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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 18 4
Rank change year-on-year -10 -14 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 344 369 789
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.53% 9.74% 17.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.35% 10.80% 21.07%
Number of salaries quoted 248 147 351
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +1.12%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,750 £91,250
South East median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -

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 5,416 3,418 3,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.38% 90.23% 83.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,853 1,486 1,811
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £41,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +31 133 £67,500 +22.73% 95
Berkshire -19 126 £62,500 +8.70% 168
Oxfordshire -15 85 £60,000 +2.13% 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 14 (4.07%) Confluence
2 6 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.16%) CICS
3 4 (1.16%) CMS
4 3 (0.87%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.58%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.58%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.58%) WordPress
6 1 (0.29%) Apache
6 1 (0.29%) IIS
6 1 (0.29%) JBoss
6 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (5.23%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.45%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.87%) EPLAN
3 3 (0.87%) Lightworks
3 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.58%) UserZoom
5 1 (0.29%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.29%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 16 (4.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.58%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.58%) SAP BPC
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
1 132 (38.37%) Azure
2 103 (29.94%) AWS
3 43 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (8.72%) SaaS
5 27 (7.85%) Power Platform
6 23 (6.69%) GitHub
7 21 (6.10%) Serverless
8 18 (5.23%) GCP
9 16 (4.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 15 (4.36%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (3.78%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (3.20%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (3.20%) IaaS
13 10 (2.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 9 (2.62%) Amazon S3
14 9 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
16 7 (2.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 7 (2.03%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.20%) DNS
2 4 (1.16%) Firewall
3 3 (0.87%) HTTP
3 3 (0.87%) MQTT
3 3 (0.87%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.58%) DHCP
4 2 (0.58%) SMS
4 2 (0.58%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.29%) ATM
5 1 (0.29%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.29%) Intranet
5 1 (0.29%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.29%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.29%) VLAN
5 1 (0.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.30%) Azure SQL Database
2 26 (7.56%) MongoDB
3 25 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (7.27%) SQL Server
4 20 (5.81%) Power BI
5 18 (5.23%) Relational Database
6 17 (4.94%) Metadata
7 15 (4.36%) NoSQL
8 12 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (3.20%) DynamoDB
9 11 (3.20%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (2.62%) Amazon QuickSight
10 9 (2.62%) Snowflake Schema
10 9 (2.62%) Star Schema
11 6 (1.74%) GIS
12 5 (1.45%) Db2
12 5 (1.45%) Geospatial Data
12 5 (1.45%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.87%) MySQL
13 3 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 38 (11.05%) Git
2 34 (9.88%) JIRA
3 20 (5.81%) GitLab
4 14 (4.07%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.33%) JMeter
5 8 (2.33%) JUnit
6 7 (2.03%) Mockito
6 7 (2.03%) Yeoman
7 5 (1.45%) Postman
7 5 (1.45%) Selenium
8 4 (1.16%) ChangeMan
8 4 (1.16%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.87%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.87%) Eclipse RCP
9 3 (0.87%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.58%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.58%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.58%) Maven
10 2 (0.58%) Mocha
10 2 (0.58%) SonarQube
General
1 111 (32.27%) Social Skills
2 87 (25.29%) Finance
3 46 (13.37%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (8.43%) Public Sector
5 27 (7.85%) Influencing Skills
5 27 (7.85%) Law
6 25 (7.27%) Manufacturing
6 25 (7.27%) Retail
7 21 (6.10%) Marketing
8 15 (4.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.20%) Aerospace
9 11 (3.20%) Banking
9 11 (3.20%) Telecoms
10 8 (2.33%) Advertising
10 8 (2.33%) Electronics
10 8 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (2.03%) Automotive
11 7 (2.03%) Local Government
12 6 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (24.71%) Senior
2 78 (22.67%) Developer
3 36 (10.47%) Software Engineer
4 33 (9.59%) .NET Developer
