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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 13 5
Rank change year-on-year -11 -8 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 341 461 881
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 5.19% 12.85% 16.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.34% 14.27% 20.58%
Number of salaries quoted 245 150 458
10th Percentile £45,000 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £74,688 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,375 £92,500
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 4,643 3,231 4,280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.66% 90.08% 81.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,231 1,431 2,692
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £81,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,852
% change year-on-year +10.00% -3.57% -5.72%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 +43 162 £60,000 +11.11% 51
Berkshire -27 106 £68,750 +5.77% 88
Oxfordshire -9 73 £57,500 +9.52% 48
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 (2.35%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.17%) CICS
2 4 (1.17%) CMS
3 3 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (0.88%) Confluence
3 3 (0.88%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (0.59%) Apache
4 2 (0.59%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.59%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.29%) IIS
5 1 (0.29%) JBoss
5 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (3.52%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.47%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.59%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.29%) EPLAN
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.29%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 9 (2.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.59%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.29%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.29%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 136 (39.88%) Azure
2 111 (32.55%) AWS
3 31 (9.09%) SaaS
3 31 (9.09%) Serverless
4 25 (7.33%) GitHub
5 23 (6.74%) Amazon EKS
5 23 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (5.87%) Power Platform
7 18 (5.28%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (5.28%) IaaS
8 16 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (4.40%) GCP
10 14 (4.11%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (3.81%) Amazon S3
12 11 (3.23%) Azure AKS
12 11 (3.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 11 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
12 11 (3.23%) Azure Storage
13 8 (2.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 8 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.69%) DNS
2 5 (1.47%) Firewall
3 4 (1.17%) Broadband
4 3 (0.88%) DHCP
5 2 (0.59%) HTTP
5 2 (0.59%) MQTT
5 2 (0.59%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.29%) Intranet
6 1 (0.29%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.29%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.29%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 25 (7.33%) SQL Server
2 19 (5.57%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (5.57%) Relational Database
3 17 (4.99%) MongoDB
4 15 (4.40%) Power BI
5 13 (3.81%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (2.93%) Metadata
7 5 (1.47%) MySQL
7 5 (1.47%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.17%) Db2
8 4 (1.17%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.88%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.88%) GIS
10 2 (0.59%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.59%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.59%) QGIS
10 2 (0.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (10.26%) Git
2 22 (6.45%) GitLab
3 21 (6.16%) Jenkins
3 21 (6.16%) JIRA
4 9 (2.64%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.35%) JUnit
5 8 (2.35%) Postman
5 8 (2.35%) SonarQube
5 8 (2.35%) Yeoman
6 7 (2.05%) JMeter
6 7 (2.05%) Mockito
7 6 (1.76%) Zephyr
8 4 (1.17%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.17%) ChangeMan
8 4 (1.17%) Selenium
8 4 (1.17%) SpecFlow
9 3 (0.88%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.88%) Eclipse RCP
10 2 (0.59%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.59%) Mocha
General
1 97 (28.45%) Social Skills
2 64 (18.77%) Finance
3 42 (12.32%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (10.85%) Law
5 34 (9.97%) Public Sector
6 25 (7.33%) Manufacturing
7 24 (7.04%) Retail
8 22 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
9 17 (4.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.93%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (2.35%) Advertising
11 8 (2.35%) Marketing
12 7 (2.05%) Local Government
13 6 (1.76%) Games
14 5 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (1.17%) Aerospace
15 4 (1.17%) Automotive
15 4 (1.17%) Electronics
15 4 (1.17%) Legal
15 4 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (24.93%) Developer
2 72 (21.11%) Senior
3 39 (11.44%) Architect
