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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 8,662 11,906 27,114
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.93% 30.96% 36.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 27.65% 32.25% 37.57%
Number of salaries quoted 5,987 8,556 14,275
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 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £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 31,322 36,922 72,167
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.16% 96.00% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,561 26,118 41,820
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
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 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 1 June 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
1 376 (4.34%) Apache
2 371 (4.28%) Apache Airflow
3 308 (3.56%) SAS
4 221 (2.55%) ArcGIS
5 217 (2.51%) GeoServer
6 182 (2.10%) Confluence
7 143 (1.65%) SharePoint
8 92 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
9 53 (0.61%) CMS
10 46 (0.53%) WebLogic
11 43 (0.50%) Apache Spark
12 40 (0.46%) IIS
12 40 (0.46%) OpenStack
13 37 (0.43%) Tuxedo
14 19 (0.22%) WordPress
15 16 (0.18%) nginx
16 15 (0.17%) Umbraco
17 12 (0.14%) Kentico
18 10 (0.12%) EPiServer
19 8 (0.092%) Drupal
Applications
1 585 (6.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 88 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 73 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
4 38 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
5 25 (0.29%) Adobe XD
6 21 (0.24%) MS Visio
7 17 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
8 16 (0.18%) Simulink
9 8 (0.092%) Trello
10 7 (0.081%) Stateflow
11 6 (0.069%) Sketch
12 4 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.046%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.046%) Maya
13 3 (0.035%) InVision
13 3 (0.035%) S-PLUS
13 3 (0.035%) UserZoom
14 2 (0.023%) Zeplin
15 1 (0.012%) Elementor
15 1 (0.012%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 302 (3.49%) SAP ERP
2 142 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 55 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 40 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 21 (0.24%) NetSuite
6 15 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
7 14 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
8 13 (0.15%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 11 (0.13%) Magento
9 11 (0.13%) SAP CX
10 9 (0.10%) NEC Housing
11 8 (0.092%) Dynamics AX
11 8 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
12 6 (0.069%) Primavera
13 5 (0.058%) Dynamics GP
13 5 (0.058%) Odoo
13 5 (0.058%) Oracle EBS
13 5 (0.058%) SAP GTS
13 5 (0.058%) SAP SD
13 5 (0.058%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,815 (32.50%) Azure
2 2,228 (25.72%) AWS
3 637 (7.35%) GCP
4 518 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
5 457 (5.28%) Power Platform
6 408 (4.71%) SaaS
7 383 (4.42%) dbt
8 341 (3.94%) Snowflake
9 251 (2.90%) Serverless
10 243 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
11 219 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
12 162 (1.87%) PowerApps
13 158 (1.82%) GitHub
14 140 (1.62%) Power Automate
15 125 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
16 103 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
17 99 (1.14%) Entra ID
18 87 (1.00%) PaaS
19 84 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
20 62 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 799 (9.22%) Broadband
2 198 (2.29%) Firewall
3 197 (2.27%) Internet
4 171 (1.97%) DNS
5 138 (1.59%) TCP/IP
6 106 (1.22%) WAN
7 96 (1.11%) LAN
8 85 (0.98%) VPN
9 65 (0.75%) Network Security
10 63 (0.73%) DHCP
11 52 (0.60%) SSL
12 51 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
13 46 (0.53%) BGP
14 36 (0.42%) Wireless
15 26 (0.30%) HTTP
16 24 (0.28%) SAN
17 23 (0.27%) RS-232
18 21 (0.24%) VLAN
19 20 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
20 19 (0.22%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,154 (13.32%) SQL Server
2 405 (4.68%) PostgreSQL
