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

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 8,564 12,871 24,830
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.40% 31.13% 35.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 27.80% 32.40% 36.91%
Number of salaries quoted 6,011 9,060 13,911
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 30,803 39,731 67,272
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.37% 96.08% 97.00%
Number of salaries quoted 23,360 27,643 41,432
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
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 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 13 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 (3.76%) SAS
2 287 (3.35%) Apache
3 283 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
4 221 (2.58%) ArcGIS
5 217 (2.53%) GeoServer
6 183 (2.14%) Confluence
7 153 (1.79%) SharePoint
8 86 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
9 52 (0.61%) Apache Spark
9 52 (0.61%) CMS
10 46 (0.54%) WebLogic
11 44 (0.51%) OpenStack
12 37 (0.43%) Tuxedo
13 36 (0.42%) IIS
14 21 (0.25%) WordPress
15 16 (0.19%) nginx
16 15 (0.18%) Umbraco
17 12 (0.14%) Kentico
18 10 (0.12%) EPiServer
18 10 (0.12%) JBoss
Applications
1 596 (6.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 92 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 79 (0.92%) 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 16 (0.19%) Simulink
9 8 (0.093%) Sketch
9 8 (0.093%) Trello
10 7 (0.082%) 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%) 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 (3.54%) SAP ERP
2 135 (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 (0.25%) 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 (0.11%) NEC Housing
12 8 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
12 8 (0.093%) Siebel CRM
13 7 (0.082%) 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 2,795 (32.64%) Azure
2 2,108 (24.61%) AWS
3 667 (7.79%) GCP
4 526 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
5 451 (5.27%) Power Platform
6 430 (5.02%) SaaS
7 285 (3.33%) dbt
8 270 (3.15%) Snowflake
9 255 (2.98%) Serverless
10 254 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
11 211 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
12 173 (2.02%) GitHub
13 159 (1.86%) PowerApps
14 125 (1.46%) Power Automate
15 121 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
16 105 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
17 102 (1.19%) PaaS
18 91 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
19 66 (0.77%) Amazon ECS
20 63 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 797 (9.31%) Broadband
2 192 (2.24%) Internet
3 187 (2.18%) Firewall
4 170 (1.99%) DNS
5 139 (1.62%) TCP/IP
6 103 (1.20%) WAN
7 93 (1.09%) LAN
8 86 (1.00%) VPN
9 62 (0.72%) DHCP
10 59 (0.69%) Network Security
11 53 (0.62%) SSL
12 52 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
13 46 (0.54%) BGP
14 37 (0.43%) Wireless
15 25 (0.29%) HTTP
15 25 (0.29%) SAN
16 23 (0.27%) VLAN
17 21 (0.25%) RS-232
18 20 (0.23%) MPLS
18 20 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,135 (13.25%) SQL Server
2 407 (4.75%) PostgreSQL
3 326 (3.81%) MongoDB
4 291 (3.40%) Elasticsearch
5 274 (3.20%) Power BI
6 262 (3.06%) Data Lake
7 259 (3.02%) MySQL
8 238 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
9 235 (2.74%) Apache Ignite
9 235 (2.74%) Dremio
10 232 (2.71%) Apache Arrow
11 223 (2.60%) GIS
12 214 (2.50%) QGIS
13 204 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
14 203 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
15 200 (2.34%) Relational Database
16 196 (2.29%) NoSQL
17 127 (1.48%) BigQuery
18 94 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
19 77 (0.90%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 588 (6.87%) Git
2 501 (5.85%) JIRA
