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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,512 4,410 5,894
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.54% 22.18% 27.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.18% 24.71% 29.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,863 2,608 4,845
10th Percentile £38,750 £43,231 £43,000
25th Percentile £49,227 £52,500 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.11% +0.54%
75th Percentile £87,250 £95,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £118,500 £125,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - - +3.85%

All Process and 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 13,820 17,850 20,123
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.98% 89.77% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 8,725 10,738 16,290
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 25 November 2025.

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
1 119 (4.74%) Apache Airflow
2 103 (4.10%) Confluence
3 68 (2.71%) Apache
4 47 (1.87%) SharePoint
5 30 (1.19%) CMS
6 14 (0.56%) Appian
6 14 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.52%) IIS
8 12 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 10 (0.40%) Headless CMS
10 8 (0.32%) WordPress
11 7 (0.28%) Apache Spark
11 7 (0.28%) SAS
12 6 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
13 5 (0.20%) Anypoint
13 5 (0.20%) Drupal
14 4 (0.16%) nginx
14 4 (0.16%) WebLogic
15 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
15 3 (0.12%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 70 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (1.39%) Adobe XD
4 30 (1.19%) MS Visio
5 27 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 26 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
7 11 (0.44%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.32%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.32%) Trello
9 6 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
9 6 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.20%) Sketch
11 4 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
12 3 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.12%) InDesign
12 3 (0.12%) Notion
13 2 (0.080%) Elementor
14 1 (0.040%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.040%) Adobe Premiere
14 1 (0.040%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 36 (1.43%) Oracle ERP
2 34 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 30 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
4 29 (1.15%) Shopify
5 8 (0.32%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
5 8 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
5 8 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (0.32%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.24%) Elite 3E
6 6 (0.24%) Primavera
6 6 (0.24%) SAP SCM
7 5 (0.20%) NEC Housing
7 5 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.16%) Hyperion Planning
8 4 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.12%) Magento
9 3 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 841 (33.48%) Azure
2 629 (25.04%) AWS
3 293 (11.66%) Azure DevOps
4 248 (9.87%) SaaS
5 226 (9.00%) Power Platform
6 211 (8.40%) GCP
7 181 (7.21%) GitHub
8 142 (5.65%) dbt
9 124 (4.94%) Snowflake
10 121 (4.82%) Serverless
11 81 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
12 74 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
13 73 (2.91%) Dynamics 365
14 65 (2.59%) Entra ID
15 63 (2.51%) Figma
16 57 (2.27%) Power Automate
17 53 (2.11%) Amazon S3
17 53 (2.11%) GitHub Copilot
18 52 (2.07%) PaaS
19 47 (1.87%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 32 (1.27%) Broadband
2 28 (1.11%) TCP/IP
3 23 (0.92%) Wireless
4 19 (0.76%) Software-Defined Radio
5 12 (0.48%) Firewall
6 9 (0.36%) WAN
7 8 (0.32%) DNS
8 6 (0.24%) CHAP
8 6 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.20%) DHCP
9 5 (0.20%) VPN
10 4 (0.16%) Ethernet
10 4 (0.16%) Internet
10 4 (0.16%) Network Security
10 4 (0.16%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.16%) SSH
