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

 6 months to
16 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,530 3,286 5,591
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.46% 19.81% 22.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.74% 21.31% 25.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,310 2,048 3,663
10th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £50,475
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% +3.85% -0.10%
75th Percentile £78,312 £93,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £132,500 £128,750
UK median annual salary £63,076 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.55% +3.85% -0.10%

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 18,835 15,419 21,621
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.48% 92.96% 87.61%
Number of salaries quoted 13,574 8,935 15,360
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,584 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 16 August 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
1 115 (3.26%) Confluence
2 78 (2.21%) SharePoint
3 43 (1.22%) CMS
4 25 (0.71%) Apache Spark
5 22 (0.62%) Apache
6 17 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
7 16 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 13 (0.37%) SAS
9 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.31%) WordPress
11 10 (0.28%) Jupyter
11 10 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.14%) Camunda
12 5 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.14%) Umbraco
13 4 (0.11%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.11%) PowerFactory
14 3 (0.085%) Kentico
14 3 (0.085%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.085%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 125 (3.54%) Microsoft Project
2 98 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
4 53 (1.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 44 (1.25%) UserZoom
6 24 (0.68%) Chatbot
7 23 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 19 (0.54%) Trello
9 17 (0.48%) Adobe XD
9 17 (0.48%) MS Visio
10 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.11%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.11%) Revit
11 4 (0.11%) Sketch
11 4 (0.11%) Windchill
12 3 (0.085%) Blender
12 3 (0.085%) Maya
12 3 (0.085%) Productboard
13 2 (0.057%) PlantUML
13 2 (0.057%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 63 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.13%) Workfront
3 24 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.28%) Workday HCM
5 9 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
6 8 (0.23%) Primavera
7 7 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.20%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.20%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
7 7 (0.20%) Shopify
8 5 (0.14%) Elite 3E
8 5 (0.14%) Fidessa
9 4 (0.11%) Raiser’s Edge
10 3 (0.085%) Carpe Diem
10 3 (0.085%) Dynamics NAV
10 3 (0.085%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 3 (0.085%) Oracle Applications
10 3 (0.085%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.085%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,257 (35.61%) Azure
2 875 (24.79%) AWS
3 348 (9.86%) Azure DevOps
4 236 (6.69%) SaaS
5 226 (6.40%) GCP
6 192 (5.44%) GitHub
7 187 (5.30%) Power Platform
8 159 (4.50%) Adobe Analytics
8 159 (4.50%) Azure AI
9 147 (4.16%) Serverless
10 101 (2.86%) Figma
11 92 (2.61%) GitHub Copilot
12 80 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
13 73 (2.07%) Snowflake
14 70 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
15 69 (1.95%) Azure Machine Learning
16 68 (1.93%) Contentsquare
17 67 (1.90%) PowerApps
18 64 (1.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 64 (1.81%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 308 (8.73%) Broadband
2 35 (0.99%) Network Security
3 20 (0.57%) Internet
4 19 (0.54%) TCP/IP
4 19 (0.54%) VPN
5 18 (0.51%) WAN
6 16 (0.45%) LAN
7 15 (0.42%) Firewall
8 13 (0.37%) DNS
8 13 (0.37%) VoIP
9 12 (0.34%) Ethernet
9 12 (0.34%) RS-232
10 11 (0.31%) CTI
11 10 (0.28%) 5G
