Agile Jobs in the UK excluding London

Agile Software Development
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 2 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 14,026 17,301 22,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.79% 29.01% 31.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.59% 30.35% 33.03%
Number of salaries quoted 7,804 8,323 13,010
10th Percentile £37,750 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% +8.23% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £85,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Agile is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,455 57,006 67,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.91% 95.60% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 41,124 29,353 41,315
10th Percentile £27,128 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

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 14 May 2024.

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 14 May 2024. 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 -1 3,493 £57,965 -1.35% 629
Scotland -1 3,074 £59,763 -0.40% 174
South East -2 2,857 £60,000 -4.00% 536
North West -1 1,993 £60,000 +4.35% 375
Midlands -4 1,796 £55,000 - 434
South West -2 1,622 £59,526 +3.52% 358
Yorkshire -1 1,105 £57,965 -3.39% 176
West Midlands -6 1,099 £57,500 +2.68% 279
East of England -5 737 £57,500 -2.54% 214
East Midlands -2 682 £52,500 -4.55% 153
North East +1 395 £53,903 -1.99% 81
Wales -4 323 £52,686 -4.00% 91
Northern Ireland -4 128 £60,000 +14.29% 35
Isle of Man - 5 £54,000 - 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
1 656 (4.68%) Apache Spark
2 324 (2.31%) Confluence
3 292 (2.08%) ArcGIS
4 287 (2.05%) GeoServer
5 240 (1.71%) SharePoint
6 189 (1.35%) Apache
7 140 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
8 120 (0.86%) FileNet
9 110 (0.78%) SAS
10 77 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
11 55 (0.39%) CMS
12 51 (0.36%) OpenStack
13 41 (0.29%) WebLogic
14 39 (0.28%) IIS
15 38 (0.27%) Tuxedo
16 35 (0.25%) WebSphere
17 32 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
18 30 (0.21%) WordPress
19 24 (0.17%) Captiva
20 23 (0.16%) JBoss
Applications
1 446 (3.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 220 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
3 173 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 111 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
5 74 (0.53%) AutoCAD
6 72 (0.51%) MS Visio
7 56 (0.40%) Simulink
8 35 (0.25%) UserZoom
9 23 (0.16%) Sketch
10 22 (0.16%) Stateflow
11 21 (0.15%) Adobe XD
11 21 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
12 19 (0.14%) Revit
13 17 (0.12%) Trello
14 7 (0.050%) CANalyzer
15 4 (0.029%) InVision
15 4 (0.029%) Maya
15 4 (0.029%) Photoshop
16 3 (0.021%) SPSS
17 2 (0.014%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 166 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 80 (0.57%) SAP ERP
3 55 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 41 (0.29%) NetSuite
5 40 (0.29%) Siebel CRM
6 37 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
7 23 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
8 22 (0.16%) NEC Housing
8 22 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
9 19 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 12 (0.086%) Shopify
11 10 (0.071%) Magento
12 9 (0.064%) Dynamics AX
12 9 (0.064%) Payment Gateway
12 9 (0.064%) Primavera
12 9 (0.064%) SAP CX
13 8 (0.057%) Dynamics GP
14 7 (0.050%) SAP GTS
14 7 (0.050%) Teamcenter
15 6 (0.043%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 3,729 (26.59%) Azure
2 3,397 (24.22%) AWS
3 802 (5.72%) GCP
4 731 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
5 638 (4.55%) Power Platform
6 505 (3.60%) SaaS
7 371 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
8 314 (2.24%) Serverless
9 300 (2.14%) GitHub
10 260 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
11 242 (1.73%) Amazon EKS
12 215 (1.53%) Amazon S3
13 204 (1.45%) PowerApps
14 201 (1.43%) Power Automate
15 167 (1.19%) IBM Cloud
16 159 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
17 145 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
18 128 (0.91%) Amazon ECS
19 117 (0.83%) PaaS
20 115 (0.82%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 351 (2.50%) Broadband
2 207 (1.48%) Firewall
3 183 (1.30%) DNS
4 168 (1.20%) Internet
5 154 (1.10%) TCP/IP
6 115 (0.82%) Wireless
7 97 (0.69%) DHCP
8 95 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
9 87 (0.62%) Network Security
10 83 (0.59%) Kerberos
11 74 (0.53%) WAN
12 63 (0.45%) Intranet
