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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,301 3,183 5,200
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 13.27% 18.92% 23.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.42% 20.16% 26.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,203 1,965 2,784
10th Percentile £40,825 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,432 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,018 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% - +3.74%
75th Percentile £78,250 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £93,634 £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 20,104 15,790 19,699
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.81% 93.84% 88.14%
Number of salaries quoted 14,346 8,455 11,710
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,750 £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 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.30% -2.17%

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 3 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
1 115 (3.48%) Confluence
2 92 (2.79%) SharePoint
3 28 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 27 (0.82%) CMS
5 18 (0.55%) Apache
6 17 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.42%) WordPress
8 13 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.39%) SAS
9 12 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 10 (0.30%) Jupyter
11 6 (0.18%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.15%) Umbraco
13 4 (0.12%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.12%) Camunda
13 4 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.12%) PowerFactory
14 3 (0.091%) Kentico
14 3 (0.091%) OpenStack
14 3 (0.091%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 128 (3.88%) Microsoft Project
2 97 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
3 69 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
4 30 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 24 (0.73%) MS Visio
6 23 (0.70%) Chatbot
7 20 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 18 (0.55%) Trello
8 18 (0.55%) UserZoom
9 14 (0.42%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.15%) Revit
10 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.12%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.12%) Notion
11 4 (0.12%) Simulink
11 4 (0.12%) Windchill
12 3 (0.091%) Blender
12 3 (0.091%) Maya
12 3 (0.091%) Productboard
12 3 (0.091%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 76 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.64%) Workfront
3 20 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.33%) Primavera
4 11 (0.33%) Workday HCM
5 10 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
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%) Shopify
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
10 3 (0.091%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,203 (36.44%) Azure
2 839 (25.42%) AWS
3 345 (10.45%) Azure DevOps
4 250 (7.57%) SaaS
5 222 (6.73%) Power Platform
6 206 (6.24%) GCP
7 194 (5.88%) GitHub
8 154 (4.67%) Serverless
9 115 (3.48%) Azure AI
10 101 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
11 93 (2.82%) GitHub Copilot
12 84 (2.54%) Power Automate
13 82 (2.48%) PowerApps
14 78 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
15 69 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
16 68 (2.06%) Microsoft Copilot
17 58 (1.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 57 (1.73%) Amazon S3
19 53 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
20 50 (1.51%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 98 (2.97%) Broadband
2 41 (1.24%) Network Security
3 20 (0.61%) Internet
4 18 (0.55%) WAN
5 17 (0.51%) LAN
5 17 (0.51%) VPN
6 15 (0.45%) TCP/IP
7 13 (0.39%) VoIP
8 11 (0.33%) 5G
8 11 (0.33%) CTI
8 11 (0.33%) Firewall
9 10 (0.30%) DNS
10 9 (0.27%) SMS
10 9 (0.27%) Unified Communications
11 7 (0.21%) TETRA
11 7 (0.21%) WLAN
12 6 (0.18%) Ethernet
12 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
12 6 (0.18%) RS-232
