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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,020 3,288 8,055
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.69% 22.15% 24.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.07% 23.38% 26.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,930 2,023 5,971
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,650 £41,200
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% +14.37% -5.84%
75th Percentile £80,000 £98,474 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,750 £132,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -3.85%

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 15,838 14,066 30,071
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.29% 94.75% 89.71%
Number of salaries quoted 11,315 8,250 23,532
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 4 June 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 98 (3.25%) Confluence
2 42 (1.39%) CMS
3 38 (1.26%) SharePoint
4 21 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.60%) Apache
6 16 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 10 (0.33%) SAS
9 9 (0.30%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.20%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.20%) WordPress
11 4 (0.13%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.13%) PowerFactory
12 3 (0.099%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.099%) nginx
13 2 (0.066%) Camunda
13 2 (0.066%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.066%) NServiceBus
13 2 (0.066%) Umbraco
Applications
1 106 (3.51%) Microsoft Project
2 96 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 42 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
5 38 (1.26%) UserZoom
6 22 (0.73%) Adobe XD
7 20 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.30%) Sketch
9 8 (0.26%) MS Visio
10 6 (0.20%) Chatbot
10 6 (0.20%) Trello
11 5 (0.17%) InVision
12 4 (0.13%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.13%) Photoshop
12 4 (0.13%) Revit
12 4 (0.13%) Windchill
13 3 (0.099%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.099%) Blender
13 3 (0.099%) Maya
13 3 (0.099%) Productboard
Business Applications
1 46 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.32%) Workfront
3 18 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.43%) SAP ERP
5 10 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.20%) Shopify
8 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
9 3 (0.099%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.099%) Markit EDM
9 3 (0.099%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.099%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.099%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (0.066%) Fidessa
10 2 (0.066%) Infor SunSystems
10 2 (0.066%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.066%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.066%) Raiser’s Edge
10 2 (0.066%) SAP PM
10 2 (0.066%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 867 (28.71%) Azure
2 680 (22.52%) AWS
3 224 (7.42%) Azure DevOps
4 209 (6.92%) GCP
5 188 (6.23%) Adobe Analytics
6 153 (5.07%) SaaS
7 151 (5.00%) Power Platform
8 143 (4.74%) Serverless
9 134 (4.44%) GitHub
10 118 (3.91%) Figma
11 101 (3.34%) Azure AI
12 77 (2.55%) Snowflake
13 65 (2.15%) Azure Machine Learning
14 63 (2.09%) Contentsquare
15 62 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 57 (1.89%) Amazon S3
17 56 (1.85%) iPaaS
18 55 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
19 53 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
20 52 (1.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 421 (13.94%) Broadband
2 25 (0.83%) TCP/IP
3 21 (0.70%) CHAP
3 21 (0.70%) Network Security
4 19 (0.63%) DNS
5 17 (0.56%) WAN
6 16 (0.53%) LAN
7 15 (0.50%) Ethernet
7 15 (0.50%) RS-232
8 14 (0.46%) 4G
9 13 (0.43%) Firewall
10 11 (0.36%) BGP
10 11 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
10 11 (0.36%) Ethernet VPN
10 11 (0.36%) IOS XR
