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

 6 months to
5 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,340 3,398 7,699
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.95% 20.97% 23.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.36% 22.39% 26.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,255 2,121 5,598
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,958 £52,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £78,625 £98,474 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,750 £132,500 £115,000
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 17,250 15,174 29,380
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.39% 93.66% 88.88%
Number of salaries quoted 12,607 8,984 22,543
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.72%

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 5 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
1 102 (3.05%) Confluence
2 58 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 42 (1.26%) CMS
4 21 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.57%) Apache
6 16 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 16 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 14 (0.42%) SAS
8 12 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.27%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.24%) WordPress
11 5 (0.15%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.12%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.12%) PowerFactory
13 3 (0.090%) EPiServer
13 3 (0.090%) Immediacy CMS
13 3 (0.090%) Kentico
13 3 (0.090%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.090%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 118 (3.53%) Microsoft Project
2 94 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 46 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 46 (1.38%) UserZoom
5 22 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.45%) Adobe XD
6 15 (0.45%) Chatbot
6 15 (0.45%) Trello
7 11 (0.33%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.15%) Sketch
9 4 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.12%) Revit
9 4 (0.12%) Windchill
10 3 (0.090%) Blender
10 3 (0.090%) Maya
10 3 (0.090%) Productboard
11 2 (0.060%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.060%) PlantUML
11 2 (0.060%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 66 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.20%) Workfront
3 20 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.21%) Elite 3E
5 6 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.15%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.15%) Shopify
7 4 (0.12%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.12%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.12%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.12%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.090%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.090%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.090%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.060%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 1,120 (33.53%) Azure
2 795 (23.80%) AWS
3 311 (9.31%) Azure DevOps
4 226 (6.77%) GCP
5 193 (5.78%) Adobe Analytics
6 184 (5.51%) SaaS
7 175 (5.24%) Power Platform
8 164 (4.91%) GitHub
9 155 (4.64%) Serverless
10 152 (4.55%) Azure AI
11 107 (3.20%) Figma
12 73 (2.19%) GitHub Copilot
12 73 (2.19%) PowerApps
13 71 (2.13%) Contentsquare
14 65 (1.95%) Azure Machine Learning
14 65 (1.95%) Snowflake
15 64 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
16 63 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
17 61 (1.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 59 (1.77%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 405 (12.13%) Broadband
2 27 (0.81%) Network Security
3 26 (0.78%) TCP/IP
4 21 (0.63%) Internet
4 21 (0.63%) VPN
5 19 (0.57%) WAN
6 16 (0.48%) Firewall
6 16 (0.48%) LAN
7 15 (0.45%) CHAP
7 15 (0.45%) Ethernet
7 15 (0.45%) RS-232
8 14 (0.42%) DNS
9 13 (0.39%) 4G
10 10 (0.30%) 5G
10 10 (0.30%) BGP
10 10 (0.30%) Cisco IOS
10 10 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
