Agile Jobs in England

Agile Software Development
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 3 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 11,192 35,826 35,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.76% 32.68% 31.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 25.31% 34.13% 32.77%
Number of salaries quoted 7,942 20,556 22,655
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% +6.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £61,375
% change year-on-year +3.85% +5.91% +2.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Agile is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 44,211 104,960 108,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.85% 95.74% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 32,691 65,530 73,158
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +9.09%

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 1 December 2023.

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 1 December 2023. 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 -2 4,411 £80,000 +3.23% 1,919
North of England 0 2,316 £60,000 +0.80% 764
South East -2 1,563 £60,000 - 734
South West -1 1,348 £60,249 +9.54% 366
North West 0 1,146 £60,000 +4.35% 458
Midlands -3 1,048 £55,000 - 472
Yorkshire 0 1,041 £63,000 +5.00% 228
West Midlands -4 650 £55,000 - 334
East Midlands -2 396 £55,000 - 135
East of England -4 303 £55,000 -8.33% 295
North East -1 128 £56,145 +2.08% 82
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
1 353 (3.15%) Confluence
2 221 (1.97%) SharePoint
3 182 (1.63%) Apache
4 126 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
5 112 (1.00%) Apache Spark
6 91 (0.81%) CMS
7 72 (0.64%) JBoss
8 66 (0.59%) SAS
9 63 (0.56%) Red Hat Fuse
10 57 (0.51%) IIS
11 42 (0.38%) Tomcat
12 30 (0.27%) Umbraco
13 27 (0.24%) WebSphere
13 27 (0.24%) WordPress
14 25 (0.22%) nginx
15 23 (0.21%) Drupal
16 22 (0.20%) MS Exchange
17 21 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
18 18 (0.16%) Captiva
18 18 (0.16%) OpenStack
Applications
1 222 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 222 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
2 110 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
3 90 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 86 (0.77%) MS Visio
5 29 (0.26%) Sketch
6 21 (0.19%) Adobe XD
7 19 (0.17%) Trello
8 11 (0.098%) Chatbot
9 10 (0.089%) Photoshop
10 9 (0.080%) InVision
11 8 (0.071%) CATIA
11 8 (0.071%) InDesign
11 8 (0.071%) Spreadsheet
12 7 (0.063%) Simulink
13 6 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 4 (0.036%) 3ds Max
14 4 (0.036%) Adobe Premiere
14 4 (0.036%) LibreOffice
14 4 (0.036%) Maya
Business Applications
1 307 (2.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 52 (0.46%) Endur
3 35 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 22 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
5 16 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 15 (0.13%) Magento
6 15 (0.13%) Siebel CRM
7 14 (0.13%) Cloudability
8 13 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
8 13 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
8 13 (0.12%) SAP SCM
8 13 (0.12%) Visualfiles
9 11 (0.098%) Oracle ERP
10 10 (0.089%) Dynamics GP
10 10 (0.089%) NetSuite
10 10 (0.089%) SAP CRM
11 9 (0.080%) Dynamics NAV
11 9 (0.080%) Oracle Financials
11 9 (0.080%) ProductWriter
11 9 (0.080%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 3,337 (29.82%) Azure
2 2,325 (20.77%) AWS
3 1,235 (11.03%) GCP
4 974 (8.70%) Power Platform
5 972 (8.68%) Azure DevOps
6 789 (7.05%) SaaS
7 587 (5.24%) Serverless
8 554 (4.95%) PaaS
9 524 (4.68%) Dynamics 365
10 443 (3.96%) IaaS
11 419 (3.74%) GitHub
12 340 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
13 219 (1.96%) Azure Functions
14 193 (1.72%) OpenShift
15 188 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
16 184 (1.64%) PowerApps
17 169 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
18 142 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
19 139 (1.24%) Amazon S3
20 114 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 203 (1.81%) Firewall
2 185 (1.65%) DNS
3 139 (1.24%) VPN
4 128 (1.14%) DHCP
5 114 (1.02%) Internet
6 100 (0.89%) HTTP
7 91 (0.81%) WAN
8 90 (0.80%) TCP/IP
9 64 (0.57%) LAN
10 63 (0.56%) Network Security
11 51 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
12 50 (0.45%) SAN
13 34 (0.30%) VLAN
