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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,101 3,318 8,141
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.75% 21.94% 23.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.19% 23.19% 26.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,019 2,036 5,999
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 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +14.37% -5.84%
75th Percentile £79,864 £98,474 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £132,500 £108,750
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 16,157 14,306 30,602
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.04% 94.59% 89.26%
Number of salaries quoted 11,595 8,366 23,757
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £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 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 12 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
1 100 (3.22%) Confluence
2 42 (1.35%) CMS
2 42 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 21 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (0.61%) Apache
5 15 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 14 (0.45%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.32%) SAS
8 9 (0.29%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.19%) WordPress
10 5 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.13%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.13%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.13%) PowerFactory
12 3 (0.097%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.097%) nginx
12 3 (0.097%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.064%) Camunda
13 2 (0.064%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 112 (3.61%) Microsoft Project
2 95 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 44 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
5 37 (1.19%) UserZoom
6 23 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 22 (0.71%) Adobe XD
8 10 (0.32%) MS Visio
9 8 (0.26%) Sketch
9 8 (0.26%) Trello
10 7 (0.23%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.13%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.13%) InVision
11 4 (0.13%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.13%) Revit
11 4 (0.13%) Windchill
12 3 (0.097%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.097%) Blender
12 3 (0.097%) Maya
12 3 (0.097%) Productboard
Business Applications
1 52 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.29%) Workfront
3 18 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.35%) SAP ERP
5 8 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.19%) Shopify
8 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
9 3 (0.097%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.097%) Fidessa
9 3 (0.097%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.097%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.097%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.097%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.097%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.097%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (0.064%) Oracle Financials
10 2 (0.064%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.064%) SAP PM
10 2 (0.064%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 934 (30.12%) Azure
2 704 (22.70%) AWS
3 246 (7.93%) Azure DevOps
4 212 (6.84%) GCP
5 185 (5.97%) Adobe Analytics
6 159 (5.13%) Power Platform
7 156 (5.03%) SaaS
8 141 (4.55%) Serverless
9 137 (4.42%) GitHub
10 116 (3.74%) Figma
11 115 (3.71%) Azure AI
12 75 (2.42%) Snowflake
13 65 (2.10%) Azure Machine Learning
14 62 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 62 (2.00%) Contentsquare
15 57 (1.84%) Amazon S3
15 57 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
16 56 (1.81%) iPaaS
16 56 (1.81%) PowerApps
17 55 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 420 (13.54%) Broadband
2 27 (0.87%) TCP/IP
3 22 (0.71%) Network Security
4 20 (0.64%) CHAP
5 18 (0.58%) DNS
6 17 (0.55%) WAN
7 15 (0.48%) Ethernet
7 15 (0.48%) LAN
7 15 (0.48%) RS-232
8 14 (0.45%) 4G
