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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 8 4
Rank change year-on-year -6 -4 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 537 1,079 994
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 9.46% 12.11% 19.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.16% 14.96% 21.10%
Number of salaries quoted 355 432 749
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,875 £46,438 £46,015
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,732 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.93% +4.97% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,987 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - - +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 4,810 7,213 4,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 84.71% 80.93% 92.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,047 3,268 3,622
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,500 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £52,398 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.26% +4.80% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £63,982
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 7 November 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 7 November 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 -1 368 £60,000 - 321
East Midlands -13 166 £55,500 -2.12% 199
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 26 (4.84%) Confluence
2 8 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.12%) Apache
3 6 (1.12%) Appian
3 6 (1.12%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.93%) IIS
5 3 (0.56%) CMS
5 3 (0.56%) WordPress
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.37%) SAS
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 19 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 19 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.37%) Trello
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.19%) GNU Octave
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 37 (6.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.93%) Shopify
3 3 (0.56%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.37%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 2 (0.37%) iTrent
4 2 (0.37%) Maximo
4 2 (0.37%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.19%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 143 (26.63%) Azure
2 90 (16.76%) AWS
3 69 (12.85%) SaaS
4 57 (10.61%) Power Platform
5 50 (9.31%) Dynamics 365
6 43 (8.01%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (4.10%) GCP
7 22 (4.10%) PowerApps
8 21 (3.91%) Power Automate
9 19 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
10 16 (2.98%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (2.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (2.61%) Amazon S3
12 14 (2.61%) Serverless
13 13 (2.42%) PaaS
14 12 (2.23%) AWS KMS
15 9 (1.68%) Azure Service Bus
16 8 (1.49%) Snowflake
17 7 (1.30%) IaaS
17 7 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.72%) Firewall
2 16 (2.98%) DNS
3 13 (2.42%) VPN
4 9 (1.68%) Internet
5 8 (1.49%) DHCP
5 8 (1.49%) Network Security
5 8 (1.49%) WAN
6 6 (1.12%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.93%) HTTP
7 5 (0.93%) LAN
7 5 (0.93%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.74%) FTP
8 4 (0.74%) Modbus
8 4 (0.74%) MPLS
8 4 (0.74%) SMTP
8 4 (0.74%) SSH
8 4 (0.74%) SSL
9 3 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.56%) RS-232
9 3 (0.56%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (6.15%) Power BI
2 32 (5.96%) SQL Server
3 22 (4.10%) MySQL
4 18 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (2.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (2.23%) Data Lake
7 12 (2.23%) NoSQL
8 10 (1.86%) DynamoDB
9 9 (1.68%) Tableau
10 7 (1.30%) Big Data
10 7 (1.30%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (1.30%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.12%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.12%) Metadata
11 6 (1.12%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (0.56%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.56%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 53 (9.87%) JIRA
2 48 (8.94%) Git
3 22 (4.10%) Jenkins
4 17 (3.17%) Maven
5 16 (2.98%) JUnit
5 16 (2.98%) Selenium
6 13 (2.42%) GitLab
6 13 (2.42%) Mockito
6 13 (2.42%) SonarQube
7 11 (2.05%) Cucumber
8 10 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (1.30%) Bitbucket Server
9 7 (1.30%) Postman
10 6 (1.12%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.12%) DbUnit
10 6 (1.12%) JMeter
10 6 (1.12%) jMock
10 6 (1.12%) Vagrant
11 5 (0.93%) Katalon Studio
12 4 (0.74%) Rational DOORS
General
1 167 (31.10%) Social Skills
2 150 (27.93%) Finance
3 58 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (8.38%) Public Sector
5 43 (8.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (7.64%) Law
7 29 (5.40%) Retail
8 28 (5.21%) Marketing
9 25 (4.66%) Legal
10 20 (3.72%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (3.54%) Local Government
12 17 (3.17%) Manufacturing
13 16 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (2.23%) Banking
16 9 (1.68%) Fire and Rescue
17 7 (1.30%) Advertising
18 5 (0.93%) Back Office
18 5 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
18 5 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 124 (23.09%) Developer
2 77 (14.34%) Lead
3 70 (13.04%) Senior
4 57 (10.61%) Analyst
5 32 (5.96%) Architect
5 32 (5.96%) Project Manager
6 29 (5.40%) Senior Developer
7 27 (5.03%) Software Engineer
8 24 (4.47%) Java Developer
9 19 (3.54%) Business Analyst
9 19 (3.54%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 19 (3.54%) Lead Developer
