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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 9 4
Rank change year-on-year -20 -5 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 494 862 851
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.41% 12.36% 18.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.78% 13.93% 20.34%
Number of salaries quoted 346 424 706
10th Percentile £39,000 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,563 £45,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
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 6,351 6,188 4,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.45% 88.74% 92.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3,498 2,789 3,426
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £34,750 £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 17 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 17 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 -20 334 £62,000 +3.33% 155
East Midlands -22 156 £55,000 -3.93% 98
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 23 (4.66%) Confluence
2 9 (1.82%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.01%) SAS
5 4 (0.81%) Apache
5 4 (0.81%) CMS
5 4 (0.81%) IIS
6 3 (0.61%) WordPress
7 2 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.40%) Appian
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.20%) nginx
Applications
1 16 (3.24%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.61%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.61%) Trello
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.20%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.20%) Simulink
6 1 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 29 (5.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.21%) Shopify
3 3 (0.61%) Maximo
3 3 (0.61%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.40%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 2 (0.40%) iTrent
4 2 (0.40%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.20%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.20%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 145 (29.35%) Azure
2 67 (13.56%) AWS
3 54 (10.93%) Power Platform
3 54 (10.93%) SaaS
4 41 (8.30%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (8.30%) Dynamics 365
5 22 (4.45%) PowerApps
6 20 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (3.85%) Power Automate
8 17 (3.44%) GCP
9 12 (2.43%) Serverless
10 10 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (2.02%) PaaS
11 8 (1.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (1.62%) Amazon S3
12 7 (1.42%) Entra ID
13 6 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (1.01%) GitHub
14 5 (1.01%) IaaS
14 5 (1.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.63%) DNS
2 7 (1.42%) DHCP
3 6 (1.21%) VPN
4 5 (1.01%) Firewall
4 5 (1.01%) HTTP
4 5 (1.01%) WAN
5 4 (0.81%) FTP
5 4 (0.81%) Internet
5 4 (0.81%) LAN
5 4 (0.81%) Modbus
5 4 (0.81%) SMTP
5 4 (0.81%) SSH
5 4 (0.81%) SSL
5 4 (0.81%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.61%) 3G
6 3 (0.61%) GPRS
6 3 (0.61%) GSM
6 3 (0.61%) Intranet
6 3 (0.61%) RS-232
6 3 (0.61%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.67%) Power BI
2 23 (4.66%) SQL Server
3 22 (4.45%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (4.05%) MySQL
5 15 (3.04%) Data Lake
6 9 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (1.42%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.21%) Metadata
8 6 (1.21%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.21%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.01%) BusinessObjects
9 5 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.01%) Tableau
10 4 (0.81%) Pentaho
11 3 (0.61%) Big Data
11 3 (0.61%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.61%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.40%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 52 (10.53%) JIRA
2 38 (7.69%) Git
3 12 (2.43%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.43%) Selenium
4 10 (2.02%) GitLab
5 8 (1.62%) JUnit
5 8 (1.62%) Postman
6 7 (1.42%) Subversion
7 6 (1.21%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.01%) Mockito
8 5 (1.01%) Rational DOORS
9 4 (0.81%) Maven
9 4 (0.81%) Vagrant
10 3 (0.61%) git-flow
10 3 (0.61%) JMeter
10 3 (0.61%) Katalon Studio
10 3 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.40%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.40%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.40%) Vite
General
1 159 (32.19%) Social Skills
2 128 (25.91%) Finance
3 61 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (8.10%) Public Sector
5 33 (6.68%) Law
6 32 (6.48%) Marketing
7 30 (6.07%) Legal
8 29 (5.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (3.85%) Local Government
10 16 (3.24%) Retail
11 15 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (2.63%) Manufacturing
13 11 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.82%) Fire and Rescue
15 8 (1.62%) Banking
15 8 (1.62%) Electronics
16 6 (1.21%) Advertising
17 5 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 99 (20.04%) Developer
2 70 (14.17%) Lead
3 67 (13.56%) Senior
4 47 (9.51%) Analyst
5 35 (7.09%) Architect
6 30 (6.07%) Project Manager
7 24 (4.86%) Data Engineer
8 19 (3.85%) Business Analyst
9 18 (3.64%) IT Manager
9 18 (3.64%) Senior Developer
