Agile Software Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Agile over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 10,326 20,212 25,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.39% 18.22% 28.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.85% 22.14% 29.77%
Number of salaries quoted 4,834 11,506 14,992
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,313 £47,500 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £103,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year +0.87% -2.54% +7.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Agile falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,011 91,296 87,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 92.63% 82.28% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 26,082 62,964 53,217
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year - -9.54% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,934 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

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 17 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Agile in the UK

Agile
Top 19 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 17 June 2025. 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 9,051 £65,000 +4.00% 45,801
UK excluding London -4 6,424 £58,000 +0.87% 36,359
Work from Home -2 4,643 £64,627 +5.59% 22,157
London 0 3,177 £85,000 +6.25% 14,672
North of England -4 2,028 £57,560 -0.70% 8,510
North West -3 1,559 £57,560 -4.07% 4,417
South East -2 1,483 £65,000 +8.33% 9,503
Midlands 0 1,022 £55,000 - 5,713
Scotland 0 767 £55,000 -4.35% 2,331
West Midlands +2 669 £57,500 +3.14% 3,232
South West -1 569 £57,500 - 3,942
East of England -4 407 £52,500 -5.41% 4,666
Yorkshire -9 377 £60,000 +4.35% 3,348
East Midlands -4 350 £47,683 -9.18% 2,449
Wales -7 142 £65,000 +18.18% 1,068
North East -11 92 £47,500 -13.64% 754
Northern Ireland -11 20 £130,000 +116.67% 721
Isle of Man +13 5 £52,500 -2.78% 5
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 - 97

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
1 620 (6.00%) Confluence
2 269 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
3 207 (2.00%) Apache
4 158 (1.53%) Apache Spark
5 139 (1.35%) CMS
6 98 (0.95%) SharePoint
7 76 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
8 44 (0.43%) IIS
9 40 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
10 32 (0.31%) WordPress
11 25 (0.24%) Appian
12 21 (0.20%) Headless CMS
13 17 (0.16%) Drupal
13 17 (0.16%) Tomcat
14 15 (0.15%) JBoss
15 14 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
16 11 (0.11%) nginx
16 11 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
16 11 (0.11%) Umbraco
17 10 (0.097%) SAS
Applications
1 280 (2.71%) Microsoft Office
2 268 (2.60%) Simulink
3 126 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 84 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
5 64 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 63 (0.61%) MS Visio
7 52 (0.50%) Trello
8 27 (0.26%) Adobe XD
9 26 (0.25%) Chatbot
10 19 (0.18%) Maya
11 18 (0.17%) Sketch
12 13 (0.13%) Photoshop
13 9 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 7 (0.068%) InVision
14 7 (0.068%) Mozilla Thunderbird
15 6 (0.058%) Revit
16 5 (0.048%) Adobe Premiere
17 4 (0.039%) Adobe Illustrator
18 3 (0.029%) Adobe Captivate
18 3 (0.029%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 112 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 71 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 65 (0.63%) Teamcenter
4 58 (0.56%) Aladdin
5 54 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
6 39 (0.38%) thinkFolio
7 28 (0.27%) NetSuite
8 24 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
9 23 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
10 19 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
11 15 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
12 14 (0.14%) Shopify
13 11 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
13 11 (0.11%) SAP IBP
14 8 (0.077%) Elite 3E
14 8 (0.077%) Magento
15 7 (0.068%) Orchestrade
15 7 (0.068%) PeopleSoft Financials
16 5 (0.048%) Adobe Campaign
17 4 (0.039%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 2,647 (25.63%) AWS
2 2,544 (24.64%) Azure
3 1,186 (11.49%) GCP
4 632 (6.12%) Serverless
5 477 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
6 451 (4.37%) Power Platform
7 436 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
8 410 (3.97%) SaaS
9 262 (2.54%) GitHub
10 248 (2.40%) dbt
11 224 (2.17%) Amazon S3
12 220 (2.13%) Pulumi
13 213 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
14 171 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
