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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 310 562 668
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 7.79% 16.35% 18.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.60% 17.85% 21.11%
Number of salaries quoted 151 299 531
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £40,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

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 3,230 3,148 3,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 81.12% 91.56% 89.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,724 1,445 2,281
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £39,790
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 -14 188 £50,902 -27.28% 162
Buckinghamshire -4 86 £58,000 -3.33% 78
Oxfordshire -17 36 £70,000 +86.67% 59
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 15 (4.84%) Confluence
2 6 (1.94%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.61%) Exchange Server 2013
3 5 (1.61%) IIS
3 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.32%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.32%) Camunda
5 1 (0.32%) CMS
5 1 (0.32%) SAS
5 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (4.19%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.61%) Adobe XD
3 5 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.97%) MadCap Flare
6 1 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.32%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (2.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.97%) Shopify
3 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.32%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.32%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.32%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.32%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.32%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.32%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 85 (27.42%) Azure
2 69 (22.26%) AWS
3 37 (11.94%) GCP
4 25 (8.06%) Serverless
5 19 (6.13%) Amazon ECS
5 19 (6.13%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (5.16%) Power Platform
7 13 (4.19%) Amazon S3
7 13 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (3.87%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (3.87%) Amazon SQS
8 12 (3.87%) GitHub
8 12 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (3.23%) Miro
10 9 (2.90%) SaaS
11 8 (2.58%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (2.26%) Figma
12 7 (2.26%) Google Analytics
12 7 (2.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.87%) Firewall
2 11 (3.55%) SAN
2 11 (3.55%) VLAN
3 7 (2.26%) DNS
4 6 (1.94%) DHCP
4 6 (1.94%) NAS
4 6 (1.94%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.94%) Wireless
5 5 (1.61%) LAN
5 5 (1.61%) WAN
5 5 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.65%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.32%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.10%) PostgreSQL
1 22 (7.10%) Relational Database
2 16 (5.16%) SQL Server
3 12 (3.87%) RDBMS
4 11 (3.55%) Power BI
5 10 (3.23%) MySQL
6 7 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.26%) Metadata
6 7 (2.26%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.94%) DynamoDB
7 6 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (1.29%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.97%) Big Data
9 3 (0.97%) Metadata Repository
10 2 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.65%) Spark SQL
10 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.65%) Tableau
11 1 (0.32%) SAS EBI
11 1 (0.32%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 35 (11.29%) JIRA
2 32 (10.32%) Git
3 20 (6.45%) Jenkins
4 18 (5.81%) Selenium
5 16 (5.16%) WebDriver
6 14 (4.52%) JUnit
7 13 (4.19%) Mockito
8 12 (3.87%) JMeter
8 12 (3.87%) Postman
8 12 (3.87%) SoapUI
8 12 (3.87%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (1.94%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.61%) Axure RP
10 5 (1.61%) Balsamiq
10 5 (1.61%) git-flow
11 3 (0.97%) GitLab
12 2 (0.65%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.65%) Subversion
13 1 (0.32%) Ant
13 1 (0.32%) Maven
General
1 141 (45.48%) Social Skills
2 86 (27.74%) Finance
3 44 (14.19%) Law
4 42 (13.55%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (12.90%) Pharmaceutical
6 37 (11.94%) Public Sector
7 26 (8.39%) Marketing
8 23 (7.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (4.52%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (3.55%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.29%) Legal
14 3 (0.97%) Automotive
14 3 (0.97%) Retail
14 3 (0.97%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.65%) Banking
16 1 (0.32%) Advertising
16 1 (0.32%) Billing
16 1 (0.32%) Games
Job Titles
1 84 (27.10%) Senior
2 65 (20.97%) Developer
3 55 (17.74%) Lead
4 42 (13.55%) Full-Stack Developer
5 34 (10.97%) Senior Manager
6 29 (9.35%) Analyst
7 25 (8.06%) Senior Developer
8 22 (7.10%) Project Manager
9 19 (6.13%) Java Developer
