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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,843 3,484 8,011
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.43% 24.09% 24.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.64% 25.35% 27.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,865 2,264 6,022
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,903 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,290 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +14.37% -5.84%
75th Percentile £80,000 £99,063 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £130,000 £99,900
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 15,256 13,742 29,604
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.79% 95.02% 91.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,828 8,906 23,443
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,354 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

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 May 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 99 (3.48%) Confluence
2 49 (1.72%) CMS
3 43 (1.51%) SharePoint
4 19 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 13 (0.46%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.42%) Apache
7 12 (0.42%) SAS
8 8 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.25%) WordPress
10 6 (0.21%) nginx
10 6 (0.21%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.11%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.11%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.070%) PowerFactory
12 2 (0.070%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.035%) Drupal
13 1 (0.035%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 53 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 41 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
4 35 (1.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 30 (1.06%) UserZoom
6 28 (0.98%) Adobe XD
7 20 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.32%) Chatbot
8 9 (0.32%) MS Visio
8 9 (0.32%) Sketch
9 5 (0.18%) InVision
9 5 (0.18%) Trello
10 4 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.14%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.11%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.070%) Avid Media Composer
12 2 (0.070%) Productboard
12 2 (0.070%) Revit
12 2 (0.070%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.070%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 31 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
2 20 (0.70%) Workfront
3 19 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.53%) SAP ERP
5 8 (0.28%) Shopify
6 6 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.14%) Markit EDM
8 3 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.11%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.070%) Infor SunSystems
9 2 (0.070%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.070%) SAP PM
9 2 (0.070%) SAP SCM
10 1 (0.035%) Fidessa
10 1 (0.035%) Maximo
10 1 (0.035%) NetSuite
10 1 (0.035%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.035%) SAP MM
10 1 (0.035%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 853 (30.00%) Azure
2 639 (22.48%) AWS
3 249 (8.76%) Azure DevOps
4 201 (7.07%) GCP
5 182 (6.40%) Adobe Analytics
6 155 (5.45%) GitHub
7 151 (5.31%) SaaS
8 150 (5.28%) Power Platform
9 149 (5.24%) Serverless
10 127 (4.47%) Figma
11 95 (3.34%) Snowflake
12 86 (3.02%) Azure AI
13 67 (2.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 64 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
14 64 (2.25%) Azure Machine Learning
15 62 (2.18%) Amazon S3
16 55 (1.93%) Contentsquare
16 55 (1.93%) GitHub Copilot
17 48 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
18 45 (1.58%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 387 (13.61%) Broadband
2 27 (0.95%) CHAP
3 24 (0.84%) TCP/IP
4 23 (0.81%) DNS
5 16 (0.56%) Network Security
6 14 (0.49%) 4G
6 14 (0.49%) Ethernet
6 14 (0.49%) RS-232
7 12 (0.42%) Firewall
7 12 (0.42%) WAN
8 11 (0.39%) BGP
8 11 (0.39%) Cisco IOS
8 11 (0.39%) Ethernet VPN
