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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 24 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 -17 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 272 213 507
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 4.38% 9.09% 12.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.22% 10.72% 16.05%
Number of salaries quoted 160 149 173
10th Percentile £36,077 £26,775 £35,106
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,750
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 £78,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year -7.14% +6.93% -3.02%

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 4,374 1,987 3,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 70.40% 84.81% 76.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,918 1,097 1,709
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £28,000
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% -14.29%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -10 82 £56,250 -13.46% 21
Nottinghamshire +4 67 £60,000 -11.11% 57
Northamptonshire -6 48 £52,500 -12.50% 18
Lincolnshire -3 38 £55,000 +37.50% 19
Derbyshire -9 29 £51,250 +91.59% 12
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 (2.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.10%) Confluence
3 2 (0.74%) CMS
4 1 (0.37%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.37%) IIS
4 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (5.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.21%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (1.10%) Infor M3
3 3 (1.10%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.74%) Shopify
5 1 (0.37%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 79 (29.04%) Azure
2 51 (18.75%) AWS
3 27 (9.93%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (9.93%) Power Platform
4 20 (7.35%) Serverless
5 19 (6.99%) Dynamics 365
6 16 (5.88%) Power Automate
6 16 (5.88%) PowerApps
7 12 (4.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (4.04%) Amazon S3
8 11 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (3.31%) IaaS
10 8 (2.94%) Amazon Cognito
10 8 (2.94%) Amazon EventBridge
10 8 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (2.57%) Azure AKS
11 7 (2.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 7 (2.57%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (2.57%) Azure Storage
11 7 (2.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.57%) DNS
2 4 (1.47%) Internet
3 3 (1.10%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.74%) HTTP
4 2 (0.74%) SMS
5 1 (0.37%) Broadband
5 1 (0.37%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.37%) FTP
5 1 (0.37%) Intelligent Network
5 1 (0.37%) RTP
5 1 (0.37%) RTSP
5 1 (0.37%) SCTP
5 1 (0.37%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.37%) SS7
5 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.37%) VoIP
5 1 (0.37%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 22 (8.09%) MongoDB
2 20 (7.35%) Power BI
3 14 (5.15%) SQL Server
4 11 (4.04%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.94%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.21%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 6 (2.21%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (1.84%) NonStop SQL
7 5 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.10%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.74%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.74%) Metadata
9 2 (0.74%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (8.82%) Git
2 15 (5.51%) JIRA
3 7 (2.57%) XCUITest
4 5 (1.84%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.47%) GitLab
5 4 (1.47%) Storybook
5 4 (1.47%) Subversion
6 3 (1.10%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.37%) NUnit
General
1 79 (29.04%) Social Skills
2 57 (20.96%) Finance
3 47 (17.28%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.09%) Retail
5 21 (7.72%) Law
6 20 (7.35%) Influencing Skills
7 16 (5.88%) Manufacturing
8 11 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (3.31%) Aerospace
9 9 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (3.31%) Marketing
10 6 (2.21%) Banking
11 5 (1.84%) Electronics
12 4 (1.47%) Military
12 4 (1.47%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.10%) Legal
14 2 (0.74%) Advertising
14 2 (0.74%) Automotive
14 2 (0.74%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (25.37%) Developer
2 47 (17.28%) Senior
3 36 (13.24%) Software Engineer
4 28 (10.29%) Lead
5 25 (9.19%) .NET Developer
5 25 (9.19%) Delivery Manager
6 18 (6.62%) Analyst
7 17 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 16 (5.88%) Change Manager
9 13 (4.78%) Business Analyst
9 13 (4.78%) Software Developer
10 12 (4.41%) Graduate
10 12 (4.41%) Project Manager
11 11 (4.04%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (3.68%) C# Developer
13 9 (3.31%) Architect
13 9 (3.31%) C# Software Developer
14 8 (2.94%) Graduate C# Developer
14 8 (2.94%) IT Manager
14 8 (2.94%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (17.65%) React
2 45 (16.54%) .NET
3 29 (10.66%) ASP.NET
4 27 (9.93%) CSS
5 26 (9.56%) .NET Core
5 26 (9.56%) Node.js
6 25 (9.19%) ASP.NET Core
7 23 (8.46%) HTML
8 15 (5.51%) Entity Framework
8 15 (5.51%) Next.js
9 12 (4.41%) Terraform
10 11 (4.04%) LINQ
11 10 (3.68%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (3.31%) AWS CDK
12 9 (3.31%) Blazor
12 9 (3.31%) REST
13 7 (2.57%) Oracle Fusion
13 7 (2.57%) RESTful
14 6 (2.21%) Material-UI
15 4 (1.47%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.09%) Product Ownership
2 18 (6.62%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (4.04%) AI Agents
4 11 (4.04%) Driving Licence
4 11 (4.04%) Mobile App
5 9 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.31%) Low-Code
6 8 (2.94%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.47%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.10%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.10%) FMCG
9 3 (1.10%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.74%) Tandem
10 2 (0.74%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.37%) Digital Signage
11 1 (0.37%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.31%) Linux
2 7 (2.57%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.47%) Windows
4 3 (1.10%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (29.78%) Continuous Improvement
2 57 (20.96%) Mentoring
3 53 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (19.12%) CI/CD
5 51 (18.75%) Coaching
6 49 (18.01%) Full-Stack Development
7 47 (17.28%) DevOps
7 47 (17.28%) Software Engineering
8 45 (16.54%) Stakeholder Management
9 37 (13.60%) AI
10 36 (13.24%) Roadmaps
11 35 (12.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 32 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
12 32 (11.76%) Test Automation
13 31 (11.40%) ERP
14 30 (11.03%) Decision-Making
15 27 (9.93%) Business Intelligence
15 27 (9.93%) Computer Science
16 26 (9.56%) Business Strategy
17 25 (9.19%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (25.37%) SQL
2 61 (22.43%) C#
3 38 (13.97%) TypeScript
4 29 (10.66%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.41%) C++
5 12 (4.41%) Python
6 10 (3.68%) PowerShell
7 8 (2.94%) PHP
8 7 (2.57%) Java
9 6 (2.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (2.21%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.84%) Bash
11 4 (1.47%) Swift
12 1 (0.37%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.37%) R
12 1 (0.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 28 (10.29%) Degree
2 16 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 16 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (3.68%) PMP
5 9 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (3.31%) PMI Certification
6 8 (2.94%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.94%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.21%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.10%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.37%) ACCA
10 1 (0.37%) CIMA
10 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.37%) ICAEW
10 1 (0.37%) ISEB
10 1 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (12.50%) QA
2 20 (7.35%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.94%) GRC
4 7 (2.57%) PMO
5 4 (1.47%) GDPR
5 4 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.47%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.10%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.37%) SLA
7 1 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (5.51%) Docker
2 3 (1.10%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (1.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (6.99%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.37%) Ansible
2 1 (0.37%) Grafana
Vendors
1 59 (21.69%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.04%) Oracle
3 8 (2.94%) Databricks
4 6 (2.21%) Infor
5 4 (1.47%) Apple
5 4 (1.47%) SAP
6 3 (1.10%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (1.10%) Google
6 3 (1.10%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.74%) IFS
7 2 (0.74%) Informatica
7 2 (0.74%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.74%) Veracode
8 1 (0.37%) Adobe
8 1 (0.37%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.37%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.37%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud