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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,133 3,350 8,138
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.65% 21.74% 23.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.13% 23.00% 26.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,055 2,061 5,988
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +14.37% -5.84%
75th Percentile £78,790 £98,474 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £132,500 £108,750
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 16,378 14,566 30,818
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.83% 94.52% 88.95%
Number of salaries quoted 11,822 8,457 23,835
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £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% -9.54%

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 18 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
1 100 (3.19%) Confluence
2 47 (1.50%) SharePoint
3 42 (1.34%) CMS
4 21 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.57%) Apache
6 15 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 15 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.32%) SAS
8 9 (0.29%) Jupyter
9 7 (0.22%) WordPress
10 6 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.13%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.13%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.13%) PowerFactory
12 3 (0.096%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.096%) nginx
12 3 (0.096%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.064%) Camunda
13 2 (0.064%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 110 (3.51%) Microsoft Project
2 93 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 45 (1.44%) UserZoom
5 43 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
6 22 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 20 (0.64%) Adobe XD
8 11 (0.35%) MS Visio
9 9 (0.29%) Trello
10 7 (0.22%) Chatbot
10 7 (0.22%) Sketch
11 4 (0.13%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.13%) InVision
11 4 (0.13%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.13%) Revit
11 4 (0.13%) Windchill
12 3 (0.096%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.096%) Blender
12 3 (0.096%) Maya
12 3 (0.096%) Productboard
Business Applications
1 55 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.28%) Workfront
3 18 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.29%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.19%) Shopify
6 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.096%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.096%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.096%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.096%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.096%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.096%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.096%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.096%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.064%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.064%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.064%) Raiser’s Edge
8 2 (0.064%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 962 (30.71%) Azure
2 716 (22.85%) AWS
3 258 (8.23%) Azure DevOps
4 219 (6.99%) GCP
5 192 (6.13%) Adobe Analytics
6 161 (5.14%) Power Platform
6 161 (5.14%) SaaS
7 143 (4.56%) Serverless
8 135 (4.31%) GitHub
9 123 (3.93%) Azure AI
10 111 (3.54%) Figma
11 70 (2.23%) Contentsquare
11 70 (2.23%) Snowflake
12 65 (2.07%) Azure Machine Learning
13 62 (1.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 61 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
15 60 (1.92%) PowerApps
16 57 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
17 56 (1.79%) iPaaS
18 55 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 430 (13.72%) Broadband
2 26 (0.83%) TCP/IP
3 24 (0.77%) Network Security
4 17 (0.54%) CHAP
5 16 (0.51%) WAN
6 15 (0.48%) Ethernet
6 15 (0.48%) Firewall
6 15 (0.48%) RS-232
7 14 (0.45%) 4G
7 14 (0.45%) Internet
