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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 36 4
Rank change year-on-year +15 -32 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 257 175 649
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 5.48% 9.31% 14.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.65% 10.29% 18.32%
Number of salaries quoted 154 112 418
10th Percentile £24,750 £21,250 £30,875
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,938 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,288
90th Percentile £78,375 £76,000 £77,575
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -7.41%

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 3,358 1,700 3,542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 71.57% 90.43% 77.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,071 851 2,597
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -4.49% -11.88%
75th Percentile £63,051 £57,500 £56,200
90th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £68,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £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 28 May 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 28 May 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 78 £62,500 -10.71% 22
Northamptonshire +6 53 £60,000 - 7
Nottinghamshire -1 53 £55,000 -8.33% 32
Derbyshire -7 37 £25,500 +3.55% 12
Lincolnshire -9 28 £50,000 +25.00% 8
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 26 (10.12%) Confluence
2 5 (1.95%) CMS
3 3 (1.17%) ArcGIS
3 3 (1.17%) IIS
3 3 (1.17%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.39%) Apache
4 1 (0.39%) Drupal
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.17%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.78%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.39%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 72 (28.02%) Azure
2 41 (15.95%) AWS
3 21 (8.17%) Power Platform
4 19 (7.39%) Serverless
5 17 (6.61%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (4.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (3.11%) Azure AKS
8 8 (3.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 8 (3.11%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (3.11%) Azure Storage
8 8 (3.11%) GCP
8 8 (3.11%) IaaS
9 7 (2.72%) Amazon Cognito
9 7 (2.72%) Amazon EventBridge
9 7 (2.72%) Amazon S3
9 7 (2.72%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.33%) Power Automate
10 6 (2.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.11%) DNS
2 3 (1.17%) Broadband
2 3 (1.17%) WAN
3 2 (0.78%) LAN
4 1 (0.39%) 4G
4 1 (0.39%) BGP
4 1 (0.39%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.39%) Diameter Protocol
4 1 (0.39%) FTP
4 1 (0.39%) HTTP
4 1 (0.39%) Internet
4 1 (0.39%) Intranet
4 1 (0.39%) MPLS
4 1 (0.39%) RTP
4 1 (0.39%) RTSP
4 1 (0.39%) SCTP
4 1 (0.39%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (0.39%) SS7
4 1 (0.39%) VoIP
4 1 (0.39%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.23%) Power BI
2 13 (5.06%) SQL Server
3 10 (3.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (3.89%) MongoDB
4 7 (2.72%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.95%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.56%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.17%) MySQL
8 2 (0.78%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.78%) NonStop SQL
8 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 38 (14.79%) JIRA
2 13 (5.06%) Git
3 11 (4.28%) XCUITest
4 5 (1.95%) Subversion
5 1 (0.39%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 76 (29.57%) Social Skills
2 47 (18.29%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (16.34%) Finance
4 38 (14.79%) Law
5 20 (7.78%) Retail
6 17 (6.61%) Marketing
7 16 (6.23%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (3.89%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (3.11%) Electronics
9 8 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.95%) Advertising
11 4 (1.56%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.56%) Banking
11 4 (1.56%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.17%) Billing
12 3 (1.17%) Games
12 3 (1.17%) Legal
12 3 (1.17%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.78%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 42 (16.34%) Developer
1 42 (16.34%) Senior
2 23 (8.95%) Delivery Manager
3 21 (8.17%) Analyst
4 20 (7.78%) Lead
5 19 (7.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 15 (5.84%) IT Support
