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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 21 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -14 -4
Permanent jobs citing Agile 286 214 517
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 4.85% 9.31% 12.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.85% 10.90% 16.34%
Number of salaries quoted 165 152 198
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,625 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year - +3.29% -5.75%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,813 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -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 4,173 1,963 3,164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 70.84% 85.42% 75.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,736 1,091 1,855
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,208 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £62,250 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -12 79 £57,500 -11.54% 33
Nottinghamshire +2 68 £60,000 -11.11% 65
Northamptonshire +2 53 £52,500 -12.50% 20
Lincolnshire -2 46 £52,500 +31.25% 9
Derbyshire -7 32 £47,500 +77.57% 14
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 8 (2.80%) Confluence
2 6 (2.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (1.40%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.05%) ArcGIS
4 3 (1.05%) CMS
5 1 (0.35%) Drupal
5 1 (0.35%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (4.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.10%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.70%) Shopify
5 1 (0.35%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 82 (28.67%) Azure
2 48 (16.78%) AWS
3 27 (9.44%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (9.44%) Power Platform
4 20 (6.99%) Dynamics 365
4 20 (6.99%) Serverless
5 16 (5.59%) Power Automate
5 16 (5.59%) PowerApps
6 12 (4.20%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (3.50%) IaaS
8 8 (2.80%) Amazon Cognito
8 8 (2.80%) Amazon EventBridge
8 8 (2.80%) Amazon S3
8 8 (2.80%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (2.80%) Azure AKS
8 8 (2.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 8 (2.80%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (2.80%) Azure Storage
9 6 (2.10%) Oracle CX
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.80%) DNS
2 4 (1.40%) Internet
3 3 (1.05%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.70%) HTTP
4 2 (0.70%) SMS
5 1 (0.35%) Broadband
5 1 (0.35%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.35%) FTP
5 1 (0.35%) Intelligent Network
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 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
1 22 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 20 (6.99%) Power BI
3 14 (4.90%) SQL Server
4 11 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.80%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.10%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.10%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 6 (2.10%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (1.75%) NonStop SQL
8 3 (1.05%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.70%) MySQL
9 2 (0.70%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (7.34%) Git
1 21 (7.34%) JIRA
2 10 (3.50%) XCUITest
3 5 (1.75%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.05%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (1.05%) Subversion
5 2 (0.70%) GitLab
5 2 (0.70%) Storybook
6 1 (0.35%) NUnit
General
1 86 (30.07%) Social Skills
2 55 (19.23%) Finance
3 43 (15.03%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (9.79%) Law
5 22 (7.69%) Retail
6 20 (6.99%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (4.55%) Manufacturing
8 11 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (3.15%) Aerospace
10 8 (2.80%) Marketing
11 7 (2.45%) Advertising
11 7 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.10%) Public Sector
13 5 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.75%) Electronics
14 4 (1.40%) Banking
14 4 (1.40%) Military
15 3 (1.05%) Legal
16 2 (0.70%) Social Housing
17 1 (0.35%) Billing
Job Titles
1 64 (22.38%) Developer
2 48 (16.78%) Senior
3 34 (11.89%) Software Engineer
4 31 (10.84%) Lead
5 26 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
6 25 (8.74%) .NET Developer
7 20 (6.99%) Analyst
7 20 (6.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 16 (5.59%) Change Manager
9 14 (4.90%) Graduate
9 14 (4.90%) Software Developer
10 13 (4.55%) Business Analyst
11 12 (4.20%) C# Developer
11 12 (4.20%) Project Manager
12 11 (3.85%) C# Software Developer
12 11 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
13 10 (3.50%) Graduate C# Developer
13 10 (3.50%) Graduate Developer
13 10 (3.50%) Graduate Software Developer
13 10 (3.50%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (15.38%) .NET
2 43 (15.03%) React
3 29 (10.14%) ASP.NET
4 26 (9.09%) .NET Core
4 26 (9.09%) CSS
5 25 (8.74%) ASP.NET Core
6 24 (8.39%) HTML
7 21 (7.34%) Node.js
8 15 (5.24%) Entity Framework
8 15 (5.24%) Next.js
9 12 (4.20%) AWS CDK
10 11 (3.85%) LINQ
11 10 (3.50%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (3.15%) Blazor
13 8 (2.80%) RESTful
14 7 (2.45%) Oracle Fusion
14 7 (2.45%) REST
15 4 (1.40%) .NET Framework
15 4 (1.40%) React Native
15 4 (1.40%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.79%) Product Ownership
2 21 (7.34%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (4.90%) Mobile App
4 12 (4.20%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (3.85%) AI Agents
6 9 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.15%) Low-Code
7 7 (2.45%) Driving Licence
7 7 (2.45%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.75%) Mobile Computing
10 2 (0.70%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.70%) Tandem
10 2 (0.70%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.35%) Digital Signage
11 1 (0.35%) e-Learning
11 1 (0.35%) Marketing Technology
11 1 (0.35%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.50%) Apple iOS
2 6 (2.10%) Android
3 5 (1.75%) Linux
4 4 (1.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (29.37%) Continuous Improvement
2 63 (22.03%) Mentoring
3 58 (20.28%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (19.58%) Coaching
5 50 (17.48%) Full-Stack Development
6 48 (16.78%) CI/CD
7 41 (14.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 41 (14.34%) Stakeholder Management
8 40 (13.99%) DevOps
8 40 (13.99%) Software Engineering
9 38 (13.29%) Test Automation
10 37 (12.94%) AI
10 37 (12.94%) Collaborative Working
11 34 (11.89%) Decision-Making
12 33 (11.54%) Roadmaps
13 28 (9.79%) Personalization
14 27 (9.44%) Business Intelligence
14 27 (9.44%) ERP
15 26 (9.09%) Computer Science
15 26 (9.09%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 67 (23.43%) SQL
2 62 (21.68%) C#
3 33 (11.54%) TypeScript
4 30 (10.49%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.20%) C++
6 11 (3.85%) PHP
6 11 (3.85%) PowerShell
7 10 (3.50%) Python
8 7 (2.45%) Java
9 6 (2.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (2.10%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.40%) Bash
10 4 (1.40%) Swift
11 1 (0.35%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.35%) R
11 1 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 24 (8.39%) Degree
2 14 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (4.20%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.20%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.15%) Azure Certification
4 9 (3.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.80%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.45%) PMP
7 6 (2.10%) Oracle Certification
7 6 (2.10%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.70%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.35%) ACCA
9 1 (0.35%) CIMA
9 1 (0.35%) ICAEW
9 1 (0.35%) ISEB
9 1 (0.35%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (13.64%) QA
2 21 (7.34%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.45%) GRC
3 7 (2.45%) PMO
4 5 (1.75%) SLA
5 4 (1.40%) GDPR
6 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.70%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (3.15%) Docker
2 2 (0.70%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (5.59%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.75%) Terraform
3 1 (0.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 60 (20.98%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.85%) Oracle
3 6 (2.10%) Databricks
4 4 (1.40%) Apple
4 4 (1.40%) SAP
5 3 (1.05%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (1.05%) ESRI
5 3 (1.05%) Infor
5 3 (1.05%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.70%) Google
6 2 (0.70%) IFS
6 2 (0.70%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.70%) Veracode
7 1 (0.35%) Adobe
7 1 (0.35%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.35%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.35%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud