Agile Jobs in the UK excluding London

Agile Software Development
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Agile over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 6,462 13,608 14,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.07% 17.56% 26.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.92% 21.78% 28.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,844 7,174 7,831
10th Percentile £40,870 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -1.71% +6.36%
75th Percentile £73,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,964 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38,188 62,476 50,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.09% 80.60% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 19,383 42,107 28,435
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,000 £78,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Agile in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 July 2025. 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
North of England -4 2,029 £57,560 -0.70% 1,313
North West -3 1,566 £57,560 -4.07% 753
South East -3 1,528 £65,000 +8.33% 1,328
Midlands 0 1,018 £57,435 +4.43% 613
Scotland 0 764 £57,500 - 358
West Midlands +3 666 £60,000 +4.35% 392
South West -1 565 £57,750 +0.43% 568
East of England -7 404 £52,750 -4.09% 438
Yorkshire -13 372 £60,000 +4.35% 454
East Midlands -4 349 £47,683 -9.18% 217
Wales -7 148 £65,000 +22.74% 158
North East -9 91 £45,000 -18.18% 112
Northern Ireland -4 22 £130,000 +116.67% 99
Isle of Man +16 5 £52,500 +16.67% 1
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 - 1
Agile
UK

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 465 (7.20%) Confluence
2 76 (1.18%) Oracle Application Server
3 72 (1.11%) CMS
4 57 (0.88%) Apache Spark
5 49 (0.76%) SharePoint
6 39 (0.60%) Apache
7 36 (0.56%) IIS
8 27 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
9 22 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
10 20 (0.31%) Appian
11 15 (0.23%) WordPress
12 13 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 12 (0.19%) JBoss
13 12 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
14 11 (0.17%) Headless CMS
15 10 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
15 10 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
16 9 (0.14%) OpenStack
17 8 (0.12%) Camunda
17 8 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 241 (3.73%) Simulink
2 182 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
3 85 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 45 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
5 33 (0.51%) Trello
6 31 (0.48%) MS Visio
7 27 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 17 (0.26%) Chatbot
9 7 (0.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 6 (0.093%) Revit
11 4 (0.062%) MadCap Flare
12 3 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.046%) AutoCAD
12 3 (0.046%) Sketch
12 3 (0.046%) Spreadsheet
13 2 (0.031%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.031%) CATIA
13 2 (0.031%) EngageOne
13 2 (0.031%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.031%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 69 (1.07%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 65 (1.01%) Teamcenter
3 61 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
4 18 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
5 16 (0.25%) NetSuite
6 14 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 12 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
8 10 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
9 9 (0.14%) PeopleSoft Financials
10 8 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
11 7 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
12 5 (0.077%) Shopify
13 3 (0.046%) Magento
13 3 (0.046%) Oracle BPM
13 3 (0.046%) Siebel CRM
14 2 (0.031%) BASE24
14 2 (0.031%) Elite 3E
14 2 (0.031%) Oracle Applications
14 2 (0.031%) Visualfiles
15 1 (0.015%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1,566 (24.23%) Azure
2 1,379 (21.34%) AWS
3 642 (9.94%) GCP
4 257 (3.98%) Serverless
5 253 (3.92%) SaaS
6 234 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
7 226 (3.50%) Power Platform
8 165 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
9 130 (2.01%) GitHub
10 113 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
11 109 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
12 106 (1.64%) Amazon S3
13 104 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
14 101 (1.56%) PaaS
15 75 (1.16%) Power Automate
16 71 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
17 69 (1.07%) Amazon ECS
