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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 10 5
Rank change year-on-year -10 -5 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 673 619 1,876
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.48% 12.46% 13.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.88% 14.00% 17.56%
Number of salaries quoted 450 352 1,252
10th Percentile £34,250 £31,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £67,688 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,625 £77,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -6.81%

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 8,540 4,423 10,681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.57% 89.01% 79.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5,908 2,509 7,575
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,300 £49,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% +3.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £76,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -10 411 £57,500 - 157
East Midlands +12 261 £55,000 - 94
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 41 (6.09%) Confluence
2 11 (1.63%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.34%) CMS
4 8 (1.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.74%) SAS
6 4 (0.59%) nginx
6 4 (0.59%) PowerFactory
7 3 (0.45%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.30%) IIS
8 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.15%) Apache
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.15%) Drupal
Applications
1 11 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.49%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.74%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.59%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.59%) AutoCAD
6 4 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.59%) Revit
6 4 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.15%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.89%) Workday HCM
3 4 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.59%) Shopify
4 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.30%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.30%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.15%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 192 (28.53%) Azure
2 108 (16.05%) AWS
3 55 (8.17%) Power Platform
4 51 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (4.01%) Microsoft 365
5 27 (4.01%) SaaS
6 22 (3.27%) PowerApps
6 22 (3.27%) Serverless
7 19 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
7 19 (2.82%) Power Automate
8 18 (2.67%) GCP
9 14 (2.08%) IaaS
10 13 (1.93%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (1.63%) Amazon S3
11 11 (1.63%) PaaS
12 9 (1.34%) Azure AKS
12 9 (1.34%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
13 8 (1.19%) Amazon Cognito
13 8 (1.19%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.49%) DNS
2 3 (0.45%) Broadband
2 3 (0.45%) WAN
3 2 (0.30%) Firewall
3 2 (0.30%) LAN
4 1 (0.15%) BGP
4 1 (0.15%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.15%) DHCP
4 1 (0.15%) FTP
4 1 (0.15%) HTTP
4 1 (0.15%) Internet
4 1 (0.15%) Intranet
4 1 (0.15%) MPLS
4 1 (0.15%) RFID
4 1 (0.15%) SNMP
4 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.15%) VoIP
4 1 (0.15%) VPN
4 1 (0.15%) Wireless
4 1 (0.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (5.79%) Power BI
2 25 (3.71%) MongoDB
3 24 (3.57%) SQL Server
4 19 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 15 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (1.78%) Data Lake
6 12 (1.78%) MySQL
7 10 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (1.49%) NoSQL
8 8 (1.19%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (0.74%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.59%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.59%) Metadata
11 3 (0.45%) Pentaho
12 2 (0.30%) NonStop SQL
12 2 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 69 (10.25%) JIRA
2 31 (4.61%) Git
3 16 (2.38%) JUnit
4 13 (1.93%) Cucumber
4 13 (1.93%) Maven
4 13 (1.93%) Mockito
5 12 (1.78%) Selenium
5 12 (1.78%) XCUITest
6 9 (1.34%) Gatling
6 9 (1.34%) GitLab
6 9 (1.34%) Postman
7 7 (1.04%) Zephyr
8 6 (0.89%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.89%) JMeter
9 5 (0.74%) Jenkins
10 4 (0.59%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.59%) REST Assured
10 4 (0.59%) TestRail
10 4 (0.59%) Vite
11 3 (0.45%) HP UFT
General
1 200 (29.72%) Social Skills
2 183 (27.19%) Finance
3 91 (13.52%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (9.21%) Public Sector
5 51 (7.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 45 (6.69%) Law
7 36 (5.35%) Retail
8 30 (4.46%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (2.82%) Marketing
10 17 (2.53%) Banking
11 16 (2.38%) Manufacturing
12 15 (2.23%) Legal
13 12 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (1.04%) Games
16 6 (0.89%) Advertising
16 6 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.74%) Electronics
18 4 (0.59%) Aerospace
