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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 8 5
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 348 398 925
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 7.05% 14.52% 14.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.57% 15.52% 17.13%
Number of salaries quoted 173 184 704
10th Percentile £43,750 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,750 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +2.40% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £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 3,638 2,564 5,399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 73.73% 93.54% 85.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,330 1,193 3,981
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,980 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,125 £59,498 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.39% +17.82% -4.72%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,300 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 1 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 1 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 -6 175 £70,000 - 64
Buckinghamshire +13 138 £60,000 -3.61% 57
Oxfordshire -21 35 £70,000 +45.45% 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 (1.72%) Confluence
1 6 (1.72%) OpenStack
2 3 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (0.86%) IIS
3 2 (0.57%) CMS
3 2 (0.57%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.29%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.29%) Camunda
4 1 (0.29%) SAS
4 1 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 24 (6.90%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (4.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.44%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.57%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.29%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.57%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.29%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.29%) Shopify
3 1 (0.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 76 (21.84%) Azure
2 55 (15.80%) AWS
3 26 (7.47%) Serverless
4 23 (6.61%) Power Platform
5 20 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
6 19 (5.46%) GCP
7 17 (4.89%) Amazon S3
8 15 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (4.31%) SaaS
9 14 (4.02%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (3.16%) Amazon SQS
10 11 (3.16%) GitHub
11 10 (2.87%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (2.59%) Miro
12 9 (2.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 8 (2.30%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 7 (2.01%) IaaS
15 6 (1.72%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.59%) DNS
2 7 (2.01%) Broadband
3 5 (1.44%) Firewall
4 3 (0.86%) 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 32 (9.20%) SQL Server
2 21 (6.03%) Power BI
3 20 (5.75%) Relational Database
4 16 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (3.16%) Metadata
6 10 (2.87%) MySQL
7 9 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.15%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.15%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.15%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.86%) Metadata Repository
10 3 (0.86%) Tableau
11 2 (0.57%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.57%) Spark SQL
12 1 (0.29%) Big Data
12 1 (0.29%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 31 (8.91%) JIRA
2 29 (8.33%) Git
3 19 (5.46%) Jenkins
4 11 (3.16%) GitLab
5 8 (2.30%) Postman
5 8 (2.30%) Selenium
5 8 (2.30%) WebDriver
6 6 (1.72%) Cucumber
6 6 (1.72%) JUnit
6 6 (1.72%) SoapUI
6 6 (1.72%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (1.44%) Axure RP
7 5 (1.44%) Balsamiq
7 5 (1.44%) Mockito
7 5 (1.44%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.15%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.15%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.15%) git-flow
8 4 (1.15%) JMeter
8 4 (1.15%) Zephyr
General
1 151 (43.39%) Social Skills
2 96 (27.59%) Finance
3 48 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (12.64%) Pharmaceutical
5 40 (11.49%) Law
6 39 (11.21%) Public Sector
7 38 (10.92%) Influencing Skills
8 29 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (3.74%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.59%) Games
11 8 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (2.30%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.72%) Retail
13 5 (1.44%) Marketing
13 5 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.86%) Automotive
15 2 (0.57%) Aviation
15 2 (0.57%) Legal
15 2 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 93 (26.72%) Senior
2 54 (15.52%) Developer
3 51 (14.66%) Lead
4 42 (12.07%) Senior Manager
5 30 (8.62%) Project Manager
6 29 (8.33%) Analyst
7 27 (7.76%) Development Manager
8 26 (7.47%) Senior Development Manager
