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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 13 4
Rank change year-on-year -11 -9 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 179 207 498
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 5.89% 11.15% 16.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.60% 12.35% 20.02%
Number of salaries quoted 122 129 415
10th Percentile £24,750 £31,850 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £39,087
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +10.24% -5.93%

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 2,356 1,676 2,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 77.55% 90.25% 84.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,441 796 1,975
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.15% -7.46%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £78,800 £73,750 £68,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%

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 26 February 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 26 February 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 +9 44 £56,250 +7.66% 7
Northamptonshire +11 40 £60,000 -7.69% 13
Derbyshire -11 32 £25,500 -43.33% 12
Nottinghamshire -23 32 £55,000 -12.00% 20
Lincolnshire -17 22 £45,000 -5.26% 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 29 (16.20%) Confluence
2 7 (3.91%) CMS
3 4 (2.23%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.68%) Apache
4 3 (1.68%) WordPress
5 2 (1.12%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.12%) IIS
6 1 (0.56%) Drupal
6 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (1.68%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.68%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.56%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 30 (16.76%) Azure
2 24 (13.41%) AWS
3 13 (7.26%) Power Platform
4 9 (5.03%) SaaS
5 8 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (4.47%) GCP
6 7 (3.91%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (3.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.23%) Power Automate
8 4 (2.23%) Serverless
9 3 (1.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.68%) ChatGPT
9 3 (1.68%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.12%) npm
10 2 (1.12%) NuGet
10 2 (1.12%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.12%) PaaS
10 2 (1.12%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.68%) Intranet
1 3 (1.68%) WAN
2 2 (1.12%) Broadband
2 2 (1.12%) LAN
3 1 (0.56%) 4G
3 1 (0.56%) BGP
3 1 (0.56%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (0.56%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (0.56%) IOS XR
3 1 (0.56%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.59%) MySQL
1 10 (5.59%) Power BI
1 10 (5.59%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.68%) Data Lake
2 3 (1.68%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.68%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.12%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.56%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.56%) SAS EBI
4 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (22.35%) JIRA
2 14 (7.82%) Git
3 5 (2.79%) Subversion
3 5 (2.79%) XCUITest
4 2 (1.12%) GitLab
4 2 (1.12%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.12%) Postman
4 2 (1.12%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (1.12%) Selenium
4 2 (1.12%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.56%) Jaeger
General
1 56 (31.28%) Social Skills
2 32 (17.88%) Law
3 29 (16.20%) Finance
4 27 (15.08%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (11.73%) Marketing
6 13 (7.26%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (4.47%) Electronics
7 8 (4.47%) Retail
8 7 (3.91%) Advertising
8 7 (3.91%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.79%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.23%) Billing
10 4 (2.23%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.68%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.68%) Back Office
11 3 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.68%) Publishing
12 2 (1.12%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 27 (15.08%) Developer
2 21 (11.73%) Senior
3 18 (10.06%) Analyst
3 18 (10.06%) Lead
4 15 (8.38%) IT Support
5 9 (5.03%) IT Engineer
5 9 (5.03%) IT Manager
5 9 (5.03%) IT Support Engineer
5 9 (5.03%) Project Manager
5 9 (5.03%) Support Engineer
6 8 (4.47%) Architect
6 8 (4.47%) PHP Developer
6 8 (4.47%) Product Owner
7 7 (3.91%) Finance Manager
7 7 (3.91%) IT Analyst
7 7 (3.91%) Power Platform Developer
7 7 (3.91%) Software Engineer
8 6 (3.35%) Business Analyst
8 6 (3.35%) IT Support Analyst
8 6 (3.35%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.26%) .NET
2 12 (6.70%) React
3 11 (6.15%) Laravel
4 9 (5.03%) CSS
4 9 (5.03%) HTML
5 8 (4.47%) RESTful
6 7 (3.91%) Middleware
7 4 (2.23%) AWS CDK
7 4 (2.23%) CakePHP
7 4 (2.23%) CodeIgniter
7 4 (2.23%) Next.js
7 4 (2.23%) Symfony
8 3 (1.68%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.68%) jQuery
8 3 (1.68%) Node.js
8 3 (1.68%) Vue
9 2 (1.12%) Django
9 2 (1.12%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (1.12%) Ruby on Rails
9 2 (1.12%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.06%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.15%) Mobile App
3 9 (5.03%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.79%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.79%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.23%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.23%) Mobile Computing
5 4 (2.23%) Social Media
6 3 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.68%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.68%) Legacy Code
6 3 (1.68%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.12%) NHS
7 2 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.56%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.47%) Linux
2 5 (2.79%) Apple iOS
2 5 (2.79%) Windows
3 4 (2.23%) Android
4 3 (1.68%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.12%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (28.49%) Continuous Improvement
2 32 (17.88%) Mentoring
3 29 (16.20%) Stakeholder Management
4 26 (14.53%) Test Automation
5 25 (13.97%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (11.73%) DevOps
7 19 (10.61%) CI/CD
7 19 (10.61%) Software Engineering
7 19 (10.61%) Waterfall
8 18 (10.06%) Project Management
8 18 (10.06%) Root Cause Analysis
9 16 (8.94%) Incident Management
9 16 (8.94%) ITSM
9 16 (8.94%) Observability
9 16 (8.94%) Roadmaps
9 16 (8.94%) SDLC
10 15 (8.38%) Scrum
11 14 (7.82%) Change Management
11 14 (7.82%) Decision-Making
11 14 (7.82%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 32 (17.88%) SQL
2 19 (10.61%) JavaScript
3 18 (10.06%) C#
4 15 (8.38%) TypeScript
5 13 (7.26%) PHP
6 8 (4.47%) Python
7 5 (2.79%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.23%) Bash
8 4 (2.23%) Java
9 3 (1.68%) Go
10 2 (1.12%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.12%) Ruby
11 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.56%) R
11 1 (0.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (10.06%) Degree
2 10 (5.59%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.91%) PMI Certification
3 7 (3.91%) PMP
4 6 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.35%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.68%) Chartered Engineer
5 3 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.68%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.68%) MBA
5 3 (1.68%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.12%) AAT
6 2 (1.12%) ACCA
6 2 (1.12%) CCNA
6 2 (1.12%) CIMA
6 2 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.56%) CCNP
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.85%) QA
2 16 (8.94%) SLA
3 8 (4.47%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.79%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.79%) GDPR
4 5 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.56%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.56%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (3.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (5.03%) Terraform
2 6 (3.35%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.12%) Ansible
4 1 (0.56%) Argo
4 1 (0.56%) Grafana
4 1 (0.56%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (6.70%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.91%) SAP
3 6 (3.35%) Oracle
4 5 (2.79%) Databricks
4 5 (2.79%) Zoho
5 4 (2.23%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.68%) Cisco
6 3 (1.68%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.68%) QAD
7 2 (1.12%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.12%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (1.12%) ESRI
7 2 (1.12%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.12%) IBM
7 2 (1.12%) Zend
8 1 (0.56%) Conga
8 1 (0.56%) Jitterbit
8 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.56%) Pardot
8 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow