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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
6 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,491 4,351 5,672
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.24% 22.94% 27.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.01% 25.16% 29.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,836 2,590 4,648
10th Percentile £38,750 £43,250 £42,962
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.11% +0.54%
75th Percentile £86,253 £95,000 £82,797
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - - +3.85%

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 13,829 17,295 19,528
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.14% 91.19% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 8,722 10,452 15,784
10th Percentile £29,750 £36,250 £36,346
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 6 December 2025.

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
1 106 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
2 97 (3.89%) Confluence
3 59 (2.37%) Apache
4 47 (1.89%) SharePoint
5 29 (1.16%) CMS
6 15 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 14 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.40%) Headless CMS
8 10 (0.40%) IIS
9 8 (0.32%) Apache Spark
10 7 (0.28%) SAS
10 7 (0.28%) WordPress
11 6 (0.24%) nginx
12 5 (0.20%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.12%) Drupal
13 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.12%) WebLogic Portal
14 2 (0.080%) EPiServer
Applications
1 68 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (1.49%) Adobe XD
4 31 (1.24%) MS Visio
5 28 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.48%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.36%) Trello
8 6 (0.24%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.24%) Sketch
8 6 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.20%) Oracle Smart View
10 4 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.12%) InDesign
11 3 (0.12%) Notion
12 1 (0.040%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.040%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.040%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.040%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 43 (1.73%) Oracle ERP
2 30 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 29 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 28 (1.12%) Shopify
5 8 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
5 8 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
5 8 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (0.32%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.28%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
7 6 (0.24%) Primavera
8 5 (0.20%) Elite 3E
8 5 (0.20%) NEC Housing
8 5 (0.20%) SAP SCM
9 4 (0.16%) Hyperion Planning
9 4 (0.16%) Magento
10 3 (0.12%) Maximo
10 3 (0.12%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 876 (35.17%) Azure
2 611 (24.53%) AWS
3 318 (12.77%) Azure DevOps
4 248 (9.96%) SaaS
5 218 (8.75%) Power Platform
6 202 (8.11%) GCP
7 201 (8.07%) GitHub
8 139 (5.58%) dbt
9 133 (5.34%) Serverless
10 130 (5.22%) Snowflake
11 82 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
12 81 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
13 69 (2.77%) Dynamics 365
13 69 (2.77%) Entra ID
14 67 (2.69%) GitHub Copilot
15 63 (2.53%) Figma
16 61 (2.45%) Amazon S3
17 57 (2.29%) Power Automate
18 54 (2.17%) PaaS
19 52 (2.09%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 33 (1.32%) Broadband
2 26 (1.04%) TCP/IP
3 21 (0.84%) Wireless
4 17 (0.68%) Software-Defined Radio
5 14 (0.56%) DNS
6 11 (0.44%) Firewall
7 8 (0.32%) WAN
8 6 (0.24%) CHAP
9 5 (0.20%) DHCP
10 4 (0.16%) Ethernet
10 4 (0.16%) Internet
10 4 (0.16%) Network Security
10 4 (0.16%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.16%) SSH
10 4 (0.16%) Unified Communications
10 4 (0.16%) VPN
10 4 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.12%) GPON
