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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 8 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 522 1,054 984
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 8.79% 11.97% 19.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.68% 14.50% 20.99%
Number of salaries quoted 351 418 753
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,430 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +8.05% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,013 £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 4,888 7,271 4,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.35% 82.58% 93.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,262 3,211 3,612
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,791
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -2.91%
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% - -1.64%

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 21 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 21 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 0 360 £60,000 - 260
East Midlands -15 159 £57,500 - 152
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 24 (4.60%) Confluence
2 8 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.15%) Apache
3 6 (1.15%) Appian
3 6 (1.15%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.96%) IIS
4 5 (0.96%) SAS
5 4 (0.77%) CMS
6 3 (0.57%) WordPress
7 2 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.19%) nginx
Applications
1 19 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.57%) Trello
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.19%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 37 (7.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.15%) Shopify
3 3 (0.57%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.38%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 2 (0.38%) iTrent
4 2 (0.38%) Maximo
4 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.19%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 138 (26.44%) Azure
2 81 (15.52%) AWS
3 64 (12.26%) SaaS
4 52 (9.96%) Power Platform
5 50 (9.58%) Dynamics 365
6 41 (7.85%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (4.21%) GCP
8 21 (4.02%) PowerApps
9 19 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
10 17 (3.26%) Power Automate
11 14 (2.68%) Serverless
12 11 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (1.72%) Amazon S3
14 8 (1.53%) GitHub
14 8 (1.53%) PaaS
14 8 (1.53%) Snowflake
15 7 (1.34%) AWS KMS
15 7 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
16 6 (1.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.11%) DNS
1 11 (2.11%) Firewall
2 9 (1.72%) Internet
2 9 (1.72%) VPN
3 7 (1.34%) DHCP
4 5 (0.96%) HTTP
4 5 (0.96%) Network Security
5 4 (0.77%) FTP
5 4 (0.77%) LAN
5 4 (0.77%) Modbus
5 4 (0.77%) SMTP
5 4 (0.77%) SSH
5 4 (0.77%) SSL
5 4 (0.77%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.77%) WAN
6 3 (0.57%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.57%) GPRS
6 3 (0.57%) GSM
6 3 (0.57%) RS-232
6 3 (0.57%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (5.56%) Power BI
1 29 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 22 (4.21%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (4.02%) MySQL
4 14 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 12 (2.30%) Data Lake
6 11 (2.11%) NoSQL
6 11 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (1.53%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.53%) Tableau
9 7 (1.34%) Big Data
9 7 (1.34%) BusinessObjects
10 6 (1.15%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.15%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.96%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.96%) Metadata
12 3 (0.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.57%) Pentaho
12 3 (0.57%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 47 (9.00%) JIRA
2 42 (8.05%) Git
3 18 (3.45%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.49%) JUnit
4 13 (2.49%) Selenium
5 9 (1.72%) Mockito
5 9 (1.72%) Postman
6 8 (1.53%) GitLab
6 8 (1.53%) Maven
7 7 (1.34%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.15%) JMeter
9 5 (0.96%) Katalon Studio
9 5 (0.96%) Vagrant
10 4 (0.77%) Rational DOORS
10 4 (0.77%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.57%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (0.57%) git-flow
11 3 (0.57%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.38%) Vite
General
1 165 (31.61%) Social Skills
2 142 (27.20%) Finance
3 60 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (8.24%) Public Sector
5 42 (8.05%) Law
6 38 (7.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (5.94%) Marketing
8 25 (4.79%) Legal
9 24 (4.60%) Retail
10 19 (3.64%) Local Government
10 19 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (3.07%) Manufacturing
11 16 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.72%) Fire and Rescue
14 8 (1.53%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.34%) Banking
16 5 (0.96%) Advertising
16 5 (0.96%) Back Office
16 5 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 120 (22.99%) Developer
2 73 (13.98%) Lead
3 71 (13.60%) Senior
4 52 (9.96%) Analyst
5 32 (6.13%) Project Manager
6 30 (5.75%) Architect
7 28 (5.36%) Senior Developer
8 21 (4.02%) Data Engineer
8 21 (4.02%) Software Engineer
9 20 (3.83%) Business Analyst
