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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 5 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,470 3,324 6,069
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.85% 20.19% 22.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.11% 21.70% 25.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,321 2,087 4,130
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,475 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £49,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £68,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.29% +4.62% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £95,000 £86,813
90th Percentile £96,250 £132,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £64,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% +7.69% -

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 18,155 15,315 23,472
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.94% 93.04% 88.02%
Number of salaries quoted 13,190 9,035 17,224
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - +3.51% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% 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 29 July 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
1 110 (3.17%) Confluence
2 62 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 42 (1.21%) CMS
4 20 (0.58%) Apache
4 20 (0.58%) Apache Spark
5 18 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 13 (0.37%) SAS
8 12 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.29%) WordPress
10 9 (0.26%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.14%) Umbraco
13 4 (0.12%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.12%) Camunda
13 4 (0.12%) PowerFactory
14 3 (0.086%) Kentico
14 3 (0.086%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.086%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 124 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
2 95 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
3 57 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
4 54 (1.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 44 (1.27%) UserZoom
6 22 (0.63%) Chatbot
6 22 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 18 (0.52%) Adobe XD
7 18 (0.52%) Trello
8 15 (0.43%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.14%) Sketch
10 4 (0.12%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.12%) Revit
10 4 (0.12%) Windchill
11 3 (0.086%) Blender
11 3 (0.086%) Maya
11 3 (0.086%) Productboard
12 2 (0.058%) InVision
12 2 (0.058%) PlantUML
12 2 (0.058%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 60 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.15%) Workfront
3 21 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.20%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.17%) SAP CO
5 6 (0.17%) SAP FI
5 6 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
6 5 (0.14%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.14%) Shopify
7 4 (0.12%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.12%) Raiser’s Edge
8 3 (0.086%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.086%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.086%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 3 (0.086%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,233 (35.53%) Azure
2 868 (25.01%) AWS
3 335 (9.65%) Azure DevOps
4 230 (6.63%) SaaS
5 229 (6.60%) GCP
6 179 (5.16%) GitHub
7 173 (4.99%) Adobe Analytics
7 173 (4.99%) Power Platform
8 158 (4.55%) Azure AI
9 143 (4.12%) Serverless
10 103 (2.97%) Figma
11 84 (2.42%) GitHub Copilot
12 73 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
13 70 (2.02%) Snowflake
14 69 (1.99%) Contentsquare
15 66 (1.90%) Azure Machine Learning
16 65 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
17 62 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 62 (1.79%) PowerApps
18 59 (1.70%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 327 (9.42%) Broadband
2 29 (0.84%) Network Security
3 25 (0.72%) TCP/IP
4 21 (0.61%) Internet
5 19 (0.55%) VPN
6 18 (0.52%) WAN
7 16 (0.46%) LAN
8 15 (0.43%) Firewall
9 14 (0.40%) DNS
10 13 (0.37%) Ethernet
10 13 (0.37%) RS-232
10 13 (0.37%) VoIP
11 11 (0.32%) CTI
