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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 8,613 12,816 24,571
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.47% 31.08% 35.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 27.87% 32.34% 36.91%
Number of salaries quoted 6,029 9,032 13,793
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 £100,000 £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 30,902 39,630 66,571
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.40% 96.09% 96.98%
Number of salaries quoted 23,451 27,583 41,127
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 £61,190 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +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 10 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 (3.74%) SAS
2 279 (3.24%) Apache
3 275 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
4 221 (2.57%) ArcGIS
5 217 (2.52%) GeoServer
6 183 (2.12%) Confluence
7 153 (1.78%) SharePoint
8 86 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
9 52 (0.60%) Apache Spark
9 52 (0.60%) CMS
10 46 (0.53%) 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%) Umbraco
17 12 (0.14%) Kentico
18 10 (0.12%) EPiServer
18 10 (0.12%) JBoss
Applications
1 598 (6.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 88 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 78 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
4 47 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
5 31 (0.36%) MS Visio
6 26 (0.30%) Adobe XD
7 17 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
8 15 (0.17%) Simulink
9 8 (0.093%) Sketch
9 8 (0.093%) Trello
10 7 (0.081%) Stateflow
11 4 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.046%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.046%) InVision
11 4 (0.046%) Maya
12 3 (0.035%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.035%) UserZoom
13 2 (0.023%) InDesign
13 2 (0.023%) S-PLUS
13 2 (0.023%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 303 (3.52%) SAP ERP
2 135 (1.57%) 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%) Oracle EBS
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%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,822 (32.76%) Azure
2 2,119 (24.60%) AWS
3 665 (7.72%) GCP
4 531 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
5 457 (5.31%) Power Platform
6 436 (5.06%) SaaS
7 277 (3.22%) dbt
8 262 (3.04%) Snowflake
9 256 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
9 256 (2.97%) Serverless
10 214 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
11 173 (2.01%) GitHub
12 160 (1.86%) PowerApps
13 125 (1.45%) Power Automate
14 121 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
15 105 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
15 105 (1.22%) PaaS
16 91 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
17 66 (0.77%) Amazon ECS
18 64 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 797 (9.25%) Broadband
2 192 (2.23%) Internet
3 186 (2.16%) Firewall
4 169 (1.96%) DNS
5 139 (1.61%) TCP/IP
6 103 (1.20%) WAN
7 93 (1.08%) LAN
8 87 (1.01%) VPN
9 62 (0.72%) DHCP
10 59 (0.69%) Network Security
11 54 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
12 53 (0.62%) SSL
13 46 (0.53%) BGP
14 37 (0.43%) Wireless
15 25 (0.29%) 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 1,140 (13.24%) SQL Server
2 407 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
3 326 (3.78%) MongoDB
4 291 (3.38%) Elasticsearch
5 278 (3.23%) Power BI
6 259 (3.01%) MySQL
7 255 (2.96%) Data Lake
8 230 (2.67%) Amazon Athena
