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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 25 6
Rank change year-on-year -8 -19 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 261 198 488
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 3.90% 8.41% 13.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.43% 9.71% 16.55%
Number of salaries quoted 152 132 151
10th Percentile £36,697 £33,800 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,938 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,125
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £80,000
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 4,805 2,039 2,949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 71.73% 86.66% 78.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3,252 1,085 1,278
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £73,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 71 £55,000 -15.38% 42
Nottinghamshire 0 59 £60,000 -11.11% 84
Northamptonshire -6 52 £52,500 -12.50% 29
Lincolnshire +2 46 £50,000 +25.00% 37
Derbyshire -12 28 £50,000 +6.38% 25
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 (2.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.15%) CMS
2 3 (1.15%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.38%) Confluence
3 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (3.07%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (3.07%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (2.68%) EPLAN
3 6 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.15%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.15%) Notion
5 2 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (5.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (2.68%) Infor M3
3 6 (2.30%) Oracle Applications
4 4 (1.53%) Primavera
4 4 (1.53%) SAP EHS
5 3 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (1.15%) Shopify
6 1 (0.38%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.38%) Magento
6 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 64 (24.52%) Azure
2 42 (16.09%) AWS
3 26 (9.96%) Power Platform
4 23 (8.81%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (7.28%) Dynamics 365
6 14 (5.36%) Serverless
7 13 (4.98%) Power Automate
7 13 (4.98%) PowerApps
8 9 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (3.07%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.68%) IaaS
10 7 (2.68%) SaaS
11 6 (2.30%) Oracle CX
12 5 (1.92%) Amazon Cognito
12 5 (1.92%) Amazon EventBridge
12 5 (1.92%) Azure AKS
12 5 (1.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 5 (1.92%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (1.92%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.68%) Profibus
2 5 (1.92%) DNS
3 3 (1.15%) Internet
4 2 (0.77%) HTTP
4 2 (0.77%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.77%) SMS
5 1 (0.38%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.38%) FTP
5 1 (0.38%) Intelligent Network
5 1 (0.38%) RTP
5 1 (0.38%) RTSP
5 1 (0.38%) SCTP
5 1 (0.38%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.38%) SS7
5 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.38%) VoIP
5 1 (0.38%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.43%) Power BI
2 20 (7.66%) Azure SQL Database
2 20 (7.66%) MongoDB
3 18 (6.90%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (2.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 6 (2.30%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (1.92%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.92%) NonStop SQL
6 5 (1.92%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.15%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.77%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.77%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.77%) Metadata
9 2 (0.77%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (8.81%) Git
2 15 (5.75%) JIRA
3 5 (1.92%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.53%) GitLab
4 4 (1.53%) Storybook
4 4 (1.53%) Subversion
5 3 (1.15%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.38%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.38%) NUnit
6 1 (0.38%) XCUITest
General
1 66 (25.29%) Social Skills
2 54 (20.69%) Finance
3 47 (18.01%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.05%) Manufacturing
5 18 (6.90%) Retail
6 17 (6.51%) Influencing Skills
6 17 (6.51%) Law
7 14 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (4.98%) Electronics
9 12 (4.60%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (3.45%) Aerospace
11 8 (3.07%) Marketing
12 7 (2.68%) Public Sector
13 6 (2.30%) Legal
14 5 (1.92%) Banking
14 5 (1.92%) Military
15 3 (1.15%) Automotive
15 3 (1.15%) Police
16 2 (0.77%) Advertising
16 2 (0.77%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 74 (28.35%) Developer
2 35 (13.41%) Software Engineer
3 34 (13.03%) Lead
4 33 (12.64%) Senior
