Agile Jobs in the UK excluding London

Agile Software Development
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 14,172 16,542 23,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.15% 28.48% 31.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.22% 29.80% 33.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,731 8,121 13,144
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +8.23% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £85,000 £83,750
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
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 61,033 55,511 69,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.47% 95.56% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 42,006 28,806 41,464
10th Percentile £27,336 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Agile in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the UK excluding London region 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
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
UK

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 630 (4.45%) Apache Spark
2 316 (2.23%) Confluence
3 294 (2.07%) ArcGIS
4 287 (2.03%) GeoServer
5 236 (1.67%) SharePoint
6 178 (1.26%) Apache
7 138 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
8 105 (0.74%) FileNet
9 96 (0.68%) SAS
10 84 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
11 55 (0.39%) CMS
12 50 (0.35%) OpenStack
13 41 (0.29%) WebLogic
14 38 (0.27%) Tuxedo
15 37 (0.26%) IIS
16 32 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
17 30 (0.21%) WordPress
18 21 (0.15%) GemFire
19 20 (0.14%) WebSphere
20 19 (0.13%) Camunda
Applications
1 520 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 304 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
3 173 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 113 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
5 74 (0.52%) AutoCAD
6 73 (0.52%) MS Visio
7 56 (0.40%) Simulink
8 34 (0.24%) UserZoom
9 23 (0.16%) Sketch
10 22 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
10 22 (0.16%) Stateflow
11 20 (0.14%) Adobe XD
12 19 (0.13%) Revit
13 17 (0.12%) Trello
14 7 (0.049%) CANalyzer
15 4 (0.028%) InVision
15 4 (0.028%) MadCap Flare
15 4 (0.028%) Maya
16 3 (0.021%) S-PLUS
17 2 (0.014%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 171 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 79 (0.56%) SAP ERP
3 55 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 41 (0.29%) NetSuite
4 41 (0.29%) Siebel CRM
5 37 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
6 22 (0.16%) NEC Housing
6 22 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
7 21 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
8 19 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 12 (0.085%) Shopify
10 10 (0.071%) Dynamics AX
10 10 (0.071%) Magento
11 9 (0.064%) Payment Gateway
11 9 (0.064%) SAP CX
12 8 (0.056%) Dynamics GP
13 7 (0.049%) Primavera
13 7 (0.049%) Teamcenter
14 6 (0.042%) SAP GTS
14 6 (0.042%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 3,804 (26.84%) Azure
2 3,453 (24.36%) AWS
3 767 (5.41%) GCP
4 738 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
5 635 (4.48%) Power Platform
6 484 (3.42%) SaaS
7 368 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
8 311 (2.19%) Serverless
9 282 (1.99%) GitHub
10 268 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
11 240 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
12 212 (1.50%) Power Automate
13 211 (1.49%) Amazon S3
14 210 (1.48%) PowerApps
15 165 (1.16%) IBM Cloud
16 156 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
17 153 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
18 125 (0.88%) Amazon ECS
19 115 (0.81%) Datadog
20 114 (0.80%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 352 (2.48%) Broadband
2 220 (1.55%) Firewall
3 177 (1.25%) DNS
4 170 (1.20%) Internet
5 143 (1.01%) TCP/IP
6 112 (0.79%) Wireless
7 92 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
8 90 (0.64%) Network Security
9 88 (0.62%) DHCP
10 82 (0.58%) Kerberos
11 80 (0.56%) WAN
12 63 (0.44%) Intranet
13 58 (0.41%) SSL
14 50 (0.35%) BGP
15 49 (0.35%) VPN
16 47 (0.33%) Bluetooth
16 47 (0.33%) LAN
17 40 (0.28%) SD-WAN
18 37 (0.26%) HTTP
19 34 (0.24%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,379 (9.73%) SQL Server
2 1,145 (8.08%) NoSQL
3 681 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
4 610 (4.30%) Big Data