10 16 (3.24%) C# Developer
10 16 (3.24%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 15 (3.04%) IT Project Manager
11 15 (3.04%) PHP Developer
11 15 (3.04%) Software Engineer
12 14 (2.83%) Lead Developer
12 14 (2.83%) Product Owner
13 13 (2.63%) Delivery Manager
13 13 (2.63%) Java Developer
14 12 (2.43%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (11.13%) .NET
2 27 (5.47%) React
3 23 (4.66%) CSS
3 23 (4.66%) HTML
4 17 (3.44%) Spring
5 15 (3.04%) REST
6 14 (2.83%) Laravel
7 12 (2.43%) .NET Framework
8 11 (2.23%) EDI
8 11 (2.23%) RESTful
8 11 (2.23%) Spring Boot
8 11 (2.23%) Symfony
9 9 (1.82%) Middleware
10 8 (1.62%) CakePHP
10 8 (1.62%) CodeIgniter
10 8 (1.62%) jQuery
10 8 (1.62%) XML
11 7 (1.42%) AngularJS
11 7 (1.42%) Playwright
12 6 (1.21%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 51 (10.32%) Product Ownership
2 28 (5.67%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.25%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (2.83%) Management Information System
5 13 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.23%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.02%) NHS
7 10 (2.02%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.42%) IoT
11 6 (1.21%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.01%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (1.01%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.01%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.81%) Driving Licence
13 4 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
13 4 (0.81%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.85%) Windows
2 18 (3.64%) Linux
3 5 (1.01%) Mac OS
3 5 (1.01%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.81%) VMS
5 3 (0.61%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (0.61%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (0.61%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.40%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (22.27%) DevOps
2 105 (21.26%) Continuous Improvement
3 95 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
4 83 (16.80%) Stakeholder Management
5 71 (14.37%) Mentoring
6 69 (13.97%) CI/CD
6 69 (13.97%) Scrum
7 64 (12.96%) Project Management
8 59 (11.94%) Waterfall
9 54 (10.93%) Project Delivery
9 54 (10.93%) SDLC
10 49 (9.92%) Analytics
11 48 (9.72%) Roadmaps
12 47 (9.51%) Migration
13 46 (9.31%) CRM
14 44 (8.91%) Software Engineering
15 40 (8.10%) Test Automation
16 37 (7.49%) Business Intelligence
16 37 (7.49%) Coaching
17 36 (7.29%) AI
Programming Languages
1 97 (19.64%) SQL
2 70 (14.17%) C#
3 57 (11.54%) JavaScript
4 45 (9.11%) Python
5 38 (7.69%) Java
6 33 (6.68%) TypeScript
7 22 (4.45%) PHP
8 13 (2.63%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.82%) Bash
10 8 (1.62%) C++
11 7 (1.42%) Groovy
12 5 (1.01%) Go
12 5 (1.01%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.01%) Scala
13 4 (0.81%) C
13 4 (0.81%) Perl
13 4 (0.81%) Ruby
14 3 (0.61%) R
15 2 (0.40%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 53 (10.73%) Degree
2 43 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 32 (6.48%) SC Cleared
4 19 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (2.23%) ACCA
7 10 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.82%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.62%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.62%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.62%) PMP
10 6 (1.21%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.01%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.01%) MCP
12 4 (0.81%) Chartered Engineer
12 4 (0.81%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.61%) IBM Certification
13 3 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (11.34%) QA
2 12 (2.43%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.02%) PMO
4 8 (1.62%) SLA
5 7 (1.42%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 6 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.21%) GDPR
7 5 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.61%) COBIT
8 3 (0.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 3 (0.61%) MISRA
8 3 (0.61%) NIST
8 3 (0.61%) WCAG
9 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
System Software
1 26 (5.26%) Docker
2 15 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.01%) Firmware
4 3 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.40%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 27 (5.47%) Kubernetes
2 26 (5.26%) Terraform
3 5 (1.01%) Ansible
3 5 (1.01%) Grafana
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.40%) Nagios
4 2 (0.40%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.20%) Argo
5 1 (0.20%) CA Service Virtualization
5 1 (0.20%) Control-M
5 1 (0.20%) Nessus
5 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 74 (14.98%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.67%) Databricks
3 20 (4.05%) Oracle
4 13 (2.63%) Salesforce
5 12 (2.43%) SAP
6 8 (1.62%) IBM
6 8 (1.62%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.21%) Google
7 6 (1.21%) Siemens
8 5 (1.01%) Talend
8 5 (1.01%) Zoho
9 4 (0.81%) Adobe
9 4 (0.81%) JD Edwards
9 4 (0.81%) Remedy
10 3 (0.61%) Cisco
10 3 (0.61%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.61%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.61%) Informatica
10 3 (0.61%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.61%) Workday