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

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 19,902 28,369 58,333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.27% 29.20% 35.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.91% 30.56% 36.51%
Number of salaries quoted 11,503 15,611 26,342
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% +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 86,886 92,843 159,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.13% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,763 54,795 82,800
10th Percentile £29,250 £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 29 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 29 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 15,845 £62,500 -7.41% 3,465
UK excluding London 0 14,194 £57,500 -3.40% 2,384
Work from Home -1 8,648 £60,900 -6.31% 2,059
London -1 4,981 £80,000 - 1,249
North of England -1 3,501 £57,965 +0.54% 663
Scotland -1 3,006 £57,500 -4.17% 199
South East -1 2,959 £60,000 -4.00% 508
North West -1 2,011 £60,000 +4.35% 405
Midlands -2 1,878 £55,000 - 439
South West -4 1,637 £57,500 - 330
West Midlands -6 1,122 £57,500 +2.68% 292
Yorkshire -1 1,085 £57,500 -4.17% 185
East of England -5 748 £57,000 -0.87% 200
East Midlands -2 741 £52,500 -4.55% 147
North East +1 405 £55,000 - 78
Wales -4 329 £52,738 -0.71% 62
Northern Ireland -4 137 £60,000 +14.29% 37
Isle of Man - 6 £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
1 706 (3.55%) Apache Spark
2 664 (3.34%) Apache
3 608 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
4 482 (2.42%) Confluence
5 370 (1.86%) SharePoint
6 341 (1.71%) ArcGIS
7 333 (1.67%) GeoServer
8 324 (1.63%) SAS
9 139 (0.70%) CMS
10 134 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
11 105 (0.53%) FileNet
12 62 (0.31%) IIS
13 56 (0.28%) 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%) Umbraco
20 21 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 898 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 396 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
3 214 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 138 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
5 96 (0.48%) MS Visio
6 78 (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 30 (0.15%) Photoshop
13 22 (0.11%) Stateflow
13 22 (0.11%) Trello
14 21 (0.11%) 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
2 257 (1.29%) 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 34 (0.17%) SDL Web 8
9 28 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
10 26 (0.13%) NEC Housing
11 20 (0.10%) Magento
12 19 (0.095%) SAP Oil and Gas
13 18 (0.090%) Shopify
14 17 (0.085%) Dynamics AX
15 16 (0.080%) Aladdin
16 14 (0.070%) Payment Gateway
16 14 (0.070%) SAP CX
17 13 (0.065%) Primavera
18 10 (0.050%) Dynamics GP
18 10 (0.050%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 5,461 (27.44%) Azure
2 5,139 (25.82%) AWS
3 1,517 (7.62%) GCP
4 1,091 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
5 1,010 (5.07%) Power Platform
6 715 (3.59%) SaaS
7 613 (3.08%) Serverless
8 490 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
9 467 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
10 434 (2.18%) GitHub
11 376 (1.89%) dbt
12 359 (1.80%) Snowflake
13 338 (1.70%) PowerApps
14 337 (1.69%) Power Automate
15 318 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
16 305 (1.53%) Amazon S3
17 299 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
18 220 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
18 220 (1.11%) PaaS
19 203 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 826 (4.15%) Broadband
2 347 (1.74%) Firewall
3 263 (1.32%) DNS
4 251 (1.26%) Internet
5 204 (1.03%) TCP/IP
6 174 (0.87%) WAN
7 157 (0.79%) Network Security
8 139 (0.70%) LAN
9 138 (0.69%) VPN
10 129 (0.65%) Wireless
11 121 (0.61%) 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 55 (0.28%) SD-WAN
19 48 (0.24%) Bluetooth
20 44 (0.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,818 (9.13%) SQL Server
