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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 1,156 2,881 3,717
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.94% 17.32% 24.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.34% 20.40% 26.00%
Number of salaries quoted 682 1,759 2,086
10th Percentile £46,000 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £48,750 £48,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £74,946 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,225 £87,500 £88,750
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 7,538 14,122 14,297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 90.90% 84.88% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,079 9,946 8,294
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,265
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £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 £80,200 £77,750 £86,250
England median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.65% -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 26 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 26 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 -5 367 £62,500 - 360
Berkshire -6 260 £70,000 +3.70% 220
Hampshire -5 243 £60,000 - 231
Isle of Wight - 168 £60,000 - 23
Middlesex +1 124 £62,500 +47.06% 14
Surrey -12 109 £66,250 +10.42% 110
Kent -6 65 £47,683 -13.30% 55
Oxfordshire -5 59 £47,500 -15.56% 117
Buckinghamshire -17 48 £60,500 +10.00% 61
West Sussex 0 46 £70,000 +16.67% 74
East Sussex -5 28 £50,000 -16.67% 38
Sussex +4 3 £66,500 +23.15% 39
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 30 (2.60%) SharePoint
2 25 (2.16%) CMS
2 25 (2.16%) Confluence
3 15 (1.30%) Oracle Application Server
4 12 (1.04%) JBoss
4 12 (1.04%) Red Hat Fuse
5 9 (0.78%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.69%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.35%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.17%) Apache
8 2 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.17%) Sitefinity
8 2 (0.17%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.087%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.087%) IIS
9 1 (0.087%) Kentico
9 1 (0.087%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.087%) Strapi
Applications
1 16 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.30%) Simulink
3 12 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.69%) Trello
5 4 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.35%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 3 (0.26%) Productboard
7 1 (0.087%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.087%) MicroStation
7 1 (0.087%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.087%) Notion
7 1 (0.087%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 12 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.52%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 4 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.17%) PeopleSoft Financials
6 1 (0.087%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.087%) Shopify
6 1 (0.087%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 253 (21.89%) Azure
2 171 (14.79%) AWS
3 91 (7.87%) Serverless
4 70 (6.06%) SaaS
5 63 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
6 56 (4.84%) Amazon EKS
7 52 (4.50%) GitHub
8 48 (4.15%) Power Platform
9 46 (3.98%) PaaS
10 42 (3.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 41 (3.55%) Amazon ECS
12 39 (3.37%) Amazon S3
13 34 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
14 33 (2.85%) Amazon EC2
14 33 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
15 32 (2.77%) GCP
16 30 (2.60%) Amazon SQS
17 29 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
18 27 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
19 25 (2.16%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 22 (1.90%) Firewall
2 10 (0.87%) SSL
3 6 (0.52%) BGP
3 6 (0.52%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (0.52%) Cisco Firepower
3 6 (0.52%) EIGRP
