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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 6 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,337 3,215 5,265
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 13.47% 19.46% 22.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.60% 20.83% 26.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,230 1,993 2,857
10th Percentile £40,825 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% - +3.74%
75th Percentile £78,312 £90,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £132,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £63,500 £67,500 £66,690
% change year-on-year -5.93% +1.22% +2.05%

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 20,104 15,435 20,155
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.13% 93.44% 87.99%
Number of salaries quoted 14,351 8,541 12,114
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,460 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -0.90% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.11% -3.39%

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 September 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
1 110 (3.30%) Confluence
2 91 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 28 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 27 (0.81%) CMS
5 18 (0.54%) Apache
6 16 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.39%) WordPress
8 12 (0.36%) SAS
9 11 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 10 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.30%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.12%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.12%) Camunda
12 4 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.12%) PowerFactory
13 3 (0.090%) Kentico
13 3 (0.090%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.090%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 130 (3.90%) Microsoft Project
2 98 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
3 71 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
4 35 (1.05%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 30 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 25 (0.75%) UserZoom
7 23 (0.69%) MS Visio
8 22 (0.66%) Chatbot
9 18 (0.54%) Trello
10 15 (0.45%) Adobe XD
11 5 (0.15%) Revit
11 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.12%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.12%) Simulink
12 4 (0.12%) Sketch
12 4 (0.12%) Windchill
13 3 (0.090%) Blender
13 3 (0.090%) Maya
13 3 (0.090%) Productboard
14 2 (0.060%) Notion
Business Applications
1 73 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.87%) Workfront
3 19 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.33%) Primavera
4 11 (0.33%) Workday HCM
5 9 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.21%) SAP CO
6 7 (0.21%) SAP FI
6 7 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
7 6 (0.18%) Elite 3E
7 6 (0.18%) Shopify
8 5 (0.15%) Fidessa
9 4 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
9 4 (0.12%) Raiser’s Edge
9 4 (0.12%) SAP GRC
10 3 (0.090%) Carpe Diem
10 3 (0.090%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.090%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.090%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,231 (36.89%) Azure
2 838 (25.11%) AWS
3 347 (10.40%) Azure DevOps
4 246 (7.37%) SaaS
5 216 (6.47%) Power Platform
6 209 (6.26%) GCP
7 193 (5.78%) GitHub
8 153 (4.58%) Serverless
9 134 (4.02%) Azure AI
10 97 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
11 91 (2.73%) GitHub Copilot
12 81 (2.43%) Power Automate
13 80 (2.40%) PowerApps
14 76 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
15 70 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
16 64 (1.92%) Microsoft Copilot
17 63 (1.89%) Snowflake
18 59 (1.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 58 (1.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 55 (1.65%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 120 (3.60%) Broadband
2 41 (1.23%) Network Security
3 20 (0.60%) Internet
4 18 (0.54%) WAN
5 17 (0.51%) LAN
5 17 (0.51%) VPN
6 16 (0.48%) TCP/IP
7 13 (0.39%) VoIP
8 11 (0.33%) 5G
8 11 (0.33%) CTI
8 11 (0.33%) Firewall
9 9 (0.27%) DNS
9 9 (0.27%) SMS
