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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 8 4
Rank change year-on-year -17 -4 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 200 440 333
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 8.71% 12.29% 20.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.05% 15.60% 21.84%
Number of salaries quoted 138 139 243
10th Percentile £33,375 £37,500 £43,150
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% - +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 1,991 2,821 1,525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.68% 78.80% 92.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,080 1,203 1,052
10th Percentile £25,875 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -15.49% +6.50%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £77,375
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year -8.33% -1.32% +1.33%

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 17 October 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 17 October 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
Northamptonshire -9 60 £60,000 +9.09% 25
Leicestershire -2 42 £65,000 +15.56% 34
Nottinghamshire -22 39 £67,500 +23.85% 26
Derbyshire -12 31 £40,000 -30.43% 22
Lincolnshire +2 22 £41,250 +3.13% 20
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 40 (20.00%) Confluence
2 6 (3.00%) Apache
3 5 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.00%) Appian
5 3 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.50%) IIS
6 1 (0.50%) SAS
6 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.50%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.50%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (3.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.50%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.50%) SAP Business One
3 3 (1.50%) Shopify
4 1 (0.50%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 74 (37.00%) Azure
2 72 (36.00%) AWS
3 45 (22.50%) GCP
4 29 (14.50%) SaaS
5 8 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (3.50%) PaaS
6 7 (3.50%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.50%) Snowflake
8 4 (2.00%) IaaS
8 4 (2.00%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.50%) ChatGPT
9 3 (1.50%) dbt
10 2 (1.00%) Azure AI
10 2 (1.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (1.00%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (1.00%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.00%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.00%) VPN
2 8 (4.00%) DNS
3 5 (2.50%) DHCP
4 4 (2.00%) Firewall
4 4 (2.00%) WAN
5 3 (1.50%) Internet
5 3 (1.50%) Intranet
6 2 (1.00%) Ethernet
6 2 (1.00%) LAN
6 2 (1.00%) Network Security
6 2 (1.00%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (22.50%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (4.00%) MySQL
4 7 (3.50%) Data Lake
5 6 (3.00%) Big Data
5 6 (3.00%) Power BI
6 5 (2.50%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.50%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.50%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 3 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.00%) SAP HANA
8 2 (1.00%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.00%) Tableau
9 1 (0.50%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 51 (25.50%) JIRA
2 45 (22.50%) Selenium
3 42 (21.00%) Cucumber
3 42 (21.00%) GitLab
4 41 (20.50%) SonarQube
5 40 (20.00%) Maven
6 39 (19.50%) Bitbucket
6 39 (19.50%) Sonatype Nexus
7 17 (8.50%) Git
8 5 (2.50%) Jenkins
8 5 (2.50%) Katalon Studio
9 4 (2.00%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (1.50%) JUnit
10 3 (1.50%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.00%) Appium
11 2 (1.00%) JMeter
11 2 (1.00%) TestNG
12 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket Server
12 1 (0.50%) Mockito
General
1 80 (40.00%) Finance
2 45 (22.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 41 (20.50%) Banking
4 33 (16.50%) Social Skills
5 22 (11.00%) Law
6 12 (6.00%) Retail
7 10 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (4.00%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.50%) Corporate Banking
9 5 (2.50%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.00%) Legal
10 4 (2.00%) Local Government
10 4 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.50%) Billing
12 2 (1.00%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.00%) Fire and Rescue
12 2 (1.00%) Marketing
12 2 (1.00%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.50%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 60 (30.00%) Software Engineer
2 31 (15.50%) Lead
3 30 (15.00%) Developer
4 22 (11.00%) Analyst
5 17 (8.50%) Senior
6 16 (8.00%) Project Manager
7 14 (7.00%) Architect
8 12 (6.00%) PHP Developer
9 10 (5.00%) Lead Software Engineer
10 9 (4.50%) PHP Symfony Developer
10 9 (4.50%) Symfony Developer
11 7 (3.50%) Administrator
11 7 (3.50%) Data Engineer
11 7 (3.50%) Python Engineer
11 7 (3.50%) Senior Developer
12 6 (3.00%) Applications Support