12 6 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 368 (11.15%) MongoDB
2 356 (10.78%) Azure SQL Database
3 166 (5.03%) SQL Server
4 145 (4.39%) Power BI
5 143 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
6 142 (4.30%) Elasticsearch
7 89 (2.70%) Metadata
8 78 (2.36%) MySQL
9 75 (2.27%) NoSQL
10 73 (2.21%) Relational Database
11 67 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
12 51 (1.54%) DynamoDB
13 49 (1.48%) Data Lake
14 30 (0.91%) Big Data
14 30 (0.91%) Tableau
15 29 (0.88%) Redis
16 22 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 21 (0.64%) Spark SQL
18 20 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
18 20 (0.61%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 281 (8.51%) JIRA
2 215 (6.51%) Git
3 78 (2.36%) GitLab
4 71 (2.15%) Jenkins
5 32 (0.97%) JUnit
6 30 (0.91%) Selenium
7 28 (0.85%) Cypress.io
8 27 (0.82%) Claude Code
9 20 (0.61%) Mockito
9 20 (0.61%) Postman
10 18 (0.55%) Maven
11 16 (0.48%) Visual Studio
12 14 (0.42%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.39%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
15 9 (0.27%) SonarQube
16 8 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 8 (0.24%) Balsamiq
17 7 (0.21%) NUnit
18 6 (0.18%) TeamCity
General
1 1,042 (31.57%) Social Skills
2 788 (23.87%) Finance
3 572 (17.33%) Public Sector
4 417 (12.63%) Analytical Skills
5 369 (11.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 274 (8.30%) Law
7 211 (6.39%) Legal
8 192 (5.82%) Retail
9 147 (4.45%) Marketing
10 125 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
11 107 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
12 90 (2.73%) Aerospace
12 90 (2.73%) Banking
13 85 (2.57%) Games
14 83 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
15 56 (1.70%) Advertising
16 51 (1.54%) Manufacturing
17 42 (1.27%) Legal Technology
18 31 (0.94%) Back Office
19 29 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 829 (25.11%) Developer
2 752 (22.78%) Senior
3 359 (10.88%) .NET Developer
4 354 (10.72%) Lead
5 295 (8.94%) Analyst
6 283 (8.57%) Architect
7 245 (7.42%) Project Manager
8 221 (6.69%) Software Engineer
9 199 (6.03%) Business Analyst
10 187 (5.66%) Senior Developer
11 154 (4.67%) Senior Manager
12 135 (4.09%) IT Manager
13 130 (3.94%) Delivery Manager
14 92 (2.79%) Senior Project Manager
15 85 (2.57%) Senior Analyst
15 85 (2.57%) Software Developer
16 81 (2.45%) Data Engineer
17 79 (2.39%) Technical Architect
18 78 (2.36%) Full-Stack Developer
19 76 (2.30%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 623 (18.87%) .NET
2 406 (12.30%) React
3 379 (11.48%) ASP.NET
4 370 (11.21%) .NET Core
5 344 (10.42%) ASP.NET Core
6 290 (8.79%) Node.js
7 217 (6.57%) RESTful
8 196 (5.94%) CSS
9 195 (5.91%) HTML
10 172 (5.21%) Blazor
11 163 (4.94%) Terraform
12 156 (4.73%) Entity Framework
13 152 (4.60%) AngularJS
14 130 (3.94%) REST
15 125 (3.79%) Vue
16 120 (3.64%) ASP.NET Web API
17 108 (3.27%) Spring
18 103 (3.12%) Middleware
19 95 (2.88%) .NET Framework
20 91 (2.76%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 318 (9.63%) Product Ownership
2 287 (8.69%) Cloud Native
3 164 (4.97%) Enterprise Software
4 100 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
5 99 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
6 81 (2.45%) Social Media
7 80 (2.42%) Management Information System
8 65 (1.97%) Onboarding
9 64 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
10 62 (1.88%) Mobile App
11 58 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
12 54 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
13 47 (1.42%) Driving Licence
14 42 (1.27%) AI Agents
15 36 (1.09%) Blog
16 34 (1.03%) Cyber Defence
16 34 (1.03%) Virtual Team
17 32 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 32 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
18 31 (0.94%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 138 (4.18%) Linux
2 89 (2.70%) Windows
3 53 (1.61%) Unix
4 44 (1.33%) Android
5 21 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.39%) VMS
7 9 (0.27%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.12%) CentOS
