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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 13 5
Rank change year-on-year -6 -8 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 346 463 1,076
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 5.62% 12.78% 16.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.86% 14.07% 19.96%
Number of salaries quoted 242 146 617
10th Percentile £43,125 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £44,063 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -2.08% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £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 4,403 3,291 5,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.48% 90.81% 81.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,055 1,394 3,666
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +43 171 £60,000 +14.29% 39
Berkshire -24 105 £70,000 +7.69% 67
Oxfordshire -10 70 £57,500 +15.00% 40
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 (2.02%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.45%) CMS
3 4 (1.16%) CICS
3 4 (1.16%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.87%) Confluence
5 2 (0.58%) Apache
5 2 (0.58%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.29%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.29%) IIS
6 1 (0.29%) JBoss
6 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (4.62%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (1.16%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.58%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.29%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 7 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.58%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.29%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.29%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.29%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.29%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 128 (36.99%) Azure
2 105 (30.35%) AWS
3 31 (8.96%) SaaS
3 31 (8.96%) Serverless
4 22 (6.36%) Amazon EKS
4 22 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (6.07%) Power Platform
6 20 (5.78%) GitHub
7 18 (5.20%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (5.20%) IaaS
8 16 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (4.05%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (4.05%) GCP
10 13 (3.76%) Amazon S3
11 11 (3.18%) Azure AKS
11 11 (3.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 11 (3.18%) Azure Key Vault
11 11 (3.18%) Azure Storage
12 8 (2.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 8 (2.31%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.62%) DNS
2 5 (1.45%) Firewall
3 4 (1.16%) Broadband
4 3 (0.87%) DHCP
5 2 (0.58%) HTTP
5 2 (0.58%) MQTT
5 2 (0.58%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.29%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.29%) Intranet
6 1 (0.29%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (8.09%) SQL Server
2 25 (7.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 20 (5.78%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (5.49%) Relational Database
5 17 (4.91%) MongoDB
5 17 (4.91%) Power BI
6 13 (3.76%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (2.60%) Metadata
8 5 (1.45%) MySQL
8 5 (1.45%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.16%) Db2
9 4 (1.16%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.87%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.58%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.58%) GIS
11 2 (0.58%) Redis
11 2 (0.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 31 (8.96%) Git
2 22 (6.36%) JIRA
3 21 (6.07%) GitLab
3 21 (6.07%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.60%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.31%) JUnit
5 8 (2.31%) Postman
5 8 (2.31%) SonarQube
5 8 (2.31%) Yeoman
6 7 (2.02%) JMeter
6 7 (2.02%) Mockito
6 7 (2.02%) Zephyr
7 4 (1.16%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.16%) ChangeMan
7 4 (1.16%) Selenium
7 4 (1.16%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.58%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.58%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.58%) Maven
8 2 (0.58%) Subversion
General
1 104 (30.06%) Social Skills
2 68 (19.65%) Finance
3 46 (13.29%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (10.40%) Law
5 32 (9.25%) Public Sector
6 29 (8.38%) Influencing Skills
7 23 (6.65%) Manufacturing
8 22 (6.36%) Retail
9 16 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (4.05%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (2.31%) Advertising
12 7 (2.02%) Local Government
12 7 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.73%) Games
13 6 (1.73%) Marketing
14 4 (1.16%) Electronics
14 4 (1.16%) Legal
14 4 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.87%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 82 (23.70%) Developer
2 79 (22.83%) Senior
3 43 (12.43%) Architect
4 35 (10.12%) Software Engineer
5 28 (8.09%) .NET Developer
6 26 (7.51%) Lead
7 24 (6.94%) Senior Developer
8 23 (6.65%) Project Manager
9 20 (5.78%) Analyst
9 20 (5.78%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (4.62%) Development Manager
