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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 14 5
Rank change year-on-year -9 -9 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 353 458 913
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 5.49% 12.73% 16.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.73% 14.08% 20.37%
Number of salaries quoted 252 150 490
10th Percentile £45,000 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,563 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £92,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

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 4,568 3,253 4,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.02% 90.41% 81.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,168 1,418 2,903
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,854 £38,880
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £51,020
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -2.00% -7.24%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 30 July 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 30 July 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
Buckinghamshire +42 169 £60,000 +10.09% 31
Berkshire -22 110 £70,000 +7.69% 59
Oxfordshire -12 74 £57,500 +15.00% 30
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 8 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.42%) CMS
3 4 (1.13%) CICS
3 4 (1.13%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.85%) Confluence
5 2 (0.57%) Apache
5 2 (0.57%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.57%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.28%) IIS
6 1 (0.28%) JBoss
6 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (4.25%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.42%) Chatbot
2 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.57%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.28%) EPLAN
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.28%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 9 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.57%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.57%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.28%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.28%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.28%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 136 (38.53%) Azure
2 112 (31.73%) AWS
3 32 (9.07%) SaaS
4 31 (8.78%) Serverless
5 24 (6.80%) GitHub
6 23 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (6.23%) Amazon EKS
8 21 (5.95%) Power Platform
9 18 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (5.10%) IaaS
10 16 (4.53%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (4.25%) GCP
12 14 (3.97%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (3.68%) Amazon S3
14 11 (3.12%) Azure AKS
14 11 (3.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 11 (3.12%) Azure Key Vault
14 11 (3.12%) Azure Storage
15 8 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (2.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.53%) DNS
2 5 (1.42%) Firewall
3 4 (1.13%) Broadband
4 3 (0.85%) DHCP
5 2 (0.57%) HTTP
5 2 (0.57%) MQTT
5 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.28%) Intranet
6 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.28%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.28%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.37%) SQL Server
2 25 (7.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 20 (5.67%) Relational Database
4 19 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (4.82%) MongoDB
6 16 (4.53%) Power BI
7 13 (3.68%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (2.83%) Metadata
9 5 (1.42%) MySQL
9 5 (1.42%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.13%) Db2
10 4 (1.13%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.85%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.85%) GIS
11 3 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.57%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.57%) QGIS
12 2 (0.57%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 34 (9.63%) Git
2 22 (6.23%) GitLab
2 22 (6.23%) JIRA
3 21 (5.95%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.55%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.27%) JUnit
5 8 (2.27%) Postman
5 8 (2.27%) SonarQube
5 8 (2.27%) Yeoman
6 7 (1.98%) JMeter
6 7 (1.98%) Mockito
6 7 (1.98%) Zephyr
7 4 (1.13%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.13%) ChangeMan
7 4 (1.13%) Selenium
7 4 (1.13%) SpecFlow
8 3 (0.85%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.85%) Eclipse RCP
9 2 (0.57%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.57%) Mocha
General
1 105 (29.75%) Social Skills
2 70 (19.83%) Finance
3 44 (12.46%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (10.48%) Law
5 34 (9.63%) Public Sector
6 26 (7.37%) Influencing Skills
7 24 (6.80%) Manufacturing
7 24 (6.80%) Retail
8 17 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (3.68%) Pharmaceutical
10 8 (2.27%) Advertising
11 7 (1.98%) Local Government
12 6 (1.70%) Games
12 6 (1.70%) Marketing
13 5 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.13%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.13%) Automotive
14 4 (1.13%) Electronics
14 4 (1.13%) Legal
14 4 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (24.08%) Developer
