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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,354 3,986 5,748
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.75% 24.26% 26.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.01% 25.90% 28.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,673 2,286 4,757
10th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.47% +6.92% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £93,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £97,374
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -3.70%

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 13,070 15,388 20,350
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.44% 93.64% 93.51%
Number of salaries quoted 8,286 9,071 16,480
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,750 £45,164
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £79,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 January 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 92 (3.91%) Confluence
2 63 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (1.91%) SharePoint
4 36 (1.53%) Apache
5 26 (1.10%) CMS
6 17 (0.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 10 (0.42%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.30%) nginx
8 7 (0.30%) SAS
9 6 (0.25%) IIS
10 5 (0.21%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
10 5 (0.21%) WordPress
11 3 (0.13%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.13%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.13%) WebLogic Portal
12 2 (0.085%) Drupal
12 2 (0.085%) Umbraco
Applications
1 62 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (1.70%) Adobe XD
4 27 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
6 18 (0.76%) MS Visio
7 13 (0.55%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.42%) Sketch
9 7 (0.30%) Photoshop
9 7 (0.30%) Trello
10 5 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
10 5 (0.21%) Oracle Smart View
10 5 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.13%) InVision
11 3 (0.13%) Notion
12 2 (0.085%) Avid Media Composer
12 2 (0.085%) InDesign
12 2 (0.085%) Pro Tools
13 1 (0.042%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 48 (2.04%) Oracle ERP
2 20 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (0.81%) Shopify
4 13 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.55%) SAP ERP
5 8 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
5 8 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
5 8 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (0.34%) Workday HCM
6 5 (0.21%) NEC Housing
6 5 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.21%) Primavera
7 4 (0.17%) Hyperion Planning
7 4 (0.17%) Markit EDM
8 3 (0.13%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.13%) Maximo
8 3 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.085%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 818 (34.75%) Azure
2 521 (22.13%) AWS
3 311 (13.21%) Azure DevOps
4 217 (9.22%) SaaS
5 212 (9.01%) GitHub
6 206 (8.75%) Power Platform
7 159 (6.75%) GCP
8 127 (5.40%) Serverless
9 116 (4.93%) Snowflake
10 101 (4.29%) dbt
11 75 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
12 74 (3.14%) GitHub Copilot
13 73 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
14 72 (3.06%) Entra ID
15 62 (2.63%) Figma
16 58 (2.46%) Amazon S3
17 54 (2.29%) Azure Data Factory
18 50 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
19 49 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
20 48 (2.04%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 81 (3.44%) Broadband
2 25 (1.06%) TCP/IP
3 20 (0.85%) DNS
4 14 (0.59%) CHAP
5 13 (0.55%) 4G
5 13 (0.55%) Wireless
6 12 (0.51%) BGP
7 11 (0.47%) Software-Defined Radio
8 10 (0.42%) Cisco IOS
8 10 (0.42%) Ethernet VPN
8 10 (0.42%) IOS XR
8 10 (0.42%) MPLS
9 9 (0.38%) Firewall
10 8 (0.34%) WAN
11 6 (0.25%) DHCP
12 5 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.17%) LAN