9 19 (6.13%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 18 (5.81%) Development Manager
11 15 (4.84%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 15 (4.84%) Senior Development Manager
11 15 (4.84%) Senior Project Manager
11 15 (4.84%) Software Engineer
12 14 (4.52%) Full-Stack Web Developer
12 14 (4.52%) Senior Web Developer
12 14 (4.52%) Web Developer
13 12 (3.87%) Business Analyst
13 12 (3.87%) Development Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (14.84%) HTML
2 45 (14.52%) .NET
3 36 (11.61%) React
4 34 (10.97%) REST
5 25 (8.06%) CSS
6 22 (7.10%) Node.js
6 22 (7.10%) SOAP
7 21 (6.77%) Spring
7 21 (6.77%) Spring Boot
8 18 (5.81%) RESTful
8 18 (5.81%) Web Services
9 15 (4.84%) JSON
9 15 (4.84%) XML
10 13 (4.19%) Hibernate
10 13 (4.19%) jQuery
10 13 (4.19%) Kafka
10 13 (4.19%) Middleware
11 12 (3.87%) .NET Framework
11 12 (3.87%) ActiveMQ
11 12 (3.87%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 53 (17.10%) Life Science
2 24 (7.74%) Product Ownership
3 22 (7.10%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (4.52%) Cloud Native
6 13 (4.19%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.26%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.61%) Replication
9 4 (1.29%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.29%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 3 (0.97%) Hackathon
10 3 (0.97%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.97%) N-Tier
10 3 (0.97%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.65%) LIMS
11 2 (0.65%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.65%) Pharmacovigilance
11 2 (0.65%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.52%) Windows
2 8 (2.58%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.97%) Linux
4 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (28.06%) CI/CD
2 75 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (21.94%) Analytics
4 65 (20.97%) Computer Science
5 63 (20.32%) DevOps
5 63 (20.32%) Hematology
5 63 (20.32%) Immunology
6 52 (16.77%) AI
7 51 (16.45%) Roadmaps
8 49 (15.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 49 (15.81%) Full-Stack Development
9 47 (15.16%) Scrum
10 45 (14.52%) Biotechnology
11 43 (13.87%) Data Science
12 41 (13.23%) Machine Learning
13 37 (11.94%) Test Automation
14 36 (11.61%) Use Case
14 36 (11.61%) User Experience
15 32 (10.32%) Microservices
16 31 (10.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 54 (17.42%) JavaScript
2 53 (17.10%) Java
3 52 (16.77%) Python
4 45 (14.52%) SQL
5 42 (13.55%) C#
6 17 (5.48%) TypeScript
7 13 (4.19%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.26%) Apex Code
9 6 (1.94%) C++
10 5 (1.61%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.61%) VBA
11 2 (0.65%) C
12 1 (0.32%) Go
12 1 (0.32%) PHP
12 1 (0.32%) R
12 1 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 133 (42.90%) Degree
2 51 (16.45%) Security Cleared
3 40 (12.90%) Master's Degree
4 32 (10.32%) SC Cleared
5 27 (8.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (8.71%) PhD
6 15 (4.84%) ISTQB
7 14 (4.52%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 12 (3.87%) PMI Certification
8 12 (3.87%) PMP
9 6 (1.94%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.61%) ACCA
10 5 (1.61%) CIMA
11 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 1 (0.32%) CISM
13 1 (0.32%) CISSP
13 1 (0.32%) CRISC
13 1 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.32%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (15.16%) QA
2 26 (8.39%) GxP
3 22 (7.10%) Accessibility
4 13 (4.19%) Data Quality
5 9 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (2.26%) WCAG
7 5 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.97%) GDPR
8 3 (0.97%) PMO
9 2 (0.65%) ECSS
9 2 (0.65%) SLA
10 1 (0.32%) COBIT
10 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.32%) NCSC
10 1 (0.32%) NIST
System Software
1 43 (13.87%) Docker
2 12 (3.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.55%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.94%) vSphere
5 4 (1.29%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.32%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.32%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 41 (13.23%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.87%) Kibana
3 9 (2.90%) SCCM
3 9 (2.90%) Terraform
4 7 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.65%) SCOM
6 1 (0.32%) Ansible
6 1 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.32%) Netcool
6 1 (0.32%) Netcool/OMNIbus
6 1 (0.32%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 48 (15.48%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.16%) Google
3 14 (4.52%) SAP
3 14 (4.52%) VMware
4 12 (3.87%) Dynatrace
4 12 (3.87%) Splunk
5 10 (3.23%) Databricks
6 8 (2.58%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.26%) MuleSoft
8 6 (1.94%) Adobe
8 6 (1.94%) LogicMonitor
8 6 (1.94%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.61%) arcserve
9 5 (1.61%) Sage
9 5 (1.61%) Xamarin
9 5 (1.61%) Zoho
10 4 (1.29%) Telerik
11 3 (0.97%) Foundry
11 3 (0.97%) Workday
12 2 (0.65%) LabVantage