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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 10 8
Rank change year-on-year -9 -2 -5
Permanent jobs citing Agile 751 654 1,349
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 5.26% 11.40% 12.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.51% 13.40% 16.23%
Number of salaries quoted 491 399 694
10th Percentile £36,125 £32,500 £37,007
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% +3.48% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,625 £68,591
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,750 £84,599
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -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 10,000 4,880 8,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.97% 85.06% 77.81%
Number of salaries quoted 7,119 2,973 5,067
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,886 £27,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,945 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -12 458 £55,000 -8.33% 208
East Midlands +4 293 £55,000 - 122
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 26 (3.46%) Confluence
2 14 (1.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 11 (1.46%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.67%) CMS
5 4 (0.53%) PowerFactory
5 4 (0.53%) SAS
6 3 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.40%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.27%) Apache
7 2 (0.27%) IIS
8 1 (0.13%) Documentum
8 1 (0.13%) Drupal
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.13%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (1.60%) MS Visio
2 10 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.53%) AutoCAD
5 4 (0.53%) Revit
6 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.27%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.13%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 21 (2.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.80%) Oracle Applications
4 4 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.53%) Primavera
4 4 (0.53%) SAP EHS
5 3 (0.40%) Shopify
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.13%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.13%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 241 (32.09%) Azure
2 152 (20.24%) AWS
3 76 (10.12%) Power Platform
4 59 (7.86%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (5.59%) SaaS
6 37 (4.93%) Power Automate
6 37 (4.93%) PowerApps
7 35 (4.66%) Microsoft 365
8 31 (4.13%) Dynamics 365
9 25 (3.33%) Serverless
10 19 (2.53%) GCP
10 19 (2.53%) IaaS
11 15 (2.00%) PaaS
12 13 (1.73%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (1.46%) Amazon S3
13 11 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
14 10 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (1.20%) Azure AKS
15 9 (1.20%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.20%) DNS
2 4 (0.53%) Internet
3 3 (0.40%) HTTP
3 3 (0.40%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.27%) Firewall
4 2 (0.27%) LAN
4 2 (0.27%) SMS
4 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.27%) VoIP
4 2 (0.27%) WAN
5 1 (0.13%) Broadband
5 1 (0.13%) CTI
5 1 (0.13%) DHCP
5 1 (0.13%) FTP
5 1 (0.13%) Intranet
5 1 (0.13%) SNMP
5 1 (0.13%) SSL
5 1 (0.13%) VPN
5 1 (0.13%) Wireless
5 1 (0.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (7.86%) Power BI
2 50 (6.66%) MongoDB
3 45 (5.99%) Azure SQL Database
4 26 (3.46%) SQL Server
5 25 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
6 16 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (1.46%) NoSQL
8 10 (1.33%) DynamoDB
8 10 (1.33%) MySQL
8 10 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (1.33%) Power Query
9 9 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (0.93%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.80%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.80%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 5 (0.67%) NonStop SQL
14 3 (0.40%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 54 (7.19%) JIRA
2 43 (5.73%) Git
3 22 (2.93%) JUnit
4 20 (2.66%) Cucumber
4 20 (2.66%) Selenium
5 17 (2.26%) GitLab
5 17 (2.26%) Maven
5 17 (2.26%) Postman
6 14 (1.86%) Jenkins
6 14 (1.86%) Mockito
7 13 (1.73%) Gatling
8 11 (1.46%) XCUITest
9 10 (1.33%) JMeter
9 10 (1.33%) Zephyr
10 7 (0.93%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.67%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.67%) SoapUI
11 5 (0.67%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
12 4 (0.53%) TestRail
General
1 223 (29.69%) Social Skills
2 196 (26.10%) Finance
3 94 (12.52%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (9.19%) Public Sector
5 42 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 42 (5.59%) Retail
6 36 (4.79%) Law
7 35 (4.66%) Influencing Skills
8 27 (3.60%) Manufacturing
9 23 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
10 22 (2.93%) Legal
11 18 (2.40%) Marketing
12 15 (2.00%) Banking
12 15 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (1.60%) Advertising
13 12 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.07%) Aerospace
14 8 (1.07%) Games
15 7 (0.93%) Fire and Rescue
16 5 (0.67%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 154 (20.51%) Developer
