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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 9 5
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 353 385 930
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 6.91% 14.02% 14.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.43% 15.02% 17.10%
Number of salaries quoted 179 174 708
10th Percentile £43,750 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +0.80% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,500 £95,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -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 3,743 2,564 5,439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 73.29% 93.34% 85.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,407 1,204 4,005
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,140 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £59,000 £50,001
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% +18.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,833 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,455 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.26% +10.00% -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 7 April 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 7 April 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 -7 175 £70,000 - 64
Buckinghamshire +19 140 £60,000 -6.25% 57
Oxfordshire -19 38 £70,000 +47.37% 29
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 6 (1.70%) Confluence
1 6 (1.70%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.57%) CMS
3 2 (0.57%) IIS
3 2 (0.57%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.28%) Apache
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.28%) Camunda
4 1 (0.28%) SAS
4 1 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 25 (7.08%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (3.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (3.40%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.42%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.57%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.28%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) SAP HR
1 2 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.28%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.28%) Shopify
2 1 (0.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 78 (22.10%) Azure
2 60 (17.00%) AWS
3 30 (8.50%) Serverless
4 23 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
4 23 (6.52%) Power Platform
5 18 (5.10%) Amazon S3
5 18 (5.10%) GCP
6 17 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (4.53%) Amazon ECS
7 16 (4.53%) SaaS
8 14 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (3.12%) Amazon SQS
10 11 (3.12%) GitHub
11 9 (2.55%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (2.55%) Miro
11 9 (2.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 8 (2.27%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 7 (1.98%) IaaS
14 6 (1.70%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.55%) DNS
2 7 (1.98%) Broadband
3 5 (1.42%) Firewall
4 3 (0.85%) DHCP
5 2 (0.57%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.57%) NAS
5 2 (0.57%) SAN
5 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.57%) Unified Communications
5 2 (0.57%) VLAN
5 2 (0.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.78%) SQL Server
2 21 (5.95%) Power BI
2 21 (5.95%) Relational Database
3 17 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (3.12%) Metadata
5 10 (2.83%) MySQL
6 9 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.42%) RDBMS
7 5 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.13%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.13%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.85%) Metadata Repository
9 3 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.85%) Tableau
10 2 (0.57%) Big Data
10 2 (0.57%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.57%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.28%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 32 (9.07%) Git
1 32 (9.07%) JIRA
2 22 (6.23%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.40%) GitLab
4 9 (2.55%) Postman
5 8 (2.27%) Selenium
5 8 (2.27%) WebDriver
6 7 (1.98%) JUnit
7 6 (1.70%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.70%) Mockito
7 6 (1.70%) SoapUI
7 6 (1.70%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.70%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (1.42%) Axure RP
8 5 (1.42%) Balsamiq
8 5 (1.42%) JMeter
9 4 (1.13%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.13%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.13%) Subversion
9 4 (1.13%) Zephyr
General
1 152 (43.06%) Social Skills
2 95 (26.91%) Finance
3 49 (13.88%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (12.75%) Pharmaceutical
5 42 (11.90%) Public Sector
6 41 (11.61%) Law
7 38 (10.76%) Influencing Skills
8 29 (8.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.83%) Manufacturing
11 9 (2.55%) Games
12 8 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (2.27%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.70%) Retail
14 5 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.85%) Automotive
16 2 (0.57%) Aviation
16 2 (0.57%) Legal
16 2 (0.57%) Marketing
16 2 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 91 (25.78%) Senior