8 11 (0.39%) IOS XR
8 11 (0.39%) LAN
8 11 (0.39%) MPLS
9 8 (0.28%) VPN
10 7 (0.25%) 5G
10 7 (0.25%) DHCP
11 6 (0.21%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (6.30%) SQL Server
2 147 (5.17%) MongoDB
3 116 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
4 104 (3.66%) NoSQL
5 91 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
6 86 (3.02%) Power BI
7 81 (2.85%) Metadata
8 57 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
9 55 (1.93%) MySQL
10 52 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
11 45 (1.58%) Relational Database
12 39 (1.37%) Data Lake
13 27 (0.95%) DynamoDB
14 24 (0.84%) Tableau
15 23 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
16 18 (0.63%) RDBMS
17 15 (0.53%) Redis
18 11 (0.39%) Big Data
19 10 (0.35%) BigQuery
19 10 (0.35%) Flink
Development Applications
1 222 (7.81%) JIRA
2 162 (5.70%) Git
3 121 (4.26%) Jenkins
4 103 (3.62%) GitLab
5 53 (1.86%) Selenium
6 42 (1.48%) Postman
7 40 (1.41%) SonarQube
8 32 (1.13%) Cypress.io
9 29 (1.02%) WebDriver
10 28 (0.98%) SoapUI
11 26 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
11 26 (0.91%) TeamCity
12 19 (0.67%) Axure RP
13 18 (0.63%) Balsamiq
13 18 (0.63%) Jaeger
14 17 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
15 15 (0.53%) JMeter
16 14 (0.49%) CircleCI
17 13 (0.46%) SpecFlow
18 11 (0.39%) Cucumber
General
1 804 (28.28%) Finance
2 795 (27.96%) Social Skills
3 377 (13.26%) Public Sector
4 302 (10.62%) Analytical Skills
5 289 (10.17%) Games
5 289 (10.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 198 (6.96%) Law
7 158 (5.56%) Banking
8 154 (5.42%) Marketing
9 129 (4.54%) Legal
10 118 (4.15%) Retail
11 72 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
12 58 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
13 55 (1.93%) Front Office
14 52 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
15 51 (1.79%) Telecoms
16 39 (1.37%) Manufacturing
17 35 (1.23%) Back Office
18 34 (1.20%) Financial Institution
19 30 (1.06%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 567 (19.94%) Senior
2 565 (19.87%) Developer
3 456 (16.04%) Lead
4 276 (9.71%) Analyst
5 204 (7.18%) Software Engineer
6 191 (6.72%) Architect
7 182 (6.40%) Business Analyst
8 161 (5.66%) Project Manager
9 140 (4.92%) Senior Manager
10 138 (4.85%) .NET Developer
11 117 (4.12%) Software Developer
12 95 (3.34%) Designer
13 83 (2.92%) C# Developer
14 81 (2.85%) Delivery Manager
14 81 (2.85%) Lead Developer
15 80 (2.81%) Engineering Manager
16 75 (2.64%) Graduate
16 75 (2.64%) Product Manager
17 74 (2.60%) Graduate Developer
18 73 (2.57%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 349 (12.28%) .NET
2 322 (11.33%) React
3 165 (5.80%) Node.js
4 161 (5.66%) CSS
5 160 (5.63%) HTML
6 132 (4.64%) RESTful
7 130 (4.57%) .NET Core
8 127 (4.47%) ASP.NET
9 124 (4.36%) REST
10 105 (3.69%) ASP.NET Core
11 104 (3.66%) SOAP
12 95 (3.34%) AngularJS
13 79 (2.78%) Kafka
14 76 (2.67%) Vue
15 70 (2.46%) Lightning Web Components
16 63 (2.22%) Entity Framework
16 63 (2.22%) Spring
17 55 (1.93%) .NET Framework
18 53 (1.86%) GraphQL
18 53 (1.86%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 402 (14.14%) Product Ownership
2 241 (8.48%) Cloud Native
3 213 (7.49%) Social Media
4 83 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
5 78 (2.74%) Mobile App
6 72 (2.53%) Onboarding
7 63 (2.22%) Management Information System
8 57 (2.00%) Over-the-Top Content
9 56 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
10 48 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
11 46 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
12 44 (1.55%) Fixed Income
13 42 (1.48%) Virtual Team
14 39 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
15 36 (1.27%) Marketing Technology
16 33 (1.16%) Low-Code
17 31 (1.09%) Driving Licence
18 30 (1.06%) Data Structures
18 30 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
18 30 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 134 (4.71%) Linux
2 62 (2.18%) Android
3 47 (1.65%) Apple iOS
4 46 (1.62%) Windows
5 43 (1.51%) Unix
