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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 19,762 30,174 53,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.92% 29.71% 34.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.27% 31.07% 35.77%
Number of salaries quoted 11,608 16,357 26,033
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 £100,064 £104,504 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,965 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.62% +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 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
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 8 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 8 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 15,610 £62,500 -7.41% 3,527
UK excluding London 0 14,138 £57,965 -2.62% 2,372
Work from Home -1 8,642 £61,206 -5.84% 2,080
London -2 4,885 £80,000 - 1,310
North of England -1 3,503 £57,965 -2.62% 612
Scotland -1 3,092 £60,000 - 173
South East -2 2,875 £60,000 -4.00% 484
North West -1 1,992 £60,000 +4.35% 363
Midlands -3 1,808 £55,000 -1.79% 439
South West -2 1,658 £60,000 +4.35% 367
Yorkshire -1 1,115 £57,965 -3.39% 185
West Midlands -6 1,099 £57,500 +0.59% 286
East of England -5 741 £57,500 -4.17% 214
East Midlands -2 694 £52,500 -4.55% 150
North East +1 396 £52,806 -3.99% 69
Wales -4 329 £52,686 +0.35% 87
Northern Ireland -3 133 £60,000 +14.29% 41
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
1 736 (3.72%) Apache Spark
2 566 (2.86%) Apache
3 505 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
4 485 (2.45%) Confluence
5 381 (1.93%) SharePoint
6 344 (1.74%) SAS
7 339 (1.72%) ArcGIS
8 333 (1.69%) GeoServer
9 131 (0.66%) CMS
10 127 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
11 126 (0.64%) FileNet
12 64 (0.32%) IIS
13 60 (0.30%) OpenStack
14 47 (0.24%) WebLogic
14 47 (0.24%) WordPress
15 46 (0.23%) JBoss
16 42 (0.21%) WebSphere
17 40 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
18 38 (0.19%) Tuxedo
19 37 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 812 (4.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 292 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
3 206 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 142 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
5 102 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 77 (0.39%) AutoCAD
7 55 (0.28%) Simulink
8 44 (0.22%) Adobe XD
9 41 (0.21%) Sketch
10 36 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
11 35 (0.18%) UserZoom
12 30 (0.15%) Photoshop
13 22 (0.11%) Stateflow
13 22 (0.11%) Trello
14 20 (0.10%) Revit
15 16 (0.081%) InVision
16 8 (0.040%) Adobe Illustrator
16 8 (0.040%) InDesign
17 7 (0.035%) CANalyzer
17 7 (0.035%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 310 (1.57%) SAP ERP
2 251 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 76 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 62 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
5 53 (0.27%) NetSuite
6 42 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
7 40 (0.20%) Siebel CRM
8 28 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
9 26 (0.13%) NEC Housing
9 26 (0.13%) SDL Web 8
10 20 (0.10%) Magento
11 19 (0.096%) SAP Oil and Gas
12 18 (0.091%) Shopify
13 16 (0.081%) Aladdin
13 16 (0.081%) Dynamics AX
13 16 (0.081%) SAP CX
14 15 (0.076%) Payment Gateway
14 15 (0.076%) Primavera
15 14 (0.071%) SAP GTS
16 12 (0.061%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 5,416 (27.41%) Azure
2 4,969 (25.14%) AWS
3 1,528 (7.73%) GCP
4 1,128 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
5 1,027 (5.20%) Power Platform
6 748 (3.79%) SaaS
7 624 (3.16%) Serverless
8 501 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
9 467 (2.36%) GitHub
10 455 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
11 335 (1.70%) PowerApps
12 321 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
13 312 (1.58%) Amazon S3
13 312 (1.58%) Power Automate
14 307 (1.55%) Amazon EKS
15 285 (1.44%) Snowflake
16 281 (1.42%) dbt
17 252 (1.28%) PaaS
18 214 (1.08%) Amazon ECS
19 205 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 824 (4.17%) Broadband
2 323 (1.63%) Firewall
3 284 (1.44%) DNS
4 250 (1.27%) Internet
5 225 (1.14%) TCP/IP
6 164 (0.83%) WAN
7 151 (0.76%) Network Security
8 145 (0.73%) VPN
9 137 (0.69%) DHCP
10 134 (0.68%) LAN
11 130 (0.66%) Wireless
12 125 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
13 84 (0.43%) Kerberos
14 81 (0.41%) HTTP
