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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 5 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,495 3,341 6,338
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.07% 20.31% 22.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.38% 21.80% 25.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,334 2,098 4,397
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £49,383
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,009 £67,750 £64,108
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% +5.68% -1.37%
75th Percentile £78,750 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £132,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £64,169 £70,000 £64,108
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.19% -1.37%

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 18,035 15,327 24,491
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.95% 93.18% 88.34%
Number of salaries quoted 13,088 9,060 18,139
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,981
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 £77,181
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £96,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 25 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
1 110 (3.15%) Confluence
2 61 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 42 (1.20%) CMS
4 21 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (0.57%) Apache
5 20 (0.57%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 15 (0.43%) SAS
8 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.29%) WordPress
10 9 (0.26%) Jupyter
11 7 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.14%) Umbraco
13 4 (0.11%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.11%) PowerFactory
14 3 (0.086%) EPiServer
14 3 (0.086%) Immediacy CMS
14 3 (0.086%) Kentico
14 3 (0.086%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 124 (3.55%) Microsoft Project
2 94 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
3 55 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 54 (1.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 44 (1.26%) UserZoom
6 22 (0.63%) Chatbot
6 22 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 18 (0.52%) Trello
8 16 (0.46%) Adobe XD
9 14 (0.40%) MS Visio
10 5 (0.14%) Sketch
11 4 (0.11%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.11%) Revit
11 4 (0.11%) Windchill
12 3 (0.086%) Blender
12 3 (0.086%) Maya
12 3 (0.086%) Productboard
13 2 (0.057%) InVision
13 2 (0.057%) PlantUML
13 2 (0.057%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 61 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.14%) Workfront
3 20 (0.57%) 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 (0.11%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.11%) Raiser’s Edge
8 3 (0.086%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.086%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 3 (0.086%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.086%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,226 (35.08%) Azure
2 858 (24.55%) AWS
3 336 (9.61%) Azure DevOps
4 227 (6.49%) SaaS
5 226 (6.47%) GCP
6 189 (5.41%) Adobe Analytics
7 179 (5.12%) GitHub
8 170 (4.86%) Power Platform
9 158 (4.52%) Azure AI
10 143 (4.09%) Serverless
11 110 (3.15%) Figma
12 84 (2.40%) GitHub Copilot
13 74 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
14 71 (2.03%) Snowflake
15 69 (1.97%) Contentsquare
16 67 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
17 66 (1.89%) Azure Machine Learning
18 62 (1.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 60 (1.72%) PowerApps
20 59 (1.69%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 359 (10.27%) Broadband
2 29 (0.83%) Network Security
3 26 (0.74%) TCP/IP
4 21 (0.60%) Internet
5 19 (0.54%) VPN
5 19 (0.54%) 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 (0.31%) CHAP
