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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,026 3,289 8,052
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.77% 22.22% 24.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.05% 23.44% 26.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,946 2,028 5,988
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,060
25th Percentile £50,180 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £70,000 £60,728
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% +15.27% -6.57%
75th Percentile £80,000 £98,474 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £130,000 £102,500
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 15,885 14,034 29,900
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.77% 94.81% 90.07%
Number of salaries quoted 11,369 8,239 23,472
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,450 £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 £57,610 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.15% +4.75% -9.69%

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 30 May 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 (3.37%) Confluence
2 43 (1.42%) CMS
3 37 (1.22%) SharePoint
4 21 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.59%) Apache
6 16 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 10 (0.33%) SAS
9 9 (0.30%) Jupyter
10 7 (0.23%) WordPress
11 6 (0.20%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.13%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.13%) nginx
12 4 (0.13%) PowerFactory
13 3 (0.099%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.066%) Camunda
14 2 (0.066%) NServiceBus
14 2 (0.066%) Umbraco
15 1 (0.033%) WildFly
Applications
1 106 (3.50%) Microsoft Project
2 100 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.78%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 43 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
5 38 (1.26%) UserZoom
6 24 (0.79%) Adobe XD
7 21 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 10 (0.33%) Sketch
9 8 (0.26%) MS Visio
10 7 (0.23%) Chatbot
10 7 (0.23%) Trello
11 5 (0.17%) InVision
12 4 (0.13%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.13%) Photoshop
12 4 (0.13%) Revit
12 4 (0.13%) Windchill
13 3 (0.099%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.099%) Productboard
14 2 (0.066%) Avid Media Composer
14 2 (0.066%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 42 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.32%) Workfront
3 18 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.43%) SAP ERP
5 12 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.23%) Shopify
7 3 (0.099%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.099%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.099%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.066%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.066%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.066%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.066%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.066%) Raiser’s Edge
8 2 (0.066%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.066%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.066%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.066%) SAP PM
8 2 (0.066%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 865 (28.59%) Azure
2 672 (22.21%) AWS
3 228 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
4 209 (6.91%) GCP
5 189 (6.25%) Adobe Analytics
6 158 (5.22%) SaaS
7 149 (4.92%) Power Platform
8 141 (4.66%) Serverless
9 134 (4.43%) GitHub
10 122 (4.03%) Figma
11 101 (3.34%) Azure AI
12 77 (2.54%) Snowflake
13 65 (2.15%) Azure Machine Learning
14 63 (2.08%) Contentsquare
15 62 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 57 (1.88%) Amazon S3
17 56 (1.85%) iPaaS
18 55 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
19 51 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
20 48 (1.59%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 422 (13.95%) Broadband
2 26 (0.86%) TCP/IP
3 21 (0.69%) CHAP
3 21 (0.69%) Network Security
4 20 (0.66%) DNS
