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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 6,334 14,194 16,475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.08% 19.04% 28.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.36% 23.11% 29.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,929 7,711 8,073
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,560 £57,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -3.40% +8.23%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £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 36,483 61,419 55,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.65% 82.37% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 17,392 42,187 28,711
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 2,124 £57,500 -0.80% 4,538
North West -3 1,656 £57,560 -4.07% 2,158
South East -2 1,442 £60,000 - 5,903
Midlands -4 965 £55,000 - 3,809
Scotland -1 684 £55,000 -4.35% 1,011
West Midlands -1 628 £57,500 - 2,053
South West -2 558 £57,500 - 2,426
East of England -2 417 £52,500 -7.89% 2,933
Yorkshire -7 391 £58,100 +1.04% 1,812
East Midlands -7 334 £47,683 -9.18% 1,504
Wales -7 138 £60,000 +13.77% 563
North East -14 77 £52,500 -4.55% 586
Northern Ireland -13 17 £45,000 -25.00% 305
Isle of Man +13 5 £52,500 -2.78% 2
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 - 16
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
1 471 (7.44%) Confluence
2 76 (1.20%) Oracle Application Server
3 64 (1.01%) CMS
4 49 (0.77%) Apache Spark
4 49 (0.77%) SharePoint
5 33 (0.52%) Apache
6 32 (0.51%) IIS
7 19 (0.30%) Appian
8 18 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
8 18 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
9 14 (0.22%) JBoss
9 14 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
10 13 (0.21%) WordPress
11 12 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 10 (0.16%) Headless CMS
13 9 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 7 (0.11%) Umbraco
15 6 (0.095%) SAS
16 5 (0.079%) Exchange Server 2013
16 5 (0.079%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 271 (4.28%) Simulink
2 173 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
3 71 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 47 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
5 32 (0.51%) Trello
6 25 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 23 (0.36%) MS Visio
8 16 (0.25%) Chatbot
9 7 (0.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 3 (0.047%) Productboard
10 3 (0.047%) Revit
10 3 (0.047%) Sketch
11 2 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.032%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.032%) EngageOne
11 2 (0.032%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.016%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.016%) GNU Octave
12 1 (0.016%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.016%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 68 (1.07%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 65 (1.03%) Teamcenter
3 46 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 22 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
5 15 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
6 13 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
7 9 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
8 8 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.079%) PeopleSoft Financials
9 5 (0.079%) Shopify
10 4 (0.063%) Oracle BPM
11 3 (0.047%) Oracle Applications
11 3 (0.047%) Siebel CRM
12 2 (0.032%) BASE24
12 2 (0.032%) Magento
12 2 (0.032%) Visualfiles
13 1 (0.016%) iTrent
13 1 (0.016%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 1,470 (23.21%) Azure
2 1,288 (20.33%) AWS
3 616 (9.73%) GCP
4 256 (4.04%) Serverless
5 244 (3.85%) Power Platform
6 241 (3.80%) SaaS
7 214 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
8 161 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
9 126 (1.99%) GitHub
10 106 (1.67%) Amazon S3
11 101 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
12 100 (1.58%) Amazon EKS
13 86 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
14 82 (1.29%) PaaS
15 66 (1.04%) Power Automate
16 65 (1.03%) Pulumi
17 64 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
18 59 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
19 53 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
20 51 (0.81%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 430 (6.79%) DNS
2 418 (6.60%) VPN