14 81 (0.41%) Intranet
15 73 (0.37%) SSL
16 67 (0.34%) BGP
17 50 (0.25%) Bluetooth
18 45 (0.23%) SAN
18 45 (0.23%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,791 (9.06%) SQL Server
2 1,274 (6.45%) NoSQL
3 891 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
4 724 (3.66%) Big Data
5 664 (3.36%) Power BI
6 651 (3.29%) MongoDB
7 513 (2.60%) Relational Database
8 512 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
9 510 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
10 466 (2.36%) Data Lake
11 451 (2.28%) MySQL
12 384 (1.94%) BigQuery
13 354 (1.79%) GIS
14 336 (1.70%) Hadoop
15 333 (1.69%) Apache Ignite
16 330 (1.67%) QGIS
17 297 (1.50%) Looker
18 274 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
19 237 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
20 231 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 1,621 (8.20%) Git
2 1,333 (6.75%) JIRA
3 926 (4.69%) Jenkins
4 385 (1.95%) Selenium
5 360 (1.82%) GitLab
6 356 (1.80%) JUnit
7 323 (1.63%) Visual Studio
8 301 (1.52%) Cypress.io
9 190 (0.96%) Bitbucket
10 177 (0.90%) Cucumber
11 147 (0.74%) Jasmine
12 142 (0.72%) Maven
13 128 (0.65%) TeamCity
13 128 (0.65%) WebDriver
14 117 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
15 113 (0.57%) Postman
16 103 (0.52%) Artifactory
16 103 (0.52%) JMeter
17 96 (0.49%) NUnit
18 95 (0.48%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 6,883 (34.83%) Finance
2 5,280 (26.72%) Social Skills
3 3,637 (18.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2,783 (14.08%) Law
5 2,288 (11.58%) Analytical Skills
6 1,901 (9.62%) Marketing
7 1,646 (8.33%) Banking
8 1,312 (6.64%) Legal
9 1,043 (5.28%) Public Sector
10 907 (4.59%) Influencing Skills
11 813 (4.11%) Retail
12 687 (3.48%) Front Office
13 684 (3.46%) Investment Banking
14 549 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
15 418 (2.12%) Aerospace
16 325 (1.64%) Financial Institution
17 264 (1.34%) Games
18 260 (1.32%) Manufacturing
19 238 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
20 223 (1.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4,400 (22.26%) Developer
2 3,742 (18.94%) Software Engineer
3 3,644 (18.44%) Senior
4 2,615 (13.23%) Lead
5 1,725 (8.73%) Analyst
6 1,617 (8.18%) Architect
7 1,423 (7.20%) .NET Developer
8 1,317 (6.66%) Project Manager
9 1,029 (5.21%) Java Engineer
10 960 (4.86%) Java Software Engineer
11 906 (4.58%) Senior Software Engineer
12 898 (4.54%) Senior Developer
13 880 (4.45%) Solutions Architect
14 825 (4.17%) Lead Software Engineer
15 693 (3.51%) Data Engineer
16 643 (3.25%) Business Analyst
17 600 (3.04%) C# Developer
17 600 (3.04%) Software Developer
18 598 (3.03%) Python Engineer
19 558 (2.82%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,359 (17.00%) .NET
2 2,626 (13.29%) React
3 1,955 (9.89%) AngularJS
4 1,736 (8.78%) HTML
5 1,721 (8.71%) CSS
6 1,542 (7.80%) .NET Core
7 1,392 (7.04%) ASP.NET
8 1,175 (5.95%) Spring
9 987 (4.99%) Node.js
10 942 (4.77%) RESTful
11 940 (4.76%) REST
12 887 (4.49%) .NET Framework
13 841 (4.26%) Vue
14 832 (4.21%) ASP.NET MVC
15 828 (4.19%) ASP.NET Web API
16 746 (3.77%) Entity Framework
17 730 (3.69%) Spring Boot
18 707 (3.58%) Web Services
19 700 (3.54%) Kafka
20 666 (3.37%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 1,458 (7.38%) Product Ownership
2 1,235 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1,152 (5.83%) Algorithms
4 643 (3.25%) Public Cloud
5 639 (3.23%) Management Information System
6 574 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
7 543 (2.75%) Fixed Income
8 526 (2.66%) Data Structures
9 509 (2.58%) Hedge funds
10 494 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
11 423 (2.14%) Derivative
12 415 (2.10%) Equities
13 396 (2.00%) Onboarding
14 392 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 334 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
16 302 (1.53%) Mobile App
17 238 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
18 231 (1.17%) Blockchain
19 221 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
20 204 (1.03%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,330 (6.73%) Linux
2 847 (4.29%) Windows
3 376 (1.90%) Android
4 315 (1.59%) Unix
5 297 (1.50%) Apple iOS
6 172 (0.87%) Windows Server
7 161 (0.81%) Ubuntu
8 130 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 63 (0.32%) Windows 10
10 58 (0.29%) CentOS
11 52 (0.26%) VMS
12 50 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
13 38 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
