Agile Jobs in the Midlands

Agile Software Development
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Agile over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 6 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 967 1,867 2,147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.95% 13.97% 26.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.93% 17.54% 28.11%
Number of salaries quoted 410 1,100 1,150
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,375 £42,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,718 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.12% -1.79% +6.67%
75th Percentile £71,188 £67,653 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £63,500 £65,351
% change year-on-year +6.30% -2.83% +0.54%

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 6,069 10,643 7,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.54% 79.64% 95.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,906 7,032 4,389
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Agile in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Agile in the Midlands

Agile
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 July 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 12 July 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 +2 637 £60,000 +4.35% 428
East Midlands -6 327 £50,000 -4.76% 234
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 94 (9.72%) Confluence
2 12 (1.24%) CMS
3 5 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.41%) Appian
4 4 (0.41%) Headless CMS
4 4 (0.41%) IIS
4 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.41%) WordPress
5 3 (0.31%) Apache
5 3 (0.31%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.10%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.10%) Mendix
7 1 (0.10%) SAS
7 1 (0.10%) Strapi
7 1 (0.10%) Umbraco
Applications
1 154 (15.93%) Simulink
2 34 (3.52%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.21%) EngageOne
7 2 (0.21%) Trello
8 1 (0.10%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (2.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.76%) Dynamics AX
3 9 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.72%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.31%) Shopify
5 3 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.10%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 197 (20.37%) Azure
2 165 (17.06%) AWS
3 73 (7.55%) GCP
4 66 (6.83%) SaaS
5 35 (3.62%) Power Platform
6 34 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
8 24 (2.48%) Serverless
9 21 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
10 20 (2.07%) Amazon S3
11 15 (1.55%) AWS KMS
11 15 (1.55%) Microsoft 365
12 14 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (1.14%) GitHub
14 10 (1.03%) Miro
14 10 (1.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (0.93%) PaaS
15 9 (0.93%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.59%) Firewall
2 14 (1.45%) Broadband
3 12 (1.24%) DNS
4 9 (0.93%) VPN
4 9 (0.93%) WAN
5 8 (0.83%) Network Security
6 7 (0.72%) HTTP
7 6 (0.62%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.52%) DHCP
8 5 (0.52%) Internet
8 5 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (0.52%) LAN
8 5 (0.52%) SSL
9 4 (0.41%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.31%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.31%) MPLS
10 3 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.21%) FTP
11 2 (0.21%) Intranet
11 2 (0.21%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (9.72%) SQL Server
2 35 (3.62%) NoSQL
3 31 (3.21%) MySQL
4 26 (2.69%) Power BI
5 22 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (2.17%) Relational Database
7 18 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (1.24%) DynamoDB
9 11 (1.14%) Big Data
10 9 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (0.93%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (0.83%) Tableau
12 7 (0.72%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.72%) RDBMS
13 6 (0.62%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.52%) Metadata
14 5 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
15 4 (0.41%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 163 (16.86%) JIRA
2 75 (7.76%) Bitbucket
3 74 (7.65%) Maven
4 71 (7.34%) Selenium
5 70 (7.24%) SonarQube
6 69 (7.14%) GitLab
6 69 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 66 (6.83%) Cucumber
8 62 (6.41%) Git
9 26 (2.69%) Jenkins
10 23 (2.38%) JUnit
11 17 (1.76%) Mockito
12 10 (1.03%) Bitbucket Server
13 9 (0.93%) Postman
14 8 (0.83%) Vagrant
15 6 (0.62%) DbUnit
15 6 (0.62%) Eclipse
15 6 (0.62%) Jasmine
15 6 (0.62%) Karma Test Runner
15 6 (0.62%) Protractor
General
1 269 (27.82%) Finance
2 169 (17.48%) Automotive
3 168 (17.37%) Social Skills
4 158 (16.34%) Aerospace
5 104 (10.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 83 (8.58%) Retail
7 82 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
8 73 (7.55%) Banking
9 67 (6.93%) Law
10 56 (5.79%) Presentation Skills
11 42 (4.34%) Telecoms
12 39 (4.03%) Marketing
13 31 (3.21%) Manufacturing
14 30 (3.10%) Public Sector
15 21 (2.17%) Games
16 19 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (1.86%) Investment Banking
18 16 (1.65%) Corporate Banking
18 16 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
19 11 (1.14%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 198 (20.48%) Software Engineer
2 148 (15.31%) Senior
3 139 (14.37%) Systems Engineer
4 127 (13.13%) Developer
5 115 (11.89%) Principal Engineer
6 99 (10.24%) Development Engineer
6 99 (10.24%) Software Development Engineer
7 75 (7.76%) Analyst
8 69 (7.14%) Instrumentation Engineer
9 66 (6.83%) Lead
9 66 (6.83%) Principal Systems Engineer
