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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,661 3,161 7,370
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.98% 24.45% 23.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.07% 25.78% 25.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,720 2,266 6,044
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £81,250 £96,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -4.36%

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 13,955 12,263 28,441
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.82% 94.83% 91.72%
Number of salaries quoted 9,706 8,874 23,206
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,868
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

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 30 March 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 83 (3.12%) Confluence
2 38 (1.43%) SharePoint
3 37 (1.39%) CMS
4 19 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.60%) Apache
6 9 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 8 (0.30%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.30%) SAS
8 7 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.23%) nginx
9 6 (0.23%) WordPress
10 5 (0.19%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.11%) IIS
11 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.11%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.11%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 47 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (1.43%) Adobe XD
3 32 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (0.86%) UserZoom
5 21 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
6 19 (0.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 19 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 16 (0.60%) Chatbot
8 13 (0.49%) MS Visio
9 10 (0.38%) Sketch
10 6 (0.23%) Trello
11 5 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
11 5 (0.19%) InVision
11 5 (0.19%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.075%) Avid Media Composer
12 2 (0.075%) Pro Tools
12 2 (0.075%) Spreadsheet
13 1 (0.038%) EngageOne
13 1 (0.038%) InDesign
13 1 (0.038%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 25 (0.94%) Oracle ERP
2 21 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.60%) SAP ERP
5 13 (0.49%) Shopify
6 11 (0.41%) Workfront
7 5 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.15%) Markit EDM
8 4 (0.15%) Primavera
9 3 (0.11%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.075%) Maximo
10 2 (0.075%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
10 2 (0.075%) SAP IBP
10 2 (0.075%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.075%) SAP PM
10 2 (0.075%) SAP SCM
11 1 (0.038%) Dynamics NAV
11 1 (0.038%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 775 (29.12%) Azure
2 591 (22.21%) AWS
3 239 (8.98%) Azure DevOps
4 188 (7.07%) GitHub
5 176 (6.61%) GCP
6 156 (5.86%) Power Platform
6 156 (5.86%) SaaS
7 152 (5.71%) Adobe Analytics
8 142 (5.34%) Serverless
9 113 (4.25%) Figma
10 99 (3.72%) Snowflake
11 74 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
12 69 (2.59%) Amazon S3
13 62 (2.33%) GitHub Copilot
14 59 (2.22%) dbt
14 59 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
15 54 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
16 51 (1.92%) Entra ID
17 50 (1.88%) Azure Data Factory
18 49 (1.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 339 (12.74%) Broadband
2 28 (1.05%) TCP/IP
3 24 (0.90%) CHAP
4 22 (0.83%) DNS
5 14 (0.53%) 4G
6 13 (0.49%) Firewall
6 13 (0.49%) WAN
7 11 (0.41%) BGP
7 11 (0.41%) Cisco IOS
7 11 (0.41%) Ethernet
7 11 (0.41%) Ethernet VPN
7 11 (0.41%) IOS XR
7 11 (0.41%) MPLS
7 11 (0.41%) RS-232
8 10 (0.38%) DHCP
9 8 (0.30%) LAN
9 8 (0.30%) VPN
10 7 (0.26%) Network Security
11 6 (0.23%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (6.16%) SQL Server
2 108 (4.06%) NoSQL
3 89 (3.34%) Power BI
4 78 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
