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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,222 3,363 8,060
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.81% 21.51% 23.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.23% 22.78% 26.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,148 2,084 5,928
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,250
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.45% -4.23%
75th Percentile £78,750 £98,474 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £132,500 £110,000
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 16,752 14,765 30,420
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.20% 94.42% 89.03%
Number of salaries quoted 12,192 8,606 23,487
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,000 £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 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 25 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 (3.17%) Confluence
2 53 (1.64%) SharePoint
3 43 (1.33%) CMS
4 21 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.59%) Apache
6 16 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 16 (0.50%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.37%) SAS
8 9 (0.28%) Jupyter
9 7 (0.22%) WordPress
10 4 (0.12%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.12%) PowerFactory
10 4 (0.12%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.093%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.093%) nginx
11 3 (0.093%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.062%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.062%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 112 (3.48%) Microsoft Project
2 92 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 45 (1.40%) UserZoom
5 43 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
6 21 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 18 (0.56%) Adobe XD
8 11 (0.34%) MS Visio
8 11 (0.34%) Trello
9 7 (0.22%) Chatbot
10 6 (0.19%) Sketch
11 4 (0.12%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.12%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.12%) Revit
11 4 (0.12%) Windchill
12 3 (0.093%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.093%) Blender
12 3 (0.093%) InVision
12 3 (0.093%) Maya
12 3 (0.093%) Productboard
Business Applications
1 62 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.24%) Workfront
3 19 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.19%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.19%) Shopify
5 5 (0.16%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.12%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.12%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.12%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.12%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.093%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.093%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.062%) Carpe Diem
8 2 (0.062%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.062%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 1,028 (31.91%) Azure
2 742 (23.03%) AWS
3 285 (8.85%) Azure DevOps
4 223 (6.92%) GCP
5 192 (5.96%) Adobe Analytics
6 170 (5.28%) Power Platform
7 169 (5.25%) SaaS
8 153 (4.75%) Serverless
9 151 (4.69%) GitHub
10 135 (4.19%) Azure AI
11 110 (3.41%) Figma
12 70 (2.17%) Contentsquare
13 68 (2.11%) PowerApps
14 65 (2.02%) Azure Machine Learning
14 65 (2.02%) Snowflake
15 63 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
16 61 (1.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 60 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
18 59 (1.83%) GitHub Copilot
19 57 (1.77%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 423 (13.13%) Broadband
2 26 (0.81%) TCP/IP
3 24 (0.74%) Network Security
4 20 (0.62%) VPN
5 18 (0.56%) Internet
6 17 (0.53%) CHAP
6 17 (0.53%) WAN
7 16 (0.50%) Firewall
8 15 (0.47%) Ethernet
8 15 (0.47%) RS-232
9 14 (0.43%) LAN
10 13 (0.40%) 4G
10 13 (0.40%) DNS
11 10 (0.31%) 5G
11 10 (0.31%) BGP
11 10 (0.31%) Cisco IOS
11 10 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
