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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 5 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,507 3,354 6,244
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.06% 20.35% 22.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.36% 21.85% 25.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,341 2,110 4,314
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,018 £67,750 £64,108
Median % change year-on-year -9.94% +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 18,117 15,347 24,174
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.98% 93.11% 88.29%
Number of salaries quoted 13,143 9,074 17,866
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £96,250
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 26 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
1 112 (3.19%) Confluence
2 62 (1.77%) 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%) Camunda
13 4 (0.11%) PowerFactory
14 3 (0.086%) Kentico
14 3 (0.086%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.086%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 124 (3.54%) Microsoft Project
2 95 (2.71%) Microsoft Office
3 56 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
4 54 (1.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 44 (1.25%) UserZoom
6 22 (0.63%) Chatbot
6 22 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 18 (0.51%) Trello
8 16 (0.46%) Adobe XD
9 15 (0.43%) 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 (1.74%) 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 1,229 (35.04%) Azure
2 863 (24.61%) AWS
3 337 (9.61%) Azure DevOps
4 228 (6.50%) SaaS
5 227 (6.47%) GCP
6 189 (5.39%) Adobe Analytics
7 179 (5.10%) GitHub
8 170 (4.85%) Power Platform
9 158 (4.51%) Azure AI
10 143 (4.08%) Serverless
11 110 (3.14%) Figma
12 84 (2.40%) GitHub Copilot
13 75 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
14 71 (2.02%) Snowflake
15 69 (1.97%) Contentsquare
16 67 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
17 66 (1.88%) Azure Machine Learning
18 62 (1.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 61 (1.74%) PowerApps
20 59 (1.68%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 359 (10.24%) 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 (10.75%) MongoDB
2 360 (10.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 192 (5.47%) SQL Server
4 153 (4.36%) Elasticsearch
5 146 (4.16%) PostgreSQL
6 98 (2.79%) Power BI
7 95 (2.71%) Metadata
7 95 (2.71%) NoSQL
8 83 (2.37%) MySQL
9 39 (1.11%) Relational Database
10 35 (1.00%) DynamoDB
11 34 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
12 31 (0.88%) Data Lake
13 27 (0.77%) Redis
14 23 (0.66%) Big Data
15 21 (0.60%) Tableau
16 20 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 19 (0.54%) BigQuery
17 19 (0.54%) Semantic Layer
18 18 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 258 (7.36%) JIRA
2 175 (4.99%) Git
3 107 (3.05%) Jenkins
4 106 (3.02%) GitLab
5 40 (1.14%) SonarQube
6 36 (1.03%) Cypress.io
7 35 (1.00%) Selenium
8 25 (0.71%) JUnit
9 22 (0.63%) Postman
10 21 (0.60%) Claude Code
11 16 (0.46%) Cucumber
12 15 (0.43%) Maven
13 14 (0.40%) Mockito
13 14 (0.40%) Visual Studio
14 13 (0.37%) CircleCI
15 10 (0.29%) JMeter
16 8 (0.23%) Bitbucket
16 8 (0.23%) Gatling
16 8 (0.23%) SpecFlow
16 8 (0.23%) XCUITest
General
1 977 (27.86%) Social Skills
2 841 (23.98%) Finance
3 477 (13.60%) Public Sector
4 364 (10.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 344 (9.81%) Analytical Skills
6 293 (8.35%) Law
7 291 (8.30%) Games
8 220 (6.27%) Legal
9 197 (5.62%) Marketing
10 181 (5.16%) Retail
11 125 (3.56%) Banking
12 101 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
13 81 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
14 78 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
15 60 (1.71%) Advertising
16 49 (1.40%) Front Office
17 47 (1.34%) Legal Technology
18 41 (1.17%) Aerospace
19 40 (1.14%) Manufacturing
20 35 (1.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 890 (25.38%) Developer
2 705 (20.10%) Senior
3 472 (13.46%) Lead
4 378 (10.78%) .NET Developer
5 295 (8.41%) Analyst
6 281 (8.01%) Architect
7 274 (7.81%) Software Engineer
8 246 (7.01%) Project Manager
9 192 (5.47%) Business Analyst
10 166 (4.73%) Senior Manager
11 157 (4.48%) Senior Developer
12 138 (3.93%) IT Manager
13 111 (3.17%) Software Developer
14 108 (3.08%) Delivery Manager
