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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 8,644 12,462 25,978
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.46% 31.07% 36.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 27.99% 32.35% 37.28%
Number of salaries quoted 6,021 8,800 14,027
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 £101,250 £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 30,879 38,524 69,675
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.94% 96.06% 97.07%
Number of salaries quoted 23,365 26,722 41,465
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 £61,000 £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 23 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
1 341 (3.94%) Apache
2 339 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
3 314 (3.63%) SAS
4 221 (2.56%) ArcGIS
5 217 (2.51%) GeoServer
6 184 (2.13%) Confluence
7 150 (1.74%) SharePoint
8 89 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
9 53 (0.61%) CMS
10 46 (0.53%) WebLogic
11 45 (0.52%) Apache Spark
12 42 (0.49%) OpenStack
13 38 (0.44%) IIS
14 37 (0.43%) Tuxedo
15 20 (0.23%) WordPress
16 16 (0.19%) nginx
17 14 (0.16%) Umbraco
18 12 (0.14%) Kentico
19 10 (0.12%) EPiServer
20 8 (0.093%) Drupal
Applications
1 587 (6.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 90 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 77 (0.89%) 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%) Sketch
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%) S-PLUS
12 3 (0.035%) UserZoom
13 2 (0.023%) Zeplin
14 1 (0.012%) Elementor
14 1 (0.012%) Notion
Business Applications
1 303 (3.51%) SAP ERP
2 138 (1.60%) 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 15 (0.17%) 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 (0.069%) Primavera
14 5 (0.058%) Dynamics GP
14 5 (0.058%) Oracle EBS
14 5 (0.058%) SAP GTS
14 5 (0.058%) SAP SD
14 5 (0.058%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,820 (32.62%) Azure
2 2,193 (25.37%) AWS
3 665 (7.69%) GCP
4 521 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
5 447 (5.17%) Power Platform
6 413 (4.78%) SaaS
7 340 (3.93%) dbt
8 315 (3.64%) Snowflake
9 259 (3.00%) Serverless
10 250 (2.89%) Microsoft 365
11 212 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
12 166 (1.92%) GitHub
13 158 (1.83%) PowerApps
14 131 (1.52%) Power Automate
15 127 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
16 105 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
17 98 (1.13%) PaaS
18 94 (1.09%) Entra ID
19 88 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
20 64 (0.74%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 798 (9.23%) Broadband
2 196 (2.27%) Firewall
2 196 (2.27%) Internet
3 170 (1.97%) DNS
4 137 (1.58%) TCP/IP
5 106 (1.23%) WAN
6 95 (1.10%) LAN
7 86 (0.99%) VPN
8 62 (0.72%) DHCP
9 59 (0.68%) Network Security
10 52 (0.60%) SSL
11 51 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
12 46 (0.53%) BGP
13 37 (0.43%) Wireless
14 26 (0.30%) HTTP
15 24 (0.28%) SAN
16 23 (0.27%) VLAN
17 22 (0.25%) RS-232
18 20 (0.23%) MPLS
18 20 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,142 (13.21%) SQL Server
2 404 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
3 328 (3.79%) MongoDB
4 311 (3.60%) Data Lake
5 292 (3.38%) Dremio
6 291 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
7 289 (3.34%) Amazon Athena
8 287 (3.32%) Apache Ignite
9 286 (3.31%) Apache Arrow
10 274 (3.17%) Power BI
11 255 (2.95%) MySQL
12 223 (2.58%) GIS
13 214 (2.48%) QGIS
14 206 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
14 206 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
15 202 (2.34%) NoSQL
16 199 (2.30%) Relational Database
17 123 (1.42%) BigQuery