9 4 (0.12%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.091%) Debian
11 2 (0.061%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.061%) VxWorks
12 1 (0.030%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 881 (26.69%) Continuous Improvement
2 879 (26.63%) CI/CD
3 842 (25.51%) DevOps
4 757 (22.93%) Mentoring
5 691 (20.93%) AI
6 681 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
7 636 (19.27%) Scrum
8 600 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
9 578 (17.51%) Coaching
10 549 (16.63%) Full-Stack Development
11 511 (15.48%) Software Engineering
12 474 (14.36%) Microservices
13 468 (14.18%) Roadmaps
14 434 (13.15%) Decision-Making
15 432 (13.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 413 (12.51%) Project Delivery
17 385 (11.66%) Analytics
18 370 (11.21%) Test Automation
19 353 (10.69%) Project Management
20 351 (10.63%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 822 (24.90%) SQL
2 741 (22.45%) C#
3 535 (16.21%) JavaScript
4 378 (11.45%) Python
5 329 (9.97%) Java
6 299 (9.06%) TypeScript
7 84 (2.54%) C++
8 68 (2.06%) Bash
9 63 (1.91%) PHP
10 54 (1.64%) PowerShell
11 42 (1.27%) Ruby
12 39 (1.18%) Go
13 30 (0.91%) C
13 30 (0.91%) PL/SQL
14 25 (0.76%) T-SQL
15 19 (0.58%) Kotlin
16 18 (0.55%) Bicep
17 15 (0.45%) Rust
18 14 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
18 14 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 530 (16.06%) Security Cleared
2 508 (15.39%) Degree
3 422 (12.78%) SC Cleared
4 107 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 104 (3.15%) CISSP
6 95 (2.88%) CISM
6 95 (2.88%) PMI Certification
7 92 (2.79%) PMP
8 90 (2.73%) DV Cleared
9 83 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 82 (2.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 64 (1.94%) ITIL Certification
12 49 (1.48%) Azure Certification
13 42 (1.27%) DBS Check
14 34 (1.03%) Master's Degree
15 30 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
16 29 (0.88%) AWS Certification
17 27 (0.82%) ISTQB
18 24 (0.73%) CISA
18 24 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (8.63%) Accessibility
2 273 (8.27%) QA
3 180 (5.45%) Data Quality
4 110 (3.33%) GDPR
4 110 (3.33%) NIST
5 76 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 62 (1.88%) PMO
7 52 (1.58%) ISO 22301
8 44 (1.33%) WCAG
9 36 (1.09%) NCSC
10 28 (0.85%) GRC
10 28 (0.85%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 14 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 14 (0.42%) NIST 800
12 12 (0.36%) SOC 2
13 10 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (0.30%) COBIT
13 10 (0.30%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.30%) SLA
14 9 (0.27%) GxP
System Software
1 305 (9.24%) Docker
2 42 (1.27%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.39%) vSphere
6 12 (0.36%) Firmware
6 12 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.12%) IAG
8 2 (0.061%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.030%) GPFS
9 1 (0.030%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.030%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 284 (8.60%) Kubernetes
2 41 (1.24%) Ansible
3 33 (1.00%) Grafana
4 29 (0.88%) Argo
5 26 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.30%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.21%) Packer
9 6 (0.18%) Podman
10 5 (0.15%) Istio
10 5 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.12%) Kustomize
12 3 (0.091%) SQL Sentry
13 2 (0.061%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.061%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 2 (0.061%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (0.061%) Puppet
14 1 (0.030%) Data Guard
14 1 (0.030%) SCCM
14 1 (0.030%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 796 (24.11%) Microsoft
2 130 (3.94%) Oracle
3 128 (3.88%) Google
4 95 (2.88%) Adobe
5 90 (2.73%) SAP
6 83 (2.51%) Salesforce
7 82 (2.48%) YouTube
8 75 (2.27%) Databricks
9 63 (1.91%) ServiceNow
10 41 (1.24%) Facebook
11 31 (0.94%) OpenAI
12 27 (0.82%) Workday
13 25 (0.76%) Cisco
14 21 (0.64%) VMware
15 20 (0.61%) IFS
16 18 (0.55%) Informatica
16 18 (0.55%) Yahoo!
17 17 (0.51%) Apple
18 16 (0.48%) Sony
19 14 (0.42%) Pega