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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 10 5
Rank change year-on-year -24 -5 -4
Permanent jobs citing Agile 638 586 1,750
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.85% 11.82% 14.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.70% 13.22% 18.03%
Number of salaries quoted 442 330 1,285
10th Percentile £34,750 £31,250 £35,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -7.41%

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 9,518 4,432 9,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 72.29% 89.43% 81.17%
Number of salaries quoted 5,807 2,394 7,187
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,959 £33,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,374
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -24 395 £59,860 +0.18% 147
East Midlands +12 242 £55,000 - 76
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 42 (6.58%) Confluence
2 13 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.41%) CMS
4 6 (0.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 6 (0.94%) SAS
5 4 (0.63%) nginx
6 3 (0.47%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.47%) IIS
6 3 (0.47%) PowerFactory
7 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.16%) Apache
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.16%) Drupal
Applications
1 11 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (1.41%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.63%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.63%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.47%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.47%) Revit
7 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.16%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (0.94%) Workday HCM
2 4 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.63%) Shopify
3 2 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.31%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.16%) Maximo
4 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.16%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 188 (29.47%) Azure
2 97 (15.20%) AWS
3 52 (8.15%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (7.68%) Power Platform
5 26 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (3.76%) SaaS
7 19 (2.98%) Serverless
8 17 (2.66%) IaaS
9 16 (2.51%) GCP
10 14 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (2.19%) PaaS
11 13 (2.04%) PowerApps
12 12 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (1.72%) Entra ID
14 10 (1.57%) Power Automate
15 9 (1.41%) Amazon S3
15 9 (1.41%) Azure AKS
16 8 (1.25%) Azure Key Vault
16 8 (1.25%) Azure Storage
16 8 (1.25%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.57%) DNS
2 3 (0.47%) Broadband
2 3 (0.47%) WAN
3 2 (0.31%) LAN
4 1 (0.16%) 4G
4 1 (0.16%) BGP
4 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.16%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.16%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.16%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.16%) Internet
4 1 (0.16%) Intranet
4 1 (0.16%) IOS XR
4 1 (0.16%) MPLS
4 1 (0.16%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (4.86%) Power BI
2 21 (3.29%) MongoDB
3 19 (2.98%) SQL Server
4 16 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
5 14 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (1.88%) Data Lake
7 11 (1.72%) MySQL
8 10 (1.57%) NoSQL
9 8 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (1.10%) DynamoDB
10 7 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (0.78%) Metadata
12 4 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.63%) Pentaho
13 3 (0.47%) Relational Database
14 2 (0.31%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.31%) InfluxDB
14 2 (0.31%) Looker
14 2 (0.31%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 71 (11.13%) JIRA
2 27 (4.23%) Git
3 12 (1.88%) JUnit
3 12 (1.88%) Maven
3 12 (1.88%) Mockito
4 11 (1.72%) Selenium
4 11 (1.72%) XCUITest
5 10 (1.57%) Cucumber
6 8 (1.25%) GitLab
7 7 (1.10%) Gatling
7 7 (1.10%) Postman
7 7 (1.10%) Zephyr
8 6 (0.94%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.94%) JMeter
9 5 (0.78%) Jenkins
9 5 (0.78%) Subversion
9 5 (0.78%) TestRail
10 4 (0.63%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.63%) REST Assured
10 4 (0.63%) Vite
General
1 189 (29.62%) Social Skills
2 177 (27.74%) Finance
3 85 (13.32%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (9.25%) Public Sector
5 52 (8.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (6.11%) Law
7 34 (5.33%) Retail
8 20 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (2.82%) Marketing
10 17 (2.66%) Banking
11 16 (2.51%) Legal
12 13 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (1.72%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.25%) Electronics
16 6 (0.94%) Advertising
16 6 (0.94%) Games
17 5 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
18 4 (0.63%) Aerospace
18 4 (0.63%) Billing
Job Titles
1 129 (20.22%) Senior
2 95 (14.89%) Analyst
3 90 (14.11%) Developer
