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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 12 6
Rank change year-on-year -6 -6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 363 422 1,093
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 6.17% 12.36% 14.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.63% 13.34% 18.13%
Number of salaries quoted 238 131 657
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £37,714
25th Percentile £50,750 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £77,750
90th Percentile £86,625 £90,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 4,208 3,164 6,029
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.50% 92.65% 81.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,922 1,239 4,051
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,800 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,065 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% +6.13% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,920 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.84% +2.00% -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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +51 175 £62,500 -1.96% 35
Berkshire -18 123 £70,000 -2.10% 35
Oxfordshire -9 65 £60,000 +20.00% 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 7 (1.93%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.38%) CMS
3 4 (1.10%) CICS
3 4 (1.10%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.10%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.83%) Confluence
5 2 (0.55%) Apache
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.28%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.28%) IIS
6 1 (0.28%) JBoss
6 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (6.06%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (2.48%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.55%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.55%) UserZoom
5 1 (0.28%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.55%) SAP HR
2 2 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.28%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.28%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.28%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 120 (33.06%) Azure
2 98 (27.00%) AWS
3 31 (8.54%) Serverless
4 28 (7.71%) SaaS
5 25 (6.89%) Power Platform
6 24 (6.61%) Amazon EKS
7 20 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (4.68%) IaaS
9 16 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
9 16 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (4.41%) GitHub
10 14 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (3.58%) Amazon S3
12 12 (3.31%) GCP
13 11 (3.03%) Azure AKS
13 11 (3.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 11 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
13 11 (3.03%) Azure Storage
14 8 (2.20%) Google Analytics
15 7 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.68%) DNS
2 7 (1.93%) Broadband
3 6 (1.65%) Firewall
4 3 (0.83%) DHCP
5 1 (0.28%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.28%) HTTP
5 1 (0.28%) Intranet
5 1 (0.28%) MQTT
5 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.44%) SQL Server
2 21 (5.79%) Azure SQL Database
2 21 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (5.79%) Power BI
3 20 (5.51%) Relational Database
4 15 (4.13%) MongoDB
5 10 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (2.48%) Metadata
7 5 (1.38%) MySQL
7 5 (1.38%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.10%) Db2
8 4 (1.10%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.83%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.55%) Redis
10 2 (0.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.28%) PowerPivot
11 1 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (8.26%) Git
2 22 (6.06%) JIRA
3 21 (5.79%) Jenkins
4 18 (4.96%) GitLab
5 9 (2.48%) Cucumber
5 9 (2.48%) Postman
6 8 (2.20%) JUnit
6 8 (2.20%) Yeoman
7 7 (1.93%) JMeter
7 7 (1.93%) Mockito
7 7 (1.93%) Zephyr
8 6 (1.65%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.38%) Selenium
10 4 (1.10%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.10%) ChangeMan
10 4 (1.10%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.55%) Mocha
11 2 (0.55%) Subversion
12 1 (0.28%) SoapUI
12 1 (0.28%) WebDriver
General
1 119 (32.78%) Social Skills
2 80 (22.04%) Finance
3 52 (14.33%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (10.74%) Law
5 38 (10.47%) Influencing Skills
6 35 (9.64%) Public Sector
7 27 (7.44%) Pharmaceutical
8 22 (6.06%) Manufacturing
9 19 (5.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (5.23%) Retail
10 9 (2.48%) Games
11 7 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.65%) Advertising
12 6 (1.65%) Local Government
12 6 (1.65%) Marketing
13 5 (1.38%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.10%) Automotive
14 4 (1.10%) Electronics
14 4 (1.10%) Legal
Job Titles
1 85 (23.42%) Senior
2 74 (20.39%) Developer
3 47 (12.95%) Architect
4 35 (9.64%) Lead
5 33 (9.09%) Software Engineer
6 28 (7.71%) Project Manager
7 27 (7.44%) Analyst
