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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 5 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,556 3,298 5,665
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.65% 19.85% 22.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.93% 21.35% 25.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,333 2,058 3,729
10th Percentile £41,050 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £50,475
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,850 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.85% +3.85% -0.54%
75th Percentile £78,312 £93,778 £91,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £132,500 £125,000
UK median annual salary £63,455 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.99% +3.85% -0.54%

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 18,782 15,445 21,829
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.64% 92.96% 87.71%
Number of salaries quoted 13,537 8,945 15,559
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £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 £77,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%

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 13 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
1 113 (3.18%) Confluence
2 73 (2.05%) SharePoint
3 43 (1.21%) CMS
4 24 (0.67%) Apache Spark
5 21 (0.59%) Apache
6 16 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 16 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (0.37%) SAS
8 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
9 11 (0.31%) WordPress
10 10 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 9 (0.25%) Jupyter
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 (0.084%) Kentico
14 3 (0.084%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.084%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 124 (3.49%) Microsoft Project
2 98 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 53 (1.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 44 (1.24%) UserZoom
6 24 (0.67%) Chatbot
7 23 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 19 (0.53%) 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 (0.084%) Blender
12 3 (0.084%) Maya
12 3 (0.084%) Productboard
13 2 (0.056%) PlantUML
13 2 (0.056%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 61 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.12%) Workfront
3 24 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.28%) Workday HCM
5 9 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.20%) Primavera
6 7 (0.20%) SAP CO
6 7 (0.20%) SAP FI
6 7 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
6 7 (0.20%) Shopify
7 6 (0.17%) Elite 3E
8 5 (0.14%) Fidessa
9 4 (0.11%) Raiser’s Edge
10 3 (0.084%) Carpe Diem
10 3 (0.084%) Dynamics NAV
10 3 (0.084%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 3 (0.084%) Oracle Applications
10 3 (0.084%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.084%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,267 (35.63%) Azure
2 901 (25.34%) AWS
3 346 (9.73%) Azure DevOps
4 241 (6.78%) GCP
5 233 (6.55%) SaaS
6 191 (5.37%) GitHub
7 186 (5.23%) Power Platform
8 160 (4.50%) Adobe Analytics
9 159 (4.47%) Azure AI
10 149 (4.19%) Serverless
11 102 (2.87%) Figma
12 91 (2.56%) GitHub Copilot
13 80 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
14 74 (2.08%) Snowflake
15 69 (1.94%) Azure Machine Learning
16 68 (1.91%) Contentsquare
16 68 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
17 65 (1.83%) PowerApps
18 63 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
18 63 (1.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 308 (8.66%) Broadband
2 32 (0.90%) Network Security
3 24 (0.67%) TCP/IP
4 21 (0.59%) Internet
5 19 (0.53%) VPN
6 17 (0.48%) WAN
7 15 (0.42%) Firewall
7 15 (0.42%) LAN
8 14 (0.39%) DNS
9 13 (0.37%) VoIP
10 12 (0.34%) Ethernet
10 12 (0.34%) RS-232
11 11 (0.31%) CTI
12 10 (0.28%) 5G
13 8 (0.22%) CHAP
13 8 (0.22%) SD-WAN