3 268 (3.13%) Jenkins
4 188 (2.20%) GitLab
5 154 (1.80%) Visual Studio
6 116 (1.35%) Selenium
7 71 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
8 62 (0.72%) Cucumber
9 56 (0.65%) JUnit
10 54 (0.63%) Bitbucket
11 50 (0.58%) Maven
12 42 (0.49%) Postman
13 41 (0.48%) Cypress.io
14 37 (0.43%) JMeter
15 33 (0.39%) TeamCity
16 32 (0.37%) SpecFlow
17 30 (0.35%) IBM UrbanCode
18 27 (0.32%) webpack
19 26 (0.30%) NUnit
20 22 (0.26%) Subversion
General
1 2,720 (31.76%) Finance
2 2,678 (31.27%) Social Skills
3 1,028 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 644 (7.52%) Banking
5 539 (6.29%) Influencing Skills
6 519 (6.06%) Public Sector
7 437 (5.10%) Retail
8 404 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 402 (4.69%) Front Office
10 294 (3.43%) Marketing
11 255 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
12 253 (2.95%) Investment Banking
13 235 (2.74%) Legal
14 170 (1.99%) Law
15 157 (1.83%) Games
16 121 (1.41%) Aerospace
17 111 (1.30%) Advertising
18 90 (1.05%) Manufacturing
18 90 (1.05%) Telecoms
19 89 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2,243 (26.19%) Developer
2 1,881 (21.96%) Senior
3 1,086 (12.68%) Lead
4 1,071 (12.51%) Analyst
5 994 (11.61%) Software Engineer
6 979 (11.43%) .NET Developer
7 849 (9.91%) Architect
8 622 (7.26%) Project Manager
9 608 (7.10%) Solutions Architect
10 541 (6.32%) Senior Software Engineer
11 474 (5.53%) Senior Developer
12 374 (4.37%) C# Developer
13 320 (3.74%) Senior Analyst
14 305 (3.56%) Business Analyst
15 298 (3.48%) C# .NET Developer
16 292 (3.41%) Software Developer
17 219 (2.56%) Technical Leader
18 200 (2.34%) DevOps Engineer
19 176 (2.06%) Java Engineer
20 173 (2.02%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,821 (21.26%) .NET
2 1,124 (13.12%) .NET Core
3 1,017 (11.88%) React
4 944 (11.02%) AngularJS
5 921 (10.75%) ASP.NET
6 721 (8.42%) ASP.NET MVC
7 705 (8.23%) HTML
8 679 (7.93%) CSS
9 630 (7.36%) .NET Framework
10 616 (7.19%) Entity Framework
11 606 (7.08%) ASP.NET Web API
12 547 (6.39%) Node.js
13 515 (6.01%) RESTful
14 425 (4.96%) Vue
15 391 (4.57%) HTML5
16 297 (3.47%) REST
17 289 (3.37%) gRPC
18 252 (2.94%) Pandas
19 244 (2.85%) Protocol Buffers
20 228 (2.66%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 658 (7.68%) Product Ownership
2 378 (4.41%) Fixed Income
3 342 (3.99%) Hedge funds
4 335 (3.91%) Derivative
5 330 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
6 323 (3.77%) Equities
7 288 (3.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 238 (2.78%) Public Cloud
9 195 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
10 189 (2.21%) Management Information System
11 183 (2.14%) Cloud Native
12 168 (1.96%) Data Structures
13 158 (1.84%) Mobile App
14 146 (1.70%) Client/Server
15 136 (1.59%) Algorithms
16 132 (1.54%) Private Cloud
17 107 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
18 100 (1.17%) Onboarding
19 89 (1.04%) PMI
20 82 (0.96%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 519 (6.06%) Linux
2 368 (4.30%) Windows
3 152 (1.77%) Android
4 101 (1.18%) Apple iOS
5 90 (1.05%) Ubuntu
6 71 (0.83%) Windows Server
7 68 (0.79%) 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 12 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
15 10 (0.12%) Windows 7
16 9 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
16 9 (0.11%) zOS
17 8 (0.093%) VME
18 5 (0.058%) ThreadX
18 5 (0.058%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,846 (21.56%) Mentoring
2 1,770 (20.67%) Software Engineering
3 1,695 (19.79%) DevOps
4 1,540 (17.98%) Scrum
5 1,201 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
6 1,194 (13.94%) Full Stack Development
7 1,189 (13.88%) Microservices
8 1,124 (13.12%) Actionable Insight
9 1,096 (12.80%) Coaching
10 1,080 (12.61%) Roadmaps
11 1,065 (12.44%) Project Management
12 995 (11.62%) TDD
13 903 (10.54%) CI/CD
