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

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 8,624 12,316 26,473
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.23% 30.78% 36.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 27.84% 32.05% 37.37%
Number of salaries quoted 5,997 8,746 14,213
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 30,975 38,432 70,849
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.61% 96.05% 97.11%
Number of salaries quoted 23,429 26,704 41,843
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 27 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
1 351 (4.07%) Apache
2 347 (4.02%) Apache Airflow
3 314 (3.64%) SAS
4 221 (2.56%) ArcGIS
5 217 (2.52%) GeoServer
6 180 (2.09%) Confluence
7 150 (1.74%) SharePoint
8 89 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
9 53 (0.61%) CMS
10 46 (0.53%) WebLogic
11 42 (0.49%) Apache Spark
11 42 (0.49%) OpenStack
12 38 (0.44%) IIS
13 37 (0.43%) Tuxedo
14 19 (0.22%) WordPress
15 16 (0.19%) nginx
16 13 (0.15%) Umbraco
17 12 (0.14%) Kentico
18 10 (0.12%) EPiServer
19 8 (0.093%) Drupal
Applications
1 585 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 88 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 75 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
4 48 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 31 (0.36%) 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%) Stateflow
11 6 (0.070%) 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
1 303 (3.51%) SAP ERP
2 140 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 56 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 40 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 24 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
6 21 (0.24%) NetSuite
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 (0.093%) Dynamics AX
11 8 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
12 7 (0.081%) Siebel CRM
13 6 (0.070%) Primavera
14 5 (0.058%) Dynamics GP
14 5 (0.058%) Odoo
14 5 (0.058%) Oracle EBS
14 5 (0.058%) SAP GTS
14 5 (0.058%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 2,812 (32.61%) Azure
2 2,197 (25.48%) AWS
3 658 (7.63%) GCP
4 518 (6.01%) Azure DevOps
5 452 (5.24%) Power Platform
6 406 (4.71%) SaaS
7 350 (4.06%) dbt
8 323 (3.75%) Snowflake
9 255 (2.96%) Serverless
10 249 (2.89%) Microsoft 365
11 215 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
12 160 (1.86%) PowerApps
13 159 (1.84%) GitHub
14 135 (1.57%) Power Automate
15 124 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
16 104 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
17 96 (1.11%) Entra ID
18 95 (1.10%) PaaS
19 87 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
20 64 (0.74%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 798 (9.25%) Broadband
2 198 (2.30%) Firewall
3 197 (2.28%) Internet
4 170 (1.97%) DNS
5 137 (1.59%) TCP/IP
6 107 (1.24%) WAN
7 97 (1.12%) LAN
8 86 (1.00%) VPN
9 62 (0.72%) DHCP
10 61 (0.71%) Network Security
11 52 (0.60%) SSL
11 52 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
12 46 (0.53%) BGP
13 37 (0.43%) Wireless
14 26 (0.30%) HTTP
15 24 (0.28%) SAN
16 22 (0.26%) RS-232
16 22 (0.26%) VLAN
17 20 (0.23%) MPLS
17 20 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,140 (13.22%) SQL Server
2 404 (4.68%) PostgreSQL
3 328 (3.80%) MongoDB
4 321 (3.72%) Data Lake
5 302 (3.50%) Dremio
6 297 (3.44%) Amazon Athena
7 296 (3.43%) Apache Arrow
8 295 (3.42%) Apache Ignite
9 291 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
10 278 (3.22%) Power BI
11 253 (2.93%) MySQL
12 223 (2.59%) GIS
13 214 (2.48%) QGIS
14 206 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
14 206 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
15 199 (2.31%) NoSQL
15 199 (2.31%) Relational Database
16 122 (1.41%) BigQuery
17 101 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
18 85 (0.99%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 586 (6.79%) Git