3 242 (3.82%) Broadband
4 62 (0.98%) Firewall
5 36 (0.57%) WAN
6 35 (0.55%) Network Security
7 32 (0.51%) TCP/IP
8 26 (0.41%) SD-WAN
9 24 (0.38%) SSL
9 24 (0.38%) Wireless
10 18 (0.28%) Internet
10 18 (0.28%) Software-Defined Radio
11 17 (0.27%) DHCP
12 14 (0.22%) SAN
13 13 (0.21%) HTTP
13 13 (0.21%) LAN
13 13 (0.21%) Modbus
14 12 (0.19%) 5G
14 12 (0.19%) MQTT
14 12 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 557 (8.79%) SQL Server
2 240 (3.79%) NoSQL
3 231 (3.65%) Relational Database
4 190 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
5 185 (2.92%) MySQL
6 175 (2.76%) Power BI
7 128 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
8 115 (1.82%) RDBMS
9 111 (1.75%) MongoDB
10 86 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
11 85 (1.34%) Oracle Reports
12 82 (1.29%) Data Lake
13 75 (1.18%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 59 (0.93%) DynamoDB
15 54 (0.85%) Big Data
16 34 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 33 (0.52%) Metadata
17 33 (0.52%) Tableau
18 30 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
19 26 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 879 (13.88%) JIRA
2 371 (5.86%) Git
3 321 (5.07%) Selenium
4 318 (5.02%) GitLab
5 307 (4.85%) Bitbucket
6 283 (4.47%) Cucumber
7 276 (4.36%) SonarQube
8 274 (4.33%) Maven
9 260 (4.10%) Sonatype Nexus
10 164 (2.59%) Jenkins
11 142 (2.24%) Rational DOORS
12 94 (1.48%) JUnit
13 65 (1.03%) Jaeger
14 57 (0.90%) Visual Studio
15 50 (0.79%) Mockito
16 45 (0.71%) Cypress.io
17 34 (0.54%) JMeter
18 31 (0.49%) webpack
19 29 (0.46%) Postman
20 25 (0.39%) Jasmine
General
1 1,980 (31.26%) Finance
2 1,402 (22.13%) Social Skills
3 1,211 (19.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,088 (17.18%) Analytical Skills
5 655 (10.34%) Banking
6 606 (9.57%) Presentation Skills
7 434 (6.85%) Law
8 323 (5.10%) Retail
9 280 (4.42%) Aerospace
10 256 (4.04%) Automotive
11 239 (3.77%) Marketing
12 232 (3.66%) Public Sector
13 224 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
14 156 (2.46%) Manufacturing
15 153 (2.42%) Legal
16 126 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
17 105 (1.66%) Investment Banking
18 104 (1.64%) Military
19 90 (1.42%) Corporate Banking
20 81 (1.28%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,458 (23.02%) Senior
2 1,167 (18.42%) Developer
3 1,140 (18.00%) Software Engineer
4 834 (13.17%) Systems Engineer
5 653 (10.31%) Lead
6 535 (8.45%) Software Developer
7 406 (6.41%) Senior Software Engineer
8 394 (6.22%) Architect
9 374 (5.90%) Analyst
10 285 (4.50%) Principal Engineer
11 200 (3.16%) Senior Developer
12 179 (2.83%) Team Leader
13 164 (2.59%) Principal Software Engineer
14 162 (2.56%) Project Manager
15 159 (2.51%) Senior Manager
16 139 (2.19%) Senior Systems Engineer
17 134 (2.12%) Solutions Architect
18 131 (2.07%) Java Engineer
19 124 (1.96%) Java Developer
20 118 (1.86%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 698 (11.02%) .NET
2 695 (10.97%) React
3 466 (7.36%) CSS
4 448 (7.07%) HTML
4 448 (7.07%) Spring
5 433 (6.84%) Spring Boot
6 407 (6.43%) Kafka
7 371 (5.86%) Node.js
8 323 (5.10%) REST
9 284 (4.48%) JPA
10 271 (4.28%) Redux
11 252 (3.98%) RESTful
12 223 (3.52%) Hibernate
13 203 (3.20%) AngularJS
14 197 (3.11%) Middleware
15 145 (2.29%) Jest
16 140 (2.21%) .NET Core
17 137 (2.16%) HTML5
18 126 (1.99%) .NET Framework
19 117 (1.85%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 716 (11.30%) Product Ownership
2 606 (9.57%) Cyberattack
3 337 (5.32%) Self-Motivation
4 307 (4.85%) Enterprise Software
5 217 (3.43%) Management Information System
6 173 (2.73%) Linux Command Line
7 141 (2.23%) Cloud Native
8 135 (2.13%) Algorithms
9 98 (1.55%) Mobile App
10 90 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
11 88 (1.39%) Embedded Systems
12 85 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
13 72 (1.14%) Driving Licence
14 66 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
14 66 (1.04%) Robotics
15 63 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
16 62 (0.98%) e-Learning
17 60 (0.95%) Public Cloud
18 55 (0.87%) Virtual Team
19 53 (0.84%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 906 (14.30%) Linux
2 474 (7.48%) Android
3 193 (3.05%) Windows
4 116 (1.83%) Unix
5 56 (0.88%) Apple iOS
6 28 (0.44%) Windows Server
7 19 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (0.19%) zOS
9 8 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.13%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.11%) VMS
