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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 13 7
Rank change year-on-year -6 -6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 760 575 1,203
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.84% 10.24% 12.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.93% 11.91% 15.25%
Number of salaries quoted 462 343 501
10th Percentile £37,550 £37,500 £36,796
25th Percentile £46,385 £50,175 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £69,800
90th Percentile £84,750 £78,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -

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 10,964 4,826 7,886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.84% 85.96% 79.31%
Number of salaries quoted 7,784 2,862 3,839
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.98% -6.40%

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 September 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 September 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 -10 499 £55,000 -8.33% 460
East Midlands -3 260 £55,000 -8.33% 243
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 19 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.24%) Confluence
3 14 (1.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (0.66%) SAS
5 4 (0.53%) CMS
5 4 (0.53%) PowerFactory
6 3 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.39%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.13%) Apache
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.13%) Documentum
7 1 (0.13%) IIS
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 36 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (3.95%) Microsoft Project
3 15 (1.97%) MS Visio
4 13 (1.71%) Simulink
5 8 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.53%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.53%) Revit
8 3 (0.39%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.13%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 33 (4.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (3.29%) Primavera
2 25 (3.29%) SAP EHS
3 6 (0.79%) Infor M3
3 6 (0.79%) Oracle Applications
4 4 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.39%) Shopify
6 2 (0.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.13%) Magento
7 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.13%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 241 (31.71%) Azure
2 163 (21.45%) AWS
3 90 (11.84%) Power Platform
4 60 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
5 52 (6.84%) Power Automate
6 48 (6.32%) SaaS
7 44 (5.79%) Dynamics 365
7 44 (5.79%) PowerApps
8 31 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
8 31 (4.08%) Serverless
9 25 (3.29%) Smartsheet
10 18 (2.37%) GCP
11 14 (1.84%) Amazon S3
11 14 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (1.84%) IaaS
12 11 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (1.45%) Azure Functions
12 11 (1.45%) GitHub
12 11 (1.45%) PaaS
13 10 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.18%) Wireshark
2 6 (0.79%) DNS
2 6 (0.79%) Internet
2 6 (0.79%) LAN
2 6 (0.79%) WAN
3 5 (0.66%) Network Security
4 4 (0.53%) Firewall
5 3 (0.39%) HTTP
5 3 (0.39%) Profibus
5 3 (0.39%) VPN
6 2 (0.26%) Hyperconnected
6 2 (0.26%) SMS
6 2 (0.26%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.26%) VoIP
7 1 (0.13%) DHCP
7 1 (0.13%) FTP
7 1 (0.13%) RTP
7 1 (0.13%) SNMP
7 1 (0.13%) SS7
7 1 (0.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (9.34%) Power BI
2 53 (6.97%) MongoDB
3 46 (6.05%) Azure SQL Database
4 34 (4.47%) SQL Server
5 23 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
6 14 (1.84%) NoSQL
7 13 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (1.71%) Power Query
8 12 (1.58%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.18%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.18%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
12 7 (0.92%) MySQL
13 6 (0.79%) Metadata
13 6 (0.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 5 (0.66%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 62 (8.16%) Git
2 55 (7.24%) JIRA
3 24 (3.16%) GitLab
4 22 (2.89%) JUnit
5 21 (2.76%) Cucumber
6 18 (2.37%) Postman
6 18 (2.37%) Selenium
7 17 (2.24%) Jenkins
7 17 (2.24%) Maven
8 14 (1.84%) Gatling
8 14 (1.84%) Mockito
9 11 (1.45%) Zephyr
10 10 (1.32%) JMeter
11 9 (1.18%) Eclipse
11 9 (1.18%) Subversion
12 8 (1.05%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.79%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.66%) REST Assured
14 5 (0.66%) SoapUI
15 4 (0.53%) Storybook
General
1 234 (30.79%) Social Skills
2 181 (23.82%) Finance
3 117 (15.39%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (11.84%) Public Sector
5 47 (6.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 43 (5.66%) Retail
7 40 (5.26%) Legal
8 38 (5.00%) Manufacturing
9 33 (4.34%) Influencing Skills
10 31 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
11 25 (3.29%) Law
12 22 (2.89%) Electronics
12 22 (2.89%) Marketing
13 18 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (2.11%) Banking
15 11 (1.45%) Fire and Rescue
15 11 (1.45%) Games
16 9 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
17 8 (1.05%) Aerospace
