Agile Job Trends in the South East

Agile Software Development
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Agile skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 6 3
Rank change year-on-year -14 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 1,022 1,164 2,199
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 5.99% 13.21% 15.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.39% 15.00% 19.66%
Number of salaries quoted 770 498 1,208
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,546 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £74,919
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,600 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -3.70%

All Process & 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 12,183 7,760 11,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.46% 88.09% 80.87%
Number of salaries quoted 8,685 4,168 7,278
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,982 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Agile job vacancy trend in the South East

Agile
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Agile.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Agile

Agile
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in the South East over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

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 13 August 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
Thames Valley -12 335 £60,000 +9.09% 186
Hampshire -16 235 £62,500 -7.41% 109
Surrey -2 197 £57,500 -11.54% 75
Buckinghamshire +45 157 £60,000 +9.09% 51
Berkshire -26 104 £66,250 +6.00% 94
Kent +16 101 £55,000 +31.74% 28
Oxfordshire -8 74 £57,500 +8.49% 43
East Sussex +13 69 £57,500 -11.54% 13
West Sussex -9 62 £70,000 +3.70% 21
Middlesex -2 11 £65,000 +73.33% 3
Isle of Wight -10 8 £50,000 -26.47% 1
Sussex -6 2 - - 2
Agile
England

