Agile Jobs in the North of England

Agile Software Development
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,316 6,416 5,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 29.56% 37.71% 31.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 31.07% 39.20% 32.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,534 3,383 3,902
10th Percentile £42,457 £38,750 £34,250
25th Percentile £47,572 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +8.23% +10.00%
75th Percentile £77,542 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £66,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.50% +6.40% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Agile is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,454 16,367 15,973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 95.13% 96.19% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 5,215 9,420 11,689
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,783 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £84,775 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the North of England

Agile
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Agile in the North of England

Agile
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Agile in the North of England

Agile
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 December 2023. 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
North West 0 1,146 £60,000 +4.35% 458
Yorkshire 0 1,041 £63,000 +5.00% 228
North East -1 128 £56,145 +2.08% 82
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 54 (2.33%) Confluence
2 30 (1.30%) SAS
3 25 (1.08%) Apache Spark
3 25 (1.08%) SharePoint
4 23 (0.99%) CMS
5 22 (0.95%) JBoss
5 22 (0.95%) Red Hat Fuse
6 20 (0.86%) Apache
7 18 (0.78%) Tomcat
7 18 (0.78%) Umbraco
8 11 (0.47%) Jetty
9 10 (0.43%) Captiva
9 10 (0.43%) FileNet
9 10 (0.43%) WebSphere
10 8 (0.35%) Drupal
10 8 (0.35%) WordPress
11 6 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.26%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
13 4 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 31 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (0.39%) Trello
5 7 (0.30%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.086%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.043%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.043%) EViews
7 1 (0.043%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 94 (4.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.26%) Magento
2 6 (0.26%) Visualfiles
3 4 (0.17%) Cloudability
4 3 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
5 2 (0.086%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.086%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.043%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.043%) iTrent
6 1 (0.043%) Orchard Housing
6 1 (0.043%) ReMetrica
6 1 (0.043%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.043%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.043%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.043%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.043%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 763 (32.94%) Azure
2 487 (21.03%) AWS
3 319 (13.77%) GCP
4 230 (9.93%) SaaS
5 220 (9.50%) Power Platform
6 219 (9.46%) Azure DevOps
7 196 (8.46%) PaaS
8 160 (6.91%) IaaS
9 143 (6.17%) Dynamics 365
10 119 (5.14%) Serverless
11 98 (4.23%) GitHub
12 62 (2.68%) Azure Functions
13 45 (1.94%) OpenShift
14 32 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
15 30 (1.30%) Amazon S3
16 25 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
17 22 (0.95%) AWS CloudFormation
17 22 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
18 20 (0.86%) Amazon EC2
19 18 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 45 (1.94%) Firewall
2 29 (1.25%) Internet
3 27 (1.17%) DNS
4 19 (0.82%) HTTP
5 18 (0.78%) Network Security
5 18 (0.78%) TCP/IP
6 17 (0.73%) VPN
7 16 (0.69%) DHCP
8 13 (0.56%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 13 (0.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 12 (0.52%) WAN
10 10 (0.43%) SAN
11 9 (0.39%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.35%) Wireless
13 6 (0.26%) OSPF
13 6 (0.26%) SSL
13 6 (0.26%) VLAN
14 5 (0.22%) IPv4
