Agile Job Trends in Leicester

Agile Software Development
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring Agile skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 10 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 -5
Permanent jobs citing Agile 25 26 60
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 7.58% 13.40% 20.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.12% 14.21% 23.35%
Number of salaries quoted 20 18 49
10th Percentile £45,750 £32,000 £47,817
25th Percentile £52,500 £49,063 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £56,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +2.27% -5.98%
75th Percentile £71,063 £61,875 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £68,750 £68,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 274 183 257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 83.03% 94.33% 88.62%
Number of salaries quoted 203 99 213
10th Percentile £28,950 £28,400 £26,900
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,875 £38,828
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -0.95% +10.53%
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £64,148
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £67,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £49,995
% change year-on-year +5.88% -14.99% +5.25%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Agile job vacancy trend in Leicester

Agile
Salary Trend in Leicester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Agile.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Agile

Agile
Salary Histogram in Leicester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in Leicester over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Agile in Leicester

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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 3 (12.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (12.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.00%) dbt
3 2 (8.00%) Miro
4 1 (4.00%) AWS
4 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.00%) npm
4 1 (4.00%) NuGet
4 1 (4.00%) SaaS
4 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (4.00%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Power BI
2 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (36.00%) JIRA
2 5 (20.00%) Subversion
3 2 (8.00%) Katalon Studio
3 2 (8.00%) Selenium
4 1 (4.00%) Appium
4 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.00%) Git
4 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.00%) JMeter
4 1 (4.00%) JUnit
4 1 (4.00%) REST Assured
4 1 (4.00%) TestNG
General
1 15 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (44.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (32.00%) Electronics
4 5 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (12.00%) Aerospace
5 3 (12.00%) Finance
5 3 (12.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.00%) Marketing
6 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Lead
2 5 (20.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Software Test Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Systems Test Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Test Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) Business Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) IT Manager
4 3 (12.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) Agile Coach
5 2 (8.00%) Agile Delivery Coach
5 2 (8.00%) Agile Delivery Lead
5 2 (8.00%) Agile Scrum Master
5 2 (8.00%) Project Manager
5 2 (8.00%) QA Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) QA Leader
5 2 (8.00%) Quality Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Scrum Master
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) .NET
1 2 (8.00%) React
2 1 (4.00%) Node.js
2 1 (4.00%) REST
2 1 (4.00%) SOAP
2 1 (4.00%) Visualforce
2 1 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (20.00%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.00%) Low-Code
4 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (36.00%) Scrum
2 9 (36.00%) Test Automation
3 8 (32.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (28.00%) Performance Testing
5 6 (24.00%) Change Management
5 6 (24.00%) Project Management
5 6 (24.00%) Software Testing
6 5 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 5 (20.00%) ERP
6 5 (20.00%) Issue Tracking
6 5 (20.00%) Kanban
6 5 (20.00%) Process Improvement
6 5 (20.00%) Regression Testing
6 5 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
6 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (20.00%) Test Scripting
7 4 (16.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) C#
1 2 (8.00%) Groovy
1 2 (8.00%) Java
2 1 (4.00%) Apex Code
2 1 (4.00%) Bash
2 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) PMI Certification
1 4 (16.00%) PMP
2 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) Master's Degree
2 3 (12.00%) MBA
3 1 (4.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) GDPR
1 3 (12.00%) QA
2 2 (8.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle
1 3 (12.00%) QAD
1 3 (12.00%) SAP
2 2 (8.00%) HubSpot
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.00%) Conga
3 1 (4.00%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (4.00%) JD Edwards
3 1 (4.00%) Jitterbit
3 1 (4.00%) Pardot