Agile Jobs in the South East

Agile Software Development
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South 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 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 6 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 1,186 2,518 3,933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.05% 16.14% 25.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.51% 18.91% 26.66%
Number of salaries quoted 664 1,694 2,156
10th Percentile £46,000 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £48,750 £48,605
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £75,563
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% +3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,183 13,318 14,755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.18% 85.38% 94.49%
Number of salaries quoted 3,766 9,540 8,478
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £30,265
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.27% -12.00% +4.17%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the South East

Agile
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Agile in the South East

Agile
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in the South East over the 6 months to 1 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Agile in the South East

Agile
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 April 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
Thames Valley -4 399 £64,000 +2.40% 321
Berkshire -2 288 £70,000 +3.70% 200
Hampshire -5 238 £57,500 -4.17% 174
Isle of Wight - 150 £60,000 - 1
Surrey -6 117 £68,750 +14.58% 114
Middlesex +5 114 £62,500 +47.06% 14
Kent 0 93 £51,342 -6.65% 47
Oxfordshire -3 61 £47,500 -17.46% 75
Buckinghamshire -14 50 £62,250 +13.18% 75
West Sussex +2 38 £72,500 +20.83% 61
East Sussex -8 32 £50,000 -23.08% 45
Sussex +5 3 £66,500 -5.00% 26
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 28 (2.36%) SharePoint
2 26 (2.19%) Confluence
3 22 (1.85%) CMS
4 15 (1.26%) Oracle Application Server
5 11 (0.93%) JBoss
5 11 (0.93%) Red Hat Fuse
6 9 (0.76%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.67%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.25%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.17%) Apache
9 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.17%) Sitefinity
10 1 (0.084%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.084%) Kentico
10 1 (0.084%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.084%) Strapi
10 1 (0.084%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 16 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.01%) Simulink
3 11 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.59%) Trello
5 4 (0.34%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 4 (0.34%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.25%) Productboard
7 1 (0.084%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.084%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.084%) Fireworks
7 1 (0.084%) MicroStation
7 1 (0.084%) Notion
7 1 (0.084%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.084%) RoboHelp
7 1 (0.084%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 13 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (0.51%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.084%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.084%) Shopify
4 1 (0.084%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 226 (19.06%) Azure
2 206 (17.37%) AWS
3 167 (14.08%) Serverless
4 124 (10.46%) GitHub
5 106 (8.94%) Amazon S3
6 103 (8.68%) Amazon SQS
7 100 (8.43%) AWS Lambda
8 97 (8.18%) Amazon Kinesis
9 75 (6.32%) SaaS
10 70 (5.90%) Azure DevOps
11 48 (4.05%) Power Platform
12 46 (3.88%) PaaS
13 45 (3.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 41 (3.46%) Azure Data Factory
15 37 (3.12%) Amazon ECS
16 34 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
17 32 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
18 29 (2.45%) Azure Functions
19 27 (2.28%) GCP
20 24 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.69%) Firewall
2 14 (1.18%) SSL
3 12 (1.01%) TCP/IP
