Agile Jobs in South Wales

Agile Software Development
Wales > South Wales

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

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 6 2
Rank change year-on-year -9 -4 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 69 246 343
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 8.17% 16.67% 30.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.86% 21.39% 31.32%
Number of salaries quoted 61 147 155
10th Percentile £43,449 £36,250 £37,039
25th Percentile £52,592 £43,190 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,686 £55,043
Median % change year-on-year +23.37% -4.28% +4.84%
75th Percentile £70,250 £68,750 £68,497
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £92,500
Wales median annual salary £60,000 £52,686 £54,882
% change year-on-year +13.88% -4.00% +9.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 700 1,150 1,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 82.84% 77.91% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 446 746 559
10th Percentile £23,504 £28,290 £27,520
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,700 £36,732
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,221 £47,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% +3.26% -8.00%
75th Percentile £66,656 £60,000 £62,988
90th Percentile £73,000 £72,466 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £48,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +7.78% - -5.26%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in South Wales

Agile
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Agile in South Wales

Agile
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in South Wales over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Agile in South Wales

Agile
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Newport -4 37 £65,000 +23.96% 23
Cardiff -9 20 £65,750 +11.82% 66
Gwent +6 6 £52,592 - 5
Bridgend -1 2 £36,250 -10.61% 2
Glamorgan - 2 £68,500 - 39
Neath Port Talbot - 2 £42,500 - 1
Monmouthshire - 1 £68,500 -
Agile
Wales

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 3 (4.35%) CMS
1 3 (4.35%) ColdFusion
1 3 (4.35%) Confluence
1 3 (4.35%) Headless CMS
2 2 (2.90%) Apache
2 2 (2.90%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (33.33%) Azure
2 11 (15.94%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (14.49%) AWS
4 7 (10.14%) Power Platform
5 5 (7.25%) Serverless
6 4 (5.80%) GCP
6 4 (5.80%) PowerApps
7 3 (4.35%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (4.35%) Contentful
8 2 (2.90%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (2.90%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.90%) GitHub
8 2 (2.90%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.45%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.35%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (2.90%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.90%) Power BI
2 2 (2.90%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (2.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 10 (14.49%) Git
2 5 (7.25%) JIRA
3 3 (4.35%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.35%) Cucumber
3 3 (4.35%) REST Assured
3 3 (4.35%) Selenium
4 2 (2.90%) Appium
4 2 (2.90%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.90%) JMeter
4 2 (2.90%) JUnit
4 2 (2.90%) Katalon Studio
4 2 (2.90%) Maven
4 2 (2.90%) TestNG
5 1 (1.45%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.45%) NUnit
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (1.45%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.45%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (14.49%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.14%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.70%) Retail
4 5 (7.25%) Finance
5 3 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.35%) Marketing
6 2 (2.90%) Electronics
6 2 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.90%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.45%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (30.43%) Senior
2 19 (27.54%) Software Engineer
3 18 (26.09%) Developer
4 12 (17.39%) Principal Engineer
4 12 (17.39%) Principal Software Engineer
5 8 (11.59%) Senior Software Test Engineer
5 8 (11.59%) Senior Test Engineer
5 8 (11.59%) Software Test Engineer
5 8 (11.59%) Test Engineer
6 6 (8.70%) Architect
6 6 (8.70%) Senior Developer
6 6 (8.70%) Software Architect
7 5 (7.25%) Delivery Manager
7 5 (7.25%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (7.25%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Lead
9 3 (4.35%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
9 3 (4.35%) JavaScript Developer
10 2 (2.90%) .NET Developer
10 2 (2.90%) Software Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.04%) REST
2 7 (10.14%) CSS
2 7 (10.14%) HTML
3 6 (8.70%) .NET
3 6 (8.70%) Middleware
3 6 (8.70%) Node.js
3 6 (8.70%) React
4 5 (7.25%) AngularJS
4 5 (7.25%) SOAP
5 4 (5.80%) RESTful
5 4 (5.80%) Web Services
6 3 (4.35%) Bootstrap
6 3 (4.35%) Express.js
6 3 (4.35%) GraphQL
6 3 (4.35%) hapi
6 3 (4.35%) NestJS
6 3 (4.35%) OpenLayers
6 3 (4.35%) React Native
6 3 (4.35%) Vue
7 2 (2.90%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.80%) Mobile App
2 3 (4.35%) Algorithms
2 3 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.90%) CUDA
3 2 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.90%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.45%) Blog
4 1 (1.45%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (47.83%) Waterfall
2 32 (46.38%) Computer Science
3 31 (44.93%) UML
4 24 (34.78%) Configuration Management
5 20 (28.99%) DevOps
6 19 (27.54%) Scrum
6 19 (27.54%) Software Engineering
7 17 (24.64%) Mentoring
7 17 (24.64%) Test Automation
8 16 (23.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (18.84%) Design Patterns
10 12 (17.39%) CI/CD
11 11 (15.94%) SDLC
12 9 (13.04%) Code Quality
12 9 (13.04%) Software Testing
13 8 (11.59%) Microservices
13 8 (11.59%) Validation
13 8 (11.59%) Verification and Validation
14 7 (10.14%) Artificial Intelligence
14 7 (10.14%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.94%) Ada
2 10 (14.49%) TypeScript
3 9 (13.04%) Python
3 9 (13.04%) SQL
4 8 (11.59%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.70%) C#
5 6 (8.70%) Java
6 4 (5.80%) Ada 95
7 2 (2.90%) C++
7 2 (2.90%) Groovy
8 1 (1.45%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.45%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (52.17%) Degree
2 22 (31.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 19 (27.54%) Chartered Engineer
4 7 (10.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (7.25%) Security Cleared
6 4 (5.80%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.45%) CSPO
7 1 (1.45%) CSQA
7 1 (1.45%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.45%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 2 (2.90%) QA
3 1 (1.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.35%) Terraform
2 2 (2.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.80%) Oracle
3 3 (4.35%) Atlassian
3 3 (4.35%) Google
4 2 (2.90%) SAP
5 1 (1.45%) IBM