7 14 (5.45%) C# Developer
7 14 (5.45%) Software Developer
8 13 (5.06%) Business Analyst
9 12 (4.67%) .NET Developer
9 12 (4.67%) C# Software Developer
9 12 (4.67%) Graduate
9 12 (4.67%) IT Manager
9 12 (4.67%) Project Manager
10 11 (4.28%) Graduate C# Developer
10 11 (4.28%) Graduate Developer
10 11 (4.28%) Graduate Software Developer
10 11 (4.28%) Graduate SQL Developer
10 11 (4.28%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.23%) React
2 20 (7.78%) .NET
3 16 (6.23%) CSS
3 16 (6.23%) HTML
3 16 (6.23%) Node.js
4 13 (5.06%) ASP.NET
5 12 (4.67%) ASP.NET Core
5 12 (4.67%) AWS CDK
5 12 (4.67%) Next.js
6 11 (4.28%) .NET Core
7 10 (3.89%) RESTful
8 6 (2.33%) Entity Framework
9 5 (1.95%) LINQ
9 5 (1.95%) SwiftUI
10 4 (1.56%) ASP.NET Web API
10 4 (1.56%) Blazor
10 4 (1.56%) jQuery
10 4 (1.56%) Middleware
11 3 (1.17%) AngularJS
11 3 (1.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.67%) Product Ownership
2 20 (7.78%) Mobile App
3 19 (7.39%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (4.67%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (2.33%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.33%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.95%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (1.95%) Mobile Computing
8 3 (1.17%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.17%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.39%) CUDA
10 1 (0.39%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.39%) IoT
10 1 (0.39%) Social Media
10 1 (0.39%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.28%) Apple iOS
2 6 (2.33%) Android
3 5 (1.95%) Linux
3 5 (1.95%) Windows
4 1 (0.39%) Unix
4 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (25.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 53 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (19.46%) Mentoring
4 40 (15.56%) Coaching
5 37 (14.40%) CI/CD
5 37 (14.40%) Test Automation
6 35 (13.62%) Full-Stack Development
7 33 (12.84%) Stakeholder Management
8 30 (11.67%) Collaborative Working
8 30 (11.67%) DevOps
9 29 (11.28%) Roadmaps
10 27 (10.51%) Observability
10 27 (10.51%) Root Cause Analysis
11 25 (9.73%) Analytics
11 25 (9.73%) Personalization
12 24 (9.34%) AI
12 24 (9.34%) Decision-Making
12 24 (9.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 23 (8.95%) Scrum
14 20 (7.78%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 52 (20.23%) SQL
2 37 (14.40%) C#
3 30 (11.67%) TypeScript
4 24 (9.34%) JavaScript
5 15 (5.84%) Python
6 14 (5.45%) PHP
7 12 (4.67%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (2.72%) Java
9 6 (2.33%) C++
10 5 (1.95%) Bash
10 5 (1.95%) Swift
11 2 (0.78%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.78%) R
12 1 (0.39%) Go
12 1 (0.39%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 21 (8.17%) Degree
2 11 (4.28%) Security Cleared
3 9 (3.50%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.33%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.95%) PMI Certification
5 5 (1.95%) PMP
5 5 (1.95%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.17%) ACCA
6 3 (1.17%) CIMA
6 3 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.17%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.17%) MBA
7 2 (0.78%) AAT
7 2 (0.78%) CCNA
7 2 (0.78%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.39%) CCNP
8 1 (0.39%) ICAEW
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.34%) QA
2 15 (5.84%) SLA
3 11 (4.28%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.95%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.95%) GDPR
5 2 (0.78%) PMO
6 1 (0.39%) GRC
6 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (3.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (6.61%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.11%) Terraform
3 2 (0.78%) Ansible
3 2 (0.78%) Grafana
4 1 (0.39%) Argo
4 1 (0.39%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (11.28%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.50%) Databricks
3 8 (3.11%) Oracle
3 8 (3.11%) SAP
4 5 (1.95%) Apple
5 3 (1.17%) Cisco
5 3 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (1.17%) ESRI
5 3 (1.17%) QAD
5 3 (1.17%) Zoho
6 2 (0.78%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.78%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.78%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.39%) Adobe
7 1 (0.39%) Conga
7 1 (0.39%) Google
7 1 (0.39%) Infor
7 1 (0.39%) Jitterbit
7 1 (0.39%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.39%) Pardot