2 494 (5.73%) JIRA
3 252 (2.92%) Jenkins
4 190 (2.20%) GitLab
5 154 (1.79%) Visual Studio
6 111 (1.29%) Selenium
7 72 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
8 58 (0.67%) Cucumber
9 54 (0.63%) JUnit
10 52 (0.60%) Bitbucket
11 42 (0.49%) Postman
12 41 (0.48%) Maven
13 38 (0.44%) Cypress.io
14 35 (0.41%) JMeter
14 35 (0.41%) TeamCity
15 34 (0.39%) SpecFlow
16 27 (0.31%) NUnit
17 26 (0.30%) webpack
18 23 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
18 23 (0.27%) Subversion
General
1 2,770 (32.12%) Finance
2 2,679 (31.06%) Social Skills
3 988 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
4 683 (7.92%) Banking
5 529 (6.13%) Influencing Skills
6 504 (5.84%) Public Sector
7 462 (5.36%) Front Office
8 421 (4.88%) Retail
9 405 (4.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 307 (3.56%) Investment Banking
11 285 (3.30%) Marketing
12 281 (3.26%) Legal
13 232 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
14 167 (1.94%) Law
15 157 (1.82%) Games
16 132 (1.53%) Aerospace
17 109 (1.26%) Advertising
18 97 (1.12%) Telecoms
19 95 (1.10%) Manufacturing
20 89 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2,265 (26.26%) Developer
2 1,939 (22.48%) Senior
3 1,103 (12.79%) Analyst
4 1,089 (12.63%) Lead
5 1,020 (11.83%) Software Engineer
6 985 (11.42%) .NET Developer
7 853 (9.89%) Architect
8 615 (7.13%) Project Manager
9 613 (7.11%) Solutions Architect
10 554 (6.42%) Senior Software Engineer
11 473 (5.48%) Senior Developer
12 391 (4.53%) C# Developer
13 364 (4.22%) Senior Analyst
14 308 (3.57%) C# .NET Developer
15 306 (3.55%) Software Developer
16 299 (3.47%) Business Analyst
17 225 (2.61%) Technical Leader
18 200 (2.32%) Python Engineer
19 198 (2.30%) DevOps Engineer
20 195 (2.26%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,824 (21.15%) .NET
2 1,119 (12.98%) .NET Core
3 1,023 (11.86%) React
4 956 (11.09%) AngularJS
5 923 (10.70%) ASP.NET
6 725 (8.41%) ASP.NET MVC
7 697 (8.08%) HTML
8 671 (7.78%) CSS
9 635 (7.36%) .NET Framework
10 619 (7.18%) Entity Framework
11 603 (6.99%) ASP.NET Web API
12 542 (6.28%) Node.js
13 519 (6.02%) RESTful
14 433 (5.02%) Vue
15 390 (4.52%) HTML5
16 349 (4.05%) gRPC
17 313 (3.63%) Pandas
18 304 (3.53%) Protocol Buffers
19 297 (3.44%) REST
20 284 (3.29%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 650 (7.54%) Product Ownership
2 439 (5.09%) Fixed Income
3 401 (4.65%) Hedge funds
4 394 (4.57%) Derivative
5 383 (4.44%) Equities
6 348 (4.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 323 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
8 241 (2.79%) Management Information System
9 226 (2.62%) Public Cloud
10 198 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
11 185 (2.15%) Cloud Native
12 165 (1.91%) Data Structures
13 160 (1.86%) Mobile App
14 148 (1.72%) Client/Server
15 133 (1.54%) Algorithms
16 122 (1.41%) Private Cloud
17 104 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
18 94 (1.09%) Onboarding
19 82 (0.95%) Data Centre
20 81 (0.94%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 517 (5.99%) Linux
2 361 (4.19%) Windows
3 154 (1.79%) Android
4 99 (1.15%) Apple iOS
5 93 (1.08%) Ubuntu
6 70 (0.81%) Windows Server
7 63 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 46 (0.53%) Unix
9 42 (0.49%) VMS
10 30 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
11 20 (0.23%) Windows 10
12 18 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
13 15 (0.17%) Mac OS
14 14 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
15 9 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
15 9 (0.10%) Windows 7
15 9 (0.10%) zOS
16 8 (0.093%) VME
17 5 (0.058%) ThreadX
17 5 (0.058%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,833 (21.25%) Mentoring
2 1,810 (20.99%) Software Engineering
3 1,669 (19.35%) DevOps
4 1,537 (17.82%) Scrum
5 1,216 (14.10%) Full Stack Development
6 1,204 (13.96%) Problem-Solving