18 65 (1.01%) Pulumi
19 53 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
20 51 (0.79%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 433 (6.70%) DNS
2 420 (6.50%) VPN
3 242 (3.74%) Broadband
4 75 (1.16%) Firewall
5 44 (0.68%) WAN
6 35 (0.54%) Network Security
7 32 (0.50%) TCP/IP
8 28 (0.43%) Wireless
9 26 (0.40%) SD-WAN
10 24 (0.37%) LAN
11 23 (0.36%) Software-Defined Radio
11 23 (0.36%) SSL
12 21 (0.32%) SAN
13 19 (0.29%) Internet
14 18 (0.28%) DHCP
15 16 (0.25%) VLAN
15 16 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
16 15 (0.23%) HTTP
17 14 (0.22%) Modbus
18 12 (0.19%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 537 (8.31%) SQL Server
2 244 (3.78%) NoSQL
3 236 (3.65%) Relational Database
4 195 (3.02%) MySQL
5 186 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
6 149 (2.31%) Power BI
7 126 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
8 125 (1.93%) MongoDB
9 122 (1.89%) RDBMS
10 93 (1.44%) Data Lake
11 89 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
12 84 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
13 75 (1.16%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 68 (1.05%) Big Data
15 67 (1.04%) DynamoDB
16 41 (0.63%) Data Mining
17 36 (0.56%) Tableau
18 35 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
19 34 (0.53%) Metadata
20 28 (0.43%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 872 (13.49%) JIRA
2 370 (5.73%) Git
3 322 (4.98%) GitLab
4 320 (4.95%) Selenium
5 290 (4.49%) Maven
6 287 (4.44%) Bitbucket
7 286 (4.43%) Cucumber
8 275 (4.26%) SonarQube
9 264 (4.09%) Sonatype Nexus
10 187 (2.89%) Jenkins
11 125 (1.93%) Rational DOORS
12 105 (1.62%) JUnit
13 65 (1.01%) Jaeger
14 51 (0.79%) Mockito
15 45 (0.70%) Cypress.io
15 45 (0.70%) Visual Studio
16 43 (0.67%) JMeter
17 33 (0.51%) Postman
18 28 (0.43%) webpack
19 22 (0.34%) MSI
General
1 2,166 (33.52%) Finance
2 1,508 (23.34%) Social Skills
3 1,306 (20.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,160 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
5 689 (10.66%) Banking
6 595 (9.21%) Law
7 521 (8.06%) Presentation Skills
8 339 (5.25%) Retail
9 314 (4.86%) Marketing
10 263 (4.07%) Public Sector
11 260 (4.02%) Aerospace
12 221 (3.42%) Automotive
13 213 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
14 178 (2.75%) Legal
15 145 (2.24%) Manufacturing
16 134 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
17 114 (1.76%) Investment Banking
18 98 (1.52%) Military
19 90 (1.39%) Corporate Banking
20 78 (1.21%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,405 (21.74%) Senior
2 1,187 (18.37%) Software Engineer
3 1,164 (18.01%) Developer
4 747 (11.56%) Systems Engineer
5 743 (11.50%) Lead
6 507 (7.85%) Software Developer
7 456 (7.06%) Architect
8 354 (5.48%) Senior Software Engineer
9 346 (5.35%) Analyst
10 261 (4.04%) Principal Engineer
11 196 (3.03%) Senior Developer
12 188 (2.91%) Java Engineer
13 173 (2.68%) Team Leader
14 159 (2.46%) Senior Manager
15 154 (2.38%) Principal Software Engineer
16 148 (2.29%) Java Developer
16 148 (2.29%) Project Manager
17 143 (2.21%) Senior Systems Engineer
18 141 (2.18%) Solutions Architect
19 137 (2.12%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 708 (10.96%) React
2 695 (10.76%) .NET
3 506 (7.83%) Spring
4 482 (7.46%) CSS
5 470 (7.27%) Spring Boot
6 467 (7.23%) HTML
7 442 (6.84%) Kafka
8 357 (5.52%) Node.js
9 331 (5.12%) REST
10 286 (4.43%) JPA
11 270 (4.18%) Redux
12 263 (4.07%) RESTful
13 248 (3.84%) Middleware
14 235 (3.64%) Hibernate
15 215 (3.33%) AngularJS
16 147 (2.27%) Jest
17 134 (2.07%) HTML5
18 126 (1.95%) .NET Core
18 126 (1.95%) Web Services
19 116 (1.80%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 731 (11.31%) Product Ownership
2 606 (9.38%) Cyberattack
3 358 (5.54%) Self-Motivation
4 307 (4.75%) Enterprise Software
5 188 (2.91%) Cloud Native
6 185 (2.86%) Management Information System
7 173 (2.68%) Algorithms
7 173 (2.68%) Linux Command Line
8 110 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
9 98 (1.52%) Embedded Systems
9 98 (1.52%) Mobile App
10 85 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
11 79 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
12 77 (1.19%) Public Cloud
13 74 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
14 72 (1.11%) e-Learning
15 66 (1.02%) Virtual Team
16 54 (0.84%) Data Structures
16 54 (0.84%) IoT
16 54 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 906 (14.02%) Linux
2 478 (7.40%) Android
3 207 (3.20%) Windows
4 120 (1.86%) Unix
5 58 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 41 (0.63%) Windows Server
7 26 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
