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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 4 3
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 331 711 702
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 8.78% 17.56% 21.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.46% 20.14% 23.04%
Number of salaries quoted 147 346 539
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 £71,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £92,500
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 3,165 3,530 3,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 83.93% 87.16% 93.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,682 1,739 2,158
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £31,763
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,510 £59,518 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.18% +8.21% -
75th Percentile £66,063 £75,000 £69,688
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £56,525 £54,763
% change year-on-year -11.54% +3.22% -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 2 December 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 2 December 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 -12 216 £52,750 -24.64% 138
Buckinghamshire -12 69 £53,750 -8.51% 84
Oxfordshire -14 46 £70,000 +55.56% 80
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 (5.44%) Confluence
2 10 (3.02%) CMS
3 9 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (2.42%) Exchange Server 2013
5 5 (1.51%) IIS
6 4 (1.21%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.60%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.30%) Camunda
8 1 (0.30%) JBoss
8 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.30%) SAS
8 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.11%) MadCap Flare
2 5 (1.51%) Adobe XD
3 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (2.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.91%) Shopify
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.30%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.30%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.30%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.30%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.30%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.30%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 111 (33.53%) Azure
2 90 (27.19%) AWS
3 45 (13.60%) GCP
4 30 (9.06%) Vertex AI
5 29 (8.76%) Serverless
6 24 (7.25%) Amazon ECS
6 24 (7.25%) Amazon EKS
7 20 (6.04%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (5.14%) SaaS
9 16 (4.83%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (4.53%) Azure AI
10 15 (4.53%) GitHub
11 13 (3.93%) Power Platform
12 12 (3.63%) Amazon S3
13 11 (3.32%) Google Analytics
13 11 (3.32%) Miro
14 10 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (2.72%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (2.72%) PaaS
16 8 (2.42%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.44%) Firewall
2 16 (4.83%) SAN
3 14 (4.23%) VLAN
4 8 (2.42%) DNS
4 8 (2.42%) LAN
4 8 (2.42%) WAN
4 8 (2.42%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (1.81%) DHCP
5 6 (1.81%) NAS
5 6 (1.81%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.81%) Wireless
6 2 (0.60%) FTP
6 2 (0.60%) HTTP
6 2 (0.60%) SMTP
6 2 (0.60%) SSH
7 1 (0.30%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.30%) RFID
7 1 (0.30%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.76%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (8.16%) Relational Database
3 18 (5.44%) RDBMS
4 15 (4.53%) Data Mining
5 14 (4.23%) SQL Server
6 10 (3.02%) NoSQL
7 9 (2.72%) MySQL
7 9 (2.72%) Power BI
8 8 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.11%) Data Lake
9 7 (2.11%) Metadata
10 6 (1.81%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.91%) Big Data
11 3 (0.91%) Metadata Repository
12 2 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.60%) Tableau
13 1 (0.30%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 39 (11.78%) JIRA
2 31 (9.37%) Git
3 30 (9.06%) Jenkins
4 21 (6.34%) JUnit
5 19 (5.74%) Mockito
6 18 (5.44%) JMeter
7 14 (4.23%) Selenium
8 12 (3.63%) WebDriver
9 10 (3.02%) Postman
10 9 (2.72%) SoapUI
10 9 (2.72%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (1.51%) Axure RP
11 5 (1.51%) Balsamiq
11 5 (1.51%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.51%) git-flow
12 4 (1.21%) GitLab
13 3 (0.91%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.91%) SonarQube
14 2 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
14 2 (0.60%) Vagrant
General
1 151 (45.62%) Social Skills
2 73 (22.05%) Law
3 72 (21.75%) Finance
4 68 (20.54%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (11.18%) Public Sector
6 32 (9.67%) Marketing
7 27 (8.16%) Pharmaceutical
8 26 (7.85%) Retail
9 23 (6.95%) Legal
10 16 (4.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (3.63%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (3.63%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (3.32%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.21%) Automotive
15 3 (0.91%) Banking
15 3 (0.91%) Tech for Good
16 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
17 1 (0.30%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 91 (27.49%) Senior
2 66 (19.94%) Developer
3 64 (19.34%) Lead
4 44 (13.29%) Full-Stack Developer
5 25 (7.55%) Java Developer
5 25 (7.55%) Senior Manager
6 23 (6.95%) Analyst
6 23 (6.95%) Senior Developer
7 22 (6.65%) Product Manager
