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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,279 3,162 5,006
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 13.23% 18.83% 23.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.43% 20.07% 26.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,182 1,936 2,717
10th Percentile £40,825 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,289 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,950 £66,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.35% -5.00% +7.11%
75th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £91,269 £132,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £63,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +3.29%

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 19,953 15,755 19,120
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.51% 93.83% 88.22%
Number of salaries quoted 14,223 8,440 11,340
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,700
25th Percentile £44,447 £40,000 £45,000
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 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 9 October 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
1 110 (3.35%) Confluence
2 91 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 27 (0.82%) Apache Spark
4 25 (0.76%) CMS
5 19 (0.58%) Apache
6 17 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 14 (0.43%) WordPress
8 13 (0.40%) SAS
9 12 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 11 (0.34%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.24%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.15%) Umbraco
13 4 (0.12%) Camunda
13 4 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.12%) PowerFactory
14 3 (0.091%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.091%) EPiServer
14 3 (0.091%) Kentico
14 3 (0.091%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 129 (3.93%) Microsoft Project
2 98 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
3 67 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
4 30 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 24 (0.73%) MS Visio
6 22 (0.67%) Chatbot
7 19 (0.58%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 18 (0.55%) UserZoom
9 17 (0.52%) Trello
10 14 (0.43%) Adobe XD
11 5 (0.15%) Revit
11 5 (0.15%) Simulink
11 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.12%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.12%) Notion
12 4 (0.12%) Windchill
13 3 (0.091%) Blender
13 3 (0.091%) Maya
13 3 (0.091%) Productboard
13 3 (0.091%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 80 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.61%) Workfront
3 19 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.34%) Primavera
4 11 (0.34%) Workday HCM
5 10 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.21%) SAP CO
6 7 (0.21%) SAP FI
6 7 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
7 6 (0.18%) Elite 3E
7 6 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.18%) Shopify
8 5 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
8 5 (0.15%) Fidessa
8 5 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
9 4 (0.12%) Raiser’s Edge
9 4 (0.12%) SAP GRC
10 3 (0.091%) Carpe Diem
10 3 (0.091%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.091%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,169 (35.65%) Azure
2 822 (25.07%) AWS
3 344 (10.49%) Azure DevOps
4 253 (7.72%) SaaS
5 221 (6.74%) Power Platform
6 195 (5.95%) GitHub
7 193 (5.89%) GCP
8 151 (4.61%) Serverless
9 101 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
10 96 (2.93%) Azure AI
11 93 (2.84%) GitHub Copilot
12 85 (2.59%) Power Automate
13 82 (2.50%) PowerApps
14 75 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
15 71 (2.17%) Microsoft Copilot
16 69 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
17 58 (1.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 54 (1.65%) Amazon S3
19 53 (1.62%) Azure Service Bus
20 50 (1.52%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 89 (2.71%) Broadband
2 40 (1.22%) Network Security
3 20 (0.61%) Internet
4 18 (0.55%) LAN
4 18 (0.55%) WAN
5 17 (0.52%) VPN
6 15 (0.46%) TCP/IP
7 13 (0.40%) VoIP
8 11 (0.34%) 5G
8 11 (0.34%) CTI
8 11 (0.34%) Firewall
9 10 (0.30%) DNS
