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

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 8,705 11,820 27,561
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.68% 31.02% 36.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 27.49% 32.30% 37.69%
Number of salaries quoted 5,990 8,528 14,479
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 £105,000 £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 31,671 36,595 73,127
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.78% 96.04% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 23,689 25,972 42,234
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 7 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
1 422 (4.85%) Apache
2 416 (4.78%) Apache Airflow
3 308 (3.54%) SAS
4 220 (2.53%) ArcGIS
5 216 (2.48%) GeoServer
6 180 (2.07%) Confluence
7 146 (1.68%) SharePoint
8 94 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
9 52 (0.60%) CMS
10 46 (0.53%) WebLogic
11 44 (0.51%) Apache Spark
12 40 (0.46%) IIS
13 39 (0.45%) OpenStack
14 37 (0.43%) Tuxedo
15 18 (0.21%) WordPress
16 16 (0.18%) nginx
17 15 (0.17%) Umbraco
18 12 (0.14%) Kentico
19 10 (0.11%) EPiServer
20 8 (0.092%) Drupal
Applications
1 584 (6.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 88 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 71 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
4 36 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (0.28%) 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 (0.080%) Stateflow
11 6 (0.069%) AutoCAD
11 6 (0.069%) Sketch
12 4 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.046%) Maya
13 3 (0.034%) InVision
13 3 (0.034%) S-PLUS
13 3 (0.034%) UserZoom
14 2 (0.023%) Autodesk Inventor
14 2 (0.023%) Fusion 360
14 2 (0.023%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 302 (3.47%) SAP ERP
2 145 (1.67%) 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 (0.057%) Dynamics GP
13 5 (0.057%) Odoo
13 5 (0.057%) Oracle EBS
13 5 (0.057%) SAP GTS
13 5 (0.057%) SAP SD
13 5 (0.057%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,830 (32.51%) Azure
2 2,271 (26.09%) AWS
3 638 (7.33%) GCP
4 517 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
5 463 (5.32%) Power Platform
6 430 (4.94%) dbt
7 413 (4.74%) SaaS
8 379 (4.35%) Snowflake
9 248 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
10 246 (2.83%) Serverless
11 225 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
12 164 (1.88%) PowerApps
13 148 (1.70%) GitHub
14 145 (1.67%) Power Automate
15 122 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
16 101 (1.16%) Entra ID
17 99 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
18 94 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
19 80 (0.92%) PaaS
20 71 (0.82%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 799 (9.18%) Broadband
2 199 (2.29%) Firewall
3 196 (2.25%) Internet
4 174 (2.00%) DNS
5 136 (1.56%) TCP/IP
6 102 (1.17%) WAN
7 92 (1.06%) LAN
8 85 (0.98%) VPN
9 64 (0.74%) DHCP
9 64 (0.74%) Network Security
10 52 (0.60%) SSL
11 50 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
12 46 (0.53%) BGP
13 34 (0.39%) Wireless
14 26 (0.30%) HTTP
15 24 (0.28%) SAN
16 23 (0.26%) RS-232
17 21 (0.24%) VLAN
18 20 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
19 18 (0.21%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,159 (13.31%) SQL Server
2 404 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
3 392 (4.50%) Data Lake
4 375 (4.31%) Dremio
5 363 (4.17%) Apache Arrow
6 362 (4.16%) Amazon Athena
7 358 (4.11%) Apache Ignite
8 329 (3.78%) MongoDB
9 290 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
10 287 (3.30%) Power BI
11 258 (2.96%) MySQL
12 225 (2.58%) GIS
13 214 (2.46%) QGIS
14 211 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
15 204 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
15 204 (2.34%) Relational Database
16 191 (2.19%) NoSQL
17 122 (1.40%) BigQuery
