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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 9 4
Rank change year-on-year -14 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 167 403 322
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 7.65% 11.75% 20.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.13% 14.82% 21.82%
Number of salaries quoted 131 137 250
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,000 £39,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £48,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,250 £75,125
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - - +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 1,830 2,720 1,476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 83.83% 79.28% 92.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,159 1,154 1,048
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,825 £26,925
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 8 November 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 8 November 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
Nottinghamshire -18 40 £60,000 - 54
Northamptonshire -3 37 £56,250 +4.17% 56
Leicestershire +5 36 £62,500 +13.64% 42
Derbyshire -14 28 £40,000 -27.27% 35
Lincolnshire -3 20 £40,000 -8.57% 24
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 9 (5.39%) Confluence
2 5 (2.99%) Apache
2 5 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.40%) Appian
4 3 (1.80%) CMS
4 3 (1.80%) WordPress
5 2 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.20%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.60%) IIS
6 1 (0.60%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (3.59%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.60%) GNU Octave
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (4.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.99%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.80%) SAP Business One
3 3 (1.80%) Shopify
4 1 (0.60%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (23.95%) Azure
2 37 (22.16%) AWS
3 27 (16.17%) SaaS
4 13 (7.78%) GCP
5 9 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (5.39%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (4.79%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (4.79%) Power Platform
7 7 (4.19%) PaaS
8 5 (2.99%) Power Automate
9 4 (2.40%) IaaS
9 4 (2.40%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.80%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.80%) ChatGPT
11 2 (1.20%) Azure AI
11 2 (1.20%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.20%) dbt
11 2 (1.20%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.39%) VPN
2 7 (4.19%) DNS
3 5 (2.99%) DHCP
4 4 (2.40%) Firewall
4 4 (2.40%) WAN
5 3 (1.80%) Internet
5 3 (1.80%) Intranet
6 2 (1.20%) Ethernet
6 2 (1.20%) LAN
6 2 (1.20%) Network Security
6 2 (1.20%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.20%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.19%) MySQL
2 9 (5.39%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (4.19%) Data Lake
4 7 (4.19%) Power BI
5 6 (3.59%) Big Data
6 5 (2.99%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (2.40%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.80%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.80%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.80%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.20%) SAP HANA
9 2 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.20%) Tableau
10 1 (0.60%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.60%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 18 (10.78%) Git
2 16 (9.58%) JIRA
3 10 (5.99%) Selenium
4 5 (2.99%) Cucumber
4 5 (2.99%) GitLab
4 5 (2.99%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.99%) Katalon Studio
5 4 (2.40%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (2.40%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.80%) JUnit
6 3 (1.80%) Maven
6 3 (1.80%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.20%) Appium
7 2 (1.20%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.20%) JMeter
7 2 (1.20%) Postman
7 2 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.20%) TestNG
8 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.60%) Mockito
General
1 42 (25.15%) Social Skills
2 37 (22.16%) Finance
3 23 (13.77%) Law
4 16 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (5.39%) Retail
7 8 (4.79%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.79%) Marketing
8 5 (2.99%) Legal
9 4 (2.40%) Advertising
9 4 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.40%) Local Government
9 4 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.80%) Back Office
10 3 (1.80%) Banking
10 3 (1.80%) Billing
10 3 (1.80%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.80%) Publishing
11 2 (1.20%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.20%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (19.76%) Developer
2 30 (17.96%) Lead
3 24 (14.37%) Analyst
4 20 (11.98%) Software Engineer
5 18 (10.78%) Senior
