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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,421 4,048 6,205
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.64% 24.69% 25.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.99% 26.25% 27.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,707 2,317 5,154
10th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £42,439
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -2.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £80,070
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £96,539
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 13,454 15,421 22,310
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.93% 94.05% 93.16%
Number of salaries quoted 8,565 9,081 18,236
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,125
25th Percentile £42,000 £47,500 £45,000
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 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 22 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 91 (3.76%) Confluence
2 55 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (1.98%) SharePoint
4 34 (1.40%) Apache
5 25 (1.03%) CMS
6 17 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 11 (0.45%) Apache Spark
8 10 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.33%) nginx
9 8 (0.33%) SAS
10 6 (0.25%) IIS
11 5 (0.21%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.17%) WordPress
13 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.12%) WebLogic Portal
14 2 (0.083%) Drupal
14 2 (0.083%) Luigi
Applications
1 63 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (1.65%) Adobe XD
3 39 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
4 28 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
6 17 (0.70%) MS Visio
7 13 (0.54%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.41%) Sketch
9 8 (0.33%) Photoshop
10 6 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
10 6 (0.25%) Trello
11 5 (0.21%) Oracle Smart View
11 5 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.12%) InVision
12 3 (0.12%) Notion
12 3 (0.12%) UserZoom
13 2 (0.083%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.083%) Avid Media Composer
13 2 (0.083%) InDesign
13 2 (0.083%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 48 (1.98%) Oracle ERP
2 21 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.70%) Shopify
4 15 (0.62%) SAP ERP
5 8 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
5 8 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
5 8 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (0.33%) 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 (0.12%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.12%) Maximo
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 825 (34.08%) Azure
2 537 (22.18%) AWS
3 311 (12.85%) Azure DevOps
4 217 (8.96%) GitHub
4 217 (8.96%) Power Platform
5 216 (8.92%) SaaS
6 167 (6.90%) GCP
7 134 (5.53%) Serverless
8 110 (4.54%) Snowflake
9 93 (3.84%) dbt
10 76 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
11 75 (3.10%) Entra ID
11 75 (3.10%) GitHub Copilot
12 70 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
13 61 (2.52%) Figma
14 57 (2.35%) Amazon S3
15 56 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
16 52 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
17 48 (1.98%) OCI
18 46 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 108 (4.46%) Broadband
2 25 (1.03%) TCP/IP
3 20 (0.83%) DNS
4 16 (0.66%) CHAP
5 14 (0.58%) 4G
6 13 (0.54%) BGP
7 11 (0.45%) Cisco IOS
7 11 (0.45%) Ethernet VPN
7 11 (0.45%) IOS XR
7 11 (0.45%) MPLS
8 10 (0.41%) Firewall
9 9 (0.37%) Wireless
10 8 (0.33%) WAN
11 7 (0.29%) Software-Defined Radio
11 7 (0.29%) VPN
12 6 (0.25%) DHCP
13 5 (0.21%) Network Security
13 5 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (0.17%) SSH
