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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -13 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 326 693 706
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 8.53% 17.53% 21.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.24% 19.93% 23.21%
Number of salaries quoted 146 345 543
10th Percentile £39,750 £36,250 £38,025
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70,938 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -

All Process and 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 3,185 3,478 3,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 83.38% 87.96% 93.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,701 1,709 2,163
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £54,763
% change year-on-year -13.04% +5.00% -0.43%

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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 2025. 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 -12 214 £51,000 -27.14% 240
Buckinghamshire -10 70 £52,500 -8.70% 79
Oxfordshire -19 42 £70,000 +55.56% 86
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 17 (5.21%) Confluence
2 9 (2.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.45%) CMS
3 8 (2.45%) Exchange Server 2013
4 5 (1.53%) IIS
4 5 (1.53%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.31%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.31%) Camunda
6 1 (0.31%) SAS
6 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.15%) MadCap Flare
2 5 (1.53%) Adobe XD
2 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.92%) Shopify
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.31%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.31%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.31%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.31%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.31%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.31%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.31%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 107 (32.82%) Azure
2 90 (27.61%) AWS
3 45 (13.80%) GCP
4 30 (9.20%) Serverless
4 30 (9.20%) Vertex AI
5 24 (7.36%) Amazon ECS
5 24 (7.36%) Amazon EKS
6 20 (6.13%) Amazon EC2
7 16 (4.91%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (4.91%) SaaS
8 15 (4.60%) Azure AI
8 15 (4.60%) GitHub
9 14 (4.29%) Amazon S3
9 14 (4.29%) Power Platform
10 11 (3.37%) Amazon SQS
10 11 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (3.37%) Google Analytics
11 10 (3.07%) Miro
12 8 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (2.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.21%) Firewall
2 15 (4.60%) SAN
3 14 (4.29%) VLAN
4 8 (2.45%) DNS
4 8 (2.45%) LAN
4 8 (2.45%) WAN
4 8 (2.45%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (1.84%) DHCP
5 6 (1.84%) NAS
5 6 (1.84%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.84%) Wireless
6 2 (0.61%) FTP
6 2 (0.61%) HTTP
6 2 (0.61%) SMTP
6 2 (0.61%) SSH
6 2 (0.61%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.31%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.31%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.31%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (8.59%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (8.28%) Relational Database
3 18 (5.52%) RDBMS
4 15 (4.60%) Data Mining
4 15 (4.60%) SQL Server
5 10 (3.07%) MySQL
5 10 (3.07%) Power BI
6 9 (2.76%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.15%) Metadata
9 6 (1.84%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.23%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.92%) Big Data
11 3 (0.92%) Metadata Repository
12 2 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.61%) Tableau
13 1 (0.31%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 39 (11.96%) JIRA
2 32 (9.82%) Git
3 30 (9.20%) Jenkins
4 20 (6.13%) JUnit
5 19 (5.83%) Mockito
6 18 (5.52%) JMeter
7 14 (4.29%) Selenium
8 12 (3.68%) WebDriver
9 10 (3.07%) Postman
10 9 (2.76%) SoapUI
10 9 (2.76%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (1.53%) Axure RP
11 5 (1.53%) Balsamiq
11 5 (1.53%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.53%) git-flow
12 4 (1.23%) GitLab
13 3 (0.92%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.92%) SonarQube
14 2 (0.61%) Subversion
14 2 (0.61%) Vagrant
General
1 147 (45.09%) Social Skills
2 70 (21.47%) Law
3 69 (21.17%) Finance
4 63 (19.33%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (11.04%) Public Sector
6 31 (9.51%) Marketing
7 25 (7.67%) Pharmaceutical
7 25 (7.67%) Retail
8 22 (6.75%) Legal
9 16 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (3.99%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (3.37%) Manufacturing
13 10 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.23%) Automotive
15 3 (0.92%) Banking
16 2 (0.61%) Tech for Good
16 2 (0.61%) Telecoms
17 1 (0.31%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 89 (27.30%) Senior
2 68 (20.86%) Developer
3 67 (20.55%) Lead
4 46 (14.11%) Full-Stack Developer
5 25 (7.67%) Java Developer
5 25 (7.67%) Senior Manager
6 24 (7.36%) Analyst
7 23 (7.06%) Senior Developer
8 22 (6.75%) Product Manager
9 20 (6.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 19 (5.83%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (4.91%) Product Delivery Manager
12 15 (4.60%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 15 (4.60%) Software Engineer