4 10 (0.84%) BGP
4 10 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
4 10 (0.84%) Cisco Firepower
4 10 (0.84%) EIGRP
4 10 (0.84%) Ethernet VPN
4 10 (0.84%) IPsec
4 10 (0.84%) OSPF
4 10 (0.84%) RIP
4 10 (0.84%) VPN
4 10 (0.84%) VXLAN
5 8 (0.67%) Ethernet
6 5 (0.42%) Broadband
6 5 (0.42%) VLAN
6 5 (0.42%) Wireless
7 4 (0.34%) 3G
7 4 (0.34%) Internet
7 4 (0.34%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (11.97%) PostgreSQL
2 110 (9.27%) Redis
3 94 (7.93%) SQL Server
4 93 (7.84%) DynamoDB
5 73 (6.16%) NoSQL
6 68 (5.73%) Relational Database
7 41 (3.46%) Data Warehouse
8 33 (2.78%) Power BI
9 28 (2.36%) MongoDB
10 25 (2.11%) MySQL
10 25 (2.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 24 (2.02%) Data Mining
12 20 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
13 15 (1.26%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 15 (1.26%) Oracle Reports
13 15 (1.26%) RDBMS
14 12 (1.01%) Big Data
15 9 (0.76%) QlikView
16 7 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
17 6 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 175 (14.76%) Jenkins
2 155 (13.07%) Git
3 76 (6.41%) JIRA
4 49 (4.13%) Visual Studio
5 42 (3.54%) JUnit
6 37 (3.12%) Selenium
7 28 (2.36%) Cypress.io
8 26 (2.19%) Mockito
9 18 (1.52%) Cucumber
10 16 (1.35%) JMeter
11 15 (1.26%) Rational DOORS
12 14 (1.18%) webpack
13 13 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
13 13 (1.10%) SonarQube
14 12 (1.01%) Artifactory
14 12 (1.01%) Bitbucket
14 12 (1.01%) SoapUI
15 9 (0.76%) git-flow
16 8 (0.67%) GitLab
16 8 (0.67%) Gradle
General
1 323 (27.23%) Social Skills
2 237 (19.98%) Finance
3 164 (13.83%) Marketing
4 151 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
5 123 (10.37%) Law
6 113 (9.53%) Presentation Skills
7 106 (8.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 92 (7.76%) Advertising
9 60 (5.06%) Retail
10 59 (4.97%) Public Sector
11 47 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
12 44 (3.71%) Legal
13 29 (2.45%) Military
14 27 (2.28%) Banking
15 24 (2.02%) Manufacturing
16 23 (1.94%) Telecoms
17 18 (1.52%) Electronics
18 11 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
19 10 (0.84%) Tech for Good
20 9 (0.76%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 297 (25.04%) Senior
2 233 (19.65%) Software Engineer
3 195 (16.44%) Developer
4 126 (10.62%) Lead
5 94 (7.93%) Systems Engineer
6 74 (6.24%) Principal Engineer
7 71 (5.99%) Architect
8 66 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
9 59 (4.97%) Analyst
10 46 (3.88%) Principal Software Engineer
10 46 (3.88%) Senior Developer
11 43 (3.63%) Full-Stack Developer
12 42 (3.54%) Java Developer
13 41 (3.46%) Project Manager
14 38 (3.20%) Test Engineer
15 37 (3.12%) Product Manager
15 37 (3.12%) Senior Manager
16 33 (2.78%) Senior Test Engineer
17 32 (2.70%) Senior Software Test Engineer
17 32 (2.70%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (19.31%) React
2 201 (16.95%) REST
3 195 (16.44%) .NET
4 131 (11.05%) AngularJS
5 112 (9.44%) Node.js
6 90 (7.59%) Tailwind CSS
7 74 (6.24%) HTML
8 58 (4.89%) CSS
9 53 (4.47%) .NET Framework
10 48 (4.05%) RESTful
10 48 (4.05%) SOAP
10 48 (4.05%) Web Services
11 47 (3.96%) JSON
12 45 (3.79%) Spring Boot
13 42 (3.54%) .NET Core
14 41 (3.46%) Spring
14 41 (3.46%) XML
15 33 (2.78%) Kafka
16 32 (2.70%) Jest
17 29 (2.45%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 88 (7.42%) Blog
1 88 (7.42%) Digital Media
2 81 (6.83%) Product Ownership
3 50 (4.22%) Management Information System
4 46 (3.88%) Algorithms
5 42 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
6 40 (3.37%) Mobile App
7 29 (2.45%) Cloud Native
8 27 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (1.85%) PMI
10 19 (1.60%) Blockchain
10 19 (1.60%) FMCG
11 18 (1.52%) IoT
12 17 (1.43%) Security Posture
13 16 (1.35%) Virtual Team
14 15 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (1.18%) Data Structures
16 13 (1.10%) Public Cloud
16 13 (1.10%) Robotics
17 11 (0.93%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 46 (3.88%) Linux
1 46 (3.88%) Windows
2 18 (1.52%) Apple iOS
3 14 (1.18%) Android