15 4 (0.17%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (5.74%) SQL Server
2 120 (5.18%) Data Warehouse
3 101 (4.36%) MySQL
4 94 (4.06%) PostgreSQL
5 93 (4.02%) NoSQL
6 92 (3.97%) Data Lake
7 90 (3.89%) Power BI
8 65 (2.81%) MongoDB
9 54 (2.33%) Relational Database
10 41 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
11 40 (1.73%) Big Data
12 31 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
13 30 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
14 28 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 28 (1.21%) Tableau
15 26 (1.12%) BigQuery
16 22 (0.95%) Data Hub
17 19 (0.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 19 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 16 (0.69%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 240 (10.36%) Git
2 167 (7.21%) Jenkins
3 140 (6.04%) JIRA
4 54 (2.33%) Selenium
5 47 (2.03%) Cucumber
6 36 (1.55%) Cypress.io
6 36 (1.55%) GitLab
7 35 (1.51%) Spinnaker
8 31 (1.34%) SonarQube
9 29 (1.25%) IntelliJ
10 20 (0.86%) Bitbucket
11 19 (0.82%) IBM UrbanCode
12 18 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
13 17 (0.73%) Appium
13 17 (0.73%) Maven
13 17 (0.73%) Visual Studio
14 15 (0.65%) Gradle
15 14 (0.60%) Mocha
15 14 (0.60%) TeamCity
16 13 (0.56%) SoapUI
General
1 919 (39.68%) Finance
2 564 (24.35%) Banking
3 555 (23.96%) Social Skills
4 239 (10.32%) Retail
5 237 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
6 141 (6.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 108 (4.66%) Public Sector
8 78 (3.37%) Marketing
9 71 (3.07%) Presentation Skills
10 52 (2.25%) Aerospace
11 49 (2.12%) Law
12 48 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
13 33 (1.42%) Legal
13 33 (1.42%) Retail Banking
13 33 (1.42%) Telecoms
14 31 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
15 27 (1.17%) Tech for Good
16 19 (0.82%) Games
17 18 (0.78%) Manufacturing
18 15 (0.65%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 527 (22.75%) Architect
2 423 (18.26%) Senior
3 409 (17.66%) Developer
4 299 (12.91%) Software Engineer
5 256 (11.05%) Solutions Architect
6 198 (8.55%) Lead
7 168 (7.25%) Enterprise Architect
8 141 (6.09%) Analyst
9 119 (5.14%) DevOps Engineer
10 102 (4.40%) Dynamics 365 Architect
11 97 (4.19%) Senior Developer
12 94 (4.06%) Project Manager
13 93 (4.02%) .NET Developer
14 89 (3.84%) Senior Software Engineer
15 64 (2.76%) Systems Engineer
16 63 (2.72%) Cloud Engineer
17 61 (2.63%) Senior Systems Engineer
18 55 (2.37%) Business Analyst
19 54 (2.33%) CRM Architect
19 54 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 353 (15.24%) .NET
2 228 (9.84%) HTML
3 199 (8.59%) CSS
4 191 (8.25%) React
5 180 (7.77%) AngularJS
6 162 (6.99%) Node.js
7 121 (5.22%) .NET Core
8 110 (4.75%) REST
9 107 (4.62%) RESTful
10 102 (4.40%) Spring
11 90 (3.89%) Kafka
12 84 (3.63%) Middleware
13 78 (3.37%) .NET Framework
14 76 (3.28%) Web Services
15 68 (2.94%) JSON
16 65 (2.81%) OpenID
16 65 (2.81%) SOAP
17 61 (2.63%) HTML5
18 60 (2.59%) XML
19 55 (2.37%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 225 (9.72%) Product Ownership
2 162 (6.99%) Public Cloud
3 115 (4.97%) Cloud Native
4 92 (3.97%) Management Information System
5 71 (3.07%) Mainframe
6 57 (2.46%) Private Cloud
6 57 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
7 50 (2.16%) Blockchain
8 42 (1.81%) Virtual Team
9 41 (1.77%) Cyberattack
10 38 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
11 34 (1.47%) Data Centre
12 33 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
12 33 (1.42%) Mobile App
13 30 (1.30%) Data Structures
14 29 (1.25%) Credit Risk
15 25 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
16 24 (1.04%) Onboarding
16 24 (1.04%) Online Banking
17 20 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 155 (6.69%) Linux
2 91 (3.93%) Unix
3 80 (3.45%) Windows
4 19 (0.82%) Android
5 17 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.60%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.43%) zOS
8 8 (0.35%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.22%) HPUX
10 5 (0.22%) Solaris
11 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.13%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.086%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.086%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.043%) CentOS
