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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 8,688 15,775 25,280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.96% 17.84% 29.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.10% 21.18% 30.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,362 10,480 13,894
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £106,250
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 45,477 74,482 83,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.01% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 22,533 54,432 49,691
10th Percentile £29,625 £29,000 £34,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,695 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 2,924 £85,000 +6.25% 4,242
North of England -4 2,106 £57,530 -0.75% 4,616
North West -3 1,643 £57,560 -4.07% 2,239
South East -2 1,407 £60,000 - 5,698
Midlands -4 943 £55,000 - 3,764
West Midlands -1 611 £57,875 +0.65% 2,055
South West -2 531 £57,443 -0.10% 2,460
East of England -3 406 £50,292 -12.54% 2,845
Yorkshire -7 388 £58,000 +0.46% 1,802
East Midlands -7 329 £47,683 -9.18% 1,475
North East -14 75 £52,500 -4.55% 593
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
1 553 (6.37%) Confluence
2 253 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
3 190 (2.19%) Apache
4 135 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 106 (1.22%) CMS
6 81 (0.93%) SharePoint
7 61 (0.70%) Oracle Application Server
8 35 (0.40%) IIS
9 33 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
10 29 (0.33%) WordPress
11 17 (0.20%) Drupal
12 15 (0.17%) Headless CMS
13 13 (0.15%) JBoss
13 13 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
13 13 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 11 (0.13%) nginx
14 11 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 10 (0.12%) Appian
15 10 (0.12%) OpenStack
16 7 (0.081%) SAS
Applications
1 271 (3.12%) Simulink
2 255 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
3 95 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
4 71 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
5 55 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 52 (0.60%) MS Visio
7 45 (0.52%) Trello
8 25 (0.29%) Chatbot
9 21 (0.24%) Adobe XD
10 19 (0.22%) Maya
11 14 (0.16%) Sketch
12 7 (0.081%) InVision
12 7 (0.081%) Mozilla Thunderbird
13 5 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 3 (0.035%) Productboard
14 3 (0.035%) UserZoom
15 2 (0.023%) Adobe Premiere
15 2 (0.023%) AutoCAD
15 2 (0.023%) EngageOne
15 2 (0.023%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 91 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 69 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 65 (0.75%) Teamcenter
4 62 (0.71%) Aladdin
5 39 (0.45%) thinkFolio
6 24 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 24 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
7 23 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
7 23 (0.26%) NetSuite
8 19 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
9 13 (0.15%) Shopify
10 10 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
10 10 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
11 9 (0.10%) SAP IBP
12 7 (0.081%) Orchestrade
13 6 (0.069%) Adobe Campaign
13 6 (0.069%) Elite 3E
14 5 (0.058%) PeopleSoft Financials
15 4 (0.046%) Magento
15 4 (0.046%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 2,266 (26.08%) AWS
2 2,164 (24.91%) Azure
3 1,011 (11.64%) GCP
4 602 (6.93%) Serverless
5 469 (5.40%) AWS Lambda
6 395 (4.55%) Power Platform
7 385 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
8 374 (4.30%) SaaS
9 242 (2.79%) dbt
10 220 (2.53%) Pulumi
11 214 (2.46%) GitHub
12 206 (2.37%) Amazon S3
13 185 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
14 142 (1.63%) Amazon ECS
15 138 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
16 134 (1.54%) Snowflake
17 133 (1.53%) Amazon EKS
18 132 (1.52%) PaaS
19 108 (1.24%) Amazon EC2
20 102 (1.17%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 798 (9.19%) Broadband
2 450 (5.18%) DNS
3 432 (4.97%) VPN
4 83 (0.96%) Firewall
5 49 (0.56%) WAN
6 44 (0.51%) HTTP
7 33 (0.38%) TCP/IP
8 32 (0.37%) SD-WAN
9 28 (0.32%) Wireless
10 25 (0.29%) Network Security
11 24 (0.28%) SSL
12 23 (0.26%) DHCP
13 19 (0.22%) Internet
14 18 (0.21%) SAN
15 17 (0.20%) LAN
