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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,012 3,262 8,067
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.71% 22.28% 24.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.00% 23.50% 27.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,934 2,003 6,014
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,332 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,021 £53,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% +14.37% -5.84%
75th Percentile £80,000 £100,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £132,500 £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 15,852 13,879 29,852
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.70% 94.80% 90.18%
Number of salaries quoted 11,330 8,122 23,480
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,025 £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 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -9.84%

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 29 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
1 101 (3.35%) Confluence
2 43 (1.43%) CMS
3 37 (1.23%) SharePoint
4 19 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.50%) Apache
6 14 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 14 (0.46%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.33%) SAS
8 7 (0.23%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.23%) WordPress
9 6 (0.20%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.13%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.13%) nginx
10 4 (0.13%) PowerFactory
11 3 (0.100%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.066%) Camunda
12 2 (0.066%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.066%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.033%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 106 (3.52%) Microsoft Project
2 100 (3.32%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 41 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
5 38 (1.26%) UserZoom
6 24 (0.80%) Adobe XD
7 19 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 10 (0.33%) Sketch
9 8 (0.27%) 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 (0.100%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.100%) Productboard
14 2 (0.066%) Maya
14 2 (0.066%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 42 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.33%) Workfront
3 18 (0.60%) 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 (0.100%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.100%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.100%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.066%) Fidessa
8 2 (0.066%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.066%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.066%) Raiser’s Edge
8 2 (0.066%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.066%) SAP FI
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
1 862 (28.62%) Azure
2 666 (22.11%) AWS
3 228 (7.57%) Azure DevOps
4 207 (6.87%) GCP
5 189 (6.27%) Adobe Analytics
6 157 (5.21%) SaaS
7 148 (4.91%) Power Platform
8 143 (4.75%) Serverless
9 133 (4.42%) GitHub
10 122 (4.05%) Figma
11 101 (3.35%) Azure AI
12 77 (2.56%) Snowflake
13 65 (2.16%) Azure Machine Learning
14 63 (2.09%) Contentsquare
15 62 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 56 (1.86%) iPaaS
17 55 (1.83%) Amazon S3
17 55 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
18 51 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
19 48 (1.59%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 422 (14.01%) Broadband
2 26 (0.86%) TCP/IP
3 21 (0.70%) CHAP
4 20 (0.66%) DNS
4 20 (0.66%) Network Security
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 (0.37%) BGP
9 11 (0.37%) Cisco IOS
9 11 (0.37%) Ethernet VPN
9 11 (0.37%) IOS XR
9 11 (0.37%) MPLS
10 8 (0.27%) Internet
10 8 (0.27%) VPN
11 7 (0.23%) DHCP
11 7 (0.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (6.31%) MongoDB
2 171 (5.68%) SQL Server
3 145 (4.81%) Azure SQL Database
4 110 (3.65%) NoSQL
4 110 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
5 104 (3.45%) Metadata
6 83 (2.76%) Power BI
7 65 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
7 65 (2.16%) MySQL
8 44 (1.46%) Relational Database
9 37 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
10 32 (1.06%) Data Lake
11 28 (0.93%) DynamoDB
12 20 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
13 18 (0.60%) RDBMS
13 18 (0.60%) Tableau
14 17 (0.56%) Big Data
14 17 (0.56%) Redis
15 15 (0.50%) BigQuery
16 13 (0.43%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 228 (7.57%) JIRA
2 156 (5.18%) Git
3 120 (3.98%) Jenkins
4 104 (3.45%) GitLab
5 52 (1.73%) Selenium
6 42 (1.39%) Postman
7 39 (1.29%) SonarQube
8 34 (1.13%) Cypress.io
9 27 (0.90%) 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 (0.60%) Jaeger
14 15 (0.50%) Cucumber
14 15 (0.50%) JMeter
15 14 (0.46%) Claude Code
16 13 (0.43%) Axure RP
16 13 (0.43%) CircleCI
17 12 (0.40%) SpecFlow
General
1 870 (28.88%) Social Skills
2 793 (26.33%) Finance
3 425 (14.11%) Public Sector
4 321 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
5 319 (10.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 296 (9.83%) Games
7 203 (6.74%) Law
8 180 (5.98%) Marketing
9 153 (5.08%) Banking
10 149 (4.95%) Legal
11 132 (4.38%) Retail
12 72 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
13 56 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
13 56 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
14 51 (1.69%) Front Office
15 45 (1.49%) Telecoms