5 489 (3.45%) MongoDB
6 432 (3.05%) Power BI
7 401 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
8 389 (2.74%) Relational Database
9 360 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
10 356 (2.51%) MySQL
11 342 (2.41%) BigQuery
12 304 (2.15%) GIS
13 284 (2.00%) QGIS
14 272 (1.92%) Hadoop
15 267 (1.88%) Looker
16 203 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
17 178 (1.26%) Data Lake
18 162 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
19 157 (1.11%) DB2
20 139 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1,198 (8.45%) Git
2 947 (6.68%) JIRA
3 675 (4.76%) Jenkins
4 292 (2.06%) JUnit
5 281 (1.98%) Selenium
6 262 (1.85%) Visual Studio
7 236 (1.67%) GitLab
8 200 (1.41%) Cypress.io
9 160 (1.13%) Bitbucket
10 139 (0.98%) Jasmine
11 114 (0.80%) Cucumber
12 97 (0.68%) Maven
13 95 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
14 90 (0.64%) Bitbucket Server
15 88 (0.62%) WebDriver
16 76 (0.54%) JMeter
16 76 (0.54%) TeamCity
17 74 (0.52%) Karma Test Runner
18 72 (0.51%) Postman
19 69 (0.49%) Artifactory
General
1 4,644 (32.77%) Finance
2 3,348 (23.62%) Social Skills
3 3,085 (21.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2,557 (18.04%) Law
5 1,654 (11.67%) Marketing
6 1,521 (10.73%) Analytical Skills
7 1,125 (7.94%) Legal
8 908 (6.41%) Banking
9 711 (5.02%) Public Sector
10 673 (4.75%) Retail
11 534 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
12 444 (3.13%) Aerospace
13 396 (2.79%) Investment Banking
14 317 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
15 267 (1.88%) Financial Institution
16 210 (1.48%) Manufacturing
17 191 (1.35%) Games
18 169 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
19 158 (1.11%) Telecoms
20 154 (1.09%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 3,079 (21.73%) Software Engineer
2 3,062 (21.61%) Developer
3 2,467 (17.41%) Senior
4 2,009 (14.18%) Lead
5 1,174 (8.28%) .NET Developer
6 1,034 (7.30%) Analyst
7 952 (6.72%) Project Manager
8 888 (6.27%) Architect
9 874 (6.17%) Java Engineer
10 830 (5.86%) Java Software Engineer
11 725 (5.12%) Lead Software Engineer
12 667 (4.71%) Senior Software Engineer
13 609 (4.30%) Senior Developer
14 561 (3.96%) Data Engineer
15 470 (3.32%) Full Stack Engineer
16 467 (3.30%) C# Developer
17 459 (3.24%) Software Developer
18 416 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
19 382 (2.70%) Big Data Engineer
19 382 (2.70%) Big Data Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,607 (18.40%) .NET
2 2,037 (14.37%) React
3 1,586 (11.19%) AngularJS
4 1,438 (10.15%) CSS
5 1,409 (9.94%) HTML
6 1,223 (8.63%) .NET Core
7 1,121 (7.91%) ASP.NET
8 973 (6.87%) Spring
9 753 (5.31%) Node.js
10 729 (5.14%) ASP.NET Web API
11 717 (5.06%) RESTful
12 698 (4.93%) ASP.NET MVC
13 696 (4.91%) .NET Framework
14 695 (4.90%) REST
15 674 (4.76%) Vue
16 629 (4.44%) Entity Framework
17 597 (4.21%) Spring Boot
18 582 (4.11%) HTML5
19 545 (3.85%) Web Services
20 539 (3.80%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1,078 (7.61%) Algorithms
2 1,040 (7.34%) Cloud Native
3 928 (6.55%) Product Ownership
4 532 (3.75%) Management Information System
5 514 (3.63%) Public Cloud
6 495 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
7 357 (2.52%) Data Structures
8 311 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
9 303 (2.14%) Onboarding
10 253 (1.79%) Mobile App
11 251 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
12 190 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
13 189 (1.33%) e-Learning
14 183 (1.29%) Blockchain
15 153 (1.08%) Private Cloud
16 146 (1.03%) IoT
17 144 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
18 131 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
19 115 (0.81%) Reference Data
20 110 (0.78%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1,051 (7.42%) Linux
2 629 (4.44%) Windows
3 314 (2.22%) Android
4 224 (1.58%) Apple iOS
5 211 (1.49%) Unix
6 143 (1.01%) Windows Server
7 112 (0.79%) Ubuntu
8 107 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 53 (0.37%) Windows 10
10 49 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
11 46 (0.32%) CentOS
12 37 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
12 37 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
13 32 (0.23%) Debian
14 15 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
15 13 (0.092%) Solaris
16 11 (0.078%) Windows 7
17 9 (0.064%) FreeRTOS
