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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 9 4
Rank change year-on-year -26 -5 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 598 557 1,711
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.87% 11.45% 15.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.63% 12.84% 18.39%
Number of salaries quoted 408 373 1,302
10th Percentile £34,775 £32,100 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,786
England median annual salary £66,574 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.89% +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 9,026 4,337 9,302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 73.53% 89.17% 82.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5,296 2,612 7,071
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 £61,875
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £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 21 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 21 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 -26 370 £60,000 +0.90% 175
East Midlands -8 227 £55,000 -4.35% 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 47 (7.86%) Confluence
2 13 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.01%) CMS
4 9 (1.51%) SAS
5 5 (0.84%) nginx
5 5 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.50%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.50%) IIS
7 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.33%) WordPress
8 1 (0.17%) Apache
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.17%) Drupal
Applications
1 13 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.51%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.84%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (0.84%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.17%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.17%) Simulink
7 1 (0.17%) Sketch
7 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.00%) Workday HCM
2 5 (0.84%) Shopify
3 4 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.33%) Maximo
5 2 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.33%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.17%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 157 (26.25%) Azure
2 74 (12.37%) AWS
3 54 (9.03%) Power Platform
4 53 (8.86%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (4.35%) SaaS
7 19 (3.18%) Dynamics 365
8 15 (2.51%) Serverless
9 14 (2.34%) GCP
10 12 (2.01%) Entra ID
10 12 (2.01%) IaaS
10 12 (2.01%) PaaS
10 12 (2.01%) PowerApps
11 9 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (1.51%) Power Automate
12 8 (1.34%) Amazon S3
12 8 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (1.17%) GitHub
13 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
14 6 (1.00%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.84%) DNS
1 5 (0.84%) WAN
2 4 (0.67%) Broadband
3 3 (0.50%) 4G
3 3 (0.50%) LAN
4 2 (0.33%) 5G
4 2 (0.33%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.33%) 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%) Modbus
5 1 (0.17%) MPLS
5 1 (0.17%) RFID
5 1 (0.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (5.69%) Power BI
2 19 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (3.18%) SQL Server
3 17 (2.84%) Data Lake
4 16 (2.68%) MySQL
5 8 (1.34%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.17%) Metadata
6 7 (1.17%) Pentaho
7 6 (1.00%) DynamoDB
7 6 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.50%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.50%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.33%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.33%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 2 (0.33%) InfluxDB
10 2 (0.33%) Looker
Development Applications
1 77 (12.88%) JIRA
2 30 (5.02%) Git
3 13 (2.17%) Selenium
4 11 (1.84%) Cucumber
4 11 (1.84%) XCUITest
5 8 (1.34%) GitLab
5 8 (1.34%) Postman
6 7 (1.17%) JUnit
6 7 (1.17%) Zephyr
7 6 (1.00%) Gatling
7 6 (1.00%) JMeter
7 6 (1.00%) Maven
7 6 (1.00%) Mockito
8 5 (0.84%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.84%) Subversion
8 5 (0.84%) TestRail
8 5 (0.84%) Vite
9 4 (0.67%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.50%) LoadRunner
10 3 (0.50%) Toad
General
1 201 (33.61%) Social Skills
2 185 (30.94%) Finance
3 97 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (10.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (9.36%) Public Sector
6 40 (6.69%) Law
7 31 (5.18%) Retail
8 27 (4.52%) Marketing
9 24 (4.01%) Legal
10 16 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
13 13 (2.17%) Banking
14 11 (1.84%) Manufacturing
15 10 (1.67%) Electronics
16 9 (1.51%) Advertising
17 7 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (1.00%) Games
18 6 (1.00%) Telecoms
19 5 (0.84%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 130 (21.74%) Senior
2 94 (15.72%) Analyst
3 78 (13.04%) Developer
4 72 (12.04%) Lead
