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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 10 5
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 355 369 1,001
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 6.69% 13.08% 15.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.19% 14.02% 18.01%
Number of salaries quoted 185 168 716
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £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 3,863 2,632 5,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 72.78% 93.30% 85.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,479 1,202 4,073
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,025 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £81,250
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 16 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 16 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 -9 168 £70,000 - 63
Buckinghamshire +23 147 £60,000 -0.41% 41
Oxfordshire -19 40 £70,000 +50.54% 27
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 (1.69%) OpenStack
2 5 (1.41%) Confluence
3 4 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.85%) CMS
5 2 (0.56%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.56%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.28%) Apache
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.28%) Camunda
6 1 (0.28%) IIS
6 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (7.04%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (3.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (3.38%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.41%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.56%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.28%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) SAP HR
1 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.28%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.28%) Shopify
2 1 (0.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 84 (23.66%) Azure
2 60 (16.90%) AWS
3 28 (7.89%) Serverless
4 24 (6.76%) Power Platform
5 21 (5.92%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (4.79%) Amazon S3
6 17 (4.79%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (4.79%) GCP
7 16 (4.51%) SaaS
8 14 (3.94%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (3.10%) GitHub
10 10 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (2.54%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (2.54%) Miro
11 9 (2.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 8 (2.25%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 7 (1.97%) Google Analytics
13 7 (1.97%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.82%) DNS
2 7 (1.97%) Broadband
3 6 (1.69%) Firewall
4 3 (0.85%) DHCP
5 2 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.56%) NAS
5 2 (0.56%) SAN
5 2 (0.56%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.56%) Unified Communications
5 2 (0.56%) VLAN
5 2 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.01%) SQL Server
2 22 (6.20%) Power BI
3 19 (5.35%) Relational Database
4 16 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (3.38%) Metadata
6 9 (2.54%) MySQL
7 7 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.85%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.85%) Metadata Repository
10 3 (0.85%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.85%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.85%) Tableau
11 2 (0.56%) Big Data
11 2 (0.56%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.56%) Spark SQL
12 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 33 (9.30%) Git
2 30 (8.45%) JIRA
3 20 (5.63%) Jenkins
4 13 (3.66%) GitLab
5 9 (2.54%) Postman
6 7 (1.97%) Selenium
6 7 (1.97%) WebDriver
7 6 (1.69%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.69%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.41%) Axure RP
8 5 (1.41%) Balsamiq
8 5 (1.41%) JUnit
8 5 (1.41%) SoapUI
8 5 (1.41%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (1.13%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.13%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.13%) Mockito
9 4 (1.13%) SpecFlow
9 4 (1.13%) Subversion
9 4 (1.13%) Zephyr
General
1 149 (41.97%) Social Skills
2 90 (25.35%) Finance
3 54 (15.21%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (11.83%) Law
4 42 (11.83%) Public Sector
5 41 (11.55%) Pharmaceutical
6 38 (10.70%) Influencing Skills
7 31 (8.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (3.10%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.54%) Games
9 9 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.54%) Retail
10 7 (1.97%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.85%) Automotive
13 2 (0.56%) Aviation
13 2 (0.56%) Legal
13 2 (0.56%) Publishing
14 1 (0.28%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 94 (26.48%) Senior
2 56 (15.77%) Developer
3 47 (13.24%) Lead
4 43 (12.11%) Senior Manager
5 32 (9.01%) Analyst
6 31 (8.73%) Project Manager
7 27 (7.61%) Development Manager
