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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 19,873 28,492 58,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.37% 29.27% 34.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.99% 30.63% 36.47%
Number of salaries quoted 11,521 15,705 26,479
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 £81,250 £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% +10.00%

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 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -2 15,816 £62,500 -7.41% 3,583
UK excluding London 0 14,172 £57,500 -3.40% 2,440
Work from Home -1 8,663 £61,206 -5.84% 2,104
London -1 4,978 £80,000 - 1,318
North of England -1 3,499 £57,965 +0.27% 663
Scotland -1 3,014 £57,500 -4.17% 202
South East -1 2,950 £60,000 -4.00% 524
North West -1 2,012 £60,000 +4.35% 403
Midlands -3 1,867 £55,000 - 443
South West -4 1,638 £57,500 - 351
West Midlands -6 1,120 £57,500 +2.68% 292
Yorkshire -1 1,083 £57,732 -3.78% 188
East of England -5 744 £57,000 -0.87% 206
East Midlands -2 732 £52,500 -4.55% 150
North East +1 404 £55,000 - 77
Wales -4 326 £52,738 -0.71% 64
Northern Ireland -4 136 £60,000 +14.29% 42
Isle of Man - 5 £54,000 - 1

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
1 707 (3.56%) Apache Spark
2 665 (3.35%) Apache
3 609 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
4 479 (2.41%) Confluence
5 373 (1.88%) SharePoint
6 341 (1.72%) ArcGIS
7 333 (1.68%) GeoServer
8 330 (1.66%) SAS
9 136 (0.68%) CMS
10 133 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
11 106 (0.53%) FileNet
12 62 (0.31%) IIS
13 58 (0.29%) OpenStack
14 47 (0.24%) WebLogic
15 44 (0.22%) WordPress
16 42 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
17 38 (0.19%) Tuxedo
18 34 (0.17%) nginx
19 22 (0.11%) WebSphere
20 21 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 880 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 379 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
3 213 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 140 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
5 97 (0.49%) MS Visio
6 77 (0.39%) AutoCAD
7 56 (0.28%) Simulink
8 38 (0.19%) Adobe XD
9 37 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
10 34 (0.17%) UserZoom
11 33 (0.17%) Sketch
12 29 (0.15%) Photoshop
13 22 (0.11%) Stateflow
13 22 (0.11%) Trello
14 20 (0.10%) Revit
15 13 (0.065%) InVision
16 8 (0.040%) Adobe Illustrator
17 7 (0.035%) CANalyzer
18 6 (0.030%) Adobe Creative Suite
19 5 (0.025%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 308 (1.55%) SAP ERP
2 253 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 75 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 61 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
5 53 (0.27%) NetSuite
6 41 (0.21%) Siebel CRM
7 38 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
8 33 (0.17%) SDL Web 8
9 28 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
10 26 (0.13%) NEC Housing
11 19 (0.096%) Magento
11 19 (0.096%) SAP Oil and Gas
12 18 (0.091%) Shopify
13 17 (0.086%) Dynamics AX
14 16 (0.081%) Aladdin
15 14 (0.070%) Payment Gateway
15 14 (0.070%) SAP CX
16 13 (0.065%) Primavera
17 11 (0.055%) SAP GTS
18 10 (0.050%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 5,469 (27.52%) Azure
2 5,134 (25.83%) AWS
3 1,540 (7.75%) GCP
4 1,096 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
5 1,008 (5.07%) Power Platform
6 715 (3.60%) SaaS
7 616 (3.10%) Serverless
8 489 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
9 460 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
10 440 (2.21%) GitHub
11 377 (1.90%) dbt
12 360 (1.81%) Snowflake
13 336 (1.69%) PowerApps
14 333 (1.68%) Power Automate
15 318 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
16 304 (1.53%) Amazon S3
17 301 (1.51%) Amazon EKS
18 227 (1.14%) PaaS
19 220 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
20 205 (1.03%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 826 (4.16%) Broadband
2 347 (1.75%) Firewall
3 263 (1.32%) DNS
4 251 (1.26%) Internet
5 203 (1.02%) TCP/IP
6 174 (0.88%) WAN
7 155 (0.78%) Network Security
8 139 (0.70%) LAN
9 138 (0.69%) VPN
10 127 (0.64%) Wireless
11 120 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
12 113 (0.57%) DHCP
13 83 (0.42%) Kerberos
14 82 (0.41%) Intranet
15 73 (0.37%) SSL
16 69 (0.35%) BGP
