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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 9 4
Rank change year-on-year -20 -5 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 497 792 1,090
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 6.22% 12.66% 16.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.70% 13.93% 18.67%
Number of salaries quoted 357 397 944
10th Percentile £38,250 £38,650 £33,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £49,236 £42,481
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,344 £84,964 £79,813
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -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 6,452 5,685 5,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.71% 90.86% 86.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,589 2,525 4,810
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,754 £35,000
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 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -19 337 £62,000 +3.33% 178
East Midlands -22 156 £55,000 -8.33% 151
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 (5.23%) Confluence
2 8 (1.61%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.41%) CMS
4 6 (1.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (1.01%) SAS
6 4 (0.80%) Apache
6 4 (0.80%) nginx
7 3 (0.60%) IIS
7 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.60%) WordPress
8 2 (0.40%) Appian
9 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 13 (2.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.41%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.61%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.80%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (0.80%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.60%) Trello
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.20%) Simulink
6 1 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 21 (4.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.41%) Shopify
3 3 (0.60%) Maximo
3 3 (0.60%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.40%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 2 (0.40%) iTrent
4 2 (0.40%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.40%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.20%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.20%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 148 (29.78%) Azure
2 68 (13.68%) AWS
3 53 (10.66%) Power Platform
4 45 (9.05%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (9.05%) SaaS
5 33 (6.64%) Dynamics 365
6 21 (4.23%) PowerApps
7 19 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (3.22%) Power Automate
9 14 (2.82%) GCP
10 11 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (2.01%) PaaS
12 8 (1.61%) Serverless
13 7 (1.41%) GitHub
14 6 (1.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.21%) Entra ID
15 5 (1.01%) Amazon S3
15 5 (1.01%) IaaS
16 4 (0.80%) Azure Logic Apps
16 4 (0.80%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.61%) DNS
2 5 (1.01%) WAN
3 4 (0.80%) DHCP
3 4 (0.80%) Internet
3 4 (0.80%) LAN
3 4 (0.80%) Modbus
3 4 (0.80%) SSL
3 4 (0.80%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.60%) 3G
4 3 (0.60%) 4G
4 3 (0.60%) Broadband
4 3 (0.60%) GPRS
4 3 (0.60%) GSM
4 3 (0.60%) HTTP
4 3 (0.60%) Intranet
4 3 (0.60%) RS-232
4 3 (0.60%) RS-485
4 3 (0.60%) VPN
5 2 (0.40%) FTP
5 2 (0.40%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.63%) Power BI
2 27 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (4.43%) SQL Server
4 20 (4.02%) MySQL
5 19 (3.82%) Data Lake
6 9 (1.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 9 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (1.41%) Metadata
7 7 (1.41%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.01%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.80%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (0.80%) Pentaho
10 3 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.60%) Tableau
11 2 (0.40%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (0.40%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.40%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 53 (10.66%) JIRA
2 40 (8.05%) Git
3 10 (2.01%) JUnit
4 9 (1.81%) GitLab
4 9 (1.81%) Mockito
5 8 (1.61%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.61%) Maven
5 8 (1.61%) Selenium
6 7 (1.41%) Subversion
7 6 (1.21%) Postman
8 5 (1.01%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.01%) Vite
9 4 (0.80%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.60%) git-flow
11 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.40%) Gatling
11 2 (0.40%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.40%) TestRail
11 2 (0.40%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.20%) LoadRunner
General
1 161 (32.39%) Social Skills
2 131 (26.36%) Finance
3 63 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (10.46%) Public Sector
5 40 (8.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (6.44%) Law
7 30 (6.04%) Legal
8 27 (5.43%) Marketing
9 20 (4.02%) Retail
10 15 (3.02%) Manufacturing
11 14 (2.82%) Local Government
11 14 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (2.01%) Electronics
14 10 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.81%) Banking
15 9 (1.81%) Fire and Rescue
16 6 (1.21%) Billing
16 6 (1.21%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 103 (20.72%) Developer