18 102 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
19 93 (1.07%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 597 (6.86%) Git
2 494 (5.67%) JIRA
3 228 (2.62%) Jenkins
4 190 (2.18%) GitLab
5 156 (1.79%) Visual Studio
6 112 (1.29%) Selenium
7 72 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
8 55 (0.63%) JUnit
9 52 (0.60%) Bitbucket
9 52 (0.60%) Cucumber
10 43 (0.49%) Postman
11 38 (0.44%) Cypress.io
12 37 (0.43%) Maven
13 36 (0.41%) TeamCity
14 35 (0.40%) JMeter
15 34 (0.39%) SpecFlow
16 27 (0.31%) NUnit
16 27 (0.31%) webpack
17 26 (0.30%) Subversion
18 21 (0.24%) CMake
General
1 2,784 (31.98%) Finance
2 2,676 (30.74%) Social Skills
3 981 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
4 686 (7.88%) Banking
5 532 (6.11%) Front Office
6 527 (6.05%) Influencing Skills
7 510 (5.86%) Public Sector
8 426 (4.89%) Retail
9 416 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 369 (4.24%) Investment Banking
11 288 (3.31%) Marketing
12 281 (3.23%) Legal
13 209 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
14 170 (1.95%) Law
15 159 (1.83%) Games
16 131 (1.50%) Aerospace
17 110 (1.26%) Advertising
18 99 (1.14%) Manufacturing
19 98 (1.13%) Telecoms
20 91 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2,307 (26.50%) Developer
2 1,954 (22.45%) Senior
3 1,121 (12.88%) Lead
4 1,098 (12.61%) Analyst
5 1,063 (12.21%) Software Engineer
6 1,001 (11.50%) .NET Developer
7 876 (10.06%) Architect
8 620 (7.12%) Solutions Architect
9 600 (6.89%) Project Manager
10 576 (6.62%) Senior Software Engineer
11 487 (5.59%) Senior Developer
12 406 (4.66%) C# Developer
13 358 (4.11%) Senior Analyst
14 326 (3.74%) Software Developer
15 314 (3.61%) C# .NET Developer
16 299 (3.43%) Business Analyst
17 241 (2.77%) Technical Leader
18 234 (2.69%) Python Engineer
19 223 (2.56%) Java Engineer
20 202 (2.32%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,858 (21.34%) .NET
2 1,131 (12.99%) .NET Core
3 1,054 (12.11%) React
4 972 (11.17%) AngularJS
5 929 (10.67%) ASP.NET
6 726 (8.34%) ASP.NET MVC
7 708 (8.13%) HTML
8 680 (7.81%) CSS
9 648 (7.44%) .NET Framework
10 624 (7.17%) Entity Framework
11 605 (6.95%) ASP.NET Web API
12 551 (6.33%) Node.js
13 523 (6.01%) RESTful
14 439 (5.04%) Vue
15 412 (4.73%) gRPC
16 389 (4.47%) HTML5
17 378 (4.34%) Pandas
18 367 (4.22%) Protocol Buffers
19 349 (4.01%) NumPy
20 347 (3.99%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 646 (7.42%) Product Ownership
2 504 (5.79%) Fixed Income
3 463 (5.32%) Hedge funds
4 456 (5.24%) Derivative
5 445 (5.11%) Equities
6 414 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 315 (3.62%) Greenfield Project
8 239 (2.75%) Management Information System
9 217 (2.49%) Public Cloud
10 195 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
11 171 (1.96%) Cloud Native
12 167 (1.92%) Data Structures
13 165 (1.90%) Mobile App
14 148 (1.70%) Client/Server
15 135 (1.55%) Algorithms
16 111 (1.28%) Private Cloud
17 110 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
18 92 (1.06%) Onboarding
19 86 (0.99%) Data Centre
20 79 (0.91%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 511 (5.87%) Linux
2 351 (4.03%) Windows
3 158 (1.82%) Android
4 101 (1.16%) Apple iOS
5 93 (1.07%) Ubuntu
6 73 (0.84%) Windows Server
7 62 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 44 (0.51%) Unix
9 42 (0.48%) VMS
10 33 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
11 21 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
12 20 (0.23%) Windows 10
13 15 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
14 14 (0.16%) Mac OS
15 9 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
15 9 (0.10%) Windows 7
15 9 (0.10%) zOS
16 8 (0.092%) VME
17 5 (0.057%) AIX
17 5 (0.057%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,889 (21.70%) Software Engineering
2 1,849 (21.24%) Mentoring
3 1,656 (19.02%) DevOps
4 1,534 (17.62%) Scrum
5 1,230 (14.13%) Full Stack Development
