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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 16 5
Rank change year-on-year -11 -11 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 351 404 827
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.78% 10.53% 17.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.74% 11.72% 20.89%
Number of salaries quoted 256 144 377
10th Percentile £42,813 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,875 £88,500
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 5,209 3,448 3,959
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.93% 89.89% 82.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,690 1,455 2,008
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,800 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,520 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.74% -13.60% -
75th Percentile £71,125 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% 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 22 September 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 22 September 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 +40 143 £60,000 +9.09% 102
Berkshire -22 124 £65,000 +13.04% 199
Oxfordshire -10 84 £60,000 +6.67% 78
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 10 (2.85%) Confluence
2 7 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.14%) CICS
3 4 (1.14%) CMS
4 3 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.85%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.85%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.57%) Apache
5 2 (0.57%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.28%) IIS
6 1 (0.28%) JBoss
6 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.42%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.57%) EPLAN
4 2 (0.57%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.57%) UserZoom
5 1 (0.28%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (4.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.57%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.28%) Finacle
4 1 (0.28%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.28%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.28%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.28%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 143 (40.74%) Azure
2 115 (32.76%) AWS
3 38 (10.83%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (9.12%) Serverless
5 31 (8.83%) SaaS
6 29 (8.26%) Power Platform
7 25 (7.12%) Amazon EKS
7 25 (7.12%) GitHub
8 17 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (4.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 15 (4.27%) Amazon S3
10 15 (4.27%) GCP
11 14 (3.99%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (3.99%) IaaS
12 13 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 11 (3.13%) Google Analytics
14 9 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (2.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.70%) DNS
2 5 (1.42%) Firewall
3 3 (0.85%) DHCP
4 2 (0.57%) HTTP
4 2 (0.57%) MQTT
4 2 (0.57%) SMS
4 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.57%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.28%) ATM
5 1 (0.28%) Intranet
5 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.28%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.12%) Azure SQL Database
2 27 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 26 (7.41%) MongoDB
4 25 (7.12%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (6.27%) Power BI
5 22 (6.27%) Relational Database
6 18 (5.13%) Metadata
7 13 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (3.70%) NoSQL
8 11 (3.13%) DynamoDB
8 11 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (2.56%) Amazon QuickSight
9 9 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
9 9 (2.56%) Star Schema
10 6 (1.71%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.42%) Db2
12 4 (1.14%) GIS
12 4 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.85%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 46 (13.11%) Git
2 31 (8.83%) JIRA
3 24 (6.84%) GitLab
3 24 (6.84%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.56%) Cucumber
4 9 (2.56%) JMeter
4 9 (2.56%) JUnit
5 8 (2.28%) Mockito
5 8 (2.28%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.99%) Yeoman
7 6 (1.71%) Postman
8 5 (1.42%) Selenium
8 5 (1.42%) Zephyr
9 4 (1.14%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.14%) ChangeMan
10 3 (0.85%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.85%) Eclipse RCP
11 2 (0.57%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.57%) Mocha
11 2 (0.57%) SpecFlow
General
1 102 (29.06%) Social Skills
2 75 (21.37%) Finance
3 48 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (10.26%) Public Sector
5 32 (9.12%) Law
6 25 (7.12%) Manufacturing
6 25 (7.12%) Retail
7 24 (6.84%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (4.56%) Marketing
9 15 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.56%) Advertising
11 7 (1.99%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.99%) Banking
11 7 (1.99%) Local Government
11 7 (1.99%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.71%) Automotive
12 6 (1.71%) Electronics
12 6 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.42%) Legal
13 5 (1.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 85 (24.22%) Developer