9 20 (3.83%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 18 (3.45%) Java Developer
11 17 (3.26%) Lead Developer
12 16 (3.07%) IT Manager
13 15 (2.87%) PHP Developer
14 14 (2.68%) C# Developer
14 14 (2.68%) CRM Developer
15 13 (2.49%) Consultant
15 13 (2.49%) IT Project Manager
16 12 (2.30%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (12.84%) .NET
2 37 (7.09%) React
3 36 (6.90%) HTML
4 35 (6.70%) CSS
5 22 (4.21%) Spring
6 20 (3.83%) REST
7 16 (3.07%) .NET Framework
7 16 (3.07%) RESTful
7 16 (3.07%) Spring Boot
8 13 (2.49%) Laravel
9 12 (2.30%) Symfony
10 11 (2.11%) jQuery
11 10 (1.92%) AngularJS
11 10 (1.92%) Django
11 10 (1.92%) XML
12 9 (1.72%) Hibernate
12 9 (1.72%) Node.js
12 9 (1.72%) SOAP
12 9 (1.72%) Web Services
13 8 (1.53%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 48 (9.20%) Product Ownership
2 25 (4.79%) Cloud Native
3 17 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (2.68%) Data Centre
5 14 (2.68%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.11%) IoT
7 11 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.92%) NHS
8 10 (1.92%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.15%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.15%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.15%) Legacy Code
11 5 (0.96%) Driving Licence
11 5 (0.96%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.98%) Linux
2 20 (3.83%) Windows
3 8 (1.53%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.15%) Embedded Linux
5 5 (0.96%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.96%) VMS
5 5 (0.96%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.77%) AIX
7 3 (0.57%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (0.38%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.38%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.38%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.38%) Unix
9 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.19%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (22.99%) DevOps
2 113 (21.65%) Continuous Improvement
3 91 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
4 82 (15.71%) CI/CD
5 76 (14.56%) Stakeholder Management
6 74 (14.18%) Mentoring
7 72 (13.79%) Scrum
8 66 (12.64%) SDLC
9 60 (11.49%) Waterfall
10 57 (10.92%) Project Management
11 55 (10.54%) Software Engineering
12 54 (10.34%) Project Delivery
13 45 (8.62%) CRM
13 45 (8.62%) Roadmaps
14 44 (8.43%) Analytics
14 44 (8.43%) Migration
14 44 (8.43%) Test Automation
15 40 (7.66%) Decision-Making
15 40 (7.66%) ITIL
16 39 (7.47%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 113 (21.65%) SQL
2 85 (16.28%) C#
3 78 (14.94%) JavaScript
4 56 (10.73%) Python
5 50 (9.58%) Java
6 33 (6.32%) TypeScript
7 22 (4.21%) PHP
8 13 (2.49%) PowerShell
9 12 (2.30%) C++
10 10 (1.92%) Groovy
11 9 (1.72%) Bash
12 6 (1.15%) C
12 6 (1.15%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.15%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.77%) Go
13 4 (0.77%) Perl
13 4 (0.77%) R
13 4 (0.77%) Ruby
13 4 (0.77%) Scala
14 3 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (11.11%) Degree
2 45 (8.62%) Security Cleared
3 37 (7.09%) SC Cleared
4 22 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (3.83%) ACCA
6 12 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.53%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.53%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.53%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.34%) PMP
10 5 (0.96%) Chartered Engineer
10 5 (0.96%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.96%) MCP
11 4 (0.77%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.57%) CISM
12 3 (0.57%) CISSP
12 3 (0.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (9.39%) QA
2 11 (2.11%) PMO
3 9 (1.72%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.53%) SLA
5 7 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 6 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.15%) GDPR
7 5 (0.96%) COBIT
7 5 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 3 (0.57%) MISRA
8 3 (0.57%) NIST
8 3 (0.57%) WCAG
9 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.19%) GRC
9 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.19%) NIST 800
System Software
1 33 (6.32%) Docker
2 12 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.96%) Firmware
4 4 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.57%) DFS Replication
5 3 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.19%) HDFS
7 1 (0.19%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 30 (5.75%) Kubernetes
2 23 (4.41%) Terraform
3 8 (1.53%) Grafana
4 5 (0.96%) Ansible
5 3 (0.57%) Kibana
5 3 (0.57%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.38%) Nagios
6 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.38%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.19%) Argo
7 1 (0.19%) CA Service Virtualization
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 75 (14.37%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.60%) Databricks
3 21 (4.02%) Oracle
4 18 (3.45%) SAP
5 12 (2.30%) Salesforce
6 9 (1.72%) Guidewire
6 9 (1.72%) IBM
6 9 (1.72%) Siemens
7 8 (1.53%) Google
7 8 (1.53%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.15%) VMware
9 4 (0.77%) Adobe
9 4 (0.77%) JD Edwards
9 4 (0.77%) Juniper
10 3 (0.57%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.57%) Atmel
10 3 (0.57%) Informatica
10 3 (0.57%) Remedy
10 3 (0.57%) Splunk
10 3 (0.57%) Talend