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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
12 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,547 3,305 5,666
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.64% 20.12% 22.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.92% 21.66% 25.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,339 2,063 3,739
10th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £50,475
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,208 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.80% +3.85% -0.54%
75th Percentile £78,312 £93,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £132,500 £125,000
UK median annual salary £63,076 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.55% +3.85% -0.54%

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 18,751 15,258 21,879
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.66% 92.88% 87.75%
Number of salaries quoted 13,547 8,951 15,627
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,875 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%

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 12 August 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
1 113 (3.19%) Confluence
2 69 (1.95%) SharePoint
3 43 (1.21%) CMS
4 24 (0.68%) Apache Spark
5 21 (0.59%) Apache
6 16 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 16 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (0.37%) SAS
8 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
9 11 (0.31%) WordPress
10 10 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 9 (0.25%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.14%) Camunda
12 5 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.14%) Umbraco
13 4 (0.11%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.11%) PowerFactory
14 3 (0.085%) EPiServer
14 3 (0.085%) Kentico
14 3 (0.085%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 124 (3.50%) Microsoft Project
2 98 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 53 (1.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 44 (1.24%) UserZoom
6 24 (0.68%) Chatbot
7 23 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 19 (0.54%) Trello
9 17 (0.48%) Adobe XD
9 17 (0.48%) MS Visio
10 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.11%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.11%) Revit
11 4 (0.11%) Sketch
11 4 (0.11%) Windchill
12 3 (0.085%) Blender
12 3 (0.085%) Maya
12 3 (0.085%) Productboard
13 2 (0.056%) PlantUML
13 2 (0.056%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 61 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.13%) Workfront
3 23 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.28%) Workday HCM
5 9 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.20%) SAP CO
6 7 (0.20%) SAP FI
6 7 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
6 7 (0.20%) Shopify
7 6 (0.17%) Elite 3E
7 6 (0.17%) Primavera
8 5 (0.14%) Fidessa
9 4 (0.11%) Raiser’s Edge
10 3 (0.085%) Carpe Diem
10 3 (0.085%) Dynamics NAV
10 3 (0.085%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 3 (0.085%) Oracle Applications
10 3 (0.085%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.085%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,263 (35.61%) Azure
2 893 (25.18%) AWS
3 345 (9.73%) Azure DevOps
4 236 (6.65%) GCP
5 227 (6.40%) SaaS
6 191 (5.38%) GitHub
7 185 (5.22%) Power Platform
8 160 (4.51%) Adobe Analytics
9 159 (4.48%) Azure AI
10 149 (4.20%) Serverless
11 102 (2.88%) Figma
12 91 (2.57%) GitHub Copilot
13 76 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
14 74 (2.09%) Snowflake
15 68 (1.92%) Azure Machine Learning
15 68 (1.92%) Contentsquare
15 68 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
16 65 (1.83%) PowerApps
17 63 (1.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 62 (1.75%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 308 (8.68%) Broadband
2 32 (0.90%) Network Security
3 24 (0.68%) TCP/IP
4 21 (0.59%) Internet
5 19 (0.54%) VPN
6 17 (0.48%) WAN
7 15 (0.42%) Firewall
7 15 (0.42%) LAN
8 14 (0.39%) DNS
9 13 (0.37%) VoIP
10 12 (0.34%) Ethernet
10 12 (0.34%) RS-232
11 11 (0.31%) CTI
12 10 (0.28%) 5G
13 9 (0.25%) CHAP
