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 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 7 5
Rank change year-on-year -10 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 315 496 851
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 7.37% 14.86% 16.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.28% 16.00% 18.46%
Number of salaries quoted 153 254 679
10th Percentile £35,595 £36,250 £38,738
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 £73,750 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,000 £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 3,393 3,100 4,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 79.37% 92.90% 87.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,897 1,298 3,352
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,450 £29,500
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 £76,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% +13.73% -7.27%

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 4 February 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 4 February 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 -15 179 £55,500 -20.71% 62
Buckinghamshire +8 104 £60,000 -0.83% 47
Oxfordshire -21 32 £70,000 +86.67% 24
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 13 (4.13%) Confluence
2 6 (1.90%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.59%) IIS
4 4 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.63%) CMS
6 1 (0.32%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.32%) Camunda
6 1 (0.32%) SAS
6 1 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (6.03%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (3.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (3.17%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.59%) Adobe XD
5 4 (1.27%) 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 9 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.63%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.32%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.32%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.32%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.32%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.32%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.32%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.32%) Shopify
3 1 (0.32%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 66 (20.95%) Azure
2 47 (14.92%) AWS
3 24 (7.62%) GCP
4 22 (6.98%) Serverless
5 20 (6.35%) Power Platform
6 17 (5.40%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (4.13%) Amazon S3
10 12 (3.81%) Amazon SQS
11 10 (3.17%) Miro
12 9 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (2.86%) GitHub
12 9 (2.86%) SaaS
13 8 (2.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 7 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (2.22%) Figma
14 7 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (2.22%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.90%) DNS
1 6 (1.90%) Firewall
2 4 (1.27%) DHCP
2 4 (1.27%) NAS
2 4 (1.27%) SAN
2 4 (1.27%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.27%) VLAN
2 4 (1.27%) Wireless
3 3 (0.95%) Broadband
4 2 (0.63%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.63%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
1 20 (6.35%) Relational Database
2 18 (5.71%) SQL Server
3 16 (5.08%) Power BI
4 10 (3.17%) MySQL
5 9 (2.86%) RDBMS
6 8 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.22%) Metadata
8 6 (1.90%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (1.59%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.27%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.95%) Big Data
11 3 (0.95%) Metadata Repository
11 3 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.63%) Spark SQL
12 2 (0.63%) Tableau
13 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
13 1 (0.32%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 31 (9.84%) JIRA
2 17 (5.40%) Git
2 17 (5.40%) Selenium
3 16 (5.08%) Jenkins
4 15 (4.76%) WebDriver
5 11 (3.49%) JUnit
5 11 (3.49%) Postman
5 11 (3.49%) SoapUI
5 11 (3.49%) Team Foundation Server
6 10 (3.17%) Mockito
7 9 (2.86%) JMeter
8 6 (1.90%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.90%) GitLab
9 5 (1.59%) Axure RP
9 5 (1.59%) Balsamiq
9 5 (1.59%) git-flow
10 3 (0.95%) Subversion
11 2 (0.63%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.63%) Claude Code
12 1 (0.32%) MLflow
General
1 144 (45.71%) Social Skills
2 105 (33.33%) Finance
3 51 (16.19%) Pharmaceutical
4 50 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (12.38%) Public Sector
6 32 (10.16%) Influencing Skills
7 29 (9.21%) Law
8 25 (7.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (5.08%) Documentation Skills
9 16 (5.08%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.86%) Marketing
11 7 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.90%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.27%) Automotive
13 4 (1.27%) Games
13 4 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.63%) Banking
14 2 (0.63%) Billing
14 2 (0.63%) Retail
15 1 (0.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 85 (26.98%) Senior