10 4 (0.16%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.12%) GPON
11 3 (0.12%) Modbus
11 3 (0.12%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (7.80%) SQL Server
2 134 (5.33%) Power BI
3 116 (4.62%) MySQL
4 113 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
5 112 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
6 110 (4.38%) Amazon Athena
6 110 (4.38%) Apache Iceberg
7 107 (4.26%) Apache Arrow
7 107 (4.26%) Dremio
8 105 (4.18%) Data Lake
9 92 (3.66%) MongoDB
10 79 (3.14%) NoSQL
11 71 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
12 66 (2.63%) Relational Database
13 57 (2.27%) Apache Ignite
14 47 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
15 45 (1.79%) Tableau
16 35 (1.39%) DynamoDB
17 21 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 17 (0.68%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 231 (9.20%) JIRA
2 171 (6.81%) Git
3 92 (3.66%) Jenkins
4 52 (2.07%) Cypress.io
5 51 (2.03%) GitLab
5 51 (2.03%) Selenium
6 39 (1.55%) Oracle Forms
7 30 (1.19%) Postman
8 29 (1.15%) SonarQube
9 26 (1.04%) Balsamiq
10 25 (1.00%) Team Foundation Server
11 24 (0.96%) Axure RP
12 23 (0.92%) WebDriver
13 17 (0.68%) SoapUI
14 13 (0.52%) TeamCity
15 10 (0.40%) git-flow
16 9 (0.36%) ERwin
16 9 (0.36%) webpack
17 8 (0.32%) ER Studio
17 8 (0.32%) JMeter
General
1 939 (37.38%) Finance
2 813 (32.36%) Social Skills
3 287 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 199 (7.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 181 (7.21%) Front Office
6 175 (6.97%) Public Sector
7 156 (6.21%) Law
8 143 (5.69%) Marketing
9 131 (5.21%) Banking
10 109 (4.34%) Legal
11 93 (3.70%) Retail
12 78 (3.11%) Investment Banking
13 72 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
14 69 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
15 57 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
16 49 (1.95%) Manufacturing
17 47 (1.87%) Games
18 44 (1.75%) Local Government
19 41 (1.63%) Tech for Good
20 38 (1.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 735 (29.26%) Developer
2 513 (20.42%) Senior
3 281 (11.19%) Analyst
4 263 (10.47%) Software Engineer
5 242 (9.63%) Lead
6 155 (6.17%) Architect
7 139 (5.53%) Business Analyst
8 132 (5.25%) .NET Developer
9 128 (5.10%) Senior Developer
10 123 (4.90%) Software Developer
11 122 (4.86%) Python Engineer
12 119 (4.74%) AWS Engineer
13 109 (4.34%) AWS Software Engineer
14 108 (4.30%) Project Manager
14 108 (4.30%) Python Software Engineer
15 104 (4.14%) Python Developer
16 90 (3.58%) Senior Software Engineer
17 86 (3.42%) Java Engineer
18 82 (3.26%) AWS Developer
19 81 (3.22%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 405 (16.12%) .NET
2 384 (15.29%) React
3 221 (8.80%) CSS
4 211 (8.40%) HTML
5 201 (8.00%) Node.js
6 176 (7.01%) RESTful
7 167 (6.65%) AngularJS
8 137 (5.45%) REST
9 134 (5.33%) Vue
10 114 (4.54%) Pandas
11 109 (4.34%) NumPy
12 107 (4.26%) SciPy
13 105 (4.18%) ASP.NET
14 102 (4.06%) SOAP
15 100 (3.98%) .NET Core
16 98 (3.90%) .NET Framework
17 86 (3.42%) Kafka
18 79 (3.14%) GraphQL
19 77 (3.07%) Entity Framework
20 70 (2.79%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 288 (11.46%) Product Ownership
2 178 (7.09%) Cloud Native
3 145 (5.77%) Fixed Income
4 121 (4.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 114 (4.54%) Equities
6 107 (4.26%) Management Information System
7 73 (2.91%) Derivative
8 71 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
9 67 (2.67%) Hedge funds
10 65 (2.59%) Mobile App
11 64 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
12 58 (2.31%) Onboarding
12 58 (2.31%) Pricing Data
13 56 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
14 51 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
15 45 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
16 40 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
17 36 (1.43%) NHS
18 32 (1.27%) Low-Code
18 32 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 103 (4.10%) Linux
2 64 (2.55%) Windows
3 29 (1.15%) Apple iOS
4 26 (1.04%) Android
5 22 (0.88%) Embedded Linux
6 21 (0.84%) Windows Server
7 16 (0.64%) Unix
8 4 (0.16%) CentOS