4 73 (11.44%) Lead
5 52 (8.15%) Business Analyst
6 48 (7.52%) Project Manager
7 43 (6.74%) Delivery Manager
8 36 (5.64%) Senior Manager
9 33 (5.17%) Architect
10 32 (5.02%) Product Owner
11 29 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
12 27 (4.23%) .NET Developer
13 26 (4.08%) Data Engineer
14 21 (3.29%) IT Manager
15 20 (3.13%) Digital Analyst
16 19 (2.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 17 (2.66%) Account Manager
17 17 (2.66%) Azure Engineer
17 17 (2.66%) Full-Stack Developer
17 17 (2.66%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (8.31%) React
2 43 (6.74%) .NET
3 25 (3.92%) Node.js
4 23 (3.61%) CSS
5 22 (3.45%) ASP.NET
5 22 (3.45%) ASP.NET Core
6 20 (3.13%) REST
6 20 (3.13%) RESTful
7 19 (2.98%) HTML
8 17 (2.66%) .NET Core
9 15 (2.35%) Playwright
10 14 (2.19%) EDI
10 14 (2.19%) Spring
11 13 (2.04%) AngularJS
12 12 (1.88%) AWS CDK
12 12 (1.88%) Next.js
13 11 (1.72%) Entity Framework
14 10 (1.57%) Middleware
14 10 (1.57%) Vue
15 9 (1.41%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 69 (10.82%) Product Ownership
2 31 (4.86%) Mobile App
3 30 (4.70%) Management Information System
4 21 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (2.82%) Cloud Native
5 18 (2.82%) Onboarding
6 17 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.72%) Low-Code
8 10 (1.57%) Virtual Team
9 9 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.41%) Cyber Defence
10 8 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (0.94%) Driving Licence
12 5 (0.78%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (0.78%) Mobile Computing
13 3 (0.47%) AS400
13 3 (0.47%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.23%) Linux
2 16 (2.51%) Windows
3 12 (1.88%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.41%) Android
5 3 (0.47%) Kali Linux
5 3 (0.47%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (23.51%) Continuous Improvement
1 150 (23.51%) Mentoring
2 117 (18.34%) Problem-Solving
3 108 (16.93%) DevOps
4 107 (16.77%) Coaching
5 106 (16.61%) CI/CD
6 97 (15.20%) Stakeholder Management
7 84 (13.17%) Scrum
8 74 (11.60%) Roadmaps
8 74 (11.60%) Test Automation
9 68 (10.66%) Project Management
10 64 (10.03%) AI
11 62 (9.72%) Analytics
11 62 (9.72%) Full-Stack Development
12 60 (9.40%) Decision-Making
13 57 (8.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 56 (8.78%) Computer Science
14 56 (8.78%) Project Delivery
14 56 (8.78%) Waterfall
15 52 (8.15%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 115 (18.03%) SQL
2 69 (10.82%) C#
3 63 (9.87%) JavaScript
4 54 (8.46%) Java
5 51 (7.99%) TypeScript
6 41 (6.43%) Python
7 25 (3.92%) Bash
8 20 (3.13%) PHP
9 16 (2.51%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.88%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.25%) C++
11 8 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.78%) R
12 5 (0.78%) Swift
13 4 (0.63%) C
14 3 (0.47%) Go
14 3 (0.47%) RPG
14 3 (0.47%) RPG IV
14 3 (0.47%) RPG/400
14 3 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 75 (11.76%) Degree
2 54 (8.46%) Security Cleared
3 42 (6.58%) SC Cleared
4 19 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.51%) PMI Certification
6 15 (2.35%) PMP
7 14 (2.19%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.88%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.88%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.57%) CITP
10 9 (1.41%) CISSP
10 9 (1.41%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (1.10%) CISA
11 7 (1.10%) ISEB
11 7 (1.10%) ISTQB
11 7 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.10%) SSCP
12 5 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 4 (0.63%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (13.64%) QA
2 36 (5.64%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.35%) GDPR
3 15 (2.35%) SLA
4 13 (2.04%) NIST
5 12 (1.88%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.10%) ITGC
7 6 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.78%) PMO
9 4 (0.63%) WCAG
10 3 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.31%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 36 (5.64%) Docker
2 8 (1.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 47 (7.37%) Kubernetes
2 27 (4.23%) Terraform
3 10 (1.57%) Grafana
4 5 (0.78%) Ansible
5 3 (0.47%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.47%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.31%) Argo
6 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.16%) Control-M
7 1 (0.16%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 93 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.39%) Oracle
3 21 (3.29%) Databricks
4 15 (2.35%) Salesforce
5 12 (1.88%) Google
5 12 (1.88%) SAP
6 11 (1.72%) ServiceNow
7 10 (1.57%) IBM
8 8 (1.25%) Planon
9 6 (0.94%) Workday
10 5 (0.78%) Apple
10 5 (0.78%) Talend
11 4 (0.63%) Cloudera
11 4 (0.63%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.63%) Informatica
12 3 (0.47%) Cisco
12 3 (0.47%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (0.47%) DIgSILENT
12 3 (0.47%) HP
12 3 (0.47%) Veracode