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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,502 3,285 5,575
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.35% 19.78% 22.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.62% 21.28% 25.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,303 2,047 3,639
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% -0.54%
75th Percentile £78,312 £93,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £132,500 £128,750
UK median annual salary £62,881 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.84% +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 18,803 15,435 21,557
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.40% 92.94% 87.56%
Number of salaries quoted 13,575 8,949 15,283
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,549 £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 17 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 (3.23%) Confluence
2 78 (2.23%) SharePoint
3 43 (1.23%) CMS
4 25 (0.71%) Apache Spark
5 22 (0.63%) Apache
6 17 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
7 16 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 13 (0.37%) SAS
9 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.31%) WordPress
11 10 (0.29%) Jupyter
11 10 (0.29%) 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 (0.086%) DNN
14 3 (0.086%) Kentico
14 3 (0.086%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 126 (3.60%) Microsoft Project
2 98 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
3 67 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
4 53 (1.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 43 (1.23%) UserZoom
6 24 (0.69%) Chatbot
6 24 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 19 (0.54%) Trello
8 17 (0.49%) Adobe XD
8 17 (0.49%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.11%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.11%) Revit
10 4 (0.11%) Sketch
10 4 (0.11%) Windchill
11 3 (0.086%) Blender
11 3 (0.086%) Maya
11 3 (0.086%) Productboard
12 2 (0.057%) PlantUML
12 2 (0.057%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 63 (1.80%) 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
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 (0.086%) Carpe Diem
10 3 (0.086%) Dynamics NAV
10 3 (0.086%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 3 (0.086%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.086%) Oracle Applications
10 3 (0.086%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 1,254 (35.81%) Azure
2 870 (24.84%) AWS
3 349 (9.97%) Azure DevOps
4 234 (6.68%) SaaS
5 224 (6.40%) GCP
6 191 (5.45%) GitHub
7 187 (5.34%) Power Platform
8 159 (4.54%) Azure AI
9 151 (4.31%) Adobe Analytics
10 146 (4.17%) Serverless
11 95 (2.71%) Figma
12 92 (2.63%) GitHub Copilot
13 80 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
14 73 (2.08%) Snowflake
15 70 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
16 69 (1.97%) Azure Machine Learning
17 67 (1.91%) Contentsquare
17 67 (1.91%) PowerApps
18 64 (1.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 64 (1.83%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 294 (8.40%) Broadband
2 35 (1.00%) 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%) LAN
7 15 (0.43%) Firewall
8 13 (0.37%) DNS
8 13 (0.37%) VoIP
9 11 (0.31%) CTI
9 11 (0.31%) Ethernet
9 11 (0.31%) RS-232
10 10 (0.29%) 5G
11 8 (0.23%) CHAP
11 8 (0.23%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.23%) SMS
11 8 (0.23%) Wireless
12 7 (0.20%) Unified Communications
12 7 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 374 (10.68%) MongoDB
2 364 (10.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 215 (6.14%) SQL Server
4 147 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
5 144 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
6 117 (3.34%) Power BI
7 101 (2.88%) Metadata
8 85 (2.43%) NoSQL
9 84 (2.40%) MySQL
10 55 (1.57%) Relational Database
11 47 (1.34%) DynamoDB
12 46 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
13 36 (1.03%) Data Lake
14 27 (0.77%) Big Data
15 26 (0.74%) Tableau
16 24 (0.69%) Redis
17 21 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 19 (0.54%) Semantic Layer
19 18 (0.51%) BigQuery
20 12 (0.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 266 (7.60%) JIRA
2 200 (5.71%) Git
3 97 (2.77%) GitLab
3 97 (2.77%) Jenkins
4 37 (1.06%) Cypress.io
5 36 (1.03%) Selenium
6 29 (0.83%) JUnit
6 29 (0.83%) SonarQube
7 22 (0.63%) Postman
8 21 (0.60%) Claude Code
9 17 (0.49%) Maven
9 17 (0.49%) Mockito
10 16 (0.46%) Cucumber
11 15 (0.43%) Visual Studio
12 13 (0.37%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.29%) Balsamiq
13 10 (0.29%) JMeter
14 9 (0.26%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.26%) Gatling
14 9 (0.26%) TeamCity
General
1 1,029 (29.38%) Social Skills
2 883 (25.21%) Finance
3 503 (14.36%) Public Sector
4 399 (11.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 382 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
6 305 (8.71%) Law
7 235 (6.71%) Legal
8 224 (6.40%) Games
9 191 (5.45%) Marketing
10 184 (5.25%) Retail
11 119 (3.40%) Banking
12 110 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
13 97 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
14 87 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
15 79 (2.26%) Aerospace
16 64 (1.83%) Advertising
17 48 (1.37%) Legal Technology
18 43 (1.23%) Manufacturing
19 34 (0.97%) Back Office
20 29 (0.83%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 870 (24.84%) Developer
2 725 (20.70%) Senior