4 38 (11.14%) Software Engineer
5 29 (8.50%) .NET Developer
6 25 (7.33%) Senior Developer
7 24 (7.04%) Lead
8 20 (5.87%) Project Manager
9 17 (4.99%) Analyst
9 17 (4.99%) Cloud Engineer
10 16 (4.69%) Java Developer
10 16 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (4.40%) Full-Stack Developer
12 14 (4.11%) Data Engineer
13 13 (3.81%) Azure Engineer
13 13 (3.81%) Senior Software Engineer
14 12 (3.52%) Development Manager
14 12 (3.52%) Python Engineer
14 12 (3.52%) Software Developer
15 11 (3.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (19.94%) .NET
2 55 (16.13%) React
3 40 (11.73%) REST
4 35 (10.26%) .NET Core
5 33 (9.68%) ASP.NET
6 31 (9.09%) Node.js
7 27 (7.92%) ASP.NET Core
8 24 (7.04%) JSON
8 24 (7.04%) RESTful
9 22 (6.45%) .NET Framework
9 22 (6.45%) Blazor
10 21 (6.16%) HTML
11 19 (5.57%) AngularJS
12 17 (4.99%) Spring
12 17 (4.99%) Vue
13 16 (4.69%) Spring Boot
13 16 (4.69%) XML
14 15 (4.40%) Entity Framework
15 13 (3.81%) RabbitMQ
15 13 (3.81%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 45 (13.20%) Cloud Native
2 38 (11.14%) Product Ownership
3 34 (9.97%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.69%) Life Science
5 12 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.35%) Renewable Energy
8 6 (1.76%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (1.76%) Hackathon
8 6 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.76%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.76%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.76%) NHS
9 5 (1.47%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.47%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.17%) Legacy Code
10 4 (1.17%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.17%) Social Media
10 4 (1.17%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.81%) Linux
2 12 (3.52%) Windows
3 4 (1.17%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.17%) zOS
4 2 (0.59%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (30.79%) DevOps
2 102 (29.91%) CI/CD
3 76 (22.29%) Software Engineering
4 74 (21.70%) Scrum
5 71 (20.82%) Problem-Solving
6 69 (20.23%) AI
7 68 (19.94%) Microservices
8 67 (19.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 65 (19.06%) Decision-Making
10 63 (18.48%) Mentoring
11 54 (15.84%) Computer Science
12 51 (14.96%) Analytics
12 51 (14.96%) Full-Stack Development
12 51 (14.96%) Test Automation
13 49 (14.37%) Containerisation
14 45 (13.20%) TDD
15 36 (10.56%) Data Modelling
16 34 (9.97%) Kanban
16 34 (9.97%) Roadmaps
17 31 (9.09%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 95 (27.86%) C#
2 82 (24.05%) SQL
3 70 (20.53%) Python
4 38 (11.14%) Java
4 38 (11.14%) JavaScript
5 30 (8.80%) TypeScript
6 20 (5.87%) C++
7 16 (4.69%) PowerShell
8 9 (2.64%) Shell Script
9 8 (2.35%) Groovy
10 7 (2.05%) Bash
11 6 (1.76%) Apex Code
12 5 (1.47%) ABAP
12 5 (1.47%) C
13 4 (1.17%) COBOL
13 4 (1.17%) JCL
13 4 (1.17%) Perl
13 4 (1.17%) PHP
13 4 (1.17%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 99 (29.03%) Degree
2 35 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 32 (9.38%) Security Cleared
4 28 (8.21%) SC Cleared
5 17 (4.99%) Master's Degree
6 15 (4.40%) ICAEW
7 14 (4.11%) Azure Certification
8 13 (3.81%) PMP
9 12 (3.52%) PMI Certification
10 8 (2.35%) ISTQB
11 4 (1.17%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.17%) PhD
12 2 (0.59%) ACCA
12 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.59%) CIMA
12 2 (0.59%) CSQA
12 2 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.29%) CCNA
13 1 (0.29%) Chartered Engineer
13 1 (0.29%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (12.32%) QA
2 27 (7.92%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.93%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.47%) GDPR
4 5 (1.47%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.17%) NIST
5 4 (1.17%) PMO
5 4 (1.17%) WCAG
6 2 (0.59%) SLA
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.29%) MISRA
7 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 50 (14.66%) Docker
2 6 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.88%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (18.77%) Kubernetes
2 31 (9.09%) Terraform
3 14 (4.11%) Ansible
4 11 (3.23%) Kibana
5 5 (1.47%) Grafana
5 5 (1.47%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.17%) CA Endevor
6 4 (1.17%) Packer
7 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.59%) Argo
8 2 (0.59%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.59%) Istio
8 2 (0.59%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 90 (26.39%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.11%) Google
3 12 (3.52%) SAP
4 9 (2.64%) AppDynamics
4 9 (2.64%) IBM
5 7 (2.05%) Adobe
5 7 (2.05%) Databricks
5 7 (2.05%) Dynatrace
5 7 (2.05%) Facebook
5 7 (2.05%) Oracle
5 7 (2.05%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.05%) Splunk
5 7 (2.05%) YouTube
6 6 (1.76%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.47%) New Relic
8 3 (0.88%) Sitecore
8 3 (0.88%) VMware
9 2 (0.59%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.59%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.59%) Xamarin