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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,964 3,281 8,046
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.70% 22.61% 24.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.96% 23.82% 27.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,895 2,011 6,021
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,276 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% +14.37% -5.84%
75th Percentile £80,000 £100,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £132,500 £101,250
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 15,634 13,776 29,586
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.80% 94.93% 90.84%
Number of salaries quoted 11,154 8,069 23,338
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,742 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,248 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.84% +8.18% -9.84%

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 23 May 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 97 (3.27%) Confluence
2 44 (1.48%) CMS
3 40 (1.35%) SharePoint
4 20 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.51%) Apache
5 15 (0.51%) Apache Spark
6 14 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 10 (0.34%) SAS
8 7 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.20%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.20%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.20%) WordPress
10 5 (0.17%) nginx
11 3 (0.10%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.10%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.10%) PowerFactory
12 2 (0.067%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.067%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.034%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.034%) WildFly
Applications
1 102 (3.44%) Microsoft Office
2 101 (3.41%) Microsoft Project
3 54 (1.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 40 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
5 30 (1.01%) UserZoom
6 24 (0.81%) Adobe XD
7 18 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 10 (0.34%) Sketch
9 7 (0.24%) Chatbot
9 7 (0.24%) MS Visio
9 7 (0.24%) Trello
10 5 (0.17%) InVision
11 3 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.10%) AutoCAD
11 3 (0.10%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.10%) Productboard
11 3 (0.10%) Revit
11 3 (0.10%) Windchill
12 2 (0.067%) Avid Media Composer
12 2 (0.067%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 40 (1.35%) Workfront
2 35 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
5 14 (0.47%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.24%) Shopify
7 4 (0.13%) Markit EDM
8 3 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.10%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.067%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.067%) Infor SunSystems
9 2 (0.067%) Raiser’s Edge
9 2 (0.067%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.067%) SAP PM
9 2 (0.067%) Towers Watson Igloo
10 1 (0.034%) CiviCRM
10 1 (0.034%) ION Anvil
10 1 (0.034%) SAP FI
10 1 (0.034%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 846 (28.54%) Azure
2 655 (22.10%) AWS
3 225 (7.59%) Azure DevOps
4 202 (6.82%) GCP
5 182 (6.14%) Adobe Analytics
6 147 (4.96%) SaaS
7 146 (4.93%) Serverless
8 144 (4.86%) Power Platform
9 141 (4.76%) GitHub
10 124 (4.18%) Figma
11 92 (3.10%) Azure AI
12 87 (2.94%) Snowflake
13 64 (2.16%) Azure Machine Learning
13 64 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 60 (2.02%) Amazon S3
15 59 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
16 56 (1.89%) iPaaS
17 55 (1.86%) Contentsquare
18 48 (1.62%) GitHub Copilot
19 46 (1.55%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 411 (13.87%) Broadband
2 24 (0.81%) DNS
2 24 (0.81%) TCP/IP
3 21 (0.71%) CHAP
4 19 (0.64%) Network Security
5 14 (0.47%) Ethernet
5 14 (0.47%) RS-232
5 14 (0.47%) WAN
6 13 (0.44%) 4G
6 13 (0.44%) LAN
7 12 (0.40%) Firewall
8 11 (0.37%) BGP
8 11 (0.37%) Cisco IOS