11 3 (0.12%) Modbus
11 3 (0.12%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (7.63%) SQL Server
2 129 (5.18%) Power BI
3 118 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
4 109 (4.38%) MySQL
4 109 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
5 100 (4.01%) Data Lake
6 97 (3.89%) Amazon Athena
6 97 (3.89%) Apache Iceberg
7 94 (3.77%) Apache Arrow
7 94 (3.77%) Dremio
8 87 (3.49%) MongoDB
9 82 (3.29%) NoSQL
10 70 (2.81%) Azure SQL Database
11 66 (2.65%) Relational Database
12 49 (1.97%) Apache Ignite
13 45 (1.81%) Tableau
14 42 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
15 35 (1.41%) DynamoDB
16 20 (0.80%) Metadata
17 19 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 240 (9.63%) JIRA
2 164 (6.58%) Git
3 95 (3.81%) Jenkins
4 58 (2.33%) GitLab
5 55 (2.21%) Selenium
6 45 (1.81%) Cypress.io
6 45 (1.81%) Oracle Forms
7 36 (1.45%) Postman
8 31 (1.24%) Team Foundation Server
9 30 (1.20%) WebDriver
10 28 (1.12%) Balsamiq
11 27 (1.08%) SonarQube
12 26 (1.04%) Axure RP
13 23 (0.92%) SoapUI
14 10 (0.40%) ER Studio
14 10 (0.40%) ERwin
14 10 (0.40%) git-flow
14 10 (0.40%) TeamCity
15 8 (0.32%) Storybook
15 8 (0.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 938 (37.66%) Finance
2 821 (32.96%) Social Skills
3 299 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 194 (7.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 174 (6.99%) Public Sector
6 165 (6.62%) Front Office
7 153 (6.14%) Law
8 149 (5.98%) Marketing
9 114 (4.58%) Banking
9 114 (4.58%) Legal
10 89 (3.57%) Retail
11 74 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
12 70 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
13 68 (2.73%) Investment Banking
14 58 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
15 49 (1.97%) Manufacturing
16 44 (1.77%) Tech for Good
17 42 (1.69%) Games
18 41 (1.65%) Local Government
19 38 (1.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 681 (27.34%) Developer
2 500 (20.07%) Senior
3 278 (11.16%) Analyst
4 265 (10.64%) Lead
5 243 (9.76%) Software Engineer
6 158 (6.34%) Architect
7 140 (5.62%) Business Analyst
8 134 (5.38%) Software Developer
9 130 (5.22%) .NET Developer
10 111 (4.46%) Python Engineer
11 108 (4.34%) Project Manager
12 107 (4.30%) AWS Engineer
13 105 (4.22%) Senior Developer
14 100 (4.01%) Python Developer
15 97 (3.89%) Python Software Engineer
16 96 (3.85%) AWS Software Engineer
17 85 (3.41%) Senior Software Engineer
18 81 (3.25%) AWS Developer
19 75 (3.01%) Java Engineer
20 74 (2.97%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 402 (16.14%) .NET
2 361 (14.49%) React
3 200 (8.03%) CSS
4 196 (7.87%) HTML
5 189 (7.59%) Node.js
6 181 (7.27%) RESTful
7 150 (6.02%) AngularJS
8 138 (5.54%) REST
9 118 (4.74%) Vue
10 115 (4.62%) SOAP
11 103 (4.13%) .NET Core
12 102 (4.09%) ASP.NET
13 98 (3.93%) Pandas
14 94 (3.77%) NumPy
14 94 (3.77%) SciPy
15 92 (3.69%) .NET Framework
16 85 (3.41%) Kafka
17 83 (3.33%) GraphQL
18 76 (3.05%) Entity Framework
19 63 (2.53%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 293 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 192 (7.71%) Cloud Native
3 132 (5.30%) Fixed Income
4 106 (4.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 99 (3.97%) Equities
5 99 (3.97%) Management Information System
6 76 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
7 63 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
7 63 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
8 60 (2.41%) Derivative
9 59 (2.37%) Mobile App
9 59 (2.37%) Onboarding
10 55 (2.21%) Hedge funds
11 50 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
12 49 (1.97%) Pricing Data
13 47 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
14 39 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
15 35 (1.41%) NHS
16 32 (1.28%) Low-Code
17 30 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 101 (4.05%) Linux
2 66 (2.65%) Windows
3 24 (0.96%) Apple iOS
4 20 (0.80%) Embedded Linux
4 20 (0.80%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.68%) Android
