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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 8,595 12,538 25,299
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.39% 31.03% 35.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 27.83% 32.30% 37.07%
Number of salaries quoted 6,005 8,867 13,883
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 £100,711 £101,185 £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 30,883 38,813 68,245
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.21% 96.05% 97.04%
Number of salaries quoted 23,380 26,991 41,246
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 18 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
1 319 (3.71%) SAS
2 310 (3.61%) Apache
3 304 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
4 221 (2.57%) ArcGIS
5 217 (2.52%) GeoServer
6 184 (2.14%) Confluence
7 151 (1.76%) SharePoint
8 86 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
9 52 (0.61%) CMS
10 49 (0.57%) Apache Spark
11 46 (0.54%) WebLogic
12 43 (0.50%) OpenStack
13 37 (0.43%) IIS
13 37 (0.43%) Tuxedo
14 21 (0.24%) WordPress
15 16 (0.19%) nginx
16 14 (0.16%) Umbraco
17 12 (0.14%) Kentico
18 10 (0.12%) EPiServer
19 9 (0.10%) JBoss
Applications
1 593 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 93 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 78 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
4 47 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
5 32 (0.37%) MS Visio
6 25 (0.29%) Adobe XD
7 17 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
8 16 (0.19%) Simulink
9 8 (0.093%) Trello
10 7 (0.081%) Sketch
10 7 (0.081%) Stateflow
11 4 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.047%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.047%) InVision
11 4 (0.047%) Maya
12 3 (0.035%) S-PLUS
12 3 (0.035%) UserZoom
13 2 (0.023%) EViews
13 2 (0.023%) SPSS
13 2 (0.023%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 303 (3.53%) SAP ERP
2 137 (1.59%) 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 9 (0.10%) NEC Housing
12 8 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
12 8 (0.093%) Siebel CRM
13 7 (0.081%) Dynamics AX
14 6 (0.070%) Primavera
14 6 (0.070%) SAP GTS
14 6 (0.070%) SAP SD
15 5 (0.058%) Odoo
15 5 (0.058%) Oracle EBS
15 5 (0.058%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,815 (32.75%) Azure
2 2,156 (25.08%) AWS
3 666 (7.75%) GCP
4 522 (6.07%) Azure DevOps
5 448 (5.21%) Power Platform
6 422 (4.91%) SaaS
7 308 (3.58%) dbt
8 288 (3.35%) Snowflake
9 263 (3.06%) Serverless
10 252 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
11 210 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
12 170 (1.98%) GitHub
13 158 (1.84%) PowerApps
14 130 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
15 128 (1.49%) Power Automate
16 106 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
17 100 (1.16%) PaaS
18 89 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
19 65 (0.76%) Amazon ECS
20 64 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 798 (9.28%) Broadband
2 194 (2.26%) Internet
3 189 (2.20%) Firewall
4 167 (1.94%) DNS
5 138 (1.61%) TCP/IP
6 104 (1.21%) WAN
7 94 (1.09%) LAN
8 87 (1.01%) VPN
9 61 (0.71%) DHCP
10 58 (0.67%) Network Security
11 53 (0.62%) SSL
12 52 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
13 46 (0.54%) BGP
14 37 (0.43%) Wireless
15 26 (0.30%) HTTP
16 24 (0.28%) SAN
17 23 (0.27%) VLAN
18 22 (0.26%) RS-232
19 20 (0.23%) MPLS
19 20 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,142 (13.29%) SQL Server
2 407 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
3 328 (3.82%) MongoDB
4 290 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
5 284 (3.30%) Data Lake
6 273 (3.18%) Power BI
7 259 (3.01%) Dremio
7 259 (3.01%) MySQL
8 258 (3.00%) Amazon Athena
9 257 (2.99%) Apache Ignite
10 256 (2.98%) Apache Arrow
11 223 (2.59%) GIS
12 214 (2.49%) QGIS
13 211 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
14 206 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
15 203 (2.36%) NoSQL
16 197 (2.29%) Relational Database
