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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,185 3,348 8,150
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.76% 21.61% 23.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.23% 22.87% 26.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,107 2,070 5,997
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 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +13.82% -5.38%
75th Percentile £78,750 £98,474 £81,786
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 16,563 14,642 30,856
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.97% 94.49% 88.80%
Number of salaries quoted 12,008 8,523 23,828
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £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% -9.54%

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 21 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 (3.14%) Confluence
2 50 (1.57%) SharePoint
3 43 (1.35%) CMS
4 21 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.60%) Apache
6 16 (0.50%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 11 (0.35%) SAS
9 9 (0.28%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.22%) WordPress
12 4 (0.13%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.13%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.13%) PowerFactory
13 3 (0.094%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.094%) nginx
13 3 (0.094%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.094%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.063%) Appian
14 2 (0.063%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 112 (3.52%) Microsoft Project
2 93 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 45 (1.41%) UserZoom
5 44 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
6 22 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 19 (0.60%) Adobe XD
8 11 (0.35%) MS Visio
8 11 (0.35%) Trello
9 7 (0.22%) Chatbot
9 7 (0.22%) Sketch
10 4 (0.13%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.13%) InVision
10 4 (0.13%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.13%) Revit
10 4 (0.13%) Windchill
11 3 (0.094%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.094%) Blender
11 3 (0.094%) Maya
11 3 (0.094%) Productboard
Business Applications
1 58 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.26%) Workfront
3 18 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.25%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.19%) Shopify
6 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.13%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.094%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.094%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.094%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.094%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.094%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.094%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.094%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.063%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.063%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.063%) SAP PM
8 2 (0.063%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1,005 (31.55%) Azure
2 733 (23.01%) AWS
3 273 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
4 223 (7.00%) GCP
5 192 (6.03%) Adobe Analytics
6 167 (5.24%) SaaS
7 166 (5.21%) Power Platform
8 147 (4.62%) Serverless
9 143 (4.49%) GitHub
10 132 (4.14%) Azure AI
11 110 (3.45%) Figma
12 70 (2.20%) Contentsquare
13 65 (2.04%) Azure Machine Learning
13 65 (2.04%) Snowflake
14 64 (2.01%) PowerApps
15 61 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 61 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
16 59 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
17 57 (1.79%) iPaaS
18 55 (1.73%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 429 (13.47%) Broadband
2 27 (0.85%) TCP/IP
3 24 (0.75%) Network Security
4 17 (0.53%) CHAP
4 17 (0.53%) Internet
5 16 (0.50%) VPN
5 16 (0.50%) WAN
6 15 (0.47%) Ethernet
6 15 (0.47%) Firewall
6 15 (0.47%) RS-232
