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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 9 4
Rank change year-on-year -19 -5 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 490 837 832
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.32% 12.28% 18.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.70% 13.74% 19.96%
Number of salaries quoted 343 414 704
10th Percentile £37,750 £38,325 £35,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,188 £45,750
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 £80,000 £83,375 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £67,500

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 6,365 6,093 4,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.12% 89.41% 92.36%
Number of salaries quoted 3,509 2,705 3,426
10th Percentile £27,900 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,479 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 21 December 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 21 December 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 -18 331 £62,000 +3.33% 141
East Midlands -24 155 £55,000 -4.35% 84
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 (4.08%) Confluence
2 8 (1.63%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.02%) SAS
5 4 (0.82%) Apache
5 4 (0.82%) CMS
5 4 (0.82%) IIS
6 3 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.61%) WordPress
7 2 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.41%) Appian
8 1 (0.20%) nginx
Applications
1 16 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.61%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.61%) Trello
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.20%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.20%) Simulink
6 1 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 29 (5.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.22%) Shopify
3 3 (0.61%) Maximo
3 3 (0.61%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.41%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 2 (0.41%) iTrent
4 2 (0.41%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.20%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.20%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 137 (27.96%) Azure
2 61 (12.45%) AWS
3 53 (10.82%) Power Platform
4 52 (10.61%) SaaS
5 42 (8.57%) Dynamics 365
6 41 (8.37%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (4.29%) PowerApps
8 19 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (3.67%) Power Automate
10 13 (2.65%) GCP
11 10 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (2.04%) PaaS
11 10 (2.04%) Serverless
12 6 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (1.22%) Entra ID
13 5 (1.02%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.02%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (1.02%) IaaS
13 5 (1.02%) Snowflake
14 4 (0.82%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.24%) DNS
2 7 (1.43%) DHCP
3 6 (1.22%) VPN
4 5 (1.02%) WAN
5 4 (0.82%) Internet
5 4 (0.82%) LAN
5 4 (0.82%) Modbus
5 4 (0.82%) SSL
5 4 (0.82%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.61%) 3G
6 3 (0.61%) GPRS
6 3 (0.61%) GSM
6 3 (0.61%) HTTP
6 3 (0.61%) Intranet
6 3 (0.61%) RS-232
6 3 (0.61%) RS-485
7 2 (0.41%) Firewall
7 2 (0.41%) FTP
7 2 (0.41%) RFID
7 2 (0.41%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.71%) Power BI
2 23 (4.69%) SQL Server
3 21 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (4.08%) MySQL
5 14 (2.86%) Data Lake
6 9 (1.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (1.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.22%) Metadata
8 6 (1.22%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.22%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.02%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.82%) Pentaho
10 4 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.82%) Tableau
11 3 (0.61%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.41%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.41%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.41%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 48 (9.80%) JIRA
2 34 (6.94%) Git
3 11 (2.24%) Selenium
4 9 (1.84%) GitLab
4 9 (1.84%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.84%) JUnit
5 8 (1.63%) Postman
6 7 (1.43%) Subversion
7 6 (1.22%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.22%) Mockito
8 5 (1.02%) Maven
8 5 (1.02%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.61%) git-flow
9 3 (0.61%) JMeter
10 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.41%) Gatling
10 2 (0.41%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (0.41%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.41%) TestRail
10 2 (0.41%) Vagrant
General
1 155 (31.63%) Social Skills
2 133 (27.14%) Finance
3 60 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 32 (6.53%) Law
5 32 (6.53%) Marketing
6 30 (6.12%) Legal
7 29 (5.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (3.88%) Local Government
9 16 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (3.27%) Retail
10 14 (2.86%) Manufacturing
11 13 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.84%) Fire and Rescue
14 8 (1.63%) Electronics
15 7 (1.43%) Banking
16 6 (1.22%) Billing
16 6 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 102 (20.82%) Developer
2 70 (14.29%) Lead
3 67 (13.67%) Senior