9 227 (2.64%) Apache Ignite
9 227 (2.64%) Dremio
10 224 (2.60%) Apache Arrow
11 223 (2.59%) GIS
12 216 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
13 214 (2.48%) QGIS
14 204 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
15 201 (2.33%) Relational Database
16 195 (2.26%) NoSQL
17 127 (1.47%) BigQuery
18 94 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
19 79 (0.92%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 590 (6.85%) Git
2 502 (5.83%) JIRA
3 269 (3.12%) Jenkins
4 188 (2.18%) GitLab
5 154 (1.79%) Visual Studio
6 115 (1.34%) Selenium
7 71 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
8 62 (0.72%) Cucumber
9 56 (0.65%) JUnit
10 53 (0.62%) Bitbucket
11 50 (0.58%) Maven
12 42 (0.49%) Postman
13 41 (0.48%) Cypress.io
14 37 (0.43%) JMeter
15 33 (0.38%) TeamCity
16 32 (0.37%) SpecFlow
17 30 (0.35%) IBM UrbanCode
18 28 (0.33%) webpack
19 26 (0.30%) NUnit
20 22 (0.26%) Subversion
General
1 2,725 (31.64%) Finance
2 2,693 (31.27%) Social Skills
3 1,029 (11.95%) Analytical Skills
4 638 (7.41%) Banking
5 539 (6.26%) Influencing Skills
6 520 (6.04%) Public Sector
7 434 (5.04%) Retail
8 413 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 396 (4.60%) Front Office
10 291 (3.38%) Marketing
11 257 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
12 246 (2.86%) Investment Banking
13 234 (2.72%) Legal
14 178 (2.07%) Law
15 156 (1.81%) Games
16 121 (1.40%) Aerospace
17 111 (1.29%) Advertising
18 91 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
19 90 (1.04%) Telecoms
20 89 (1.03%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2,248 (26.10%) Developer
2 1,903 (22.09%) Senior
3 1,085 (12.60%) Lead
4 1,076 (12.49%) Analyst
5 991 (11.51%) Software Engineer
6 980 (11.38%) .NET Developer
7 863 (10.02%) Architect
8 634 (7.36%) Project Manager
9 619 (7.19%) Solutions Architect
10 542 (6.29%) Senior Software Engineer
11 474 (5.50%) Senior Developer
12 377 (4.38%) C# Developer
13 323 (3.75%) Senior Analyst
14 310 (3.60%) Business Analyst
15 298 (3.46%) C# .NET Developer
16 289 (3.36%) Software Developer
17 219 (2.54%) Technical Leader
18 201 (2.33%) DevOps Engineer
19 175 (2.03%) Java Engineer
20 173 (2.01%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,828 (21.22%) .NET
2 1,128 (13.10%) .NET Core
3 1,020 (11.84%) React
4 947 (11.00%) AngularJS
5 925 (10.74%) ASP.NET
6 725 (8.42%) ASP.NET MVC
7 712 (8.27%) HTML
8 685 (7.95%) CSS
9 635 (7.37%) .NET Framework
10 616 (7.15%) Entity Framework
11 607 (7.05%) ASP.NET Web API
12 548 (6.36%) Node.js
13 515 (5.98%) RESTful
14 425 (4.93%) Vue
15 392 (4.55%) HTML5
16 299 (3.47%) REST
17 281 (3.26%) gRPC
18 244 (2.83%) Pandas
19 236 (2.74%) Protocol Buffers
20 229 (2.66%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 661 (7.67%) Product Ownership
2 372 (4.32%) Fixed Income
3 336 (3.90%) Hedge funds
4 334 (3.88%) Greenfield Project
5 329 (3.82%) Derivative
6 315 (3.66%) Equities
7 280 (3.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 239 (2.77%) Public Cloud
9 195 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
10 194 (2.25%) Cloud Native
11 191 (2.22%) Management Information System
12 179 (2.08%) Data Structures
13 158 (1.83%) Mobile App
14 146 (1.70%) Client/Server
15 135 (1.57%) Algorithms
16 133 (1.54%) Private Cloud
17 107 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
18 100 (1.16%) Onboarding
19 89 (1.03%) PMI
20 81 (0.94%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 522 (6.06%) Linux
2 369 (4.28%) Windows
3 152 (1.76%) Android
4 101 (1.17%) Apple iOS
5 90 (1.04%) Ubuntu
6 71 (0.82%) Windows Server
