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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,036 3,253 8,028
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.84% 22.31% 24.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.11% 23.53% 27.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,942 1,997 5,996
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% +14.37% -5.84%
75th Percentile £80,000 £100,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £132,500 £102,500
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 15,889 13,827 29,727
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.91% 94.82% 90.27%
Number of salaries quoted 11,338 8,083 23,433
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,300 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,100 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,033 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.39% +5.51% -9.84%

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 28 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 (3.26%) Confluence
2 43 (1.42%) CMS
3 38 (1.25%) SharePoint
4 19 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.49%) Apache
6 14 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 13 (0.43%) Apache Spark
8 10 (0.33%) SAS
9 8 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 7 (0.23%) WordPress
11 6 (0.20%) Jupyter
11 6 (0.20%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.13%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.13%) nginx
12 4 (0.13%) PowerFactory
13 3 (0.099%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.066%) Camunda
14 2 (0.066%) NServiceBus
14 2 (0.066%) Umbraco
15 1 (0.033%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 106 (3.49%) Microsoft Project
2 101 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.78%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 41 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
5 37 (1.22%) UserZoom
6 24 (0.79%) Adobe XD
7 19 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 10 (0.33%) Sketch
9 9 (0.30%) MS Visio
10 7 (0.23%) Chatbot
10 7 (0.23%) Trello
11 5 (0.16%) InVision
12 4 (0.13%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.13%) Photoshop
12 4 (0.13%) Revit
12 4 (0.13%) Windchill
13 3 (0.099%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.099%) Productboard
14 2 (0.066%) Maya
14 2 (0.066%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 42 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.32%) Workfront
3 18 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
5 13 (0.43%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.23%) Shopify
7 4 (0.13%) Markit EDM
8 3 (0.099%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.099%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.066%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.066%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.066%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.066%) Raiser’s Edge
9 2 (0.066%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.066%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.066%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.066%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.066%) SAP PM
9 2 (0.066%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 881 (29.02%) Azure
2 672 (22.13%) AWS
3 243 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
4 204 (6.72%) GCP
5 188 (6.19%) Adobe Analytics
6 153 (5.04%) SaaS
7 150 (4.94%) Power Platform
8 148 (4.87%) GitHub
8 148 (4.87%) Serverless
9 122 (4.02%) Figma
10 101 (3.33%) Azure AI
11 86 (2.83%) Snowflake
12 65 (2.14%) Azure Machine Learning
13 63 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 62 (2.04%) Contentsquare
15 60 (1.98%) Amazon S3
15 60 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
16 56 (1.84%) iPaaS
17 54 (1.78%) GitHub Copilot
18 50 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 419 (13.80%) Broadband
2 25 (0.82%) TCP/IP
3 22 (0.72%) DNS
4 21 (0.69%) CHAP
5 20 (0.66%) Network Security
6 16 (0.53%) WAN
7 15 (0.49%) Ethernet
7 15 (0.49%) LAN
7 15 (0.49%) RS-232
8 13 (0.43%) 4G
8 13 (0.43%) Firewall