8 11 (0.37%) Ethernet VPN
8 11 (0.37%) IOS XR
8 11 (0.37%) MPLS
9 8 (0.27%) Internet
10 7 (0.24%) VPN
11 6 (0.20%) 5G
11 6 (0.20%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (5.67%) MongoDB
1 168 (5.67%) SQL Server
2 121 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 109 (3.68%) NoSQL
4 105 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
5 104 (3.51%) Metadata
6 82 (2.77%) Power BI
7 63 (2.13%) MySQL
8 56 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
9 43 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
10 42 (1.42%) Relational Database
11 33 (1.11%) Data Lake
12 28 (0.94%) DynamoDB
13 22 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
14 21 (0.71%) Tableau
15 18 (0.61%) RDBMS
16 17 (0.57%) Redis
17 16 (0.54%) Big Data
18 14 (0.47%) BigQuery
19 11 (0.37%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 223 (7.52%) JIRA
2 157 (5.30%) Git
3 121 (4.08%) Jenkins
4 108 (3.64%) GitLab
5 53 (1.79%) Selenium
6 42 (1.42%) Postman
7 40 (1.35%) SonarQube
8 36 (1.21%) Cypress.io
9 29 (0.98%) WebDriver
10 28 (0.94%) SoapUI
11 26 (0.88%) TeamCity
12 25 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
13 18 (0.61%) Jaeger
14 15 (0.51%) JMeter
15 14 (0.47%) Axure RP
15 14 (0.47%) JUnit
16 13 (0.44%) Balsamiq
16 13 (0.44%) Claude Code
16 13 (0.44%) Cucumber
16 13 (0.44%) SpecFlow
General
1 844 (28.48%) Social Skills
2 801 (27.02%) Finance
3 415 (14.00%) Public Sector
4 313 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
5 307 (10.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 287 (9.68%) Games
7 198 (6.68%) Law
8 181 (6.11%) Marketing
9 152 (5.13%) Banking
10 141 (4.76%) Legal
11 128 (4.32%) Retail
12 74 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
13 58 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
14 53 (1.79%) Front Office
15 48 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
16 44 (1.48%) Telecoms
17 36 (1.21%) Back Office
18 31 (1.05%) Manufacturing
19 30 (1.01%) Advertising
20 28 (0.94%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 628 (21.19%) Senior
2 562 (18.96%) Developer
3 475 (16.03%) Lead
4 286 (9.65%) Analyst
5 224 (7.56%) Software Engineer
6 215 (7.25%) Project Manager
7 206 (6.95%) Architect
8 191 (6.44%) Business Analyst
8 191 (6.44%) Senior Manager
9 143 (4.82%) .NET Developer
10 109 (3.68%) Software Developer
11 98 (3.31%) Senior Project Manager
12 91 (3.07%) Designer
13 88 (2.97%) Delivery Manager
14 87 (2.94%) Product Owner
15 79 (2.67%) Product Manager
16 78 (2.63%) C# Developer
17 77 (2.60%) Engineering Manager
18 76 (2.56%) Lead Developer
19 73 (2.46%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 340 (11.47%) .NET
2 329 (11.10%) React
3 184 (6.21%) Node.js
4 154 (5.20%) HTML
5 152 (5.13%) CSS
6 142 (4.79%) .NET Core
7 139 (4.69%) RESTful
8 136 (4.59%) ASP.NET
9 122 (4.12%) ASP.NET Core
9 122 (4.12%) REST
10 96 (3.24%) AngularJS
11 94 (3.17%) SOAP
12 75 (2.53%) Kafka
12 75 (2.53%) Vue
13 72 (2.43%) Spring
14 65 (2.19%) Lightning Web Components
15 62 (2.09%) Entity Framework
16 56 (1.89%) Spring Boot
17 53 (1.79%) Blazor
18 51 (1.72%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 420 (14.17%) Product Ownership
2 248 (8.37%) Cloud Native
3 236 (7.96%) Social Media
4 82 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
5 78 (2.63%) Mobile App
6 76 (2.56%) Over-the-Top Content
7 72 (2.43%) Onboarding
8 58 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
8 58 (1.96%) Management Information System
9 57 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
10 56 (1.89%) Marketing Technology
11 51 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
12 42 (1.42%) Fixed Income
13 41 (1.38%) Virtual Team
14 40 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
15 35 (1.18%) Driving Licence
16 31 (1.05%) Low-Code
17 30 (1.01%) Data Structures
17 30 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
17 30 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 134 (4.52%) Linux
2 63 (2.13%) Android
3 47 (1.59%) Apple iOS
4 43 (1.45%) Unix