5 50 (8.36%) Business Analyst
6 48 (8.03%) Project Manager
7 35 (5.85%) Senior Manager
8 34 (5.69%) Delivery Manager
9 32 (5.35%) Data Engineer
9 32 (5.35%) Product Owner
10 30 (5.02%) Senior Analyst
11 29 (4.85%) Architect
12 22 (3.68%) IT Manager
13 20 (3.34%) Digital Analyst
14 19 (3.18%) Senior Data Engineer
15 17 (2.84%) Senior Business Analyst
15 17 (2.84%) Software Developer
16 16 (2.68%) C# Developer
16 16 (2.68%) IT Project Manager
17 15 (2.51%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (5.85%) React
2 28 (4.68%) .NET
3 21 (3.51%) CSS
4 16 (2.68%) HTML
4 16 (2.68%) Node.js
5 14 (2.34%) EDI
6 13 (2.17%) AngularJS
7 12 (2.01%) Laravel
7 12 (2.01%) Playwright
7 12 (2.01%) REST
7 12 (2.01%) RESTful
8 11 (1.84%) Middleware
9 9 (1.51%) AWS CDK
9 9 (1.51%) Next.js
9 9 (1.51%) Vue
9 9 (1.51%) YAML
10 8 (1.34%) Spring
11 7 (1.17%) jQuery
12 5 (0.84%) ASP.NET
12 5 (0.84%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 75 (12.54%) Product Ownership
2 34 (5.69%) Management Information System
3 21 (3.51%) Mobile App
4 16 (2.68%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.51%) Cloud Native
5 15 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (2.01%) Virtual Team
8 11 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (1.67%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.51%) Cyber Defence
11 7 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.84%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (0.84%) Mobile Computing
13 4 (0.67%) Driving Licence
13 4 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
13 4 (0.67%) Social Media
14 3 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.68%) Linux
2 15 (2.51%) Windows
3 12 (2.01%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.17%) Android
5 3 (0.50%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.33%) Kali Linux
6 2 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
2 127 (21.24%) Mentoring
3 111 (18.56%) Problem-Solving
4 99 (16.56%) Coaching
5 98 (16.39%) DevOps
5 98 (16.39%) Stakeholder Management
6 79 (13.21%) Scrum
7 78 (13.04%) CI/CD
8 74 (12.37%) Project Management
9 69 (11.54%) Roadmaps
10 66 (11.04%) Analytics
11 63 (10.54%) Decision-Making
12 61 (10.20%) Test Automation
13 57 (9.53%) Waterfall
14 56 (9.36%) Project Delivery
15 54 (9.03%) Business Strategy
16 51 (8.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 49 (8.19%) Computer Science
18 45 (7.53%) Business Intelligence
18 45 (7.53%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 107 (17.89%) SQL
2 48 (8.03%) C#
3 47 (7.86%) JavaScript
4 43 (7.19%) Java
4 43 (7.19%) Python
5 37 (6.19%) TypeScript
6 25 (4.18%) PHP
7 22 (3.68%) Bash
8 10 (1.67%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.17%) C++
9 7 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (1.00%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.84%) C
11 5 (0.84%) R
11 5 (0.84%) Swift
12 4 (0.67%) Go
13 3 (0.50%) VBA
14 2 (0.33%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 69 (11.54%) Degree
2 44 (7.36%) Security Cleared
3 31 (5.18%) SC Cleared
4 20 (3.34%) PMI Certification
5 18 (3.01%) PMP
6 16 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.84%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.67%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.51%) CISSP
9 9 (1.51%) CITP
9 9 (1.51%) CompTIA Security+
9 9 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.34%) Azure Certification
11 7 (1.17%) CISA
11 7 (1.17%) SSCP
12 6 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 5 (0.84%) CIMA
13 5 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.84%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (14.72%) QA
2 30 (5.02%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.51%) SLA
4 14 (2.34%) NIST
5 13 (2.17%) Data Quality
6 12 (2.01%) GDPR
7 8 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.17%) ITGC
8 7 (1.17%) PMO
9 5 (0.84%) WCAG
10 3 (0.50%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.33%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.17%) GRC
12 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 30 (5.02%) Docker
2 9 (1.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (5.18%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.51%) Terraform
3 11 (1.84%) Grafana
4 5 (0.84%) Ansible
5 3 (0.50%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.33%) Argo
6 2 (0.33%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.33%) 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 82 (13.71%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.35%) Databricks
3 24 (4.01%) Oracle
4 15 (2.51%) Salesforce
4 15 (2.51%) SAP
5 11 (1.84%) ServiceNow
6 10 (1.67%) Google
7 8 (1.34%) IBM
7 8 (1.34%) Planon
7 8 (1.34%) Talend
8 6 (1.00%) Cloudera
8 6 (1.00%) Informatica
8 6 (1.00%) Workday
9 5 (0.84%) Apple
9 5 (0.84%) Zoho
10 4 (0.67%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.50%) ESRI
11 3 (0.50%) Guidewire
11 3 (0.50%) HP