7 13 (0.41%) 4G
7 13 (0.41%) DNS
7 13 (0.41%) LAN
8 10 (0.31%) 5G
8 10 (0.31%) BGP
8 10 (0.31%) Cisco IOS
8 10 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
8 10 (0.31%) IOS XR
8 10 (0.31%) MPLS
9 7 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (9.04%) MongoDB
2 263 (8.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 176 (5.53%) SQL Server
4 122 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
5 112 (3.52%) Elasticsearch
6 111 (3.49%) NoSQL
7 102 (3.20%) Metadata
8 85 (2.67%) Power BI
9 75 (2.35%) MySQL
10 49 (1.54%) Relational Database
11 32 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
11 32 (1.00%) DynamoDB
12 30 (0.94%) Data Lake
13 21 (0.66%) Redis
14 20 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
14 20 (0.63%) BigQuery
15 18 (0.57%) Big Data
15 18 (0.57%) RDBMS
15 18 (0.57%) Semantic Layer
15 18 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 232 (7.28%) JIRA
2 156 (4.90%) Git
3 124 (3.89%) Jenkins
4 104 (3.27%) GitLab
5 42 (1.32%) Selenium
6 41 (1.29%) SonarQube
7 36 (1.13%) Cypress.io
8 32 (1.00%) Postman
9 25 (0.78%) TeamCity
10 19 (0.60%) Claude Code
10 19 (0.60%) JUnit
11 18 (0.57%) Jaeger
12 16 (0.50%) Cucumber
12 16 (0.50%) WebDriver
13 15 (0.47%) JMeter
13 15 (0.47%) SoapUI
14 13 (0.41%) CircleCI
14 13 (0.41%) Maven
15 12 (0.38%) Mockito
15 12 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 893 (28.04%) Social Skills
2 778 (24.43%) Finance
3 442 (13.88%) Public Sector
4 331 (10.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 318 (9.98%) Analytical Skills
6 311 (9.76%) Games
7 200 (6.28%) Law
8 180 (5.65%) Marketing
9 159 (4.99%) Retail
10 142 (4.46%) Banking
10 142 (4.46%) Legal
11 75 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
12 72 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
13 65 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
14 49 (1.54%) Advertising
14 49 (1.54%) Front Office
15 44 (1.38%) Telecoms
16 35 (1.10%) Back Office
17 32 (1.00%) Aviation
17 32 (1.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 705 (22.14%) Developer
2 645 (20.25%) Senior
3 471 (14.79%) Lead
4 294 (9.23%) Analyst
5 278 (8.73%) .NET Developer
6 263 (8.26%) Software Engineer
7 249 (7.82%) Architect
8 234 (7.35%) Project Manager
9 192 (6.03%) Business Analyst
10 187 (5.87%) Senior Manager
11 110 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
12 107 (3.36%) Software Developer
13 97 (3.05%) Senior Project Manager
14 90 (2.83%) IT Manager
15 87 (2.73%) Engineering Manager
15 87 (2.73%) Product Owner
16 84 (2.64%) Senior Developer
17 80 (2.51%) Designer
17 80 (2.51%) Graduate
18 79 (2.48%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 472 (14.82%) .NET
2 406 (12.75%) React
3 278 (8.73%) ASP.NET
4 274 (8.60%) .NET Core
5 257 (8.07%) ASP.NET Core
5 257 (8.07%) Node.js
6 185 (5.81%) CSS
7 180 (5.65%) RESTful
8 179 (5.62%) HTML
9 133 (4.18%) AngularJS
10 123 (3.86%) Blazor
10 123 (3.86%) REST
11 112 (3.52%) Vue
12 108 (3.39%) Entity Framework
13 87 (2.73%) ASP.NET Web API
14 81 (2.54%) Kafka
15 78 (2.45%) Spring
16 70 (2.20%) ML.NET
17 69 (2.17%) SOAP
18 66 (2.07%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 410 (12.87%) Product Ownership
2 278 (8.73%) Cloud Native
3 253 (7.94%) Social Media
4 107 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
5 83 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
6 80 (2.51%) Mobile App
7 76 (2.39%) Over-the-Top Content
8 72 (2.26%) Onboarding
9 67 (2.10%) Management Information System
9 67 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
10 66 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
11 57 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
12 55 (1.73%) Marketing Technology
13 46 (1.44%) Driving Licence
14 45 (1.41%) Virtual Team
15 41 (1.29%) Fixed Income
16 33 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
17 32 (1.00%) Security Posture
18 30 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
19 28 (0.88%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 153 (4.80%) Linux
2 62 (1.95%) Android
3 50 (1.57%) Windows
