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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 10 5
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 365 364 989
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 6.79% 12.87% 15.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.34% 13.80% 17.85%
Number of salaries quoted 193 165 705
10th Percentile £46,250 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £63,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.60% +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 3,908 2,637 5,542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 72.73% 93.21% 84.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,525 1,202 4,050
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 20 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 20 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 -8 170 £70,000 - 69
Buckinghamshire +18 153 £60,000 -0.41% 38
Oxfordshire -20 42 £70,000 +47.37% 33
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 (1.92%) OpenStack
2 5 (1.37%) Confluence
3 4 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.82%) CMS
5 2 (0.55%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.55%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.27%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.27%) Apache
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.27%) Camunda
6 1 (0.27%) JBoss
6 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (7.12%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (3.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (3.29%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.37%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.55%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.27%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) SAP HR
1 2 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.27%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.27%) Shopify
2 1 (0.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 85 (23.29%) Azure
2 65 (17.81%) AWS
3 29 (7.95%) Serverless
4 25 (6.85%) Power Platform
5 23 (6.30%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (4.38%) Amazon ECS
6 16 (4.38%) Amazon S3
6 16 (4.38%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (4.38%) SaaS
7 15 (4.11%) GCP
8 14 (3.84%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (3.01%) GitHub
10 9 (2.47%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (2.47%) Google Analytics
10 9 (2.47%) Miro
10 9 (2.47%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 8 (2.19%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 7 (1.92%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.74%) DNS
2 7 (1.92%) Broadband
3 6 (1.64%) Firewall
4 3 (0.82%) DHCP
5 2 (0.55%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.55%) NAS
5 2 (0.55%) SAN
5 2 (0.55%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.55%) Unified Communications
5 2 (0.55%) VLAN
5 2 (0.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (8.77%) SQL Server
2 23 (6.30%) Power BI
3 21 (5.75%) Relational Database
4 18 (4.93%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (3.29%) Metadata
6 8 (2.19%) MySQL
7 6 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.10%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.82%) Metadata Repository
10 3 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.82%) Tableau
11 2 (0.55%) Big Data
11 2 (0.55%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.55%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.55%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.55%) Spark SQL
12 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 34 (9.32%) Git
2 30 (8.22%) JIRA
3 22 (6.03%) Jenkins
4 13 (3.56%) GitLab
5 9 (2.47%) Postman
6 7 (1.92%) JUnit
7 6 (1.64%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.64%) Selenium
7 6 (1.64%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.64%) WebDriver
8 5 (1.37%) Axure RP
8 5 (1.37%) Balsamiq
8 5 (1.37%) Mockito
8 5 (1.37%) SoapUI
8 5 (1.37%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (1.10%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.10%) JMeter
9 4 (1.10%) SpecFlow
9 4 (1.10%) Subversion
9 4 (1.10%) Zephyr
General
1 148 (40.55%) Social Skills
2 90 (24.66%) Finance
3 58 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (12.05%) Public Sector
5 43 (11.78%) Law
6 42 (11.51%) Pharmaceutical
7 38 (10.41%) Influencing Skills
8 32 (8.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.01%) Manufacturing
10 10 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.74%) Retail
11 9 (2.47%) Games
11 9 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.92%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.82%) Automotive
15 2 (0.55%) Aviation
15 2 (0.55%) Legal
15 2 (0.55%) Publishing
16 1 (0.27%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 99 (27.12%) Senior
2 57 (15.62%) Developer
3 48 (13.15%) Lead
4 44 (12.05%) Senior Manager
