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

 6 months to
24 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 5 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,470 3,348 6,486
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.99% 20.33% 22.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.30% 21.82% 25.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,321 2,104 4,521
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,586 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £68,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.29% +6.25% -1.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £96,063 £84,964
90th Percentile £96,250 £132,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £64,169 £70,000 £63,637
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.00% -2.10%

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 17,978 15,345 25,010
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.84% 93.19% 88.41%
Number of salaries quoted 13,054 9,077 18,589
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,750
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 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 24 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
1 109 (3.14%) Confluence
2 59 (1.70%) SharePoint
3 42 (1.21%) CMS
4 21 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (0.58%) Apache
5 20 (0.58%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 15 (0.43%) SAS
8 12 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.29%) WordPress
10 9 (0.26%) Jupyter
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.14%) Umbraco
13 4 (0.12%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.12%) PowerFactory
14 3 (0.086%) EPiServer
14 3 (0.086%) Kentico
14 3 (0.086%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.086%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 124 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
2 95 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 53 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
5 44 (1.27%) UserZoom
6 22 (0.63%) Chatbot
6 22 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 18 (0.52%) Trello
8 16 (0.46%) Adobe XD
9 13 (0.37%) MS Visio
10 5 (0.14%) Sketch
11 4 (0.12%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.12%) Revit
11 4 (0.12%) Windchill
12 3 (0.086%) Blender
12 3 (0.086%) Maya
12 3 (0.086%) Productboard
13 2 (0.058%) InVision
13 2 (0.058%) PlantUML
13 2 (0.058%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 61 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.15%) Workfront
3 20 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.20%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.17%) SAP CO
5 6 (0.17%) SAP FI
5 6 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
6 5 (0.14%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.14%) Shopify
7 4 (0.12%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.12%) Raiser’s Edge
8 3 (0.086%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.086%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 3 (0.086%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.086%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,214 (34.99%) Azure
2 851 (24.52%) AWS
3 333 (9.60%) Azure DevOps
4 225 (6.48%) SaaS
5 222 (6.40%) GCP
6 189 (5.45%) Adobe Analytics
7 176 (5.07%) GitHub
8 168 (4.84%) Power Platform
9 157 (4.52%) Azure AI
10 142 (4.09%) Serverless
11 110 (3.17%) Figma
12 83 (2.39%) GitHub Copilot
13 73 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
14 70 (2.02%) Snowflake
15 69 (1.99%) Contentsquare
16 66 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
17 65 (1.87%) Azure Machine Learning
18 62 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 59 (1.70%) iPaaS
19 59 (1.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 359 (10.35%) Broadband
2 29 (0.84%) Network Security
3 26 (0.75%) TCP/IP
4 21 (0.61%) Internet
5 19 (0.55%) VPN
5 19 (0.55%) WAN
6 16 (0.46%) LAN
7 15 (0.43%) Firewall
8 14 (0.40%) DNS
8 14 (0.40%) Ethernet
8 14 (0.40%) RS-232
9 13 (0.37%) VoIP
10 11 (0.32%) CHAP
10 11 (0.32%) CTI
11 10 (0.29%) 5G
12 9 (0.26%) SD-WAN
13 8 (0.23%) Wireless