18 4 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 133 (19.76%) Senior
2 99 (14.71%) Analyst
3 98 (14.56%) Developer
4 78 (11.59%) Lead
5 55 (8.17%) Business Analyst
6 53 (7.88%) Delivery Manager
7 51 (7.58%) Project Manager
8 38 (5.65%) Senior Manager
9 31 (4.61%) Architect
10 30 (4.46%) .NET Developer
10 30 (4.46%) Product Owner
11 29 (4.31%) Senior Analyst
12 24 (3.57%) Data Engineer
12 24 (3.57%) IT Manager
13 21 (3.12%) Digital Analyst
13 21 (3.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 19 (2.82%) Account Manager
15 18 (2.67%) Full-Stack Developer
15 18 (2.67%) Software Developer
16 17 (2.53%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (8.77%) .NET
1 59 (8.77%) React
2 28 (4.16%) ASP.NET
3 27 (4.01%) ASP.NET Core
3 27 (4.01%) Node.js
4 25 (3.71%) CSS
5 23 (3.42%) HTML
5 23 (3.42%) REST
6 21 (3.12%) .NET Core
6 21 (3.12%) RESTful
7 16 (2.38%) Playwright
8 15 (2.23%) AngularJS
8 15 (2.23%) Spring
9 14 (2.08%) EDI
10 13 (1.93%) AWS CDK
10 13 (1.93%) Entity Framework
10 13 (1.93%) Next.js
11 12 (1.78%) ASP.NET Web API
12 10 (1.49%) Blazor
12 10 (1.49%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 68 (10.10%) Product Ownership
2 33 (4.90%) Mobile App
3 27 (4.01%) Management Information System
4 23 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (2.97%) Onboarding
6 17 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (2.38%) Cloud Native
8 14 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (1.63%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (1.34%) Cyber Defence
10 9 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.34%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.19%) Driving Licence
12 6 (0.89%) AI Agents
13 5 (0.74%) Mobile Computing
14 4 (0.59%) AS400
14 4 (0.59%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.57%) Linux
2 13 (1.93%) Apple iOS
3 12 (1.78%) Windows
4 10 (1.49%) Android
5 3 (0.45%) Kali Linux
5 3 (0.45%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (24.22%) Continuous Improvement
2 158 (23.48%) Mentoring
3 125 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
4 124 (18.42%) Coaching
5 113 (16.79%) CI/CD
6 107 (15.90%) DevOps
7 102 (15.16%) Stakeholder Management
8 86 (12.78%) Scrum
9 80 (11.89%) Roadmaps
10 77 (11.44%) Test Automation
11 73 (10.85%) Project Management
12 70 (10.40%) Full-Stack Development
13 69 (10.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 67 (9.96%) AI
15 66 (9.81%) Business Strategy
16 64 (9.51%) Decision-Making
17 62 (9.21%) Waterfall
18 60 (8.92%) Analytics
19 59 (8.77%) Project Delivery
20 56 (8.32%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 124 (18.42%) SQL
2 81 (12.04%) C#
3 69 (10.25%) JavaScript
4 56 (8.32%) Java
4 56 (8.32%) TypeScript
5 43 (6.39%) Python
6 22 (3.27%) Bash
7 19 (2.82%) PHP
8 15 (2.23%) PL/SQL
9 14 (2.08%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.49%) C++
11 8 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.89%) R
13 5 (0.74%) Swift
14 4 (0.59%) C
14 4 (0.59%) RPG
14 4 (0.59%) RPG IV
14 4 (0.59%) RPG/400
15 3 (0.45%) Scala
15 3 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 75 (11.14%) Degree
2 55 (8.17%) Security Cleared
3 43 (6.39%) SC Cleared
4 20 (2.97%) PMP
5 19 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.82%) PMI Certification
6 14 (2.08%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.93%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.78%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.49%) CISSP
10 10 (1.49%) CITP
11 9 (1.34%) CompTIA Security+
12 8 (1.19%) ISTQB
13 7 (1.04%) CISA
13 7 (1.04%) ISEB
13 7 (1.04%) SSCP
14 5 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 4 (0.59%) CIMA
15 4 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (12.63%) QA
2 40 (5.94%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.53%) GDPR
4 15 (2.23%) SLA
5 14 (2.08%) NIST
6 13 (1.93%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.04%) ITGC
9 6 (0.89%) PMO
9 6 (0.89%) WCAG
10 3 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.30%) GRC
11 2 (0.30%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.15%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.15%) NCSC
12 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (5.65%) Docker
2 5 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 47 (6.98%) Kubernetes
2 22 (3.27%) Terraform
3 10 (1.49%) Grafana
4 3 (0.45%) HP ALM
4 3 (0.45%) HP Fortify
5 2 (0.30%) Ansible
5 2 (0.30%) Argo
5 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.15%) Control-M
6 1 (0.15%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.15%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 105 (15.60%) Microsoft
2 34 (5.05%) Oracle
3 19 (2.82%) Databricks
4 16 (2.38%) Salesforce
5 15 (2.23%) SAP
6 12 (1.78%) Google
6 12 (1.78%) ServiceNow
7 10 (1.49%) IBM
8 8 (1.19%) Planon
9 6 (0.89%) IFS
9 6 (0.89%) Workday
10 5 (0.74%) Apple
11 4 (0.59%) DIgSILENT
11 4 (0.59%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.59%) Talend
12 3 (0.45%) Cisco
12 3 (0.45%) Cloudera
12 3 (0.45%) HP
12 3 (0.45%) Informatica
12 3 (0.45%) Veracode