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 26 (2.54%) Confluence
1 26 (2.54%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (0.88%) Apache
3 9 (0.88%) OpenStack
4 6 (0.59%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.59%) IIS
5 4 (0.39%) CICS
5 4 (0.39%) CMS
6 3 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.20%) JBoss
7 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.098%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.098%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.098%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.098%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.76%) Microsoft Project
3 15 (1.47%) Simulink
4 11 (1.08%) CATIA
5 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.49%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.39%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.29%) UserZoom
10 2 (0.20%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.20%) Lectora
10 2 (0.20%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 12 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.49%) Primavera
3 3 (0.29%) Infor SunSystems
3 3 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.29%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.20%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.20%) Shopify
4 2 (0.20%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.098%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.098%) Finacle
5 1 (0.098%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.098%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.098%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.098%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.098%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.098%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.098%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 413 (40.41%) Azure
2 260 (25.44%) AWS
3 90 (8.81%) Azure DevOps
4 75 (7.34%) GitHub
5 59 (5.77%) GCP
6 53 (5.19%) SaaS
7 50 (4.89%) Azure AI
8 49 (4.79%) Serverless
9 44 (4.31%) Power Platform
10 38 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
11 31 (3.03%) GitHub Copilot
12 29 (2.84%) Adobe Analytics
12 29 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
13 28 (2.74%) Snowflake
14 27 (2.64%) Amazon EKS
14 27 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
15 26 (2.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 25 (2.45%) Azure Machine Learning
16 25 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
17 24 (2.35%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.03%) Broadband
2 23 (2.25%) DNS
3 22 (2.15%) Firewall
4 13 (1.27%) WAN
5 10 (0.98%) Internet
5 10 (0.98%) LAN
5 10 (0.98%) MQTT
5 10 (0.98%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.78%) DHCP
7 7 (0.68%) Network Security
7 7 (0.68%) VLAN
7 7 (0.68%) Wireless
8 6 (0.59%) HTTP
9 5 (0.49%) VoIP
10 4 (0.39%) Hyperconnected
10 4 (0.39%) VPN
11 3 (0.29%) Cisco ISE
11 3 (0.29%) RS-232
11 3 (0.29%) Software-Defined Radio
11 3 (0.29%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (11.55%) MongoDB
2 111 (10.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 105 (10.27%) SQL Server
4 60 (5.87%) Elasticsearch
5 49 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
6 46 (4.50%) NoSQL
7 43 (4.21%) MySQL
8 33 (3.23%) Relational Database
9 31 (3.03%) Power BI
10 19 (1.86%) Metadata
11 12 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (0.98%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.59%) RDBMS
13 6 (0.59%) Redis
14 5 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (0.49%) Geospatial Data
14 5 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (0.39%) Db2
16 3 (0.29%) GIS
Development Applications
1 154 (15.07%) Git
2 87 (8.51%) JIRA
3 53 (5.19%) GitLab
4 32 (3.13%) Jenkins
5 27 (2.64%) Rational DOORS
6 21 (2.05%) Visual Studio Code
7 15 (1.47%) JUnit
7 15 (1.47%) Selenium
8 14 (1.37%) Cucumber
8 14 (1.37%) JMeter
9 10 (0.98%) Mockito
10 9 (0.88%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.88%) Postman
11 8 (0.78%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.78%) Yeoman
12 7 (0.68%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.59%) Apache Continuum
13 6 (0.59%) Zephyr
14 4 (0.39%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.39%) Gatling
General
1 261 (25.54%) Social Skills
2 221 (21.62%) Finance
3 118 (11.55%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 66 (6.46%) Public Sector
6 52 (5.09%) Aerospace
7 50 (4.89%) Law
8 43 (4.21%) Games
9 37 (3.62%) Retail
10 36 (3.52%) Influencing Skills
11 30 (2.94%) Manufacturing
11 30 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
12 27 (2.64%) Advertising
13 24 (2.35%) Marketing
14 23 (2.25%) Military
15 16 (1.57%) Legal
16 15 (1.47%) Electronics
17 14 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
17 14 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
18 12 (1.17%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 286 (27.98%) Developer
2 198 (19.37%) Senior
3 137 (13.41%) .NET Developer
4 122 (11.94%) Software Engineer
5 90 (8.81%) Lead
6 73 (7.14%) Analyst
7 56 (5.48%) Senior Developer
8 54 (5.28%) Architect
9 45 (4.40%) Project Manager
10 42 (4.11%) Senior Software Engineer
11 38 (3.72%) Systems Engineer
12 37 (3.62%) Consultant
13 35 (3.42%) Full-Stack Developer
14 32 (3.13%) Business Analyst
15 31 (3.03%) Software Developer