7 14 (0.45%) VPN
8 13 (0.41%) DNS
8 13 (0.41%) LAN
9 11 (0.35%) BGP
9 11 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
9 11 (0.35%) Ethernet VPN
9 11 (0.35%) IOS XR
9 11 (0.35%) MPLS
10 10 (0.32%) 5G
11 7 (0.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (8.23%) MongoDB
2 229 (7.31%) Azure SQL Database
3 173 (5.52%) SQL Server
4 116 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 110 (3.51%) NoSQL
6 103 (3.29%) Metadata
7 99 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
8 84 (2.68%) Power BI
9 73 (2.33%) MySQL
10 47 (1.50%) Relational Database
11 32 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
11 32 (1.02%) DynamoDB
12 30 (0.96%) Data Lake
13 20 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
13 20 (0.64%) BigQuery
13 20 (0.64%) Redis
14 18 (0.57%) RDBMS
14 18 (0.57%) Semantic Layer
14 18 (0.57%) Tableau
15 17 (0.54%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 228 (7.28%) JIRA
2 151 (4.82%) Git
3 121 (3.86%) Jenkins
4 102 (3.26%) GitLab
5 42 (1.34%) Selenium
6 40 (1.28%) SonarQube
7 35 (1.12%) Cypress.io
8 33 (1.05%) Postman
9 25 (0.80%) TeamCity
10 19 (0.61%) Claude Code
11 18 (0.57%) Jaeger
11 18 (0.57%) JUnit
12 17 (0.54%) WebDriver
13 16 (0.51%) SoapUI
14 15 (0.48%) Cucumber
14 15 (0.48%) JMeter
15 13 (0.41%) CircleCI
15 13 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
16 12 (0.38%) Maven
16 12 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 896 (28.60%) Social Skills
2 782 (24.96%) Finance
3 441 (14.08%) Public Sector
4 331 (10.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 318 (10.15%) Analytical Skills
6 309 (9.86%) Games
7 201 (6.42%) Law
8 179 (5.71%) Marketing
9 154 (4.92%) Retail
10 143 (4.56%) Banking
11 141 (4.50%) Legal
12 73 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
13 72 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
14 65 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
15 48 (1.53%) Front Office
16 46 (1.47%) Advertising
17 44 (1.40%) Telecoms
18 34 (1.09%) Back Office
19 31 (0.99%) Aviation
19 31 (0.99%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 668 (21.32%) Developer
2 639 (20.40%) Senior
3 468 (14.94%) Lead
4 290 (9.26%) Analyst
5 261 (8.33%) Software Engineer
6 245 (7.82%) .NET Developer
7 241 (7.69%) Architect
8 234 (7.47%) Project Manager
9 192 (6.13%) Business Analyst
10 188 (6.00%) Senior Manager
11 109 (3.48%) Delivery Manager
12 107 (3.42%) Software Developer
13 98 (3.13%) Senior Project Manager
14 87 (2.78%) IT Manager
14 87 (2.78%) Product Owner
15 86 (2.74%) Engineering Manager
16 83 (2.65%) Senior Developer
17 80 (2.55%) Designer
17 80 (2.55%) Graduate
18 77 (2.46%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 438 (13.98%) .NET
2 389 (12.42%) React
3 244 (7.79%) Node.js
4 243 (7.76%) .NET Core
4 243 (7.76%) ASP.NET
5 223 (7.12%) ASP.NET Core
6 175 (5.59%) CSS
7 169 (5.39%) HTML
8 165 (5.27%) RESTful
9 120 (3.83%) AngularJS
10 119 (3.80%) REST
11 107 (3.42%) Blazor
12 99 (3.16%) Vue
13 95 (3.03%) Entity Framework
14 77 (2.46%) Kafka
15 75 (2.39%) ASP.NET Web API
15 75 (2.39%) Spring
16 70 (2.23%) SOAP
17 61 (1.95%) .NET Framework
17 61 (1.95%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 412 (13.15%) Product Ownership
2 275 (8.78%) Cloud Native
3 252 (8.04%) Social Media
4 102 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
5 79 (2.52%) Mobile App
6 76 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
6 76 (2.43%) Over-the-Top Content
7 71 (2.27%) Onboarding
8 66 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
9 65 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
10 64 (2.04%) Management Information System
11 55 (1.76%) Marketing Technology
12 53 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
13 45 (1.44%) Driving Licence
14 44 (1.40%) Virtual Team
15 41 (1.31%) Fixed Income
16 33 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
17 30 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
18 29 (0.93%) Security Posture
19 27 (0.86%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 144 (4.60%) Linux