18 103 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
19 80 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 594 (6.87%) Git
2 496 (5.74%) JIRA
3 263 (3.04%) Jenkins
4 196 (2.27%) GitLab
5 153 (1.77%) Visual Studio
6 111 (1.28%) Selenium
7 71 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
8 58 (0.67%) Cucumber
9 53 (0.61%) Bitbucket
9 53 (0.61%) JUnit
10 44 (0.51%) Maven
11 42 (0.49%) Postman
12 38 (0.44%) Cypress.io
13 34 (0.39%) JMeter
13 34 (0.39%) TeamCity
14 33 (0.38%) SpecFlow
15 28 (0.32%) NUnit
16 26 (0.30%) IBM UrbanCode
16 26 (0.30%) webpack
17 23 (0.27%) Subversion
General
1 2,782 (32.18%) Finance
2 2,686 (31.07%) Social Skills
3 996 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
4 695 (8.04%) Banking
5 530 (6.13%) Influencing Skills
6 507 (5.87%) Public Sector
7 450 (5.21%) Front Office
8 426 (4.93%) Retail
9 403 (4.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 297 (3.44%) Investment Banking
11 284 (3.29%) Marketing
12 279 (3.23%) Legal
13 240 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
14 167 (1.93%) Law
15 159 (1.84%) Games
16 130 (1.50%) Aerospace
17 109 (1.26%) Advertising
18 95 (1.10%) Telecoms
19 93 (1.08%) Manufacturing
20 89 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2,260 (26.15%) Developer
2 1,943 (22.48%) Senior
3 1,103 (12.76%) Analyst
4 1,089 (12.60%) Lead
5 1,025 (11.86%) Software Engineer
6 984 (11.38%) .NET Developer
7 854 (9.88%) Architect
8 618 (7.15%) Project Manager
9 613 (7.09%) Solutions Architect
10 558 (6.46%) Senior Software Engineer
11 473 (5.47%) Senior Developer
12 389 (4.50%) C# Developer
13 361 (4.18%) Senior Analyst
14 307 (3.55%) C# .NET Developer
15 301 (3.48%) Software Developer
16 300 (3.47%) Business Analyst
17 226 (2.61%) Technical Leader
18 201 (2.33%) DevOps Engineer
19 198 (2.29%) Python Engineer
20 193 (2.23%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,824 (21.10%) .NET
2 1,118 (12.93%) .NET Core
3 1,025 (11.86%) React
4 955 (11.05%) AngularJS
5 923 (10.68%) ASP.NET
6 725 (8.39%) ASP.NET MVC
7 699 (8.09%) HTML
8 673 (7.79%) CSS
9 635 (7.35%) .NET Framework
10 619 (7.16%) Entity Framework
11 605 (7.00%) ASP.NET Web API
12 544 (6.29%) Node.js
13 522 (6.04%) RESTful
14 432 (5.00%) Vue
15 390 (4.51%) HTML5
16 341 (3.94%) gRPC
17 305 (3.53%) Pandas
18 298 (3.45%) REST
19 296 (3.42%) Protocol Buffers
20 276 (3.19%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 652 (7.54%) Product Ownership
2 427 (4.94%) Fixed Income
3 389 (4.50%) Hedge funds
4 382 (4.42%) Derivative
5 371 (4.29%) Equities
6 336 (3.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 327 (3.78%) Greenfield Project
8 238 (2.75%) Management Information System
9 232 (2.68%) Public Cloud
10 198 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
11 193 (2.23%) Cloud Native
12 164 (1.90%) Data Structures
13 160 (1.85%) Mobile App
14 147 (1.70%) Client/Server
15 133 (1.54%) Algorithms
16 130 (1.50%) Private Cloud
17 104 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
18 95 (1.10%) Onboarding
19 86 (0.99%) PMI
20 82 (0.95%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 522 (6.04%) Linux
2 365 (4.22%) Windows
3 155 (1.79%) Android
4 100 (1.16%) Apple iOS
5 92 (1.06%) Ubuntu
6 71 (0.82%) Windows Server
7 65 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 46 (0.53%) Unix
9 41 (0.47%) VMS
10 30 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
11 20 (0.23%) Windows 10
12 18 (0.21%) Mac OS
12 18 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
13 13 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
14 9 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
14 9 (0.10%) Windows 7
14 9 (0.10%) zOS
15 8 (0.093%) VME
16 5 (0.058%) Windows Server 2008
16 5 (0.058%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,840 (21.29%) Mentoring
