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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 7 5
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 326 396 929
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 7.01% 14.11% 15.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.30% 15.01% 17.86%
Number of salaries quoted 157 211 713
10th Percentile £37,973 £36,250 £41,500
25th Percentile £48,000 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +6.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 3,505 2,639 5,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 75.36% 94.01% 86.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,178 1,192 3,841
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,900 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -7 173 £60,000 -14.29% 58
Buckinghamshire +19 120 £60,000 -3.61% 53
Oxfordshire -22 33 £70,000 +45.45% 26
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 9 (2.76%) Confluence
2 6 (1.84%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.53%) IIS
4 3 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.61%) CMS
6 1 (0.31%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.31%) Camunda
6 1 (0.31%) SAS
6 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (7.06%) Microsoft Project
2 13 (3.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (3.68%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.53%) Adobe XD
4 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.61%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.31%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.61%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.31%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.31%) Shopify
3 1 (0.31%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 65 (19.94%) Azure
2 47 (14.42%) AWS
3 23 (7.06%) GCP
4 21 (6.44%) Power Platform
5 20 (6.13%) Serverless
6 14 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (3.99%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (3.99%) Amazon S3
8 12 (3.68%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (3.37%) GitHub
10 10 (3.07%) SaaS
11 9 (2.76%) Miro
11 9 (2.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 8 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (2.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 7 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (2.15%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (1.84%) Figma
14 6 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.15%) Broadband
2 6 (1.84%) DNS
3 4 (1.23%) Firewall
4 2 (0.61%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.61%) DHCP
4 2 (0.61%) NAS
4 2 (0.61%) SAN
4 2 (0.61%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.61%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.61%) VLAN
4 2 (0.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.90%) SQL Server
2 18 (5.52%) Power BI
2 18 (5.52%) Relational Database
3 17 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (3.37%) MySQL
5 9 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.76%) Metadata
6 6 (1.84%) RDBMS
6 6 (1.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (1.53%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.53%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.92%) Metadata Repository
10 2 (0.61%) Spark SQL
10 2 (0.61%) Tableau
11 1 (0.31%) Big Data
11 1 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.31%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.31%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 27 (8.28%) JIRA
2 20 (6.13%) Git
3 13 (3.99%) Jenkins
4 10 (3.07%) Selenium
4 10 (3.07%) WebDriver
5 9 (2.76%) Postman
6 8 (2.45%) JUnit
6 8 (2.45%) SoapUI
6 8 (2.45%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (2.15%) Mockito
8 6 (1.84%) GitLab
8 6 (1.84%) JMeter
9 5 (1.53%) Axure RP
9 5 (1.53%) Balsamiq
9 5 (1.53%) git-flow
10 4 (1.23%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.23%) Subversion
11 2 (0.61%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.61%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
General
1 150 (46.01%) Social Skills
2 99 (30.37%) Finance
3 49 (15.03%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (13.19%) Pharmaceutical
5 37 (11.35%) Influencing Skills
6 35 (10.74%) Public Sector
7 32 (9.82%) Law
8 26 (7.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (4.91%) Documentation Skills
10 15 (4.60%) Manufacturing
11 8 (2.45%) Games
11 8 (2.45%) Marketing
11 8 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (2.45%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.53%) Retail
13 2 (0.61%) Automotive
13 2 (0.61%) Aviation
13 2 (0.61%) Banking
13 2 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 90 (27.61%) Senior
2 54 (16.56%) Lead
3 51 (15.64%) Developer
4 41 (12.58%) Senior Manager
5 31 (9.51%) Analyst
6 28 (8.59%) Project Manager
7 26 (7.98%) Development Manager
