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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 10 7
Rank change year-on-year -9 -3 -5
Permanent jobs citing Agile 716 652 1,524
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.25% 11.53% 13.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.52% 13.50% 16.60%
Number of salaries quoted 483 394 853
10th Percentile £34,565 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,313 £43,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,875 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.97% +5.23% -1.79%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,375 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -0.54%

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 9,522 4,831 9,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.79% 85.43% 78.54%
Number of salaries quoted 6,769 2,911 5,853
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,443 £77,500 £75,772
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -11.29%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -12 430 £55,000 -8.33% 162
East Midlands +1 285 £55,000 -3.08% 99
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 31 (4.33%) Confluence
2 11 (1.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 10 (1.40%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.84%) CMS
5 5 (0.70%) SAS
6 4 (0.56%) PowerFactory
7 3 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.42%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.42%) IIS
8 2 (0.28%) Apache
8 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.14%) Documentum
9 1 (0.14%) Drupal
9 1 (0.14%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.26%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.56%) AutoCAD
5 4 (0.56%) Revit
5 4 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.28%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.14%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 18 (2.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.84%) Oracle Applications
4 4 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.56%) Primavera
4 4 (0.56%) SAP EHS
5 3 (0.42%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.14%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 217 (30.31%) Azure
2 136 (18.99%) AWS
3 69 (9.64%) Power Platform
4 56 (7.82%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (4.89%) Power Automate
5 35 (4.89%) PowerApps
6 34 (4.75%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (4.61%) SaaS
8 29 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
9 24 (3.35%) Serverless
10 18 (2.51%) GCP
11 15 (2.09%) IaaS
12 13 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (1.68%) PaaS
14 11 (1.54%) Amazon S3
14 11 (1.54%) Microsoft Copilot
15 10 (1.40%) Azure Logic Apps
16 9 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
16 9 (1.26%) Azure AKS
16 9 (1.26%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.26%) DNS
2 4 (0.56%) Internet
3 3 (0.42%) HTTP
3 3 (0.42%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.28%) Firewall
4 2 (0.28%) LAN
4 2 (0.28%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.28%) VoIP
4 2 (0.28%) WAN
5 1 (0.14%) Broadband
5 1 (0.14%) DHCP
5 1 (0.14%) FTP
5 1 (0.14%) Intranet
5 1 (0.14%) RTP
5 1 (0.14%) SNMP
5 1 (0.14%) SS7
5 1 (0.14%) SSL
5 1 (0.14%) VPN
5 1 (0.14%) Wireless
5 1 (0.14%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (7.54%) Power BI
2 50 (6.98%) MongoDB
3 45 (6.28%) Azure SQL Database
4 26 (3.63%) SQL Server
5 25 (3.49%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (1.40%) MySQL
7 10 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (1.26%) DynamoDB
8 9 (1.26%) NoSQL
9 7 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
9 7 (0.98%) Power Query
9 7 (0.98%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.84%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 5 (0.70%) NonStop SQL
11 5 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.56%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.42%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 56 (7.82%) JIRA
2 34 (4.75%) Git
3 19 (2.65%) Cucumber
3 19 (2.65%) Selenium
4 18 (2.51%) JUnit
5 16 (2.23%) GitLab
5 16 (2.23%) Postman
6 13 (1.82%) Maven
7 12 (1.68%) Gatling
8 11 (1.54%) Jenkins
8 11 (1.54%) Mockito
8 11 (1.54%) XCUITest
9 10 (1.40%) JMeter
9 10 (1.40%) Zephyr
10 7 (0.98%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.70%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.70%) SoapUI
12 4 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
12 4 (0.56%) TestRail
12 4 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 204 (28.49%) Social Skills
2 179 (25.00%) Finance
3 91 (12.71%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (9.08%) Public Sector
5 41 (5.73%) Retail
6 40 (5.59%) Law
7 38 (5.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (4.89%) Influencing Skills
9 23 (3.21%) Manufacturing
10 20 (2.79%) Legal
11 18 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (2.09%) Banking
13 13 (1.82%) Marketing
14 12 (1.68%) Advertising
14 12 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
15 9 (1.26%) Games
15 9 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.70%) Fire and Rescue