10 65 (6.72%) Principal Software Engineer
11 53 (5.48%) Senior Software Engineer
12 41 (4.24%) Project Manager
13 36 (3.72%) Senior Development Engineer
13 36 (3.72%) Senior Software Development Engineer
13 36 (3.72%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 32 (3.31%) Business Analyst
15 29 (3.00%) Java Developer
16 27 (2.79%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (13.34%) React
2 107 (11.07%) CSS
3 99 (10.24%) HTML
4 84 (8.69%) Spring
5 79 (8.17%) Spring Boot
6 78 (8.07%) JPA
7 73 (7.55%) .NET
8 69 (7.14%) Kafka
9 65 (6.72%) Hibernate
9 65 (6.72%) Redux
10 40 (4.14%) RESTful
11 39 (4.03%) REST
12 28 (2.90%) AngularJS
13 26 (2.69%) Node.js
14 23 (2.38%) HTML5
14 23 (2.38%) Jest
15 19 (1.96%) CSS3
16 17 (1.76%) Sass
17 16 (1.65%) .NET Core
17 16 (1.65%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 113 (11.69%) Product Ownership
2 68 (7.03%) Enterprise Software
3 37 (3.83%) Robotics
4 35 (3.62%) Blockchain
5 31 (3.21%) Management Information System
6 25 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (1.76%) Cloud Native
7 17 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (1.45%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.14%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.03%) Virtual Team
12 9 (0.93%) Algorithms
12 9 (0.93%) Data Structures
12 9 (0.93%) Driving Licence
12 9 (0.93%) IoT
13 8 (0.83%) Data Centre
13 8 (0.83%) Embedded Systems
14 7 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 59 (6.10%) Linux
2 32 (3.31%) Windows
3 10 (1.03%) Android
3 10 (1.03%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.83%) VMS
4 8 (0.83%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.72%) Unix
6 5 (0.52%) AIX
6 5 (0.52%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.21%) CentOS
9 2 (0.21%) Debian
9 2 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (30.71%) Software Engineering
2 288 (29.78%) Software Testing
3 238 (24.61%) SDLC
4 201 (20.79%) Systems Engineering
5 176 (18.20%) Waterfall
6 174 (17.99%) DevOps
7 171 (17.68%) Validation
8 159 (16.44%) CI/CD
9 139 (14.37%) Mentoring
10 133 (13.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 115 (11.89%) Problem-Solving
12 105 (10.86%) Microservices
13 101 (10.44%) Front End Development
13 101 (10.44%) Test Automation
14 96 (9.93%) Containerisation
15 91 (9.41%) Roadmaps
16 87 (9.00%) Scrum
17 86 (8.89%) Full-Stack Development
17 86 (8.89%) Stakeholder Management
18 84 (8.69%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 193 (19.96%) MATLAB
2 186 (19.23%) SQL
3 152 (15.72%) JavaScript
4 138 (14.27%) Java
5 91 (9.41%) C#
6 64 (6.62%) Python
7 42 (4.34%) TypeScript
8 29 (3.00%) PHP
9 22 (2.28%) C++
10 14 (1.45%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.24%) Shell Script
12 11 (1.14%) Bash
12 11 (1.14%) Go
13 10 (1.03%) Groovy
14 7 (0.72%) Perl
14 7 (0.72%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.62%) C
16 5 (0.52%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.41%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.41%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 319 (32.99%) BPSS Clearance
2 223 (23.06%) Degree
3 49 (5.07%) Security Cleared
4 32 (3.31%) SC Cleared
5 24 (2.48%) ACCA
6 20 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (1.76%) CISA
7 17 (1.76%) ISACA
8 12 (1.24%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.14%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.83%) PMI Certification
10 8 (0.83%) PMP
11 7 (0.72%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.72%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.72%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.62%) CISM
12 6 (0.62%) CISSP
13 5 (0.52%) CITP
13 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.52%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (10.75%) QA
2 35 (3.62%) ITGC
3 24 (2.48%) Accessibility
4 14 (1.45%) SLA
5 12 (1.24%) PMO
6 9 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.72%) GDPR
8 6 (0.62%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.52%) Automotive SPICE
9 5 (0.52%) ISO 26262
9 5 (0.52%) PMBOK
10 4 (0.41%) COBIT
11 2 (0.21%) GRC
12 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.10%) DO-254
12 1 (0.10%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.10%) NIST
System Software
1 114 (11.79%) Docker
2 15 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.41%) DFS Replication
5 4 (0.41%) Firmware
5 4 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.21%) Postfix
6 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.10%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.10%) HDFS
7 1 (0.10%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 95 (9.82%) Kubernetes
2 30 (3.10%) Ansible
3 26 (2.69%) Terraform
4 12 (1.24%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.03%) Grafana
6 5 (0.52%) Functional Safety
6 5 (0.52%) HP ALM
6 5 (0.52%) Nessus
7 4 (0.41%) Argo
7 4 (0.41%) Kustomize
7 4 (0.41%) Nagios
7 4 (0.41%) Proxmox
7 4 (0.41%) Puppet
7 4 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.31%) Kibana
8 3 (0.31%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (0.21%) SCOM
9 2 (0.21%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.10%) Oozie
Vendors
1 115 (11.89%) Siemens
2 82 (8.48%) Microsoft
3 63 (6.51%) Solace
4 40 (4.14%) Oracle
5 34 (3.52%) SAP
6 29 (3.00%) Salesforce
7 19 (1.96%) Google
8 17 (1.76%) Atlassian
9 11 (1.14%) IBM
10 10 (1.03%) Databricks
10 10 (1.03%) ServiceNow
11 8 (0.83%) Juniper
12 7 (0.72%) VMware
13 6 (0.62%) Guidewire
13 6 (0.62%) HP
13 6 (0.62%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.52%) Cisco
14 5 (0.52%) Meraki
14 5 (0.52%) Okta
14 5 (0.52%) Red Hat