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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -19 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 76 206 121
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 7.36% 21.11% 20.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.16% 23.90% 22.37%
Number of salaries quoted 73 82 112
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,529 £38,075
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,803 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,332 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.79% +4.24% -1.35%
75th Percentile £65,640 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £79,960 £77,375
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,601
% change year-on-year - +2.89% -2.81%

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 830 862 541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 80.35% 88.32% 90.77%
Number of salaries quoted 543 386 469
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,875 £28,950
25th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £81,000 £85,000 £74,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 30 December 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 30 December 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 -11 69 £50,000 -9.09% 152
Durham -11 7 £56,664 -5.11% 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 1 (1.32%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (3.95%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (1.32%) InVision
3 1 (1.32%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (35.53%) Azure
2 14 (18.42%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (13.16%) AWS
4 5 (6.58%) SaaS
5 4 (5.26%) PaaS
5 4 (5.26%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.95%) GCP
7 2 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.63%) IaaS
8 1 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.32%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.32%) Datadog
8 1 (1.32%) dbt
8 1 (1.32%) Figma
8 1 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.32%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.32%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.89%) Asterisk PBX
1 6 (7.89%) Firewall
1 6 (7.89%) PSTN
1 6 (7.89%) VoIP
2 2 (2.63%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.21%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.26%) Redis
3 3 (3.95%) Power BI
4 2 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.32%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.32%) Metadata
5 1 (1.32%) MySQL
5 1 (1.32%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Git
1 4 (5.26%) TeamCity
2 3 (3.95%) GitLab
3 1 (1.32%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.32%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.32%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.32%) JIRA
3 1 (1.32%) JMeter
3 1 (1.32%) Locust
3 1 (1.32%) Maven
3 1 (1.32%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.32%) TestRail
General
1 31 (40.79%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (13.16%) Finance
4 7 (9.21%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.89%) Telecoms
6 5 (6.58%) Advertising
6 5 (6.58%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (5.26%) Games
8 2 (2.63%) Law
9 1 (1.32%) Banking
9 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.32%) Legal
9 1 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (22.37%) Developer
2 12 (15.79%) Analyst
2 12 (15.79%) Senior
3 7 (9.21%) Business Analyst
3 7 (9.21%) Lead
4 6 (7.89%) Delivery Manager
4 6 (7.89%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (7.89%) Support Specialist
5 5 (6.58%) Agile Delivery Manager
5 5 (6.58%) C# Developer
6 4 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
6 4 (5.26%) Architect
6 4 (5.26%) AWS Developer
6 4 (5.26%) Coordinator
6 4 (5.26%) Full-Stack C# Developer
6 4 (5.26%) Operations Engineer
6 4 (5.26%) Project Coordinator
6 4 (5.26%) Senior Applications Engineer
6 4 (5.26%) Senior Manager
6 4 (5.26%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (17.11%) .NET
2 9 (11.84%) React
3 6 (7.89%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (6.58%) AngularJS
4 5 (6.58%) Vue
5 4 (5.26%) .NET Framework
5 4 (5.26%) CSS
5 4 (5.26%) REST
5 4 (5.26%) Spring
5 4 (5.26%) Spring Boot
6 3 (3.95%) Blazor
6 3 (3.95%) Entity Framework
6 3 (3.95%) HTML
7 2 (2.63%) .NET Core
7 2 (2.63%) CSS3
7 2 (2.63%) HTML5
7 2 (2.63%) Jest
7 2 (2.63%) Node.js
7 2 (2.63%) Playwright
7 2 (2.63%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.89%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.58%) Client/Server
4 3 (3.95%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.63%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.32%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.32%) Derivative
6 1 (1.32%) EPoS
6 1 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.26%) Linux
1 4 (5.26%) Windows
1 4 (5.26%) Windows Server
2 2 (2.63%) Android
2 2 (2.63%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (32.89%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (31.58%) DevOps
3 15 (19.74%) Mentoring
4 14 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (15.79%) Coaching
6 11 (14.47%) ITIL
7 10 (13.16%) CI/CD
8 9 (11.84%) Collaborative Culture
8 9 (11.84%) Customer Requirements
8 9 (11.84%) Project Management
9 8 (10.53%) Change Management
9 8 (10.53%) Computer Science
9 8 (10.53%) Full-Stack Development
9 8 (10.53%) Roadmaps
9 8 (10.53%) Software Delivery
9 8 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (9.21%) Code Quality
10 7 (9.21%) Microservices
10 7 (9.21%) Requirements Gathering
10 7 (9.21%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 17 (22.37%) C#
2 13 (17.11%) JavaScript
3 11 (14.47%) SQL
4 10 (13.16%) Python
4 10 (13.16%) TypeScript
5 6 (7.89%) Bash
5 6 (7.89%) Java
6 2 (2.63%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.63%) Scala
7 1 (1.32%) C++
7 1 (1.32%) PHP
7 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (17.11%) Degree
2 6 (7.89%) CCNP
2 6 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (7.89%) CompTIA Security+
2 6 (7.89%) Network+ Certification
2 6 (7.89%) PMP
2 6 (7.89%) SC Cleared
2 6 (7.89%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.58%) PMI Certification
4 4 (5.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (3.95%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.32%) CSPO
6 1 (1.32%) ISEB
6 1 (1.32%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.84%) QA
2 6 (7.89%) PMO
3 5 (6.58%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.63%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.32%) GDPR
5 1 (1.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (7.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (9.21%) Terraform
2 1 (1.32%) Grafana
2 1 (1.32%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (19.74%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.89%) Cisco
3 2 (2.63%) Google
4 1 (1.32%) Adobe