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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 -8 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 383 384 1,006
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 6.73% 11.40% 14.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.34% 12.19% 17.70%
Number of salaries quoted 240 133 661
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,188 £45,000 £46,930
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £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 4,101 3,151 5,683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 72.02% 93.58% 83.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,820 1,178 3,933
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,800 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 May 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 May 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 +50 179 £62,500 +7.30% 40
Berkshire -12 143 £70,000 - 66
Oxfordshire -10 61 £60,000 +20.00% 34
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 7 (1.83%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.57%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.31%) CMS
4 4 (1.04%) CICS
4 4 (1.04%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.52%) Apache
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.26%) Confluence
7 1 (0.26%) IIS
7 1 (0.26%) JBoss
7 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 27 (7.05%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (2.61%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.52%) UserZoom
5 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.26%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.26%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.52%) SAP HR
2 2 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.26%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.26%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.26%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 115 (30.03%) Azure
2 89 (23.24%) AWS
3 32 (8.36%) Serverless
4 26 (6.79%) Power Platform
5 24 (6.27%) Amazon EKS
5 24 (6.27%) SaaS
6 20 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (4.70%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (4.44%) IaaS
9 16 (4.18%) Amazon S3
10 15 (3.92%) GitHub
11 14 (3.66%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (3.39%) GCP
13 12 (3.13%) Azure Storage
14 11 (2.87%) Azure AKS
14 11 (2.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 11 (2.87%) Azure Key Vault
15 9 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
16 8 (2.09%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.70%) DNS
2 7 (1.83%) Broadband
2 7 (1.83%) Firewall
3 3 (0.78%) DHCP
4 2 (0.52%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.26%) HTTP
5 1 (0.26%) Intranet
5 1 (0.26%) MQTT
5 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.26%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.31%) SQL Server
2 21 (5.48%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (5.48%) Power BI
2 21 (5.48%) Relational Database
3 14 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (2.35%) Metadata
5 8 (2.09%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.31%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.04%) DB2
8 4 (1.04%) MySQL
8 4 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.52%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.52%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.26%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (8.88%) Git
2 24 (6.27%) JIRA
3 23 (6.01%) Jenkins
4 16 (4.18%) GitLab
5 11 (2.87%) Postman
6 9 (2.35%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.09%) JUnit
7 8 (2.09%) Yeoman
8 7 (1.83%) JMeter
8 7 (1.83%) Mockito
8 7 (1.83%) Zephyr
9 6 (1.57%) Selenium
9 6 (1.57%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.04%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.04%) ChangeMan
10 4 (1.04%) SpecFlow
10 4 (1.04%) WebDriver
11 3 (0.78%) SoapUI
11 3 (0.78%) Subversion
11 3 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 133 (34.73%) Social Skills
2 92 (24.02%) Finance
3 53 (13.84%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (12.01%) Law
5 42 (10.97%) Influencing Skills
6 41 (10.70%) Public Sector
7 36 (9.40%) Pharmaceutical
8 25 (6.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (4.70%) Retail
10 17 (4.44%) Manufacturing
11 9 (2.35%) Games
12 8 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.57%) Marketing
14 6 (1.57%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.04%) Advertising
15 4 (1.04%) Automotive
15 4 (1.04%) Electronics
15 4 (1.04%) Legal
15 4 (1.04%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 94 (24.54%) Senior
2 72 (18.80%) Developer
3 47 (12.27%) Architect
3 47 (12.27%) Lead
4 32 (8.36%) Analyst
4 32 (8.36%) Project Manager
5 29 (7.57%) Software Engineer
6 28 (7.31%) Senior Manager
7 27 (7.05%) Development Manager
8 26 (6.79%) Development Project Manager
8 26 (6.79%) Senior Development Manager
