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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 9 4
Rank change year-on-year -20 -5 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 497 810 1,246
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.07% 13.05% 16.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.58% 14.32% 18.84%
Number of salaries quoted 354 405 1,080
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,236 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,943 £84,013 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -3.70%

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 6,554 5,657 6,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.06% 91.15% 86.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,655 2,516 5,442
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,027 £34,518
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 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.84% +6.09% -8.00%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 -18 336 £60,000 - 205
East Midlands -19 156 £55,000 -8.33% 111
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 29 (5.84%) Confluence
2 9 (1.81%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.41%) CMS
3 7 (1.41%) SAS
4 6 (1.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.80%) Apache
5 4 (0.80%) IIS
5 4 (0.80%) nginx
6 3 (0.60%) WordPress
7 2 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.40%) Appian
7 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (2.62%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.61%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.80%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.80%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.60%) Trello
7 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.20%) Simulink
7 1 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 18 (3.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.41%) Shopify
3 3 (0.60%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 3 (0.60%) Maximo
3 3 (0.60%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.60%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.40%) iTrent
4 2 (0.40%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.20%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.20%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 150 (30.18%) Azure
2 65 (13.08%) AWS
3 54 (10.87%) Power Platform
4 48 (9.66%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (8.45%) SaaS
6 29 (5.84%) Dynamics 365
7 21 (4.23%) PowerApps
8 20 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (3.42%) Power Automate
10 14 (2.82%) GCP
11 11 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (1.81%) PaaS
13 8 (1.61%) Entra ID
13 8 (1.61%) Serverless
14 7 (1.41%) GitHub
15 5 (1.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (1.01%) IaaS
16 4 (0.80%) Amazon S3
16 4 (0.80%) Azure Logic Apps
16 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.01%) DNS
1 5 (1.01%) WAN
2 4 (0.80%) Internet
2 4 (0.80%) LAN
2 4 (0.80%) Modbus
2 4 (0.80%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.60%) 3G
3 3 (0.60%) 4G
3 3 (0.60%) Broadband
3 3 (0.60%) GPRS
3 3 (0.60%) GSM
3 3 (0.60%) Intranet
3 3 (0.60%) RS-232
3 3 (0.60%) RS-485
3 3 (0.60%) SSL
4 2 (0.40%) BGP
4 2 (0.40%) DHCP
4 2 (0.40%) MPLS
4 2 (0.40%) VPN
4 2 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (5.84%) Power BI
2 25 (5.03%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (4.63%) SQL Server
4 19 (3.82%) Data Lake
4 19 (3.82%) MySQL
5 9 (1.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 9 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (1.61%) Metadata
7 7 (1.41%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.21%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.01%) Pentaho
9 5 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.80%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.60%) Tableau
12 2 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.40%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
12 2 (0.40%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.40%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 60 (12.07%) JIRA
2 40 (8.05%) Git
3 10 (2.01%) JUnit
4 9 (1.81%) Mockito
5 8 (1.61%) GitLab
5 8 (1.61%) Maven
5 8 (1.61%) Selenium
6 6 (1.21%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.21%) Postman
6 6 (1.21%) Subversion
7 5 (1.01%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.01%) Vite
8 4 (0.80%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.60%) git-flow
10 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.40%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.40%) TestRail
11 1 (0.20%) Gatling
11 1 (0.20%) JMeter
11 1 (0.20%) LoadRunner
General
1 158 (31.79%) Social Skills
2 131 (26.36%) Finance
3 68 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (11.47%) Public Sector
5 45 (9.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (6.44%) Law
7 27 (5.43%) Legal
7 27 (5.43%) Marketing
8 21 (4.23%) Retail
9 15 (3.02%) Manufacturing
10 14 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (2.41%) Local Government
11 12 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (2.01%) Electronics
14 9 (1.81%) Banking
14 9 (1.81%) Fire and Rescue
15 6 (1.21%) Billing
15 6 (1.21%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 96 (19.32%) Developer
2 85 (17.10%) Senior
3 63 (12.68%) Lead
4 54 (10.87%) Analyst
