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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 5 3
Rank change year-on-year -20 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 201 492 354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.73% 12.41% 20.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.27% 16.17% 21.60%
Number of salaries quoted 137 159 259
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -2.65% +2.73%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% - +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 1,958 3,042 1,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.02% 76.72% 93.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,076 1,469 1,067
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,742 £27,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,375 £72,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.26% +3.33%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Agile 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 16 September 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 16 September 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
Northamptonshire -14 60 £60,000 -11.11% 29
Leicestershire -6 47 £66,750 +28.37% 47
Nottinghamshire -16 35 £67,500 +22.73% 46
Derbyshire -25 33 £32,500 -38.10% 42
Lincolnshire +12 21 £40,000 +6.67% 26
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 42 (20.90%) Confluence
2 5 (2.49%) Apache
2 5 (2.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.99%) Appian
4 3 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) CMS
5 1 (0.50%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.50%) IIS
5 1 (0.50%) Mendix
5 1 (0.50%) Strapi
Applications
1 6 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.49%) Simulink
4 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.50%) GNU Octave
5 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.49%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.49%) Shopify
4 2 (1.00%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 71 (35.32%) AWS
1 71 (35.32%) Azure
2 43 (21.39%) GCP
3 26 (12.94%) SaaS
4 9 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (3.48%) PaaS
6 5 (2.49%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.49%) Snowflake
7 4 (1.99%) IaaS
8 3 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.49%) dbt
8 3 (1.49%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.00%) Azure AI
9 2 (1.00%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (1.00%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.00%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.00%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.98%) VPN
2 8 (3.98%) DNS
3 5 (2.49%) DHCP
4 4 (1.99%) Firewall
4 4 (1.99%) WAN
5 3 (1.49%) Internet
6 2 (1.00%) Ethernet
6 2 (1.00%) Intranet
6 2 (1.00%) LAN
6 2 (1.00%) Network Security
6 2 (1.00%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (21.39%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.99%) Big Data
3 6 (2.99%) Data Lake
3 6 (2.99%) MySQL
4 5 (2.49%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.49%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (1.99%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.99%) Power BI
6 3 (1.49%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.00%) SAP HANA
7 2 (1.00%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (1.00%) Tableau
8 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 55 (27.36%) JIRA
2 45 (22.39%) Selenium
3 42 (20.90%) Cucumber
3 42 (20.90%) GitLab
4 41 (20.40%) SonarQube
5 40 (19.90%) Maven
6 39 (19.40%) Bitbucket
6 39 (19.40%) Sonatype Nexus
7 14 (6.97%) Git
8 5 (2.49%) Jenkins
8 5 (2.49%) Katalon Studio
9 4 (1.99%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (1.49%) JUnit
10 3 (1.49%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.00%) Appium
11 2 (1.00%) JMeter
11 2 (1.00%) TestNG
12 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket Server
12 1 (0.50%) Mockito
12 1 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
General
1 85 (42.29%) Finance
2 48 (23.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 43 (21.39%) Banking
4 35 (17.41%) Social Skills
5 24 (11.94%) Law
6 12 (5.97%) Retail
7 11 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (4.48%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.99%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.49%) Aerospace
10 5 (2.49%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.49%) Automotive
11 3 (1.49%) Legal
11 3 (1.49%) Marketing
12 2 (1.00%) Billing
12 2 (1.00%) Electronics
12 2 (1.00%) Local Government
12 2 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.50%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 59 (29.35%) Software Engineer
2 35 (17.41%) Developer
3 30 (14.93%) Lead
4 24 (11.94%) Analyst
5 22 (10.95%) Senior
6 16 (7.96%) Project Manager
7 12 (5.97%) PHP Developer
8 11 (5.47%) Architect
9 10 (4.98%) Lead Software Engineer
10 9 (4.48%) PHP Symfony Developer