17 124 (1.44%) BigQuery
18 104 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
19 78 (0.91%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 595 (6.92%) Git
2 497 (5.78%) JIRA
3 264 (3.07%) Jenkins
4 195 (2.27%) GitLab
5 155 (1.80%) Visual Studio
6 114 (1.33%) Selenium
7 71 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
8 59 (0.69%) Cucumber
9 54 (0.63%) JUnit
10 52 (0.61%) Bitbucket
11 47 (0.55%) Maven
12 42 (0.49%) Postman
13 40 (0.47%) Cypress.io
14 35 (0.41%) JMeter
15 33 (0.38%) TeamCity
16 32 (0.37%) SpecFlow
17 29 (0.34%) IBM UrbanCode
18 27 (0.31%) webpack
19 26 (0.30%) NUnit
20 22 (0.26%) Subversion
General
1 2,731 (31.77%) Finance
2 2,686 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 1,011 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 655 (7.62%) Banking
5 534 (6.21%) Influencing Skills
6 512 (5.96%) Public Sector
7 436 (5.07%) Retail
8 422 (4.91%) Front Office
9 401 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 286 (3.33%) Marketing
11 271 (3.15%) Investment Banking
12 247 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
13 241 (2.80%) Legal
14 168 (1.95%) Law
15 158 (1.84%) Games
16 128 (1.49%) Aerospace
17 109 (1.27%) Advertising
18 94 (1.09%) Telecoms
19 93 (1.08%) Manufacturing
20 90 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2,250 (26.18%) Developer
2 1,895 (22.05%) Senior
3 1,087 (12.65%) Lead
4 1,071 (12.46%) Analyst
5 1,015 (11.81%) Software Engineer
6 984 (11.45%) .NET Developer
7 855 (9.95%) Architect
8 620 (7.21%) Project Manager
9 614 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
10 554 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
11 472 (5.49%) Senior Developer
12 382 (4.44%) C# Developer
13 325 (3.78%) Senior Analyst
14 303 (3.53%) C# .NET Developer
15 301 (3.50%) Business Analyst
16 294 (3.42%) Software Developer
17 223 (2.59%) Technical Leader
18 202 (2.35%) DevOps Engineer
19 184 (2.14%) Java Engineer
20 181 (2.11%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,822 (21.20%) .NET
2 1,123 (13.07%) .NET Core
3 1,025 (11.93%) React
4 950 (11.05%) AngularJS
5 926 (10.77%) ASP.NET
6 725 (8.44%) ASP.NET MVC
7 706 (8.21%) HTML
8 678 (7.89%) CSS
9 634 (7.38%) .NET Framework
10 621 (7.23%) Entity Framework
11 609 (7.09%) ASP.NET Web API
12 545 (6.34%) Node.js
13 523 (6.08%) RESTful
14 428 (4.98%) Vue
15 392 (4.56%) HTML5
16 311 (3.62%) gRPC
17 298 (3.47%) REST
18 273 (3.18%) Pandas
19 266 (3.09%) Protocol Buffers
20 246 (2.86%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 657 (7.64%) Product Ownership
2 401 (4.67%) Fixed Income
3 365 (4.25%) Hedge funds
4 357 (4.15%) Derivative
5 345 (4.01%) Equities
6 330 (3.84%) Greenfield Project
7 308 (3.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 237 (2.76%) Public Cloud
9 199 (2.32%) Management Information System
10 197 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
11 196 (2.28%) Cloud Native
12 163 (1.90%) Data Structures
13 160 (1.86%) Mobile App
14 147 (1.71%) Client/Server
15 134 (1.56%) Algorithms
16 133 (1.55%) Private Cloud
17 106 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
18 97 (1.13%) Onboarding
19 91 (1.06%) PMI
20 83 (0.97%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 520 (6.05%) Linux
2 366 (4.26%) Windows
3 154 (1.79%) Android
4 101 (1.18%) Apple iOS
5 90 (1.05%) Ubuntu
6 70 (0.81%) Windows Server
7 66 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 46 (0.54%) Unix
9 39 (0.45%) VMS
10 29 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
11 21 (0.24%) Mac OS
12 20 (0.23%) Windows 10
13 17 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
14 13 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
15 10 (0.12%) Windows 7
16 9 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
16 9 (0.10%) zOS
17 8 (0.093%) VME
18 5 (0.058%) ThreadX
18 5 (0.058%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,840 (21.41%) Mentoring
2 1,797 (20.91%) Software Engineering
3 1,697 (19.74%) DevOps
4 1,545 (17.98%) Scrum
5 1,216 (14.15%) Full Stack Development
6 1,203 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
