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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 8 5
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 350 398 925
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 7.03% 14.46% 14.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.56% 15.50% 17.10%
Number of salaries quoted 176 183 702
10th Percentile £43,750 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +2.40% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 3,663 2,568 5,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 73.57% 93.31% 85.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,347 1,195 3,982
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £50,430
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +18.98% -4.85%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 3 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 3 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 -6 176 £70,000 - 64
Buckinghamshire +14 138 £60,000 -6.25% 57
Oxfordshire -19 36 £70,000 +47.37% 29
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 6 (1.71%) Confluence
1 6 (1.71%) OpenStack
2 3 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.57%) CMS
3 2 (0.57%) IIS
3 2 (0.57%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.29%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.29%) Camunda
4 1 (0.29%) SAS
4 1 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 24 (6.86%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (3.43%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.43%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.57%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.29%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.57%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.29%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.29%) Shopify
3 1 (0.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 77 (22.00%) Azure
2 59 (16.86%) AWS
3 29 (8.29%) Serverless
4 23 (6.57%) Power Platform
5 22 (6.29%) Amazon EKS
6 18 (5.14%) Amazon S3
6 18 (5.14%) GCP
7 17 (4.86%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (4.57%) SaaS
9 15 (4.29%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (3.14%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (3.14%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (3.14%) GitHub
12 9 (2.57%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (2.57%) Miro
12 9 (2.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 8 (2.29%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 7 (2.00%) IaaS
15 6 (1.71%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.57%) DNS
2 7 (2.00%) Broadband
3 5 (1.43%) Firewall
4 3 (0.86%) DHCP
5 2 (0.57%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.57%) NAS
5 2 (0.57%) SAN
5 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.57%) Unified Communications
5 2 (0.57%) VLAN
5 2 (0.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.86%) SQL Server
2 21 (6.00%) Power BI
3 20 (5.71%) Relational Database
4 16 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (3.14%) Metadata
6 10 (2.86%) MySQL
7 9 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.14%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.14%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.14%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.86%) Metadata Repository
10 3 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.86%) Tableau
11 2 (0.57%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.57%) Spark SQL
12 1 (0.29%) SAS EBI
12 1 (0.29%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 31 (8.86%) Git
1 31 (8.86%) JIRA
2 21 (6.00%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.43%) GitLab
4 9 (2.57%) Postman
5 8 (2.29%) Selenium
5 8 (2.29%) WebDriver
6 6 (1.71%) Cucumber
6 6 (1.71%) JUnit
6 6 (1.71%) SoapUI
6 6 (1.71%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.71%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (1.43%) Axure RP
7 5 (1.43%) Balsamiq
7 5 (1.43%) Mockito
8 4 (1.14%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.14%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.14%) git-flow
8 4 (1.14%) JMeter
8 4 (1.14%) Subversion
General
1 150 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 96 (27.43%) Finance
3 48 (13.71%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (12.57%) Pharmaceutical
5 41 (11.71%) Public Sector
6 40 (11.43%) Law
7 37 (10.57%) Influencing Skills
8 29 (8.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (3.71%) Manufacturing
10 12 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (2.57%) Games
12 8 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (2.29%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.71%) Retail
14 5 (1.43%) Marketing
14 5 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.86%) Automotive
16 2 (0.57%) Aviation
16 2 (0.57%) Legal
16 2 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 93 (26.57%) Senior
2 55 (15.71%) Developer
3 52 (14.86%) Lead
4 42 (12.00%) Senior Manager
5 30 (8.57%) Project Manager
6 29 (8.29%) Analyst
7 27 (7.71%) Development Manager