17 61 (0.31%) HTTP
18 54 (0.27%) SD-WAN
19 48 (0.24%) Bluetooth
20 44 (0.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,816 (9.14%) SQL Server
2 1,289 (6.49%) NoSQL
3 921 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
4 713 (3.59%) Big Data
5 651 (3.28%) Power BI
6 644 (3.24%) MongoDB
7 541 (2.72%) Data Lake
8 506 (2.55%) Relational Database
9 501 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
10 478 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
11 451 (2.27%) MySQL
12 425 (2.14%) Apache Ignite
13 377 (1.90%) BigQuery
14 356 (1.79%) GIS
15 330 (1.66%) QGIS
16 320 (1.61%) Dremio
17 319 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
17 319 (1.61%) Hadoop
18 308 (1.55%) Apache Arrow
19 296 (1.49%) Looker
Development Applications
1 1,634 (8.22%) Git
2 1,302 (6.55%) JIRA
3 894 (4.50%) Jenkins
4 374 (1.88%) GitLab
5 363 (1.83%) Selenium
6 354 (1.78%) JUnit
7 342 (1.72%) Visual Studio
8 298 (1.50%) Cypress.io
9 190 (0.96%) Bitbucket
10 159 (0.80%) Cucumber
11 147 (0.74%) Jasmine
12 134 (0.67%) Maven
13 132 (0.66%) TeamCity
14 125 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
15 123 (0.62%) WebDriver
16 113 (0.57%) Postman
17 105 (0.53%) NUnit
18 102 (0.51%) JMeter
19 97 (0.49%) Artifactory
20 90 (0.45%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 6,890 (34.67%) Finance
2 5,311 (26.72%) Social Skills
3 3,598 (18.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2,742 (13.80%) Law
5 2,298 (11.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1,967 (9.90%) Marketing
7 1,655 (8.33%) Banking
8 1,350 (6.79%) Legal
9 997 (5.02%) Public Sector
10 884 (4.45%) Retail
11 877 (4.41%) Influencing Skills
12 774 (3.89%) Front Office
13 757 (3.81%) Investment Banking
14 519 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
15 474 (2.39%) Aerospace
16 320 (1.61%) Financial Institution
17 270 (1.36%) Manufacturing
18 262 (1.32%) Games
19 236 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
20 226 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4,480 (22.54%) Developer
2 3,767 (18.96%) Software Engineer
3 3,652 (18.38%) Senior
4 2,638 (13.27%) Lead
5 1,716 (8.63%) Analyst
6 1,614 (8.12%) Architect
7 1,462 (7.36%) .NET Developer
8 1,268 (6.38%) Project Manager
9 1,023 (5.15%) Java Engineer
10 953 (4.80%) Java Software Engineer
11 907 (4.56%) Senior Software Engineer
12 906 (4.56%) Senior Developer
13 854 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
14 832 (4.19%) Lead Software Engineer
15 687 (3.46%) Data Engineer
16 659 (3.32%) Python Engineer
17 632 (3.18%) C# Developer
18 625 (3.14%) Software Developer
19 622 (3.13%) Business Analyst
20 590 (2.97%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,408 (17.15%) .NET
2 2,655 (13.36%) React
3 1,958 (9.85%) AngularJS
4 1,740 (8.76%) CSS
5 1,714 (8.62%) HTML
6 1,548 (7.79%) .NET Core
7 1,414 (7.12%) ASP.NET
8 1,131 (5.69%) Spring
9 999 (5.03%) Node.js
10 941 (4.74%) REST
11 922 (4.64%) RESTful
12 897 (4.51%) .NET Framework
13 873 (4.39%) Vue
14 841 (4.23%) ASP.NET Web API
15 836 (4.21%) ASP.NET MVC
16 758 (3.81%) Entity Framework
17 709 (3.57%) Spring Boot
18 708 (3.56%) Web Services
19 669 (3.37%) HTML5
20 666 (3.35%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1,457 (7.33%) Product Ownership
2 1,189 (5.98%) Cloud Native
3 1,150 (5.79%) Algorithms
4 700 (3.52%) Management Information System
5 632 (3.18%) Fixed Income
6 604 (3.04%) Public Cloud
7 599 (3.01%) Hedge funds
8 592 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
9 507 (2.55%) Data Structures
10 504 (2.54%) Derivative
10 504 (2.54%) Equities
11 492 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
12 474 (2.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 384 (1.93%) Onboarding
14 335 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
15 307 (1.54%) Mobile App
16 230 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
17 224 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
18 214 (1.08%) Blockchain
19 204 (1.03%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1,313 (6.61%) Linux
2 831 (4.18%) Windows
3 378 (1.90%) Android
4 291 (1.46%) Apple iOS
5 280 (1.41%) Unix
6 180 (0.91%) Windows Server
7 166 (0.84%) Ubuntu
8 128 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 64 (0.32%) Windows 10
10 59 (0.30%) CentOS
11 53 (0.27%) VMS
