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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 10 4
Rank change year-on-year -23 -6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 667 588 1,779
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.02% 12.05% 14.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.92% 13.47% 17.82%
Number of salaries quoted 455 333 1,278
10th Percentile £34,612 £31,250 £35,683
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -7.41%

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 9,635 4,366 9,984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 72.52% 89.47% 80.28%
Number of salaries quoted 5,885 2,375 7,358
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,897 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,959 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £49,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.08% +3.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,200
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -22 409 £59,720 +3.19% 176
East Midlands +15 257 £55,000 - 85
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 41 (6.15%) Confluence
2 12 (1.80%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.35%) CMS
4 7 (1.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.75%) SAS
6 4 (0.60%) nginx
6 4 (0.60%) PowerFactory
7 3 (0.45%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.45%) IIS
8 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.15%) Apache
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.15%) Drupal
Applications
1 11 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (1.35%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.75%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.60%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.60%) AutoCAD
6 4 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.60%) Revit
6 4 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.15%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.90%) Workday HCM
2 4 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.60%) Shopify
3 2 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.30%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.15%) Maximo
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.15%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 200 (29.99%) Azure
2 105 (15.74%) AWS
3 53 (7.95%) Azure DevOps
4 50 (7.50%) Power Platform
5 26 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (3.90%) SaaS
6 20 (3.00%) Serverless
7 18 (2.70%) GCP
8 16 (2.40%) IaaS
9 15 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
9 15 (2.25%) PowerApps
10 13 (1.95%) PaaS
11 12 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (1.80%) Power Automate
12 10 (1.50%) Amazon S3
12 10 (1.50%) Entra ID
13 9 (1.35%) Azure AKS
13 9 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
13 9 (1.35%) Microsoft Copilot
14 8 (1.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.65%) DNS
2 4 (0.60%) WAN
3 3 (0.45%) Broadband
3 3 (0.45%) LAN
4 2 (0.30%) Firewall
5 1 (0.15%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.15%) DHCP
5 1 (0.15%) FTP
5 1 (0.15%) HTTP
5 1 (0.15%) Internet
5 1 (0.15%) Intranet
5 1 (0.15%) RFID
5 1 (0.15%) RTP
5 1 (0.15%) SNMP
5 1 (0.15%) SS7
5 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.15%) VoIP
5 1 (0.15%) VPN
5 1 (0.15%) Wireless
5 1 (0.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (4.80%) Power BI
2 25 (3.75%) MongoDB
3 23 (3.45%) SQL Server
4 19 (2.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 15 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (1.80%) Data Lake
6 12 (1.80%) MySQL
7 11 (1.65%) NoSQL
8 10 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (1.05%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.75%) Metadata
11 5 (0.75%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.60%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.45%) Pentaho
14 2 (0.30%) Looker
14 2 (0.30%) NonStop SQL
14 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 71 (10.64%) JIRA
2 33 (4.95%) Git
3 16 (2.40%) JUnit
4 13 (1.95%) Cucumber
4 13 (1.95%) Maven
4 13 (1.95%) Mockito
5 12 (1.80%) Selenium
6 11 (1.65%) XCUITest
7 10 (1.50%) GitLab
8 9 (1.35%) Gatling
8 9 (1.35%) Postman
9 7 (1.05%) Zephyr
10 6 (0.90%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.90%) JMeter
11 5 (0.75%) Jenkins
11 5 (0.75%) Subversion
12 4 (0.60%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.60%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.60%) TestRail
12 4 (0.60%) Vite
General
1 196 (29.39%) Social Skills
2 181 (27.14%) Finance
3 93 (13.94%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (9.15%) Public Sector
5 52 (7.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (6.00%) Law
7 35 (5.25%) Retail
8 26 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
9 20 (3.00%) Marketing
10 17 (2.55%) Legal
11 16 (2.40%) Banking
12 13 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (1.95%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.20%) Electronics
15 7 (1.05%) Games
16 6 (0.90%) Advertising
17 5 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
18 4 (0.60%) Aerospace
18 4 (0.60%) Billing
Job Titles
1 132 (19.79%) Senior
2 99 (14.84%) Developer