10 17 (3.17%) IT Manager
11 16 (2.98%) Data Engineer
12 15 (2.79%) Consultant
13 14 (2.61%) CRM Developer
13 14 (2.61%) IT Project Manager
13 14 (2.61%) PHP Developer
14 13 (2.42%) Junior
15 12 (2.23%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (12.66%) .NET
2 45 (8.38%) React
3 42 (7.82%) HTML
4 40 (7.45%) CSS
5 32 (5.96%) Spring
6 28 (5.21%) REST
7 26 (4.84%) RESTful
8 25 (4.66%) Spring Boot
9 18 (3.35%) .NET Framework
10 15 (2.79%) JPA
11 14 (2.61%) AngularJS
11 14 (2.61%) Hibernate
11 14 (2.61%) Web Services
12 13 (2.42%) SOAP
12 13 (2.42%) Symfony
13 11 (2.05%) Laravel
14 10 (1.86%) EDI
14 10 (1.86%) jQuery
14 10 (1.86%) Kafka
15 9 (1.68%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (10.06%) Product Ownership
2 24 (4.47%) Cloud Native
3 21 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (3.35%) Data Centre
5 16 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (2.98%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.42%) NHS
7 12 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.05%) IoT
9 10 (1.86%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.30%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.12%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.12%) Driving Licence
12 6 (1.12%) Legacy Code
12 6 (1.12%) Security Posture
13 5 (0.93%) Low-Code
13 5 (0.93%) Pricing Data
13 5 (0.93%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 31 (5.77%) Linux
2 21 (3.91%) Windows
3 8 (1.49%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.12%) Embedded Linux
4 6 (1.12%) VMS
5 5 (0.93%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.93%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.74%) AIX
6 4 (0.74%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.37%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.37%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.37%) Unix
8 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.19%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (24.02%) DevOps
2 115 (21.42%) Continuous Improvement
3 91 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
4 89 (16.57%) CI/CD
5 77 (14.34%) Stakeholder Management
6 76 (14.15%) Mentoring
7 75 (13.97%) Scrum
8 69 (12.85%) SDLC
9 62 (11.55%) Software Engineering
9 62 (11.55%) Waterfall
10 58 (10.80%) Project Management
11 54 (10.06%) Migration
12 53 (9.87%) Project Delivery
13 51 (9.50%) Roadmaps
13 51 (9.50%) Test Automation
14 50 (9.31%) ITIL
15 49 (9.12%) Microservices
16 44 (8.19%) Analytics
16 44 (8.19%) CRM
17 43 (8.01%) AI
Programming Languages
1 122 (22.72%) SQL
2 84 (15.64%) C#
3 82 (15.27%) JavaScript
4 60 (11.17%) Java
5 56 (10.43%) Python
6 37 (6.89%) TypeScript
7 20 (3.72%) PHP
8 18 (3.35%) PowerShell
9 12 (2.23%) C++
10 11 (2.05%) Groovy
11 7 (1.30%) C
11 7 (1.30%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.12%) Bash
12 6 (1.12%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.74%) Bicep
13 4 (0.74%) Perl
13 4 (0.74%) R
13 4 (0.74%) Ruby
13 4 (0.74%) Scala
13 4 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (10.43%) Degree
2 52 (9.68%) Security Cleared
3 44 (8.19%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.84%) ACCA
5 22 (4.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.42%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.68%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.30%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.12%) PMP
10 5 (0.93%) Chartered Engineer
10 5 (0.93%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.93%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.93%) MCP
11 4 (0.74%) CISM
11 4 (0.74%) CISSP
11 4 (0.74%) CITP
11 4 (0.74%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (9.12%) QA
2 13 (2.42%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.86%) PMO
4 9 (1.68%) SLA
5 7 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 6 (1.12%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.93%) COBIT
7 5 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (0.93%) GDPR
8 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 3 (0.56%) MISRA
9 3 (0.56%) NIST
9 3 (0.56%) WCAG
10 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.19%) Automotive SPICE
10 1 (0.19%) GRC
10 1 (0.19%) NIST 800
System Software
1 39 (7.26%) Docker
2 13 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.93%) Firmware
5 4 (0.74%) DFS Replication
5 4 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.37%) Postfix
7 2 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.19%) HDFS
8 1 (0.19%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 34 (6.33%) Kubernetes
2 24 (4.47%) Terraform
3 10 (1.86%) Grafana
4 6 (1.12%) Ansible
4 6 (1.12%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.56%) Kibana
5 3 (0.56%) Nagios
6 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (0.37%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.19%) Argo
7 1 (0.19%) Automic
7 1 (0.19%) CA Service Virtualization
7 1 (0.19%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.19%) logstash
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.19%) Nessus
7 1 (0.19%) Oozie
7 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 77 (14.34%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.10%) Databricks
3 20 (3.72%) Oracle
3 20 (3.72%) SAP
4 12 (2.23%) Salesforce
5 9 (1.68%) Guidewire
5 9 (1.68%) IBM
5 9 (1.68%) Siemens
6 8 (1.49%) Google
6 8 (1.49%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.30%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.12%) VMware
9 5 (0.93%) Juniper
9 5 (0.93%) Meraki
9 5 (0.93%) Solace
10 4 (0.74%) Adobe
10 4 (0.74%) JD Edwards
11 3 (0.56%) Cisco
11 3 (0.56%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.56%) Remedy