12 8 (0.23%) CHAP
12 8 (0.23%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.23%) SMS
12 8 (0.23%) Wireless
13 7 (0.20%) Intranet
13 7 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 374 (10.59%) MongoDB
2 364 (10.31%) Azure SQL Database
3 215 (6.09%) SQL Server
4 147 (4.16%) Elasticsearch
5 144 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
6 117 (3.31%) Power BI
7 101 (2.86%) Metadata
8 86 (2.44%) NoSQL
9 84 (2.38%) MySQL
10 55 (1.56%) Relational Database
11 47 (1.33%) DynamoDB
12 46 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
13 36 (1.02%) Data Lake
14 28 (0.79%) Big Data
15 26 (0.74%) Tableau
16 24 (0.68%) Redis
17 21 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 19 (0.54%) Semantic Layer
19 18 (0.51%) BigQuery
20 12 (0.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 270 (7.65%) JIRA
2 202 (5.72%) Git
3 98 (2.78%) GitLab
4 97 (2.75%) Jenkins
5 37 (1.05%) Cypress.io
6 36 (1.02%) Selenium
7 29 (0.82%) JUnit
7 29 (0.82%) SonarQube
8 22 (0.62%) Postman
9 21 (0.59%) Claude Code
10 17 (0.48%) Maven
10 17 (0.48%) Mockito
11 16 (0.45%) Cucumber
12 15 (0.42%) Visual Studio
13 13 (0.37%) CircleCI
14 10 (0.28%) Balsamiq
14 10 (0.28%) JMeter
15 9 (0.25%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.25%) Gatling
15 9 (0.25%) TeamCity
General
1 1,034 (29.29%) Social Skills
2 888 (25.16%) Finance
3 503 (14.25%) Public Sector
4 399 (11.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 388 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
6 305 (8.64%) Law
7 238 (6.74%) Games
8 235 (6.66%) Legal
9 191 (5.41%) Marketing
10 185 (5.24%) Retail
11 120 (3.40%) Banking
12 110 (3.12%) Influencing Skills
13 98 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
14 88 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
15 80 (2.27%) Aerospace
16 64 (1.81%) Advertising
17 48 (1.36%) Legal Technology
18 43 (1.22%) Manufacturing
19 34 (0.96%) Back Office
20 29 (0.82%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 871 (24.67%) Developer
2 728 (20.62%) Senior
3 451 (12.78%) Lead
4 377 (10.68%) .NET Developer
5 325 (9.21%) Analyst
6 282 (7.99%) Architect
7 263 (7.45%) Software Engineer
8 262 (7.42%) Project Manager
9 219 (6.20%) Business Analyst
10 172 (4.87%) Senior Developer
11 154 (4.36%) Senior Manager
12 137 (3.88%) IT Manager
13 116 (3.29%) Software Developer
14 98 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
15 95 (2.69%) Delivery Manager
15 95 (2.69%) Senior Project Manager
16 93 (2.63%) Full-Stack Developer
17 86 (2.44%) Product Owner
18 82 (2.32%) Consultant
19 80 (2.27%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 642 (18.19%) .NET
2 481 (13.63%) React
3 392 (11.10%) ASP.NET
4 387 (10.96%) .NET Core
5 357 (10.11%) ASP.NET Core
6 318 (9.01%) Node.js
7 227 (6.43%) CSS
8 217 (6.15%) RESTful
9 206 (5.84%) HTML
10 178 (5.04%) Blazor
11 167 (4.73%) AngularJS
12 164 (4.65%) Entity Framework
13 139 (3.94%) Vue
14 135 (3.82%) REST
15 126 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
16 103 (2.92%) .NET Framework
17 96 (2.72%) ML.NET
18 93 (2.63%) Spring
19 88 (2.49%) Middleware
20 70 (1.98%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 409 (11.59%) Product Ownership
2 299 (8.47%) Cloud Native
3 216 (6.12%) Social Media
4 150 (4.25%) Enterprise Software
5 104 (2.95%) Greenfield Project
6 88 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
7 79 (2.24%) Mobile App
8 75 (2.12%) Management Information System
9 65 (1.84%) Onboarding
10 63 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
10 63 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
10 63 (1.78%) Marketing Technology
11 54 (1.53%) Over-the-Top Content
12 51 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
13 49 (1.39%) Driving Licence
14 44 (1.25%) Virtual Team
15 33 (0.93%) Blog
16 32 (0.91%) AI Agents
17 30 (0.85%) Cyber Defence
18 28 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 144 (4.08%) Linux
2 68 (1.93%) Windows
3 57 (1.61%) Android
4 38 (1.08%) Unix
5 33 (0.93%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.42%) VMS
7 12 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
