Agile Job Trends in Cheltenham

Agile Software Development
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Agile skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -15 +1 -4
Permanent jobs citing Agile 12 44 101
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 6.56% 30.56% 25.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.23% 32.59% 28.13%
Number of salaries quoted 8 12 52
10th Percentile £39,807 £39,875 £43,075
25th Percentile £43,475 £55,625 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £68,750 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +17.02% -
75th Percentile £72,813 £80,313 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,875 £90,625 £88,750
Gloucestershire median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £59,556
% change year-on-year +3.70% +13.34% +8.28%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 in Cheltenham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 130 135 359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 71.04% 93.75% 91.82%
Number of salaries quoted 98 66 208
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,375 £44,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,125 £70,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -1.87%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Agile relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Agile job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Agile
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Agile.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Agile

Agile
Salary Histogram in Cheltenham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Agile in Cheltenham

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Serverless
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DHCP
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Fire and Rescue
3 2 (16.67%) Legal
3 2 (16.67%) Local Government
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Electronics
4 1 (8.33%) Games
4 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (8.33%) Marketing
4 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Business Change Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Business Change Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Business Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Change Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Change Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Junior
3 1 (8.33%) Junior Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) React
2 2 (16.67%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) RESTful
2 2 (16.67%) Spring
2 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
3 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (8.33%) Blazor
3 1 (8.33%) Jest
3 1 (8.33%) Kafka
3 1 (8.33%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (8.33%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (16.67%) Cyberattack
1 2 (16.67%) NHS
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Coaching
2 4 (33.33%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) Microservices
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (25.00%) Project Management
3 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (16.67%) Agile Project Management
4 2 (16.67%) Case Management
4 2 (16.67%) Change Management
4 2 (16.67%) Digital Innovation
4 2 (16.67%) ITSM
4 2 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 2 (16.67%) Mathematics
4 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Project Planning
4 2 (16.67%) Service Management
4 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) C#
1 2 (16.67%) Java
1 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) APMP
3 1 (8.33%) BC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
1 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Kibana
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco
1 1 (8.33%) Dell
1 1 (8.33%) HP
1 1 (8.33%) Juniper
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) SAP
1 1 (8.33%) Veeam
1 1 (8.33%) VMware