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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 8 4
Rank change year-on-year -6 -4 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 522 1,022 951
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 8.59% 11.87% 19.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.54% 14.07% 20.92%
Number of salaries quoted 356 434 740
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £35,738
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £46,011
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £78,813
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - - +3.05%

All Process and 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 4,954 7,262 4,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.56% 84.33% 92.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,320 3,241 3,513
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -3.40%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 0 360 £60,000 - 185
East Midlands -16 158 £55,000 -3.00% 117
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 24 (4.60%) Confluence
2 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.34%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.15%) Appian
3 6 (1.15%) SAS
4 5 (0.96%) Apache
5 4 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.77%) CMS
5 4 (0.77%) IIS
6 3 (0.57%) WordPress
7 2 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.19%) nginx
Applications
1 19 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.57%) Trello
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.19%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.19%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 35 (6.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.15%) Shopify
3 3 (0.57%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.38%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 2 (0.38%) iTrent
4 2 (0.38%) Maximo
4 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.19%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 144 (27.59%) Azure
2 80 (15.33%) AWS
3 61 (11.69%) SaaS
4 55 (10.54%) Power Platform
5 47 (9.00%) Dynamics 365
6 43 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (4.41%) GCP
8 22 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
8 22 (4.21%) PowerApps
9 18 (3.45%) Power Automate
10 14 (2.68%) Serverless
11 10 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (1.92%) PaaS
12 8 (1.53%) Amazon S3
12 8 (1.53%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (1.34%) GitHub
13 7 (1.34%) Snowflake
14 6 (1.15%) AWS KMS
14 6 (1.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.11%) DNS
2 10 (1.92%) Firewall
3 9 (1.72%) VPN
4 8 (1.53%) Internet
5 7 (1.34%) DHCP
6 5 (0.96%) HTTP
7 4 (0.77%) FTP
7 4 (0.77%) LAN
7 4 (0.77%) Modbus
7 4 (0.77%) Network Security
7 4 (0.77%) SMTP
7 4 (0.77%) SSH
7 4 (0.77%) SSL
7 4 (0.77%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.77%) WAN
8 3 (0.57%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.57%) GPRS
8 3 (0.57%) GSM
8 3 (0.57%) RS-232
8 3 (0.57%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (5.75%) Power BI
2 28 (5.36%) SQL Server
3 22 (4.21%) MySQL
4 21 (4.02%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.30%) Data Lake
5 12 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (1.92%) NoSQL
6 10 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (1.53%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.53%) Tableau
9 7 (1.34%) Big Data
9 7 (1.34%) BusinessObjects
10 5 (0.96%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.96%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.96%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.77%) Metadata
11 4 (0.77%) Pentaho
12 3 (0.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.57%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 49 (9.39%) JIRA
2 41 (7.85%) Git
3 16 (3.07%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.49%) Selenium
5 11 (2.11%) JUnit
6 9 (1.72%) Postman
7 8 (1.53%) GitLab
7 8 (1.53%) Mockito
8 6 (1.15%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.15%) Maven
9 5 (0.96%) JMeter
9 5 (0.96%) Rational DOORS
9 5 (0.96%) Vagrant
10 4 (0.77%) Katalon Studio
10 4 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.57%) git-flow
11 3 (0.57%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.38%) Gatling
12 2 (0.38%) SoapUI
12 2 (0.38%) TestRail
General
1 169 (32.38%) Social Skills
2 141 (27.01%) Finance
3 62 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (8.24%) Public Sector
5 39 (7.47%) Law
6 36 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (6.13%) Marketing
8 28 (5.36%) Legal
9 23 (4.41%) Retail
10 20 (3.83%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (3.64%) Local Government
12 17 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (2.68%) Manufacturing
14 12 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.72%) Fire and Rescue
16 8 (1.53%) Banking
16 8 (1.53%) Telecoms
17 6 (1.15%) Advertising
17 6 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
18 4 (0.77%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 121 (23.18%) Developer
2 72 (13.79%) Senior
3 68 (13.03%) Lead
4 50 (9.58%) Analyst
5 34 (6.51%) Project Manager
6 33 (6.32%) Architect
7 27 (5.17%) Senior Developer
8 23 (4.41%) Data Engineer
9 20 (3.83%) Business Analyst
9 20 (3.83%) Software Engineer
10 18 (3.45%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 17 (3.26%) IT Manager
11 17 (3.26%) Java Developer
12 16 (3.07%) Lead Developer
13 15 (2.87%) PHP Developer
