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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 13 6
Rank change year-on-year -4 -7 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 374 406 1,062
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 6.45% 12.04% 14.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.99% 12.97% 17.88%
Number of salaries quoted 239 131 651
10th Percentile £44,625 £36,250 £38,691
25th Percentile £50,750 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,500 £90,000 £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 4,158 3,131 5,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.76% 92.83% 82.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,878 1,206 4,007
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +7.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 14 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 14 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 +50 177 £62,500 -1.96% 28
Berkshire -12 134 £70,000 -3.45% 51
Oxfordshire -9 63 £60,000 +20.00% 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 7 (1.87%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.34%) CMS
2 5 (1.34%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.07%) CICS
3 4 (1.07%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.80%) Confluence
5 2 (0.53%) Apache
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
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 25 (6.68%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (2.41%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.53%) UserZoom
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.27%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.27%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.53%) SAP HR
2 2 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.27%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.27%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.27%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 116 (31.02%) Azure
2 95 (25.40%) AWS
3 32 (8.56%) Serverless
4 26 (6.95%) SaaS
5 25 (6.68%) Amazon EKS
5 25 (6.68%) Power Platform
6 18 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
7 17 (4.55%) IaaS
8 16 (4.28%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (4.28%) GitHub
9 14 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (3.74%) Amazon S3
10 12 (3.21%) GCP
11 11 (2.94%) Azure AKS
11 11 (2.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 11 (2.94%) Azure Key Vault
11 11 (2.94%) Azure Storage
12 8 (2.14%) Google Analytics
13 7 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.55%) DNS
2 7 (1.87%) Broadband
3 6 (1.60%) Firewall
4 3 (0.80%) 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%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.22%) SQL Server
2 22 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (5.61%) Power BI
4 20 (5.35%) Relational Database
5 18 (4.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (3.48%) MongoDB
7 9 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (2.41%) Metadata
8 5 (1.34%) MySQL
8 5 (1.34%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.07%) Db2
9 4 (1.07%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.80%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.53%) Redis
11 2 (0.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (0.27%) Big Data
12 1 (0.27%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 32 (8.56%) Git
2 24 (6.42%) JIRA
3 22 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 17 (4.55%) GitLab
5 11 (2.94%) Postman
6 9 (2.41%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.14%) JUnit
7 8 (2.14%) Selenium
7 8 (2.14%) Yeoman
8 7 (1.87%) JMeter
8 7 (1.87%) Mockito
8 7 (1.87%) Zephyr
9 6 (1.60%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.07%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.07%) ChangeMan
10 4 (1.07%) SpecFlow
10 4 (1.07%) WebDriver
11 3 (0.80%) SoapUI
11 3 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.53%) Mocha
General
1 126 (33.69%) Social Skills
2 88 (23.53%) Finance
3 54 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (11.23%) Law
5 40 (10.70%) Influencing Skills
6 38 (10.16%) Public Sector
7 32 (8.56%) Pharmaceutical
8 22 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (5.61%) Manufacturing
10 19 (5.08%) Retail
11 9 (2.41%) Games
12 8 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.60%) Marketing
14 6 (1.60%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.34%) Advertising
15 5 (1.34%) Local Government
16 4 (1.07%) Automotive
16 4 (1.07%) Electronics
16 4 (1.07%) Legal
Job Titles
1 89 (23.80%) Senior
2 71 (18.98%) Developer
3 47 (12.57%) Architect
4 38 (10.16%) Lead
5 33 (8.82%) Software Engineer
6 31 (8.29%) Analyst
7 30 (8.02%) Project Manager
8 26 (6.95%) Development Manager
8 26 (6.95%) Senior Manager
9 24 (6.42%) Development Project Manager
9 24 (6.42%) Senior Development Manager
9 24 (6.42%) Senior Project Manager
10 23 (6.15%) Senior Developer
