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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 9 5
Rank change year-on-year -10 -4 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 367 366 987
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 6.68% 12.65% 15.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.19% 13.63% 17.79%
Number of salaries quoted 194 166 704
10th Percentile £46,250 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -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 3,994 2,685 5,547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 72.67% 92.78% 84.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,585 1,219 4,042
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -9 172 £70,000 - 47
Buckinghamshire +19 155 £60,000 -0.83% 48
Oxfordshire -20 40 £70,000 +47.37% 32
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 (1.91%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.09%) CMS
2 4 (1.09%) Confluence
3 3 (0.82%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.54%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.27%) Apache
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.27%) Camunda
5 1 (0.27%) JBoss
5 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 25 (6.81%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (3.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (3.27%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.36%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.54%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.27%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.54%) SAP HR
1 2 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.27%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 87 (23.71%) Azure
2 66 (17.98%) AWS
3 28 (7.63%) Serverless
4 25 (6.81%) Power Platform
5 22 (5.99%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (4.36%) Amazon ECS
7 15 (4.09%) Amazon S3
7 15 (4.09%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (4.09%) GCP
7 15 (4.09%) SaaS
8 14 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (2.72%) GitHub
10 10 (2.72%) Google Analytics
11 9 (2.45%) Miro
12 8 (2.18%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (2.18%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (2.18%) IaaS
12 8 (2.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 7 (1.91%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.27%) DNS
2 7 (1.91%) Broadband
2 7 (1.91%) Firewall
3 3 (0.82%) DHCP
4 2 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.54%) NAS
4 2 (0.54%) SAN
4 2 (0.54%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.54%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.54%) VLAN
4 2 (0.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.45%) SQL Server
2 23 (6.27%) Power BI
3 20 (5.45%) Relational Database
4 19 (5.18%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (3.54%) Metadata
6 7 (1.91%) MySQL
7 6 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.09%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.82%) Metadata Repository
10 3 (0.82%) Tableau
11 2 (0.54%) Big Data
11 2 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.54%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.27%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.27%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 34 (9.26%) Git
2 29 (7.90%) JIRA
3 22 (5.99%) Jenkins
4 14 (3.81%) GitLab
5 9 (2.45%) Postman
6 7 (1.91%) JUnit
7 6 (1.63%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.63%) Selenium
7 6 (1.63%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.63%) WebDriver
8 5 (1.36%) Axure RP
8 5 (1.36%) Balsamiq
8 5 (1.36%) Mockito
8 5 (1.36%) SoapUI
8 5 (1.36%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (1.09%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.09%) JMeter
9 4 (1.09%) SpecFlow
9 4 (1.09%) Subversion
9 4 (1.09%) Zephyr
General
1 142 (38.69%) Social Skills
2 90 (24.52%) Finance
3 59 (16.08%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (12.53%) Public Sector
5 45 (12.26%) Law
6 41 (11.17%) Pharmaceutical
7 38 (10.35%) Influencing Skills
8 32 (8.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.72%) Retail
10 9 (2.45%) Games
10 9 (2.45%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.91%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.82%) Automotive
14 2 (0.54%) Aviation
14 2 (0.54%) Publishing
15 1 (0.27%) Aeronautics
15 1 (0.27%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 98 (26.70%) Senior
2 55 (14.99%) Developer
3 49 (13.35%) Lead
4 43 (11.72%) Senior Manager
5 34 (9.26%) Analyst
5 34 (9.26%) Architect
6 31 (8.45%) Project Manager
7 27 (7.36%) Development Manager
7 27 (7.36%) Senior Development Manager
