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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 12 6
Rank change year-on-year -4 -6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 372 406 1,059
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 6.48% 12.12% 14.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.03% 13.05% 17.94%
Number of salaries quoted 237 134 652
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £38,691
25th Percentile £50,750 £45,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% +4.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £93,500 £94,750
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 4,118 3,111 5,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.72% 92.84% 82.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,858 1,198 4,012
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 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 11 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 +51 178 £62,500 -1.96% 30
Berkshire -12 133 £70,000 -2.10% 63
Oxfordshire -8 61 £60,000 +20.00% 30
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 (1.88%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.34%) CMS
2 5 (1.34%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.08%) CICS
3 4 (1.08%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.81%) Confluence
5 2 (0.54%) Apache
5 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.27%) IIS
6 1 (0.27%) JBoss
6 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 25 (6.72%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (2.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (2.42%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.54%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.54%) UserZoom
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.27%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.27%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.54%) SAP HR
2 2 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.27%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.27%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.27%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 114 (30.65%) Azure
2 93 (25.00%) AWS
3 32 (8.60%) Serverless
4 26 (6.99%) SaaS
5 25 (6.72%) Power Platform
6 24 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
7 18 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (4.57%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (4.57%) IaaS
9 16 (4.30%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (4.03%) GitHub
11 14 (3.76%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (3.76%) Amazon S3
12 13 (3.49%) GCP
13 11 (2.96%) Azure AKS
13 11 (2.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 11 (2.96%) Azure Key Vault
13 11 (2.96%) Azure Storage
14 8 (2.15%) Google Analytics
15 7 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.84%) DNS
2 7 (1.88%) Broadband
2 7 (1.88%) Firewall
3 3 (0.81%) DHCP
4 1 (0.27%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.27%) HTTP
4 1 (0.27%) Intranet
4 1 (0.27%) MQTT
4 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.26%) SQL Server
2 22 (5.91%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (5.38%) Power BI
3 20 (5.38%) Relational Database
4 16 (4.30%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (2.96%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.42%) Metadata
7 8 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.34%) MySQL
8 5 (1.34%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.08%) Db2
9 4 (1.08%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.54%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.54%) Redis
11 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (0.27%) Big Data
12 1 (0.27%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 32 (8.60%) Git
2 24 (6.45%) JIRA
3 22 (5.91%) Jenkins
4 18 (4.84%) GitLab
5 11 (2.96%) Postman
6 9 (2.42%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.15%) JUnit
7 8 (2.15%) Selenium
7 8 (2.15%) Yeoman
8 7 (1.88%) JMeter
8 7 (1.88%) Mockito
8 7 (1.88%) Zephyr
9 6 (1.61%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.08%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.08%) ChangeMan
10 4 (1.08%) SpecFlow
10 4 (1.08%) WebDriver
11 3 (0.81%) SoapUI
11 3 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.54%) Mocha
General
1 127 (34.14%) Social Skills
2 88 (23.66%) Finance
3 54 (14.52%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (11.56%) Law
5 40 (10.75%) Influencing Skills
6 39 (10.48%) Public Sector
7 32 (8.60%) Pharmaceutical
8 23 (6.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (5.38%) Manufacturing
10 19 (5.11%) Retail
11 9 (2.42%) Games
12 8 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.88%) Marketing
13 7 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.61%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.34%) Advertising
15 5 (1.34%) Local Government
16 4 (1.08%) Automotive
16 4 (1.08%) Electronics
16 4 (1.08%) Legal
Job Titles
1 90 (24.19%) Senior
2 69 (18.55%) Developer
3 47 (12.63%) Architect
4 38 (10.22%) Lead
5 32 (8.60%) Software Engineer
6 31 (8.33%) Analyst
6 31 (8.33%) Project Manager
