Agile Software Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 2 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 20,074 27,300 59,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.07% 28.80% 35.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.82% 30.17% 36.66%
Number of salaries quoted 11,495 15,489 26,453
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.40% +8.23% +9.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,980 90,493 162,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.59% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,356 54,578 82,967
10th Percentile £29,284 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the UK

Agile
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Agile.

Salary trend for Agile in the UK

Agile
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Agile in the UK

Agile
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -1 16,051 £62,500 -6.72% 3,795
UK excluding London 0 14,335 £57,500 -3.40% 2,481
Work from Home -1 8,661 £61,206 -5.84% 1,969
London -1 5,010 £80,000 - 1,503
North of England -1 3,629 £57,965 +0.27% 662
South East -1 2,978 £60,000 -4.00% 569
Scotland -1 2,969 £57,500 -4.17% 199
North West -1 2,124 £60,000 +4.35% 429
Midlands -2 1,889 £55,000 -1.79% 444
South West -3 1,651 £57,500 -0.43% 351
West Midlands -6 1,123 £57,500 +2.68% 299
Yorkshire -2 1,094 £57,500 -4.17% 169
East Midlands -2 752 £52,500 -4.55% 144
East of England -5 749 £57,000 -0.87% 200
North East +1 411 £55,000 - 67
Wales -4 333 £52,956 +0.40% 62
Northern Ireland -4 138 £60,000 +14.29% 44
Isle of Man - 6 £54,000 -