10 10 (0.30%) IOS XR
10 10 (0.30%) MPLS
11 9 (0.27%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 354 (10.60%) MongoDB
2 334 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 183 (5.48%) SQL Server
4 145 (4.34%) Elasticsearch
5 129 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
6 104 (3.11%) NoSQL
7 102 (3.05%) Metadata
8 90 (2.69%) Power BI
9 75 (2.25%) MySQL
10 43 (1.29%) Relational Database
11 33 (0.99%) DynamoDB
12 31 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
13 28 (0.84%) Data Lake
14 23 (0.69%) Redis
15 19 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (0.57%) Big Data
15 19 (0.57%) BigQuery
15 19 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 18 (0.54%) Semantic Layer
16 18 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 233 (6.98%) JIRA
2 160 (4.79%) Git
3 114 (3.41%) Jenkins
4 100 (2.99%) GitLab
5 41 (1.23%) SonarQube
6 34 (1.02%) Selenium
7 33 (0.99%) Cypress.io
8 24 (0.72%) Postman
9 21 (0.63%) Claude Code
10 19 (0.57%) JUnit
11 16 (0.48%) Cucumber
11 16 (0.48%) Visual Studio
12 15 (0.45%) JMeter
13 14 (0.42%) TeamCity
14 13 (0.39%) CircleCI
14 13 (0.39%) Maven
15 12 (0.36%) Jaeger
15 12 (0.36%) Mockito
16 11 (0.33%) SpecFlow
17 10 (0.30%) WebDriver
General
1 920 (27.54%) Social Skills
2 793 (23.74%) Finance
3 470 (14.07%) Public Sector
4 338 (10.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 324 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
6 305 (9.13%) Games
7 243 (7.28%) Law
8 183 (5.48%) Marketing
9 172 (5.15%) Retail
10 163 (4.88%) Legal
11 136 (4.07%) Banking
12 87 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
13 74 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
14 72 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
15 58 (1.74%) Advertising
16 50 (1.50%) Front Office
17 37 (1.11%) Telecoms
18 35 (1.05%) Back Office
19 34 (1.02%) Manufacturing
20 31 (0.93%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 793 (23.74%) Developer
2 669 (20.03%) Senior
3 475 (14.22%) Lead
4 349 (10.45%) .NET Developer
5 294 (8.80%) Analyst
6 270 (8.08%) Software Engineer
7 267 (7.99%) Architect
8 242 (7.25%) Project Manager
9 188 (5.63%) Business Analyst
9 188 (5.63%) Senior Manager
10 114 (3.41%) Delivery Manager
11 110 (3.29%) Software Developer
12 109 (3.26%) IT Manager
13 99 (2.96%) Senior Project Manager
14 97 (2.90%) Senior Developer
15 87 (2.60%) Engineering Manager
16 86 (2.57%) Product Owner
17 85 (2.54%) Consultant
18 81 (2.43%) Graduate
19 79 (2.37%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 555 (16.62%) .NET
2 449 (13.44%) React
3 351 (10.51%) ASP.NET
4 339 (10.15%) .NET Core
5 327 (9.79%) ASP.NET Core
6 296 (8.86%) Node.js
7 209 (6.26%) RESTful
8 192 (5.75%) CSS
9 182 (5.45%) HTML
10 159 (4.76%) Blazor
11 157 (4.70%) AngularJS
12 134 (4.01%) Vue
13 132 (3.95%) Entity Framework
14 126 (3.77%) REST
15 115 (3.44%) ASP.NET Web API
16 90 (2.69%) ML.NET
17 84 (2.51%) .NET Framework
18 82 (2.46%) Kafka
19 80 (2.40%) Spring
20 62 (1.86%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 411 (12.31%) Product Ownership
2 287 (8.59%) Cloud Native
3 257 (7.69%) Social Media
4 121 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
5 99 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
6 84 (2.51%) Mobile App
7 77 (2.31%) Management Information System
8 71 (2.13%) Onboarding
9 70 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
10 69 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
11 65 (1.95%) Over-the-Top Content
12 60 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
13 55 (1.65%) Marketing Technology
14 46 (1.38%) Driving Licence
14 46 (1.38%) Virtual Team
15 41 (1.23%) Fixed Income
16 34 (1.02%) Security Posture
17 33 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
18 32 (0.96%) Public Cloud
19 29 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 159 (4.76%) Linux
2 65 (1.95%) Android
2 65 (1.95%) Windows
3 53 (1.59%) Unix
4 44 (1.32%) Apple iOS
5 15 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
5 15 (0.45%) VMS
6 8 (0.24%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.21%) CentOS
8 6 (0.18%) Debian
