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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 8,593 12,914 24,526
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.54% 31.06% 35.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 27.92% 32.32% 36.82%
Number of salaries quoted 6,005 9,063 13,804
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 £80,000 £84,056 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,750 £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 30,775 39,955 66,612
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.47% 96.10% 96.96%
Number of salaries quoted 23,345 27,739 41,261
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
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 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 7 May 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 (3.75%) SAS
2 267 (3.11%) Apache
3 261 (3.04%) Apache Airflow
4 221 (2.57%) ArcGIS
5 217 (2.53%) GeoServer
6 184 (2.14%) Confluence
7 150 (1.75%) SharePoint
8 85 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
9 53 (0.62%) Apache Spark
9 53 (0.62%) CMS
10 46 (0.54%) WebLogic
11 44 (0.51%) OpenStack
12 37 (0.43%) Tuxedo
13 36 (0.42%) IIS
14 21 (0.24%) WordPress
15 16 (0.19%) nginx
16 15 (0.17%) Anypoint
16 15 (0.17%) Umbraco
17 12 (0.14%) Kentico
18 11 (0.13%) EPiServer
Applications
1 601 (6.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 84 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 78 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
4 47 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
5 30 (0.35%) MS Visio
6 27 (0.31%) Adobe XD
7 17 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
8 15 (0.17%) Simulink
9 9 (0.10%) Sketch
10 8 (0.093%) Trello
11 7 (0.081%) Stateflow
12 5 (0.058%) Photoshop
13 4 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 4 (0.047%) AutoCAD
13 4 (0.047%) InDesign
13 4 (0.047%) InVision
13 4 (0.047%) Maya
14 3 (0.035%) UserZoom
15 2 (0.023%) EViews
15 2 (0.023%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 303 (3.53%) SAP ERP
2 136 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 56 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 41 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
5 24 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
6 21 (0.24%) NetSuite
7 16 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
8 13 (0.15%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 12 (0.14%) SAP CX
10 11 (0.13%) Magento
11 8 (0.093%) NEC Housing
11 8 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
11 8 (0.093%) Siebel CRM
12 7 (0.081%) Dynamics AX
13 6 (0.070%) Oracle EBS
13 6 (0.070%) Primavera
13 6 (0.070%) SAP GTS
13 6 (0.070%) SAP SD
14 5 (0.058%) Odoo
14 5 (0.058%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,802 (32.61%) Azure
2 2,096 (24.39%) AWS
3 660 (7.68%) GCP
4 532 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
5 461 (5.36%) Power Platform
6 433 (5.04%) SaaS
7 265 (3.08%) dbt
8 256 (2.98%) Serverless
9 252 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
10 249 (2.90%) Snowflake
11 214 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
12 174 (2.02%) GitHub
13 159 (1.85%) PowerApps
14 124 (1.44%) Power Automate
15 121 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
16 105 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
16 105 (1.22%) PaaS
17 92 (1.07%) Amazon EKS
18 64 (0.74%) Amazon ECS
18 64 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 797 (9.27%) Broadband
2 193 (2.25%) Internet
3 186 (2.16%) Firewall
4 169 (1.97%) DNS
5 136 (1.58%) TCP/IP
6 104 (1.21%) WAN
7 94 (1.09%) LAN
8 89 (1.04%) VPN
9 62 (0.72%) DHCP
10 58 (0.67%) Network Security
11 53 (0.62%) SSL
11 53 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
12 46 (0.54%) BGP
13 37 (0.43%) Wireless
14 26 (0.30%) HTTP
15 25 (0.29%) SAN
16 23 (0.27%) VLAN
17 21 (0.24%) RS-232
18 20 (0.23%) MPLS
18 20 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,138 (13.24%) SQL Server
2 405 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
3 324 (3.77%) MongoDB
4 287 (3.34%) Elasticsearch