5 77 (2.89%) MongoDB
6 74 (2.78%) MySQL
7 73 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
8 63 (2.37%) Metadata
9 58 (2.18%) Relational Database
10 51 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
10 51 (1.92%) Data Lake
11 26 (0.98%) Tableau
12 25 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
13 22 (0.83%) DynamoDB
13 22 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
14 20 (0.75%) RDBMS
15 13 (0.49%) Redis
16 12 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 10 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
17 10 (0.38%) Flink
Development Applications
1 198 (7.44%) JIRA
2 172 (6.46%) Git
3 130 (4.89%) Jenkins
4 93 (3.49%) GitLab
5 51 (1.92%) Selenium
6 49 (1.84%) SonarQube
7 38 (1.43%) Postman
8 34 (1.28%) Cypress.io
9 32 (1.20%) WebDriver
10 29 (1.09%) TeamCity
11 27 (1.01%) Balsamiq
11 27 (1.01%) SoapUI
12 25 (0.94%) Axure RP
13 24 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
14 22 (0.83%) Oracle Forms
15 19 (0.71%) Jaeger
16 17 (0.64%) JMeter
17 14 (0.53%) Cucumber
18 10 (0.38%) SpecFlow
19 9 (0.34%) CircleCI
General
1 802 (30.14%) Finance
2 777 (29.20%) Social Skills
3 318 (11.95%) Public Sector
4 291 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
5 285 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 262 (9.85%) Games
7 182 (6.84%) Law
8 149 (5.60%) Marketing
9 136 (5.11%) Banking
10 132 (4.96%) Legal
11 77 (2.89%) Retail
12 69 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
13 64 (2.41%) Front Office
14 61 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
15 59 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
15 59 (2.22%) Telecoms
16 41 (1.54%) Manufacturing
17 35 (1.32%) Back Office
18 34 (1.28%) Financial Institution
19 31 (1.16%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 538 (20.22%) Senior
2 534 (20.07%) Developer
3 423 (15.90%) Lead
4 252 (9.47%) Analyst
5 212 (7.97%) Software Engineer
6 179 (6.73%) Architect
7 161 (6.05%) Business Analyst
8 129 (4.85%) Project Manager
9 121 (4.55%) Senior Manager
10 104 (3.91%) Software Developer
11 86 (3.23%) Designer
12 85 (3.19%) Lead Developer
13 79 (2.97%) .NET Developer
14 78 (2.93%) C# Developer
15 72 (2.71%) Consultant
16 71 (2.67%) Data Engineer
17 69 (2.59%) Full-Stack Developer
18 67 (2.52%) Delivery Manager
18 67 (2.52%) Engineering Manager
19 66 (2.48%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 309 (11.61%) .NET
2 297 (11.16%) React
3 173 (6.50%) CSS
3 173 (6.50%) HTML
4 141 (5.30%) REST
5 130 (4.89%) RESTful
5 130 (4.89%) SOAP
6 126 (4.74%) Node.js
7 86 (3.23%) Kafka
8 84 (3.16%) AngularJS
9 82 (3.08%) Lightning Web Components
10 81 (3.04%) .NET Core
11 66 (2.48%) ASP.NET
12 65 (2.44%) Spring
13 62 (2.33%) Visualforce
13 62 (2.33%) Vue
14 60 (2.25%) .NET Framework
15 59 (2.22%) GraphQL
16 56 (2.10%) Spring Boot
17 50 (1.88%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 373 (14.02%) Product Ownership
2 211 (7.93%) Cloud Native
3 174 (6.54%) Social Media
4 78 (2.93%) Mobile App
5 67 (2.52%) Onboarding
6 63 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
7 61 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
8 60 (2.25%) Management Information System
8 60 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
9 54 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
10 51 (1.92%) Fixed Income
10 51 (1.92%) Low-Code
11 42 (1.58%) Over-the-Top Content
12 39 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
13 34 (1.28%) Data Structures
14 33 (1.24%) Virtual Team
15 32 (1.20%) NHS
16 28 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
17 27 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
18 25 (0.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 135 (5.07%) Linux
2 57 (2.14%) Android
3 50 (1.88%) Apple iOS
3 50 (1.88%) Windows
4 38 (1.43%) Unix
5 16 (0.60%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
7 8 (0.30%) CentOS
8 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.15%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.11%) Debian
