Agile Job Trends in England

Agile Software Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Agile skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 5 3
Rank change year-on-year -9 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 5,933 6,793 14,812
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.29% 17.35% 17.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.88% 18.57% 20.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,879 3,845 10,495
10th Percentile £42,750 £43,600 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £122,500 £103,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -3.85%

All Process & 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 60,033 36,575 71,612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.81% 93.39% 85.14%
Number of salaries quoted 39,422 20,210 53,694
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.97%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Agile job vacancy trend in England

Agile
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Agile.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Agile

Agile
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

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 16 May 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
London -4 2,227 £80,000 -5.88% 895
North of England -14 1,190 £62,500 -3.47% 508
South East -7 950 £62,500 -3.85% 525
Midlands -24 636 £57,946 +0.34% 259
North West -26 579 £64,038 -1.48% 258
Yorkshire -5 474 £62,500 -3.85% 159
South West -16 404 £57,500 -4.17% 237
West Midlands -23 396 £60,000 +0.42% 164
East of England +15 352 £59,450 +0.76% 158
East Midlands 0 238 £55,000 - 95
North East -4 137 £55,000 - 95
Agile
UK

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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
1 253 (4.26%) Confluence
2 114 (1.92%) SharePoint
3 81 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
4 77 (1.30%) CMS
5 72 (1.21%) Apache
6 67 (1.13%) Apache Spark
7 27 (0.46%) SAS
8 23 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 20 (0.34%) IIS
10 19 (0.32%) WordPress
11 17 (0.29%) OpenStack
12 13 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
13 7 (0.12%) JBoss
13 7 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 7 (0.12%) nginx
13 7 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
14 6 (0.10%) Drupal
14 6 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 5 (0.084%) CICS
15 5 (0.084%) Umbraco
Applications
1 120 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
2 94 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 85 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
4 48 (0.81%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 40 (0.67%) MS Visio
6 31 (0.52%) Adobe XD
7 30 (0.51%) UserZoom
8 27 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 23 (0.39%) Simulink
10 21 (0.35%) Sketch
11 17 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
12 14 (0.24%) CATIA
13 13 (0.22%) Chatbot
14 11 (0.19%) InVision
15 9 (0.15%) Maya
16 7 (0.12%) Trello
17 5 (0.084%) Photoshop
18 4 (0.067%) Adobe Illustrator
19 3 (0.051%) AutoCAD
19 3 (0.051%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 44 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 43 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 31 (0.52%) Workfront
4 15 (0.25%) SAP ERP
5 10 (0.17%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.13%) Shopify
7 7 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.10%) Fidessa
8 6 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.084%) Oracle Payables
9 5 (0.084%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.084%) Visualfiles
10 4 (0.067%) Dynamics NAV
10 4 (0.067%) Payment Gateway
11 3 (0.051%) Misys Equation
11 3 (0.051%) Misys Midas
11 3 (0.051%) Oracle General Ledger
11 3 (0.051%) SAP QM
12 2 (0.034%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 1,566 (26.39%) Azure
2 1,259 (21.22%) AWS
3 411 (6.93%) GCP
4 375 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
5 322 (5.43%) Power Platform
6 319 (5.38%) SaaS
7 290 (4.89%) Serverless
8 259 (4.37%) GitHub
9 184 (3.10%) Adobe Analytics
10 175 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
11 171 (2.88%) Amazon S3
12 157 (2.65%) Figma
13 153 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
14 135 (2.28%) AWS CloudFormation
15 100 (1.69%) Snowflake
16 94 (1.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 93 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
18 90 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
19 89 (1.50%) Azure AI
