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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 10 5
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 352 370 989
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 6.66% 13.15% 15.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.15% 14.08% 17.93%
Number of salaries quoted 183 169 709
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -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 3,846 2,628 5,515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 72.74% 93.42% 85.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,474 1,199 4,047
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £81,250
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -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 15 April 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 15 April 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
Berkshire -9 166 £70,000 - 50
Buckinghamshire +21 147 £60,000 -0.41% 38
Oxfordshire -20 39 £70,000 +47.37% 28
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 6 (1.70%) OpenStack
2 5 (1.42%) Confluence
3 4 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.85%) CMS
5 2 (0.57%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.57%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.28%) Apache
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.28%) Camunda
6 1 (0.28%) IIS
6 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (7.10%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (3.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (3.41%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.42%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.57%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.28%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) SAP HR
1 2 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.28%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.28%) Shopify
2 1 (0.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 82 (23.30%) Azure
2 59 (16.76%) AWS
3 28 (7.95%) Serverless
4 24 (6.82%) Power Platform
5 21 (5.97%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (4.83%) Amazon S3
6 17 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (4.55%) GCP
7 16 (4.55%) SaaS
8 14 (3.98%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (3.13%) GitHub
10 10 (2.84%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (2.84%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (2.56%) Miro
11 9 (2.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 8 (2.27%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 7 (1.99%) Google Analytics
13 7 (1.99%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.56%) DNS
2 7 (1.99%) Broadband
3 5 (1.42%) Firewall
4 3 (0.85%) DHCP
5 2 (0.57%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.57%) NAS
5 2 (0.57%) SAN
5 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.57%) Unified Communications
5 2 (0.57%) VLAN
5 2 (0.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.81%) SQL Server
2 22 (6.25%) Power BI
3 19 (5.40%) Relational Database
4 15 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (3.13%) Metadata
6 9 (2.56%) MySQL
7 7 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.85%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.85%) Metadata Repository
9 3 (0.85%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.85%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.85%) Tableau
10 2 (0.57%) Big Data
10 2 (0.57%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.57%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 32 (9.09%) Git
2 30 (8.52%) JIRA
3 20 (5.68%) Jenkins
4 12 (3.41%) GitLab
5 9 (2.56%) Postman
6 7 (1.99%) Selenium
6 7 (1.99%) WebDriver
7 6 (1.70%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.70%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.42%) Axure RP
8 5 (1.42%) Balsamiq
8 5 (1.42%) JUnit
8 5 (1.42%) SoapUI
8 5 (1.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (1.14%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.14%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.14%) Mockito
9 4 (1.14%) SpecFlow
9 4 (1.14%) Subversion
9 4 (1.14%) Zephyr
General
1 150 (42.61%) Social Skills
2 89 (25.28%) Finance
3 54 (15.34%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (11.65%) Law
4 41 (11.65%) Pharmaceutical
4 41 (11.65%) Public Sector
5 38 (10.80%) Influencing Skills
6 30 (8.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (3.13%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.56%) Games
8 9 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (2.56%) Retail
9 7 (1.99%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.85%) Automotive
12 2 (0.57%) Aviation
12 2 (0.57%) Legal
12 2 (0.57%) Publishing
13 1 (0.28%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 93 (26.42%) Senior
2 55 (15.63%) Developer
3 47 (13.35%) Lead
4 43 (12.22%) Senior Manager
5 32 (9.09%) Analyst
6 31 (8.81%) Project Manager