10 11 (0.36%) MPLS
11 10 (0.33%) VPN
12 8 (0.26%) 5G
12 8 (0.26%) Internet
13 7 (0.23%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (6.32%) MongoDB
2 166 (5.50%) SQL Server
3 147 (4.87%) Azure SQL Database
4 113 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
5 110 (3.64%) NoSQL
6 104 (3.44%) Metadata
7 85 (2.81%) Power BI
8 69 (2.28%) MySQL
9 65 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
10 45 (1.49%) Relational Database
11 36 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
12 34 (1.13%) Data Lake
13 30 (0.99%) DynamoDB
14 20 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
15 18 (0.60%) Big Data
15 18 (0.60%) RDBMS
15 18 (0.60%) Tableau
16 17 (0.56%) Redis
17 16 (0.53%) BigQuery
18 13 (0.43%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 222 (7.35%) JIRA
2 151 (5.00%) Git
3 120 (3.97%) Jenkins
4 105 (3.48%) GitLab
5 50 (1.66%) Selenium
6 40 (1.32%) Postman
7 39 (1.29%) SonarQube
8 34 (1.13%) Cypress.io
9 25 (0.83%) TeamCity
9 25 (0.83%) WebDriver
10 24 (0.79%) SoapUI
11 21 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
12 18 (0.60%) Jaeger
12 18 (0.60%) JUnit
13 15 (0.50%) Claude Code
13 15 (0.50%) Cucumber
13 15 (0.50%) JMeter
14 13 (0.43%) CircleCI
15 11 (0.36%) Axure RP
15 11 (0.36%) Mockito
General
1 877 (29.04%) Social Skills
2 790 (26.16%) Finance
3 431 (14.27%) Public Sector
4 323 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
5 322 (10.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 295 (9.77%) Games
7 201 (6.66%) Law
8 178 (5.89%) Marketing
9 151 (5.00%) Banking
10 143 (4.74%) Legal
11 139 (4.60%) Retail
12 70 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
13 64 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
14 57 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
15 49 (1.62%) Front Office
16 44 (1.46%) Telecoms
17 37 (1.23%) Advertising
18 33 (1.09%) Back Office
19 30 (0.99%) Manufacturing
20 28 (0.93%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 627 (20.76%) Senior
2 577 (19.11%) Developer
3 478 (15.83%) Lead
4 296 (9.80%) Analyst
5 242 (8.01%) Software Engineer
6 222 (7.35%) Project Manager
7 216 (7.15%) Architect
8 200 (6.62%) Business Analyst
9 189 (6.26%) Senior Manager
10 167 (5.53%) .NET Developer
11 105 (3.48%) Software Developer
12 101 (3.34%) Delivery Manager
13 98 (3.25%) Senior Project Manager
14 90 (2.98%) Product Owner
15 87 (2.88%) Designer
16 84 (2.78%) Engineering Manager
17 79 (2.62%) Product Manager
18 76 (2.52%) Senior Developer
19 75 (2.48%) IT Manager
20 74 (2.45%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 360 (11.92%) .NET
2 350 (11.59%) React
3 204 (6.75%) Node.js
4 165 (5.46%) .NET Core
5 160 (5.30%) ASP.NET
6 158 (5.23%) CSS
6 158 (5.23%) HTML
7 144 (4.77%) ASP.NET Core
8 140 (4.64%) RESTful
9 123 (4.07%) REST
10 100 (3.31%) AngularJS
11 84 (2.78%) SOAP
12 81 (2.68%) Kafka
13 80 (2.65%) Vue
14 77 (2.55%) Spring
15 69 (2.28%) Entity Framework
16 66 (2.19%) Blazor
17 61 (2.02%) Lightning Web Components
18 57 (1.89%) Spring Boot
19 51 (1.69%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 420 (13.91%) Product Ownership
2 256 (8.48%) Cloud Native
3 244 (8.08%) Social Media
4 88 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
5 77 (2.55%) Mobile App
6 76 (2.52%) Over-the-Top Content
7 73 (2.42%) Onboarding
8 63 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
8 63 (2.09%) Management Information System
9 58 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
10 56 (1.85%) Marketing Technology
11 55 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
12 47 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
13 42 (1.39%) Driving Licence
14 41 (1.36%) Virtual Team
15 40 (1.32%) Fixed Income
16 32 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
17 30 (0.99%) Data Structures
17 30 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
18 27 (0.89%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 133 (4.40%) Linux
2 63 (2.09%) Android
3 47 (1.56%) Apple iOS