5 23 (8.81%) .NET Developer
6 19 (7.28%) Delivery Manager
7 17 (6.51%) Analyst
8 16 (6.13%) Change Manager
9 13 (4.98%) Power Platform Developer
10 12 (4.60%) Business Analyst
11 11 (4.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 11 (4.21%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (3.83%) Architect
12 10 (3.83%) Software Developer
13 9 (3.45%) Graduate
13 9 (3.45%) Project Manager
14 8 (3.07%) C# Developer
14 8 (3.07%) Principal Engineer
14 8 (3.07%) Principal Software Engineer
14 8 (3.07%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (16.86%) React
2 41 (15.71%) .NET
3 26 (9.96%) ASP.NET
4 24 (9.20%) .NET Core
4 24 (9.20%) CSS
5 22 (8.43%) ASP.NET Core
5 22 (8.43%) HTML
5 22 (8.43%) Node.js
6 14 (5.36%) Entity Framework
7 12 (4.60%) Next.js
8 11 (4.21%) LINQ
8 11 (4.21%) Terraform
9 10 (3.83%) REST
10 9 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web API
11 8 (3.07%) Blazor
11 8 (3.07%) Material-UI
12 7 (2.68%) Oracle Fusion
13 6 (2.30%) AWS CDK
14 4 (1.53%) Tailwind CSS
14 4 (1.53%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.51%) Onboarding
2 16 (6.13%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.60%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (4.60%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (4.21%) AI Agents
5 9 (3.45%) Driving Licence
6 8 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.07%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.68%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.68%) FMCG
7 7 (2.68%) SCADA
8 6 (2.30%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.92%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.53%) PMI
11 3 (1.15%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.15%) Reference Data
12 2 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.77%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.45%) Linux
2 2 (0.77%) Windows
3 1 (0.38%) Android
3 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (33.72%) Continuous Improvement
2 51 (19.54%) Stakeholder Management
3 49 (18.77%) Software Engineering
4 46 (17.62%) Mentoring
4 46 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (16.86%) CI/CD
6 42 (16.09%) DevOps
6 42 (16.09%) Full-Stack Development
7 40 (15.33%) Project Management
8 37 (14.18%) ERP
9 36 (13.79%) Coaching
9 36 (13.79%) Computer Science
9 36 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 32 (12.26%) Roadmaps
11 31 (11.88%) Decision-Making
12 29 (11.11%) AI
13 28 (10.73%) Business Intelligence
14 27 (10.34%) Collaborative Working
15 25 (9.58%) PRINCE2
15 25 (9.58%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 68 (26.05%) SQL
2 54 (20.69%) C#
3 35 (13.41%) TypeScript
4 28 (10.73%) JavaScript
5 9 (3.45%) C++
5 9 (3.45%) Python
6 7 (2.68%) Ladder Logic
6 7 (2.68%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.30%) PHP
7 6 (2.30%) PL/SQL
8 5 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (1.92%) Java
9 4 (1.53%) Bash
10 1 (0.38%) Go
10 1 (0.38%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.38%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (14.94%) Degree
2 24 (9.20%) SC Cleared
2 24 (9.20%) Security Cleared
3 18 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (6.51%) PMI Certification
5 14 (5.36%) PMP
6 10 (3.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (3.07%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.30%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.30%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (1.15%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.15%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.77%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.38%) APMG
12 1 (0.38%) ISEB
12 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (11.11%) QA
2 17 (6.51%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.83%) Data Quality
4 8 (3.07%) GRC
4 8 (3.07%) PMO
5 7 (2.68%) GDPR
5 7 (2.68%) IEC 61131
6 4 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.53%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (5.75%) Docker
2 5 (1.92%) Embedded Firmware
2 5 (1.92%) Firmware
3 3 (1.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (6.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 64 (24.52%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.60%) Oracle
3 10 (3.83%) Infor
4 8 (3.07%) SAP
5 7 (2.68%) Siemens
6 5 (1.92%) Google
6 5 (1.92%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.53%) Databricks
8 3 (1.15%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.77%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.77%) IFS
9 2 (0.77%) Informatica
9 2 (0.77%) Veracode
10 1 (0.38%) Adobe
10 1 (0.38%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.38%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.38%) Optimizely
10 1 (0.38%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.38%) Workday