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

 6 months to
16 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 5 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,403 3,382 7,327
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.94% 20.49% 23.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.27% 21.96% 25.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,292 2,125 5,248
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,009 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.84% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £78,750 £97,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £132,500 £118,750
UK median annual salary £64,585 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.74% +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 17,659 15,399 28,229
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.69% 93.29% 88.75%
Number of salaries quoted 12,868 9,127 21,456
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,887 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,201 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.89% +4.00% -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 16 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
1 105 (3.09%) Confluence
2 58 (1.70%) SharePoint
3 41 (1.20%) CMS
4 21 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.53%) Apache
6 16 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 15 (0.44%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.44%) SAS
8 12 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.26%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.26%) WordPress
10 5 (0.15%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.15%) Umbraco
11 4 (0.12%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.12%) PowerFactory
12 3 (0.088%) Camunda
12 3 (0.088%) Kentico
12 3 (0.088%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.088%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 122 (3.59%) Microsoft Project
2 94 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 45 (1.32%) UserZoom
5 43 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
6 20 (0.59%) Chatbot
6 20 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 17 (0.50%) Trello
8 15 (0.44%) Adobe XD
9 11 (0.32%) MS Visio
10 5 (0.15%) Sketch
11 4 (0.12%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.12%) Revit
11 4 (0.12%) Windchill
12 3 (0.088%) Blender
12 3 (0.088%) Maya
12 3 (0.088%) Productboard
13 2 (0.059%) InVision
13 2 (0.059%) PlantUML
14 1 (0.029%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 65 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.18%) Workfront
3 19 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.21%) Elite 3E
5 6 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.15%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.15%) SAP CO
6 5 (0.15%) SAP FI
6 5 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
6 5 (0.15%) Shopify
6 5 (0.15%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.12%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.088%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.088%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.088%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.088%) Raiser’s Edge
9 2 (0.059%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 1,186 (34.85%) Azure
2 831 (24.42%) AWS
3 328 (9.64%) Azure DevOps
4 221 (6.49%) GCP
5 216 (6.35%) SaaS
6 191 (5.61%) Adobe Analytics
7 172 (5.05%) GitHub
8 166 (4.88%) Power Platform
9 157 (4.61%) Azure AI
10 150 (4.41%) Serverless
11 108 (3.17%) Figma
12 80 (2.35%) GitHub Copilot
13 70 (2.06%) Contentsquare
14 69 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
15 67 (1.97%) PowerApps
16 66 (1.94%) Snowflake
17 65 (1.91%) Azure Machine Learning
18 64 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
19 62 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 60 (1.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 371 (10.90%) Broadband
2 27 (0.79%) Network Security
3 25 (0.73%) TCP/IP
4 21 (0.62%) Internet
5 19 (0.56%) WAN
6 18 (0.53%) VPN
7 16 (0.47%) LAN
8 14 (0.41%) DNS
8 14 (0.41%) Ethernet
8 14 (0.41%) Firewall
8 14 (0.41%) RS-232
