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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 322 631 678
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 8.16% 17.21% 21.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.91% 18.99% 23.25%
Number of salaries quoted 148 334 530
10th Percentile £38,325 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.73% +7.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70,313 £81,250 £77,188
90th Percentile £84,125 £95,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -

All Process and 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 3,248 3,322 2,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 82.27% 90.62% 92.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,740 1,597 2,095
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £54,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +5.50% -0.91%

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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 2025. 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 -12 204 £50,803 -27.42% 77
Buckinghamshire -8 80 £55,000 -8.33% 45
Oxfordshire -24 38 £70,000 +55.56% 36
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 17 (5.28%) Confluence
2 7 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.86%) CMS
3 6 (1.86%) Exchange Server 2013
3 6 (1.86%) OpenStack
4 5 (1.55%) IIS
5 4 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.31%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.31%) Camunda
6 1 (0.31%) SAS
6 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.48%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (2.17%) MadCap Flare
3 5 (1.55%) Adobe XD
3 5 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.93%) Shopify
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.31%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.31%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.31%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.31%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.31%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.31%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.31%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 105 (32.61%) Azure
2 85 (26.40%) AWS
3 45 (13.98%) GCP
4 28 (8.70%) Serverless
5 22 (6.83%) Amazon ECS
5 22 (6.83%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (5.28%) Amazon EC2
7 16 (4.97%) GitHub
8 15 (4.66%) Amazon S3
8 15 (4.66%) SaaS
9 14 (4.35%) Power Platform
9 14 (4.35%) Vertex AI
10 13 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (3.73%) Amazon SQS
11 12 (3.73%) Azure AI
12 11 (3.42%) Google Analytics
13 10 (3.11%) Miro
14 8 (2.48%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (2.17%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.66%) Firewall
2 12 (3.73%) SAN
2 12 (3.73%) VLAN
3 9 (2.80%) DNS
4 6 (1.86%) DHCP
4 6 (1.86%) LAN
4 6 (1.86%) NAS
4 6 (1.86%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.86%) WAN
4 6 (1.86%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (1.86%) Wireless
5 2 (0.62%) FTP
5 2 (0.62%) HTTP
5 2 (0.62%) SMTP
5 2 (0.62%) SSH
5 2 (0.62%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.31%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.31%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.07%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (7.76%) Relational Database
3 16 (4.97%) SQL Server
4 15 (4.66%) RDBMS
5 10 (3.11%) MySQL
6 9 (2.80%) Power BI
7 8 (2.48%) NoSQL
8 7 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.17%) Metadata
9 6 (1.86%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.24%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.93%) Big Data
11 3 (0.93%) Metadata Repository
12 2 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.62%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.62%) Spark SQL
12 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (12.11%) JIRA
2 35 (10.87%) Git
3 28 (8.70%) Jenkins
4 17 (5.28%) JUnit
5 16 (4.97%) Mockito
6 15 (4.66%) JMeter
6 15 (4.66%) Selenium
7 13 (4.04%) WebDriver
8 10 (3.11%) Postman
9 9 (2.80%) SoapUI
9 9 (2.80%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (1.86%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.55%) Axure RP
11 5 (1.55%) Balsamiq
11 5 (1.55%) git-flow
11 5 (1.55%) GitLab
12 3 (0.93%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.62%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.62%) Subversion
13 2 (0.62%) Vagrant
General
1 138 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 77 (23.91%) Finance
3 58 (18.01%) Law
4 50 (15.53%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (11.49%) Public Sector
6 33 (10.25%) Pharmaceutical
7 31 (9.63%) Marketing
8 20 (6.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (5.59%) Legal
10 14 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (3.42%) Manufacturing
13 11 (3.42%) Retail
14 9 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.93%) Automotive
15 3 (0.93%) Banking
16 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
17 1 (0.31%) Advertising
17 1 (0.31%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 82 (25.47%) Senior
2 68 (21.12%) Developer
3 60 (18.63%) Lead
4 44 (13.66%) Full-Stack Developer
5 29 (9.01%) Senior Manager
6 24 (7.45%) Analyst
7 23 (7.14%) Java Developer
7 23 (7.14%) Senior Developer
8 19 (5.90%) Product Manager
8 19 (5.90%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 18 (5.59%) Project Manager
10 17 (5.28%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 14 (4.35%) Development Manager