13 4 (0.17%) Network Security
13 4 (0.17%) SSH
13 4 (0.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (6.20%) SQL Server
2 121 (5.14%) Data Warehouse
2 121 (5.14%) Power BI
3 88 (3.74%) Data Lake
4 87 (3.70%) MySQL
5 84 (3.57%) NoSQL
5 84 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
6 72 (3.06%) MongoDB
7 71 (3.02%) Relational Database
8 65 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
9 56 (2.38%) Apache Iceberg
10 55 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
11 52 (2.21%) Apache Arrow
11 52 (2.21%) Dremio
12 46 (1.95%) Tableau
13 39 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
14 33 (1.40%) DynamoDB
15 29 (1.23%) Apache Ignite
16 28 (1.19%) Metadata
17 17 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 236 (10.03%) JIRA
2 176 (7.48%) Git
3 108 (4.59%) Jenkins
4 65 (2.76%) Selenium
5 61 (2.59%) GitLab
6 50 (2.12%) Postman
7 48 (2.04%) Oracle Forms
8 42 (1.78%) WebDriver
9 40 (1.70%) Team Foundation Server
10 36 (1.53%) Cypress.io
10 36 (1.53%) SoapUI
11 29 (1.23%) Balsamiq
12 28 (1.19%) Axure RP
13 22 (0.93%) SonarQube
14 20 (0.85%) TeamCity
15 13 (0.55%) Jaeger
16 12 (0.51%) ER Studio
16 12 (0.51%) ERwin
17 10 (0.42%) git-flow
18 9 (0.38%) Storybook
General
1 854 (36.28%) Finance
2 792 (33.64%) Social Skills
3 294 (12.49%) Analytical Skills
4 213 (9.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 202 (8.58%) Public Sector
6 142 (6.03%) Law
7 129 (5.48%) Marketing
8 109 (4.63%) Legal
9 100 (4.25%) Banking
10 91 (3.87%) Front Office
11 67 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
11 67 (2.85%) Retail
12 59 (2.51%) Games
12 59 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
13 56 (2.38%) Telecoms
14 47 (2.00%) Investment Banking
14 47 (2.00%) Manufacturing
15 45 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
16 41 (1.74%) Tech for Good
17 38 (1.61%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 578 (24.55%) Developer
2 473 (20.09%) Senior
3 277 (11.77%) Analyst
4 264 (11.21%) Lead
5 172 (7.31%) Software Engineer
6 152 (6.46%) Business Analyst
7 132 (5.61%) Architect
8 126 (5.35%) Software Developer
9 120 (5.10%) .NET Developer
10 99 (4.21%) Project Manager
11 87 (3.70%) Senior Developer
12 80 (3.40%) Python Developer
13 76 (3.23%) Data Engineer
14 71 (3.02%) Python Engineer
15 69 (2.93%) Cloud Engineer
15 69 (2.93%) Senior Software Engineer
16 65 (2.76%) AWS Engineer
17 63 (2.68%) C# Developer
18 61 (2.59%) Product Manager
19 59 (2.51%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 375 (15.93%) .NET
2 303 (12.87%) React
3 192 (8.16%) HTML
4 170 (7.22%) CSS
5 168 (7.14%) RESTful
6 133 (5.65%) SOAP
7 127 (5.40%) Node.js
7 127 (5.40%) REST
8 106 (4.50%) AngularJS
9 90 (3.82%) .NET Core
10 85 (3.61%) ASP.NET
11 82 (3.48%) Vue
12 74 (3.14%) .NET Framework
13 62 (2.63%) Entity Framework
14 57 (2.42%) Kafka
15 53 (2.25%) ASP.NET Web API
15 53 (2.25%) Pandas
15 53 (2.25%) Spring
15 53 (2.25%) Web Services
16 52 (2.21%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 303 (12.87%) Product Ownership
2 193 (8.20%) Cloud Native
3 88 (3.74%) Management Information System
4 72 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
5 68 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
6 61 (2.59%) Fixed Income
7 60 (2.55%) Onboarding
8 59 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
9 58 (2.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 56 (2.38%) Mobile App
11 52 (2.21%) Equities
12 51 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
13 43 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
14 37 (1.57%) Hedge funds
15 36 (1.53%) Derivative
15 36 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
16 32 (1.36%) Low-Code
17 29 (1.23%) Pricing Data
18 28 (1.19%) NHS
19 27 (1.15%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 107 (4.55%) Linux
2 67 (2.85%) Windows
3 27 (1.15%) Unix
4 23 (0.98%) Android