9 13 (0.38%) CHAP
9 13 (0.38%) VoIP
10 11 (0.32%) CTI
11 10 (0.29%) 5G
12 9 (0.26%) SD-WAN
13 8 (0.24%) Wireless
14 7 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
14 7 (0.21%) Intranet
14 7 (0.21%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 375 (11.02%) MongoDB
2 359 (10.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 189 (5.55%) SQL Server
4 153 (4.50%) Elasticsearch
5 135 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
6 99 (2.91%) NoSQL
7 95 (2.79%) Metadata
8 88 (2.59%) Power BI
9 78 (2.29%) MySQL
10 40 (1.18%) Relational Database
11 33 (0.97%) DynamoDB
12 29 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
13 28 (0.82%) Data Lake
14 25 (0.73%) Redis
15 21 (0.62%) Big Data
16 20 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 19 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
17 19 (0.56%) BigQuery
17 19 (0.56%) Semantic Layer
18 18 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 244 (7.17%) JIRA
2 153 (4.50%) Git
3 102 (3.00%) Jenkins
4 101 (2.97%) GitLab
5 39 (1.15%) SonarQube
6 35 (1.03%) Cypress.io
7 30 (0.88%) Selenium
8 21 (0.62%) Claude Code
9 19 (0.56%) JUnit
10 18 (0.53%) Postman
11 14 (0.41%) Cucumber
11 14 (0.41%) Visual Studio
12 13 (0.38%) CircleCI
12 13 (0.38%) Maven
13 12 (0.35%) Mockito
14 10 (0.29%) JMeter
15 9 (0.26%) SpecFlow
16 8 (0.24%) XCUITest
17 7 (0.21%) Bitbucket
17 7 (0.21%) WebDriver
General
1 927 (27.24%) Social Skills
2 798 (23.45%) Finance
3 466 (13.69%) Public Sector
4 343 (10.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 319 (9.37%) Analytical Skills
6 295 (8.67%) Games
7 279 (8.20%) Law
8 196 (5.76%) Legal
9 188 (5.52%) Marketing
10 175 (5.14%) Retail
11 128 (3.76%) Banking
12 89 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
13 76 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
14 73 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
15 60 (1.76%) Advertising
16 49 (1.44%) Front Office
17 46 (1.35%) Legal Technology
18 35 (1.03%) Back Office
19 34 (1.00%) Manufacturing
20 27 (0.79%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 862 (25.33%) Developer
2 678 (19.92%) Senior
3 472 (13.87%) Lead
4 382 (11.23%) .NET Developer
5 286 (8.40%) Analyst
6 278 (8.17%) Architect
7 266 (7.82%) Software Engineer
8 243 (7.14%) Project Manager
9 184 (5.41%) Business Analyst
10 178 (5.23%) Senior Manager
11 139 (4.08%) IT Manager
12 135 (3.97%) Senior Developer
13 109 (3.20%) Software Developer
14 105 (3.09%) Delivery Manager
15 95 (2.79%) Senior Project Manager
16 85 (2.50%) Consultant
17 84 (2.47%) Engineering Manager
17 84 (2.47%) Full-Stack Developer
18 82 (2.41%) Product Owner
19 80 (2.35%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 615 (18.07%) .NET
2 454 (13.34%) React
3 386 (11.34%) ASP.NET
4 364 (10.70%) .NET Core
5 355 (10.43%) ASP.NET Core
6 310 (9.11%) Node.js
7 224 (6.58%) RESTful
8 202 (5.94%) CSS
9 190 (5.58%) HTML
10 171 (5.02%) Blazor
11 159 (4.67%) AngularJS
12 150 (4.41%) Entity Framework
13 141 (4.14%) Vue
14 126 (3.70%) ASP.NET Web API
15 123 (3.61%) REST
16 96 (2.82%) .NET Framework
17 95 (2.79%) ML.NET
18 83 (2.44%) Kafka
19 80 (2.35%) Middleware
19 80 (2.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 401 (11.78%) Product Ownership
2 289 (8.49%) Cloud Native
3 246 (7.23%) Social Media
4 125 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
5 103 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
6 84 (2.47%) Mobile App
7 73 (2.15%) Management Information System
8 70 (2.06%) Onboarding
9 68 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
10 66 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
11 63 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
12 56 (1.65%) Marketing Technology
13 55 (1.62%) Over-the-Top Content
14 46 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
14 46 (1.35%) Driving Licence
14 46 (1.35%) Virtual Team
15 41 (1.20%) Fixed Income
16 29 (0.85%) Security Posture
17 27 (0.79%) Data Centre
18 25 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 152 (4.47%) Linux
2 65 (1.91%) Android
3 64 (1.88%) Windows
4 48 (1.41%) Unix
5 42 (1.23%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.44%) VMS