15 160 (1.55%) Amazon EKS
16 157 (1.52%) PaaS
17 152 (1.47%) Snowflake
18 145 (1.40%) Amazon ECS
19 121 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
20 109 (1.06%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 798 (7.73%) Broadband
2 455 (4.41%) DNS
3 434 (4.20%) VPN
4 93 (0.90%) Firewall
5 60 (0.58%) WAN
6 55 (0.53%) TCP/IP
7 50 (0.48%) Network Security
8 46 (0.45%) HTTP
9 36 (0.35%) SD-WAN
10 33 (0.32%) Wireless
11 30 (0.29%) SSL
12 27 (0.26%) Internet
13 25 (0.24%) SAN
14 24 (0.23%) Software-Defined Radio
15 23 (0.22%) LAN
16 22 (0.21%) DHCP
17 16 (0.15%) Modbus
17 16 (0.15%) Multicast
17 16 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
18 15 (0.15%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 669 (6.48%) SQL Server
2 508 (4.92%) NoSQL
3 490 (4.75%) Relational Database
4 392 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
5 294 (2.85%) Power BI
6 287 (2.78%) RDBMS
7 284 (2.75%) Data Lake
8 263 (2.55%) MySQL
9 261 (2.53%) Amazon Athena
10 244 (2.36%) Apache Iceberg
11 229 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
12 227 (2.20%) Dremio
13 224 (2.17%) MongoDB
14 219 (2.12%) Apache Arrow
15 199 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
16 165 (1.60%) DynamoDB
17 120 (1.16%) Apache Ignite
18 95 (0.92%) Big Data
18 95 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
19 81 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1,331 (12.89%) JIRA
2 590 (5.71%) Git
3 375 (3.63%) Selenium
4 361 (3.50%) GitLab
5 330 (3.20%) Maven
6 315 (3.05%) SonarQube
7 310 (3.00%) Bitbucket
8 297 (2.88%) Cucumber
9 290 (2.81%) Jenkins
10 279 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
11 215 (2.08%) Jaeger
12 134 (1.30%) JUnit
13 126 (1.22%) Rational DOORS
14 75 (0.73%) Cypress.io
15 69 (0.67%) Visual Studio
16 60 (0.58%) Artifactory
17 59 (0.57%) Postman
18 57 (0.55%) JMeter
18 57 (0.55%) Mockito
19 52 (0.50%) TeamCity
General
1 3,755 (36.36%) Finance
2 2,477 (23.99%) Social Skills
3 2,062 (19.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,793 (17.36%) Analytical Skills
5 1,310 (12.69%) Banking
6 980 (9.49%) Law
7 671 (6.50%) Presentation Skills
8 556 (5.38%) Marketing
9 488 (4.73%) Front Office
10 471 (4.56%) Retail
11 413 (4.00%) Public Sector
12 294 (2.85%) Aerospace
13 283 (2.74%) Investment Banking
14 274 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
15 271 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
15 271 (2.62%) Legal
16 267 (2.59%) Automotive
17 204 (1.98%) Manufacturing
18 127 (1.23%) Games
19 122 (1.18%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2,377 (23.02%) Senior
2 1,897 (18.37%) Developer
3 1,840 (17.82%) Software Engineer
4 1,309 (12.68%) Lead
5 800 (7.75%) Systems Engineer
6 711 (6.89%) Analyst
7 679 (6.58%) Architect
8 615 (5.96%) Software Developer
9 583 (5.65%) Senior Software Engineer
10 405 (3.92%) Senior Developer
11 400 (3.87%) Java Engineer
12 362 (3.51%) Team Leader
13 329 (3.19%) Java Software Engineer
14 320 (3.10%) Python Engineer
15 312 (3.02%) Principal Engineer
16 301 (2.91%) Business Analyst
17 296 (2.87%) AWS Engineer
18 278 (2.69%) Project Manager
19 265 (2.57%) Senior Manager
20 250 (2.42%) Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,226 (11.87%) React
2 1,009 (9.77%) .NET
3 697 (6.75%) CSS
4 680 (6.59%) HTML
5 644 (6.24%) Spring
6 643 (6.23%) Kafka
7 584 (5.66%) Node.js
8 551 (5.34%) Spring Boot
9 513 (4.97%) REST
10 484 (4.69%) AngularJS
11 465 (4.50%) Middleware
12 441 (4.27%) RESTful
13 338 (3.27%) Redux
14 293 (2.84%) JPA
15 250 (2.42%) Hibernate
16 243 (2.35%) .NET Core
17 242 (2.34%) Pandas
18 240 (2.32%) Elastic Stack
19 236 (2.29%) Vue
20 230 (2.23%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1,032 (9.99%) Product Ownership
2 645 (6.25%) Cyberattack
3 606 (5.87%) Self-Motivation
4 406 (3.93%) Cloud Native
5 373 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
6 371 (3.59%) Fixed Income
7 294 (2.85%) Management Information System
8 292 (2.83%) Equities
9 290 (2.81%) Derivative
10 278 (2.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 274 (2.65%) Algorithms
12 249 (2.41%) Embedded Systems
13 241 (2.33%) Hedge funds
14 203 (1.97%) Mobile App
15 183 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
16 171 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
17 159 (1.54%) Onboarding
18 143 (1.38%) Public Cloud
19 128 (1.24%) Virtual Team
20 109 (1.06%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1,211 (11.73%) Linux
2 547 (5.30%) Android
3 307 (2.97%) Unix
4 266 (2.58%) Windows
5 113 (1.09%) Apple iOS
6 55 (0.53%) Windows Server
7 27 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