7 27 (7.67%) Development Manager
7 27 (7.67%) Senior Development Manager
8 25 (7.10%) Architect
9 24 (6.82%) Development Project Manager
9 24 (6.82%) Senior Project Manager
10 20 (5.68%) Designer
11 19 (5.40%) Associate Director
11 19 (5.40%) Full-Stack Developer
12 16 (4.55%) Software Engineer
13 15 (4.26%) Java Developer
14 14 (3.98%) Data Analyst
15 13 (3.69%) Data Engineer
15 13 (3.69%) Senior Designer
15 13 (3.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (13.35%) .NET
2 45 (12.78%) REST
3 26 (7.39%) React
4 23 (6.53%) SOAP
5 20 (5.68%) Middleware
6 18 (5.11%) ASP.NET
7 17 (4.83%) .NET Framework
7 17 (4.83%) JSON
8 16 (4.55%) HTML
8 16 (4.55%) Spring
9 14 (3.98%) Elastic Stack
9 14 (3.98%) Spring Boot
10 13 (3.69%) Kafka
10 13 (3.69%) Web Services
11 12 (3.41%) RabbitMQ
11 12 (3.41%) XML
12 11 (3.13%) AngularJS
13 10 (2.84%) CSS
14 9 (2.56%) Entity Framework
14 9 (2.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 54 (15.34%) Life Science
2 41 (11.65%) Product Ownership
3 26 (7.39%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (7.10%) Cloud Native
5 15 (4.26%) Mobile App
5 15 (4.26%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.69%) Low-Code
7 11 (3.13%) Hackathon
8 10 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.42%) Social Media
10 4 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.14%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.14%) N-Tier
10 4 (1.14%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.85%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.85%) Biopharmaceutical
11 3 (0.85%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.85%) LIMS
11 3 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.84%) Linux
2 6 (1.70%) Windows
3 4 (1.14%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.28%) Android
5 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (24.72%) Analytics
2 86 (24.43%) CI/CD
3 80 (22.73%) DevOps
4 78 (22.16%) Continuous Improvement
5 72 (20.45%) Hematology
5 72 (20.45%) Immunology
6 68 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
7 67 (19.03%) Biotechnology
7 67 (19.03%) Scrum
8 64 (18.18%) AI
9 62 (17.61%) Decision-Making
10 59 (16.76%) Computer Science
11 45 (12.78%) Roadmaps
12 38 (10.80%) Data Science
13 37 (10.51%) Machine Learning
14 36 (10.23%) Project Management
14 36 (10.23%) Technology Strategy
15 35 (9.94%) Microservices
16 34 (9.66%) Data Modelling
16 34 (9.66%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 71 (20.17%) Python
2 64 (18.18%) SQL
3 46 (13.07%) Java
4 42 (11.93%) C#
5 34 (9.66%) JavaScript
6 17 (4.83%) TypeScript
7 12 (3.41%) VBA
8 9 (2.56%) Apex Code
9 8 (2.27%) C++
10 6 (1.70%) Groovy
10 6 (1.70%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.42%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.14%) Perl
12 4 (1.14%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.85%) ABAP
13 3 (0.85%) C
13 3 (0.85%) PHP
13 3 (0.85%) R
14 2 (0.57%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.28%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 144 (40.91%) Degree
2 51 (14.49%) Security Cleared
3 39 (11.08%) SC Cleared
4 33 (9.38%) Master's Degree
5 26 (7.39%) PMI Certification
5 26 (7.39%) PMP
6 21 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (4.83%) PhD
8 13 (3.69%) ISTQB
9 12 (3.41%) ACCA
9 12 (3.41%) CIMA
10 6 (1.70%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.70%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 4 (1.14%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.57%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.28%) CSQA
13 1 (0.28%) ICAEW
13 1 (0.28%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (11.93%) Accessibility
2 37 (10.51%) QA
3 16 (4.55%) Data Quality
4 15 (4.26%) GxP
5 8 (2.27%) WCAG
6 4 (1.14%) PMO
7 3 (0.85%) GDPR
8 2 (0.57%) ECSS
8 2 (0.57%) SLA
9 1 (0.28%) MISRA
9 1 (0.28%) NCSC
9 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (8.81%) Docker
2 6 (1.70%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.85%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.57%) Terminal Server
5 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (9.66%) Kubernetes
2 24 (6.82%) Terraform
3 11 (3.13%) Ansible
4 7 (1.99%) Kibana
5 5 (1.42%) SCCM
6 4 (1.14%) Packer
7 3 (0.85%) SCOM
8 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.28%) Grafana
9 1 (0.28%) Netcool
9 1 (0.28%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 63 (17.90%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.11%) SAP
3 13 (3.69%) Databricks
3 13 (3.69%) Google
4 12 (3.41%) Adobe
5 11 (3.13%) IBM
5 11 (3.13%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.84%) MuleSoft
7 9 (2.56%) AppDynamics
8 8 (2.27%) Oracle
9 6 (1.70%) VMware
10 5 (1.42%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.14%) Telerik
12 3 (0.85%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.85%) LabVantage
12 3 (0.85%) Splunk
13 2 (0.57%) LogicMonitor
13 2 (0.57%) Palo Alto
13 2 (0.57%) Workday
13 2 (0.57%) Xamarin