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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 10 5
Rank change year-on-year -24 -5 -4
Permanent jobs citing Agile 155 290 277
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 6.08% 12.28% 19.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.63% 13.96% 20.67%
Number of salaries quoted 122 150 235
10th Percentile £35,125 £32,450 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,421 £46,793
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £71,875 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,875 £77,625 £77,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £67,500

All Process and 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 2,031 2,078 1,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 79.71% 88.01% 93.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,280 895 1,007
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,725 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -6.86% -2.86%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,700 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 21 December 2025.

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 21 December 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
Northamptonshire +1 45 £60,000 +9.09% 18
Nottinghamshire -15 34 £55,000 -8.33% 13
Leicestershire -4 32 £55,000 +4.76% 20
Lincolnshire -12 21 £43,750 -8.07% 19
Derbyshire -26 13 £40,000 -9.26% 9
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 11 (7.10%) Confluence
2 5 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.94%) Apache
3 3 (1.94%) CMS
3 3 (1.94%) WordPress
4 2 (1.29%) IIS
4 2 (1.29%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.65%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (3.87%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (4.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.94%) SAP Business One
2 3 (1.94%) Shopify
3 1 (0.65%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (17.42%) Azure
2 21 (13.55%) AWS
3 15 (9.68%) SaaS
4 12 (7.74%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (4.52%) GCP
6 6 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.23%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.94%) ChatGPT
8 3 (1.94%) PaaS
8 3 (1.94%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.29%) dbt
9 2 (1.29%) Google Ads
9 2 (1.29%) Google Analytics
9 2 (1.29%) Google Tag Manager
9 2 (1.29%) Miro
9 2 (1.29%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.29%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.23%) DHCP
1 5 (3.23%) DNS
1 5 (3.23%) VPN
2 3 (1.94%) Intranet
2 3 (1.94%) WAN
3 2 (1.29%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.74%) MySQL
2 7 (4.52%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.58%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.58%) Power BI
5 3 (1.94%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.65%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.65%) SAS EBI
6 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (14.19%) JIRA
2 14 (9.03%) Git
3 5 (3.23%) Selenium
3 5 (3.23%) Subversion
4 4 (2.58%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.58%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (1.94%) GitLab
6 2 (1.29%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.29%) JUnit
6 2 (1.29%) Katalon Studio
6 2 (1.29%) Postman
6 2 (1.29%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.29%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.65%) Appium
7 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.65%) JMeter
7 1 (0.65%) Mockito
7 1 (0.65%) TestNG
7 1 (0.65%) XCUITest
General
1 45 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 36 (23.23%) Finance
3 22 (14.19%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (12.90%) Law
5 13 (8.39%) Marketing
6 9 (5.81%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.87%) Electronics
8 5 (3.23%) Legal
9 4 (2.58%) Advertising
9 4 (2.58%) Billing
9 4 (2.58%) Local Government
9 4 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.58%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.58%) Retail
10 3 (1.94%) Back Office
10 3 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.94%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.94%) Publishing
11 2 (1.29%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 33 (21.29%) Developer
2 25 (16.13%) Lead
3 19 (12.26%) Analyst
4 12 (7.74%) Architect
4 12 (7.74%) PHP Developer
4 12 (7.74%) Senior
5 10 (6.45%) Project Manager
6 8 (5.16%) IT Manager
6 8 (5.16%) IT Project Manager
6 8 (5.16%) PHP Symfony Developer
6 8 (5.16%) Symfony Developer
7 7 (4.52%) Business Analyst
7 7 (4.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (4.52%) Power Platform Developer
7 7 (4.52%) Software Engineer
8 6 (3.87%) Applications Support
8 6 (3.87%) PHP Laravel Developer
8 6 (3.87%) Product Owner
9 5 (3.23%) C# Architect
9 5 (3.23%) Head of Software Development
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.03%) .NET
2 13 (8.39%) CSS
2 13 (8.39%) HTML
2 13 (8.39%) Laravel
3 8 (5.16%) CakePHP
3 8 (5.16%) CodeIgniter
3 8 (5.16%) Symfony
4 7 (4.52%) Middleware
4 7 (4.52%) RESTful
5 6 (3.87%) React
6 3 (1.94%) EDI
6 3 (1.94%) jQuery
6 3 (1.94%) REST
7 2 (1.29%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.29%) Hibernate
7 2 (1.29%) JPA
7 2 (1.29%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (1.29%) SOAP
7 2 (1.29%) Spring
7 2 (1.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.03%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.52%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.23%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.94%) Client/Server
4 3 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.94%) Legacy Code
4 3 (1.94%) Social Media
5 2 (1.29%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.29%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.29%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.29%) NHS
5 2 (1.29%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.65%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.81%) Windows
2 5 (3.23%) Linux
2 5 (3.23%) Mac OS
2 5 (3.23%) Windows 10
3 3 (1.94%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.29%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (25.81%) Continuous Improvement
2 29 (18.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 26 (16.77%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (15.48%) Waterfall
5 23 (14.84%) Mentoring
5 23 (14.84%) Scrum
6 22 (14.19%) DevOps
7 19 (12.26%) Project Management
8 18 (11.61%) SDLC
8 18 (11.61%) Test Automation
9 17 (10.97%) CI/CD
10 16 (10.32%) CRM
10 16 (10.32%) Project Delivery
11 14 (9.03%) Change Management
12 13 (8.39%) OO
12 13 (8.39%) Roadmaps
12 13 (8.39%) Software Engineering
13 12 (7.74%) Migration
14 11 (7.10%) MVC
14 11 (7.10%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (15.48%) C#
2 22 (14.19%) JavaScript
3 21 (13.55%) SQL
4 15 (9.68%) PHP
5 12 (7.74%) TypeScript
6 7 (4.52%) Java
7 5 (3.23%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.23%) Python
8 3 (1.94%) Bash
9 2 (1.29%) Go
9 2 (1.29%) Groovy
9 2 (1.29%) Ruby
10 1 (0.65%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.65%) Swift
Qualifications
1 22 (14.19%) Degree
2 9 (5.81%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (4.52%) Security Cleared
4 6 (3.87%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.23%) MCP
6 4 (2.58%) Chartered Engineer
6 4 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.58%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.94%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.94%) PMP
8 2 (1.29%) CCNA
8 2 (1.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (1.29%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.65%) CCNP
9 1 (0.65%) CIPD
9 1 (0.65%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.65%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 1 (0.65%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.03%) QA
2 8 (5.16%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.52%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 6 (3.87%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 2 (1.29%) GDPR
7 2 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.29%) PMO
8 1 (0.65%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (3.87%) Docker
2 5 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.65%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (5.16%) Terraform
2 6 (3.87%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.29%) Ansible
4 1 (0.65%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 16 (10.32%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.23%) Databricks
2 5 (3.23%) Salesforce
2 5 (3.23%) Zoho
3 4 (2.58%) JD Edwards
4 3 (1.94%) IBM
4 3 (1.94%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.94%) Oracle
4 3 (1.94%) SAP
5 2 (1.29%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.29%) Cisco
5 2 (1.29%) Google
5 2 (1.29%) HubSpot
5 2 (1.29%) Siemens
5 2 (1.29%) Zend
6 1 (0.65%) Conga
6 1 (0.65%) Jitterbit
6 1 (0.65%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.65%) Pardot
6 1 (0.65%) ServiceNow