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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 29 5
Rank change year-on-year +9 -24 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 284 196 692
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 5.54% 8.93% 13.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.78% 10.39% 17.64%
Number of salaries quoted 168 131 361
10th Percentile £24,750 £25,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £64,813 £72,500 £66,137
90th Percentile £71,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +10.24% -3.05%

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 3,652 1,886 3,924
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 71.29% 85.96% 77.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,376 1,004 2,632
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,663 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £29,938 £32,500
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 £58,250 £56,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £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 9 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 9 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 -8 86 £57,500 -17.86% 16
Nottinghamshire -9 64 £60,000 -7.69% 19
Northamptonshire +3 50 £52,500 -12.50% 17
Derbyshire +5 42 £27,500 +2.80% 20
Lincolnshire -3 32 £50,000 +25.00% 16
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 23 (8.10%) Confluence
2 5 (1.76%) CMS
3 4 (1.41%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.06%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.70%) IIS
5 2 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
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 12 (4.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.70%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.70%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.35%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.35%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 85 (29.93%) Azure
2 51 (17.96%) AWS
3 27 (9.51%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (9.15%) Power Platform
5 21 (7.39%) Serverless
6 19 (6.69%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (4.58%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (4.58%) Power Automate
7 13 (4.58%) PowerApps
8 8 (2.82%) Amazon Cognito
8 8 (2.82%) Amazon EventBridge
8 8 (2.82%) Amazon S3
8 8 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (2.82%) Azure AKS
8 8 (2.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 8 (2.82%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (2.82%) Azure Storage
8 8 (2.82%) GCP
8 8 (2.82%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.82%) DNS
2 3 (1.06%) Hyperconnected
2 3 (1.06%) Internet
3 2 (0.70%) Broadband
4 1 (0.35%) 4G
4 1 (0.35%) BGP
4 1 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.35%) Diameter Protocol
4 1 (0.35%) FTP
4 1 (0.35%) HTTP
4 1 (0.35%) Intranet
4 1 (0.35%) IOS XR
4 1 (0.35%) MPLS
4 1 (0.35%) RTP
4 1 (0.35%) RTSP
4 1 (0.35%) SCTP
4 1 (0.35%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (0.35%) SS7
4 1 (0.35%) VoIP
4 1 (0.35%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.75%) Azure SQL Database
1 22 (7.75%) MongoDB
2 20 (7.04%) Power BI
3 16 (5.63%) SQL Server
4 11 (3.87%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.82%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.76%) NonStop SQL
7 4 (1.41%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.06%) MySQL
8 3 (1.06%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.70%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 36 (12.68%) JIRA
2 16 (5.63%) Git
3 11 (3.87%) XCUITest
4 4 (1.41%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.35%) NUnit
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
General
1 82 (28.87%) Social Skills
2 48 (16.90%) Finance
3 42 (14.79%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (14.79%) Law
4 23 (8.10%) Retail
5 21 (7.39%) Influencing Skills
6 14 (4.93%) Marketing
7 11 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.82%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.46%) Advertising
10 6 (2.11%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.41%) Banking
13 3 (1.06%) Legal
14 2 (0.70%) Billing
14 2 (0.70%) Games
14 2 (0.70%) Social Housing
14 2 (0.70%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.35%) Police
15 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (19.01%) Developer
