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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 5 2
Rank change year-on-year -10 -3 +1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 409 835 892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.60% 17.17% 24.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.77% 20.93% 25.38%
Number of salaries quoted 148 384 663
10th Percentile £39,750 £36,250 £40,789
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -

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 3,475 3,989 3,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.03% 82.01% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,472 2,097 2,433
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £32,400
25th Percentile £35,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Agile 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -6 297 £60,000 -7.69% 242
Oxfordshire -13 68 £55,000 +15.79% 49
Buckinghamshire -51 44 £55,000 +6.80% 68
Agile
South East

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (4.89%) Confluence
2 16 (3.91%) CMS
2 16 (3.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.42%) Exchange Server 2013
4 7 (1.71%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.71%) JBoss
4 7 (1.71%) Red Hat Fuse
5 6 (1.47%) IIS
6 4 (0.98%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.49%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (1.71%) MadCap Flare
2 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.24%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 3 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.49%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.49%) Shopify
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.24%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.24%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.24%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.24%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 164 (40.10%) Azure
2 138 (33.74%) AWS
3 55 (13.45%) GCP
4 39 (9.54%) Vertex AI
5 35 (8.56%) Amazon ECS
5 35 (8.56%) Amazon EKS
5 35 (8.56%) Serverless
6 33 (8.07%) Amazon EC2
7 23 (5.62%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (4.16%) Azure AI
8 17 (4.16%) SaaS
9 15 (3.67%) PaaS
10 14 (3.42%) Salsify
11 12 (2.93%) Amazon S3
11 12 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (2.93%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 11 (2.69%) GitHub
12 11 (2.69%) iPaaS
12 11 (2.69%) Power Platform
13 9 (2.20%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (6.60%) Firewall
2 22 (5.38%) SAN
3 18 (4.40%) VLAN
4 16 (3.91%) WAN
5 14 (3.42%) LAN
5 14 (3.42%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (1.96%) DNS
7 4 (0.98%) DHCP
7 4 (0.98%) NAS
7 4 (0.98%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.98%) Wireless
8 2 (0.49%) FTP
8 2 (0.49%) HTTP
8 2 (0.49%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.49%) SMTP
8 2 (0.49%) SSH
8 2 (0.49%) VPN
9 1 (0.24%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.24%) RFID
9 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (12.47%) Data Lake
2 48 (11.74%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (8.07%) Relational Database
4 24 (5.87%) Data Mining
4 24 (5.87%) RDBMS
5 18 (4.40%) SQL Server
6 14 (3.42%) Metadata
6 14 (3.42%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.44%) MySQL
8 9 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (2.20%) Big Data
8 9 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.71%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.71%) Hadoop
11 6 (1.47%) DynamoDB
12 5 (1.22%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.22%) Power BI
13 1 (0.24%) SAP HANA
13 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 51 (12.47%) Jenkins
2 45 (11.00%) Git
3 42 (10.27%) JUnit
4 39 (9.54%) JIRA
5 34 (8.31%) Mockito
6 24 (5.87%) JMeter
7 16 (3.91%) SonarQube
8 15 (3.67%) Selenium
9 14 (3.42%) Maven
10 11 (2.69%) GitLab
11 8 (1.96%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (1.71%) NUnit
12 7 (1.71%) TeamCity
12 7 (1.71%) WebDriver
13 6 (1.47%) Bitbucket Server
13 6 (1.47%) Cucumber
13 6 (1.47%) DbUnit
13 6 (1.47%) Jasmine
13 6 (1.47%) jMock
General
1 220 (53.79%) Social Skills
2 165 (40.34%) Law
3 142 (34.72%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (19.32%) Finance
5 62 (15.16%) Marketing
6 48 (11.74%) Legal
6 48 (11.74%) Retail
7 46 (11.25%) Public Sector
8 45 (11.00%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (3.91%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (3.42%) Pharmaceutical
11 12 (2.93%) Banking
12 6 (1.47%) Games
12 6 (1.47%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.73%) Automotive
13 3 (0.73%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.73%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.24%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 131 (32.03%) Senior
2 85 (20.78%) Developer
3 73 (17.85%) Lead
4 46 (11.25%) Java Developer
5 37 (9.05%) Full-Stack Developer
6 30 (7.33%) Architect
7 28 (6.85%) Senior Manager
8 27 (6.60%) Product Manager
9 24 (5.87%) Senior Developer
10 20 (4.89%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 19 (4.65%) Analyst
12 18 (4.40%) Software Engineer
13 15 (3.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 15 (3.67%) Product Delivery Manager