8 24 (6.54%) Development Project Manager
8 24 (6.54%) Senior Project Manager
9 20 (5.45%) Designer
10 19 (5.18%) Associate Director
11 17 (4.63%) Java Developer
12 16 (4.36%) Software Engineer
13 15 (4.09%) Full-Stack Developer
14 14 (3.81%) Data Analyst
14 14 (3.81%) Senior Developer
15 13 (3.54%) Data Engineer
15 13 (3.54%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (13.62%) REST
2 45 (12.26%) .NET
3 28 (7.63%) SOAP
4 27 (7.36%) React
5 24 (6.54%) Middleware
6 21 (5.72%) JSON
7 20 (5.45%) Spring
8 18 (4.90%) ASP.NET
9 16 (4.36%) .NET Framework
9 16 (4.36%) Spring Boot
9 16 (4.36%) XML
10 15 (4.09%) Elastic Stack
10 15 (4.09%) HTML
11 14 (3.81%) Kafka
11 14 (3.81%) Web Services
12 13 (3.54%) RabbitMQ
13 12 (3.27%) AngularJS
13 12 (3.27%) Node.js
14 11 (3.00%) RESTful
15 9 (2.45%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 54 (14.71%) Life Science
2 43 (11.72%) Product Ownership
3 32 (8.72%) Cloud Native
4 31 (8.45%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (4.63%) Onboarding
6 16 (4.36%) Mobile App
7 12 (3.27%) Low-Code
8 11 (3.00%) Hackathon
9 8 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.36%) Social Media
11 4 (1.09%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.09%) Hedge funds
11 4 (1.09%) N-Tier
11 4 (1.09%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.82%) Biopharmaceutical
12 3 (0.82%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.00%) Linux
2 5 (1.36%) Windows
3 4 (1.09%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.54%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (24.80%) CI/CD
2 89 (24.25%) Analytics
3 83 (22.62%) DevOps
4 79 (21.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 72 (19.62%) Hematology
5 72 (19.62%) Immunology
5 72 (19.62%) Scrum
6 70 (19.07%) Problem-Solving
7 67 (18.26%) Biotechnology
7 67 (18.26%) Decision-Making
8 63 (17.17%) AI
9 61 (16.62%) Computer Science
10 44 (11.99%) Roadmaps
11 39 (10.63%) Microservices
12 38 (10.35%) Data Modelling
12 38 (10.35%) Data Science
12 38 (10.35%) Technology Strategy
13 36 (9.81%) Machine Learning
13 36 (9.81%) Project Management
13 36 (9.81%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 73 (19.89%) Python
2 69 (18.80%) SQL
3 51 (13.90%) Java
4 40 (10.90%) C#
5 32 (8.72%) JavaScript
6 13 (3.54%) TypeScript
7 12 (3.27%) VBA
8 8 (2.18%) Apex Code
9 7 (1.91%) C++
10 6 (1.63%) Groovy
10 6 (1.63%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.63%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.09%) ABAP
11 4 (1.09%) Perl
11 4 (1.09%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.82%) Bash
12 3 (0.82%) C
12 3 (0.82%) PHP
12 3 (0.82%) R
13 1 (0.27%) Go
Qualifications
1 147 (40.05%) Degree
2 56 (15.26%) Security Cleared
3 43 (11.72%) SC Cleared
4 31 (8.45%) Master's Degree
5 26 (7.08%) PMI Certification
5 26 (7.08%) PMP
6 24 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (4.36%) PhD
8 13 (3.54%) ISTQB
9 12 (3.27%) ACCA
9 12 (3.27%) CIMA
10 6 (1.63%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.36%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.36%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.54%) CSQA
13 2 (0.54%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.54%) ICAEW
13 2 (0.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (11.44%) Accessibility
2 39 (10.63%) QA
3 15 (4.09%) Data Quality
3 15 (4.09%) GxP
4 9 (2.45%) WCAG
5 4 (1.09%) PMO
6 2 (0.54%) ECSS
6 2 (0.54%) GDPR
6 2 (0.54%) SLA
7 1 (0.27%) MISRA
7 1 (0.27%) NCSC
7 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (9.54%) Docker
2 6 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.82%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.54%) Terminal Server
5 2 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 43 (11.72%) Kubernetes
2 24 (6.54%) Terraform
3 12 (3.27%) Ansible
4 8 (2.18%) Kibana
5 5 (1.36%) SCCM
6 4 (1.09%) Packer
7 3 (0.82%) Grafana
7 3 (0.82%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.82%) SCOM
8 2 (0.54%) Argo
8 2 (0.54%) Istio
8 2 (0.54%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.27%) Netcool
9 1 (0.27%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 68 (18.53%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.90%) SAP
3 15 (4.09%) Google
4 13 (3.54%) Adobe
5 12 (3.27%) Databricks
6 10 (2.72%) IBM
6 10 (2.72%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.45%) AppDynamics
7 9 (2.45%) Oracle
8 8 (2.18%) MuleSoft
9 6 (1.63%) VMware
10 4 (1.09%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.09%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.09%) Splunk
11 3 (0.82%) LabVantage
11 3 (0.82%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.82%) Sitecore
11 3 (0.82%) Telerik
12 2 (0.54%) Cisco
12 2 (0.54%) McAfee