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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 15 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 -9 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 380 383 950
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 6.69% 11.27% 14.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.33% 12.00% 17.34%
Number of salaries quoted 232 153 651
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £47,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,125 £95,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 4,074 3,191 5,480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.70% 93.91% 84.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,763 1,223 3,875
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% +7.00% -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 19 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 19 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 +41 179 £62,500 +4.17% 46
Berkshire -12 146 £70,000 - 89
Oxfordshire -6 55 £61,250 +22.50% 29
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 (2.11%) OpenStack
2 6 (1.58%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.32%) CMS
4 4 (1.05%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.79%) CICS
6 2 (0.53%) Apache
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.26%) Camunda
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 28 (7.37%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (3.16%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.79%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.53%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.26%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.53%) SAP HR
1 2 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.26%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.26%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 105 (27.63%) Azure
2 87 (22.89%) AWS
3 34 (8.95%) Serverless
4 28 (7.37%) Power Platform
5 26 (6.84%) Amazon EKS
6 21 (5.53%) SaaS
7 20 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
8 18 (4.74%) Amazon S3
9 17 (4.47%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (3.95%) IaaS
12 14 (3.68%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (3.42%) GCP
14 12 (3.16%) Azure Storage
14 12 (3.16%) GitHub
15 10 (2.63%) Azure AKS
15 10 (2.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 10 (2.63%) Azure Key Vault
16 9 (2.37%) Google Analytics
17 8 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.74%) DNS
2 8 (2.11%) Firewall
3 7 (1.84%) Broadband
4 4 (1.05%) DHCP
5 2 (0.53%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.53%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.26%) Intranet
6 1 (0.26%) NAS
6 1 (0.26%) SAN
6 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.26%) VLAN
6 1 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.37%) SQL Server
2 24 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (6.32%) Power BI
2 24 (6.32%) Relational Database
3 11 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (2.11%) Metadata
5 6 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (1.58%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.58%) MySQL
6 5 (1.32%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.79%) DB2
8 3 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.79%) Tableau
9 2 (0.53%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.26%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.26%) Looker
10 1 (0.26%) PowerPivot
10 1 (0.26%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 35 (9.21%) Git
2 25 (6.58%) Jenkins
2 25 (6.58%) JIRA
3 15 (3.95%) GitLab
4 12 (3.16%) Postman
5 10 (2.63%) JUnit
6 9 (2.37%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.11%) Mockito
7 8 (2.11%) Selenium
8 7 (1.84%) JMeter
8 7 (1.84%) Yeoman
9 6 (1.58%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.58%) WebDriver
9 6 (1.58%) Zephyr
10 5 (1.32%) SoapUI
10 5 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (1.05%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.05%) SpecFlow
11 4 (1.05%) Subversion
12 3 (0.79%) ChangeMan
General
1 130 (34.21%) Social Skills
2 90 (23.68%) Finance
3 57 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (12.89%) Law
5 47 (12.37%) Public Sector
6 44 (11.58%) Influencing Skills
7 37 (9.74%) Pharmaceutical
8 30 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.95%) Manufacturing
10 14 (3.68%) Retail
11 9 (2.37%) Games
12 8 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.58%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (1.05%) Marketing
16 3 (0.79%) Advertising
16 3 (0.79%) Automotive
16 3 (0.79%) Electronics
16 3 (0.79%) Local Government
16 3 (0.79%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 95 (25.00%) Senior
2 69 (18.16%) Developer
3 49 (12.89%) Lead
4 43 (11.32%) Architect
5 36 (9.47%) Analyst
6 33 (8.68%) Project Manager
7 29 (7.63%) Senior Manager
8 27 (7.11%) Development Manager
8 27 (7.11%) Development Project Manager
8 27 (7.11%) Senior Development Manager
8 27 (7.11%) Senior Project Manager
9 25 (6.58%) Software Engineer
10 23 (6.05%) Senior Developer
11 19 (5.00%) Designer
11 19 (5.00%) Java Developer
12 16 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
13 15 (3.95%) Data Engineer
14 14 (3.68%) Data Analyst
15 13 (3.42%) DevOps Engineer
15 13 (3.42%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (15.00%) .NET
2 49 (12.89%) REST
3 34 (8.95%) React
4 26 (6.84%) SOAP
5 24 (6.32%) JSON
5 24 (6.32%) Spring
6 20 (5.26%) ASP.NET
6 20 (5.26%) HTML
6 20 (5.26%) Spring Boot
7 19 (5.00%) Middleware
7 19 (5.00%) Node.js
8 18 (4.74%) .NET Core
8 18 (4.74%) .NET Framework
8 18 (4.74%) XML
9 17 (4.47%) AngularJS
9 17 (4.47%) RESTful
9 17 (4.47%) Web Services
10 16 (4.21%) Elastic Stack
11 14 (3.68%) Kafka
12 13 (3.42%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 49 (12.89%) Product Ownership
2 43 (11.32%) Cloud Native
3 34 (8.95%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (7.89%) Life Science
5 16 (4.21%) Mobile App
6 13 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.63%) Low-Code
8 9 (2.37%) Hackathon
8 9 (2.37%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.58%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.58%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (1.32%) Social Media
12 4 (1.05%) Cyber Defence
12 4 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.05%) Hedge funds
13 3 (0.79%) Driving Licence
13 3 (0.79%) Private Cloud
13 3 (0.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.42%) Linux
2 12 (3.16%) Windows
3 7 (1.84%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (0.79%) zOS
5 2 (0.53%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (26.84%) CI/CD
2 89 (23.42%) DevOps
3 80 (21.05%) Scrum
4 76 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 73 (19.21%) Continuous Improvement
6 68 (17.89%) Analytics
6 68 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
7 59 (15.53%) AI
7 59 (15.53%) Computer Science
8 53 (13.95%) Mentoring
9 52 (13.68%) Software Engineering
10 48 (12.63%) Test Automation
11 47 (12.37%) Hematology
11 47 (12.37%) Immunology
11 47 (12.37%) Microservices
12 45 (11.84%) TDD
13 42 (11.05%) Biotechnology
14 41 (10.79%) Containerisation
15 39 (10.26%) Project Management
15 39 (10.26%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 75 (19.74%) SQL
2 71 (18.68%) Python
3 61 (16.05%) C#
4 51 (13.42%) Java
5 37 (9.74%) JavaScript
6 13 (3.42%) PowerShell
7 12 (3.16%) TypeScript
7 12 (3.16%) VBA
8 9 (2.37%) C++
8 9 (2.37%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.84%) ABAP
10 6 (1.58%) Groovy
11 5 (1.32%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.32%) Bash
12 4 (1.05%) C
12 4 (1.05%) Perl
12 4 (1.05%) PHP
12 4 (1.05%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.79%) COBOL
13 3 (0.79%) JCL
Qualifications
1 133 (35.00%) Degree
2 52 (13.68%) Security Cleared
3 40 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 30 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 30 (7.89%) PMI Certification
4 30 (7.89%) PMP
5 21 (5.53%) Master's Degree
6 15 (3.95%) ISTQB
7 12 (3.16%) ACCA
7 12 (3.16%) CIMA
7 12 (3.16%) PhD
8 11 (2.89%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.89%) ICAEW
9 5 (1.32%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.32%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.53%) CSQA
10 2 (0.53%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (11.58%) QA
2 41 (10.79%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.63%) GxP
4 8 (2.11%) WCAG
5 4 (1.05%) PMO
6 3 (0.79%) GDPR
6 3 (0.79%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.53%) NIST
7 2 (0.53%) SLA
8 1 (0.26%) MISRA
8 1 (0.26%) NCSC
8 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (11.58%) Docker
2 10 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.05%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.53%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 26 (6.84%) Terraform
3 14 (3.68%) Ansible
4 11 (2.89%) Kibana
5 5 (1.32%) Grafana
5 5 (1.32%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.32%) SCCM
6 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.05%) Packer
7 3 (0.79%) CA Endevor
7 3 (0.79%) SCOM
8 2 (0.53%) Argo
8 2 (0.53%) Istio
8 2 (0.53%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.26%) Netcool
9 1 (0.26%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 87 (22.89%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.53%) SAP
3 14 (3.68%) Google
4 12 (3.16%) Adobe
5 10 (2.63%) Databricks
5 10 (2.63%) IBM
6 9 (2.37%) AppDynamics
7 8 (2.11%) Oracle
8 7 (1.84%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.84%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.84%) Splunk
8 7 (1.84%) VMware
9 6 (1.58%) MuleSoft
9 6 (1.58%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.05%) Sitecore
11 3 (0.79%) LabVantage
11 3 (0.79%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.53%) Cisco
12 2 (0.53%) Juniper
12 2 (0.53%) YouTube