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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 1,643 2,787 2,795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.94% 16.68% 23.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.70% 20.36% 24.53%
Number of salaries quoted 775 1,590 1,771
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £39,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,700 £87,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.76% +0.77%

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 9,282 13,691 11,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 90.06% 81.92% 95.01%
Number of salaries quoted 4,886 9,318 7,202
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -10 462 £58,750 -2.08% 320
Hampshire +4 370 £62,500 +4.17% 202
Berkshire -3 351 £65,000 -3.70% 161
Isle of Wight -8 320 £68,000 - 10
Surrey -4 190 £65,000 +8.33% 98
Middlesex +1 145 £48,750 +9.16% 23
Oxfordshire -10 77 £50,000 - 88
Kent -12 65 £47,683 -13.30% 69
West Sussex -3 54 £70,000 +9.38% 55
Buckinghamshire -47 34 £53,250 -1.39% 76
East Sussex -9 27 £58,750 -2.08% 50
Sussex 0 5 £52,500 -9.48% 56
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 42 (2.56%) Confluence
2 36 (2.19%) CMS
3 23 (1.40%) SharePoint
4 18 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.97%) Apache Spark
6 15 (0.91%) Oracle Application Server
7 11 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2013
8 10 (0.61%) JBoss
8 10 (0.61%) Red Hat Fuse
9 9 (0.55%) IIS
10 6 (0.37%) Apache
10 6 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
10 6 (0.37%) Appian
11 5 (0.30%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.18%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.12%) ThingWorx
14 1 (0.061%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.061%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.061%) Sitefinity
14 1 (0.061%) Strapi
Applications
1 28 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.49%) Simulink
4 7 (0.43%) MadCap Flare
4 7 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (0.30%) Trello
6 4 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.18%) CATIA
7 3 (0.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.12%) Sketch
8 2 (0.12%) S-PLUS
9 1 (0.061%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.061%) Revit
Business Applications
1 14 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.73%) PeopleSoft Financials
3 8 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.12%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.12%) Shopify
5 1 (0.061%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.061%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.061%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.061%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.061%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 426 (25.93%) Azure
2 271 (16.49%) AWS
3 105 (6.39%) GCP
4 103 (6.27%) Azure DevOps
5 88 (5.36%) Serverless
6 71 (4.32%) SaaS
7 68 (4.14%) PaaS
8 54 (3.29%) Power Platform
9 53 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
10 45 (2.74%) Vertex AI
11 39 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
11 39 (2.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 38 (2.31%) Amazon ECS
12 38 (2.31%) Amazon S3
13 36 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
14 34 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
15 30 (1.83%) Azure Data Factory
16 25 (1.52%) GitHub
16 25 (1.52%) iPaaS
16 25 (1.52%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 96 (5.84%) Broadband
2 31 (1.89%) Firewall
3 28 (1.70%) Wireless
4 25 (1.52%) Software-Defined Radio
5 16 (0.97%) LAN
5 16 (0.97%) SAN
5 16 (0.97%) WAN
6 12 (0.73%) VLAN
7 11 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (0.61%) DNS
9 8 (0.49%) Cisco ISE
10 7 (0.43%) Cisco Firepower
10 7 (0.43%) VPN
11 6 (0.37%) SD-WAN
11 6 (0.37%) SSL
12 5 (0.30%) SMTP
13 4 (0.24%) BGP
13 4 (0.24%) EIGRP
13 4 (0.24%) OSPF
13 4 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (5.23%) SQL Server