6 14 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
7 8 (0.28%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.25%) CentOS
9 5 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.14%) Debian
11 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.11%) VMS
12 2 (0.070%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.035%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 675 (23.74%) DevOps
2 668 (23.50%) Mentoring
3 650 (22.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 635 (22.34%) Roadmaps
5 634 (22.30%) CI/CD
6 562 (19.77%) AI
7 521 (18.33%) Scrum
8 502 (17.66%) Coaching
9 440 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
10 436 (15.34%) Analytics
11 372 (13.08%) Software Engineering
12 329 (11.57%) Test Automation
13 327 (11.50%) Full-Stack Development
14 300 (10.55%) Customer Experience
15 294 (10.34%) Project Management
16 281 (9.88%) Decision-Making
17 277 (9.74%) Stakeholder Management
18 269 (9.46%) Microservices
19 268 (9.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 266 (9.36%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 563 (19.80%) SQL
2 413 (14.53%) Python
3 388 (13.65%) C#
3 388 (13.65%) Java
4 349 (12.28%) JavaScript
5 240 (8.44%) TypeScript
6 89 (3.13%) PHP
7 80 (2.81%) Go
8 78 (2.74%) C++
9 71 (2.50%) Apex Code
10 54 (1.90%) Bash
11 44 (1.55%) C
12 39 (1.37%) PowerShell
13 37 (1.30%) Scala
14 35 (1.23%) SOQL
15 34 (1.20%) SOSL
16 23 (0.81%) PL/SQL
17 20 (0.70%) VBA
18 18 (0.63%) Embedded C
18 18 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 372 (13.08%) Degree
2 322 (11.33%) Security Cleared
3 232 (8.16%) SC Cleared
4 87 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 72 (2.53%) PMI Certification
6 60 (2.11%) PMP
7 58 (2.04%) DV Cleared
8 55 (1.93%) CISSP
9 46 (1.62%) ISTQB
10 45 (1.58%) DBS Check
11 41 (1.44%) CISM
12 33 (1.16%) CISA
13 32 (1.13%) SANS
14 31 (1.09%) AWS Certification
15 27 (0.95%) CGEIT
15 27 (0.95%) FFIEC
16 25 (0.88%) Azure Certification
17 19 (0.67%) Master's Degree
18 18 (0.63%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
18 18 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 348 (12.24%) Accessibility
2 232 (8.16%) QA
3 90 (3.17%) WCAG
4 73 (2.57%) Data Quality
5 58 (2.04%) NIST
6 56 (1.97%) GDPR
7 35 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 29 (1.02%) COBIT
8 29 (1.02%) PMO
9 22 (0.77%) GRC
10 10 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
10 10 (0.35%) NCSC
11 8 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 7 (0.25%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.14%) IFRS
14 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 4 (0.14%) MiFID
14 4 (0.14%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 232 (8.16%) Docker
2 59 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
3 46 (1.62%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (0.14%) Firmware
7 3 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.035%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.035%) vSphere
8 1 (0.035%) Xen
Systems Management
1 231 (8.13%) Kubernetes
2 210 (7.39%) Terraform
3 85 (2.99%) Ansible
4 45 (1.58%) Argo
5 41 (1.44%) Grafana
6 40 (1.41%) Prometheus
7 22 (0.77%) Kustomize
8 17 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.42%) Podman
10 7 (0.25%) Puppet
11 5 (0.18%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.18%) Packer
12 4 (0.14%) Istio
12 4 (0.14%) logstash
12 4 (0.14%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.14%) SCCM
13 3 (0.11%) Control-M
13 3 (0.11%) Kibana
13 3 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 490 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 248 (8.72%) Adobe
3 124 (4.36%) Google
4 112 (3.94%) Salesforce
5 111 (3.90%) Databricks
6 77 (2.71%) Oracle
7 65 (2.29%) SAP
8 63 (2.22%) ServiceNow
9 38 (1.34%) Splunk
10 19 (0.67%) IBM
11 16 (0.56%) Cisco
12 15 (0.53%) MuleSoft
13 13 (0.46%) Facebook
14 12 (0.42%) Okta
15 10 (0.35%) Red Hat
15 10 (0.35%) VMware
16 9 (0.32%) Apple
16 9 (0.32%) Atlassian
16 9 (0.32%) Foundry
17 7 (0.25%) Planon