6 16 (0.64%) Unix
7 4 (0.16%) CentOS
8 3 (0.12%) OpenWrt
8 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.12%) VMS
9 2 (0.080%) Solaris
9 2 (0.080%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 648 (26.01%) DevOps
2 594 (23.85%) Continuous Improvement
3 555 (22.28%) CI/CD
4 489 (19.63%) Software Engineering
5 472 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
6 448 (17.98%) Mentoring
7 393 (15.78%) Scrum
8 369 (14.81%) AI
9 362 (14.53%) Coaching
10 354 (14.21%) Roadmaps
11 301 (12.08%) Asset Management
12 281 (11.28%) Analytics
13 270 (10.84%) Test Automation
14 269 (10.80%) Microservices
15 268 (10.76%) Stakeholder Management
16 254 (10.20%) Project Management
17 239 (9.59%) Full-Stack Development
18 220 (8.83%) User Experience
19 205 (8.23%) Project Delivery
20 196 (7.87%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 587 (23.56%) SQL
2 515 (20.67%) Python
3 472 (18.95%) JavaScript
4 411 (16.50%) C#
5 382 (15.34%) Java
6 353 (14.17%) TypeScript
7 104 (4.18%) C++
8 96 (3.85%) PHP
9 94 (3.77%) PowerShell
10 57 (2.29%) C
11 51 (2.05%) Go
12 49 (1.97%) Bash
12 49 (1.97%) Shell Script
13 44 (1.77%) PL/SQL
14 42 (1.69%) Apex Code
15 23 (0.92%) Scala
16 19 (0.76%) Ruby
17 18 (0.72%) T-SQL
18 17 (0.68%) Swift
19 16 (0.64%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 367 (14.73%) Degree
2 243 (9.76%) Security Cleared
3 192 (7.71%) SC Cleared
4 132 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (2.13%) ISTQB
5 53 (2.13%) Master's Degree
6 47 (1.89%) DV Cleared
7 40 (1.61%) PMI Certification
8 36 (1.45%) PMP
9 33 (1.32%) Azure Certification
10 30 (1.20%) AWS Certification
11 23 (0.92%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 19 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
13 17 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
13 17 (0.68%) DBS Check
14 14 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 12 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 11 (0.44%) CISSP
17 10 (0.40%) CISM
18 9 (0.36%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 220 (8.83%) QA
2 163 (6.54%) Accessibility
3 54 (2.17%) GDPR
4 48 (1.93%) PMO
4 48 (1.93%) WCAG
5 36 (1.45%) Data Quality
6 26 (1.04%) NIST
7 21 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.40%) NCSC
9 7 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.28%) COBIT
9 7 (0.28%) SLA
10 6 (0.24%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.20%) P3O
12 3 (0.12%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.080%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.080%) GRC
13 2 (0.080%) HL7
System Software
1 159 (6.38%) Docker
2 59 (2.37%) Active Directory
3 24 (0.96%) Firmware
4 21 (0.84%) Embedded Firmware
4 21 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.040%) HDFS
7 1 (0.040%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.040%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 173 (6.95%) Terraform
2 129 (5.18%) Kubernetes
3 43 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
4 33 (1.32%) Ansible
5 31 (1.24%) Grafana
6 23 (0.92%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (0.68%) Argo
9 8 (0.32%) SCCM
10 7 (0.28%) Kibana
11 3 (0.12%) logstash
11 3 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.12%) Puppet
12 2 (0.080%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.040%) Automic
13 1 (0.040%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.040%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.040%) QRadar
13 1 (0.040%) Rancher
Vendors
1 402 (16.14%) Microsoft
2 92 (3.69%) Oracle
3 80 (3.21%) SAP
4 77 (3.09%) Databricks
5 70 (2.81%) Salesforce
6 66 (2.65%) Google
7 51 (2.05%) Adobe
8 45 (1.81%) Blue Prism
9 27 (1.08%) MuleSoft
9 27 (1.08%) ServiceNow
10 26 (1.04%) Splunk
11 21 (0.84%) Guidewire
12 20 (0.80%) IBM
13 18 (0.72%) Okta
13 18 (0.72%) Workday
14 10 (0.40%) Apple
15 9 (0.36%) Informatica
15 9 (0.36%) Mercator
15 9 (0.36%) Talend
16 8 (0.32%) IFS
1,933 hybrid/remote Agile jobs