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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,889 3,476 7,993
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.61% 23.91% 24.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.85% 25.15% 27.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,868 2,185 6,010
10th Percentile £41,723 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,468 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,169 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.37% -5.84%
75th Percentile £80,000 £98,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £130,000 £100,000
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 15,329 13,820 29,562
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.82% 95.08% 91.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,874 8,648 23,364
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +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% -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 14 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 98 (3.39%) Confluence
2 49 (1.70%) CMS
3 42 (1.45%) SharePoint
4 19 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 13 (0.45%) Apache
6 13 (0.45%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.35%) SAS
8 8 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.24%) WordPress
10 6 (0.21%) nginx
10 6 (0.21%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.10%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.10%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.069%) NServiceBus
13 2 (0.069%) PowerFactory
13 2 (0.069%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.035%) Cloud Foundry
14 1 (0.035%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 76 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 67 (2.32%) Microsoft Project
3 44 (1.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 40 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
5 30 (1.04%) UserZoom
6 26 (0.90%) Adobe XD
7 18 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.31%) Sketch
9 8 (0.28%) Chatbot
10 7 (0.24%) MS Visio
11 5 (0.17%) InVision
11 5 (0.17%) Trello
12 4 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
12 4 (0.14%) Photoshop
13 3 (0.10%) AutoCAD
14 2 (0.069%) Avid Media Composer
14 2 (0.069%) Productboard
14 2 (0.069%) Revit
14 2 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
14 2 (0.069%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 31 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (1.04%) Workfront
3 20 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
4 19 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
5 15 (0.52%) SAP ERP
6 8 (0.28%) Shopify
7 7 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.14%) Markit EDM
9 3 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
9 3 (0.10%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.069%) Fidessa
10 2 (0.069%) Infor SunSystems
10 2 (0.069%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.069%) SAP PM
10 2 (0.069%) SAP SCM
11 1 (0.035%) OpenText VIM for SAP
11 1 (0.035%) Payment Gateway
11 1 (0.035%) Raiser’s Edge
11 1 (0.035%) SAP MDG
11 1 (0.035%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 862 (29.84%) Azure
2 649 (22.46%) AWS
3 250 (8.65%) Azure DevOps
4 200 (6.92%) GCP
5 182 (6.30%) Adobe Analytics
6 152 (5.26%) SaaS
7 151 (5.23%) GitHub
8 150 (5.19%) Serverless
9 145 (5.02%) Power Platform
10 126 (4.36%) Figma
11 95 (3.29%) Snowflake
12 92 (3.18%) Azure AI
13 65 (2.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 64 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
14 64 (2.22%) Azure Machine Learning
15 63 (2.18%) Amazon S3
16 58 (2.01%) GitHub Copilot
17 55 (1.90%) Contentsquare
18 48 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
19 46 (1.59%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 397 (13.74%) Broadband
2 24 (0.83%) DNS
2 24 (0.83%) TCP/IP
3 23 (0.80%) CHAP
4 17 (0.59%) Network Security
5 14 (0.48%) 4G
5 14 (0.48%) Ethernet
5 14 (0.48%) RS-232
6 12 (0.42%) Firewall
6 12 (0.42%) WAN
7 11 (0.38%) BGP
7 11 (0.38%) Cisco IOS