2 71 (4.32%) Relational Database
3 67 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
4 57 (3.47%) NoSQL
5 53 (3.23%) Data Lake
6 47 (2.86%) RDBMS
7 39 (2.37%) Data Mining
8 35 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
9 29 (1.77%) Power BI
10 28 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
11 23 (1.40%) MySQL
12 21 (1.28%) MongoDB
13 18 (1.10%) Metadata
14 15 (0.91%) DynamoDB
14 15 (0.91%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 15 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
15 12 (0.73%) Big Data
16 10 (0.61%) Redis
16 10 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 9 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 178 (10.83%) JIRA
2 86 (5.23%) Git
3 82 (4.99%) Jenkins
4 63 (3.83%) Rational DOORS
5 42 (2.56%) JUnit
6 29 (1.77%) Mockito
7 25 (1.52%) Jaeger
8 24 (1.46%) MSI
8 24 (1.46%) Selenium
9 22 (1.34%) JMeter
10 20 (1.22%) SonarQube
11 19 (1.16%) Visual Studio
12 16 (0.97%) Maven
13 15 (0.91%) Cucumber
13 15 (0.91%) GitLab
14 11 (0.67%) SoapUI
15 10 (0.61%) Bitbucket
15 10 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
16 9 (0.55%) TeamCity
17 8 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 526 (32.01%) Social Skills
2 305 (18.56%) Finance
3 282 (17.16%) Analytical Skills
4 220 (13.39%) Law
5 138 (8.40%) Presentation Skills
6 128 (7.79%) Legal
7 118 (7.18%) Marketing
8 103 (6.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 81 (4.93%) Retail
10 69 (4.20%) Public Sector
11 62 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
12 59 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
13 27 (1.64%) Military
14 17 (1.03%) Banking
15 15 (0.91%) Electronics
16 14 (0.85%) Advertising
17 11 (0.67%) Aerospace
17 11 (0.67%) Tech for Good
18 9 (0.55%) Manufacturing
19 8 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 324 (19.72%) Senior
2 263 (16.01%) Architect
3 193 (11.75%) Developer
4 188 (11.44%) Software Engineer
5 186 (11.32%) Lead
6 141 (8.58%) Software Architect
7 115 (7.00%) Systems Engineer
8 108 (6.57%) Principal Engineer
9 102 (6.21%) Principal Software Engineer
10 73 (4.44%) Analyst
11 52 (3.16%) Embedded Engineer
12 48 (2.92%) Full-Stack Developer
12 48 (2.92%) Senior Developer
12 48 (2.92%) Software Developer
12 48 (2.92%) Team Leader
13 47 (2.86%) Senior Manager
13 47 (2.86%) System Design Authority
14 46 (2.80%) Java Developer
15 45 (2.74%) DevOps Engineer
16 41 (2.50%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (12.42%) Middleware
2 142 (8.64%) .NET
3 111 (6.76%) React
4 91 (5.54%) REST
5 72 (4.38%) HTML
6 64 (3.90%) Spring
7 63 (3.83%) Spring Boot
8 55 (3.35%) SOAP
9 52 (3.16%) RESTful
10 50 (3.04%) CSS
10 50 (3.04%) Node.js
11 45 (2.74%) Kafka
12 41 (2.50%) AngularJS
12 41 (2.50%) Web Services
13 38 (2.31%) Hibernate
14 37 (2.25%) XML
15 35 (2.13%) .NET Framework
16 31 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
16 31 (1.89%) JSON
17 30 (1.83%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 127 (7.73%) Product Ownership
2 73 (4.44%) Management Information System
3 59 (3.59%) e-Learning
4 55 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
5 54 (3.29%) Algorithms
6 52 (3.16%) Embedded Systems
7 41 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
8 40 (2.43%) Cloud Native
9 39 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
10 38 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
11 35 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
12 33 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
13 30 (1.83%) Data Structures
14 25 (1.52%) MicroBlaze
14 25 (1.52%) Mobile App
14 25 (1.52%) RISC-V
15 23 (1.40%) Security Posture
16 21 (1.28%) Cyberattack
17 20 (1.22%) Virtual Team
18 19 (1.16%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 101 (6.15%) Linux
2 72 (4.38%) Windows
3 30 (1.83%) Unix
4 28 (1.70%) Android
5 25 (1.52%) Embedded Linux
6 21 (1.28%) Windows Server
7 19 (1.16%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.24%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.12%) VMS
