Agile Job Trends in the South West

Agile Software Development
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Agile skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 -6
Permanent jobs citing Agile 599 476 1,393
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 7.20% 14.39% 14.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.07% 16.92% 18.16%
Number of salaries quoted 385 262 870
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,564
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,700 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -3.40%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £93,778 £83,875
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +10.24% -3.05%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,946 2,813 7,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.47% 85.04% 78.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3,922 1,822 5,597
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -3.83%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Agile job vacancy trend in the South West

Agile
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Agile

Agile
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in the South West over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Agile in the South West

Agile
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the South West region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
Bristol -13 176 £65,000 +5.91% 87
Gloucestershire -9 161 £63,500 +5.83% 146
Devon +5 81 £55,000 +4.76% 14
Somerset +4 75 £50,000 -20.00% 49
Wiltshire +2 49 £63,000 -0.69% 25
Dorset -19 29 £50,000 +5.26% 25
Cornwall +19 18 £55,000 +29.41%
Agile
England

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 30 (5.01%) Confluence
2 12 (2.00%) Apache
2 12 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.34%) CMS
4 6 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.67%) NServiceBus
7 3 (0.50%) WordPress
8 2 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.33%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.33%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.33%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 31 (5.18%) Microsoft Project
2 28 (4.67%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.67%) Windchill
6 2 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (0.83%) Visualfiles
1 5 (0.83%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 150 (25.04%) Azure
2 118 (19.70%) AWS
3 50 (8.35%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (7.68%) Serverless
5 42 (7.01%) SaaS
6 40 (6.68%) GCP
7 36 (6.01%) GitHub
8 23 (3.84%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (3.67%) Power Platform
10 19 (3.17%) Amazon S3
11 15 (2.50%) IaaS
11 15 (2.50%) OpenShift
11 15 (2.50%) PaaS
12 14 (2.34%) Azure Functions
12 14 (2.34%) Azure Key Vault
12 14 (2.34%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (2.17%) Figma
13 13 (2.17%) OCI
14 12 (2.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 11 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.01%) VPN
2 17 (2.84%) Broadband
3 11 (1.84%) Firewall
4 9 (1.50%) Software-Defined Networking
5 7 (1.17%) Network Security
6 6 (1.00%) VLAN
6 6 (1.00%) WAN
7 4 (0.67%) DNS
7 4 (0.67%) IPv4
8 3 (0.50%) AMQP
8 3 (0.50%) BGP
8 3 (0.50%) DHCP
8 3 (0.50%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.50%) IPsec
8 3 (0.50%) LAN
8 3 (0.50%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.50%) SNMP
8 3 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.33%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.33%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (5.18%) SQL Server
2 30 (5.01%) MongoDB
3 26 (4.34%) Azure SQL Database
4 23 (3.84%) NoSQL
5 20 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (2.50%) MySQL
7 13 (2.17%) Oracle Database
7 13 (2.17%) Power BI
8 12 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (1.84%) Big Data
10 8 (1.34%) InfluxDB
11 7 (1.17%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.17%) Geospatial Data
11 7 (1.17%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.83%) Redis
14 4 (0.67%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 3 (0.50%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 75 (12.52%) Git
2 50 (8.35%) JIRA
3 28 (4.67%) GitLab
3 28 (4.67%) Jenkins
4 20 (3.34%) Cypress.io
5 15 (2.50%) Selenium
6 9 (1.50%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.50%) Postman
7 8 (1.34%) Robot Framework
7 8 (1.34%) TestRail
8 7 (1.17%) CircleCI
9 6 (1.00%) Gradle
10 5 (0.83%) JMeter
10 5 (0.83%) Maven
10 5 (0.83%) MSI
11 4 (0.67%) SoapUI
11 4 (0.67%) Subversion
12 3 (0.50%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 196 (32.72%) Social Skills
2 89 (14.86%) Finance
3 44 (7.35%) Aerospace
4 39 (6.51%) Public Sector
5 37 (6.18%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (3.84%) Law
8 21 (3.51%) Retail
9 12 (2.00%) Games
9 12 (2.00%) Local Government
10 11 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.34%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.17%) Legal
13 5 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (0.83%) Electronics
14 4 (0.67%) Environmental Health
14 4 (0.67%) Marketing
14 4 (0.67%) Military
15 3 (0.50%) Automotive
15 3 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 120 (20.03%) Senior
2 105 (17.53%) Developer
3 82 (13.69%) Software Engineer
4 71 (11.85%) Lead
5 59 (9.85%) Analyst
6 46 (7.68%) Project Manager
7 39 (6.51%) Architect
8 34 (5.68%) Business Analyst