2 56 (15.86%) Developer
3 49 (13.88%) Lead
4 43 (12.18%) Senior Manager
5 31 (8.78%) Project Manager
6 30 (8.50%) Analyst
7 28 (7.93%) Development Manager
8 27 (7.65%) Senior Development Manager
9 24 (6.80%) Development Project Manager
9 24 (6.80%) Senior Project Manager
10 23 (6.52%) Architect
11 22 (6.23%) Full-Stack Developer
12 20 (5.67%) Designer
13 19 (5.38%) Associate Director
14 17 (4.82%) Java Developer
14 17 (4.82%) Software Engineer
15 14 (3.97%) Data Analyst
16 13 (3.68%) Data Engineer
16 13 (3.68%) Product Designer
16 13 (3.68%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (13.31%) .NET
2 44 (12.46%) REST
3 27 (7.65%) React
4 22 (6.23%) SOAP
5 20 (5.67%) HTML
6 18 (5.10%) ASP.NET
6 18 (5.10%) Middleware
6 18 (5.10%) Spring
7 17 (4.82%) .NET Framework
7 17 (4.82%) JSON
8 16 (4.53%) Spring Boot
9 15 (4.25%) Web Services
10 14 (3.97%) Elastic Stack
11 13 (3.68%) Kafka
12 12 (3.40%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (3.40%) XML
13 11 (3.12%) CSS
14 10 (2.83%) AngularJS
14 10 (2.83%) Entity Framework
15 9 (2.55%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 58 (16.43%) Life Science
2 40 (11.33%) Product Ownership
3 27 (7.65%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (7.08%) Cloud Native
5 15 (4.25%) Mobile App
6 14 (3.97%) Onboarding
7 13 (3.68%) Low-Code
8 11 (3.12%) Hackathon
9 10 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.42%) Social Media
11 4 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.13%) Hedge funds
11 4 (1.13%) N-Tier
11 4 (1.13%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.85%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.85%) Biopharmaceutical
12 3 (0.85%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.85%) LIMS
12 3 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.83%) Linux
2 7 (1.98%) Windows
3 4 (1.13%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.28%) Android
5 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (25.50%) Analytics
2 87 (24.65%) CI/CD
3 78 (22.10%) DevOps
4 76 (21.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 76 (21.53%) Hematology
4 76 (21.53%) Immunology
5 68 (19.26%) AI
6 67 (18.98%) Biotechnology
6 67 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
7 63 (17.85%) Computer Science
7 63 (17.85%) Scrum
8 61 (17.28%) Decision-Making
9 49 (13.88%) Roadmaps
10 42 (11.90%) Data Science
11 41 (11.61%) Machine Learning
12 38 (10.76%) Deployment Automation
12 38 (10.76%) Use Case
13 37 (10.48%) Microservices
14 36 (10.20%) Project Management
15 35 (9.92%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 73 (20.68%) Python
2 60 (17.00%) SQL
3 47 (13.31%) Java
4 43 (12.18%) C#
5 36 (10.20%) JavaScript
6 17 (4.82%) TypeScript
7 12 (3.40%) VBA
8 9 (2.55%) Apex Code
9 8 (2.27%) C++
9 8 (2.27%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.70%) Groovy
11 5 (1.42%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.13%) Perl
12 4 (1.13%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.85%) C
13 3 (0.85%) PHP
13 3 (0.85%) R
13 3 (0.85%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.57%) ABAP
15 1 (0.28%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 147 (41.64%) Degree
2 52 (14.73%) Security Cleared
3 38 (10.76%) Master's Degree
3 38 (10.76%) SC Cleared
4 26 (7.37%) PMI Certification
4 26 (7.37%) PMP
5 22 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (5.95%) PhD
7 13 (3.68%) ISTQB
8 12 (3.40%) ACCA
8 12 (3.40%) CIMA
9 7 (1.98%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 6 (1.70%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.13%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.57%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.28%) CISM
13 1 (0.28%) CISSP
13 1 (0.28%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (11.90%) Accessibility
2 35 (9.92%) QA
3 19 (5.38%) GxP
4 16 (4.53%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.27%) WCAG
6 4 (1.13%) GDPR
6 4 (1.13%) PMO
7 2 (0.57%) ECSS
7 2 (0.57%) SLA
8 1 (0.28%) COBIT
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.28%) MISRA
8 1 (0.28%) NCSC
8 1 (0.28%) NIST
8 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (8.78%) Docker
2 6 (1.70%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.85%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.57%) Terminal Server
5 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (9.92%) Kubernetes
2 25 (7.08%) Terraform
3 11 (3.12%) Ansible
4 9 (2.55%) Kibana
5 5 (1.42%) SCCM
6 4 (1.13%) Packer
7 3 (0.85%) SCOM
8 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.57%) Netcool
8 2 (0.57%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 1 (0.28%) Grafana
9 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 60 (17.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.82%) SAP
3 13 (3.68%) Databricks
4 12 (3.40%) IBM
5 11 (3.12%) Adobe
5 11 (3.12%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.83%) Google
6 10 (2.83%) MuleSoft
7 9 (2.55%) AppDynamics
8 8 (2.27%) Oracle
9 6 (1.70%) VMware
10 5 (1.42%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.42%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.42%) Splunk
11 4 (1.13%) Telerik
12 3 (0.85%) LabVantage
12 3 (0.85%) Xamarin
13 2 (0.57%) Blue Prism
13 2 (0.57%) Palo Alto
13 2 (0.57%) Workday