9 11 (0.36%) BGP
9 11 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
9 11 (0.36%) Ethernet VPN
9 11 (0.36%) IOS XR
9 11 (0.36%) MPLS
10 8 (0.26%) Internet
10 8 (0.26%) VPN
11 7 (0.23%) 5G
11 7 (0.23%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (6.26%) MongoDB
2 171 (5.63%) SQL Server
3 145 (4.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 112 (3.69%) NoSQL
5 110 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
6 104 (3.43%) Metadata
7 85 (2.80%) Power BI
8 65 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
8 65 (2.14%) MySQL
9 43 (1.42%) Relational Database
10 42 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
11 32 (1.05%) Data Lake
12 28 (0.92%) DynamoDB
13 23 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
14 20 (0.66%) Tableau
15 18 (0.59%) RDBMS
16 17 (0.56%) Redis
17 16 (0.53%) Big Data
18 13 (0.43%) BigQuery
19 11 (0.36%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 233 (7.67%) JIRA
2 159 (5.24%) Git
3 122 (4.02%) Jenkins
4 107 (3.52%) GitLab
5 54 (1.78%) Selenium
6 44 (1.45%) Postman
7 39 (1.28%) SonarQube
8 34 (1.12%) Cypress.io
9 29 (0.96%) WebDriver
10 28 (0.92%) SoapUI
11 26 (0.86%) TeamCity
12 25 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
13 19 (0.63%) JUnit
14 18 (0.59%) Jaeger
15 15 (0.49%) Cucumber
15 15 (0.49%) JMeter
16 14 (0.46%) Claude Code
16 14 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
17 13 (0.43%) Axure RP
17 13 (0.43%) CircleCI
General
1 877 (28.89%) Social Skills
2 813 (26.78%) Finance
3 422 (13.90%) Public Sector
4 327 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
5 314 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 295 (9.72%) Games
7 199 (6.55%) Law
8 182 (5.99%) Marketing
9 153 (5.04%) Banking
10 146 (4.81%) Legal
11 132 (4.35%) Retail
12 71 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
13 58 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
13 58 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
14 53 (1.75%) Front Office
15 45 (1.48%) Telecoms
16 36 (1.19%) Advertising
17 35 (1.15%) Back Office
18 31 (1.02%) Manufacturing
19 28 (0.92%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 636 (20.95%) Senior
2 591 (19.47%) Developer
3 486 (16.01%) Lead
4 293 (9.65%) Analyst
5 229 (7.54%) Software Engineer
6 222 (7.31%) Project Manager
7 210 (6.92%) Architect
8 197 (6.49%) Business Analyst
9 192 (6.32%) Senior Manager
10 168 (5.53%) .NET Developer
11 111 (3.66%) Software Developer
12 99 (3.26%) Senior Project Manager
13 94 (3.10%) Delivery Manager
14 90 (2.96%) Designer
15 89 (2.93%) Product Owner
16 82 (2.70%) Engineering Manager
17 79 (2.60%) Product Manager
18 78 (2.57%) Lead Developer
19 76 (2.50%) Senior Developer
20 75 (2.47%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 370 (12.19%) .NET
2 348 (11.46%) React
3 199 (6.55%) Node.js
4 166 (5.47%) .NET Core
5 165 (5.43%) HTML
6 161 (5.30%) ASP.NET
7 159 (5.24%) CSS
8 148 (4.87%) RESTful
9 146 (4.81%) ASP.NET Core
10 126 (4.15%) REST
11 99 (3.26%) AngularJS
12 94 (3.10%) SOAP
13 79 (2.60%) Vue
14 78 (2.57%) Kafka
15 75 (2.47%) Spring
16 70 (2.31%) Entity Framework
17 66 (2.17%) Blazor
18 65 (2.14%) Lightning Web Components
19 56 (1.84%) Spring Boot
20 51 (1.68%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 420 (13.83%) Product Ownership
2 258 (8.50%) Cloud Native
3 244 (8.04%) Social Media
4 92 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
5 77 (2.54%) Mobile App
6 76 (2.50%) Over-the-Top Content
7 75 (2.47%) Onboarding
8 60 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
8 60 (1.98%) Management Information System
9 56 (1.84%) Marketing Technology
9 56 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
10 55 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
11 47 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
12 42 (1.38%) Fixed Income
13 41 (1.35%) Virtual Team
14 40 (1.32%) Driving Licence
15 31 (1.02%) Data Structures
15 31 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
16 30 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
16 30 (0.99%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 136 (4.48%) Linux
2 63 (2.08%) Android
3 46 (1.52%) Apple iOS