5 281 (3.27%) Power BI
6 258 (3.00%) MySQL
7 245 (2.85%) Data Lake
8 223 (2.60%) GIS
9 219 (2.55%) Amazon Athena
10 217 (2.53%) Apache Ignite
11 216 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
11 216 (2.51%) Dremio
12 214 (2.49%) Apache Arrow
12 214 (2.49%) QGIS
13 203 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
14 200 (2.33%) Relational Database
15 196 (2.28%) NoSQL
16 129 (1.50%) BigQuery
17 94 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
18 76 (0.88%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 592 (6.89%) Git
2 506 (5.89%) JIRA
3 267 (3.11%) Jenkins
4 189 (2.20%) GitLab
5 154 (1.79%) Visual Studio
6 114 (1.33%) Selenium
7 71 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
8 63 (0.73%) Cucumber
9 57 (0.66%) JUnit
10 52 (0.61%) Bitbucket
11 51 (0.59%) Maven
12 43 (0.50%) Postman
13 40 (0.47%) Cypress.io
14 37 (0.43%) JMeter
15 33 (0.38%) TeamCity
16 32 (0.37%) SpecFlow
17 31 (0.36%) IBM UrbanCode
18 28 (0.33%) webpack
19 26 (0.30%) NUnit
20 22 (0.26%) Subversion
General
1 2,713 (31.57%) Finance
2 2,696 (31.37%) Social Skills
3 1,022 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
4 633 (7.37%) Banking
5 541 (6.30%) Influencing Skills
6 530 (6.17%) Public Sector
7 428 (4.98%) Retail
8 410 (4.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 384 (4.47%) Front Office
10 290 (3.37%) Marketing
11 261 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
12 236 (2.75%) Investment Banking
13 234 (2.72%) Legal
14 176 (2.05%) Law
15 157 (1.83%) Games
16 119 (1.38%) Aerospace
17 113 (1.32%) Advertising
18 92 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
19 88 (1.02%) Manufacturing
19 88 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,228 (25.93%) Developer
2 1,904 (22.16%) Senior
3 1,086 (12.64%) Lead
4 1,074 (12.50%) Analyst
5 985 (11.46%) Software Engineer
6 977 (11.37%) .NET Developer
7 876 (10.19%) Architect
8 645 (7.51%) Project Manager
9 630 (7.33%) Solutions Architect
10 534 (6.21%) Senior Software Engineer
11 476 (5.54%) Senior Developer
12 373 (4.34%) C# Developer
13 323 (3.76%) Senior Analyst
14 309 (3.60%) Business Analyst
15 295 (3.43%) C# .NET Developer
16 284 (3.31%) Software Developer
17 219 (2.55%) Technical Leader
18 200 (2.33%) DevOps Engineer
19 183 (2.13%) Presales Manager
20 171 (1.99%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,821 (21.19%) .NET
2 1,124 (13.08%) .NET Core
3 1,018 (11.85%) React
4 944 (10.99%) AngularJS
5 922 (10.73%) ASP.NET
6 721 (8.39%) ASP.NET MVC
7 710 (8.26%) HTML
8 685 (7.97%) CSS
9 631 (7.34%) .NET Framework
10 613 (7.13%) Entity Framework
11 603 (7.02%) ASP.NET Web API
12 548 (6.38%) Node.js
13 515 (5.99%) RESTful
14 423 (4.92%) Vue
15 391 (4.55%) HTML5
16 300 (3.49%) REST
17 270 (3.14%) gRPC
18 232 (2.70%) Pandas
19 230 (2.68%) Spring
20 226 (2.63%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 654 (7.61%) Product Ownership
2 360 (4.19%) Fixed Income
3 332 (3.86%) Greenfield Project
4 324 (3.77%) Hedge funds
5 317 (3.69%) Derivative
6 303 (3.53%) Equities
7 268 (3.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 235 (2.73%) Public Cloud
9 193 (2.25%) Cloud Native
9 193 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
10 192 (2.23%) Management Information System
11 190 (2.21%) Data Structures
12 158 (1.84%) Mobile App
13 142 (1.65%) Client/Server
14 133 (1.55%) Algorithms
15 132 (1.54%) Private Cloud
16 108 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
17 101 (1.18%) Onboarding
18 89 (1.04%) PMI
19 82 (0.95%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 522 (6.07%) Linux
2 368 (4.28%) Windows
3 149 (1.73%) Android
4 100 (1.16%) Apple iOS
5 92 (1.07%) Ubuntu
6 71 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 71 (0.83%) Windows Server
7 47 (0.55%) Unix
8 39 (0.45%) VMS
9 29 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
10 23 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 20 (0.23%) Windows 10
12 17 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 11 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
14 10 (0.12%) Windows 7
15 9 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
