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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 18 4
Rank change year-on-year -11 -14 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 334 371 838
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.45% 9.65% 17.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.25% 10.68% 21.52%
Number of salaries quoted 244 148 368
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,813 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,625 £90,375
South East median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -

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 5,340 3,473 3,894
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.13% 90.35% 83.40%
Number of salaries quoted 3,813 1,462 1,891
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,275 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,625 £83,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +35 134 £67,125 +22.05% 130
Berkshire -19 118 £62,500 +8.70% 212
Oxfordshire -14 82 £60,000 +4.35% 85
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 13 (3.89%) Confluence
2 6 (1.80%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.50%) CMS
4 4 (1.20%) CICS
5 3 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.90%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.60%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.60%) WordPress
7 1 (0.30%) Apache
7 1 (0.30%) IIS
7 1 (0.30%) JBoss
7 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (4.79%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.50%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.60%) EPLAN
4 2 (0.60%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.60%) UserZoom
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (4.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.60%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.30%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.30%) Finacle
4 1 (0.30%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.30%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.30%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.30%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 131 (39.22%) Azure
2 101 (30.24%) AWS
3 41 (12.28%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (8.38%) SaaS
5 26 (7.78%) Power Platform
6 24 (7.19%) GitHub
7 21 (6.29%) Serverless
8 17 (5.09%) GCP
9 16 (4.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 15 (4.49%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (3.89%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (3.29%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (3.29%) IaaS
13 10 (2.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 9 (2.69%) Amazon S3
14 9 (2.69%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (2.69%) Google Analytics
15 8 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
16 7 (2.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.29%) DNS
2 4 (1.20%) Firewall
3 2 (0.60%) DHCP
3 2 (0.60%) HTTP
3 2 (0.60%) MQTT
3 2 (0.60%) SMS
3 2 (0.60%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.60%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.30%) ATM
4 1 (0.30%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.30%) Intranet
4 1 (0.30%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.30%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.58%) Azure SQL Database
2 26 (7.78%) MongoDB
3 25 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (7.49%) SQL Server
4 19 (5.69%) Power BI
5 18 (5.39%) Relational Database
6 17 (5.09%) Metadata
7 14 (4.19%) NoSQL
8 12 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (3.29%) DynamoDB
9 11 (3.29%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (2.69%) Amazon QuickSight
10 9 (2.69%) Snowflake Schema
10 9 (2.69%) Star Schema
11 6 (1.80%) GIS
12 5 (1.50%) Db2
12 5 (1.50%) Geospatial Data
12 5 (1.50%) RDBMS
13 4 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.90%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 36 (10.78%) Git
2 31 (9.28%) JIRA
3 19 (5.69%) GitLab
4 14 (4.19%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.40%) JMeter
5 8 (2.40%) JUnit
6 7 (2.10%) Mockito
6 7 (2.10%) Yeoman
7 5 (1.50%) Postman
7 5 (1.50%) Selenium
8 4 (1.20%) ChangeMan
8 4 (1.20%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.90%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.90%) Eclipse RCP
9 3 (0.90%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.60%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.60%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.60%) Maven
10 2 (0.60%) Mocha
10 2 (0.60%) SonarQube
General
1 103 (30.84%) Social Skills
2 83 (24.85%) Finance
3 46 (13.77%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (8.38%) Public Sector
5 26 (7.78%) Law
5 26 (7.78%) Retail
6 25 (7.49%) Influencing Skills
7 24 (7.19%) Manufacturing
8 19 (5.69%) Marketing
9 13 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (3.29%) Banking
11 9 (2.69%) Telecoms
12 8 (2.40%) Advertising
12 8 (2.40%) Aerospace
13 7 (2.10%) Automotive
13 7 (2.10%) Electronics
13 7 (2.10%) Local Government
13 7 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 83 (24.85%) Senior
2 79 (23.65%) Developer
3 35 (10.48%) Software Engineer
4 32 (9.58%) .NET Developer
5 28 (8.38%) Senior Developer