3 6 (0.52%) Ethernet VPN
3 6 (0.52%) IPsec
3 6 (0.52%) OSPF
3 6 (0.52%) RIP
3 6 (0.52%) TCP/IP
3 6 (0.52%) VPN
3 6 (0.52%) VXLAN
4 5 (0.43%) Broadband
5 4 (0.35%) Ethernet
5 4 (0.35%) Internet
5 4 (0.35%) Wireless
6 3 (0.26%) 3G
6 3 (0.26%) GPRS
6 3 (0.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (7.96%) SQL Server
2 84 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
3 71 (6.14%) Relational Database
4 67 (5.80%) NoSQL
5 37 (3.20%) Redis
6 35 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (2.85%) Power BI
8 30 (2.60%) MongoDB
9 26 (2.25%) MySQL
10 24 (2.08%) Data Mining
11 23 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
12 22 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 20 (1.73%) DynamoDB
13 20 (1.73%) RDBMS
14 15 (1.30%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 15 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
15 14 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
16 11 (0.95%) Big Data
17 10 (0.87%) Metadata
18 9 (0.78%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 133 (11.51%) Git
2 110 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 71 (6.14%) JIRA
4 48 (4.15%) JUnit
5 38 (3.29%) Visual Studio
6 32 (2.77%) Mockito
7 28 (2.42%) Selenium
8 24 (2.08%) Cypress.io
9 20 (1.73%) Rational DOORS
10 19 (1.64%) JMeter
11 17 (1.47%) Cucumber
12 14 (1.21%) Octopus Deploy
13 13 (1.12%) webpack
14 12 (1.04%) Bitbucket
14 12 (1.04%) SonarQube
15 11 (0.95%) Artifactory
15 11 (0.95%) GitLab
16 9 (0.78%) git-flow
16 9 (0.78%) SoapUI
17 8 (0.69%) TeamCity
General
1 368 (31.83%) Social Skills
2 225 (19.46%) Finance
3 179 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (10.99%) Presentation Skills
5 123 (10.64%) Law
6 92 (7.96%) Marketing
7 66 (5.71%) Retail
8 63 (5.45%) Legal
9 59 (5.10%) Public Sector
10 53 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 50 (4.33%) Organisational Skills
12 31 (2.68%) Military
13 25 (2.16%) Advertising
14 23 (1.99%) Banking
15 19 (1.64%) Electronics
16 18 (1.56%) Manufacturing
17 17 (1.47%) Telecoms
18 11 (0.95%) Tech for Good
19 10 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
20 7 (0.61%) Games
Job Titles
1 284 (24.57%) Senior
2 196 (16.96%) Developer
3 153 (13.24%) Software Engineer
4 132 (11.42%) Lead
5 114 (9.86%) Systems Engineer
6 86 (7.44%) Architect
7 73 (6.31%) Principal Engineer
8 56 (4.84%) Analyst
9 54 (4.67%) Senior Software Engineer
10 49 (4.24%) Java Developer
11 45 (3.89%) Principal Software Engineer
11 45 (3.89%) Project Manager
12 43 (3.72%) Senior Manager
13 42 (3.63%) Test Engineer
14 40 (3.46%) Senior Developer
15 37 (3.20%) Full-Stack Developer
15 37 (3.20%) Senior Test Engineer
16 36 (3.11%) Senior Software Test Engineer
16 36 (3.11%) Software Test Engineer
17 35 (3.03%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (16.44%) .NET
2 150 (12.98%) React
3 130 (11.25%) REST
4 70 (6.06%) HTML
5 54 (4.67%) AngularJS
5 54 (4.67%) Node.js
5 54 (4.67%) Spring Boot
6 51 (4.41%) CSS
7 50 (4.33%) Spring
8 49 (4.24%) .NET Framework
8 49 (4.24%) Web Services
9 47 (4.07%) SOAP
10 44 (3.81%) RESTful
11 42 (3.63%) Middleware
12 39 (3.37%) JSON
12 39 (3.37%) Kafka
13 38 (3.29%) .NET Core
14 36 (3.11%) XML
15 33 (2.85%) RabbitMQ
16 31 (2.68%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 77 (6.66%) Product Ownership
2 69 (5.97%) Management Information System
3 45 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
4 44 (3.81%) Algorithms
5 35 (3.03%) Mobile App
6 26 (2.25%) Cloud Native
6 26 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
7 22 (1.90%) PMI
8 21 (1.82%) Cyberattack
9 19 (1.64%) FMCG
10 18 (1.56%) Data Structures
10 18 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
11 17 (1.47%) Security Posture
12 16 (1.38%) Blockchain
12 16 (1.38%) Blog
12 16 (1.38%) Digital Media
13 15 (1.30%) IoT
13 15 (1.30%) Virtual Team
14 13 (1.12%) Robotics
15 12 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 63 (5.45%) Linux
2 46 (3.98%) Windows
3 29 (2.51%) Android
