Hybrid/Remote Software Delivery Job Trends

Software Delivery
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Software Delivery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 233 234
Rank change year-on-year -58 +1 +62
Permanent jobs citing Software Delivery 83 226 292
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.55% 1.38% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 1.47% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 57 91 214
10th Percentile £46,500 £37,716 £40,000
25th Percentile £59,460 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £67,568
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% +3.60% +3.95%
75th Percentile £107,500 £82,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £130,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £63,823
% change year-on-year - +9.68% -2.19%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Software Delivery 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 13,245 15,409 20,193
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.44% 93.79% 93.51%
Number of salaries quoted 8,423 9,065 16,344
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,781 £47,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Delivery and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Software Delivery job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Software Delivery
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Software Delivery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Software Delivery

Software Delivery
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Software Delivery over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Software Delivery salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Software Delivery
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 2 (2.41%) nginx
1 2 (2.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.20%) Apache
2 1 (1.20%) Confluence
2 1 (1.20%) IIS
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (2.41%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 37 (44.58%) Azure
2 22 (26.51%) SaaS
3 21 (25.30%) AWS
4 15 (18.07%) GCP
5 14 (16.87%) GitHub
6 12 (14.46%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (10.84%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (10.84%) Serverless
8 8 (9.64%) Amazon S3
8 8 (9.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (9.64%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (7.23%) Azure AKS
10 5 (6.02%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (6.02%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (4.82%) Azure Pipelines
12 3 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (3.61%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (3.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (2.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.61%) HTTP
1 3 (3.61%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.41%) VPN
3 1 (1.20%) Firewall
3 1 (1.20%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.64%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.23%) MySQL
2 6 (7.23%) NoSQL
3 5 (6.02%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (6.02%) DynamoDB
4 3 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.41%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.41%) PostHog
5 2 (2.41%) Redis
6 1 (1.20%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (7.23%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.02%) git-flow
2 5 (6.02%) JIRA
3 4 (4.82%) Postman
4 2 (2.41%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.41%) Snyk
5 1 (1.20%) Appium
5 1 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.20%) Git
5 1 (1.20%) GitLab
5 1 (1.20%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (1.20%) Protractor
5 1 (1.20%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.20%) Selenium
General
1 48 (57.83%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.69%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (13.25%) Finance
4 8 (9.64%) Banking
5 5 (6.02%) Marketing
6 4 (4.82%) German Language
6 4 (4.82%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (4.82%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.61%) Back Office
7 3 (3.61%) Billing
7 3 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.61%) Front Office
7 3 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.41%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.41%) Law
8 2 (2.41%) Retail
9 1 (1.20%) Automotive
9 1 (1.20%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.20%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 18 (21.69%) Lead
2 14 (16.87%) Senior
3 7 (8.43%) Developer
3 7 (8.43%) Engineering Manager
4 6 (7.23%) Architect
4 6 (7.23%) Development Manager
4 6 (7.23%) Senior Developer
4 6 (7.23%) Software Manager
5 5 (6.02%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (6.02%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (6.02%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (6.02%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (6.02%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (6.02%) Software Engineering Manager
6 4 (4.82%) Account Executive
6 4 (4.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.82%) QA Engineer
6 4 (4.82%) Senior Manager
7 3 (3.61%) Analyst
7 3 (3.61%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (19.28%) .NET
2 7 (8.43%) CSS
2 7 (8.43%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (8.43%) React
3 6 (7.23%) HTML
4 5 (6.02%) AWS CDK
4 5 (6.02%) Kafka
4 5 (6.02%) Material-UI
5 3 (3.61%) RESTful
5 3 (3.61%) WPF
5 3 (3.61%) XML
6 2 (2.41%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.41%) Entity Framework
6 2 (2.41%) Loki
6 2 (2.41%) MassTransit
6 2 (2.41%) Next.js
6 2 (2.41%) OpenAPI
6 2 (2.41%) Swagger
7 1 (1.20%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.20%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.28%) Cloud Native
2 13 (15.66%) Product Ownership
3 11 (13.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (6.02%) Security Posture
5 4 (4.82%) Client/Server
6 3 (3.61%) Credit Risk
6 3 (3.61%) Derivative
6 3 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.61%) Market Risk
6 3 (3.61%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.41%) Blog
7 2 (2.41%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.20%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.20%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.20%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.43%) Linux
2 4 (4.82%) Windows
3 2 (2.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (57.83%) Agile
2 39 (46.99%) DevOps
3 37 (44.58%) CI/CD
4 23 (27.71%) Roadmaps
5 22 (26.51%) Continuous Improvement
5 22 (26.51%) Test Automation
6 21 (25.30%) Stakeholder Management
7 20 (24.10%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (24.10%) Software Engineering
8 15 (18.07%) Observability
9 14 (16.87%) Microservices
10 13 (15.66%) Business Strategy
10 13 (15.66%) ERP
11 12 (14.46%) Analytical Thinking
11 12 (14.46%) Budget Management
11 12 (14.46%) Technology Roadmap
11 12 (14.46%) Technology Strategy
12 11 (13.25%) Backlog Prioritisation
12 11 (13.25%) IT Strategy
12 11 (13.25%) Pricing Strategy
Programming Languages
1 20 (24.10%) C#
2 13 (15.66%) Python
3 9 (10.84%) Bash
3 9 (10.84%) TypeScript
4 8 (9.64%) Java
4 8 (9.64%) PowerShell
5 7 (8.43%) SQL
6 4 (4.82%) Bicep
7 3 (3.61%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.20%) Groovy
8 1 (1.20%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (8.43%) Degree
2 4 (4.82%) Azure Certification
2 4 (4.82%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.61%) ISTQB
3 3 (3.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 3 (3.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (3.61%) PMI Certification
3 3 (3.61%) PMP
3 3 (3.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.41%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.20%) APMG
5 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.20%) IIBA
5 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (21.69%) QA
2 14 (16.87%) PMO
3 2 (2.41%) GRC
3 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.20%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (4.82%) Docker
2 1 (1.20%) vCloud
2 1 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (12.05%) Terraform
2 7 (8.43%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.82%) logstash
4 3 (3.61%) Grafana
5 2 (2.41%) Ansible
6 1 (1.20%) CASB
6 1 (1.20%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (8.43%) Salesforce
2 5 (6.02%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.41%) Checkmarx
3 2 (2.41%) Qualys
3 2 (2.41%) SAP
4 1 (1.20%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.20%) HubSpot
4 1 (1.20%) Oracle
4 1 (1.20%) Pega
4 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.20%) VMware
4 1 (1.20%) Zscaler