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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,508 3,262 5,605
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.30% 19.70% 22.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.58% 21.18% 25.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,302 2,058 3,616
10th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,900 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.78% +3.85% -0.54%
75th Percentile £78,312 £93,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £132,500 £135,000
UK median annual salary £63,076 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.55% +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 18,880 15,403 21,595
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.36% 93.01% 87.53%
Number of salaries quoted 13,612 8,900 15,178
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £98,750
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 20 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 (3.22%) Confluence
2 78 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 42 (1.20%) CMS
4 25 (0.71%) Apache Spark
5 22 (0.63%) Apache
6 17 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
7 16 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.34%) SAS
9 10 (0.29%) Jupyter
9 10 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 10 (0.29%) WordPress
10 5 (0.14%) Camunda
10 5 (0.14%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.14%) Umbraco
11 4 (0.11%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.11%) PowerFactory
12 3 (0.086%) Kentico
12 3 (0.086%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.086%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 125 (3.56%) Microsoft Project
2 98 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
3 70 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 53 (1.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 43 (1.23%) UserZoom
6 26 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 23 (0.66%) Chatbot
8 20 (0.57%) MS Visio
9 18 (0.51%) Trello
10 17 (0.48%) Adobe XD
11 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.11%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.11%) Revit
12 4 (0.11%) Sketch
12 4 (0.11%) Windchill
13 3 (0.086%) Blender
13 3 (0.086%) Maya
13 3 (0.086%) Productboard
14 2 (0.057%) PlantUML
14 2 (0.057%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 65 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.14%) Workfront
3 22 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.29%) Workday HCM
5 9 (0.26%) 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
8 6 (0.17%) Shopify
9 5 (0.14%) Elite 3E
9 5 (0.14%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.11%) Raiser’s Edge
11 3 (0.086%) Carpe Diem
11 3 (0.086%) Dynamics NAV
11 3 (0.086%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 3 (0.086%) Oracle Applications
11 3 (0.086%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.086%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,248 (35.58%) Azure
2 867 (24.71%) AWS
3 348 (9.92%) Azure DevOps
4 239 (6.81%) SaaS
5 223 (6.36%) GCP
6 190 (5.42%) GitHub
6 190 (5.42%) Power Platform
7 159 (4.53%) Azure AI
8 151 (4.30%) Adobe Analytics
9 146 (4.16%) Serverless
10 93 (2.65%) Figma
11 92 (2.62%) GitHub Copilot
12 81 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
13 75 (2.14%) Snowflake
14 71 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
15 70 (2.00%) PowerApps
16 67 (1.91%) Contentsquare
16 67 (1.91%) Power Automate
17 66 (1.88%) Azure Machine Learning
18 64 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 289 (8.24%) Broadband
2 36 (1.03%) 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 (0.46%) Firewall
6 16 (0.46%) LAN
7 13 (0.37%) DNS
7 13 (0.37%) VoIP
8 11 (0.31%) CTI
8 11 (0.31%) Ethernet
8 11 (0.31%) RS-232
9 10 (0.29%) 5G
10 8 (0.23%) CHAP
10 8 (0.23%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.23%) SMS
10 8 (0.23%) Wireless
11 7 (0.20%) Intranet
