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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 5 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,436 3,408 7,461
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.19% 20.69% 23.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.55% 22.14% 25.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,314 2,131 5,366
10th Percentile £42,125 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,094 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +11.50% -3.41%
75th Percentile £78,492 £98,237 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £132,500 £117,500
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 17,578 15,394 28,768
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.84% 93.48% 88.98%
Number of salaries quoted 12,832 9,111 21,964
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

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 10 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
1 106 (3.08%) Confluence
2 57 (1.66%) SharePoint
3 41 (1.19%) CMS
4 20 (0.58%) Apache
4 20 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 16 (0.47%) Apache Spark
6 15 (0.44%) SAS
7 12 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.26%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.23%) WordPress
10 5 (0.15%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.15%) Umbraco
11 4 (0.12%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.12%) PowerFactory
12 3 (0.087%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.087%) Kentico
12 3 (0.087%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.087%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.087%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 122 (3.55%) Microsoft Project
2 96 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 46 (1.34%) UserZoom
5 45 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
6 22 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 19 (0.55%) Chatbot
8 16 (0.47%) Trello
9 15 (0.44%) Adobe XD
10 12 (0.35%) MS Visio
11 5 (0.15%) Sketch
12 4 (0.12%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.12%) Revit
12 4 (0.12%) Windchill
13 3 (0.087%) Blender
13 3 (0.087%) Maya
13 3 (0.087%) Productboard
14 2 (0.058%) Photoshop
14 2 (0.058%) PlantUML
14 2 (0.058%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 67 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.16%) Workfront
3 20 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.20%) Elite 3E
5 6 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.17%) Shopify
6 5 (0.15%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.15%) SAP CO
6 5 (0.15%) SAP FI
6 5 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.12%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.12%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.087%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.087%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.087%) Raiser’s Edge
8 3 (0.087%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,175 (34.20%) Azure
2 830 (24.16%) AWS
3 325 (9.46%) Azure DevOps
4 228 (6.64%) GCP
5 198 (5.76%) SaaS
6 193 (5.62%) Adobe Analytics
7 176 (5.12%) Power Platform
8 173 (5.03%) GitHub
9 157 (4.57%) Azure AI
10 156 (4.54%) Serverless
11 108 (3.14%) Figma
12 80 (2.33%) GitHub Copilot
13 74 (2.15%) PowerApps
14 71 (2.07%) Contentsquare
15 67 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
16 65 (1.89%) Azure Machine Learning
16 65 (1.89%) Snowflake
17 64 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
18 61 (1.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 59 (1.72%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 401 (11.67%) Broadband
2 27 (0.79%) Network Security
3 26 (0.76%) TCP/IP
4 21 (0.61%) Internet
4 21 (0.61%) VPN
5 19 (0.55%) WAN
6 16 (0.47%) LAN
7 15 (0.44%) Ethernet
7 15 (0.44%) Firewall
7 15 (0.44%) RS-232
8 14 (0.41%) DNS
9 13 (0.38%) CHAP
9 13 (0.38%) VoIP
10 12 (0.35%) 4G
11 11 (0.32%) CTI
12 10 (0.29%) 5G
13 9 (0.26%) Cisco IOS
13 9 (0.26%) Ethernet VPN
13 9 (0.26%) IOS XR