14 32 (0.29%) SD-WAN
15 30 (0.27%) MPLS
15 30 (0.27%) Wireless
16 29 (0.26%) SNMP
17 26 (0.23%) AMQP
17 26 (0.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 26 (0.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 862 (7.70%) SQL Server
2 568 (5.08%) Power BI
3 406 (3.63%) NoSQL
4 358 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
5 356 (3.18%) PostgreSQL
6 340 (3.04%) Relational Database
7 317 (2.83%) MySQL
8 267 (2.39%) Data Lake
9 239 (2.14%) MongoDB
10 194 (1.73%) Big Data
11 156 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 155 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
13 144 (1.29%) Tableau
14 127 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 124 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
16 122 (1.09%) Hadoop
17 112 (1.00%) Apache Ignite
18 107 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
19 106 (0.95%) RDBMS
20 105 (0.94%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 980 (8.76%) Git
2 859 (7.68%) JIRA
3 692 (6.18%) Jenkins
4 345 (3.08%) Selenium
5 217 (1.94%) Cypress.io
6 214 (1.91%) Cucumber
7 211 (1.89%) GitLab
8 129 (1.15%) Maven
9 122 (1.09%) Bitbucket
10 120 (1.07%) JUnit
11 113 (1.01%) Postman
12 100 (0.89%) Visual Studio
13 89 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
14 86 (0.77%) TeamCity
15 84 (0.75%) SoapUI
16 78 (0.70%) SonarQube
17 77 (0.69%) JMeter
18 75 (0.67%) IntelliJ
19 71 (0.63%) Artifactory
20 67 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3,782 (33.79%) Finance
2 2,790 (24.93%) Social Skills
3 1,476 (13.19%) Banking
4 1,047 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
5 826 (7.38%) Retail
6 727 (6.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 483 (4.32%) Public Sector
8 438 (3.91%) Front Office
9 422 (3.77%) Marketing
10 387 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
11 294 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
12 246 (2.20%) Legal
13 215 (1.92%) Telecoms
14 208 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
15 184 (1.64%) Law
16 183 (1.64%) Manufacturing
17 168 (1.50%) Games
18 149 (1.33%) Investment Banking
19 138 (1.23%) Aerospace
20 117 (1.05%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2,480 (22.16%) Developer
2 1,887 (16.86%) Senior
3 1,656 (14.80%) Architect
4 1,025 (9.16%) Lead
5 1,002 (8.95%) Analyst
6 995 (8.89%) Software Engineer
7 787 (7.03%) Solutions Architect
8 726 (6.49%) Project Manager
9 521 (4.66%) Senior Developer
10 517 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
11 509 (4.55%) Business Analyst
12 450 (4.02%) .NET Developer
13 417 (3.73%) Java Developer
14 362 (3.23%) Enterprise Architect
15 341 (3.05%) Full Stack Developer
16 310 (2.77%) Software Developer
17 277 (2.47%) Product Owner
18 275 (2.46%) IT Manager
19 271 (2.42%) Developer/Software Engineer
20 250 (2.23%) Dynamics 365 Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,462 (13.06%) .NET
2 1,115 (9.96%) React
3 881 (7.87%) HTML
4 778 (6.95%) CSS
5 717 (6.41%) AngularJS
6 631 (5.64%) REST
7 564 (5.04%) Node.js
8 458 (4.09%) .NET Core
9 433 (3.87%) Spring
10 425 (3.80%) RESTful
11 397 (3.55%) Kafka
12 386 (3.45%) ASP.NET
13 385 (3.44%) JSON
14 372 (3.32%) .NET Framework
15 364 (3.25%) Web Services
16 271 (2.42%) XML
17 264 (2.36%) SOAP
18 253 (2.26%) Middleware
19 249 (2.22%) Spring Boot
20 228 (2.04%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 1,002 (8.95%) Product Ownership
2 456 (4.07%) Public Cloud
3 401 (3.58%) Cloud Native
4 321 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
5 315 (2.81%) Management Information System
6 250 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
7 243 (2.17%) Virtual Team
8 239 (2.14%) Fixed Income
9 214 (1.91%) Derivative
10 193 (1.72%) Mobile App
11 180 (1.61%) Private Cloud
12 176 (1.57%) Data Structures
13 175 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
14 158 (1.41%) Hedge funds
15 157 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 145 (1.30%) Equities
17 130 (1.16%) Mainframe
18 117 (1.05%) Data Centre
19 114 (1.02%) Algorithms
20 108 (0.96%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 685 (6.12%) Linux
2 543 (4.85%) Windows
3 248 (2.22%) Unix
4 198 (1.77%) Android
5 159 (1.42%) Windows Server
6 137 (1.22%) Apple iOS
7 87 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 50 (0.45%) Ubuntu
9 49 (0.44%) Windows 10
10 27 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