12 10 (0.29%) 5G
12 10 (0.29%) CHAP
13 8 (0.23%) SD-WAN
13 8 (0.23%) Wireless
14 7 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
14 7 (0.20%) Intranet
14 7 (0.20%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 377 (10.86%) MongoDB
2 360 (10.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 193 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 153 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
5 145 (4.18%) PostgreSQL
6 101 (2.91%) Power BI
7 95 (2.74%) Metadata
8 94 (2.71%) NoSQL
9 83 (2.39%) MySQL
10 38 (1.10%) Relational Database
11 36 (1.04%) DynamoDB
12 34 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
13 32 (0.92%) Data Lake
14 27 (0.78%) Redis
15 23 (0.66%) Big Data
16 21 (0.61%) Tableau
17 20 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 19 (0.55%) BigQuery
18 19 (0.55%) Semantic Layer
19 16 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 257 (7.41%) JIRA
2 177 (5.10%) Git
3 100 (2.88%) GitLab
3 100 (2.88%) Jenkins
4 37 (1.07%) Selenium
5 36 (1.04%) Cypress.io
6 32 (0.92%) SonarQube
7 25 (0.72%) JUnit
8 22 (0.63%) Postman
9 21 (0.61%) Claude Code
10 16 (0.46%) Maven
11 15 (0.43%) Cucumber
11 15 (0.43%) Mockito
12 14 (0.40%) Visual Studio
13 13 (0.37%) CircleCI
14 10 (0.29%) JMeter
15 9 (0.26%) Balsamiq
16 8 (0.23%) Axure RP
16 8 (0.23%) Gatling
16 8 (0.23%) XCUITest
General
1 972 (28.01%) Social Skills
2 846 (24.38%) Finance
3 473 (13.63%) Public Sector
4 361 (10.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 345 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
6 296 (8.53%) Law
7 259 (7.46%) Games
8 225 (6.48%) Legal
9 191 (5.50%) Marketing
10 186 (5.36%) Retail
11 126 (3.63%) Banking
12 103 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
13 83 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
14 78 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
15 60 (1.73%) Advertising
16 49 (1.41%) Front Office
17 47 (1.35%) Legal Technology
18 43 (1.24%) Aerospace
19 40 (1.15%) Manufacturing
20 37 (1.07%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 883 (25.45%) Developer
2 699 (20.14%) Senior
3 459 (13.23%) Lead
4 379 (10.92%) .NET Developer
5 293 (8.44%) Analyst
6 275 (7.93%) Architect
6 275 (7.93%) Software Engineer
7 245 (7.06%) Project Manager
8 194 (5.59%) Business Analyst
9 159 (4.58%) Senior Manager
10 157 (4.52%) Senior Developer
11 135 (3.89%) IT Manager
12 110 (3.17%) Software Developer
13 105 (3.03%) Delivery Manager
14 93 (2.68%) Full-Stack Developer
15 91 (2.62%) Consultant
16 89 (2.56%) Senior Project Manager
17 85 (2.45%) Senior Analyst
18 83 (2.39%) Product Owner
19 82 (2.36%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 629 (18.13%) .NET
2 477 (13.75%) React
3 388 (11.18%) ASP.NET
4 370 (10.66%) .NET Core
5 354 (10.20%) ASP.NET Core
6 327 (9.42%) Node.js
7 223 (6.43%) RESTful
8 213 (6.14%) CSS
9 196 (5.65%) HTML
10 176 (5.07%) Blazor
11 164 (4.73%) AngularJS
12 154 (4.44%) Entity Framework
13 142 (4.09%) Vue
14 137 (3.95%) REST
15 126 (3.63%) ASP.NET Web API
16 98 (2.82%) .NET Framework
17 95 (2.74%) ML.NET
18 87 (2.51%) Kafka
18 87 (2.51%) Spring
19 85 (2.45%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 397 (11.44%) Product Ownership
2 305 (8.79%) Cloud Native
3 226 (6.51%) Social Media
4 137 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
5 105 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
6 83 (2.39%) Mobile App
7 79 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
8 75 (2.16%) Management Information System
9 65 (1.87%) Onboarding
10 64 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
11 60 (1.73%) Marketing Technology
12 58 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
13 54 (1.56%) Over-the-Top Content
14 52 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
15 47 (1.35%) Driving Licence
15 47 (1.35%) Virtual Team
16 41 (1.18%) Fixed Income
17 27 (0.78%) Security Posture
18 26 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 25 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 149 (4.29%) Linux
2 67 (1.93%) Windows
3 63 (1.82%) Android
4 43 (1.24%) Unix
5 39 (1.12%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.43%) VMS
7 13 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
