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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 12 5
Rank change year-on-year -7 -7 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 369 360 975
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 6.65% 11.92% 14.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.19% 12.81% 17.64%
Number of salaries quoted 198 164 692
10th Percentile £46,250 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,188 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,250 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,438 £81,250 £81,563
90th Percentile £85,750 £95,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £63,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.60% +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 4,016 2,810 5,526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 72.43% 93.02% 84.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,606 1,218 4,016
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,926 £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 29 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 29 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 -8 172 £70,000 - 38
Buckinghamshire +28 158 £62,500 +3.31% 41
Oxfordshire -19 39 £70,000 +47.37% 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 (1.90%) OpenStack
2 5 (1.36%) CMS
3 4 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.08%) Confluence
3 4 (1.08%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.54%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.27%) Apache
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.27%) Camunda
6 1 (0.27%) JBoss
6 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 26 (7.05%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (3.25%) 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%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 85 (23.04%) Azure
2 66 (17.89%) AWS
3 28 (7.59%) Serverless
4 26 (7.05%) Power Platform
5 21 (5.69%) Amazon EKS
6 18 (4.88%) SaaS
7 16 (4.34%) Amazon S3
7 16 (4.34%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (4.07%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (4.07%) GCP
9 14 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (2.71%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (2.71%) Google Analytics
11 9 (2.44%) IaaS
11 9 (2.44%) Miro
12 8 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (2.17%) Azure Storage
12 8 (2.17%) GitHub
12 8 (2.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.25%) DNS
2 7 (1.90%) Broadband
3 6 (1.63%) Firewall
4 2 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.54%) DHCP
4 2 (0.54%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.27%) NAS
5 1 (0.27%) SAN
5 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.27%) VLAN
5 1 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.13%) SQL Server
2 24 (6.50%) Power BI
3 19 (5.15%) Relational Database
4 18 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (3.52%) Metadata
6 7 (1.90%) MySQL
7 5 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.81%) Metadata Repository
9 3 (0.81%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.81%) Tableau
10 2 (0.54%) Big Data
10 2 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.54%) Spark SQL
10 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.27%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.27%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 32 (8.67%) Git
2 29 (7.86%) JIRA
3 21 (5.69%) Jenkins
4 12 (3.25%) GitLab
5 9 (2.44%) Postman
6 6 (1.63%) Cucumber
6 6 (1.63%) JUnit
6 6 (1.63%) Selenium
6 6 (1.63%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.63%) WebDriver
7 5 (1.36%) Axure RP
7 5 (1.36%) Balsamiq
7 5 (1.36%) SoapUI
7 5 (1.36%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (1.08%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.08%) Mockito
8 4 (1.08%) SpecFlow
8 4 (1.08%) Subversion
8 4 (1.08%) Yeoman
8 4 (1.08%) Zephyr
General
1 143 (38.75%) Social Skills
2 89 (24.12%) Finance
3 59 (15.99%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (12.47%) Law
5 45 (12.20%) Public Sector
6 42 (11.38%) Pharmaceutical
7 39 (10.57%) Influencing Skills
8 32 (8.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.71%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.71%) Retail
10 9 (2.44%) Games
11 8 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.63%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.54%) Automotive
14 2 (0.54%) Publishing
15 1 (0.27%) Advertising
15 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 99 (26.83%) Senior
2 55 (14.91%) Developer
3 50 (13.55%) Lead
4 44 (11.92%) Senior Manager
5 35 (9.49%) Architect
