Agile Job Trends in the Midlands

Agile Software Development
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Agile skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 9 4
Rank change year-on-year -26 -5 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 590 560 1,718
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.80% 11.44% 15.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.53% 12.84% 18.46%
Number of salaries quoted 405 377 1,302
10th Percentile £34,550 £32,300 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +8.18% -1.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,786
England median annual salary £66,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +12.00% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,037 4,360 9,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 73.47% 89.09% 82.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5,314 2,632 7,077
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,640 £65,000 £61,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,450 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Agile job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Agile
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Agile.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Agile

Agile
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in the Midlands over the 6 months to 22 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Agile in the Midlands

Agile
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 April 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
West Midlands -26 366 £60,000 +0.84% 174
East Midlands -8 223 £55,000 -8.33% 105
Agile
England

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 45 (7.63%) Confluence
2 12 (2.03%) CMS
2 12 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.53%) SAS
4 5 (0.85%) nginx
4 5 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.51%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.51%) IIS
6 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.34%) WordPress
7 1 (0.17%) Apache
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.17%) Drupal
Applications
1 13 (2.20%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.53%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.85%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.85%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.17%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.17%) Simulink
6 1 (0.17%) Sketch
6 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.02%) Workday HCM
2 5 (0.85%) Shopify
3 4 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.34%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.17%) Maximo
6 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.17%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 156 (26.44%) Azure
2 75 (12.71%) AWS
3 52 (8.81%) Azure DevOps
3 52 (8.81%) Power Platform
4 26 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
5 25 (4.24%) SaaS
6 17 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
7 16 (2.71%) Serverless
8 14 (2.37%) GCP
9 12 (2.03%) Entra ID
9 12 (2.03%) IaaS
9 12 (2.03%) PaaS
10 11 (1.86%) PowerApps
11 10 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (1.36%) Amazon S3
12 8 (1.36%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (1.36%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.19%) GitHub
14 6 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.85%) DNS
1 5 (0.85%) WAN
2 4 (0.68%) Broadband
3 3 (0.51%) 4G
3 3 (0.51%) LAN
4 2 (0.34%) 5G
4 2 (0.34%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.34%) Wireless
5 1 (0.17%) BGP
5 1 (0.17%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.17%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.17%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.17%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.17%) Internet
5 1 (0.17%) Intranet
5 1 (0.17%) IOS XR
5 1 (0.17%) MPLS
5 1 (0.17%) RFID
5 1 (0.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (5.42%) Power BI
2 19 (3.22%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (3.22%) SQL Server
3 17 (2.88%) Data Lake
4 14 (2.37%) MySQL
5 8 (1.36%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.19%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.19%) Metadata
6 7 (1.19%) Pentaho
7 6 (1.02%) DynamoDB
7 6 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.51%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.51%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.34%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.34%) InfluxDB
10 2 (0.34%) Looker
Development Applications
1 75 (12.71%) JIRA
2 31 (5.25%) Git
3 13 (2.20%) Selenium
4 11 (1.86%) Cucumber
4 11 (1.86%) XCUITest
5 8 (1.36%) GitLab
5 8 (1.36%) Postman
6 7 (1.19%) JUnit
6 7 (1.19%) Zephyr
7 6 (1.02%) Gatling
7 6 (1.02%) JMeter
7 6 (1.02%) Maven
7 6 (1.02%) Mockito
8 5 (0.85%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.85%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.85%) Subversion
8 5 (0.85%) TestRail
8 5 (0.85%) Vite
9 3 (0.51%) Locust
9 3 (0.51%) REST Assured
General
1 196 (33.22%) Social Skills
2 183 (31.02%) Finance
3 94 (15.93%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (9.32%) Public Sector
6 39 (6.61%) Law
7 30 (5.08%) Retail
8 26 (4.41%) Marketing
9 22 (3.73%) Legal