8 24 (6.61%) Senior Developer
9 23 (6.34%) Development Manager
10 22 (6.06%) .NET Developer
10 22 (6.06%) Senior Manager
11 21 (5.79%) Development Project Manager
11 21 (5.79%) Senior Development Manager
11 21 (5.79%) Senior Project Manager
12 20 (5.51%) Solutions Architect
13 15 (4.13%) Designer
13 15 (4.13%) Java Developer
14 14 (3.86%) Cloud Engineer
14 14 (3.86%) Data Engineer
15 13 (3.58%) Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (17.63%) .NET
2 44 (12.12%) REST
3 42 (11.57%) React
4 31 (8.54%) .NET Core
5 28 (7.71%) ASP.NET
6 26 (7.16%) JSON
7 25 (6.89%) Node.js
8 22 (6.06%) ASP.NET Core
8 22 (6.06%) RESTful
9 20 (5.51%) .NET Framework
9 20 (5.51%) SOAP
10 19 (5.23%) HTML
10 19 (5.23%) XML
11 18 (4.96%) Spring
12 17 (4.68%) Blazor
12 17 (4.68%) Middleware
13 16 (4.41%) AngularJS
14 15 (4.13%) Spring Boot
14 15 (4.13%) Web Services
15 13 (3.58%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 45 (12.40%) Cloud Native
2 44 (12.12%) Product Ownership
3 31 (8.54%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (6.89%) Life Science
5 15 (4.13%) Mobile App
6 14 (3.86%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.75%) Low-Code
8 9 (2.48%) Hackathon
9 7 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.93%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.65%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.65%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (1.38%) NHS
11 5 (1.38%) Social Media
11 5 (1.38%) Social Network
11 5 (1.38%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.10%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.10%) Legacy Code
12 4 (1.10%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.58%) Linux
2 12 (3.31%) Windows
3 5 (1.38%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.10%) zOS
5 2 (0.55%) Android
6 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (26.17%) DevOps
2 94 (25.90%) CI/CD
3 74 (20.39%) Scrum
4 72 (19.83%) Decision-Making
5 68 (18.73%) Problem-Solving
6 65 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
7 64 (17.63%) Analytics
7 64 (17.63%) Software Engineering
8 62 (17.08%) AI
9 60 (16.53%) Computer Science
10 56 (15.43%) Mentoring
11 54 (14.88%) Microservices
12 48 (13.22%) Test Automation
13 45 (12.40%) Containerisation
13 45 (12.40%) TDD
14 40 (11.02%) Full-Stack Development
15 38 (10.47%) Roadmaps
16 36 (9.92%) Data Modelling
16 36 (9.92%) Hematology
16 36 (9.92%) Immunology
Programming Languages
1 83 (22.87%) SQL
2 80 (22.04%) C#
3 67 (18.46%) Python
4 43 (11.85%) Java
5 37 (10.19%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.96%) TypeScript
7 15 (4.13%) PowerShell
8 14 (3.86%) C++
9 9 (2.48%) Shell Script
9 9 (2.48%) VBA
10 7 (1.93%) ABAP
11 6 (1.65%) Groovy
12 5 (1.38%) Bash
12 5 (1.38%) C
13 4 (1.10%) Apex Code
13 4 (1.10%) COBOL
13 4 (1.10%) JCL
13 4 (1.10%) Perl
13 4 (1.10%) PHP
13 4 (1.10%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 121 (33.33%) Degree
2 35 (9.64%) Security Cleared
3 32 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 29 (7.99%) SC Cleared
5 24 (6.61%) PMI Certification
5 24 (6.61%) PMP
6 21 (5.79%) Master's Degree
7 14 (3.86%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.86%) ICAEW
8 11 (3.03%) ISTQB
9 9 (2.48%) ACCA
9 9 (2.48%) CIMA
9 9 (2.48%) PhD
10 3 (0.83%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.55%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.55%) CSQA
12 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (12.12%) QA
2 36 (9.92%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.48%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.65%) GxP
5 5 (1.38%) GDPR
5 5 (1.38%) WCAG
6 4 (1.10%) PMO
6 4 (1.10%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.83%) NIST
8 2 (0.55%) SLA
9 1 (0.28%) MISRA
9 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 45 (12.40%) Docker
2 7 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.83%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.28%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 59 (16.25%) Kubernetes
2 24 (6.61%) Terraform
3 14 (3.86%) Ansible
4 11 (3.03%) Kibana
5 5 (1.38%) Grafana
5 5 (1.38%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.10%) CA Endevor
6 4 (1.10%) Packer
7 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.55%) Argo
8 2 (0.55%) Istio
8 2 (0.55%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.28%) Netcool
9 1 (0.28%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 1 (0.28%) SCCM
9 1 (0.28%) SCOM
Vendors
1 92 (25.34%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.96%) SAP
3 16 (4.41%) Google
4 10 (2.75%) IBM
5 9 (2.48%) AppDynamics
6 8 (2.20%) Adobe
6 8 (2.20%) Oracle
7 7 (1.93%) Databricks
7 7 (1.93%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.93%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.93%) Splunk
8 5 (1.38%) Facebook
8 5 (1.38%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.38%) YouTube
9 4 (1.10%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.10%) Sitecore
9 4 (1.10%) VMware
10 2 (0.55%) Blue Prism
10 2 (0.55%) LabVantage
10 2 (0.55%) New Relic