3 96 (14.39%) Analyst
4 77 (11.54%) Lead
5 53 (7.95%) Business Analyst
6 48 (7.20%) Delivery Manager
6 48 (7.20%) Project Manager
7 36 (5.40%) Senior Manager
8 33 (4.95%) Architect
9 31 (4.65%) .NET Developer
10 30 (4.50%) Product Owner
11 29 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
12 26 (3.90%) Data Engineer
13 22 (3.30%) IT Manager
14 20 (3.00%) Digital Analyst
15 19 (2.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 19 (2.85%) Software Developer
16 18 (2.70%) Account Manager
16 18 (2.70%) Full-Stack Developer
17 17 (2.55%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (8.70%) React
2 55 (8.25%) .NET
3 28 (4.20%) ASP.NET
4 27 (4.05%) ASP.NET Core
4 27 (4.05%) Node.js
5 25 (3.75%) CSS
6 23 (3.45%) HTML
6 23 (3.45%) REST
7 21 (3.15%) .NET Core
7 21 (3.15%) RESTful
8 16 (2.40%) Playwright
9 15 (2.25%) AngularJS
9 15 (2.25%) EDI
9 15 (2.25%) Spring
10 13 (1.95%) Entity Framework
11 12 (1.80%) ASP.NET Web API
11 12 (1.80%) AWS CDK
11 12 (1.80%) Next.js
12 10 (1.50%) Blazor
12 10 (1.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 67 (10.04%) Product Ownership
2 32 (4.80%) Mobile App
3 30 (4.50%) Management Information System
4 21 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (3.00%) Cloud Native
6 19 (2.85%) Onboarding
7 18 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.65%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (1.35%) Cyber Defence
10 9 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.35%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.20%) Driving Licence
12 5 (0.75%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (0.75%) Mobile Computing
13 4 (0.60%) AS400
13 4 (0.60%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.90%) Linux
2 15 (2.25%) Windows
3 12 (1.80%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.35%) Android
5 3 (0.45%) Kali Linux
5 3 (0.45%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (23.99%) Mentoring
2 158 (23.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 125 (18.74%) Problem-Solving
4 118 (17.69%) Coaching
5 113 (16.94%) CI/CD
6 111 (16.64%) DevOps
7 102 (15.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 86 (12.89%) Scrum
9 78 (11.69%) Roadmaps
10 77 (11.54%) Test Automation
11 69 (10.34%) Project Management
12 68 (10.19%) Full-Stack Development
13 67 (10.04%) AI
14 65 (9.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 63 (9.45%) Analytics
16 61 (9.15%) Decision-Making
17 59 (8.85%) Business Strategy
17 59 (8.85%) Waterfall
18 58 (8.70%) Project Delivery
19 57 (8.55%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 125 (18.74%) SQL
2 80 (11.99%) C#
3 71 (10.64%) JavaScript
4 57 (8.55%) Java
5 54 (8.10%) TypeScript
6 44 (6.60%) Python
7 24 (3.60%) Bash
8 20 (3.00%) PHP
9 16 (2.40%) PowerShell
10 14 (2.10%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.50%) C++
12 8 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.90%) R
14 5 (0.75%) Swift
15 4 (0.60%) C
15 4 (0.60%) RPG
15 4 (0.60%) RPG IV
15 4 (0.60%) RPG/400
16 3 (0.45%) Scala
16 3 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 76 (11.39%) Degree
2 56 (8.40%) Security Cleared
3 44 (6.60%) SC Cleared
4 19 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.25%) PMI Certification
5 15 (2.25%) PMP
6 14 (2.10%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.95%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.80%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.50%) CISSP
9 10 (1.50%) CITP
10 9 (1.35%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (1.05%) CISA
11 7 (1.05%) ISEB
11 7 (1.05%) ISTQB
11 7 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.05%) SSCP
12 5 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.60%) CIMA
13 4 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (12.44%) QA
2 40 (6.00%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.40%) GDPR
4 15 (2.25%) Data Quality
4 15 (2.25%) SLA
5 14 (2.10%) NIST
6 8 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.05%) ITGC
8 6 (0.90%) WCAG
9 5 (0.75%) PMO
10 3 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.30%) GRC
11 2 (0.30%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.15%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.15%) NCSC
12 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (6.00%) Docker
2 7 (1.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 27 (4.05%) Terraform
3 10 (1.50%) Grafana
4 4 (0.60%) Ansible
5 3 (0.45%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.45%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.30%) Argo
6 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.15%) Control-M
7 1 (0.15%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.15%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 100 (14.99%) Microsoft
2 31 (4.65%) Oracle
3 20 (3.00%) Databricks
4 16 (2.40%) Salesforce
5 14 (2.10%) SAP
6 12 (1.80%) Google
6 12 (1.80%) ServiceNow
7 11 (1.65%) IBM
8 8 (1.20%) Planon
9 6 (0.90%) Workday
10 5 (0.75%) Apple
10 5 (0.75%) IFS
11 4 (0.60%) Cisco
11 4 (0.60%) DIgSILENT
11 4 (0.60%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.60%) Talend
12 3 (0.45%) Cloudera
12 3 (0.45%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (0.45%) Veracode
12 3 (0.45%) Zoho