7 26 (6.99%) Senior Manager
8 25 (6.72%) Development Manager
9 24 (6.45%) Development Project Manager
9 24 (6.45%) Senior Development Manager
9 24 (6.45%) Senior Project Manager
10 23 (6.18%) Senior Developer
11 20 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
12 17 (4.57%) .NET Developer
13 16 (4.30%) Designer
13 16 (4.30%) Java Developer
14 13 (3.49%) DevOps Engineer
14 13 (3.49%) Product Designer
14 13 (3.49%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (16.67%) .NET
2 45 (12.10%) REST
3 38 (10.22%) React
4 26 (6.99%) .NET Core
5 25 (6.72%) JSON
6 23 (6.18%) ASP.NET
6 23 (6.18%) Node.js
7 22 (5.91%) SOAP
8 20 (5.38%) HTML
9 19 (5.11%) .NET Framework
9 19 (5.11%) RESTful
9 19 (5.11%) Spring
10 18 (4.84%) XML
11 17 (4.57%) ASP.NET Core
11 17 (4.57%) Middleware
12 16 (4.30%) AngularJS
12 16 (4.30%) Spring Boot
12 16 (4.30%) Web Services
13 13 (3.49%) Elastic Stack
13 13 (3.49%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 46 (12.37%) Product Ownership
2 45 (12.10%) Cloud Native
3 32 (8.60%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (7.53%) Life Science
5 16 (4.30%) Mobile App
6 14 (3.76%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.69%) Low-Code
8 9 (2.42%) Hackathon
8 9 (2.42%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.34%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (1.34%) Social Media
11 5 (1.34%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.08%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.08%) Cyber Defence
12 4 (1.08%) Hedge funds
12 4 (1.08%) NHS
12 4 (1.08%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.76%) Linux
2 11 (2.96%) Windows
3 5 (1.34%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.08%) zOS
5 2 (0.54%) Android
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (25.54%) CI/CD
2 91 (24.46%) DevOps
3 76 (20.43%) Scrum
4 73 (19.62%) Decision-Making
5 71 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
6 68 (18.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 66 (17.74%) Analytics
8 65 (17.47%) AI
9 63 (16.94%) Computer Science
10 61 (16.40%) Software Engineering
11 58 (15.59%) Mentoring
12 52 (13.98%) Microservices
13 49 (13.17%) Test Automation
14 46 (12.37%) TDD
15 45 (12.10%) Containerisation
16 42 (11.29%) Hematology
16 42 (11.29%) Immunology
17 41 (11.02%) Roadmaps
18 39 (10.48%) Biotechnology
19 36 (9.68%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 78 (20.97%) SQL
2 75 (20.16%) C#
3 66 (17.74%) Python
4 46 (12.37%) Java
5 35 (9.41%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.84%) TypeScript
7 14 (3.76%) PowerShell
8 12 (3.23%) C++
9 9 (2.42%) Shell Script
9 9 (2.42%) VBA
10 7 (1.88%) ABAP
11 6 (1.61%) Groovy
12 5 (1.34%) Bash
12 5 (1.34%) C
13 4 (1.08%) Apex Code
13 4 (1.08%) COBOL
13 4 (1.08%) JCL
13 4 (1.08%) Perl
13 4 (1.08%) PHP
13 4 (1.08%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 133 (35.75%) Degree
2 39 (10.48%) Security Cleared
3 32 (8.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 32 (8.60%) SC Cleared
4 27 (7.26%) PMI Certification
4 27 (7.26%) PMP
5 23 (6.18%) Master's Degree
6 14 (3.76%) Azure Certification
6 14 (3.76%) ICAEW
7 13 (3.49%) ISTQB
8 11 (2.96%) PhD
9 9 (2.42%) ACCA
9 9 (2.42%) CIMA
10 3 (0.81%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.81%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.54%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.54%) CSQA
12 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (12.63%) QA
2 40 (10.75%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.42%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.15%) GxP
5 6 (1.61%) GDPR
6 5 (1.34%) WCAG
7 4 (1.08%) PMO
8 3 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.81%) NIST
8 3 (0.81%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.54%) SLA
10 1 (0.27%) MISRA
10 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 45 (12.10%) Docker
2 7 (1.88%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.81%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.27%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 60 (16.13%) Kubernetes
2 23 (6.18%) Terraform
3 14 (3.76%) Ansible
4 11 (2.96%) Kibana
5 5 (1.34%) Grafana
5 5 (1.34%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.08%) CA Endevor
6 4 (1.08%) Packer
7 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.54%) Argo
8 2 (0.54%) Istio
8 2 (0.54%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.27%) Netcool
9 1 (0.27%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 1 (0.27%) SCCM
9 1 (0.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 90 (24.19%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.84%) SAP
3 15 (4.03%) Google
4 10 (2.69%) IBM
5 9 (2.42%) Adobe
5 9 (2.42%) AppDynamics
6 8 (2.15%) Databricks
6 8 (2.15%) Oracle
7 7 (1.88%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.88%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.88%) Splunk
8 6 (1.61%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.08%) Facebook
9 4 (1.08%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.08%) Sitecore
9 4 (1.08%) VMware
9 4 (1.08%) YouTube
10 3 (0.81%) LabVantage
11 2 (0.54%) Blue Prism
11 2 (0.54%) Xamarin