15 94 (2.68%) Consultant
16 91 (2.59%) Full-Stack Developer
16 91 (2.59%) Senior Project Manager
17 85 (2.42%) Engineering Manager
18 83 (2.37%) Senior Analyst
19 82 (2.34%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 631 (17.99%) .NET
2 477 (13.60%) React
3 388 (11.06%) ASP.NET
4 369 (10.52%) .NET Core
5 354 (10.09%) ASP.NET Core
6 323 (9.21%) Node.js
7 225 (6.42%) RESTful
8 214 (6.10%) CSS
9 198 (5.65%) HTML
10 173 (4.93%) Blazor
11 166 (4.73%) AngularJS
12 154 (4.39%) Entity Framework
13 143 (4.08%) REST
14 142 (4.05%) Vue
15 125 (3.56%) ASP.NET Web API
16 98 (2.79%) .NET Framework
17 95 (2.71%) ML.NET
18 87 (2.48%) Kafka
19 86 (2.45%) Spring
20 84 (2.40%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 411 (11.72%) Product Ownership
2 302 (8.61%) Cloud Native
3 243 (6.93%) Social Media
4 135 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
5 105 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
6 90 (2.57%) Mobile App
7 78 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
8 74 (2.11%) Management Information System
8 74 (2.11%) Onboarding
9 65 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
10 59 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
10 59 (1.68%) Marketing Technology
11 54 (1.54%) Over-the-Top Content
12 51 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
13 48 (1.37%) Virtual Team
14 46 (1.31%) Driving Licence
15 41 (1.17%) Fixed Income
16 27 (0.77%) Data Centre
16 27 (0.77%) Security Posture
17 26 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 149 (4.25%) Linux
2 69 (1.97%) Android
3 67 (1.91%) Windows
4 45 (1.28%) 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
1 857 (24.44%) CI/CD
2 851 (24.27%) DevOps
3 846 (24.12%) Continuous Improvement
4 793 (22.61%) AI
5 755 (21.53%) Roadmaps
6 740 (21.10%) Mentoring
7 666 (18.99%) Scrum
8 608 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
9 607 (17.31%) Full-Stack Development
10 530 (15.11%) Coaching
11 502 (14.31%) Software Engineering
12 485 (13.83%) Microservices
13 454 (12.95%) Analytics
14 435 (12.40%) Stakeholder Management
15 425 (12.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 421 (12.00%) Decision-Making
17 408 (11.63%) Test Automation
18 377 (10.75%) Customer Experience
19 368 (10.49%) Project Delivery
20 358 (10.21%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 826 (23.55%) SQL
2 736 (20.99%) C#
3 551 (15.71%) JavaScript
4 406 (11.58%) Python
5 386 (11.01%) Java
6 341 (9.72%) TypeScript
7 89 (2.54%) PHP
8 86 (2.45%) C++
9 62 (1.77%) Bash
10 56 (1.60%) Go
11 52 (1.48%) Apex Code
12 42 (1.20%) C
12 42 (1.20%) PowerShell
13 38 (1.08%) 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 (0.48%) Bicep
18 14 (0.40%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 466 (13.29%) Degree
2 431 (12.29%) Security Cleared
3 344 (9.81%) SC Cleared
4 113 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 110 (3.14%) CISSP
6 98 (2.79%) CISM
7 97 (2.77%) PMI Certification
8 92 (2.62%) PMP
9 72 (2.05%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 60 (1.71%) ITIL Certification
11 54 (1.54%) DV Cleared
12 44 (1.25%) Azure Certification
13 34 (0.97%) DBS Check
14 31 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
15 28 (0.80%) CISA
16 26 (0.74%) Master's Degree
16 26 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
17 23 (0.66%) ISTQB
18 21 (0.60%) AWS Certification
19 18 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 396 (11.29%) Accessibility
2 300 (8.55%) QA
3 118 (3.36%) Data Quality
4 111 (3.17%) NIST
5 88 (2.51%) WCAG
6 77 (2.20%) GDPR
7 63 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 54 (1.54%) PMO
9 49 (1.40%) ISO 22301
10 34 (0.97%) GRC
11 26 (0.74%) NCSC
12 24 (0.68%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 18 (0.51%) 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
1 293 (8.35%) Docker
2 60 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (0.91%) 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
1 268 (7.64%) Kubernetes
2 160 (4.56%) Terraform
3 57 (1.63%) 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
1 776 (22.13%) Microsoft
2 265 (7.56%) Adobe
3 132 (3.76%) Google
4 109 (3.11%) Salesforce
5 104 (2.97%) Oracle
6 102 (2.91%) Databricks
7 82 (2.34%) SAP
8 80 (2.28%) ServiceNow
9 40 (1.14%) Facebook
10 38 (1.08%) 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 (0.51%) IFS
16 17 (0.48%) IBM
16 17 (0.48%) Sony
16 17 (0.48%) VMware
17 16 (0.46%) Workday