11 10 (0.31%) IOS XR
11 10 (0.31%) MPLS
12 8 (0.25%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 299 (9.28%) MongoDB
2 278 (8.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 180 (5.59%) SQL Server
4 125 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
5 118 (3.66%) Elasticsearch
6 104 (3.23%) NoSQL
7 102 (3.17%) Metadata
8 86 (2.67%) Power BI
9 76 (2.36%) MySQL
10 43 (1.33%) Relational Database
11 33 (1.02%) DynamoDB
12 30 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
13 29 (0.90%) Data Lake
14 22 (0.68%) Redis
15 19 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (0.59%) BigQuery
16 18 (0.56%) Big Data
16 18 (0.56%) Semantic Layer
16 18 (0.56%) Tableau
17 17 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 230 (7.14%) JIRA
2 159 (4.93%) Git
3 124 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 102 (3.17%) GitLab
5 41 (1.27%) SonarQube
6 38 (1.18%) Selenium
7 33 (1.02%) Cypress.io
8 29 (0.90%) Postman
9 25 (0.78%) TeamCity
10 20 (0.62%) Claude Code
11 19 (0.59%) JUnit
12 16 (0.50%) Cucumber
13 15 (0.47%) JMeter
14 14 (0.43%) WebDriver
15 13 (0.40%) CircleCI
15 13 (0.40%) Maven
15 13 (0.40%) SoapUI
15 13 (0.40%) Visual Studio
16 12 (0.37%) Jaeger
16 12 (0.37%) Mockito
General
1 904 (28.06%) Social Skills
2 781 (24.24%) Finance
3 448 (13.90%) Public Sector
4 329 (10.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 318 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
6 310 (9.62%) Games
7 209 (6.49%) Law
8 178 (5.52%) Marketing
9 166 (5.15%) Retail
10 147 (4.56%) Legal
11 142 (4.41%) Banking
12 79 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
13 71 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
14 65 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
15 51 (1.58%) Advertising
16 49 (1.52%) Front Office
17 44 (1.37%) Telecoms
18 35 (1.09%) Back Office
19 33 (1.02%) Aviation
19 33 (1.02%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 717 (22.25%) Developer
2 652 (20.24%) Senior
3 467 (14.49%) Lead
4 297 (9.22%) Analyst
5 288 (8.94%) .NET Developer
6 267 (8.29%) Software Engineer
7 254 (7.88%) Architect
8 237 (7.36%) Project Manager
9 192 (5.96%) Business Analyst
10 187 (5.80%) Senior Manager
11 113 (3.51%) Delivery Manager
12 108 (3.35%) Software Developer
13 97 (3.01%) Senior Project Manager
14 92 (2.86%) IT Manager
15 88 (2.73%) Engineering Manager
16 87 (2.70%) Product Owner
17 84 (2.61%) Senior Developer
18 80 (2.48%) Graduate
18 80 (2.48%) Solutions Architect
19 79 (2.45%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 484 (15.02%) .NET
2 413 (12.82%) React
3 289 (8.97%) ASP.NET
4 285 (8.85%) .NET Core
5 268 (8.32%) ASP.NET Core
6 263 (8.16%) Node.js
7 185 (5.74%) RESTful
8 184 (5.71%) CSS
9 177 (5.49%) HTML
10 136 (4.22%) AngularJS
11 128 (3.97%) Blazor
12 124 (3.85%) REST
13 117 (3.63%) Vue
14 111 (3.45%) Entity Framework
15 92 (2.86%) ASP.NET Web API
16 81 (2.51%) Kafka
17 79 (2.45%) Spring
18 73 (2.27%) ML.NET
19 70 (2.17%) .NET Framework
20 67 (2.08%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 414 (12.85%) Product Ownership
2 279 (8.66%) Cloud Native
3 252 (7.82%) Social Media
4 110 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
5 84 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
6 81 (2.51%) Mobile App
7 76 (2.36%) Over-the-Top Content
8 74 (2.30%) Onboarding
9 73 (2.27%) Management Information System
10 69 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
11 68 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
12 58 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
13 55 (1.71%) Marketing Technology
14 47 (1.46%) Virtual Team
15 45 (1.40%) Driving Licence
16 41 (1.27%) Fixed Income
17 36 (1.12%) Security Posture
18 33 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
19 31 (0.96%) Public Cloud
20 30 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 150 (4.66%) Linux
2 63 (1.96%) Android
3 58 (1.80%) Windows
4 47 (1.46%) Unix
5 45 (1.40%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
6 15 (0.47%) VMS
7 8 (0.25%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.22%) CentOS