14 14 (3.42%) 3rd Line Support Technician
14 14 (3.42%) Full-Stack Web Developer
14 14 (3.42%) Project Manager
14 14 (3.42%) Salesforce Architect
14 14 (3.42%) Support Technician
14 14 (3.42%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (13.94%) HTML
2 54 (13.20%) REST
3 53 (12.96%) Spring
3 53 (12.96%) Spring Boot
4 45 (11.00%) React
5 40 (9.78%) Hibernate
5 40 (9.78%) Web Services
6 38 (9.29%) RESTful
7 34 (8.31%) SOAP
8 32 (7.82%) ActiveMQ
9 31 (7.58%) Apache Camel
10 29 (7.09%) CSS
11 27 (6.60%) .NET
12 25 (6.11%) jQuery
13 24 (5.87%) WireMock
14 22 (5.38%) XML
15 21 (5.13%) JSON
15 21 (5.13%) Kafka
15 21 (5.13%) Node.js
16 18 (4.40%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 43 (10.51%) Analytical Mindset
2 36 (8.80%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (8.56%) Product Ownership
4 25 (6.11%) Management Information System
5 24 (5.87%) Algorithms
6 19 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (3.91%) Replication
8 15 (3.67%) AI Agents
9 14 (3.42%) Cloud Native
9 14 (3.42%) Taxonomies
10 12 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (2.69%) Life Science
12 7 (1.71%) FMCG
13 6 (1.47%) Mobile App
13 6 (1.47%) PMI
14 5 (1.22%) IoT
14 5 (1.22%) Online Games
14 5 (1.22%) Virtual Team
15 3 (0.73%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.11%) Windows
2 19 (4.65%) Windows Server
3 18 (4.40%) Linux
4 5 (1.22%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.98%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.98%) Unix
6 3 (0.73%) Android
7 2 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.49%) VMS
8 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (35.21%) Problem-Solving
2 134 (32.76%) Analytics
3 123 (30.07%) DevOps
4 120 (29.34%) Roadmaps
5 112 (27.38%) CI/CD
5 112 (27.38%) Machine Learning
6 109 (26.65%) Data Science
7 89 (21.76%) Artificial Intelligence
8 83 (20.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 70 (17.11%) Generative AI
9 70 (17.11%) Microservices
10 65 (15.89%) TDD
10 65 (15.89%) Thought Leadership
11 62 (15.16%) Actionable Insight
11 62 (15.16%) Scrum
12 60 (14.67%) Use Case
13 57 (13.94%) Product Management
14 56 (13.69%) Strategic Roadmap
15 51 (12.47%) Change Management
15 51 (12.47%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 72 (17.60%) Java
2 70 (17.11%) JavaScript
3 57 (13.94%) Python
4 56 (13.69%) SQL
5 25 (6.11%) Shell Script
6 23 (5.62%) C#
7 14 (3.42%) Apex Code
8 9 (2.20%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.96%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.47%) Ruby
11 5 (1.22%) Go
12 4 (0.98%) C++
13 2 (0.49%) Bicep
13 2 (0.49%) Groovy
13 2 (0.49%) Perl
13 2 (0.49%) Rust
13 2 (0.49%) SOQL
14 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.24%) PHP
14 1 (0.24%) Swift
Qualifications
1 72 (17.60%) Degree
2 44 (10.76%) Security Cleared
3 39 (9.54%) Master's Degree
4 30 (7.33%) SC Cleared
5 26 (6.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (4.40%) PMI Certification
7 12 (2.93%) Azure Certification
7 12 (2.93%) PMP
8 11 (2.69%) PhD
9 9 (2.20%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.47%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 4 (0.98%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.49%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 1 (0.24%) HNC
14 1 (0.24%) HND
14 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (9.78%) QA
2 29 (7.09%) Data Quality
3 21 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (4.40%) Cyber Essentials
4 18 (4.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 13 (3.18%) GxP
6 10 (2.44%) SLA
7 8 (1.96%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.96%) GDPR
8 7 (1.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.73%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 3 (0.73%) Good Clinical Practice
9 3 (0.73%) PMO
10 1 (0.24%) GAAP
10 1 (0.24%) IFRS
10 1 (0.24%) PMBOK
10 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 76 (18.58%) Docker
2 23 (5.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (5.38%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.20%) Active Directory
5 7 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.98%) vSphere
7 3 (0.73%) vCloud
8 2 (0.49%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.49%) Firmware
8 2 (0.49%) Postfix
9 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 70 (17.11%) Kubernetes
2 24 (5.87%) Kibana
3 19 (4.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (4.65%) Terraform
4 18 (4.40%) SCCM
5 16 (3.91%) Ansible
6 7 (1.71%) Grafana
6 7 (1.71%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.73%) Puppet
7 3 (0.73%) Rundeck
7 3 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.24%) Nessus
8 1 (0.24%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.24%) SCOM
Vendors
1 78 (19.07%) Microsoft
2 65 (15.89%) Google
3 27 (6.60%) VMware
4 24 (5.87%) Dynatrace
4 24 (5.87%) OpenAI
4 24 (5.87%) Splunk
5 21 (5.13%) Salesforce
6 15 (3.67%) Foundry
7 14 (3.42%) arcserve
7 14 (3.42%) SAP
8 12 (2.93%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 9 (2.20%) Concur
9 9 (2.20%) Workday
10 7 (1.71%) Databricks
10 7 (1.71%) Rollbar
11 6 (1.47%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.47%) Solace
12 4 (0.98%) Apple
12 4 (0.98%) LogicMonitor
12 4 (0.98%) Sophos