Agile Jobs with Work from Home Options

Agile Software Development
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 8,657 13,484 23,545
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.60% 31.18% 35.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 27.92% 32.45% 36.41%
Number of salaries quoted 6,039 9,418 13,646
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,206 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.84% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Agile is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,001 41,548 64,663
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.67% 96.08% 96.90%
Number of salaries quoted 23,574 28,801 41,173
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,491
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

Agile
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Agile trend for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Agile.

Agile salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Agile over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Agile salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 322 (3.72%) SAS
2 238 (2.75%) Apache
3 221 (2.55%) ArcGIS
4 219 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
5 217 (2.51%) GeoServer
6 196 (2.26%) Confluence
7 156 (1.80%) SharePoint
8 88 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
9 66 (0.76%) Apache Spark
10 53 (0.61%) CMS
11 46 (0.53%) WebLogic
12 44 (0.51%) OpenStack
13 37 (0.43%) Tuxedo
14 34 (0.39%) IIS
15 22 (0.25%) WordPress
16 17 (0.20%) nginx
17 15 (0.17%) Anypoint
17 15 (0.17%) Umbraco
18 12 (0.14%) Kentico
19 11 (0.13%) EPiServer
Applications
1 605 (6.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 85 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
3 71 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
5 31 (0.36%) MS Visio
6 28 (0.32%) Adobe XD
7 16 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 15 (0.17%) Simulink
9 10 (0.12%) Sketch
10 8 (0.092%) Photoshop
10 8 (0.092%) Trello
11 7 (0.081%) InDesign
11 7 (0.081%) Stateflow
12 5 (0.058%) InVision
13 4 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 4 (0.046%) AutoCAD
13 4 (0.046%) Maya
14 3 (0.035%) UserZoom
15 2 (0.023%) EViews
15 2 (0.023%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 303 (3.50%) SAP ERP
2 135 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 56 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 41 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
5 26 (0.30%) Unit4 Business World
6 21 (0.24%) NetSuite
7 16 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
8 13 (0.15%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 12 (0.14%) SAP CX
10 11 (0.13%) Magento
11 8 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
11 8 (0.092%) Siebel CRM
12 7 (0.081%) NEC Housing
13 6 (0.069%) Oracle EBS
13 6 (0.069%) Primavera
13 6 (0.069%) SAP GTS
13 6 (0.069%) Visualfiles
14 5 (0.058%) Dynamics AX
14 5 (0.058%) Dynamics GP
14 5 (0.058%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 2,814 (32.51%) Azure
2 2,067 (23.88%) AWS
3 679 (7.84%) GCP
4 550 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
5 488 (5.64%) Power Platform
6 442 (5.11%) SaaS
7 265 (3.06%) Serverless
8 261 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
9 226 (2.61%) dbt
10 215 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
11 205 (2.37%) Snowflake
12 194 (2.24%) GitHub
13 160 (1.85%) PowerApps
14 126 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
15 119 (1.37%) Power Automate
16 110 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
17 104 (1.20%) PaaS
18 93 (1.07%) Amazon EKS
19 64 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
20 61 (0.70%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 796 (9.19%) Broadband
2 191 (2.21%) Internet
3 185 (2.14%) Firewall
4 175 (2.02%) DNS
5 137 (1.58%) TCP/IP
6 106 (1.22%) WAN
7 96 (1.11%) LAN
8 92 (1.06%) VPN
9 64 (0.74%) DHCP
10 60 (0.69%) Network Security
11 57 (0.66%) SSL
11 57 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
12 46 (0.53%) BGP
13 38 (0.44%) Wireless
14 27 (0.31%) HTTP
15 25 (0.29%) SAN
15 25 (0.29%) VLAN
16 22 (0.25%) MPLS
16 22 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