7 27 (7.61%) Senior Development Manager
8 26 (7.32%) Architect
9 24 (6.76%) Development Project Manager
9 24 (6.76%) Senior Project Manager
10 20 (5.63%) Designer
11 19 (5.35%) Associate Director
11 19 (5.35%) Full-Stack Developer
12 16 (4.51%) Software Engineer
13 15 (4.23%) Java Developer
14 14 (3.94%) Data Analyst
14 14 (3.94%) Senior Developer
15 13 (3.66%) Data Engineer
15 13 (3.66%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (13.52%) .NET
2 45 (12.68%) REST
3 26 (7.32%) React
4 23 (6.48%) SOAP
5 20 (5.63%) Middleware
6 19 (5.35%) ASP.NET
7 18 (5.07%) .NET Framework
8 17 (4.79%) JSON
9 16 (4.51%) HTML
9 16 (4.51%) Spring
10 14 (3.94%) Elastic Stack
10 14 (3.94%) Spring Boot
11 13 (3.66%) Kafka
11 13 (3.66%) Web Services
12 12 (3.38%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (3.38%) XML
13 11 (3.10%) AngularJS
14 10 (2.82%) CSS
14 10 (2.82%) Entity Framework
14 10 (2.82%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 54 (15.21%) Life Science
2 40 (11.27%) Product Ownership
3 27 (7.61%) Cloud Native
4 26 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (4.51%) Mobile App
6 15 (4.23%) Onboarding
7 13 (3.66%) Low-Code
8 11 (3.10%) Hackathon
9 10 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.41%) Social Media
11 4 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.13%) Hedge funds
11 4 (1.13%) N-Tier
11 4 (1.13%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.85%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.85%) Biopharmaceutical
12 3 (0.85%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (0.85%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.10%) Linux
2 6 (1.69%) Windows
3 4 (1.13%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.56%) Android
6 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (24.79%) CI/CD
2 86 (24.23%) Analytics
3 81 (22.82%) DevOps
4 78 (21.97%) Continuous Improvement
5 72 (20.28%) Hematology
5 72 (20.28%) Immunology
6 69 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
7 68 (19.15%) Scrum
8 67 (18.87%) Biotechnology
9 64 (18.03%) AI
10 62 (17.46%) Decision-Making
11 59 (16.62%) Computer Science
12 44 (12.39%) Roadmaps
13 38 (10.70%) Data Science
14 37 (10.42%) Machine Learning
14 37 (10.42%) Technology Strategy
15 36 (10.14%) Project Management
16 35 (9.86%) Data Modelling
16 35 (9.86%) Microservices
16 35 (9.86%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 73 (20.56%) Python
2 65 (18.31%) SQL
3 46 (12.96%) Java
4 43 (12.11%) C#
5 34 (9.58%) JavaScript
6 17 (4.79%) TypeScript
7 12 (3.38%) VBA
8 9 (2.54%) Apex Code
9 8 (2.25%) C++
10 6 (1.69%) Groovy
10 6 (1.69%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.41%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.13%) Perl
12 4 (1.13%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.85%) ABAP
13 3 (0.85%) C
13 3 (0.85%) PHP
13 3 (0.85%) R
14 2 (0.56%) Bash
14 2 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 144 (40.56%) Degree
2 53 (14.93%) Security Cleared
3 40 (11.27%) SC Cleared
4 32 (9.01%) Master's Degree
5 26 (7.32%) PMI Certification
5 26 (7.32%) PMP
6 21 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (4.79%) PhD
8 13 (3.66%) ISTQB
9 12 (3.38%) ACCA
9 12 (3.38%) CIMA
10 6 (1.69%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.69%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 4 (1.13%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.56%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.28%) CSQA
13 1 (0.28%) ICAEW
13 1 (0.28%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (11.83%) Accessibility
2 37 (10.42%) QA
3 16 (4.51%) Data Quality
4 15 (4.23%) GxP
5 8 (2.25%) WCAG
6 4 (1.13%) PMO
7 3 (0.85%) GDPR
8 2 (0.56%) ECSS
8 2 (0.56%) SLA
9 1 (0.28%) MISRA
9 1 (0.28%) NCSC
9 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (8.73%) Docker
2 6 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.85%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.56%) Terminal Server
5 2 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (10.14%) Kubernetes
2 24 (6.76%) Terraform
3 11 (3.10%) Ansible
4 7 (1.97%) Kibana
5 5 (1.41%) SCCM
6 4 (1.13%) Packer
7 3 (0.85%) SCOM
8 2 (0.56%) Grafana
8 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.56%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.28%) Argo
9 1 (0.28%) Istio
9 1 (0.28%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.28%) Netcool
9 1 (0.28%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 63 (17.75%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.07%) SAP
3 13 (3.66%) Databricks
3 13 (3.66%) Google
4 12 (3.38%) Adobe
5 11 (3.10%) IBM
5 11 (3.10%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.82%) MuleSoft
7 9 (2.54%) AppDynamics
8 8 (2.25%) Oracle
9 6 (1.69%) VMware
10 5 (1.41%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.13%) Telerik
12 3 (0.85%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.85%) LabVantage
12 3 (0.85%) Splunk
12 3 (0.85%) Xamarin
13 2 (0.56%) LogicMonitor
13 2 (0.56%) Palo Alto
13 2 (0.56%) Workday