10 11 (0.31%) CTI
11 10 (0.29%) 5G
12 9 (0.26%) SD-WAN
13 8 (0.23%) Wireless
14 7 (0.20%) Intranet
14 7 (0.20%) Unified Communications
14 7 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 377 (10.79%) MongoDB
2 360 (10.30%) Azure SQL Database
3 191 (5.46%) SQL Server
4 153 (4.38%) Elasticsearch
5 146 (4.18%) PostgreSQL
6 98 (2.80%) Power BI
7 95 (2.72%) Metadata
8 94 (2.69%) NoSQL
9 83 (2.37%) MySQL
10 38 (1.09%) Relational Database
11 35 (1.00%) DynamoDB
12 34 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
13 31 (0.89%) Data Lake
14 26 (0.74%) Redis
15 23 (0.66%) Big Data
16 21 (0.60%) Tableau
17 20 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 19 (0.54%) BigQuery
18 19 (0.54%) Semantic Layer
19 18 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 255 (7.30%) JIRA
2 175 (5.01%) Git
3 106 (3.03%) GitLab
3 106 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 40 (1.14%) SonarQube
5 36 (1.03%) Cypress.io
6 35 (1.00%) Selenium
7 25 (0.72%) JUnit
8 22 (0.63%) Postman
9 21 (0.60%) Claude Code
10 16 (0.46%) Cucumber
11 15 (0.43%) Maven
12 14 (0.40%) Mockito
12 14 (0.40%) Visual Studio
13 13 (0.37%) CircleCI
14 10 (0.29%) JMeter
15 8 (0.23%) Bitbucket
15 8 (0.23%) Gatling
15 8 (0.23%) SpecFlow
15 8 (0.23%) XCUITest
General
1 974 (27.87%) Social Skills
2 840 (24.03%) Finance
3 475 (13.59%) Public Sector
4 363 (10.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 344 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
6 293 (8.38%) Law
7 291 (8.33%) Games
8 220 (6.29%) Legal
9 197 (5.64%) Marketing
10 180 (5.15%) Retail
11 125 (3.58%) Banking
12 100 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
13 82 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
14 76 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
15 60 (1.72%) Advertising
16 49 (1.40%) Front Office
17 47 (1.34%) Legal Technology
18 39 (1.12%) Aerospace
19 37 (1.06%) Manufacturing
20 35 (1.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 889 (25.44%) Developer
2 701 (20.06%) Senior
3 471 (13.48%) Lead
4 378 (10.82%) .NET Developer
5 294 (8.41%) Analyst
6 281 (8.04%) Architect
7 272 (7.78%) Software Engineer
8 245 (7.01%) Project Manager
9 192 (5.49%) Business Analyst
10 165 (4.72%) Senior Manager
11 157 (4.49%) Senior Developer
12 138 (3.95%) IT Manager
13 110 (3.15%) Software Developer
14 108 (3.09%) Delivery Manager
15 93 (2.66%) Consultant
16 91 (2.60%) Full-Stack Developer
16 91 (2.60%) Senior Project Manager
17 85 (2.43%) Engineering Manager
18 82 (2.35%) Product Owner
18 82 (2.35%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 627 (17.94%) .NET
2 475 (13.59%) React
3 386 (11.04%) ASP.NET
4 368 (10.53%) .NET Core
5 354 (10.13%) ASP.NET Core
6 323 (9.24%) Node.js
7 225 (6.44%) RESTful
8 214 (6.12%) CSS
9 198 (5.67%) HTML
10 172 (4.92%) Blazor
11 164 (4.69%) AngularJS
12 154 (4.41%) Entity Framework
13 142 (4.06%) Vue
14 141 (4.03%) REST
15 125 (3.58%) ASP.NET Web API
16 97 (2.78%) .NET Framework
17 95 (2.72%) ML.NET
18 86 (2.46%) Kafka
19 85 (2.43%) Spring
20 83 (2.37%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 410 (11.73%) Product Ownership
2 301 (8.61%) Cloud Native
3 243 (6.95%) Social Media
4 134 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
5 105 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
6 89 (2.55%) Mobile App
7 77 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
8 74 (2.12%) Onboarding
9 73 (2.09%) Management Information System
10 64 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
11 59 (1.69%) Marketing Technology
12 58 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
13 54 (1.55%) Over-the-Top Content
14 51 (1.46%) Cyber Threat
15 48 (1.37%) Virtual Team
16 46 (1.32%) Driving Licence
17 41 (1.17%) Fixed Income
18 27 (0.77%) Data Centre
18 27 (0.77%) Security Posture
19 26 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 149 (4.26%) Linux
