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

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 9 4
Rank change year-on-year -16 -5 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 158 338 308
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 6.48% 11.76% 20.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.02% 13.96% 21.80%
Number of salaries quoted 128 148 250
10th Percentile £34,850 £34,250 £36,700
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,200 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,850 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.25% +3.36% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,125 £77,875 £75,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - - +1.07%

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 1,970 2,422 1,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 80.84% 84.27% 92.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,253 1,052 1,039
10th Percentile £25,900 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £51,716
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -8.15% +3.43%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £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 9 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 9 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 42 £57,500 +4.55% 49
Nottinghamshire -15 39 £57,500 -4.17% 49
Leicestershire +8 30 £57,500 +10.05% 55
Lincolnshire -10 20 £42,500 -10.70% 46
Derbyshire -26 17 £55,000 +22.22% 64
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 (6.96%) Confluence
2 5 (3.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.53%) Apache
4 3 (1.90%) CMS
4 3 (1.90%) WordPress
5 2 (1.27%) IIS
5 2 (1.27%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.63%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (3.80%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (4.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.90%) SAP Business One
2 3 (1.90%) Shopify
3 1 (0.63%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (23.42%) Azure
2 31 (19.62%) AWS
3 19 (12.03%) SaaS
4 14 (8.86%) GCP
5 11 (6.96%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.16%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.53%) PaaS
9 3 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.90%) ChatGPT
9 3 (1.90%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.90%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.27%) dbt
10 2 (1.27%) Google Ads
10 2 (1.27%) Google Tag Manager
10 2 (1.27%) Miro
10 2 (1.27%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.80%) VPN
2 5 (3.16%) DHCP
2 5 (3.16%) DNS
3 3 (1.90%) Intranet
3 3 (1.90%) LAN
3 3 (1.90%) WAN
4 1 (0.63%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.63%) Firewall
4 1 (0.63%) Internet
4 1 (0.63%) Network Security
4 1 (0.63%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.59%) MySQL
2 7 (4.43%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (4.43%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.80%) Big Data
4 5 (3.16%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.53%) Power BI
6 3 (1.90%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.90%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.90%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.27%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.63%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.63%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.63%) SAS EBI
8 1 (0.63%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (12.66%) JIRA
2 18 (11.39%) Git
3 7 (4.43%) Selenium
4 4 (2.53%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.53%) Katalon Studio
4 4 (2.53%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (1.90%) GitLab
5 3 (1.90%) Subversion
6 2 (1.27%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.27%) JUnit
6 2 (1.27%) Postman
6 2 (1.27%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.27%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.63%) Appium
7 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.63%) JMeter
7 1 (0.63%) Mockito
7 1 (0.63%) TestNG
General
1 46 (29.11%) Social Skills
2 27 (17.09%) Finance
3 21 (13.29%) Law
4 20 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.59%) Marketing
6 7 (4.43%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.16%) Legal
7 5 (3.16%) Retail
8 4 (2.53%) Advertising
8 4 (2.53%) Billing
8 4 (2.53%) Electronics
8 4 (2.53%) Local Government
8 4 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.53%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.90%) Back Office
9 3 (1.90%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.90%) Publishing
10 2 (1.27%) Banking
10 2 (1.27%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 33 (20.89%) Developer
2 25 (15.82%) Lead
3 19 (12.03%) Analyst
4 16 (10.13%) Senior
5 13 (8.23%) Architect
6 12 (7.59%) PHP Developer