2 53 (18.66%) Senior
3 26 (9.15%) Analyst
3 26 (9.15%) Delivery Manager
4 25 (8.80%) .NET Developer
5 24 (8.45%) Lead
6 21 (7.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 20 (7.04%) Software Engineer
8 16 (5.63%) Change Manager
9 15 (5.28%) Business Analyst
9 15 (5.28%) IT Support
10 14 (4.93%) Graduate
11 13 (4.58%) Project Manager
11 13 (4.58%) Software Developer
12 12 (4.23%) C# Developer
13 11 (3.87%) C# Software Developer
13 11 (3.87%) Senior Software Engineer
14 10 (3.52%) Graduate C# Developer
14 10 (3.52%) Graduate Software Developer
14 10 (3.52%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (15.49%) React
2 40 (14.08%) .NET
3 27 (9.51%) ASP.NET
4 24 (8.45%) .NET Core
4 24 (8.45%) ASP.NET Core
4 24 (8.45%) CSS
4 24 (8.45%) HTML
5 22 (7.75%) Node.js
6 15 (5.28%) Entity Framework
7 13 (4.58%) AWS CDK
7 13 (4.58%) Next.js
8 11 (3.87%) LINQ
9 10 (3.52%) ASP.NET Web API
9 10 (3.52%) RESTful
10 9 (3.17%) Blazor
11 4 (1.41%) jQuery
11 4 (1.41%) React Native
11 4 (1.41%) Redux
11 4 (1.41%) REST
11 4 (1.41%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 35 (12.32%) Product Ownership
2 21 (7.39%) Greenfield Project
3 20 (7.04%) Mobile App
4 11 (3.87%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.82%) AI Agents
8 7 (2.46%) Driving Licence
8 7 (2.46%) Low-Code
9 6 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.76%) Mobile Computing
11 3 (1.06%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.70%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.35%) CUDA
13 1 (0.35%) e-Learning
13 1 (0.35%) IoT
13 1 (0.35%) Legacy Code
13 1 (0.35%) Social Media
13 1 (0.35%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.87%) Apple iOS
2 7 (2.46%) Android
3 4 (1.41%) Windows
4 3 (1.06%) Linux
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (26.06%) Continuous Improvement
2 56 (19.72%) Mentoring
3 53 (18.66%) Coaching
4 51 (17.96%) Full-Stack Development
4 51 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (15.85%) CI/CD
6 39 (13.73%) DevOps
7 38 (13.38%) Test Automation
8 36 (12.68%) Decision-Making
8 36 (12.68%) Stakeholder Management
9 35 (12.32%) Collaborative Working
9 35 (12.32%) Roadmaps
10 34 (11.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 32 (11.27%) Software Engineering
12 29 (10.21%) AI
13 28 (9.86%) Observability
13 28 (9.86%) Personalization
14 26 (9.15%) Business Strategy
15 24 (8.45%) Business Intelligence
15 24 (8.45%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 72 (25.35%) SQL
2 58 (20.42%) C#
3 33 (11.62%) JavaScript
3 33 (11.62%) TypeScript
4 13 (4.58%) PHP
4 13 (4.58%) Python
5 11 (3.87%) C++
6 10 (3.52%) PowerShell
7 7 (2.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (2.46%) Java
8 4 (1.41%) Swift
9 2 (0.70%) Bash
9 2 (0.70%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.70%) R
10 1 (0.35%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.35%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (6.34%) Degree
2 9 (3.17%) Azure Certification
3 7 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (2.46%) PMI Certification
3 7 (2.46%) PMP
4 6 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.11%) Security Cleared
5 5 (1.76%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.70%) ACCA
6 2 (0.70%) CIMA
6 2 (0.70%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.35%) AAT
7 1 (0.35%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.35%) ICAEW
7 1 (0.35%) ISEB
7 1 (0.35%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (12.32%) QA
2 15 (5.28%) SLA
3 12 (4.23%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.76%) PMO
5 4 (1.41%) GRC
6 2 (0.70%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.70%) GDPR
7 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (2.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (4.93%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.41%) Terraform
3 2 (0.70%) Grafana
Vendors
1 53 (18.66%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.17%) Databricks
3 8 (2.82%) Oracle
4 6 (2.11%) SAP
5 4 (1.41%) Apple
6 3 (1.06%) ESRI
6 3 (1.06%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.70%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (0.70%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.70%) Google
7 2 (0.70%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.70%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.35%) Adobe
8 1 (0.35%) Cisco
8 1 (0.35%) Infor