3 346 (3.99%) Data Lake
4 328 (3.79%) Dremio
4 328 (3.79%) MongoDB
5 319 (3.68%) Amazon Athena
5 319 (3.68%) Apache Arrow
6 316 (3.65%) Apache Ignite
7 290 (3.35%) Elasticsearch
8 284 (3.28%) Power BI
9 259 (2.99%) MySQL
10 225 (2.60%) GIS
11 214 (2.47%) QGIS
12 209 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
13 206 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
14 203 (2.34%) Relational Database
15 193 (2.23%) NoSQL
16 122 (1.41%) BigQuery
17 102 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
18 91 (1.05%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 595 (6.87%) Git
2 499 (5.76%) JIRA
3 242 (2.79%) Jenkins
4 189 (2.18%) GitLab
5 156 (1.80%) Visual Studio
6 111 (1.28%) Selenium
7 72 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
8 56 (0.65%) Cucumber
9 55 (0.63%) JUnit
10 52 (0.60%) Bitbucket
11 43 (0.50%) Postman
12 39 (0.45%) Maven
13 37 (0.43%) Cypress.io
14 35 (0.40%) JMeter
14 35 (0.40%) TeamCity
15 34 (0.39%) SpecFlow
16 27 (0.31%) NUnit
17 26 (0.30%) webpack
18 25 (0.29%) Subversion
19 21 (0.24%) CMake
General
1 2,769 (31.97%) Finance
2 2,675 (30.88%) Social Skills
3 982 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
4 673 (7.77%) Banking
5 530 (6.12%) Influencing Skills
6 510 (5.89%) Public Sector
7 486 (5.61%) Front Office
8 422 (4.87%) Retail
9 415 (4.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 328 (3.79%) Investment Banking
11 288 (3.32%) Marketing
12 280 (3.23%) Legal
13 216 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
14 170 (1.96%) Law
15 158 (1.82%) Games
16 131 (1.51%) Aerospace
17 110 (1.27%) Advertising
18 97 (1.12%) Manufacturing
18 97 (1.12%) Telecoms
19 89 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2,290 (26.44%) Developer
2 1,947 (22.48%) Senior
3 1,101 (12.71%) Lead
4 1,098 (12.68%) Analyst
5 1,038 (11.98%) Software Engineer
6 997 (11.51%) .NET Developer
7 864 (9.97%) Architect
8 612 (7.07%) Solutions Architect
9 602 (6.95%) Project Manager
10 565 (6.52%) Senior Software Engineer
11 483 (5.58%) Senior Developer
12 399 (4.61%) C# Developer
13 359 (4.14%) Senior Analyst
14 312 (3.60%) C# .NET Developer
15 308 (3.56%) Software Developer
16 298 (3.44%) Business Analyst
17 236 (2.72%) Technical Leader
18 214 (2.47%) Python Engineer
19 208 (2.40%) Java Engineer
20 192 (2.22%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,843 (21.28%) .NET
2 1,129 (13.03%) .NET Core
3 1,044 (12.05%) React
4 966 (11.15%) AngularJS
5 928 (10.71%) ASP.NET
6 725 (8.37%) ASP.NET MVC
7 704 (8.13%) HTML
8 678 (7.83%) CSS
9 645 (7.45%) .NET Framework
10 621 (7.17%) Entity Framework
11 603 (6.96%) ASP.NET Web API
12 550 (6.35%) Node.js
13 522 (6.03%) RESTful
14 438 (5.06%) Vue
15 391 (4.51%) HTML5
16 370 (4.27%) gRPC
17 335 (3.87%) Pandas
18 325 (3.75%) Protocol Buffers
19 306 (3.53%) NumPy
20 304 (3.51%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 654 (7.55%) Product Ownership
2 461 (5.32%) Fixed Income
3 421 (4.86%) Hedge funds
4 414 (4.78%) Derivative
5 403 (4.65%) Equities
6 370 (4.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 320 (3.69%) Greenfield Project
8 242 (2.79%) Management Information System
9 221 (2.55%) Public Cloud
10 197 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
11 178 (2.05%) Cloud Native
12 166 (1.92%) Data Structures
13 164 (1.89%) Mobile App
14 148 (1.71%) Client/Server
15 134 (1.55%) Algorithms
16 118 (1.36%) Private Cloud
17 108 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
18 95 (1.10%) Onboarding
19 83 (0.96%) Data Centre
20 79 (0.91%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 518 (5.98%) Linux
2 357 (4.12%) Windows
3 159 (1.84%) Android
4 102 (1.18%) Apple iOS
5 93 (1.07%) Ubuntu
6 72 (0.83%) Windows Server
7 63 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 45 (0.52%) Unix
9 42 (0.48%) VMS
10 32 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
11 20 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
12 19 (0.22%) Windows 10
13 14 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
13 14 (0.16%) Mac OS
14 9 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
14 9 (0.10%) Windows 7
14 9 (0.10%) zOS
15 8 (0.092%) VME
