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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,452 3,413 7,522
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.28% 20.80% 23.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.65% 22.24% 25.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,324 2,134 5,425
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,469 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £78,500 £98,355 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £132,500 £117,500
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 17,569 15,347 29,009
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.87% 93.54% 89.03%
Number of salaries quoted 12,813 9,109 22,187
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 9 July 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
1 103 (2.98%) Confluence
2 58 (1.68%) SharePoint
3 41 (1.19%) CMS
4 21 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (0.58%) Apache
6 16 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 16 (0.46%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.43%) SAS
8 12 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.26%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.23%) WordPress
11 5 (0.14%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.14%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.12%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.12%) PowerFactory
13 3 (0.087%) EPiServer
13 3 (0.087%) Immediacy CMS
13 3 (0.087%) Kentico
13 3 (0.087%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.087%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 121 (3.51%) Microsoft Project
2 96 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 46 (1.33%) UserZoom
5 45 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
6 22 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 18 (0.52%) Chatbot
8 16 (0.46%) Trello
9 15 (0.43%) Adobe XD
10 12 (0.35%) MS Visio
11 5 (0.14%) Sketch
12 4 (0.12%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.12%) Revit
12 4 (0.12%) Windchill
13 3 (0.087%) Blender
13 3 (0.087%) Maya
13 3 (0.087%) Productboard
14 2 (0.058%) Photoshop
14 2 (0.058%) PlantUML
14 2 (0.058%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 68 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.16%) Workfront
3 20 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.20%) Elite 3E
5 6 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.14%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.14%) SAP CO
6 5 (0.14%) SAP FI
6 5 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
6 5 (0.14%) Shopify
7 4 (0.12%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.12%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.087%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.087%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.087%) Raiser’s Edge
8 3 (0.087%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,181 (34.21%) Azure
2 834 (24.16%) AWS
3 330 (9.56%) Azure DevOps
4 231 (6.69%) GCP
5 199 (5.76%) SaaS
6 193 (5.59%) Adobe Analytics
7 176 (5.10%) Power Platform
8 172 (4.98%) GitHub
9 159 (4.61%) Azure AI
10 157 (4.55%) Serverless
11 107 (3.10%) Figma
12 80 (2.32%) GitHub Copilot
13 74 (2.14%) PowerApps
14 71 (2.06%) Contentsquare
15 67 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
16 65 (1.88%) Azure Machine Learning
16 65 (1.88%) Snowflake
17 64 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
18 61 (1.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 59 (1.71%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 405 (11.73%) Broadband
2 28 (0.81%) Network Security
3 26 (0.75%) TCP/IP
4 21 (0.61%) Internet
4 21 (0.61%) VPN
5 19 (0.55%) WAN
6 16 (0.46%) Firewall
6 16 (0.46%) LAN
7 15 (0.43%) CHAP
7 15 (0.43%) Ethernet
7 15 (0.43%) RS-232
8 14 (0.41%) DNS
9 13 (0.38%) 4G
10 12 (0.35%) VoIP
11 10 (0.29%) 5G
11 10 (0.29%) BGP
11 10 (0.29%) Cisco IOS
11 10 (0.29%) CTI
11 10 (0.29%) IOS XR
11 10 (0.29%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 382 (11.07%) MongoDB
