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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 12 6
Rank change year-on-year -7 -6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 368 434 1,091
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 6.11% 12.44% 15.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.51% 13.52% 18.60%
Number of salaries quoted 247 136 652
10th Percentile £44,250 £37,938 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £44,688 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,813 £78,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £92,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 4,324 3,210 5,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.83% 91.98% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,999 1,300 3,917
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,838 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,840 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 29 June 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 29 June 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
Buckinghamshire +50 181 £62,500 +7.30% 35
Berkshire -19 119 £70,000 -0.36% 41
Oxfordshire -10 68 £57,500 +15.00% 22
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 7 (1.90%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.36%) CMS
3 4 (1.09%) CICS
3 4 (1.09%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.82%) Confluence
4 3 (0.82%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.54%) Apache
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.27%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.27%) IIS
6 1 (0.27%) JBoss
6 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (5.43%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (2.17%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.82%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.54%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.27%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.54%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.27%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.27%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.27%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.27%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 127 (34.51%) Azure
2 104 (28.26%) AWS
3 31 (8.42%) SaaS
3 31 (8.42%) Serverless
4 24 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
4 24 (6.52%) Power Platform
5 22 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (4.89%) GitHub
6 18 (4.89%) IaaS
7 17 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (3.80%) GCP
10 13 (3.53%) Amazon S3
11 11 (2.99%) Azure AKS
11 11 (2.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 11 (2.99%) Azure Key Vault
11 11 (2.99%) Azure Storage
12 8 (2.17%) Google Analytics
13 7 (1.90%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.62%) DNS
2 7 (1.90%) Broadband
3 6 (1.63%) Firewall
4 3 (0.82%) DHCP
5 1 (0.27%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.27%) HTTP
5 1 (0.27%) Intranet
5 1 (0.27%) MQTT
5 1 (0.27%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.61%) SQL Server
2 24 (6.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 21 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (5.43%) Power BI
4 20 (5.43%) Relational Database
5 17 (4.62%) MongoDB
6 12 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (2.45%) Metadata
8 5 (1.36%) MySQL
8 5 (1.36%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.09%) Db2
9 4 (1.09%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.82%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.54%) GIS
11 2 (0.54%) Redis
11 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (0.27%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 31 (8.42%) Git
2 21 (5.71%) Jenkins
2 21 (5.71%) JIRA
3 20 (5.43%) GitLab
4 9 (2.45%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.17%) JUnit
5 8 (2.17%) Postman
5 8 (2.17%) Yeoman
6 7 (1.90%) JMeter
6 7 (1.90%) Mockito
6 7 (1.90%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.90%) Zephyr
7 4 (1.09%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.09%) ChangeMan
7 4 (1.09%) Selenium
7 4 (1.09%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.54%) Mocha
8 2 (0.54%) Subversion
9 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.27%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 116 (31.52%) Social Skills
2 78 (21.20%) Finance
3 52 (14.13%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (10.60%) Law
5 37 (10.05%) Influencing Skills
6 36 (9.78%) Public Sector
7 24 (6.52%) Manufacturing
8 23 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
9 21 (5.71%) Retail
10 19 (5.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.45%) Games
12 7 (1.90%) Advertising
12 7 (1.90%) Local Government
12 7 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.63%) Marketing
13 6 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.36%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.09%) Automotive
15 4 (1.09%) Electronics
15 4 (1.09%) Legal
Job Titles
1 84 (22.83%) Senior
2 81 (22.01%) Developer
3 46 (12.50%) Architect
4 36 (9.78%) Software Engineer
5 33 (8.97%) Lead
6 28 (7.61%) Project Manager
7 26 (7.07%) .NET Developer