16 5 (0.058%) ThreadX
16 5 (0.058%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,843 (21.28%) Mentoring
2 1,841 (21.25%) Software Engineering
3 1,669 (19.27%) DevOps
4 1,537 (17.74%) Scrum
5 1,225 (14.14%) Full Stack Development
6 1,207 (13.93%) Problem-Solving
7 1,169 (13.50%) Microservices
8 1,144 (13.21%) Coaching
9 1,131 (13.06%) Roadmaps
10 1,121 (12.94%) Actionable Insight
11 1,058 (12.21%) Project Management
12 993 (11.46%) TDD
13 934 (10.78%) CI/CD
14 859 (9.92%) Decision-Making
15 834 (9.63%) MVC
16 779 (8.99%) Kanban
17 757 (8.74%) SDLC
18 676 (7.80%) Analytics
19 615 (7.10%) Project Delivery
20 577 (6.66%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 2,111 (24.37%) JavaScript
2 1,891 (21.83%) C#
3 1,409 (16.27%) Python
4 1,390 (16.05%) SQL
5 1,084 (12.51%) Java
6 989 (11.42%) TypeScript
7 207 (2.39%) PowerShell
8 158 (1.82%) PHP
9 153 (1.77%) C
10 146 (1.69%) C++
11 139 (1.60%) T-SQL
12 113 (1.30%) Go
13 81 (0.94%) Kotlin
14 75 (0.87%) COBOL
15 74 (0.85%) Micro Focus COBOL
16 66 (0.76%) R
17 59 (0.68%) Groovy
18 53 (0.61%) Bash
19 50 (0.58%) Ruby
20 45 (0.52%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,199 (13.84%) Security Cleared
2 938 (10.83%) Degree
3 824 (9.51%) SC Cleared
4 469 (5.41%) ACCA
5 465 (5.37%) CIMA
6 255 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 249 (2.87%) DV Cleared
8 146 (1.69%) PMI Certification
9 116 (1.34%) Azure Certification
10 115 (1.33%) DBS Check
11 110 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
12 105 (1.21%) PMP
13 98 (1.13%) AWS Certification
14 91 (1.05%) Master's Degree
15 63 (0.73%) CISSP
16 54 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 52 (0.60%) APMP
17 52 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
18 51 (0.59%) ISTQB
19 50 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 486 (5.61%) QA
2 202 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 131 (1.51%) Accessibility
4 94 (1.09%) PMO
5 50 (0.58%) GDPR
6 41 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (0.47%) WCAG
7 33 (0.38%) SLA
8 29 (0.33%) NIST
9 25 (0.29%) PCI DSS
10 22 (0.25%) NCSC
11 20 (0.23%) ISO 9001
12 16 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
13 13 (0.15%) ITGC
13 13 (0.15%) MISRA
14 9 (0.10%) PSD2
15 7 (0.081%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.069%) ISO 20022
17 5 (0.058%) NEBOSH
17 5 (0.058%) SEPA
System Software
1 649 (7.49%) Docker
2 206 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 67 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 53 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
5 50 (0.58%) RACF
6 46 (0.53%) Hyper-V
7 45 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
8 33 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 23 (0.27%) Firmware
10 19 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 15 (0.17%) vSphere
12 6 (0.069%) Embedded Firmware
13 5 (0.058%) DFS Replication
14 4 (0.046%) Microsoft App-V
15 2 (0.023%) Terminal Server
16 1 (0.012%) Ceph
16 1 (0.012%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 1 (0.012%) NFS
16 1 (0.012%) Time Sharing Option
16 1 (0.012%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 550 (6.35%) Kubernetes
2 432 (4.99%) Terraform
3 277 (3.20%) Ansible
4 63 (0.73%) Grafana
5 57 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 45 (0.52%) Progress Chef
6 45 (0.52%) Puppet
7 37 (0.43%) WSUS
8 36 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 35 (0.40%) SCCM
10 30 (0.35%) Prometheus
11 22 (0.25%) Kibana
11 22 (0.25%) SCOM
11 22 (0.25%) ZABBIX
12 15 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
13 13 (0.15%) Nmap
13 13 (0.15%) VxRail
14 12 (0.14%) Opsgenie
15 9 (0.10%) Nagios
15 9 (0.10%) Packer
Vendors
1 2,228 (25.72%) Microsoft
2 537 (6.20%) Oracle
3 447 (5.16%) SAP
4 299 (3.45%) Anaplan
4 299 (3.45%) Hyperion
5 293 (3.38%) Google
6 220 (2.54%) ESRI
7 100 (1.15%) Salesforce
8 89 (1.03%) Facebook
9 88 (1.02%) Databricks
10 81 (0.94%) ServiceNow
11 76 (0.88%) VMware
12 74 (0.85%) Micro Focus
13 61 (0.70%) Atlassian
14 60 (0.69%) Cisco
15 55 (0.63%) Sparx
16 50 (0.58%) CyberArk
17 42 (0.48%) Adobe
17 42 (0.48%) Apple
18 41 (0.47%) IBM