10 9 (0.27%) SMS
10 9 (0.27%) Unified Communications
11 7 (0.21%) HTTP
11 7 (0.21%) TETRA
11 7 (0.21%) WLAN
12 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
12 6 (0.18%) Wireless
13 5 (0.15%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 365 (11.13%) MongoDB
2 352 (10.73%) Azure SQL Database
3 144 (4.39%) Power BI
3 144 (4.39%) SQL Server
4 142 (4.33%) Elasticsearch
5 140 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
6 88 (2.68%) Metadata
7 78 (2.38%) MySQL
8 71 (2.17%) NoSQL
8 71 (2.17%) Relational Database
9 65 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
10 48 (1.46%) DynamoDB
11 47 (1.43%) Data Lake
12 30 (0.91%) Tableau
13 29 (0.88%) Big Data
14 27 (0.82%) Redis
15 21 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
15 21 (0.64%) Spark SQL
15 21 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 20 (0.61%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 272 (8.30%) JIRA
2 214 (6.53%) Git
3 77 (2.35%) GitLab
4 69 (2.10%) Jenkins
5 34 (1.04%) JUnit
6 29 (0.88%) Selenium
7 27 (0.82%) Claude Code
8 26 (0.79%) Cypress.io
9 22 (0.67%) Mockito
10 19 (0.58%) Postman
11 18 (0.55%) Maven
12 15 (0.46%) Visual Studio
13 13 (0.40%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.40%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
15 9 (0.27%) SonarQube
16 8 (0.24%) Balsamiq
17 7 (0.21%) NUnit
18 6 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 6 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,031 (31.44%) Social Skills
2 764 (23.30%) Finance
3 580 (17.69%) Public Sector
4 418 (12.75%) Analytical Skills
5 371 (11.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 270 (8.23%) Law
7 212 (6.47%) Legal
8 192 (5.86%) Retail
9 148 (4.51%) Marketing
10 128 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
11 107 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
12 92 (2.81%) Aerospace
13 83 (2.53%) Banking
13 83 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
14 80 (2.44%) Games
15 56 (1.71%) Advertising
16 50 (1.52%) Manufacturing
17 42 (1.28%) Legal Technology
18 31 (0.95%) Back Office
19 30 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 825 (25.16%) Developer
2 750 (22.87%) Senior
3 360 (10.98%) .NET Developer
4 358 (10.92%) Lead
5 292 (8.91%) Analyst
6 279 (8.51%) Architect
7 246 (7.50%) Project Manager
8 220 (6.71%) Software Engineer
9 197 (6.01%) Business Analyst
10 186 (5.67%) Senior Developer
11 156 (4.76%) Senior Manager
12 145 (4.42%) Delivery Manager
13 138 (4.21%) IT Manager
14 93 (2.84%) Senior Project Manager
15 84 (2.56%) Senior Analyst
16 82 (2.50%) Software Developer
17 79 (2.41%) Data Engineer
17 79 (2.41%) Full-Stack Developer
17 79 (2.41%) Technical Architect
18 78 (2.38%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 620 (18.91%) .NET
2 403 (12.29%) React
3 379 (11.56%) ASP.NET
4 371 (11.31%) .NET Core
5 343 (10.46%) ASP.NET Core
6 285 (8.69%) Node.js
7 215 (6.56%) RESTful
8 196 (5.98%) HTML
9 192 (5.86%) CSS
10 173 (5.28%) Blazor
11 163 (4.97%) Terraform
12 156 (4.76%) Entity Framework
13 151 (4.61%) AngularJS
14 135 (4.12%) REST
15 125 (3.81%) Vue
16 120 (3.66%) ASP.NET Web API
17 110 (3.35%) Spring
18 103 (3.14%) Middleware
19 94 (2.87%) .NET Framework
20 91 (2.78%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 307 (9.36%) Product Ownership
2 285 (8.69%) Cloud Native
3 165 (5.03%) Enterprise Software
4 106 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
5 97 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
6 80 (2.44%) Management Information System
7 75 (2.29%) Social Media
8 66 (2.01%) Onboarding
9 65 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
10 61 (1.86%) Mobile App
11 59 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
12 55 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
13 48 (1.46%) Driving Licence
14 40 (1.22%) AI Agents
15 37 (1.13%) Blog
16 36 (1.10%) Cyber Defence
17 33 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 30 (0.91%) Marketing Technology
18 30 (0.91%) Virtual Team
19 29 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 132 (4.03%) Linux
2 87 (2.65%) Windows
3 52 (1.59%) Unix
4 43 (1.31%) Android
5 20 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.37%) VMS