14 1 (0.043%) Fedora
14 1 (0.043%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 638 (27.55%) DevOps
2 536 (23.14%) Software Engineering
3 416 (17.96%) Roadmaps
4 411 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
5 355 (15.33%) Mentoring
6 337 (14.55%) CI/CD
7 336 (14.51%) Scrum
8 335 (14.46%) Actionable Insight
9 297 (12.82%) Microservices
10 273 (11.79%) Enterprise Architecture
11 242 (10.45%) Analytics
12 208 (8.98%) Project Management
13 187 (8.07%) Coaching
14 173 (7.47%) SDLC
15 169 (7.30%) Infrastructure as Code
16 168 (7.25%) Containerisation
17 161 (6.95%) Stakeholder Management
18 158 (6.82%) TOGAF
19 157 (6.78%) Machine Learning
20 149 (6.43%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 438 (18.91%) SQL
2 375 (16.19%) Java
3 359 (15.50%) JavaScript
4 351 (15.16%) Python
5 263 (11.36%) C#
6 134 (5.79%) TypeScript
7 77 (3.32%) PowerShell
8 75 (3.24%) Bash
9 66 (2.85%) PL/SQL
10 55 (2.37%) C++
11 46 (1.99%) PHP
12 41 (1.77%) Go
12 41 (1.77%) T-SQL
13 36 (1.55%) Rust
14 24 (1.04%) Ruby
15 21 (0.91%) Groovy
16 20 (0.86%) C
17 16 (0.69%) R
18 15 (0.65%) Kotlin
18 15 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 222 (9.59%) Degree
2 201 (8.68%) Security Cleared
3 124 (5.35%) SC Cleared
4 97 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (1.94%) AWS Certification
6 44 (1.90%) DV Cleared
7 41 (1.77%) TOGAF Certification
8 24 (1.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 23 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
9 23 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 20 (0.86%) PMI Certification
11 18 (0.78%) Azure Certification
12 14 (0.60%) PMP
13 12 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
14 11 (0.47%) OCP
15 10 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (0.43%) ISTQB
15 10 (0.43%) Master's Degree
16 9 (0.39%) GIAC
17 8 (0.35%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (3.97%) QA
2 37 (1.60%) Data Quality
3 33 (1.42%) PMO
4 26 (1.12%) GDPR
5 25 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 21 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
7 18 (0.78%) SLA
8 14 (0.60%) GRC
9 12 (0.52%) IFRS
9 12 (0.52%) IFRS 9
10 9 (0.39%) COBIT
11 7 (0.30%) CRD IV
11 7 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 7 (0.30%) NIST
12 6 (0.26%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.26%) WCAG
13 4 (0.17%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.17%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.17%) SEPA
14 3 (0.13%) GMP
System Software
1 250 (10.79%) Docker
2 30 (1.30%) Active Directory
2 30 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (0.69%) Hyper-V
4 12 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.43%) Firmware
6 7 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.086%) vSphere
9 1 (0.043%) KVM
9 1 (0.043%) NFS
9 1 (0.043%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.043%) RACF
9 1 (0.043%) Samba
9 1 (0.043%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.043%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.043%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 305 (13.17%) Kubernetes
2 186 (8.03%) Terraform
3 95 (4.10%) Ansible
4 29 (1.25%) Istio
4 29 (1.25%) Puppet
5 14 (0.60%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.56%) Grafana
6 13 (0.56%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.35%) Kibana
7 8 (0.35%) Nagios
8 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.13%) CA Endevor
11 2 (0.086%) Packer
11 2 (0.086%) SCCM
12 1 (0.043%) CloudForms
12 1 (0.043%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.043%) FlexNet
12 1 (0.043%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.043%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 309 (13.34%) Microsoft
2 137 (5.92%) Google
3 67 (2.89%) Oracle
4 57 (2.46%) NEC
5 52 (2.25%) IBM
6 47 (2.03%) ServiceNow
7 41 (1.77%) Salesforce
7 41 (1.77%) Splunk
8 35 (1.51%) VMware
9 27 (1.17%) SAP
10 26 (1.12%) Cisco
11 19 (0.82%) Red Hat
12 17 (0.73%) Databricks
13 15 (0.65%) CheckPoint
13 15 (0.65%) F5
13 15 (0.65%) Fortinet
13 15 (0.65%) Veracode
13 15 (0.65%) Xamarin
14 14 (0.60%) Confluent
14 14 (0.60%) New Relic