8 26 (7.43%) Senior Development Manager
9 23 (6.57%) Architect
9 23 (6.57%) Development Project Manager
9 23 (6.57%) Senior Project Manager
10 22 (6.29%) Full-Stack Developer
11 20 (5.71%) Designer
12 19 (5.43%) Associate Director
13 16 (4.57%) Java Developer
13 16 (4.57%) Software Engineer
14 14 (4.00%) Data Analyst
15 13 (3.71%) Product Designer
15 13 (3.71%) Senior Designer
15 13 (3.71%) Senior Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (13.14%) .NET
2 43 (12.29%) REST
3 27 (7.71%) React
4 22 (6.29%) SOAP
5 19 (5.43%) HTML
6 18 (5.14%) ASP.NET
6 18 (5.14%) Middleware
7 17 (4.86%) .NET Framework
7 17 (4.86%) Spring
8 16 (4.57%) JSON
9 15 (4.29%) Spring Boot
10 14 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
10 14 (4.00%) Web Services
11 12 (3.43%) Kafka
11 12 (3.43%) RabbitMQ
12 11 (3.14%) CSS
12 11 (3.14%) XML
13 10 (2.86%) AngularJS
13 10 (2.86%) Entity Framework
14 9 (2.57%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 58 (16.57%) Life Science
2 40 (11.43%) Product Ownership
3 26 (7.43%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (7.14%) Cloud Native
5 15 (4.29%) Mobile App
6 14 (4.00%) Onboarding
7 13 (3.71%) Low-Code
8 11 (3.14%) Hackathon
9 10 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.43%) Social Media
11 4 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.14%) Hedge funds
11 4 (1.14%) N-Tier
11 4 (1.14%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.86%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.86%) Biopharmaceutical
12 3 (0.86%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.86%) LIMS
12 3 (0.86%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.86%) Linux
2 6 (1.71%) Windows
3 4 (1.14%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.29%) Android
5 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (25.43%) Analytics
2 86 (24.57%) CI/CD
3 78 (22.29%) DevOps
4 75 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 75 (21.43%) Hematology
4 75 (21.43%) Immunology
5 68 (19.43%) AI
6 66 (18.86%) Biotechnology
6 66 (18.86%) Problem-Solving
7 63 (18.00%) Computer Science
8 62 (17.71%) Scrum
9 59 (16.86%) Decision-Making
10 51 (14.57%) Roadmaps
11 42 (12.00%) Data Science
12 41 (11.71%) Machine Learning
13 38 (10.86%) Deployment Automation
13 38 (10.86%) Use Case
14 36 (10.29%) Microservices
15 35 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
16 34 (9.71%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 71 (20.29%) Python
2 59 (16.86%) SQL
3 46 (13.14%) Java
4 43 (12.29%) C#
5 35 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 17 (4.86%) TypeScript
7 12 (3.43%) VBA
8 9 (2.57%) Apex Code
9 7 (2.00%) C++
9 7 (2.00%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.71%) Groovy
11 5 (1.43%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.14%) Perl
12 4 (1.14%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.86%) C
13 3 (0.86%) PHP
13 3 (0.86%) R
13 3 (0.86%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.57%) ABAP
15 1 (0.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 144 (41.14%) Degree
2 52 (14.86%) Security Cleared
3 38 (10.86%) Master's Degree
3 38 (10.86%) SC Cleared
4 25 (7.14%) PMI Certification
4 25 (7.14%) PMP
5 22 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (6.00%) PhD
7 13 (3.71%) ISTQB
8 12 (3.43%) ACCA
8 12 (3.43%) CIMA
9 7 (2.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 6 (1.71%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.14%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.57%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.29%) CISM
13 1 (0.29%) CRISC
13 1 (0.29%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (11.71%) Accessibility
2 38 (10.86%) QA
3 19 (5.43%) GxP
4 15 (4.29%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.29%) WCAG
6 4 (1.14%) GDPR
7 3 (0.86%) PMO
8 2 (0.57%) ECSS
8 2 (0.57%) SLA
9 1 (0.29%) COBIT
9 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.29%) MISRA
9 1 (0.29%) NCSC
9 1 (0.29%) NIST
9 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (8.57%) Docker
2 6 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.86%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.57%) Terminal Server
5 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (9.71%) Kubernetes
2 25 (7.14%) Terraform
3 11 (3.14%) Ansible
4 8 (2.29%) Kibana
5 5 (1.43%) SCCM
6 4 (1.14%) Packer
7 3 (0.86%) SCOM
8 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.57%) Netcool
8 2 (0.57%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 1 (0.29%) Grafana
9 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 58 (16.57%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.71%) SAP
3 12 (3.43%) Databricks
3 12 (3.43%) IBM
4 11 (3.14%) Adobe
4 11 (3.14%) Salesforce
5 10 (2.86%) Google
5 10 (2.86%) MuleSoft
6 9 (2.57%) AppDynamics
7 8 (2.29%) Oracle
8 6 (1.71%) VMware
9 5 (1.43%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.14%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.14%) Splunk
10 4 (1.14%) Telerik
11 3 (0.86%) LabVantage
11 3 (0.86%) Xamarin
12 2 (0.57%) Blue Prism
12 2 (0.57%) McAfee
12 2 (0.57%) Workday