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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 9 5
Rank change year-on-year -25 -4 -4
Permanent jobs citing Agile 639 617 1,731
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.85% 12.00% 14.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.71% 13.40% 17.87%
Number of salaries quoted 443 358 1,285
10th Percentile £34,800 £31,250 £35,200
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,875 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +7.05% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £78,838 £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 9,523 4,605 9,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 72.26% 89.59% 81.24%
Number of salaries quoted 5,804 2,552 7,185
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,959 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,374
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 20 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 20 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 -25 394 £60,000 - 152
East Midlands +7 243 £55,000 -2.22% 78
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 42 (6.57%) Confluence
2 13 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.41%) CMS
4 6 (0.94%) SAS
5 5 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.63%) nginx
7 3 (0.47%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.47%) IIS
7 3 (0.47%) PowerFactory
8 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.16%) Apache
9 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.16%) Drupal
Applications
1 11 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (1.25%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.63%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.63%) AutoCAD
5 4 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.63%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.47%) Revit
7 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.16%) Simulink
7 1 (0.16%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (0.94%) Workday HCM
2 4 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.63%) Shopify
3 2 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.31%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.16%) Maximo
4 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.16%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 187 (29.26%) Azure
2 95 (14.87%) AWS
3 53 (8.29%) Azure DevOps
4 50 (7.82%) Power Platform
5 27 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (3.60%) SaaS
7 19 (2.97%) Serverless
8 17 (2.66%) GCP
8 17 (2.66%) IaaS
9 14 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (2.19%) PaaS
10 13 (2.03%) PowerApps
11 12 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (1.88%) Entra ID
12 10 (1.56%) Power Automate
13 9 (1.41%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.41%) Azure AKS
14 8 (1.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 8 (1.25%) Azure Key Vault
14 8 (1.25%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.56%) DNS
2 3 (0.47%) Broadband
2 3 (0.47%) WAN
3 2 (0.31%) 4G
3 2 (0.31%) LAN
4 1 (0.16%) 5G
4 1 (0.16%) BGP
4 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.16%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.16%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.16%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.16%) Internet
4 1 (0.16%) Intranet
4 1 (0.16%) IOS XR
4 1 (0.16%) MPLS
4 1 (0.16%) RFID
4 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (4.85%) Power BI
2 20 (3.13%) MongoDB
3 18 (2.82%) SQL Server
4 16 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 15 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (2.03%) Data Lake
7 11 (1.72%) MySQL
8 9 (1.41%) NoSQL
9 8 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (1.10%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (0.78%) Metadata
13 4 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.63%) Pentaho
14 3 (0.47%) Relational Database
15 2 (0.31%) BigQuery
15 2 (0.31%) InfluxDB
15 2 (0.31%) Looker
15 2 (0.31%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 73 (11.42%) JIRA
2 28 (4.38%) Git
3 11 (1.72%) Selenium
3 11 (1.72%) XCUITest
4 10 (1.56%) Cucumber
4 10 (1.56%) JUnit
4 10 (1.56%) Maven
4 10 (1.56%) Mockito
5 8 (1.25%) GitLab
6 7 (1.10%) Gatling
6 7 (1.10%) Postman
6 7 (1.10%) Zephyr
7 6 (0.94%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.94%) JMeter
8 5 (0.78%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.78%) Subversion
8 5 (0.78%) TestRail
9 4 (0.63%) LoadRunner
9 4 (0.63%) REST Assured
9 4 (0.63%) Vite
General
1 191 (29.89%) Social Skills
2 177 (27.70%) Finance
3 86 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (9.08%) Public Sector
5 52 (8.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (6.10%) Law
7 34 (5.32%) Retail
8 20 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
8 20 (3.13%) Marketing
9 17 (2.66%) Banking
9 17 (2.66%) Legal
10 14 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.88%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.56%) Electronics
14 7 (1.10%) Advertising
15 6 (0.94%) Games