17 19 (0.22%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,144 (13.21%) SQL Server
2 428 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
3 331 (3.82%) MongoDB
4 306 (3.53%) Power BI
5 286 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
6 285 (3.29%) MySQL
7 223 (2.58%) GIS
8 216 (2.50%) Data Lake
9 215 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
10 214 (2.47%) QGIS
11 212 (2.45%) NoSQL
12 209 (2.41%) Relational Database
13 195 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
14 181 (2.09%) Amazon Athena
15 178 (2.06%) Apache Ignite
15 178 (2.06%) Dremio
16 177 (2.04%) Apache Arrow
17 145 (1.67%) BigQuery
18 96 (1.11%) Big Data
19 95 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 600 (6.93%) Git
2 525 (6.06%) JIRA
3 298 (3.44%) Jenkins
4 194 (2.24%) GitLab
5 148 (1.71%) Visual Studio
6 117 (1.35%) Selenium
7 74 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
8 69 (0.80%) Cucumber
9 58 (0.67%) Maven
10 54 (0.62%) JUnit
11 53 (0.61%) Bitbucket
12 49 (0.57%) Postman
13 42 (0.49%) Cypress.io
14 39 (0.45%) JMeter
15 34 (0.39%) TeamCity
16 32 (0.37%) IBM UrbanCode
16 32 (0.37%) webpack
17 31 (0.36%) SpecFlow
18 27 (0.31%) NUnit
19 23 (0.27%) Subversion
General
1 2,769 (31.99%) Finance
2 2,725 (31.48%) Social Skills
3 1,066 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
4 691 (7.98%) Banking
5 549 (6.34%) Influencing Skills
6 542 (6.26%) Public Sector
7 428 (4.94%) Retail
8 410 (4.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 345 (3.99%) Front Office
10 280 (3.23%) Marketing
11 263 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
12 248 (2.86%) Legal
13 202 (2.33%) Investment Banking
14 177 (2.04%) Law
15 158 (1.83%) Games
16 116 (1.34%) Advertising
17 115 (1.33%) Aerospace
18 93 (1.07%) Manufacturing
18 93 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
19 85 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,224 (25.69%) Developer
2 1,901 (21.96%) Senior
3 1,084 (12.52%) Lead
4 1,083 (12.51%) Analyst
5 995 (11.49%) Software Engineer
6 972 (11.23%) .NET Developer
7 877 (10.13%) Architect
8 656 (7.58%) Project Manager
9 630 (7.28%) Solutions Architect
10 523 (6.04%) Senior Software Engineer
11 482 (5.57%) Senior Developer
12 367 (4.24%) C# Developer
13 326 (3.77%) Senior Analyst
14 320 (3.70%) Business Analyst
15 290 (3.35%) C# .NET Developer
16 280 (3.23%) Software Developer
17 210 (2.43%) Technical Leader
18 206 (2.38%) DevOps Engineer
19 183 (2.11%) Presales Manager
20 173 (2.00%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,820 (21.02%) .NET
2 1,116 (12.89%) .NET Core
3 1,027 (11.86%) React
4 958 (11.07%) AngularJS
5 915 (10.57%) ASP.NET
6 735 (8.49%) HTML
7 709 (8.19%) ASP.NET MVC
8 700 (8.09%) CSS
9 630 (7.28%) .NET Framework
10 608 (7.02%) Entity Framework
11 602 (6.95%) ASP.NET Web API
12 562 (6.49%) Node.js
13 538 (6.21%) RESTful
14 422 (4.87%) Vue
15 386 (4.46%) HTML5
16 302 (3.49%) REST
17 246 (2.84%) Spring
18 225 (2.60%) gRPC
19 221 (2.55%) Kafka
20 217 (2.51%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 671 (7.75%) Product Ownership
2 333 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
3 314 (3.63%) Fixed Income
4 280 (3.23%) Hedge funds
5 273 (3.15%) Derivative
6 259 (2.99%) Equities
7 249 (2.88%) Public Cloud
8 224 (2.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 197 (2.28%) Cloud Native
10 191 (2.21%) Management Information System
11 190 (2.19%) Data Structures
11 190 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
12 156 (1.80%) Mobile App
13 141 (1.63%) Client/Server
14 135 (1.56%) Private Cloud
15 134 (1.55%) Algorithms
16 106 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
17 102 (1.18%) Onboarding
18 89 (1.03%) PMI
19 83 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 521 (6.02%) Linux
2 367 (4.24%) Windows
3 148 (1.71%) Android
4 103 (1.19%) Apple iOS
5 90 (1.04%) Ubuntu
6 73 (0.84%) Windows Server
7 70 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 55 (0.64%) Unix
9 38 (0.44%) VMS
10 28 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
11 23 (0.27%) Mac OS
12 20 (0.23%) Windows 10
13 17 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
14 11 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
15 10 (0.12%) Windows 7
16 9 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
