Agile Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Agile Software Development
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Agile over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 3,631 8,638 13,214
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 23.94% 25.54% 31.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 25.69% 27.87% 32.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,719 6,043 9,260
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,683 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,206 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.20% -5.84% +4.00%
75th Percentile £93,778 £79,600 £84,056
90th Percentile £122,500 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

All Process and 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 14,134 30,993 40,912
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.17% 91.62% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9,780 23,560 28,419
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Agile
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Agile trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Agile
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Agile over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

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
1 245 (6.75%) Apache Airflow
2 200 (5.51%) Apache
3 147 (4.05%) Confluence
4 106 (2.92%) Apache Spark
5 76 (2.09%) Oracle Application Server
6 48 (1.32%) CMS
7 46 (1.27%) SharePoint
8 15 (0.41%) WordPress
9 13 (0.36%) Drupal
10 12 (0.33%) IIS
11 10 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
12 9 (0.25%) Umbraco
13 8 (0.22%) SAS
14 7 (0.19%) Headless CMS
15 5 (0.14%) Tomcat
16 4 (0.11%) OpenEdge
17 3 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
17 3 (0.083%) ColdFusion
18 2 (0.055%) NServiceBus
18 2 (0.055%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 82 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
2 48 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 41 (1.13%) Simulink
4 31 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
5 26 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 23 (0.63%) Trello
7 14 (0.39%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.30%) MS Visio
9 10 (0.28%) Adobe XD
10 8 (0.22%) Photoshop
11 5 (0.14%) Sketch
12 2 (0.055%) Adobe Captivate
12 2 (0.055%) Adobe Premiere
12 2 (0.055%) Final Cut Pro
13 1 (0.028%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.028%) InVision
13 1 (0.028%) MicroStation
13 1 (0.028%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 53 (1.46%) Aladdin
2 51 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (0.88%) thinkFolio
4 17 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
5 12 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.25%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.25%) Shopify
7 8 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.11%) Magento
9 4 (0.11%) Orchestrade
10 3 (0.083%) Elite 3E
11 2 (0.055%) Adobe Campaign
11 2 (0.055%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 2 (0.055%) Oracle BPM
11 2 (0.055%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 2 (0.055%) Payment Gateway
11 2 (0.055%) SAP ERP
12 1 (0.028%) Oracle Applications
12 1 (0.028%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 881 (24.26%) Azure
2 877 (24.15%) AWS
3 433 (11.93%) GCP
4 236 (6.50%) dbt
5 215 (5.92%) SaaS
6 198 (5.45%) Serverless
7 190 (5.23%) Azure DevOps
8 159 (4.38%) Power Platform
9 154 (4.24%) AWS Lambda
10 145 (3.99%) Amazon ECS
11 130 (3.58%) GitHub
12 110 (3.03%) Snowflake
13 101 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
14 91 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
15 89 (2.45%) Amazon EC2
16 84 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
17 83 (2.29%) OpenShift
18 79 (2.18%) Amazon S3
19 71 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
20 52 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 40 (1.10%) HTTP
2 21 (0.58%) TCP/IP
3 18 (0.50%) Firewall
4 15 (0.41%) DNS
5 13 (0.36%) Internet
6 12 (0.33%) DHCP
7 8 (0.22%) Broadband
7 8 (0.22%) Network Security
8 7 (0.19%) WAN
9 6 (0.17%) LAN
9 6 (0.17%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.17%) SSL