13 8 (0.22%) SMS
13 8 (0.22%) Wireless
14 7 (0.20%) DHCP
14 7 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 374 (10.52%) MongoDB
2 363 (10.21%) Azure SQL Database
3 210 (5.91%) SQL Server
4 152 (4.27%) Elasticsearch
4 152 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
5 114 (3.21%) Power BI
6 101 (2.84%) Metadata
7 89 (2.50%) NoSQL
8 86 (2.42%) MySQL
9 53 (1.49%) Relational Database
10 44 (1.24%) DynamoDB
11 42 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
12 34 (0.96%) Data Lake
13 29 (0.82%) Redis
14 26 (0.73%) Big Data
14 26 (0.73%) Tableau
15 21 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 19 (0.53%) BigQuery
16 19 (0.53%) Semantic Layer
17 15 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 268 (7.54%) JIRA
2 198 (5.57%) Git
3 98 (2.76%) Jenkins
4 95 (2.67%) GitLab
5 37 (1.04%) Cypress.io
5 37 (1.04%) Selenium
6 29 (0.82%) JUnit
6 29 (0.82%) SonarQube
7 23 (0.65%) Postman
8 21 (0.59%) Claude Code
9 17 (0.48%) Maven
9 17 (0.48%) Mockito
10 16 (0.45%) Cucumber
11 15 (0.42%) Visual Studio
12 13 (0.37%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.28%) Balsamiq
13 10 (0.28%) JMeter
14 9 (0.25%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.25%) Gatling
14 9 (0.25%) TeamCity
General
1 1,034 (29.08%) Social Skills
2 897 (25.22%) Finance
3 508 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 404 (11.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 383 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
6 307 (8.63%) Law
7 239 (6.72%) Legal
8 237 (6.66%) Games
9 192 (5.40%) Marketing
10 190 (5.34%) Retail
11 123 (3.46%) Banking
12 109 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
13 95 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
14 91 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
15 78 (2.19%) Aerospace
16 62 (1.74%) Advertising
17 47 (1.32%) Legal Technology
18 44 (1.24%) Manufacturing
19 39 (1.10%) Front Office
20 36 (1.01%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 881 (24.78%) Developer
2 742 (20.87%) Senior
3 462 (12.99%) Lead
4 378 (10.63%) .NET Developer
5 323 (9.08%) Analyst
6 282 (7.93%) Architect
7 281 (7.90%) Software Engineer
8 260 (7.31%) Project Manager
9 218 (6.13%) Business Analyst
10 171 (4.81%) Senior Developer
11 159 (4.47%) Senior Manager
12 137 (3.85%) IT Manager
13 114 (3.21%) Software Developer
14 100 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
15 98 (2.76%) Delivery Manager
16 94 (2.64%) Senior Project Manager
17 92 (2.59%) Full-Stack Developer
18 89 (2.50%) Consultant
19 87 (2.45%) Product Owner
20 82 (2.31%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 643 (18.08%) .NET
2 488 (13.72%) React
3 391 (11.00%) ASP.NET
4 387 (10.88%) .NET Core
5 357 (10.04%) ASP.NET Core
6 327 (9.20%) Node.js
7 223 (6.27%) CSS
8 221 (6.21%) RESTful
9 204 (5.74%) HTML
10 177 (4.98%) Blazor
11 169 (4.75%) AngularJS
12 164 (4.61%) Entity Framework
13 142 (3.99%) Vue
14 136 (3.82%) REST
15 126 (3.54%) ASP.NET Web API
16 103 (2.90%) .NET Framework
17 96 (2.70%) ML.NET
18 93 (2.62%) Spring
19 88 (2.47%) Middleware
20 79 (2.22%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 410 (11.53%) Product Ownership
2 306 (8.61%) Cloud Native
3 216 (6.07%) Social Media
4 147 (4.13%) Enterprise Software
5 105 (2.95%) Greenfield Project
6 86 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
7 83 (2.33%) Mobile App
8 78 (2.19%) Management Information System
9 64 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
10 63 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
10 63 (1.77%) Marketing Technology
11 60 (1.69%) Onboarding
12 54 (1.52%) Over-the-Top Content
13 51 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
14 49 (1.38%) Driving Licence
15 45 (1.27%) Virtual Team
16 33 (0.93%) Blog
17 32 (0.90%) AI Agents
18 31 (0.87%) Fixed Income
19 29 (0.82%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 149 (4.19%) Linux
2 67 (1.88%) Windows
3 60 (1.69%) Android
4 43 (1.21%) Unix