16 9 (0.10%) zOS
17 7 (0.081%) Windows Server 2012
18 6 (0.069%) Mac OS X
19 5 (0.058%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,868 (21.58%) Mentoring
2 1,776 (20.52%) Software Engineering
3 1,732 (20.01%) DevOps
4 1,563 (18.05%) Scrum
5 1,221 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
6 1,216 (14.05%) Actionable Insight
7 1,208 (13.95%) Full Stack Development
8 1,205 (13.92%) Microservices
9 1,098 (12.68%) Project Management
10 1,094 (12.64%) Coaching
11 1,080 (12.48%) Roadmaps
12 984 (11.37%) TDD
13 944 (10.90%) CI/CD
14 900 (10.40%) Decision-Making
15 822 (9.50%) MVC
16 808 (9.33%) SDLC
17 767 (8.86%) Kanban
18 694 (8.02%) Analytics
19 674 (7.79%) Project Delivery
20 576 (6.65%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 1,978 (22.85%) JavaScript
2 1,834 (21.19%) C#
3 1,355 (15.65%) SQL
4 1,287 (14.87%) Python
5 1,035 (11.96%) Java
6 866 (10.00%) TypeScript
7 163 (1.88%) PHP
8 155 (1.79%) PowerShell
9 144 (1.66%) T-SQL
10 141 (1.63%) C++
11 140 (1.62%) C
12 111 (1.28%) Go
13 89 (1.03%) Kotlin
14 80 (0.92%) R
15 68 (0.79%) COBOL
15 68 (0.79%) Micro Focus COBOL
16 65 (0.75%) Groovy
17 60 (0.69%) Bash
18 58 (0.67%) Ruby
19 48 (0.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,190 (13.75%) Security Cleared
2 930 (10.74%) Degree
3 830 (9.59%) SC Cleared
4 470 (5.43%) ACCA
5 465 (5.37%) CIMA
6 228 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 227 (2.62%) DV Cleared
8 148 (1.71%) PMI Certification
9 126 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 109 (1.26%) Azure Certification
11 104 (1.20%) DBS Check
12 99 (1.14%) PMP
13 89 (1.03%) Master's Degree
14 87 (1.00%) AWS Certification
15 57 (0.66%) CISSP
16 54 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
17 53 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 52 (0.60%) APMP
19 50 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
20 43 (0.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 494 (5.71%) QA
2 141 (1.63%) Data Quality
3 138 (1.59%) Accessibility
4 101 (1.17%) PMO
5 46 (0.53%) WCAG
6 42 (0.49%) GDPR
7 37 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 29 (0.33%) NIST
9 27 (0.31%) SLA
10 26 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 25 (0.29%) PCI DSS
12 21 (0.24%) NCSC
13 19 (0.22%) ISO 9001
14 17 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
15 15 (0.17%) ITGC
16 13 (0.15%) SEPA
17 12 (0.14%) MISRA
18 10 (0.12%) ISO 20022
19 9 (0.10%) CRD IV
19 9 (0.10%) PSD2
System Software
1 697 (8.05%) Docker
2 155 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 82 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
5 52 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 47 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
7 42 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
8 21 (0.24%) Firmware
9 20 (0.23%) vSphere
10 18 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.069%) DFS Replication
11 6 (0.069%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.046%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.023%) Apache Flume
13 2 (0.023%) Terminal Server
14 1 (0.012%) Ceph
14 1 (0.012%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.012%) NFS
14 1 (0.012%) Time Sharing Option
14 1 (0.012%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 599 (6.92%) Kubernetes
2 451 (5.21%) Terraform
3 275 (3.18%) Ansible
4 58 (0.67%) Grafana
4 58 (0.67%) Progress Chef
5 57 (0.66%) Puppet
6 55 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
7 37 (0.43%) WSUS
8 32 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 32 (0.37%) SCCM
9 28 (0.32%) Prometheus
10 25 (0.29%) Kibana
11 22 (0.25%) ZABBIX
12 19 (0.22%) SCOM
13 13 (0.15%) Nmap
13 13 (0.15%) vCenter Server
14 12 (0.14%) Nagios
14 12 (0.14%) Opsgenie
14 12 (0.14%) Salt
14 12 (0.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2,158 (24.93%) Microsoft
2 566 (6.54%) Oracle
3 454 (5.24%) SAP
4 366 (4.23%) Google
5 302 (3.49%) Anaplan
6 300 (3.47%) Hyperion
7 219 (2.53%) ESRI
8 127 (1.47%) Salesforce
9 89 (1.03%) VMware
10 88 (1.02%) Facebook
11 84 (0.97%) ServiceNow
12 82 (0.95%) Databricks
13 70 (0.81%) Atlassian
14 68 (0.79%) Micro Focus
15 62 (0.72%) Cisco
16 59 (0.68%) IBM
17 58 (0.67%) Adobe
18 56 (0.65%) Sparx
19 43 (0.50%) Apple
20 41 (0.47%) Splunk