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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 14 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 377 375 953
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 6.77% 11.18% 14.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.40% 11.91% 17.39%
Number of salaries quoted 225 156 659
10th Percentile £45,500 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% +4.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £62,500 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.79% +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 4,012 3,149 5,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 72.04% 93.92% 84.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,704 1,232 3,901
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +43 170 £62,500 +4.17% 55
Berkshire -6 155 £70,000 - 68
Oxfordshire -5 52 £62,500 +26.58% 19
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 8 (2.12%) OpenStack
2 6 (1.59%) CMS
3 5 (1.33%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.06%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.53%) Apache
6 2 (0.53%) CICS
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.27%) Camunda
7 1 (0.27%) Confluence
7 1 (0.27%) IIS
7 1 (0.27%) JBoss
7 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 27 (7.16%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (3.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (3.18%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (1.06%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.53%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.27%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.53%) SAP HR
1 2 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.27%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.27%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 101 (26.79%) Azure
2 81 (21.49%) AWS
3 30 (7.96%) Serverless
4 27 (7.16%) Power Platform
5 23 (6.10%) Amazon EKS
6 20 (5.31%) SaaS
7 17 (4.51%) Amazon ECS
7 17 (4.51%) Amazon S3
8 16 (4.24%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (3.71%) GCP
10 13 (3.45%) IaaS
11 11 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (2.92%) Azure Storage
11 11 (2.92%) GitHub
12 10 (2.65%) Google Analytics
13 9 (2.39%) Azure AKS
13 9 (2.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 9 (2.39%) Azure Key Vault
14 8 (2.12%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.51%) DNS
2 8 (2.12%) Firewall
3 7 (1.86%) Broadband
4 4 (1.06%) DHCP
5 2 (0.53%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.53%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.27%) Intranet
6 1 (0.27%) NAS
6 1 (0.27%) SAN
6 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.27%) VLAN
6 1 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.43%) SQL Server
2 24 (6.37%) Power BI
3 22 (5.84%) Relational Database
4 21 (5.57%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (2.65%) Metadata
7 7 (1.86%) MySQL
8 6 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.59%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.06%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.80%) Tableau
11 2 (0.53%) Big Data
11 2 (0.53%) DB2
11 2 (0.53%) Spark SQL
12 1 (0.27%) Looker
12 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.27%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 36 (9.55%) Git
2 25 (6.63%) JIRA
3 23 (6.10%) Jenkins
4 14 (3.71%) GitLab
5 11 (2.92%) Postman
6 8 (2.12%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.86%) JUnit
7 7 (1.86%) Selenium
7 7 (1.86%) Yeoman
8 6 (1.59%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.59%) WebDriver
9 5 (1.33%) Mockito
9 5 (1.33%) SoapUI
9 5 (1.33%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (1.33%) Zephyr
10 4 (1.06%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.06%) Axure RP
10 4 (1.06%) Balsamiq
10 4 (1.06%) JMeter
10 4 (1.06%) SpecFlow
General
1 131 (34.75%) Social Skills
2 87 (23.08%) Finance
3 59 (15.65%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (12.73%) Law
5 44 (11.67%) Public Sector
6 42 (11.14%) Influencing Skills
7 37 (9.81%) Pharmaceutical
8 30 (7.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (3.71%) Manufacturing
10 13 (3.45%) Retail
11 9 (2.39%) Games
12 8 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.59%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.80%) Advertising
15 3 (0.80%) Marketing
16 2 (0.53%) Automotive
16 2 (0.53%) Local Government
16 2 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 94 (24.93%) Senior
2 66 (17.51%) Developer
3 49 (13.00%) Lead
4 40 (10.61%) Architect
5 35 (9.28%) Analyst
6 33 (8.75%) Senior Manager
7 32 (8.49%) Project Manager
8 27 (7.16%) Development Manager
8 27 (7.16%) Senior Development Manager
9 26 (6.90%) Development Project Manager
9 26 (6.90%) Senior Project Manager
10 21 (5.57%) Senior Developer
