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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 33 4
Rank change year-on-year +11 -29 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 260 180 681
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 5.55% 9.25% 13.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.82% 10.27% 18.09%
Number of salaries quoted 145 114 412
10th Percentile £24,750 £21,250 £30,125
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,563 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% +5.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £64,750 £70,000 £65,284
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -6.42%

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 3,326 1,752 3,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 71.02% 90.08% 76.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,091 886 2,680
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £62,750 £57,620 £56,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 6 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 6 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 -6 82 £63,500 -8.30% 19
Nottinghamshire -4 53 £56,250 -2.17% 41
Northamptonshire +6 49 £55,000 -8.33% 12
Derbyshire +2 38 £25,500 +13.33% 16
Lincolnshire -3 29 £50,000 +25.00% 11
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 26 (10.00%) 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 (1.54%) 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 5 (1.92%) 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 69 (26.54%) Azure
2 44 (16.92%) AWS
3 24 (9.23%) Power Platform
4 21 (8.08%) Serverless
5 17 (6.54%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (4.23%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (3.46%) Power Automate
8 9 (3.46%) PowerApps
9 8 (3.08%) Amazon Cognito
9 8 (3.08%) Amazon EventBridge
9 8 (3.08%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (3.08%) Azure AKS
9 8 (3.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 8 (3.08%) Azure Key Vault
9 8 (3.08%) Azure Storage
9 8 (3.08%) GCP
9 8 (3.08%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.08%) DNS
2 3 (1.15%) Broadband
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%) FTP
3 1 (0.38%) HTTP
3 1 (0.38%) Internet
3 1 (0.38%) Intranet
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
3 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.31%) Power BI
2 13 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 10 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (3.85%) MongoDB
4 8 (3.08%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.54%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.54%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.15%) MySQL
8 2 (0.77%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.77%) NonStop SQL
8 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.38%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 36 (13.85%) JIRA
2 12 (4.62%) Git
2 12 (4.62%) XCUITest
3 2 (0.77%) Subversion
4 1 (0.38%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 79 (30.38%) Social Skills
2 47 (18.08%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (16.54%) Finance
4 41 (15.77%) Law
5 21 (8.08%) Influencing Skills
5 21 (8.08%) Retail
6 16 (6.15%) Marketing
7 9 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.69%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.92%) Advertising
9 5 (1.92%) Electronics
10 4 (1.54%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.54%) Banking
11 3 (1.15%) Games
11 3 (1.15%) Legal
11 3 (1.15%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.77%) Social Housing
12 2 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (17.31%) Senior
2 38 (14.62%) Developer
3 28 (10.77%) Delivery Manager
4 23 (8.85%) Lead
5 22 (8.46%) Analyst
6 21 (8.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 15 (5.77%) IT Support
8 13 (5.00%) Business Analyst
8 13 (5.00%) Change Manager
8 13 (5.00%) Project Manager
8 13 (5.00%) Software Developer
9 12 (4.62%) C# Developer
9 12 (4.62%) IT Manager
10 11 (4.23%) .NET Developer
10 11 (4.23%) C# Software Developer
10 11 (4.23%) Graduate
11 10 (3.85%) Graduate C# Developer
11 10 (3.85%) Graduate Developer
11 10 (3.85%) Graduate Software Developer
11 10 (3.85%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (13.46%) React
2 20 (7.69%) .NET
3 16 (6.15%) CSS
3 16 (6.15%) HTML
3 16 (6.15%) Node.js
4 13 (5.00%) ASP.NET
4 13 (5.00%) AWS CDK
4 13 (5.00%) Next.js
5 12 (4.62%) ASP.NET Core
6 11 (4.23%) .NET Core
7 10 (3.85%) RESTful
8 6 (2.31%) Entity Framework
9 5 (1.92%) LINQ
9 5 (1.92%) SwiftUI
10 4 (1.54%) ASP.NET Web API
10 4 (1.54%) Blazor
10 4 (1.54%) jQuery
11 3 (1.15%) AngularJS
11 3 (1.15%) Laravel
11 3 (1.15%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.31%) Product Ownership
2 21 (8.08%) Greenfield Project
2 21 (8.08%) Mobile App
3 13 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (2.31%) Driving Licence
4 6 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.31%) Low-Code
5 5 (1.92%) Mobile Computing
6 3 (1.15%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.15%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.77%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.77%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.77%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.38%) CUDA
8 1 (0.38%) IoT
8 1 (0.38%) Social Media
8 1 (0.38%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.62%) Apple iOS
2 7 (2.69%) Android
3 4 (1.54%) Linux
3 4 (1.54%) Windows
4 1 (0.38%) Unix
4 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (26.15%) Continuous Improvement
2 54 (20.77%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (19.23%) Mentoring
4 47 (18.08%) Coaching
5 37 (14.23%) CI/CD
5 37 (14.23%) Full-Stack Development
6 36 (13.85%) Test Automation
7 35 (13.46%) Collaborative Working
8 34 (13.08%) Roadmaps
9 33 (12.69%) Stakeholder Management
10 29 (11.15%) DevOps
11 28 (10.77%) Observability
11 28 (10.77%) Personalization
12 27 (10.38%) Decision-Making
13 26 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 25 (9.62%) Root Cause Analysis
15 24 (9.23%) AI
15 24 (9.23%) Scrum
16 23 (8.85%) Analytics
17 22 (8.46%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (19.62%) SQL
2 35 (13.46%) C#
3 32 (12.31%) TypeScript
4 23 (8.85%) JavaScript
5 14 (5.38%) Python
6 13 (5.00%) PHP
7 10 (3.85%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (2.69%) Java
9 6 (2.31%) C++
10 5 (1.92%) 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 (7.31%) Degree
2 11 (4.23%) Security Cleared
3 9 (3.46%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.08%) PMI Certification
4 8 (3.08%) PMP
5 6 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.31%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.92%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.15%) ACCA
7 3 (1.15%) CIMA
7 3 (1.15%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.15%) MBA
7 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.77%) AAT
8 2 (0.77%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.77%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.38%) CCNA
9 1 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.38%) ICAEW
9 1 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.77%) QA
2 15 (5.77%) SLA
3 12 (4.62%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.92%) GDPR
5 3 (1.15%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.15%) PMO
6 1 (0.38%) GRC
6 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (3.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (5.77%) 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 31 (11.92%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.46%) Databricks
2 9 (3.46%) Oracle
3 8 (3.08%) SAP
4 5 (1.92%) Apple
5 3 (1.15%) ESRI
5 3 (1.15%) QAD
6 2 (0.77%) Cisco
6 2 (0.77%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (0.77%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.77%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.77%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.38%) Adobe
7 1 (0.38%) Google
7 1 (0.38%) Infor
7 1 (0.38%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.38%) Zoho