2 61 (1.95%) Android
3 45 (1.44%) Apple iOS
3 45 (1.44%) Unix
4 44 (1.40%) Windows
5 15 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
6 9 (0.29%) VMS
7 7 (0.22%) CentOS
7 7 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.16%) Debian
8 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.16%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.032%) AIX
9 1 (0.032%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 740 (23.62%) Roadmaps
2 707 (22.57%) Mentoring
3 705 (22.50%) DevOps
4 698 (22.28%) Continuous Improvement
5 680 (21.70%) CI/CD
6 659 (21.03%) AI
7 587 (18.74%) Scrum
8 542 (17.30%) Coaching
9 482 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
10 448 (14.30%) Full-Stack Development
11 438 (13.98%) Analytics
12 427 (13.63%) Software Engineering
13 391 (12.48%) Customer Experience
14 365 (11.65%) Stakeholder Management
15 362 (11.55%) Project Management
16 358 (11.43%) Decision-Making
17 336 (10.72%) Microservices
18 327 (10.44%) Test Automation
19 294 (9.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 282 (9.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 671 (21.42%) SQL
2 504 (16.09%) C#
3 444 (14.17%) JavaScript
4 396 (12.64%) Java
5 390 (12.45%) Python
6 286 (9.13%) TypeScript
7 87 (2.78%) PHP
8 81 (2.59%) C++
9 73 (2.33%) Go
10 72 (2.30%) Bash
11 56 (1.79%) Apex Code
12 40 (1.28%) C
13 38 (1.21%) PowerShell
14 35 (1.12%) SOQL
15 34 (1.09%) SOSL
16 29 (0.93%) Scala
17 24 (0.77%) Ruby
18 21 (0.67%) T-SQL
19 20 (0.64%) VBA
20 19 (0.61%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 440 (14.04%) Degree
2 333 (10.63%) Security Cleared
3 257 (8.20%) SC Cleared
4 97 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 79 (2.52%) PMI Certification
6 72 (2.30%) PMP
7 69 (2.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 56 (1.79%) CISSP
9 47 (1.50%) DBS Check
10 45 (1.44%) DV Cleared
11 42 (1.34%) CISM
12 37 (1.18%) AWS Certification
13 35 (1.12%) Azure Certification
14 33 (1.05%) ISTQB
15 26 (0.83%) CISA
16 22 (0.70%) SANS
17 20 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
18 17 (0.54%) CGEIT
18 17 (0.54%) FFIEC
19 14 (0.45%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 363 (11.59%) Accessibility
2 242 (7.72%) QA
3 94 (3.00%) Data Quality
4 81 (2.59%) WCAG
5 65 (2.07%) GDPR
6 57 (1.82%) NIST
7 44 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 44 (1.40%) PMO
8 22 (0.70%) COBIT
8 22 (0.70%) GRC
9 17 (0.54%) NCSC
10 13 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 10 (0.32%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 5 (0.16%) SOC 1
13 5 (0.16%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.13%) Def Stans
14 4 (0.13%) IFRS
System Software
1 280 (8.94%) Docker
2 60 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
3 35 (1.12%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.22%) vSphere
6 3 (0.096%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.096%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.032%) Xen
Systems Management
1 260 (8.30%) Kubernetes
2 177 (5.65%) Terraform
3 80 (2.55%) Ansible
4 47 (1.50%) Prometheus
5 45 (1.44%) Argo
5 45 (1.44%) Grafana
6 22 (0.70%) Kustomize
7 12 (0.38%) Podman
8 6 (0.19%) Puppet
9 5 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.16%) Istio
9 5 (0.16%) Packer
9 5 (0.16%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.13%) SCCM
11 3 (0.096%) Kibana
11 3 (0.096%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.064%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.064%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 600 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 268 (8.55%) Adobe
3 134 (4.28%) Google
4 108 (3.45%) Salesforce
5 99 (3.16%) Databricks
6 91 (2.90%) Oracle
7 76 (2.43%) SAP
7 76 (2.43%) ServiceNow
8 40 (1.28%) Splunk
9 26 (0.83%) Facebook
10 20 (0.64%) Cisco
11 14 (0.45%) IBM
12 13 (0.41%) IFS
12 13 (0.41%) MuleSoft
12 13 (0.41%) VMware
12 13 (0.41%) YouTube
13 12 (0.38%) Apple
13 12 (0.38%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.35%) Sony
14 11 (0.35%) Yahoo!