4 6 (0.51%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.34%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.17%) CentOS
6 2 (0.17%) VMS
6 2 (0.17%) VxWorks
6 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.084%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (25.97%) Software Engineering
2 279 (23.52%) DevOps
3 257 (21.67%) Computer Science
4 255 (21.50%) Scrum
5 228 (19.22%) CI/CD
6 202 (17.03%) UML
7 198 (16.69%) Problem-Solving
8 195 (16.44%) Full-Stack Development
9 184 (15.51%) Waterfall
10 173 (14.59%) Coaching
11 161 (13.58%) Mentoring
11 161 (13.58%) User Experience
12 141 (11.89%) Project Management
13 136 (11.47%) E-Commerce
13 136 (11.47%) Test Automation
14 134 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
15 132 (11.13%) Microservices
16 126 (10.62%) Cybersecurity
17 125 (10.54%) Artificial Intelligence
18 111 (9.36%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 192 (16.19%) C#
2 172 (14.50%) SQL
3 158 (13.32%) Python
4 156 (13.15%) TypeScript
5 154 (12.98%) JavaScript
6 111 (9.36%) Java
7 96 (8.09%) MATLAB
8 42 (3.54%) PowerShell
9 32 (2.70%) Ada
10 28 (2.36%) C++
11 24 (2.02%) Apex Code
12 22 (1.85%) Shell Script
13 16 (1.35%) PHP
13 16 (1.35%) R
13 16 (1.35%) Rust
14 14 (1.18%) Go
15 9 (0.76%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.67%) C
17 7 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 6 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 410 (34.57%) Degree
2 151 (12.73%) BPSS Clearance
3 116 (9.78%) Security Cleared
4 81 (6.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 81 (6.83%) SC Cleared
5 53 (4.47%) PMI Certification
6 52 (4.38%) Master's Degree
7 44 (3.71%) Chartered Engineer
8 39 (3.29%) PMP
9 37 (3.12%) Azure Certification
10 33 (2.78%) DV Cleared
11 24 (2.02%) CISSP
12 19 (1.60%) ISTQB
13 18 (1.52%) CISM
14 16 (1.35%) CRISC
14 16 (1.35%) DBS Check
15 15 (1.26%) AWS Certification
16 12 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
17 11 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
18 10 (0.84%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (6.49%) QA
2 64 (5.40%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 40 (3.37%) Data Quality
4 35 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (2.28%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.01%) GDPR
6 12 (1.01%) NCSC
6 12 (1.01%) NIST
7 11 (0.93%) SLA
8 9 (0.76%) SOC 2
8 9 (0.76%) WCAG
9 8 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.67%) PMO
10 7 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 5 (0.42%) GAAP
11 5 (0.42%) IFRS
12 4 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.17%) GMP
13 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 215 (18.13%) Docker
2 16 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
3 10 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.67%) vSphere
5 6 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.084%) Postfix
7 1 (0.084%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 225 (18.97%) Kubernetes
2 49 (4.13%) Ansible
3 28 (2.36%) Terraform
4 15 (1.26%) Kibana
5 7 (0.59%) Nessus
5 7 (0.59%) Puppet
6 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.51%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.42%) CASB
8 4 (0.34%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.34%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.25%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.17%) Grafana
10 2 (0.17%) Packer
10 2 (0.17%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.17%) SCCM
11 1 (0.084%) Argo
11 1 (0.084%) Consul
11 1 (0.084%) vRealize
11 1 (0.084%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 194 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 60 (5.06%) Databricks
3 54 (4.55%) Oracle
4 53 (4.47%) Salesforce
5 34 (2.87%) SAP
6 29 (2.45%) Google
7 25 (2.11%) Atlassian
8 21 (1.77%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 20 (1.69%) Workday
10 19 (1.60%) Concur
10 19 (1.60%) IBM
11 17 (1.43%) OpenAI
11 17 (1.43%) Splunk
12 14 (1.18%) Dynatrace
13 11 (0.93%) Cisco
13 11 (0.93%) PeopleSoft
14 10 (0.84%) ServiceNow
14 10 (0.84%) Siemens
14 10 (0.84%) VMware
15 9 (0.76%) Juniper