4 48 (1.51%) Unix
5 45 (1.41%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
7 11 (0.35%) VMS
8 8 (0.25%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.22%) CentOS
10 6 (0.19%) Debian
11 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (0.16%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.031%) AIX
12 1 (0.031%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 747 (23.45%) Roadmaps
2 738 (23.17%) DevOps
3 712 (22.35%) Mentoring
4 704 (22.10%) Continuous Improvement
5 699 (21.95%) CI/CD
6 673 (21.13%) AI
7 601 (18.87%) Scrum
8 539 (16.92%) Coaching
9 485 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
10 483 (15.16%) Full-Stack Development
11 444 (13.94%) Analytics
12 431 (13.53%) Software Engineering
13 391 (12.28%) Customer Experience
14 366 (11.49%) Decision-Making
15 364 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
16 361 (11.33%) Project Management
17 356 (11.18%) Microservices
18 326 (10.24%) Test Automation
19 297 (9.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 285 (8.95%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 700 (21.98%) SQL
2 537 (16.86%) C#
3 468 (14.69%) JavaScript
4 399 (12.53%) Java
5 393 (12.34%) Python
6 298 (9.36%) TypeScript
7 89 (2.79%) PHP
8 82 (2.57%) C++
9 76 (2.39%) Bash
10 73 (2.29%) Go
11 55 (1.73%) Apex Code
12 40 (1.26%) C
12 40 (1.26%) PowerShell
13 35 (1.10%) SOQL
14 34 (1.07%) SOSL
15 30 (0.94%) Scala
16 27 (0.85%) Ruby
17 21 (0.66%) VBA
18 20 (0.63%) T-SQL
19 17 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 441 (13.85%) Degree
2 339 (10.64%) Security Cleared
3 259 (8.13%) SC Cleared
4 99 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 78 (2.45%) PMI Certification
6 71 (2.23%) PMP
6 71 (2.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 58 (1.82%) CISSP
8 46 (1.44%) DBS Check
9 45 (1.41%) DV Cleared
10 44 (1.38%) CISM
11 38 (1.19%) Azure Certification
12 37 (1.16%) AWS Certification
13 33 (1.04%) ISTQB
14 28 (0.88%) CISA
15 23 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
16 22 (0.69%) SANS
17 17 (0.53%) CGEIT
17 17 (0.53%) FFIEC
18 15 (0.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 361 (11.33%) Accessibility
2 244 (7.66%) QA
3 94 (2.95%) Data Quality
4 80 (2.51%) WCAG
5 68 (2.14%) GDPR
6 59 (1.85%) NIST
7 46 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 44 (1.38%) PMO
9 23 (0.72%) COBIT
9 23 (0.72%) GRC
10 17 (0.53%) NCSC
11 14 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 11 (0.35%) PCI DSS
13 9 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.19%) SOC 1
14 6 (0.19%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 5 (0.16%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.13%) Def Stans
System Software
1 294 (9.23%) Docker
2 60 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
3 35 (1.10%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.28%) vSphere
6 3 (0.094%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.094%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.031%) Xen
Systems Management
1 274 (8.60%) Kubernetes
2 176 (5.53%) Terraform
3 83 (2.61%) Ansible
4 48 (1.51%) Prometheus
5 47 (1.48%) Argo
6 46 (1.44%) Grafana
7 22 (0.69%) Kustomize
8 12 (0.38%) Podman
9 6 (0.19%) Puppet
10 5 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.16%) Istio
10 5 (0.16%) Packer
10 5 (0.16%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.13%) SCCM
12 3 (0.094%) Kibana
12 3 (0.094%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.094%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.063%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.063%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 639 (20.06%) Microsoft
2 267 (8.38%) Adobe
3 138 (4.33%) Google
4 109 (3.42%) Salesforce
5 98 (3.08%) Databricks
6 93 (2.92%) Oracle
7 77 (2.42%) ServiceNow
8 76 (2.39%) SAP
9 40 (1.26%) Splunk
10 30 (0.94%) Facebook
11 19 (0.60%) Cisco
12 15 (0.47%) IFS
12 15 (0.47%) VMware
12 15 (0.47%) YouTube
13 14 (0.44%) Apple
13 14 (0.44%) IBM
13 14 (0.44%) MuleSoft
14 13 (0.41%) Sony
14 13 (0.41%) Yahoo!
15 12 (0.38%) OpenAI