5 17 (0.56%) WAN
6 16 (0.53%) LAN
7 15 (0.50%) Ethernet
7 15 (0.50%) RS-232
8 13 (0.43%) 4G
8 13 (0.43%) Firewall
9 11 (0.36%) BGP
9 11 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
9 11 (0.36%) Ethernet VPN
9 11 (0.36%) IOS XR
9 11 (0.36%) MPLS
10 8 (0.26%) Internet
10 8 (0.26%) VPN
11 7 (0.23%) DHCP
11 7 (0.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (6.35%) MongoDB
2 172 (5.68%) SQL Server
3 145 (4.79%) Azure SQL Database
4 112 (3.70%) NoSQL
5 111 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
6 104 (3.44%) Metadata
7 84 (2.78%) Power BI
8 67 (2.21%) MySQL
9 65 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
10 44 (1.45%) Relational Database
11 37 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
12 33 (1.09%) Data Lake
13 29 (0.96%) DynamoDB
14 20 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
15 18 (0.59%) Big Data
15 18 (0.59%) RDBMS
15 18 (0.59%) Tableau
16 17 (0.56%) Redis
17 15 (0.50%) BigQuery
18 13 (0.43%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 230 (7.60%) JIRA
2 156 (5.16%) Git
3 120 (3.97%) Jenkins
4 106 (3.50%) GitLab
5 52 (1.72%) Selenium
6 42 (1.39%) Postman
7 39 (1.29%) SonarQube
8 34 (1.12%) Cypress.io
9 27 (0.89%) WebDriver
10 26 (0.86%) SoapUI
10 26 (0.86%) TeamCity
11 23 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
12 19 (0.63%) JUnit
13 18 (0.59%) Jaeger
14 15 (0.50%) Claude Code
14 15 (0.50%) Cucumber
14 15 (0.50%) JMeter
15 13 (0.43%) Axure RP
15 13 (0.43%) CircleCI
16 12 (0.40%) Balsamiq
General
1 878 (29.02%) Social Skills
2 795 (26.27%) Finance
3 430 (14.21%) Public Sector
4 326 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
5 321 (10.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 296 (9.78%) Games
7 205 (6.77%) Law
8 180 (5.95%) Marketing
9 153 (5.06%) Banking
10 147 (4.86%) Legal
11 134 (4.43%) Retail
12 72 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
13 58 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
14 56 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
15 51 (1.69%) Front Office
16 45 (1.49%) Telecoms
17 36 (1.19%) Advertising
18 35 (1.16%) Back Office
19 31 (1.02%) Manufacturing
20 28 (0.93%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 627 (20.72%) Senior
2 588 (19.43%) Developer
3 485 (16.03%) Lead
4 296 (9.78%) Analyst
5 231 (7.63%) Software Engineer
6 223 (7.37%) Project Manager
7 213 (7.04%) Architect
8 200 (6.61%) Business Analyst
9 193 (6.38%) Senior Manager
10 169 (5.58%) .NET Developer
11 107 (3.54%) Software Developer
12 99 (3.27%) Senior Project Manager
13 95 (3.14%) Delivery Manager
14 90 (2.97%) Designer
15 89 (2.94%) Product Owner
16 82 (2.71%) Engineering Manager
17 81 (2.68%) Product Manager
18 77 (2.54%) Senior Developer
19 76 (2.51%) Lead Developer
20 73 (2.41%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 370 (12.23%) .NET
2 351 (11.60%) React
3 201 (6.64%) Node.js
4 168 (5.55%) .NET Core
5 164 (5.42%) HTML
6 162 (5.35%) ASP.NET
7 159 (5.25%) CSS
8 146 (4.82%) ASP.NET Core
9 143 (4.73%) RESTful
10 123 (4.06%) REST
11 100 (3.30%) AngularJS
12 86 (2.84%) SOAP
13 80 (2.64%) Vue
14 78 (2.58%) Kafka
15 75 (2.48%) Spring
16 71 (2.35%) Entity Framework
17 66 (2.18%) Blazor
18 61 (2.02%) Lightning Web Components
19 55 (1.82%) Spring Boot
20 51 (1.69%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 422 (13.95%) Product Ownership
2 255 (8.43%) Cloud Native
3 245 (8.10%) Social Media
4 88 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
5 78 (2.58%) Mobile App
6 76 (2.51%) Over-the-Top Content
7 75 (2.48%) Onboarding
8 62 (2.05%) Management Information System
9 61 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
10 56 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
10 56 (1.85%) Marketing Technology
11 54 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
12 48 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
13 41 (1.35%) Driving Licence
13 41 (1.35%) Fixed Income
13 41 (1.35%) Virtual Team
14 32 (1.06%) Data Structures
15 31 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
16 30 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