13 57 (0.41%) SSL
14 51 (0.36%) VPN
15 49 (0.35%) BGP
15 49 (0.35%) Bluetooth
16 48 (0.34%) LAN
17 47 (0.34%) HTTP
18 34 (0.24%) SAN
18 34 (0.24%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,353 (9.65%) SQL Server
2 1,141 (8.13%) NoSQL
3 667 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
4 626 (4.46%) Big Data
5 496 (3.54%) MongoDB
6 434 (3.09%) Power BI
7 408 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
8 390 (2.78%) Relational Database
9 363 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
10 352 (2.51%) MySQL
11 348 (2.48%) BigQuery
12 302 (2.15%) GIS
13 284 (2.02%) QGIS
14 278 (1.98%) Hadoop
15 269 (1.92%) Looker
16 204 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
17 192 (1.37%) Data Lake
18 161 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
19 159 (1.13%) DB2
20 142 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1,200 (8.56%) Git
2 959 (6.84%) JIRA
3 681 (4.86%) Jenkins
4 298 (2.12%) Selenium
5 291 (2.07%) JUnit
6 250 (1.78%) Visual Studio
7 227 (1.62%) GitLab
8 209 (1.49%) Cypress.io
9 159 (1.13%) Bitbucket
10 142 (1.01%) Jasmine
11 127 (0.91%) Cucumber
12 105 (0.75%) Maven
13 93 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
14 92 (0.66%) Bitbucket Server
15 91 (0.65%) WebDriver
16 75 (0.53%) Karma Test Runner
17 74 (0.53%) TeamCity
18 73 (0.52%) JMeter
18 73 (0.52%) Postman
19 69 (0.49%) Artifactory
General
1 4,680 (33.37%) Finance
2 3,300 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 3,140 (22.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2,599 (18.53%) Law
5 1,598 (11.39%) Marketing
6 1,492 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
7 1,090 (7.77%) Legal
8 989 (7.05%) Banking
9 722 (5.15%) Public Sector
10 624 (4.45%) Retail
11 544 (3.88%) Influencing Skills
12 400 (2.85%) Investment Banking
13 397 (2.83%) Aerospace
14 340 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
15 273 (1.95%) Financial Institution
16 204 (1.45%) Manufacturing
17 188 (1.34%) Games
18 167 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
19 156 (1.11%) Telecoms
20 138 (0.98%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 3,124 (22.27%) Software Engineer
2 3,010 (21.46%) Developer
3 2,449 (17.46%) Senior
4 2,016 (14.37%) Lead
5 1,131 (8.06%) .NET Developer
6 1,026 (7.31%) Analyst
7 961 (6.85%) Project Manager
8 896 (6.39%) Java Engineer
9 852 (6.07%) Java Software Engineer
10 844 (6.02%) Architect
11 736 (5.25%) Lead Software Engineer
12 687 (4.90%) Senior Software Engineer
13 600 (4.28%) Senior Developer
14 571 (4.07%) Data Engineer
15 477 (3.40%) Full Stack Engineer
16 446 (3.18%) C# Developer
17 444 (3.17%) Software Developer
18 398 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
19 390 (2.78%) Big Data Engineer
19 390 (2.78%) Big Data Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,557 (18.23%) .NET
2 2,029 (14.47%) React
3 1,572 (11.21%) AngularJS
4 1,420 (10.12%) CSS
5 1,413 (10.07%) HTML
6 1,204 (8.58%) .NET Core
7 1,098 (7.83%) ASP.NET
8 997 (7.11%) Spring
9 745 (5.31%) Node.js
10 732 (5.22%) RESTful
11 716 (5.10%) ASP.NET Web API
12 695 (4.96%) ASP.NET MVC
13 689 (4.91%) REST
14 682 (4.86%) .NET Framework
15 654 (4.66%) Vue
16 623 (4.44%) Entity Framework
17 614 (4.38%) Spring Boot
18 573 (4.09%) HTML5
19 558 (3.98%) Kafka
20 539 (3.84%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1,080 (7.70%) Algorithms
2 1,062 (7.57%) Cloud Native
3 936 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 533 (3.80%) Public Cloud
5 483 (3.44%) Management Information System
6 481 (3.43%) Self-Motivation
7 352 (2.51%) Data Structures
8 311 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
9 303 (2.16%) Onboarding
10 253 (1.80%) Mobile App
11 252 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
12 199 (1.42%) Blockchain
13 193 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
14 188 (1.34%) e-Learning
15 175 (1.25%) Private Cloud
16 150 (1.07%) IoT
17 131 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
18 116 (0.83%) Reference Data
19 111 (0.79%) Market Risk
20 107 (0.76%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1,040 (7.41%) Linux
2 613 (4.37%) Windows
3 313 (2.23%) Android
4 236 (1.68%) Unix
5 227 (1.62%) Apple iOS
6 130 (0.93%) Windows Server
7 110 (0.78%) Ubuntu
8 102 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 51 (0.36%) Windows 10
10 49 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
11 44 (0.31%) CentOS
12 33 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
12 33 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
13 28 (0.20%) Debian
14 17 (0.12%) Mac OS
