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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 8 3
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 592 1,216 1,225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 10.50% 12.13% 21.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.31% 15.52% 22.34%
Number of salaries quoted 354 516 873
10th Percentile £36,400 £37,148 £38,454
25th Percentile £47,546 £46,125 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - +7.48%
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% - +3.85%

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 4,811 7,833 5,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 85.32% 78.13% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,881 4,087 3,895
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,450
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.93% +4.08%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Agile 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 14 September 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 14 September 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 +1 384 £60,000 +3.51% 313
East Midlands -17 204 £57,500 +4.55% 191
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 73 (12.33%) Confluence
2 9 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.01%) Apache
3 6 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.01%) Appian
4 5 (0.84%) IIS
5 4 (0.68%) CMS
5 4 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.51%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.17%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.17%) Mendix
7 1 (0.17%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Strapi
7 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.18%) Simulink
4 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.68%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 3 (0.51%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.34%) Trello
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.17%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 32 (5.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.18%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.84%) Shopify
4 4 (0.68%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.34%) iTrent
6 2 (0.34%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.17%) Maximo
7 1 (0.17%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 176 (29.73%) Azure
2 151 (25.51%) AWS
3 71 (11.99%) GCP
4 68 (11.49%) SaaS
5 38 (6.42%) Dynamics 365
5 38 (6.42%) Power Platform
6 35 (5.91%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (3.55%) Amazon EC2
7 21 (3.55%) Serverless
8 20 (3.38%) Amazon S3
9 19 (3.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 18 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
11 17 (2.87%) AWS KMS
12 13 (2.20%) PaaS
13 12 (2.03%) Power Automate
13 12 (2.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 11 (1.86%) PowerApps
15 10 (1.69%) Amazon ELB
15 10 (1.69%) Amazon Glacier
16 9 (1.52%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.05%) Firewall
2 18 (3.04%) DNS
3 14 (2.36%) VPN
4 9 (1.52%) DHCP
5 8 (1.35%) Network Security
6 7 (1.18%) WAN
7 6 (1.01%) Internet
8 5 (0.84%) HTTP
8 5 (0.84%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.84%) SSL
9 4 (0.68%) FTP
9 4 (0.68%) LAN
9 4 (0.68%) MPLS
9 4 (0.68%) SMTP
9 4 (0.68%) SSH
10 3 (0.51%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.51%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.34%) Intranet
11 2 (0.34%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (15.03%) SQL Server
2 23 (3.89%) Power BI
3 20 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (3.38%) NoSQL
4 18 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (2.53%) MySQL
7 10 (1.69%) DynamoDB
7 10 (1.69%) MongoDB
7 10 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (1.52%) Big Data
9 8 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (1.35%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.18%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.18%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.18%) Tableau
11 6 (1.01%) Metadata
12 5 (0.84%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 122 (20.61%) JIRA
2 75 (12.67%) Selenium
3 73 (12.33%) Maven
4 72 (12.16%) SonarQube
5 70 (11.82%) GitLab
6 69 (11.66%) Sonatype Nexus
7 67 (11.32%) Cucumber
8 63 (10.64%) Bitbucket
9 45 (7.60%) Git
10 29 (4.90%) Jenkins
11 13 (2.20%) JUnit
12 11 (1.86%) Bitbucket Server
13 10 (1.69%) Mockito
13 10 (1.69%) Vagrant
14 6 (1.01%) DbUnit
14 6 (1.01%) JMeter
14 6 (1.01%) jMock
15 5 (0.84%) Katalon Studio
15 5 (0.84%) Postman
16 3 (0.51%) REST Assured
General
1 231 (39.02%) Finance
2 163 (27.53%) Social Skills
3 96 (16.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 71 (11.99%) Banking
5 62 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
6 57 (9.63%) Retail
7 50 (8.45%) Law
8 36 (6.08%) Public Sector
9 33 (5.57%) Marketing
10 23 (3.89%) Telecoms
11 20 (3.38%) Manufacturing
12 17 (2.87%) Investment Banking
12 17 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (2.70%) Corporate Banking
14 12 (2.03%) Automotive
14 12 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (1.86%) Games
16 10 (1.69%) Aerospace
17 9 (1.52%) Legal
18 7 (1.18%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 117 (19.76%) Developer
2 90 (15.20%) Software Engineer
3 82 (13.85%) Senior
4 72 (12.16%) Lead
5 58 (9.80%) Analyst
6 36 (6.08%) Project Manager
7 28 (4.73%) Senior Developer
8 27 (4.56%) Architect
9 24 (4.05%) Java Developer
10 23 (3.89%) Business Analyst
11 17 (2.87%) Lead Developer
12 15 (2.53%) Data Engineer
12 15 (2.53%) PHP Developer
13 14 (2.36%) IT Manager
14 13 (2.20%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 13 (2.20%) Principal Engineer
