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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 13 4
Rank change year-on-year -14 -9 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 171 227 492
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 5.85% 11.60% 16.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.52% 12.93% 19.87%
Number of salaries quoted 119 124 415
10th Percentile £24,750 £32,150 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,250 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £69,500 £63,749
% change year-on-year -6.47% +9.02% -5.56%

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 2,275 1,756 2,476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 77.83% 89.73% 84.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,401 784 1,974
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £34,640 £32,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -8.65%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,625 £68,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 17 February 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 17 February 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 42 £55,000 +4.76% 9
Northamptonshire +11 39 £61,250 -5.77% 15
Nottinghamshire -23 33 £55,000 -12.00% 35
Derbyshire -15 30 £25,500 -43.33% 22
Lincolnshire -18 18 £42,500 -10.53% 12
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 27 (15.79%) Confluence
2 6 (3.51%) CMS
3 3 (1.75%) Apache
3 3 (1.75%) WordPress
4 2 (1.17%) IIS
4 2 (1.17%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.58%) Drupal
5 1 (0.58%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.34%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.75%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.75%) SAP Business One
2 2 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.58%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.58%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.58%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 31 (18.13%) Azure
2 25 (14.62%) AWS
3 11 (6.43%) Power Platform
4 10 (5.85%) SaaS
5 9 (5.26%) GCP
6 8 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.09%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.34%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.75%) ChatGPT
10 3 (1.75%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.75%) Serverless
11 2 (1.17%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (1.17%) npm
11 2 (1.17%) NuGet
11 2 (1.17%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.17%) PaaS
11 2 (1.17%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.75%) Intranet
1 3 (1.75%) WAN
2 2 (1.17%) Broadband
2 2 (1.17%) LAN
3 1 (0.58%) 4G
3 1 (0.58%) BGP
3 1 (0.58%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (0.58%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (0.58%) IOS XR
3 1 (0.58%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.85%) MySQL
1 10 (5.85%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.68%) Power BI
3 4 (2.34%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.75%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.75%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.17%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.58%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.58%) SAS EBI
6 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (22.22%) JIRA
2 15 (8.77%) Git
3 5 (2.92%) Subversion
4 4 (2.34%) XCUITest
5 3 (1.75%) Selenium
6 2 (1.17%) GitLab
6 2 (1.17%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.17%) Postman
6 2 (1.17%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (1.17%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.58%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.58%) JUnit
7 1 (0.58%) Mockito
7 1 (0.58%) REST Assured
General
1 53 (30.99%) Social Skills
2 31 (18.13%) Law
3 30 (17.54%) Finance
4 27 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (12.28%) Marketing
6 11 (6.43%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (4.68%) Electronics
8 7 (4.09%) Retail
9 6 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.92%) Advertising
10 5 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (2.34%) Billing
11 4 (2.34%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.75%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.75%) Back Office
12 3 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.75%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.75%) Publishing
13 2 (1.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 28 (16.37%) Developer
2 19 (11.11%) Senior
3 18 (10.53%) Analyst
4 16 (9.36%) Lead
5 14 (8.19%) IT Support
6 9 (5.26%) Architect
6 9 (5.26%) IT Manager
6 9 (5.26%) PHP Developer
6 9 (5.26%) Project Manager
7 8 (4.68%) IT Engineer
7 8 (4.68%) IT Support Engineer
7 8 (4.68%) Support Engineer
8 7 (4.09%) Finance Manager
8 7 (4.09%) IT Analyst
8 7 (4.09%) Power Platform Developer
8 7 (4.09%) Product Owner
8 7 (4.09%) Software Engineer
9 6 (3.51%) Business Analyst
9 6 (3.51%) IT Support Analyst
9 6 (3.51%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.60%) .NET
2 12 (7.02%) React
3 11 (6.43%) Laravel
4 10 (5.85%) CSS
4 10 (5.85%) HTML
5 8 (4.68%) RESTful
6 7 (4.09%) Middleware
7 5 (2.92%) CakePHP
7 5 (2.92%) CodeIgniter
7 5 (2.92%) Symfony
8 4 (2.34%) Node.js
9 3 (1.75%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.75%) AWS CDK
9 3 (1.75%) jQuery
9 3 (1.75%) Next.js
10 2 (1.17%) Django
10 2 (1.17%) Hibernate
10 2 (1.17%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.17%) Playwright
10 2 (1.17%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.94%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.85%) Mobile App
3 9 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.51%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.92%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (2.34%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.34%) Social Media
7 3 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.75%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.75%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.75%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.17%) Mobile Computing
8 2 (1.17%) NHS
8 2 (1.17%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.58%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.68%) Linux
2 5 (2.92%) Windows
3 4 (2.34%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.75%) Android
4 3 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.17%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
2 29 (16.96%) Mentoring
3 27 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 25 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (14.04%) DevOps
5 24 (14.04%) Test Automation
6 20 (11.70%) Waterfall
7 19 (11.11%) Project Management
7 19 (11.11%) Software Engineering
8 18 (10.53%) CI/CD
9 17 (9.94%) Root Cause Analysis
10 16 (9.36%) Roadmaps
11 15 (8.77%) Change Management
11 15 (8.77%) Incident Management
11 15 (8.77%) ITSM
11 15 (8.77%) Scrum
11 15 (8.77%) SDLC
12 14 (8.19%) Project Delivery
13 12 (7.02%) Observability
13 12 (7.02%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 32 (18.71%) SQL
2 20 (11.70%) JavaScript
3 18 (10.53%) C#
4 15 (8.77%) TypeScript
5 13 (7.60%) PHP
6 8 (4.68%) Python
7 6 (3.51%) Java
8 5 (2.92%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.34%) Bash
10 3 (1.75%) Go
11 2 (1.17%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.17%) Ruby
12 1 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.58%) R
12 1 (0.58%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (10.53%) Degree
2 9 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.09%) PMI Certification
3 7 (4.09%) PMP
4 6 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.51%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.75%) Chartered Engineer
5 3 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.75%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.75%) MBA
6 2 (1.17%) AAT
6 2 (1.17%) ACCA
6 2 (1.17%) CCNA
6 2 (1.17%) CIMA
6 2 (1.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (1.17%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.58%) CCNP
7 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.70%) QA
2 15 (8.77%) SLA
3 8 (4.68%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.92%) GDPR
4 5 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 4 (2.34%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 2 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.17%) PMO
7 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.58%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 8 (4.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (5.26%) Terraform
2 7 (4.09%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.17%) Ansible
4 1 (0.58%) Argo
4 1 (0.58%) CA Service Virtualization
4 1 (0.58%) Grafana
4 1 (0.58%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (6.43%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.09%) SAP
3 6 (3.51%) Databricks
3 6 (3.51%) Oracle
4 5 (2.92%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.92%) Zoho
5 3 (1.75%) Cisco
5 3 (1.75%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.75%) QAD
6 2 (1.17%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (1.17%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.17%) IBM
6 2 (1.17%) Zend
7 1 (0.58%) Conga
7 1 (0.58%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.58%) Jitterbit
7 1 (0.58%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.58%) Pardot
7 1 (0.58%) ServiceNow