16 5 (0.78%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 132 (20.66%) Senior
2 94 (14.71%) Analyst
3 88 (13.77%) Developer
4 71 (11.11%) Lead
5 51 (7.98%) Business Analyst
6 48 (7.51%) Project Manager
7 43 (6.73%) Delivery Manager
8 36 (5.63%) Senior Manager
9 34 (5.32%) Architect
10 32 (5.01%) Product Owner
11 29 (4.54%) Senior Analyst
12 28 (4.38%) Data Engineer
13 26 (4.07%) .NET Developer
14 21 (3.29%) IT Manager
15 20 (3.13%) Digital Analyst
16 19 (2.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 18 (2.82%) Senior Data Engineer
18 17 (2.66%) Account Manager
18 17 (2.66%) Azure Engineer
18 17 (2.66%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (7.82%) React
2 41 (6.42%) .NET
3 24 (3.76%) Node.js
4 22 (3.44%) ASP.NET
4 22 (3.44%) ASP.NET Core
4 22 (3.44%) CSS
5 19 (2.97%) REST
5 19 (2.97%) RESTful
6 18 (2.82%) HTML
7 15 (2.35%) .NET Core
7 15 (2.35%) Playwright
8 14 (2.19%) EDI
9 12 (1.88%) AngularJS
9 12 (1.88%) AWS CDK
9 12 (1.88%) Next.js
9 12 (1.88%) Spring
10 11 (1.72%) Entity Framework
11 10 (1.56%) Middleware
12 9 (1.41%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (1.41%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 69 (10.80%) Product Ownership
2 31 (4.85%) Mobile App
3 30 (4.69%) Management Information System
4 21 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (2.82%) Cloud Native
5 18 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (2.82%) Onboarding
6 17 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.72%) Low-Code
8 10 (1.56%) Virtual Team
9 9 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.41%) Cyber Defence
10 8 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (0.94%) Driving Licence
13 5 (0.78%) Embedded Systems
13 5 (0.78%) Mobile Computing
14 3 (0.47%) AS400
14 3 (0.47%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.91%) Linux
2 17 (2.66%) Windows
3 12 (1.88%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.41%) Android
5 3 (0.47%) Kali Linux
5 3 (0.47%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (23.47%) Continuous Improvement
2 148 (23.16%) Mentoring
3 117 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
4 107 (16.74%) Coaching
4 107 (16.74%) DevOps
5 104 (16.28%) CI/CD
6 98 (15.34%) Stakeholder Management
7 82 (12.83%) Scrum
8 74 (11.58%) Roadmaps
9 72 (11.27%) Test Automation
10 69 (10.80%) Project Management
11 64 (10.02%) Analytics
12 63 (9.86%) AI
13 60 (9.39%) Decision-Making
13 60 (9.39%) Full-Stack Development
14 57 (8.92%) Project Delivery
14 57 (8.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 56 (8.76%) Computer Science
16 55 (8.61%) Waterfall
17 52 (8.14%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 113 (17.68%) SQL
2 67 (10.49%) C#
3 59 (9.23%) JavaScript
4 52 (8.14%) TypeScript
5 51 (7.98%) Java
6 42 (6.57%) Python
7 22 (3.44%) Bash
8 21 (3.29%) PHP
9 15 (2.35%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.56%) PL/SQL
11 9 (1.41%) C++
12 8 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.78%) C
13 5 (0.78%) R
13 5 (0.78%) Swift
14 3 (0.47%) Go
14 3 (0.47%) RPG
14 3 (0.47%) RPG IV
14 3 (0.47%) RPG/400
14 3 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 76 (11.89%) Degree
2 54 (8.45%) Security Cleared
3 42 (6.57%) SC Cleared
4 19 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.50%) PMI Certification
6 15 (2.35%) Master's Degree
6 15 (2.35%) PMP
7 13 (2.03%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.88%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.56%) CITP
10 9 (1.41%) CISSP
10 9 (1.41%) CompTIA Security+
11 8 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (1.10%) CISA
12 7 (1.10%) ISEB
12 7 (1.10%) ISTQB
12 7 (1.10%) SSCP
13 5 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 4 (0.63%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (13.62%) QA
2 36 (5.63%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.35%) GDPR
3 15 (2.35%) SLA
4 13 (2.03%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.03%) NIST
5 7 (1.10%) ITGC
6 6 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.78%) PMO
8 4 (0.63%) WCAG
9 3 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.31%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 35 (5.48%) Docker
2 9 (1.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (7.20%) Kubernetes
2 27 (4.23%) Terraform
3 10 (1.56%) Grafana
4 5 (0.78%) Ansible
5 3 (0.47%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.47%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.31%) Argo
6 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.16%) Control-M
7 1 (0.16%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 95 (14.87%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.07%) Oracle
3 23 (3.60%) Databricks
4 15 (2.35%) Salesforce
5 13 (2.03%) SAP
6 12 (1.88%) Google
7 11 (1.72%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.56%) IBM
9 8 (1.25%) Planon
10 6 (0.94%) Workday
11 5 (0.78%) Apple
11 5 (0.78%) Talend
12 4 (0.63%) Cloudera
12 4 (0.63%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.63%) Informatica
12 4 (0.63%) Zoho
13 3 (0.47%) Cisco
13 3 (0.47%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (0.47%) HP
13 3 (0.47%) Veracode