Agile Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Agile Software Development
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Agile skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 26 14
Rank change year-on-year -18 -12 -10
Permanent jobs citing Agile 26 9 57
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 2.81% 3.72% 10.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.68% 4.09% 12.56%
Number of salaries quoted 9 1 28
10th Percentile £53,000 - £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £31,250 £54,923
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £32,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +92.31% -45.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £78,750 £33,750 £69,063
90th Percentile £81,032 - £79,600
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 706 220 454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 76.24% 90.91% 86.31%
Number of salaries quoted 303 57 295
10th Percentile - £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £40,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £94,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Agile job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Agile
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Agile.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Agile

Agile
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Agile in Northern Ireland

Agile
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
County Antrim -15 23 £62,500 +92.31% 23
Newry - 2 - -
County Down - 2 - - 1
County Londonderry - 1 - -
Agile
UK

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (42.31%) AWS
2 9 (34.62%) Azure
3 3 (11.54%) GCP
4 2 (7.69%) GitHub
4 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.85%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.85%) dbt
5 1 (3.85%) PaaS
5 1 (3.85%) Pulumi
5 1 (3.85%) Sentry
5 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) 4G
1 1 (3.85%) LAN
1 1 (3.85%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.69%) MySQL
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.85%) Redis
3 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Finance
3 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 3 (11.54%) Police
5 2 (7.69%) Advertising
5 2 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.85%) Banking
6 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) Lead
2 4 (15.38%) Change Manager
2 4 (15.38%) Developer
2 4 (15.38%) Project Change Manager
2 4 (15.38%) Project Manager
3 3 (11.54%) Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Service Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Software Developer
3 3 (11.54%) Software Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Lead Generation Executive
5 1 (3.85%) Lead Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Lead Software Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Principal Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Principal Software Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Service Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Technical Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) React
2 3 (11.54%) LangChain
3 2 (7.69%) Next.js
3 2 (7.69%) Node.js
3 2 (7.69%) PyTorch
3 2 (7.69%) TensorFlow
4 1 (3.85%) .NET
4 1 (3.85%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 1 (3.85%) Django
4 1 (3.85%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.85%) Hugging Face
4 1 (3.85%) LlamaIndex
4 1 (3.85%) REST
4 1 (3.85%) RESTful
4 1 (3.85%) scikit-learn
4 1 (3.85%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (7.69%) Social Media
3 1 (3.85%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.85%) Smartphone
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Android
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Unix
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) DevOps
2 8 (30.77%) Project Delivery
3 6 (23.08%) Software Engineering
3 6 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 6 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
4 5 (19.23%) Containerisation
4 5 (19.23%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (15.38%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (15.38%) Budgeting
5 4 (15.38%) Cost Control
5 4 (15.38%) Cost Management
5 4 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (15.38%) Financial Modelling
5 4 (15.38%) Impact Assessments
5 4 (15.38%) Matrix Organization
5 4 (15.38%) PRINCE2
5 4 (15.38%) Project Management
5 4 (15.38%) Scrum
5 4 (15.38%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) Python
2 6 (23.08%) TypeScript
3 5 (19.23%) SQL
4 3 (11.54%) T-SQL
5 2 (7.69%) C#
5 2 (7.69%) Java
6 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.85%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Degree
2 4 (15.38%) PMI Certification
2 4 (15.38%) PMP
3 3 (11.54%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.85%) HND
5 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 6 (23.08%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Terraform
2 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (11.54%) Fortinet
3 3 (11.54%) Palo Alto
4 2 (7.69%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.85%) Apple
5 1 (3.85%) Google
5 1 (3.85%) Intel
5 1 (3.85%) OpenAI
5 1 (3.85%) Pega
5 1 (3.85%) Wyse