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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 15 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 -9 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 384 378 972
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 6.72% 11.31% 14.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.34% 12.04% 17.59%
Number of salaries quoted 235 133 657
10th Percentile £45,500 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,375 £46,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,125 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £94,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -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 4,112 3,139 5,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.93% 93.95% 83.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,799 1,162 3,879
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,438 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,205 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 25 May 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 25 May 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 +44 179 £62,500 +3.73% 40
Berkshire -11 147 £70,000 - 81
Oxfordshire -7 58 £60,000 +23.08% 31
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 8 (2.08%) OpenStack
2 7 (1.82%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.30%) CMS
4 4 (1.04%) CICS
4 4 (1.04%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.52%) Apache
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.26%) Camunda
7 1 (0.26%) Confluence
7 1 (0.26%) IIS
7 1 (0.26%) JBoss
7 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 27 (7.03%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (3.13%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.52%) UserZoom
5 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.26%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.52%) SAP HR
2 2 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.26%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.26%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 106 (27.60%) Azure
2 88 (22.92%) AWS
3 34 (8.85%) Serverless
4 27 (7.03%) Power Platform
5 26 (6.77%) Amazon EKS
6 23 (5.99%) SaaS
7 20 (5.21%) Amazon ECS
8 18 (4.69%) Amazon S3
9 17 (4.43%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (3.91%) IaaS
12 14 (3.65%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (3.39%) GitHub
14 12 (3.13%) GCP
15 11 (2.86%) Azure Storage
16 10 (2.60%) Azure AKS
16 10 (2.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 10 (2.60%) Azure Key Vault
17 9 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
18 8 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.69%) DNS
2 8 (2.08%) Firewall
3 7 (1.82%) Broadband
4 4 (1.04%) DHCP
5 2 (0.52%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.52%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.26%) Intranet
6 1 (0.26%) NAS
6 1 (0.26%) SAN
6 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.26%) VLAN
6 1 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.03%) SQL Server
2 23 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (5.99%) Relational Database
3 22 (5.73%) Power BI
4 11 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (2.34%) Metadata
6 6 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (1.56%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.30%) MySQL
7 5 (1.30%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.04%) DB2
9 3 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.52%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.26%) Big Data
11 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.26%) PowerPivot
11 1 (0.26%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (9.38%) Git
2 25 (6.51%) Jenkins
2 25 (6.51%) JIRA
3 16 (4.17%) GitLab
4 13 (3.39%) Postman
5 10 (2.60%) Cucumber
5 10 (2.60%) JUnit
6 8 (2.08%) Mockito
6 8 (2.08%) Selenium
6 8 (2.08%) Yeoman
7 7 (1.82%) JMeter
8 6 (1.56%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.56%) WebDriver
8 6 (1.56%) Zephyr
9 5 (1.30%) SoapUI
9 5 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (1.04%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.04%) ChangeMan
10 4 (1.04%) SpecFlow
10 4 (1.04%) Subversion
General
1 132 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 92 (23.96%) Finance
3 56 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (11.98%) Law
5 44 (11.46%) Influencing Skills
5 44 (11.46%) Public Sector
6 36 (9.38%) Pharmaceutical
7 27 (7.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (4.17%) Manufacturing
8 16 (4.17%) Retail
9 9 (2.34%) Games
10 8 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.56%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.30%) Marketing
13 4 (1.04%) Electronics
13 4 (1.04%) Local Government
14 3 (0.78%) Advertising
14 3 (0.78%) Automotive
14 3 (0.78%) Legal
Job Titles
1 95 (24.74%) Senior
2 68 (17.71%) Developer
3 51 (13.28%) Lead
4 46 (11.98%) Architect
5 37 (9.64%) Analyst
6 32 (8.33%) Project Manager
7 28 (7.29%) Senior Manager
8 27 (7.03%) Development Manager
8 27 (7.03%) Software Engineer
9 26 (6.77%) Development Project Manager
