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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,287 3,155 5,026
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 13.21% 18.99% 23.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.40% 20.23% 26.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,177 1,934 2,712
10th Percentile £40,825 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,289 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,900 £66,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% -5.71% +7.11%
75th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £91,269 £130,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £62,864 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.87% - +3.29%

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 20,041 15,592 19,047
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.56% 93.83% 88.21%
Number of salaries quoted 14,244 8,414 11,252
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,700
25th Percentile £44,447 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 11 October 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
1 106 (3.22%) Confluence
2 93 (2.83%) SharePoint
3 27 (0.82%) Apache Spark
4 24 (0.73%) CMS
5 19 (0.58%) Apache
6 16 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 14 (0.43%) WordPress
8 13 (0.40%) SAS
9 12 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 11 (0.33%) Jupyter
11 9 (0.27%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.15%) Umbraco
13 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 4 (0.12%) Camunda
13 4 (0.12%) PowerFactory
14 3 (0.091%) Kentico
14 3 (0.091%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.091%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 129 (3.92%) Microsoft Project
2 98 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
4 29 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 24 (0.73%) MS Visio
6 23 (0.70%) Chatbot
7 19 (0.58%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 18 (0.55%) UserZoom
9 17 (0.52%) Trello
10 14 (0.43%) Adobe XD
11 6 (0.18%) Revit
12 5 (0.15%) Notion
12 5 (0.15%) Simulink
12 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
13 4 (0.12%) AutoCAD
13 4 (0.12%) Windchill
14 3 (0.091%) Blender
14 3 (0.091%) Maya
14 3 (0.091%) Productboard
14 3 (0.091%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 80 (2.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.61%) Workfront
3 19 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.33%) Primavera
4 11 (0.33%) Workday HCM
5 10 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.21%) SAP CO
6 7 (0.21%) SAP FI
6 7 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
7 6 (0.18%) Elite 3E
7 6 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.18%) Shopify
8 5 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
8 5 (0.15%) Fidessa
8 5 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
9 4 (0.12%) Raiser’s Edge
9 4 (0.12%) SAP GRC
10 3 (0.091%) Carpe Diem
10 3 (0.091%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.091%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,169 (35.56%) Azure
2 819 (24.92%) AWS
3 344 (10.47%) Azure DevOps
4 252 (7.67%) SaaS
5 225 (6.85%) Power Platform
6 199 (6.05%) GitHub
7 190 (5.78%) GCP
8 149 (4.53%) Serverless
9 104 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
10 96 (2.92%) Azure AI
11 93 (2.83%) GitHub Copilot
12 87 (2.65%) Power Automate
13 84 (2.56%) PowerApps
14 74 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
15 73 (2.22%) Microsoft Copilot
16 70 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
17 61 (1.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 53 (1.61%) Amazon S3
18 53 (1.61%) PaaS
19 51 (1.55%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 88 (2.68%) Broadband
2 38 (1.16%) Network Security
3 19 (0.58%) Internet
4 18 (0.55%) LAN
4 18 (0.55%) WAN
5 17 (0.52%) VPN
6 15 (0.46%) TCP/IP
7 13 (0.40%) VoIP
8 11 (0.33%) 5G
8 11 (0.33%) CTI
8 11 (0.33%) Firewall
9 10 (0.30%) DNS
10 9 (0.27%) SMS
10 9 (0.27%) Unified Communications
11 7 (0.21%) HTTP
11 7 (0.21%) TETRA
11 7 (0.21%) WLAN
12 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
