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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 10 5
Rank change year-on-year -24 -5 -4
Permanent jobs citing Agile 597 556 1,716
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.69% 11.13% 14.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.43% 12.49% 18.15%
Number of salaries quoted 414 363 1,292
10th Percentile £33,900 £32,100 £35,503
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -2.62%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,813
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,809 £81,786
England median annual salary £66,250 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.36% +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 9,279 4,450 9,456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 72.88% 89.05% 82.21%
Number of salaries quoted 5,517 2,601 7,118
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £61,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,000 £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 1 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 1 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 -25 370 £60,000 - 166
East Midlands -3 225 £55,000 -8.33% 91
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 43 (7.20%) Confluence
2 12 (2.01%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.84%) CMS
4 9 (1.51%) SAS
5 5 (0.84%) nginx
5 5 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.50%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.50%) IIS
7 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.17%) Apache
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.17%) Drupal
8 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (2.01%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.34%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.84%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.84%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.17%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.17%) Simulink
7 1 (0.17%) Sketch
7 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.01%) Workday HCM
2 5 (0.84%) Shopify
3 4 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.34%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.17%) Maximo
5 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.17%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 156 (26.13%) Azure
2 76 (12.73%) AWS
3 51 (8.54%) Azure DevOps
4 50 (8.38%) Power Platform
5 26 (4.36%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (3.69%) SaaS
7 17 (2.85%) Serverless
8 15 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (2.35%) GCP
10 13 (2.18%) IaaS
11 12 (2.01%) Entra ID
12 11 (1.84%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (1.84%) PaaS
13 10 (1.68%) PowerApps
14 8 (1.34%) Amazon S3
14 8 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (1.17%) GitHub
15 7 (1.17%) Power Automate
16 6 (1.01%) Amazon Cognito
16 6 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.01%) DNS
2 4 (0.67%) Broadband
2 4 (0.67%) WAN
3 3 (0.50%) 4G
4 2 (0.34%) 5G
4 2 (0.34%) LAN
5 1 (0.17%) BGP
5 1 (0.17%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.17%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.17%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.17%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.17%) Internet
5 1 (0.17%) Intranet
5 1 (0.17%) IOS XR
5 1 (0.17%) MPLS
5 1 (0.17%) RFID
5 1 (0.17%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (5.19%) Power BI
2 19 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (3.18%) SQL Server
3 17 (2.85%) Data Lake
4 12 (2.01%) MySQL
5 7 (1.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.17%) Metadata
5 7 (1.17%) NoSQL
5 7 (1.17%) Pentaho
6 6 (1.01%) DynamoDB
6 6 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.50%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.50%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.34%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.34%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.34%) Looker
Development Applications
1 74 (12.40%) JIRA
2 30 (5.03%) Git
3 13 (2.18%) Selenium
4 11 (1.84%) Cucumber
4 11 (1.84%) XCUITest
5 9 (1.51%) GitLab
6 8 (1.34%) Postman
7 7 (1.17%) Gatling
7 7 (1.17%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.17%) JUnit
7 7 (1.17%) Zephyr
8 6 (1.01%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.01%) JMeter
8 6 (1.01%) Maven
8 6 (1.01%) Mockito
9 5 (0.84%) Subversion
9 5 (0.84%) TestRail
9 5 (0.84%) Vite
10 4 (0.67%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.67%) REST Assured
General
1 193 (32.33%) Social Skills
2 180 (30.15%) Finance
3 91 (15.24%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (9.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 57 (9.55%) Public Sector
6 39 (6.53%) Law
7 30 (5.03%) Retail
8 24 (4.02%) Marketing
9 20 (3.35%) Legal
10 17 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (2.35%) Banking
12 14 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.68%) Electronics
14 9 (1.51%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.17%) Advertising
15 7 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (1.01%) Games
16 6 (1.01%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.84%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 130 (21.78%) Senior
