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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 17 4
Rank change year-on-year -9 -13 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 339 366 839
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.52% 9.58% 17.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.36% 10.60% 21.22%
Number of salaries quoted 250 146 372
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £78,438 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,625 £90,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

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 5,329 3,452 3,953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.07% 90.37% 83.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,795 1,466 1,938
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £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 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,125 £83,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -10.91% -

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 2 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 2 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 +38 137 £65,000 +18.18% 134
Berkshire -24 119 £62,500 +8.70% 215
Oxfordshire -14 83 £60,000 +4.35% 103
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 12 (3.54%) Confluence
2 6 (1.77%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.47%) CMS
4 4 (1.18%) CICS
5 3 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.88%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.88%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.59%) Apache
6 2 (0.59%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.59%) WordPress
7 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.29%) IIS
7 1 (0.29%) JBoss
7 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (4.42%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.47%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.59%) EPLAN
4 2 (0.59%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.59%) UserZoom
5 1 (0.29%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (4.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.59%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.29%) Adobe Campaign
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
1 134 (39.53%) Azure
2 107 (31.56%) AWS
3 39 (11.50%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (8.55%) SaaS
5 27 (7.96%) Power Platform
6 25 (7.37%) Serverless
7 24 (7.08%) GitHub
8 18 (5.31%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (5.01%) GCP
10 16 (4.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 15 (4.42%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (3.24%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (3.24%) IaaS
13 10 (2.95%) Amazon S3
13 10 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (2.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (2.95%) Google Analytics
14 9 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.24%) DNS
2 4 (1.18%) Firewall
3 2 (0.59%) DHCP
3 2 (0.59%) HTTP
3 2 (0.59%) MQTT
3 2 (0.59%) SMS
3 2 (0.59%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.59%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.29%) ATM
4 1 (0.29%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.29%) Intranet
4 1 (0.29%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.29%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (0.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 26 (7.67%) MongoDB
2 26 (7.67%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (7.08%) SQL Server
4 20 (5.90%) Power BI
5 19 (5.60%) Relational Database
6 17 (5.01%) Metadata
7 14 (4.13%) NoSQL
8 12 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (3.24%) DynamoDB
9 11 (3.24%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (2.65%) Amazon QuickSight
10 9 (2.65%) Snowflake Schema
10 9 (2.65%) Star Schema
11 6 (1.77%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.47%) Db2
12 5 (1.47%) GIS
13 4 (1.18%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 38 (11.21%) Git
2 29 (8.55%) JIRA
3 20 (5.90%) GitLab
4 17 (5.01%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.65%) JMeter
5 9 (2.65%) JUnit
6 8 (2.36%) Mockito
7 7 (2.06%) Yeoman
8 6 (1.77%) Postman
9 5 (1.47%) Selenium
10 4 (1.18%) ChangeMan
10 4 (1.18%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.88%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.88%) Eclipse RCP
11 3 (0.88%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.88%) Zephyr
12 2 (0.59%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.59%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.59%) Mocha
12 2 (0.59%) SpecFlow
General
1 105 (30.97%) Social Skills
2 81 (23.89%) Finance
3 48 (14.16%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (9.44%) Public Sector
5 28 (8.26%) Law
6 26 (7.67%) Retail
7 24 (7.08%) Influencing Skills
7 24 (7.08%) Manufacturing
8 19 (5.60%) Marketing
9 14 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.95%) Banking
11 8 (2.36%) Advertising
11 8 (2.36%) Aerospace
12 7 (2.06%) Automotive
12 7 (2.06%) Electronics
12 7 (2.06%) Local Government
12 7 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (2.06%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (24.19%) Senior