6 34 (9.21%) Analyst
7 32 (8.67%) Project Manager
8 28 (7.59%) Development Manager
8 28 (7.59%) Senior Development Manager
9 25 (6.78%) Development Project Manager
9 25 (6.78%) Senior Project Manager
10 20 (5.42%) Designer
11 19 (5.15%) Associate Director
12 16 (4.34%) Java Developer
12 16 (4.34%) Software Engineer
13 15 (4.07%) Senior Developer
14 14 (3.79%) Data Analyst
14 14 (3.79%) Full-Stack Developer
15 13 (3.52%) Data Engineer
15 13 (3.52%) Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (13.28%) REST
2 46 (12.47%) .NET
3 28 (7.59%) React
3 28 (7.59%) SOAP
4 24 (6.50%) Middleware
5 20 (5.42%) JSON
6 19 (5.15%) Spring
7 17 (4.61%) ASP.NET
8 16 (4.34%) .NET Framework
9 15 (4.07%) Elastic Stack
9 15 (4.07%) Spring Boot
9 15 (4.07%) XML
10 14 (3.79%) HTML
10 14 (3.79%) Kafka
11 13 (3.52%) AngularJS
11 13 (3.52%) Node.js
11 13 (3.52%) RabbitMQ
11 13 (3.52%) Web Services
12 11 (2.98%) RESTful
13 9 (2.44%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 55 (14.91%) Life Science
2 44 (11.92%) Product Ownership
3 33 (8.94%) Cloud Native
4 29 (7.86%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (4.61%) Onboarding
6 16 (4.34%) Mobile App
7 12 (3.25%) Low-Code
8 11 (2.98%) Hackathon
9 8 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.36%) Social Media
11 4 (1.08%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.08%) Hedge funds
11 4 (1.08%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.81%) Biopharmaceutical
12 3 (0.81%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.81%) N-Tier
12 3 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.98%) Linux
2 5 (1.36%) Windows
3 4 (1.08%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.54%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (24.93%) CI/CD
2 89 (24.12%) Analytics
3 83 (22.49%) DevOps
4 77 (20.87%) Continuous Improvement
5 73 (19.78%) Hematology
5 73 (19.78%) Immunology
6 70 (18.97%) Decision-Making
7 69 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (18.70%) Scrum
8 68 (18.43%) Biotechnology
9 65 (17.62%) AI
10 59 (15.99%) Computer Science
11 44 (11.92%) Roadmaps
12 39 (10.57%) Data Science
12 39 (10.57%) Mentoring
13 38 (10.30%) Data Modelling
13 38 (10.30%) Microservices
13 38 (10.30%) Project Management
13 38 (10.30%) Technology Strategy
14 37 (10.03%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 70 (18.97%) Python
2 66 (17.89%) SQL
3 48 (13.01%) Java
4 42 (11.38%) C#
5 31 (8.40%) JavaScript
6 13 (3.52%) TypeScript
7 12 (3.25%) VBA
8 8 (2.17%) Apex Code
9 7 (1.90%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.63%) Groovy
11 5 (1.36%) ABAP
11 5 (1.36%) C++
11 5 (1.36%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.08%) Perl
12 4 (1.08%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.81%) Bash
13 3 (0.81%) PHP
13 3 (0.81%) R
14 2 (0.54%) C
15 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 146 (39.57%) Degree
2 54 (14.63%) Security Cleared
3 42 (11.38%) SC Cleared
4 31 (8.40%) Master's Degree
5 28 (7.59%) PMI Certification
5 28 (7.59%) PMP
6 22 (5.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (4.34%) PhD
8 13 (3.52%) ISTQB
9 12 (3.25%) ACCA
9 12 (3.25%) CIMA
10 6 (1.63%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.36%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.36%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.81%) ICAEW
12 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.54%) CSQA
13 2 (0.54%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (11.92%) Accessibility
2 38 (10.30%) QA
3 15 (4.07%) Data Quality
3 15 (4.07%) GxP
4 10 (2.71%) WCAG
5 4 (1.08%) PMO
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 33 (8.94%) Docker
2 6 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.54%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.54%) Terminal Server
5 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 24 (6.50%) Terraform
3 12 (3.25%) Ansible
4 7 (1.90%) Kibana
5 5 (1.36%) SCCM
6 4 (1.08%) Packer
7 3 (0.81%) Grafana
7 3 (0.81%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.81%) 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 67 (18.16%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.15%) SAP
3 15 (4.07%) Google
4 14 (3.79%) Adobe
5 12 (3.25%) Databricks
6 10 (2.71%) IBM
6 10 (2.71%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.44%) AppDynamics
8 8 (2.17%) MuleSoft
8 8 (2.17%) Oracle
9 5 (1.36%) VMware
10 4 (1.08%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.08%) Sitecore
11 3 (0.81%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.81%) LabVantage
11 3 (0.81%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.81%) Splunk
11 3 (0.81%) Telerik
12 2 (0.54%) Cisco
12 2 (0.54%) McAfee