9 3 (0.12%) OpenWrt
9 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.12%) VMS
10 2 (0.080%) Solaris
10 2 (0.080%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 628 (25.00%) DevOps
2 582 (23.17%) Continuous Improvement
3 532 (21.18%) CI/CD
4 507 (20.18%) Software Engineering
5 468 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
6 424 (16.88%) Mentoring
7 395 (15.72%) Scrum
8 349 (13.89%) Roadmaps
9 347 (13.81%) AI
10 312 (12.42%) Coaching
11 288 (11.46%) Asset Management
12 277 (11.03%) Stakeholder Management
13 273 (10.87%) Analytics
14 270 (10.75%) Microservices
15 258 (10.27%) Project Management
16 252 (10.03%) Full-Stack Development
17 249 (9.91%) Test Automation
18 219 (8.72%) User Experience
19 212 (8.44%) Project Delivery
20 204 (8.12%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 574 (22.85%) SQL
2 520 (20.70%) JavaScript
3 519 (20.66%) Python
4 411 (16.36%) C#
5 396 (15.76%) Java
6 379 (15.09%) TypeScript
7 106 (4.22%) C++
8 95 (3.78%) PHP
9 86 (3.42%) PowerShell
10 57 (2.27%) C
11 48 (1.91%) Go
12 46 (1.83%) Bash
13 43 (1.71%) Shell Script
14 39 (1.55%) PL/SQL
15 37 (1.47%) Apex Code
16 24 (0.96%) Scala
17 21 (0.84%) Kotlin
17 21 (0.84%) Ruby
18 19 (0.76%) Swift
18 19 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 370 (14.73%) Degree
2 246 (9.79%) Security Cleared
3 202 (8.04%) SC Cleared
4 143 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (2.03%) Master's Degree
6 47 (1.87%) ISTQB
7 46 (1.83%) DV Cleared
8 44 (1.75%) PMI Certification
9 43 (1.71%) PMP
10 35 (1.39%) Azure Certification
11 33 (1.31%) AWS Certification
12 19 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
13 18 (0.72%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 17 (0.68%) DBS Check
15 15 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
16 13 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 13 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 12 (0.48%) CISSP
18 11 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 11 (0.44%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 222 (8.84%) QA
2 149 (5.93%) Accessibility
3 56 (2.23%) GDPR
4 52 (2.07%) PMO
5 45 (1.79%) WCAG
6 32 (1.27%) Data Quality
7 28 (1.11%) NIST
8 20 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.40%) NCSC
10 8 (0.32%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.28%) COBIT
11 7 (0.28%) SLA
12 6 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.20%) P3O
14 3 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
15 2 (0.080%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.080%) ECSS
15 2 (0.080%) GRC
15 2 (0.080%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 2 (0.080%) MiFID
System Software
1 161 (6.41%) Docker
2 51 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 24 (0.96%) Firmware
4 21 (0.84%) Embedded Firmware
4 21 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.040%) HDFS
7 1 (0.040%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.040%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 149 (5.93%) Terraform
2 126 (5.02%) Kubernetes
3 37 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
4 30 (1.19%) Ansible
5 27 (1.07%) Grafana
6 21 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (0.84%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.56%) Argo
8 8 (0.32%) Kibana
8 8 (0.32%) SCCM
9 3 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.12%) Puppet
10 2 (0.080%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.040%) Automic
11 1 (0.040%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.040%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.040%) logstash
11 1 (0.040%) QRadar
11 1 (0.040%) Rancher
Vendors
1 405 (16.12%) Microsoft
2 89 (3.54%) Oracle
3 83 (3.30%) SAP
4 75 (2.99%) Databricks
5 72 (2.87%) Google
6 65 (2.59%) Salesforce
7 46 (1.83%) Adobe
8 45 (1.79%) Blue Prism
9 27 (1.07%) MuleSoft
9 27 (1.07%) ServiceNow
9 27 (1.07%) Splunk
10 26 (1.04%) Guidewire
11 18 (0.72%) Workday
12 17 (0.68%) IBM
13 16 (0.64%) Okta
14 11 (0.44%) DevExpress
15 9 (0.36%) Apple
15 9 (0.36%) iManage
15 9 (0.36%) Informatica
15 9 (0.36%) Talend