13 14 (4.29%) Full-Stack Web Developer
13 14 (4.29%) Senior Web Developer
13 14 (4.29%) Web Developer
14 13 (3.99%) Project Manager
15 10 (3.07%) Development Manager
15 10 (3.07%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (15.03%) HTML
2 38 (11.66%) .NET
3 35 (10.74%) React
3 35 (10.74%) REST
4 27 (8.28%) Spring Boot
5 26 (7.98%) Spring
6 25 (7.67%) CSS
7 23 (7.06%) Web Services
8 21 (6.44%) Node.js
8 21 (6.44%) XML
9 20 (6.13%) JSON
10 19 (5.83%) jQuery
10 19 (5.83%) RESTful
11 18 (5.52%) ActiveMQ
11 18 (5.52%) Apache Camel
11 18 (5.52%) Hibernate
11 18 (5.52%) WireMock
12 16 (4.91%) SOAP
13 13 (3.99%) Kafka
14 11 (3.37%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 43 (13.19%) Life Science
2 28 (8.59%) Product Ownership
3 25 (7.67%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.91%) AI Agents
5 15 (4.60%) Algorithms
6 13 (3.99%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (3.68%) Cloud Native
8 10 (3.07%) Replication
9 9 (2.76%) Onboarding
10 8 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (2.15%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.53%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.92%) IoT
13 3 (0.92%) Low-Code
13 3 (0.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 2 (0.61%) Mobile App
14 2 (0.61%) N-Tier
14 2 (0.61%) Pharmacovigilance
14 2 (0.61%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.06%) Windows
2 12 (3.68%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.45%) Linux
4 3 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.61%) Unix
5 2 (0.61%) VMS
6 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (25.77%) CI/CD
2 81 (24.85%) Analytics
3 80 (24.54%) DevOps
3 80 (24.54%) Problem-Solving
4 71 (21.78%) AI
5 69 (21.17%) Data Science
5 69 (21.17%) Roadmaps
6 66 (20.25%) Machine Learning
7 61 (18.71%) Use Case
8 58 (17.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 56 (17.18%) Generative AI
10 54 (16.56%) Full-Stack Development
11 52 (15.95%) Computer Science
12 46 (14.11%) Hematology
12 46 (14.11%) Immunology
12 46 (14.11%) User Experience
13 43 (13.19%) Scrum
14 38 (11.66%) Test Automation
15 36 (11.04%) Change Management
15 36 (11.04%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 60 (18.40%) JavaScript
2 57 (17.48%) Python
3 53 (16.26%) Java
4 42 (12.88%) SQL
5 37 (11.35%) C#
6 19 (5.83%) Shell Script
7 15 (4.60%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.53%) Apex Code
8 5 (1.53%) C++
8 5 (1.53%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.92%) VBA
10 2 (0.61%) C
10 2 (0.61%) Groovy
10 2 (0.61%) Perl
10 2 (0.61%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.61%) Ruby
11 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.31%) Go
11 1 (0.31%) PHP
11 1 (0.31%) R
Qualifications
1 109 (33.44%) Degree
2 47 (14.42%) Security Cleared
3 39 (11.96%) Master's Degree
4 27 (8.28%) SC Cleared
5 22 (6.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (6.44%) PhD
7 13 (3.99%) ISTQB
8 11 (3.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 5 (1.53%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.23%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.23%) PMP
11 3 (0.92%) ACCA
11 3 (0.92%) CIMA
12 2 (0.61%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.61%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 1 (0.31%) CISSP
13 1 (0.31%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (13.19%) QA
2 20 (6.13%) GxP
3 17 (5.21%) Accessibility
4 13 (3.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (3.07%) Data Quality
6 9 (2.76%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (2.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 7 (2.15%) WCAG
8 3 (0.92%) PMO
9 2 (0.61%) ECSS
9 2 (0.61%) GDPR
9 2 (0.61%) SLA
10 1 (0.31%) COBIT
10 1 (0.31%) GAAP
10 1 (0.31%) IFRS
10 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.31%) NCSC
10 1 (0.31%) NIST
10 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (15.34%) Docker
2 17 (5.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (4.60%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.45%) Active Directory
5 6 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.84%) vSphere
6 3 (0.92%) vCloud
7 2 (0.61%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.61%) Firmware
8 1 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.31%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 45 (13.80%) Kubernetes
2 18 (5.52%) Kibana
3 13 (3.99%) SCCM
4 11 (3.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (2.45%) Terraform
6 3 (0.92%) Ansible
6 3 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.92%) Rundeck
6 3 (0.92%) SCOM
7 2 (0.61%) Grafana
7 2 (0.61%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.31%) Netcool
8 1 (0.31%) Netcool/OMNIbus
8 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (19.63%) Microsoft
2 52 (15.95%) Google
3 21 (6.44%) VMware
4 18 (5.52%) Dynatrace
4 18 (5.52%) Splunk
5 15 (4.60%) Foundry
5 15 (4.60%) OpenAI
6 14 (4.29%) SAP
7 8 (2.45%) arcserve
8 7 (2.15%) Databricks
9 6 (1.84%) LogicMonitor
9 6 (1.84%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.53%) Adobe
10 5 (1.53%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.53%) Sage
10 5 (1.53%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.53%) Xamarin
10 5 (1.53%) Zoho
11 4 (1.23%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.23%) Telerik