11 7 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 374 (10.66%) MongoDB
2 365 (10.40%) Azure SQL Database
3 208 (5.93%) SQL Server
4 147 (4.19%) Elasticsearch
5 144 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
6 121 (3.45%) Power BI
7 102 (2.91%) Metadata
8 85 (2.42%) NoSQL
9 80 (2.28%) MySQL
10 58 (1.65%) Relational Database
11 49 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
12 48 (1.37%) DynamoDB
13 38 (1.08%) Data Lake
14 27 (0.77%) Big Data
14 27 (0.77%) Tableau
15 24 (0.68%) Redis
16 21 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 19 (0.54%) Semantic Layer
18 18 (0.51%) BigQuery
19 14 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 265 (7.55%) JIRA
2 198 (5.64%) Git
3 97 (2.77%) GitLab
4 95 (2.71%) Jenkins
5 36 (1.03%) Cypress.io
6 35 (1.00%) Selenium
7 29 (0.83%) JUnit
7 29 (0.83%) SonarQube
8 21 (0.60%) Claude Code
8 21 (0.60%) Postman
9 17 (0.48%) Maven
9 17 (0.48%) Mockito
10 16 (0.46%) Cucumber
11 15 (0.43%) Visual Studio
12 12 (0.34%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.29%) Balsamiq
13 10 (0.29%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.29%) JMeter
14 9 (0.26%) Gatling
15 8 (0.23%) Axure RP
General
1 1,047 (29.85%) Social Skills
2 882 (25.14%) Finance
3 508 (14.48%) Public Sector
4 398 (11.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 389 (11.09%) Analytical Skills
6 303 (8.64%) Law
7 230 (6.56%) Legal
8 224 (6.39%) Games
9 193 (5.50%) Marketing
10 186 (5.30%) Retail
11 122 (3.48%) Banking
12 115 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
13 99 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
14 89 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
15 79 (2.25%) Aerospace
16 64 (1.82%) Advertising
17 48 (1.37%) Legal Technology
18 43 (1.23%) Manufacturing
19 36 (1.03%) Back Office
20 29 (0.83%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 867 (24.71%) Developer
2 722 (20.58%) Senior
3 437 (12.46%) Lead
4 375 (10.69%) .NET Developer
5 316 (9.01%) Analyst
6 283 (8.07%) Architect
7 266 (7.58%) Project Manager
8 262 (7.47%) Software Engineer
9 211 (6.01%) Business Analyst
10 174 (4.96%) Senior Developer
11 154 (4.39%) Senior Manager
12 138 (3.93%) IT Manager
13 113 (3.22%) Software Developer
14 97 (2.77%) Delivery Manager
15 96 (2.74%) Senior Project Manager
16 94 (2.68%) Senior Analyst
17 91 (2.59%) Full-Stack Developer
18 87 (2.48%) Product Owner
19 79 (2.25%) Consultant
19 79 (2.25%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 640 (18.24%) .NET
2 478 (13.63%) React
3 392 (11.17%) ASP.NET
4 384 (10.95%) .NET Core
5 357 (10.18%) ASP.NET Core
6 322 (9.18%) Node.js
7 223 (6.36%) CSS
8 219 (6.24%) RESTful
9 206 (5.87%) HTML
10 178 (5.07%) Blazor
11 173 (4.93%) Terraform
12 166 (4.73%) AngularJS
13 163 (4.65%) Entity Framework
14 138 (3.93%) Vue
15 134 (3.82%) REST
16 126 (3.59%) ASP.NET Web API
17 101 (2.88%) .NET Framework
18 96 (2.74%) ML.NET
19 95 (2.71%) Spring
20 87 (2.48%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 402 (11.46%) Product Ownership
2 302 (8.61%) Cloud Native
3 207 (5.90%) Social Media
4 151 (4.30%) Enterprise Software
5 103 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
6 87 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
7 75 (2.14%) Mobile App
8 72 (2.05%) Management Information System
9 64 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
10 63 (1.80%) Marketing Technology
11 62 (1.77%) Onboarding
12 61 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
13 54 (1.54%) Over-the-Top Content
14 52 (1.48%) Cyber Threat
15 49 (1.40%) Driving Licence
16 44 (1.25%) Virtual Team
17 33 (0.94%) AI Agents
17 33 (0.94%) Blog
18 30 (0.86%) Cyber Defence
19 28 (0.80%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 141 (4.02%) Linux
2 68 (1.94%) Windows
3 52 (1.48%) Android
4 37 (1.05%) Unix
5 28 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.43%) VMS
7 11 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
8 9 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.14%) CentOS
9 5 (0.14%) Debian