14 14 (2.68%) C# Developer
14 14 (2.68%) IT Project Manager
15 13 (2.49%) CRM Developer
16 12 (2.30%) Consultant
16 12 (2.30%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (11.88%) .NET
2 37 (7.09%) React
3 36 (6.90%) HTML
4 35 (6.70%) CSS
5 21 (4.02%) Spring
6 20 (3.83%) REST
7 16 (3.07%) RESTful
8 15 (2.87%) .NET Framework
8 15 (2.87%) Spring Boot
9 14 (2.68%) Laravel
10 12 (2.30%) Symfony
11 11 (2.11%) jQuery
12 10 (1.92%) Django
12 10 (1.92%) XML
13 9 (1.72%) AngularJS
13 9 (1.72%) Node.js
14 8 (1.53%) CodeIgniter
14 8 (1.53%) Flask
14 8 (1.53%) Hibernate
14 8 (1.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 49 (9.39%) Product Ownership
2 27 (5.17%) Cloud Native
3 18 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (2.68%) Data Centre
6 12 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (2.30%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.11%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.92%) IoT
8 10 (1.92%) NHS
9 9 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.15%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.15%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.96%) Driving Licence
11 5 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (0.96%) Legacy Code
11 5 (0.96%) Low-Code
11 5 (0.96%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.79%) Linux
2 21 (4.02%) Windows
3 7 (1.34%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.96%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (0.96%) Mac OS
4 5 (0.96%) VMS
4 5 (0.96%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.77%) AIX
6 3 (0.57%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.38%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.38%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.38%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.38%) Unix
8 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.19%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (23.56%) DevOps
2 111 (21.26%) Continuous Improvement
3 95 (18.20%) Problem-Solving
4 82 (15.71%) CI/CD
5 79 (15.13%) Stakeholder Management
6 76 (14.56%) Mentoring
7 73 (13.98%) Scrum
8 65 (12.45%) SDLC
9 60 (11.49%) Project Management
9 60 (11.49%) Waterfall
10 56 (10.73%) Project Delivery
11 54 (10.34%) Software Engineering
12 47 (9.00%) Roadmaps
13 46 (8.81%) CRM
13 46 (8.81%) Migration
14 45 (8.62%) Analytics
15 42 (8.05%) Test Automation
16 40 (7.66%) User Experience
17 39 (7.47%) AI
17 39 (7.47%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 110 (21.07%) SQL
2 79 (15.13%) C#
3 74 (14.18%) JavaScript
4 55 (10.54%) Python
5 47 (9.00%) Java
6 34 (6.51%) TypeScript
7 23 (4.41%) PHP
8 13 (2.49%) PowerShell
9 12 (2.30%) C++
10 10 (1.92%) Bash
11 9 (1.72%) Groovy
12 6 (1.15%) C
12 6 (1.15%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.15%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.77%) Go
13 4 (0.77%) Perl
13 4 (0.77%) R
13 4 (0.77%) Ruby
13 4 (0.77%) Scala
14 3 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (11.49%) Degree
2 48 (9.20%) Security Cleared
3 40 (7.66%) SC Cleared
4 21 (4.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (3.26%) ACCA
6 13 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.72%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.72%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.53%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.53%) PMP
10 5 (0.96%) Chartered Engineer
10 5 (0.96%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.96%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.96%) MCP
11 4 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.57%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (10.73%) QA
2 11 (2.11%) PMO
3 9 (1.72%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.53%) SLA
5 7 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 6 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.15%) GDPR
7 5 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.57%) COBIT
8 3 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 3 (0.57%) MISRA
8 3 (0.57%) NIST
8 3 (0.57%) WCAG
9 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.19%) GRC
9 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.19%) NIST 800
System Software
1 33 (6.32%) Docker
2 14 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.96%) Firmware
4 3 (0.57%) DFS Replication
4 3 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.19%) HDFS
6 1 (0.19%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 32 (6.13%) Kubernetes
2 25 (4.79%) Terraform
3 8 (1.53%) Grafana
4 6 (1.15%) Ansible
5 3 (0.57%) Kibana
5 3 (0.57%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.38%) Nagios
6 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.38%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.19%) Argo
7 1 (0.19%) CA Service Virtualization
7 1 (0.19%) logstash
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.19%) Nessus
7 1 (0.19%) Oozie
7 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 77 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.98%) Databricks
3 20 (3.83%) Oracle
4 16 (3.07%) SAP
5 13 (2.49%) Salesforce
6 9 (1.72%) Guidewire
6 9 (1.72%) IBM
7 8 (1.53%) Google
7 8 (1.53%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.53%) Siemens
8 5 (0.96%) VMware
9 4 (0.77%) Adobe
9 4 (0.77%) Informatica
9 4 (0.77%) JD Edwards
9 4 (0.77%) Juniper
9 4 (0.77%) Talend
10 3 (0.57%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.57%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.57%) Splunk
10 3 (0.57%) Workday