9 31 (5.18%) Senior Manager
10 28 (4.67%) Senior Project Manager
10 28 (4.67%) Software Developer
11 27 (4.51%) Senior Developer
12 26 (4.34%) Solutions Architect
13 23 (3.84%) Data Engineer
13 23 (3.84%) Full-Stack Developer
14 22 (3.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 22 (3.67%) Senior Software Engineer
15 20 (3.34%) .NET Developer
15 20 (3.34%) Systems Engineer
16 19 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (11.02%) .NET
2 53 (8.85%) React
3 35 (5.84%) RESTful
4 31 (5.18%) .NET Core
5 29 (4.84%) REST
6 28 (4.67%) Vue
7 27 (4.51%) ASP.NET
8 25 (4.17%) AngularJS
8 25 (4.17%) Spring
8 25 (4.17%) WPF
9 24 (4.01%) HTML
9 24 (4.01%) Node.js
10 23 (3.84%) Spring Boot
11 21 (3.51%) ASP.NET Core
12 20 (3.34%) CSS
13 17 (2.84%) .NET Framework
13 17 (2.84%) Playwright
14 16 (2.67%) Blazor
15 13 (2.17%) MFC
16 12 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 54 (9.02%) Cloud Native
2 52 (8.68%) Product Ownership
3 31 (5.18%) Self-Motivation
4 26 (4.34%) Legacy Systems
5 22 (3.67%) Public Cloud
6 16 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (2.50%) Onboarding
8 13 (2.17%) Mobile App
9 12 (2.00%) Podcast
9 12 (2.00%) Security Posture
10 11 (1.84%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.17%) NHS
13 6 (1.00%) Educational Technology
14 5 (0.83%) Algorithms
14 5 (0.83%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.83%) iPhone
14 5 (0.83%) PKI
15 4 (0.67%) Over-the-Top Content
15 4 (0.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 63 (10.52%) Windows
2 62 (10.35%) Linux
3 15 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.00%) Android
4 12 (2.00%) VMS
5 11 (1.84%) CentOS
6 5 (0.83%) Debian
6 5 (0.83%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.67%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.50%) Unix
9 1 (0.17%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (28.71%) CI/CD
2 157 (26.21%) Continuous Improvement
3 144 (24.04%) DevOps
4 131 (21.87%) Software Engineering
5 110 (18.36%) Scrum
6 100 (16.69%) Test Automation
7 90 (15.03%) Mentoring
8 85 (14.19%) AI
9 83 (13.86%) Infrastructure as Code
10 79 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
11 69 (11.52%) Containerisation
11 69 (11.52%) Project Delivery
12 67 (11.19%) Microservices
13 66 (11.02%) Full-Stack Development
14 63 (10.52%) Coaching
15 60 (10.02%) Decision-Making
16 57 (9.52%) Analytics
16 57 (9.52%) Project Management
17 56 (9.35%) Stakeholder Management
18 55 (9.18%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 109 (18.20%) Python
2 100 (16.69%) C#
3 99 (16.53%) SQL
4 82 (13.69%) JavaScript
5 68 (11.35%) Java
6 50 (8.35%) Bash
7 37 (6.18%) PowerShell
8 26 (4.34%) C++
9 23 (3.84%) TypeScript
10 19 (3.17%) Bicep
11 15 (2.50%) PHP
12 12 (2.00%) Go
12 12 (2.00%) Kusto Query Language
13 10 (1.67%) Scala
14 9 (1.50%) C
15 8 (1.34%) Clojure
16 7 (1.17%) Groovy
17 6 (1.00%) T-SQL
18 5 (0.83%) Kotlin
19 4 (0.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 166 (27.71%) Security Cleared
2 86 (14.36%) DV Cleared
3 59 (9.85%) Degree
3 59 (9.85%) SC Cleared
4 28 (4.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 20 (3.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (3.17%) Azure Certification
7 17 (2.84%) ISTQB
8 11 (1.84%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.34%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (1.34%) PMP
9 8 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.67%) CCNA
11 4 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (0.67%) OSCP
11 4 (0.67%) RHCE
11 4 (0.67%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.35%) QA
2 28 (4.67%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.34%) Data Quality
3 20 (3.34%) WCAG
4 11 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.17%) NCSC
6 6 (1.00%) ISO 9001
7 5 (0.83%) SLA
7 5 (0.83%) Software Quality Assurance
8 4 (0.67%) Automotive SPICE
8 4 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.67%) Def Stans
8 4 (0.67%) GDPR
8 4 (0.67%) ISO 26262
8 4 (0.67%) ISO 9000
8 4 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 3 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 64 (10.68%) Docker
2 25 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (3.67%) Active Directory
4 16 (2.67%) vSphere
5 14 (2.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.00%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.67%) Squid
9 3 (0.50%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.17%) GPFS
10 1 (0.17%) Lustre
10 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 84 (14.02%) Kubernetes
2 75 (12.52%) Terraform
3 56 (9.35%) Ansible
4 22 (3.67%) Grafana
5 12 (2.00%) Puppet
6 11 (1.84%) Kibana
7 10 (1.67%) logstash
8 9 (1.50%) Prometheus
9 7 (1.17%) Packer
9 7 (1.17%) vCenter Server
10 6 (1.00%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.00%) Rancher
11 5 (0.83%) Argo
12 4 (0.67%) Podman
12 4 (0.67%) yum
12 4 (0.67%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.50%) SCCM
13 3 (0.50%) SCOM
13 3 (0.50%) SCOrch
14 2 (0.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 95 (15.86%) Microsoft
2 42 (7.01%) Oracle
3 30 (5.01%) VMware
4 17 (2.84%) Red Hat
5 15 (2.50%) Google
6 13 (2.17%) Atlassian
7 12 (2.00%) Adobe
7 12 (2.00%) IFS
7 12 (2.00%) ScienceLogic
7 12 (2.00%) Splunk
8 9 (1.50%) Workday
9 8 (1.34%) Databricks
10 6 (1.00%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.67%) Epicor
11 4 (0.67%) Infor
11 4 (0.67%) Intel
11 4 (0.67%) SAP
12 3 (0.50%) OneLogin
12 3 (0.50%) SaltStack
13 2 (0.33%) OpenAI