5 34 (9.32%) Analyst
6 32 (8.77%) Project Manager
7 29 (7.95%) Architect
8 28 (7.67%) Development Manager
8 28 (7.67%) Senior Development Manager
9 25 (6.85%) Development Project Manager
9 25 (6.85%) Senior Project Manager
10 20 (5.48%) Designer
11 19 (5.21%) Associate Director
12 18 (4.93%) Full-Stack Developer
13 17 (4.66%) Software Engineer
14 16 (4.38%) Java Developer
15 14 (3.84%) Data Analyst
15 14 (3.84%) Senior Developer
16 13 (3.56%) Data Engineer
16 13 (3.56%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (13.42%) REST
2 48 (13.15%) .NET
3 27 (7.40%) React
4 26 (7.12%) SOAP
5 22 (6.03%) Middleware
6 20 (5.48%) JSON
7 19 (5.21%) ASP.NET
8 18 (4.93%) Spring
9 17 (4.66%) .NET Framework
10 16 (4.38%) HTML
10 16 (4.38%) Spring Boot
11 15 (4.11%) Elastic Stack
11 15 (4.11%) Web Services
11 15 (4.11%) XML
12 13 (3.56%) Kafka
13 12 (3.29%) AngularJS
13 12 (3.29%) RabbitMQ
14 11 (3.01%) Node.js
14 11 (3.01%) RESTful
15 10 (2.74%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 54 (14.79%) Life Science
2 42 (11.51%) Product Ownership
3 29 (7.95%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (7.67%) Cloud Native
5 16 (4.38%) Mobile App
5 16 (4.38%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.56%) Low-Code
7 11 (3.01%) Hackathon
8 9 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.37%) Social Media
10 4 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.10%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.10%) N-Tier
10 4 (1.10%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.82%) Biopharmaceutical
11 3 (0.82%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (0.82%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.01%) Linux
2 5 (1.37%) Windows
3 4 (1.10%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.55%) Android
6 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (24.66%) CI/CD
2 88 (24.11%) Analytics
3 82 (22.47%) DevOps
4 79 (21.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 73 (20.00%) Hematology
5 73 (20.00%) Immunology
6 72 (19.73%) Scrum
7 69 (18.90%) Problem-Solving
8 68 (18.63%) Biotechnology
9 65 (17.81%) Decision-Making
10 64 (17.53%) AI
11 59 (16.16%) Computer Science
12 44 (12.05%) Roadmaps
13 38 (10.41%) Data Science
13 38 (10.41%) Microservices
13 38 (10.41%) Technology Strategy
14 37 (10.14%) Data Modelling
14 37 (10.14%) Machine Learning
14 37 (10.14%) Mentoring
14 37 (10.14%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (20.27%) Python
2 68 (18.63%) SQL
3 49 (13.42%) Java
4 43 (11.78%) C#
5 35 (9.59%) JavaScript
6 17 (4.66%) TypeScript
7 12 (3.29%) VBA
8 9 (2.47%) Apex Code
9 8 (2.19%) C++
10 7 (1.92%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.64%) Groovy
12 5 (1.37%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.10%) ABAP
13 4 (1.10%) Perl
13 4 (1.10%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.82%) C
14 3 (0.82%) PHP
14 3 (0.82%) R
15 2 (0.55%) Bash
16 1 (0.27%) Go
Qualifications
1 147 (40.27%) Degree
2 54 (14.79%) Security Cleared
3 41 (11.23%) SC Cleared
4 32 (8.77%) Master's Degree
5 27 (7.40%) PMI Certification
5 27 (7.40%) PMP
6 21 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (4.66%) PhD
8 13 (3.56%) ISTQB
9 12 (3.29%) ACCA
9 12 (3.29%) CIMA
10 6 (1.64%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 4 (1.10%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.55%) CSQA
13 2 (0.55%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.27%) ICAEW
14 1 (0.27%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (11.51%) Accessibility
2 39 (10.68%) QA
3 16 (4.38%) Data Quality
4 15 (4.11%) GxP
5 8 (2.19%) WCAG
6 4 (1.10%) PMO
7 3 (0.82%) GDPR
8 2 (0.55%) ECSS
8 2 (0.55%) SLA
9 1 (0.27%) MISRA
9 1 (0.27%) NCSC
9 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (9.32%) Docker
2 6 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.82%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.55%) Terminal Server
5 2 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (10.68%) Kubernetes
2 24 (6.58%) Terraform
3 12 (3.29%) Ansible
4 8 (2.19%) Kibana
5 5 (1.37%) SCCM
6 4 (1.10%) Packer
7 3 (0.82%) SCOM
8 2 (0.55%) Grafana
8 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.55%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.27%) Argo
9 1 (0.27%) Istio
9 1 (0.27%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.27%) Netcool
9 1 (0.27%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 67 (18.36%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.21%) SAP
3 14 (3.84%) Google
4 13 (3.56%) Databricks
5 12 (3.29%) Adobe
6 11 (3.01%) IBM
6 11 (3.01%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.74%) MuleSoft
8 9 (2.47%) AppDynamics
9 8 (2.19%) Oracle
10 6 (1.64%) VMware
11 4 (1.10%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.10%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.10%) Splunk
11 4 (1.10%) Telerik
12 3 (0.82%) LabVantage
13 2 (0.55%) LogicMonitor
13 2 (0.55%) Palo Alto
13 2 (0.55%) Sitecore
13 2 (0.55%) Xamarin