Agile Job Trends in Leicestershire

Agile Software Development
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicestershire 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 17 23 7
Rank change year-on-year +6 -16 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 35 39 81
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicestershire 6.16% 8.78% 17.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.66% 9.56% 19.24%
Number of salaries quoted 27 24 67
10th Percentile £45,750 £30,116 £39,087
25th Percentile £52,500 £34,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £69,250 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,750 £67,625 £72,200
East Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -6.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 457 408 421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 80.46% 91.89% 89.57%
Number of salaries quoted 320 164 292
10th Percentile £25,725 £27,150 £26,750
25th Percentile £34,688 £31,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £49,995
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -14.99% +5.25%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £71,750 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -4.76%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Agile job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Agile
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Agile.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Agile

Agile
Salary Histogram in Leicestershire

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

Salary histogram for Agile in Leicestershire

Agile
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 4 January 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
Leicester -5 25 £56,250 - 31
Lutterworth +7 2 - - 1
Kegworth - 1 - -
Coalville - 1 £45,390 -
Agile
East Midlands

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 (8.57%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (11.43%) MS Visio
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.29%) Azure
2 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (8.57%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.71%) dbt
3 2 (5.71%) Miro
4 1 (2.86%) AWS
4 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.86%) Lucidchart
4 1 (2.86%) npm
4 1 (2.86%) NuGet
4 1 (2.86%) SaaS
4 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.86%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) Power BI
2 2 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (25.71%) JIRA
2 5 (14.29%) Subversion
3 2 (5.71%) Katalon Studio
3 2 (5.71%) Selenium
4 1 (2.86%) Appium
4 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.86%) Git
4 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.86%) JMeter
4 1 (2.86%) JUnit
4 1 (2.86%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.86%) TestNG
4 1 (2.86%) XCUITest
General
1 19 (54.29%) Social Skills
2 12 (34.29%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (25.71%) Finance
4 8 (22.86%) Electronics
5 5 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (14.29%) Manufacturing
6 3 (8.57%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.86%) Law
7 1 (2.86%) Legal
7 1 (2.86%) Local Government
7 1 (2.86%) Marketing
7 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.86%) Retail
7 1 (2.86%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Lead
2 7 (20.00%) Analyst
2 7 (20.00%) IT Manager
3 5 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 5 (14.29%) Embedded Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 5 (14.29%) Software Test Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Systems Test Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Test Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) IT Project Manager
5 3 (8.57%) Senior
6 2 (5.71%) Agile Coach
6 2 (5.71%) Agile Scrum Master
6 2 (5.71%) Instrumentation Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) QA Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) QA Leader
6 2 (5.71%) Quality Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) .NET
1 2 (5.71%) EDI
1 2 (5.71%) React
2 1 (2.86%) Node.js
2 1 (2.86%) REST
2 1 (2.86%) RESTful
2 1 (2.86%) SOAP
2 1 (2.86%) SwiftUI
2 1 (2.86%) Visualforce
2 1 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (14.29%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (11.43%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.71%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.86%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
1 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (34.29%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (31.43%) Waterfall
3 10 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (28.57%) Project Management
3 10 (28.57%) Scrum
4 9 (25.71%) Change Management
4 9 (25.71%) Test Automation
5 8 (22.86%) Software Testing
5 8 (22.86%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (20.00%) Performance Testing
6 7 (20.00%) Process Improvement
7 6 (17.14%) Business Case
7 6 (17.14%) CI/CD
7 6 (17.14%) ERP
8 5 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (14.29%) Kanban
8 5 (14.29%) Lean Six Sigma
8 5 (14.29%) Regression Testing
8 5 (14.29%) Six Sigma
8 5 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.71%) C#
1 2 (5.71%) Groovy
1 2 (5.71%) Java
2 1 (2.86%) Apex Code
2 1 (2.86%) Bash
2 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.86%) SQL
2 1 (2.86%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Degree
2 4 (11.43%) PMI Certification
2 4 (11.43%) PMP
3 3 (8.57%) Master's Degree
3 3 (8.57%) MBA
4 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.86%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (2.86%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 1 (2.86%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) GDPR
1 3 (8.57%) QA
2 2 (5.71%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (8.57%) JD Edwards
1 3 (8.57%) Oracle
1 3 (8.57%) QAD
1 3 (8.57%) SAP
2 2 (5.71%) HubSpot
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
2 2 (5.71%) Siemens
3 1 (2.86%) Apple
3 1 (2.86%) Conga
3 1 (2.86%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (2.86%) Jitterbit
3 1 (2.86%) Pardot