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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 8,673 11,625 27,721
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.59% 30.80% 36.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 27.40% 32.08% 37.80%
Number of salaries quoted 5,974 8,431 14,509
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 £105,000 £102,500 £94,750
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 31,654 36,235 73,335
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.73% 96.01% 97.14%
Number of salaries quoted 23,643 25,788 42,106
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 9 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 (4.87%) Apache
2 416 (4.80%) Apache Airflow
3 308 (3.55%) SAS
4 208 (2.40%) ArcGIS
5 204 (2.35%) GeoServer
6 181 (2.09%) Confluence
7 147 (1.69%) SharePoint
8 94 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
9 52 (0.60%) CMS
10 46 (0.53%) WebLogic
11 45 (0.52%) Apache Spark
12 41 (0.47%) 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 (0.12%) EPiServer
20 8 (0.092%) Drupal
Applications
1 584 (6.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 88 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 71 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
4 36 (0.42%) 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 (0.081%) 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 (0.035%) InVision
13 3 (0.035%) S-PLUS
13 3 (0.035%) UserZoom
14 2 (0.023%) Autodesk Inventor
14 2 (0.023%) Fusion 360
14 2 (0.023%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 302 (3.48%) 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 13 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
7 13 (0.15%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 11 (0.13%) Magento
8 11 (0.13%) SAP CX
9 9 (0.10%) NEC Housing
10 8 (0.092%) Dynamics AX
10 8 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
11 6 (0.069%) Primavera
12 5 (0.058%) Dynamics GP
12 5 (0.058%) Odoo
12 5 (0.058%) Oracle EBS
12 5 (0.058%) SAP GTS
12 5 (0.058%) SAP SD
12 5 (0.058%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,812 (32.42%) Azure
2 2,260 (26.06%) AWS
3 632 (7.29%) GCP
4 512 (5.90%) Azure DevOps
5 463 (5.34%) Power Platform
6 430 (4.96%) dbt
7 414 (4.77%) SaaS
8 380 (4.38%) Snowflake
9 248 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
10 246 (2.84%) Serverless
11 225 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
12 166 (1.91%) PowerApps
13 148 (1.71%) Power Automate
14 147 (1.69%) GitHub
15 120 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
16 101 (1.16%) Entra ID
17 99 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
18 94 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
19 78 (0.90%) PaaS
20 71 (0.82%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 799 (9.21%) Broadband
2 199 (2.29%) Firewall
3 196 (2.26%) Internet
4 174 (2.01%) DNS
5 136 (1.57%) TCP/IP
6 102 (1.18%) 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 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
12 46 (0.53%) BGP
13 34 (0.39%) Wireless
14 26 (0.30%) HTTP
15 24 (0.28%) SAN
16 23 (0.27%) RS-232
17 21 (0.24%) VLAN
18 20 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
19 18 (0.21%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,158 (13.35%) SQL Server
2 393 (4.53%) Data Lake
3 389 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
4 375 (4.32%) Dremio
5 363 (4.19%) Apache Arrow
6 362 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
7 358 (4.13%) Apache Ignite
8 330 (3.80%) MongoDB
9 290 (3.34%) Elasticsearch
10 289 (3.33%) Power BI
11 257 (2.96%) MySQL
12 213 (2.46%) GIS
13 212 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
14 205 (2.36%) Relational Database
15 204 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
16 202 (2.33%) QGIS
17 190 (2.19%) NoSQL
18 122 (1.41%) BigQuery
19 100 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
20 93 (1.07%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 595 (6.86%) Git
2 495 (5.71%) JIRA
3 226 (2.61%) Jenkins
4 190 (2.19%) GitLab
5 154 (1.78%) Visual Studio
6 113 (1.30%) Selenium
7 72 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
8 55 (0.63%) JUnit
9 52 (0.60%) Bitbucket
10 51 (0.59%) Cucumber
11 43 (0.50%) Postman
12 39 (0.45%) Cypress.io
13 36 (0.42%) TeamCity
14 35 (0.40%) JMeter
15 34 (0.39%) Maven
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 2,776 (32.01%) Finance
2 2,672 (30.81%) Social Skills
3 981 (11.31%) Analytical Skills
4 677 (7.81%) Banking
5 532 (6.13%) Front Office
6 526 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
7 511 (5.89%) Public Sector
8 425 (4.90%) Retail
9 415 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 369 (4.25%) Investment Banking
11 289 (3.33%) Marketing
12 281 (3.24%) Legal
13 208 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
14 170 (1.96%) Law
15 161 (1.86%) Games
16 131 (1.51%) Aerospace
17 110 (1.27%) Advertising
18 99 (1.14%) Manufacturing
19 98 (1.13%) Telecoms
20 90 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2,308 (26.61%) Developer
2 1,940 (22.37%) Senior
3 1,120 (12.91%) Lead
4 1,099 (12.67%) Analyst
5 1,050 (12.11%) Software Engineer
6 1,002 (11.55%) .NET Developer