7 8 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.12%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.061%) CentOS
10 2 (0.061%) Debian
10 2 (0.061%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.061%) VxWorks
11 1 (0.030%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 874 (26.65%) Continuous Improvement
2 867 (26.44%) CI/CD
3 838 (25.56%) DevOps
4 756 (23.06%) Mentoring
5 679 (20.71%) Problem-Solving
6 672 (20.49%) AI
7 622 (18.97%) Scrum
8 615 (18.76%) Stakeholder Management
9 587 (17.90%) Coaching
10 544 (16.59%) Full-Stack Development
11 509 (15.52%) Software Engineering
12 471 (14.36%) Microservices
13 440 (13.42%) Roadmaps
14 433 (13.21%) Decision-Making
15 427 (13.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 413 (12.60%) Project Delivery
17 376 (11.47%) Analytics
18 370 (11.28%) Test Automation
19 356 (10.86%) Waterfall
20 349 (10.64%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 794 (24.21%) SQL
2 733 (22.35%) C#
3 532 (16.22%) JavaScript
4 373 (11.38%) Python
5 322 (9.82%) Java
6 295 (9.00%) TypeScript
7 78 (2.38%) C++
8 67 (2.04%) Bash
9 60 (1.83%) PHP
10 52 (1.59%) PowerShell
11 42 (1.28%) Go
12 41 (1.25%) Ruby
13 30 (0.91%) PL/SQL
14 29 (0.88%) C
15 25 (0.76%) T-SQL
16 20 (0.61%) Bicep
17 19 (0.58%) Kotlin
18 16 (0.49%) Rust
19 14 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
19 14 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 539 (16.44%) Security Cleared
2 503 (15.34%) Degree
3 429 (13.08%) SC Cleared
4 103 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 102 (3.11%) CISSP
6 93 (2.84%) PMI Certification
7 92 (2.81%) CISM
8 91 (2.78%) DV Cleared
8 91 (2.78%) PMP
9 83 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 83 (2.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 64 (1.95%) ITIL Certification
11 52 (1.59%) Azure Certification
12 41 (1.25%) DBS Check
13 33 (1.01%) Master's Degree
14 29 (0.88%) AWS Certification
14 29 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
15 25 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
16 24 (0.73%) ISTQB
17 23 (0.70%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (8.69%) Accessibility
2 270 (8.23%) QA
3 183 (5.58%) Data Quality
4 108 (3.29%) GDPR
5 107 (3.26%) NIST
6 74 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 61 (1.86%) PMO
8 53 (1.62%) ISO 22301
9 45 (1.37%) WCAG
10 36 (1.10%) NCSC
11 27 (0.82%) GRC
11 27 (0.82%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 14 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 14 (0.43%) NIST 800
13 12 (0.37%) SOC 2
14 10 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.30%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.30%) SLA
15 9 (0.27%) COBIT
15 9 (0.27%) GxP
System Software
1 304 (9.27%) Docker
2 41 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.37%) Firmware
4 12 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (0.37%) vSphere
5 4 (0.12%) IAG
6 3 (0.091%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.030%) GPFS
8 1 (0.030%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.030%) Lustre
8 1 (0.030%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 283 (8.63%) Kubernetes
2 36 (1.10%) Ansible
3 32 (0.98%) Grafana
4 28 (0.85%) Argo
5 24 (0.73%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.27%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.18%) Packer
9 5 (0.15%) Istio
9 5 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.12%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.12%) Podman
11 3 (0.091%) SQL Sentry
12 2 (0.061%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.061%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.061%) Oracle RMAN
13 1 (0.030%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.030%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.030%) HP Quality Center
13 1 (0.030%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 778 (23.73%) Microsoft
2 133 (4.06%) Oracle
3 124 (3.78%) Google
4 90 (2.74%) SAP
5 89 (2.71%) Adobe
6 88 (2.68%) YouTube
7 82 (2.50%) Salesforce
8 60 (1.83%) ServiceNow
9 56 (1.71%) Databricks
10 41 (1.25%) Facebook
11 31 (0.95%) OpenAI
12 27 (0.82%) Workday
13 26 (0.79%) Cisco
14 20 (0.61%) VMware
15 19 (0.58%) IFS
16 18 (0.55%) Informatica
16 18 (0.55%) Yahoo!
17 17 (0.52%) Apple
18 16 (0.49%) Sony
19 14 (0.43%) Pega