7 14 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
8 8 (0.24%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.15%) CentOS
9 5 (0.15%) Debian
10 3 (0.088%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.059%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.029%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 835 (24.54%) DevOps
2 806 (23.68%) CI/CD
3 794 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 755 (22.19%) AI
5 751 (22.07%) Roadmaps
6 731 (21.48%) Mentoring
7 648 (19.04%) Scrum
8 593 (17.43%) Full-Stack Development
9 564 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
10 536 (15.75%) Coaching
11 468 (13.75%) Software Engineering
12 466 (13.69%) Microservices
13 444 (13.05%) Analytics
14 398 (11.70%) Decision-Making
15 395 (11.61%) Stakeholder Management
16 391 (11.49%) Test Automation
17 390 (11.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 376 (11.05%) Customer Experience
19 351 (10.31%) Project Management
20 349 (10.26%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 802 (23.57%) SQL
2 707 (20.78%) C#
3 528 (15.52%) JavaScript
4 390 (11.46%) Python
5 378 (11.11%) Java
6 334 (9.81%) TypeScript
7 88 (2.59%) PHP
8 83 (2.44%) C++
9 65 (1.91%) Bash
10 59 (1.73%) Go
11 51 (1.50%) Apex Code
12 42 (1.23%) PowerShell
13 41 (1.20%) C
14 36 (1.06%) Ruby
15 35 (1.03%) SOQL
16 34 (1.00%) SOSL
17 21 (0.62%) T-SQL
18 18 (0.53%) PL/SQL
19 17 (0.50%) Bicep
20 15 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 433 (12.72%) Degree
2 374 (10.99%) Security Cleared
3 298 (8.76%) SC Cleared
4 107 (3.14%) CISSP
5 103 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 95 (2.79%) CISM
7 89 (2.62%) PMI Certification
8 85 (2.50%) PMP
9 72 (2.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 54 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
11 43 (1.26%) Azure Certification
12 36 (1.06%) DBS Check
13 35 (1.03%) DV Cleared
14 30 (0.88%) CISA
15 26 (0.76%) AWS Certification
16 25 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
17 24 (0.71%) Master's Degree
18 22 (0.65%) ISTQB
19 18 (0.53%) SANS
20 17 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 370 (10.87%) Accessibility
2 279 (8.20%) QA
3 104 (3.06%) Data Quality
3 104 (3.06%) NIST
4 82 (2.41%) WCAG
5 75 (2.20%) GDPR
6 57 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 50 (1.47%) PMO
8 45 (1.32%) ISO 22301
9 31 (0.91%) GRC
10 21 (0.62%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 21 (0.62%) NCSC
11 20 (0.59%) COBIT
12 11 (0.32%) NIST 800
13 10 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.26%) PCI DSS
15 7 (0.21%) SLA
15 7 (0.21%) SOC 1
15 7 (0.21%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 280 (8.23%) Docker
2 60 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
3 34 (1.00%) Active Directory
4 14 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.38%) vSphere
6 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.088%) Firmware
8 1 (0.029%) GPFS
8 1 (0.029%) Lustre
8 1 (0.029%) Xen
Systems Management
1 259 (7.61%) Kubernetes
2 159 (4.67%) Terraform
3 61 (1.79%) Ansible
4 42 (1.23%) Grafana
5 35 (1.03%) Argo
6 32 (0.94%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.35%) Podman
8 10 (0.29%) Kustomize
9 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.18%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.15%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.15%) Istio
10 5 (0.15%) Packer
10 5 (0.15%) Puppet
11 3 (0.088%) Kibana
11 3 (0.088%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.059%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.059%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.029%) linkerd
13 1 (0.029%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 766 (22.51%) Microsoft
2 264 (7.76%) Adobe
3 135 (3.97%) Google
4 101 (2.97%) Oracle
5 100 (2.94%) Salesforce
6 97 (2.85%) Databricks
7 81 (2.38%) ServiceNow
8 80 (2.35%) SAP
9 40 (1.18%) Facebook
10 38 (1.12%) Splunk
11 26 (0.76%) OpenAI
12 21 (0.62%) YouTube
13 20 (0.59%) Cisco
14 19 (0.56%) Yahoo!
15 18 (0.53%) Apple
16 17 (0.50%) IFS
16 17 (0.50%) Sony
17 16 (0.47%) IBM
17 16 (0.47%) VMware
18 15 (0.44%) Workday
1,025 hybrid/remote Agile jobs