7 873 (10.07%) Architect
8 617 (7.11%) Solutions Architect
9 588 (6.78%) Project Manager
10 564 (6.50%) Senior Software Engineer
11 488 (5.63%) Senior Developer
12 406 (4.68%) C# Developer
13 358 (4.13%) Senior Analyst
14 324 (3.74%) Software Developer
15 314 (3.62%) C# .NET Developer
16 300 (3.46%) Business Analyst
17 240 (2.77%) Technical Leader
18 234 (2.70%) Python Engineer
19 222 (2.56%) Java Engineer
20 202 (2.33%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,856 (21.40%) .NET
2 1,131 (13.04%) .NET Core
3 1,045 (12.05%) React
4 973 (11.22%) AngularJS
5 929 (10.71%) ASP.NET
6 725 (8.36%) ASP.NET MVC
7 709 (8.17%) HTML
8 681 (7.85%) CSS
9 649 (7.48%) .NET Framework
10 624 (7.19%) Entity Framework
11 605 (6.98%) ASP.NET Web API
12 551 (6.35%) Node.js
13 522 (6.02%) RESTful
14 439 (5.06%) Vue
15 412 (4.75%) gRPC
16 389 (4.49%) HTML5
17 378 (4.36%) Pandas
18 367 (4.23%) Protocol Buffers
19 349 (4.02%) NumPy
20 347 (4.00%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 644 (7.43%) Product Ownership
2 504 (5.81%) Fixed Income
3 463 (5.34%) Hedge funds
4 456 (5.26%) Derivative
5 445 (5.13%) Equities
6 414 (4.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 315 (3.63%) Greenfield Project
8 240 (2.77%) Management Information System
9 213 (2.46%) Public Cloud
10 195 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
11 168 (1.94%) Data Structures
12 167 (1.93%) Cloud Native
13 165 (1.90%) Mobile App
14 148 (1.71%) Client/Server
15 135 (1.56%) Algorithms
16 110 (1.27%) Private Cloud
16 110 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
17 92 (1.06%) Onboarding
18 86 (0.99%) Data Centre
19 79 (0.91%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 497 (5.73%) Linux
2 351 (4.05%) Windows
3 158 (1.82%) Android
4 101 (1.16%) Apple iOS
5 81 (0.93%) Ubuntu
6 74 (0.85%) 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 (0.058%) AIX
17 5 (0.058%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,878 (21.65%) Software Engineering
2 1,843 (21.25%) Mentoring
3 1,636 (18.86%) DevOps
4 1,539 (17.74%) Scrum
5 1,232 (14.21%) Full Stack Development
6 1,219 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
7 1,158 (13.35%) Microservices
8 1,148 (13.24%) Coaching
9 1,129 (13.02%) Roadmaps
10 1,095 (12.63%) Actionable Insight
11 1,046 (12.06%) Project Management
12 988 (11.39%) TDD
13 937 (10.80%) CI/CD
14 859 (9.90%) Decision-Making
15 837 (9.65%) MVC
16 780 (8.99%) Kanban
17 748 (8.62%) SDLC
18 684 (7.89%) Analytics
19 602 (6.94%) Project Delivery
20 589 (6.79%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 2,143 (24.71%) JavaScript
2 1,913 (22.06%) C#
3 1,440 (16.60%) Python
4 1,387 (15.99%) SQL
5 1,108 (12.78%) Java
6 1,032 (11.90%) TypeScript
7 207 (2.39%) PowerShell
8 159 (1.83%) PHP
9 154 (1.78%) C
10 147 (1.69%) C++
11 141 (1.63%) 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 49 (0.56%) Groovy
18 49 (0.56%) Ruby
19 46 (0.53%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,190 (13.72%) Security Cleared
2 953 (10.99%) Degree
3 809 (9.33%) SC Cleared
4 469 (5.41%) ACCA
5 465 (5.36%) CIMA
6 265 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 251 (2.89%) DV Cleared
8 145 (1.67%) PMI Certification
9 117 (1.35%) Azure Certification
10 112 (1.29%) DBS Check
11 108 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 104 (1.20%) PMP
13 97 (1.12%) AWS Certification
13 97 (1.12%) Master's Degree
14 63 (0.73%) CISSP
15 56 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
16 55 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 52 (0.60%) APMP
18 51 (0.59%) ISTQB
19 50 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 489 (5.64%) QA
2 213 (2.46%) Data Quality
3 134 (1.55%) Accessibility
4 93 (1.07%) PMO
5 52 (0.60%) GDPR
6 41 (0.47%) WCAG
7 40 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 34 (0.39%) 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 (0.058%) HIPAA
17 5 (0.058%) NEBOSH
17 5 (0.058%) SEPA
System Software
1 638 (7.36%) Docker
2 205 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 66 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 52 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
5 50 (0.58%) RACF
6 44 (0.51%) Hyper-V
6 44 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
7 32 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 23 (0.27%) Firmware
9 20 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
10 14 (0.16%) vSphere
11 6 (0.069%) 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
1 540 (6.23%) Kubernetes
2 415 (4.78%) Terraform
3 267 (3.08%) Ansible
4 62 (0.71%) Grafana
5 57 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 44 (0.51%) Puppet
7 38 (0.44%) WSUS
8 37 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 37 (0.43%) Progress Chef
9 36 (0.42%) SCCM
10 30 (0.35%) Prometheus
11 23 (0.27%) 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 2,233 (25.75%) Microsoft
2 530 (6.11%) Oracle
3 447 (5.15%) SAP
4 299 (3.45%) Anaplan
4 299 (3.45%) Hyperion
5 264 (3.04%) Google
6 209 (2.41%) ESRI
7 99 (1.14%) Salesforce
8 89 (1.03%) Databricks
8 89 (1.03%) Facebook
9 83 (0.96%) 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 (0.58%) CyberArk
16 46 (0.53%) Bloomberg
17 42 (0.48%) Apple
18 41 (0.47%) Adobe