12 6 (3.00%) Business Analyst
12 6 (3.00%) C# Software Engineer
12 6 (3.00%) IT Manager
12 6 (3.00%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (28.50%) CSS
1 57 (28.50%) HTML
2 51 (25.50%) React
3 42 (21.00%) Kafka
4 41 (20.50%) JPA
4 41 (20.50%) Redux
4 41 (20.50%) Spring
4 41 (20.50%) Spring Boot
5 36 (18.00%) Hibernate
6 15 (7.50%) .NET
7 11 (5.50%) RESTful
8 9 (4.50%) REST
8 9 (4.50%) Symfony
9 8 (4.00%) Django
9 8 (4.00%) Laravel
10 7 (3.50%) Flask
11 6 (3.00%) Jest
12 5 (2.50%) CSS3
12 5 (2.50%) HTML5
12 5 (2.50%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 54 (27.00%) Product Ownership
2 39 (19.50%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (6.00%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.50%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.00%) Legacy Code
6 5 (2.50%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.50%) IoT
6 5 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.50%) Pricing Data
7 4 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (1.50%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.50%) NHS
8 3 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.00%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.00%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.00%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.50%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.50%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.00%) Linux
2 10 (5.00%) Windows
3 5 (2.50%) Mac OS
3 5 (2.50%) Windows 10
3 5 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.00%) AIX
5 3 (1.50%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (1.00%) Mac OS X
6 2 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.50%) Android
7 1 (0.50%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (35.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 68 (34.00%) SDLC
2 68 (34.00%) Software Engineering
3 67 (33.50%) CI/CD
3 67 (33.50%) DevOps
4 61 (30.50%) Test Automation
5 50 (25.00%) Microservices
6 46 (23.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 45 (22.50%) Clean Code
8 44 (22.00%) Containerisation
8 44 (22.00%) Front End Development
9 39 (19.50%) Performance Optimisation
10 37 (18.50%) TDD
11 36 (18.00%) Mentoring
12 35 (17.50%) Waterfall
13 25 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
14 20 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (10.00%) Scrum
15 18 (9.00%) Project Delivery
15 18 (9.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 79 (39.50%) SQL
2 71 (35.50%) JavaScript
3 54 (27.00%) Java
4 28 (14.00%) C#
5 21 (10.50%) Python
6 12 (6.00%) PHP
6 12 (6.00%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.00%) C++
8 5 (2.50%) Groovy
8 5 (2.50%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.00%) C
9 4 (2.00%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.50%) Bash
10 3 (1.50%) Go
10 3 (1.50%) MATLAB
11 2 (1.00%) Bicep
11 2 (1.00%) Korn
11 2 (1.00%) Ruby
11 2 (1.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (12.00%) Degree
2 14 (7.00%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.00%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.50%) MCP
5 5 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.00%) Chartered Engineer
7 3 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.50%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.00%) HND
9 1 (0.50%) CIPD
9 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.50%) ISEB
9 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.50%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.50%) PMP
9 1 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.50%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 1 (0.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (25.00%) QA
2 9 (4.50%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 5 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.50%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 2 (1.00%) PMO
7 1 (0.50%) GDPR
7 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 51 (25.50%) Docker
2 5 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 51 (25.50%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.00%) Terraform
3 4 (2.00%) Ansible
4 2 (1.00%) Grafana
4 2 (1.00%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.00%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.50%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 39 (19.50%) Solace
2 15 (7.50%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.00%) SAP
4 8 (4.00%) Databricks
4 8 (4.00%) Oracle
5 5 (2.50%) IBM
5 5 (2.50%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.50%) Atmel
6 3 (1.50%) JD Edwards
6 3 (1.50%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.00%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.00%) Google
7 2 (1.00%) Meraki
7 2 (1.00%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.00%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.00%) Siemens
7 2 (1.00%) VMware
8 1 (0.50%) Adobe
8 1 (0.50%) Mentor Graphics
8 1 (0.50%) Xilinx