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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,219 3,352 8,129
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.82% 21.54% 23.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.30% 22.82% 26.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,134 2,071 5,976
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 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +13.82% -5.38%
75th Percentile £78,750 £98,474 £81,786
90th Percentile £96,250 £132,500 £110,000
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 16,683 14,689 30,701
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.00% 94.40% 88.80%
Number of salaries quoted 12,100 8,561 23,682
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,000 £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 £79,625 £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% -9.41%

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 23 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
1 102 (3.17%) Confluence
2 51 (1.58%) SharePoint
3 43 (1.34%) CMS
4 21 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.59%) Apache
6 16 (0.50%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 12 (0.37%) SAS
9 10 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
10 9 (0.28%) Jupyter
11 7 (0.22%) WordPress
12 4 (0.12%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.12%) PowerFactory
12 4 (0.12%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.093%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.093%) nginx
13 3 (0.093%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.062%) Kentico
14 2 (0.062%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 112 (3.48%) Microsoft Project
2 93 (2.89%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 45 (1.40%) UserZoom
5 44 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
6 22 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 18 (0.56%) Adobe XD
8 11 (0.34%) MS Visio
8 11 (0.34%) Trello
9 7 (0.22%) Chatbot
10 6 (0.19%) Sketch
11 4 (0.12%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.12%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.12%) Revit
11 4 (0.12%) Windchill
12 3 (0.093%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.093%) Blender
12 3 (0.093%) InVision
12 3 (0.093%) Maya
12 3 (0.093%) Productboard
Business Applications
1 62 (1.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.24%) Workfront
3 19 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.22%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.19%) Shopify
6 4 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.12%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.12%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.12%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.12%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.093%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.093%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.093%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.062%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.062%) Raiser’s Edge
8 2 (0.062%) SAP PM
8 2 (0.062%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,026 (31.87%) Azure
2 747 (23.21%) AWS
3 283 (8.79%) Azure DevOps
4 225 (6.99%) GCP
5 192 (5.96%) Adobe Analytics
6 170 (5.28%) Power Platform
7 169 (5.25%) SaaS
8 152 (4.72%) Serverless
9 149 (4.63%) GitHub
10 135 (4.19%) Azure AI
11 109 (3.39%) Figma
12 70 (2.17%) Contentsquare
13 66 (2.05%) PowerApps
14 65 (2.02%) Azure Machine Learning
14 65 (2.02%) Snowflake
15 64 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
16 61 (1.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 59 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
18 58 (1.80%) GitHub Copilot
19 57 (1.77%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 429 (13.33%) Broadband
2 27 (0.84%) TCP/IP
3 24 (0.75%) Network Security
4 18 (0.56%) Internet
4 18 (0.56%) VPN
5 17 (0.53%) CHAP
6 16 (0.50%) WAN
7 15 (0.47%) Ethernet
7 15 (0.47%) Firewall
7 15 (0.47%) RS-232
8 13 (0.40%) 4G
8 13 (0.40%) DNS
8 13 (0.40%) LAN
9 10 (0.31%) 5G