8 19 (5.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 19 (5.74%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 17 (5.14%) Software Engineer
10 16 (4.83%) Product Delivery Manager
11 15 (4.53%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 14 (4.23%) Full-Stack Web Developer
12 14 (4.23%) Project Manager
12 14 (4.23%) Senior Web Developer
12 14 (4.23%) Web Developer
13 10 (3.02%) Architect
13 10 (3.02%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (14.50%) HTML
2 37 (11.18%) .NET
3 35 (10.57%) REST
4 33 (9.97%) React
5 27 (8.16%) Spring Boot
6 26 (7.85%) Spring
7 24 (7.25%) CSS
8 23 (6.95%) Web Services
9 21 (6.34%) XML
10 20 (6.04%) JSON
10 20 (6.04%) Node.js
11 19 (5.74%) Apache Camel
11 19 (5.74%) jQuery
11 19 (5.74%) RESTful
12 18 (5.44%) ActiveMQ
12 18 (5.44%) Hibernate
12 18 (5.44%) WireMock
13 17 (5.14%) SOAP
14 12 (3.63%) Kafka
15 11 (3.32%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 43 (12.99%) Life Science
2 28 (8.46%) Product Ownership
3 25 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.83%) AI Agents
5 15 (4.53%) Algorithms
6 13 (3.93%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (3.63%) Cloud Native
8 10 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (3.02%) Replication
9 9 (2.72%) Onboarding
10 7 (2.11%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.51%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.21%) IoT
13 3 (0.91%) Low-Code
13 3 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 2 (0.60%) Educational Technology
14 2 (0.60%) Hackathon
14 2 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.95%) Windows
2 12 (3.63%) Windows Server
3 9 (2.72%) Linux
4 3 (0.91%) Unix
5 2 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.60%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.60%) VMS
5 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (25.68%) Problem-Solving
2 84 (25.38%) Analytics
3 80 (24.17%) CI/CD
3 80 (24.17%) DevOps
4 73 (22.05%) Data Science
5 72 (21.75%) Roadmaps
6 71 (21.45%) AI
7 69 (20.85%) Machine Learning
8 61 (18.43%) Use Case
9 59 (17.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 56 (16.92%) Generative AI
11 52 (15.71%) Computer Science
11 52 (15.71%) Full-Stack Development
12 47 (14.20%) User Experience
13 46 (13.90%) Hematology
13 46 (13.90%) Immunology
14 44 (13.29%) Scrum
15 37 (11.18%) Change Management
15 37 (11.18%) Microservices
15 37 (11.18%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 58 (17.52%) Python
2 57 (17.22%) JavaScript
3 53 (16.01%) Java
4 41 (12.39%) SQL
5 36 (10.88%) C#
6 19 (5.74%) Shell Script
7 14 (4.23%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.51%) Apex Code
8 5 (1.51%) C++
8 5 (1.51%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.91%) Ruby
10 2 (0.60%) C
10 2 (0.60%) Groovy
10 2 (0.60%) Perl
10 2 (0.60%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.60%) VBA
11 1 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.30%) Go
11 1 (0.30%) PHP
11 1 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 110 (33.23%) Degree
2 45 (13.60%) Security Cleared
3 39 (11.78%) Master's Degree
4 27 (8.16%) SC Cleared
5 22 (6.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (6.34%) PhD
7 12 (3.63%) ISTQB
8 11 (3.32%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 5 (1.51%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.51%) PMP
10 2 (0.60%) ACCA
10 2 (0.60%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.60%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.60%) CIMA
10 2 (0.60%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.30%) CRISC
11 1 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.30%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (13.29%) QA
2 21 (6.34%) GxP
3 17 (5.14%) Accessibility
4 14 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (3.02%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (3.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 10 (3.02%) Data Quality
6 7 (2.11%) WCAG
7 3 (0.91%) PMO
7 3 (0.91%) SLA
8 2 (0.60%) ECSS
8 2 (0.60%) GDPR
9 1 (0.30%) COBIT
9 1 (0.30%) GAAP
9 1 (0.30%) IFRS
9 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.30%) NCSC
9 1 (0.30%) NIST
9 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 51 (15.41%) Docker
2 17 (5.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (4.83%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.11%) Active Directory
5 6 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.81%) vSphere
6 3 (0.91%) vCloud
7 2 (0.60%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.60%) Firmware
8 1 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 45 (13.60%) Kubernetes
2 18 (5.44%) Kibana
3 12 (3.63%) SCCM
4 11 (3.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (2.11%) Terraform
6 4 (1.21%) Ansible
7 3 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.91%) Rundeck
8 2 (0.60%) Grafana
8 2 (0.60%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.60%) SCOM
9 1 (0.30%) Netcool
9 1 (0.30%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 63 (19.03%) Microsoft
2 52 (15.71%) Google
3 21 (6.34%) VMware
4 18 (5.44%) Dynatrace
4 18 (5.44%) Splunk
5 15 (4.53%) Foundry
5 15 (4.53%) OpenAI
6 14 (4.23%) SAP
7 8 (2.42%) arcserve
8 7 (2.11%) Databricks
9 6 (1.81%) LogicMonitor
9 6 (1.81%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.51%) Adobe
10 5 (1.51%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.51%) Sage
10 5 (1.51%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.51%) Xamarin
10 5 (1.51%) Zoho
11 4 (1.21%) Oracle
11 4 (1.21%) ServiceNow