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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 29 4
Rank change year-on-year +8 -25 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 273 193 716
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 5.42% 9.07% 13.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.64% 10.42% 17.82%
Number of salaries quoted 159 128 391
10th Percentile £24,750 £23,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £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 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -5.34%

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 3,573 1,852 4,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 70.99% 86.99% 76.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,320 978 2,737
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,625 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,500
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 £58,250 £56,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -9 83 £57,500 -17.86% 15
Nottinghamshire -5 61 £60,000 -2.04% 33
Northamptonshire +3 48 £52,500 -12.50% 22
Derbyshire +3 43 £31,500 +17.76% 17
Lincolnshire -6 28 £50,000 +25.00% 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 23 (8.42%) Confluence
2 5 (1.83%) CMS
3 4 (1.47%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.10%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.73%) IIS
6 1 (0.37%) Apache
6 1 (0.37%) Drupal
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (4.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.73%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.37%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 80 (29.30%) Azure
2 49 (17.95%) AWS
3 25 (9.16%) Power Platform
4 23 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (7.69%) Serverless
6 18 (6.59%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (4.76%) Power Automate
7 13 (4.76%) PowerApps
8 8 (2.93%) Amazon Cognito
8 8 (2.93%) Amazon EventBridge
8 8 (2.93%) Amazon S3
8 8 (2.93%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (2.93%) Azure AKS
8 8 (2.93%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 8 (2.93%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (2.93%) Azure Storage
8 8 (2.93%) GCP
8 8 (2.93%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.93%) DNS
2 3 (1.10%) Hyperconnected
2 3 (1.10%) Internet
3 2 (0.73%) Broadband
4 1 (0.37%) 4G
4 1 (0.37%) BGP
4 1 (0.37%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.37%) Diameter Protocol
4 1 (0.37%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.37%) FTP
4 1 (0.37%) HTTP
4 1 (0.37%) IOS XR
4 1 (0.37%) MPLS
4 1 (0.37%) RTP
4 1 (0.37%) RTSP
4 1 (0.37%) SCTP
4 1 (0.37%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (0.37%) SS7
4 1 (0.37%) VoIP
4 1 (0.37%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.33%) Power BI
2 19 (6.96%) Azure SQL Database
2 19 (6.96%) MongoDB
3 14 (5.13%) SQL Server
4 10 (3.66%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.93%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.47%) NonStop SQL
6 4 (1.47%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.10%) MySQL
7 3 (1.10%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.37%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (12.82%) JIRA
2 16 (5.86%) Git
3 11 (4.03%) XCUITest
4 4 (1.47%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.37%) NUnit
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
General
1 81 (29.67%) Social Skills
2 47 (17.22%) Finance
3 42 (15.38%) Law
4 41 (15.02%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.06%) Retail
6 21 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (5.13%) Marketing
8 12 (4.40%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.93%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.20%) Advertising
10 6 (2.20%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.47%) Banking
13 3 (1.10%) Games
13 3 (1.10%) Legal
14 2 (0.73%) Billing
14 2 (0.73%) Social Housing
14 2 (0.73%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 1 (0.37%) Police
Job Titles
1 50 (18.32%) Senior
2 48 (17.58%) Developer
3 26 (9.52%) Delivery Manager
4 25 (9.16%) Analyst
5 22 (8.06%) Lead
6 21 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 20 (7.33%) .NET Developer
8 17 (6.23%) Software Engineer
9 16 (5.86%) Change Manager
10 15 (5.49%) IT Support
11 14 (5.13%) Business Analyst
11 14 (5.13%) Graduate
12 13 (4.76%) Project Manager
12 13 (4.76%) Software Developer
13 12 (4.40%) C# Developer
14 11 (4.03%) C# Software Developer
15 10 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
15 10 (3.66%) Graduate C# Developer
15 10 (3.66%) Graduate Developer
15 10 (3.66%) Graduate Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (15.75%) React
2 33 (12.09%) .NET
3 22 (8.06%) ASP.NET
3 22 (8.06%) CSS
3 22 (8.06%) HTML
4 21 (7.69%) .NET Core
4 21 (7.69%) ASP.NET Core
4 21 (7.69%) Node.js
5 13 (4.76%) AWS CDK
5 13 (4.76%) Next.js
6 11 (4.03%) Entity Framework
7 10 (3.66%) RESTful
8 9 (3.30%) ASP.NET Web API
8 9 (3.30%) LINQ
9 8 (2.93%) Blazor
10 4 (1.47%) jQuery
10 4 (1.47%) React Native
10 4 (1.47%) Redux
10 4 (1.47%) REST
10 4 (1.47%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.09%) Product Ownership
2 21 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
3 20 (7.33%) Mobile App
4 12 (4.40%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.56%) AI Agents
7 7 (2.56%) Driving Licence
7 7 (2.56%) Low-Code
8 6 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.83%) Mobile Computing
10 3 (1.10%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.73%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.37%) CUDA
12 1 (0.37%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.37%) e-Learning
12 1 (0.37%) IoT
12 1 (0.37%) Social Media
12 1 (0.37%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.03%) Apple iOS
2 7 (2.56%) Android
3 4 (1.47%) Windows
4 3 (1.10%) Linux
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (26.37%) Continuous Improvement
2 53 (19.41%) Mentoring
3 52 (19.05%) Coaching
4 50 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (16.85%) Full-Stack Development
6 43 (15.75%) CI/CD
7 37 (13.55%) Test Automation
8 35 (12.82%) Collaborative Working
8 35 (12.82%) Decision-Making
8 35 (12.82%) DevOps
9 34 (12.45%) Roadmaps
9 34 (12.45%) Stakeholder Management
10 33 (12.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 29 (10.62%) AI
12 28 (10.26%) Observability
12 28 (10.26%) Personalization
12 28 (10.26%) Software Engineering
13 26 (9.52%) Business Strategy
14 24 (8.79%) Root Cause Analysis
15 23 (8.42%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 67 (24.54%) SQL
2 51 (18.68%) C#
3 33 (12.09%) TypeScript
4 30 (10.99%) JavaScript
5 13 (4.76%) PHP
5 13 (4.76%) Python
6 11 (4.03%) C++
7 10 (3.66%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (2.20%) Java
10 4 (1.47%) Swift
11 2 (0.73%) Bash
11 2 (0.73%) R
12 1 (0.37%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.37%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 17 (6.23%) Degree
2 9 (3.30%) Azure Certification
3 7 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (2.56%) PMI Certification
3 7 (2.56%) PMP
3 7 (2.56%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.83%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.10%) ACCA
6 3 (1.10%) CIMA
7 2 (0.73%) AAT
7 2 (0.73%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.73%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.37%) ICAEW
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (11.72%) QA
2 15 (5.49%) SLA
3 12 (4.40%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.83%) PMO
5 4 (1.47%) GRC
6 2 (0.73%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.73%) GDPR
7 1 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (5.13%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.47%) Terraform
3 2 (0.73%) Grafana
Vendors
1 47 (17.22%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.30%) Databricks
3 7 (2.56%) Oracle
4 6 (2.20%) SAP
5 4 (1.47%) Apple
6 3 (1.10%) ESRI
6 3 (1.10%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.73%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (0.73%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.73%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.73%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.37%) Adobe
8 1 (0.37%) Cisco
8 1 (0.37%) Infor