13 9 (0.26%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 380 (11.06%) MongoDB
2 360 (10.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 190 (5.53%) SQL Server
4 153 (4.45%) Elasticsearch
5 131 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
6 105 (3.06%) NoSQL
7 102 (2.97%) Metadata
8 90 (2.62%) Power BI
9 79 (2.30%) MySQL
10 43 (1.25%) Relational Database
11 34 (0.99%) DynamoDB
12 32 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
13 28 (0.81%) Data Lake
14 24 (0.70%) Redis
15 21 (0.61%) Big Data
16 19 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
16 19 (0.55%) BigQuery
16 19 (0.55%) Semantic Layer
16 19 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 18 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 242 (7.04%) JIRA
2 163 (4.74%) Git
3 113 (3.29%) Jenkins
4 101 (2.94%) GitLab
5 41 (1.19%) SonarQube
6 34 (0.99%) Cypress.io
6 34 (0.99%) Selenium
7 22 (0.64%) Postman
8 21 (0.61%) Claude Code
9 19 (0.55%) JUnit
10 16 (0.47%) Cucumber
10 16 (0.47%) Visual Studio
11 15 (0.44%) JMeter
12 13 (0.38%) CircleCI
12 13 (0.38%) Maven
12 13 (0.38%) TeamCity
13 12 (0.35%) Mockito
14 11 (0.32%) Jaeger
14 11 (0.32%) SpecFlow
15 9 (0.26%) WebDriver
General
1 929 (27.04%) Social Skills
2 800 (23.28%) Finance
3 476 (13.85%) Public Sector
4 344 (10.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 323 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
6 305 (8.88%) Games
7 277 (8.06%) Law
8 190 (5.53%) Marketing
9 178 (5.18%) Legal
10 177 (5.15%) Retail
11 133 (3.87%) Banking
12 92 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
13 76 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
14 72 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
15 61 (1.78%) Advertising
16 50 (1.46%) Front Office
17 46 (1.34%) Legal Technology
18 35 (1.02%) Back Office
18 35 (1.02%) Telecoms
19 34 (0.99%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 846 (24.62%) Developer
2 691 (20.11%) Senior
3 485 (14.12%) Lead
4 382 (11.12%) .NET Developer
5 290 (8.44%) Analyst
6 285 (8.29%) Architect
7 275 (8.00%) Software Engineer
8 248 (7.22%) Project Manager
9 192 (5.59%) Senior Manager
10 185 (5.38%) Business Analyst
11 126 (3.67%) IT Manager
12 117 (3.41%) Senior Developer
13 113 (3.29%) Delivery Manager
14 111 (3.23%) Software Developer
15 101 (2.94%) Senior Project Manager
16 87 (2.53%) Engineering Manager
17 85 (2.47%) Consultant
18 84 (2.44%) Full-Stack Developer
18 84 (2.44%) Product Owner
19 83 (2.42%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 601 (17.49%) .NET
2 459 (13.36%) React
3 384 (11.18%) ASP.NET
4 365 (10.62%) .NET Core
5 354 (10.30%) ASP.NET Core
6 309 (8.99%) Node.js
7 218 (6.34%) RESTful
8 205 (5.97%) CSS
9 193 (5.62%) HTML
10 170 (4.95%) Blazor
11 163 (4.74%) AngularJS
12 149 (4.34%) Entity Framework
13 143 (4.16%) Vue
14 128 (3.73%) REST
15 126 (3.67%) ASP.NET Web API
16 95 (2.76%) .NET Framework
16 95 (2.76%) ML.NET
17 84 (2.44%) Kafka
17 84 (2.44%) Spring
18 66 (1.92%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 410 (11.93%) Product Ownership
2 288 (8.38%) Cloud Native
3 257 (7.48%) Social Media
4 126 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
5 106 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
6 85 (2.47%) Mobile App
7 73 (2.12%) Management Information System
8 72 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
8 72 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
9 69 (2.01%) Onboarding
10 64 (1.86%) Over-the-Top Content
11 62 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
12 55 (1.60%) Marketing Technology
13 47 (1.37%) Driving Licence
13 47 (1.37%) Virtual Team
14 41 (1.19%) Fixed Income
15 33 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
16 32 (0.93%) Public Cloud
16 32 (0.93%) Security Posture
17 31 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 160 (4.66%) Linux
2 66 (1.92%) Android
3 64 (1.86%) Windows
4 52 (1.51%) Unix
5 44 (1.28%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
6 15 (0.44%) VMS
7 10 (0.29%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.20%) CentOS