8 14 (0.22%) zOS
9 9 (0.14%) VMS
10 8 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (0.12%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.12%) Windows 10
10 8 (0.12%) Windows Vista
11 6 (0.093%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.077%) AIX
13 2 (0.031%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.031%) CentOS
13 2 (0.031%) Debian
13 2 (0.031%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,684 (26.06%) Software Engineering
2 1,422 (22.01%) DevOps
3 1,365 (21.12%) CI/CD
4 1,284 (19.87%) Mentoring
5 1,010 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 989 (15.30%) SDLC
7 975 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
8 856 (13.25%) Microservices
9 840 (13.00%) Systems Engineering
10 791 (12.24%) Scrum
11 763 (11.81%) Roadmaps
12 748 (11.58%) UML
13 746 (11.54%) Test Automation
14 660 (10.21%) Stakeholder Management
15 655 (10.14%) User Experience
16 654 (10.12%) Design Patterns
17 647 (10.01%) Waterfall
18 641 (9.92%) Line Management
19 629 (9.73%) Coaching
20 617 (9.55%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,660 (25.69%) Java
2 1,247 (19.30%) Python
3 1,093 (16.91%) JavaScript
4 941 (14.56%) SQL
5 750 (11.61%) C++
6 698 (10.80%) Go
7 643 (9.95%) MATLAB
8 526 (8.14%) C#
9 451 (6.98%) TypeScript
10 269 (4.16%) Rust
11 127 (1.97%) PowerShell
12 122 (1.89%) PHP
13 101 (1.56%) Bash
14 95 (1.47%) C
15 84 (1.30%) Ada
16 63 (0.97%) Ada 95
17 36 (0.56%) Shell Script
18 34 (0.53%) Apex Code
19 28 (0.43%) T-SQL
20 25 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 1,567 (24.25%) Degree
2 1,293 (20.01%) BPSS Clearance
3 945 (14.62%) Security Cleared
4 724 (11.20%) DV Cleared
5 308 (4.77%) AWS Certification
5 308 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 247 (3.82%) Chartered Engineer
7 230 (3.56%) SC Cleared
8 192 (2.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 174 (2.69%) AWS Certified Developer
10 129 (2.00%) DBS Check
11 105 (1.62%) PMI Certification
12 94 (1.45%) PMP
13 93 (1.44%) Master's Degree
14 92 (1.42%) ACCA
15 90 (1.39%) Azure Certification
15 90 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
16 79 (1.22%) PhD
17 56 (0.87%) CISSP
18 47 (0.73%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 506 (7.83%) QA
2 266 (4.12%) Accessibility
3 215 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 100 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 98 (1.52%) Data Quality
6 70 (1.08%) GDPR
7 61 (0.94%) IFRS
8 57 (0.88%) GAAP
9 51 (0.79%) SLA
10 45 (0.70%) PMO
11 38 (0.59%) NIST
12 37 (0.57%) ITGC
13 35 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 27 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
15 25 (0.39%) SOC 2
16 24 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 24 (0.37%) NCSC
17 21 (0.32%) PCI DSS
18 15 (0.23%) HIPAA
19 14 (0.22%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1,088 (16.84%) Docker
2 69 (1.07%) Active Directory
3 54 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
4 52 (0.80%) Firmware
5 41 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
6 33 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
7 23 (0.36%) Hyper-V
8 17 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.12%) HDFS
9 8 (0.12%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.062%) DFS Replication
10 4 (0.062%) Postfix
10 4 (0.062%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.046%) Apache Flume
11 3 (0.046%) RACF
11 3 (0.046%) Terminal Server
11 3 (0.046%) Time Sharing Option
12 2 (0.031%) Squid
12 2 (0.031%) vCloud
13 1 (0.015%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 690 (10.68%) Kubernetes
2 609 (9.42%) Ansible
3 281 (4.35%) Terraform
4 89 (1.38%) Prometheus
5 71 (1.10%) Argo
6 65 (1.01%) Kustomize
7 50 (0.77%) Grafana
8 43 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 31 (0.48%) Kibana
10 29 (0.45%) SCCM
11 25 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
12 24 (0.37%) WMI
13 15 (0.23%) Progress Chef
14 11 (0.17%) Puppet
15 9 (0.14%) Nessus
16 8 (0.12%) SCOM
17 7 (0.11%) Proxmox
18 6 (0.093%) FortiGate
19 5 (0.077%) CASB
19 5 (0.077%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 701 (10.85%) Microsoft
2 279 (4.32%) Oracle
3 251 (3.88%) Google
4 246 (3.81%) Solace
5 203 (3.14%) SAP
6 199 (3.08%) Siemens
7 141 (2.18%) Salesforce
8 139 (2.15%) IBM
9 99 (1.53%) Databricks
9 99 (1.53%) ServiceNow
10 74 (1.15%) VMware
11 70 (1.08%) Sparx
12 61 (0.94%) Atlassian
13 60 (0.93%) Red Hat
14 55 (0.85%) Splunk
15 50 (0.77%) MathWorks
16 42 (0.65%) Workday
17 38 (0.59%) Cisco
17 38 (0.59%) Dynatrace
18 36 (0.56%) OpenAI