5 27 (7.85%) Senior Developer
6 26 (7.56%) Architect
7 25 (7.27%) Analyst
7 25 (7.27%) Project Manager
8 19 (5.52%) Lead
9 18 (5.23%) Azure Engineer
10 15 (4.36%) Business Analyst
10 15 (4.36%) Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (4.07%) Senior Manager
12 13 (3.78%) Cloud Engineer
12 13 (3.78%) Python Engineer
12 13 (3.78%) Senior Software Engineer
13 12 (3.49%) C# Software Engineer
13 12 (3.49%) Software Developer
13 12 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (3.20%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (17.15%) .NET
2 48 (13.95%) React
3 33 (9.59%) Node.js
4 30 (8.72%) .NET Core
4 30 (8.72%) ASP.NET
4 30 (8.72%) ASP.NET Core
4 30 (8.72%) REST
5 28 (8.14%) HTML
6 21 (6.10%) RESTful
7 19 (5.52%) CSS
7 19 (5.52%) JSON
8 18 (5.23%) .NET Framework
8 18 (5.23%) Blazor
9 16 (4.65%) Terraform
10 15 (4.36%) Vue
11 14 (4.07%) Spring
11 14 (4.07%) Spring Boot
11 14 (4.07%) XML
12 13 (3.78%) Entity Framework
12 13 (3.78%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 50 (14.53%) Product Ownership
2 37 (10.76%) Cloud Native
3 23 (6.69%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (5.52%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (5.52%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.62%) Life Science
7 7 (2.03%) Renewable Energy
8 6 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.74%) NHS
9 5 (1.45%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.45%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.16%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.16%) Legacy Code
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%) Lidar
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.69%) Windows
2 12 (3.49%) Linux
3 4 (1.16%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.16%) zOS
4 1 (0.29%) Android
4 1 (0.29%) macOS
4 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (27.91%) CI/CD
1 96 (27.91%) DevOps
2 85 (24.71%) Problem-Solving
3 78 (22.67%) Scrum
4 71 (20.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 70 (20.35%) Software Engineering
6 66 (19.19%) Mentoring
7 61 (17.73%) AI
8 58 (16.86%) Decision-Making
9 55 (15.99%) Full-Stack Development
10 53 (15.41%) Microservices
11 51 (14.83%) Stakeholder Management
12 50 (14.53%) Computer Science
13 47 (13.66%) Analytics
14 46 (13.37%) Project Management
14 46 (13.37%) Roadmaps
15 37 (10.76%) Test Automation
16 36 (10.47%) Data Modelling
17 35 (10.17%) Containerisation
17 35 (10.17%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 98 (28.49%) C#
2 77 (22.38%) SQL
3 63 (18.31%) Python
4 47 (13.66%) JavaScript
5 33 (9.59%) TypeScript
6 29 (8.43%) Java
7 22 (6.40%) C++
8 11 (3.20%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.33%) Shell Script
10 7 (2.03%) Bash
11 6 (1.74%) C
12 5 (1.45%) Apex Code
12 5 (1.45%) COBOL
13 4 (1.16%) ABAP
13 4 (1.16%) JCL
14 2 (0.58%) Embedded C
14 2 (0.58%) Groovy
14 2 (0.58%) R
15 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.29%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 111 (32.27%) Degree
2 31 (9.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (8.72%) Security Cleared
4 26 (7.56%) SC Cleared
5 19 (5.52%) PMP
6 18 (5.23%) PMI Certification
7 17 (4.94%) Master's Degree
8 14 (4.07%) ICAEW
9 11 (3.20%) Azure Certification
10 8 (2.33%) PhD
11 7 (2.03%) AWS Certification
12 5 (1.45%) ISTQB
13 4 (1.16%) Chartered Engineer
14 3 (0.87%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.87%) Postgraduate
14 3 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 2 (0.58%) CSPO
15 2 (0.58%) DV Cleared
15 2 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (11.34%) QA
2 28 (8.14%) Data Quality
3 22 (6.40%) Accessibility
4 14 (4.07%) GDPR
5 9 (2.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.45%) NIST
6 5 (1.45%) PMO
6 5 (1.45%) WCAG
7 4 (1.16%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.58%) MISRA
9 1 (0.29%) ECSS
9 1 (0.29%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.29%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.29%) NCSC
9 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 41 (11.92%) Docker
2 6 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.58%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 52 (15.12%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.03%) Kibana
3 5 (1.45%) Ansible
3 5 (1.45%) Grafana
4 4 (1.16%) CA Endevor
4 4 (1.16%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.58%) Argo
6 2 (0.58%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.58%) Istio
6 2 (0.58%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.29%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 84 (24.42%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.36%) Google
3 13 (3.78%) Salesforce
4 12 (3.49%) CA Agile Central
5 10 (2.91%) SAP
6 9 (2.62%) Informatica
6 9 (2.62%) Pega
6 9 (2.62%) Talend
7 8 (2.33%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.33%) 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%) Oracle
9 5 (1.45%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.87%) Autodesk
10 3 (0.87%) VMware
11 2 (0.58%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.58%) Sage