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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 9 4
Rank change year-on-year -20 -5 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 486 838 835
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.22% 12.31% 17.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.60% 13.75% 19.64%
Number of salaries quoted 347 411 707
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,842 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £68,125
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £67,500

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 6,392 6,094 4,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.86% 89.51% 91.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,532 2,699 3,484
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 24 December 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 24 December 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 -18 325 £62,000 +3.33% 484
East Midlands -23 157 £55,000 -4.35% 404
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 20 (4.12%) Confluence
2 8 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.03%) SAS
5 4 (0.82%) Apache
5 4 (0.82%) CMS
5 4 (0.82%) IIS
6 3 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.62%) WordPress
7 2 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.41%) Appian
8 1 (0.21%) nginx
Applications
1 15 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (2.47%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.23%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.62%) Trello
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.21%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.21%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.21%) Simulink
7 1 (0.21%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 29 (5.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.23%) Shopify
3 3 (0.62%) Maximo
3 3 (0.62%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.41%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 2 (0.41%) iTrent
4 2 (0.41%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.21%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.21%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 138 (28.40%) Azure
2 62 (12.76%) AWS
3 55 (11.32%) Power Platform
4 52 (10.70%) SaaS
5 42 (8.64%) Dynamics 365
6 41 (8.44%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (4.32%) PowerApps
8 19 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (3.70%) Power Automate
10 13 (2.67%) GCP
11 10 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (2.06%) PaaS
11 10 (2.06%) Serverless
12 6 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (1.23%) Entra ID
13 5 (1.03%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.03%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (1.03%) IaaS
13 5 (1.03%) Snowflake
14 4 (0.82%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.26%) DNS
2 7 (1.44%) DHCP
3 6 (1.23%) VPN
4 5 (1.03%) WAN
5 4 (0.82%) Internet
5 4 (0.82%) LAN
5 4 (0.82%) Modbus
5 4 (0.82%) SSL
5 4 (0.82%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.62%) 3G
6 3 (0.62%) GPRS
6 3 (0.62%) GSM
6 3 (0.62%) HTTP
6 3 (0.62%) Intranet
6 3 (0.62%) RS-232
6 3 (0.62%) RS-485
7 2 (0.41%) Broadband
7 2 (0.41%) FTP
7 2 (0.41%) RFID
7 2 (0.41%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.17%) Power BI
2 23 (4.73%) SQL Server
3 21 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (4.12%) MySQL
5 14 (2.88%) Data Lake
6 9 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (1.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.44%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.44%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.23%) Metadata
9 5 (1.03%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.82%) Pentaho
10 4 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.82%) Tableau
11 3 (0.62%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.41%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.41%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.41%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 48 (9.88%) JIRA
2 33 (6.79%) Git
3 11 (2.26%) Selenium
4 9 (1.85%) GitLab
4 9 (1.85%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.85%) JUnit
5 8 (1.65%) Postman
6 7 (1.44%) Subversion
7 6 (1.23%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.23%) Mockito
8 5 (1.03%) Maven
9 4 (0.82%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.62%) git-flow
10 3 (0.62%) JMeter
11 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.41%) Gatling
11 2 (0.41%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (0.41%) NUnit
11 2 (0.41%) TestRail
11 2 (0.41%) Vagrant
General
1 155 (31.89%) Social Skills
2 124 (25.51%) Finance
3 62 (12.76%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (8.23%) Public Sector
5 32 (6.58%) Law
6 29 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (5.97%) Legal
7 28 (5.76%) Marketing
8 19 (3.91%) Local Government
9 17 (3.50%) Retail
10 16 (3.29%) Manufacturing
11 15 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.85%) Electronics
14 9 (1.85%) Fire and Rescue
15 7 (1.44%) Banking
16 6 (1.23%) Billing
16 6 (1.23%) Military
Job Titles
1 103 (21.19%) Developer
2 71 (14.61%) Lead
3 67 (13.79%) Senior
4 46 (9.47%) Analyst
5 35 (7.20%) Architect
6 31 (6.38%) Project Manager
7 26 (5.35%) Data Engineer
8 19 (3.91%) Business Analyst
