Agile Job Trends in the North East

Agile Software Development
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Agile skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 15 5
Rank change year-on-year +10 -10 -4
Permanent jobs citing Agile 379 87 215
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 10.53% 8.90% 16.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.76% 10.79% 20.23%
Number of salaries quoted 322 71 75
10th Percentile £43,250 £27,875 £37,615
25th Percentile £48,716 £31,750 £46,162
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £47,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +24.21% -18.05% +1.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £68,113
90th Percentile £87,500 £68,750 £76,331
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,568 806 1,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.35% 82.41% 79.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,909 497 540
10th Percentile £32,700 £25,086 £25,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £28,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £93,907 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Agile job vacancy trend in the North East

Agile
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Agile.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Agile

Agile
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in the North East over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Agile in the North East

Agile
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the North East region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Tyne and Wear +8 355 £58,750 +23.68% 151
Durham -1 18 £59,000 +38.01% 5
Agile
England

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 20 (5.28%) Apache Spark
2 19 (5.01%) Apache
2 19 (5.01%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (5.01%) Jupyter
3 13 (3.43%) Confluence
4 10 (2.64%) WebLogic
5 5 (1.32%) CMS
6 4 (1.06%) WordPress
7 3 (0.79%) nginx
7 3 (0.79%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.26%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.11%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.06%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (0.26%) Infor M3
1 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 149 (39.31%) AWS
2 123 (32.45%) Azure
3 40 (10.55%) Amazon S3
4 36 (9.50%) GCP
5 35 (9.23%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (9.23%) Serverless
6 29 (7.65%) GitHub
7 26 (6.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 24 (6.33%) Amazon ECR
8 24 (6.33%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (6.07%) Amazon EC2
10 18 (4.75%) Amazon ECS
10 18 (4.75%) Amazon EMR
11 17 (4.49%) Power Platform
12 15 (3.96%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (3.43%) AWS KMS
13 13 (3.43%) SaaS
14 11 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (2.90%) Firebase
14 11 (2.90%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.79%) CTI
1 3 (0.79%) Reverse Proxy
1 3 (0.79%) VoIP
2 1 (0.26%) DNS
2 1 (0.26%) Network Security
2 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (10.55%) MongoDB
2 23 (6.07%) DynamoDB
3 18 (4.75%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (4.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (4.22%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (3.96%) NoSQL
6 15 (3.96%) Power BI
7 13 (3.43%) MySQL
8 11 (2.90%) Looker
9 10 (2.64%) Metadata
10 8 (2.11%) BigQuery
10 8 (2.11%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.85%) SQL Server
12 6 (1.58%) Big Data
12 6 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.58%) DocumentDB
12 6 (1.58%) NonStop SQL
13 5 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 58 (15.30%) GitLab
2 27 (7.12%) Jenkins
3 21 (5.54%) Git
4 16 (4.22%) JIRA
5 11 (2.90%) fastlane
6 8 (2.11%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.58%) Xcode
8 5 (1.32%) Android Studio
8 5 (1.32%) Crashlytics
8 5 (1.32%) Gatling
8 5 (1.32%) Gradle
8 5 (1.32%) JUnit
8 5 (1.32%) Mockito
9 4 (1.06%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.79%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.53%) Balsamiq
12 1 (0.26%) Claude Code
12 1 (0.26%) JMeter
12 1 (0.26%) LoadRunner
12 1 (0.26%) Mocha
General
1 178 (46.97%) Public Sector
2 112 (29.55%) Social Skills
3 99 (26.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 65 (17.15%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (8.97%) Finance
6 26 (6.86%) Legal
7 19 (5.01%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.11%) Law
9 7 (1.85%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.06%) Billing
10 4 (1.06%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.06%) Games
10 4 (1.06%) General Ledger
11 3 (0.79%) Marketing
11 3 (0.79%) Retail
12 2 (0.53%) Banking
12 2 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.26%) Polish Language
13 1 (0.26%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.26%) Russian Language
Job Titles
1 103 (27.18%) Developer
