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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 5 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 958 1,803 3,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.64% 15.17% 32.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.89% 18.50% 33.71%
Number of salaries quoted 399 1,291 1,233
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,528 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% +3.22%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,786 £78,350
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% +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 6,435 9,747 8,963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.65% 81.99% 96.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,650 7,159 4,536
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,834 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,290 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -1 621 £60,000 +4.35% 419
East Midlands -7 334 £47,683 -9.18% 237
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
1 100 (10.44%) Confluence
2 13 (1.36%) CMS
3 7 (0.73%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.42%) Headless CMS
4 4 (0.42%) WordPress
5 3 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.21%) Apache
6 2 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.10%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.10%) IIS
7 1 (0.10%) Mendix
7 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.10%) Strapi
7 1 (0.10%) Umbraco
Applications
1 205 (21.40%) Simulink
2 24 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.52%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.42%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 4 (0.42%) Trello
8 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.21%) EngageOne
9 1 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 22 (2.30%) Dynamics AX
2 17 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (1.25%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.73%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.21%) Shopify
6 1 (0.10%) Maximo
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 203 (21.19%) Azure
2 157 (16.39%) AWS
3 72 (7.52%) SaaS
4 64 (6.68%) GCP
5 35 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (3.44%) Power Platform
7 24 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
7 24 (2.51%) Serverless
8 16 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (1.46%) Amazon S3
10 13 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (1.25%) PowerApps
12 9 (0.94%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (0.84%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (0.84%) AWS KMS
13 8 (0.84%) Miro
14 7 (0.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (0.73%) GitHub
14 7 (0.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.36%) Firewall
2 12 (1.25%) Broadband
3 9 (0.94%) DNS
4 7 (0.73%) WAN
5 6 (0.63%) SD-WAN
6 5 (0.52%) HTTP
6 5 (0.52%) SSL
6 5 (0.52%) VPN
7 4 (0.42%) DHCP
7 4 (0.42%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.31%) LAN
8 3 (0.31%) Wireless
9 2 (0.21%) Bluetooth
9 2 (0.21%) GSM
9 2 (0.21%) Intranet
9 2 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.21%) J1939
9 2 (0.21%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.21%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (10.44%) SQL Server
2 48 (5.01%) MySQL
3 44 (4.59%) NoSQL
4 35 (3.65%) Relational Database
5 18 (1.88%) Power BI
6 14 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (1.25%) MongoDB
8 11 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (0.84%) Big Data
10 8 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.63%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.63%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.52%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.52%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.52%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (0.42%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 177 (18.48%) JIRA
2 92 (9.60%) Bitbucket
3 72 (7.52%) Selenium
4 68 (7.10%) Git
4 68 (7.10%) GitLab
4 68 (7.10%) Maven
5 66 (6.89%) SonarQube
5 66 (6.89%) Sonatype Nexus
6 64 (6.68%) Cucumber
7 26 (2.71%) JUnit
8 22 (2.30%) Mockito
9 17 (1.77%) Eclipse
9 17 (1.77%) IntelliJ
9 17 (1.77%) Jasmine
9 17 (1.77%) Karma Test Runner
9 17 (1.77%) Protractor
10 15 (1.57%) Jenkins
11 9 (0.94%) Postman
12 6 (0.63%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 221 (23.07%) Automotive
2 220 (22.96%) Finance
3 208 (21.71%) Aerospace
4 134 (13.99%) Social Skills
5 90 (9.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 85 (8.87%) Retail
7 75 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
7 75 (7.83%) Banking
8 63 (6.58%) Law
9 59 (6.16%) Presentation Skills
10 49 (5.11%) Telecoms
11 35 (3.65%) Marketing
12 34 (3.55%) Manufacturing
13 30 (3.13%) Games
14 25 (2.61%) Public Sector
15 19 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
16 18 (1.88%) Investment Banking
17 16 (1.67%) Corporate Banking
18 11 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
19 9 (0.94%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 192 (20.04%) Software Engineer
2 165 (17.22%) Systems Engineer
3 150 (15.66%) Senior
4 141 (14.72%) Principal Engineer
5 115 (12.00%) Developer
6 99 (10.33%) Development Engineer
6 99 (10.33%) Software Development Engineer
7 68 (7.10%) Analyst
8 66 (6.89%) Lead
8 66 (6.89%) Principal Systems Engineer
9 65 (6.78%) Principal Software Engineer
