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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 24 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 -19 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 270 207 497
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 4.30% 8.94% 12.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.12% 10.53% 16.38%
Number of salaries quoted 160 145 165
10th Percentile £36,077 £30,800 £35,211
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
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 £79,500 £78,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 4,410 1,966 3,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 70.16% 84.89% 75.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,946 1,083 1,592
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £28,500
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% -15.09%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £60,000
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 5 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 5 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 -11 79 £56,250 -13.46% 16
Nottinghamshire +5 68 £60,000 -12.73% 41
Northamptonshire -3 49 £52,500 -12.50% 18
Lincolnshire -9 37 £55,000 +37.50% 18
Derbyshire -13 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 (2.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.11%) Confluence
3 2 (0.74%) CMS
4 1 (0.37%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.37%) IIS
4 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.37%) EPLAN
4 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (5.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.22%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (1.11%) Infor M3
3 3 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.74%) Shopify
5 1 (0.37%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.37%) Primavera
5 1 (0.37%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 79 (29.26%) Azure
2 50 (18.52%) AWS
3 27 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 19 (7.04%) Dynamics 365
4 19 (7.04%) Serverless
5 16 (5.93%) Power Automate
5 16 (5.93%) PowerApps
6 11 (4.07%) Amazon S3
6 11 (4.07%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (3.33%) IaaS
8 8 (2.96%) Amazon Cognito
8 8 (2.96%) Amazon EventBridge
8 8 (2.96%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (2.59%) Azure AKS
9 7 (2.59%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 7 (2.59%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (2.59%) Azure Storage
9 7 (2.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.59%) DNS
2 4 (1.48%) Internet
3 3 (1.11%) 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%) Profibus
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 (8.15%) Azure SQL Database
1 22 (8.15%) MongoDB
2 20 (7.41%) Power BI
3 14 (5.19%) SQL Server
4 11 (4.07%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.96%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.22%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 6 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (1.85%) NonStop SQL
7 5 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.11%) 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 (8.89%) Git
2 14 (5.19%) JIRA
3 7 (2.59%) XCUITest
4 5 (1.85%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.48%) GitLab
5 4 (1.48%) Storybook
5 4 (1.48%) Subversion
6 3 (1.11%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.37%) NUnit
General
1 79 (29.26%) Social Skills
2 57 (21.11%) Finance
3 48 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.78%) Law
4 21 (7.78%) Retail
5 20 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
6 16 (5.93%) Manufacturing
7 11 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (3.70%) Marketing
9 9 (3.33%) Aerospace
9 9 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.22%) Banking
10 6 (2.22%) Electronics
11 4 (1.48%) Legal
11 4 (1.48%) Military
11 4 (1.48%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.74%) Advertising
12 2 (0.74%) Automotive
12 2 (0.74%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (25.56%) Developer
2 46 (17.04%) Senior
3 36 (13.33%) Software Engineer
4 28 (10.37%) Lead
5 25 (9.26%) .NET Developer
6 24 (8.89%) Delivery Manager
7 18 (6.67%) Analyst
8 16 (5.93%) Change Manager
8 16 (5.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 13 (4.81%) Business Analyst
9 13 (4.81%) Software Developer
10 12 (4.44%) Graduate
10 12 (4.44%) Project Manager
11 11 (4.07%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (3.70%) C# Developer
13 9 (3.33%) Architect
13 9 (3.33%) C# Software Developer
14 8 (2.96%) Azure Engineer
14 8 (2.96%) Graduate C# Developer
14 8 (2.96%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (17.41%) React
2 45 (16.67%) .NET
3 29 (10.74%) ASP.NET
4 27 (10.00%) CSS
5 26 (9.63%) .NET Core
5 26 (9.63%) Node.js
6 25 (9.26%) ASP.NET Core
7 23 (8.52%) HTML
8 15 (5.56%) Entity Framework
9 14 (5.19%) Next.js
10 12 (4.44%) Terraform
11 11 (4.07%) LINQ
12 10 (3.70%) ASP.NET Web API
13 9 (3.33%) Blazor
13 9 (3.33%) REST
14 8 (2.96%) AWS CDK
15 7 (2.59%) Oracle Fusion
15 7 (2.59%) RESTful
16 6 (2.22%) Material-UI
17 4 (1.48%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.15%) Product Ownership
2 17 (6.30%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (4.07%) AI Agents
4 11 (4.07%) Driving Licence
4 11 (4.07%) Mobile App
5 9 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.33%) Low-Code
5 9 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.48%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.48%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.11%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.11%) FMCG
9 2 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.74%) Tandem
9 2 (0.74%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.37%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.37%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.33%) Linux
2 7 (2.59%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.48%) Windows
4 3 (1.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (29.63%) Continuous Improvement
2 55 (20.37%) Mentoring
3 54 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (18.89%) CI/CD
5 49 (18.15%) Coaching
6 48 (17.78%) Full-Stack Development
7 47 (17.41%) DevOps
7 47 (17.41%) Software Engineering
8 45 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 37 (13.70%) AI
9 37 (13.70%) Roadmaps
10 35 (12.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 32 (11.85%) ERP
12 30 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
12 30 (11.11%) Decision-Making
12 30 (11.11%) Test Automation
13 28 (10.37%) Computer Science
14 27 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
14 27 (10.00%) Project Management
15 26 (9.63%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 69 (25.56%) SQL
2 61 (22.59%) C#
3 37 (13.70%) TypeScript
4 29 (10.74%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.44%) C++
5 12 (4.44%) Python
6 10 (3.70%) PowerShell
7 8 (2.96%) PHP
8 7 (2.59%) Java
9 6 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (2.22%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.85%) Bash
11 4 (1.48%) Swift
12 1 (0.37%) Ladder Logic
12 1 (0.37%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.37%) R
12 1 (0.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 30 (11.11%) Degree
2 18 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 18 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 15 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (3.70%) PMI Certification
4 10 (3.70%) PMP
5 9 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.96%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.96%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.22%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.11%) 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 32 (11.85%) QA
2 20 (7.41%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.96%) GRC
4 7 (2.59%) PMO
5 4 (1.48%) GDPR
5 4 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.48%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.11%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.37%) IEC 61131
7 1 (0.37%) SLA
7 1 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (5.56%) Docker
2 3 (1.11%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (1.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (7.04%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.37%) Ansible
2 1 (0.37%) Grafana
Vendors
1 60 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.07%) Oracle
3 8 (2.96%) Databricks
4 6 (2.22%) Infor
5 5 (1.85%) SAP
6 4 (1.48%) Apple
7 3 (1.11%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (1.11%) Google
7 3 (1.11%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.74%) IFS
8 2 (0.74%) Informatica
8 2 (0.74%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.74%) Veracode
9 1 (0.37%) Adobe
9 1 (0.37%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.37%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.37%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.37%) Siemens