7 69 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 47 (0.55%) Unix
9 38 (0.44%) VMS
10 29 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
11 22 (0.26%) Mac OS
12 20 (0.23%) Windows 10
13 17 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
14 11 (0.13%) 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 1,850 (21.48%) Mentoring
2 1,771 (20.56%) Software Engineering
3 1,706 (19.81%) DevOps
4 1,557 (18.08%) Scrum
5 1,208 (14.03%) Problem-Solving
6 1,199 (13.92%) Full Stack Development
7 1,191 (13.83%) Microservices
8 1,159 (13.46%) Actionable Insight
9 1,096 (12.72%) Coaching
10 1,082 (12.56%) Roadmaps
11 1,081 (12.55%) Project Management
12 998 (11.59%) TDD
13 914 (10.61%) CI/CD
14 865 (10.04%) Decision-Making
15 830 (9.64%) MVC
16 773 (8.97%) Kanban
17 764 (8.87%) SDLC
18 675 (7.84%) Analytics
19 644 (7.48%) Project Delivery
20 579 (6.72%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 2,017 (23.42%) JavaScript
2 1,856 (21.55%) C#
3 1,350 (15.67%) SQL
4 1,327 (15.41%) Python
5 1,050 (12.19%) Java
6 911 (10.58%) TypeScript
7 159 (1.85%) PHP
8 153 (1.78%) PowerShell
9 147 (1.71%) C
10 145 (1.68%) C++
11 138 (1.60%) T-SQL
12 114 (1.32%) Go
13 90 (1.04%) Kotlin
14 80 (0.93%) R
15 75 (0.87%) COBOL
16 74 (0.86%) Micro Focus COBOL
17 65 (0.75%) Groovy
18 61 (0.71%) Bash
19 54 (0.63%) Ruby
20 45 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,186 (13.77%) Security Cleared
2 931 (10.81%) Degree
3 817 (9.49%) SC Cleared
4 469 (5.45%) ACCA
5 465 (5.40%) CIMA
6 232 (2.69%) DV Cleared
7 229 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 154 (1.79%) PMI Certification
9 116 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 111 (1.29%) Azure Certification
11 107 (1.24%) DBS Check
12 105 (1.22%) PMP
13 91 (1.06%) AWS Certification
14 88 (1.02%) Master's Degree
15 57 (0.66%) CISSP
16 55 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
17 53 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 52 (0.60%) APMP
19 50 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
20 43 (0.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 486 (5.64%) QA
2 167 (1.94%) Data Quality
3 139 (1.61%) Accessibility
4 98 (1.14%) PMO
5 45 (0.52%) WCAG
6 43 (0.50%) GDPR
7 41 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 28 (0.33%) NIST
8 28 (0.33%) SLA
9 25 (0.29%) PCI DSS
10 21 (0.24%) NCSC
11 20 (0.23%) ISO 9001
12 16 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
13 13 (0.15%) ITGC
14 12 (0.14%) MISRA
15 9 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.10%) CRD IV
15 9 (0.10%) PSD2
16 7 (0.081%) IFRS
16 7 (0.081%) SEPA
System Software
1 669 (7.77%) Docker
2 152 (1.76%) 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 (0.046%) 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
1 583 (6.77%) Kubernetes
2 442 (5.13%) Terraform
3 283 (3.29%) Ansible
4 62 (0.72%) Grafana
5 57 (0.66%) Progress Chef
6 55 (0.64%) 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 29 (0.34%) 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%) vCenter Server
16 12 (0.14%) Opsgenie
16 12 (0.14%) VxRail
17 11 (0.13%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2,166 (25.15%) Microsoft
2 557 (6.47%) Oracle
3 451 (5.24%) SAP
4 352 (4.09%) Google
5 300 (3.48%) Hyperion
6 299 (3.47%) Anaplan
7 219 (2.54%) ESRI
8 114 (1.32%) Salesforce
9 88 (1.02%) Facebook
10 84 (0.98%) VMware
11 83 (0.96%) Databricks
12 80 (0.93%) ServiceNow
13 74 (0.86%) Micro Focus
14 62 (0.72%) Atlassian
15 60 (0.70%) Cisco
16 56 (0.65%) Sparx
17 51 (0.59%) IBM
18 49 (0.57%) Adobe
19 43 (0.50%) Splunk
20 42 (0.49%) Apple