4 46 (9.39%) Analyst
5 35 (7.14%) Architect
6 31 (6.33%) Project Manager
7 26 (5.31%) Data Engineer
8 19 (3.88%) Business Analyst
8 19 (3.88%) Senior Developer
9 17 (3.47%) IT Manager
10 16 (3.27%) C# Developer
10 16 (3.27%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 15 (3.06%) Java Developer
11 15 (3.06%) Lead Developer
11 15 (3.06%) PHP Developer
11 15 (3.06%) Product Owner
11 15 (3.06%) Senior Data Engineer
12 14 (2.86%) Delivery Manager
12 14 (2.86%) IT Project Manager
13 13 (2.65%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (11.02%) .NET
2 26 (5.31%) React
3 23 (4.69%) CSS
3 23 (4.69%) HTML
4 16 (3.27%) Spring
5 15 (3.06%) REST
6 14 (2.86%) Laravel
7 12 (2.45%) .NET Framework
8 11 (2.24%) EDI
8 11 (2.24%) RESTful
8 11 (2.24%) Spring Boot
8 11 (2.24%) Symfony
9 9 (1.84%) Middleware
10 8 (1.63%) CakePHP
10 8 (1.63%) CodeIgniter
10 8 (1.63%) jQuery
10 8 (1.63%) XML
11 7 (1.43%) Playwright
12 6 (1.22%) Node.js
13 5 (1.02%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 52 (10.61%) Product Ownership
2 25 (5.10%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 12 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (2.04%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.04%) NHS
6 10 (2.04%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.22%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.02%) Embedded Systems
10 5 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.02%) IoT
10 5 (1.02%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.02%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.82%) Legacy Code
11 4 (0.82%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.82%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.47%) Linux
1 17 (3.47%) Windows
2 5 (1.02%) Mac OS
2 5 (1.02%) Windows 10
3 3 (0.61%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (0.61%) FreeRTOS
3 3 (0.61%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.41%) Mac OS X
4 2 (0.41%) VMS
5 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (21.02%) DevOps
2 101 (20.61%) Continuous Improvement
3 97 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
4 85 (17.35%) Stakeholder Management
5 70 (14.29%) Scrum
6 67 (13.67%) Mentoring
7 64 (13.06%) CI/CD
8 63 (12.86%) Project Management
9 58 (11.84%) Waterfall
10 55 (11.22%) Project Delivery
11 54 (11.02%) SDLC
12 47 (9.59%) Analytics
12 47 (9.59%) CRM
12 47 (9.59%) Roadmaps
13 45 (9.18%) Migration
14 40 (8.16%) Software Engineering
15 38 (7.76%) Test Automation
16 37 (7.55%) Business Intelligence
17 36 (7.35%) User Experience
18 35 (7.14%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 98 (20.00%) SQL
2 69 (14.08%) C#
3 56 (11.43%) JavaScript
4 39 (7.96%) Python
5 36 (7.35%) Java
6 32 (6.53%) TypeScript
7 22 (4.49%) PHP
8 10 (2.04%) Bash
8 10 (2.04%) PowerShell
9 8 (1.63%) C++
10 5 (1.02%) C
10 5 (1.02%) Go
10 5 (1.02%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.02%) Scala
11 4 (0.82%) Groovy
11 4 (0.82%) R
11 4 (0.82%) Ruby
12 2 (0.41%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.41%) Perl
12 2 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (10.61%) Degree
2 41 (8.37%) Security Cleared
3 30 (6.12%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (2.24%) ACCA
6 11 (2.24%) PMI Certification
7 10 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.04%) PMP
8 8 (1.63%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.02%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.02%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.02%) MCP
10 4 (0.82%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.82%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (0.82%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.61%) IBM Certification
11 3 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (11.63%) QA
2 12 (2.45%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.04%) PMO
4 8 (1.63%) SLA
5 7 (1.43%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.43%) GDPR
5 7 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 6 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.61%) COBIT
8 3 (0.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 3 (0.61%) MISRA
8 3 (0.61%) NIST
8 3 (0.61%) WCAG
9 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
System Software
1 23 (4.69%) Docker
2 12 (2.45%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.02%) Firmware
4 3 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (4.90%) Kubernetes
2 20 (4.08%) Terraform
3 5 (1.02%) Ansible
4 3 (0.61%) Grafana
5 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.41%) Nagios
5 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.20%) Argo
6 1 (0.20%) CA Service Virtualization
6 1 (0.20%) Control-M
6 1 (0.20%) Nessus
6 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 74 (15.10%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.12%) Databricks
3 21 (4.29%) Oracle
4 13 (2.65%) Salesforce
5 12 (2.45%) SAP
6 8 (1.63%) IBM
7 6 (1.22%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.22%) Siemens
8 5 (1.02%) Google
8 5 (1.02%) Talend
8 5 (1.02%) Zoho
9 4 (0.82%) Adobe
9 4 (0.82%) JD Edwards
9 4 (0.82%) Remedy
10 3 (0.61%) Cisco
10 3 (0.61%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.61%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.61%) Informatica
10 3 (0.61%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.61%) Workday