2 1,282 (6.44%) NoSQL
3 920 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
4 713 (3.58%) Big Data
5 651 (3.27%) Power BI
6 642 (3.23%) MongoDB
7 540 (2.71%) Data Lake
8 505 (2.54%) Relational Database
9 502 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
10 477 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
11 453 (2.28%) MySQL
12 424 (2.13%) Apache Ignite
13 378 (1.90%) BigQuery
14 356 (1.79%) GIS
15 330 (1.66%) QGIS
16 319 (1.60%) Dremio
16 319 (1.60%) Hadoop
17 318 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
18 307 (1.54%) Apache Arrow
19 297 (1.49%) Looker
Development Applications
1 1,635 (8.22%) Git
2 1,304 (6.55%) JIRA
3 883 (4.44%) Jenkins
4 374 (1.88%) GitLab
5 361 (1.81%) Selenium
6 355 (1.78%) JUnit
7 343 (1.72%) Visual Studio
8 298 (1.50%) Cypress.io
9 191 (0.96%) Bitbucket
10 159 (0.80%) Cucumber
11 146 (0.73%) Jasmine
12 133 (0.67%) TeamCity
13 132 (0.66%) Maven
14 125 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
15 123 (0.62%) WebDriver
16 113 (0.57%) Postman
17 106 (0.53%) NUnit
18 102 (0.51%) JMeter
19 97 (0.49%) Artifactory
20 90 (0.45%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 6,881 (34.57%) Finance
2 5,315 (26.71%) Social Skills
3 3,598 (18.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2,742 (13.78%) Law
5 2,312 (11.62%) Analytical Skills
6 1,989 (9.99%) Marketing
7 1,622 (8.15%) Banking
8 1,353 (6.80%) Legal
9 1,003 (5.04%) Public Sector
10 894 (4.49%) Retail
11 879 (4.42%) Influencing Skills
12 773 (3.88%) Front Office
13 756 (3.80%) Investment Banking
14 514 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
15 474 (2.38%) Aerospace
16 320 (1.61%) Financial Institution
17 272 (1.37%) Manufacturing
18 263 (1.32%) Games
19 236 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
20 227 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4,492 (22.57%) Developer
2 3,765 (18.92%) Software Engineer
3 3,655 (18.36%) Senior
4 2,641 (13.27%) Lead
5 1,714 (8.61%) Analyst
6 1,618 (8.13%) Architect
7 1,463 (7.35%) .NET Developer
8 1,267 (6.37%) Project Manager
9 1,022 (5.14%) Java Engineer
10 952 (4.78%) Java Software Engineer
11 916 (4.60%) Senior Developer
12 907 (4.56%) Senior Software Engineer
13 849 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
14 833 (4.19%) Lead Software Engineer
15 685 (3.44%) Data Engineer
16 657 (3.30%) Python Engineer
17 633 (3.18%) C# Developer
18 623 (3.13%) Software Developer
19 621 (3.12%) Business Analyst
20 589 (2.96%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,412 (17.14%) .NET
2 2,660 (13.37%) React
3 1,956 (9.83%) AngularJS
4 1,741 (8.75%) CSS
5 1,716 (8.62%) HTML
6 1,550 (7.79%) .NET Core
7 1,415 (7.11%) ASP.NET
8 1,127 (5.66%) Spring
9 996 (5.00%) Node.js
10 939 (4.72%) REST
11 923 (4.64%) RESTful
12 898 (4.51%) .NET Framework
13 876 (4.40%) Vue
14 843 (4.24%) ASP.NET Web API
15 836 (4.20%) ASP.NET MVC
16 759 (3.81%) Entity Framework
17 711 (3.57%) Web Services
18 703 (3.53%) Spring Boot
19 670 (3.37%) HTML5
20 662 (3.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1,458 (7.33%) Product Ownership
2 1,181 (5.93%) Cloud Native
3 1,149 (5.77%) Algorithms
4 702 (3.53%) Management Information System
5 632 (3.18%) Fixed Income
6 599 (3.01%) Hedge funds
7 596 (2.99%) Public Cloud
8 595 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
9 509 (2.56%) Data Structures
10 504 (2.53%) Derivative
10 504 (2.53%) Equities
11 493 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
12 474 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 386 (1.94%) Onboarding
14 337 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
15 312 (1.57%) Mobile App
16 231 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
17 224 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
18 213 (1.07%) Blockchain
19 204 (1.03%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1,310 (6.58%) Linux
2 825 (4.15%) Windows
3 381 (1.91%) Android
4 293 (1.47%) Apple iOS
5 278 (1.40%) Unix
6 180 (0.90%) Windows Server
7 166 (0.83%) Ubuntu
