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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 8 4
Rank change year-on-year -16 -4 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 163 400 326
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 7.28% 11.71% 20.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.77% 14.66% 21.66%
Number of salaries quoted 130 137 254
10th Percentile £34,200 £36,250 £37,875
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - - +3.85%

All Process and 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 1,859 2,729 1,505
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 83.03% 79.89% 93.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,195 1,149 1,059
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,462 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £38,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £64,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025. 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
Nottinghamshire -17 39 £60,000 - 42
Northamptonshire -2 38 £57,500 +5.50% 29
Leicestershire +9 35 £62,500 +13.64% 20
Derbyshire -20 24 £47,000 -8.29% 27
Lincolnshire -6 20 £40,000 -15.79% 26
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 9 (5.52%) Confluence
2 5 (3.07%) Apache
2 5 (3.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.45%) Appian
4 3 (1.84%) CMS
4 3 (1.84%) WordPress
5 2 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.23%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.61%) IIS
6 1 (0.61%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (3.68%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.61%) GNU Octave
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (4.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.84%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.84%) SAP Business One
2 3 (1.84%) Shopify
3 1 (0.61%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 36 (22.09%) Azure
2 33 (20.25%) AWS
3 25 (15.34%) SaaS
4 13 (7.98%) GCP
5 9 (5.52%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (4.91%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.68%) Power Platform
9 5 (3.07%) PaaS
10 4 (2.45%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.84%) ChatGPT
11 3 (1.84%) Power Automate
12 2 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.23%) Google Ads
12 2 (1.23%) Google Analytics
12 2 (1.23%) Google Tag Manager
12 2 (1.23%) IaaS
12 2 (1.23%) OpenShift
12 2 (1.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.29%) VPN
2 5 (3.07%) DHCP
2 5 (3.07%) DNS
3 3 (1.84%) Internet
3 3 (1.84%) Intranet
4 2 (1.23%) Ethernet
4 2 (1.23%) Firewall
4 2 (1.23%) LAN
4 2 (1.23%) Network Security
4 2 (1.23%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (1.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.13%) MySQL
2 8 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (4.29%) SQL Server
4 6 (3.68%) Big Data
5 5 (3.07%) Data Lake
5 5 (3.07%) Power BI
6 4 (2.45%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.84%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.84%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.84%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 3 (1.84%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.23%) SAP HANA
8 2 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.23%) Tableau
9 1 (0.61%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.61%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.61%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 16 (9.82%) Git
2 14 (8.59%) JIRA
3 8 (4.91%) Selenium
4 5 (3.07%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.07%) Katalon Studio
5 4 (2.45%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (1.84%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.84%) GitLab
6 3 (1.84%) JUnit
6 3 (1.84%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.23%) Appium
7 2 (1.23%) JMeter
7 2 (1.23%) Postman
7 2 (1.23%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.23%) TestNG
8 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.61%) Maven
8 1 (0.61%) Mockito
General
1 44 (26.99%) Social Skills
2 33 (20.25%) Finance
3 22 (13.50%) Law
4 17 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.52%) Marketing
6 8 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.29%) Retail
8 6 (3.68%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.07%) Legal
10 4 (2.45%) Advertising
10 4 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.45%) Local Government
10 4 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.45%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.84%) Back Office
11 3 (1.84%) Billing
11 3 (1.84%) Publishing
12 2 (1.23%) Fire and Rescue
12 2 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.61%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 32 (19.63%) Developer
2 30 (18.40%) Lead
3 23 (14.11%) Analyst
4 18 (11.04%) Software Engineer
5 17 (10.43%) Senior
6 14 (8.59%) Architect
7 12 (7.36%) PHP Developer
8 10 (6.13%) Project Manager
9 9 (5.52%) PHP Symfony Developer
9 9 (5.52%) Symfony Developer