18 7 (0.92%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 180 (23.68%) Developer
2 132 (17.37%) Senior
3 131 (17.24%) Lead
4 61 (8.03%) Analyst
5 60 (7.89%) Architect
6 49 (6.45%) Project Manager
7 48 (6.32%) .NET Developer
8 43 (5.66%) Software Engineer
9 41 (5.39%) Business Analyst
10 37 (4.87%) Senior Developer
11 34 (4.47%) Delivery Manager
12 29 (3.82%) Power Platform Developer
13 21 (2.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 20 (2.63%) Data Engineer
14 20 (2.63%) Full-Stack Developer
15 19 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
16 18 (2.37%) Software Developer
17 17 (2.24%) React Developer
17 17 (2.24%) Senior Manager
18 16 (2.11%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (14.21%) .NET
2 83 (10.92%) React
3 56 (7.37%) ASP.NET
4 53 (6.97%) REST
5 51 (6.71%) .NET Core
6 50 (6.58%) ASP.NET Core
7 44 (5.79%) Node.js
8 39 (5.13%) CSS
9 35 (4.61%) HTML
10 34 (4.47%) Terraform
11 32 (4.21%) Playwright
12 24 (3.16%) ASP.NET Web API
12 24 (3.16%) Entity Framework
13 23 (3.03%) Spring
14 21 (2.76%) Blazor
15 20 (2.63%) JSON
16 19 (2.50%) RESTful
17 18 (2.37%) XML
18 16 (2.11%) LINQ
19 15 (1.97%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 39 (5.13%) Product Ownership
2 33 (4.34%) Enterprise Software
3 30 (3.95%) PMI
4 26 (3.42%) Cloud Native
4 26 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (3.29%) Management Information System
6 23 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
7 22 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
8 20 (2.63%) Mobile App
9 19 (2.50%) Onboarding
10 15 (1.97%) Driving Licence
11 14 (1.84%) Virtual Team
12 13 (1.71%) AI Agents
13 12 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
15 9 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
15 9 (1.18%) Taxonomies
16 8 (1.05%) Data Structures
16 8 (1.05%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 37 (4.87%) Linux
2 13 (1.71%) Windows
3 9 (1.18%) Unix
4 6 (0.79%) Android
5 4 (0.53%) Kali Linux
5 4 (0.53%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.26%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (27.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 168 (22.11%) Problem-Solving
3 164 (21.58%) Mentoring
4 152 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 146 (19.21%) Stakeholder Management
6 135 (17.76%) AI
7 130 (17.11%) DevOps
8 116 (15.26%) Scrum
9 113 (14.87%) Decision-Making
10 106 (13.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 98 (12.89%) Coaching
12 95 (12.50%) Project Management
13 88 (11.58%) Full-Stack Development
14 84 (11.05%) Software Engineering
15 82 (10.79%) Business Intelligence
15 82 (10.79%) Roadmaps
16 76 (10.00%) SDLC
17 75 (9.87%) ERP
18 74 (9.74%) Analytics
19 72 (9.47%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 171 (22.50%) SQL
2 137 (18.03%) C#
3 97 (12.76%) JavaScript
4 82 (10.79%) Java
5 62 (8.16%) TypeScript
6 53 (6.97%) Python
7 21 (2.76%) PL/SQL
8 19 (2.50%) Bash
9 17 (2.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 15 (1.97%) C++
11 14 (1.84%) MATLAB
12 13 (1.71%) C
13 12 (1.58%) PowerShell
14 9 (1.18%) Embedded C
15 8 (1.05%) PHP
16 5 (0.66%) Perl
17 4 (0.53%) R
17 4 (0.53%) RPG
17 4 (0.53%) RPG IV
17 4 (0.53%) RPG/400
Qualifications
1 135 (17.76%) Degree
2 120 (15.79%) Security Cleared
3 112 (14.74%) SC Cleared
4 46 (6.05%) PMI Certification
5 30 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (3.03%) Azure Certification
7 21 (2.76%) PMP
8 18 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (1.71%) Master's Degree
10 12 (1.58%) DV Cleared
10 12 (1.58%) ISTQB
11 11 (1.45%) ISEB
12 7 (0.92%) AWS Certification
12 7 (0.92%) CISSP
13 6 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
13 6 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (0.66%) CISM
15 4 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.53%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (9.08%) QA
2 59 (7.76%) Accessibility
3 35 (4.61%) Data Quality
4 33 (4.34%) GDPR
5 17 (2.24%) WCAG
6 12 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.45%) PMO
8 8 (1.05%) GRC
9 5 (0.66%) NCSC
10 4 (0.53%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.39%) IEC 61131
11 3 (0.39%) NIST
11 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.39%) SLA
12 2 (0.26%) COBIT
12 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 54 (7.11%) Docker
2 14 (1.84%) Embedded Firmware
2 14 (1.84%) Firmware
3 3 (0.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 61 (8.03%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.66%) Ansible
4 4 (0.53%) Grafana
4 4 (0.53%) HP Fortify
5 2 (0.26%) Bosun
5 2 (0.26%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.26%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.26%) Puppet
6 1 (0.13%) Argo
6 1 (0.13%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 159 (20.92%) Microsoft
2 50 (6.58%) SAP
3 39 (5.13%) Oracle
4 24 (3.16%) ServiceNow
5 20 (2.63%) Salesforce
6 13 (1.71%) Databricks
6 13 (1.71%) Google
7 11 (1.45%) Pega
8 10 (1.32%) IFS
8 10 (1.32%) Infor
8 10 (1.32%) Workday
8 10 (1.32%) YouTube
9 8 (1.05%) MuleSoft
10 6 (0.79%) Cisco
10 6 (0.79%) Veracode
11 5 (0.66%) Altera
11 5 (0.66%) Facebook
11 5 (0.66%) Microsemi
11 5 (0.66%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.66%) Xilinx