2 69 (1.97%) Android
3 67 (1.92%) Windows
4 45 (1.29%) Apple iOS
5 43 (1.23%) 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
1 853 (24.41%) CI/CD
2 849 (24.29%) DevOps
3 841 (24.06%) Continuous Improvement
4 790 (22.60%) AI
5 753 (21.55%) Roadmaps
6 734 (21.00%) Mentoring
7 665 (19.03%) Scrum
8 605 (17.31%) Full-Stack Development
8 605 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
9 525 (15.02%) Coaching
10 495 (14.16%) Software Engineering
11 482 (13.79%) Microservices
12 453 (12.96%) Analytics
13 432 (12.36%) Stakeholder Management
14 422 (12.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 421 (12.05%) Decision-Making
16 406 (11.62%) Test Automation
17 376 (10.76%) Customer Experience
18 366 (10.47%) Project Delivery
19 356 (10.19%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 824 (23.58%) SQL
2 733 (20.97%) C#
3 551 (15.77%) JavaScript
4 405 (11.59%) Python
5 384 (10.99%) Java
6 339 (9.70%) TypeScript
7 89 (2.55%) PHP
8 86 (2.46%) C++
9 62 (1.77%) Bash
10 55 (1.57%) Go
11 52 (1.49%) Apex Code
12 42 (1.20%) C
12 42 (1.20%) PowerShell
13 38 (1.09%) Ruby
14 35 (1.00%) SOQL
15 34 (0.97%) SOSL
16 21 (0.60%) PL/SQL
16 21 (0.60%) T-SQL
17 17 (0.49%) Bicep
18 14 (0.40%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 465 (13.30%) Degree
2 427 (12.22%) Security Cleared
3 341 (9.76%) SC Cleared
4 113 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 110 (3.15%) CISSP
6 98 (2.80%) CISM
7 96 (2.75%) PMI Certification
8 91 (2.60%) PMP
9 72 (2.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 60 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
11 52 (1.49%) DV Cleared
12 44 (1.26%) Azure Certification
13 34 (0.97%) DBS Check
14 29 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
15 28 (0.80%) CISA
16 26 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
17 25 (0.72%) Master's Degree
18 23 (0.66%) ISTQB
19 21 (0.60%) AWS Certification
20 18 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 395 (11.30%) Accessibility
2 300 (8.58%) QA
3 119 (3.40%) Data Quality
4 111 (3.18%) NIST
5 88 (2.52%) WCAG
6 77 (2.20%) GDPR
7 63 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 54 (1.55%) PMO
9 49 (1.40%) ISO 22301
10 34 (0.97%) GRC
11 26 (0.74%) NCSC
12 24 (0.69%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 18 (0.52%) COBIT
14 12 (0.34%) 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%) Actionable Recommendations
18 7 (0.20%) SOC 1
System Software
1 291 (8.33%) Docker
2 60 (1.72%) 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 6 (0.17%) Firmware
7 4 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.029%) GPFS
8 1 (0.029%) Lustre
8 1 (0.029%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.029%) Xen
Systems Management
1 267 (7.64%) Kubernetes
2 159 (4.55%) Terraform
3 56 (1.60%) Ansible
4 43 (1.23%) Grafana
5 29 (0.83%) Argo
6 27 (0.77%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.34%) Podman
8 8 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.20%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.14%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.14%) Istio
10 5 (0.14%) Packer
10 5 (0.14%) Puppet
11 4 (0.11%) Kustomize
12 3 (0.086%) Kibana
12 3 (0.086%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.057%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.057%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.029%) linkerd
14 1 (0.029%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 774 (22.15%) Microsoft
2 265 (7.58%) Adobe
3 132 (3.78%) Google
4 109 (3.12%) Salesforce
5 105 (3.00%) Oracle
6 103 (2.95%) Databricks
7 82 (2.35%) SAP
8 80 (2.29%) ServiceNow
9 40 (1.14%) Facebook
10 38 (1.09%) Splunk
11 26 (0.74%) OpenAI
12 21 (0.60%) YouTube
13 20 (0.57%) Cisco
14 19 (0.54%) Apple
14 19 (0.54%) Yahoo!
15 18 (0.52%) IFS
16 17 (0.49%) IBM
16 17 (0.49%) Sony
16 17 (0.49%) VMware
17 16 (0.46%) Workday