11 14 (4.35%) Full-Stack Web Developer
11 14 (4.35%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 14 (4.35%) Senior Web Developer
11 14 (4.35%) Software Engineer
11 14 (4.35%) Web Developer
12 13 (4.04%) Product Delivery Manager
13 10 (3.11%) Senior Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (14.29%) HTML
2 41 (12.73%) .NET
3 36 (11.18%) React
4 34 (10.56%) REST
5 25 (7.76%) CSS
5 25 (7.76%) Spring
5 25 (7.76%) Spring Boot
6 22 (6.83%) Node.js
7 21 (6.52%) Web Services
8 19 (5.90%) RESTful
9 18 (5.59%) XML
10 17 (5.28%) JSON
10 17 (5.28%) SOAP
11 16 (4.97%) Hibernate
11 16 (4.97%) jQuery
12 15 (4.66%) ActiveMQ
12 15 (4.66%) Apache Camel
12 15 (4.66%) WireMock
13 14 (4.35%) Kafka
14 11 (3.42%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 48 (14.91%) Life Science
2 30 (9.32%) Product Ownership
3 25 (7.76%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (4.04%) AI Agents
5 13 (4.04%) Cloud Native
6 10 (3.11%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.48%) Replication
8 7 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (2.17%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.55%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.24%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (0.93%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.93%) N-Tier
12 2 (0.62%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.62%) Hackathon
12 2 (0.62%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.62%) Pharmacovigilance
12 2 (0.62%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.21%) Windows
2 9 (2.80%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.48%) Linux
4 3 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.62%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.62%) VMS
6 1 (0.31%) Unix
6 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (27.64%) CI/CD
2 74 (22.98%) Problem-Solving
3 73 (22.67%) Analytics
4 70 (21.74%) DevOps
5 64 (19.88%) AI
6 59 (18.32%) Roadmaps
7 58 (18.01%) Computer Science
7 58 (18.01%) Continuous Improvement
8 57 (17.70%) Data Science
9 55 (17.08%) Hematology
9 55 (17.08%) Immunology
9 55 (17.08%) Machine Learning
10 53 (16.46%) Full-Stack Development
11 50 (15.53%) Use Case
12 46 (14.29%) Scrum
13 44 (13.66%) Generative AI
13 44 (13.66%) User Experience
14 38 (11.80%) Enterprise Architecture
14 38 (11.80%) Test Automation
15 37 (11.49%) Biotechnology
Programming Languages
1 59 (18.32%) JavaScript
2 58 (18.01%) Python
3 53 (16.46%) Java
4 42 (13.04%) SQL
5 39 (12.11%) C#
6 16 (4.97%) Shell Script
6 16 (4.97%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.86%) Apex Code
7 6 (1.86%) C++
8 5 (1.55%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.93%) VBA
10 2 (0.62%) C
10 2 (0.62%) Groovy
10 2 (0.62%) Perl
10 2 (0.62%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.31%) Go
11 1 (0.31%) PHP
11 1 (0.31%) R
11 1 (0.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 121 (37.58%) Degree
2 51 (15.84%) Security Cleared
3 43 (13.35%) Master's Degree
4 30 (9.32%) SC Cleared
5 25 (7.76%) PhD
6 23 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (4.04%) ISTQB
8 11 (3.42%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 7 (2.17%) PMI Certification
9 7 (2.17%) PMP
10 6 (1.86%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.93%) ACCA
11 3 (0.93%) CIMA
11 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.62%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.62%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 1 (0.31%) CISM
13 1 (0.31%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (14.60%) QA
2 24 (7.45%) GxP
3 20 (6.21%) Accessibility
4 13 (4.04%) Data Quality
5 10 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (2.17%) WCAG
7 6 (1.86%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (1.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.93%) GDPR
8 3 (0.93%) PMO
9 2 (0.62%) ECSS
9 2 (0.62%) SLA
10 1 (0.31%) COBIT
10 1 (0.31%) GAAP
10 1 (0.31%) IFRS
10 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.31%) NCSC
10 1 (0.31%) NIST
10 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (15.53%) Docker
2 14 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (3.73%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.17%) Active Directory
5 6 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.86%) vSphere
6 3 (0.93%) vCloud
7 2 (0.62%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.31%) Firmware
8 1 (0.31%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 46 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.66%) Kibana
3 11 (3.42%) Terraform
4 10 (3.11%) SCCM
5 8 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.93%) Ansible
6 3 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.93%) Rundeck
6 3 (0.93%) SCOM
7 2 (0.62%) Grafana
7 2 (0.62%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.31%) Netcool
8 1 (0.31%) Netcool/OMNIbus
8 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (16.15%) Microsoft
2 37 (11.49%) Google
3 18 (5.59%) VMware
4 15 (4.66%) Dynatrace
4 15 (4.66%) Splunk
5 14 (4.35%) SAP
6 12 (3.73%) Foundry
7 10 (3.11%) Databricks
8 7 (2.17%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.86%) arcserve
9 6 (1.86%) LogicMonitor
9 6 (1.86%) MuleSoft
9 6 (1.86%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.55%) Adobe
10 5 (1.55%) Sage
10 5 (1.55%) Xamarin
10 5 (1.55%) Zoho
11 4 (1.24%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.24%) Telerik
12 3 (0.93%) Oracle