6 1,218 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
7 1,162 (13.35%) Microservices
8 1,150 (13.21%) Coaching
9 1,131 (12.99%) Roadmaps
10 1,120 (12.87%) Actionable Insight
11 1,058 (12.15%) Project Management
12 991 (11.38%) TDD
13 939 (10.79%) CI/CD
14 859 (9.87%) Decision-Making
15 838 (9.63%) MVC
16 777 (8.93%) Kanban
17 759 (8.72%) SDLC
18 684 (7.86%) Analytics
19 614 (7.05%) Project Delivery
20 589 (6.77%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 2,157 (24.78%) JavaScript
2 1,914 (21.99%) C#
3 1,455 (16.71%) Python
4 1,394 (16.01%) SQL
5 1,112 (12.77%) Java
6 1,032 (11.86%) TypeScript
7 207 (2.38%) PowerShell
8 159 (1.83%) PHP
9 154 (1.77%) C
10 147 (1.69%) C++
11 141 (1.62%) T-SQL
12 114 (1.31%) Go
13 79 (0.91%) Kotlin
14 75 (0.86%) COBOL
15 74 (0.85%) Micro Focus COBOL
16 65 (0.75%) R
17 53 (0.61%) Bash
18 50 (0.57%) Groovy
19 49 (0.56%) Ruby
20 46 (0.53%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,196 (13.74%) Security Cleared
2 950 (10.91%) Degree
3 818 (9.40%) SC Cleared
4 469 (5.39%) ACCA
5 465 (5.34%) CIMA
6 263 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 250 (2.87%) DV Cleared
8 145 (1.67%) PMI Certification
9 117 (1.34%) Azure Certification
10 114 (1.31%) DBS Check
11 108 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 104 (1.19%) PMP
13 97 (1.11%) AWS Certification
14 96 (1.10%) Master's Degree
15 63 (0.72%) CISSP
16 55 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 55 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
17 52 (0.60%) APMP
18 51 (0.59%) ISTQB
19 50 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 489 (5.62%) QA
2 213 (2.45%) Data Quality
3 134 (1.54%) Accessibility
4 93 (1.07%) PMO
5 52 (0.60%) GDPR
6 41 (0.47%) WCAG
7 40 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 33 (0.38%) SLA
9 27 (0.31%) NIST
10 25 (0.29%) PCI DSS
11 22 (0.25%) NCSC
12 20 (0.23%) ISO 9001
13 16 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
14 13 (0.15%) ITGC
14 13 (0.15%) MISRA
15 9 (0.10%) PSD2
16 6 (0.069%) ISO 20022
17 5 (0.057%) HIPAA
17 5 (0.057%) NEBOSH
17 5 (0.057%) SEPA
System Software
1 643 (7.39%) Docker
2 205 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 66 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 52 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
5 50 (0.57%) RACF
6 44 (0.51%) Hyper-V
6 44 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
7 32 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 23 (0.26%) Firmware
9 20 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
10 14 (0.16%) vSphere
11 6 (0.069%) Embedded Firmware
12 5 (0.057%) DFS Replication
13 4 (0.046%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.023%) Terminal Server
15 1 (0.011%) Ceph
15 1 (0.011%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.011%) NFS
15 1 (0.011%) Time Sharing Option
15 1 (0.011%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 544 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 419 (4.81%) Terraform
3 270 (3.10%) Ansible
4 62 (0.71%) Grafana
5 57 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 44 (0.51%) Puppet
7 38 (0.44%) Progress Chef
7 38 (0.44%) WSUS
8 37 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 36 (0.41%) SCCM
10 30 (0.34%) Prometheus
11 23 (0.26%) SCOM
12 22 (0.25%) Kibana
12 22 (0.25%) ZABBIX
13 15 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
14 13 (0.15%) VxRail
15 12 (0.14%) Opsgenie
16 11 (0.13%) Nmap
17 9 (0.10%) Nagios
17 9 (0.10%) Packer
Vendors
1 2,234 (25.66%) Microsoft
2 534 (6.13%) Oracle
3 446 (5.12%) SAP
4 299 (3.43%) Anaplan
4 299 (3.43%) Hyperion
5 269 (3.09%) Google
6 221 (2.54%) ESRI
7 100 (1.15%) Salesforce
8 89 (1.02%) Databricks
8 89 (1.02%) Facebook
9 83 (0.95%) ServiceNow
10 75 (0.86%) VMware
11 74 (0.85%) Micro Focus
12 61 (0.70%) Atlassian
13 60 (0.69%) Cisco
14 55 (0.63%) Sparx
15 50 (0.57%) CyberArk
16 46 (0.53%) Bloomberg
17 42 (0.48%) Apple
18 41 (0.47%) Adobe