5 34 (6.84%) Project Manager
6 29 (5.84%) Architect
6 29 (5.84%) Data Engineer
7 28 (5.63%) Business Analyst
8 22 (4.43%) IT Manager
8 22 (4.43%) Product Owner
9 19 (3.82%) Java Developer
9 19 (3.82%) Senior Developer
10 18 (3.62%) Delivery Manager
10 18 (3.62%) Senior Data Engineer
11 16 (3.22%) IT Project Manager
11 16 (3.22%) Senior Manager
12 15 (3.02%) C# Developer
13 13 (2.62%) .NET Developer
13 13 (2.62%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 13 (2.62%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (10.26%) .NET
2 30 (6.04%) React
3 23 (4.63%) HTML
4 22 (4.43%) CSS
5 18 (3.62%) REST
6 15 (3.02%) Laravel
7 14 (2.82%) EDI
8 13 (2.62%) Spring
9 10 (2.01%) AngularJS
10 9 (1.81%) .NET Framework
10 9 (1.81%) Middleware
10 9 (1.81%) RESTful
10 9 (1.81%) Symfony
11 8 (1.61%) jQuery
11 8 (1.61%) Node.js
12 7 (1.41%) Spring Boot
12 7 (1.41%) Vue
12 7 (1.41%) YAML
13 6 (1.21%) CakePHP
13 6 (1.21%) CodeIgniter
Miscellaneous
1 62 (12.47%) Product Ownership
2 23 (4.63%) Management Information System
3 17 (3.42%) Cloud Native
3 17 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (3.22%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (2.01%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.01%) Mobile App
6 10 (2.01%) NHS
7 9 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.41%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.01%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.01%) IoT
9 5 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.01%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.80%) Legacy Code
10 4 (0.80%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.03%) Linux
2 12 (2.41%) Windows
3 3 (0.60%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (0.60%) FreeRTOS
3 3 (0.60%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.40%) Mac OS X
4 2 (0.40%) Unix
5 1 (0.20%) Android
5 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.20%) VMS
5 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (21.73%) DevOps
2 106 (21.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 99 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
4 86 (17.30%) Stakeholder Management
5 80 (16.10%) Mentoring
6 75 (15.09%) Scrum
7 69 (13.88%) CI/CD
8 68 (13.68%) Project Management
9 56 (11.27%) SDLC
9 56 (11.27%) Waterfall
10 54 (10.87%) Coaching
10 54 (10.87%) Roadmaps
11 50 (10.06%) Project Delivery
12 46 (9.26%) Decision-Making
13 45 (9.05%) Analytics
13 45 (9.05%) Software Engineering
14 44 (8.85%) Migration
15 43 (8.65%) User Experience
16 42 (8.45%) CRM
17 37 (7.44%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 101 (20.32%) SQL
2 56 (11.27%) C#
3 54 (10.87%) JavaScript
4 40 (8.05%) Python
5 36 (7.24%) Java
6 30 (6.04%) TypeScript
7 22 (4.43%) PHP
8 19 (3.82%) Bash
9 10 (2.01%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.61%) C
10 8 (1.61%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.41%) Go
12 6 (1.21%) R
13 5 (1.01%) C++
14 3 (0.60%) Ruby
14 3 (0.60%) Scala
14 3 (0.60%) VBA
15 2 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.40%) Groovy
15 2 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 53 (10.66%) Degree
2 44 (8.85%) Security Cleared
3 31 (6.24%) SC Cleared
4 21 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (3.02%) PMI Certification
6 13 (2.62%) PMP
7 12 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.81%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.41%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.21%) CITP
12 5 (1.01%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.80%) ACCA
13 4 (0.80%) Chartered Engineer
13 4 (0.80%) CIMA
13 4 (0.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 3 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.60%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.60%) MBA
14 3 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (12.88%) QA
2 12 (2.41%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.21%) SLA
4 10 (2.01%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.01%) GDPR
5 9 (1.81%) PMO
6 7 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 5 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.80%) WCAG
9 3 (0.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 3 (0.60%) MISRA
10 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.40%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.40%) NIST
11 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.20%) COBIT
11 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 31 (6.24%) Docker
2 8 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (0.60%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 29 (5.84%) Kubernetes
2 23 (4.63%) Terraform
3 7 (1.41%) Ansible
4 3 (0.60%) Grafana
4 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.40%) Argo
5 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.20%) CA Service Virtualization
6 1 (0.20%) Control-M
6 1 (0.20%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.20%) Nagios
6 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 83 (16.70%) Microsoft
2 36 (7.24%) Databricks
3 24 (4.83%) Oracle
4 15 (3.02%) Salesforce
5 14 (2.82%) SAP
6 8 (1.61%) IBM
6 8 (1.61%) Planon
7 7 (1.41%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.21%) Siemens
8 6 (1.21%) Talend
9 5 (1.01%) Workday
9 5 (1.01%) Zoho
10 4 (0.80%) Cisco
10 4 (0.80%) Cloudera
10 4 (0.80%) Google
10 4 (0.80%) Informatica
10 4 (0.80%) Remedy
11 3 (0.60%) Adobe
11 3 (0.60%) Guidewire
11 3 (0.60%) QAD