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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 11 8
Rank change year-on-year -7 -3 -5
Permanent jobs citing Agile 733 633 1,347
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.98% 10.88% 12.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.14% 12.84% 16.14%
Number of salaries quoted 476 385 663
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £84,964
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -3.70%

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 10,270 4,929 8,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.76% 84.72% 77.41%
Number of salaries quoted 7,339 2,953 4,917
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £28,119
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,640 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -10.40%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -11 459 £55,000 -8.33% 243
East Midlands -1 274 £55,000 -4.35% 108
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 20 (2.73%) Confluence
2 14 (1.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 11 (1.50%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.55%) PowerFactory
5 3 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.41%) CMS
5 3 (0.41%) SAS
6 2 (0.27%) IIS
7 1 (0.14%) Apache
7 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.14%) Documentum
7 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (1.64%) MS Visio
2 10 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.55%) AutoCAD
5 4 (0.55%) Revit
5 4 (0.55%) Simulink
6 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 24 (3.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.82%) Oracle Applications
4 5 (0.68%) Primavera
4 5 (0.68%) SAP EHS
5 4 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.27%) Infor M3
6 2 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.27%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.27%) Shopify
6 2 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 237 (32.33%) Azure
2 153 (20.87%) AWS
3 76 (10.37%) Power Platform
4 58 (7.91%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (6.28%) SaaS
6 41 (5.59%) Power Automate
6 41 (5.59%) PowerApps
7 35 (4.77%) Dynamics 365
8 31 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
9 25 (3.41%) Serverless
10 18 (2.46%) GCP
11 17 (2.32%) IaaS
12 13 (1.77%) Amazon S3
12 13 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (1.77%) PaaS
13 11 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (1.50%) Microsoft Copilot
14 10 (1.36%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (1.23%) Azure AKS
16 8 (1.09%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.23%) DNS
2 7 (0.95%) Internet
3 5 (0.68%) LAN
3 5 (0.68%) WAN
4 4 (0.55%) Network Security
4 4 (0.55%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.41%) HTTP
5 3 (0.41%) Hyperconnected
6 2 (0.27%) Firewall
6 2 (0.27%) SMS
6 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.27%) VoIP
7 1 (0.14%) Broadband
7 1 (0.14%) DHCP
7 1 (0.14%) FTP
7 1 (0.14%) SNMP
7 1 (0.14%) SSL
7 1 (0.14%) VPN
7 1 (0.14%) Wireless
7 1 (0.14%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (8.46%) Power BI
2 50 (6.82%) MongoDB
3 45 (6.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 25 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
4 25 (3.41%) SQL Server
5 19 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (1.50%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (1.36%) DynamoDB
8 10 (1.36%) NoSQL
8 10 (1.36%) Power Query
9 9 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (1.09%) Data Lake
11 7 (0.95%) MySQL
11 7 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.82%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 5 (0.68%) NonStop SQL
14 4 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 55 (7.50%) JIRA
2 50 (6.82%) Git
3 22 (3.00%) Cucumber
3 22 (3.00%) JUnit
4 21 (2.86%) GitLab
4 21 (2.86%) Selenium
5 19 (2.59%) Postman
6 17 (2.32%) Jenkins
6 17 (2.32%) Maven
7 14 (1.91%) Gatling
7 14 (1.91%) Mockito
8 12 (1.64%) JMeter
9 11 (1.50%) Zephyr
10 8 (1.09%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.95%) Subversion
11 7 (0.95%) XCUITest
12 6 (0.82%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.82%) SoapUI
13 5 (0.68%) LoadRunner
13 5 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 228 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 183 (24.97%) Finance
3 110 (15.01%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (9.41%) Public Sector
5 44 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (5.59%) Retail
7 37 (5.05%) Influencing Skills
8 32 (4.37%) Manufacturing
9 29 (3.96%) Law
9 29 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
10 21 (2.86%) Marketing
11 20 (2.73%) Legal
12 17 (2.32%) Banking
13 16 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (1.64%) Electronics
15 11 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (1.50%) Games
16 9 (1.23%) Aerospace
17 8 (1.09%) Advertising
18 7 (0.95%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 162 (22.10%) Developer
2 131 (17.87%) Senior