4 43 (1.42%) Unix
5 42 (1.38%) Windows
6 15 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (0.23%) CentOS
7 7 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.16%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.13%) Debian
10 3 (0.099%) VMS
11 2 (0.066%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.033%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 711 (23.42%) Mentoring
2 705 (23.22%) Roadmaps
3 688 (22.66%) DevOps
4 679 (22.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 662 (21.81%) CI/CD
6 604 (19.89%) AI
7 570 (18.77%) Coaching
8 544 (17.92%) Scrum
9 473 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
10 438 (14.43%) Analytics
11 392 (12.91%) Software Engineering
12 381 (12.55%) Customer Experience
13 361 (11.89%) Full-Stack Development
14 358 (11.79%) Project Management
15 345 (11.36%) Test Automation
16 328 (10.80%) Decision-Making
16 328 (10.80%) Stakeholder Management
17 295 (9.72%) Microservices
18 281 (9.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 277 (9.12%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 591 (19.47%) SQL
2 415 (13.67%) C#
3 409 (13.47%) Java
4 404 (13.31%) Python
5 399 (13.14%) JavaScript
6 255 (8.40%) TypeScript
7 80 (2.64%) Go
8 75 (2.47%) PHP
9 74 (2.44%) C++
10 66 (2.17%) Apex Code
11 64 (2.11%) Bash
12 41 (1.35%) C
12 41 (1.35%) PowerShell
13 36 (1.19%) Scala
14 35 (1.15%) SOQL
15 34 (1.12%) SOSL
16 27 (0.89%) PL/SQL
17 19 (0.63%) Ruby
17 19 (0.63%) VBA
18 18 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 438 (14.43%) Degree
2 333 (10.97%) Security Cleared
3 250 (8.23%) SC Cleared
4 85 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 83 (2.73%) PMI Certification
6 74 (2.44%) PMP
7 68 (2.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 53 (1.75%) DV Cleared
9 52 (1.71%) CISSP
10 45 (1.48%) DBS Check
11 44 (1.45%) ISTQB
12 38 (1.25%) CISM
13 34 (1.12%) AWS Certification
14 28 (0.92%) CISA
15 27 (0.89%) Azure Certification
16 26 (0.86%) SANS
17 21 (0.69%) CGEIT
17 21 (0.69%) FFIEC
18 18 (0.59%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
19 15 (0.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 367 (12.09%) Accessibility
2 241 (7.94%) QA
3 92 (3.03%) Data Quality
4 90 (2.96%) WCAG
5 61 (2.01%) GDPR
6 54 (1.78%) NIST
7 40 (1.32%) PMO
8 37 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 24 (0.79%) COBIT
10 22 (0.72%) GRC
11 11 (0.36%) NCSC
12 10 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 9 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.23%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 4 (0.13%) Def Stans
16 4 (0.13%) IFRS
16 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 15288
16 4 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 252 (8.30%) Docker
2 59 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
3 41 (1.35%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.16%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.099%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.066%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.066%) Firmware
7 1 (0.033%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.033%) vSphere
7 1 (0.033%) Xen
Systems Management
1 249 (8.20%) Kubernetes
2 204 (6.72%) Terraform
3 83 (2.73%) Ansible
4 49 (1.61%) Argo
5 46 (1.52%) Prometheus
6 45 (1.48%) Grafana
7 22 (0.72%) Kustomize
8 13 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.40%) Podman
10 6 (0.20%) Puppet
11 5 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.16%) Packer
12 4 (0.13%) Istio
12 4 (0.13%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.13%) SCCM
13 3 (0.099%) Control-M
13 3 (0.099%) Kibana
13 3 (0.099%) logstash
13 3 (0.099%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 534 (17.59%) Microsoft
2 269 (8.86%) Adobe
3 130 (4.28%) Google
4 116 (3.82%) Salesforce
5 100 (3.29%) Databricks
6 90 (2.96%) Oracle
7 73 (2.40%) SAP
8 72 (2.37%) ServiceNow
9 39 (1.28%) Splunk
10 20 (0.66%) IBM
11 19 (0.63%) Cisco
12 17 (0.56%) Facebook
13 13 (0.43%) MuleSoft
14 10 (0.33%) Apple
14 10 (0.33%) IFS
14 10 (0.33%) Okta
15 9 (0.30%) Atlassian
15 9 (0.30%) Foundry
15 9 (0.30%) VMware
16 8 (0.26%) YouTube