Agile Job Trends in the East of England

Agile Software Development
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Agile skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 5 7
Rank change year-on-year -32 +2 -4
Permanent jobs citing Agile 191 493 376
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 4.53% 14.16% 13.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.12% 16.23% 16.01%
Number of salaries quoted 162 219 260
10th Percentile £27,500 £43,650 £41,700
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £78,250 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,625 £81,900 £83,875
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -3.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,123 3,037 2,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 74.04% 87.22% 85.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,840 1,178 1,808
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £26,925
25th Percentile £34,000 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,375 £82,875
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Agile relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Agile job vacancy trend in the East of England

Agile
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Agile.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Agile

Agile
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in the East of England over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Agile in the East of England

Agile
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the East of England region over the 6 months to 17 January 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
Cambridgeshire -12 60 £60,100 -10.96% 50
Essex -15 43 £30,000 -47.83% 40
Hertfordshire -35 42 £57,500 -4.17% 80
Suffolk -3 28 £55,000 -15.38% 37
Bedfordshire -5 11 £56,000 +12.00% 40
Norfolk -14 9 £55,000 -4.35% 26
East Anglia - 4 £95,000 - 25
Agile
England

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 18 (9.42%) Confluence
2 4 (2.09%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.57%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.05%) Mendix
5 1 (0.52%) CMS
5 1 (0.52%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (5.76%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.57%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.57%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.09%) NEC Housing
2 2 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.52%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 54 (28.27%) Azure
2 45 (23.56%) AWS
3 8 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (4.19%) Power Platform
4 6 (3.14%) Serverless
5 5 (2.62%) SaaS
6 3 (1.57%) Adobe Analytics
6 3 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (1.57%) GCP
6 3 (1.57%) GitHub
6 3 (1.57%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.05%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.05%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.05%) OCI
7 2 (1.05%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.05%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.05%) Workato
8 1 (0.52%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.62%) Broadband
2 1 (0.52%) DHCP
2 1 (0.52%) DOCSIS
2 1 (0.52%) DSL
2 1 (0.52%) GPON
2 1 (0.52%) IPv4
2 1 (0.52%) IPv6
2 1 (0.52%) PPP
2 1 (0.52%) RTP
2 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.52%) VoIP
2 1 (0.52%) WAN
2 1 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.99%) SQL Server
2 15 (7.85%) MySQL
3 11 (5.76%) BusinessObjects
4 7 (3.66%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (3.14%) Power BI
6 5 (2.62%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.09%) MS Access
7 4 (2.09%) SAP Data Services
8 3 (1.57%) Amazon QuickSight
8 3 (1.57%) Redis
8 3 (1.57%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.52%) DTS
10 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.52%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 20 (10.47%) JIRA
2 7 (3.66%) Git
3 5 (2.62%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.09%) Toad
5 2 (1.05%) JMeter
5 2 (1.05%) Postman
5 2 (1.05%) Selenium
6 1 (0.52%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.52%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle APEX
General
1 105 (54.97%) Social Skills
2 48 (25.13%) Finance
3 36 (18.85%) Law
4 28 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (7.85%) Publishing
6 10 (5.24%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.19%) Games
7 8 (4.19%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.66%) Legal
9 6 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (3.14%) Marketing
9 6 (3.14%) Military
9 6 (3.14%) Retail
10 5 (2.62%) Local Government
11 4 (2.09%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.05%) Automotive
12 2 (1.05%) Health Technology
12 2 (1.05%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (21.47%) Analyst
2 37 (19.37%) Business Analyst
3 29 (15.18%) Developer
4 28 (14.66%) Senior
5 26 (13.61%) Digital Analyst
5 26 (13.61%) Digital Business Analyst
5 26 (13.61%) Lead