10 3 (0.11%) OpenWrt
10 3 (0.11%) VMS
11 2 (0.075%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.038%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 653 (24.54%) DevOps
2 641 (24.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 610 (22.92%) CI/CD
4 609 (22.89%) Mentoring
5 555 (20.86%) Roadmaps
6 505 (18.98%) AI
7 486 (18.26%) Coaching
8 446 (16.76%) Scrum
9 441 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
10 409 (15.37%) Software Engineering
11 396 (14.88%) Analytics
12 306 (11.50%) Test Automation
13 265 (9.96%) Stakeholder Management
14 260 (9.77%) Project Management
15 254 (9.55%) Full-Stack Development
16 244 (9.17%) Customer Experience
17 231 (8.68%) Microservices
18 220 (8.27%) Product Roadmap
18 220 (8.27%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
19 217 (8.15%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 502 (18.87%) SQL
2 432 (16.23%) Python
3 388 (14.58%) Java
4 349 (13.12%) JavaScript
5 332 (12.48%) C#
6 216 (8.12%) TypeScript
7 84 (3.16%) Apex Code
8 83 (3.12%) PHP
9 82 (3.08%) Go
10 78 (2.93%) C++
11 57 (2.14%) PowerShell
12 54 (2.03%) Bash
13 46 (1.73%) C
14 41 (1.54%) SOQL
14 41 (1.54%) SOSL
15 36 (1.35%) Scala
16 29 (1.09%) Shell Script
17 23 (0.86%) PL/SQL
18 19 (0.71%) VBA
19 16 (0.60%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 341 (12.81%) Degree
2 300 (11.27%) Security Cleared
3 213 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 88 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (2.44%) DV Cleared
5 65 (2.44%) PMI Certification
6 51 (1.92%) PMP
7 39 (1.47%) CISSP
8 36 (1.35%) ISTQB
9 32 (1.20%) DBS Check
10 31 (1.16%) AWS Certification
11 29 (1.09%) SANS
12 28 (1.05%) Master's Degree
13 25 (0.94%) CISM
14 24 (0.90%) CGEIT
14 24 (0.90%) CISA
14 24 (0.90%) FFIEC
15 19 (0.71%) Azure Certification
15 19 (0.71%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 15 (0.56%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 330 (12.40%) Accessibility
2 215 (8.08%) QA
3 89 (3.34%) WCAG
4 55 (2.07%) Data Quality
5 50 (1.88%) GDPR
6 41 (1.54%) NIST
7 29 (1.09%) PMO
8 25 (0.94%) COBIT
9 20 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 16 (0.60%) GRC
11 10 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.19%) IFRS
12 5 (0.19%) P3O
12 5 (0.19%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.15%) NCSC
13 4 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.11%) GAAP
14 3 (0.11%) MiFID
15 2 (0.075%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.075%) SLA
System Software
1 227 (8.53%) Docker
2 53 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 42 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (0.19%) Firmware
5 5 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.075%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.038%) vCloud
8 1 (0.038%) Xen
Systems Management
1 216 (8.12%) Terraform
2 208 (7.82%) Kubernetes
3 71 (2.67%) Ansible
4 42 (1.58%) Grafana
5 39 (1.47%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.32%) Argo
7 23 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.71%) Kustomize
9 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (0.23%) Kibana
10 6 (0.23%) Podman
11 5 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.19%) Puppet
12 4 (0.15%) logstash
12 4 (0.15%) SCCM
13 3 (0.11%) Control-M
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 3 (0.11%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.075%) Packer
14 2 (0.075%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 399 (14.99%) Microsoft
2 212 (7.97%) Adobe
3 119 (4.47%) Salesforce
4 115 (4.32%) Google
5 100 (3.76%) Databricks
6 72 (2.71%) SAP
7 71 (2.67%) Oracle
8 51 (1.92%) Splunk
9 46 (1.73%) ServiceNow
10 24 (0.90%) MuleSoft
11 23 (0.86%) IBM
12 15 (0.56%) Cisco
12 15 (0.56%) Okta
13 11 (0.41%) Blue Prism
13 11 (0.41%) Workday
14 10 (0.38%) Atlassian
14 10 (0.38%) Foundry
14 10 (0.38%) Talend
15 8 (0.30%) Informatica
15 8 (0.30%) Mercator