10 9 (4.48%) Symfony Developer
11 8 (3.98%) Senior Developer
11 8 (3.98%) Support Analyst
12 7 (3.48%) Administrator
12 7 (3.48%) Business Analyst
12 7 (3.48%) Data Engineer
12 7 (3.48%) Principal Engineer
12 7 (3.48%) Python Engineer
13 6 (2.99%) C# Software Engineer
14 5 (2.49%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (28.86%) CSS
2 57 (28.36%) HTML
3 55 (27.36%) React
4 42 (20.90%) Kafka
5 41 (20.40%) Redux
6 40 (19.90%) JPA
6 40 (19.90%) Spring
6 40 (19.90%) Spring Boot
7 35 (17.41%) Hibernate
8 15 (7.46%) .NET
9 11 (5.47%) REST
10 10 (4.98%) RESTful
11 9 (4.48%) Symfony
12 8 (3.98%) Django
13 7 (3.48%) Flask
14 6 (2.99%) Jest
14 6 (2.99%) Laravel
15 5 (2.49%) CSS3
15 5 (2.49%) HTML5
15 5 (2.49%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 55 (27.36%) Product Ownership
2 39 (19.40%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (4.98%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.48%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.49%) IoT
5 5 (2.49%) Legacy Code
5 5 (2.49%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.49%) Pricing Data
6 4 (1.99%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.99%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (1.49%) Cyberattack
7 3 (1.49%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.00%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.00%) NHS
8 2 (1.00%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.50%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.47%) Linux
2 9 (4.48%) Windows
3 5 (2.49%) AIX
3 5 (2.49%) Mac OS
3 5 (2.49%) Windows 10
4 4 (1.99%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.49%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (1.00%) Android
6 2 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.50%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (33.83%) CI/CD
1 68 (33.83%) Continuous Improvement
2 65 (32.34%) DevOps
2 65 (32.34%) SDLC
2 65 (32.34%) Software Engineering
3 59 (29.35%) Test Automation
4 50 (24.88%) Front End Development
5 49 (24.38%) Microservices
6 47 (23.38%) Full-Stack Development
7 46 (22.89%) Containerisation
8 45 (22.39%) Clean Code
9 39 (19.40%) Performance Optimisation
10 36 (17.91%) TDD
11 32 (15.92%) Waterfall
12 31 (15.42%) Mentoring
13 27 (13.43%) Stakeholder Management
14 26 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
15 20 (9.95%) Scrum
16 19 (9.45%) Roadmaps
17 18 (8.96%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 77 (38.31%) SQL
2 70 (34.83%) JavaScript
3 59 (29.35%) Java
4 25 (12.44%) C#
5 23 (11.44%) Python
6 12 (5.97%) PHP
7 11 (5.47%) TypeScript
8 8 (3.98%) C++
9 5 (2.49%) Groovy
9 5 (2.49%) MATLAB
10 4 (1.99%) C
10 4 (1.99%) Go
10 4 (1.99%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.99%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.49%) Bash
12 2 (1.00%) Bicep
12 2 (1.00%) Korn
12 2 (1.00%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.50%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 23 (11.44%) Degree
2 15 (7.46%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.97%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.49%) MCP
5 5 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.99%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.49%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.00%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.00%) HND
8 2 (1.00%) ISEB
9 1 (0.50%) CIPD
9 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.50%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.50%) PMP
9 1 (0.50%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 1 (0.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (24.38%) QA
2 9 (4.48%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.49%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (2.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 3 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 3 (1.49%) SLA
6 2 (1.00%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.50%) PMBOK
7 1 (0.50%) PMO
System Software
1 53 (26.37%) Docker
2 5 (2.49%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 53 (26.37%) Kubernetes
2 14 (6.97%) Terraform
3 5 (2.49%) Ansible
4 2 (1.00%) Grafana
4 2 (1.00%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.00%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.50%) CA Service Virtualization
5 1 (0.50%) Marathon
Vendors
1 39 (19.40%) Solace
2 12 (5.97%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.48%) SAP
4 7 (3.48%) Databricks
4 7 (3.48%) Oracle
5 6 (2.99%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.49%) IBM
7 3 (1.49%) Atmel
7 3 (1.49%) JD Edwards
7 3 (1.49%) Siemens
8 2 (1.00%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.00%) Google
8 2 (1.00%) Meraki
8 2 (1.00%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.00%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.00%) VMware
9 1 (0.50%) Adobe
9 1 (0.50%) Mentor Graphics
9 1 (0.50%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.50%) Xilinx