15 9 (0.10%) zOS
16 7 (0.081%) VME
17 5 (0.058%) ThreadX
17 5 (0.058%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,853 (21.56%) Mentoring
2 1,762 (20.51%) Software Engineering
3 1,693 (19.70%) DevOps
4 1,558 (18.13%) Scrum
5 1,206 (14.03%) Problem-Solving
6 1,202 (13.99%) Actionable Insight
7 1,197 (13.93%) Full Stack Development
8 1,186 (13.80%) Microservices
9 1,093 (12.72%) Coaching
10 1,090 (12.68%) Project Management
11 1,078 (12.55%) Roadmaps
12 994 (11.57%) TDD
13 912 (10.61%) CI/CD
14 876 (10.19%) Decision-Making
15 826 (9.61%) MVC
16 775 (9.02%) SDLC
17 773 (9.00%) Kanban
18 663 (7.72%) Analytics
19 661 (7.69%) Project Delivery
20 578 (6.73%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 2,003 (23.31%) JavaScript
2 1,845 (21.47%) C#
3 1,351 (15.72%) SQL
4 1,312 (15.27%) Python
5 1,032 (12.01%) Java
6 900 (10.47%) TypeScript
7 160 (1.86%) PHP
8 153 (1.78%) PowerShell
9 144 (1.68%) C
10 141 (1.64%) C++
11 139 (1.62%) T-SQL
12 114 (1.33%) Go
13 91 (1.06%) Kotlin
14 80 (0.93%) R
15 74 (0.86%) COBOL
16 73 (0.85%) Micro Focus COBOL
17 63 (0.73%) Groovy
18 59 (0.69%) Bash
19 55 (0.64%) Ruby
20 45 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,185 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 919 (10.69%) Degree
3 815 (9.48%) SC Cleared
4 469 (5.46%) ACCA
5 465 (5.41%) CIMA
6 233 (2.71%) DV Cleared
7 225 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 153 (1.78%) PMI Certification
9 117 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 110 (1.28%) Azure Certification
11 106 (1.23%) DBS Check
12 104 (1.21%) PMP
13 88 (1.02%) AWS Certification
14 85 (0.99%) Master's Degree
15 57 (0.66%) CISSP
16 54 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
17 53 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 52 (0.61%) APMP
19 50 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
20 43 (0.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 485 (5.64%) QA
2 163 (1.90%) Data Quality
3 137 (1.59%) Accessibility
4 98 (1.14%) PMO
5 45 (0.52%) WCAG
6 43 (0.50%) GDPR
7 39 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 28 (0.33%) NIST
9 27 (0.31%) SLA
10 25 (0.29%) PCI DSS
11 21 (0.24%) NCSC
12 20 (0.23%) ISO 9001
13 16 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
14 13 (0.15%) ITGC
15 12 (0.14%) MISRA
16 9 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
16 9 (0.10%) CRD IV
16 9 (0.10%) PSD2
17 7 (0.081%) IFRS
17 7 (0.081%) SEPA
System Software
1 669 (7.79%) Docker
2 153 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 76 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 54 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 50 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 43 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
7 42 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
8 21 (0.24%) Firmware
9 18 (0.21%) vSphere
10 17 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.070%) DFS Replication
11 6 (0.070%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.047%) 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
1 568 (6.61%) Kubernetes
2 429 (4.99%) Terraform
3 274 (3.19%) Ansible
4 61 (0.71%) Grafana
5 58 (0.67%) Progress Chef
6 56 (0.65%) Puppet
7 54 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
8 35 (0.41%) WSUS
9 33 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 32 (0.37%) SCCM
11 28 (0.33%) Prometheus
12 22 (0.26%) Kibana
12 22 (0.26%) ZABBIX
13 19 (0.22%) SCOM
14 13 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
14 13 (0.15%) Nmap
14 13 (0.15%) vCenter Server
15 12 (0.14%) Opsgenie
15 12 (0.14%) Salt
15 12 (0.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2,156 (25.09%) Microsoft
2 559 (6.51%) Oracle
3 452 (5.26%) SAP
4 348 (4.05%) Google
5 300 (3.49%) Hyperion
6 299 (3.48%) Anaplan
7 219 (2.55%) ESRI
8 127 (1.48%) Salesforce
9 88 (1.02%) Facebook
10 83 (0.97%) VMware
11 82 (0.95%) ServiceNow
12 80 (0.93%) Databricks
13 73 (0.85%) Micro Focus
14 61 (0.71%) Atlassian
15 60 (0.70%) Cisco
16 56 (0.65%) Sparx
17 54 (0.63%) Adobe
18 52 (0.61%) IBM
19 42 (0.49%) Apple
20 41 (0.48%) Splunk