12 51 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
13 42 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
14 38 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
15 37 (0.19%) Debian
16 18 (0.091%) Mac OS
17 17 (0.086%) Solaris
18 15 (0.075%) Windows Server 2008
19 11 (0.055%) Windows 7
19 11 (0.055%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,486 (27.61%) Software Engineering
2 3,976 (20.01%) DevOps
3 3,826 (19.25%) CI/CD
4 3,390 (17.06%) SDLC
5 3,235 (16.28%) Mentoring
6 3,198 (16.09%) Scrum
7 3,138 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
8 2,558 (12.87%) Full Stack Development
9 2,476 (12.46%) Project Management
10 2,329 (11.72%) Artificial Intelligence
11 2,248 (11.31%) Microservices
12 2,209 (11.12%) Continuous Improvement
13 2,176 (10.95%) Roadmaps
14 2,003 (10.08%) Coaching
15 1,935 (9.74%) Machine Learning
16 1,851 (9.31%) Actionable Insight
17 1,846 (9.29%) Decision-Making
18 1,805 (9.08%) TDD
19 1,789 (9.00%) Operational Stability
20 1,559 (7.84%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4,014 (20.20%) JavaScript
2 3,814 (19.19%) SQL
3 3,619 (18.21%) Java
4 3,606 (18.15%) C#
5 3,512 (17.67%) Python
6 1,896 (9.54%) TypeScript
7 476 (2.40%) Scala
8 404 (2.03%) PowerShell
9 398 (2.00%) PHP
10 375 (1.89%) C
11 360 (1.81%) C++
12 334 (1.68%) Go
13 292 (1.47%) Kotlin
14 277 (1.39%) T-SQL
15 194 (0.98%) PL/SQL
16 182 (0.92%) Bash
17 136 (0.68%) Ruby
18 113 (0.57%) R
19 109 (0.55%) MATLAB
20 98 (0.49%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2,736 (13.77%) Degree
2 2,403 (12.09%) Security Cleared
3 1,591 (8.01%) SC Cleared
4 699 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 567 (2.85%) DV Cleared
6 481 (2.42%) ACCA
7 473 (2.38%) CIMA
8 312 (1.57%) Master's Degree
9 265 (1.33%) PMI Certification
10 233 (1.17%) AWS Certification
11 225 (1.13%) Azure Certification
12 219 (1.10%) PMP
13 162 (0.82%) DBS Check
14 151 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
15 140 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
16 115 (0.58%) HNC
17 111 (0.56%) HND
18 97 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 97 (0.49%) ISTQB
19 95 (0.48%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1,119 (5.63%) QA
2 441 (2.22%) Data Quality
3 370 (1.86%) Accessibility
4 307 (1.54%) GDPR
5 254 (1.28%) PMO
6 137 (0.69%) SLA
7 95 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 95 (0.48%) WCAG
8 83 (0.42%) NIST
9 47 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
10 44 (0.22%) ISO 9001
11 30 (0.15%) MISRA
12 28 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
13 27 (0.14%) PCI DSS
14 26 (0.13%) NCSC
14 26 (0.13%) NIST 800
15 21 (0.11%) GRC
16 19 (0.096%) ITGC
17 18 (0.091%) Automotive SPICE
17 18 (0.091%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 1,335 (6.72%) Docker
2 447 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 190 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 113 (0.57%) HDFS
5 93 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 88 (0.44%) Firmware
7 79 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
8 62 (0.31%) vSphere
9 61 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
10 51 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
11 50 (0.25%) RACF
12 30 (0.15%) 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 1,600 (8.05%) Kubernetes
2 1,203 (6.05%) Terraform
3 559 (2.81%) Ansible
4 259 (1.30%) Grafana
5 191 (0.96%) Prometheus
6 135 (0.68%) Puppet
7 95 (0.48%) Progress Chef
8 75 (0.38%) SCCM
9 74 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
10 62 (0.31%) Kibana
11 44 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 41 (0.21%) WSUS
13 37 (0.19%) SCOM
14 31 (0.16%) HAProxy
15 30 (0.15%) ZABBIX
16 28 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
16 28 (0.14%) vCenter Server
17 26 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
18 21 (0.11%) Zipkin
19 19 (0.096%) Packer
Vendors
1 3,618 (18.21%) Microsoft
2 1,155 (5.81%) Oracle
3 943 (4.75%) Google
4 614 (3.09%) SAP
5 455 (2.29%) Databricks
6 340 (1.71%) ESRI
7 300 (1.51%) Anaplan
8 299 (1.50%) Hyperion
8 299 (1.50%) Salesforce
9 281 (1.41%) IBM
10 270 (1.36%) Red Hat
11 239 (1.20%) Splunk
12 234 (1.18%) Dynatrace
13 228 (1.15%) VMware
14 214 (1.08%) ServiceNow
15 153 (0.77%) Informatica
16 152 (0.76%) Atlassian
17 137 (0.69%) Cisco
18 109 (0.55%) Adobe
19 107 (0.54%) Facebook