Agile Jobs in England

Agile Software Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Agile over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 9,147 16,197 21,666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.77% 17.23% 27.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.43% 20.87% 28.84%
Number of salaries quoted 4,421 10,268 13,036
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,042 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,000 £48,350 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -5.30% +1.54%
75th Percentile £88,750 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 47,068 77,593 75,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 91.44% 82.52% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 24,489 54,995 47,414
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £45,164
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,331
% change year-on-year - -8.84% +0.55%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in England

Agile
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Agile in England.

Salary trend for Agile in England

Agile
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Agile in England

Agile
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the England region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
London 0 3,250 £85,000 +3.03% 10,315
North of England -4 2,030 £57,560 -0.70% 3,145
North West -3 1,565 £57,560 -4.07% 1,840
South East -3 1,521 £65,000 +8.33% 3,253
Midlands 0 1,016 £57,468 +4.49% 1,693
West Midlands +3 666 £60,000 +4.35% 1,027
South West 0 565 £58,000 +0.87% 1,536
East of England -6 401 £53,000 -3.94% 1,290
Yorkshire -13 374 £60,000 +4.35% 1,090
East Midlands -4 347 £47,683 -9.18% 664
North East -8 91 £45,000 -18.18% 220
Agile
UK

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 563 (6.16%) Confluence
2 268 (2.93%) Apache Airflow
3 186 (2.03%) Apache
4 121 (1.32%) CMS
5 117 (1.28%) Apache Spark
6 88 (0.96%) SharePoint
7 61 (0.67%) Oracle Application Server
8 45 (0.49%) IIS
9 37 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
10 29 (0.32%) WordPress
11 25 (0.27%) Appian
12 17 (0.19%) Headless CMS
13 14 (0.15%) Drupal
14 13 (0.14%) JBoss
15 12 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
15 12 (0.13%) Tomcat
16 9 (0.098%) Exchange Server 2013
16 9 (0.098%) OpenStack
16 9 (0.098%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 8 (0.087%) nginx
Applications
1 274 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
2 240 (2.62%) Simulink
3 121 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 69 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
5 62 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 59 (0.65%) MS Visio
7 43 (0.47%) Trello
8 29 (0.32%) Adobe XD
9 23 (0.25%) Chatbot
10 18 (0.20%) Maya
11 16 (0.17%) Sketch
12 7 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 7 (0.077%) InVision
12 7 (0.077%) Mozilla Thunderbird
13 4 (0.044%) Adobe Illustrator
13 4 (0.044%) Photoshop
13 4 (0.044%) Spreadsheet
14 3 (0.033%) AutoCAD
14 3 (0.033%) MadCap Flare
14 3 (0.033%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 104 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 72 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 65 (0.71%) Teamcenter
4 54 (0.59%) Aladdin
5 39 (0.43%) thinkFolio
6 38 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
7 30 (0.33%) NetSuite
8 20 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
9 19 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
10 18 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
10 18 (0.20%) Shopify
11 12 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
12 11 (0.12%) SAP IBP
13 9 (0.098%) Oracle ERP
13 9 (0.098%) PeopleSoft Financials
14 8 (0.087%) Elite 3E
14 8 (0.087%) Magento
15 7 (0.077%) Adobe Campaign
15 7 (0.077%) Orchestrade
16 5 (0.055%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 2,475 (27.06%) AWS
2 2,363 (25.83%) Azure
3 1,105 (12.08%) GCP
4 609 (6.66%) Serverless
5 459 (5.02%) AWS Lambda
6 414 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
7 409 (4.47%) SaaS
8 398 (4.35%) Power Platform
9 251 (2.74%) dbt
10 227 (2.48%) GitHub
11 220 (2.41%) Pulumi
12 211 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
13 199 (2.18%) Amazon S3
14 163 (1.78%) PaaS
15 154 (1.68%) Snowflake
16 148 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
17 146 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
18 137 (1.50%) Amazon ECS
19 115 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