10 5 (0.14%) DMARC
10 5 (0.14%) NAS
10 5 (0.14%) SAN
10 5 (0.14%) VSAN
11 4 (0.11%) 5G
11 4 (0.11%) VPN
11 4 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.083%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 321 (8.84%) SQL Server
2 233 (6.42%) Amazon Athena
3 228 (6.28%) Apache Iceberg
3 228 (6.28%) Dremio
4 221 (6.09%) Apache Arrow
5 216 (5.95%) Data Lake
6 200 (5.51%) PostgreSQL
7 169 (4.65%) Apache Ignite
8 131 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
9 106 (2.92%) MySQL
10 97 (2.67%) NoSQL
11 91 (2.51%) MongoDB
11 91 (2.51%) Power BI
12 86 (2.37%) Relational Database
13 84 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
14 79 (2.18%) Oracle Reports
15 75 (2.07%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 60 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
17 48 (1.32%) Tableau
18 40 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 293 (8.07%) JIRA
2 258 (7.11%) Git
3 129 (3.55%) Selenium
4 115 (3.17%) Cucumber
4 115 (3.17%) SonarQube
5 111 (3.06%) GitLab
6 97 (2.67%) Sonatype Nexus
7 94 (2.59%) Bitbucket
8 93 (2.56%) Maven
9 90 (2.48%) Jenkins
10 75 (2.07%) Artifactory
11 46 (1.27%) JUnit
12 45 (1.24%) Visual Studio
13 38 (1.05%) Cypress.io
14 37 (1.02%) webpack
15 28 (0.77%) Jasmine
16 27 (0.74%) Mockito
17 26 (0.72%) Protractor
18 24 (0.66%) Karma Test Runner
19 22 (0.61%) Eclipse
General
1 1,379 (37.98%) Finance
2 928 (25.56%) Social Skills
3 608 (16.74%) Banking
4 524 (14.43%) Presentation Skills
5 498 (13.72%) Front Office
6 429 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
7 311 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 136 (3.75%) Retail
9 134 (3.69%) Investment Banking
10 129 (3.55%) Marketing
11 125 (3.44%) Public Sector
12 119 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
13 112 (3.08%) Legal
14 104 (2.86%) Law
15 90 (2.48%) Games
16 84 (2.31%) Military
17 60 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
18 53 (1.46%) Manufacturing
19 48 (1.32%) Aerospace
20 47 (1.29%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 765 (21.07%) Developer
2 735 (20.24%) Senior
3 569 (15.67%) Software Engineer
4 518 (14.27%) Systems Engineer
5 355 (9.78%) Lead
6 268 (7.38%) AWS Engineer
7 233 (6.42%) Python Engineer
8 226 (6.22%) Analyst
9 182 (5.01%) Senior Software Engineer
10 166 (4.57%) Senior Developer
11 158 (4.35%) Architect
12 156 (4.30%) AWS Software Engineer
13 137 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
14 131 (3.61%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 127 (3.50%) Business Analyst
15 127 (3.50%) Software Developer
16 118 (3.25%) Data Engineer
17 115 (3.17%) Project Manager
18 114 (3.14%) Java Engineer
18 114 (3.14%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 526 (14.49%) React
2 450 (12.39%) .NET
3 318 (8.76%) CSS
4 305 (8.40%) HTML
5 273 (7.52%) Node.js
6 262 (7.22%) AngularJS
7 245 (6.75%) Kafka
8 192 (5.29%) Pandas
9 184 (5.07%) Redux
10 183 (5.04%) RESTful
11 176 (4.85%) Spring
12 164 (4.52%) Spring Boot
13 144 (3.97%) REST
14 139 (3.83%) NumPy
14 139 (3.83%) SciPy
14 139 (3.83%) Vue
15 137 (3.77%) .NET Core
16 126 (3.47%) PySpark
17 123 (3.39%) ASP.NET
18 122 (3.36%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 375 (10.33%) Fixed Income
2 367 (10.11%) Product Ownership
3 278 (7.66%) Hedge funds
4 271 (7.46%) Derivative
5 251 (6.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 246 (6.77%) Equities
7 110 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
8 95 (2.62%) Management Information System
9 91 (2.51%) Cloud Native
10 87 (2.40%) Mobile App
11 80 (2.20%) Algorithms
12 78 (2.15%) Onboarding
13 64 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
14 57 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
15 53 (1.46%) Cyberattack
15 53 (1.46%) Virtual Team
16 43 (1.18%) Pricing Data
17 42 (1.16%) Public Cloud
18 41 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
19 38 (1.05%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 205 (5.65%) Linux
2 111 (3.06%) Android
3 89 (2.45%) Windows
4 66 (1.82%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.63%) Unix
6 11 (0.30%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.17%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.17%) zOS
