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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 29 4
Rank change year-on-year +10 -25 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 261 190 726
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 5.40% 9.50% 13.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.61% 10.63% 17.64%
Number of salaries quoted 147 125 407
10th Percentile £24,750 £22,750 £30,750
25th Percentile £34,385 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £64,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,950
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -6.02%

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 3,429 1,787 4,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 70.96% 89.39% 75.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,200 926 2,831
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,625 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,094 £32,070
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,625 £56,250
90th Percentile £75,113 £72,500 £68,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -7 83 £63,000 -9.03% 12
Nottinghamshire -5 56 £60,000 - 21
Northamptonshire 0 43 £52,500 -12.50% 16
Derbyshire +2 41 £31,500 +17.76% 14
Lincolnshire -4 29 £50,000 +25.00% 6
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 25 (9.58%) Confluence
2 5 (1.92%) CMS
3 3 (1.15%) ArcGIS
3 3 (1.15%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.77%) IIS
5 1 (0.38%) Apache
5 1 (0.38%) Drupal
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.15%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.77%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.38%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 75 (28.74%) Azure
2 47 (18.01%) AWS
3 26 (9.96%) Power Platform
4 21 (8.05%) Serverless
5 20 (7.66%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (4.98%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (4.98%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (4.21%) Power Automate
7 11 (4.21%) PowerApps
8 8 (3.07%) Amazon Cognito
8 8 (3.07%) Amazon EventBridge
8 8 (3.07%) Amazon S3
8 8 (3.07%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (3.07%) Azure AKS
8 8 (3.07%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 8 (3.07%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (3.07%) Azure Storage
8 8 (3.07%) GCP
8 8 (3.07%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.07%) DNS
2 3 (1.15%) Broadband
2 3 (1.15%) Hyperconnected
2 3 (1.15%) Internet
3 1 (0.38%) 4G
3 1 (0.38%) BGP
3 1 (0.38%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (0.38%) Diameter Protocol
3 1 (0.38%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (0.38%) FTP
3 1 (0.38%) HTTP
3 1 (0.38%) IOS XR
3 1 (0.38%) MPLS
3 1 (0.38%) RTP
3 1 (0.38%) RTSP
3 1 (0.38%) SCTP
3 1 (0.38%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (0.38%) SS7
3 1 (0.38%) VoIP
3 1 (0.38%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.05%) Power BI
2 16 (6.13%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (6.13%) MongoDB
3 14 (5.36%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (3.07%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.92%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.53%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.15%) MySQL
8 3 (1.15%) NonStop SQL
9 2 (0.77%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (0.38%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 35 (13.41%) JIRA
2 15 (5.75%) Git
3 11 (4.21%) XCUITest
4 3 (1.15%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.38%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.38%) NUnit
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
General
1 80 (30.65%) Social Skills
2 43 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (16.09%) Law
4 40 (15.33%) Finance
5 21 (8.05%) Influencing Skills
5 21 (8.05%) Retail
6 15 (5.75%) Marketing
7 10 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.45%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.92%) Advertising
9 5 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.53%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.53%) Banking
10 4 (1.53%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.15%) Electronics
11 3 (1.15%) Games
11 3 (1.15%) Legal
12 2 (0.77%) Billing
12 2 (0.77%) Social Housing
12 2 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (18.01%) Senior
2 45 (17.24%) Developer
3 26 (9.96%) Delivery Manager
4 23 (8.81%) Analyst
5 22 (8.43%) Lead