12 6 (0.18%) Wireless
13 5 (0.15%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 365 (11.10%) MongoDB
2 356 (10.83%) Azure SQL Database
3 147 (4.47%) Power BI
4 144 (4.38%) SQL Server
5 142 (4.32%) Elasticsearch
6 140 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
7 89 (2.71%) Metadata
8 80 (2.43%) MySQL
9 71 (2.16%) Relational Database
10 70 (2.13%) NoSQL
11 66 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
12 47 (1.43%) Data Lake
13 46 (1.40%) DynamoDB
14 30 (0.91%) Tableau
15 29 (0.88%) Big Data
16 27 (0.82%) Redis
17 21 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
17 21 (0.64%) Spark SQL
17 21 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 20 (0.61%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 268 (8.15%) JIRA
2 216 (6.57%) Git
3 73 (2.22%) GitLab
4 69 (2.10%) Jenkins
5 34 (1.03%) JUnit
6 27 (0.82%) Claude Code
6 27 (0.82%) Selenium
7 26 (0.79%) Cypress.io
8 22 (0.67%) Mockito
9 18 (0.55%) Maven
9 18 (0.55%) Postman
10 15 (0.46%) Visual Studio
11 13 (0.40%) Bitbucket
11 13 (0.40%) Cucumber
12 11 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
13 9 (0.27%) SonarQube
14 8 (0.24%) Balsamiq
15 7 (0.21%) NUnit
16 6 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 6 (0.18%) TeamCity
General
1 1,028 (31.27%) Social Skills
2 757 (23.03%) Finance
3 580 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 424 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
5 366 (11.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 264 (8.03%) Law
7 211 (6.42%) Legal
8 190 (5.78%) Retail
9 148 (4.50%) Marketing
10 130 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
11 108 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
12 94 (2.86%) Aerospace
13 81 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
14 80 (2.43%) Banking
15 78 (2.37%) Games
16 55 (1.67%) Advertising
17 50 (1.52%) Manufacturing
18 42 (1.28%) Legal Technology
19 30 (0.91%) Aviation
19 30 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 833 (25.34%) Developer
2 756 (23.00%) Senior
3 363 (11.04%) .NET Developer
4 359 (10.92%) Lead
5 290 (8.82%) Analyst
6 278 (8.46%) Architect
7 247 (7.51%) Project Manager
8 222 (6.75%) Software Engineer
9 194 (5.90%) Business Analyst
10 191 (5.81%) Senior Developer
11 157 (4.78%) Senior Manager
12 149 (4.53%) Delivery Manager
13 139 (4.23%) IT Manager
14 93 (2.83%) Senior Project Manager
15 86 (2.62%) Senior Analyst
16 82 (2.49%) Software Developer
17 81 (2.46%) Full-Stack Developer
18 79 (2.40%) Data Engineer
18 79 (2.40%) DevOps Engineer
18 79 (2.40%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 626 (19.04%) .NET
2 402 (12.23%) React
3 380 (11.56%) ASP.NET
4 371 (11.29%) .NET Core
5 344 (10.47%) ASP.NET Core
6 282 (8.58%) Node.js
7 220 (6.69%) RESTful
8 198 (6.02%) HTML
9 194 (5.90%) CSS
10 173 (5.26%) Blazor
11 162 (4.93%) Terraform
12 156 (4.75%) Entity Framework
13 152 (4.62%) AngularJS
14 137 (4.17%) REST
15 125 (3.80%) Vue
16 120 (3.65%) ASP.NET Web API
17 113 (3.44%) Spring
18 104 (3.16%) Middleware
19 94 (2.86%) .NET Framework
20 91 (2.77%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 305 (9.28%) Product Ownership
2 285 (8.67%) Cloud Native
3 167 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
4 107 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
5 96 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
6 80 (2.43%) Management Information System
7 75 (2.28%) Social Media
8 70 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
9 67 (2.04%) Onboarding
10 61 (1.86%) Mobile App
11 60 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
12 55 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
13 48 (1.46%) Driving Licence
14 41 (1.25%) AI Agents
15 36 (1.10%) Blog
15 36 (1.10%) Cyber Defence
16 33 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 30 (0.91%) Marketing Technology
17 30 (0.91%) Virtual Team
18 29 (0.88%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 133 (4.05%) Linux
2 85 (2.59%) Windows
3 51 (1.55%) Unix
4 42 (1.28%) Android
5 20 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.37%) VMS
7 8 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.12%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.061%) CentOS
