Agile Jobs in the North East

Agile Software Development
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Agile over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -13 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 89 417 307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 8.72% 19.48% 25.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.81% 23.40% 26.42%
Number of salaries quoted 66 319 174
10th Percentile £21,250 £37,600 £35,000
25th Percentile £29,688 £42,324 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,875 £71,620 £67,500
90th Percentile £69,750 £81,929 £73,375
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £66,689
% change year-on-year +4.00% -6.28% +2.60%

All Process and 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 823 1,782 1,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 80.61% 83.23% 97.08%
Number of salaries quoted 446 1,409 588
10th Percentile £24,535 £26,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,092 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% -5.00% +15.61%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the North East

Agile
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Agile in the North East.

Salary trend for Agile in the North East

Agile
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in the North East over the 6 months to 11 June 2025.

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 11 June 2025. 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 -10 79 £47,500 -13.64% 167
Northumberland +7 5 - -
Durham -30 5 £50,000 -9.09% 13
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (10.11%) Confluence
2 2 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.25%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.25%) SAS
3 1 (1.12%) Apache
3 1 (1.12%) IIS
3 1 (1.12%) OpenEdge
3 1 (1.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) iTrent
1 1 (1.12%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 36 (40.45%) Azure
2 28 (31.46%) AWS
3 6 (6.74%) OCI
4 5 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (5.62%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.49%) GCP
5 4 (4.49%) SaaS
5 4 (4.49%) Serverless
6 3 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.37%) GitHub
7 2 (2.25%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.25%) Slack
8 1 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.12%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.12%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.49%) Broadband
2 2 (2.25%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (16.85%) SQL Server
2 9 (10.11%) MySQL
3 3 (3.37%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.37%) Power BI
3 3 (3.37%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.37%) Tableau
4 2 (2.25%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.25%) Apache Hive
4 2 (2.25%) Big Data
4 2 (2.25%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.25%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.25%) HBase
4 2 (2.25%) Impala
4 2 (2.25%) Metadata
4 2 (2.25%) Metadata Repository
4 2 (2.25%) Neo4j
4 2 (2.25%) Qlik Sense
4 2 (2.25%) QlikView
4 2 (2.25%) Spark SQL
4 2 (2.25%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 12 (13.48%) JIRA
2 5 (5.62%) Selenium
3 4 (4.49%) Git
4 3 (3.37%) Bitbucket
4 3 (3.37%) Cucumber
4 3 (3.37%) GitLab
4 3 (3.37%) Maven
4 3 (3.37%) SonarQube
4 3 (3.37%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.25%) Jasmine
5 2 (2.25%) NUnit
5 2 (2.25%) Postman
5 2 (2.25%) SpecFlow
5 2 (2.25%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.12%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.12%) JUnit
6 1 (1.12%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (1.12%) Protractor
General
1 27 (30.34%) Finance
2 26 (29.21%) Social Skills
3 12 (13.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.11%) Retail
5 8 (8.99%) Law
6 7 (7.87%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (5.62%) Public Sector
8 4 (4.49%) Billing
8 4 (4.49%) Games
9 3 (3.37%) Banking
10 2 (2.25%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (2.25%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.12%) Electronics
11 1 (1.12%) Legal
11 1 (1.12%) Marketing
11 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (26.97%) Senior
2 20 (22.47%) Software Engineer
3 16 (17.98%) Developer
4 15 (16.85%) Senior Software Engineer
5 13 (14.61%) Lead
6 11 (12.36%) Architect
7 10 (11.24%) Analyst
8 7 (7.87%) Support Analyst
9 6 (6.74%) Graduate
9 6 (6.74%) Graduate Developer
9 6 (6.74%) Infrastructure Architect
9 6 (6.74%) IT Analyst
9 6 (6.74%) IT Graduate
9 6 (6.74%) IT Support
9 6 (6.74%) IT Support Analyst
9 6 (6.74%) SQL Analyst
9 6 (6.74%) SQL Support Analyst
10 5 (5.62%) IT Manager
11 4 (4.49%) Security Architect
11 4 (4.49%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (22.47%) .NET
2 12 (13.48%) CSS
3 8 (8.99%) AngularJS
4 7 (7.87%) React
5 6 (6.74%) ASP.NET
5 6 (6.74%) Jest
5 6 (6.74%) jQuery
5 6 (6.74%) REST
6 5 (5.62%) Kafka
6 5 (5.62%) Spring
6 5 (5.62%) Spring Boot
7 4 (4.49%) .NET Framework
7 4 (4.49%) HTML
8 3 (3.37%) JPA
8 3 (3.37%) Redux
8 3 (3.37%) RESTful
9 2 (2.25%) .NET Core
9 2 (2.25%) PySpark
9 2 (2.25%) React Native
9 2 (2.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.48%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (8.99%) Product Ownership
3 7 (7.87%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (7.87%) Renewable Energy
4 6 (6.74%) Data Centre
4 6 (6.74%) Operational Technology
4 6 (6.74%) SCADA
5 4 (4.49%) CMDB
5 4 (4.49%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.25%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.12%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.12%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.12%) PropTech
7 1 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.24%) Linux
2 9 (10.11%) Windows
3 3 (3.37%) Unix
4 2 (2.25%) Android
4 2 (2.25%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (37.08%) DevOps
2 28 (31.46%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (26.97%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (25.84%) Software Engineering
5 22 (24.72%) Mentoring
6 19 (21.35%) CI/CD
7 12 (13.48%) Scrum
8 11 (12.36%) Full-Stack Development
8 11 (12.36%) ITSM
8 11 (12.36%) Roadmaps
8 11 (12.36%) SDLC
8 11 (12.36%) User Experience
9 10 (11.24%) ERP
9 10 (11.24%) OO
10 9 (10.11%) OOP
10 9 (10.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (10.11%) Test Automation
10 9 (10.11%) Waterfall
11 8 (8.99%) ITIL
11 8 (8.99%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 28 (31.46%) Java
2 18 (20.22%) SQL
3 17 (19.10%) TypeScript
4 15 (16.85%) Python
5 13 (14.61%) C#
6 10 (11.24%) JavaScript
7 9 (10.11%) PHP
8 7 (7.87%) C++
9 4 (4.49%) Bash
10 2 (2.25%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.25%) PROC SQL
10 2 (2.25%) R
11 1 (1.12%) Bicep
11 1 (1.12%) Go
Qualifications
1 12 (13.48%) Degree
2 7 (7.87%) TOGAF Certification
3 6 (6.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.49%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.37%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.25%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.25%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.12%) CISM
7 1 (1.12%) CISSP
7 1 (1.12%) CRISC
7 1 (1.12%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.12%) PhD
7 1 (1.12%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.85%) QA
2 8 (8.99%) Accessibility
3 6 (6.74%) SLA
4 4 (4.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.49%) NCSC
5 2 (2.25%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.12%) PMBOK
6 1 (1.12%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (6.74%) Docker
2 2 (2.25%) Apache Flume
2 2 (2.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (10.11%) Terraform
2 6 (6.74%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.25%) Kibana
3 2 (2.25%) logstash
3 2 (2.25%) Oozie
4 1 (1.12%) Ansible
4 1 (1.12%) Argo
4 1 (1.12%) Kustomize
4 1 (1.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (14.61%) Oracle
2 8 (8.99%) SAP
3 6 (6.74%) Concur
3 6 (6.74%) JD Edwards
3 6 (6.74%) VMware
4 5 (5.62%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.49%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.37%) Solace
7 2 (2.25%) Databricks
7 2 (2.25%) Informatica
7 2 (2.25%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (1.12%) Google
8 1 (1.12%) Red Hat