6 23 (12.04%) Architect
7 17 (8.90%) Enterprise Architect
8 13 (6.81%) Project Manager
8 13 (6.81%) Software Engineer
9 11 (5.76%) Graduate
9 11 (5.76%) Graduate Developer
10 10 (5.24%) ERP Architect
10 10 (5.24%) Senior Manager
10 10 (5.24%) Software Developer
11 9 (4.71%) C# Developer
11 9 (4.71%) SAP Architect
11 9 (4.71%) SAP Enterprise Architect
12 8 (4.19%) Graduate C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (15.18%) HTML
2 20 (10.47%) .NET
3 13 (6.81%) Web Services
4 12 (6.28%) CSS
4 12 (6.28%) React
5 11 (5.76%) jQuery
6 7 (3.66%) REST
6 7 (3.66%) Vue
7 6 (3.14%) ASP.NET
8 4 (2.09%) RESTful
8 4 (2.09%) YAML
9 3 (1.57%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.57%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.57%) OpenGL
9 3 (1.57%) SOAP
9 3 (1.57%) Vulkan
10 2 (1.05%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (1.05%) JSON
10 2 (1.05%) TensorFlow
10 2 (1.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.47%) Product Ownership
2 13 (6.81%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (5.24%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (4.71%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.14%) e-Learning
5 6 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.09%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (2.09%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.09%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.09%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.57%) 3D Graphics
8 3 (1.57%) CUDA
8 3 (1.57%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.57%) Educational Technology
8 3 (1.57%) PMI
8 3 (1.57%) Social Media
9 2 (1.05%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.05%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.19%) Windows
2 6 (3.14%) Linux
3 5 (2.62%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.09%) Unix
5 1 (0.52%) Android
5 1 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.52%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (34.55%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (24.61%) Continuous Improvement
3 39 (20.42%) User Experience
4 38 (19.90%) Roadmaps
5 37 (19.37%) Scrum
5 37 (19.37%) Stakeholder Management
6 36 (18.85%) Workshop Facilitation
7 35 (18.32%) User Stories
8 33 (17.28%) Change Management
9 32 (16.75%) Software Engineering
10 30 (15.71%) E-Commerce
11 28 (14.66%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 26 (13.61%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 26 (13.61%) Project Delivery
13 25 (13.09%) Collaborative Working
13 25 (13.09%) DevOps
14 24 (12.57%) CI/CD
15 23 (12.04%) Project Management
16 22 (11.52%) AI
17 20 (10.47%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 33 (17.28%) SQL
2 26 (13.61%) Python
3 25 (13.09%) C#
4 18 (9.42%) JavaScript
5 15 (7.85%) C++
5 15 (7.85%) Java
6 12 (6.28%) PHP
7 8 (4.19%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.66%) C
9 6 (3.14%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.09%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.09%) VB
10 4 (2.09%) VB.NET
11 3 (1.57%) Ada
11 3 (1.57%) Ada 95
11 3 (1.57%) GLSL
12 2 (1.05%) Bash
12 2 (1.05%) Go
13 1 (0.52%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.52%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 43 (22.51%) Degree
2 15 (7.85%) DBS Check
3 14 (7.33%) AWS Certification
4 13 (6.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (6.28%) TOGAF Certification
6 11 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (4.71%) Security Cleared
8 8 (4.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (3.14%) PMI Certification
10 4 (2.09%) ACCA
10 4 (2.09%) CIMA
10 4 (2.09%) PMP
10 4 (2.09%) SC Cleared
11 3 (1.57%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (1.05%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.52%) CCSP
13 1 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.52%) CISSP
13 1 (0.52%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.66%) Accessibility
2 13 (6.81%) QA
3 7 (3.66%) PMO
4 3 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 2 (1.05%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.05%) NIST
5 2 (1.05%) WCAG
6 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.52%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.52%) GDPR
6 1 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (4.19%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (3.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.57%) Terraform
3 2 (1.05%) Ansible
4 1 (0.52%) Grafana
Vendors
1 28 (14.66%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.52%) SAP
3 11 (5.76%) Workday
4 7 (3.66%) Oracle
5 4 (2.09%) DevExpress
5 4 (2.09%) NEC
6 3 (1.57%) Adobe
7 2 (1.05%) Databricks
7 2 (1.05%) OutSystems
7 2 (1.05%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.52%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.52%) Dell
8 1 (0.52%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.52%) EMC
8 1 (0.52%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.52%) Foundry
8 1 (0.52%) Google
8 1 (0.52%) Netezza
8 1 (0.52%) Splunk