10 8 (4.91%) Lead Software Engineer
11 7 (4.29%) Business Analyst
11 7 (4.29%) IT Manager
11 7 (4.29%) IT Project Manager
11 7 (4.29%) Senior Developer
12 6 (3.68%) Applications Support
12 6 (3.68%) Data Engineer
12 6 (3.68%) PHP Laravel Developer
12 6 (3.68%) Python Engineer
13 5 (3.07%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.43%) .NET
2 16 (9.82%) CSS
2 16 (9.82%) HTML
3 11 (6.75%) Laravel
4 9 (5.52%) React
4 9 (5.52%) Symfony
5 8 (4.91%) Django
6 7 (4.29%) CakePHP
6 7 (4.29%) CodeIgniter
6 7 (4.29%) Flask
6 7 (4.29%) RESTful
7 5 (3.07%) REST
8 4 (2.45%) Middleware
8 4 (2.45%) Playwright
9 3 (1.84%) EDI
9 3 (1.84%) jQuery
9 3 (1.84%) SOAP
9 3 (1.84%) Yocto
10 2 (1.23%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.23%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.82%) Product Ownership
2 12 (7.36%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.91%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.07%) IoT
5 5 (3.07%) Legacy Code
5 5 (3.07%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.45%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (1.84%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.84%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.84%) Pricing Data
7 3 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.84%) Social Media
8 2 (1.23%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.23%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.23%) NHS
8 2 (1.23%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.36%) Linux
2 10 (6.13%) Windows
3 5 (3.07%) Mac OS
3 5 (3.07%) Windows 10
3 5 (3.07%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.45%) AIX
5 3 (1.84%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (1.23%) Mac OS X
6 2 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.61%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (25.15%) Continuous Improvement
2 31 (19.02%) Mentoring
3 30 (18.40%) DevOps
4 28 (17.18%) Waterfall
5 27 (16.56%) Software Engineering
6 26 (15.95%) CI/CD
7 25 (15.34%) SDLC
8 23 (14.11%) Scrum
9 22 (13.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 22 (13.50%) Test Automation
10 20 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (11.66%) Roadmaps
12 17 (10.43%) Project Management
13 15 (9.20%) Project Delivery
13 15 (9.20%) Software Testing
14 14 (8.59%) OO
14 14 (8.59%) Software Delivery
15 13 (7.98%) AI
15 13 (7.98%) Microservices
15 13 (7.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 33 (20.25%) SQL
2 29 (17.79%) JavaScript
3 28 (17.18%) C#
4 19 (11.66%) Python
5 14 (8.59%) Java
5 14 (8.59%) PHP
6 10 (6.13%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.07%) C++
7 5 (3.07%) Groovy
8 4 (2.45%) C
9 3 (1.84%) Bash
9 3 (1.84%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.23%) Go
10 2 (1.23%) Korn
10 2 (1.23%) Ruby
10 2 (1.23%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.23%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.61%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 22 (13.50%) Degree
2 13 (7.98%) Security Cleared
3 12 (7.36%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (3.07%) Chartered Engineer
6 5 (3.07%) MCP
7 4 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.23%) HND
8 2 (1.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.61%) CIPD
9 1 (0.61%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.61%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.61%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.61%) PMP
9 1 (0.61%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 1 (0.61%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.59%) QA
2 7 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 6 (3.68%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (3.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (2.45%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 2 (1.23%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.23%) GDPR
7 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.23%) PMO
8 1 (0.61%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (6.75%) Docker
2 5 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.61%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (8.59%) Terraform
2 12 (7.36%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.84%) Ansible
4 2 (1.23%) Grafana
4 2 (1.23%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (1.23%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.61%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 16 (9.82%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.91%) SAP
3 6 (3.68%) Databricks
3 6 (3.68%) Oracle
4 5 (3.07%) IBM
5 4 (2.45%) JD Edwards
6 3 (1.84%) Atmel
6 3 (1.84%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.84%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.23%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.23%) Google
7 2 (1.23%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.23%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.23%) Siemens
7 2 (1.23%) VMware
8 1 (0.61%) Adobe
8 1 (0.61%) Mentor Graphics
8 1 (0.61%) NEC
8 1 (0.61%) Xilinx
8 1 (0.61%) Zend