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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,221 3,355 7,917
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.81% 21.45% 23.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.23% 22.72% 26.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,148 2,080 5,795
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 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £78,750 £98,474 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £132,500 £112,500
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 14,764 30,098
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.21% 94.38% 88.98%
Number of salaries quoted 12,199 8,615 23,204
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £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 £79,688 £75,750
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 26 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
1 101 (3.14%) Confluence
2 54 (1.68%) 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%) EPiServer
12 2 (0.062%) Immediacy CMS
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 17 (0.53%) 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 1,029 (31.95%) Azure
2 741 (23.01%) AWS
3 284 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
4 223 (6.92%) GCP
5 192 (5.96%) Adobe Analytics
6 171 (5.31%) Power Platform
7 168 (5.22%) SaaS
8 153 (4.75%) Serverless
9 151 (4.69%) GitHub
10 135 (4.19%) Azure AI
11 109 (3.38%) Figma
12 70 (2.17%) Contentsquare
13 69 (2.14%) 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
16 61 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
17 59 (1.83%) GitHub Copilot
18 57 (1.77%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 423 (13.13%) Broadband
2 26 (0.81%) TCP/IP
3 24 (0.75%) Network Security
4 20 (0.62%) VPN
5 18 (0.56%) Internet
6 17 (0.53%) CHAP
6 17 (0.53%) WAN
7 15 (0.47%) Ethernet
7 15 (0.47%) Firewall
7 15 (0.47%) RS-232
8 14 (0.43%) LAN
9 13 (0.40%) 4G
9 13 (0.40%) DNS
10 10 (0.31%) 5G
10 10 (0.31%) BGP
10 10 (0.31%) Cisco IOS
10 10 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
10 10 (0.31%) IOS XR
10 10 (0.31%) MPLS
11 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 29 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
13 28 (0.87%) 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
1 229 (7.11%) JIRA
2 160 (4.97%) 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%) Visual Studio
14 14 (0.43%) WebDriver
15 13 (0.40%) CircleCI
15 13 (0.40%) Maven
15 13 (0.40%) SoapUI
16 12 (0.37%) Jaeger
16 12 (0.37%) Mockito
General
1 905 (28.10%) Social Skills
2 782 (24.28%) Finance
3 449 (13.94%) Public Sector
4 329 (10.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 316 (9.81%) Analytical Skills
6 310 (9.62%) Games
7 211 (6.55%) Law
8 178 (5.53%) Marketing
9 164 (5.09%) Retail
10 148 (4.59%) Legal
11 141 (4.38%) Banking
12 78 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
13 74 (2.30%) 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%) Manufacturing
20 31 (0.96%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 717 (22.26%) Developer
2 655 (20.34%) Senior
3 462 (14.34%) Lead
4 294 (9.13%) Analyst
5 288 (8.94%) .NET Developer
6 267 (8.29%) Software Engineer
7 256 (7.95%) Architect
8 237 (7.36%) Project Manager
9 191 (5.93%) Business Analyst
10 190 (5.90%) Senior Manager
11 115 (3.57%) Delivery Manager
12 108 (3.35%) Software Developer
13 97 (3.01%) Senior Project Manager
14 92 (2.86%) IT Manager
15 89 (2.76%) Product Owner
16 88 (2.73%) Engineering Manager
17 85 (2.64%) Senior Developer
18 81 (2.51%) Graduate
18 81 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
19 79 (2.45%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 484 (15.03%) .NET
2 413 (12.82%) React
3 289 (8.97%) ASP.NET
4 284 (8.82%) .NET Core
5 268 (8.32%) ASP.NET Core
6 263 (8.17%) Node.js
7 185 (5.74%) RESTful
8 184 (5.71%) CSS
9 177 (5.50%) 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
1 413 (12.82%) Product Ownership
2 278 (8.63%) Cloud Native
3 252 (7.82%) Social Media
4 109 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
5 84 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
6 81 (2.51%) Mobile App
7 76 (2.36%) Over-the-Top Content
8 73 (2.27%) Onboarding
9 72 (2.24%) Management Information System
10 69 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
11 68 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
12 57 (1.77%) 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 34 (1.06%) Security Posture
18 33 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
19 31 (0.96%) Public Cloud
20 29 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 150 (4.66%) Linux
2 63 (1.96%) Android
3 57 (1.77%) 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
11 4 (0.12%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.031%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 755 (23.44%) Roadmaps
2 748 (23.22%) DevOps
3 721 (22.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 718 (22.29%) Mentoring
5 715 (22.20%) CI/CD
6 694 (21.55%) AI
7 619 (19.22%) Scrum
8 544 (16.89%) Coaching
9 496 (15.40%) Problem-Solving
10 493 (15.31%) Full-Stack Development
11 448 (13.91%) Analytics
12 441 (13.69%) Software Engineering
13 390 (12.11%) Customer Experience
14 378 (11.74%) Decision-Making
15 374 (11.61%) Stakeholder Management
16 368 (11.43%) Microservices
17 358 (11.11%) Project Management
18 331 (10.28%) Test Automation
19 305 (9.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 295 (9.16%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 718 (22.29%) SQL
2 558 (17.32%) C#
3 472 (14.65%) JavaScript
4 393 (12.20%) Java
5 390 (12.11%) Python
6 301 (9.34%) TypeScript
7 89 (2.76%) PHP
8 84 (2.61%) C++
9 75 (2.33%) Bash
10 68 (2.11%) Go
11 55 (1.71%) Apex Code
12 44 (1.37%) 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
1 437 (13.57%) Degree
2 344 (10.68%) Security Cleared
3 262 (8.13%) SC Cleared
4 97 (3.01%) 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 47 (1.46%) CISM
10 44 (1.37%) Azure Certification
10 44 (1.37%) DBS Check
10 44 (1.37%) DV Cleared
11 31 (0.96%) AWS Certification
12 30 (0.93%) CISA
12 30 (0.93%) ISTQB
13 27 (0.84%) 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
1 359 (11.15%) Accessibility
2 242 (7.51%) QA
3 96 (2.98%) Data Quality
4 78 (2.42%) WCAG
5 72 (2.24%) GDPR
6 60 (1.86%) NIST
7 50 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 46 (1.43%) PMO
9 25 (0.78%) GRC
10 24 (0.75%) COBIT
11 18 (0.56%) NCSC
12 16 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 11 (0.34%) 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 37 (1.15%) Active Directory
4 16 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.40%) vSphere
6 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.062%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.031%) GPFS
8 1 (0.031%) Lustre
8 1 (0.031%) Xen
Systems Management
1 268 (8.32%) Kubernetes
2 171 (5.31%) Terraform
3 73 (2.27%) 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 3 (0.093%) Kibana
11 3 (0.093%) SCCM
11 3 (0.093%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.093%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.062%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.062%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 660 (20.49%) Microsoft
2 266 (8.26%) Adobe
3 129 (4.00%) Google
4 106 (3.29%) Salesforce
5 98 (3.04%) Oracle
6 96 (2.98%) Databricks
7 79 (2.45%) ServiceNow
8 78 (2.42%) SAP
9 40 (1.24%) Splunk
10 31 (0.96%) Facebook
11 19 (0.59%) Cisco
12 18 (0.56%) VMware
13 16 (0.50%) IFS
13 16 (0.50%) YouTube
14 14 (0.43%) Apple
14 14 (0.43%) IBM
14 14 (0.43%) MuleSoft
15 13 (0.40%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.40%) Sony
15 13 (0.40%) Yahoo!