14 7 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
14 7 (0.20%) Intranet
14 7 (0.20%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 376 (10.84%) MongoDB
2 360 (10.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 188 (5.42%) SQL Server
4 153 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
5 143 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
6 97 (2.80%) Power BI
7 95 (2.74%) Metadata
8 94 (2.71%) NoSQL
9 81 (2.33%) MySQL
10 37 (1.07%) Relational Database
11 35 (1.01%) DynamoDB
12 33 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
13 31 (0.89%) Data Lake
14 26 (0.75%) Redis
15 23 (0.66%) Big Data
16 20 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 20 (0.58%) Tableau
17 19 (0.55%) BigQuery
17 19 (0.55%) Semantic Layer
18 18 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 254 (7.32%) JIRA
2 172 (4.96%) Git
3 105 (3.03%) GitLab
4 103 (2.97%) Jenkins
5 38 (1.10%) SonarQube
6 35 (1.01%) Cypress.io
7 34 (0.98%) Selenium
8 23 (0.66%) JUnit
9 21 (0.61%) Claude Code
9 21 (0.61%) Postman
10 16 (0.46%) Cucumber
11 14 (0.40%) Maven
11 14 (0.40%) Visual Studio
12 13 (0.37%) CircleCI
12 13 (0.37%) Mockito
13 10 (0.29%) JMeter
14 8 (0.23%) Gatling
14 8 (0.23%) SpecFlow
14 8 (0.23%) XCUITest
15 7 (0.20%) Bitbucket
General
1 960 (27.67%) Social Skills
2 828 (23.86%) Finance
3 473 (13.63%) Public Sector
4 356 (10.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 338 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
6 291 (8.39%) Games
7 287 (8.27%) Law
8 218 (6.28%) Legal
9 195 (5.62%) Marketing
10 180 (5.19%) Retail
11 125 (3.60%) Banking
12 99 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
13 80 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
14 77 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
15 60 (1.73%) Advertising
16 49 (1.41%) Front Office
17 47 (1.35%) Legal Technology
18 37 (1.07%) Manufacturing
19 36 (1.04%) Aerospace
20 35 (1.01%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 881 (25.39%) Developer
2 698 (20.12%) Senior
3 469 (13.52%) Lead
4 378 (10.89%) .NET Developer
5 291 (8.39%) Analyst
6 278 (8.01%) Architect
7 270 (7.78%) Software Engineer
8 244 (7.03%) Project Manager
9 189 (5.45%) Business Analyst
10 167 (4.81%) Senior Manager
11 153 (4.41%) Senior Developer
12 141 (4.06%) IT Manager
13 109 (3.14%) Software Developer
14 106 (3.05%) Delivery Manager
15 91 (2.62%) Senior Project Manager
16 90 (2.59%) Consultant
17 89 (2.56%) Full-Stack Developer
18 84 (2.42%) Engineering Manager
19 82 (2.36%) Senior Analyst
20 81 (2.33%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 622 (17.93%) .NET
2 468 (13.49%) React
3 386 (11.12%) ASP.NET
4 366 (10.55%) .NET Core
5 354 (10.20%) ASP.NET Core
6 320 (9.22%) Node.js
7 225 (6.48%) RESTful
8 211 (6.08%) CSS
9 195 (5.62%) HTML
10 172 (4.96%) Blazor
11 162 (4.67%) AngularJS
12 152 (4.38%) Entity Framework
13 142 (4.09%) Vue
14 134 (3.86%) REST
15 125 (3.60%) ASP.NET Web API
16 95 (2.74%) .NET Framework
16 95 (2.74%) ML.NET
17 85 (2.45%) Kafka
18 84 (2.42%) Spring
19 81 (2.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 405 (11.67%) Product Ownership
2 297 (8.56%) Cloud Native
3 244 (7.03%) Social Media
4 131 (3.78%) Enterprise Software
5 105 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
6 88 (2.54%) Mobile App
7 74 (2.13%) Onboarding
8 73 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
9 71 (2.05%) Management Information System
10 64 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
11 59 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
11 59 (1.70%) Marketing Technology
12 54 (1.56%) Over-the-Top Content
13 51 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
14 48 (1.38%) Virtual Team
15 46 (1.33%) Driving Licence
16 41 (1.18%) Fixed Income
17 27 (0.78%) Data Centre
17 27 (0.78%) Security Posture
18 26 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 148 (4.27%) Linux
2 68 (1.96%) Android
3 66 (1.90%) Windows
4 44 (1.27%) Apple iOS
5 43 (1.24%) Unix
6 15 (0.43%) VMS
7 14 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
8 9 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.14%) CentOS
9 5 (0.14%) Debian
