Agile Job Trends in the East Midlands

Agile Software Development
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Agile skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 25 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 -18 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 275 213 515
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 4.46% 9.07% 12.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.35% 10.68% 16.18%
Number of salaries quoted 164 149 188
10th Percentile £29,325 £25,625 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,804 £37,500 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -6.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -3.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,334 1,995 3,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 70.28% 84.97% 75.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,879 1,104 1,818
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,208 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -6.67% -16.28%
75th Percentile £62,000 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -10.40%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Agile job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Agile
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Agile.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Agile

Agile
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 27 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Agile in the East Midlands

Agile
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 August 2026. 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
Leicestershire -12 78 £57,500 -11.54% 14
Nottinghamshire +1 70 £60,000 -11.11% 22
Northamptonshire -7 50 £52,500 -12.50% 12
Lincolnshire -4 41 £53,750 +34.38% 13
Derbyshire -5 29 £51,250 +91.59% 11
Agile
England

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 6 (2.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.09%) Confluence
3 2 (0.73%) CMS
3 2 (0.73%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.36%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.36%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (5.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.18%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.73%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.73%) Shopify
5 1 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 82 (29.82%) Azure
2 50 (18.18%) AWS
3 27 (9.82%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (9.82%) Power Platform
4 20 (7.27%) Serverless
5 19 (6.91%) Dynamics 365
6 16 (5.82%) Power Automate
6 16 (5.82%) PowerApps
7 12 (4.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (4.00%) Amazon S3
8 11 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (3.64%) IaaS
10 8 (2.91%) Amazon Cognito
10 8 (2.91%) Amazon EventBridge
10 8 (2.91%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (2.91%) Azure AKS
10 8 (2.91%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 8 (2.91%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (2.91%) Azure Storage
11 7 (2.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.91%) DNS
2 4 (1.45%) Internet
3 3 (1.09%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.73%) HTTP
4 2 (0.73%) SMS
5 1 (0.36%) Broadband
5 1 (0.36%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.36%) FTP
5 1 (0.36%) Intelligent Network
5 1 (0.36%) RTP
5 1 (0.36%) RTSP
5 1 (0.36%) SCTP
5 1 (0.36%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.36%) SS7
5 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.36%) VoIP
5 1 (0.36%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 22 (8.00%) MongoDB
2 20 (7.27%) Power BI
3 14 (5.09%) SQL Server
4 11 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.91%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.18%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.18%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 6 (2.18%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (1.82%) NonStop SQL
7 5 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.09%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.73%) Metadata
9 2 (0.73%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (8.73%) Git
2 15 (5.45%) JIRA
3 7 (2.55%) XCUITest
4 5 (1.82%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.45%) GitLab
5 4 (1.45%) Storybook
5 4 (1.45%) Subversion
6 3 (1.09%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.36%) NUnit
General
1 80 (29.09%) Social Skills
2 58 (21.09%) Finance
3 47 (17.09%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.36%) Law
5 22 (8.00%) Retail
6 20 (7.27%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (5.45%) Manufacturing
8 11 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (3.27%) Aerospace
9 9 (3.27%) Marketing
10 8 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.18%) Banking
12 5 (1.82%) Electronics
13 4 (1.45%) Military
13 4 (1.45%) Public Sector
14 3 (1.09%) Advertising
14 3 (1.09%) Legal
15 2 (0.73%) Automotive
15 2 (0.73%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.73%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 69 (25.09%) Developer
2 44 (16.00%) Senior
