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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 16 5
Rank change year-on-year -10 -11 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 343 440 831
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.81% 11.12% 17.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.82% 12.38% 20.94%
Number of salaries quoted 262 143 385
10th Percentile £45,000 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,188 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,000 £87,500
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 5,029 3,555 3,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.47% 89.82% 81.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,581 1,482 2,135
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £41,220
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -10.91% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,625 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -1.82%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +41 152 £60,000 +9.09% 37
Berkshire -24 107 £65,000 +4.00% 94
Oxfordshire -6 84 £60,000 +9.09% 27
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 (2.04%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.46%) Confluence
3 4 (1.17%) CICS
3 4 (1.17%) CMS
4 3 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.87%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.58%) Apache
5 2 (0.58%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.58%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.29%) IIS
6 1 (0.29%) JBoss
6 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (2.92%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.46%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.58%) EPLAN
3 2 (0.58%) Lightworks
3 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.58%) UserZoom
4 1 (0.29%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (4.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.58%) 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
1 143 (41.69%) Azure
2 113 (32.94%) AWS
3 33 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (9.04%) Serverless
5 30 (8.75%) SaaS
6 26 (7.58%) GitHub
6 26 (7.58%) Power Platform
7 23 (6.71%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (5.25%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (4.96%) IaaS
10 15 (4.37%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (4.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 15 (4.37%) GCP
11 14 (4.08%) Amazon S3
12 13 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (3.21%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (3.21%) Google Analytics
14 10 (2.92%) Azure AKS
14 10 (2.92%) Azure Key Vault
14 10 (2.92%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.37%) DNS
2 5 (1.46%) Firewall
3 3 (0.87%) DHCP
4 2 (0.58%) HTTP
4 2 (0.58%) MQTT
4 2 (0.58%) SMS
4 2 (0.58%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.58%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.29%) ATM
5 1 (0.29%) Intranet
5 1 (0.29%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.29%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 32 (9.33%) SQL Server
2 24 (7.00%) MongoDB
3 23 (6.71%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (5.83%) Relational Database
5 19 (5.54%) Power BI
6 16 (4.66%) Metadata
7 13 (3.79%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (3.21%) NoSQL
9 9 (2.62%) DynamoDB
10 7 (2.04%) Amazon QuickSight
10 7 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
10 7 (2.04%) Star Schema
11 5 (1.46%) Db2
11 5 (1.46%) RDBMS
12 4 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.87%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.87%) GIS
13 3 (0.87%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 45 (13.12%) Git
2 24 (7.00%) JIRA
3 23 (6.71%) GitLab
4 22 (6.41%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.62%) Cucumber
6 8 (2.33%) JUnit
6 8 (2.33%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.04%) JMeter
7 7 (2.04%) Mockito
7 7 (2.04%) Postman
7 7 (2.04%) Yeoman
8 6 (1.75%) Zephyr
9 4 (1.17%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.17%) ChangeMan
9 4 (1.17%) Selenium
10 3 (0.87%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.87%) Eclipse RCP
10 3 (0.87%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.58%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.58%) Mocha
General
1 96 (27.99%) Social Skills
2 68 (19.83%) Finance
3 47 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.91%) Law
5 33 (9.62%) Public Sector
6 27 (7.87%) Retail
7 25 (7.29%) Manufacturing
8 24 (7.00%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (3.79%) Marketing
11 8 (2.33%) Advertising
12 7 (2.04%) Aerospace
12 7 (2.04%) Local Government
12 7 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.75%) Automotive
13 6 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.46%) Electronics
15 4 (1.17%) Banking
15 4 (1.17%) Legal
16 3 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (24.49%) Developer
2 82 (23.91%) Senior
3 38 (11.08%) Software Engineer
4 35 (10.20%) Architect
5 32 (9.33%) .NET Developer