15 17 (0.20%) Software-Defined Radio
16 12 (0.14%) 5G
16 12 (0.14%) Multicast
16 12 (0.14%) VLAN
16 12 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 582 (6.70%) SQL Server
2 448 (5.16%) NoSQL
3 417 (4.80%) Relational Database
4 321 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
5 285 (3.28%) Data Lake
6 262 (3.02%) Power BI
7 251 (2.89%) RDBMS
8 243 (2.80%) Amazon Athena
9 230 (2.65%) Apache Iceberg
10 228 (2.62%) Dremio
11 218 (2.51%) MySQL
12 215 (2.47%) Apache Arrow
13 189 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
14 179 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
15 172 (1.98%) MongoDB
16 141 (1.62%) DynamoDB
17 131 (1.51%) Apache Ignite
18 80 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
19 69 (0.79%) Metadata
20 67 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1,231 (14.17%) JIRA
2 493 (5.67%) Git
3 315 (3.63%) Selenium
4 305 (3.51%) GitLab
5 275 (3.17%) Bitbucket
6 261 (3.00%) SonarQube
7 256 (2.95%) Maven
8 254 (2.92%) Jenkins
9 242 (2.79%) Cucumber
10 232 (2.67%) Sonatype Nexus
11 215 (2.47%) Jaeger
12 126 (1.45%) Rational DOORS
13 103 (1.19%) JUnit
14 69 (0.79%) Artifactory
15 57 (0.66%) Cypress.io
15 57 (0.66%) Visual Studio
16 55 (0.63%) Postman
17 52 (0.60%) JMeter
18 51 (0.59%) Mockito
19 47 (0.54%) TeamCity
General
1 2,871 (33.05%) Finance
2 2,022 (23.27%) Social Skills
3 1,549 (17.83%) Analytical Skills
4 1,546 (17.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 852 (9.81%) Banking
6 563 (6.48%) Presentation Skills
7 518 (5.96%) Law
8 492 (5.66%) Front Office
9 402 (4.63%) Retail
10 350 (4.03%) Marketing
11 305 (3.51%) Public Sector
12 274 (3.15%) Aerospace
13 255 (2.94%) Automotive
14 238 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
15 232 (2.67%) Investment Banking
16 231 (2.66%) Legal
17 221 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
18 179 (2.06%) Manufacturing
19 107 (1.23%) Financial Institution
20 106 (1.22%) Games
Job Titles
1 2,014 (23.18%) Senior
2 1,648 (18.97%) Developer
3 1,329 (15.30%) Software Engineer
4 1,032 (11.88%) Lead
5 703 (8.09%) Systems Engineer
6 672 (7.73%) Analyst
7 612 (7.04%) Software Developer
8 561 (6.46%) Architect
9 508 (5.85%) Senior Software Engineer
10 343 (3.95%) Team Leader
11 331 (3.81%) Senior Developer
12 275 (3.17%) Principal Engineer
13 270 (3.11%) Business Analyst
14 267 (3.07%) AWS Engineer
15 259 (2.98%) Project Manager
16 247 (2.84%) Python Engineer
17 239 (2.75%) Embedded Engineer
18 231 (2.66%) Java Engineer
19 222 (2.56%) Release Engineer
20 218 (2.51%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 977 (11.25%) React
2 898 (10.34%) .NET
3 539 (6.20%) Node.js
4 531 (6.11%) CSS
5 517 (5.95%) HTML
6 470 (5.41%) Kafka
7 429 (4.94%) REST
8 423 (4.87%) Spring
9 391 (4.50%) AngularJS
10 390 (4.49%) Spring Boot
11 388 (4.47%) Middleware
12 369 (4.25%) RESTful
13 288 (3.31%) Redux
14 243 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
15 234 (2.69%) JPA
16 222 (2.56%) OpenTelemetry
17 215 (2.47%) .NET Core
18 214 (2.46%) Pandas
19 190 (2.19%) Vue
20 181 (2.08%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 885 (10.19%) Product Ownership
2 643 (7.40%) Cyberattack
3 584 (6.72%) Self-Motivation
4 372 (4.28%) Fixed Income
5 299 (3.44%) Enterprise Software
6 281 (3.23%) Management Information System
7 280 (3.22%) Derivative
8 274 (3.15%) Equities
9 263 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 262 (3.02%) Hedge funds
11 241 (2.77%) Cloud Native
12 234 (2.69%) Embedded Systems
13 184 (2.12%) Linux Command Line
14 165 (1.90%) Mobile App
15 156 (1.80%) Algorithms
16 132 (1.52%) Onboarding
17 131 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
18 103 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
19 100 (1.15%) Virtual Team
20 86 (0.99%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1,143 (13.16%) Linux
2 535 (6.16%) Android
3 253 (2.91%) Unix
4 228 (2.62%) Windows
5 98 (1.13%) Apple iOS
6 42 (0.48%) Windows Server
7 17 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
8 13 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.15%) zOS
9 10 (0.12%) Ubuntu
10 9 (0.10%) VMS
10 9 (0.10%) Windows 10
11 8 (0.092%) Windows Vista
12 4 (0.046%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.035%) Debian
13 3 (0.035%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.023%) CentOS