4 17 (1.47%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.43%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.26%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.087%) CentOS
7 1 (0.087%) Unix
7 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (24.48%) DevOps
2 257 (22.23%) Computer Science
3 241 (20.85%) CI/CD
4 235 (20.33%) Software Engineering
5 226 (19.55%) UML
6 219 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
7 198 (17.13%) Waterfall
8 192 (16.61%) Scrum
9 191 (16.52%) Coaching
10 186 (16.09%) Mentoring
11 152 (13.15%) Continuous Improvement
12 148 (12.80%) Test Automation
13 147 (12.72%) Cybersecurity
14 141 (12.20%) Microservices
15 136 (11.76%) Project Management
16 132 (11.42%) Systems Engineering
17 120 (10.38%) Analytics
18 114 (9.86%) Artificial Intelligence
18 114 (9.86%) SysML
19 110 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 186 (16.09%) C#
2 167 (14.45%) JavaScript
3 158 (13.67%) Python
4 154 (13.32%) Java
5 153 (13.24%) SQL
6 116 (10.03%) MATLAB
7 73 (6.31%) TypeScript
8 50 (4.33%) Rust
9 45 (3.89%) PowerShell
10 37 (3.20%) C++
11 36 (3.11%) Ada
12 31 (2.68%) Go
13 26 (2.25%) Shell Script
14 24 (2.08%) Apex Code
15 16 (1.38%) R
16 12 (1.04%) PHP
17 7 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 6 (0.52%) C
19 5 (0.43%) PL/SQL
19 5 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 422 (36.51%) Degree
2 190 (16.44%) BPSS Clearance
3 129 (11.16%) Security Cleared
4 87 (7.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 84 (7.27%) SC Cleared
6 56 (4.84%) Chartered Engineer
7 55 (4.76%) PMI Certification
8 52 (4.50%) DV Cleared
9 50 (4.33%) Master's Degree
10 41 (3.55%) PMP
11 29 (2.51%) CISSP
12 27 (2.34%) Azure Certification
13 21 (1.82%) CISM
14 19 (1.64%) CRISC
15 18 (1.56%) ISTQB
16 16 (1.38%) DBS Check
17 15 (1.30%) AWS Certification
18 11 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
19 9 (0.78%) OCP
19 9 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (6.75%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 72 (6.23%) QA
3 48 (4.15%) Data Quality
4 43 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (1.90%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.04%) NCSC
6 12 (1.04%) NIST
6 12 (1.04%) SLA
6 12 (1.04%) SOC 2
7 10 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (0.87%) GDPR
8 9 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 9 (0.78%) PMO
9 7 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 7 (0.61%) WCAG
10 4 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.26%) PMBOK
12 2 (0.17%) Dublin Core
12 2 (0.17%) GMP
12 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 157 (13.58%) Docker
2 16 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.52%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.52%) vSphere
6 2 (0.17%) Postfix
6 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.087%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 176 (15.22%) Kubernetes
2 71 (6.14%) Ansible
3 51 (4.41%) Terraform
4 18 (1.56%) Kibana
5 11 (0.95%) Puppet
6 9 (0.78%) WMI
7 8 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.52%) Nessus
9 5 (0.43%) CASB
9 5 (0.43%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.35%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.26%) Grafana
11 3 (0.26%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.26%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.26%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.17%) Packer
12 2 (0.17%) SCCM
13 1 (0.087%) Argo
13 1 (0.087%) vRealize
13 1 (0.087%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 220 (19.03%) Microsoft
2 56 (4.84%) Databricks
3 50 (4.33%) Salesforce
4 48 (4.15%) Oracle
5 30 (2.60%) SAP
6 29 (2.51%) Google
7 26 (2.25%) Workday
8 23 (1.99%) Atlassian
9 22 (1.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 20 (1.73%) IBM
10 20 (1.73%) Splunk
11 19 (1.64%) Concur
12 17 (1.47%) Dynatrace
12 17 (1.47%) OpenAI
13 15 (1.30%) ServiceNow
13 15 (1.30%) Siemens
14 13 (1.12%) Cisco
14 13 (1.12%) PeopleSoft
15 11 (0.95%) VMware
16 8 (0.69%) Informatica