4 43 (1.42%) Unix
4 43 (1.42%) Windows
5 15 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
6 7 (0.23%) CentOS
6 7 (0.23%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.17%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.17%) VMS
8 4 (0.13%) Debian
9 2 (0.066%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.033%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 718 (23.77%) Roadmaps
2 700 (23.18%) Mentoring
3 672 (22.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 672 (22.25%) DevOps
4 653 (21.62%) CI/CD
5 604 (20.00%) AI
6 548 (18.15%) Coaching
7 544 (18.01%) Scrum
8 472 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
9 434 (14.37%) Analytics
10 401 (13.28%) Software Engineering
11 385 (12.75%) Customer Experience
12 364 (12.05%) Full-Stack Development
13 358 (11.85%) Project Management
14 341 (11.29%) Stakeholder Management
15 335 (11.09%) Decision-Making
16 332 (10.99%) Test Automation
17 294 (9.74%) Microservices
18 286 (9.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 277 (9.17%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 587 (19.44%) SQL
2 409 (13.54%) C#
3 408 (13.51%) Java
4 397 (13.15%) JavaScript
4 397 (13.15%) Python
5 259 (8.58%) TypeScript
6 80 (2.65%) Go
7 77 (2.55%) C++
7 77 (2.55%) PHP
8 67 (2.22%) Bash
9 62 (2.05%) Apex Code
10 40 (1.32%) C
11 38 (1.26%) PowerShell
12 36 (1.19%) Scala
13 35 (1.16%) SOQL
14 34 (1.13%) SOSL
15 22 (0.73%) PL/SQL
16 20 (0.66%) Ruby
16 20 (0.66%) VBA
17 18 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 439 (14.54%) Degree
2 333 (11.03%) Security Cleared
3 254 (8.41%) SC Cleared
4 91 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 81 (2.68%) PMI Certification
6 72 (2.38%) PMP
7 68 (2.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 53 (1.75%) CISSP
8 53 (1.75%) DV Cleared
9 45 (1.49%) DBS Check
10 40 (1.32%) ISTQB
11 39 (1.29%) CISM
12 35 (1.16%) AWS Certification
13 29 (0.96%) Azure Certification
14 28 (0.93%) CISA
15 26 (0.86%) SANS
16 21 (0.70%) CGEIT
16 21 (0.70%) FFIEC
17 15 (0.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 15 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 362 (11.99%) Accessibility
2 240 (7.95%) QA
3 94 (3.11%) Data Quality
4 87 (2.88%) WCAG
5 62 (2.05%) GDPR
6 55 (1.82%) NIST
7 40 (1.32%) PMO
8 36 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 24 (0.79%) COBIT
10 22 (0.73%) GRC
11 12 (0.40%) NCSC
12 11 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.23%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.13%) Def Stans
15 4 (0.13%) IFRS
15 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 15288
15 4 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 255 (8.44%) Docker
2 59 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
3 39 (1.29%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.099%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.099%) vSphere
7 1 (0.033%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.033%) Firmware
7 1 (0.033%) Xen
Systems Management
1 250 (8.28%) Kubernetes
2 193 (6.39%) Terraform
3 83 (2.75%) Ansible
4 48 (1.59%) Argo
5 47 (1.56%) Prometheus
6 45 (1.49%) Grafana
7 22 (0.73%) Kustomize
8 12 (0.40%) Podman
9 9 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.20%) Puppet
11 5 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.17%) Packer
12 4 (0.13%) Istio
12 4 (0.13%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.13%) SCCM
13 3 (0.099%) Control-M
13 3 (0.099%) Kibana
13 3 (0.099%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.066%) logstash
Vendors
1 520 (17.22%) Microsoft
2 267 (8.84%) Adobe
3 129 (4.27%) Google
4 113 (3.74%) Salesforce
5 101 (3.34%) Databricks
6 86 (2.85%) Oracle
7 76 (2.52%) SAP
8 75 (2.48%) ServiceNow
9 40 (1.32%) Splunk
10 19 (0.63%) Cisco
11 18 (0.60%) IBM
12 17 (0.56%) Facebook
13 13 (0.43%) MuleSoft
14 11 (0.36%) IFS
14 11 (0.36%) VMware
15 10 (0.33%) Apple
16 9 (0.30%) Foundry
17 8 (0.26%) Atlassian
17 8 (0.26%) Okta
17 8 (0.26%) YouTube