5 41 (1.38%) Windows
6 14 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (0.24%) CentOS
7 7 (0.24%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.13%) Debian
9 4 (0.13%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.10%) VMS
11 2 (0.067%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.034%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 706 (23.82%) Mentoring
2 685 (23.11%) Roadmaps
3 659 (22.23%) DevOps
4 657 (22.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 636 (21.46%) CI/CD
6 578 (19.50%) AI
7 565 (19.06%) Coaching
8 534 (18.02%) Scrum
9 461 (15.55%) Problem-Solving
10 428 (14.44%) Analytics
11 382 (12.89%) Software Engineering
12 373 (12.58%) Customer Experience
13 353 (11.91%) Project Management
14 341 (11.50%) Test Automation
15 332 (11.20%) Full-Stack Development
16 319 (10.76%) Decision-Making
17 305 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
18 279 (9.41%) Microservices
19 275 (9.28%) Project Delivery
20 268 (9.04%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 564 (19.03%) SQL
2 404 (13.63%) Java
3 398 (13.43%) Python
4 386 (13.02%) C#
5 372 (12.55%) JavaScript
6 245 (8.27%) TypeScript
7 80 (2.70%) Go
8 79 (2.67%) PHP
9 73 (2.46%) C++
10 66 (2.23%) Apex Code
11 61 (2.06%) Bash
12 42 (1.42%) C
13 37 (1.25%) PowerShell
13 37 (1.25%) Scala
14 35 (1.18%) SOQL
15 34 (1.15%) SOSL
16 25 (0.84%) PL/SQL
17 19 (0.64%) VBA
18 17 (0.57%) Embedded C
19 16 (0.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 435 (14.68%) Degree
2 329 (11.10%) Security Cleared
3 246 (8.30%) SC Cleared
4 84 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 82 (2.77%) PMI Certification
6 72 (2.43%) PMP
7 68 (2.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 52 (1.75%) CISSP
9 51 (1.72%) DV Cleared
10 45 (1.52%) ISTQB
11 44 (1.48%) DBS Check
12 38 (1.28%) CISM
13 34 (1.15%) AWS Certification
14 28 (0.94%) CISA
15 26 (0.88%) Azure Certification
15 26 (0.88%) SANS
16 21 (0.71%) CGEIT
16 21 (0.71%) FFIEC
17 18 (0.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
18 16 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 359 (12.11%) Accessibility
2 237 (8.00%) QA
3 89 (3.00%) WCAG
4 86 (2.90%) Data Quality
5 58 (1.96%) GDPR
6 54 (1.82%) NIST
7 39 (1.32%) PMO
8 36 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 24 (0.81%) COBIT
10 21 (0.71%) GRC
11 11 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 11 (0.37%) NCSC
12 10 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 8 (0.27%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.13%) IFRS
15 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 4 (0.13%) MiFID
15 4 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 242 (8.16%) Docker
2 59 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
3 41 (1.38%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.17%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.10%) Firmware
5 3 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.034%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.034%) vSphere
6 1 (0.034%) Xen
Systems Management
1 238 (8.03%) Kubernetes
2 204 (6.88%) Terraform
3 84 (2.83%) Ansible
4 46 (1.55%) Argo
5 45 (1.52%) Grafana
5 45 (1.52%) Prometheus
6 22 (0.74%) Kustomize
7 13 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (0.40%) Podman
9 6 (0.20%) Puppet
10 5 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.17%) Packer
11 4 (0.13%) Istio
11 4 (0.13%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.13%) SCCM
12 3 (0.10%) Control-M
12 3 (0.10%) Kibana
12 3 (0.10%) logstash
12 3 (0.10%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 497 (16.77%) Microsoft
2 263 (8.87%) Adobe
3 130 (4.39%) Google
4 114 (3.85%) Salesforce
5 101 (3.41%) Databricks
6 80 (2.70%) Oracle
7 68 (2.29%) ServiceNow
8 66 (2.23%) SAP
9 39 (1.32%) Splunk
10 20 (0.67%) IBM
11 18 (0.61%) Cisco
12 14 (0.47%) Facebook
13 13 (0.44%) MuleSoft
14 10 (0.34%) Apple
14 10 (0.34%) Okta
15 9 (0.30%) Atlassian
15 9 (0.30%) Foundry
15 9 (0.30%) VMware
16 7 (0.24%) IFS
16 7 (0.24%) Red Hat