8 26 (6.79%) Senior Project Manager
9 24 (6.27%) Senior Developer
10 19 (4.96%) Solutions Architect
11 17 (4.44%) Java Developer
12 16 (4.18%) Designer
13 14 (3.66%) .NET Developer
13 14 (3.66%) Data Engineer
14 13 (3.39%) Product Designer
14 13 (3.39%) Senior Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (16.45%) .NET
2 48 (12.53%) REST
3 38 (9.92%) React
4 25 (6.53%) JSON
5 24 (6.27%) .NET Core
6 23 (6.01%) ASP.NET
6 23 (6.01%) SOAP
7 21 (5.48%) Spring
8 20 (5.22%) .NET Framework
8 20 (5.22%) RESTful
9 19 (4.96%) Node.js
10 18 (4.70%) HTML
10 18 (4.70%) Middleware
10 18 (4.70%) XML
11 17 (4.44%) Spring Boot
11 17 (4.44%) Web Services
12 16 (4.18%) AngularJS
12 16 (4.18%) ASP.NET Core
13 14 (3.66%) Elastic Stack
14 13 (3.39%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 46 (12.01%) Product Ownership
2 44 (11.49%) Cloud Native
3 34 (8.88%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (7.83%) Life Science
5 16 (4.18%) Mobile App
6 13 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.61%) Low-Code
8 9 (2.35%) Hackathon
8 9 (2.35%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.57%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.31%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (1.31%) Social Media
12 4 (1.04%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.04%) Cyber Defence
12 4 (1.04%) Hedge funds
12 4 (1.04%) Legacy Code
12 4 (1.04%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.66%) Linux
2 12 (3.13%) Windows
3 7 (1.83%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.04%) zOS
5 2 (0.52%) Android
5 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (26.37%) CI/CD
2 96 (25.07%) DevOps
3 78 (20.37%) Scrum
4 76 (19.84%) Decision-Making
5 71 (18.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 68 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
7 66 (17.23%) Analytics
8 65 (16.97%) AI
9 64 (16.71%) Computer Science
10 61 (15.93%) Software Engineering
11 55 (14.36%) Mentoring
12 50 (13.05%) Test Automation
13 49 (12.79%) Microservices
14 46 (12.01%) Hematology
14 46 (12.01%) Immunology
15 45 (11.75%) TDD
16 42 (10.97%) Containerisation
16 42 (10.97%) Roadmaps
17 41 (10.70%) Biotechnology
18 38 (9.92%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 78 (20.37%) SQL
2 71 (18.54%) Python
3 70 (18.28%) C#
4 46 (12.01%) Java
5 38 (9.92%) JavaScript
6 16 (4.18%) TypeScript
7 14 (3.66%) PowerShell
8 10 (2.61%) C++
8 10 (2.61%) VBA
9 9 (2.35%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.83%) ABAP
11 6 (1.57%) Groovy
12 5 (1.31%) Apex Code
12 5 (1.31%) Bash
12 5 (1.31%) C
13 4 (1.04%) COBOL
13 4 (1.04%) JCL
13 4 (1.04%) Perl
13 4 (1.04%) PHP
13 4 (1.04%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 134 (34.99%) Degree
2 44 (11.49%) Security Cleared
3 34 (8.88%) SC Cleared
4 32 (8.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (7.57%) PMI Certification
5 29 (7.57%) PMP
6 23 (6.01%) Master's Degree
7 14 (3.66%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.66%) ICAEW
7 14 (3.66%) ISTQB
8 13 (3.39%) PhD
9 10 (2.61%) ACCA
9 10 (2.61%) CIMA
10 5 (1.31%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.78%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.78%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 2 (0.52%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.52%) CSQA
12 2 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (12.27%) QA
2 38 (9.92%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.61%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.61%) GxP
4 5 (1.31%) GDPR
4 5 (1.31%) WCAG
5 4 (1.04%) PMO
6 3 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.78%) NIST
6 3 (0.78%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.52%) SLA
8 1 (0.26%) MISRA
8 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 43 (11.23%) Docker
2 9 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.78%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.52%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 58 (15.14%) Kubernetes
2 26 (6.79%) Terraform
3 14 (3.66%) Ansible
4 11 (2.87%) Kibana
5 5 (1.31%) Grafana
5 5 (1.31%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.04%) CA Endevor
6 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.04%) Packer
7 3 (0.78%) SCCM
8 2 (0.52%) Argo
8 2 (0.52%) Istio
8 2 (0.52%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.52%) SCOM
9 1 (0.26%) Netcool
9 1 (0.26%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 91 (23.76%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.96%) SAP
3 14 (3.66%) Google
4 10 (2.61%) Databricks
4 10 (2.61%) IBM
5 9 (2.35%) Adobe
5 9 (2.35%) AppDynamics
6 8 (2.09%) Oracle
7 7 (1.83%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.83%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.83%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.83%) Splunk
8 5 (1.31%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.31%) VMware
9 4 (1.04%) Sitecore
10 3 (0.78%) Facebook
10 3 (0.78%) LabVantage
10 3 (0.78%) YouTube
11 2 (0.52%) McAfee
11 2 (0.52%) Xamarin