6 12 (7.59%) Software Engineer
7 10 (6.33%) Project Manager
8 8 (5.06%) IT Manager
8 8 (5.06%) IT Project Manager
8 8 (5.06%) PHP Symfony Developer
8 8 (5.06%) Symfony Developer
9 7 (4.43%) Business Analyst
9 7 (4.43%) Power Platform Developer
10 6 (3.80%) Applications Support
10 6 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (3.80%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 5 (3.16%) Data Engineer
11 5 (3.16%) Infrastructure Support
11 5 (3.16%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.86%) .NET
2 13 (8.23%) CSS
2 13 (8.23%) HTML
2 13 (8.23%) Laravel
3 8 (5.06%) CakePHP
3 8 (5.06%) CodeIgniter
3 8 (5.06%) Django
3 8 (5.06%) RESTful
3 8 (5.06%) Symfony
4 7 (4.43%) Flask
5 6 (3.80%) Middleware
5 6 (3.80%) React
6 4 (2.53%) REST
7 3 (1.90%) EDI
7 3 (1.90%) jQuery
8 2 (1.27%) Hibernate
8 2 (1.27%) Ruby on Rails
8 2 (1.27%) SOAP
8 2 (1.27%) Spring
8 2 (1.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.23%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.59%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.16%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (3.16%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.53%) Legacy Code
4 4 (2.53%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.90%) Client/Server
5 3 (1.90%) IoT
5 3 (1.90%) Social Media
6 2 (1.27%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.27%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.27%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.27%) NHS
6 2 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.33%) Windows
2 9 (5.70%) Linux
3 5 (3.16%) Mac OS
3 5 (3.16%) Windows 10
4 4 (2.53%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.90%) AIX
6 2 (1.27%) Mac OS X
6 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.27%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.63%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (24.68%) Continuous Improvement
2 31 (19.62%) Mentoring
3 30 (18.99%) DevOps
4 25 (15.82%) CI/CD
5 24 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (15.19%) Stakeholder Management
6 23 (14.56%) Scrum
6 23 (14.56%) Waterfall
7 21 (13.29%) Test Automation
8 19 (12.03%) SDLC
8 19 (12.03%) Software Engineering
9 18 (11.39%) Project Management
10 16 (10.13%) Roadmaps
11 15 (9.49%) CRM
12 14 (8.86%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (8.23%) Microservices
13 13 (8.23%) Migration
13 13 (8.23%) OO
13 13 (8.23%) Project Delivery
14 12 (7.59%) AI
Programming Languages
1 26 (16.46%) C#
2 24 (15.19%) JavaScript
2 24 (15.19%) SQL
3 15 (9.49%) PHP
4 14 (8.86%) Python
5 12 (7.59%) TypeScript
6 10 (6.33%) Java
7 5 (3.16%) Bash
7 5 (3.16%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.53%) Groovy
9 2 (1.27%) Go
9 2 (1.27%) Korn
9 2 (1.27%) Ruby
9 2 (1.27%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.63%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.63%) C
10 1 (0.63%) C++
Qualifications
1 21 (13.29%) Degree
2 10 (6.33%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (5.70%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.16%) MCP
6 4 (2.53%) Chartered Engineer
6 4 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.27%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.27%) PMP
7 2 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.63%) CCNA
8 1 (0.63%) CCNP
8 1 (0.63%) CIPD
8 1 (0.63%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.63%) HND
8 1 (0.63%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.63%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.23%) QA
2 7 (4.43%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.43%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 6 (3.80%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (3.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 2 (1.27%) GDPR
6 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.27%) PMO
7 1 (0.63%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (8.23%) Docker
2 5 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (10.76%) Terraform
2 14 (8.86%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.53%) Ansible
4 2 (1.27%) Grafana
4 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (1.27%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.63%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 16 (10.13%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.80%) Databricks
3 5 (3.16%) IBM
3 5 (3.16%) Salesforce
3 5 (3.16%) SAP
4 4 (2.53%) JD Edwards
4 4 (2.53%) Zoho
5 3 (1.90%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.90%) Oracle
6 2 (1.27%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.27%) Google
6 2 (1.27%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.27%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.27%) Siemens
6 2 (1.27%) VMware
6 2 (1.27%) Zend
7 1 (0.63%) Conga
7 1 (0.63%) Jitterbit
7 1 (0.63%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.63%) Pardot