8 129 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 64 (0.32%) Windows 10
10 59 (0.30%) CentOS
11 53 (0.27%) VMS
12 52 (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 (0.090%) 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 5,489 (27.58%) Software Engineering
2 3,964 (19.92%) DevOps
3 3,818 (19.18%) CI/CD
4 3,393 (17.05%) SDLC
5 3,232 (16.24%) Mentoring
6 3,202 (16.09%) Scrum
7 3,142 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
8 2,561 (12.87%) Full Stack Development
9 2,477 (12.45%) Project Management
10 2,321 (11.66%) Artificial Intelligence
11 2,243 (11.27%) Microservices
12 2,205 (11.08%) Continuous Improvement
13 2,178 (10.94%) Roadmaps
14 2,008 (10.09%) Coaching
15 1,931 (9.70%) Machine Learning
16 1,849 (9.29%) Actionable Insight
17 1,846 (9.28%) Decision-Making
18 1,802 (9.05%) TDD
19 1,787 (8.98%) Operational Stability
20 1,555 (7.81%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4,013 (20.16%) JavaScript
2 3,804 (19.11%) SQL
3 3,611 (18.14%) Java
4 3,608 (18.13%) C#
5 3,498 (17.58%) Python
6 1,899 (9.54%) TypeScript
7 476 (2.39%) Scala
8 404 (2.03%) PowerShell
9 400 (2.01%) PHP
10 377 (1.89%) C
11 362 (1.82%) C++
12 335 (1.68%) Go
13 293 (1.47%) Kotlin
14 279 (1.40%) T-SQL
15 196 (0.98%) PL/SQL
16 182 (0.91%) Bash
17 135 (0.68%) Ruby
18 113 (0.57%) R
19 110 (0.55%) MATLAB
20 93 (0.47%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2,739 (13.76%) Degree
2 2,409 (12.10%) Security Cleared
3 1,595 (8.01%) SC Cleared
4 702 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 571 (2.87%) DV Cleared
6 481 (2.42%) ACCA
7 473 (2.38%) CIMA
8 313 (1.57%) Master's Degree
9 262 (1.32%) PMI Certification
10 233 (1.17%) AWS Certification
11 226 (1.14%) Azure Certification
12 218 (1.10%) PMP
13 162 (0.81%) DBS Check
14 152 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
15 139 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
16 116 (0.58%) HNC
17 111 (0.56%) HND
18 97 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 96 (0.48%) CISSP
20 95 (0.48%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1,116 (5.61%) QA
2 440 (2.21%) Data Quality
3 372 (1.87%) Accessibility
4 309 (1.55%) GDPR
5 254 (1.28%) PMO
6 138 (0.69%) SLA
7 96 (0.48%) WCAG
8 95 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 83 (0.42%) NIST
10 47 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 44 (0.22%) ISO 9001
12 30 (0.15%) MISRA
13 28 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
14 27 (0.14%) PCI DSS
15 26 (0.13%) NCSC
15 26 (0.13%) NIST 800
16 20 (0.10%) GRC
17 19 (0.095%) ITGC
18 18 (0.090%) Automotive SPICE
18 18 (0.090%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 1,330 (6.68%) Docker
2 447 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 189 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 113 (0.57%) HDFS
5 91 (0.46%) Hyper-V
6 89 (0.45%) Firmware
7 78 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
8 62 (0.31%) vSphere
9 61 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
10 50 (0.25%) RACF
10 50 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
11 31 (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 1,594 (8.01%) Kubernetes
2 1,193 (5.99%) Terraform
3 551 (2.77%) Ansible
4 259 (1.30%) Grafana
5 191 (0.96%) Prometheus
6 135 (0.68%) Puppet
7 90 (0.45%) 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 42 (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
17 27 (0.14%) vCenter Server
18 26 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
19 21 (0.11%) Zipkin
20 19 (0.095%) Packer
Vendors
1 3,641 (18.29%) Microsoft
2 1,153 (5.79%) Oracle
3 921 (4.63%) Google
4 614 (3.09%) SAP
5 457 (2.30%) Databricks
6 340 (1.71%) ESRI
7 303 (1.52%) Salesforce
8 300 (1.51%) Anaplan
9 299 (1.50%) Hyperion
10 275 (1.38%) IBM
11 270 (1.36%) Red Hat
12 239 (1.20%) Splunk
13 234 (1.18%) Dynatrace
14 227 (1.14%) VMware
15 215 (1.08%) ServiceNow
16 153 (0.77%) Atlassian
16 153 (0.77%) Informatica
17 138 (0.69%) Cisco
18 113 (0.57%) Adobe
19 108 (0.54%) Facebook