10 16 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
13 13 (2.20%) Banking
14 10 (1.69%) Electronics
14 10 (1.69%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.36%) Advertising
16 7 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (1.02%) Games
17 6 (1.02%) Telecoms
18 5 (0.85%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 129 (21.86%) Senior
2 92 (15.59%) Analyst
3 74 (12.54%) Developer
4 72 (12.20%) Lead
5 49 (8.31%) Business Analyst
6 46 (7.80%) Project Manager
7 35 (5.93%) Senior Manager
8 34 (5.76%) Delivery Manager
9 32 (5.42%) Data Engineer
9 32 (5.42%) Product Owner
10 30 (5.08%) Senior Analyst
11 29 (4.92%) Architect
12 21 (3.56%) IT Manager
13 20 (3.39%) Digital Analyst
14 19 (3.22%) Senior Data Engineer
15 17 (2.88%) Senior Business Analyst
15 17 (2.88%) Software Developer
16 16 (2.71%) C# Developer
16 16 (2.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 15 (2.54%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (6.27%) React
2 28 (4.75%) .NET
3 21 (3.56%) CSS
4 17 (2.88%) Node.js
5 16 (2.71%) HTML
6 14 (2.37%) EDI
7 13 (2.20%) AngularJS
7 13 (2.20%) RESTful
8 12 (2.03%) Laravel
8 12 (2.03%) Playwright
8 12 (2.03%) REST
9 11 (1.86%) Middleware
10 10 (1.69%) AWS CDK
10 10 (1.69%) Next.js
11 9 (1.53%) Vue
11 9 (1.53%) YAML
12 8 (1.36%) Spring
13 7 (1.19%) jQuery
14 5 (0.85%) ASP.NET
14 5 (0.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 74 (12.54%) Product Ownership
2 34 (5.76%) Management Information System
3 21 (3.56%) Mobile App
4 16 (2.71%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.54%) Cloud Native
5 15 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (2.03%) Virtual Team
7 11 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (1.69%) Low-Code
9 9 (1.53%) Cyber Defence
10 7 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (0.85%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (0.85%) Mobile Computing
12 4 (0.68%) Driving Licence
12 4 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (0.68%) Social Media
13 3 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 21 (3.56%) Linux
2 15 (2.54%) Windows
3 12 (2.03%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.19%) Android
5 3 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.34%) Kali Linux
6 2 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (23.39%) Continuous Improvement
2 127 (21.53%) Mentoring
3 110 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
4 99 (16.78%) Coaching
5 97 (16.44%) DevOps
6 96 (16.27%) Stakeholder Management
7 79 (13.39%) CI/CD
8 76 (12.88%) Scrum
9 71 (12.03%) Project Management
10 67 (11.36%) Roadmaps
11 64 (10.85%) Analytics
12 63 (10.68%) Test Automation
13 61 (10.34%) Decision-Making
14 56 (9.49%) Waterfall
15 55 (9.32%) Project Delivery
16 53 (8.98%) Business Strategy
17 50 (8.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 49 (8.31%) Computer Science
19 47 (7.97%) Full-Stack Development
20 44 (7.46%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 105 (17.80%) SQL
2 48 (8.14%) C#
3 45 (7.63%) JavaScript
4 43 (7.29%) Python
5 42 (7.12%) Java
6 37 (6.27%) TypeScript
7 24 (4.07%) PHP
8 22 (3.73%) Bash
9 10 (1.69%) PowerShell
10 7 (1.19%) C++
10 7 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (1.02%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.85%) C
12 5 (0.85%) R
12 5 (0.85%) Swift
13 4 (0.68%) Go
14 3 (0.51%) VBA
15 2 (0.34%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 67 (11.36%) Degree
2 43 (7.29%) Security Cleared
3 30 (5.08%) SC Cleared
4 19 (3.22%) PMI Certification
5 18 (3.05%) PMP
6 16 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.53%) CISSP
8 9 (1.53%) CITP
8 9 (1.53%) CompTIA Security+
9 8 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.19%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.19%) CISA
10 7 (1.19%) SSCP
11 6 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 5 (0.85%) CIMA
12 5 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.85%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (15.08%) QA
2 30 (5.08%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.54%) SLA
4 13 (2.20%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.20%) NIST
5 12 (2.03%) GDPR
6 7 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.19%) ITGC
7 6 (1.02%) PMO
8 5 (0.85%) WCAG
9 3 (0.51%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.17%) GRC
11 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 30 (5.08%) Docker
2 9 (1.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (5.25%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.56%) Terraform
3 11 (1.86%) Grafana
4 5 (0.85%) Ansible
5 3 (0.51%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.34%) Argo
6 2 (0.34%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.17%) Control-M
7 1 (0.17%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 79 (13.39%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.25%) Databricks
3 24 (4.07%) Oracle
4 15 (2.54%) Salesforce
5 14 (2.37%) SAP
6 11 (1.86%) ServiceNow
7 10 (1.69%) Google
8 8 (1.36%) Planon
8 8 (1.36%) Talend
9 7 (1.19%) IBM
10 6 (1.02%) Cloudera
10 6 (1.02%) Informatica
10 6 (1.02%) Workday
11 5 (0.85%) Apple
11 5 (0.85%) Zoho
12 4 (0.68%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (0.51%) ESRI
13 3 (0.51%) Guidewire
13 3 (0.51%) HP