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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 4 3
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 342 738 692
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 9.20% 17.36% 21.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.83% 20.05% 22.61%
Number of salaries quoted 152 349 532
10th Percentile £39,750 £36,250 £37,500
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 £72,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £91,250
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 3,159 3,680 3,060
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.01% 86.55% 93.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,683 1,800 2,154
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £31,613
25th Percentile £35,000 £44,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,520 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.07% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £49,000 £56,430 £54,763
% change year-on-year -13.17% +3.04% -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 28 November 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 28 November 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 -12 222 £55,000 -21.43% 98
Buckinghamshire -12 71 £55,000 -1.79% 48
Oxfordshire -13 49 £70,000 +55.56% 71
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 18 (5.26%) Confluence
2 10 (2.92%) CMS
2 10 (2.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.63%) Exchange Server 2013
4 8 (2.34%) IIS
5 2 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.58%) JBoss
5 2 (0.58%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.58%) Red Hat Fuse
5 2 (0.58%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.29%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.29%) Camunda
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.29%) SAS
6 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.05%) MadCap Flare
2 5 (1.46%) Adobe XD
3 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.88%) Shopify
3 2 (0.58%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.29%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.29%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.29%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.29%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.29%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 122 (35.67%) Azure
2 96 (28.07%) AWS
3 46 (13.45%) GCP
4 30 (8.77%) Vertex AI
5 28 (8.19%) Serverless
6 23 (6.73%) Amazon ECS
6 23 (6.73%) Amazon EKS
7 20 (5.85%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (5.26%) SaaS
9 15 (4.39%) Azure AI
9 15 (4.39%) GitHub
10 14 (4.09%) Power Platform
11 11 (3.22%) Google Analytics
11 11 (3.22%) Miro
12 10 (2.92%) Amazon S3
12 10 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (2.63%) iPaaS
13 9 (2.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.26%) Firewall
2 16 (4.68%) SAN
3 14 (4.09%) VLAN
4 9 (2.63%) LAN
4 9 (2.63%) WAN
4 9 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (2.05%) DNS
6 5 (1.46%) DHCP
6 5 (1.46%) NAS
6 5 (1.46%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.46%) Wireless
7 2 (0.58%) FTP
7 2 (0.58%) HTTP
7 2 (0.58%) SMTP
7 2 (0.58%) SSH
8 1 (0.29%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.29%) RFID
8 1 (0.29%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.48%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (7.60%) Relational Database
3 18 (5.26%) RDBMS
3 18 (5.26%) SQL Server
4 16 (4.68%) Data Lake
5 15 (4.39%) Data Mining
6 13 (3.80%) MySQL
7 12 (3.51%) NoSQL
8 9 (2.63%) Power BI
9 8 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (2.05%) Metadata
11 6 (1.75%) DynamoDB
11 6 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.88%) Big Data
13 3 (0.88%) Metadata Repository
14 2 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
14 2 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.58%) MongoDB
14 2 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (10.82%) JIRA
2 34 (9.94%) Git
3 29 (8.48%) Jenkins
4 21 (6.14%) JUnit
5 19 (5.56%) Mockito
6 18 (5.26%) JMeter
7 12 (3.51%) Selenium
8 10 (2.92%) WebDriver
9 8 (2.34%) Postman
10 7 (2.05%) SoapUI
10 7 (2.05%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (1.46%) Axure RP
11 5 (1.46%) Balsamiq
11 5 (1.46%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.46%) git-flow
12 4 (1.17%) GitLab
12 4 (1.17%) NUnit
12 4 (1.17%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.88%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.88%) Jasmine
General
1 162 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 82 (23.98%) Law
3 76 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (21.05%) Finance
5 37 (10.82%) Public Sector
6 32 (9.36%) Marketing
7 27 (7.89%) Pharmaceutical
7 27 (7.89%) Retail
8 23 (6.73%) Legal
9 21 (6.14%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (4.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (4.09%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (4.09%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (3.22%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.46%) Banking
14 5 (1.46%) Games
15 4 (1.17%) Automotive
16 3 (0.88%) Tech for Good
17 2 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 101 (29.53%) Senior
2 68 (19.88%) Developer
3 61 (17.84%) Lead
4 46 (13.45%) Full-Stack Developer
5 25 (7.31%) Senior Developer
5 25 (7.31%) Senior Manager
6 24 (7.02%) Java Developer
7 22 (6.43%) Analyst
7 22 (6.43%) Product Manager
7 22 (6.43%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 18 (5.26%) Software Engineer