9 13 (0.42%) Firewall
9 13 (0.42%) Internet
10 12 (0.39%) VPN
11 11 (0.35%) BGP
11 11 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
11 11 (0.35%) Ethernet VPN
11 11 (0.35%) IOS XR
11 11 (0.35%) MPLS
12 9 (0.29%) 5G
13 7 (0.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 240 (7.74%) MongoDB
2 201 (6.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 171 (5.51%) SQL Server
4 114 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
5 110 (3.55%) NoSQL
6 107 (3.45%) Metadata
7 89 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
8 86 (2.77%) Power BI
9 70 (2.26%) MySQL
10 47 (1.52%) Relational Database
11 33 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
12 32 (1.03%) Data Lake
12 32 (1.03%) DynamoDB
13 20 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
14 18 (0.58%) RDBMS
14 18 (0.58%) Redis
14 18 (0.58%) Tableau
15 17 (0.55%) Big Data
15 17 (0.55%) BigQuery
16 16 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 230 (7.42%) JIRA
2 148 (4.77%) Git
3 119 (3.84%) Jenkins
4 104 (3.35%) GitLab
5 45 (1.45%) Selenium
6 40 (1.29%) SonarQube
7 36 (1.16%) Cypress.io
7 36 (1.16%) Postman
8 25 (0.81%) TeamCity
9 20 (0.64%) WebDriver
10 19 (0.61%) SoapUI
11 18 (0.58%) Jaeger
11 18 (0.58%) JUnit
12 17 (0.55%) Claude Code
13 16 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
14 15 (0.48%) Cucumber
14 15 (0.48%) JMeter
15 13 (0.42%) CircleCI
16 12 (0.39%) Maven
17 11 (0.35%) Mockito
General
1 888 (28.64%) Social Skills
2 792 (25.54%) Finance
3 438 (14.12%) Public Sector
4 332 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 320 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
6 298 (9.61%) Games
7 203 (6.55%) Law
8 179 (5.77%) Marketing
9 151 (4.87%) Banking
10 149 (4.80%) Retail
11 142 (4.58%) Legal
12 71 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
13 68 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
14 57 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
15 50 (1.61%) Front Office
16 44 (1.42%) Telecoms
17 42 (1.35%) Advertising
18 34 (1.10%) Back Office
19 29 (0.94%) Investment Banking
19 29 (0.94%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 637 (20.54%) Senior
2 636 (20.51%) Developer
3 467 (15.06%) Lead
4 297 (9.58%) Analyst
5 249 (8.03%) Software Engineer
6 233 (7.51%) Project Manager
7 230 (7.42%) Architect
8 223 (7.19%) .NET Developer
9 199 (6.42%) Business Analyst
10 191 (6.16%) Senior Manager
11 107 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
12 105 (3.39%) Software Developer
13 99 (3.19%) Senior Project Manager
14 89 (2.87%) Product Owner
15 86 (2.77%) Engineering Manager
16 84 (2.71%) Designer
16 84 (2.71%) IT Manager
17 78 (2.52%) Product Manager
17 78 (2.52%) Senior Developer
18 74 (2.39%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 413 (13.32%) .NET
2 378 (12.19%) React
3 230 (7.42%) Node.js
4 219 (7.06%) .NET Core
5 217 (7.00%) ASP.NET
6 200 (6.45%) ASP.NET Core
7 167 (5.39%) CSS
8 163 (5.26%) HTML
9 156 (5.03%) RESTful
10 120 (3.87%) REST
11 118 (3.81%) AngularJS
12 96 (3.10%) Vue
13 95 (3.06%) Blazor
14 89 (2.87%) Entity Framework
15 77 (2.48%) Kafka
16 76 (2.45%) SOAP
16 76 (2.45%) Spring
17 68 (2.19%) ASP.NET Web API
18 58 (1.87%) Lightning Web Components
18 58 (1.87%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 418 (13.48%) Product Ownership
2 265 (8.55%) Cloud Native
3 244 (7.87%) Social Media
4 100 (3.22%) Enterprise Software
5 79 (2.55%) Mobile App
6 76 (2.45%) Over-the-Top Content
7 72 (2.32%) Onboarding
8 70 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
9 66 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
9 66 (2.13%) Management Information System
10 57 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
11 56 (1.81%) Marketing Technology
12 49 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
13 46 (1.48%) Driving Licence
14 41 (1.32%) Fixed Income
15 40 (1.29%) Virtual Team
16 33 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
17 30 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
18 28 (0.90%) Data Structures
18 28 (0.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 138 (4.45%) Linux
