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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 13 5
Rank change year-on-year -13 -8 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 340 457 871
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 5.05% 12.45% 16.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.16% 13.84% 20.62%
Number of salaries quoted 251 147 447
10th Percentile £45,000 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £91,250
South East median annual salary £60,000 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -

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 4,750 3,302 4,225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.50% 89.95% 81.49%
Number of salaries quoted 3,319 1,438 2,619
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £68,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £81,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 August 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 August 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 +48 160 £60,000 +9.09% 66
Berkshire -26 103 £67,500 +8.00% 112
Oxfordshire -9 77 £57,500 +7.48% 65
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 (2.35%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.18%) CICS
2 4 (1.18%) CMS
3 3 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (0.88%) Confluence
3 3 (0.88%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (0.59%) Apache
4 2 (0.59%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.59%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.29%) IIS
5 1 (0.29%) JBoss
5 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.24%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.47%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.59%) EPLAN
3 2 (0.59%) Lightworks
3 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.59%) UserZoom
4 1 (0.29%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (3.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.59%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.29%) Finacle
4 1 (0.29%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.29%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.29%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.29%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 141 (41.47%) Azure
2 111 (32.65%) AWS
3 32 (9.41%) Serverless
4 31 (9.12%) SaaS
5 26 (7.65%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (7.06%) GitHub
7 23 (6.76%) Amazon EKS
8 22 (6.47%) Power Platform
9 19 (5.59%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (5.29%) IaaS
11 15 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (4.41%) GCP
12 14 (4.12%) Amazon S3
13 13 (3.82%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (3.24%) Azure AKS
14 11 (3.24%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 11 (3.24%) Azure Key Vault
14 11 (3.24%) Azure Storage
15 10 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 10 (2.94%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.71%) DNS
2 5 (1.47%) Firewall
3 3 (0.88%) Broadband
3 3 (0.88%) DHCP
4 2 (0.59%) HTTP
4 2 (0.59%) MQTT
4 2 (0.59%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.29%) Intranet
5 1 (0.29%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.29%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.29%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.53%) SQL Server
2 27 (7.94%) Azure SQL Database
3 22 (6.47%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (6.18%) Relational Database
5 19 (5.59%) MongoDB
6 15 (4.41%) Power BI
7 13 (3.82%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (3.53%) Metadata
9 6 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.76%) NoSQL
10 5 (1.47%) Db2
10 5 (1.47%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.18%) DynamoDB
11 4 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.88%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.88%) GIS
12 3 (0.88%) MySQL
13 2 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.59%) Amazon QuickSight
13 2 (0.59%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 35 (10.29%) Git
2 22 (6.47%) GitLab
3 21 (6.18%) Jenkins
3 21 (6.18%) JIRA
4 9 (2.65%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.35%) JUnit
5 8 (2.35%) Postman
5 8 (2.35%) SonarQube
5 8 (2.35%) Yeoman
6 7 (2.06%) JMeter
6 7 (2.06%) Mockito
7 6 (1.76%) Zephyr
8 4 (1.18%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.18%) ChangeMan
8 4 (1.18%) Selenium
8 4 (1.18%) SpecFlow
9 3 (0.88%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.88%) Eclipse RCP
10 2 (0.59%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.59%) Mocha
General
1 98 (28.82%) Social Skills
2 64 (18.82%) Finance
3 42 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (11.18%) Law
5 35 (10.29%) Public Sector
6 25 (7.35%) Manufacturing
7 24 (7.06%) Retail
8 19 (5.59%) Influencing Skills
9 17 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.35%) Advertising
10 8 (2.35%) Marketing
10 8 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (2.06%) Local Government
11 7 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.47%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.47%) Automotive
12 5 (1.47%) Games
12 5 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.18%) Electronics
13 4 (1.18%) Legal
Job Titles
1 85 (25.00%) Developer
2 70 (20.59%) Senior
3 39 (11.47%) Software Engineer