3 438 (12.51%) Lead
4 377 (10.77%) .NET Developer
5 321 (9.17%) Analyst
6 282 (8.05%) Architect
7 263 (7.51%) Project Manager
8 261 (7.45%) Software Engineer
9 215 (6.14%) Business Analyst
10 172 (4.91%) Senior Developer
11 154 (4.40%) Senior Manager
12 138 (3.94%) IT Manager
13 117 (3.34%) Software Developer
14 97 (2.77%) Senior Analyst
15 95 (2.71%) Delivery Manager
15 95 (2.71%) Senior Project Manager
16 94 (2.68%) Full-Stack Developer
17 86 (2.46%) Product Owner
18 82 (2.34%) Consultant
19 80 (2.28%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 642 (18.33%) .NET
2 481 (13.74%) React
3 392 (11.19%) ASP.NET
4 386 (11.02%) .NET Core
5 357 (10.19%) ASP.NET Core
6 319 (9.11%) Node.js
7 227 (6.48%) CSS
8 217 (6.20%) RESTful
9 206 (5.88%) HTML
10 178 (5.08%) Blazor
11 167 (4.77%) AngularJS
12 164 (4.68%) Entity Framework
13 139 (3.97%) Vue
14 135 (3.85%) REST
15 126 (3.60%) ASP.NET Web API
16 103 (2.94%) .NET Framework
17 96 (2.74%) ML.NET
18 94 (2.68%) Spring
19 88 (2.51%) Middleware
20 69 (1.97%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 406 (11.59%) Product Ownership
2 299 (8.54%) Cloud Native
3 207 (5.91%) Social Media
4 150 (4.28%) Enterprise Software
5 102 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
6 87 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
7 74 (2.11%) Management Information System
7 74 (2.11%) Mobile App
8 63 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
8 63 (1.80%) Marketing Technology
9 62 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
10 59 (1.68%) Onboarding
11 54 (1.54%) Over-the-Top Content
12 51 (1.46%) Cyber Threat
13 49 (1.40%) Driving Licence
14 44 (1.26%) Virtual Team
15 33 (0.94%) Blog
16 32 (0.91%) AI Agents
17 30 (0.86%) Cyber Defence
18 28 (0.80%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 143 (4.08%) Linux
2 67 (1.91%) Windows
3 52 (1.48%) Android
4 38 (1.09%) 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
1 880 (25.13%) CI/CD
2 868 (24.79%) Continuous Improvement
3 858 (24.50%) DevOps
4 796 (22.73%) AI
5 721 (20.59%) Mentoring
6 698 (19.93%) Roadmaps
7 683 (19.50%) Scrum
8 637 (18.19%) Problem-Solving
9 599 (17.10%) Full-Stack Development
10 528 (15.08%) Software Engineering
11 522 (14.91%) Coaching
12 512 (14.62%) Stakeholder Management
13 481 (13.74%) Microservices
14 447 (12.76%) Decision-Making
15 436 (12.45%) Analytics
16 432 (12.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 402 (11.48%) Test Automation
18 399 (11.39%) Project Delivery
19 363 (10.37%) Project Management
20 350 (9.99%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 845 (24.13%) SQL
2 766 (21.87%) C#
3 560 (15.99%) JavaScript
4 398 (11.36%) Python
5 361 (10.31%) Java
6 335 (9.57%) TypeScript
7 90 (2.57%) C++
7 90 (2.57%) PHP
8 67 (1.91%) Bash
9 46 (1.31%) Go
10 45 (1.28%) Ruby
11 39 (1.11%) PowerShell
12 38 (1.09%) C
13 32 (0.91%) Apex Code
14 24 (0.69%) PL/SQL
15 22 (0.63%) T-SQL
16 21 (0.60%) SOQL
17 20 (0.57%) SOSL
18 17 (0.49%) Bicep
19 15 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 509 (14.53%) Degree
2 498 (14.22%) Security Cleared
3 398 (11.36%) SC Cleared
4 127 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 107 (3.06%) CISSP
5 107 (3.06%) PMI Certification
6 102 (2.91%) PMP
7 97 (2.77%) CISM
8 86 (2.46%) DV Cleared
9 76 (2.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 72 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
11 64 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
12 47 (1.34%) Azure Certification
13 38 (1.09%) DBS Check
14 34 (0.97%) Master's Degree
15 28 (0.80%) AWS Certification
15 28 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
16 25 (0.71%) CISA
17 23 (0.66%) ISTQB
18 17 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 383 (10.94%) Accessibility
2 306 (8.74%) QA
3 132 (3.77%) Data Quality
4 113 (3.23%) NIST
5 89 (2.54%) GDPR
5 89 (2.54%) WCAG
6 71 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 62 (1.77%) PMO
8 49 (1.40%) ISO 22301
9 35 (1.00%) GRC
10 31 (0.89%) NCSC
11 27 (0.77%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 15 (0.43%) COBIT
13 14 (0.40%) NIST 800
14 12 (0.34%) SOC 2
15 10 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.29%) GxP
15 10 (0.29%) PCI DSS
16 9 (0.26%) SLA
17 7 (0.20%) MiFID
System Software
1 302 (8.62%) Docker
2 60 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
3 36 (1.03%) Active Directory
4 15 (0.43%) 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%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 268 (7.65%) Kubernetes
2 170 (4.85%) Terraform
3 53 (1.51%) Ansible
4 37 (1.06%) Grafana
5 29 (0.83%) Argo
6 26 (0.74%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.34%) Podman
8 8 (0.23%) 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 (0.086%) Packer
12 3 (0.086%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.086%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.057%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.057%) Kibana
14 1 (0.029%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.029%) HP Quality Center
14 1 (0.029%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 801 (22.87%) Microsoft
2 233 (6.65%) Adobe
3 142 (4.05%) Google
4 110 (3.14%) Oracle
5 104 (2.97%) Databricks
6 93 (2.66%) Salesforce
7 91 (2.60%) SAP
8 64 (1.83%) ServiceNow
9 40 (1.14%) Facebook
10 31 (0.89%) OpenAI
11 27 (0.77%) YouTube
12 26 (0.74%) Splunk
13 24 (0.69%) Cisco
14 21 (0.60%) Workday
15 19 (0.54%) Apple
15 19 (0.54%) VMware
15 19 (0.54%) Yahoo!
16 18 (0.51%) IFS
17 17 (0.49%) Sony
18 16 (0.46%) IBM