11 20 (5.35%) Solutions Architect
12 19 (5.08%) .NET Developer
13 16 (4.28%) Designer
13 16 (4.28%) Java Developer
14 14 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
15 13 (3.48%) Data Engineer
15 13 (3.48%) Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (17.11%) .NET
2 45 (12.03%) REST
3 40 (10.70%) React
4 28 (7.49%) .NET Core
5 25 (6.68%) ASP.NET
5 25 (6.68%) JSON
6 24 (6.42%) Node.js
7 22 (5.88%) SOAP
8 20 (5.35%) .NET Framework
8 20 (5.35%) HTML
8 20 (5.35%) RESTful
9 19 (5.08%) ASP.NET Core
9 19 (5.08%) Spring
10 18 (4.81%) XML
11 17 (4.55%) Middleware
12 16 (4.28%) AngularJS
12 16 (4.28%) Spring Boot
12 16 (4.28%) Web Services
13 15 (4.01%) Blazor
14 13 (3.48%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 45 (12.03%) Product Ownership
2 44 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 32 (8.56%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (7.49%) Life Science
5 16 (4.28%) Mobile App
6 14 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.67%) Low-Code
8 9 (2.41%) Hackathon
8 9 (2.41%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.60%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.34%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (1.34%) Social Media
11 5 (1.34%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.07%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.07%) Hedge funds
12 4 (1.07%) Legacy Code
12 4 (1.07%) Social Network
12 4 (1.07%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.48%) Linux
2 11 (2.94%) Windows
3 5 (1.34%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.07%) zOS
5 2 (0.53%) Android
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (25.40%) CI/CD
2 93 (24.87%) DevOps
3 77 (20.59%) Scrum
4 73 (19.52%) Decision-Making
5 70 (18.72%) Problem-Solving
6 68 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 67 (17.91%) Analytics
8 66 (17.65%) AI
9 64 (17.11%) Computer Science
10 63 (16.84%) Software Engineering
11 58 (15.51%) Mentoring
12 53 (14.17%) Microservices
13 49 (13.10%) Test Automation
14 46 (12.30%) TDD
15 45 (12.03%) Containerisation
16 42 (11.23%) Hematology
16 42 (11.23%) Immunology
17 41 (10.96%) Roadmaps
18 39 (10.43%) Biotechnology
19 38 (10.16%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 80 (21.39%) SQL
2 78 (20.86%) C#
3 66 (17.65%) Python
4 46 (12.30%) Java
5 37 (9.89%) JavaScript
6 19 (5.08%) TypeScript
7 14 (3.74%) PowerShell
8 13 (3.48%) C++
9 9 (2.41%) Shell Script
9 9 (2.41%) VBA
10 7 (1.87%) ABAP
11 6 (1.60%) Groovy
12 5 (1.34%) Bash
12 5 (1.34%) C
13 4 (1.07%) Apex Code
13 4 (1.07%) COBOL
13 4 (1.07%) JCL
13 4 (1.07%) Perl
13 4 (1.07%) PHP
13 4 (1.07%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 132 (35.29%) Degree
2 37 (9.89%) Security Cleared
3 33 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 31 (8.29%) SC Cleared
5 27 (7.22%) PMI Certification
5 27 (7.22%) PMP
6 23 (6.15%) Master's Degree
7 14 (3.74%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.74%) ICAEW
8 13 (3.48%) ISTQB
9 11 (2.94%) PhD
10 9 (2.41%) ACCA
10 9 (2.41%) CIMA
11 3 (0.80%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.80%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 2 (0.53%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.53%) CSQA
13 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (12.30%) QA
2 39 (10.43%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.14%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.14%) GxP
4 5 (1.34%) GDPR
4 5 (1.34%) WCAG
5 4 (1.07%) PMO
6 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.80%) NIST
6 3 (0.80%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.53%) SLA
8 1 (0.27%) MISRA
8 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (12.30%) Docker
2 7 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.80%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.27%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 60 (16.04%) Kubernetes
2 23 (6.15%) Terraform
3 14 (3.74%) Ansible
4 11 (2.94%) Kibana
5 5 (1.34%) Grafana
5 5 (1.34%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.07%) CA Endevor
6 4 (1.07%) Packer
7 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.53%) Argo
8 2 (0.53%) Istio
8 2 (0.53%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.27%) Netcool
9 1 (0.27%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 1 (0.27%) SCCM
9 1 (0.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 92 (24.60%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.81%) SAP
3 15 (4.01%) Google
4 10 (2.67%) IBM
5 9 (2.41%) Adobe
5 9 (2.41%) AppDynamics
6 8 (2.14%) Oracle
7 7 (1.87%) Databricks
7 7 (1.87%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.87%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.87%) Splunk
8 5 (1.34%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.07%) Facebook
9 4 (1.07%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.07%) Sitecore
9 4 (1.07%) VMware
9 4 (1.07%) YouTube
10 3 (0.80%) LabVantage
11 2 (0.53%) Blue Prism
11 2 (0.53%) Xamarin