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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 22 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 -17 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 282 201 585
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 5.19% 8.96% 12.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.30% 10.46% 16.69%
Number of salaries quoted 169 139 265
10th Percentile £24,750 £25,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,875 £42,424
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £64,000 £70,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -0.54%

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 3,865 1,922 3,506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 71.11% 85.69% 76.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,520 1,057 2,193
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,650 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -11 80 £57,500 -17.86% 27
Nottinghamshire -5 65 £58,750 -9.62% 24
Northamptonshire +3 54 £52,500 -12.50% 19
Lincolnshire -3 39 £52,500 +31.25% 12
Derbyshire -3 35 £35,000 +30.84% 20
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 16 (5.67%) Confluence
2 5 (1.77%) CMS
2 5 (1.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (1.42%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.06%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.71%) IIS
6 1 (0.35%) Apache
6 1 (0.35%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (4.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.77%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.35%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.35%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 82 (29.08%) Azure
2 50 (17.73%) AWS
3 26 (9.22%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (9.22%) Power Platform
4 21 (7.45%) Serverless
5 20 (7.09%) Dynamics 365
6 14 (4.96%) Power Automate
6 14 (4.96%) PowerApps
7 13 (4.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (2.84%) Amazon Cognito
8 8 (2.84%) Amazon EventBridge
8 8 (2.84%) Amazon S3
8 8 (2.84%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (2.84%) Azure AKS
8 8 (2.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 8 (2.84%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (2.84%) Azure Storage
8 8 (2.84%) IaaS
9 7 (2.48%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.84%) DNS
2 4 (1.42%) Internet
3 3 (1.06%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.71%) HTTP
5 1 (0.35%) Broadband
5 1 (0.35%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.35%) FTP
5 1 (0.35%) Intranet
5 1 (0.35%) RTP
5 1 (0.35%) RTSP
5 1 (0.35%) SCTP
5 1 (0.35%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.35%) SS7
5 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.35%) VoIP
5 1 (0.35%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.80%) Azure SQL Database
1 22 (7.80%) MongoDB
2 21 (7.45%) Power BI
3 15 (5.32%) SQL Server
4 11 (3.90%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.84%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.77%) NonStop SQL
6 5 (1.77%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 5 (1.77%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (1.42%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.06%) MySQL
8 3 (1.06%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.71%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (10.28%) JIRA
2 17 (6.03%) Git
3 11 (3.90%) XCUITest
4 4 (1.42%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.06%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.71%) GitLab
6 2 (0.71%) Storybook
7 1 (0.35%) NUnit
General
1 80 (28.37%) Social Skills
2 50 (17.73%) Finance
3 43 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (13.12%) Law
5 22 (7.80%) Influencing Skills
6 21 (7.45%) Retail
7 10 (3.55%) Manufacturing
8 9 (3.19%) Marketing
8 9 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.48%) Advertising
10 6 (2.13%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.42%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.42%) Banking
13 3 (1.06%) Legal
14 2 (0.71%) Electronics
14 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.71%) Social Housing
15 1 (0.35%) Billing
15 1 (0.35%) Police
Job Titles
1 60 (21.28%) Developer
2 49 (17.38%) Senior
3 27 (9.57%) Lead
4 26 (9.22%) Delivery Manager
5 25 (8.87%) .NET Developer
6 23 (8.16%) Software Engineer
7 22 (7.80%) Analyst
8 21 (7.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 16 (5.67%) Change Manager
10 14 (4.96%) Business Analyst
10 14 (4.96%) Graduate
11 13 (4.61%) Software Developer
12 12 (4.26%) C# Developer
12 12 (4.26%) Project Manager
13 11 (3.90%) C# Software Developer
13 11 (3.90%) IT Support
14 10 (3.55%) Graduate C# Developer
14 10 (3.55%) Graduate Software Developer
14 10 (3.55%) Senior Software Engineer
14 10 (3.55%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (15.60%) React
2 39 (13.83%) .NET
3 27 (9.57%) ASP.NET
4 26 (9.22%) CSS
5 24 (8.51%) .NET Core
5 24 (8.51%) ASP.NET Core
5 24 (8.51%) HTML
6 22 (7.80%) Node.js
7 15 (5.32%) Entity Framework
7 15 (5.32%) Next.js
8 13 (4.61%) AWS CDK
9 11 (3.90%) LINQ
10 10 (3.55%) ASP.NET Web API
10 10 (3.55%) RESTful
11 9 (3.19%) Blazor
12 7 (2.48%) REST
13 6 (2.13%) Oracle Fusion
14 4 (1.42%) jQuery
14 4 (1.42%) React Native
14 4 (1.42%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.70%) Product Ownership
2 22 (7.80%) Greenfield Project
3 15 (5.32%) Mobile App
4 12 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.19%) AI Agents
5 9 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.48%) Driving Licence
7 6 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.13%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.77%) Mobile Computing
8 5 (1.77%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.06%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.71%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.35%) CUDA
11 1 (0.35%) Digital Signage
11 1 (0.35%) e-Learning
11 1 (0.35%) IoT
11 1 (0.35%) Marketing Technology
11 1 (0.35%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.90%) Apple iOS
2 7 (2.48%) Android
3 4 (1.42%) Linux
3 4 (1.42%) Windows
4 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (28.01%) Continuous Improvement
2 60 (21.28%) Mentoring
3 55 (19.50%) Coaching
4 54 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (18.09%) Full-Stack Development
6 46 (16.31%) CI/CD
7 41 (14.54%) Stakeholder Management
8 40 (14.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 40 (14.18%) Test Automation
9 38 (13.48%) Decision-Making
9 38 (13.48%) DevOps
10 35 (12.41%) Roadmaps
11 34 (12.06%) AI
11 34 (12.06%) Collaborative Working
12 30 (10.64%) Software Engineering
13 28 (9.93%) Observability
13 28 (9.93%) Personalization
14 27 (9.57%) Business Intelligence
15 26 (9.22%) Business Strategy
16 24 (8.51%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 70 (24.82%) SQL
2 57 (20.21%) C#
3 33 (11.70%) TypeScript
4 31 (10.99%) JavaScript
5 13 (4.61%) PHP
6 11 (3.90%) C++
6 11 (3.90%) Python
7 10 (3.55%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (2.48%) Java
9 5 (1.77%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.42%) Swift
11 3 (1.06%) Bash
12 2 (0.71%) R
13 1 (0.35%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.35%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (7.09%) Degree
2 9 (3.19%) Azure Certification
2 9 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (2.84%) PMP
4 7 (2.48%) PMI Certification
4 7 (2.48%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.48%) Security Cleared
5 5 (1.77%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.06%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.71%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.35%) ACCA
8 1 (0.35%) CIMA
8 1 (0.35%) ICAEW
8 1 (0.35%) ISEB
8 1 (0.35%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (13.48%) QA
2 17 (6.03%) Accessibility
3 11 (3.90%) SLA
4 7 (2.48%) GRC
5 5 (1.77%) PMO
6 2 (0.71%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.71%) GDPR
6 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.71%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (2.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (5.32%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.42%) Terraform
3 2 (0.71%) Grafana
Vendors
1 53 (18.79%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.90%) Oracle
3 7 (2.48%) Databricks
4 5 (1.77%) SAP
5 4 (1.42%) Apple
6 3 (1.06%) ESRI
6 3 (1.06%) Infor
6 3 (1.06%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.06%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (0.71%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.71%) Google
7 2 (0.71%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.35%) Adobe
8 1 (0.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud