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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 6 5
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 311 501 816
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 7.40% 14.92% 16.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.31% 16.12% 18.90%
Number of salaries quoted 149 258 643
10th Percentile £34,550 £36,250 £38,691
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
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% -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 3,340 3,108 4,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 79.49% 92.53% 87.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,851 1,327 3,093
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,009 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £83,700
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -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 29 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 29 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 -13 177 £52,750 -24.64% 152
Buckinghamshire +8 101 £60,000 -0.83% 60
Oxfordshire -21 33 £70,000 +86.67% 36
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 14 (4.50%) Confluence
2 6 (1.93%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.61%) IIS
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%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.32%) SAS
5 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (5.14%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (2.89%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.61%) Adobe XD
5 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.32%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.32%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (2.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.32%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.32%) SAP EWM
2 1 (0.32%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.32%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.32%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.32%) Shopify
2 1 (0.32%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 65 (20.90%) Azure
2 48 (15.43%) AWS
3 24 (7.72%) GCP
4 23 (7.40%) Serverless
5 19 (6.11%) Power Platform
6 18 (5.79%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (5.47%) Amazon ECS
8 13 (4.18%) Amazon S3
8 13 (4.18%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (3.86%) Amazon SQS
10 10 (3.22%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (3.22%) Miro
11 9 (2.89%) GitHub
12 8 (2.57%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (2.57%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (2.57%) SaaS
12 8 (2.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 7 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (2.25%) Figma
13 7 (2.25%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.57%) Firewall
2 7 (2.25%) DNS
3 6 (1.93%) SAN
3 6 (1.93%) VLAN
4 5 (1.61%) DHCP
4 5 (1.61%) NAS
4 5 (1.61%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.61%) Wireless
5 3 (0.96%) Broadband
6 2 (0.64%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.64%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.32%) LAN
7 1 (0.32%) WAN
7 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.75%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (6.43%) Relational Database
3 17 (5.47%) SQL Server
4 15 (4.82%) Power BI
5 10 (3.22%) MySQL
5 10 (3.22%) RDBMS
6 7 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.25%) Metadata
7 6 (1.93%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (1.61%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.29%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.96%) Big Data
10 3 (0.96%) Metadata Repository
11 2 (0.64%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.64%) Tableau
12 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.32%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 32 (10.29%) JIRA
2 18 (5.79%) Selenium
3 17 (5.47%) Git
3 17 (5.47%) Jenkins
4 16 (5.14%) WebDriver
5 12 (3.86%) JUnit
5 12 (3.86%) Postman
5 12 (3.86%) SoapUI
5 12 (3.86%) Team Foundation Server
6 11 (3.54%) Mockito
7 10 (3.22%) JMeter
8 6 (1.93%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.93%) GitLab
9 5 (1.61%) Axure RP
9 5 (1.61%) Balsamiq
9 5 (1.61%) git-flow
10 3 (0.96%) Subversion
11 2 (0.64%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.64%) Claude Code
12 1 (0.32%) MLflow
General
1 138 (44.37%) Social Skills
2 99 (31.83%) Finance
3 48 (15.43%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (15.43%) Pharmaceutical
4 40 (12.86%) Public Sector
5 29 (9.32%) Law
6 27 (8.68%) Influencing Skills
7 25 (8.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (4.82%) Manufacturing
9 14 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (2.89%) Marketing
11 7 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.61%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.29%) Automotive
13 4 (1.29%) Games
14 2 (0.64%) Banking
14 2 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.32%) Aviation
15 1 (0.32%) Retail