4 23 (0.98%) Apple iOS
5 20 (0.85%) Windows Server
6 14 (0.59%) Embedded Linux
7 4 (0.17%) CentOS
8 3 (0.13%) OpenWrt
9 2 (0.085%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.085%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.085%) Solaris
9 2 (0.085%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.085%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 647 (27.49%) DevOps
2 585 (24.85%) Continuous Improvement
3 550 (23.36%) CI/CD
4 471 (20.01%) Mentoring
5 430 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
6 410 (17.42%) Software Engineering
7 408 (17.33%) Coaching
8 376 (15.97%) AI
9 373 (15.85%) Scrum
10 363 (15.42%) Roadmaps
11 285 (12.11%) Analytics
11 285 (12.11%) Asset Management
12 272 (11.55%) Test Automation
13 258 (10.96%) Stakeholder Management
14 245 (10.41%) Microservices
15 230 (9.77%) Project Management
16 205 (8.71%) Full-Stack Development
17 203 (8.62%) User Experience
18 196 (8.33%) Data Modelling
19 190 (8.07%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 565 (24.00%) SQL
2 465 (19.75%) Python
3 383 (16.27%) JavaScript
4 372 (15.80%) C#
5 341 (14.49%) Java
6 262 (11.13%) TypeScript
7 90 (3.82%) PowerShell
8 83 (3.53%) C++
9 75 (3.19%) PHP
10 57 (2.42%) Bash
11 52 (2.21%) Shell Script
12 51 (2.17%) C
13 46 (1.95%) Go
13 46 (1.95%) PL/SQL
14 45 (1.91%) Apex Code
15 39 (1.66%) Scala
16 17 (0.72%) Ruby
16 17 (0.72%) T-SQL
17 15 (0.64%) SOQL
17 15 (0.64%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 349 (14.83%) Degree
2 243 (10.32%) Security Cleared
3 184 (7.82%) SC Cleared
4 107 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (2.51%) ISTQB
6 49 (2.08%) DV Cleared
7 48 (2.04%) PMI Certification
8 47 (2.00%) Master's Degree
9 36 (1.53%) PMP
10 33 (1.40%) AWS Certification
10 33 (1.40%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 20 (0.85%) Azure Certification
12 19 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
13 18 (0.76%) CISSP
14 17 (0.72%) DBS Check
15 16 (0.68%) CISM
16 14 (0.59%) CGEIT
16 14 (0.59%) CISA
16 14 (0.59%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (9.13%) QA
2 172 (7.31%) Accessibility
3 50 (2.12%) WCAG
4 47 (2.00%) GDPR
5 43 (1.83%) PMO
6 39 (1.66%) Data Quality
7 31 (1.32%) NIST
8 20 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 15 (0.64%) COBIT
10 8 (0.34%) NCSC
11 7 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.30%) SLA
12 6 (0.25%) P3O
13 5 (0.21%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.13%) GRC
16 2 (0.085%) ECSS
16 2 (0.085%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 2 (0.085%) Software Quality Assurance
17 1 (0.042%) IFRS
System Software
1 166 (7.05%) Docker
2 70 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 17 (0.72%) Firmware
5 16 (0.68%) Embedded Firmware
6 12 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.085%) VMware Infrastructure
9 1 (0.042%) HDFS
9 1 (0.042%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 211 (8.96%) Terraform
2 155 (6.58%) Kubernetes
3 49 (2.08%) Ansible
4 47 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
5 36 (1.53%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.32%) Argo
6 31 (1.32%) Grafana
7 23 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (0.55%) Kustomize
9 10 (0.42%) SCCM
10 7 (0.30%) Kibana
11 4 (0.17%) logstash
12 3 (0.13%) Control-M
12 3 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.13%) Puppet
13 2 (0.085%) Docker Swarm
14 1 (0.042%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.042%) Rancher
Vendors
1 391 (16.61%) Microsoft
2 90 (3.82%) Oracle
3 80 (3.40%) Databricks
4 78 (3.31%) SAP
5 75 (3.19%) Google
6 71 (3.02%) Salesforce
7 55 (2.34%) Adobe
8 45 (1.91%) Blue Prism
9 29 (1.23%) ServiceNow
10 24 (1.02%) MuleSoft
11 23 (0.98%) Splunk
12 21 (0.89%) IBM
13 20 (0.85%) Okta
14 17 (0.72%) Workday
15 14 (0.59%) Guidewire
16 10 (0.42%) Cisco
16 10 (0.42%) Talend
17 9 (0.38%) Mercator
18 8 (0.34%) IFS
19 7 (0.30%) Facebook