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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 11 6
Rank change year-on-year -8 -5 -4
Permanent jobs citing Agile 357 458 1,071
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 5.83% 12.74% 16.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.12% 14.01% 19.73%
Number of salaries quoted 245 145 617
10th Percentile £43,125 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £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 4,396 3,270 5,429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.75% 90.96% 82.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,035 1,398 3,700
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.28% +3.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 11 July 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 11 July 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 +43 175 £60,000 +12.68% 34
Berkshire -23 112 £70,000 +5.66% 61
Oxfordshire -8 70 £57,500 +15.00% 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 7 (1.96%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.40%) CMS
3 4 (1.12%) CICS
3 4 (1.12%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.84%) Confluence
5 2 (0.56%) Apache
5 2 (0.56%) OpenStack
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 17 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.68%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (1.12%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.56%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.56%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.56%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.28%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.28%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.28%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.28%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 130 (36.41%) Azure
2 107 (29.97%) AWS
3 31 (8.68%) SaaS
3 31 (8.68%) Serverless
4 23 (6.44%) Amazon EKS
5 22 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (6.16%) Power Platform
6 20 (5.60%) GitHub
7 18 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (5.04%) IaaS
8 16 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (4.20%) GCP
10 14 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (3.64%) Amazon S3
12 11 (3.08%) Azure AKS
12 11 (3.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 11 (3.08%) Azure Key Vault
12 11 (3.08%) Azure Storage
13 8 (2.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 8 (2.24%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.76%) DNS
2 6 (1.68%) Broadband
2 6 (1.68%) Firewall
3 3 (0.84%) DHCP
4 2 (0.56%) HTTP
4 2 (0.56%) MQTT
4 2 (0.56%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.28%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.28%) Intranet
5 1 (0.28%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.84%) SQL Server
2 25 (7.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 20 (5.60%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (5.32%) Relational Database
5 18 (5.04%) Power BI
6 17 (4.76%) MongoDB
7 13 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (2.52%) Metadata
9 5 (1.40%) MySQL
9 5 (1.40%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.12%) Db2
10 4 (1.12%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.84%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.56%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.56%) GIS
12 2 (0.56%) Redis
12 2 (0.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 31 (8.68%) Git
2 22 (6.16%) JIRA
3 21 (5.88%) GitLab
3 21 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.52%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.24%) JUnit
5 8 (2.24%) Postman
5 8 (2.24%) SonarQube
5 8 (2.24%) Yeoman
6 7 (1.96%) JMeter
6 7 (1.96%) Mockito
6 7 (1.96%) Zephyr
7 4 (1.12%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.12%) ChangeMan
7 4 (1.12%) Selenium
7 4 (1.12%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.56%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.56%) Maven
8 2 (0.56%) Mocha
8 2 (0.56%) Subversion
General
1 109 (30.53%) Social Skills
2 71 (19.89%) Finance
3 49 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (10.36%) Law
5 33 (9.24%) Public Sector
6 31 (8.68%) Influencing Skills
7 24 (6.72%) Manufacturing
8 22 (6.16%) Retail
9 17 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
10 8 (2.24%) Advertising
10 8 (2.24%) Games
11 7 (1.96%) Local Government
11 7 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.68%) Marketing
13 4 (1.12%) Automotive
13 4 (1.12%) Electronics
13 4 (1.12%) Legal
13 4 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 82 (22.97%) Developer
1 82 (22.97%) Senior
2 45 (12.61%) Architect
3 36 (10.08%) Software Engineer
4 30 (8.40%) Lead
5 28 (7.84%) .NET Developer
6 24 (6.72%) Project Manager
6 24 (6.72%) Senior Developer
7 23 (6.44%) Analyst
8 20 (5.60%) Solutions Architect
9 17 (4.76%) Development Manager
10 16 (4.48%) Java Developer
10 16 (4.48%) Senior Manager
11 15 (4.20%) Cloud Engineer
11 15 (4.20%) Designer