10 16 (4.62%) Java Developer
11 15 (4.34%) Cloud Engineer
11 15 (4.34%) Designer
11 15 (4.34%) Senior Manager
12 14 (4.05%) Data Engineer
12 14 (4.05%) Development Project Manager
12 14 (4.05%) Full-Stack Developer
12 14 (4.05%) Senior Development Manager
12 14 (4.05%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (19.65%) .NET
2 48 (13.87%) React
3 40 (11.56%) REST
4 35 (10.12%) .NET Core
5 32 (9.25%) ASP.NET
6 29 (8.38%) Node.js
7 26 (7.51%) ASP.NET Core
8 24 (6.94%) JSON
9 22 (6.36%) .NET Framework
9 22 (6.36%) RESTful
10 20 (5.78%) Blazor
10 20 (5.78%) HTML
11 19 (5.49%) AngularJS
12 17 (4.91%) Spring
13 16 (4.62%) Spring Boot
13 16 (4.62%) XML
14 15 (4.34%) Entity Framework
15 14 (4.05%) SOAP
15 14 (4.05%) Vue
16 13 (3.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 46 (13.29%) Product Ownership
2 45 (13.01%) Cloud Native
3 32 (9.25%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.62%) Life Science
5 15 (4.34%) Mobile App
6 12 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.31%) Renewable Energy
9 7 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.02%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.73%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.73%) Hackathon
10 6 (1.73%) NHS
10 6 (1.73%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.16%) Client/Server
11 4 (1.16%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.16%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.16%) Social Media
11 4 (1.16%) Social Network
11 4 (1.16%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.76%) Windows
2 12 (3.47%) Linux
3 5 (1.45%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.16%) zOS
5 2 (0.58%) Android
6 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (28.90%) DevOps
2 97 (28.03%) CI/CD
3 76 (21.97%) Scrum
4 68 (19.65%) Problem-Solving
4 68 (19.65%) Software Engineering
5 66 (19.08%) Decision-Making
6 63 (18.21%) Microservices
7 60 (17.34%) Continuous Improvement
7 60 (17.34%) Mentoring
8 59 (17.05%) AI
9 56 (16.18%) Analytics
10 51 (14.74%) Computer Science
10 51 (14.74%) Test Automation
11 48 (13.87%) Full-Stack Development
12 47 (13.58%) Containerisation
13 43 (12.43%) TDD
14 36 (10.40%) Kanban
15 33 (9.54%) Data Modelling
16 31 (8.96%) Roadmaps
17 29 (8.38%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 90 (26.01%) C#
2 83 (23.99%) SQL
3 64 (18.50%) Python
4 40 (11.56%) Java
5 36 (10.40%) JavaScript
6 25 (7.23%) TypeScript
7 16 (4.62%) C++
8 15 (4.34%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.60%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.31%) Groovy
11 7 (2.02%) ABAP
11 7 (2.02%) Bash
12 5 (1.45%) Apex Code
12 5 (1.45%) C
12 5 (1.45%) VBA
13 4 (1.16%) COBOL
13 4 (1.16%) JCL
13 4 (1.16%) Perl
13 4 (1.16%) PHP
13 4 (1.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 101 (29.19%) Degree
2 32 (9.25%) Security Cleared
3 29 (8.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (7.80%) SC Cleared
5 17 (4.91%) PMI Certification
5 17 (4.91%) PMP
6 14 (4.05%) Azure Certification
6 14 (4.05%) ICAEW
6 14 (4.05%) Master's Degree
7 10 (2.89%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.45%) ACCA
8 5 (1.45%) CIMA
9 4 (1.16%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.87%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.87%) PhD
11 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.58%) CSQA
11 2 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.29%) APMG
12 1 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (12.14%) QA
2 28 (8.09%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.60%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.45%) GDPR
4 5 (1.45%) WCAG
5 4 (1.16%) NIST
5 4 (1.16%) PMO
5 4 (1.16%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.58%) SLA
8 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.29%) MISRA
8 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 49 (14.16%) Docker
2 7 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.87%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.29%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 61 (17.63%) Kubernetes
2 27 (7.80%) Terraform
3 14 (4.05%) Ansible
4 11 (3.18%) Kibana
5 5 (1.45%) Grafana
5 5 (1.45%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.16%) CA Endevor
6 4 (1.16%) Packer
7 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.58%) Argo
8 2 (0.58%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.58%) Istio
8 2 (0.58%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.29%) Netcool
9 1 (0.29%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 1 (0.29%) SCCM
9 1 (0.29%) SCOM
Vendors
1 92 (26.59%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.20%) Google
3 16 (4.62%) SAP
4 10 (2.89%) IBM
5 9 (2.60%) AppDynamics
5 9 (2.60%) Oracle
6 7 (2.02%) Adobe
6 7 (2.02%) Databricks
6 7 (2.02%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.02%) Facebook
6 7 (2.02%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.02%) Splunk
6 7 (2.02%) YouTube
7 6 (1.73%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.16%) Sitecore
8 4 (1.16%) VMware
9 3 (0.87%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.87%) New Relic
10 2 (0.58%) Blue Prism
10 2 (0.58%) Xamarin