12 1 (0.061%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 516 (31.41%) DevOps
2 468 (28.48%) Mentoring
3 391 (23.80%) Waterfall
4 380 (23.13%) Computer Science
5 379 (23.07%) UML
6 374 (22.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 316 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
8 313 (19.05%) CI/CD
8 313 (19.05%) Configuration Management
9 268 (16.31%) Software Engineering
10 241 (14.67%) Coaching
11 233 (14.18%) Roadmaps
12 214 (13.02%) Design Patterns
13 205 (12.48%) Cybersecurity
14 203 (12.36%) SDLC
15 196 (11.93%) Test Automation
16 193 (11.75%) Artificial Intelligence
17 192 (11.69%) Analytics
18 173 (10.53%) Scrum
19 172 (10.47%) Creative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 192 (11.69%) Python
2 185 (11.26%) JavaScript
3 174 (10.59%) Java
4 158 (9.62%) SQL
5 136 (8.28%) C#
6 105 (6.39%) MATLAB
7 95 (5.78%) Ada
8 83 (5.05%) Ada 95
9 70 (4.26%) PowerShell
10 60 (3.65%) TypeScript
11 59 (3.59%) C++
12 49 (2.98%) Go
13 39 (2.37%) Rust
14 30 (1.83%) C
15 27 (1.64%) Bash
16 25 (1.52%) Apex Code
16 25 (1.52%) Shell Script
17 12 (0.73%) R
18 9 (0.55%) Bicep
19 8 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 615 (37.43%) Degree
2 418 (25.44%) BPSS Clearance
3 289 (17.59%) Chartered Engineer
4 240 (14.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 190 (11.56%) Security Cleared
6 109 (6.63%) SC Cleared
7 104 (6.33%) DV Cleared
8 72 (4.38%) Master's Degree
9 62 (3.77%) PMI Certification
10 46 (2.80%) PMP
11 44 (2.68%) AWS Certification
12 38 (2.31%) CISSP
13 37 (2.25%) PhD
14 30 (1.83%) Numerate Degree
15 29 (1.77%) CISM
16 28 (1.70%) Azure Certification
17 25 (1.52%) CRISC
18 20 (1.22%) ISTQB
19 19 (1.16%) DBS Check
20 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (14.55%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 92 (5.60%) QA
3 68 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 43 (2.62%) Data Quality
5 24 (1.46%) GDPR
6 23 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 22 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 19 (1.16%) NIST
9 18 (1.10%) SOC 2
10 17 (1.03%) NCSC
11 15 (0.91%) SLA
12 14 (0.85%) Accessibility
13 9 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 8 (0.49%) PMO
15 7 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 6 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 5 (0.30%) GxP
17 5 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
18 4 (0.24%) JSP 440
19 3 (0.18%) 21 CFR Part 11
System Software
1 151 (9.19%) Docker
2 31 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (1.77%) Active Directory
4 28 (1.70%) Firmware
5 26 (1.58%) Embedded Firmware
6 20 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (1.03%) Hyper-V
8 10 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.24%) Terminal Server
10 2 (0.12%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.12%) Postfix
10 2 (0.12%) vCloud
10 2 (0.12%) vSphere
11 1 (0.061%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 151 (9.19%) Kubernetes
2 81 (4.93%) Ansible
2 81 (4.93%) Terraform
3 37 (2.25%) Prometheus
4 26 (1.58%) WMI
5 25 (1.52%) Argo
5 25 (1.52%) Kustomize
6 23 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 20 (1.22%) SCCM
8 19 (1.16%) Kibana
9 11 (0.67%) Grafana
10 6 (0.37%) SCOM
11 5 (0.30%) CASB
12 4 (0.24%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.24%) Nessus
12 4 (0.24%) Puppet
12 4 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.18%) Proxmox
14 2 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.12%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 288 (17.53%) Microsoft
2 102 (6.21%) Google
3 88 (5.36%) IBM
4 60 (3.65%) Salesforce
5 49 (2.98%) Databricks
6 40 (2.43%) VMware
7 39 (2.37%) Workday
8 38 (2.31%) Oracle
9 34 (2.07%) Red Hat
10 30 (1.83%) OpenAI
10 30 (1.83%) SAP
11 26 (1.58%) ServiceNow
12 23 (1.40%) Cisco
12 23 (1.40%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 19 (1.16%) Concur
13 19 (1.16%) Dynatrace
13 19 (1.16%) Splunk
14 18 (1.10%) PeopleSoft
15 16 (0.97%) Foundry
16 13 (0.79%) Atlassian