6 27 (8.08%) Architect
7 23 (6.89%) Analyst
7 23 (6.89%) Project Manager
8 20 (5.99%) Lead
9 18 (5.39%) Azure Engineer
10 15 (4.49%) Full-Stack Developer
11 13 (3.89%) Business Analyst
11 13 (3.89%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (3.89%) Python Engineer
11 13 (3.89%) Senior Manager
11 13 (3.89%) Senior Software Engineer
11 13 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (3.59%) C# Software Engineer
12 12 (3.59%) Software Developer
13 11 (3.29%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (17.96%) .NET
2 48 (14.37%) React
3 32 (9.58%) Node.js
4 30 (8.98%) .NET Core
4 30 (8.98%) REST
5 29 (8.68%) ASP.NET
5 29 (8.68%) ASP.NET Core
6 27 (8.08%) HTML
7 21 (6.29%) RESTful
8 19 (5.69%) JSON
9 18 (5.39%) Blazor
9 18 (5.39%) CSS
10 17 (5.09%) .NET Framework
11 15 (4.49%) Terraform
11 15 (4.49%) Vue
11 15 (4.49%) XML
12 14 (4.19%) Spring
12 14 (4.19%) Spring Boot
13 13 (3.89%) AngularJS
14 12 (3.59%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 48 (14.37%) Product Ownership
2 37 (11.08%) Cloud Native
3 22 (6.59%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (5.69%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (5.09%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (3.89%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (2.69%) Life Science
8 7 (2.10%) Renewable Energy
9 6 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (1.80%) NHS
10 5 (1.50%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.20%) Client/Server
11 4 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.20%) Legacy Code
11 4 (1.20%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.20%) Social Network
11 4 (1.20%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.20%) VSAM
12 3 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.89%) Windows
2 12 (3.59%) Linux
3 4 (1.20%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.20%) zOS
4 1 (0.30%) Android
4 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (28.74%) DevOps
2 92 (27.54%) CI/CD
3 82 (24.55%) Problem-Solving
4 77 (23.05%) Scrum
5 68 (20.36%) Software Engineering
6 64 (19.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 63 (18.86%) Mentoring
8 57 (17.07%) AI
9 56 (16.77%) Decision-Making
10 54 (16.17%) Full-Stack Development
11 52 (15.57%) Microservices
12 50 (14.97%) Computer Science
13 49 (14.67%) Stakeholder Management
14 45 (13.47%) Analytics
15 41 (12.28%) Project Management
15 41 (12.28%) Roadmaps
16 38 (11.38%) Data Modelling
17 37 (11.08%) Test Automation
18 36 (10.78%) TDD
19 35 (10.48%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 98 (29.34%) C#
2 77 (23.05%) SQL
3 62 (18.56%) Python
4 46 (13.77%) JavaScript
5 33 (9.88%) TypeScript
6 30 (8.98%) Java
7 22 (6.59%) C++
8 11 (3.29%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.40%) Shell Script
10 7 (2.10%) Bash
11 5 (1.50%) ABAP
11 5 (1.50%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.50%) C
11 5 (1.50%) COBOL
12 4 (1.20%) JCL
13 2 (0.60%) Groovy
14 1 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.30%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.30%) PHP
14 1 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 107 (32.04%) Degree
2 32 (9.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (8.08%) Security Cleared
4 24 (7.19%) SC Cleared
5 16 (4.79%) PMP
6 15 (4.49%) ICAEW
6 15 (4.49%) Master's Degree
6 15 (4.49%) PMI Certification
7 10 (2.99%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.10%) PhD
9 6 (1.80%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.80%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.90%) Chartered Engineer
11 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.60%) CSPO
11 2 (0.60%) CSQA
11 2 (0.60%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.60%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (12.28%) QA
2 28 (8.38%) Data Quality
3 20 (5.99%) Accessibility
4 14 (4.19%) GDPR
5 9 (2.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (1.80%) WCAG
7 5 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.50%) NIST
7 5 (1.50%) PMO
8 4 (1.20%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.30%) MISRA
10 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 40 (11.98%) Docker
2 6 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.60%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.30%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 52 (15.57%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.10%) Kibana
3 5 (1.50%) Grafana
4 4 (1.20%) Ansible
4 4 (1.20%) CA Endevor
4 4 (1.20%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.60%) Argo
6 2 (0.60%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.60%) Istio
6 2 (0.60%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 84 (25.15%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.09%) Google
3 13 (3.89%) Salesforce
4 12 (3.59%) CA Agile Central
5 11 (3.29%) SAP
6 9 (2.69%) Informatica
6 9 (2.69%) Talend
7 8 (2.40%) Dynatrace
8 7 (2.10%) Adobe
8 7 (2.10%) Facebook
8 7 (2.10%) Pega
8 7 (2.10%) Splunk
8 7 (2.10%) YouTube
9 5 (1.50%) New Relic
9 5 (1.50%) Oracle
9 5 (1.50%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.90%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.60%) Autodesk
11 2 (0.60%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.60%) Sage