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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 12 6
Rank change year-on-year -19 -6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Agile 155 256 319
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 6.10% 11.69% 16.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.68% 13.24% 19.62%
Number of salaries quoted 119 142 277
10th Percentile £34,850 £32,750 £31,875
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -6.96%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,250 £73,300
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -3.70%

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 2,019 1,933 1,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 79.39% 88.31% 85.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,266 831 1,291
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £35,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £61,750
90th Percentile £75,900 £75,000 £71,000
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 16 January 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 16 January 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
Northamptonshire +11 40 £62,500 -3.85% 20
Leicestershire +2 38 £55,000 +1.85% 28
Nottinghamshire -22 30 £55,000 -10.20% 33
Lincolnshire -11 21 £43,750 -8.07% 23
Derbyshire -23 17 £35,500 -21.11% 35
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 14 (9.03%) Confluence
2 3 (1.94%) Apache
2 3 (1.94%) CMS
2 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.94%) WordPress
3 2 (1.29%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.65%) IIS
4 1 (0.65%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Project
1 4 (2.58%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.94%) SAP Business One
3 2 (1.29%) Shopify
4 1 (0.65%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.65%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 28 (18.06%) Azure
2 21 (13.55%) AWS
3 11 (7.10%) SaaS
4 9 (5.81%) Dynamics 365
4 9 (5.81%) Power Platform
5 7 (4.52%) GCP
6 6 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.94%) ChatGPT
8 3 (1.94%) PaaS
8 3 (1.94%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.29%) dbt
9 2 (1.29%) Miro
9 2 (1.29%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.29%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.29%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.65%) Lucidchart
10 1 (0.65%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.94%) DHCP
1 3 (1.94%) DNS
1 3 (1.94%) Intranet
1 3 (1.94%) VPN
1 3 (1.94%) WAN
2 2 (1.29%) Broadband
2 2 (1.29%) LAN
3 1 (0.65%) 4G
3 1 (0.65%) BGP
3 1 (0.65%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (0.65%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (0.65%) IOS XR
3 1 (0.65%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.10%) MySQL
2 8 (5.16%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.52%) Power BI
4 5 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.58%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.29%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.29%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.29%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.65%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.65%) SAS EBI
7 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (16.13%) JIRA
2 14 (9.03%) Git
3 5 (3.23%) Subversion
4 4 (2.58%) Selenium
5 3 (1.94%) GitLab
5 3 (1.94%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.94%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (1.29%) Postman
6 2 (1.29%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.65%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.65%) JUnit
7 1 (0.65%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (0.65%) Mockito
7 1 (0.65%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.65%) XCUITest
General
1 51 (32.90%) Social Skills
2 35 (22.58%) Finance
3 24 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (13.55%) Law
5 17 (10.97%) Marketing
6 9 (5.81%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (5.16%) Electronics
8 6 (3.87%) Retail
9 5 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.23%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.58%) Billing
10 4 (2.58%) Legal
10 4 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.58%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.94%) Advertising
11 3 (1.94%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.94%) Back Office
11 3 (1.94%) Local Government
11 3 (1.94%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (19.35%) Developer
2 21 (13.55%) Lead
3 17 (10.97%) Analyst
4 14 (9.03%) Senior
5 11 (7.10%) IT Manager
5 11 (7.10%) PHP Developer
6 10 (6.45%) Architect
6 10 (6.45%) Project Manager
7 8 (5.16%) IT Project Manager
8 7 (4.52%) Finance Manager
8 7 (4.52%) PHP Symfony Developer
8 7 (4.52%) Power Platform Developer
8 7 (4.52%) Product Owner
8 7 (4.52%) Symfony Developer
9 6 (3.87%) Business Analyst
9 6 (3.87%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 6 (3.87%) Software Engineer
10 5 (3.23%) Support Analyst
10 5 (3.23%) Systems Engineer
10 5 (3.23%) Systems Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.39%) .NET
2 12 (7.74%) Laravel
3 11 (7.10%) CSS
3 11 (7.10%) HTML
4 7 (4.52%) CakePHP
4 7 (4.52%) CodeIgniter
4 7 (4.52%) Middleware
4 7 (4.52%) React
4 7 (4.52%) RESTful
4 7 (4.52%) Symfony
5 3 (1.94%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.94%) jQuery
6 2 (1.29%) EDI
6 2 (1.29%) Hibernate
6 2 (1.29%) JPA
6 2 (1.29%) Node.js
6 2 (1.29%) REST
6 2 (1.29%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (1.29%) Spring
6 2 (1.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.68%) Product Ownership
2 9 (5.81%) Onboarding
3 7 (4.52%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.23%) Embedded Systems
4 5 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.23%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.58%) Social Media
6 3 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.94%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.94%) Legacy Code
6 3 (1.94%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.29%) NHS
7 2 (1.29%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.65%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.65%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.52%) Windows
2 6 (3.87%) Linux
3 3 (1.94%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.94%) Windows 10
3 3 (1.94%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.29%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (25.81%) Continuous Improvement
2 29 (18.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 26 (16.77%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (15.48%) DevOps
4 24 (15.48%) Mentoring
4 24 (15.48%) Waterfall
5 22 (14.19%) Project Management
6 20 (12.90%) Scrum
7 18 (11.61%) SDLC
8 17 (10.97%) Test Automation
9 16 (10.32%) Change Management
9 16 (10.32%) CI/CD
9 16 (10.32%) Software Engineering
10 14 (9.03%) CRM
10 14 (9.03%) Project Delivery
11 13 (8.39%) Migration
11 13 (8.39%) Roadmaps
12 12 (7.74%) OO
13 11 (7.10%) ITIL
13 11 (7.10%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (12.26%) C#
2 18 (11.61%) JavaScript
2 18 (11.61%) SQL
3 14 (9.03%) PHP
4 11 (7.10%) TypeScript
5 7 (4.52%) Java
6 6 (3.87%) Python
7 5 (3.23%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.58%) Bash
9 3 (1.94%) Go
10 2 (1.29%) Ruby
11 1 (0.65%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.65%) Groovy
11 1 (0.65%) Swift
Qualifications
1 23 (14.84%) Degree
2 9 (5.81%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (5.16%) Security Cleared
4 6 (3.87%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.87%) PMI Certification
4 6 (3.87%) PMP
5 4 (2.58%) Chartered Engineer
5 4 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.94%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.94%) MBA
6 3 (1.94%) MCP
7 2 (1.29%) AAT
7 2 (1.29%) ACCA
7 2 (1.29%) CCNA
7 2 (1.29%) CIMA
7 2 (1.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.65%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.65%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.03%) QA
2 8 (5.16%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.52%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 5 (3.23%) GDPR
5 4 (2.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 3 (1.94%) SLA
7 2 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.29%) PMO
8 1 (0.65%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 7 (4.52%) Docker
2 3 (1.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (5.81%) Terraform
2 7 (4.52%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.94%) Ansible
4 1 (0.65%) Argo
4 1 (0.65%) CA Service Virtualization
4 1 (0.65%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (9.03%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.52%) SAP
3 6 (3.87%) Oracle
4 5 (3.23%) Databricks
4 5 (3.23%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.23%) Zoho
5 3 (1.94%) Cisco
5 3 (1.94%) IBM
5 3 (1.94%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.94%) QAD
6 2 (1.29%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.29%) Google
6 2 (1.29%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.29%) JD Edwards
6 2 (1.29%) Siemens
6 2 (1.29%) Zend
7 1 (0.65%) Conga
7 1 (0.65%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.65%) Pardot
7 1 (0.65%) ServiceNow