6 21 (8.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 17 (6.51%) .NET Developer
8 15 (5.75%) IT Support
9 14 (5.36%) Change Manager
10 13 (4.98%) Graduate
10 13 (4.98%) Software Developer
10 13 (4.98%) Software Engineer
11 12 (4.60%) Business Analyst
11 12 (4.60%) C# Developer
11 12 (4.60%) IT Manager
11 12 (4.60%) Project Manager
12 11 (4.21%) C# Software Developer
13 10 (3.83%) Graduate C# Developer
13 10 (3.83%) Graduate Developer
13 10 (3.83%) Graduate Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (15.71%) React
2 28 (10.73%) .NET
3 20 (7.66%) CSS
3 20 (7.66%) HTML
3 20 (7.66%) Node.js
4 19 (7.28%) ASP.NET
5 18 (6.90%) .NET Core
5 18 (6.90%) ASP.NET Core
6 13 (4.98%) AWS CDK
6 13 (4.98%) Next.js
7 10 (3.83%) RESTful
8 9 (3.45%) Entity Framework
9 8 (3.07%) ASP.NET Web API
10 7 (2.68%) Blazor
10 7 (2.68%) LINQ
11 4 (1.53%) jQuery
11 4 (1.53%) React Native
11 4 (1.53%) Redux
11 4 (1.53%) REST
11 4 (1.53%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.88%) Product Ownership
2 21 (8.05%) Greenfield Project
2 21 (8.05%) Mobile App
3 13 (4.98%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (2.30%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.30%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.92%) AI Agents
7 5 (1.92%) Mobile Computing
8 3 (1.15%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.77%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.77%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.38%) CUDA
10 1 (0.38%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.38%) IoT
10 1 (0.38%) Social Media
10 1 (0.38%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.21%) Apple iOS
2 7 (2.68%) Android
3 4 (1.53%) Linux
3 4 (1.53%) Windows
4 1 (0.38%) Unix
4 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (26.05%) Continuous Improvement
2 52 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (19.16%) Mentoring
4 48 (18.39%) Coaching
5 43 (16.48%) Full-Stack Development
6 41 (15.71%) CI/CD
7 35 (13.41%) Collaborative Working
7 35 (13.41%) Test Automation
8 34 (13.03%) Roadmaps
9 32 (12.26%) DevOps
10 28 (10.73%) Decision-Making
10 28 (10.73%) Observability
10 28 (10.73%) Personalization
10 28 (10.73%) Stakeholder Management
11 26 (9.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 25 (9.58%) AI
13 24 (9.20%) Business Intelligence
13 24 (9.20%) Business Strategy
13 24 (9.20%) Root Cause Analysis
13 24 (9.20%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 61 (23.37%) SQL
2 45 (17.24%) C#
3 33 (12.64%) TypeScript
4 29 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 14 (5.36%) Python
6 13 (4.98%) PHP
7 10 (3.83%) PowerShell
8 9 (3.45%) C++
9 7 (2.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (2.68%) Java
10 4 (1.53%) Swift
11 3 (1.15%) Bash
12 2 (0.77%) R
13 1 (0.38%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.38%) Go
13 1 (0.38%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (7.28%) Degree
2 9 (3.45%) Azure Certification
2 9 (3.45%) PMI Certification
2 9 (3.45%) PMP
3 7 (2.68%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.92%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.15%) ACCA
6 3 (1.15%) CIMA
6 3 (1.15%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.15%) MBA
7 2 (0.77%) AAT
7 2 (0.77%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.77%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.77%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.38%) ICAEW
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (11.11%) QA
2 15 (5.75%) SLA
3 12 (4.60%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.92%) GDPR
4 5 (1.92%) PMO
5 2 (0.77%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.38%) GRC
6 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (3.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (5.75%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.92%) Terraform
3 2 (0.77%) Grafana
4 1 (0.38%) Ansible
4 1 (0.38%) Argo
4 1 (0.38%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 39 (14.94%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.45%) Databricks
2 9 (3.45%) Oracle
3 8 (3.07%) SAP
4 4 (1.53%) Apple
5 3 (1.15%) ESRI
5 3 (1.15%) QAD
6 2 (0.77%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (0.77%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.77%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.77%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.77%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.38%) Adobe
7 1 (0.38%) Cisco
7 1 (0.38%) Google
7 1 (0.38%) Infor