2 61 (19.37%) Lead
3 49 (15.56%) Developer
4 39 (12.38%) Senior Manager
5 32 (10.16%) Analyst
6 26 (8.25%) Project Manager
7 24 (7.62%) Development Manager
7 24 (7.62%) Full-Stack Developer
8 22 (6.98%) Senior Development Manager
9 21 (6.67%) Senior Project Manager
10 19 (6.03%) Development Project Manager
11 16 (5.08%) Java Developer
11 16 (5.08%) Software Engineer
12 14 (4.44%) Designer
13 12 (3.81%) Architect
13 12 (3.81%) Associate Director
13 12 (3.81%) Business Analyst
13 12 (3.81%) Data Analyst
13 12 (3.81%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 11 (3.49%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (14.29%) .NET
2 35 (11.11%) REST
3 28 (8.89%) HTML
4 25 (7.94%) SOAP
5 22 (6.98%) React
6 18 (5.71%) Spring
6 18 (5.71%) Spring Boot
7 16 (5.08%) Middleware
8 15 (4.76%) Web Services
9 14 (4.44%) JSON
9 14 (4.44%) XML
10 13 (4.13%) Kafka
11 12 (3.81%) ASP.NET
12 11 (3.49%) .NET Framework
12 11 (3.49%) CSS
13 10 (3.17%) Hibernate
13 10 (3.17%) jQuery
14 9 (2.86%) ActiveMQ
14 9 (2.86%) Apache Camel
14 9 (2.86%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 62 (19.68%) Life Science
2 34 (10.79%) Product Ownership
3 19 (6.03%) Cloud Native
3 19 (6.03%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (4.44%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.17%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.22%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.90%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.59%) Hackathon
10 4 (1.27%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (0.95%) Biopharmaceutical
11 3 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.95%) LIMS
11 3 (0.95%) N-Tier
11 3 (0.95%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.63%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.63%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.86%) Windows
2 4 (1.27%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.95%) Linux
3 3 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (24.76%) Analytics
2 76 (24.13%) Hematology
2 76 (24.13%) Immunology
3 74 (23.49%) Computer Science
4 71 (22.54%) CI/CD
5 67 (21.27%) Problem-Solving
6 62 (19.68%) AI
7 56 (17.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 55 (17.46%) Biotechnology
8 55 (17.46%) Roadmaps
9 52 (16.51%) DevOps
10 49 (15.56%) Scrum
11 48 (15.24%) Data Science
12 47 (14.92%) Machine Learning
13 40 (12.70%) Decision-Making
13 40 (12.70%) Use Case
14 37 (11.75%) Deployment Automation
15 33 (10.48%) Full-Stack Development
16 31 (9.84%) Mentoring
16 31 (9.84%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 57 (18.10%) Python
2 52 (16.51%) Java
3 51 (16.19%) SQL
4 43 (13.65%) C#
5 37 (11.75%) JavaScript
6 18 (5.71%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.17%) Shell Script
7 10 (3.17%) VBA
8 8 (2.54%) Apex Code
9 7 (2.22%) C++
10 5 (1.59%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.63%) ABAP
11 2 (0.63%) C
11 2 (0.63%) R
12 1 (0.32%) Go
12 1 (0.32%) PHP
12 1 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 152 (48.25%) Degree
2 51 (16.19%) Security Cleared
3 45 (14.29%) Master's Degree
4 33 (10.48%) SC Cleared
5 31 (9.84%) PhD
6 27 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (6.35%) PMI Certification
7 20 (6.35%) PMP
8 16 (5.08%) ISTQB
9 13 (4.13%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 10 (3.17%) ACCA
10 10 (3.17%) CIMA
11 7 (2.22%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.63%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.32%) CISM
14 1 (0.32%) CISSP
14 1 (0.32%) CRISC
14 1 (0.32%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.11%) QA
2 30 (9.52%) Accessibility
2 30 (9.52%) GxP
3 13 (4.13%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.54%) WCAG
5 4 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.95%) GDPR
6 3 (0.95%) PMO
7 2 (0.63%) ECSS
7 2 (0.63%) SLA
8 1 (0.32%) COBIT
8 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.32%) NCSC
8 1 (0.32%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (7.94%) Docker
2 6 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.59%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.27%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.27%) vSphere
5 2 (0.63%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 24 (7.62%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.86%) Kibana
2 9 (2.86%) Terraform
3 5 (1.59%) SCCM
4 3 (0.95%) SCOM
5 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.63%) Netcool
5 2 (0.63%) Netcool/OMNIbus
6 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (14.92%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.67%) SAP
3 12 (3.81%) Google
4 11 (3.49%) Databricks
5 9 (2.86%) Dynatrace
5 9 (2.86%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.86%) Splunk
6 8 (2.54%) MuleSoft
7 7 (2.22%) Adobe
7 7 (2.22%) VMware
8 5 (1.59%) Sage
8 5 (1.59%) Xamarin
8 5 (1.59%) Zoho
9 4 (1.27%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (1.27%) Oracle
9 4 (1.27%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.27%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.27%) Telerik
10 3 (0.95%) LabVantage
10 3 (0.95%) Workday