17 29 (0.96%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 135 (4.46%) Linux
2 63 (2.08%) Android
3 46 (1.52%) Apple iOS
4 43 (1.42%) Unix
5 41 (1.35%) Windows
6 15 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (0.23%) CentOS
7 7 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.13%) Debian
10 3 (0.099%) VMS
11 2 (0.066%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.033%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 711 (23.50%) Roadmaps
2 702 (23.20%) Mentoring
3 672 (22.21%) Continuous Improvement
3 672 (22.21%) DevOps
4 646 (21.35%) CI/CD
5 604 (19.96%) AI
6 548 (18.11%) Scrum
7 543 (17.94%) Coaching
8 472 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
9 438 (14.47%) Analytics
10 396 (13.09%) Software Engineering
11 386 (12.76%) Customer Experience
12 365 (12.06%) Full-Stack Development
13 360 (11.90%) Project Management
14 336 (11.10%) Stakeholder Management
15 334 (11.04%) Test Automation
16 331 (10.94%) Decision-Making
17 294 (9.72%) Microservices
18 283 (9.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 279 (9.22%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 585 (19.33%) SQL
2 408 (13.48%) C#
3 405 (13.38%) Java
4 400 (13.22%) JavaScript
5 395 (13.05%) Python
6 258 (8.53%) TypeScript
7 80 (2.64%) Go
8 75 (2.48%) C++
9 73 (2.41%) PHP
10 65 (2.15%) Bash
11 62 (2.05%) Apex Code
12 42 (1.39%) C
13 36 (1.19%) PowerShell
13 36 (1.19%) Scala
14 35 (1.16%) SOQL
15 34 (1.12%) SOSL
16 23 (0.76%) PL/SQL
17 20 (0.66%) VBA
18 19 (0.63%) Ruby
19 17 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 443 (14.64%) Degree
2 339 (11.20%) Security Cleared
3 256 (8.46%) SC Cleared
4 89 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 83 (2.74%) PMI Certification
6 74 (2.45%) PMP
7 68 (2.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 53 (1.75%) CISSP
8 53 (1.75%) DV Cleared
9 45 (1.49%) DBS Check
10 42 (1.39%) ISTQB
11 39 (1.29%) CISM
12 35 (1.16%) AWS Certification
13 28 (0.93%) CISA
14 27 (0.89%) Azure Certification
15 26 (0.86%) SANS
16 21 (0.69%) CGEIT
16 21 (0.69%) FFIEC
17 16 (0.53%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
18 15 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 362 (11.96%) Accessibility
2 241 (7.96%) QA
3 95 (3.14%) Data Quality
4 90 (2.97%) WCAG
5 62 (2.05%) GDPR
6 55 (1.82%) NIST
7 40 (1.32%) PMO
8 38 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 24 (0.79%) COBIT
10 22 (0.73%) GRC
11 12 (0.40%) NCSC
12 11 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.23%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.13%) Def Stans
15 4 (0.13%) ISO 9000
15 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 4 (0.13%) MiFID
System Software
1 253 (8.36%) Docker
2 59 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
3 39 (1.29%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.17%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.099%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.066%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.066%) Firmware
7 1 (0.033%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.033%) vSphere
7 1 (0.033%) Xen
Systems Management
1 246 (8.13%) Kubernetes
2 194 (6.41%) Terraform
3 83 (2.74%) Ansible
4 48 (1.59%) Argo
5 46 (1.52%) Prometheus
6 45 (1.49%) Grafana
7 22 (0.73%) Kustomize
8 12 (0.40%) Podman
9 9 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.20%) Puppet
11 5 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.17%) Packer
12 4 (0.13%) Istio
12 4 (0.13%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.13%) SCCM
13 3 (0.099%) Control-M
13 3 (0.099%) Kibana
13 3 (0.099%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.066%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 531 (17.55%) Microsoft
2 271 (8.96%) Adobe
3 131 (4.33%) Google
4 113 (3.73%) Salesforce
5 100 (3.30%) Databricks
6 86 (2.84%) Oracle
7 73 (2.41%) SAP
7 73 (2.41%) ServiceNow
8 40 (1.32%) Splunk
9 19 (0.63%) Cisco
9 19 (0.63%) IBM
10 17 (0.56%) Facebook
11 13 (0.43%) MuleSoft
12 10 (0.33%) Apple
12 10 (0.33%) IFS
13 9 (0.30%) Atlassian
13 9 (0.30%) Foundry
13 9 (0.30%) VMware
14 8 (0.26%) Okta
14 8 (0.26%) YouTube