14 2 (0.023%) FreeRTOS
14 2 (0.023%) Solaris
15 1 (0.012%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,056 (23.66%) Software Engineering
2 1,903 (21.90%) CI/CD
3 1,890 (21.75%) DevOps
4 1,793 (20.64%) Mentoring
5 1,460 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
6 1,424 (16.39%) Roadmaps
7 1,073 (12.35%) Scrum
8 1,047 (12.05%) Microservices
9 918 (10.57%) Artificial Intelligence
10 904 (10.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 881 (10.14%) Containerisation
12 842 (9.69%) Test Automation
13 825 (9.50%) SDLC
14 822 (9.46%) Systems Engineering
15 819 (9.43%) Stakeholder Management
16 793 (9.13%) Project Management
17 772 (8.89%) Analytics
18 740 (8.52%) User Experience
19 717 (8.25%) Coaching
20 704 (8.10%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2,246 (25.85%) Python
2 2,072 (23.85%) Java
3 1,646 (18.95%) JavaScript
4 1,239 (14.26%) SQL
5 965 (11.11%) Go
6 936 (10.77%) TypeScript
7 780 (8.98%) C++
8 744 (8.56%) C#
9 638 (7.34%) MATLAB
10 293 (3.37%) Rust
11 274 (3.15%) Bash
12 176 (2.03%) PowerShell
13 125 (1.44%) PHP
14 102 (1.17%) C
15 97 (1.12%) Ada
16 58 (0.67%) R
17 43 (0.49%) Apex Code
18 40 (0.46%) Shell Script
19 37 (0.43%) Kotlin
20 35 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2,007 (23.10%) Degree
2 1,211 (13.94%) BPSS Clearance
3 1,054 (12.13%) Security Cleared
4 747 (8.60%) DV Cleared
5 551 (6.34%) AWS Certification
6 306 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 291 (3.35%) SC Cleared
8 253 (2.91%) PhD
9 204 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 201 (2.31%) Chartered Engineer
11 181 (2.08%) AWS Certified Developer
12 159 (1.83%) PMP
13 158 (1.82%) PMI Certification
14 153 (1.76%) Master's Degree
15 148 (1.70%) Azure Certification
16 137 (1.58%) DBS Check
17 99 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
18 96 (1.10%) CISSP
19 76 (0.87%) ISTQB
20 70 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 609 (7.01%) QA
2 274 (3.15%) Accessibility
3 152 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 134 (1.54%) Data Quality
5 127 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 102 (1.17%) GDPR
7 81 (0.93%) PMO
8 63 (0.73%) ITGC
9 61 (0.70%) NIST
10 53 (0.61%) SLA
11 44 (0.51%) MiFID
12 38 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 36 (0.41%) SOC 2
14 32 (0.37%) PCI DSS
15 31 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
16 30 (0.35%) NCSC
17 29 (0.33%) WCAG
18 24 (0.28%) HIPAA
19 21 (0.24%) PMBOK
20 17 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1,459 (16.79%) Docker
2 94 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 57 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
4 38 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 28 (0.32%) Firmware
6 23 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
7 20 (0.23%) Hyper-V
8 16 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.081%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.069%) Apache Flume
11 5 (0.058%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.058%) vSphere
12 4 (0.046%) Postfix
13 2 (0.023%) KVM
13 2 (0.023%) Squid
13 2 (0.023%) Xen
14 1 (0.012%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.012%) HDFS
14 1 (0.012%) NFS
14 1 (0.012%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1,016 (11.69%) Kubernetes
2 792 (9.12%) Ansible
3 603 (6.94%) Terraform
4 277 (3.19%) Prometheus
5 230 (2.65%) Argo
6 218 (2.51%) Kustomize
7 53 (0.61%) Grafana
8 45 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
9 43 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
10 32 (0.37%) Progress Chef
11 28 (0.32%) Kibana
12 22 (0.25%) Puppet
13 17 (0.20%) SCCM
14 16 (0.18%) WMI
15 10 (0.12%) Nessus
16 9 (0.10%) CASB
17 7 (0.081%) Proxmox
18 6 (0.069%) Failover Clustering
18 6 (0.069%) HP ALM
18 6 (0.069%) Oozie
Vendors
1 1,010 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 453 (5.21%) Google
3 295 (3.40%) Oracle
4 253 (2.91%) Salesforce
5 236 (2.72%) SAP
6 201 (2.31%) Solace
7 171 (1.97%) Databricks
8 153 (1.76%) Siemens
9 133 (1.53%) IBM
10 114 (1.31%) ServiceNow
11 102 (1.17%) Atlassian
12 80 (0.92%) Red Hat
12 80 (0.92%) VMware
13 70 (0.81%) Sparx
14 59 (0.68%) BISAM
15 55 (0.63%) Adobe
16 50 (0.58%) MathWorks
17 49 (0.56%) Alteryx
18 46 (0.53%) Charles River
19 44 (0.51%) Workday