7 1,167 (13.53%) Microservices
8 1,138 (13.20%) Coaching
9 1,122 (13.01%) Actionable Insight
10 1,121 (13.00%) Roadmaps
11 1,062 (12.31%) Project Management
12 992 (11.50%) TDD
13 922 (10.69%) CI/CD
14 863 (10.01%) Decision-Making
15 829 (9.61%) MVC
16 776 (9.00%) Kanban
17 747 (8.66%) SDLC
18 668 (7.75%) Analytics
19 619 (7.18%) Project Delivery
20 579 (6.71%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 2,079 (24.11%) JavaScript
2 1,863 (21.60%) C#
3 1,391 (16.13%) Python
4 1,388 (16.09%) SQL
5 1,071 (12.42%) Java
6 968 (11.22%) TypeScript
7 202 (2.34%) PowerShell
8 155 (1.80%) PHP
9 150 (1.74%) C
10 141 (1.63%) C++
11 136 (1.58%) T-SQL
12 113 (1.31%) Go
13 85 (0.99%) Kotlin
14 75 (0.87%) COBOL
15 74 (0.86%) Micro Focus COBOL
16 68 (0.79%) R
17 64 (0.74%) Groovy
18 54 (0.63%) Bash
19 52 (0.60%) Ruby
20 45 (0.52%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,187 (13.76%) Security Cleared
2 931 (10.80%) Degree
3 811 (9.40%) SC Cleared
4 469 (5.44%) ACCA
5 465 (5.39%) CIMA
6 245 (2.84%) DV Cleared
7 244 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 149 (1.73%) PMI Certification
9 115 (1.33%) DBS Check
10 114 (1.32%) Azure Certification
11 109 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
12 106 (1.23%) PMP
13 99 (1.15%) AWS Certification
14 86 (1.00%) Master's Degree
15 61 (0.71%) CISSP
16 54 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 52 (0.60%) APMP
17 52 (0.60%) ISTQB
18 51 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
19 50 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 488 (5.66%) QA
2 190 (2.20%) Data Quality
3 130 (1.51%) Accessibility
4 95 (1.10%) PMO
5 46 (0.53%) GDPR
6 42 (0.49%) WCAG
7 41 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 31 (0.36%) SLA
9 30 (0.35%) NIST
10 25 (0.29%) PCI DSS
11 21 (0.24%) NCSC
12 20 (0.23%) ISO 9001
13 17 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
14 13 (0.15%) ITGC
14 13 (0.15%) MISRA
15 9 (0.10%) PSD2
16 7 (0.081%) Actionable Recommendations
17 6 (0.070%) ISO 20022
18 5 (0.058%) NEBOSH
18 5 (0.058%) SEPA
System Software
1 652 (7.56%) Docker
2 205 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 69 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 51 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
5 50 (0.58%) Hyper-V
5 50 (0.58%) RACF
6 44 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
7 36 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
8 23 (0.27%) Firmware
9 18 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
10 15 (0.17%) vSphere
11 6 (0.070%) Embedded Firmware
12 5 (0.058%) DFS Replication
13 4 (0.046%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.023%) Terminal Server
15 1 (0.012%) Ceph
15 1 (0.012%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.012%) NFS
15 1 (0.012%) Time Sharing Option
15 1 (0.012%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 556 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 443 (5.14%) Terraform
3 286 (3.32%) Ansible
4 64 (0.74%) Grafana
5 55 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 51 (0.59%) Progress Chef
7 47 (0.54%) Puppet
8 36 (0.42%) WSUS
9 34 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 33 (0.38%) SCCM
11 30 (0.35%) Prometheus
12 22 (0.26%) Kibana
12 22 (0.26%) ZABBIX
13 20 (0.23%) SCOM
14 15 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
15 13 (0.15%) Nmap
15 13 (0.15%) VxRail
16 12 (0.14%) Opsgenie
17 10 (0.12%) Nagios
17 10 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2,216 (25.70%) Microsoft
2 539 (6.25%) Oracle
3 449 (5.21%) SAP
4 325 (3.77%) Google
5 299 (3.47%) Anaplan
5 299 (3.47%) Hyperion
6 219 (2.54%) ESRI
7 110 (1.28%) Salesforce
8 88 (1.02%) Facebook
9 85 (0.99%) Databricks
10 78 (0.90%) VMware
11 77 (0.89%) ServiceNow
12 74 (0.86%) Micro Focus
13 61 (0.71%) Atlassian
13 61 (0.71%) Cisco
14 56 (0.65%) Sparx
15 50 (0.58%) CyberArk
16 46 (0.53%) IBM
17 43 (0.50%) Adobe
18 42 (0.49%) Apple