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 697 (3.47%) Apache Spark
2 679 (3.38%) Apache
3 617 (3.07%) Apache Airflow
4 486 (2.42%) Confluence
5 359 (1.79%) SharePoint
6 341 (1.70%) ArcGIS
7 333 (1.66%) GeoServer
8 324 (1.61%) SAS
9 142 (0.71%) CMS
10 131 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
11 104 (0.52%) FileNet
12 62 (0.31%) IIS
13 54 (0.27%) OpenStack
14 47 (0.23%) WebLogic
15 45 (0.22%) WordPress
16 42 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
17 38 (0.19%) Tuxedo
18 34 (0.17%) nginx
19 24 (0.12%) Umbraco
20 21 (0.10%) GemFire
Applications
1 923 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 419 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
3 215 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 128 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
5 87 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 78 (0.39%) AutoCAD
7 56 (0.28%) Simulink
8 38 (0.19%) Adobe XD
9 37 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
10 33 (0.16%) Sketch
10 33 (0.16%) UserZoom
11 31 (0.15%) Photoshop
12 22 (0.11%) Stateflow
12 22 (0.11%) Trello
13 21 (0.10%) Revit
14 13 (0.065%) InVision
15 8 (0.040%) Adobe Illustrator
16 7 (0.035%) CANalyzer
17 6 (0.030%) Adobe Creative Suite
18 5 (0.025%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 307 (1.53%) SAP ERP
2 258 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 74 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 61 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
5 53 (0.26%) NetSuite
6 41 (0.20%) Siebel CRM
7 38 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
8 35 (0.17%) SDL Web 8
9 26 (0.13%) NEC Housing
10 20 (0.100%) Magento
11 19 (0.095%) SAP Oil and Gas
11 19 (0.095%) Unit4 Business World
12 18 (0.090%) Shopify
13 17 (0.085%) Dynamics AX
14 16 (0.080%) Aladdin
15 14 (0.070%) Payment Gateway
15 14 (0.070%) SAP CX
16 13 (0.065%) Primavera
17 10 (0.050%) Dynamics GP
17 10 (0.050%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 5,470 (27.25%) Azure
2 5,152 (25.67%) AWS
3 1,519 (7.57%) GCP
4 1,089 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
5 1,011 (5.04%) Power Platform
6 724 (3.61%) SaaS
7 609 (3.03%) Serverless
8 473 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
9 467 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
10 435 (2.17%) GitHub
11 396 (1.97%) dbt
12 369 (1.84%) Snowflake
13 336 (1.67%) Power Automate
13 336 (1.67%) PowerApps
14 318 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
15 305 (1.52%) Amazon S3
16 296 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
17 222 (1.11%) PaaS
18 219 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
19 200 (1.00%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 826 (4.11%) Broadband
2 345 (1.72%) Firewall
3 262 (1.31%) DNS
4 250 (1.25%) Internet
5 203 (1.01%) TCP/IP
6 172 (0.86%) WAN
7 157 (0.78%) Network Security
8 138 (0.69%) LAN
8 138 (0.69%) VPN
9 128 (0.64%) Wireless
10 118 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
11 112 (0.56%) DHCP
12 83 (0.41%) Kerberos
13 82 (0.41%) Intranet
14 73 (0.36%) SSL
15 69 (0.34%) BGP
16 61 (0.30%) HTTP
17 55 (0.27%) SD-WAN
18 48 (0.24%) Bluetooth
19 43 (0.21%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,829 (9.11%) SQL Server
2 1,272 (6.34%) NoSQL
3 924 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
4 703 (3.50%) Big Data
5 656 (3.27%) Power BI
6 639 (3.18%) MongoDB
7 554 (2.76%) Data Lake
8 501 (2.50%) Relational Database
9 500 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
10 480 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
11 459 (2.29%) MySQL
12 434 (2.16%) Apache Ignite
13 378 (1.88%) BigQuery
14 357 (1.78%) GIS
15 333 (1.66%) Dremio
16 330 (1.64%) QGIS
17 328 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
18 321 (1.60%) Apache Arrow
19 313 (1.56%) Hadoop
20 296 (1.47%) Looker
Development Applications
1 1,642 (8.18%) Git
2 1,307 (6.51%) JIRA
3 875 (4.36%) Jenkins
4 375 (1.87%) GitLab
5 359 (1.79%) Selenium
6 356 (1.77%) JUnit
7 345 (1.72%) Visual Studio
8 294 (1.46%) Cypress.io
9 191 (0.95%) Bitbucket
10 159 (0.79%) Cucumber
11 145 (0.72%) Jasmine
12 135 (0.67%) TeamCity
13 131 (0.65%) Maven
14 125 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
15 122 (0.61%) WebDriver
16 113 (0.56%) Postman
17 107 (0.53%) NUnit
18 101 (0.50%) JMeter
19 97 (0.48%) Artifactory
20 89 (0.44%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 6,878 (34.26%) Finance
2 5,331 (26.56%) Social Skills
3 3,686 (18.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2,705 (13.48%) Law
5 2,328 (11.60%) Analytical Skills
6 1,991 (9.92%) Marketing
7 1,631 (8.12%) Banking
8 1,346 (6.71%) Legal
9 1,003 (5.00%) Public Sector
10 924 (4.60%) Retail
11 875 (4.36%) Influencing Skills
12 784 (3.91%) Front Office
13 766 (3.82%) Investment Banking
14 499 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
15 474 (2.36%) Aerospace
16 321 (1.60%) Financial Institution
17 278 (1.38%) Manufacturing
18 264 (1.32%) Games
19 234 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
20 227 (1.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4,525 (22.54%) Developer
2 3,790 (18.88%) Software Engineer
3 3,676 (18.31%) Senior
4 2,671 (13.31%) Lead
5 1,712 (8.53%) Analyst
6 1,683 (8.38%) Architect
7 1,478 (7.36%) .NET Developer
8 1,253 (6.24%) Project Manager
9 1,019 (5.08%) Java Engineer
10 947 (4.72%) Java Software Engineer
11 923 (4.60%) Senior Developer
12 921 (4.59%) Senior Software Engineer
13 857 (4.27%) Lead Software Engineer
14 851 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
15 676 (3.37%) Data Engineer
16 657 (3.27%) Python Engineer
17 642 (3.20%) C# Developer
18 626 (3.12%) Software Developer
19 619 (3.08%) Business Analyst
20 590 (2.94%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,425 (17.06%) .NET
2 2,674 (13.32%) React
3 1,955 (9.74%) AngularJS
4 1,746 (8.70%) CSS
5 1,722 (8.58%) HTML
6 1,553 (7.74%) .NET Core
7 1,421 (7.08%) ASP.NET
8 1,123 (5.59%) Spring
9 1,000 (4.98%) Node.js