10 2 (0.061%) Debian
10 2 (0.061%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.061%) VxWorks
11 1 (0.030%) macOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 879 (26.74%) Continuous Improvement
2 870 (26.47%) CI/CD
3 846 (25.74%) DevOps
4 756 (23.00%) Mentoring
5 679 (20.66%) Problem-Solving
6 678 (20.63%) AI
7 619 (18.83%) Stakeholder Management
8 614 (18.68%) Scrum
9 585 (17.80%) Coaching
10 543 (16.52%) Full-Stack Development
11 514 (15.64%) Software Engineering
12 470 (14.30%) Microservices
13 439 (13.36%) Roadmaps
14 435 (13.23%) Decision-Making
15 428 (13.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 412 (12.53%) Project Delivery
17 382 (11.62%) Analytics
18 374 (11.38%) Test Automation
19 354 (10.77%) Waterfall
20 350 (10.65%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 800 (24.34%) SQL
2 736 (22.39%) C#
3 535 (16.28%) JavaScript
4 377 (11.47%) Python
5 321 (9.77%) Java
6 291 (8.85%) TypeScript
7 78 (2.37%) C++
8 68 (2.07%) Bash
9 59 (1.79%) PHP
10 54 (1.64%) PowerShell
11 43 (1.31%) Go
12 41 (1.25%) Ruby
13 30 (0.91%) PL/SQL
14 29 (0.88%) C
15 26 (0.79%) T-SQL
16 21 (0.64%) Bicep
17 18 (0.55%) Kotlin
18 16 (0.49%) Rust
19 14 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
19 14 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 545 (16.58%) Security Cleared
2 497 (15.12%) Degree
3 433 (13.17%) SC Cleared
4 101 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 99 (3.01%) CISSP
6 92 (2.80%) PMI Certification
7 91 (2.77%) DV Cleared
7 91 (2.77%) PMP
8 89 (2.71%) CISM
9 85 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
10 83 (2.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 64 (1.95%) ITIL Certification
12 53 (1.61%) Azure Certification
13 38 (1.16%) DBS Check
14 33 (1.00%) Master's Degree
15 29 (0.88%) AWS Certification
15 29 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
16 25 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
17 22 (0.67%) CISA
17 22 (0.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 290 (8.82%) Accessibility
2 266 (8.09%) QA
3 186 (5.66%) Data Quality
4 109 (3.32%) GDPR
5 104 (3.16%) NIST
6 70 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 62 (1.89%) PMO
8 53 (1.61%) ISO 22301
9 45 (1.37%) WCAG
10 35 (1.06%) NCSC
11 27 (0.82%) GRC
12 26 (0.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 14 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 14 (0.43%) NIST 800
14 11 (0.33%) SOC 2
15 10 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.30%) SLA
16 9 (0.27%) GxP
16 9 (0.27%) PCI DSS
17 8 (0.24%) COBIT
System Software
1 308 (9.37%) Docker
2 42 (1.28%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.37%) Firmware
4 12 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (0.37%) vSphere
5 4 (0.12%) IAG
6 3 (0.091%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.030%) GPFS
8 1 (0.030%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.030%) Lustre
8 1 (0.030%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 286 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 35 (1.06%) Ansible
3 31 (0.94%) Grafana
4 26 (0.79%) Argo
5 23 (0.70%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.27%) Progress Chef
7 7 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.18%) Packer
9 5 (0.15%) Istio
9 5 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.12%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.12%) Podman
11 3 (0.091%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.091%) SQL Sentry
12 2 (0.061%) Data Guard
12 2 (0.061%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.061%) logstash
12 2 (0.061%) Oracle RMAN
13 1 (0.030%) Functional Safety
13 1 (0.030%) linkerd
Vendors
1 783 (23.82%) Microsoft
2 134 (4.08%) Oracle
3 124 (3.77%) Google
4 90 (2.74%) Adobe
4 90 (2.74%) SAP
5 89 (2.71%) YouTube
6 83 (2.53%) Salesforce
7 59 (1.79%) ServiceNow
8 58 (1.76%) Databricks
9 41 (1.25%) Facebook
10 31 (0.94%) OpenAI
11 27 (0.82%) Workday
12 26 (0.79%) Cisco
13 19 (0.58%) Informatica
13 19 (0.58%) VMware
14 18 (0.55%) IFS
14 18 (0.55%) Yahoo!
15 17 (0.52%) Apple
16 16 (0.49%) Sony
17 14 (0.43%) Pega