9 10 (0.31%) BGP
9 10 (0.31%) Cisco IOS
9 10 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
9 10 (0.31%) IOS XR
9 10 (0.31%) MPLS
10 8 (0.25%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 298 (9.26%) MongoDB
2 276 (8.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 177 (5.50%) SQL Server
4 122 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
5 118 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
6 111 (3.45%) NoSQL
7 102 (3.17%) Metadata
8 85 (2.64%) Power BI
9 75 (2.33%) MySQL
10 49 (1.52%) Relational Database
11 33 (1.03%) DynamoDB
12 32 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
13 31 (0.96%) Data Lake
14 21 (0.65%) Redis
15 20 (0.62%) BigQuery
16 19 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
17 18 (0.56%) Big Data
17 18 (0.56%) RDBMS
17 18 (0.56%) Semantic Layer
17 18 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 234 (7.27%) JIRA
2 159 (4.94%) Git
3 124 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 104 (3.23%) GitLab
5 42 (1.30%) Selenium
6 41 (1.27%) SonarQube
7 36 (1.12%) Cypress.io
8 32 (0.99%) Postman
9 25 (0.78%) TeamCity
10 19 (0.59%) Claude Code
10 19 (0.59%) JUnit
11 18 (0.56%) Jaeger
12 16 (0.50%) Cucumber
12 16 (0.50%) WebDriver
13 15 (0.47%) JMeter
13 15 (0.47%) SoapUI
14 13 (0.40%) CircleCI
14 13 (0.40%) Maven
14 13 (0.40%) Visual Studio
15 12 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 898 (27.90%) Social Skills
2 786 (24.42%) Finance
3 447 (13.89%) Public Sector
4 334 (10.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 320 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
6 311 (9.66%) Games
7 204 (6.34%) Law
8 180 (5.59%) Marketing
9 163 (5.06%) Retail
10 144 (4.47%) Legal
11 143 (4.44%) Banking
12 77 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
13 73 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
14 64 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
15 51 (1.58%) Advertising
16 49 (1.52%) Front Office
17 44 (1.37%) Telecoms
18 35 (1.09%) Back Office
19 33 (1.03%) Aviation
19 33 (1.03%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 718 (22.31%) Developer
2 650 (20.19%) Senior
3 473 (14.69%) Lead
4 297 (9.23%) Analyst
5 289 (8.98%) .NET Developer
6 264 (8.20%) Software Engineer
7 252 (7.83%) Architect
8 234 (7.27%) Project Manager
9 193 (6.00%) Business Analyst
10 187 (5.81%) Senior Manager
11 111 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
12 107 (3.32%) Software Developer
13 97 (3.01%) Senior Project Manager
14 90 (2.80%) IT Manager
15 87 (2.70%) Engineering Manager
15 87 (2.70%) Product Owner
16 84 (2.61%) Senior Developer
17 80 (2.49%) Graduate
17 80 (2.49%) Solutions Architect
18 79 (2.45%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 485 (15.07%) .NET
2 413 (12.83%) React
3 289 (8.98%) ASP.NET
4 285 (8.85%) .NET Core
5 268 (8.33%) ASP.NET Core
6 263 (8.17%) Node.js
7 186 (5.78%) CSS
8 183 (5.68%) RESTful
9 180 (5.59%) HTML
10 137 (4.26%) AngularJS
11 128 (3.98%) Blazor
12 123 (3.82%) REST
13 116 (3.60%) Vue
14 111 (3.45%) Entity Framework
15 92 (2.86%) ASP.NET Web API
16 81 (2.52%) Kafka
17 78 (2.42%) Spring
18 73 (2.27%) ML.NET
19 70 (2.17%) .NET Framework
20 69 (2.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 416 (12.92%) Product Ownership
2 280 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 253 (7.86%) Social Media
4 109 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
5 84 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
6 82 (2.55%) Mobile App
7 76 (2.36%) Over-the-Top Content
8 73 (2.27%) Onboarding
9 70 (2.17%) Management Information System
10 69 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
11 66 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
12 58 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
13 55 (1.71%) Marketing Technology
14 46 (1.43%) Virtual Team
15 45 (1.40%) Driving Licence
16 41 (1.27%) Fixed Income
17 34 (1.06%) Security Posture
18 33 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
19 30 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
20 29 (0.90%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 155 (4.82%) Linux