9 6 (0.17%) Debian
10 5 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.087%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.029%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 837 (24.36%) DevOps
2 790 (22.99%) CI/CD
3 784 (22.82%) Continuous Improvement
4 770 (22.41%) Roadmaps
5 753 (21.92%) Mentoring
6 748 (21.77%) AI
7 654 (19.03%) Scrum
8 595 (17.32%) Full-Stack Development
9 560 (16.30%) Coaching
10 542 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
11 480 (13.97%) Software Engineering
12 457 (13.30%) Analytics
13 450 (13.10%) Microservices
14 396 (11.53%) Decision-Making
15 393 (11.44%) Stakeholder Management
16 382 (11.12%) Customer Experience
17 377 (10.97%) Test Automation
18 367 (10.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 365 (10.62%) Project Management
20 350 (10.19%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 804 (23.40%) SQL
2 688 (20.02%) C#
3 536 (15.60%) JavaScript
4 405 (11.79%) Python
5 396 (11.53%) Java
6 337 (9.81%) TypeScript
7 88 (2.56%) PHP
8 85 (2.47%) C++
9 72 (2.10%) Bash
10 67 (1.95%) Go
11 54 (1.57%) Apex Code
12 44 (1.28%) PowerShell
13 42 (1.22%) C
14 35 (1.02%) Ruby
14 35 (1.02%) SOQL
15 34 (0.99%) SOSL
16 22 (0.64%) VBA
17 21 (0.61%) T-SQL
18 18 (0.52%) Scala
19 17 (0.49%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 438 (12.75%) Degree
2 372 (10.83%) Security Cleared
3 288 (8.38%) SC Cleared
4 101 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 90 (2.62%) CISSP
6 87 (2.53%) PMI Certification
7 83 (2.42%) PMP
8 78 (2.27%) CISM
9 72 (2.10%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 45 (1.31%) Azure Certification
10 45 (1.31%) DV Cleared
11 42 (1.22%) DBS Check
12 39 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
13 31 (0.90%) AWS Certification
14 29 (0.84%) CISA
15 27 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
16 24 (0.70%) ISTQB
17 23 (0.67%) Master's Degree
18 18 (0.52%) SANS
19 16 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 372 (10.83%) Accessibility
2 269 (7.83%) QA
3 103 (3.00%) Data Quality
4 87 (2.53%) NIST
5 79 (2.30%) WCAG
6 73 (2.12%) GDPR
7 56 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 50 (1.46%) PMO
9 29 (0.84%) GRC
9 29 (0.84%) ISO 22301
10 20 (0.58%) COBIT
11 19 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 19 (0.55%) NCSC
12 10 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.29%) PCI DSS
13 9 (0.26%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.23%) SLA
15 7 (0.20%) SOC 1
15 7 (0.20%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 302 (8.79%) Docker
2 60 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
3 36 (1.05%) Active Directory
4 15 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.38%) vSphere
6 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.058%) Firmware
8 1 (0.029%) GPFS
8 1 (0.029%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.029%) Lustre
8 1 (0.029%) Xen
Systems Management
1 281 (8.18%) Kubernetes
2 170 (4.95%) Terraform
3 70 (2.04%) Ansible
4 43 (1.25%) Grafana
5 40 (1.16%) Argo
6 38 (1.11%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.44%) Kustomize
8 12 (0.35%) Podman
9 6 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.17%) Puppet
10 5 (0.15%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.15%) Istio
10 5 (0.15%) Packer
11 3 (0.087%) Kibana
11 3 (0.087%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.087%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.058%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.058%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.058%) SCCM
Vendors
1 774 (22.53%) Microsoft
2 265 (7.71%) Adobe
3 147 (4.28%) Google
4 104 (3.03%) Salesforce
5 102 (2.97%) Oracle
6 94 (2.74%) Databricks
7 83 (2.42%) SAP
7 83 (2.42%) ServiceNow
8 40 (1.16%) Facebook
8 40 (1.16%) Splunk
9 28 (0.81%) Cisco
10 21 (0.61%) OpenAI
10 21 (0.61%) YouTube
11 19 (0.55%) Yahoo!
12 18 (0.52%) Apple
13 17 (0.49%) IBM
13 17 (0.49%) IFS
13 17 (0.49%) Sony
13 17 (0.49%) VMware
14 15 (0.44%) MuleSoft