2 90 (23.75%) Senior
3 73 (19.26%) Lead
4 55 (14.51%) Analyst
5 40 (10.55%) Architect
6 35 (9.23%) Business Analyst
7 32 (8.44%) DevOps Engineer
8 30 (7.92%) Software Developer
9 20 (5.28%) .NET Developer
9 20 (5.28%) Senior Developer
9 20 (5.28%) Technical Architect
10 19 (5.01%) Technical Leader
11 17 (4.49%) Delivery Manager
12 16 (4.22%) Lead Architect
13 15 (3.96%) Software Engineer
14 14 (3.69%) Agile Delivery Manager
14 14 (3.69%) Senior Analyst
15 13 (3.43%) Agile Delivery Lead
16 12 (3.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 12 (3.17%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (16.89%) Terraform
2 54 (14.25%) Node.js
3 50 (13.19%) .NET
4 48 (12.66%) CSS
4 48 (12.66%) HTML
5 29 (7.65%) RESTful
6 20 (5.28%) Kafka
7 18 (4.75%) ASP.NET
7 18 (4.75%) PySpark
7 18 (4.75%) REST
7 18 (4.75%) Spring
7 18 (4.75%) Spring Boot
8 17 (4.49%) AngularJS
8 17 (4.49%) ASP.NET Core
9 16 (4.22%) LangChain
10 15 (3.96%) .NET Core
10 15 (3.96%) LlamaIndex
10 15 (3.96%) React
11 14 (3.69%) Middleware
12 11 (2.90%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 56 (14.78%) Cloud Native
2 42 (11.08%) Product Ownership
3 15 (3.96%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.43%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.17%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.90%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.85%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.79%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.79%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.79%) IVR
10 3 (0.79%) PMI
10 3 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.53%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.53%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.53%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.22%) Linux
2 11 (2.90%) Windows
3 10 (2.64%) Unix
4 6 (1.58%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.32%) Android
6 2 (0.53%) macOS
7 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (48.28%) CI/CD
2 148 (39.05%) DevOps
3 139 (36.68%) Mentoring
4 120 (31.66%) Continuous Improvement
5 108 (28.50%) Test Automation
6 101 (26.65%) Problem-Solving
7 88 (23.22%) Technical Leadership
8 83 (21.90%) Coaching
9 79 (20.84%) Infrastructure as Code
10 74 (19.53%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 73 (19.26%) Scrum
12 66 (17.41%) Analytics
13 59 (15.57%) SFIA
14 57 (15.04%) AI
14 57 (15.04%) Data Engineering
15 51 (13.46%) Containerisation
15 51 (13.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 50 (13.19%) Stakeholder Management
17 48 (12.66%) Roadmaps
17 48 (12.66%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 76 (20.05%) SQL
2 69 (18.21%) Python
3 67 (17.68%) JavaScript
4 49 (12.93%) Java
5 48 (12.66%) C#
6 46 (12.14%) TypeScript
7 24 (6.33%) Bash
8 16 (4.22%) PowerShell
9 11 (2.90%) Bicep
9 11 (2.90%) Scala
10 6 (1.58%) Swift
11 5 (1.32%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.06%) PHP
13 3 (0.79%) C++
14 2 (0.53%) R
15 1 (0.26%) Go
15 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 128 (33.77%) Security Cleared
2 113 (29.82%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.39%) BPSS Clearance
4 20 (5.28%) AWS Certification
5 17 (4.49%) Azure Certification
5 17 (4.49%) Degree
6 7 (1.85%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.85%) PMI Certification
7 6 (1.58%) PMP
8 4 (1.06%) IIBA
8 4 (1.06%) ISEB
9 3 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.53%) APMP
10 2 (0.53%) CAPM
10 2 (0.53%) PgMP
11 1 (0.26%) CCSP
11 1 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.26%) CISM
11 1 (0.26%) CISSP
11 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (16.36%) QA
2 46 (12.14%) Accessibility
3 35 (9.23%) Data Quality
4 17 (4.49%) WCAG
5 11 (2.90%) GDPR
6 9 (2.37%) NCSC
7 3 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.79%) PMO
8 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.26%) NIST
8 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 62 (16.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 53 (13.98%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.37%) Grafana
3 7 (1.85%) Ansible
4 6 (1.58%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.79%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.79%) Puppet
6 2 (0.53%) Argo
6 2 (0.53%) Kibana
7 1 (0.26%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.26%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.26%) logstash
Vendors
1 45 (11.87%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.01%) Google
3 18 (4.75%) Dynatrace
4 14 (3.69%) Oracle
5 7 (1.85%) Apple
6 6 (1.58%) Confluent
6 6 (1.58%) Databricks
7 5 (1.32%) Splunk
8 4 (1.06%) Aderant
8 4 (1.06%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.79%) Avaya
9 3 (0.79%) Cisco
9 3 (0.79%) Genesys
10 2 (0.53%) Adobe
10 2 (0.53%) BMC
10 2 (0.53%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.53%) Sage
10 2 (0.53%) Spotify
10 2 (0.53%) UiPath
10 2 (0.53%) YouTube