7 1,184 (13.78%) Microservices
8 1,126 (13.10%) Actionable Insight
9 1,102 (12.82%) Coaching
10 1,090 (12.68%) Roadmaps
11 1,066 (12.40%) Project Management
12 1,008 (11.73%) TDD
13 913 (10.62%) CI/CD
14 859 (9.99%) Decision-Making
15 829 (9.65%) MVC
16 773 (8.99%) Kanban
17 747 (8.69%) SDLC
18 671 (7.81%) Analytics
19 625 (7.27%) Project Delivery
20 583 (6.78%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 2,042 (23.76%) JavaScript
2 1,854 (21.57%) C#
3 1,351 (15.72%) Python
4 1,349 (15.70%) SQL
5 1,055 (12.27%) Java
6 934 (10.87%) TypeScript
7 160 (1.86%) PHP
8 159 (1.85%) PowerShell
9 150 (1.75%) C
10 145 (1.69%) C++
11 136 (1.58%) T-SQL
12 114 (1.33%) Go
13 89 (1.04%) Kotlin
14 75 (0.87%) COBOL
14 75 (0.87%) R
15 74 (0.86%) Micro Focus COBOL
16 64 (0.74%) Groovy
17 59 (0.69%) Bash
18 53 (0.62%) Ruby
19 44 (0.51%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,175 (13.67%) Security Cleared
2 931 (10.83%) Degree
3 806 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 469 (5.46%) ACCA
5 465 (5.41%) CIMA
6 236 (2.75%) DV Cleared
7 233 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 159 (1.85%) PMI Certification
9 117 (1.36%) DBS Check
10 112 (1.30%) Azure Certification
10 112 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
11 107 (1.24%) PMP
12 94 (1.09%) AWS Certification
13 87 (1.01%) Master's Degree
14 58 (0.67%) CISSP
15 54 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 54 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
16 52 (0.61%) APMP
17 50 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
18 44 (0.51%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 487 (5.67%) QA
2 177 (2.06%) Data Quality
3 132 (1.54%) Accessibility
4 97 (1.13%) PMO
5 45 (0.52%) GDPR
6 44 (0.51%) WCAG
7 41 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 30 (0.35%) SLA
9 29 (0.34%) NIST
10 24 (0.28%) PCI DSS
11 21 (0.24%) NCSC
12 20 (0.23%) ISO 9001
13 16 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
14 13 (0.15%) ITGC
14 13 (0.15%) MISRA
15 9 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.10%) PSD2
16 7 (0.081%) SEPA
17 6 (0.070%) CRD IV
17 6 (0.070%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 662 (7.70%) Docker
2 163 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 74 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 53 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
5 50 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 42 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 41 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
8 23 (0.27%) Firmware
9 18 (0.21%) vSphere
10 17 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
11 10 (0.12%) RACF
12 6 (0.070%) Embedded Firmware
13 5 (0.058%) DFS Replication
14 4 (0.047%) Microsoft App-V
15 2 (0.023%) Apache Flume
15 2 (0.023%) Terminal Server
16 1 (0.012%) Ceph
16 1 (0.012%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 1 (0.012%) Time Sharing Option
16 1 (0.012%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 573 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 440 (5.12%) Terraform
3 281 (3.27%) Ansible
4 63 (0.73%) Grafana
5 55 (0.64%) Progress Chef
6 54 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
7 51 (0.59%) Puppet
8 35 (0.41%) WSUS
9 33 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 32 (0.37%) SCCM
11 30 (0.35%) Prometheus
12 22 (0.26%) Kibana
12 22 (0.26%) ZABBIX
13 19 (0.22%) SCOM
14 14 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
15 13 (0.15%) Nmap
15 13 (0.15%) VxRail
16 12 (0.14%) Opsgenie
16 12 (0.14%) vCenter Server
17 10 (0.12%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 2,173 (25.28%) Microsoft
2 552 (6.42%) Oracle
3 451 (5.25%) SAP
4 342 (3.98%) Google
5 299 (3.48%) Anaplan
5 299 (3.48%) Hyperion
6 219 (2.55%) ESRI
7 111 (1.29%) Salesforce
8 88 (1.02%) Facebook
9 84 (0.98%) Databricks
10 83 (0.97%) VMware
11 77 (0.90%) ServiceNow
12 74 (0.86%) Micro Focus
13 62 (0.72%) Atlassian
14 61 (0.71%) Cisco
15 56 (0.65%) Sparx
16 50 (0.58%) IBM
17 44 (0.51%) Adobe
18 43 (0.50%) Splunk
19 42 (0.49%) Apple