14 4 (0.17%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (6.20%) SQL Server
2 121 (5.00%) Power BI
3 120 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
4 91 (3.76%) NoSQL
5 87 (3.59%) MySQL
6 83 (3.43%) Data Lake
7 77 (3.18%) PostgreSQL
8 75 (3.10%) Relational Database
9 70 (2.89%) MongoDB
10 59 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
11 48 (1.98%) Apache Iceberg
12 47 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
13 46 (1.90%) Tableau
14 44 (1.82%) Apache Arrow
14 44 (1.82%) Dremio
15 38 (1.57%) Metadata
16 33 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
17 30 (1.24%) DynamoDB
18 24 (0.99%) Apache Ignite
19 23 (0.95%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 231 (9.54%) JIRA
2 182 (7.52%) Git
3 117 (4.83%) Jenkins
4 66 (2.73%) Selenium
5 62 (2.56%) GitLab
6 50 (2.07%) Postman
7 48 (1.98%) Oracle Forms
8 42 (1.73%) WebDriver
9 38 (1.57%) Team Foundation Server
10 36 (1.49%) SoapUI
11 34 (1.40%) Cypress.io
12 30 (1.24%) TeamCity
13 29 (1.20%) Balsamiq
14 28 (1.16%) Axure RP
15 24 (0.99%) SonarQube
16 19 (0.78%) Jaeger
17 13 (0.54%) JMeter
18 12 (0.50%) ER Studio
18 12 (0.50%) ERwin
19 10 (0.41%) git-flow
General
1 844 (34.86%) Finance
2 801 (33.09%) Social Skills
3 301 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
4 231 (9.54%) Public Sector
5 215 (8.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 141 (5.82%) Law
7 119 (4.92%) Marketing
8 105 (4.34%) Legal
9 102 (4.21%) Banking
10 82 (3.39%) Front Office
11 73 (3.02%) Games
12 66 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
13 64 (2.64%) Retail
14 62 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
15 61 (2.52%) Telecoms
16 44 (1.82%) Investment Banking
17 43 (1.78%) Manufacturing
18 39 (1.61%) Tech for Good
19 36 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
20 35 (1.45%) Billing
Job Titles
1 585 (24.16%) Developer
2 514 (21.23%) Senior
3 280 (11.57%) Lead
4 279 (11.52%) Analyst
5 175 (7.23%) Software Engineer
6 155 (6.40%) Business Analyst
7 145 (5.99%) Architect
8 126 (5.20%) Software Developer
9 119 (4.92%) .NET Developer
10 101 (4.17%) Project Manager
11 90 (3.72%) Senior Developer
12 79 (3.26%) Data Engineer
13 73 (3.02%) Cloud Engineer
13 73 (3.02%) Python Developer
14 68 (2.81%) Senior Software Engineer
15 64 (2.64%) Python Engineer
16 63 (2.60%) C# Developer
17 62 (2.56%) Senior Manager
18 61 (2.52%) Product Manager
19 59 (2.44%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 378 (15.61%) .NET
2 305 (12.60%) React
3 193 (7.97%) HTML
4 175 (7.23%) CSS
5 160 (6.61%) RESTful
6 136 (5.62%) SOAP
7 135 (5.58%) REST
8 121 (5.00%) Node.js
9 102 (4.21%) AngularJS
10 85 (3.51%) .NET Core
11 80 (3.30%) ASP.NET
11 80 (3.30%) Vue
12 74 (3.06%) .NET Framework
13 59 (2.44%) Entity Framework
13 59 (2.44%) Spring
14 58 (2.40%) Kafka
15 57 (2.35%) Web Services
16 53 (2.19%) Spring Boot
17 47 (1.94%) ASP.NET Web API
17 47 (1.94%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 316 (13.05%) Product Ownership
2 196 (8.10%) Cloud Native
3 86 (3.55%) Management Information System
4 76 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
5 66 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
6 61 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
7 56 (2.31%) Onboarding
8 55 (2.27%) Mobile App
9 53 (2.19%) Fixed Income
10 52 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
11 50 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 44 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
12 44 (1.82%) Equities
13 42 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
14 41 (1.69%) Low-Code
15 32 (1.32%) Hedge funds
16 30 (1.24%) Social Media
17 29 (1.20%) Derivative
18 27 (1.12%) Data Structures
18 27 (1.12%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 114 (4.71%) Linux
2 67 (2.77%) Windows
3 36 (1.49%) Unix
4 25 (1.03%) Android