6 16 (9.58%) Architect
7 13 (7.78%) PHP Developer
8 10 (5.99%) PHP Symfony Developer
8 10 (5.99%) Project Manager
8 10 (5.99%) Symfony Developer
9 8 (4.79%) Lead Software Engineer
9 8 (4.79%) Senior Developer
10 7 (4.19%) Administrator
10 7 (4.19%) Business Analyst
10 7 (4.19%) IT Manager
10 7 (4.19%) IT Project Manager
11 6 (3.59%) Applications Support
11 6 (3.59%) Data Engineer
11 6 (3.59%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 6 (3.59%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (11.98%) CSS
1 20 (11.98%) HTML
2 18 (10.78%) .NET
3 13 (7.78%) React
4 11 (6.59%) Laravel
5 10 (5.99%) Symfony
6 9 (5.39%) RESTful
7 8 (4.79%) Django
8 7 (4.19%) CakePHP
8 7 (4.19%) CodeIgniter
8 7 (4.19%) Flask
8 7 (4.19%) REST
9 5 (2.99%) Playwright
10 4 (2.40%) JPA
10 4 (2.40%) Kafka
10 4 (2.40%) Middleware
10 4 (2.40%) Spring
10 4 (2.40%) Spring Boot
11 3 (1.80%) EDI
11 3 (1.80%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.78%) Product Ownership
2 12 (7.19%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.39%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.99%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.99%) IoT
5 5 (2.99%) Legacy Code
5 5 (2.99%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.99%) Pricing Data
6 4 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.40%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (1.80%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.80%) NHS
7 3 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.80%) Social Media
8 2 (1.20%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.20%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.19%) Linux
2 10 (5.99%) Windows
3 5 (2.99%) Mac OS
3 5 (2.99%) Windows 10
3 5 (2.99%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.40%) AIX
5 3 (1.80%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (1.20%) Mac OS X
6 2 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.60%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (24.55%) Continuous Improvement
2 34 (20.36%) DevOps
3 33 (19.76%) Mentoring
4 31 (18.56%) CI/CD
5 30 (17.96%) Waterfall
6 29 (17.37%) Software Engineering
7 27 (16.17%) SDLC
8 25 (14.97%) Test Automation
9 23 (13.77%) Scrum
10 21 (12.57%) Roadmaps
10 21 (12.57%) Stakeholder Management
11 20 (11.98%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (11.38%) Project Management
13 15 (8.98%) AI
13 15 (8.98%) Microservices
13 15 (8.98%) Migration
13 15 (8.98%) OO
13 15 (8.98%) Project Delivery
13 15 (8.98%) Software Testing
14 14 (8.38%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 40 (23.95%) SQL
2 33 (19.76%) JavaScript
3 29 (17.37%) C#
4 19 (11.38%) Python
5 16 (9.58%) Java
6 15 (8.98%) PHP
7 12 (7.19%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.99%) C++
8 5 (2.99%) Groovy
8 5 (2.99%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.40%) C
10 3 (1.80%) Bash
10 3 (1.80%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.20%) Bicep
11 2 (1.20%) Go
11 2 (1.20%) Korn
11 2 (1.20%) Ruby
11 2 (1.20%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.60%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 22 (13.17%) Degree
2 13 (7.78%) Security Cleared
3 12 (7.19%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.99%) Chartered Engineer
6 5 (2.99%) MCP
7 4 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.80%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.80%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.20%) HND
9 2 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.60%) CIPD
10 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.60%) PMP
10 1 (0.60%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 1 (0.60%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 1 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.98%) QA
2 7 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 5 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (1.80%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 2 (1.20%) PMO
6 1 (0.60%) GDPR
6 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (7.78%) Docker
2 5 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.60%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (8.38%) Kubernetes
1 14 (8.38%) Terraform
2 3 (1.80%) Ansible
3 2 (1.20%) Grafana
3 2 (1.20%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.20%) ZABBIX
4 1 (0.60%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 16 (9.58%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.99%) SAP
3 8 (4.79%) Databricks
3 8 (4.79%) Oracle
4 5 (2.99%) IBM
5 4 (2.40%) JD Edwards
6 3 (1.80%) Atmel
6 3 (1.80%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.80%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.20%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.20%) Google
7 2 (1.20%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.20%) Meraki
7 2 (1.20%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.20%) Siemens
7 2 (1.20%) Solace
7 2 (1.20%) VMware
8 1 (0.60%) Mentor Graphics
8 1 (0.60%) Xilinx
8 1 (0.60%) Zend