%) Vue
16 120 (3.66%) ASP.NET Web API
17 111 (3.39%) Spring
18 103 (3.14%) Middleware
19 94 (2.87%) .NET Framework
20 91 (2.78%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 303 (9.24%) Product Ownership
2 286 (8.72%) Cloud Native
3 166 (5.06%) Enterprise Software
4 107 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
5 96 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
6 80 (2.44%) Management Information System
7 75 (2.29%) Social Media
8 67 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
8 67 (2.04%) Onboarding
9 62 (1.89%) Mobile App
10 60 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
11 55 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
12 48 (1.46%) Driving Licence
13 41 (1.25%) AI Agents
14 36 (1.10%) Blog
14 36 (1.10%) Cyber Defence
15 33 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 30 (0.92%) Marketing Technology
16 30 (0.92%) Virtual Team
17 28 (0.85%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 133 (4.06%) Linux
2 85 (2.59%) Windows
3 51 (1.56%) Unix
4 43 (1.31%) Android
5 20 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.37%) VMS
7 8 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.12%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.061%) CentOS
10 2 (0.061%) Debian
10 2 (0.061%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.061%) VxWorks
11 1 (0.031%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 877 (26.75%) Continuous Improvement
2 869 (26.51%) CI/CD
3 842 (25.69%) DevOps
4 755 (23.03%) Mentoring
5 678 (20.68%) AI
6 676 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
7 614 (18.73%) Scrum
7 614 (18.73%) Stakeholder Management
8 583 (17.79%) Coaching
9 542 (16.53%) Full-Stack Development
10 513 (15.65%) Software Engineering
11 469 (14.31%) Microservices
12 439 (13.39%) Roadmaps
13 434 (13.24%) Decision-Making
14 428 (13.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 411 (12.54%) Project Delivery
16 380 (11.59%) Analytics
17 370 (11.29%) Test Automation
18 353 (10.77%) Waterfall
19 348 (10.62%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 798 (24.34%) SQL
2 736 (22.45%) C#
3 533 (16.26%) JavaScript
4 375 (11.44%) Python
5 318 (9.70%) Java
6 291 (8.88%) TypeScript
7 78 (2.38%) C++
8 68 (2.07%) Bash
9 60 (1.83%) PHP
10 54 (1.65%) PowerShell
11 42 (1.28%) Go
12 41 (1.25%) Ruby
13 30 (0.92%) PL/SQL
14 29 (0.88%) C
15 26 (0.79%) T-SQL
16 21 (0.64%) Bicep
17 19 (0.58%) Kotlin
18 16 (0.49%) Rust
19 14 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
19 14 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 543 (16.56%) Security Cleared
2 497 (15.16%) Degree
3 432 (13.18%) SC Cleared
4 101 (3.08%) CISSP
4 101 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 92 (2.81%) PMI Certification
6 91 (2.78%) CISM
6 91 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 91 (2.78%) PMP
7 85 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 83 (2.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 64 (1.95%) ITIL Certification
10 53 (1.62%) Azure Certification
11 38 (1.16%) DBS Check
12 33 (1.01%) Master's Degree
13 29 (0.88%) AWS Certification
13 29 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
14 25 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
15 22 (0.67%) CISA
15 22 (0.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (8.79%) Accessibility
2 266 (8.11%) QA
3 187 (5.70%) Data Quality
4 108 (3.29%) GDPR
5 106 (3.23%) NIST
6 72 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 62 (1.89%) PMO
8 53 (1.62%) ISO 22301
9 45 (1.37%) WCAG
10 36 (1.10%) NCSC
11 27 (0.82%) GRC
11 27 (0.82%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 14 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 14 (0.43%) NIST 800
13 11 (0.34%) SOC 2
14 10 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.31%) SLA
15 9 (0.27%) GxP
15 9 (0.27%) PCI DSS
16 8 (0.24%) COBIT
System Software
1 307 (9.37%) Docker
2 42 (1.28%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.37%) Firmware
4 12 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (0.37%) vSphere
5 4 (0.12%) IAG
6 3 (0.092%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.031%) GPFS
8 1 (0.031%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.031%) Lustre
8 1 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 284 (8.66%) Kubernetes
2 35 (1.07%) Ansible
3 32 (0.98%) Grafana
4 26 (0.79%) Argo
5 24 (0.73%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.27%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.18%) Packer
9 5 (0.15%) Istio
9 5 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.12%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.12%) Podman
11 3 (0.092%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.092%) SQL Sentry
12 2 (0.061%) Data Guard
12 2 (0.061%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.061%) logstash
12 2 (0.061%) Oracle RMAN
13 1 (0.031%) Kibana
13 1 (0.031%) Opsview
Vendors
1 783 (23.89%) Microsoft
2 134 (4.09%) Oracle
3 124 (3.78%) Google
4 90 (2.75%) SAP
5 89 (2.72%) Adobe
5 89 (2.72%) YouTube
6 83 (2.53%) Salesforce
7 59 (1.80%) ServiceNow
8 57 (1.74%) Databricks
9 41 (1.25%) Facebook
10 31 (0.95%) OpenAI
11 27 (0.82%) Workday
12 26 (0.79%) Cisco
13 20 (0.61%) VMware
14 19 (0.58%) Informatica
15 18 (0.55%) IFS
15 18 (0.55%) Yahoo!
16 17 (0.52%) Apple
17 16 (0.49%) Sony
18 14 (0.43%) Pega