2 93 (15.58%) Analyst
3 72 (12.06%) Developer
4 66 (11.06%) Lead
5 50 (8.38%) Business Analyst
6 46 (7.71%) Project Manager
7 38 (6.37%) Delivery Manager
8 36 (6.03%) Senior Manager
9 33 (5.53%) Product Owner
10 32 (5.36%) Data Engineer
11 30 (5.03%) Architect
12 29 (4.86%) Senior Analyst
13 22 (3.69%) IT Manager
14 19 (3.18%) Digital Analyst
14 19 (3.18%) Senior Data Engineer
15 18 (3.02%) Software Developer
16 17 (2.85%) C# Developer
16 17 (2.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 16 (2.68%) Senior Business Analyst
18 15 (2.51%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (5.86%) React
2 24 (4.02%) .NET
3 20 (3.35%) CSS
4 17 (2.85%) Node.js
5 15 (2.51%) HTML
6 13 (2.18%) EDI
7 12 (2.01%) Playwright
7 12 (2.01%) REST
8 11 (1.84%) AngularJS
8 11 (1.84%) AWS CDK
8 11 (1.84%) Laravel
8 11 (1.84%) Next.js
8 11 (1.84%) RESTful
9 10 (1.68%) Middleware
10 9 (1.51%) YAML
11 8 (1.34%) Spring
11 8 (1.34%) Vue
12 7 (1.17%) jQuery
13 5 (0.84%) ASP.NET
13 5 (0.84%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 72 (12.06%) Product Ownership
2 33 (5.53%) Management Information System
3 23 (3.85%) Mobile App
4 17 (2.85%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (2.68%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (2.35%) Cloud Native
8 11 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (1.84%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.68%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.51%) Cyber Defence
11 7 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.84%) Driving Licence
12 5 (0.84%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (0.84%) Mobile Computing
13 4 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
14 3 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
14 3 (0.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.69%) Linux
2 15 (2.51%) Windows
3 12 (2.01%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.17%) Android
5 3 (0.50%) Kali Linux
5 3 (0.50%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (22.95%) Continuous Improvement
2 126 (21.11%) Mentoring
3 107 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
4 99 (16.58%) Coaching
5 96 (16.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 95 (15.91%) DevOps
7 79 (13.23%) CI/CD
8 74 (12.40%) Scrum
9 69 (11.56%) Project Management
10 68 (11.39%) Roadmaps
11 65 (10.89%) Test Automation
12 62 (10.39%) Analytics
13 60 (10.05%) Decision-Making
14 59 (9.88%) Waterfall
15 55 (9.21%) Project Delivery
16 53 (8.88%) Business Strategy
16 53 (8.88%) Computer Science
16 53 (8.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 47 (7.87%) Full-Stack Development
18 44 (7.37%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 102 (17.09%) SQL
2 47 (7.87%) C#
3 43 (7.20%) Python
4 41 (6.87%) Java
4 41 (6.87%) JavaScript
5 39 (6.53%) TypeScript
6 25 (4.19%) PHP
7 23 (3.85%) Bash
8 11 (1.84%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.17%) C++
9 7 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (1.01%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.84%) C
11 5 (0.84%) R
11 5 (0.84%) Swift
12 4 (0.67%) Go
13 3 (0.50%) VBA
14 2 (0.34%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 71 (11.89%) Degree
2 43 (7.20%) Security Cleared
3 31 (5.19%) SC Cleared
4 18 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (3.02%) PMI Certification
5 17 (2.85%) PMP
6 12 (2.01%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.84%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.51%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.51%) CISSP
8 9 (1.51%) CITP
8 9 (1.51%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (1.17%) CISA
9 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.17%) SSCP
10 6 (1.01%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 5 (0.84%) CIMA
11 5 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.84%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (14.74%) QA
2 30 (5.03%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.51%) SLA
4 14 (2.35%) Data Quality
5 13 (2.18%) NIST
6 12 (2.01%) GDPR
7 7 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.17%) ITGC
8 6 (1.01%) PMO
9 4 (0.67%) WCAG
10 3 (0.50%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.17%) GRC
12 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 30 (5.03%) Docker
2 9 (1.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (5.36%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.35%) Terraform
3 11 (1.84%) Grafana
4 5 (0.84%) Ansible
5 3 (0.50%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.50%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.34%) Argo
6 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.17%) Control-M
7 1 (0.17%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 76 (12.73%) Microsoft
2 29 (4.86%) Databricks
3 24 (4.02%) Oracle
4 15 (2.51%) Salesforce
5 13 (2.18%) SAP
6 11 (1.84%) ServiceNow
7 10 (1.68%) Google
8 8 (1.34%) Planon
8 8 (1.34%) Talend
9 7 (1.17%) IBM
10 6 (1.01%) Cloudera
10 6 (1.01%) Informatica
10 6 (1.01%) Workday
11 5 (0.84%) Apple
11 5 (0.84%) Zoho
12 4 (0.67%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.50%) Cisco
13 3 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (0.50%) HP
13 3 (0.50%) Veracode