8 25 (6.79%) Analyst
9 24 (6.52%) Senior Developer
10 21 (5.71%) Development Manager
11 20 (5.43%) Senior Manager
11 20 (5.43%) Solutions Architect
12 19 (5.16%) Development Project Manager
12 19 (5.16%) Senior Development Manager
12 19 (5.16%) Senior Project Manager
13 16 (4.35%) Java Developer
14 15 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
14 15 (4.08%) Designer
15 14 (3.80%) Data Engineer
16 13 (3.53%) Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (18.21%) .NET
2 46 (12.50%) React
3 44 (11.96%) REST
4 34 (9.24%) .NET Core
5 31 (8.42%) ASP.NET
6 28 (7.61%) Node.js
7 25 (6.79%) ASP.NET Core
7 25 (6.79%) JSON
8 22 (5.98%) RESTful
9 21 (5.71%) .NET Framework
10 19 (5.16%) Blazor
10 19 (5.16%) HTML
11 18 (4.89%) AngularJS
11 18 (4.89%) SOAP
11 18 (4.89%) Spring
11 18 (4.89%) XML
12 16 (4.35%) Middleware
12 16 (4.35%) Spring Boot
13 14 (3.80%) Vue
13 14 (3.80%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 46 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 46 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 31 (8.42%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (5.98%) Life Science
4 15 (4.08%) Mobile App
5 14 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.45%) Low-Code
7 8 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.17%) Hackathon
8 7 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.90%) Renewable Energy
9 6 (1.63%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.63%) NHS
9 6 (1.63%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.36%) Social Media
10 5 (1.36%) Social Network
10 5 (1.36%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.09%) Client/Server
11 4 (1.09%) Legacy Code
11 4 (1.09%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.53%) Linux
1 13 (3.53%) Windows
2 5 (1.36%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.09%) zOS
4 2 (0.54%) Android
5 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (26.36%) DevOps
2 96 (26.09%) CI/CD
3 75 (20.38%) Scrum
4 74 (20.11%) Decision-Making
5 70 (19.02%) Problem-Solving
6 68 (18.48%) Software Engineering
7 64 (17.39%) AI
7 64 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 63 (17.12%) Analytics
9 60 (16.30%) Mentoring
9 60 (16.30%) Microservices
10 56 (15.22%) Computer Science
11 49 (13.32%) Test Automation
12 47 (12.77%) Containerisation
13 46 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
14 45 (12.23%) TDD
15 37 (10.05%) Roadmaps
16 36 (9.78%) Data Modelling
16 36 (9.78%) Kanban
17 33 (8.97%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 88 (23.91%) C#
2 86 (23.37%) SQL
3 67 (18.21%) Python
4 42 (11.41%) Java
5 38 (10.33%) JavaScript
6 23 (6.25%) TypeScript
7 16 (4.35%) C++
8 15 (4.08%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.45%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.17%) VBA
11 7 (1.90%) ABAP
11 7 (1.90%) Groovy
12 6 (1.63%) Bash
13 5 (1.36%) Apex Code
13 5 (1.36%) C
14 4 (1.09%) COBOL
14 4 (1.09%) JCL
14 4 (1.09%) Perl
14 4 (1.09%) PHP
14 4 (1.09%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 115 (31.25%) Degree
2 35 (9.51%) Security Cleared
3 30 (8.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 29 (7.88%) SC Cleared
5 22 (5.98%) PMI Certification
5 22 (5.98%) PMP
6 18 (4.89%) Master's Degree
7 14 (3.80%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.80%) ICAEW
8 10 (2.72%) ISTQB
9 8 (2.17%) ACCA
9 8 (2.17%) CIMA
10 7 (1.90%) PhD
11 3 (0.82%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.82%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.54%) CSQA
13 1 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.68%) QA
2 35 (9.51%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.45%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.36%) GDPR
4 5 (1.36%) WCAG
5 4 (1.09%) GxP
5 4 (1.09%) PMO
5 4 (1.09%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.82%) NIST
7 2 (0.54%) SLA
8 1 (0.27%) MISRA
8 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (13.04%) Docker
2 7 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.82%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.27%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 61 (16.58%) Kubernetes
2 24 (6.52%) Terraform
3 14 (3.80%) Ansible
4 11 (2.99%) Kibana
5 5 (1.36%) Grafana
5 5 (1.36%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.09%) CA Endevor
6 4 (1.09%) Packer
7 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.54%) Argo
8 2 (0.54%) Istio
8 2 (0.54%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.27%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.27%) Netcool
9 1 (0.27%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 1 (0.27%) SCCM
9 1 (0.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 95 (25.82%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.89%) Google
2 18 (4.89%) SAP
3 10 (2.72%) IBM
4 9 (2.45%) AppDynamics
5 8 (2.17%) Adobe
5 8 (2.17%) Oracle
6 7 (1.90%) Databricks
6 7 (1.90%) Dynatrace
6 7 (1.90%) ServiceNow
6 7 (1.90%) Splunk
7 6 (1.63%) Facebook
7 6 (1.63%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.63%) YouTube
8 4 (1.09%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.09%) Sitecore
8 4 (1.09%) VMware
9 2 (0.54%) Blue Prism
9 2 (0.54%) New Relic
9 2 (0.54%) Xamarin