10 55 (5.74%) Senior Software Engineer
11 38 (3.97%) Project Manager
12 36 (3.76%) Senior Development Engineer
12 36 (3.76%) Senior Software Development Engineer
12 36 (3.76%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 35 (3.65%) Business Analyst
14 29 (3.03%) Java Developer
15 23 (2.40%) Architect
15 23 (2.40%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (14.51%) React
2 102 (10.65%) CSS
3 93 (9.71%) HTML
4 88 (9.19%) .NET
5 85 (8.87%) JPA
6 72 (7.52%) Spring
7 70 (7.31%) Redux
8 69 (7.20%) Spring Boot
9 68 (7.10%) Hibernate
10 66 (6.89%) Kafka
11 38 (3.97%) RESTful
12 36 (3.76%) AngularJS
13 34 (3.55%) REST
14 31 (3.24%) Node.js
15 26 (2.71%) Jest
16 25 (2.61%) HTML5
17 20 (2.09%) CSS3
18 19 (1.98%) .NET Core
18 19 (1.98%) RabbitMQ
18 19 (1.98%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 101 (10.54%) Product Ownership
2 69 (7.20%) Enterprise Software
3 46 (4.80%) Robotics
4 45 (4.70%) Blockchain
5 30 (3.13%) Management Information System
6 22 (2.30%) Algorithms
7 18 (1.88%) Mobile App
8 15 (1.57%) Onboarding
9 13 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.04%) Virtual Team
11 9 (0.94%) Driving Licence
12 8 (0.84%) Cloud Native
13 7 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
13 7 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
13 7 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.73%) Legacy Code
13 7 (0.73%) Taxonomies
14 6 (0.63%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 74 (7.72%) Linux
2 45 (4.70%) Windows
3 12 (1.25%) Android
3 12 (1.25%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.63%) Unix
5 5 (0.52%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.52%) VMS
6 3 (0.31%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.21%) CentOS
7 2 (0.21%) Debian
7 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.10%) AIX
8 1 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (33.40%) Software Engineering
2 295 (30.79%) Software Testing
3 277 (28.91%) Systems Engineering
4 219 (22.86%) Validation
5 192 (20.04%) SDLC
6 167 (17.43%) CI/CD
7 161 (16.81%) DevOps
8 148 (15.45%) Mentoring
9 132 (13.78%) Waterfall
10 118 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
11 113 (11.80%) Microservices
12 107 (11.17%) Continuous Improvement
13 101 (10.54%) Containerisation
13 101 (10.54%) Test Automation
14 95 (9.92%) Front End Development
15 94 (9.81%) Roadmaps
16 93 (9.71%) Coaching
16 93 (9.71%) Project Management
16 93 (9.71%) Scrum
17 88 (9.19%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 254 (26.51%) MATLAB
2 171 (17.85%) SQL
3 152 (15.87%) JavaScript
4 130 (13.57%) Java
5 101 (10.54%) C#
6 58 (6.05%) TypeScript
7 52 (5.43%) Python
8 32 (3.34%) PHP
9 21 (2.19%) C++
10 11 (1.15%) Go
11 9 (0.94%) PowerShell
12 8 (0.84%) Bash
12 8 (0.84%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.73%) C
13 7 (0.73%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.52%) Perl
14 5 (0.52%) Rust
15 4 (0.42%) Groovy
15 4 (0.42%) Ruby
15 4 (0.42%) Swift
Qualifications
1 355 (37.06%) BPSS Clearance
2 197 (20.56%) Degree
3 27 (2.82%) Security Cleared
4 23 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.30%) CISA
5 22 (2.30%) ISACA
6 14 (1.46%) PMP
7 13 (1.36%) SC Cleared
8 11 (1.15%) PMI Certification
9 10 (1.04%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.84%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.73%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.63%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.52%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.52%) CISSP
13 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.42%) ISEB
14 4 (0.42%) PhD
15 2 (0.21%) CISM
15 2 (0.21%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (11.38%) QA
2 45 (4.70%) ITGC
3 22 (2.30%) Accessibility
4 16 (1.67%) PMO
5 15 (1.57%) SLA
6 10 (1.04%) GDPR
7 9 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.73%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.63%) Automotive SPICE
10 5 (0.52%) PMBOK
11 4 (0.42%) ISO 26262
12 2 (0.21%) AUTOSAR
12 2 (0.21%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.21%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.21%) NIST
13 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.10%) GRC
13 1 (0.10%) P3O
13 1 (0.10%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 113 (11.80%) Docker
2 11 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.42%) Firmware
4 4 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.10%) DFS Replication
5 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.10%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 84 (8.77%) Kubernetes
2 43 (4.49%) Ansible
3 16 (1.67%) Terraform
4 8 (0.84%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.52%) HP ALM
5 5 (0.52%) Nessus
6 4 (0.42%) Argo
6 4 (0.42%) Functional Safety
6 4 (0.42%) Grafana
6 4 (0.42%) Kustomize
6 4 (0.42%) Nagios
6 4 (0.42%) Proxmox
6 4 (0.42%) Puppet
6 4 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.31%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.21%) SCOM
9 1 (0.10%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.10%) Marathon
Vendors
1 81 (8.46%) Microsoft
2 72 (7.52%) Siemens
3 63 (6.58%) Solace
4 43 (4.49%) Oracle
5 35 (3.65%) SAP
6 31 (3.24%) Salesforce
7 29 (3.03%) Atlassian
8 21 (2.19%) IBM
9 14 (1.46%) Google
10 13 (1.36%) Databricks
11 10 (1.04%) ServiceNow
12 7 (0.73%) MuleSoft
12 7 (0.73%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.63%) Juniper
14 5 (0.52%) HP
14 5 (0.52%) Meraki
14 5 (0.52%) VMware
15 4 (0.42%) Cisco
15 4 (0.42%) Facebook
15 4 (0.42%) Okta