2 80 (16.10%) Senior
3 66 (13.28%) Lead
4 53 (10.66%) Analyst
5 32 (6.44%) Project Manager
6 29 (5.84%) Architect
7 27 (5.43%) Business Analyst
7 27 (5.43%) Data Engineer
8 22 (4.43%) IT Manager
9 21 (4.23%) Java Developer
9 21 (4.23%) Product Owner
9 21 (4.23%) Senior Developer
10 18 (3.62%) Senior Data Engineer
11 16 (3.22%) IT Project Manager
12 15 (3.02%) C# Developer
12 15 (3.02%) Delivery Manager
13 14 (2.82%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 14 (2.82%) PHP Developer
13 14 (2.82%) Senior Manager
14 13 (2.62%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (10.66%) .NET
2 30 (6.04%) React
3 24 (4.83%) HTML
4 23 (4.63%) CSS
5 18 (3.62%) REST
6 16 (3.22%) Laravel
6 16 (3.22%) Spring
7 15 (3.02%) EDI
8 10 (2.01%) .NET Framework
8 10 (2.01%) Spring Boot
8 10 (2.01%) Symfony
9 9 (1.81%) AngularJS
9 9 (1.81%) Middleware
9 9 (1.81%) RESTful
10 8 (1.61%) jQuery
11 7 (1.41%) CakePHP
11 7 (1.41%) CodeIgniter
11 7 (1.41%) Node.js
11 7 (1.41%) Vue
11 7 (1.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (11.87%) Product Ownership
2 23 (4.63%) Management Information System
3 20 (4.02%) Cloud Native
4 19 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (3.42%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.01%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.01%) NHS
7 9 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.61%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.21%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.01%) Embedded Systems
10 5 (1.01%) IoT
10 5 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.01%) Social Media
10 5 (1.01%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.80%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.23%) Linux
2 14 (2.82%) Windows
3 3 (0.60%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (0.60%) FreeRTOS
3 3 (0.60%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.40%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.40%) Mac OS X
4 2 (0.40%) Unix
4 2 (0.40%) VMS
4 2 (0.40%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.20%) Android
5 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (22.13%) Continuous Improvement
2 108 (21.73%) DevOps
3 97 (19.52%) Problem-Solving
4 83 (16.70%) Stakeholder Management
5 73 (14.69%) Mentoring
6 72 (14.49%) CI/CD
7 71 (14.29%) Scrum
8 67 (13.48%) Project Management
9 57 (11.47%) Waterfall
10 56 (11.27%) SDLC
11 51 (10.26%) Project Delivery
11 51 (10.26%) Roadmaps
12 48 (9.66%) Coaching
13 47 (9.46%) Migration
14 46 (9.26%) Software Engineering
15 44 (8.85%) Analytics
15 44 (8.85%) User Experience
16 43 (8.65%) CRM
17 42 (8.45%) Decision-Making
18 39 (7.85%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 97 (19.52%) SQL
2 62 (12.47%) C#
3 57 (11.47%) JavaScript
4 43 (8.65%) Python
5 40 (8.05%) Java
6 34 (6.84%) TypeScript
7 23 (4.63%) PHP
8 17 (3.42%) Bash
9 9 (1.81%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.61%) C
10 8 (1.61%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.41%) Go
12 6 (1.21%) C++
13 5 (1.01%) R
13 5 (1.01%) Scala
14 4 (0.80%) Ruby
15 3 (0.60%) Groovy
16 2 (0.40%) Perl
16 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 50 (10.06%) Degree
2 43 (8.65%) Security Cleared
3 31 (6.24%) SC Cleared
4 21 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (2.62%) PMI Certification
6 11 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (2.21%) PMP
7 10 (2.01%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.41%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.01%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.01%) CITP
11 4 (0.80%) ACCA
11 4 (0.80%) Chartered Engineer
11 4 (0.80%) CIMA
12 3 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.60%) IBM Certification
12 3 (0.60%) MBA
12 3 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 3 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (12.88%) QA
2 12 (2.41%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.81%) GDPR
3 9 (1.81%) PMO
4 8 (1.61%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.61%) SLA
5 7 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 4 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 3 (0.60%) MISRA
7 3 (0.60%) WCAG
8 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.40%) NIST
9 1 (0.20%) COBIT
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
System Software
1 31 (6.24%) Docker
2 9 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (0.60%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 29 (5.84%) Kubernetes
2 23 (4.63%) Terraform
3 7 (1.41%) Ansible
4 3 (0.60%) Grafana
5 2 (0.40%) Argo
5 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.40%) Nagios
5 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.20%) CA Service Virtualization
6 1 (0.20%) Control-M
6 1 (0.20%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.20%) Nessus
6 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 77 (15.49%) Microsoft
2 35 (7.04%) Databricks
3 25 (5.03%) Oracle
4 15 (3.02%) Salesforce
4 15 (3.02%) SAP
5 8 (1.61%) IBM
6 7 (1.41%) Planon
7 6 (1.21%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.21%) Siemens
8 5 (1.01%) Talend
8 5 (1.01%) Workday
8 5 (1.01%) Zoho
9 4 (0.80%) Adobe
9 4 (0.80%) Cisco
9 4 (0.80%) Google
9 4 (0.80%) Remedy
10 3 (0.60%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.60%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.60%) Informatica
10 3 (0.60%) QAD