2 138 (18.38%) Senior
3 94 (12.52%) Lead
4 90 (11.98%) Analyst
5 52 (6.92%) .NET Developer
5 52 (6.92%) Project Manager
6 51 (6.79%) Architect
7 48 (6.39%) Business Analyst
8 43 (5.73%) Delivery Manager
9 42 (5.59%) Software Engineer
10 32 (4.26%) Senior Manager
11 29 (3.86%) Senior Analyst
12 24 (3.20%) Senior Developer
13 21 (2.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 21 (2.80%) Software Developer
14 19 (2.53%) Account Manager
14 19 (2.53%) Junior
14 19 (2.53%) Solutions Architect
15 18 (2.40%) Digital Analyst
15 18 (2.40%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (13.72%) .NET
2 82 (10.92%) React
3 57 (7.59%) ASP.NET
4 53 (7.06%) ASP.NET Core
5 52 (6.92%) .NET Core
6 46 (6.13%) REST
7 40 (5.33%) Node.js
8 39 (5.19%) CSS
9 35 (4.66%) HTML
10 29 (3.86%) Playwright
11 25 (3.33%) Entity Framework
12 24 (3.20%) ASP.NET Web API
13 23 (3.06%) RESTful
14 22 (2.93%) Blazor
15 20 (2.66%) Spring
16 16 (2.13%) LINQ
16 16 (2.13%) Next.js
17 13 (1.73%) AngularJS
17 13 (1.73%) AWS CDK
18 12 (1.60%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 54 (7.19%) Product Ownership
2 32 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
3 31 (4.13%) Greenfield Project
4 28 (3.73%) Mobile App
5 26 (3.46%) Cloud Native
6 20 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (1.86%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.60%) AI Agents
9 12 (1.60%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.20%) Cyber Defence
12 9 (1.20%) Driving Licence
12 9 (1.20%) Low-Code
13 8 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.07%) PMI
13 8 (1.07%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.67%) IoT
14 5 (0.67%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.99%) Linux
2 18 (2.40%) Windows
3 11 (1.46%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.20%) Android
5 7 (0.93%) Unix
6 4 (0.53%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.40%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.27%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (25.70%) Continuous Improvement
2 183 (24.37%) Mentoring
3 153 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
4 149 (19.84%) CI/CD
5 127 (16.91%) Coaching
6 125 (16.64%) DevOps
7 120 (15.98%) Stakeholder Management
8 109 (14.51%) AI
9 106 (14.11%) Scrum
10 93 (12.38%) Test Automation
11 89 (11.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 88 (11.72%) Decision-Making
13 86 (11.45%) Full-Stack Development
14 76 (10.12%) Roadmaps
15 73 (9.72%) Microservices
16 72 (9.59%) Analytics
17 69 (9.19%) Business Intelligence
18 67 (8.92%) Business Strategy
18 67 (8.92%) SDLC
18 67 (8.92%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 164 (21.84%) SQL
2 131 (17.44%) C#
3 89 (11.85%) JavaScript
4 67 (8.92%) Java
5 61 (8.12%) TypeScript
6 41 (5.46%) Python
7 21 (2.80%) PL/SQL
8 20 (2.66%) Bash
9 16 (2.13%) C++
9 16 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 16 (2.13%) PHP
9 16 (2.13%) PowerShell
10 5 (0.67%) C
11 4 (0.53%) RPG
11 4 (0.53%) RPG IV
11 4 (0.53%) RPG/400
11 4 (0.53%) Swift
12 2 (0.27%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.27%) R
12 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 88 (11.72%) Degree
2 77 (10.25%) Security Cleared
3 73 (9.72%) SC Cleared
4 23 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.66%) PMI Certification
6 16 (2.13%) Azure Certification
7 15 (2.00%) PMP
8 12 (1.60%) CISSP
8 12 (1.60%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.60%) ISTQB
8 12 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.46%) ISEB
10 10 (1.33%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.93%) CISA
12 7 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (0.93%) SSCP
13 6 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.67%) CISM
15 4 (0.53%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (11.58%) QA
2 60 (7.99%) Accessibility
3 23 (3.06%) GDPR
4 20 (2.66%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.86%) NIST
6 10 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.20%) PMO
7 9 (1.20%) SLA
7 9 (1.20%) WCAG
8 7 (0.93%) GRC
8 7 (0.93%) ITGC
9 3 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.27%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.13%) NCSC
11 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 51 (6.79%) Docker
2 4 (0.53%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (0.40%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 63 (8.39%) Kubernetes
2 27 (3.60%) Terraform
3 8 (1.07%) Grafana
4 3 (0.40%) Ansible
4 3 (0.40%) HP ALM
4 3 (0.40%) HP Fortify
5 2 (0.27%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.27%) Puppet
6 1 (0.13%) Argo
6 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 138 (18.38%) Microsoft
2 38 (5.06%) Oracle
3 30 (3.99%) SAP
4 22 (2.93%) ServiceNow
5 19 (2.53%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.46%) Databricks
6 11 (1.46%) Google
7 10 (1.33%) IFS
8 9 (1.20%) IBM
9 8 (1.07%) MuleSoft
10 6 (0.80%) OpenAI
10 6 (0.80%) Pega
11 5 (0.67%) Facebook
11 5 (0.67%) Veracode
11 5 (0.67%) Workday
11 5 (0.67%) YouTube
12 4 (0.53%) Apple
12 4 (0.53%) DIgSILENT
12 4 (0.53%) dotdigital
12 4 (0.53%) Infor