9 9 (0.27%) Unified Communications
10 7 (0.21%) Ethernet
10 7 (0.21%) RS-232
10 7 (0.21%) TETRA
10 7 (0.21%) WLAN
11 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
11 6 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 366 (10.97%) MongoDB
2 359 (10.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 186 (5.57%) SQL Server
4 142 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
5 140 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
5 140 (4.20%) Power BI
6 101 (3.03%) Metadata
7 78 (2.34%) MySQL
8 73 (2.19%) NoSQL
9 71 (2.13%) Relational Database
10 65 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
11 51 (1.53%) DynamoDB
12 50 (1.50%) Data Lake
13 29 (0.87%) Big Data
13 29 (0.87%) Tableau
14 28 (0.84%) Redis
15 21 (0.63%) Spark SQL
16 20 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
16 20 (0.60%) BigQuery
16 20 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 274 (8.21%) JIRA
2 213 (6.38%) Git
3 78 (2.34%) GitLab
4 71 (2.13%) Jenkins
5 30 (0.90%) JUnit
5 30 (0.90%) Selenium
6 28 (0.84%) Cypress.io
7 25 (0.75%) Claude Code
8 21 (0.63%) Postman
9 18 (0.54%) Maven
9 18 (0.54%) Mockito
10 16 (0.48%) Visual Studio
11 14 (0.42%) Cucumber
12 12 (0.36%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
13 10 (0.30%) SonarQube
14 8 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 8 (0.24%) Balsamiq
15 7 (0.21%) NUnit
16 6 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,040 (31.17%) Social Skills
2 816 (24.45%) Finance
3 571 (17.11%) Public Sector
4 411 (12.32%) Analytical Skills
5 375 (11.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 282 (8.45%) Law
7 209 (6.26%) Legal
8 186 (5.57%) Retail
9 159 (4.76%) Marketing
10 122 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
11 107 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
12 95 (2.85%) Banking
13 94 (2.82%) Games
14 89 (2.67%) Aerospace
15 85 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
16 57 (1.71%) Advertising
17 51 (1.53%) Manufacturing
18 42 (1.26%) Legal Technology
19 30 (0.90%) Back Office
20 29 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 826 (24.75%) Developer
2 744 (22.30%) Senior
3 362 (10.85%) Lead
4 360 (10.79%) .NET Developer
5 301 (9.02%) Analyst
6 288 (8.63%) Architect
7 252 (7.55%) Project Manager
8 223 (6.68%) Software Engineer
9 201 (6.02%) Business Analyst
10 183 (5.48%) Senior Developer
11 152 (4.55%) Senior Manager
12 133 (3.99%) IT Manager
13 120 (3.60%) Delivery Manager
14 92 (2.76%) Senior Project Manager
15 90 (2.70%) Software Developer
16 88 (2.64%) Senior Analyst
17 81 (2.43%) Data Engineer
17 81 (2.43%) Technical Architect
18 77 (2.31%) Full-Stack Developer
19 76 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 624 (18.70%) .NET
2 424 (12.71%) React
3 378 (11.33%) ASP.NET
4 369 (11.06%) .NET Core
5 343 (10.28%) ASP.NET Core
6 297 (8.90%) Node.js
7 215 (6.44%) RESTful
8 200 (5.99%) CSS
9 194 (5.81%) HTML
10 173 (5.18%) Blazor
11 168 (5.03%) Terraform
12 157 (4.70%) AngularJS
13 156 (4.67%) Entity Framework
14 127 (3.81%) REST
15 126 (3.78%) Vue
16 121 (3.63%) ASP.NET Web API
17 104 (3.12%) Middleware
17 104 (3.12%) Spring
18 95 (2.85%) .NET Framework
19 91 (2.73%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 339 (10.16%) Product Ownership
2 284 (8.51%) Cloud Native
3 162 (4.85%) Enterprise Software
4 102 (3.06%) Social Media
5 98 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
6 97 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
7 81 (2.43%) Management Information System
8 67 (2.01%) Onboarding
9 63 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
10 60 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
10 60 (1.80%) Mobile App
11 54 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
12 47 (1.41%) Driving Licence
13 46 (1.38%) Marketing Technology
14 41 (1.23%) AI Agents
15 38 (1.14%) Virtual Team
16 36 (1.08%) Blog
17 35 (1.05%) Over-the-Top Content
18 34 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
19 31 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 137 (4.11%) Linux
2 89 (2.67%) Windows
3 48 (1.44%) Unix
4 43 (1.29%) Android
5 20 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.39%) VMS
7 9 (0.27%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.12%) CentOS
