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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,933 3,468 8,014
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.61% 22.97% 24.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.87% 24.17% 27.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,866 2,176 6,004
10th Percentile £42,063 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,468 £53,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,288 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -9.59% +14.37% -5.84%
75th Percentile £80,000 £98,474 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £130,000 £100,829
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 15,547 14,351 29,597
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.72% 95.06% 90.87%
Number of salaries quoted 11,029 8,676 23,362
10th Percentile £34,460 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £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 £58,269 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.97% +5.94% -10.10%

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 20 May 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 97 (3.31%) Confluence
2 46 (1.57%) CMS
3 40 (1.36%) SharePoint
4 18 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 13 (0.44%) Apache
6 13 (0.44%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.34%) SAS
8 7 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.24%) WordPress
9 6 (0.20%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.17%) nginx
11 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.10%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.10%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.10%) PowerFactory
13 2 (0.068%) NServiceBus
13 2 (0.068%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.034%) Drupal
14 1 (0.034%) JBoss
Applications
1 102 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
2 100 (3.41%) Microsoft Project
3 54 (1.84%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 39 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
5 30 (1.02%) UserZoom
6 25 (0.85%) Adobe XD
7 17 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 10 (0.34%) Sketch
9 8 (0.27%) Chatbot
10 6 (0.20%) MS Visio
10 6 (0.20%) Trello
11 5 (0.17%) InVision
12 4 (0.14%) AutoCAD
13 3 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.10%) Photoshop
13 3 (0.10%) Productboard
13 3 (0.10%) Revit
13 3 (0.10%) Windchill
14 2 (0.068%) Pro Tools
14 2 (0.068%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 40 (1.36%) Workfront
2 34 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
3 18 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.48%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.24%) Shopify
6 4 (0.14%) Markit EDM
7 3 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.10%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.068%) Fidessa
8 2 (0.068%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.068%) Raiser’s Edge
8 2 (0.068%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.068%) SAP PM
9 1 (0.034%) HFM
9 1 (0.034%) Maximo
9 1 (0.034%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.034%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.034%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 844 (28.78%) Azure
2 646 (22.03%) AWS
3 232 (7.91%) Azure DevOps
4 201 (6.85%) GCP
5 182 (6.21%) Adobe Analytics
6 147 (5.01%) Serverless
7 145 (4.94%) GitHub
7 145 (4.94%) SaaS
8 143 (4.88%) Power Platform
9 124 (4.23%) Figma
10 92 (3.14%) Azure AI
11 91 (3.10%) Snowflake
12 64 (2.18%) Azure Machine Learning
12 64 (2.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 61 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
14 60 (2.05%) Amazon S3
15 56 (1.91%) iPaaS
16 55 (1.88%) Contentsquare
17 53 (1.81%) GitHub Copilot
18 46 (1.57%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 411 (14.01%) Broadband
2 24 (0.82%) TCP/IP
3 23 (0.78%) DNS
4 21 (0.72%) CHAP
5 18 (0.61%) Network Security
6 14 (0.48%) 4G
6 14 (0.48%) Ethernet
6 14 (0.48%) RS-232
7 12 (0.41%) Firewall
7 12 (0.41%) WAN
8 11 (0.38%) BGP