16 36 (1.20%) Advertising
17 35 (1.16%) Back Office
18 31 (1.03%) Manufacturing
19 28 (0.93%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 626 (20.78%) Senior
2 586 (19.46%) Developer
3 483 (16.04%) Lead
4 294 (9.76%) Analyst
5 229 (7.60%) Software Engineer
6 222 (7.37%) Project Manager
7 212 (7.04%) Architect
8 199 (6.61%) Business Analyst
9 193 (6.41%) Senior Manager
10 168 (5.58%) .NET Developer
11 108 (3.59%) Software Developer
12 99 (3.29%) Senior Project Manager
13 95 (3.15%) Delivery Manager
14 90 (2.99%) Designer
15 89 (2.95%) Product Owner
16 82 (2.72%) Engineering Manager
17 81 (2.69%) Product Manager
18 76 (2.52%) Lead Developer
18 76 (2.52%) Senior Developer
19 72 (2.39%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 367 (12.18%) .NET
2 349 (11.59%) React
3 201 (6.67%) Node.js
4 166 (5.51%) .NET Core
5 164 (5.44%) HTML
6 161 (5.35%) ASP.NET
7 159 (5.28%) CSS
8 146 (4.85%) ASP.NET Core
9 142 (4.71%) RESTful
10 122 (4.05%) REST
11 99 (3.29%) AngularJS
12 86 (2.86%) SOAP
13 79 (2.62%) Vue
14 77 (2.56%) Kafka
15 73 (2.42%) Spring
16 70 (2.32%) Entity Framework
17 66 (2.19%) Blazor
18 61 (2.03%) Lightning Web Components
19 54 (1.79%) Spring Boot
20 51 (1.69%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 420 (13.94%) Product Ownership
2 252 (8.37%) Cloud Native
3 245 (8.13%) Social Media
4 88 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
5 78 (2.59%) Mobile App
6 76 (2.52%) Over-the-Top Content
7 75 (2.49%) Onboarding
8 61 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
9 60 (1.99%) Management Information System
10 56 (1.86%) Marketing Technology
11 55 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
12 54 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
13 47 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
14 41 (1.36%) Fixed Income
14 41 (1.36%) Virtual Team
15 40 (1.33%) Driving Licence
16 31 (1.03%) Data Structures
16 31 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
17 30 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
18 29 (0.96%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 135 (4.48%) Linux
2 63 (2.09%) Android
3 46 (1.53%) Apple iOS
4 43 (1.43%) Unix
5 41 (1.36%) 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 (0.100%) VMS
11 2 (0.066%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.033%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 708 (23.51%) Roadmaps
2 701 (23.27%) Mentoring
3 668 (22.18%) DevOps
4 667 (22.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 641 (21.28%) CI/CD
6 599 (19.89%) AI
7 544 (18.06%) Coaching
7 544 (18.06%) Scrum
8 466 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
9 435 (14.44%) Analytics
10 389 (12.92%) Software Engineering
11 382 (12.68%) Customer Experience
12 362 (12.02%) Full-Stack Development
13 358 (11.89%) Project Management
14 333 (11.06%) Test Automation
15 332 (11.02%) Stakeholder Management
16 327 (10.86%) Decision-Making
17 293 (9.73%) Microservices
18 282 (9.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 279 (9.26%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 579 (19.22%) SQL
2 408 (13.55%) C#
3 401 (13.31%) Java
4 398 (13.21%) JavaScript
5 391 (12.98%) Python
6 255 (8.47%) TypeScript
7 80 (2.66%) Go
8 75 (2.49%) C++
9 73 (2.42%) PHP
10 63 (2.09%) Bash
11 62 (2.06%) Apex Code
12 42 (1.39%) C
13 36 (1.20%) Scala
14 35 (1.16%) PowerShell
14 35 (1.16%) SOQL
15 34 (1.13%) SOSL
16 23 (0.76%) PL/SQL
17 20 (0.66%) VBA
18 19 (0.63%) Ruby
19 17 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 440 (14.61%) Degree
2 334 (11.09%) Security Cleared
3 252 (8.37%) SC Cleared
4 88 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 83 (2.76%) PMI Certification
6 74 (2.46%) PMP
7 68 (2.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 52 (1.73%) CISSP
8 52 (1.73%) DV Cleared
9 45 (1.49%) DBS Check
10 42 (1.39%) ISTQB
11 38 (1.26%) CISM
12 34 (1.13%) AWS Certification
13 28 (0.93%) CISA
14 26 (0.86%) Azure Certification
14 26 (0.86%) SANS
15 21 (0.70%) CGEIT
15 21 (0.70%) FFIEC
16 16 (0.53%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 15 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 362 (12.02%) Accessibility
2 240 (7.97%) QA
3 93 (3.09%) Data Quality
4 90 (2.99%) WCAG
5 62 (2.06%) GDPR
6 54 (1.79%) NIST
7 40 (1.33%) PMO
8 37 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 24 (0.80%) COBIT
10 22 (0.73%) GRC
11 11 (0.37%) NCSC
12 10 (0.33%) 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%) IFRS
15 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 15288
15 4 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 249 (8.27%) Docker
2 59 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
3 39 (1.29%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.17%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.100%) 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
1 244 (8.10%) Kubernetes
2 192 (6.37%) Terraform
3 82 (2.72%) Ansible
4 48 (1.59%) Argo
5 45 (1.49%) Prometheus
6 44 (1.46%) 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 (0.100%) Control-M
13 3 (0.100%) Kibana
13 3 (0.100%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.066%) logstash
Vendors
1 529 (17.56%) Microsoft
2 270 (8.96%) Adobe
3 130 (4.32%) Google
4 112 (3.72%) Salesforce
5 100 (3.32%) Databricks
6 86 (2.86%) Oracle
7 73 (2.42%) SAP
8 72 (2.39%) ServiceNow
9 39 (1.29%) Splunk
10 19 (0.63%) Cisco
10 19 (0.63%) IBM
11 17 (0.56%) Facebook
12 13 (0.43%) MuleSoft
13 10 (0.33%) Apple
13 10 (0.33%) IFS
14 9 (0.30%) Atlassian
14 9 (0.30%) Foundry
14 9 (0.30%) VMware
15 8 (0.27%) Okta
15 8 (0.27%) YouTube