2 63 (1.96%) Android
3 54 (1.68%) Windows
4 52 (1.62%) Unix
5 45 (1.40%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
7 13 (0.40%) VMS
8 8 (0.25%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.22%) CentOS
10 6 (0.19%) Debian
11 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (0.16%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.031%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 754 (23.42%) DevOps
1 754 (23.42%) Roadmaps
2 717 (22.27%) Continuous Improvement
2 717 (22.27%) Mentoring
3 711 (22.09%) CI/CD
4 683 (21.22%) AI
5 619 (19.23%) Scrum
6 544 (16.90%) Coaching
7 495 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
8 489 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
9 446 (13.86%) Analytics
10 434 (13.48%) Software Engineering
11 391 (12.15%) Customer Experience
12 374 (11.62%) Decision-Making
13 368 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
14 365 (11.34%) Microservices
15 362 (11.25%) Project Management
16 331 (10.28%) Test Automation
17 300 (9.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 290 (9.01%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 716 (22.24%) SQL
2 551 (17.12%) C#
3 475 (14.76%) JavaScript
4 400 (12.43%) Java
5 395 (12.27%) Python
6 305 (9.47%) TypeScript
7 89 (2.76%) PHP
8 82 (2.55%) C++
9 78 (2.42%) Bash
10 73 (2.27%) Go
11 55 (1.71%) Apex Code
12 42 (1.30%) PowerShell
13 40 (1.24%) C
14 35 (1.09%) SOQL
15 34 (1.06%) SOSL
16 30 (0.93%) Scala
17 27 (0.84%) Ruby
18 21 (0.65%) T-SQL
18 21 (0.65%) VBA
19 17 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 439 (13.64%) Degree
2 339 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 259 (8.05%) SC Cleared
4 100 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 78 (2.42%) PMI Certification
6 71 (2.21%) PMP
6 71 (2.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 60 (1.86%) CISSP
8 46 (1.43%) CISM
8 46 (1.43%) DBS Check
9 45 (1.40%) DV Cleared
10 42 (1.30%) Azure Certification
11 37 (1.15%) AWS Certification
12 33 (1.03%) ISTQB
13 30 (0.93%) CISA
14 26 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
15 22 (0.68%) SANS
16 17 (0.53%) CGEIT
16 17 (0.53%) FFIEC
17 16 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 361 (11.21%) Accessibility
2 249 (7.74%) QA
3 94 (2.92%) Data Quality
4 80 (2.49%) WCAG
5 71 (2.21%) GDPR
6 61 (1.89%) NIST
7 48 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 43 (1.34%) PMO
9 24 (0.75%) COBIT
9 24 (0.75%) GRC
10 17 (0.53%) NCSC
11 15 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 12 (0.37%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.22%) SOC 1
14 7 (0.22%) SOC 2
15 6 (0.19%) NIST 800
16 5 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 4 (0.12%) IFRS
System Software
1 297 (9.23%) Docker
2 60 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
3 37 (1.15%) Active Directory
4 15 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.34%) vSphere
6 3 (0.093%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.093%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.031%) Xen
Systems Management
1 276 (8.57%) Kubernetes
2 178 (5.53%) Terraform
3 82 (2.55%) Ansible
4 48 (1.49%) Prometheus
5 47 (1.46%) Argo
6 46 (1.43%) Grafana
7 22 (0.68%) Kustomize
8 12 (0.37%) Podman
9 6 (0.19%) Puppet
10 5 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.16%) Istio
10 5 (0.16%) Packer
10 5 (0.16%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.12%) SCCM
12 3 (0.093%) Kibana
12 3 (0.093%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.093%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.062%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.062%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 656 (20.38%) Microsoft
2 266 (8.26%) Adobe
3 139 (4.32%) Google
4 109 (3.39%) Salesforce
5 98 (3.04%) Databricks
6 95 (2.95%) Oracle
7 78 (2.42%) SAP
7 78 (2.42%) ServiceNow
8 40 (1.24%) Splunk
9 31 (0.96%) Facebook
10 19 (0.59%) Cisco
11 17 (0.53%) VMware
12 16 (0.50%) IFS
12 16 (0.50%) YouTube
13 14 (0.43%) Apple
13 14 (0.43%) IBM
13 14 (0.43%) MuleSoft
14 13 (0.40%) OpenAI
14 13 (0.40%) Sony
14 13 (0.40%) Yahoo!