14 8 (0.23%) SD-WAN
14 8 (0.23%) SMS
14 8 (0.23%) Wireless
15 7 (0.20%) DHCP
15 7 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 375 (10.57%) MongoDB
2 363 (10.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 206 (5.81%) SQL Server
4 153 (4.31%) Elasticsearch
5 152 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
6 113 (3.19%) Power BI
7 101 (2.85%) Metadata
8 90 (2.54%) NoSQL
9 86 (2.42%) MySQL
10 51 (1.44%) Relational Database
11 44 (1.24%) DynamoDB
12 40 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
13 34 (0.96%) Data Lake
14 29 (0.82%) Redis
15 26 (0.73%) Big Data
15 26 (0.73%) Tableau
16 20 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 19 (0.54%) BigQuery
17 19 (0.54%) Semantic Layer
18 15 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 266 (7.50%) JIRA
2 196 (5.53%) Git
3 97 (2.73%) Jenkins
4 95 (2.68%) GitLab
5 37 (1.04%) Cypress.io
5 37 (1.04%) Selenium
6 29 (0.82%) JUnit
7 28 (0.79%) SonarQube
8 23 (0.65%) Postman
9 21 (0.59%) Claude Code
10 18 (0.51%) Maven
11 17 (0.48%) Mockito
12 16 (0.45%) Cucumber
13 15 (0.42%) Visual Studio
14 13 (0.37%) CircleCI
15 10 (0.28%) Balsamiq
15 10 (0.28%) JMeter
16 9 (0.25%) Bitbucket
16 9 (0.25%) Gatling
17 8 (0.23%) Axure RP
General
1 1,027 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 898 (25.32%) Finance
3 504 (14.21%) Public Sector
4 397 (11.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 380 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
6 305 (8.60%) Law
7 240 (6.77%) Legal
8 236 (6.65%) Games
9 191 (5.38%) Marketing
10 188 (5.30%) Retail
11 121 (3.41%) Banking
12 109 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
13 93 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
14 90 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
15 76 (2.14%) Aerospace
16 62 (1.75%) Advertising
17 47 (1.33%) Legal Technology
18 44 (1.24%) Manufacturing
19 39 (1.10%) Front Office
20 34 (0.96%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 884 (24.92%) Developer
2 740 (20.86%) Senior
3 459 (12.94%) Lead
4 379 (10.69%) .NET Developer
5 319 (8.99%) Analyst
6 281 (7.92%) Software Engineer
7 277 (7.81%) Architect
8 260 (7.33%) Project Manager
9 216 (6.09%) Business Analyst
10 172 (4.85%) Senior Developer
11 160 (4.51%) Senior Manager
12 138 (3.89%) IT Manager
13 114 (3.21%) Software Developer
14 99 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
15 98 (2.76%) Delivery Manager
16 94 (2.65%) Senior Project Manager
17 92 (2.59%) Full-Stack Developer
18 91 (2.57%) Consultant
19 88 (2.48%) Product Owner
20 80 (2.26%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 640 (18.04%) .NET
2 490 (13.81%) React
3 391 (11.02%) ASP.NET
4 385 (10.85%) .NET Core
5 357 (10.06%) ASP.NET Core
6 327 (9.22%) Node.js
7 224 (6.32%) RESTful
8 223 (6.29%) CSS
9 205 (5.78%) HTML
10 177 (4.99%) Blazor
11 169 (4.76%) AngularJS
12 163 (4.60%) Entity Framework
13 143 (4.03%) Vue
14 139 (3.92%) REST
15 126 (3.55%) ASP.NET Web API
16 103 (2.90%) .NET Framework
17 96 (2.71%) ML.NET
18 95 (2.68%) Spring
19 85 (2.40%) Middleware
20 79 (2.23%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 409 (11.53%) Product Ownership
2 306 (8.63%) Cloud Native
3 216 (6.09%) Social Media
4 147 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
5 105 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
6 85 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
7 82 (2.31%) Mobile App
8 79 (2.23%) Management Information System
9 64 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
10 63 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
11 62 (1.75%) Marketing Technology
12 60 (1.69%) Onboarding
13 54 (1.52%) Over-the-Top Content
14 51 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
15 50 (1.41%) Driving Licence
16 45 (1.27%) Virtual Team
17 32 (0.90%) AI Agents
17 32 (0.90%) Blog
18 31 (0.87%) Fixed Income
19 28 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 149 (4.20%) Linux
2 69 (1.95%) Windows
3 60 (1.69%) Android
4 44 (1.24%) Unix
5 36 (1.01%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.42%) VMS
7 12 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
8 9 (0.25%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.14%) CentOS