20 108 (1.18%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 798 (8.72%) Broadband
2 456 (4.99%) DNS
3 433 (4.73%) VPN
4 91 (0.99%) Firewall
5 56 (0.61%) WAN
6 44 (0.48%) HTTP
7 37 (0.40%) TCP/IP
8 33 (0.36%) SD-WAN
8 33 (0.36%) Wireless
9 28 (0.31%) SAN
10 27 (0.30%) Network Security
11 26 (0.28%) LAN
12 25 (0.27%) SSL
13 23 (0.25%) Software-Defined Radio
14 22 (0.24%) Internet
15 21 (0.23%) DHCP
16 16 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
17 15 (0.16%) VLAN
18 13 (0.14%) Multicast
19 12 (0.13%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 576 (6.30%) SQL Server
2 466 (5.09%) NoSQL
3 436 (4.77%) Relational Database
4 358 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
5 275 (3.01%) Data Lake
6 263 (2.88%) Power BI
7 261 (2.85%) RDBMS
8 251 (2.74%) Amazon Athena
9 243 (2.66%) Apache Iceberg
10 242 (2.65%) MySQL
11 235 (2.57%) Dremio
12 227 (2.48%) Apache Arrow
13 206 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
14 196 (2.14%) MongoDB
15 187 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
16 160 (1.75%) DynamoDB
17 121 (1.32%) Apache Ignite
18 78 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
19 76 (0.83%) Tableau
20 72 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1,254 (13.71%) JIRA
2 520 (5.68%) Git
3 317 (3.47%) GitLab
4 309 (3.38%) Selenium
5 257 (2.81%) Jenkins
5 257 (2.81%) Maven
5 257 (2.81%) SonarQube
6 254 (2.78%) Bitbucket
7 245 (2.68%) Cucumber
8 231 (2.53%) Sonatype Nexus
9 215 (2.35%) Jaeger
10 115 (1.26%) Rational DOORS
11 108 (1.18%) JUnit
12 60 (0.66%) Cypress.io
13 56 (0.61%) JMeter
14 55 (0.60%) Mockito
15 53 (0.58%) Postman
16 52 (0.57%) Artifactory
17 48 (0.52%) Visual Studio
18 45 (0.49%) TeamCity
General
1 3,284 (35.90%) Finance
2 2,215 (24.22%) Social Skills
3 1,763 (19.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,672 (18.28%) Analytical Skills
5 1,011 (11.05%) Banking
6 806 (8.81%) Law
7 520 (5.68%) Presentation Skills
8 496 (5.42%) Front Office
9 448 (4.90%) Retail
10 434 (4.74%) Marketing
11 357 (3.90%) Public Sector
12 277 (3.03%) Investment Banking
13 269 (2.94%) Legal
14 254 (2.78%) Aerospace
15 253 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
16 244 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
17 224 (2.45%) Automotive
18 173 (1.89%) Manufacturing
19 125 (1.37%) Financial Institution
20 96 (1.05%) Games
Job Titles
1 2,120 (23.18%) Senior
2 1,759 (19.23%) Developer
3 1,511 (16.52%) Software Engineer
4 1,203 (13.15%) Lead
5 661 (7.23%) Architect
6 655 (7.16%) Analyst
7 643 (7.03%) Systems Engineer
8 591 (6.46%) Software Developer
9 526 (5.75%) Senior Software Engineer
10 361 (3.95%) Senior Developer
11 340 (3.72%) Team Leader
12 309 (3.38%) Java Engineer
13 299 (3.27%) Python Engineer
14 282 (3.08%) AWS Engineer
15 281 (3.07%) Business Analyst
16 259 (2.83%) Project Manager
17 257 (2.81%) Principal Engineer
18 246 (2.69%) Embedded Engineer
19 243 (2.66%) Java Software Engineer
20 234 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,072 (11.72%) React
2 937 (10.24%) .NET
3 579 (6.33%) CSS
4 576 (6.30%) Node.js
5 562 (6.14%) HTML
6 515 (5.63%) Kafka
7 484 (5.29%) Spring
8 462 (5.05%) REST
9 448 (4.90%) Middleware
10 436 (4.77%) Spring Boot
11 424 (4.64%) AngularJS
12 403 (4.41%) RESTful
13 299 (3.27%) Redux
14 235 (2.57%) Elastic Stack
15 234 (2.56%) Pandas
16 232 (2.54%) Vue
17 231 (2.53%) JPA
18 230 (2.51%) OpenTelemetry
19 223 (2.44%) .NET Core
20 189 (2.07%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 929 (10.16%) Product Ownership
2 643 (7.03%) Cyberattack
3 601 (6.57%) Self-Motivation
4 371 (4.06%) Fixed Income
5 362 (3.96%) Cloud Native
6 308 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
7 287 (3.14%) Equities
8 277 (3.03%) Derivative
8 277 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 267 (2.92%) Management Information System
10 245 (2.68%) Embedded Systems
11 232 (2.54%) Hedge funds
12 183 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
13 178 (1.95%) Mobile App
14 173 (1.89%) Algorithms
15 165 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
16 143 (1.56%) Onboarding
17 127 (1.39%) Public Cloud
18 115 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
19 109 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1,150 (12.57%) Linux
2 539 (5.89%) Android
3 269 (2.94%) Unix
4 243 (2.66%) Windows
5 100 (1.09%) Apple iOS
6 58 (0.63%) Windows Server
7 25 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
8 16 (0.17%) zOS
9 13 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 13 (0.14%) VMS