10 943 (4.70%) REST
11 924 (4.60%) RESTful
12 904 (4.50%) .NET Framework
13 880 (4.38%) Vue
14 849 (4.23%) ASP.NET Web API
15 835 (4.16%) ASP.NET MVC
16 760 (3.79%) Entity Framework
17 715 (3.56%) Web Services
18 697 (3.47%) Spring Boot
19 671 (3.34%) HTML5
20 659 (3.28%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1,457 (7.26%) Product Ownership
2 1,169 (5.82%) Cloud Native
3 1,140 (5.68%) Algorithms
4 700 (3.49%) Management Information System
5 643 (3.20%) Fixed Income
6 610 (3.04%) Hedge funds
7 603 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
8 583 (2.90%) Public Cloud
9 515 (2.57%) Derivative
9 515 (2.57%) Equities
10 509 (2.54%) Data Structures
11 495 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
12 485 (2.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 386 (1.92%) Onboarding
14 337 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
15 313 (1.56%) Mobile App
16 231 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
17 229 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
18 217 (1.08%) Blockchain
19 204 (1.02%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1,308 (6.52%) Linux
2 822 (4.09%) Windows
3 385 (1.92%) Android
4 293 (1.46%) Apple iOS
5 275 (1.37%) Unix
6 180 (0.90%) Windows Server
7 167 (0.83%) Ubuntu
8 129 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 63 (0.31%) Windows 10
10 60 (0.30%) CentOS
11 53 (0.26%) VMS
12 52 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
13 42 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
14 38 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
15 37 (0.18%) Debian
16 18 (0.090%) Mac OS
17 17 (0.085%) Solaris
18 15 (0.075%) Windows Server 2008
19 11 (0.055%) Windows 7
19 11 (0.055%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,594 (27.87%) Software Engineering
2 3,981 (19.83%) DevOps
3 3,803 (18.94%) CI/CD
4 3,370 (16.79%) Mentoring
5 3,366 (16.77%) SDLC
6 3,264 (16.26%) Problem-Solving
7 3,192 (15.90%) Scrum
8 2,577 (12.84%) Full Stack Development
9 2,464 (12.27%) Project Management
10 2,295 (11.43%) Artificial Intelligence
11 2,246 (11.19%) Microservices
12 2,197 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
13 2,178 (10.85%) Roadmaps
14 2,028 (10.10%) Machine Learning
15 2,014 (10.03%) Coaching
16 1,846 (9.20%) Actionable Insight
17 1,832 (9.13%) Decision-Making
18 1,805 (8.99%) TDD
19 1,753 (8.73%) Operational Stability
20 1,551 (7.73%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4,034 (20.10%) JavaScript
2 3,793 (18.90%) SQL
3 3,623 (18.05%) C#
4 3,597 (17.92%) Java
5 3,498 (17.43%) Python
6 1,903 (9.48%) TypeScript
7 475 (2.37%) Scala
8 405 (2.02%) PHP
9 404 (2.01%) PowerShell
10 377 (1.88%) C
11 370 (1.84%) C++
12 337 (1.68%) Go
13 296 (1.47%) Kotlin
14 281 (1.40%) T-SQL
15 191 (0.95%) PL/SQL
16 181 (0.90%) Bash
17 134 (0.67%) Ruby
18 113 (0.56%) R
19 111 (0.55%) MATLAB
20 93 (0.46%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2,745 (13.67%) Degree
2 2,414 (12.03%) Security Cleared
3 1,597 (7.96%) SC Cleared
4 708 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 574 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 481 (2.40%) ACCA
7 473 (2.36%) CIMA
8 318 (1.58%) Master's Degree
9 264 (1.32%) PMI Certification
10 232 (1.16%) AWS Certification
11 226 (1.13%) Azure Certification
12 219 (1.09%) PMP
13 163 (0.81%) DBS Check
14 152 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
15 140 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
16 116 (0.58%) HNC
17 111 (0.55%) HND
18 98 (0.49%) CISSP
19 97 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
20 95 (0.47%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1,119 (5.57%) QA
2 445 (2.22%) Data Quality
3 369 (1.84%) Accessibility
4 309 (1.54%) GDPR
5 255 (1.27%) PMO
6 134 (0.67%) SLA
7 95 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 93 (0.46%) WCAG
9 83 (0.41%) NIST
10 46 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
11 45 (0.22%) ISO 9001
12 29 (0.14%) MISRA
13 27 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
13 27 (0.13%) NCSC
14 26 (0.13%) NIST 800
14 26 (0.13%) PCI DSS
15 20 (0.100%) GRC
16 19 (0.095%) ITGC
17 17 (0.085%) AUTOSAR
17 17 (0.085%) PSD2
System Software
1 1,334 (6.65%) Docker
2 445 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 189 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 111 (0.55%) HDFS
5 88 (0.44%) Firmware
5 88 (0.44%) Hyper-V
6 79 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
7 62 (0.31%) vSphere
8 61 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
9 50 (0.25%) RACF
10 49 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
11 33 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
12 30 (0.15%) VMware NSX
13 24 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
14 14 (0.070%) Time Sharing Option
15 9 (0.045%) KVM
15 9 (0.045%) Microsoft App-V
15 9 (0.045%) Terminal Services
16 5 (0.025%) DFS Replication
16 5 (0.025%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 1,592 (7.93%) Kubernetes
2 1,194 (5.95%) Terraform
3 547 (2.72%) Ansible
4 257 (1.28%) Grafana
5 191 (0.95%) Prometheus
6 134 (0.67%) Puppet
7 89 (0.44%) Progress Chef
8 75 (0.37%) SCCM
9 74 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
10 63 (0.31%) Kibana
11 44 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 42 (0.21%) WSUS
13 36 (0.18%) SCOM
14 30 (0.15%) HAProxy
14 30 (0.15%) ZABBIX
15 29 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
16 26 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
16 26 (0.13%) vCenter Server
17 21 (0.10%) Zipkin
18 19 (0.095%) Packer
Vendors
1 3,665 (18.26%) Microsoft
2 1,144 (5.70%) Oracle
3 911 (4.54%) Google
4 613 (3.05%) SAP
5 449 (2.24%) Databricks
6 341 (1.70%) ESRI
7 300 (1.49%) Anaplan
8 299 (1.49%) Hyperion
9 291 (1.45%) Salesforce
10 274 (1.36%) IBM
11 271 (1.35%) Red Hat
12 238 (1.19%) Splunk
13 233 (1.16%) Dynatrace
14 227 (1.13%) VMware
15 215 (1.07%) ServiceNow
16 154 (0.77%) Atlassian
17 153 (0.76%) Informatica
18 137 (0.68%) Cisco
19 112 (0.56%) Adobe
20 108 (0.54%) Facebook