2 363 (10.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 189 (5.48%) SQL Server
4 155 (4.49%) Elasticsearch
5 130 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
6 105 (3.04%) NoSQL
7 102 (2.95%) Metadata
8 90 (2.61%) Power BI
9 78 (2.26%) MySQL
10 44 (1.27%) Relational Database
11 34 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (0.98%) DynamoDB
12 30 (0.87%) Data Lake
13 24 (0.70%) Redis
14 21 (0.61%) Big Data
15 19 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (0.55%) BigQuery
15 19 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 18 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
16 18 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 240 (6.95%) JIRA
2 164 (4.75%) Git
3 114 (3.30%) Jenkins
4 100 (2.90%) GitLab
5 41 (1.19%) SonarQube
6 35 (1.01%) Selenium
7 34 (0.98%) Cypress.io
8 24 (0.70%) Postman
9 21 (0.61%) Claude Code
10 19 (0.55%) JUnit
11 16 (0.46%) Cucumber
11 16 (0.46%) Visual Studio
12 15 (0.43%) JMeter
13 14 (0.41%) TeamCity
14 13 (0.38%) CircleCI
14 13 (0.38%) Maven
15 12 (0.35%) Jaeger
15 12 (0.35%) Mockito
16 11 (0.32%) SpecFlow
17 10 (0.29%) WebDriver
General
1 938 (27.17%) Social Skills
2 806 (23.35%) Finance
3 475 (13.76%) Public Sector
4 347 (10.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 324 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
6 306 (8.86%) Games
7 278 (8.05%) Law
8 189 (5.48%) Marketing
9 179 (5.19%) Legal
10 178 (5.16%) Retail
11 137 (3.97%) Banking
12 90 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
13 77 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
14 72 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
15 62 (1.80%) Advertising
16 50 (1.45%) Front Office
17 46 (1.33%) Legal Technology
18 37 (1.07%) Telecoms
19 36 (1.04%) Back Office
20 34 (0.98%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 851 (24.65%) Developer
2 694 (20.10%) Senior
3 488 (14.14%) Lead
4 384 (11.12%) .NET Developer
5 294 (8.52%) Analyst
6 281 (8.14%) Architect
7 276 (8.00%) Software Engineer
8 248 (7.18%) Project Manager
9 191 (5.53%) Senior Manager
10 186 (5.39%) Business Analyst
11 125 (3.62%) IT Manager
12 117 (3.39%) Senior Developer
13 114 (3.30%) Delivery Manager
14 111 (3.22%) Software Developer
15 100 (2.90%) Senior Project Manager
16 87 (2.52%) Product Owner
17 86 (2.49%) Engineering Manager
18 85 (2.46%) Consultant
19 83 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
20 82 (2.38%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 607 (17.58%) .NET
2 464 (13.44%) React
3 386 (11.18%) ASP.NET
4 368 (10.66%) .NET Core
5 357 (10.34%) ASP.NET Core
6 308 (8.92%) Node.js
7 219 (6.34%) RESTful
8 205 (5.94%) CSS
9 195 (5.65%) HTML
10 172 (4.98%) Blazor
11 165 (4.78%) AngularJS
12 149 (4.32%) Entity Framework
13 143 (4.14%) Vue
14 127 (3.68%) REST
15 126 (3.65%) ASP.NET Web API
16 97 (2.81%) ML.NET
17 94 (2.72%) .NET Framework
18 84 (2.43%) Kafka
19 83 (2.40%) Spring
20 66 (1.91%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 415 (12.02%) Product Ownership
2 289 (8.37%) Cloud Native
3 259 (7.50%) Social Media
4 127 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
5 106 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
6 85 (2.46%) Mobile App
7 76 (2.20%) Management Information System
8 72 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
9 71 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
9 71 (2.06%) Onboarding
10 65 (1.88%) Over-the-Top Content
11 61 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
12 55 (1.59%) Marketing Technology
13 47 (1.36%) Driving Licence
13 47 (1.36%) Virtual Team
14 41 (1.19%) Fixed Income
15 34 (0.98%) Security Posture
16 33 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
17 32 (0.93%) Public Cloud
18 31 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 161 (4.66%) Linux
2 66 (1.91%) Android
3 65 (1.88%) Windows
4 53 (1.54%) Unix
5 44 (1.27%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
6 15 (0.43%) VMS