9 26 (6.77%) Senior Development Manager
9 26 (6.77%) Senior Project Manager
10 24 (6.25%) Senior Developer
11 19 (4.95%) Java Developer
12 18 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
13 17 (4.43%) Designer
14 14 (3.65%) Data Analyst
14 14 (3.65%) Data Engineer
15 13 (3.39%) Product Designer
15 13 (3.39%) Senior Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (15.36%) .NET
2 48 (12.50%) REST
3 34 (8.85%) React
4 25 (6.51%) SOAP
5 24 (6.25%) JSON
5 24 (6.25%) Spring
6 20 (5.21%) ASP.NET
6 20 (5.21%) Spring Boot
7 19 (4.95%) .NET Core
7 19 (4.95%) .NET Framework
7 19 (4.95%) HTML
7 19 (4.95%) Node.js
8 18 (4.69%) Middleware
8 18 (4.69%) RESTful
8 18 (4.69%) XML
9 17 (4.43%) AngularJS
9 17 (4.43%) Web Services
10 16 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
11 14 (3.65%) Kafka
12 13 (3.39%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 47 (12.24%) Product Ownership
2 45 (11.72%) Cloud Native
3 34 (8.85%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (7.81%) Life Science
5 16 (4.17%) Mobile App
6 13 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.60%) Low-Code
8 9 (2.34%) Hackathon
8 9 (2.34%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.56%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (1.30%) Social Media
12 4 (1.04%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.04%) Cyber Defence
12 4 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.04%) Hedge funds
12 4 (1.04%) Legacy Code
12 4 (1.04%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.39%) Linux
2 12 (3.13%) Windows
3 7 (1.82%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.04%) zOS
5 3 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.52%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (26.56%) CI/CD
2 93 (24.22%) DevOps
3 80 (20.83%) Scrum
4 76 (19.79%) Decision-Making
5 74 (19.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 67 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
7 66 (17.19%) Analytics
8 60 (15.63%) AI
9 59 (15.36%) Computer Science
10 57 (14.84%) Software Engineering
11 56 (14.58%) Mentoring
12 50 (13.02%) Test Automation
13 47 (12.24%) Microservices
14 46 (11.98%) Hematology
14 46 (11.98%) Immunology
14 46 (11.98%) TDD
15 42 (10.94%) Containerisation
16 41 (10.68%) Biotechnology
17 40 (10.42%) Roadmaps
18 38 (9.90%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (19.79%) SQL
2 69 (17.97%) Python
3 64 (16.67%) C#
4 50 (13.02%) Java
5 35 (9.11%) JavaScript
6 13 (3.39%) PowerShell
7 12 (3.13%) TypeScript
7 12 (3.13%) VBA
8 9 (2.34%) C++
8 9 (2.34%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.82%) ABAP
10 6 (1.56%) Groovy
11 5 (1.30%) Bash
11 5 (1.30%) C
12 4 (1.04%) Apex Code
12 4 (1.04%) COBOL
12 4 (1.04%) JCL
12 4 (1.04%) Perl
12 4 (1.04%) PHP
12 4 (1.04%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 132 (34.38%) Degree
2 49 (12.76%) Security Cleared
3 37 (9.64%) SC Cleared
4 29 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 29 (7.55%) PMI Certification
4 29 (7.55%) PMP
5 21 (5.47%) Master's Degree
6 15 (3.91%) ISTQB
7 13 (3.39%) ICAEW
8 12 (3.13%) ACCA
8 12 (3.13%) CIMA
8 12 (3.13%) PhD
9 11 (2.86%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.30%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.30%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 3 (0.78%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.52%) CSQA
12 2 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.26%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (11.72%) QA
2 39 (10.16%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.60%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.60%) GxP
4 6 (1.56%) WCAG
5 4 (1.04%) PMO
6 3 (0.78%) GDPR
6 3 (0.78%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.52%) NIST
7 2 (0.52%) SLA
8 1 (0.26%) MISRA
8 1 (0.26%) NCSC
8 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (11.46%) Docker
2 10 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.04%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.52%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (14.84%) Kubernetes
2 25 (6.51%) Terraform
3 14 (3.65%) Ansible
4 11 (2.86%) Kibana
5 5 (1.30%) Grafana
5 5 (1.30%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.30%) SCCM
6 4 (1.04%) CA Endevor
6 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.04%) Packer
7 3 (0.78%) SCOM
8 2 (0.52%) Argo
8 2 (0.52%) Istio
8 2 (0.52%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.26%) Netcool
9 1 (0.26%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 87 (22.66%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.47%) SAP
3 13 (3.39%) Google
4 10 (2.60%) Adobe
4 10 (2.60%) Databricks
4 10 (2.60%) IBM
5 9 (2.34%) AppDynamics
6 8 (2.08%) Oracle
7 7 (1.82%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.82%) Splunk
7 7 (1.82%) VMware
8 6 (1.56%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.56%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.30%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.04%) Sitecore
11 3 (0.78%) LabVantage
11 3 (0.78%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.52%) Facebook
12 2 (0.52%) McAfee
12 2 (0.52%) YouTube