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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 17 4
Rank change year-on-year -8 -13 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 345 367 842
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.62% 9.68% 17.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.50% 10.74% 21.27%
Number of salaries quoted 250 143 371
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £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 5,308 3,416 3,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.02% 90.13% 83.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,759 1,452 1,937
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £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 £71,535 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
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 29 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 29 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 +39 138 £62,500 +13.64% 117
Berkshire -24 125 £64,500 +12.17% 181
Oxfordshire -12 82 £60,000 +6.67% 70
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 10 (2.90%) Confluence
2 6 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.45%) CMS
4 4 (1.16%) CICS
5 3 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.87%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.87%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.58%) Apache
6 2 (0.58%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.58%) 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 16 (4.64%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.45%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.58%) EPLAN
4 2 (0.58%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.58%) UserZoom
5 1 (0.29%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (4.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.58%) 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
1 135 (39.13%) Azure
2 113 (32.75%) AWS
3 39 (11.30%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (9.57%) Serverless
5 31 (8.99%) SaaS
6 27 (7.83%) Power Platform
7 26 (7.54%) Amazon EKS
8 24 (6.96%) GitHub
9 18 (5.22%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (4.93%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (4.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 15 (4.35%) Amazon S3
12 15 (4.35%) GCP
13 14 (4.06%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (3.48%) IaaS
15 11 (3.19%) Azure Data Factory
15 11 (3.19%) Google Analytics
16 10 (2.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 9 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
18 8 (2.32%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.19%) DNS
2 4 (1.16%) Firewall
3 2 (0.58%) DHCP
3 2 (0.58%) HTTP
3 2 (0.58%) MQTT
3 2 (0.58%) SMS
3 2 (0.58%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.58%) 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 (9.28%) Azure SQL Database
2 26 (7.54%) MongoDB
2 26 (7.54%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (6.96%) SQL Server
4 22 (6.38%) Relational Database
5 20 (5.80%) Power BI
6 16 (4.64%) Metadata
7 14 (4.06%) NoSQL
8 12 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (3.19%) DynamoDB
9 11 (3.19%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (2.61%) Amazon QuickSight
10 9 (2.61%) Snowflake Schema
10 9 (2.61%) Star Schema
11 6 (1.74%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.45%) Db2
12 5 (1.45%) GIS
13 4 (1.16%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.87%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 46 (13.33%) Git
2 32 (9.28%) JIRA
3 25 (7.25%) GitLab
3 25 (7.25%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.61%) Cucumber
4 9 (2.61%) JMeter
4 9 (2.61%) JUnit
5 8 (2.32%) Mockito
5 8 (2.32%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.03%) Yeoman
7 6 (1.74%) Postman
8 5 (1.45%) Selenium
9 4 (1.16%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.16%) ChangeMan
10 3 (0.87%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.87%) Eclipse RCP
10 3 (0.87%) Zephyr
11 2 (0.58%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.58%) Maven
11 2 (0.58%) SpecFlow
General
1 104 (30.14%) Social Skills
2 76 (22.03%) Finance
3 49 (14.20%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (10.14%) Public Sector
5 29 (8.41%) Law
6 25 (7.25%) Retail
7 24 (6.96%) Influencing Skills
7 24 (6.96%) Manufacturing
8 18 (5.22%) Marketing
9 14 (4.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.32%) Advertising
10 8 (2.32%) Aerospace
10 8 (2.32%) Banking
11 7 (2.03%) Automotive
11 7 (2.03%) Electronics
11 7 (2.03%) Local Government
11 7 (2.03%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (2.03%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (24.64%) Developer
2 83 (24.06%) Senior
3 36 (10.43%) Software Engineer
4 31 (8.99%) .NET Developer
4 31 (8.99%) Architect
5 27 (7.83%) Senior Developer
6 23 (6.67%) Project Manager