10 10 (0.11%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.11%) Windows 10
10 10 (0.11%) Windows Vista
11 6 (0.066%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.055%) AIX
12 5 (0.055%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.033%) Debian
14 2 (0.022%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.022%) CentOS
14 2 (0.022%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,208 (24.14%) Software Engineering
2 2,089 (22.84%) CI/CD
3 2,035 (22.25%) DevOps
4 1,953 (21.35%) Mentoring
5 1,617 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
6 1,442 (15.76%) Roadmaps
7 1,162 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,117 (12.21%) Scrum
9 1,097 (11.99%) Microservices
9 1,097 (11.99%) SDLC
10 983 (10.75%) Artificial Intelligence
11 905 (9.89%) Test Automation
12 896 (9.80%) Containerisation
13 885 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
14 814 (8.90%) Project Management
15 801 (8.76%) Coaching
16 798 (8.72%) Machine Learning
17 796 (8.70%) User Experience
18 792 (8.66%) Analytics
19 779 (8.52%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2,380 (26.02%) Python
2 2,213 (24.19%) Java
3 1,734 (18.96%) JavaScript
4 1,346 (14.72%) SQL
5 1,049 (11.47%) TypeScript
6 991 (10.83%) Go
7 822 (8.99%) C++
8 753 (8.23%) C#
9 539 (5.89%) MATLAB
10 298 (3.26%) Rust
11 283 (3.09%) Bash
12 197 (2.15%) PowerShell
13 141 (1.54%) PHP
14 105 (1.15%) C
15 75 (0.82%) Ada
16 65 (0.71%) R
17 58 (0.63%) Shell Script
18 57 (0.62%) Kotlin
19 54 (0.59%) Ada 95
20 49 (0.54%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1,971 (21.55%) Degree
2 1,171 (12.80%) BPSS Clearance
3 1,141 (12.47%) Security Cleared
4 779 (8.52%) DV Cleared
5 592 (6.47%) AWS Certification
6 383 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 348 (3.80%) SC Cleared
8 246 (2.69%) PhD
9 224 (2.45%) Chartered Engineer
10 215 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 185 (2.02%) AWS Certified Developer
12 175 (1.91%) PMI Certification
13 166 (1.81%) Azure Certification
14 157 (1.72%) Master's Degree
15 150 (1.64%) PMP
16 146 (1.60%) DBS Check
17 98 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
18 92 (1.01%) CISSP
19 80 (0.87%) ISTQB
20 70 (0.77%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 634 (6.93%) QA
2 289 (3.16%) Accessibility
3 184 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 140 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 132 (1.44%) Data Quality
6 121 (1.32%) GDPR
7 95 (1.04%) PMO
8 68 (0.74%) NIST
9 57 (0.62%) SLA
10 51 (0.56%) ITGC
11 43 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 40 (0.44%) SOC 2
13 38 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
14 35 (0.38%) MiFID
14 35 (0.38%) NCSC
15 33 (0.36%) WCAG
16 31 (0.34%) IFRS
17 30 (0.33%) PCI DSS
18 27 (0.30%) HIPAA
19 24 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1,465 (16.02%) Docker
2 101 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 64 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
4 52 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 40 (0.44%) Firmware
6 30 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
7 22 (0.24%) Hyper-V
8 17 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.087%) Apache Flume
9 8 (0.087%) VMware NSX
10 7 (0.077%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.055%) vSphere
12 4 (0.044%) DFS Replication
12 4 (0.044%) Postfix
12 4 (0.044%) Time Sharing Option
13 3 (0.033%) HDFS
13 3 (0.033%) Terminal Server
14 2 (0.022%) KVM
14 2 (0.022%) Squid
14 2 (0.022%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,066 (11.65%) Kubernetes
2 803 (8.78%) Ansible
3 652 (7.13%) Terraform
4 278 (3.04%) Prometheus
5 227 (2.48%) Argo
6 217 (2.37%) Kustomize
7 64 (0.70%) Grafana
8 51 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
9 49 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
10 36 (0.39%) Kibana
11 30 (0.33%) Progress Chef
12 29 (0.32%) SCCM
13 25 (0.27%) Puppet
14 24 (0.26%) WMI
15 10 (0.11%) Nessus
16 8 (0.087%) CASB
16 8 (0.087%) Mesos
16 8 (0.087%) Oozie
17 7 (0.077%) FortiGate
17 7 (0.077%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,128 (12.33%) Microsoft
2 507 (5.54%) Google
3 300 (3.28%) Oracle
4 263 (2.88%) Salesforce
5 262 (2.86%) SAP
6 202 (2.21%) Solace
7 199 (2.18%) Siemens
8 187 (2.04%) Databricks
9 137 (1.50%) IBM
10 113 (1.24%) ServiceNow
11 95 (1.04%) VMware
12 82 (0.90%) Red Hat
13 75 (0.82%) Atlassian
14 73 (0.80%) Sparx
15 69 (0.75%) Adobe
16 55 (0.60%) Workday
17 53 (0.58%) Splunk
18 51 (0.56%) BISAM
19 50 (0.55%) MathWorks
20 46 (0.50%) Charles River