10 3 (0.086%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.086%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.029%) AIX
11 1 (0.029%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 842 (24.27%) CI/CD
2 841 (24.24%) DevOps
3 834 (24.03%) Continuous Improvement
4 781 (22.51%) AI
5 749 (21.59%) Roadmaps
6 732 (21.10%) Mentoring
7 658 (18.96%) Scrum
8 601 (17.32%) Full-Stack Development
9 595 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
10 526 (15.16%) Coaching
11 485 (13.98%) Software Engineering
12 481 (13.86%) Microservices
13 448 (12.91%) Analytics
14 421 (12.13%) Stakeholder Management
15 418 (12.05%) Decision-Making
16 416 (11.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 401 (11.56%) Test Automation
18 376 (10.84%) Customer Experience
19 360 (10.37%) Project Delivery
20 354 (10.20%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 820 (23.63%) SQL
2 728 (20.98%) C#
3 541 (15.59%) JavaScript
4 397 (11.44%) Python
5 377 (10.86%) Java
6 337 (9.71%) TypeScript
7 89 (2.56%) PHP
8 85 (2.45%) C++
9 61 (1.76%) Bash
10 53 (1.53%) Go
11 50 (1.44%) Apex Code
12 42 (1.21%) C
12 42 (1.21%) PowerShell
13 38 (1.10%) Ruby
14 35 (1.01%) SOQL
15 34 (0.98%) SOSL
16 21 (0.61%) T-SQL
17 20 (0.58%) PL/SQL
18 17 (0.49%) Bicep
19 14 (0.40%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 455 (13.11%) Degree
2 414 (11.93%) Security Cleared
3 331 (9.54%) SC Cleared
4 111 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 110 (3.17%) CISSP
6 98 (2.82%) CISM
7 96 (2.77%) PMI Certification
8 91 (2.62%) PMP
9 72 (2.07%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 60 (1.73%) ITIL Certification
11 49 (1.41%) DV Cleared
12 44 (1.27%) Azure Certification
13 33 (0.95%) DBS Check
14 28 (0.81%) CISA
15 26 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
15 26 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
16 24 (0.69%) Master's Degree
17 23 (0.66%) ISTQB
18 21 (0.61%) AWS Certification
19 18 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 392 (11.30%) Accessibility
2 297 (8.56%) QA
3 116 (3.34%) Data Quality
4 109 (3.14%) NIST
5 88 (2.54%) WCAG
6 75 (2.16%) GDPR
7 63 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 53 (1.53%) PMO
9 49 (1.41%) ISO 22301
10 34 (0.98%) GRC
11 25 (0.72%) NCSC
12 24 (0.69%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 18 (0.52%) COBIT
14 11 (0.32%) NIST 800
15 10 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.29%) PCI DSS
16 9 (0.26%) SOC 2
17 8 (0.23%) SLA
18 7 (0.20%) SOC 1
19 6 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 288 (8.30%) Docker
2 60 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (0.92%) Active Directory
4 15 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.37%) vSphere
6 4 (0.12%) Firmware
6 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.029%) GPFS
7 1 (0.029%) Lustre
7 1 (0.029%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.029%) Xen
Systems Management
1 263 (7.58%) Kubernetes
2 159 (4.58%) Terraform
3 56 (1.61%) Ansible
4 42 (1.21%) Grafana
5 29 (0.84%) Argo
6 26 (0.75%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.35%) Podman
8 7 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.20%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.14%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.14%) Istio
9 5 (0.14%) Packer
9 5 (0.14%) Puppet
10 4 (0.12%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.086%) Kibana
11 3 (0.086%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.058%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.058%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.029%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.029%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 771 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 265 (7.64%) Adobe
3 130 (3.75%) Google
4 106 (3.05%) Salesforce
5 103 (2.97%) Databricks
5 103 (2.97%) Oracle
6 82 (2.36%) SAP
7 80 (2.31%) ServiceNow
8 40 (1.15%) Facebook
9 38 (1.10%) Splunk
10 25 (0.72%) OpenAI
11 21 (0.61%) YouTube
12 20 (0.58%) Cisco
13 19 (0.55%) Apple
13 19 (0.55%) Yahoo!
14 18 (0.52%) IFS
15 17 (0.49%) IBM
15 17 (0.49%) Sony
15 17 (0.49%) VMware
16 16 (0.46%) Workday
1,373 hybrid/remote Agile jobs