9 6 (0.19%) Debian
10 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.16%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.031%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 754 (23.40%) Roadmaps
2 748 (23.22%) DevOps
3 724 (22.47%) Continuous Improvement
4 719 (22.32%) Mentoring
5 716 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 691 (21.45%) AI
7 620 (19.24%) Scrum
8 544 (16.88%) Coaching
9 499 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
10 494 (15.33%) Full-Stack Development
11 448 (13.90%) Analytics
12 441 (13.69%) Software Engineering
13 391 (12.14%) Customer Experience
14 379 (11.76%) Decision-Making
15 372 (11.55%) Stakeholder Management
16 369 (11.45%) Microservices
17 361 (11.20%) Project Management
18 331 (10.27%) Test Automation
19 303 (9.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 292 (9.06%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 717 (22.25%) SQL
2 556 (17.26%) C#
3 472 (14.65%) JavaScript
4 394 (12.23%) Java
5 392 (12.17%) Python
6 303 (9.40%) TypeScript
7 89 (2.76%) PHP
8 83 (2.58%) C++
9 75 (2.33%) Bash
10 69 (2.14%) Go
11 55 (1.71%) Apex Code
12 45 (1.40%) PowerShell
13 40 (1.24%) C
14 35 (1.09%) SOQL
15 34 (1.06%) SOSL
16 30 (0.93%) Scala
17 29 (0.90%) Ruby
18 21 (0.65%) T-SQL
18 21 (0.65%) VBA
19 17 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 436 (13.53%) Degree
2 342 (10.61%) Security Cleared
3 261 (8.10%) SC Cleared
4 98 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 81 (2.51%) PMI Certification
6 73 (2.27%) PMP
7 71 (2.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 60 (1.86%) CISSP
9 46 (1.43%) CISM
9 46 (1.43%) DBS Check
10 44 (1.37%) Azure Certification
10 44 (1.37%) DV Cleared
11 31 (0.96%) AWS Certification
12 30 (0.93%) CISA
12 30 (0.93%) ISTQB
13 28 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
14 22 (0.68%) SANS
15 17 (0.53%) CGEIT
15 17 (0.53%) FFIEC
16 16 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 360 (11.17%) Accessibility
2 245 (7.60%) QA
3 96 (2.98%) Data Quality
4 79 (2.45%) WCAG
5 73 (2.27%) GDPR
6 61 (1.89%) NIST
7 50 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 45 (1.40%) PMO
9 25 (0.78%) GRC
10 24 (0.74%) COBIT
11 17 (0.53%) NCSC
12 15 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 12 (0.37%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.22%) SOC 1
15 7 (0.22%) SOC 2
16 6 (0.19%) NIST 800
17 5 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
17 5 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 5 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 291 (9.03%) Docker
2 60 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
3 38 (1.18%) Active Directory
4 17 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.40%) vSphere
6 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.093%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.031%) GPFS
8 1 (0.031%) Lustre
8 1 (0.031%) Xen
Systems Management
1 268 (8.32%) Kubernetes
2 173 (5.37%) Terraform
3 74 (2.30%) Ansible
4 44 (1.37%) Grafana
5 41 (1.27%) Argo
6 40 (1.24%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.50%) Kustomize
8 12 (0.37%) Podman
9 6 (0.19%) Puppet
10 5 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.16%) Istio
10 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.16%) Packer
10 5 (0.16%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.12%) SCCM
12 3 (0.093%) Kibana
12 3 (0.093%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.093%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.062%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.062%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 662 (20.55%) Microsoft
2 267 (8.29%) Adobe
3 132 (4.10%) Google
4 108 (3.35%) Salesforce
5 98 (3.04%) Oracle
6 96 (2.98%) Databricks
7 78 (2.42%) ServiceNow
8 77 (2.39%) SAP
9 40 (1.24%) Splunk
10 31 (0.96%) Facebook
11 19 (0.59%) Cisco
11 19 (0.59%) VMware
12 16 (0.50%) IFS
12 16 (0.50%) YouTube
13 14 (0.43%) Apple
13 14 (0.43%) IBM
13 14 (0.43%) MuleSoft
14 13 (0.40%) OpenAI
14 13 (0.40%) Sony
14 13 (0.40%) Yahoo!