8 21 (0.20%) zOS
9 16 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 10 (0.097%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.097%) VMS
10 10 (0.097%) Windows 10
10 10 (0.097%) Windows Vista
11 6 (0.058%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.048%) AIX
13 4 (0.039%) Solaris
14 3 (0.029%) Debian
14 3 (0.029%) Windows Server 2019
15 2 (0.019%) FreeRTOS
15 2 (0.019%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,641 (25.58%) Software Engineering
2 2,392 (23.16%) CI/CD
3 2,225 (21.55%) DevOps
4 2,051 (19.86%) Mentoring
5 1,782 (17.26%) Problem-Solving
6 1,567 (15.18%) Roadmaps
7 1,351 (13.08%) SDLC
8 1,341 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 1,224 (11.85%) Microservices
10 1,217 (11.79%) Scrum
11 1,157 (11.20%) Artificial Intelligence
12 1,084 (10.50%) Stakeholder Management
13 1,030 (9.97%) Test Automation
14 1,023 (9.91%) Project Management
15 963 (9.33%) Containerisation
16 940 (9.10%) Systems Engineering
17 931 (9.02%) User Experience
18 922 (8.93%) Analytics
19 919 (8.90%) Machine Learning
20 872 (8.44%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 2,486 (24.08%) Python
2 2,464 (23.86%) Java
3 1,865 (18.06%) JavaScript
4 1,545 (14.96%) SQL
5 1,086 (10.52%) TypeScript
6 989 (9.58%) Go
7 865 (8.38%) C++
8 835 (8.09%) C#
9 724 (7.01%) MATLAB
10 310 (3.00%) Rust
11 280 (2.71%) Bash
12 182 (1.76%) PowerShell
13 154 (1.49%) PHP
14 133 (1.29%) C
15 100 (0.97%) Ada
16 74 (0.72%) R
17 63 (0.61%) Ada 95
17 63 (0.61%) Kotlin
18 58 (0.56%) Shell Script
19 52 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2,306 (22.33%) Degree
2 1,404 (13.60%) BPSS Clearance
3 1,146 (11.10%) Security Cleared
4 784 (7.59%) DV Cleared
5 582 (5.64%) AWS Certification
6 418 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 343 (3.32%) SC Cleared
8 282 (2.73%) Chartered Engineer
9 255 (2.47%) PhD
10 213 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 186 (1.80%) PMI Certification
12 185 (1.79%) AWS Certified Developer
13 178 (1.72%) Master's Degree
14 175 (1.69%) DBS Check
15 160 (1.55%) Azure Certification
16 149 (1.44%) PMP
17 103 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
18 94 (0.91%) CISSP
19 84 (0.81%) ACCA
20 81 (0.78%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 730 (7.07%) QA
2 424 (4.11%) Accessibility
3 213 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 153 (1.48%) Data Quality
5 135 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 118 (1.14%) GDPR
7 98 (0.95%) PMO
8 65 (0.63%) NIST
9 59 (0.57%) ITGC
10 56 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 56 (0.54%) SLA
11 51 (0.49%) IFRS
12 41 (0.40%) GAAP
13 39 (0.38%) SOC 2
14 37 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
15 36 (0.35%) MiFID
16 33 (0.32%) NCSC
16 33 (0.32%) WCAG
17 31 (0.30%) PCI DSS
18 26 (0.25%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1,560 (15.11%) Docker
2 101 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 63 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 51 (0.49%) Firmware
5 50 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 33 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
7 22 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 16 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.11%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.077%) Apache Flume
10 8 (0.077%) HDFS
11 7 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.048%) vSphere
13 4 (0.039%) Postfix
13 4 (0.039%) Time Sharing Option
14 3 (0.029%) RACF
15 2 (0.019%) DFS Replication
15 2 (0.019%) KVM
15 2 (0.019%) Squid
15 2 (0.019%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,193 (11.55%) Kubernetes
2 817 (7.91%) Ansible
3 677 (6.56%) Terraform
4 279 (2.70%) Prometheus
5 232 (2.25%) Argo
6 217 (2.10%) Kustomize
7 82 (0.79%) Grafana
8 51 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
9 50 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
10 33 (0.32%) Kibana
11 31 (0.30%) Progress Chef
12 26 (0.25%) SCCM
13 25 (0.24%) Puppet
14 16 (0.15%) WMI
15 10 (0.097%) Nessus
16 8 (0.077%) CASB
16 8 (0.077%) Mesos
16 8 (0.077%) Oozie
17 7 (0.068%) Proxmox
18 6 (0.058%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1,194 (11.56%) Microsoft
2 555 (5.37%) Google
3 376 (3.64%) Oracle
4 305 (2.95%) SAP
5 278 (2.69%) Salesforce
6 251 (2.43%) Solace
7 207 (2.00%) Databricks
8 193 (1.87%) Siemens
9 172 (1.67%) IBM
10 138 (1.34%) ServiceNow
11 97 (0.94%) VMware
12 86 (0.83%) Atlassian
13 85 (0.82%) Red Hat
14 75 (0.73%) Splunk
15 72 (0.70%) Adobe
15 72 (0.70%) Sparx
16 55 (0.53%) BISAM
17 54 (0.52%) Workday
18 51 (0.49%) Cisco
19 50 (0.48%) MathWorks