14 865 (10.10%) Decision-Making
15 826 (9.65%) MVC
16 771 (9.00%) Kanban
17 748 (8.73%) SDLC
18 679 (7.93%) Analytics
19 630 (7.36%) Project Delivery
20 579 (6.76%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 2,020 (23.59%) JavaScript
2 1,849 (21.59%) C#
3 1,343 (15.68%) SQL
4 1,327 (15.50%) Python
5 1,054 (12.31%) Java
6 915 (10.68%) TypeScript
7 159 (1.86%) PHP
8 153 (1.79%) PowerShell
9 148 (1.73%) C
10 144 (1.68%) C++
11 135 (1.58%) T-SQL
12 114 (1.33%) Go
13 91 (1.06%) Kotlin
14 78 (0.91%) R
15 75 (0.88%) COBOL
16 74 (0.86%) Micro Focus COBOL
17 65 (0.76%) Groovy
18 61 (0.71%) Bash
19 54 (0.63%) Ruby
20 45 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,175 (13.72%) Security Cleared
2 930 (10.86%) Degree
3 815 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 469 (5.48%) ACCA
5 465 (5.43%) CIMA
6 229 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 225 (2.63%) DV Cleared
8 156 (1.82%) PMI Certification
9 116 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 111 (1.30%) Azure Certification
11 107 (1.25%) DBS Check
11 107 (1.25%) PMP
12 91 (1.06%) AWS Certification
13 88 (1.03%) Master's Degree
14 57 (0.67%) CISSP
15 55 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
16 53 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 52 (0.61%) APMP
18 43 (0.50%) ISTQB
19 38 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 485 (5.66%) QA
2 166 (1.94%) Data Quality
3 132 (1.54%) Accessibility
4 98 (1.14%) PMO
5 44 (0.51%) WCAG
6 43 (0.50%) GDPR
7 41 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 28 (0.33%) NIST
8 28 (0.33%) SLA
9 24 (0.28%) PCI DSS
10 21 (0.25%) NCSC
11 20 (0.23%) ISO 9001
12 16 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
13 13 (0.15%) ITGC
13 13 (0.15%) MISRA
14 9 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
14 9 (0.11%) CRD IV
14 9 (0.11%) PSD2
15 7 (0.082%) IFRS
15 7 (0.082%) SEPA
System Software
1 666 (7.78%) Docker
2 152 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 75 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 53 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
5 50 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 42 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
6 42 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
7 22 (0.26%) Firmware
8 17 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
8 17 (0.20%) vSphere
9 6 (0.070%) DFS Replication
9 6 (0.070%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.047%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.023%) Apache Flume
11 2 (0.023%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.012%) Ceph
12 1 (0.012%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.012%) NFS
12 1 (0.012%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.012%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 580 (6.77%) Kubernetes
2 438 (5.11%) Terraform
3 281 (3.28%) Ansible
4 63 (0.74%) Grafana
5 56 (0.65%) Progress Chef
6 54 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
6 54 (0.63%) Puppet
7 35 (0.41%) WSUS
8 33 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 32 (0.37%) SCCM
10 30 (0.35%) Prometheus
11 22 (0.26%) Kibana
11 22 (0.26%) ZABBIX
12 19 (0.22%) SCOM
13 14 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
14 13 (0.15%) Nmap
14 13 (0.15%) vCenter Server
15 12 (0.14%) Opsgenie
15 12 (0.14%) VxRail
16 11 (0.13%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2,160 (25.22%) Microsoft
2 557 (6.50%) Oracle
3 451 (5.27%) SAP
4 347 (4.05%) Google
5 300 (3.50%) Hyperion
6 299 (3.49%) Anaplan
7 219 (2.56%) ESRI
8 112 (1.31%) Salesforce
9 88 (1.03%) Facebook
10 83 (0.97%) Databricks
10 83 (0.97%) VMware
11 80 (0.93%) ServiceNow
12 74 (0.86%) Micro Focus
13 62 (0.72%) Atlassian
14 60 (0.70%) Cisco
15 56 (0.65%) Sparx
16 51 (0.60%) IBM
17 49 (0.57%) Adobe
18 43 (0.50%) Splunk
19 42 (0.49%) Apple