15 11 (0.078%) Solaris
16 10 (0.071%) Windows 7
16 10 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
17 9 (0.064%) FreeRTOS
17 9 (0.064%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,200 (29.94%) Software Engineering
2 3,066 (21.86%) CI/CD
2 3,066 (21.86%) SDLC
3 2,766 (19.72%) DevOps
4 2,421 (17.26%) Mentoring
5 2,203 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
6 2,192 (15.63%) Scrum
7 1,969 (14.04%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1,891 (13.48%) Full Stack Development
9 1,801 (12.84%) Operational Stability
10 1,793 (12.78%) Project Management
11 1,764 (12.58%) Microservices
12 1,732 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 1,620 (11.55%) Coaching
14 1,618 (11.54%) Machine Learning
15 1,382 (9.85%) Community of Practice
16 1,379 (9.83%) Actionable Insight
17 1,361 (9.70%) Roadmaps
18 1,276 (9.10%) TDD
19 1,239 (8.83%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 2,905 (20.71%) JavaScript
2 2,877 (20.51%) SQL
3 2,747 (19.59%) Java
4 2,706 (19.29%) C#
5 2,169 (15.46%) Python
6 1,123 (8.01%) TypeScript
7 365 (2.60%) Scala
8 336 (2.40%) PHP
9 318 (2.27%) C
10 305 (2.17%) C++
11 226 (1.61%) PowerShell
12 208 (1.48%) Go
13 176 (1.25%) PL/SQL
14 174 (1.24%) T-SQL
15 137 (0.98%) Kotlin
16 116 (0.83%) Bash
17 100 (0.71%) MATLAB
18 86 (0.61%) COBOL
19 84 (0.60%) Groovy
20 83 (0.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,928 (13.75%) Degree
2 1,814 (12.93%) Security Cleared
3 1,201 (8.56%) SC Cleared
4 452 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 375 (2.67%) DV Cleared
6 237 (1.69%) ACCA
7 225 (1.60%) CIMA
8 206 (1.47%) Master's Degree
9 195 (1.39%) PMI Certification
10 160 (1.14%) PMP
11 150 (1.07%) AWS Certification
12 139 (0.99%) Azure Certification
13 104 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
14 102 (0.73%) HND
15 98 (0.70%) HNC
16 87 (0.62%) DBS Check
17 79 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 79 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
18 76 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 71 (0.51%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 764 (5.45%) QA
2 280 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 267 (1.90%) GDPR
4 213 (1.52%) Data Quality
5 190 (1.35%) PMO
6 118 (0.84%) SLA
7 68 (0.48%) WCAG
8 61 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 47 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
10 39 (0.28%) NIST
11 34 (0.24%) ISO 9001
12 30 (0.21%) MISRA
13 20 (0.14%) Automotive SPICE
13 20 (0.14%) AUTOSAR
14 18 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
14 18 (0.13%) NIST 800
15 17 (0.12%) CRD IV
15 17 (0.12%) PCI DSS
16 16 (0.11%) IFRS
17 15 (0.11%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 921 (6.57%) Docker
2 250 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 131 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 102 (0.73%) HDFS
5 75 (0.53%) Firmware
6 63 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 47 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 43 (0.31%) vSphere
9 37 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
10 25 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
10 25 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 22 (0.16%) VMware NSX
12 21 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
13 12 (0.086%) Time Sharing Option
14 9 (0.064%) Terminal Services
15 7 (0.050%) Microsoft App-V
16 5 (0.036%) SRDF
17 2 (0.014%) Apache Flume
17 2 (0.014%) Apache ZooKeeper
17 2 (0.014%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 1,199 (8.55%) Kubernetes
2 797 (5.68%) Terraform
3 357 (2.55%) Ansible
4 207 (1.48%) Grafana
5 143 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 78 (0.56%) Puppet
7 66 (0.47%) SCCM
8 64 (0.46%) Progress Chef
9 50 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
10 44 (0.31%) Kibana
11 34 (0.24%) SCOM
12 30 (0.21%) ZABBIX
13 28 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 26 (0.19%) ITRS Geneos
15 21 (0.15%) HAProxy
15 21 (0.15%) Zipkin
16 20 (0.14%) WSUS
17 17 (0.12%) vCenter Server
18 15 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
19 12 (0.086%) Istio
Vendors
1 2,320 (16.54%) Microsoft
2 807 (5.75%) Oracle
3 627 (4.47%) Google
4 352 (2.51%) Databricks
5 315 (2.25%) SAP
6 290 (2.07%) ESRI
7 269 (1.92%) IBM
8 229 (1.63%) Red Hat
9 218 (1.55%) Dynatrace
10 205 (1.46%) Splunk
11 178 (1.27%) Salesforce
12 159 (1.13%) ServiceNow
13 157 (1.12%) VMware
14 145 (1.03%) Informatica
15 126 (0.90%) Atlassian
16 100 (0.71%) Facebook
17 77 (0.55%) Micro Focus
18 76 (0.54%) Anaplan
19 75 (0.53%) Hyperion
20 72 (0.51%) Cloudera