5 36 (1.01%) 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 (0.084%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.056%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.028%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 889 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 870 (24.47%) Continuous Improvement
3 864 (24.30%) DevOps
4 808 (22.72%) AI
5 749 (21.06%) Mentoring
6 715 (20.11%) Roadmaps
7 681 (19.15%) Scrum
8 642 (18.05%) Problem-Solving
9 606 (17.04%) Full-Stack Development
10 543 (15.27%) Software Engineering
11 539 (15.16%) Coaching
12 508 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
13 491 (13.81%) Microservices
14 451 (12.68%) Decision-Making
15 445 (12.51%) Analytics
16 434 (12.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 412 (11.59%) Test Automation
18 394 (11.08%) Project Delivery
19 367 (10.32%) Project Management
20 353 (9.93%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 844 (23.73%) SQL
2 761 (21.40%) C#
3 567 (15.94%) JavaScript
4 413 (11.61%) Python
5 381 (10.71%) Java
6 342 (9.62%) TypeScript
7 91 (2.56%) C++
8 90 (2.53%) PHP
9 66 (1.86%) Bash
10 53 (1.49%) Go
11 46 (1.29%) Ruby
12 39 (1.10%) C
12 39 (1.10%) PowerShell
13 34 (0.96%) Apex Code
14 24 (0.67%) PL/SQL
15 22 (0.62%) T-SQL
16 21 (0.59%) SOQL
17 20 (0.56%) SOSL
18 17 (0.48%) Bicep
19 15 (0.42%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 514 (14.45%) Degree
2 501 (14.09%) Security Cleared
3 400 (11.25%) SC Cleared
4 125 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 109 (3.07%) CISSP
6 107 (3.01%) PMI Certification
7 101 (2.84%) PMP
8 96 (2.70%) CISM
9 84 (2.36%) DV Cleared
10 75 (2.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 69 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
12 64 (1.80%) ITIL Certification
13 47 (1.32%) Azure Certification
14 40 (1.12%) DBS Check
15 33 (0.93%) Master's Degree
16 28 (0.79%) AWS Certification
17 27 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
18 25 (0.70%) CISA
19 22 (0.62%) ISTQB
20 17 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 395 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 307 (8.63%) QA
3 129 (3.63%) Data Quality
4 113 (3.18%) NIST
5 90 (2.53%) GDPR
5 90 (2.53%) WCAG
6 69 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 60 (1.69%) PMO
8 49 (1.38%) ISO 22301
9 36 (1.01%) GRC
10 30 (0.84%) NCSC
11 26 (0.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 15 (0.42%) COBIT
13 14 (0.39%) NIST 800
14 10 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
14 10 (0.28%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.28%) SOC 2
15 9 (0.25%) GxP
15 9 (0.25%) SLA
16 7 (0.20%) MiFID
System Software
1 308 (8.66%) Docker
2 60 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
3 36 (1.01%) 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 (0.056%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.028%) GPFS
9 1 (0.028%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 271 (7.62%) Kubernetes
2 174 (4.89%) Terraform
3 56 (1.57%) Ansible
4 38 (1.07%) 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%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.14%) Istio
10 5 (0.14%) Puppet
11 4 (0.11%) Kustomize
12 3 (0.084%) Packer
12 3 (0.084%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.056%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.056%) Kibana
13 2 (0.056%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.028%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.028%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 798 (22.44%) Microsoft
2 242 (6.81%) Adobe
3 151 (4.25%) Google
4 112 (3.15%) Oracle
5 105 (2.95%) Databricks
6 93 (2.62%) Salesforce
6 93 (2.62%) SAP
7 68 (1.91%) ServiceNow
8 40 (1.12%) Facebook
9 30 (0.84%) OpenAI
10 24 (0.67%) Splunk
11 23 (0.65%) Cisco
12 21 (0.59%) YouTube
13 20 (0.56%) Workday
14 19 (0.53%) Apple
14 19 (0.53%) Yahoo!
15 18 (0.51%) IFS
15 18 (0.51%) VMware
16 17 (0.48%) IBM
16 17 (0.48%) Sony