Agile Job Trends in Staffordshire

Agile Software Development
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Agile skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -55 -1 -4
Permanent jobs citing Agile 13 76 63
As % of all permanent jobs in Staffordshire 1.31% 13.69% 15.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 15.32% 17.75%
Number of salaries quoted 5 53 50
10th Percentile £54,213 £40,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £49,236 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% +3.92% +2.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,967 £59,688
90th Percentile - £75,393 £77,688
West Midlands median annual salary £61,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.67% +4.35% +4.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 839 496 355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 84.58% 89.37% 88.31%
Number of salaries quoted 337 315 303
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,119 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,580 £31,250 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +4.94% -14.74%
75th Percentile £60,000 £54,659 £53,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £66,967 £63,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Agile job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Agile
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Agile.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Agile

Agile
Salary Histogram in Staffordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Agile in Staffordshire

Agile
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Stoke-on-Trent +4 3 - - 6
Rugeley - 3 £65,000 - 2
Stafford -1 1 £53,688 +2.57% 3
Burton-upon-Trent -12 1 £60,000 +71.43% 1
Agile
West Midlands

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 2 (15.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (7.69%) MS Visio
1 1 (7.69%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Git
3 1 (7.69%) NUnit
3 1 (7.69%) Rational DOORS
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Fire and Rescue
4 2 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Legal
4 2 (15.38%) Local Government
5 1 (7.69%) Advertising
5 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
5 1 (7.69%) Automotive
5 1 (7.69%) Billing
5 1 (7.69%) Electronics
5 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 1 (7.69%) Police
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Business Change Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Business Change Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Business Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Change Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Change Manager
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Head of PMO
3 1 (7.69%) IT Manager
3 1 (7.69%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
1 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
1 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
1 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (7.69%) Dapper ORM
1 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
1 1 (7.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) NHS
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.69%) Operational Technology
2 1 (7.69%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (7.69%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (38.46%) Project Management
2 4 (30.77%) Resource Allocation
2 4 (30.77%) Scrum
2 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
2 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (23.08%) IT Strategy
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Product Management
3 3 (23.08%) Project Delivery
3 3 (23.08%) Strategic Planning
3 3 (23.08%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (15.38%) Case Management
4 2 (15.38%) Change Management
4 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Digital Innovation
4 2 (15.38%) ITSM
4 2 (15.38%) Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Service Management
4 2 (15.38%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) C#
2 1 (7.69%) C
2 1 (7.69%) C++
2 1 (7.69%) Embedded C
2 1 (7.69%) MATLAB
2 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) NIST
2 1 (7.69%) NIST 800
2 1 (7.69%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) SAP
2 1 (7.69%) Workday