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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,312 3,368 7,861
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.04% 21.39% 23.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.52% 22.75% 26.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,233 2,099 5,749
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £78,750 £98,474 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £132,500 £112,500
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 16,967 14,802 29,888
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.19% 94.02% 89.09%
Number of salaries quoted 12,385 8,674 23,017
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £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 £78,938 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.12%

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 29 June 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 (3.08%) Confluence
2 56 (1.69%) SharePoint
3 43 (1.30%) 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 12 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.36%) SAS
8 9 (0.27%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.24%) WordPress
10 5 (0.15%) Umbraco
11 4 (0.12%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.12%) PowerFactory
12 3 (0.091%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.091%) Kentico
12 3 (0.091%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.091%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.091%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 114 (3.44%) Microsoft Project
2 92 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 45 (1.36%) UserZoom
5 43 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
6 21 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 17 (0.51%) Adobe XD
8 14 (0.42%) Chatbot
9 12 (0.36%) Trello
10 11 (0.33%) MS Visio
11 6 (0.18%) Sketch
12 4 (0.12%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.12%) Revit
12 4 (0.12%) Windchill
13 3 (0.091%) Blender
13 3 (0.091%) InVision
13 3 (0.091%) Maya
13 3 (0.091%) Photoshop
13 3 (0.091%) Productboard
14 2 (0.060%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 63 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.21%) Workfront
3 19 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.18%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.18%) Shopify
5 5 (0.15%) Elite 3E
5 5 (0.15%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.12%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.12%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.12%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.091%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.091%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.060%) Carpe Diem
8 2 (0.060%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.060%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,090 (32.91%) Azure
2 771 (23.28%) AWS
3 308 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
4 226 (6.82%) GCP
5 192 (5.80%) Adobe Analytics
6 174 (5.25%) Power Platform
7 170 (5.13%) SaaS
8 162 (4.89%) GitHub
9 154 (4.65%) Serverless
10 150 (4.53%) Azure AI
11 109 (3.29%) Figma
12 71 (2.14%) PowerApps
13 70 (2.11%) Contentsquare
14 69 (2.08%) GitHub Copilot
15 65 (1.96%) Azure Machine Learning
15 65 (1.96%) Snowflake
16 64 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
17 62 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
18 61 (1.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 59 (1.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 423 (12.77%) Broadband
2 26 (0.79%) Network Security
2 26 (0.79%) TCP/IP
3 21 (0.63%) VPN
4 20 (0.60%) Internet
5 17 (0.51%) CHAP
5 17 (0.51%) WAN
6 15 (0.45%) Ethernet
6 15 (0.45%) Firewall
6 15 (0.45%) RS-232
7 14 (0.42%) DNS
7 14 (0.42%) LAN
8 13 (0.39%) 4G
9 10 (0.30%) 5G
9 10 (0.30%) BGP
9 10 (0.30%) Cisco IOS
9 10 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
9 10 (0.30%) IOS XR
9 10 (0.30%) MPLS
10 9 (0.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 347 (10.48%) MongoDB
2 328 (9.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 181 (5.46%) SQL Server
4 139 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
5 127 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
6 106 (3.20%) NoSQL
7 102 (3.08%) Metadata
8 87 (2.63%) Power BI
9 76 (2.29%) MySQL
10 43 (1.30%) Relational Database
11 33 (1.00%) DynamoDB
12 30 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
13 28 (0.85%) Data Lake
14 22 (0.66%) Redis
15 19 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (0.57%) BigQuery
16 18 (0.54%) Big Data
16 18 (0.54%) Semantic Layer
16 18 (0.54%) Tableau
17 17 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 231 (6.97%) JIRA
2 161 (4.86%) Git
3 126 (3.80%) Jenkins
4 102 (3.08%) GitLab
5 41 (1.24%) SonarQube
6 37 (1.12%) Selenium
7 33 (1.00%) Cypress.io
8 28 (0.85%) Postman
9 25 (0.75%) TeamCity
10 20 (0.60%) Claude Code
11 19 (0.57%) JUnit
12 16 (0.48%) Cucumber
13 15 (0.45%) JMeter
14 14 (0.42%) Visual Studio
15 13 (0.39%) CircleCI
15 13 (0.39%) Maven
15 13 (0.39%) WebDriver
16 12 (0.36%) Jaeger
16 12 (0.36%) Mockito
16 12 (0.36%) SoapUI
General
1 912 (27.54%) Social Skills
2 793 (23.94%) Finance
3 470 (14.19%) Public Sector
4 331 (9.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 320 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
6 313 (9.45%) Games
7 213 (6.43%) Law
8 183 (5.53%) Marketing
9 170 (5.13%) Retail
10 149 (4.50%) Legal
11 140 (4.23%) Banking
12 84 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
13 75 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
14 66 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
15 56 (1.69%) Advertising
16 50 (1.51%) Front Office
17 44 (1.33%) Telecoms
18 35 (1.06%) Back Office
19 33 (1.00%) Manufacturing
20 31 (0.94%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 776 (23.43%) Developer
2 664 (20.05%) Senior