2 64 (2.06%) Android
3 47 (1.52%) Apple iOS
4 44 (1.42%) Unix
5 43 (1.39%) Windows
6 15 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (0.23%) CentOS
7 7 (0.23%) VMS
7 7 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.19%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.16%) Debian
9 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.064%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.032%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 726 (23.41%) Roadmaps
2 701 (22.61%) Mentoring
3 697 (22.48%) DevOps
4 685 (22.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 663 (21.38%) CI/CD
6 630 (20.32%) AI
7 561 (18.09%) Scrum
8 546 (17.61%) Coaching
9 482 (15.54%) Problem-Solving
10 443 (14.29%) Analytics
11 423 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
12 412 (13.29%) Software Engineering
13 386 (12.45%) Customer Experience
14 365 (11.77%) Project Management
15 359 (11.58%) Stakeholder Management
16 348 (11.22%) Decision-Making
17 330 (10.64%) Test Automation
18 319 (10.29%) Microservices
19 296 (9.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 277 (8.93%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 642 (20.70%) SQL
2 470 (15.16%) C#
3 430 (13.87%) JavaScript
4 404 (13.03%) Java
5 394 (12.71%) Python
6 281 (9.06%) TypeScript
7 82 (2.64%) PHP
8 78 (2.52%) C++
8 78 (2.52%) Go
9 69 (2.23%) Bash
10 59 (1.90%) Apex Code
11 40 (1.29%) C
12 38 (1.23%) PowerShell
13 35 (1.13%) Scala
13 35 (1.13%) SOQL
14 34 (1.10%) SOSL
15 22 (0.71%) Ruby
16 21 (0.68%) PL/SQL
17 20 (0.64%) T-SQL
18 19 (0.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 441 (14.22%) Degree
2 330 (10.64%) Security Cleared
3 253 (8.16%) SC Cleared
4 96 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 82 (2.64%) PMI Certification
6 74 (2.39%) PMP
7 69 (2.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 55 (1.77%) CISSP
9 50 (1.61%) DV Cleared
10 46 (1.48%) DBS Check
11 41 (1.32%) CISM
12 36 (1.16%) AWS Certification
13 35 (1.13%) ISTQB
14 29 (0.94%) Azure Certification
15 28 (0.90%) CISA
16 25 (0.81%) SANS
17 20 (0.64%) CGEIT
17 20 (0.64%) FFIEC
18 16 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
19 14 (0.45%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 355 (11.45%) Accessibility
2 240 (7.74%) QA
3 98 (3.16%) Data Quality
4 83 (2.68%) WCAG
5 64 (2.06%) GDPR
6 56 (1.81%) NIST
7 45 (1.45%) PMO
8 39 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 24 (0.77%) COBIT
10 22 (0.71%) GRC
11 14 (0.45%) NCSC
12 12 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 8 (0.26%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 4 (0.13%) IFRS
16 4 (0.13%) ISO 9000
16 4 (0.13%) MiFID
16 4 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 264 (8.51%) Docker
2 59 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
3 38 (1.23%) Active Directory
4 9 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.16%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.16%) vSphere
6 3 (0.097%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.032%) Xen
Systems Management
1 252 (8.13%) Kubernetes
2 189 (6.09%) Terraform
3 80 (2.58%) Ansible
4 46 (1.48%) Argo
4 46 (1.48%) Prometheus
5 44 (1.42%) Grafana
6 22 (0.71%) Kustomize
7 12 (0.39%) Podman
8 7 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.19%) Puppet
10 5 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.16%) Packer
11 4 (0.13%) Istio
11 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.13%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.13%) SCCM
12 3 (0.097%) Control-M
12 3 (0.097%) Kibana
12 3 (0.097%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.064%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 577 (18.61%) Microsoft
2 264 (8.51%) Adobe
3 132 (4.26%) Google
4 112 (3.61%) Salesforce
5 99 (3.19%) Databricks
6 92 (2.97%) Oracle
7 79 (2.55%) SAP
8 77 (2.48%) ServiceNow
9 40 (1.29%) Splunk
10 23 (0.74%) Facebook
11 19 (0.61%) Cisco
12 18 (0.58%) IBM
13 13 (0.42%) MuleSoft
13 13 (0.42%) VMware
14 12 (0.39%) Apple
14 12 (0.39%) IFS
15 11 (0.35%) OpenAI
15 11 (0.35%) YouTube
16 10 (0.32%) Sony
16 10 (0.32%) Yahoo!