2 84 (23.93%) Senior
3 37 (10.54%) Software Engineer
4 34 (9.69%) Architect
5 31 (8.83%) .NET Developer
6 27 (7.69%) Senior Developer
7 23 (6.55%) Analyst
8 22 (6.27%) Lead
9 21 (5.98%) Project Manager
10 19 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
11 17 (4.84%) Java Developer
12 15 (4.27%) Full-Stack Developer
13 14 (3.99%) Cloud Engineer
13 14 (3.99%) Python Engineer
13 14 (3.99%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (3.70%) Senior Manager
14 13 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
15 12 (3.42%) C# Software Engineer
15 12 (3.42%) Data Engineer
15 12 (3.42%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (17.66%) .NET
2 53 (15.10%) React
3 42 (11.97%) REST
4 32 (9.12%) Node.js
5 31 (8.83%) .NET Core
6 29 (8.26%) ASP.NET
7 28 (7.98%) ASP.NET Core
8 27 (7.69%) HTML
8 27 (7.69%) JSON
8 27 (7.69%) Terraform
9 23 (6.55%) RESTful
10 19 (5.41%) AngularJS
10 19 (5.41%) Blazor
10 19 (5.41%) Spring
11 18 (5.13%) .NET Framework
11 18 (5.13%) Spring Boot
11 18 (5.13%) XML
12 17 (4.84%) CSS
13 16 (4.56%) Vue
14 15 (4.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 48 (13.68%) Product Ownership
2 39 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 35 (9.97%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (4.56%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (3.13%) Life Science
8 8 (2.28%) Renewable Energy
9 6 (1.71%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (1.71%) NHS
9 6 (1.71%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.42%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.42%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.14%) Client/Server
11 4 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.14%) Legacy Code
11 4 (1.14%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.14%) Social Network
11 4 (1.14%) VSAM
12 3 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.84%) Windows
2 18 (5.13%) Linux
3 4 (1.14%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.14%) zOS
4 1 (0.28%) Android
4 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (31.34%) DevOps
2 106 (30.20%) CI/CD
3 87 (24.79%) Problem-Solving
4 81 (23.08%) Scrum
5 75 (21.37%) Software Engineering
6 67 (19.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 67 (19.09%) Microservices
7 65 (18.52%) Mentoring
8 62 (17.66%) Decision-Making
9 59 (16.81%) AI
10 56 (15.95%) Computer Science
11 53 (15.10%) Full-Stack Development
12 50 (14.25%) Test Automation
13 48 (13.68%) Analytics
14 45 (12.82%) Data Modelling
15 44 (12.54%) TDD
16 43 (12.25%) Containerisation
17 42 (11.97%) Stakeholder Management
18 39 (11.11%) Roadmaps
19 37 (10.54%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 99 (28.21%) C#
2 89 (25.36%) SQL
3 74 (21.08%) Python
4 46 (13.11%) JavaScript
5 41 (11.68%) Java
6 33 (9.40%) TypeScript
7 23 (6.55%) C++
8 13 (3.70%) PowerShell
9 11 (3.13%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.28%) Bash
10 8 (2.28%) Groovy
11 5 (1.42%) ABAP
11 5 (1.42%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.42%) C
11 5 (1.42%) COBOL
12 4 (1.14%) JCL
12 4 (1.14%) Perl
12 4 (1.14%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.28%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 114 (32.48%) Degree
2 36 (10.26%) Security Cleared
3 35 (9.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 32 (9.12%) SC Cleared
5 16 (4.56%) Master's Degree
6 15 (4.27%) ICAEW
7 13 (3.70%) PMP
8 12 (3.42%) PMI Certification
9 11 (3.13%) Azure Certification
10 8 (2.28%) ISTQB
11 7 (1.99%) PhD
12 5 (1.42%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.85%) Chartered Engineer
14 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (0.57%) CSQA
14 2 (0.57%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.57%) Postgraduate
15 1 (0.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (13.96%) QA
2 28 (7.98%) Data Quality
3 23 (6.55%) Accessibility
4 14 (3.99%) GDPR
5 9 (2.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (1.71%) PMO
6 6 (1.71%) WCAG
7 5 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.42%) NIST
7 5 (1.42%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.28%) MISRA
9 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.28%) SLA
9 1 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 49 (13.96%) Docker
2 7 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.85%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 65 (18.52%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.99%) Ansible
3 12 (3.42%) Kibana
4 5 (1.42%) Grafana
4 5 (1.42%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.14%) CA Endevor
5 4 (1.14%) Packer
6 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.57%) Argo
7 2 (0.57%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.57%) Istio
7 2 (0.57%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 91 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.84%) Google
3 13 (3.70%) Salesforce
4 12 (3.42%) CA Agile Central
4 12 (3.42%) SAP
5 9 (2.56%) AppDynamics
5 9 (2.56%) IBM
5 9 (2.56%) Informatica
5 9 (2.56%) Oracle
5 9 (2.56%) Talend
6 8 (2.28%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.28%) Splunk
7 7 (1.99%) Adobe
7 7 (1.99%) Facebook
7 7 (1.99%) YouTube
8 6 (1.71%) Databricks
9 5 (1.42%) New Relic
9 5 (1.42%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.85%) Pega
10 3 (0.85%) VMware