17 4 (0.56%) Aerospace
18 3 (0.42%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 144 (20.11%) Developer
2 129 (18.02%) Senior
3 92 (12.85%) Analyst
4 81 (11.31%) Lead
5 53 (7.40%) .NET Developer
6 49 (6.84%) Project Manager
7 48 (6.70%) Business Analyst
8 46 (6.42%) Delivery Manager
9 44 (6.15%) Architect
10 33 (4.61%) Software Engineer
11 32 (4.47%) Senior Manager
12 29 (4.05%) Senior Analyst
13 21 (2.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 20 (2.79%) Software Developer
15 19 (2.65%) Account Manager
15 19 (2.65%) Digital Analyst
16 18 (2.51%) Change Manager
16 18 (2.51%) IT Manager
16 18 (2.51%) Senior Developer
17 17 (2.37%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (13.97%) .NET
2 77 (10.75%) React
3 55 (7.68%) ASP.NET
4 52 (7.26%) ASP.NET Core
5 50 (6.98%) .NET Core
6 41 (5.73%) Node.js
7 36 (5.03%) CSS
7 36 (5.03%) REST
8 32 (4.47%) HTML
9 26 (3.63%) Playwright
10 25 (3.49%) Entity Framework
11 24 (3.35%) ASP.NET Web API
12 23 (3.21%) RESTful
13 22 (3.07%) Blazor
14 17 (2.37%) Spring
15 16 (2.23%) LINQ
16 15 (2.09%) Next.js
17 13 (1.82%) AngularJS
17 13 (1.82%) AWS CDK
18 10 (1.40%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 56 (7.82%) Product Ownership
2 32 (4.47%) Enterprise Software
3 31 (4.33%) Greenfield Project
4 26 (3.63%) Mobile App
5 25 (3.49%) Cloud Native
6 16 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (1.96%) Management Information System
8 12 (1.68%) AI Agents
9 11 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (1.26%) Cyber Defence
11 9 (1.26%) Driving Licence
11 9 (1.26%) Low-Code
11 9 (1.26%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.12%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.70%) IoT
14 5 (0.70%) Mobile Computing
14 5 (0.70%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.21%) Linux
2 17 (2.37%) Windows
3 11 (1.54%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.26%) Android
5 5 (0.70%) Unix
6 4 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.42%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 175 (24.44%) Mentoring
3 137 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
4 136 (18.99%) CI/CD
5 122 (17.04%) Coaching
6 117 (16.34%) DevOps
7 116 (16.20%) Stakeholder Management
8 96 (13.41%) Scrum
9 91 (12.71%) AI
9 91 (12.71%) Test Automation
10 87 (12.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 84 (11.73%) Full-Stack Development
12 78 (10.89%) Decision-Making
13 76 (10.61%) Roadmaps
14 68 (9.50%) Analytics
14 68 (9.50%) Microservices
15 65 (9.08%) Business Intelligence
16 64 (8.94%) Business Strategy
17 61 (8.52%) Waterfall
18 60 (8.38%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 159 (22.21%) SQL
2 127 (17.74%) C#
3 82 (11.45%) JavaScript
4 60 (8.38%) Java
5 59 (8.24%) TypeScript
6 40 (5.59%) Python
7 18 (2.51%) PL/SQL
8 17 (2.37%) Bash
9 16 (2.23%) PHP
10 15 (2.09%) C++
10 15 (2.09%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.56%) RPG
12 4 (0.56%) RPG IV
12 4 (0.56%) RPG/400
12 4 (0.56%) Swift
13 3 (0.42%) C
14 2 (0.28%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.28%) R
14 2 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 81 (11.31%) Degree
2 65 (9.08%) Security Cleared
3 59 (8.24%) SC Cleared
4 19 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (2.65%) PMI Certification
5 17 (2.37%) PMP
6 14 (1.96%) Azure Certification
7 12 (1.68%) CISSP
7 12 (1.68%) ISTQB
7 12 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (1.54%) ISEB
8 11 (1.54%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.12%) DV Cleared
10 7 (0.98%) CISA
10 7 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (0.98%) SSCP
11 6 (0.84%) Oracle Certification
12 5 (0.70%) CISM
13 4 (0.56%) CITP
13 4 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (11.73%) QA
2 53 (7.40%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.65%) GDPR
4 17 (2.37%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.96%) NIST
6 11 (1.54%) SLA
7 10 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (1.12%) PMO
8 8 (1.12%) WCAG
9 7 (0.98%) GRC
9 7 (0.98%) ITGC
10 3 (0.42%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.28%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.14%) NCSC
12 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (5.87%) Docker
2 5 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.28%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 53 (7.40%) Kubernetes
2 22 (3.07%) Terraform
3 10 (1.40%) Grafana
4 3 (0.42%) HP ALM
4 3 (0.42%) HP Fortify
5 2 (0.28%) Ansible
5 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.14%) Argo
6 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 133 (18.58%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.03%) Oracle
3 26 (3.63%) SAP
4 17 (2.37%) ServiceNow
5 16 (2.23%) Salesforce
6 12 (1.68%) Google
7 10 (1.40%) Databricks
8 9 (1.26%) IBM
9 8 (1.12%) IFS
10 6 (0.84%) OpenAI
10 6 (0.84%) Pega
11 5 (0.70%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.70%) Facebook
11 5 (0.70%) YouTube
12 4 (0.56%) Apple
12 4 (0.56%) DIgSILENT
12 4 (0.56%) dotdigital
12 4 (0.56%) Infor
12 4 (0.56%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.56%) Workday