7 11 (0.38%) Ethernet VPN
7 11 (0.38%) IOS XR
7 11 (0.38%) LAN
7 11 (0.38%) MPLS
8 8 (0.28%) Internet
8 8 (0.28%) VPN
9 7 (0.24%) 5G
9 7 (0.24%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (6.02%) SQL Server
2 159 (5.50%) MongoDB
3 123 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 106 (3.67%) NoSQL
5 95 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
6 91 (3.15%) Metadata
7 81 (2.80%) Power BI
8 58 (2.01%) MySQL
9 56 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
10 49 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
11 42 (1.45%) Relational Database
12 34 (1.18%) Data Lake
13 28 (0.97%) DynamoDB
14 24 (0.83%) Tableau
15 23 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
16 18 (0.62%) RDBMS
17 16 (0.55%) Redis
18 12 (0.42%) Big Data
19 10 (0.35%) BigQuery
20 9 (0.31%) Flink
Development Applications
1 221 (7.65%) JIRA
2 163 (5.64%) Git
3 120 (4.15%) Jenkins
4 105 (3.63%) GitLab
5 54 (1.87%) Selenium
6 41 (1.42%) Postman
7 40 (1.38%) SonarQube
8 35 (1.21%) Cypress.io
9 29 (1.00%) WebDriver
10 28 (0.97%) SoapUI
11 26 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
11 26 (0.90%) TeamCity
12 18 (0.62%) Jaeger
13 17 (0.59%) Axure RP
13 17 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
14 16 (0.55%) Balsamiq
15 15 (0.52%) JMeter
16 14 (0.48%) CircleCI
17 13 (0.45%) SpecFlow
18 11 (0.38%) Cucumber
General
1 812 (28.11%) Finance
2 809 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 390 (13.50%) Public Sector
4 301 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
5 292 (10.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 291 (10.07%) Games
7 198 (6.85%) Law
8 166 (5.75%) Marketing
9 153 (5.30%) Banking
10 134 (4.64%) Legal
11 120 (4.15%) Retail
12 75 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
13 58 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
14 55 (1.90%) Front Office
15 51 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
16 49 (1.70%) Telecoms
17 38 (1.32%) Manufacturing
18 37 (1.28%) Back Office
19 30 (1.04%) Financial Institution
20 29 (1.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 591 (20.46%) Senior
2 569 (19.70%) Developer
3 471 (16.30%) Lead
4 272 (9.42%) Analyst
5 214 (7.41%) Software Engineer
6 196 (6.78%) Architect
7 184 (6.37%) Project Manager
8 178 (6.16%) Business Analyst
9 164 (5.68%) Senior Manager
10 146 (5.05%) .NET Developer
11 114 (3.95%) Software Developer
12 93 (3.22%) Designer
13 83 (2.87%) C# Developer
13 83 (2.87%) Delivery Manager
14 82 (2.84%) Lead Developer
15 79 (2.73%) Product Owner
16 78 (2.70%) Engineering Manager
17 75 (2.60%) Product Manager
18 74 (2.56%) Graduate
19 73 (2.53%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 353 (12.22%) .NET
2 326 (11.28%) React
3 174 (6.02%) Node.js
4 157 (5.43%) CSS
5 155 (5.37%) HTML
6 142 (4.92%) .NET Core
7 141 (4.88%) RESTful
8 136 (4.71%) ASP.NET
9 123 (4.26%) REST
10 121 (4.19%) ASP.NET Core
11 101 (3.50%) SOAP
12 95 (3.29%) AngularJS
13 77 (2.67%) Vue
14 76 (2.63%) Kafka
15 69 (2.39%) Lightning Web Components
16 66 (2.28%) Spring
17 63 (2.18%) Entity Framework
18 53 (1.83%) GraphQL
18 53 (1.83%) Spring Boot
19 52 (1.80%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 408 (14.12%) Product Ownership
2 242 (8.38%) Cloud Native
3 224 (7.75%) Social Media
4 83 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
5 79 (2.73%) Mobile App
6 74 (2.56%) Onboarding
7 66 (2.28%) Over-the-Top Content
8 61 (2.11%) Management Information System
9 55 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
10 53 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
11 47 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
12 45 (1.56%) Marketing Technology
13 43 (1.49%) Fixed Income
14 42 (1.45%) Virtual Team
15 40 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
16 32 (1.11%) Driving Licence
16 32 (1.11%) Low-Code
17 30 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
17 30 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
18 29 (1.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 135 (4.67%) Linux
2 64 (2.22%) Android
3 47 (1.63%) Apple iOS
4 44 (1.52%) Windows