7 22 (6.38%) Analyst
8 21 (6.09%) Lead
9 18 (5.22%) Azure Engineer
9 18 (5.22%) Java Developer
10 15 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
12 13 (3.77%) Python Engineer
12 13 (3.77%) Senior Manager
12 13 (3.77%) Senior Software Engineer
13 12 (3.48%) C# Software Engineer
14 11 (3.19%) C++ Software Engineer
14 11 (3.19%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (17.68%) .NET
2 53 (15.36%) React
3 42 (12.17%) REST
4 32 (9.28%) Node.js
5 30 (8.70%) .NET Core
6 28 (8.12%) ASP.NET
6 28 (8.12%) ASP.NET Core
6 28 (8.12%) JSON
7 27 (7.83%) HTML
8 25 (7.25%) Terraform
9 24 (6.96%) RESTful
10 20 (5.80%) Spring
11 19 (5.51%) AngularJS
11 19 (5.51%) Spring Boot
11 19 (5.51%) XML
12 18 (5.22%) Blazor
13 17 (4.93%) .NET Framework
13 17 (4.93%) CSS
14 16 (4.64%) Web Services
15 15 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 48 (13.91%) Product Ownership
2 37 (10.72%) Cloud Native
3 33 (9.57%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (5.51%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (4.64%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (2.61%) Life Science
8 7 (2.03%) Renewable Energy
9 6 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (1.74%) NHS
9 6 (1.74%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.16%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.16%) Legacy Code
10 4 (1.16%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.16%) Social Network
10 4 (1.16%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.16%) VSAM
11 3 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.87%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.96%) Windows
2 18 (5.22%) Linux
3 4 (1.16%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.16%) zOS
4 1 (0.29%) Android
4 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (30.43%) DevOps
2 102 (29.57%) CI/CD
3 85 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
4 80 (23.19%) Scrum
5 72 (20.87%) Software Engineering
6 65 (18.84%) Microservices
7 64 (18.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 63 (18.26%) Mentoring
9 60 (17.39%) Decision-Making
10 58 (16.81%) AI
11 53 (15.36%) Full-Stack Development
12 52 (15.07%) Computer Science
13 47 (13.62%) Analytics
14 46 (13.33%) Test Automation
15 45 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
16 44 (12.75%) TDD
17 41 (11.88%) Containerisation
17 41 (11.88%) Data Modelling
18 40 (11.59%) Project Management
18 40 (11.59%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 98 (28.41%) C#
2 85 (24.64%) SQL
3 70 (20.29%) Python
4 46 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 42 (12.17%) Java
6 33 (9.57%) TypeScript
7 23 (6.67%) C++
8 11 (3.19%) PowerShell
8 11 (3.19%) Shell Script
9 8 (2.32%) Groovy
10 7 (2.03%) Bash
11 5 (1.45%) ABAP
11 5 (1.45%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.45%) C
11 5 (1.45%) COBOL
12 4 (1.16%) JCL
12 4 (1.16%) Perl
12 4 (1.16%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.29%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 112 (32.46%) Degree
2 37 (10.72%) Security Cleared
3 33 (9.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (9.57%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.35%) ICAEW
4 15 (4.35%) Master's Degree
4 15 (4.35%) PMP
5 14 (4.06%) PMI Certification
6 10 (2.90%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.03%) PhD
8 6 (1.74%) ISTQB
9 5 (1.45%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.87%) Chartered Engineer
11 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.58%) CSQA
11 2 (0.58%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.58%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.29%) CCNA
12 1 (0.29%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (13.33%) QA
2 27 (7.83%) Data Quality
3 21 (6.09%) Accessibility
4 14 (4.06%) GDPR
5 9 (2.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (1.74%) PMO
6 6 (1.74%) WCAG
7 5 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.45%) NIST
8 4 (1.16%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.58%) 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 49 (14.20%) Docker
2 6 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.58%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 64 (18.55%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.06%) Ansible
3 12 (3.48%) Kibana
4 5 (1.45%) Grafana
5 4 (1.16%) CA Endevor
5 4 (1.16%) Packer
5 4 (1.16%) Prometheus
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 90 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.22%) Google
3 13 (3.77%) Salesforce
4 12 (3.48%) CA Agile Central
5 11 (3.19%) SAP
6 9 (2.61%) AppDynamics
6 9 (2.61%) Dynatrace
6 9 (2.61%) IBM
6 9 (2.61%) Informatica
6 9 (2.61%) Oracle
6 9 (2.61%) Talend
7 8 (2.32%) Splunk
8 7 (2.03%) Adobe
8 7 (2.03%) Facebook
8 7 (2.03%) YouTube
9 5 (1.45%) New Relic
9 5 (1.45%) Pega
9 5 (1.45%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.87%) Databricks
10 3 (0.87%) Sitecore