11 24 (0.21%) VMS
12 23 (0.21%) Windows 7
12 23 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
13 18 (0.16%) Mac OS
13 18 (0.16%) Solaris
14 14 (0.13%) zOS
15 13 (0.12%) AIX
16 12 (0.11%) CentOS
17 10 (0.089%) HPUX
18 8 (0.071%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,901 (25.92%) DevOps
2 2,040 (18.23%) Software Engineering
3 1,991 (17.79%) Scrum
4 1,745 (15.59%) Problem-Solving
5 1,615 (14.43%) Roadmaps
6 1,593 (14.23%) CI/CD
7 1,343 (12.00%) Project Management
8 1,328 (11.87%) Mentoring
9 1,207 (10.78%) Microservices
10 1,104 (9.86%) Analytics
11 1,052 (9.40%) SDLC
12 1,014 (9.06%) Actionable Insight
13 986 (8.81%) Waterfall
14 959 (8.57%) Project Delivery
15 942 (8.42%) Stakeholder Management
16 926 (8.27%) Test Automation
17 853 (7.62%) TDD
18 780 (6.97%) Full Stack Development
19 733 (6.55%) Coaching
20 713 (6.37%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2,016 (18.01%) SQL
2 1,828 (16.33%) Java
3 1,806 (16.14%) JavaScript
4 1,655 (14.79%) Python
5 1,572 (14.05%) C#
6 888 (7.93%) TypeScript
7 519 (4.64%) PowerShell
8 262 (2.34%) C++
9 257 (2.30%) Bash
10 235 (2.10%) PL/SQL
11 194 (1.73%) PHP
12 193 (1.72%) Go
13 190 (1.70%) T-SQL
14 155 (1.38%) C
15 134 (1.20%) Kotlin
16 130 (1.16%) Ruby
17 111 (0.99%) VB
18 99 (0.88%) Groovy
19 89 (0.80%) Scala
20 86 (0.77%) R
Qualifications
1 1,452 (12.97%) Degree
2 1,342 (11.99%) Security Cleared
3 887 (7.93%) SC Cleared
4 431 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 424 (3.79%) DV Cleared
6 156 (1.39%) AWS Certification
7 142 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
8 124 (1.11%) PMI Certification
9 120 (1.07%) Master's Degree
10 112 (1.00%) Azure Certification
11 100 (0.89%) PMP
12 94 (0.84%) ISTQB
13 91 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
14 68 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
15 64 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 64 (0.57%) ISEB
16 46 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
17 37 (0.33%) DBS Check
18 33 (0.29%) CISSP
18 33 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 777 (6.94%) QA
2 211 (1.89%) Data Quality
3 162 (1.45%) PMO
4 136 (1.22%) Accessibility
5 95 (0.85%) GDPR
6 64 (0.57%) SLA
7 61 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 59 (0.53%) WCAG
9 46 (0.41%) NIST
10 37 (0.33%) GRC
11 30 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
12 29 (0.26%) COBIT
12 29 (0.26%) PCI DSS
13 19 (0.17%) ISO 9001
14 18 (0.16%) IFRS
15 16 (0.14%) IFRS 9
16 14 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
17 13 (0.12%) ISO 20022
18 12 (0.11%) MiFID
18 12 (0.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 1,105 (9.87%) Docker
2 260 (2.32%) Active Directory
3 179 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
5 55 (0.49%) Hyper-V
6 51 (0.46%) Firmware
6 51 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
7 45 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
8 36 (0.32%) vSphere
9 21 (0.19%) IAG
10 17 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
11 13 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
12 9 (0.080%) Terminal Server
13 7 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.045%) HDFS
14 5 (0.045%) KVM
14 5 (0.045%) Oracle RAC
15 4 (0.036%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 4 (0.036%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.027%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 1,226 (10.95%) Kubernetes
2 897 (8.01%) Terraform
3 474 (4.24%) Ansible
4 114 (1.02%) Puppet
5 89 (0.80%) SCCM
6 80 (0.71%) Grafana
7 73 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
8 68 (0.61%) Prometheus
9 62 (0.55%) Progress Chef
10 55 (0.49%) Istio
11 50 (0.45%) SCOM
12 48 (0.43%) WSUS
13 44 (0.39%) Packer
14 42 (0.38%) Argo
14 42 (0.38%) Rancher
15 30 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 28 (0.25%) HP Quality Center
16 28 (0.25%) Kibana
17 25 (0.22%) Nagios
18 21 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,687 (15.07%) Microsoft
2 527 (4.71%) Google
3 478 (4.27%) Oracle
4 251 (2.24%) Salesforce
5 214 (1.91%) VMware
6 205 (1.83%) SAP
7 202 (1.80%) ServiceNow
8 142 (1.27%) NEC
9 117 (1.05%) IBM
10 107 (0.96%) Databricks
11 98 (0.88%) Splunk
12 86 (0.77%) Atlassian
13 85 (0.76%) Cisco
14 77 (0.69%) HP
15 65 (0.58%) Adobe
16 64 (0.57%) Red Hat
17 63 (0.56%) Citrix
18 57 (0.51%) New Relic
19 51 (0.46%) Dynatrace
20 46 (0.41%) F5