14 34 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
15 33 (0.17%) Debian
16 27 (0.14%) Mac OS
17 18 (0.091%) zOS
18 14 (0.071%) Solaris
19 10 (0.051%) Windows 7
20 9 (0.046%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,433 (27.49%) Software Engineering
2 3,942 (19.95%) DevOps
3 3,820 (19.33%) CI/CD
4 3,486 (17.64%) SDLC
5 3,254 (16.47%) Mentoring
6 3,231 (16.35%) Scrum
7 3,139 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
8 2,526 (12.78%) Project Management
9 2,488 (12.59%) Full Stack Development
10 2,347 (11.88%) Artificial Intelligence
11 2,270 (11.49%) Microservices
12 2,219 (11.23%) Roadmaps
13 2,202 (11.14%) Continuous Improvement
14 1,994 (10.09%) Actionable Insight
15 1,980 (10.02%) Coaching
16 1,956 (9.90%) Machine Learning
17 1,894 (9.58%) Decision-Making
18 1,817 (9.19%) Operational Stability
19 1,790 (9.06%) TDD
20 1,573 (7.96%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3,894 (19.70%) JavaScript
2 3,814 (19.30%) SQL
3 3,621 (18.32%) Java
4 3,547 (17.95%) C#
5 3,401 (17.21%) Python
6 1,802 (9.12%) TypeScript
7 446 (2.26%) Scala
8 397 (2.01%) PHP
9 369 (1.87%) C
10 361 (1.83%) C++
11 356 (1.80%) PowerShell
12 337 (1.71%) Go
13 277 (1.40%) T-SQL
14 267 (1.35%) Kotlin
15 202 (1.02%) PL/SQL
16 191 (0.97%) Bash
17 141 (0.71%) Ruby
18 135 (0.68%) R
19 107 (0.54%) MATLAB
20 100 (0.51%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2,704 (13.68%) Degree
2 2,382 (12.05%) Security Cleared
3 1,571 (7.95%) SC Cleared
4 655 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 552 (2.79%) DV Cleared
6 478 (2.42%) ACCA
7 472 (2.39%) CIMA
8 321 (1.62%) Master's Degree
9 278 (1.41%) PMI Certification
10 234 (1.18%) AWS Certification
11 229 (1.16%) PMP
12 203 (1.03%) Azure Certification
13 160 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
14 152 (0.77%) DBS Check
15 145 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
16 118 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 115 (0.58%) HNC
18 111 (0.56%) HND
19 98 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
20 94 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1,117 (5.65%) QA
2 411 (2.08%) Data Quality
3 390 (1.97%) Accessibility
4 327 (1.65%) GDPR
5 260 (1.32%) PMO
6 137 (0.69%) SLA
7 103 (0.52%) WCAG
8 93 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 77 (0.39%) NIST
10 50 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
11 44 (0.22%) ISO 9001
12 29 (0.15%) MISRA
12 29 (0.15%) PCI DSS
13 27 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
14 26 (0.13%) NCSC
14 26 (0.13%) NIST 800
15 21 (0.11%) GRC
16 20 (0.10%) Automotive SPICE
16 20 (0.10%) AUTOSAR
16 20 (0.10%) IFRS
System Software
1 1,343 (6.80%) Docker
2 388 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 182 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 118 (0.60%) HDFS
5 87 (0.44%) Hyper-V
6 85 (0.43%) Firmware
7 68 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
8 63 (0.32%) vSphere
9 60 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
10 54 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
11 26 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
12 22 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
13 20 (0.10%) VMware NSX
14 14 (0.071%) Time Sharing Option
15 9 (0.046%) KVM
15 9 (0.046%) Terminal Services
16 7 (0.035%) Microsoft App-V
17 6 (0.030%) DFS Replication
18 5 (0.025%) SRDF
19 3 (0.015%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,618 (8.19%) Kubernetes
2 1,211 (6.13%) Terraform
3 532 (2.69%) Ansible
4 267 (1.35%) Grafana
5 202 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 133 (0.67%) Puppet
7 98 (0.50%) Progress Chef
8 71 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
8 71 (0.36%) SCCM
9 60 (0.30%) Kibana
10 39 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 37 (0.19%) WSUS
12 34 (0.17%) SCOM
13 32 (0.16%) HAProxy
14 30 (0.15%) ZABBIX
15 29 (0.15%) vCenter Server
16 26 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
17 25 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
18 21 (0.11%) Zipkin
19 18 (0.091%) Packer
Vendors
1 3,466 (17.54%) Microsoft
2 1,202 (6.08%) Oracle
3 964 (4.88%) Google
4 638 (3.23%) SAP
5 456 (2.31%) Databricks
6 338 (1.71%) ESRI
7 310 (1.57%) Salesforce
8 304 (1.54%) IBM
9 300 (1.52%) Anaplan
9 300 (1.52%) Hyperion
10 260 (1.32%) Red Hat
11 243 (1.23%) Splunk
12 237 (1.20%) Dynatrace
13 229 (1.16%) ServiceNow
14 213 (1.08%) VMware
15 157 (0.79%) Informatica
16 151 (0.76%) Atlassian
17 127 (0.64%) Cisco
18 120 (0.61%) Adobe
19 107 (0.54%) Facebook