8 25 (7.67%) Senior Development Manager
9 24 (7.36%) Full-Stack Developer
10 22 (6.75%) Development Project Manager
10 22 (6.75%) Senior Project Manager
11 20 (6.13%) Designer
12 17 (5.21%) Associate Director
13 16 (4.91%) Architect
13 16 (4.91%) Software Engineer
14 13 (3.99%) Data Analyst
14 13 (3.99%) Java Developer
14 13 (3.99%) Product Designer
14 13 (3.99%) Senior Designer
14 13 (3.99%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (14.72%) .NET
2 34 (10.43%) REST
3 23 (7.06%) React
3 23 (7.06%) SOAP
4 22 (6.75%) HTML
5 17 (5.21%) .NET Framework
5 17 (5.21%) Middleware
6 16 (4.91%) ASP.NET
7 14 (4.29%) Kafka
7 14 (4.29%) Spring
7 14 (4.29%) Spring Boot
8 12 (3.68%) Web Services
9 11 (3.37%) CSS
9 11 (3.37%) Entity Framework
9 11 (3.37%) JSON
9 11 (3.37%) XML
10 9 (2.76%) Lightning Web Components
10 9 (2.76%) Visualforce
11 8 (2.45%) ASP.NET Core
12 7 (2.15%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 55 (16.87%) Life Science
2 38 (11.66%) Product Ownership
3 23 (7.06%) Cloud Native
4 17 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (4.60%) Mobile App
6 14 (4.29%) Onboarding
7 11 (3.37%) Low-Code
8 9 (2.76%) Hackathon
9 8 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.53%) Social Media
12 4 (1.23%) Hedge funds
12 4 (1.23%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.23%) N-Tier
13 3 (0.92%) Biopharmaceutical
13 3 (0.92%) Driving Licence
13 3 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (0.92%) LIMS
13 3 (0.92%) Virtual Team
14 2 (0.61%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.76%) Windows
2 4 (1.23%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.92%) Linux
3 3 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.31%) Android
4 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (25.15%) Analytics
2 73 (22.39%) CI/CD
3 72 (22.09%) Hematology
3 72 (22.09%) Immunology
4 63 (19.33%) Biotechnology
4 63 (19.33%) Computer Science
4 63 (19.33%) Problem-Solving
5 62 (19.02%) Continuous Improvement
6 60 (18.40%) DevOps
7 59 (18.10%) AI
8 53 (16.26%) Scrum
9 50 (15.34%) Decision-Making
9 50 (15.34%) Roadmaps
10 40 (12.27%) Data Science
11 38 (11.66%) Machine Learning
12 35 (10.74%) Use Case
13 33 (10.12%) Mentoring
14 32 (9.82%) Project Management
15 31 (9.51%) Full-Stack Development
15 31 (9.51%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 61 (18.71%) Python
2 53 (16.26%) SQL
3 44 (13.50%) C#
4 41 (12.58%) Java
5 36 (11.04%) JavaScript
6 17 (5.21%) TypeScript
7 12 (3.68%) VBA
8 9 (2.76%) Apex Code
9 7 (2.15%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.84%) C++
10 6 (1.84%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.92%) C
11 3 (0.92%) PHP
11 3 (0.92%) R
12 2 (0.61%) ABAP
12 2 (0.61%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.31%) Go
13 1 (0.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 141 (43.25%) Degree
2 44 (13.50%) Security Cleared
3 36 (11.04%) Master's Degree
4 29 (8.90%) SC Cleared
5 26 (7.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (7.36%) PMI Certification
6 24 (7.36%) PMP
7 20 (6.13%) PhD
8 13 (3.99%) ISTQB
9 12 (3.68%) ACCA
9 12 (3.68%) CIMA
10 10 (3.07%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 6 (1.84%) DV Cleared
12 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.61%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.61%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.31%) CISM
14 1 (0.31%) CISSP
14 1 (0.31%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (11.35%) Accessibility
2 29 (8.90%) QA
3 19 (5.83%) GxP
4 13 (3.99%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.45%) WCAG
6 4 (1.23%) GDPR
7 3 (0.92%) PMO
8 2 (0.61%) ECSS
9 1 (0.31%) COBIT
9 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.31%) MISRA
9 1 (0.31%) NCSC
9 1 (0.31%) NIST
9 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (7.06%) Docker
2 5 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.61%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.61%) Terminal Server
4 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (6.75%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.68%) Terraform
3 6 (1.84%) Kibana
4 5 (1.53%) SCCM
5 3 (0.92%) SCOM
6 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.61%) Netcool
6 2 (0.61%) Netcool/OMNIbus
7 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (17.79%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.75%) SAP
3 12 (3.68%) Google
4 11 (3.37%) Adobe
5 10 (3.07%) Databricks
5 10 (3.07%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.76%) MuleSoft
7 6 (1.84%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.84%) Splunk
7 6 (1.84%) Xamarin
8 5 (1.53%) Sage
8 5 (1.53%) VMware
8 5 (1.53%) Zoho
9 4 (1.23%) Oracle
9 4 (1.23%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.23%) Telerik
10 3 (0.92%) IBM
10 3 (0.92%) LabVantage
10 3 (0.92%) Workday
11 2 (0.61%) Palo Alto