5 43 (1.49%) Unix
6 14 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
7 8 (0.28%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.24%) CentOS
9 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.14%) Debian
11 3 (0.10%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.10%) VMS
12 2 (0.069%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.035%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 686 (23.75%) Mentoring
2 677 (23.43%) DevOps
3 652 (22.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 652 (22.57%) Roadmaps
4 644 (22.29%) CI/CD
5 572 (19.80%) AI
6 542 (18.76%) Coaching
7 529 (18.31%) Scrum
8 447 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
9 429 (14.85%) Analytics
10 381 (13.19%) Software Engineering
11 337 (11.66%) Test Automation
12 336 (11.63%) Full-Stack Development
13 335 (11.60%) Customer Experience
14 318 (11.01%) Project Management
15 291 (10.07%) Decision-Making
16 275 (9.52%) Microservices
16 275 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
17 266 (9.21%) Product Roadmap
18 265 (9.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 570 (19.73%) SQL
2 410 (14.19%) Python
3 398 (13.78%) Java
4 397 (13.74%) C#
5 358 (12.39%) JavaScript
6 243 (8.41%) TypeScript
7 89 (3.08%) PHP
8 80 (2.77%) Go
9 78 (2.70%) C++
10 70 (2.42%) Apex Code
11 56 (1.94%) Bash
12 45 (1.56%) C
13 39 (1.35%) PowerShell
14 36 (1.25%) Scala
15 35 (1.21%) SOQL
16 34 (1.18%) SOSL
17 25 (0.87%) PL/SQL
18 19 (0.66%) VBA
19 18 (0.62%) Embedded C
19 18 (0.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 397 (13.74%) Degree
2 321 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 233 (8.07%) SC Cleared
4 85 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 75 (2.60%) PMI Certification
6 64 (2.22%) PMP
7 54 (1.87%) DV Cleared
8 53 (1.83%) CISSP
9 45 (1.56%) ISTQB
10 43 (1.49%) DBS Check
10 43 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 39 (1.35%) CISM
12 33 (1.14%) AWS Certification
13 30 (1.04%) CISA
14 28 (0.97%) SANS
15 25 (0.87%) Azure Certification
16 23 (0.80%) CGEIT
16 23 (0.80%) FFIEC
17 18 (0.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
18 17 (0.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 352 (12.18%) Accessibility
2 232 (8.03%) QA
3 90 (3.12%) WCAG
4 75 (2.60%) Data Quality
5 56 (1.94%) NIST
6 54 (1.87%) GDPR
7 37 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 33 (1.14%) PMO
9 26 (0.90%) COBIT
10 22 (0.76%) GRC
11 11 (0.38%) NCSC
12 10 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
13 9 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 8 (0.28%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 4 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
16 4 (0.14%) IFRS
16 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 4 (0.14%) MiFID
16 4 (0.14%) NIST 800
System Software
1 237 (8.20%) Docker
2 59 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
3 44 (1.52%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (0.14%) Firmware
7 3 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.035%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.035%) vSphere
8 1 (0.035%) Xen
Systems Management
1 235 (8.13%) Kubernetes
2 209 (7.23%) Terraform
3 83 (2.87%) Ansible
4 44 (1.52%) Argo
5 42 (1.45%) Grafana
6 41 (1.42%) Prometheus
7 22 (0.76%) Kustomize
8 17 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.42%) Podman
10 6 (0.21%) Puppet
11 5 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.17%) Packer
12 4 (0.14%) Istio
12 4 (0.14%) logstash
12 4 (0.14%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.14%) SCCM
13 3 (0.10%) Control-M
13 3 (0.10%) Kibana
13 3 (0.10%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 497 (17.20%) Microsoft
2 255 (8.83%) Adobe
3 127 (4.40%) Google
4 112 (3.88%) Salesforce
5 106 (3.67%) Databricks
6 74 (2.56%) Oracle
7 65 (2.25%) SAP
8 63 (2.18%) ServiceNow
9 38 (1.32%) Splunk
10 20 (0.69%) IBM
11 16 (0.55%) Cisco
12 14 (0.48%) Facebook
12 14 (0.48%) MuleSoft
13 12 (0.42%) Okta
14 10 (0.35%) Apple
14 10 (0.35%) VMware
15 9 (0.31%) Atlassian
15 9 (0.31%) Foundry
15 9 (0.31%) Red Hat
16 7 (0.24%) Planon