15 1 (0.32%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 83 (26.69%) Senior
2 63 (20.26%) Lead
3 52 (16.72%) Developer
4 38 (12.22%) Senior Manager
5 33 (10.61%) Analyst
6 25 (8.04%) Full-Stack Developer
7 24 (7.72%) Project Manager
8 21 (6.75%) Development Manager
9 19 (6.11%) Senior Development Manager
9 19 (6.11%) Senior Project Manager
10 17 (5.47%) Java Developer
11 16 (5.14%) Development Project Manager
11 16 (5.14%) Software Engineer
12 13 (4.18%) Business Analyst
12 13 (4.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 12 (3.86%) Associate Director
13 12 (3.86%) Designer
14 11 (3.54%) Data Analyst
14 11 (3.54%) Senior Analyst
14 11 (3.54%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (14.79%) .NET
2 36 (11.58%) REST
3 30 (9.65%) HTML
4 26 (8.36%) SOAP
5 22 (7.07%) React
6 19 (6.11%) Spring
6 19 (6.11%) Spring Boot
7 16 (5.14%) Middleware
7 16 (5.14%) Web Services
8 15 (4.82%) JSON
8 15 (4.82%) XML
9 13 (4.18%) Kafka
10 12 (3.86%) ASP.NET
11 11 (3.54%) .NET Framework
11 11 (3.54%) CSS
11 11 (3.54%) Hibernate
11 11 (3.54%) jQuery
12 10 (3.22%) ActiveMQ
12 10 (3.22%) Apache Camel
12 10 (3.22%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 62 (19.94%) Life Science
2 30 (9.65%) Product Ownership
3 20 (6.43%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (5.47%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (5.14%) Cloud Native
6 14 (4.50%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.57%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.93%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.93%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.61%) Hackathon
10 4 (1.29%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (0.96%) Biopharmaceutical
11 3 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.96%) LIMS
11 3 (0.96%) N-Tier
11 3 (0.96%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.64%) Pharmacovigilance
12 2 (0.64%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.22%) Windows
2 5 (1.61%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.96%) Linux
3 3 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (23.79%) Analytics
1 74 (23.79%) Computer Science
2 73 (23.47%) Hematology
2 73 (23.47%) Immunology
3 71 (22.83%) CI/CD
4 66 (21.22%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (19.61%) AI
6 55 (17.68%) Roadmaps
7 53 (17.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 52 (16.72%) Biotechnology
9 49 (15.76%) DevOps
10 48 (15.43%) Data Science
11 47 (15.11%) Scrum
12 46 (14.79%) Machine Learning
13 39 (12.54%) Use Case
14 37 (11.90%) Deployment Automation
15 34 (10.93%) Decision-Making
15 34 (10.93%) Full-Stack Development
16 31 (9.97%) Enterprise Architecture
16 31 (9.97%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 56 (18.01%) Python
2 55 (17.68%) Java
3 51 (16.40%) SQL
4 44 (14.15%) C#
5 38 (12.22%) JavaScript
6 18 (5.79%) TypeScript
7 11 (3.54%) Shell Script
8 9 (2.89%) VBA
9 8 (2.57%) Apex Code
10 7 (2.25%) C++
11 5 (1.61%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.64%) C
13 1 (0.32%) Go
13 1 (0.32%) PHP
13 1 (0.32%) R
13 1 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 149 (47.91%) Degree
2 53 (17.04%) Security Cleared
3 45 (14.47%) Master's Degree
4 34 (10.93%) SC Cleared
5 31 (9.97%) PhD
6 27 (8.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (5.14%) ISTQB
7 16 (5.14%) PMI Certification
7 16 (5.14%) PMP
8 14 (4.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 9 (2.89%) ACCA
9 9 (2.89%) CIMA
10 7 (2.25%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.32%) CISM
13 1 (0.32%) CISSP
13 1 (0.32%) CRISC
13 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.32%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.25%) QA
2 30 (9.65%) GxP
3 29 (9.32%) Accessibility
4 13 (4.18%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.25%) WCAG
6 5 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.96%) GDPR
7 3 (0.96%) PMO
8 2 (0.64%) ECSS
8 2 (0.64%) SLA
9 1 (0.32%) COBIT
9 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.32%) NCSC
9 1 (0.32%) NIST
System Software
1 26 (8.36%) Docker
2 8 (2.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.93%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.61%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.61%) vSphere
5 2 (0.64%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 25 (8.04%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.22%) Kibana
3 9 (2.89%) Terraform
4 6 (1.93%) SCCM
5 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.96%) SCOM
6 1 (0.32%) Netcool
6 1 (0.32%) Netcool/OMNIbus
6 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (14.47%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.79%) SAP
3 11 (3.54%) Google
4 10 (3.22%) Databricks
4 10 (3.22%) Dynatrace
4 10 (3.22%) Splunk
5 9 (2.89%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.89%) VMware
6 8 (2.57%) MuleSoft
7 7 (2.25%) Adobe
8 5 (1.61%) LogicMonitor
8 5 (1.61%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.61%) Sage
8 5 (1.61%) Xamarin
8 5 (1.61%) Zoho
9 4 (1.29%) Oracle
9 4 (1.29%) Telerik
10 3 (0.96%) LabVantage
10 3 (0.96%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.96%) Workday