4 25 (1.03%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.87%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
7 6 (0.25%) CentOS
8 4 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.12%) OpenWrt
10 2 (0.083%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.083%) Solaris
10 2 (0.083%) VMS
11 1 (0.041%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 678 (28.00%) DevOps
2 607 (25.07%) Continuous Improvement
3 563 (23.25%) CI/CD
4 496 (20.49%) Mentoring
5 445 (18.38%) Coaching
6 440 (18.17%) Problem-Solving
7 425 (17.55%) Software Engineering
8 388 (16.03%) Scrum
9 385 (15.90%) Roadmaps
10 379 (15.65%) AI
11 301 (12.43%) Analytics
12 281 (11.61%) Test Automation
13 278 (11.48%) Asset Management
14 262 (10.82%) Stakeholder Management
15 246 (10.16%) Microservices
16 236 (9.75%) Project Management
17 208 (8.59%) Full-Stack Development
18 207 (8.55%) Data Modelling
19 204 (8.43%) User Experience
20 195 (8.05%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 564 (23.30%) SQL
2 467 (19.29%) Python
3 384 (15.86%) JavaScript
4 363 (14.99%) C#
5 355 (14.66%) Java
6 254 (10.49%) TypeScript
7 90 (3.72%) PowerShell
8 81 (3.35%) C++
9 76 (3.14%) PHP
10 66 (2.73%) Bash
11 55 (2.27%) Go
12 52 (2.15%) Shell Script
13 49 (2.02%) Apex Code
14 48 (1.98%) C
14 48 (1.98%) Scala
15 44 (1.82%) PL/SQL
16 17 (0.70%) Ruby
16 17 (0.70%) T-SQL
17 15 (0.62%) SOQL
17 15 (0.62%) VBA
Qualifications
1 348 (14.37%) Degree
2 264 (10.90%) Security Cleared
3 193 (7.97%) SC Cleared
4 104 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 61 (2.52%) DV Cleared
6 56 (2.31%) ISTQB
7 49 (2.02%) PMI Certification
8 44 (1.82%) Master's Degree
9 36 (1.49%) AWS Certification
10 35 (1.45%) PMP
11 31 (1.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 29 (1.20%) DBS Check
13 21 (0.87%) CISSP
14 20 (0.83%) Azure Certification
15 19 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
15 19 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
16 17 (0.70%) CISM
17 16 (0.66%) CISA
17 16 (0.66%) FFIEC
17 16 (0.66%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (8.84%) QA
2 181 (7.48%) Accessibility
3 51 (2.11%) WCAG
4 48 (1.98%) GDPR
5 41 (1.69%) Data Quality
6 40 (1.65%) PMO
7 31 (1.28%) NIST
8 17 (0.70%) COBIT
8 17 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.25%) NCSC
10 6 (0.25%) P3O
10 6 (0.25%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.21%) SLA
12 4 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.083%) ECSS
13 2 (0.083%) GRC
13 2 (0.083%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 1 (0.041%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.041%) IFRS
System Software
1 191 (7.89%) Docker
2 75 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (0.54%) Firmware
5 12 (0.50%) Embedded Firmware
5 12 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.041%) HDFS
8 1 (0.041%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 225 (9.29%) Terraform
2 177 (7.31%) Kubernetes
3 58 (2.40%) Ansible
4 50 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
5 42 (1.73%) Prometheus
6 37 (1.53%) Argo
7 31 (1.28%) Grafana
8 23 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (0.78%) Kustomize
10 11 (0.45%) SCCM
11 7 (0.29%) Kibana
12 4 (0.17%) logstash
12 4 (0.17%) Puppet
13 3 (0.12%) Control-M
13 3 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.083%) Docker Swarm
15 1 (0.041%) HP Fortify
15 1 (0.041%) Rancher
Vendors
1 402 (16.60%) Microsoft
2 94 (3.88%) Oracle
3 88 (3.63%) Google
4 81 (3.35%) SAP
5 78 (3.22%) Databricks
6 77 (3.18%) Salesforce
7 57 (2.35%) Adobe
8 45 (1.86%) Blue Prism
9 32 (1.32%) ServiceNow
10 26 (1.07%) MuleSoft
11 25 (1.03%) Splunk
12 21 (0.87%) IBM
13 20 (0.83%) Okta
14 17 (0.70%) Workday
15 13 (0.54%) Guidewire
16 11 (0.45%) Cisco
17 10 (0.41%) Talend
18 9 (0.37%) Mercator
19 8 (0.33%) IFS
20 7 (0.29%) Syncfusion