17 9 (0.064%) Mac OS
17 9 (0.064%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,154 (29.31%) Software Engineering
2 3,068 (21.65%) CI/CD
3 3,017 (21.29%) SDLC
4 2,831 (19.98%) DevOps
5 2,433 (17.17%) Mentoring
6 2,206 (15.57%) Scrum
7 2,191 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
8 1,932 (13.63%) Artificial Intelligence
9 1,919 (13.54%) Full Stack Development
10 1,782 (12.57%) Project Management
11 1,769 (12.48%) Operational Stability
12 1,752 (12.36%) Microservices
13 1,734 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
14 1,652 (11.66%) Coaching
15 1,584 (11.18%) Machine Learning
16 1,373 (9.69%) Community of Practice
17 1,364 (9.62%) Actionable Insight
18 1,346 (9.50%) Roadmaps
19 1,271 (8.97%) TDD
20 1,220 (8.61%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2,935 (20.71%) JavaScript
2 2,876 (20.29%) SQL
3 2,756 (19.45%) C#
4 2,675 (18.88%) Java
5 2,169 (15.30%) Python
6 1,128 (7.96%) TypeScript
7 375 (2.65%) Scala
8 339 (2.39%) PHP
9 321 (2.27%) C
10 301 (2.12%) C++
11 286 (2.02%) PowerShell
12 206 (1.45%) Go
13 173 (1.22%) T-SQL
14 171 (1.21%) PL/SQL
15 141 (0.99%) Kotlin
16 119 (0.84%) Bash
17 102 (0.72%) MATLAB
18 86 (0.61%) COBOL
19 82 (0.58%) Ruby
20 81 (0.57%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,944 (13.72%) Degree
2 1,880 (13.27%) Security Cleared
3 1,246 (8.79%) SC Cleared
4 477 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 406 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 238 (1.68%) ACCA
7 225 (1.59%) CIMA
8 207 (1.46%) Master's Degree
9 184 (1.30%) PMI Certification
10 157 (1.11%) PMP
11 150 (1.06%) Azure Certification
12 144 (1.02%) AWS Certification
13 106 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
14 102 (0.72%) HND
15 98 (0.69%) HNC
16 89 (0.63%) DBS Check
17 79 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
18 75 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 73 (0.52%) ISTQB
20 66 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 769 (5.43%) QA
2 277 (1.95%) Accessibility
3 251 (1.77%) GDPR
4 213 (1.50%) Data Quality
5 185 (1.31%) PMO
6 116 (0.82%) SLA
7 66 (0.47%) WCAG
8 60 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 44 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
10 41 (0.29%) NIST
11 34 (0.24%) ISO 9001
12 30 (0.21%) MISRA
13 19 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
14 18 (0.13%) Automotive SPICE
14 18 (0.13%) AUTOSAR
14 18 (0.13%) NIST 800
14 18 (0.13%) PCI DSS
15 15 (0.11%) ISO 26262
16 14 (0.099%) WAI
17 13 (0.092%) GRC
System Software
1 924 (6.52%) Docker
2 301 (2.12%) Active Directory
3 144 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 100 (0.71%) HDFS
5 76 (0.54%) Firmware
6 69 (0.49%) Hyper-V
7 50 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 44 (0.31%) RACF
8 44 (0.31%) vSphere
9 40 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
10 30 (0.21%) VMware NSX
11 28 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
12 25 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
13 23 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
14 12 (0.085%) Time Sharing Option
15 9 (0.064%) Microsoft App-V
15 9 (0.064%) Terminal Services
16 5 (0.035%) SRDF
17 2 (0.014%) Apache ZooKeeper
17 2 (0.014%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 1,197 (8.45%) Kubernetes
2 794 (5.60%) Terraform
3 389 (2.74%) Ansible
4 210 (1.48%) Grafana
5 144 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 85 (0.60%) Puppet
7 73 (0.52%) SCCM
8 64 (0.45%) Progress Chef
9 53 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
10 45 (0.32%) Kibana
11 37 (0.26%) SCOM
12 33 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 30 (0.21%) ZABBIX
14 26 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
15 25 (0.18%) WSUS
16 21 (0.15%) HAProxy
16 21 (0.15%) Zipkin
17 17 (0.12%) vCenter Server
18 16 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
19 15 (0.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2,475 (17.46%) Microsoft
2 776 (5.48%) Oracle
3 615 (4.34%) Google
4 351 (2.48%) Databricks
5 296 (2.09%) SAP
6 292 (2.06%) ESRI
7 253 (1.79%) IBM
8 239 (1.69%) Red Hat
9 215 (1.52%) Dynatrace
10 203 (1.43%) Splunk
11 177 (1.25%) VMware
12 174 (1.23%) Salesforce
13 150 (1.06%) ServiceNow
14 145 (1.02%) Informatica
15 127 (0.90%) Atlassian
16 101 (0.71%) Facebook
17 77 (0.54%) Cisco
17 77 (0.54%) Micro Focus
18 76 (0.54%) Anaplan
19 75 (0.53%) Hyperion