9 5 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.12%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.030%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 806 (24.13%) DevOps
2 763 (22.84%) Roadmaps
3 754 (22.57%) CI/CD
3 754 (22.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 742 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 734 (21.98%) AI
6 641 (19.19%) Scrum
7 559 (16.74%) Full-Stack Development
8 556 (16.65%) Coaching
9 520 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
10 459 (13.74%) Software Engineering
11 450 (13.47%) Analytics
12 417 (12.49%) Microservices
13 388 (11.62%) Decision-Making
14 386 (11.56%) Stakeholder Management
15 382 (11.44%) Customer Experience
16 368 (11.02%) Project Management
17 356 (10.66%) Test Automation
18 335 (10.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 327 (9.79%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 774 (23.17%) SQL
2 636 (19.04%) C#
3 514 (15.39%) JavaScript
4 402 (12.04%) Python
5 394 (11.80%) Java
6 325 (9.73%) TypeScript
7 88 (2.63%) PHP
8 84 (2.51%) C++
9 73 (2.19%) Bash
10 68 (2.04%) Go
11 54 (1.62%) Apex Code
12 44 (1.32%) PowerShell
13 42 (1.26%) C
14 35 (1.05%) SOQL
15 34 (1.02%) SOSL
16 31 (0.93%) Ruby
17 22 (0.66%) VBA
18 21 (0.63%) T-SQL
19 19 (0.57%) Scala
20 17 (0.51%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 438 (13.11%) Degree
2 355 (10.63%) Security Cleared
3 276 (8.26%) SC Cleared
4 101 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 84 (2.51%) PMI Certification
6 81 (2.43%) PMP
7 77 (2.31%) CISSP
8 72 (2.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 64 (1.92%) CISM
10 45 (1.35%) DBS Check
11 44 (1.32%) Azure Certification
11 44 (1.32%) DV Cleared
12 31 (0.93%) AWS Certification
13 30 (0.90%) CISA
14 27 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
15 25 (0.75%) ISTQB
16 24 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
17 22 (0.66%) Master's Degree
18 20 (0.60%) SANS
19 15 (0.45%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 367 (10.99%) Accessibility
2 251 (7.51%) QA
3 99 (2.96%) Data Quality
4 79 (2.37%) WCAG
5 75 (2.25%) NIST
6 74 (2.22%) GDPR
7 53 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 48 (1.44%) PMO
9 28 (0.84%) GRC
10 22 (0.66%) COBIT
11 18 (0.54%) NCSC
12 17 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 15 (0.45%) ISO 22301
14 11 (0.33%) PCI DSS
15 10 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
16 8 (0.24%) NIST 800
17 7 (0.21%) SLA
17 7 (0.21%) SOC 1
17 7 (0.21%) SOC 2
18 5 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 293 (8.77%) Docker
2 60 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
3 37 (1.11%) Active Directory
4 16 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.39%) vSphere
6 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.060%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.030%) Firmware
8 1 (0.030%) GPFS
8 1 (0.030%) Lustre
8 1 (0.030%) Xen
Systems Management
1 274 (8.20%) Kubernetes
2 172 (5.15%) Terraform
3 72 (2.16%) Ansible
4 43 (1.29%) Grafana
5 41 (1.23%) Argo
6 39 (1.17%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.48%) Kustomize
8 12 (0.36%) Podman
9 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.18%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.18%) Puppet
10 5 (0.15%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.15%) Istio
10 5 (0.15%) Packer
11 3 (0.090%) Kibana
11 3 (0.090%) SCCM
11 3 (0.090%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.090%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.060%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.060%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 734 (21.98%) Microsoft
2 265 (7.93%) Adobe
3 142 (4.25%) Google
4 104 (3.11%) Salesforce
5 100 (2.99%) Oracle
6 95 (2.84%) Databricks
7 82 (2.46%) ServiceNow
8 77 (2.31%) SAP
9 40 (1.20%) Splunk
10 38 (1.14%) Facebook
11 25 (0.75%) Cisco
12 19 (0.57%) Yahoo!
12 19 (0.57%) YouTube
13 18 (0.54%) Apple
13 18 (0.54%) OpenAI
13 18 (0.54%) VMware
14 17 (0.51%) Sony
15 16 (0.48%) IBM
15 16 (0.48%) IFS
16 14 (0.42%) Workday
1,668 hybrid/remote Agile jobs