9 23 (6.61%) Development Project Manager
9 23 (6.61%) Senior Project Manager
10 22 (6.32%) Full-Stack Developer
11 21 (6.03%) Architect
12 20 (5.75%) Designer
13 19 (5.46%) Associate Director
14 17 (4.89%) Software Engineer
15 15 (4.31%) Java Developer
16 14 (4.02%) Data Analyst
17 13 (3.74%) Product Designer
17 13 (3.74%) Senior Designer
17 13 (3.74%) Senior Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (13.22%) .NET
2 40 (11.49%) REST
3 25 (7.18%) React
4 21 (6.03%) SOAP
5 19 (5.46%) HTML
6 18 (5.17%) ASP.NET
7 17 (4.89%) .NET Framework
7 17 (4.89%) Middleware
8 15 (4.31%) JSON
8 15 (4.31%) Spring
9 14 (4.02%) Spring Boot
10 13 (3.74%) Elastic Stack
10 13 (3.74%) Web Services
11 12 (3.45%) Kafka
12 11 (3.16%) CSS
12 11 (3.16%) Entity Framework
12 11 (3.16%) RabbitMQ
13 10 (2.87%) XML
14 9 (2.59%) ASP.NET Core
14 9 (2.59%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 58 (16.67%) Life Science
2 41 (11.78%) Product Ownership
3 25 (7.18%) Cloud Native
3 25 (7.18%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (4.31%) Mobile App
5 14 (4.02%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.74%) Low-Code
7 11 (3.16%) Hackathon
8 9 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.44%) Social Media
11 4 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.15%) Hedge funds
11 4 (1.15%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.15%) N-Tier
11 4 (1.15%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.86%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.86%) Biopharmaceutical
12 3 (0.86%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.59%) Linux
2 7 (2.01%) Windows
3 4 (1.15%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.29%) Android
5 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (25.86%) Analytics
2 85 (24.43%) CI/CD
3 77 (22.13%) Continuous Improvement
3 77 (22.13%) DevOps
4 75 (21.55%) Hematology
4 75 (21.55%) Immunology
5 67 (19.25%) AI
5 67 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
6 66 (18.97%) Biotechnology
7 65 (18.68%) Computer Science
8 59 (16.95%) Decision-Making
8 59 (16.95%) Scrum
9 52 (14.94%) Roadmaps
10 42 (12.07%) Data Science
11 41 (11.78%) Machine Learning
12 38 (10.92%) Use Case
13 37 (10.63%) Deployment Automation
14 35 (10.06%) Technology Strategy
15 34 (9.77%) Microservices
15 34 (9.77%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 70 (20.11%) Python
2 58 (16.67%) SQL
3 44 (12.64%) Java
4 43 (12.36%) C#
5 35 (10.06%) JavaScript
6 17 (4.89%) TypeScript
7 12 (3.45%) VBA
8 9 (2.59%) Apex Code
9 7 (2.01%) C++
10 6 (1.72%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.44%) Groovy
11 5 (1.44%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.15%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.86%) C
13 3 (0.86%) Perl
13 3 (0.86%) PHP
13 3 (0.86%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.86%) R
14 2 (0.57%) ABAP
15 1 (0.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 146 (41.95%) Degree
2 51 (14.66%) Security Cleared
3 39 (11.21%) Master's Degree
4 37 (10.63%) SC Cleared
5 25 (7.18%) PMI Certification
5 25 (7.18%) PMP
6 24 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (6.03%) PhD
8 14 (4.02%) ISTQB
9 12 (3.45%) ACCA
9 12 (3.45%) CIMA
10 8 (2.30%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 6 (1.72%) DV Cleared
12 4 (1.15%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.57%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.29%) CISM
14 1 (0.29%) CISSP
14 1 (0.29%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (11.78%) Accessibility
2 37 (10.63%) QA
3 19 (5.46%) GxP
4 15 (4.31%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.30%) WCAG
6 4 (1.15%) GDPR
7 3 (0.86%) PMO
8 2 (0.57%) ECSS
8 2 (0.57%) SLA
9 1 (0.29%) COBIT
9 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.29%) MISRA
9 1 (0.29%) NCSC
9 1 (0.29%) NIST
9 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (7.76%) Docker
2 6 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.86%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.57%) Terminal Server
5 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (9.20%) Kubernetes
2 23 (6.61%) Terraform
3 9 (2.59%) Ansible
4 7 (2.01%) Kibana
5 5 (1.44%) SCCM
6 4 (1.15%) Packer
7 3 (0.86%) SCOM
8 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.57%) Netcool
8 2 (0.57%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 1 (0.29%) Grafana
9 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 59 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.75%) SAP
3 12 (3.45%) Databricks
4 11 (3.16%) Adobe
4 11 (3.16%) Google
4 11 (3.16%) IBM
4 11 (3.16%) Salesforce
5 10 (2.87%) MuleSoft
6 7 (2.01%) AppDynamics
6 7 (2.01%) Oracle
7 6 (1.72%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.72%) VMware
8 4 (1.15%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.15%) Splunk
8 4 (1.15%) Telerik
8 4 (1.15%) Xamarin
9 3 (0.86%) LabVantage
9 3 (0.86%) Sage
9 3 (0.86%) Workday
9 3 (0.86%) Zoho