8 19 (3.91%) IT Manager
8 19 (3.91%) Senior Developer
9 16 (3.29%) C# Developer
9 16 (3.29%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 16 (3.29%) Java Developer
10 15 (3.09%) Lead Developer
10 15 (3.09%) PHP Developer
10 15 (3.09%) Product Owner
10 15 (3.09%) Senior Data Engineer
11 14 (2.88%) Delivery Manager
11 14 (2.88%) IT Project Manager
12 13 (2.67%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (11.11%) .NET
2 26 (5.35%) React
3 23 (4.73%) CSS
3 23 (4.73%) HTML
4 16 (3.29%) Spring
5 15 (3.09%) REST
6 14 (2.88%) Laravel
7 12 (2.47%) .NET Framework
8 11 (2.26%) EDI
8 11 (2.26%) RESTful
8 11 (2.26%) Spring Boot
8 11 (2.26%) Symfony
9 9 (1.85%) Middleware
10 8 (1.65%) CakePHP
10 8 (1.65%) CodeIgniter
10 8 (1.65%) jQuery
10 8 (1.65%) XML
11 7 (1.44%) Playwright
12 6 (1.23%) Node.js
13 5 (1.03%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 52 (10.70%) Product Ownership
2 25 (5.14%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.32%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (3.29%) Management Information System
5 12 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (2.06%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.06%) NHS
6 10 (2.06%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.23%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.03%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.03%) IoT
11 5 (1.03%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.03%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.82%) Legacy Code
12 4 (0.82%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.82%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.91%) Linux
2 17 (3.50%) Windows
3 5 (1.03%) Mac OS
3 5 (1.03%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.62%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (0.62%) FreeRTOS
4 3 (0.62%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.41%) Mac OS X
5 2 (0.41%) Unix
5 2 (0.41%) VMS
6 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (21.60%) DevOps
2 101 (20.78%) Continuous Improvement
3 99 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
4 84 (17.28%) Stakeholder Management
5 69 (14.20%) Scrum
6 68 (13.99%) Mentoring
7 65 (13.37%) Project Management
8 63 (12.96%) CI/CD
9 60 (12.35%) Waterfall
10 54 (11.11%) SDLC
11 50 (10.29%) Project Delivery
12 48 (9.88%) Migration
12 48 (9.88%) Roadmaps
13 47 (9.67%) Analytics
13 47 (9.67%) CRM
14 40 (8.23%) Software Engineering
15 39 (8.02%) Business Intelligence
16 38 (7.82%) Test Automation
17 37 (7.61%) User Experience
18 35 (7.20%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 98 (20.16%) SQL
2 69 (14.20%) C#
3 57 (11.73%) JavaScript
4 39 (8.02%) Python
5 38 (7.82%) Java
6 32 (6.58%) TypeScript
7 22 (4.53%) PHP
8 11 (2.26%) Bash
9 10 (2.06%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.65%) C++
11 6 (1.23%) Go
12 5 (1.03%) C
12 5 (1.03%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.03%) Scala
13 4 (0.82%) Groovy
13 4 (0.82%) R
13 4 (0.82%) Ruby
14 2 (0.41%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.41%) Perl
14 2 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 53 (10.91%) Degree
2 41 (8.44%) Security Cleared
3 30 (6.17%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (2.67%) PMI Certification
7 12 (2.47%) PMP
8 10 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.65%) ACCA
9 8 (1.65%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.44%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.03%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.03%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.03%) MCP
12 4 (0.82%) Chartered Engineer
12 4 (0.82%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (10.91%) QA
2 12 (2.47%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.06%) PMO
4 9 (1.85%) GDPR
5 8 (1.65%) SLA
6 7 (1.44%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 6 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.62%) COBIT
9 3 (0.62%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 3 (0.62%) MISRA
9 3 (0.62%) NIST
9 3 (0.62%) WCAG
10 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.21%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
System Software
1 24 (4.94%) Docker
2 12 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.82%) Firmware
4 3 (0.62%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (5.35%) Kubernetes
2 22 (4.53%) Terraform
3 7 (1.44%) Ansible
4 3 (0.62%) Grafana
5 2 (0.41%) Argo
5 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.41%) Nagios
5 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.21%) CA Service Virtualization
6 1 (0.21%) Control-M
6 1 (0.21%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.21%) Nessus
6 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.21%) Puppet
Vendors
1 74 (15.23%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.17%) Databricks
3 23 (4.73%) Oracle
4 14 (2.88%) SAP
5 13 (2.67%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.65%) IBM
7 6 (1.23%) Google
7 6 (1.23%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.23%) Siemens
8 5 (1.03%) Talend
8 5 (1.03%) Zoho
9 4 (0.82%) Adobe
9 4 (0.82%) JD Edwards
9 4 (0.82%) Remedy
10 3 (0.62%) Cisco
10 3 (0.62%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.62%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.62%) Informatica
10 3 (0.62%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.62%) Workday