Agile Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Agile Software Development
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Agile skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 9 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 69 60 93
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 12.19% 16.76% 17.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.97% 17.86% 18.79%
Number of salaries quoted 58 44 82
10th Percentile £46,250 £31,250 £40,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £37,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -2.13% -2.89%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £97,625 £83,750
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £56,250 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 494 336 495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 87.28% 93.85% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 313 239 377
10th Percentile £35,750 £31,678 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £89,750 £92,000 £77,500
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Agile relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Agile job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Agile
Salary Trend in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Agile.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Agile

Agile
Salary Histogram in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Agile in Milton Keynes

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 6 (8.70%) Confluence
2 1 (1.45%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.45%) Camunda
Applications
1 5 (7.25%) Adobe XD
2 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.80%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (30.43%) Azure
2 8 (11.59%) AWS
3 6 (8.70%) Figma
3 6 (8.70%) Power Platform
3 6 (8.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 6 (8.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 5 (7.25%) GCP
4 5 (7.25%) Miro
5 3 (4.35%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.90%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.90%) GitHub
6 2 (2.90%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (2.90%) Google Analytics
6 2 (2.90%) iPaaS
6 2 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.45%) Boomi
7 1 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.45%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.70%) DHCP
1 6 (8.70%) DNS
1 6 (8.70%) Firewall
1 6 (8.70%) NAS
1 6 (8.70%) SAN
1 6 (8.70%) TCP/IP
1 6 (8.70%) VLAN
1 6 (8.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.70%) Power BI
2 4 (5.80%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.90%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.90%) MySQL
3 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (11.59%) JIRA
2 6 (8.70%) Cypress.io
3 5 (7.25%) Axure RP
3 5 (7.25%) Balsamiq
3 5 (7.25%) Git
4 4 (5.80%) Selenium
4 4 (5.80%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.45%) Ant
5 1 (1.45%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.45%) Gradle
5 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.45%) JUnit
5 1 (1.45%) Maven
5 1 (1.45%) Mockito
5 1 (1.45%) SonarQube
General
1 42 (60.87%) Social Skills
2 23 (33.33%) Law
2 23 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 22 (31.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (23.19%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (20.29%) Finance
6 5 (7.25%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (5.80%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.90%) Banking
9 1 (1.45%) Automotive
9 1 (1.45%) Legal
9 1 (1.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (17.39%) Developer
2 10 (14.49%) Senior
3 8 (11.59%) Analyst
4 6 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (8.70%) Product Manager
4 6 (8.70%) Salesforce Developer
5 5 (7.25%) Designer
5 5 (7.25%) Project Manager
6 4 (5.80%) Data Analyst
6 4 (5.80%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (5.80%) Financial Analyst
6 4 (5.80%) Senior Manager
6 4 (5.80%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Business Analyst
7 3 (4.35%) Developer in Test
7 3 (4.35%) Lead
7 3 (4.35%) Product Owner
7 3 (4.35%) Senior Project Manager
7 3 (4.35%) Service Designer
7 3 (4.35%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.84%) .NET
2 8 (11.59%) REST
2 8 (11.59%) SOAP
3 7 (10.14%) Middleware
4 6 (8.70%) Lightning Web Components
4 6 (8.70%) Visualforce
5 5 (7.25%) ASP.NET
5 5 (7.25%) React
6 4 (5.80%) CSS
6 4 (5.80%) Playwright
7 3 (4.35%) HTML
8 2 (2.90%) .NET Framework
8 2 (2.90%) JSON
8 2 (2.90%) Spring
8 2 (2.90%) XML
9 1 (1.45%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (1.45%) jQuery
9 1 (1.45%) OAuth
9 1 (1.45%) OpenID
9 1 (1.45%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 16 (23.19%) Product Ownership
2 6 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.25%) Management Information System
3 5 (7.25%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (5.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.35%) N-Tier
6 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.45%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.45%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.90%) Linux
2 1 (1.45%) Unix
2 1 (1.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (40.58%) Continuous Improvement
2 22 (31.88%) Community of Practice
3 21 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (30.43%) Technology Strategy
4 20 (28.99%) Sprint Planning
5 16 (23.19%) Scrum
6 14 (20.29%) Analytics
6 14 (20.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (18.84%) Computer Science
7 13 (18.84%) DevOps
7 13 (18.84%) Sprint Retrospective
7 13 (18.84%) User Experience
8 12 (17.39%) Project Delivery
9 11 (15.94%) User Research
10 9 (13.04%) Backlog Refinement
10 9 (13.04%) CI/CD
10 9 (13.04%) Kanban
10 9 (13.04%) Mentoring
10 9 (13.04%) Roadmaps
10 9 (13.04%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 14 (20.29%) Java
1 14 (20.29%) Python
2 11 (15.94%) JavaScript
3 10 (14.49%) C#
3 10 (14.49%) SQL
4 6 (8.70%) Apex Code
5 4 (5.80%) VBA
6 2 (2.90%) C
6 2 (2.90%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.45%) C++
7 1 (1.45%) Go
7 1 (1.45%) PHP
7 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (49.28%) Degree
2 25 (36.23%) Security Cleared
3 24 (34.78%) SC Cleared
4 13 (18.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (7.25%) Master's Degree
6 4 (5.80%) ACCA
6 4 (5.80%) CIMA
7 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.45%) CISM
8 1 (1.45%) CISSP
8 1 (1.45%) CRISC
8 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.39%) QA
2 11 (15.94%) Accessibility
3 6 (8.70%) WCAG
4 3 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (4.35%) PMO
5 2 (2.90%) GDPR
6 1 (1.45%) COBIT
6 1 (1.45%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (1.45%) NCSC
6 1 (1.45%) NIST
6 1 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (8.70%) Hyper-V
1 6 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
1 6 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (8.70%) vSphere
2 4 (5.80%) Docker
3 1 (1.45%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 4 (5.80%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.45%) Ansible
2 1 (1.45%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (1.45%) Rundeck
2 1 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (15.94%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.14%) MuleSoft
2 7 (10.14%) Salesforce
2 7 (10.14%) VMware
3 6 (8.70%) LogicMonitor
3 6 (8.70%) Palo Alto
4 5 (7.25%) Adobe
4 5 (7.25%) SAP
5 3 (4.35%) Google
6 1 (1.45%) Dell
6 1 (1.45%) Epicor
6 1 (1.45%) IBM
6 1 (1.45%) IFS
6 1 (1.45%) Infor
6 1 (1.45%) Informatica
6 1 (1.45%) Oracle
6 1 (1.45%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.45%) Software AG
6 1 (1.45%) Talend
6 1 (1.45%) TIBCO