3 474 (14.31%) Lead
4 341 (10.30%) .NET Developer
5 298 (9.00%) Analyst
6 270 (8.15%) Software Engineer
7 266 (8.03%) Architect
8 238 (7.19%) Project Manager
9 194 (5.86%) Business Analyst
10 189 (5.71%) Senior Manager
11 113 (3.41%) Delivery Manager
12 109 (3.29%) Software Developer
13 98 (2.96%) Senior Project Manager
14 93 (2.81%) IT Manager
15 88 (2.66%) Engineering Manager
15 88 (2.66%) Product Owner
16 86 (2.60%) Senior Developer
17 82 (2.48%) Solutions Architect
18 81 (2.45%) Consultant
18 81 (2.45%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 538 (16.24%) .NET
2 443 (13.38%) React
3 341 (10.30%) ASP.NET
4 334 (10.08%) .NET Core
5 320 (9.66%) ASP.NET Core
6 287 (8.67%) Node.js
7 204 (6.16%) RESTful
8 195 (5.89%) CSS
9 188 (5.68%) HTML
10 154 (4.65%) Blazor
11 153 (4.62%) AngularJS
12 131 (3.96%) Vue
13 129 (3.89%) Entity Framework
14 125 (3.77%) REST
15 112 (3.38%) ASP.NET Web API
16 88 (2.66%) ML.NET
17 81 (2.45%) Kafka
18 80 (2.42%) .NET Framework
18 80 (2.42%) Spring
19 66 (1.99%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 416 (12.56%) Product Ownership
2 283 (8.54%) Cloud Native
3 255 (7.70%) Social Media
4 115 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
5 96 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
6 84 (2.54%) Mobile App
7 76 (2.29%) Over-the-Top Content
8 75 (2.26%) Management Information System
9 72 (2.17%) Onboarding
10 70 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
11 68 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
12 58 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
13 55 (1.66%) Marketing Technology
14 47 (1.42%) Virtual Team
15 45 (1.36%) Driving Licence
16 41 (1.24%) Fixed Income
17 34 (1.03%) Security Posture
18 33 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
19 32 (0.97%) Public Cloud
20 29 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 157 (4.74%) Linux
2 66 (1.99%) Android
3 63 (1.90%) Windows
4 53 (1.60%) Unix
5 45 (1.36%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
6 15 (0.45%) VMS
7 8 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.21%) CentOS
9 6 (0.18%) Debian
10 5 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.12%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.030%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 786 (23.73%) DevOps
2 764 (23.07%) Roadmaps
3 741 (22.37%) CI/CD
4 740 (22.34%) Mentoring
5 736 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 720 (21.74%) AI
7 641 (19.35%) Scrum
8 561 (16.94%) Coaching
9 550 (16.61%) Full-Stack Development
10 508 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
11 459 (13.86%) Analytics
12 448 (13.53%) Software Engineering
13 396 (11.96%) Microservices
14 390 (11.78%) Customer Experience
15 382 (11.53%) Decision-Making
16 380 (11.47%) Stakeholder Management
17 361 (10.90%) Project Management
18 341 (10.30%) Test Automation
19 307 (9.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 300 (9.06%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 772 (23.31%) SQL
2 613 (18.51%) C#
3 505 (15.25%) JavaScript
4 396 (11.96%) Java
4 396 (11.96%) Python
5 320 (9.66%) TypeScript
6 89 (2.69%) PHP
7 84 (2.54%) C++
8 74 (2.23%) Bash
9 68 (2.05%) Go
10 55 (1.66%) Apex Code
11 44 (1.33%) PowerShell
12 40 (1.21%) C
13 35 (1.06%) SOQL
14 34 (1.03%) SOSL
15 30 (0.91%) Ruby
15 30 (0.91%) Scala
16 21 (0.63%) T-SQL
16 21 (0.63%) VBA
17 17 (0.51%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 442 (13.35%) Degree
2 351 (10.60%) Security Cleared
3 267 (8.06%) SC Cleared
4 99 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 82 (2.48%) PMI Certification
6 74 (2.23%) PMP
7 72 (2.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 62 (1.87%) CISSP
9 49 (1.48%) CISM
10 44 (1.33%) Azure Certification
10 44 (1.33%) DBS Check
11 43 (1.30%) DV Cleared
12 31 (0.94%) AWS Certification
13 30 (0.91%) CISA
14 29 (0.88%) ISTQB
15 27 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
16 22 (0.66%) SANS
17 17 (0.51%) CGEIT
17 17 (0.51%) FFIEC
18 16 (0.48%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 368 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 242 (7.31%) QA
3 96 (2.90%) Data Quality
4 79 (2.39%) WCAG
5 72 (2.17%) GDPR
6 60 (1.81%) NIST
7 51 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 46 (1.39%) PMO
9 25 (0.75%) GRC
10 24 (0.72%) COBIT
11 18 (0.54%) NCSC
12 17 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 11 (0.33%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.21%) SOC 1
15 7 (0.21%) SOC 2
16 6 (0.18%) NIST 800
17 5 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
17 5 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 5 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 301 (9.09%) Docker
2 60 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
3 37 (1.12%) 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%) GPFS
8 1 (0.030%) Lustre
8 1 (0.030%) Xen
Systems Management
1 284 (8.57%) Kubernetes
2 173 (5.22%) Terraform
3 73 (2.20%) Ansible
4 44 (1.33%) Grafana
5 41 (1.24%) Argo
6 40 (1.21%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.48%) Kustomize
8 12 (0.36%) Podman
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%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.15%) Packer
11 3 (0.091%) Kibana
11 3 (0.091%) SCCM
11 3 (0.091%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.091%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.060%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.060%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 718 (21.68%) Microsoft
2 266 (8.03%) Adobe
3 137 (4.14%) Google
4 106 (3.20%) Salesforce
5 98 (2.96%) Oracle
6 96 (2.90%) Databricks
7 80 (2.42%) ServiceNow
8 78 (2.36%) SAP
9 40 (1.21%) Splunk
10 37 (1.12%) Facebook
11 25 (0.75%) Cisco
12 19 (0.57%) YouTube
13 18 (0.54%) VMware
14 17 (0.51%) Apple
15 16 (0.48%) IFS
15 16 (0.48%) Sony
15 16 (0.48%) Yahoo!
16 15 (0.45%) IBM
17 14 (0.42%) MuleSoft
18 13 (0.39%) OpenAI