9 5 (0.14%) Debian
10 3 (0.085%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.085%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.028%) AIX
11 1 (0.028%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 883 (24.89%) CI/CD
2 866 (24.41%) Continuous Improvement
3 862 (24.30%) DevOps
4 801 (22.58%) AI
5 750 (21.14%) Mentoring
6 715 (20.16%) Roadmaps
7 676 (19.06%) Scrum
8 638 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
9 607 (17.11%) Full-Stack Development
10 541 (15.25%) Software Engineering
11 537 (15.14%) Coaching
12 498 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
13 490 (13.81%) Microservices
14 446 (12.57%) Decision-Making
15 442 (12.46%) Analytics
16 436 (12.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 411 (11.59%) Test Automation
18 389 (10.97%) Project Delivery
19 366 (10.32%) Project Management
20 353 (9.95%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 843 (23.77%) SQL
2 760 (21.43%) C#
3 567 (15.99%) JavaScript
4 410 (11.56%) Python
5 380 (10.71%) Java
6 345 (9.73%) TypeScript
7 91 (2.57%) C++
8 90 (2.54%) PHP
9 66 (1.86%) Bash
10 53 (1.49%) Go
11 45 (1.27%) Ruby
12 40 (1.13%) PowerShell
13 39 (1.10%) C
14 34 (0.96%) Apex Code
15 24 (0.68%) PL/SQL
16 21 (0.59%) SOQL
16 21 (0.59%) T-SQL
17 20 (0.56%) SOSL
18 17 (0.48%) Bicep
19 15 (0.42%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 512 (14.43%) Degree
2 495 (13.96%) Security Cleared
3 398 (11.22%) SC Cleared
4 126 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 110 (3.10%) CISSP
6 106 (2.99%) PMI Certification
7 100 (2.82%) PMP
8 97 (2.73%) CISM
9 79 (2.23%) DV Cleared
10 75 (2.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 66 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
12 64 (1.80%) ITIL Certification
13 49 (1.38%) Azure Certification
14 40 (1.13%) DBS Check
15 32 (0.90%) Master's Degree
16 28 (0.79%) AWS Certification
17 27 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
18 26 (0.73%) CISA
19 22 (0.62%) ISTQB
20 17 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 394 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 305 (8.60%) QA
3 128 (3.61%) Data Quality
4 114 (3.21%) NIST
5 91 (2.57%) GDPR
6 90 (2.54%) WCAG
7 69 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 60 (1.69%) PMO
9 49 (1.38%) ISO 22301
10 36 (1.01%) GRC
11 30 (0.85%) NCSC
12 26 (0.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 16 (0.45%) COBIT
14 14 (0.39%) NIST 800
15 10 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.28%) PCI DSS
15 10 (0.28%) SOC 2
16 9 (0.25%) GxP
16 9 (0.25%) SLA
17 7 (0.20%) MiFID
System Software
1 310 (8.74%) Docker
2 60 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
3 36 (1.01%) Active Directory
4 15 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.37%) vSphere
6 12 (0.34%) Firmware
7 4 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.056%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.028%) GPFS
9 1 (0.028%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 272 (7.67%) Kubernetes
2 174 (4.91%) Terraform
3 55 (1.55%) Ansible
4 40 (1.13%) Grafana
5 29 (0.82%) Argo
6 28 (0.79%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.34%) Podman
8 9 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.20%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.14%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.14%) Istio
10 5 (0.14%) Puppet
11 4 (0.11%) Kustomize
11 4 (0.11%) Packer
12 3 (0.085%) Kibana
12 3 (0.085%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.056%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.056%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.028%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.028%) linkerd
Vendors
1 793 (22.36%) Microsoft
2 237 (6.68%) Adobe
3 145 (4.09%) Google
4 110 (3.10%) Oracle
5 105 (2.96%) Databricks
6 92 (2.59%) Salesforce
7 91 (2.57%) SAP
8 71 (2.00%) ServiceNow
9 40 (1.13%) Facebook
10 30 (0.85%) OpenAI
11 24 (0.68%) Splunk
12 23 (0.65%) Cisco
13 21 (0.59%) YouTube
14 19 (0.54%) Apple
14 19 (0.54%) Workday
14 19 (0.54%) Yahoo!
15 18 (0.51%) IFS
16 17 (0.48%) IBM
16 17 (0.48%) Sony
16 17 (0.48%) VMware
3,472 hybrid/remote Agile jobs