10 21 (5.57%) Software Engineer
11 19 (5.04%) Designer
12 17 (4.51%) Java Developer
13 15 (3.98%) Data Engineer
14 14 (3.71%) Associate Director
14 14 (3.71%) Data Analyst
14 14 (3.71%) Solutions Architect
15 13 (3.45%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (14.06%) .NET
2 48 (12.73%) REST
3 33 (8.75%) React
4 27 (7.16%) SOAP
5 23 (6.10%) JSON
6 21 (5.57%) Spring
7 20 (5.31%) ASP.NET
7 20 (5.31%) Middleware
8 19 (5.04%) Node.js
9 18 (4.77%) HTML
10 17 (4.51%) .NET Framework
10 17 (4.51%) Spring Boot
10 17 (4.51%) XML
11 16 (4.24%) .NET Core
11 16 (4.24%) AngularJS
11 16 (4.24%) Elastic Stack
11 16 (4.24%) Web Services
12 15 (3.98%) Kafka
12 15 (3.98%) RESTful
13 13 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 47 (12.47%) Product Ownership
2 39 (10.34%) Cloud Native
2 39 (10.34%) Life Science
3 33 (8.75%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.24%) Mobile App
5 12 (3.18%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.92%) Low-Code
7 10 (2.65%) Hackathon
8 6 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (1.59%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (1.33%) Social Media
10 4 (1.06%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.06%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.80%) Biopharmaceutical
11 3 (0.80%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.80%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.18%) Linux
2 10 (2.65%) Windows
3 6 (1.59%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.53%) Android
5 2 (0.53%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (26.26%) CI/CD
2 84 (22.28%) DevOps
3 76 (20.16%) Decision-Making
3 76 (20.16%) Scrum
4 75 (19.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 74 (19.63%) Analytics
6 68 (18.04%) Problem-Solving
7 59 (15.65%) AI
8 58 (15.38%) Computer Science
9 55 (14.59%) Hematology
9 55 (14.59%) Immunology
10 51 (13.53%) Biotechnology
11 48 (12.73%) Mentoring
11 48 (12.73%) Software Engineering
12 45 (11.94%) Test Automation
13 43 (11.41%) Microservices
14 40 (10.61%) TDD
15 39 (10.34%) Project Management
15 39 (10.34%) Roadmaps
16 38 (10.08%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 73 (19.36%) SQL
2 69 (18.30%) Python
3 54 (14.32%) C#
4 49 (13.00%) Java
5 36 (9.55%) JavaScript
6 12 (3.18%) PowerShell
6 12 (3.18%) VBA
7 11 (2.92%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.86%) ABAP
8 7 (1.86%) C++
9 6 (1.59%) Apex Code
9 6 (1.59%) Groovy
9 6 (1.59%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.33%) Bash
11 4 (1.06%) Perl
11 4 (1.06%) PHP
11 4 (1.06%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.80%) C
12 3 (0.80%) R
13 2 (0.53%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 136 (36.07%) Degree
2 51 (13.53%) Security Cleared
3 39 (10.34%) SC Cleared
4 29 (7.69%) PMI Certification
4 29 (7.69%) PMP
5 27 (7.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (6.10%) Master's Degree
7 14 (3.71%) ISTQB
8 12 (3.18%) ACCA
8 12 (3.18%) CIMA
9 11 (2.92%) PhD
10 9 (2.39%) Azure Certification
11 8 (2.12%) ICAEW
12 5 (1.33%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 2 (0.53%) CSQA
13 2 (0.53%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (11.14%) Accessibility
1 42 (11.14%) QA
2 11 (2.92%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.65%) GxP
4 9 (2.39%) WCAG
5 4 (1.06%) PMO
6 3 (0.80%) GDPR
6 3 (0.80%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.53%) SLA
8 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.27%) MISRA
8 1 (0.27%) NCSC
8 1 (0.27%) NIST
8 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (10.88%) Docker
2 9 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.06%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.53%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 51 (13.53%) Kubernetes
2 27 (7.16%) Terraform
3 14 (3.71%) Ansible
4 8 (2.12%) Kibana
5 5 (1.33%) Grafana
5 5 (1.33%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.33%) SCCM
6 4 (1.06%) Packer
7 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.80%) SCOM
8 2 (0.53%) Argo
8 2 (0.53%) CA Endevor
8 2 (0.53%) Istio
8 2 (0.53%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.27%) Netcool
9 1 (0.27%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 83 (22.02%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.57%) SAP
3 15 (3.98%) Google
4 13 (3.45%) Adobe
5 10 (2.65%) Databricks
5 10 (2.65%) IBM
6 9 (2.39%) AppDynamics
7 8 (2.12%) Oracle
7 8 (2.12%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.86%) VMware
9 6 (1.59%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.33%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.06%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.06%) Sitecore
11 4 (1.06%) Splunk
12 3 (0.80%) LabVantage
12 3 (0.80%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.53%) Cisco
13 2 (0.53%) Juniper
13 2 (0.53%) McAfee