8 11 (0.38%) Cisco IOS
8 11 (0.38%) Ethernet VPN
8 11 (0.38%) IOS XR
8 11 (0.38%) LAN
8 11 (0.38%) MPLS
9 8 (0.27%) Internet
10 7 (0.24%) 5G
10 7 (0.24%) VPN
11 6 (0.20%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (5.69%) SQL Server
2 163 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 121 (4.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 106 (3.61%) NoSQL
5 103 (3.51%) Metadata
6 100 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
7 81 (2.76%) Power BI
8 57 (1.94%) MySQL
9 56 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
10 46 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
11 42 (1.43%) Relational Database
12 33 (1.13%) Data Lake
13 28 (0.95%) DynamoDB
14 22 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
15 21 (0.72%) Tableau
16 18 (0.61%) RDBMS
17 17 (0.58%) Redis
18 14 (0.48%) BigQuery
19 13 (0.44%) Big Data
20 11 (0.38%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 225 (7.67%) JIRA
2 156 (5.32%) Git
3 121 (4.13%) Jenkins
4 104 (3.55%) GitLab
5 53 (1.81%) Selenium
6 42 (1.43%) Postman
7 40 (1.36%) SonarQube
8 34 (1.16%) Cypress.io
9 29 (0.99%) WebDriver
10 28 (0.95%) SoapUI
11 26 (0.89%) TeamCity
12 25 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
13 18 (0.61%) Jaeger
14 15 (0.51%) Axure RP
14 15 (0.51%) JMeter
14 15 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
15 14 (0.48%) Balsamiq
16 13 (0.44%) CircleCI
16 13 (0.44%) SpecFlow
17 12 (0.41%) Cucumber
General
1 835 (28.47%) Social Skills
2 809 (27.58%) Finance
3 398 (13.57%) Public Sector
4 304 (10.36%) Analytical Skills
5 300 (10.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 289 (9.85%) Games
7 196 (6.68%) Law
8 179 (6.10%) Marketing
9 153 (5.22%) Banking
10 137 (4.67%) Legal
11 124 (4.23%) Retail
12 73 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
13 58 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
14 55 (1.88%) Front Office
15 50 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
16 47 (1.60%) Telecoms
17 37 (1.26%) Back Office
18 35 (1.19%) Manufacturing
19 28 (0.95%) Advertising
19 28 (0.95%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 622 (21.21%) Senior
2 555 (18.92%) Developer
3 469 (15.99%) Lead
4 279 (9.51%) Analyst
5 218 (7.43%) Software Engineer
6 215 (7.33%) Project Manager
7 202 (6.89%) Architect
8 192 (6.55%) Senior Manager
9 184 (6.27%) Business Analyst
10 144 (4.91%) .NET Developer
11 109 (3.72%) Software Developer
12 98 (3.34%) Senior Project Manager
13 92 (3.14%) Designer
14 87 (2.97%) Delivery Manager
15 85 (2.90%) Product Owner
16 79 (2.69%) C# Developer
17 78 (2.66%) Lead Developer
18 77 (2.63%) Engineering Manager
19 76 (2.59%) Product Manager
20 71 (2.42%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 341 (11.63%) .NET
2 325 (11.08%) React
3 179 (6.10%) Node.js
4 151 (5.15%) HTML
5 150 (5.11%) CSS
6 141 (4.81%) .NET Core
7 139 (4.74%) RESTful
8 136 (4.64%) ASP.NET
9 123 (4.19%) REST
10 122 (4.16%) ASP.NET Core
11 97 (3.31%) SOAP
12 93 (3.17%) AngularJS
13 75 (2.56%) Kafka
14 74 (2.52%) Vue
15 68 (2.32%) Spring
16 67 (2.28%) Lightning Web Components
17 62 (2.11%) Entity Framework
18 54 (1.84%) Spring Boot
19 52 (1.77%) Blazor
20 51 (1.74%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 415 (14.15%) Product Ownership
2 243 (8.29%) Cloud Native
3 235 (8.01%) Social Media
4 83 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
5 78 (2.66%) Mobile App
6 76 (2.59%) Over-the-Top Content
7 73 (2.49%) Onboarding
8 57 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
8 57 (1.94%) Management Information System
9 56 (1.91%) Marketing Technology
10 55 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
11 51 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
12 43 (1.47%) Fixed Income
13 42 (1.43%) Virtual Team
14 40 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
15 35 (1.19%) Driving Licence
16 32 (1.09%) Low-Code
17 30 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
17 30 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
18 28 (0.95%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 132 (4.50%) Linux
2 63 (2.15%) Android