2 80 (23.60%) Developer
3 36 (10.62%) Software Engineer
4 31 (9.14%) .NET Developer
5 30 (8.85%) Architect
6 27 (7.96%) Senior Developer
7 24 (7.08%) Analyst
8 22 (6.49%) Project Manager
9 21 (6.19%) Lead
10 18 (5.31%) Azure Engineer
11 15 (4.42%) Full-Stack Developer
12 14 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
13 13 (3.83%) Java Developer
13 13 (3.83%) Python Engineer
13 13 (3.83%) Senior Manager
13 13 (3.83%) Senior Software Engineer
14 12 (3.54%) C# Software Engineer
15 11 (3.24%) Business Analyst
15 11 (3.24%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (17.99%) .NET
2 50 (14.75%) React
3 34 (10.03%) REST
4 32 (9.44%) Node.js
5 30 (8.85%) .NET Core
6 28 (8.26%) ASP.NET
6 28 (8.26%) ASP.NET Core
7 27 (7.96%) HTML
8 22 (6.49%) JSON
8 22 (6.49%) RESTful
9 18 (5.31%) Blazor
9 18 (5.31%) XML
10 17 (5.01%) .NET Framework
10 17 (5.01%) CSS
10 17 (5.01%) Spring
10 17 (5.01%) Terraform
11 16 (4.72%) AngularJS
11 16 (4.72%) Spring Boot
12 15 (4.42%) Vue
13 13 (3.83%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 48 (14.16%) Product Ownership
2 38 (11.21%) Cloud Native
3 25 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (5.60%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (2.65%) Life Science
8 7 (2.06%) Renewable Energy
9 6 (1.77%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (1.77%) NHS
9 6 (1.77%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.18%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.18%) Legacy Code
10 4 (1.18%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.18%) Social Network
10 4 (1.18%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.18%) VSAM
11 3 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.08%) Windows
2 13 (3.83%) Linux
3 4 (1.18%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.18%) zOS
4 1 (0.29%) Android
4 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (28.61%) DevOps
2 94 (27.73%) CI/CD
3 84 (24.78%) Problem-Solving
4 79 (23.30%) Scrum
5 72 (21.24%) Software Engineering
6 64 (18.88%) Mentoring
7 62 (18.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 58 (17.11%) Decision-Making
9 57 (16.81%) AI
10 56 (16.52%) Microservices
11 53 (15.63%) Full-Stack Development
12 51 (15.04%) Computer Science
13 48 (14.16%) Stakeholder Management
14 46 (13.57%) Analytics
15 42 (12.39%) Data Modelling
16 41 (12.09%) TDD
17 40 (11.80%) Project Management
17 40 (11.80%) Roadmaps
17 40 (11.80%) Test Automation
18 39 (11.50%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 98 (28.91%) C#
2 81 (23.89%) SQL
3 65 (19.17%) Python
4 46 (13.57%) JavaScript
5 34 (10.03%) Java
6 33 (9.73%) TypeScript
7 23 (6.78%) C++
8 11 (3.24%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.95%) Shell Script
10 7 (2.06%) Bash
11 5 (1.47%) ABAP
11 5 (1.47%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.47%) C
11 5 (1.47%) COBOL
12 4 (1.18%) JCL
13 3 (0.88%) Groovy
14 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.29%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.29%) R
14 1 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 110 (32.45%) Degree
2 33 (9.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (8.85%) Security Cleared
4 27 (7.96%) SC Cleared
5 15 (4.42%) ICAEW
5 15 (4.42%) Master's Degree
6 14 (4.13%) PMP
7 13 (3.83%) PMI Certification
8 10 (2.95%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.06%) PhD
10 6 (1.77%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.77%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.88%) Chartered Engineer
12 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.59%) CSQA
12 2 (0.59%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.59%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.29%) APMG
13 1 (0.29%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (12.68%) QA
2 28 (8.26%) Data Quality
3 21 (6.19%) Accessibility
4 14 (4.13%) GDPR
5 9 (2.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (1.77%) PMO
6 6 (1.77%) WCAG
7 5 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.47%) NIST
8 4 (1.18%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.29%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.29%) MISRA
10 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 45 (13.27%) Docker
2 6 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.59%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 56 (16.52%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.65%) Kibana
3 6 (1.77%) Ansible
4 5 (1.47%) Grafana
5 4 (1.18%) CA Endevor
5 4 (1.18%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.59%) Argo
7 2 (0.59%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.59%) Istio
7 2 (0.59%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 88 (25.96%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.31%) Google
3 13 (3.83%) Salesforce
4 12 (3.54%) CA Agile Central
5 11 (3.24%) SAP
6 9 (2.65%) Dynatrace
6 9 (2.65%) Informatica
6 9 (2.65%) Talend
7 8 (2.36%) Splunk
8 7 (2.06%) Adobe
8 7 (2.06%) Facebook
8 7 (2.06%) YouTube
9 6 (1.77%) Oracle
10 5 (1.47%) New Relic
10 5 (1.47%) Pega
10 5 (1.47%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.88%) Databricks
11 3 (0.88%) Sitecore
12 2 (0.59%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.59%) Sage