10 3 (0.086%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.057%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.029%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 881 (25.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 879 (25.06%) CI/CD
3 858 (24.46%) DevOps
4 807 (23.00%) AI
5 722 (20.58%) Mentoring
6 699 (19.93%) Roadmaps
7 680 (19.38%) Scrum
8 639 (18.22%) Problem-Solving
9 597 (17.02%) Full-Stack Development
10 532 (15.17%) Software Engineering
11 528 (15.05%) Coaching
12 522 (14.88%) Stakeholder Management
13 480 (13.68%) Microservices
14 452 (12.88%) Decision-Making
15 440 (12.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 436 (12.43%) Analytics
17 406 (11.57%) Project Delivery
18 398 (11.35%) Test Automation
19 367 (10.46%) Project Management
20 356 (10.15%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 846 (24.12%) SQL
2 762 (21.72%) C#
3 562 (16.02%) JavaScript
4 393 (11.20%) Python
5 354 (10.09%) Java
6 336 (9.58%) TypeScript
7 85 (2.42%) C++
8 84 (2.39%) PHP
9 67 (1.91%) Bash
10 46 (1.31%) Go
11 45 (1.28%) Ruby
12 41 (1.17%) PowerShell
13 37 (1.05%) C
14 32 (0.91%) Apex Code
15 25 (0.71%) PL/SQL
16 22 (0.63%) T-SQL
17 21 (0.60%) SOQL
18 20 (0.57%) SOSL
19 17 (0.48%) Bicep
20 16 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 500 (14.25%) Degree
2 493 (14.05%) Security Cleared
3 391 (11.15%) SC Cleared
4 123 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 109 (3.11%) PMI Certification
6 104 (2.96%) CISSP
7 103 (2.94%) PMP
8 97 (2.77%) CISM
9 87 (2.48%) DV Cleared
10 76 (2.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 74 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
12 64 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
13 47 (1.34%) Azure Certification
14 37 (1.05%) DBS Check
15 34 (0.97%) Master's Degree
16 30 (0.86%) AWS Certification
17 29 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
18 25 (0.71%) CISA
19 23 (0.66%) ISTQB
20 17 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 384 (10.95%) Accessibility
2 306 (8.72%) QA
3 136 (3.88%) Data Quality
4 112 (3.19%) NIST
5 89 (2.54%) WCAG
6 87 (2.48%) GDPR
7 71 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 63 (1.80%) PMO
9 49 (1.40%) ISO 22301
10 36 (1.03%) GRC
11 31 (0.88%) NCSC
12 27 (0.77%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 15 (0.43%) COBIT
14 14 (0.40%) NIST 800
15 12 (0.34%) SOC 2
16 10 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
16 10 (0.29%) GxP
16 10 (0.29%) PCI DSS
17 9 (0.26%) SLA
18 8 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 303 (8.64%) Docker
2 60 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
3 37 (1.05%) Active Directory
4 16 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.37%) vSphere
6 12 (0.34%) Firmware
6 12 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.029%) GPFS
9 1 (0.029%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.029%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 268 (7.64%) Kubernetes
2 53 (1.51%) Ansible
3 37 (1.05%) Grafana
4 29 (0.83%) Argo
5 26 (0.74%) Prometheus
6 12 (0.34%) Podman
7 8 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.14%) Istio
9 5 (0.14%) Puppet
9 5 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.11%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.086%) Packer
11 3 (0.086%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.057%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.029%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.029%) Kibana
13 1 (0.029%) linkerd
13 1 (0.029%) Rundeck
13 1 (0.029%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 808 (23.03%) Microsoft
2 234 (6.67%) Adobe
3 139 (3.96%) Google
4 109 (3.11%) Oracle
5 106 (3.02%) Databricks
6 93 (2.65%) Salesforce
7 92 (2.62%) SAP
8 64 (1.82%) ServiceNow
9 41 (1.17%) YouTube
10 40 (1.14%) Facebook
11 31 (0.88%) OpenAI
12 26 (0.74%) Splunk
13 24 (0.68%) Cisco
14 21 (0.60%) Workday
15 20 (0.57%) VMware
16 19 (0.54%) IFS
16 19 (0.54%) Yahoo!
17 18 (0.51%) Apple
18 17 (0.48%) Sony
19 16 (0.46%) IBM