15 12 (2.03%) Full-Stack Developer
15 12 (2.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 12 (2.03%) Product Owner
16 11 (1.86%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (18.58%) React
2 100 (16.89%) CSS
2 100 (16.89%) HTML
3 87 (14.70%) Spring
4 83 (14.02%) Spring Boot
5 73 (12.33%) JPA
6 68 (11.49%) Kafka
7 66 (11.15%) Redux
8 61 (10.30%) Hibernate
9 57 (9.63%) .NET
10 39 (6.59%) REST
11 34 (5.74%) RESTful
12 21 (3.55%) HTML5
13 19 (3.21%) Jest
14 18 (3.04%) AngularJS
14 18 (3.04%) CSS3
15 17 (2.87%) Node.js
16 16 (2.70%) .NET Framework
16 16 (2.70%) Sass
17 15 (2.53%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 114 (19.26%) Product Ownership
2 74 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 26 (4.39%) Cloud Native
4 24 (4.05%) Management Information System
5 19 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (2.87%) Robotics
7 16 (2.70%) Blockchain
8 11 (1.86%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.52%) IoT
10 9 (1.52%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.35%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.35%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.18%) Driving Licence
12 7 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.01%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.01%) Legacy Code
13 6 (1.01%) Security Posture
14 5 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 35 (5.91%) Linux
2 28 (4.73%) Windows
3 10 (1.69%) VMS
3 10 (1.69%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.84%) AIX
4 5 (0.84%) Mac OS
4 5 (0.84%) Ubuntu
4 5 (0.84%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.51%) Android
6 3 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.34%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.34%) Unix
8 1 (0.17%) CentOS
8 1 (0.17%) Debian
8 1 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (30.74%) DevOps
2 144 (24.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 139 (23.48%) CI/CD
4 131 (22.13%) SDLC
5 127 (21.45%) Software Engineering
6 106 (17.91%) Test Automation
7 103 (17.40%) Microservices
8 92 (15.54%) Mentoring
9 91 (15.37%) Front End Development
10 90 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
11 89 (15.03%) Full-Stack Development
12 83 (14.02%) Containerisation
12 83 (14.02%) Stakeholder Management
13 82 (13.85%) TDD
14 71 (11.99%) Scrum
15 67 (11.32%) Clean Code
16 65 (10.98%) Performance Optimisation
16 65 (10.98%) Waterfall
17 64 (10.81%) Project Delivery
18 60 (10.14%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 171 (28.89%) SQL
2 140 (23.65%) JavaScript
3 130 (21.96%) Java
4 76 (12.84%) C#
5 57 (9.63%) Python
6 41 (6.93%) TypeScript
7 18 (3.04%) PHP
8 17 (2.87%) PowerShell
9 15 (2.53%) C++
10 14 (2.36%) Groovy
11 9 (1.52%) MATLAB
11 9 (1.52%) Perl
11 9 (1.52%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.01%) Bash
13 5 (0.84%) C
13 5 (0.84%) Go
13 5 (0.84%) Ruby
13 5 (0.84%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.68%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.68%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (11.32%) Degree
2 54 (9.12%) Security Cleared
3 40 (6.76%) SC Cleared
4 24 (4.05%) ACCA
5 22 (3.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.20%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (1.69%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.52%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.18%) CISA
10 7 (1.18%) ISACA
11 6 (1.01%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.84%) CITP
12 5 (0.84%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.84%) MCP
12 5 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.68%) CISSP
13 4 (0.68%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.68%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (16.89%) QA
2 22 (3.72%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.70%) ITGC
4 9 (1.52%) SLA
5 6 (1.01%) PMO
6 5 (0.84%) COBIT
6 5 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (0.84%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.84%) GDPR
6 5 (0.84%) PMBOK
7 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.51%) Automotive SPICE
8 3 (0.51%) ISO 26262
8 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 2 (0.34%) NIST
10 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.17%) DO-254
10 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 102 (17.23%) Docker
2 18 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.68%) DFS Replication
5 4 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.51%) Firmware
7 2 (0.34%) Postfix
7 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.17%) HDFS
8 1 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 90 (15.20%) Kubernetes
2 28 (4.73%) Terraform
3 16 (2.70%) Ansible
4 11 (1.86%) Grafana
5 8 (1.35%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.01%) Nagios
6 6 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.84%) Nessus
8 4 (0.68%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.68%) Proxmox
8 4 (0.68%) Puppet
9 3 (0.51%) Functional Safety
9 3 (0.51%) Kibana
9 3 (0.51%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.34%) SCOM
10 2 (0.34%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.17%) CA Service Virtualization
11 1 (0.17%) Oozie
Vendors
1 65 (10.98%) Microsoft
2 63 (10.64%) Solace
3 25 (4.22%) Oracle
4 23 (3.89%) Salesforce
4 23 (3.89%) SAP
5 14 (2.36%) Google
6 11 (1.86%) Siemens
7 10 (1.69%) Databricks
8 9 (1.52%) Juniper
8 9 (1.52%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.18%) VMware
10 6 (1.01%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.01%) Guidewire
10 6 (1.01%) HP
10 6 (1.01%) IBM
11 5 (0.84%) Meraki
11 5 (0.84%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.84%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.84%) Splunk
12 4 (0.68%) Adobe