20 88 (1.48%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 364 (6.14%) Broadband
2 66 (1.11%) DNS
3 44 (0.74%) Firewall
4 29 (0.49%) Network Security
5 28 (0.47%) TCP/IP
6 27 (0.46%) WAN
7 26 (0.44%) Wireless
8 25 (0.42%) CHAP
9 23 (0.39%) LAN
10 22 (0.37%) VPN
11 21 (0.35%) Multicast
12 18 (0.30%) Software-Defined Networking
13 17 (0.29%) DHCP
14 16 (0.27%) HTTP
15 13 (0.22%) 4G
15 13 (0.22%) BGP
15 13 (0.22%) SD-WAN
16 12 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
16 12 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
16 12 (0.20%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 293 (4.94%) SQL Server
2 220 (3.71%) NoSQL
3 216 (3.64%) MongoDB
4 213 (3.59%) Power BI
5 194 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
6 137 (2.31%) Metadata
7 130 (2.19%) MySQL
8 128 (2.16%) Relational Database
9 124 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
10 103 (1.74%) DynamoDB
11 94 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
12 86 (1.45%) Data Lake
13 73 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
14 66 (1.11%) Tableau
15 54 (0.91%) RDBMS
16 53 (0.89%) Big Data
17 46 (0.78%) BigQuery
17 46 (0.78%) Oracle Database
18 31 (0.52%) Spark SQL
19 29 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 520 (8.76%) JIRA
2 475 (8.01%) Git
3 245 (4.13%) Jenkins
4 231 (3.89%) GitLab
5 98 (1.65%) Selenium
6 97 (1.63%) Cypress.io
7 67 (1.13%) Postman
8 63 (1.06%) Maven
9 61 (1.03%) Cucumber
10 56 (0.94%) SonarQube
11 46 (0.78%) JUnit
12 41 (0.69%) Rational DOORS
13 39 (0.66%) JMeter
14 37 (0.62%) Bitbucket
14 37 (0.62%) TeamCity
15 29 (0.49%) SoapUI
15 29 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
16 28 (0.47%) WebDriver
17 25 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
17 25 (0.42%) Mockito
General
1 1,690 (28.48%) Social Skills
2 1,662 (28.01%) Finance
3 731 (12.32%) Analytical Skills
4 552 (9.30%) Public Sector
5 405 (6.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 373 (6.29%) Banking
7 326 (5.49%) Law
8 294 (4.96%) Games
9 276 (4.65%) Marketing
10 232 (3.91%) Retail
11 185 (3.12%) Legal
12 173 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
13 112 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
14 109 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
15 101 (1.70%) Financial Institution
16 95 (1.60%) Aerospace
17 90 (1.52%) Manufacturing
18 82 (1.38%) Front Office
19 80 (1.35%) Telecoms
20 65 (1.10%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,264 (21.30%) Senior
2 1,037 (17.48%) Developer
3 817 (13.77%) Lead
4 630 (10.62%) Analyst
5 453 (7.64%) Software Engineer
6 420 (7.08%) Business Analyst
7 380 (6.40%) Architect
8 326 (5.49%) Project Manager
9 272 (4.58%) Senior Manager
10 231 (3.89%) Senior Developer
11 182 (3.07%) Data Engineer
12 172 (2.90%) .NET Developer
12 172 (2.90%) Software Developer
13 168 (2.83%) Delivery Manager
14 163 (2.75%) Consultant
15 151 (2.55%) Java Developer
16 145 (2.44%) Product Owner
17 143 (2.41%) Designer
17 143 (2.41%) Product Manager
18 141 (2.38%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 576 (9.71%) .NET
2 557 (9.39%) React
3 309 (5.21%) Node.js
4 286 (4.82%) HTML
5 276 (4.65%) REST
6 275 (4.64%) CSS
7 246 (4.15%) RESTful
8 234 (3.94%) AngularJS
9 204 (3.44%) ASP.NET
10 198 (3.34%) .NET Core
11 196 (3.30%) Spring Boot
12 190 (3.20%) Spring
13 162 (2.73%) Kafka
14 150 (2.53%) ASP.NET Core
15 133 (2.24%) Vue
16 118 (1.99%) SOAP
17 109 (1.84%) .NET Framework
18 97 (1.63%) Middleware
19 81 (1.37%) Blazor
19 81 (1.37%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 709 (11.95%) Product Ownership
2 412 (6.94%) Cloud Native
3 243 (4.10%) Social Media
4 184 (3.10%) Mobile App
5 164 (2.76%) Management Information System
6 159 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
7 156 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
8 149 (2.51%) Onboarding
9 136 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
10 105 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
11 97 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
12 86 (1.45%) Data Structures
13 80 (1.35%) Low-Code
14 79 (1.33%) Algorithms
15 78 (1.31%) Fixed Income
16 75 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
17 68 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
18 66 (1.11%) Over-the-Top Content
19 65 (1.10%) Virtual Team
20 62 (1.05%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 288 (4.85%) Linux
2 168 (2.83%) Windows
3 102 (1.72%) Android
4 66 (1.11%) Windows Server
5 62 (1.05%) Apple iOS
6 50 (0.84%) Unix
7 25 (0.42%) CentOS
8 24 (0.40%) Ubuntu
9 18 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
