Agile Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Agile Software Development
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Agile skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 7 5
Rank change year-on-year -9 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 326 483 847
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 7.48% 15.03% 15.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.61% 16.11% 17.92%
Number of salaries quoted 153 248 681
10th Percentile £37,973 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,000 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,394 2,999 4,727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 77.83% 93.31% 87.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,977 1,250 3,459
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £92,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Agile job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Agile
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Agile.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Agile

Agile
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Agile in the Thames Valley

Agile
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 18 February 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
Berkshire -11 184 £57,500 -17.86% 69
Buckinghamshire +10 108 £60,000 - 39
Oxfordshire -23 34 £71,250 +90.00% 30
Agile
South East

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 11 (3.37%) Confluence
2 6 (1.84%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.53%) IIS
4 4 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.61%) CMS
6 1 (0.31%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.31%) Camunda
6 1 (0.31%) SAS
6 1 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (6.75%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (3.68%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.53%) Adobe XD
5 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.31%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.31%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 9 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.61%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.31%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.31%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.31%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.31%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.31%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.31%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.31%) Shopify
3 1 (0.31%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 62 (19.02%) Azure
2 50 (15.34%) AWS
3 23 (7.06%) GCP
3 23 (7.06%) Serverless
4 22 (6.75%) Power Platform
5 17 (5.21%) Amazon ECS
5 17 (5.21%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (4.29%) Amazon S3
6 14 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (3.68%) Amazon SQS
8 10 (3.07%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (3.07%) GitHub
8 10 (3.07%) Miro
9 9 (2.76%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (2.76%) SaaS
9 9 (2.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 8 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (2.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 7 (2.15%) Figma
11 7 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.23%) Broadband
1 4 (1.23%) DNS
1 4 (1.23%) Firewall
2 2 (0.61%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (0.61%) DHCP
2 2 (0.61%) NAS
2 2 (0.61%) SAN
2 2 (0.61%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.61%) Unified Communications
2 2 (0.61%) VLAN
2 2 (0.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.44%) Relational Database
2 20 (6.13%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (5.83%) SQL Server
4 18 (5.52%) Power BI
5 12 (3.68%) MySQL
6 9 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (2.76%) Metadata
6 9 (2.76%) RDBMS
7 6 (1.84%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (1.53%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.92%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.92%) Metadata Repository
11 2 (0.61%) Big Data
11 2 (0.61%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.61%) Tableau
12 1 (0.31%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.31%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 30 (9.20%) JIRA
2 19 (5.83%) Git
3 16 (4.91%) Jenkins
4 15 (4.60%) Selenium
5 13 (3.99%) WebDriver
6 11 (3.37%) JUnit
7 10 (3.07%) Mockito
7 10 (3.07%) Postman
7 10 (3.07%) SoapUI
7 10 (3.07%) Team Foundation Server
8 9 (2.76%) JMeter
9 6 (1.84%) GitLab
10 5 (1.53%) Axure RP
10 5 (1.53%) Balsamiq
10 5 (1.53%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.53%) git-flow
11 4 (1.23%) Subversion
12 2 (0.61%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.61%) Claude Code
13 1 (0.31%) MLflow
General
1 149 (45.71%) Social Skills
2 104 (31.90%) Finance
3 53 (16.26%) Pharmaceutical
4 51 (15.64%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (12.27%) Public Sector
6 37 (11.35%) Influencing Skills
7 30 (9.20%) Law
8 26 (7.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (5.21%) Manufacturing
10 16 (4.91%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (2.76%) Marketing
12 6 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.84%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.53%) Games
14 4 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.92%) Automotive
16 2 (0.61%) Banking
16 2 (0.61%) Billing
16 2 (0.61%) Publishing
16 2 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 90 (27.61%) Senior
2 62 (19.02%) Lead
3 50 (15.34%) Developer
4 40 (12.27%) Senior Manager
5 31 (9.51%) Analyst
6 27 (8.28%) Development Manager
6 27 (8.28%) Project Manager
7 25 (7.67%) Senior Development Manager
8 24 (7.36%) Full-Stack Developer
9 22 (6.75%) Development Project Manager
9 22 (6.75%) Senior Project Manager
10 20 (6.13%) Designer
11 16 (4.91%) Architect
11 16 (4.91%) Java Developer
11 16 (4.91%) Software Engineer
12 13 (3.99%) Associate Director
12 13 (3.99%) Data Analyst
12 13 (3.99%) Product Designer
12 13 (3.99%) Senior Designer
12 13 (3.99%) Senior Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (13.80%) .NET
2 36 (11.04%) REST
3 27 (8.28%) HTML
4 25 (7.67%) SOAP
5 24 (7.36%) React
6 18 (5.52%) Spring
6 18 (5.52%) Spring Boot
7 17 (5.21%) Middleware
8 15 (4.60%) Web Services
9 14 (4.29%) JSON
9 14 (4.29%) XML
10 13 (3.99%) Kafka
11 12 (3.68%) ASP.NET
11 12 (3.68%) CSS
12 11 (3.37%) .NET Framework
13 10 (3.07%) Hibernate
13 10 (3.07%) jQuery
14 9 (2.76%) ActiveMQ
14 9 (2.76%) Apache Camel
14 9 (2.76%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 62 (19.02%) Life Science
2 39 (11.96%) Product Ownership
3 19 (5.83%) Cloud Native
3 19 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (4.60%) Mobile App
5 14 (4.29%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.99%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.45%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.84%) Hackathon
9 5 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.53%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.23%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.92%) Biopharmaceutical
11 3 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.92%) LIMS
11 3 (0.92%) N-Tier
11 3 (0.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (0.92%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.61%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.61%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.76%) Windows
2 4 (1.23%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.92%) Linux
3 3 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (25.77%) Analytics
2 79 (24.23%) Hematology
2 79 (24.23%) Immunology
3 77 (23.62%) CI/CD
4 73 (22.39%) Computer Science
5 68 (20.86%) Problem-Solving
6 63 (19.33%) AI
7 59 (18.10%) Biotechnology
8 58 (17.79%) Roadmaps
9 57 (17.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 56 (17.18%) DevOps
11 53 (16.26%) Scrum
12 48 (14.72%) Data Science
12 48 (14.72%) Machine Learning
13 45 (13.80%) Decision-Making
14 41 (12.58%) Use Case
15 37 (11.35%) Deployment Automation
16 33 (10.12%) Full-Stack Development
17 31 (9.51%) Enterprise Architecture
17 31 (9.51%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 63 (19.33%) Python
2 53 (16.26%) SQL
3 51 (15.64%) Java
4 41 (12.58%) C#
5 40 (12.27%) JavaScript
6 18 (5.52%) TypeScript
7 12 (3.68%) VBA
8 10 (3.07%) Shell Script
9 9 (2.76%) Apex Code
10 8 (2.45%) C++
11 5 (1.53%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.92%) C
12 3 (0.92%) PHP
12 3 (0.92%) R
13 2 (0.61%) ABAP
14 1 (0.31%) Go
14 1 (0.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 153 (46.93%) Degree
2 51 (15.64%) Security Cleared
3 44 (13.50%) Master's Degree
4 32 (9.82%) SC Cleared
5 30 (9.20%) PhD
6 27 (8.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (7.06%) PMI Certification
7 23 (7.06%) PMP
8 15 (4.60%) ISTQB
9 12 (3.68%) ACCA
9 12 (3.68%) CIMA
9 12 (3.68%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 7 (2.15%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.61%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.31%) CISM
13 1 (0.31%) CISSP
13 1 (0.31%) CRISC
13 1 (0.31%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (11.04%) QA
2 35 (10.74%) Accessibility
3 29 (8.90%) GxP
4 13 (3.99%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.45%) WCAG
6 4 (1.23%) GDPR
7 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.61%) ECSS
9 1 (0.31%) COBIT
9 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.31%) MISRA
9 1 (0.31%) NCSC
9 1 (0.31%) NIST
9 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.31%) PMO
9 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (8.28%) Docker
2 5 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.61%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.61%) Terminal Server
4 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (7.36%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.76%) Kibana
2 9 (2.76%) Terraform
3 5 (1.53%) SCCM
4 3 (0.92%) SCOM
5 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.61%) Netcool
5 2 (0.61%) Netcool/OMNIbus
6 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (15.34%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.06%) SAP
3 12 (3.68%) Google
4 11 (3.37%) Databricks
5 10 (3.07%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.76%) Dynatrace
6 9 (2.76%) MuleSoft
6 9 (2.76%) Splunk
7 8 (2.45%) Adobe
8 5 (1.53%) Sage
8 5 (1.53%) VMware
8 5 (1.53%) Xamarin
8 5 (1.53%) Zoho
9 4 (1.23%) Oracle
9 4 (1.23%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.23%) Telerik
10 3 (0.92%) IBM
10 3 (0.92%) LabVantage
10 3 (0.92%) Workday
11 2 (0.61%) Palo Alto