2 76 (21.53%) Senior
3 43 (12.18%) Architect
4 37 (10.48%) Software Engineer
5 29 (8.22%) .NET Developer
6 25 (7.08%) Lead
6 25 (7.08%) Senior Developer
7 23 (6.52%) Project Manager
8 20 (5.67%) Solutions Architect
9 18 (5.10%) Analyst
10 16 (4.53%) Cloud Engineer
10 16 (4.53%) Java Developer
11 15 (4.25%) Data Engineer
11 15 (4.25%) Development Manager
11 15 (4.25%) Full-Stack Developer
12 14 (3.97%) Senior Manager
13 13 (3.68%) Development Project Manager
13 13 (3.68%) Senior Development Manager
13 13 (3.68%) Senior Project Manager
13 13 (3.68%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (19.26%) .NET
2 55 (15.58%) React
3 40 (11.33%) REST
4 35 (9.92%) .NET Core
5 33 (9.35%) ASP.NET
6 31 (8.78%) Node.js
7 27 (7.65%) ASP.NET Core
8 24 (6.80%) JSON
8 24 (6.80%) RESTful
9 22 (6.23%) .NET Framework
9 22 (6.23%) Blazor
10 21 (5.95%) HTML
11 19 (5.38%) AngularJS
12 17 (4.82%) Spring
13 16 (4.53%) Spring Boot
13 16 (4.53%) Vue
13 16 (4.53%) XML
14 15 (4.25%) Entity Framework
15 13 (3.68%) RabbitMQ
15 13 (3.68%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 48 (13.60%) Cloud Native
2 43 (12.18%) Product Ownership
3 34 (9.63%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.53%) Life Science
5 12 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (3.12%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.55%) Mobile App
8 8 (2.27%) Renewable Energy
9 7 (1.98%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.70%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.70%) Hackathon
10 6 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.70%) NHS
11 5 (1.42%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.42%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.13%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.13%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (1.13%) Legacy Code
12 4 (1.13%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.13%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.68%) Linux
2 12 (3.40%) Windows
3 4 (1.13%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.13%) zOS
4 2 (0.57%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (30.31%) DevOps
2 103 (29.18%) CI/CD
3 78 (22.10%) Scrum
4 74 (20.96%) Software Engineering
5 73 (20.68%) Problem-Solving
6 70 (19.83%) Continuous Improvement
7 69 (19.55%) Decision-Making
8 68 (19.26%) AI
8 68 (19.26%) Microservices
9 64 (18.13%) Mentoring
10 55 (15.58%) Analytics
11 54 (15.30%) Computer Science
12 51 (14.45%) Test Automation
13 50 (14.16%) Full-Stack Development
14 48 (13.60%) Containerisation
15 45 (12.75%) TDD
16 37 (10.48%) Data Modelling
16 37 (10.48%) Kanban
17 34 (9.63%) Roadmaps
18 32 (9.07%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 94 (26.63%) C#
2 83 (23.51%) SQL
3 70 (19.83%) Python
4 38 (10.76%) Java
4 38 (10.76%) JavaScript
5 29 (8.22%) TypeScript
6 19 (5.38%) C++
7 16 (4.53%) PowerShell
8 9 (2.55%) Shell Script
9 8 (2.27%) Groovy
10 7 (1.98%) ABAP
10 7 (1.98%) Bash
11 6 (1.70%) Apex Code
12 5 (1.42%) C
13 4 (1.13%) COBOL
13 4 (1.13%) JCL
13 4 (1.13%) Perl
13 4 (1.13%) PHP
13 4 (1.13%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 102 (28.90%) Degree
2 35 (9.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 32 (9.07%) Security Cleared
4 28 (7.93%) SC Cleared
5 17 (4.82%) Master's Degree
6 16 (4.53%) PMP
7 15 (4.25%) ICAEW
7 15 (4.25%) PMI Certification
8 14 (3.97%) Azure Certification
9 9 (2.55%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.13%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.13%) PhD
11 3 (0.85%) ACCA
11 3 (0.85%) CIMA
12 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.57%) CSQA
12 2 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.28%) APMG
13 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (12.75%) QA
2 29 (8.22%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.83%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.42%) GDPR
4 5 (1.42%) SOC 2
4 5 (1.42%) WCAG
5 4 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.13%) NIST
5 4 (1.13%) PMO
6 2 (0.57%) SLA
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.28%) MISRA
7 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 50 (14.16%) Docker
2 6 (1.70%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.85%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (17.85%) Kubernetes
2 31 (8.78%) Terraform
3 14 (3.97%) Ansible
4 11 (3.12%) Kibana
5 5 (1.42%) Grafana
5 5 (1.42%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.13%) CA Endevor
6 4 (1.13%) Packer
7 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.57%) Argo
8 2 (0.57%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.57%) Istio
8 2 (0.57%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.28%) Netcool
9 1 (0.28%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 92 (26.06%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.25%) SAP
3 14 (3.97%) Google
4 10 (2.83%) IBM
5 9 (2.55%) AppDynamics
6 7 (1.98%) Adobe
6 7 (1.98%) Databricks
6 7 (1.98%) Dynatrace
6 7 (1.98%) Facebook
6 7 (1.98%) Oracle
6 7 (1.98%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.98%) ServiceNow
6 7 (1.98%) Splunk
6 7 (1.98%) YouTube
7 5 (1.42%) New Relic
8 4 (1.13%) Sitecore
9 3 (0.85%) VMware
10 2 (0.57%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.57%) Sage
10 2 (0.57%) Xamarin