11 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (0.13%) Debian
13 7 (0.12%) VMS
14 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.067%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.051%) AIX
16 3 (0.051%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.051%) Windows 10
16 3 (0.051%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,299 (21.89%) CI/CD
2 1,229 (20.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,224 (20.63%) DevOps
4 1,102 (18.57%) Mentoring
5 1,033 (17.41%) Roadmaps
6 1,019 (17.18%) Scrum
7 1,001 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
8 978 (16.48%) AI
9 792 (13.35%) Software Engineering
10 790 (13.32%) Analytics
11 761 (12.83%) Coaching
12 720 (12.14%) Stakeholder Management
13 642 (10.82%) Decision-Making
14 604 (10.18%) Project Management
15 596 (10.05%) Test Automation
16 559 (9.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 548 (9.24%) Microservices
18 521 (8.78%) Full-Stack Development
19 453 (7.64%) User Experience
20 446 (7.52%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 964 (16.25%) SQL
2 948 (15.98%) Python
3 791 (13.33%) Java
4 697 (11.75%) JavaScript
5 650 (10.96%) C#
6 436 (7.35%) TypeScript
7 183 (3.08%) Bash
8 152 (2.56%) C++
9 133 (2.24%) PowerShell
10 126 (2.12%) PHP
11 102 (1.72%) Go
12 62 (1.05%) C
13 58 (0.98%) Groovy
14 54 (0.91%) Scala
15 52 (0.88%) Apex Code
15 52 (0.88%) Kotlin
16 40 (0.67%) VBA
17 31 (0.52%) MATLAB
17 31 (0.52%) PL/SQL
17 31 (0.52%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 908 (15.30%) Degree
2 687 (11.58%) Security Cleared
3 417 (7.03%) SC Cleared
4 223 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 200 (3.37%) PMI Certification
6 182 (3.07%) PMP
7 177 (2.98%) DV Cleared
8 147 (2.48%) AWS Certification
9 128 (2.16%) Master's Degree
10 94 (1.58%) Azure Certification
11 89 (1.50%) CISSP
12 87 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
13 83 (1.40%) ISTQB
14 74 (1.25%) DBS Check
15 60 (1.01%) CISM
16 40 (0.67%) CISA
16 40 (0.67%) OSCP
17 36 (0.61%) SANS
18 34 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 34 (0.57%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 456 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 438 (7.38%) QA
3 216 (3.64%) Data Quality
4 114 (1.92%) WCAG
5 110 (1.85%) GDPR
6 98 (1.65%) NIST
7 94 (1.58%) PMO
8 84 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 31 (0.52%) COBIT
10 30 (0.51%) GRC
11 26 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 24 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
12 24 (0.40%) PCI DSS
12 24 (0.40%) SLA
13 21 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
14 20 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 19 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 15288
16 18 (0.30%) HIPAA
17 16 (0.27%) NCSC
18 14 (0.24%) GxP
System Software
1 502 (8.46%) Docker
2 93 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 66 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
4 37 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.25%) vSphere
6 12 (0.20%) Hyper-V
6 12 (0.20%) IAG
7 9 (0.15%) Firmware
8 8 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.13%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.10%) Squid
10 5 (0.084%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.067%) KVM
12 3 (0.051%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.051%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.017%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.017%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.017%) Xen
Systems Management
1 532 (8.97%) Kubernetes
2 444 (7.48%) Terraform
3 198 (3.34%) Ansible
4 96 (1.62%) Grafana
5 67 (1.13%) Prometheus
6 58 (0.98%) Argo
7 41 (0.69%) HP Fortify
8 28 (0.47%) Kibana
9 27 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
10 22 (0.37%) Kustomize
11 19 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
12 18 (0.30%) Puppet
12 18 (0.30%) SCCM
13 17 (0.29%) Podman
14 15 (0.25%) Nessus
15 12 (0.20%) Packer
16 11 (0.19%) Nagios
17 10 (0.17%) logstash
17 10 (0.17%) Progress Chef
17 10 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 848 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 278 (4.69%) Adobe
3 213 (3.59%) Google
4 185 (3.12%) Databricks
5 184 (3.10%) Oracle
6 166 (2.80%) Salesforce
7 151 (2.55%) SAP
8 127 (2.14%) ServiceNow
9 61 (1.03%) Red Hat
10 55 (0.93%) IBM
11 52 (0.88%) Splunk
12 50 (0.84%) VMware
13 34 (0.57%) Atlassian
14 31 (0.52%) Siemens
14 31 (0.52%) Workday
15 30 (0.51%) Cisco
16 23 (0.39%) Dynatrace
17 22 (0.37%) Guidewire
18 20 (0.34%) Informatica
18 20 (0.34%) Pega