3 47 (1.60%) Apple iOS
4 43 (1.47%) Unix
5 42 (1.43%) Windows
6 14 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (0.24%) CentOS
7 7 (0.24%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.14%) Debian
10 3 (0.10%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.10%) VMS
11 2 (0.068%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.034%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 693 (23.63%) Mentoring
2 674 (22.98%) Roadmaps
3 658 (22.43%) DevOps
4 654 (22.30%) Continuous Improvement
5 632 (21.55%) CI/CD
6 575 (19.60%) AI
7 566 (19.30%) Coaching
8 531 (18.10%) Scrum
9 448 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
10 426 (14.52%) Analytics
11 379 (12.92%) Software Engineering
12 370 (12.62%) Customer Experience
13 353 (12.04%) Project Management
14 337 (11.49%) Test Automation
15 330 (11.25%) Full-Stack Development
16 313 (10.67%) Decision-Making
17 290 (9.89%) Stakeholder Management
18 274 (9.34%) Project Delivery
19 273 (9.31%) Microservices
20 266 (9.07%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 559 (19.06%) SQL
2 398 (13.57%) Java
3 397 (13.54%) Python
4 385 (13.13%) C#
5 360 (12.27%) JavaScript
6 242 (8.25%) TypeScript
7 81 (2.76%) PHP
8 80 (2.73%) Go
9 75 (2.56%) C++
10 68 (2.32%) Apex Code
11 54 (1.84%) Bash
12 43 (1.47%) C
13 36 (1.23%) Scala
14 35 (1.19%) PowerShell
14 35 (1.19%) SOQL
15 34 (1.16%) SOSL
16 24 (0.82%) PL/SQL
17 19 (0.65%) VBA
18 18 (0.61%) Embedded C
19 16 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 428 (14.59%) Degree
2 319 (10.88%) Security Cleared
3 234 (7.98%) SC Cleared
4 83 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 82 (2.80%) PMI Certification
6 72 (2.45%) PMP
7 68 (2.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 52 (1.77%) DV Cleared
9 51 (1.74%) CISSP
10 45 (1.53%) ISTQB
11 44 (1.50%) DBS Check
12 37 (1.26%) CISM
13 35 (1.19%) AWS Certification
14 28 (0.95%) CISA
15 26 (0.89%) Azure Certification
15 26 (0.89%) SANS
16 21 (0.72%) CGEIT
16 21 (0.72%) FFIEC
17 18 (0.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
18 16 (0.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 353 (12.04%) Accessibility
2 233 (7.94%) QA
3 88 (3.00%) WCAG
4 83 (2.83%) Data Quality
5 56 (1.91%) GDPR
6 53 (1.81%) NIST
7 39 (1.33%) PMO
8 36 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 24 (0.82%) COBIT
10 22 (0.75%) GRC
11 11 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
12 10 (0.34%) NCSC
13 9 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 8 (0.27%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 4 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
16 4 (0.14%) IFRS
16 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 4 (0.14%) MiFID
16 4 (0.14%) NIST 800
System Software
1 234 (7.98%) Docker
2 59 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
3 40 (1.36%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.17%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.14%) Firmware
6 3 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.034%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.034%) vSphere
7 1 (0.034%) Xen
Systems Management
1 234 (7.98%) Kubernetes
2 203 (6.92%) Terraform
3 84 (2.86%) Ansible
4 44 (1.50%) Argo
5 42 (1.43%) Grafana
5 42 (1.43%) Prometheus
6 22 (0.75%) Kustomize
7 15 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (0.41%) Podman
9 6 (0.20%) Puppet
10 5 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.17%) Packer
11 4 (0.14%) Istio
11 4 (0.14%) logstash
11 4 (0.14%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.14%) SCCM
12 3 (0.10%) Control-M
12 3 (0.10%) Kibana
12 3 (0.10%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 494 (16.84%) Microsoft
2 264 (9.00%) Adobe
3 129 (4.40%) Google
4 114 (3.89%) Salesforce
5 103 (3.51%) Databricks
6 77 (2.63%) Oracle
7 66 (2.25%) SAP
7 66 (2.25%) ServiceNow
8 39 (1.33%) Splunk
9 20 (0.68%) IBM
10 17 (0.58%) Cisco
11 14 (0.48%) Facebook
12 13 (0.44%) MuleSoft
13 11 (0.38%) Okta
14 10 (0.34%) Apple
15 9 (0.31%) Atlassian
15 9 (0.31%) Foundry
15 9 (0.31%) VMware
16 7 (0.24%) Planon
16 7 (0.24%) Red Hat