3 97 (13.23%) Lead
4 81 (11.05%) Analyst
5 57 (7.78%) Project Manager
6 52 (7.09%) Architect
7 49 (6.68%) .NET Developer
8 47 (6.41%) Business Analyst
9 45 (6.14%) Software Engineer
10 38 (5.18%) Delivery Manager
11 28 (3.82%) Senior Analyst
12 27 (3.68%) Senior Developer
13 23 (3.14%) Software Developer
14 22 (3.00%) Senior Manager
15 21 (2.86%) Power Platform Developer
16 20 (2.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 19 (2.59%) Full-Stack Developer
17 19 (2.59%) Junior
18 18 (2.46%) Account Manager
18 18 (2.46%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (14.32%) .NET
2 84 (11.46%) React
3 58 (7.91%) ASP.NET
4 53 (7.23%) ASP.NET Core
5 52 (7.09%) .NET Core
6 48 (6.55%) REST
7 45 (6.14%) Node.js
8 40 (5.46%) CSS
9 35 (4.77%) HTML
10 31 (4.23%) Playwright
10 31 (4.23%) Terraform
11 25 (3.41%) ASP.NET Web API
11 25 (3.41%) Entity Framework
12 22 (3.00%) Blazor
13 21 (2.86%) RESTful
14 20 (2.73%) Spring
15 16 (2.18%) LINQ
16 15 (2.05%) Next.js
17 13 (1.77%) SOAP
18 12 (1.64%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 45 (6.14%) Product Ownership
2 34 (4.64%) Enterprise Software
3 27 (3.68%) Greenfield Project
4 26 (3.55%) Cloud Native
5 24 (3.27%) Mobile App
5 24 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
6 23 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (1.91%) Onboarding
8 13 (1.77%) AI Agents
8 13 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (1.64%) Driving Licence
9 12 (1.64%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.36%) Low-Code
10 10 (1.36%) PMI
11 9 (1.23%) Cyber Defence
11 9 (1.23%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.09%) IoT
13 6 (0.82%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 32 (4.37%) Linux
2 14 (1.91%) Windows
3 7 (0.95%) Apple iOS
3 7 (0.95%) Unix
4 5 (0.68%) Android
5 4 (0.55%) Kali Linux
6 2 (0.27%) Solaris
6 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (26.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 165 (22.51%) Mentoring
2 165 (22.51%) Problem-Solving
3 152 (20.74%) CI/CD
4 129 (17.60%) Stakeholder Management
5 127 (17.33%) DevOps
6 117 (15.96%) AI
7 116 (15.83%) Scrum
8 109 (14.87%) Coaching
9 90 (12.28%) Decision-Making
10 87 (11.87%) Full-Stack Development
10 87 (11.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 87 (11.87%) Test Automation
11 76 (10.37%) SDLC
12 72 (9.82%) Business Intelligence
12 72 (9.82%) Microservices
12 72 (9.82%) Roadmaps
13 71 (9.69%) Project Management
13 71 (9.69%) Software Engineering
14 68 (9.28%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 168 (22.92%) SQL
2 130 (17.74%) C#
3 92 (12.55%) JavaScript
4 74 (10.10%) Java
5 61 (8.32%) TypeScript
6 45 (6.14%) Python
7 21 (2.86%) PL/SQL
8 19 (2.59%) Bash
9 16 (2.18%) C++
9 16 (2.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 14 (1.91%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.50%) PHP
12 8 (1.09%) C
13 5 (0.68%) MATLAB
14 4 (0.55%) Embedded C
14 4 (0.55%) RPG
14 4 (0.55%) RPG IV
14 4 (0.55%) RPG/400
14 4 (0.55%) Swift
15 3 (0.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 97 (13.23%) Degree
2 91 (12.41%) Security Cleared
3 82 (11.19%) SC Cleared
4 27 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.27%) PMI Certification
6 19 (2.59%) PMP
7 16 (2.18%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.77%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.77%) ISTQB
9 12 (1.64%) CISSP
9 12 (1.64%) ISEB
9 12 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (1.50%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.95%) CISA
11 7 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (0.95%) SSCP
12 6 (0.82%) Oracle Certification
13 5 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.68%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (10.23%) QA
2 59 (8.05%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 21 (2.86%) GDPR
4 13 (1.77%) NIST
5 11 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.36%) PMO
6 10 (1.36%) WCAG
7 8 (1.09%) GRC
8 4 (0.55%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.41%) NCSC
9 3 (0.41%) SLA
9 3 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 54 (7.37%) Docker
2 7 (0.95%) Embedded Firmware
2 7 (0.95%) Firmware
3 4 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 65 (8.87%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.95%) Grafana
3 4 (0.55%) Ansible
3 4 (0.55%) HP Fortify
3 4 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.41%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.27%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.27%) Puppet
6 1 (0.14%) Argo
6 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 141 (19.24%) Microsoft
2 37 (5.05%) Oracle
3 32 (4.37%) SAP
4 24 (3.27%) ServiceNow
5 20 (2.73%) Salesforce
6 13 (1.77%) Databricks
7 11 (1.50%) Google
8 10 (1.36%) IFS
9 9 (1.23%) IBM
10 8 (1.09%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.09%) YouTube
11 7 (0.95%) Pega
12 6 (0.82%) Infor
12 6 (0.82%) Veracode
12 6 (0.82%) Workday
13 5 (0.68%) Cisco
13 5 (0.68%) Facebook
13 5 (0.68%) OpenAI
14 4 (0.55%) DIgSILENT
14 4 (0.55%) dotdigital