8 4 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.11%) Windows Vista
9 3 (0.083%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.055%) Debian
11 1 (0.028%) AIX
11 1 (0.028%) CentOS
11 1 (0.028%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.028%) ThreadX
11 1 (0.028%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,032 (28.42%) Software Engineering
2 866 (23.85%) DevOps
3 641 (17.65%) CI/CD
4 542 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
5 532 (14.65%) Cybersecurity
6 522 (14.38%) Systems Engineering
7 514 (14.16%) SysML
8 491 (13.52%) Mentoring
9 486 (13.38%) UML
10 455 (12.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 451 (12.42%) Microservices
12 450 (12.39%) MODAF
13 413 (11.37%) Roadmaps
14 378 (10.41%) Project Management
15 371 (10.22%) Asset Management
16 354 (9.75%) Scrum
17 339 (9.34%) Containerisation
18 330 (9.09%) Investment Management
19 329 (9.06%) Test Automation
20 312 (8.59%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 801 (22.06%) JavaScript
2 798 (21.98%) Python
3 726 (19.99%) Java
4 655 (18.04%) SQL
5 455 (12.53%) MATLAB
6 442 (12.17%) TypeScript
7 439 (12.09%) C#
8 171 (4.71%) Go
9 151 (4.16%) C++
10 125 (3.44%) PHP
11 56 (1.54%) Rust
12 49 (1.35%) PowerShell
13 44 (1.21%) C
13 44 (1.21%) Kotlin
14 33 (0.91%) Bash
15 29 (0.80%) Swift
16 28 (0.77%) T-SQL
17 26 (0.72%) Scala
18 18 (0.50%) Objective-C
18 18 (0.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 866 (23.85%) Degree
2 532 (14.65%) BPSS Clearance
3 203 (5.59%) Security Cleared
4 143 (3.94%) DBS Check
5 136 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 105 (2.89%) SC Cleared
7 86 (2.37%) DV Cleared
8 83 (2.29%) Master's Degree
9 60 (1.65%) PMI Certification
10 53 (1.46%) PMP
11 44 (1.21%) Azure Certification
12 40 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
13 37 (1.02%) PhD
14 36 (0.99%) Chartered Engineer
15 34 (0.94%) AWS Certification
16 30 (0.83%) CISSP
17 23 (0.63%) ISTQB
18 18 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 18 (0.50%) CISA
19 17 (0.47%) MRICS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 345 (9.50%) QA
2 160 (4.41%) Accessibility
3 62 (1.71%) Data Quality
4 55 (1.51%) MiFID
5 31 (0.85%) GDPR
5 31 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (0.83%) PMO
7 17 (0.47%) ISO 9001
7 17 (0.47%) ITGC
7 17 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 14 (0.39%) NIST
9 13 (0.36%) GRC
10 9 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.22%) Basel III
11 8 (0.22%) IFRS
11 8 (0.22%) IFRS 9
11 8 (0.22%) WCAG
12 7 (0.19%) Basel II
12 7 (0.19%) Dodd-Frank
12 7 (0.19%) HIPAA
System Software
1 507 (13.96%) Docker
2 29 (0.80%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.22%) Hyper-V
3 8 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.17%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.055%) Firmware
5 2 (0.055%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.055%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.028%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.028%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.028%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 448 (12.34%) Kubernetes
2 251 (6.91%) Terraform
3 76 (2.09%) Ansible
4 26 (0.72%) Prometheus
5 18 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (0.33%) Grafana
7 11 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (0.30%) Progress Chef
8 9 (0.25%) Argo
9 7 (0.19%) Puppet
10 5 (0.14%) SCCM
11 4 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (0.083%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.083%) Marathon
12 3 (0.083%) Packer
12 3 (0.083%) Rundeck
13 2 (0.055%) SCOM
13 2 (0.055%) vCenter Server
14 1 (0.028%) EMC NetWorker
14 1 (0.028%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 464 (12.78%) Microsoft
2 172 (4.74%) Google
3 154 (4.24%) Oracle
4 82 (2.26%) Solace
5 68 (1.87%) SAP
6 67 (1.85%) IBM
7 63 (1.74%) Salesforce
8 54 (1.49%) ServiceNow
9 53 (1.46%) BISAM
10 47 (1.29%) Databricks
11 40 (1.10%) MathWorks
12 38 (1.05%) Charles River
13 32 (0.88%) Calypso
13 32 (0.88%) SimCorp
14 30 (0.83%) Apple
15 25 (0.69%) VMware
16 23 (0.63%) Adobe
17 17 (0.47%) Cisco
18 15 (0.41%) MuleSoft
18 15 (0.41%) New Relic