9 4 (0.12%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.090%) Debian
11 2 (0.060%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.060%) VxWorks
12 1 (0.030%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 873 (26.16%) Continuous Improvement
2 866 (25.95%) CI/CD
3 841 (25.20%) DevOps
4 754 (22.60%) Mentoring
5 715 (21.43%) AI
6 669 (20.05%) Problem-Solving
7 640 (19.18%) Scrum
8 589 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
9 573 (17.17%) Coaching
10 558 (16.72%) Full-Stack Development
11 513 (15.37%) Software Engineering
12 511 (15.31%) Roadmaps
13 476 (14.26%) Microservices
14 451 (13.52%) Decision-Making
15 439 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 420 (12.59%) Project Delivery
17 384 (11.51%) Analytics
18 369 (11.06%) Test Automation
19 356 (10.67%) Waterfall
20 354 (10.61%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 835 (25.02%) SQL
2 746 (22.36%) C#
3 537 (16.09%) JavaScript
4 378 (11.33%) Python
5 329 (9.86%) Java
6 311 (9.32%) TypeScript
7 90 (2.70%) C++
8 67 (2.01%) Bash
9 66 (1.98%) PHP
10 52 (1.56%) PowerShell
11 42 (1.26%) Ruby
12 37 (1.11%) Go
13 32 (0.96%) C
14 30 (0.90%) PL/SQL
15 23 (0.69%) T-SQL
16 20 (0.60%) Kotlin
17 18 (0.54%) Bicep
18 15 (0.45%) Rust
19 14 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
19 14 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 534 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 516 (15.46%) Degree
3 422 (12.65%) SC Cleared
4 115 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 104 (3.12%) CISSP
6 99 (2.97%) PMI Certification
7 95 (2.85%) CISM
7 95 (2.85%) PMP
8 89 (2.67%) DV Cleared
9 81 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 79 (2.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 64 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
12 50 (1.50%) Azure Certification
13 43 (1.29%) DBS Check
14 34 (1.02%) Master's Degree
15 31 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
16 29 (0.87%) AWS Certification
17 28 (0.84%) ISTQB
18 24 (0.72%) CISA
19 23 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 283 (8.48%) Accessibility
1 283 (8.48%) QA
2 176 (5.27%) Data Quality
3 109 (3.27%) NIST
4 105 (3.15%) GDPR
5 77 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 65 (1.95%) PMO
7 50 (1.50%) ISO 22301
8 45 (1.35%) WCAG
9 35 (1.05%) NCSC
10 30 (0.90%) GRC
11 29 (0.87%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 14 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 14 (0.42%) NIST 800
13 12 (0.36%) SOC 2
14 10 (0.30%) COBIT
14 10 (0.30%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.30%) SLA
15 9 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.27%) GxP
System Software
1 300 (8.99%) Docker
2 40 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
3 39 (1.17%) Active Directory
4 16 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.39%) vSphere
6 12 (0.36%) Firmware
6 12 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.12%) IAG
8 2 (0.060%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.030%) GPFS
9 1 (0.030%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.030%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 276 (8.27%) Kubernetes
2 45 (1.35%) Ansible
3 33 (0.99%) Grafana
4 29 (0.87%) Argo
5 26 (0.78%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.30%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.21%) Packer
9 6 (0.18%) Podman
10 5 (0.15%) Istio
10 5 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.12%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.060%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.060%) Kibana
12 2 (0.060%) Puppet
13 1 (0.030%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.030%) linkerd
13 1 (0.030%) logstash
13 1 (0.030%) SQL Sentry
13 1 (0.030%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 818 (24.51%) Microsoft
2 128 (3.84%) Google
3 125 (3.75%) Oracle
4 117 (3.51%) Adobe
5 91 (2.73%) Databricks
6 89 (2.67%) SAP
7 81 (2.43%) Salesforce
8 76 (2.28%) YouTube
9 65 (1.95%) ServiceNow
10 40 (1.20%) Facebook
11 31 (0.93%) OpenAI
12 26 (0.78%) Workday
13 25 (0.75%) Cisco
14 21 (0.63%) VMware
15 19 (0.57%) IFS
16 18 (0.54%) Informatica
16 18 (0.54%) Yahoo!
17 17 (0.51%) Apple
18 16 (0.48%) Sony
19 15 (0.45%) IBM