2 1,814 (20.99%) Software Engineering
3 1,689 (19.54%) DevOps
4 1,541 (17.83%) Scrum
5 1,217 (14.08%) Full Stack Development
6 1,205 (13.94%) Problem-Solving
7 1,174 (13.58%) Microservices
8 1,141 (13.20%) Coaching
9 1,122 (12.98%) Actionable Insight
9 1,122 (12.98%) Roadmaps
10 1,062 (12.29%) Project Management
11 1,000 (11.57%) TDD
12 932 (10.78%) CI/CD
13 860 (9.95%) Decision-Making
14 829 (9.59%) MVC
15 779 (9.01%) Kanban
16 748 (8.65%) SDLC
17 668 (7.73%) Analytics
18 622 (7.20%) Project Delivery
19 581 (6.72%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 2,071 (23.96%) JavaScript
2 1,860 (21.52%) C#
3 1,385 (16.02%) SQL
4 1,378 (15.94%) Python
5 1,073 (12.41%) Java
6 962 (11.13%) TypeScript
7 199 (2.30%) PowerShell
8 156 (1.80%) PHP
9 149 (1.72%) C
10 142 (1.64%) C++
11 136 (1.57%) T-SQL
12 114 (1.32%) Go
13 86 (0.99%) Kotlin
14 75 (0.87%) COBOL
15 74 (0.86%) Micro Focus COBOL
16 67 (0.78%) R
17 66 (0.76%) Groovy
18 55 (0.64%) Bash
19 53 (0.61%) Ruby
20 45 (0.52%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,191 (13.78%) Security Cleared
2 929 (10.75%) Degree
3 819 (9.47%) SC Cleared
4 469 (5.43%) ACCA
5 465 (5.38%) CIMA
6 242 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 241 (2.79%) DV Cleared
8 154 (1.78%) PMI Certification
9 116 (1.34%) DBS Check
10 114 (1.32%) Azure Certification
11 110 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
12 107 (1.24%) PMP
13 99 (1.15%) AWS Certification
14 86 (0.99%) Master's Degree
15 59 (0.68%) CISSP
16 54 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 53 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
18 52 (0.60%) APMP
19 50 (0.58%) ISTQB
19 50 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 486 (5.62%) QA
2 191 (2.21%) Data Quality
3 131 (1.52%) Accessibility
4 95 (1.10%) PMO
5 46 (0.53%) GDPR
6 43 (0.50%) WCAG
7 41 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 30 (0.35%) NIST
8 30 (0.35%) SLA
9 25 (0.29%) PCI DSS
10 21 (0.24%) NCSC
11 20 (0.23%) ISO 9001
12 17 (0.20%) 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
16 6 (0.069%) SEPA
17 5 (0.058%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 663 (7.67%) Docker
2 204 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 72 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 52 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
5 50 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 48 (0.56%) RACF
7 44 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
8 39 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
9 23 (0.27%) Firmware
10 18 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
11 16 (0.19%) 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%) Apache Flume
16 1 (0.012%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 1 (0.012%) NFS
16 1 (0.012%) Varnish
16 1 (0.012%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 568 (6.57%) Kubernetes
2 446 (5.16%) Terraform
3 286 (3.31%) Ansible
4 63 (0.73%) Grafana
5 55 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 53 (0.61%) Progress Chef
7 49 (0.57%) 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 (0.25%) Kibana
12 22 (0.25%) 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
16 12 (0.14%) vCenter Server
17 10 (0.12%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 2,214 (25.61%) Microsoft
2 544 (6.29%) Oracle
3 449 (5.19%) SAP
4 334 (3.86%) Google
5 299 (3.46%) Anaplan
5 299 (3.46%) Hyperion
6 219 (2.53%) ESRI
7 111 (1.28%) Salesforce
8 88 (1.02%) Facebook
9 87 (1.01%) Databricks
10 81 (0.94%) VMware
11 76 (0.88%) ServiceNow
12 74 (0.86%) Micro Focus
13 62 (0.72%) Atlassian
14 61 (0.71%) Cisco
15 56 (0.65%) Sparx
16 48 (0.56%) CyberArk
16 48 (0.56%) IBM
17 44 (0.51%) Adobe
18 42 (0.49%) Apple