9 17 (4.97%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 16 (4.68%) Product Delivery Manager
11 15 (4.39%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 14 (4.09%) Full-Stack Web Developer
12 14 (4.09%) Project Manager
12 14 (4.09%) Senior Web Developer
12 14 (4.09%) Web Developer
13 10 (2.92%) Development Manager
13 10 (2.92%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (14.62%) HTML
2 41 (11.99%) .NET
3 36 (10.53%) React
4 35 (10.23%) REST
5 28 (8.19%) CSS
6 27 (7.89%) Spring Boot
7 26 (7.60%) Spring
8 23 (6.73%) RESTful
8 23 (6.73%) Web Services
9 22 (6.43%) XML
10 21 (6.14%) JSON
11 20 (5.85%) Apache Camel
12 19 (5.56%) jQuery
12 19 (5.56%) Node.js
13 18 (5.26%) ActiveMQ
13 18 (5.26%) Hibernate
13 18 (5.26%) WireMock
14 17 (4.97%) SOAP
15 12 (3.51%) .NET Framework
15 12 (3.51%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 43 (12.57%) Life Science
2 28 (8.19%) Product Ownership
3 24 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.68%) AI Agents
5 15 (4.39%) Algorithms
5 15 (4.39%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (3.80%) Cloud Native
6 13 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (3.22%) Replication
8 10 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (2.92%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.05%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.46%) IoT
10 5 (1.46%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.17%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.17%) Online Games
12 3 (0.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 2 (0.58%) Educational Technology
13 2 (0.58%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.02%) Windows
2 13 (3.80%) Windows Server
3 9 (2.63%) Linux
4 3 (0.88%) Unix
5 2 (0.58%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.58%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.58%) VMS
5 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
2 94 (27.49%) Analytics
3 83 (24.27%) Data Science
4 81 (23.68%) CI/CD
4 81 (23.68%) Roadmaps
5 79 (23.10%) DevOps
5 79 (23.10%) Machine Learning
6 73 (21.35%) AI
7 61 (17.84%) Use Case
8 59 (17.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 56 (16.37%) Generative AI
10 55 (16.08%) Full-Stack Development
11 52 (15.20%) Computer Science
12 47 (13.74%) User Experience
13 46 (13.45%) Hematology
13 46 (13.45%) Immunology
13 46 (13.45%) Scrum
14 38 (11.11%) Test Automation
15 37 (10.82%) Change Management
15 37 (10.82%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 61 (17.84%) JavaScript
2 58 (16.96%) Python
3 51 (14.91%) Java
4 44 (12.87%) SQL
5 39 (11.40%) C#
6 19 (5.56%) Shell Script
7 18 (5.26%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.46%) Apex Code
8 5 (1.46%) C++
8 5 (1.46%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.88%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.88%) Ruby
10 2 (0.58%) C
10 2 (0.58%) Groovy
10 2 (0.58%) Perl
10 2 (0.58%) VBA
11 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.29%) Go
11 1 (0.29%) PHP
11 1 (0.29%) R
Qualifications
1 109 (31.87%) Degree
2 46 (13.45%) Security Cleared
3 39 (11.40%) Master's Degree
4 28 (8.19%) SC Cleared
5 22 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (6.14%) PhD
7 10 (2.92%) ISTQB
8 9 (2.63%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 5 (1.46%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.46%) PMP
10 3 (0.88%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.58%) ACCA
11 2 (0.58%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.58%) CIMA
11 2 (0.58%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.29%) CRISC
12 1 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.29%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (13.16%) QA
2 21 (6.14%) GxP
3 18 (5.26%) Accessibility
4 15 (4.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (3.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (3.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 10 (2.92%) Data Quality
7 7 (2.05%) WCAG
8 4 (1.17%) SLA
9 3 (0.88%) GDPR
9 3 (0.88%) PMO
10 2 (0.58%) ECSS
11 1 (0.29%) COBIT
11 1 (0.29%) GAAP
11 1 (0.29%) IFRS
11 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.29%) NCSC
11 1 (0.29%) NIST
11 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 51 (14.91%) Docker
2 17 (4.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (4.68%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.34%) Active Directory
5 5 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.46%) vSphere
6 3 (0.88%) vCloud
7 2 (0.58%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.58%) Firmware
8 1 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 45 (13.16%) Kubernetes
2 18 (5.26%) Kibana
3 13 (3.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (3.80%) SCCM
4 11 (3.22%) Terraform
5 5 (1.46%) Ansible
6 3 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.88%) Rundeck
7 2 (0.58%) Grafana
7 2 (0.58%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.58%) SCOM
8 1 (0.29%) Netcool
8 1 (0.29%) Netcool/OMNIbus
8 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 69 (20.18%) Microsoft
2 53 (15.50%) Google
3 22 (6.43%) VMware
4 18 (5.26%) Dynatrace
4 18 (5.26%) Splunk
5 15 (4.39%) Foundry
5 15 (4.39%) OpenAI
6 14 (4.09%) SAP
7 9 (2.63%) arcserve
8 7 (2.05%) Databricks
9 5 (1.46%) Adobe
9 5 (1.46%) LogicMonitor
9 5 (1.46%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.46%) Oracle
9 5 (1.46%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.46%) Sage
9 5 (1.46%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.46%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.46%) Xamarin
9 5 (1.46%) Zoho