3 36 (13.09%) Software Engineer
4 28 (10.18%) Lead
5 25 (9.09%) .NET Developer
5 25 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
6 19 (6.91%) Analyst
7 17 (6.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 16 (5.82%) Change Manager
9 15 (5.45%) Software Developer
10 14 (5.09%) Graduate
11 13 (4.73%) Business Analyst
12 12 (4.36%) C# Developer
13 11 (4.00%) C# Software Developer
13 11 (4.00%) Project Manager
13 11 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
14 10 (3.64%) Graduate C# Developer
14 10 (3.64%) Graduate Developer
14 10 (3.64%) Graduate Software Developer
14 10 (3.64%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (16.73%) React
2 45 (16.36%) .NET
3 29 (10.55%) ASP.NET
4 27 (9.82%) CSS
5 26 (9.45%) .NET Core
6 25 (9.09%) ASP.NET Core
7 24 (8.73%) Node.js
8 23 (8.36%) HTML
9 15 (5.45%) Entity Framework
9 15 (5.45%) Next.js
10 11 (4.00%) LINQ
10 11 (4.00%) Terraform
11 10 (3.64%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (3.27%) AWS CDK
12 9 (3.27%) Blazor
12 9 (3.27%) REST
13 7 (2.55%) Oracle Fusion
13 7 (2.55%) RESTful
14 4 (1.45%) .NET Framework
14 4 (1.45%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 18 (6.55%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (4.36%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (4.00%) AI Agents
4 11 (4.00%) Mobile App
5 9 (3.27%) Driving Licence
5 9 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.27%) Low-Code
6 7 (2.55%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.45%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.73%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.73%) FMCG
9 2 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.73%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.73%) Tandem
9 2 (0.73%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.36%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.36%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.91%) Linux
2 7 (2.55%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.45%) Windows
4 3 (1.09%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (29.09%) Continuous Improvement
2 57 (20.73%) Mentoring
3 54 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (18.55%) Coaching
5 50 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 49 (17.82%) Full-Stack Development
7 46 (16.73%) Software Engineering
8 45 (16.36%) DevOps
9 43 (15.64%) Stakeholder Management
10 37 (13.45%) AI
10 37 (13.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 35 (12.73%) Roadmaps
12 32 (11.64%) Collaborative Working
12 32 (11.64%) Test Automation
13 30 (10.91%) Decision-Making
13 30 (10.91%) ERP
14 28 (10.18%) Computer Science
15 27 (9.82%) Business Intelligence
16 26 (9.45%) Business Strategy
17 25 (9.09%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 70 (25.45%) SQL
2 63 (22.91%) C#
3 36 (13.09%) TypeScript
4 29 (10.55%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.36%) C++
5 12 (4.36%) Python
6 11 (4.00%) PowerShell
7 10 (3.64%) PHP
8 7 (2.55%) Java
9 6 (2.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (2.18%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.82%) Bash
11 4 (1.45%) Swift
12 1 (0.36%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.36%) R
12 1 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 27 (9.82%) Degree
2 14 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 14 (5.09%) SC Cleared
2 14 (5.09%) Security Cleared
3 9 (3.27%) Azure Certification
3 9 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (3.27%) PMP
4 8 (2.91%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.91%) PMI Certification
5 6 (2.18%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (1.09%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.73%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.36%) ACCA
8 1 (0.36%) CIMA
8 1 (0.36%) ICAEW
8 1 (0.36%) ISEB
8 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (12.36%) QA
2 20 (7.27%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.91%) GRC
4 7 (2.55%) PMO
5 4 (1.45%) GDPR
5 4 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.45%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.73%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.36%) SLA
7 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (5.09%) Docker
2 3 (1.09%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (1.09%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (6.91%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.36%) Ansible
2 1 (0.36%) Grafana
Vendors
1 60 (21.82%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.00%) Oracle
3 8 (2.91%) Databricks
4 5 (1.82%) Infor
5 4 (1.45%) Apple
5 4 (1.45%) SAP
6 3 (1.09%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (1.09%) Google
6 3 (1.09%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.73%) IFS
7 2 (0.73%) Informatica
7 2 (0.73%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.73%) Veracode
8 1 (0.36%) Adobe
8 1 (0.36%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.36%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.36%) ESRI
8 1 (0.36%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.36%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud