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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 9 5
Rank change year-on-year -24 -4 -4
Permanent jobs citing Agile 636 614 1,726
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.87% 12.07% 14.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.74% 13.49% 18.01%
Number of salaries quoted 445 354 1,285
10th Percentile £34,750 £31,250 £35,511
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,946 £57,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.34% +5.00% -0.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £79,713 £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 9,438 4,553 9,584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 72.29% 89.52% 81.62%
Number of salaries quoted 5,726 2,550 7,144
10th Percentile £29,625 £27,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £33,750 £34,959
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 £62,500
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 16 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 16 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 -23 396 £60,000 +0.42% 171
East Midlands 0 238 £55,000 - 95
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 (6.60%) Confluence
2 13 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.42%) CMS
4 7 (1.10%) SAS
5 5 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.63%) nginx
7 3 (0.47%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.47%) IIS
8 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.31%) PowerFactory
9 1 (0.16%) Apache
9 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.16%) Drupal
Applications
1 11 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (1.26%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.63%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.63%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.47%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.31%) Revit
8 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.16%) Simulink
8 1 (0.16%) Sketch
8 1 (0.16%) Trello
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
1 184 (28.93%) Azure
2 91 (14.31%) AWS
3 54 (8.49%) Azure DevOps
4 50 (7.86%) Power Platform
5 27 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (3.46%) SaaS
7 19 (2.99%) Serverless
8 16 (2.52%) GCP
8 16 (2.52%) IaaS
9 15 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (2.20%) PaaS
11 13 (2.04%) PowerApps
12 12 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (1.89%) Entra ID
13 10 (1.57%) Power Automate
14 9 (1.42%) Amazon S3
15 8 (1.26%) Azure AKS
16 7 (1.10%) Amazon EventBridge
16 7 (1.10%) Azure Key Vault
16 7 (1.10%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.42%) 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 (4.87%) Power BI
2 20 (3.14%) MongoDB
3 18 (2.83%) SQL Server
4 16 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 15 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (2.04%) Data Lake
7 12 (1.89%) MySQL
8 9 (1.42%) NoSQL
9 8 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (1.10%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.94%) Metadata
11 6 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (0.79%) Pentaho
13 4 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
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 75 (11.79%) JIRA
2 29 (4.56%) Git
3 11 (1.73%) Selenium
3 11 (1.73%) XCUITest
4 10 (1.57%) Cucumber
5 9 (1.42%) JUnit
5 9 (1.42%) Maven
5 9 (1.42%) Mockito
6 8 (1.26%) GitLab
7 7 (1.10%) Gatling
7 7 (1.10%) Postman
7 7 (1.10%) Zephyr
8 6 (0.94%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.94%) Jenkins
8 6 (0.94%) JMeter
9 5 (0.79%) Subversion
9 5 (0.79%) TestRail
10 4 (0.63%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.63%) REST Assured
10 4 (0.63%) Vite
General
1 188 (29.56%) Social Skills
2 177 (27.83%) Finance
3 84 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (9.12%) Public Sector
5 53 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (6.13%) Law
7 33 (5.19%) Retail
8 20 (3.14%) Marketing
9 17 (2.67%) Banking
9 17 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
9 17 (2.67%) Legal
10 14 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.89%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.57%) Electronics
14 7 (1.10%) Advertising
15 6 (0.94%) Games
15 6 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.79%) Aerospace
17 4 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 133 (20.91%) Senior
2 95 (14.94%) Analyst
3 89 (13.99%) Developer
4 70 (11.01%) Lead
5 52 (8.18%) Business Analyst
6 48 (7.55%) Project Manager
7 41 (6.45%) Delivery Manager
8 37 (5.82%) Senior Manager
9 34 (5.35%) Architect
10 31 (4.87%) Product Owner
11 30 (4.72%) Data Engineer
12 29 (4.56%) Senior Analyst
13 26 (4.09%) .NET Developer
14 21 (3.30%) IT Manager
15 20 (3.14%) Digital Analyst
16 19 (2.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 19 (2.99%) Senior Data Engineer
17 18 (2.83%) Software Developer
18 17 (2.67%) Account Manager
19 16 (2.52%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (7.55%) React
2 40 (6.29%) .NET
3 24 (3.77%) Node.js
4 23 (3.62%) CSS
5 22 (3.46%) ASP.NET
5 22 (3.46%) ASP.NET Core
6 19 (2.99%) HTML
6 19 (2.99%) RESTful
7 17 (2.67%) REST
8 15 (2.36%) .NET Core
9 14 (2.20%) EDI
9 14 (2.20%) Playwright
10 12 (1.89%) AngularJS
10 12 (1.89%) AWS CDK
10 12 (1.89%) Next.js
11 11 (1.73%) Entity Framework
11 11 (1.73%) Spring
12 10 (1.57%) Middleware
13 9 (1.42%) ASP.NET Web API
13 9 (1.42%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 69 (10.85%) Product Ownership
2 31 (4.87%) Management Information System
2 31 (4.87%) Mobile App
3 21 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
4 18 (2.83%) Cloud Native
4 18 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (2.67%) Onboarding
6 10 (1.57%) Low-Code
6 10 (1.57%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (1.42%) Cyber Defence
8 8 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (0.94%) Driving Licence
11 5 (0.79%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (0.79%) Mobile Computing
12 3 (0.47%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.93%) Linux
2 17 (2.67%) Windows
3 12 (1.89%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.42%) Android
5 3 (0.47%) Kali Linux
5 3 (0.47%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (22.96%) Continuous Improvement
2 144 (22.64%) Mentoring
3 114 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
4 108 (16.98%) DevOps
5 103 (16.19%) Coaching
6 102 (16.04%) CI/CD
7 98 (15.41%) Stakeholder Management
8 82 (12.89%) Scrum
9 72 (11.32%) Test Automation
10 70 (11.01%) Project Management
11 69 (10.85%) Roadmaps
12 66 (10.38%) Analytics
13 61 (9.59%) AI
13 61 (9.59%) Full-Stack Development
14 60 (9.43%) Decision-Making
15 58 (9.12%) Computer Science
16 56 (8.81%) Project Delivery
17 55 (8.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 55 (8.65%) Waterfall
18 49 (7.70%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 114 (17.92%) SQL
2 67 (10.53%) C#
3 57 (8.96%) JavaScript
4 51 (8.02%) TypeScript
5 49 (7.70%) Java
6 41 (6.45%) Python
7 23 (3.62%) PHP
8 22 (3.46%) Bash
9 14 (2.20%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.42%) C++
10 9 (1.42%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.79%) C
12 5 (0.79%) R
12 5 (0.79%) Swift
13 3 (0.47%) Go
13 3 (0.47%) VBA
14 2 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.31%) RPG
14 2 (0.31%) RPG/400
Qualifications
1 76 (11.95%) Degree
2 53 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 41 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 20 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.52%) PMI Certification
6 15 (2.36%) Master's Degree
6 15 (2.36%) PMP
7 12 (1.89%) Azure Certification
7 12 (1.89%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.57%) CITP
9 9 (1.42%) CISSP
9 9 (1.42%) CompTIA Security+
10 8 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.10%) CISA
11 7 (1.10%) ISEB
11 7 (1.10%) ISTQB
11 7 (1.10%) SSCP
12 5 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 4 (0.63%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (13.68%) QA
2 35 (5.50%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.36%) SLA
4 14 (2.20%) Data Quality
4 14 (2.20%) GDPR
5 13 (2.04%) NIST
6 7 (1.10%) ITGC
7 6 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.79%) PMO
9 4 (0.63%) WCAG
10 3 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.31%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 34 (5.35%) Docker
2 9 (1.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (6.92%) Kubernetes
2 27 (4.25%) Terraform
3 10 (1.57%) Grafana
4 5 (0.79%) 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 (14.94%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.09%) Oracle
3 24 (3.77%) Databricks
4 15 (2.36%) Salesforce
5 13 (2.04%) SAP
6 12 (1.89%) Google
6 12 (1.89%) ServiceNow
7 9 (1.42%) IBM
8 8 (1.26%) Planon
9 6 (0.94%) Talend
9 6 (0.94%) Workday
10 5 (0.79%) Apple
11 4 (0.63%) Cloudera
11 4 (0.63%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.63%) Informatica
11 4 (0.63%) Zoho
12 3 (0.47%) Cisco
12 3 (0.47%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (0.47%) HP
12 3 (0.47%) Veracode