7 10 (0.29%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.20%) CentOS
9 6 (0.17%) Debian
10 5 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.12%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.029%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 844 (24.45%) DevOps
2 791 (22.91%) CI/CD
3 785 (22.74%) Continuous Improvement
4 772 (22.36%) Roadmaps
5 756 (21.90%) Mentoring
6 750 (21.73%) AI
7 659 (19.09%) Scrum
8 600 (17.38%) Full-Stack Development
9 561 (16.25%) Coaching
10 545 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
11 483 (13.99%) Software Engineering
12 459 (13.30%) Analytics
13 452 (13.09%) Microservices
14 395 (11.44%) Decision-Making
15 394 (11.41%) Stakeholder Management
16 382 (11.07%) Customer Experience
17 377 (10.92%) Test Automation
18 370 (10.72%) Project Management
19 364 (10.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 350 (10.14%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 809 (23.44%) SQL
2 692 (20.05%) C#
3 537 (15.56%) JavaScript
4 407 (11.79%) Python
5 398 (11.53%) Java
6 336 (9.73%) TypeScript
7 89 (2.58%) PHP
8 85 (2.46%) C++
9 73 (2.11%) Bash
10 68 (1.97%) Go
11 54 (1.56%) Apex Code
12 45 (1.30%) PowerShell
13 42 (1.22%) C
14 35 (1.01%) SOQL
15 34 (0.98%) Ruby
15 34 (0.98%) SOSL
16 22 (0.64%) VBA
17 21 (0.61%) T-SQL
18 19 (0.55%) Scala
19 17 (0.49%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 442 (12.80%) Degree
2 368 (10.66%) Security Cleared
3 287 (8.31%) SC Cleared
4 102 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 93 (2.69%) CISSP
6 86 (2.49%) PMI Certification
7 82 (2.38%) PMP
8 80 (2.32%) CISM
9 72 (2.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 45 (1.30%) Azure Certification
11 44 (1.27%) DBS Check
11 44 (1.27%) DV Cleared
12 39 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
13 32 (0.93%) AWS Certification
14 31 (0.90%) CISA
15 28 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
16 25 (0.72%) ISTQB
17 23 (0.67%) Master's Degree
18 20 (0.58%) SANS
19 16 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 371 (10.75%) Accessibility
2 271 (7.85%) QA
3 102 (2.95%) Data Quality
4 91 (2.64%) NIST
5 79 (2.29%) WCAG
6 76 (2.20%) GDPR
7 56 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 50 (1.45%) PMO
9 29 (0.84%) GRC
9 29 (0.84%) ISO 22301
10 22 (0.64%) COBIT
11 19 (0.55%) NCSC
12 18 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 11 (0.32%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.26%) NIST 800
16 8 (0.23%) SLA
17 7 (0.20%) SOC 1
17 7 (0.20%) SOC 2
18 5 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 306 (8.86%) Docker
2 60 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
3 37 (1.07%) Active Directory
4 16 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.38%) vSphere
6 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.058%) Firmware
7 2 (0.058%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.029%) GPFS
8 1 (0.029%) Lustre
8 1 (0.029%) Xen
Systems Management
1 284 (8.23%) Kubernetes
2 172 (4.98%) Terraform
3 72 (2.09%) Ansible
4 43 (1.25%) Grafana
5 41 (1.19%) Argo
6 39 (1.13%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.46%) Kustomize
8 12 (0.35%) Podman
9 6 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.17%) Puppet
10 5 (0.14%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.14%) Istio
10 5 (0.14%) Packer
11 3 (0.087%) Kibana
11 3 (0.087%) SCCM
11 3 (0.087%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.087%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.058%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.058%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 780 (22.60%) Microsoft
2 265 (7.68%) Adobe
3 149 (4.32%) Google
4 105 (3.04%) Salesforce
5 102 (2.95%) Oracle
6 96 (2.78%) Databricks
7 84 (2.43%) ServiceNow
8 83 (2.40%) SAP
9 41 (1.19%) Facebook
10 40 (1.16%) Splunk
11 28 (0.81%) Cisco
12 21 (0.61%) OpenAI
12 21 (0.61%) YouTube
13 20 (0.58%) Yahoo!
14 19 (0.55%) Apple
15 18 (0.52%) Sony
15 18 (0.52%) VMware
16 17 (0.49%) IBM
16 17 (0.49%) IFS
17 14 (0.41%) MuleSoft