8 9 (0.25%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.14%) CentOS
9 5 (0.14%) Debian
10 3 (0.085%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.057%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.028%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 885 (25.07%) CI/CD
2 872 (24.70%) Continuous Improvement
3 857 (24.28%) DevOps
4 810 (22.95%) AI
5 729 (20.65%) Mentoring
6 715 (20.25%) Roadmaps
7 688 (19.49%) Scrum
8 641 (18.16%) Problem-Solving
9 600 (17.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 530 (15.01%) Software Engineering
11 525 (14.87%) Coaching
12 511 (14.48%) Stakeholder Management
13 481 (13.63%) Microservices
14 456 (12.92%) Decision-Making
15 447 (12.66%) Analytics
16 433 (12.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 403 (11.42%) Test Automation
18 400 (11.33%) Project Delivery
19 368 (10.42%) Project Management
20 354 (10.03%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 845 (23.94%) SQL
2 766 (21.70%) C#
3 560 (15.86%) JavaScript
4 401 (11.36%) Python
5 360 (10.20%) Java
6 336 (9.52%) TypeScript
7 91 (2.58%) C++
8 90 (2.55%) PHP
9 67 (1.90%) Bash
10 46 (1.30%) Go
11 45 (1.27%) Ruby
12 39 (1.10%) C
12 39 (1.10%) PowerShell
13 32 (0.91%) Apex Code
14 24 (0.68%) PL/SQL
15 22 (0.62%) T-SQL
16 21 (0.59%) SOQL
17 20 (0.57%) SOSL
18 17 (0.48%) Bicep
19 15 (0.42%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 512 (14.50%) Degree
2 500 (14.16%) Security Cleared
3 400 (11.33%) SC Cleared
4 127 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 107 (3.03%) CISSP
5 107 (3.03%) PMI Certification
6 102 (2.89%) PMP
7 97 (2.75%) CISM
8 86 (2.44%) DV Cleared
9 76 (2.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 72 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
11 64 (1.81%) ITIL Certification
12 47 (1.33%) Azure Certification
13 38 (1.08%) DBS Check
14 34 (0.96%) Master's Degree
15 28 (0.79%) AWS Certification
15 28 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
16 25 (0.71%) CISA
17 22 (0.62%) ISTQB
18 17 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 396 (11.22%) Accessibility
2 306 (8.67%) QA
3 131 (3.71%) Data Quality
4 113 (3.20%) NIST
5 90 (2.55%) WCAG
6 89 (2.52%) GDPR
7 71 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 62 (1.76%) PMO
9 49 (1.39%) ISO 22301
10 35 (0.99%) GRC
11 31 (0.88%) NCSC
12 27 (0.76%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 15 (0.42%) COBIT
14 14 (0.40%) NIST 800
15 12 (0.34%) SOC 2
16 10 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
16 10 (0.28%) GxP
16 10 (0.28%) PCI DSS
17 9 (0.25%) SLA
18 7 (0.20%) MiFID
System Software
1 304 (8.61%) Docker
2 60 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
3 36 (1.02%) Active Directory
4 15 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.37%) vSphere
6 12 (0.34%) Firmware
7 4 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.028%) GPFS
9 1 (0.028%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 269 (7.62%) Kubernetes
2 171 (4.84%) Terraform
3 54 (1.53%) Ansible
4 38 (1.08%) Grafana
5 29 (0.82%) Argo
6 27 (0.76%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.34%) Podman
8 9 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.14%) Istio
10 5 (0.14%) Puppet
11 4 (0.11%) Kustomize
12 3 (0.085%) Packer
12 3 (0.085%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.085%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.057%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.057%) Kibana
14 1 (0.028%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.028%) Rundeck
14 1 (0.028%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 803 (22.75%) Microsoft
2 241 (6.83%) Adobe
3 142 (4.02%) Google
4 111 (3.14%) Oracle
5 104 (2.95%) Databricks
6 93 (2.63%) Salesforce
6 93 (2.63%) SAP
7 64 (1.81%) ServiceNow
8 40 (1.13%) Facebook
9 31 (0.88%) OpenAI
10 27 (0.76%) YouTube
11 26 (0.74%) Splunk
12 24 (0.68%) Cisco
13 21 (0.59%) Workday
14 19 (0.54%) Apple
14 19 (0.54%) Yahoo!
15 18 (0.51%) IFS
15 18 (0.51%) VMware
16 17 (0.48%) IBM
16 17 (0.48%) Sony
2,064 hybrid/remote Agile jobs