11 15 (4.20%) Development Project Manager
11 15 (4.20%) Senior Development Manager
11 15 (4.20%) Senior Project Manager
12 14 (3.92%) Data Engineer
12 14 (3.92%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (19.05%) .NET
2 48 (13.45%) React
3 41 (11.48%) REST
4 35 (9.80%) .NET Core
5 32 (8.96%) ASP.NET
6 29 (8.12%) Node.js
7 26 (7.28%) ASP.NET Core
8 25 (7.00%) JSON
9 22 (6.16%) .NET Framework
9 22 (6.16%) RESTful
10 20 (5.60%) Blazor
10 20 (5.60%) HTML
11 19 (5.32%) AngularJS
12 17 (4.76%) Spring
12 17 (4.76%) XML
13 16 (4.48%) Spring Boot
14 15 (4.20%) Entity Framework
14 15 (4.20%) SOAP
15 14 (3.92%) Middleware
15 14 (3.92%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 46 (12.89%) Cloud Native
2 45 (12.61%) Product Ownership
3 32 (8.96%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (5.04%) Life Science
5 15 (4.20%) Mobile App
6 13 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.24%) Low-Code
9 7 (1.96%) Hackathon
9 7 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.96%) Renewable Energy
10 6 (1.68%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.68%) NHS
11 5 (1.40%) Social Media
11 5 (1.40%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.12%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.12%) Legacy Code
12 4 (1.12%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.12%) Private Cloud
12 4 (1.12%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.64%) Linux
1 13 (3.64%) Windows
2 5 (1.40%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.12%) zOS
4 2 (0.56%) Android
5 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (28.29%) DevOps
2 98 (27.45%) CI/CD
3 75 (21.01%) Scrum
4 71 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
5 69 (19.33%) Decision-Making
5 69 (19.33%) Software Engineering
6 63 (17.65%) AI
6 63 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 62 (17.37%) Microservices
8 60 (16.81%) Analytics
8 60 (16.81%) Mentoring
9 55 (15.41%) Computer Science
10 50 (14.01%) Test Automation
11 49 (13.73%) Full-Stack Development
12 48 (13.45%) Containerisation
13 44 (12.32%) TDD
14 36 (10.08%) Kanban
15 35 (9.80%) Roadmaps
16 34 (9.52%) Data Modelling
17 29 (8.12%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 91 (25.49%) C#
2 85 (23.81%) SQL
3 67 (18.77%) Python
4 40 (11.20%) Java
5 36 (10.08%) JavaScript
6 26 (7.28%) TypeScript
7 16 (4.48%) C++
8 15 (4.20%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.52%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.24%) Groovy
11 7 (1.96%) ABAP
11 7 (1.96%) Bash
12 6 (1.68%) VBA
13 5 (1.40%) Apex Code
13 5 (1.40%) C
14 4 (1.12%) COBOL
14 4 (1.12%) JCL
14 4 (1.12%) Perl
14 4 (1.12%) PHP
14 4 (1.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 107 (29.97%) Degree
2 34 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 29 (8.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 28 (7.84%) SC Cleared
5 18 (5.04%) PMI Certification
5 18 (5.04%) PMP
6 17 (4.76%) Master's Degree
7 14 (3.92%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.92%) ICAEW
8 10 (2.80%) ISTQB
9 6 (1.68%) ACCA
9 6 (1.68%) CIMA
10 5 (1.40%) PhD
11 4 (1.12%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.84%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.56%) CSQA
13 2 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.28%) CISSP
14 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (12.04%) QA
2 32 (8.96%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.52%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.40%) GDPR
4 5 (1.40%) WCAG
5 4 (1.12%) NIST
5 4 (1.12%) PMO
5 4 (1.12%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.56%) GxP
7 2 (0.56%) SLA
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.28%) MISRA
8 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 49 (13.73%) Docker
2 7 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.84%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.28%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 62 (17.37%) Kubernetes
2 27 (7.56%) Terraform
3 14 (3.92%) Ansible
4 11 (3.08%) Kibana
5 5 (1.40%) Grafana
5 5 (1.40%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.12%) CA Endevor
6 4 (1.12%) Packer
7 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.56%) Argo
8 2 (0.56%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.56%) Istio
8 2 (0.56%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.28%) Netcool
9 1 (0.28%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 1 (0.28%) SCCM
9 1 (0.28%) SCOM
Vendors
1 93 (26.05%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.04%) Google
3 17 (4.76%) SAP
4 10 (2.80%) IBM
5 9 (2.52%) AppDynamics
5 9 (2.52%) Oracle
6 8 (2.24%) Adobe
7 7 (1.96%) Databricks
7 7 (1.96%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.96%) Facebook
7 7 (1.96%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.96%) Splunk
7 7 (1.96%) YouTube
8 6 (1.68%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.12%) Sitecore
9 4 (1.12%) VMware
10 3 (0.84%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.84%) New Relic
11 2 (0.56%) Blue Prism
11 2 (0.56%) Xamarin