8 9 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.14%) CentOS
9 5 (0.14%) Debian
10 3 (0.086%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.086%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.029%) AIX
11 1 (0.029%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 847 (24.41%) CI/CD
2 843 (24.29%) DevOps
3 834 (24.03%) Continuous Improvement
4 775 (22.33%) AI
5 733 (21.12%) Mentoring
6 723 (20.84%) Roadmaps
7 652 (18.79%) Scrum
8 610 (17.58%) Full-Stack Development
9 605 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
10 529 (15.24%) Coaching
11 504 (14.52%) Software Engineering
12 488 (14.06%) Microservices
13 435 (12.54%) Analytics
14 433 (12.48%) Stakeholder Management
15 427 (12.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 414 (11.93%) Decision-Making
17 408 (11.76%) Test Automation
18 369 (10.63%) Project Delivery
19 360 (10.37%) Customer Experience
20 350 (10.09%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 828 (23.86%) SQL
2 740 (21.33%) C#
3 550 (15.85%) JavaScript
4 411 (11.84%) Python
5 385 (11.10%) Java
6 341 (9.83%) TypeScript
7 89 (2.56%) PHP
8 85 (2.45%) C++
9 63 (1.82%) Bash
10 58 (1.67%) Go
11 43 (1.24%) Apex Code
12 42 (1.21%) PowerShell
13 40 (1.15%) C
13 40 (1.15%) Ruby
14 27 (0.78%) SOQL
15 26 (0.75%) SOSL
16 22 (0.63%) PL/SQL
17 21 (0.61%) T-SQL
18 17 (0.49%) Bicep
19 13 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 468 (13.49%) Degree
2 423 (12.19%) Security Cleared
3 340 (9.80%) SC Cleared
4 112 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 110 (3.17%) CISSP
6 99 (2.85%) PMI Certification
7 98 (2.82%) CISM
8 93 (2.68%) PMP
9 72 (2.07%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 60 (1.73%) ITIL Certification
11 51 (1.47%) DV Cleared
12 44 (1.27%) Azure Certification
13 34 (0.98%) DBS Check
14 32 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
15 27 (0.78%) CISA
16 26 (0.75%) Master's Degree
16 26 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
17 22 (0.63%) ISTQB
18 21 (0.61%) AWS Certification
19 18 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 373 (10.75%) Accessibility
2 297 (8.56%) QA
3 120 (3.46%) Data Quality
4 111 (3.20%) NIST
5 88 (2.54%) WCAG
6 77 (2.22%) GDPR
7 64 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 54 (1.56%) PMO
9 49 (1.41%) ISO 22301
10 34 (0.98%) GRC
11 26 (0.75%) NCSC
12 24 (0.69%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 17 (0.49%) COBIT
14 12 (0.35%) NIST 800
15 10 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.29%) PCI DSS
15 10 (0.29%) SOC 2
16 8 (0.23%) SLA
17 7 (0.20%) SOC 1
18 6 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 293 (8.44%) Docker
2 60 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (0.92%) Active Directory
4 15 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.37%) vSphere
6 6 (0.17%) Firmware
7 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.029%) GPFS
8 1 (0.029%) Lustre
8 1 (0.029%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.029%) Xen
Systems Management
1 269 (7.75%) Kubernetes
2 165 (4.76%) Terraform
3 57 (1.64%) Ansible
4 43 (1.24%) Grafana
5 29 (0.84%) Argo
6 28 (0.81%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.35%) Podman
8 8 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.23%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.14%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.14%) Istio
9 5 (0.14%) Packer
9 5 (0.14%) Puppet
10 4 (0.12%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.086%) Kibana
11 3 (0.086%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.058%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.058%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.029%) linkerd
13 1 (0.029%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 774 (22.31%) Microsoft
2 251 (7.23%) Adobe
3 136 (3.92%) Google
4 104 (3.00%) Oracle
5 103 (2.97%) Databricks
6 100 (2.88%) Salesforce
7 83 (2.39%) SAP
8 74 (2.13%) ServiceNow
9 40 (1.15%) Facebook
10 30 (0.86%) Splunk
11 26 (0.75%) OpenAI
12 21 (0.61%) YouTube
13 20 (0.58%) Cisco
14 19 (0.55%) Apple
14 19 (0.55%) Yahoo!
15 18 (0.52%) IFS
16 17 (0.49%) IBM
16 17 (0.49%) Sony
16 17 (0.49%) VMware
17 16 (0.46%) Workday