11 6 (0.095%) Windows 10
11 6 (0.095%) Windows Vista
12 3 (0.047%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.047%) Solaris
12 3 (0.047%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.032%) CentOS
13 2 (0.032%) Debian
13 2 (0.032%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.016%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,658 (26.18%) Software Engineering
2 1,324 (20.90%) DevOps
3 1,257 (19.85%) CI/CD
4 1,192 (18.82%) Mentoring
5 963 (15.20%) Systems Engineering
6 891 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
7 865 (13.66%) Microservices
8 846 (13.36%) UML
9 811 (12.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 799 (12.61%) Scrum
11 795 (12.55%) SDLC
12 737 (11.64%) Roadmaps
13 728 (11.49%) Test Automation
14 710 (11.21%) SysML
15 675 (10.66%) Cybersecurity
16 643 (10.15%) Waterfall
17 639 (10.09%) Stakeholder Management
18 638 (10.07%) Line Management
19 621 (9.80%) Design Patterns
20 617 (9.74%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,602 (25.29%) Java
2 1,208 (19.07%) Python
3 1,070 (16.89%) JavaScript
4 901 (14.22%) SQL
5 767 (12.11%) MATLAB
6 739 (11.67%) C++
7 698 (11.02%) Go
8 552 (8.71%) C#
9 444 (7.01%) TypeScript
10 268 (4.23%) Rust
11 119 (1.88%) PHP
12 113 (1.78%) Ada
13 111 (1.75%) PowerShell
14 103 (1.63%) C
15 90 (1.42%) Bash
16 42 (0.66%) Ada 95
17 33 (0.52%) Apex Code
18 29 (0.46%) Shell Script
19 27 (0.43%) R
20 25 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,702 (26.87%) Degree
2 1,383 (21.83%) BPSS Clearance
3 881 (13.91%) Security Cleared
4 693 (10.94%) DV Cleared
5 293 (4.63%) AWS Certification
6 245 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 240 (3.79%) Chartered Engineer
8 186 (2.94%) SC Cleared
9 185 (2.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 174 (2.75%) AWS Certified Developer
11 124 (1.96%) DBS Check
12 112 (1.77%) PMP
13 99 (1.56%) PMI Certification
14 91 (1.44%) Master's Degree
15 89 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
16 88 (1.39%) Azure Certification
17 81 (1.28%) PhD
18 66 (1.04%) ACCA
19 54 (0.85%) CISSP
20 40 (0.63%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 497 (7.85%) QA
2 261 (4.12%) Accessibility
3 192 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 98 (1.55%) Data Quality
5 91 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 62 (0.98%) GDPR
7 50 (0.79%) SLA
8 45 (0.71%) ITGC
9 44 (0.69%) PMO
10 41 (0.65%) IFRS
11 37 (0.58%) GAAP
12 34 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 32 (0.51%) NIST
14 25 (0.39%) PCI DSS
15 24 (0.38%) SOC 2
16 23 (0.36%) NCSC
17 20 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
18 16 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
19 14 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 14 (0.22%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1,094 (17.27%) Docker
2 61 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 46 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
4 42 (0.66%) Firmware
5 25 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
5 25 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.063%) Postfix
9 3 (0.047%) HDFS
9 3 (0.047%) RACF
10 2 (0.032%) Squid
10 2 (0.032%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.016%) Apache Flume
11 1 (0.016%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.016%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.016%) NDS
11 1 (0.016%) NFS
11 1 (0.016%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 666 (10.51%) Kubernetes
2 605 (9.55%) Ansible
3 251 (3.96%) Terraform
4 86 (1.36%) Prometheus
5 71 (1.12%) Argo
6 65 (1.03%) Kustomize
7 40 (0.63%) Grafana
8 33 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
9 25 (0.39%) Kibana
9 25 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
10 18 (0.28%) SCCM
11 16 (0.25%) WMI
12 15 (0.24%) Progress Chef
13 11 (0.17%) Puppet
14 9 (0.14%) Nessus
15 7 (0.11%) Proxmox
16 5 (0.079%) CASB
16 5 (0.079%) Functional Safety
16 5 (0.079%) HP ALM
16 5 (0.079%) SCOM
Vendors
1 653 (10.31%) Microsoft
2 284 (4.48%) Oracle
3 246 (3.88%) Solace
4 220 (3.47%) Google
5 193 (3.05%) SAP
6 161 (2.54%) Siemens
7 139 (2.19%) IBM
8 138 (2.18%) Salesforce
9 103 (1.63%) Databricks
10 90 (1.42%) ServiceNow
11 89 (1.41%) Atlassian
12 69 (1.09%) Sparx
13 60 (0.95%) Red Hat
14 56 (0.88%) VMware
15 50 (0.79%) MathWorks
16 44 (0.69%) Alteryx
17 39 (0.62%) Splunk
18 37 (0.58%) Workday
19 32 (0.51%) Cisco
20 24 (0.38%) Dynatrace