6 28 (8.16%) Senior Developer
7 23 (6.71%) Lead
8 20 (5.83%) Project Manager
9 19 (5.54%) Analyst
9 19 (5.54%) Azure Engineer
10 16 (4.66%) Cloud Engineer
10 16 (4.66%) Java Developer
11 14 (4.08%) Data Engineer
11 14 (4.08%) Python Engineer
11 14 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (3.79%) Full-Stack Developer
12 13 (3.79%) Senior Software Engineer
13 12 (3.50%) C# Software Engineer
13 12 (3.50%) DevOps Engineer
13 12 (3.50%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (19.24%) .NET
2 52 (15.16%) React
3 41 (11.95%) REST
4 33 (9.62%) .NET Core
4 33 (9.62%) ASP.NET
5 31 (9.04%) Node.js
6 30 (8.75%) ASP.NET Core
6 30 (8.75%) Terraform
7 27 (7.87%) HTML
8 24 (7.00%) JSON
9 23 (6.71%) RESTful
10 22 (6.41%) .NET Framework
11 20 (5.83%) Blazor
12 19 (5.54%) AngularJS
13 18 (5.25%) CSS
14 17 (4.96%) Spring
14 17 (4.96%) Vue
15 16 (4.66%) Entity Framework
15 16 (4.66%) Spring Boot
15 16 (4.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (13.70%) Product Ownership
2 40 (11.66%) Cloud Native
3 33 (9.62%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (4.96%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (3.50%) Life Science
7 8 (2.33%) Renewable Energy
8 6 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.75%) NHS
8 6 (1.75%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.46%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.46%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.17%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.17%) Legacy Code
10 4 (1.17%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.17%) Social Network
10 4 (1.17%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.54%) Windows
2 16 (4.66%) Linux
3 4 (1.17%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.17%) zOS
4 2 (0.58%) Android
5 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (31.78%) DevOps
2 105 (30.61%) CI/CD
3 81 (23.62%) Problem-Solving
4 76 (22.16%) Scrum
5 75 (21.87%) Software Engineering
6 68 (19.83%) Continuous Improvement
7 65 (18.95%) Microservices
8 63 (18.37%) Decision-Making
9 62 (18.08%) Mentoring
10 60 (17.49%) AI
11 56 (16.33%) Computer Science
12 52 (15.16%) Full-Stack Development
12 52 (15.16%) Test Automation
13 47 (13.70%) Analytics
14 46 (13.41%) Containerisation
15 43 (12.54%) Data Modelling
15 43 (12.54%) TDD
16 39 (11.37%) Stakeholder Management
17 38 (11.08%) Roadmaps
18 33 (9.62%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 102 (29.74%) C#
2 88 (25.66%) SQL
3 70 (20.41%) Python
4 43 (12.54%) JavaScript
5 37 (10.79%) Java
6 32 (9.33%) TypeScript
7 21 (6.12%) C++
8 15 (4.37%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.92%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.33%) Groovy
11 7 (2.04%) Bash
12 5 (1.46%) ABAP
12 5 (1.46%) Apex Code
12 5 (1.46%) C
12 5 (1.46%) COBOL
13 4 (1.17%) JCL
13 4 (1.17%) Perl
13 4 (1.17%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.29%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 109 (31.78%) Degree
2 35 (10.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (9.62%) Security Cleared
4 30 (8.75%) SC Cleared
5 16 (4.66%) Master's Degree
6 15 (4.37%) ICAEW
7 13 (3.79%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.92%) PMP
9 9 (2.62%) PMI Certification
10 8 (2.33%) ISTQB
11 7 (2.04%) PhD
12 5 (1.46%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.58%) Chartered Engineer
13 2 (0.58%) CSQA
13 2 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.58%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.29%) CCNA
14 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.29%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (13.12%) QA
2 24 (7.00%) Data Quality
3 21 (6.12%) Accessibility
4 11 (3.21%) GDPR
5 7 (2.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (1.75%) WCAG
7 5 (1.46%) PMO
7 5 (1.46%) SOC 2
8 4 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.17%) NIST
9 2 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.58%) SLA
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 48 (13.99%) Docker
2 7 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.87%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 65 (18.95%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.08%) Ansible
3 11 (3.21%) Kibana
4 5 (1.46%) Grafana
4 5 (1.46%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.17%) CA Endevor
5 4 (1.17%) Packer
6 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.58%) Argo
7 2 (0.58%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.58%) Istio
7 2 (0.58%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 93 (27.11%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.96%) Google
3 12 (3.50%) Salesforce
3 12 (3.50%) SAP
4 11 (3.21%) CA Agile Central
5 9 (2.62%) AppDynamics
5 9 (2.62%) IBM
5 9 (2.62%) Oracle
6 7 (2.04%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.04%) Facebook
6 7 (2.04%) Informatica
6 7 (2.04%) Splunk
6 7 (2.04%) Talend
6 7 (2.04%) YouTube
7 6 (1.75%) Adobe
7 6 (1.75%) Databricks
7 6 (1.75%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.46%) New Relic
9 3 (0.87%) Sitecore
9 3 (0.87%) VMware