4 37 (10.88%) Architect
5 29 (8.53%) .NET Developer
6 25 (7.35%) Lead
6 25 (7.35%) Senior Developer
7 19 (5.59%) Project Manager
8 18 (5.29%) Analyst
9 17 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
10 16 (4.71%) Java Developer
11 15 (4.41%) Azure Engineer
11 15 (4.41%) Full-Stack Developer
11 15 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
12 14 (4.12%) Data Engineer
13 13 (3.82%) Python Engineer
13 13 (3.82%) Senior Software Engineer
14 11 (3.24%) C# Software Engineer
14 11 (3.24%) DevOps Engineer
14 11 (3.24%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (20.00%) .NET
2 53 (15.59%) React
3 40 (11.76%) REST
4 35 (10.29%) .NET Core
5 33 (9.71%) ASP.NET
6 31 (9.12%) Node.js
7 27 (7.94%) ASP.NET Core
8 24 (7.06%) JSON
9 23 (6.76%) HTML
9 23 (6.76%) RESTful
10 22 (6.47%) .NET Framework
10 22 (6.47%) Blazor
11 19 (5.59%) AngularJS
12 18 (5.29%) Vue
13 17 (5.00%) Spring
14 16 (4.71%) Spring Boot
14 16 (4.71%) XML
15 15 (4.41%) Entity Framework
16 14 (4.12%) CSS
17 13 (3.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 45 (13.24%) Cloud Native
2 38 (11.18%) Product Ownership
3 34 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.71%) Life Science
5 13 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.35%) Renewable Energy
8 6 (1.76%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (1.76%) Hackathon
8 6 (1.76%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.76%) NHS
9 5 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.47%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.47%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.18%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.18%) Legacy Code
10 4 (1.18%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.18%) Social Network
10 4 (1.18%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.41%) Linux
2 14 (4.12%) Windows
3 4 (1.18%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.18%) zOS
4 2 (0.59%) Android
5 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (31.47%) DevOps
2 101 (29.71%) CI/CD
3 75 (22.06%) Software Engineering
4 73 (21.47%) Scrum
5 71 (20.88%) Problem-Solving
6 70 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 68 (20.00%) AI
8 66 (19.41%) Microservices
9 64 (18.82%) Mentoring
10 62 (18.24%) Decision-Making
11 55 (16.18%) Computer Science
12 51 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
12 51 (15.00%) Test Automation
13 50 (14.71%) Analytics
14 49 (14.41%) Containerisation
15 45 (13.24%) TDD
16 39 (11.47%) Data Modelling
17 33 (9.71%) Kanban
17 33 (9.71%) Stakeholder Management
18 32 (9.41%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 98 (28.82%) C#
2 84 (24.71%) SQL
3 70 (20.59%) Python
4 39 (11.47%) JavaScript
5 38 (11.18%) Java
6 31 (9.12%) TypeScript
7 20 (5.88%) C++
8 16 (4.71%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.94%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.35%) Groovy
11 7 (2.06%) Bash
12 6 (1.76%) Apex Code
13 5 (1.47%) ABAP
13 5 (1.47%) COBOL
14 4 (1.18%) C
14 4 (1.18%) JCL
14 4 (1.18%) Perl
14 4 (1.18%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.59%) PHP
16 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 102 (30.00%) Degree
2 35 (10.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (9.71%) Security Cleared
4 30 (8.82%) SC Cleared
5 18 (5.29%) Master's Degree
6 15 (4.41%) ICAEW
7 14 (4.12%) Azure Certification
8 11 (3.24%) PMP
9 10 (2.94%) PMI Certification
10 8 (2.35%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.47%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.47%) PhD
12 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.59%) Chartered Engineer
12 2 (0.59%) CSQA
12 2 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.29%) CCNA
13 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.29%) CISSP
13 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (12.35%) QA
2 26 (7.65%) Accessibility
3 14 (4.12%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.76%) GDPR
4 6 (1.76%) WCAG
5 5 (1.47%) SOC 2
6 4 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.18%) NIST
6 4 (1.18%) PMO
7 2 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.59%) SLA
8 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.29%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 49 (14.41%) Docker
2 6 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.88%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 65 (19.12%) Kubernetes
2 31 (9.12%) Terraform
3 14 (4.12%) Ansible
4 11 (3.24%) Kibana
5 5 (1.47%) Grafana
5 5 (1.47%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.18%) CA Endevor
6 4 (1.18%) Packer
7 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.59%) Argo
8 2 (0.59%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.59%) Istio
8 2 (0.59%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 92 (27.06%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.71%) Google
3 10 (2.94%) SAP
4 9 (2.65%) AppDynamics
4 9 (2.65%) IBM
4 9 (2.65%) Oracle
5 7 (2.06%) Adobe
5 7 (2.06%) Databricks
5 7 (2.06%) Dynatrace
5 7 (2.06%) Facebook
5 7 (2.06%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.06%) Splunk
5 7 (2.06%) YouTube
6 6 (1.76%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.47%) New Relic
8 3 (0.88%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (0.88%) Sitecore
8 3 (0.88%) VMware
9 2 (0.59%) Informatica
9 2 (0.59%) Sage