16 28 (2.74%) Backend Developer
17 27 (2.64%) Data Engineer
18 25 (2.45%) Engineering Manager
18 25 (2.45%) Web Developer
19 23 (2.25%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (22.70%) .NET
2 166 (16.24%) ASP.NET
3 158 (15.46%) React
4 149 (14.58%) ASP.NET Core
5 136 (13.31%) .NET Core
6 84 (8.22%) AngularJS
6 84 (8.22%) Node.js
7 77 (7.53%) HTML
8 75 (7.34%) REST
8 75 (7.34%) RESTful
9 73 (7.14%) Vue
10 72 (7.05%) CSS
11 69 (6.75%) Entity Framework
12 64 (6.26%) Blazor
13 60 (5.87%) .NET Framework
14 58 (5.68%) ASP.NET Web API
15 40 (3.91%) JSON
16 35 (3.42%) Kafka
17 32 (3.13%) SOAP
18 30 (2.94%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 108 (10.57%) Product Ownership
2 76 (7.44%) Cloud Native
3 49 (4.79%) Greenfield Project
4 48 (4.70%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
6 31 (3.03%) Social Media
7 29 (2.84%) Algorithms
8 28 (2.74%) Management Information System
9 21 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
10 20 (1.96%) Mobile App
11 16 (1.57%) Life Science
12 15 (1.47%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (1.17%) Embedded Systems
14 12 (1.17%) Onboarding
14 12 (1.17%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
16 8 (0.78%) Low-Code
16 8 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 88 (8.61%) Linux
2 56 (5.48%) Windows
3 32 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.96%) Ubuntu
5 17 (1.66%) CentOS
6 14 (1.37%) Android
7 13 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (1.17%) Debian
9 8 (0.78%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.39%) zOS
12 3 (0.29%) VMS
13 1 (0.098%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.098%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (28.96%) CI/CD
2 282 (27.59%) DevOps
3 221 (21.62%) Scrum
4 214 (20.94%) AI
5 213 (20.84%) Problem-Solving
6 211 (20.65%) Software Engineering
7 196 (19.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 171 (16.73%) Full-Stack Development
9 161 (15.75%) Microservices
10 146 (14.29%) Mentoring
11 138 (13.50%) Roadmaps
12 129 (12.62%) Computer Science
13 127 (12.43%) Decision-Making
14 116 (11.35%) Analytics
15 112 (10.96%) Kanban
15 112 (10.96%) TDD
16 111 (10.86%) Machine Learning
17 109 (10.67%) Stakeholder Management
18 107 (10.47%) Test Automation
19 97 (9.49%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 286 (27.98%) C#
2 266 (26.03%) SQL
3 187 (18.30%) Python
4 145 (14.19%) JavaScript
5 94 (9.20%) Java
5 94 (9.20%) TypeScript
6 56 (5.48%) C++
7 47 (4.60%) PHP
8 42 (4.11%) PowerShell
9 21 (2.05%) Bash
10 18 (1.76%) MATLAB
11 16 (1.57%) Go
12 14 (1.37%) Rust
13 12 (1.17%) C
13 12 (1.17%) Shell Script
14 10 (0.98%) Groovy
14 10 (0.98%) VBA
15 9 (0.88%) Apex Code
16 7 (0.68%) Ruby
17 6 (0.59%) Perl
Qualifications
1 239 (23.39%) Degree
2 195 (19.08%) Security Cleared
3 138 (13.50%) SC Cleared
4 66 (6.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (4.99%) Master's Degree
6 40 (3.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 33 (3.23%) DV Cleared
8 26 (2.54%) PMI Certification
9 25 (2.45%) PMP
10 23 (2.25%) Azure Certification
11 15 (1.47%) ICAEW
12 13 (1.27%) AWS Certification
13 11 (1.08%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
14 7 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 7 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 6 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
16 5 (0.49%) Chartered Engineer
16 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.49%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (9.20%) QA
2 62 (6.07%) Accessibility
3 24 (2.35%) Data Quality
4 15 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 14 (1.37%) WCAG
6 13 (1.27%) NIST
7 12 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 12 (1.17%) PMO
8 10 (0.98%) GDPR
9 5 (0.49%) NIST 800
9 5 (0.49%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 4 (0.39%) JSP 440
10 4 (0.39%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.39%) SLA
11 3 (0.29%) GRC
11 3 (0.29%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.29%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 166 (16.24%) Docker
2 22 (2.15%) Active Directory
2 22 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.98%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.68%) Firmware
5 7 (0.68%) vSphere
6 5 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.098%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 179 (17.51%) Kubernetes
2 100 (9.78%) Terraform
3 56 (5.48%) Ansible
4 19 (1.86%) Grafana
5 17 (1.66%) Kibana
6 11 (1.08%) Nagios
6 11 (1.08%) ZABBIX
7 10 (0.98%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.98%) Puppet
8 8 (0.78%) Nessus
9 7 (0.68%) vCenter Server
10 6 (0.59%) Podman
10 6 (0.59%) SCCM
11 5 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.39%) Argo
12 4 (0.39%) CA Endevor
12 4 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.39%) Packer
13 2 (0.20%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 267 (26.13%) Microsoft
2 40 (3.91%) Google
3 34 (3.33%) Databricks
4 32 (3.13%) Adobe
5 24 (2.35%) VMware
6 21 (2.05%) IBM
7 20 (1.96%) Oracle
8 19 (1.86%) Salesforce
9 17 (1.66%) Splunk
10 15 (1.47%) Siemens
11 14 (1.37%) SAP
12 12 (1.17%) AppDynamics
12 12 (1.17%) Cisco
12 12 (1.17%) Facebook
12 12 (1.17%) Red Hat
12 12 (1.17%) YouTube
13 10 (0.98%) Dynatrace
14 8 (0.78%) ServiceNow
15 7 (0.68%) OpenAI
16 6 (0.59%) New Relic