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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 2 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 14,114 17,912 22,089
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 20.04% 29.14% 31.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.75% 30.47% 33.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,885 8,609 13,058
10th Percentile £38,175 £37,500 £36,750
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 £73,853 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £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 59,415 58,778 66,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.38% 95.62% 94.04%
Number of salaries quoted 41,129 30,196 41,543
10th Percentile £27,117 £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 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +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 3 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 3 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 3,487 £57,965 -2.62% 600
Scotland -1 3,095 £60,000 - 169
South East 0 2,878 £60,000 -4.00% 518
North West -1 1,978 £60,000 +4.35% 365
Midlands -3 1,804 £55,000 -3.08% 437
South West -2 1,651 £59,556 +3.57% 368
Yorkshire -1 1,115 £57,965 -3.39% 166
West Midlands -5 1,102 £57,500 - 271
East of England -5 744 £57,500 -4.17% 228
East Midlands -1 690 £52,500 -4.55% 163
North East +1 394 £53,903 -1.99% 75
Wales -4 330 £52,500 -2.66% 87
Northern Ireland -3 131 £60,000 +14.29% 42
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
1 657 (4.65%) Apache Spark
2 333 (2.36%) Confluence
3 292 (2.07%) ArcGIS
4 287 (2.03%) GeoServer
5 245 (1.74%) SharePoint
6 187 (1.32%) Apache
7 138 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
8 120 (0.85%) FileNet
9 110 (0.78%) SAS
10 78 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
11 55 (0.39%) CMS
12 52 (0.37%) OpenStack
13 41 (0.29%) IIS
13 41 (0.29%) WebLogic
14 38 (0.27%) JBoss
14 38 (0.27%) Tuxedo
15 35 (0.25%) WebSphere
16 34 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
17 32 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
18 30 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 447 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 215 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
3 161 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 112 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
5 73 (0.52%) AutoCAD
6 72 (0.51%) MS Visio
7 55 (0.39%) Simulink
8 35 (0.25%) UserZoom
9 26 (0.18%) Sketch
10 24 (0.17%) Adobe XD
11 22 (0.16%) Stateflow
12 21 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
13 18 (0.13%) Revit
14 17 (0.12%) Trello
15 7 (0.050%) CANalyzer
15 7 (0.050%) Photoshop
16 5 (0.035%) InDesign
17 4 (0.028%) InVision
17 4 (0.028%) Maya
18 3 (0.021%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 162 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 81 (0.57%) SAP ERP
3 55 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 41 (0.29%) NetSuite
5 39 (0.28%) Siebel CRM
6 37 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
7 24 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
8 23 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
9 20 (0.14%) NEC Housing
10 19 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
11 12 (0.085%) Shopify
12 11 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
13 10 (0.071%) Magento
14 9 (0.064%) Dynamics AX
14 9 (0.064%) Primavera
14 9 (0.064%) SAP CX
15 8 (0.057%) Dynamics GP
16 7 (0.050%) SAP GTS
16 7 (0.050%) Teamcenter
17 6 (0.043%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 3,722 (26.37%) Azure
2 3,397 (24.07%) AWS
3 810 (5.74%) GCP
4 756 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
5 663 (4.70%) Power Platform
6 499 (3.54%) SaaS
7 377 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
8 321 (2.27%) Serverless
9 306 (2.17%) GitHub
10 257 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
11 243 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
12 216 (1.53%) Amazon S3
13 209 (1.48%) PowerApps
14 196 (1.39%) Power Automate
15 167 (1.18%) IBM Cloud
16 160 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
17 143 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
18 130 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
19 122 (0.86%) AWS CloudFormation
20 118 (0.84%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 350 (2.48%) Broadband
2 197 (1.40%) DNS
3 196 (1.39%) Firewall
4 167 (1.18%) Internet
4 167 (1.18%) TCP/IP
5 114 (0.81%) Wireless
6 109 (0.77%) DHCP
7 99 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
8 83 (0.59%) Kerberos
9 81 (0.57%) Network Security
10 72 (0.51%) WAN
11 63 (0.45%) Intranet
12 59 (0.42%) SSL
13 57 (0.40%) HTTP
14 53 (0.38%) VPN
15 49 (0.35%) BGP
15 49 (0.35%) Bluetooth
16 46 (0.33%) LAN
17 34 (0.24%) SAN
18 33 (0.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,353 (9.59%) SQL Server
2 1,137 (8.06%) NoSQL
3 668 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
4 626 (4.44%) Big Data
5 493 (3.49%) MongoDB
6 458 (3.25%) Power BI
7 405 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
8 398 (2.82%) Relational Database
9 374 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
10 359 (2.54%) MySQL
11 353 (2.50%) BigQuery
12 302 (2.14%) GIS
13 284 (2.01%) QGIS
14 279 (1.98%) Hadoop
15 272 (1.93%) Looker
16 200 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
17 180 (1.28%) Data Lake
18 162 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
19 161 (1.14%) DB2
20 144 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1,215 (8.61%) Git
2 978 (6.93%) JIRA
3 706 (5.00%) Jenkins
4 306 (2.17%) Selenium
5 292 (2.07%) JUnit
6 243 (1.72%) Visual Studio
7 235 (1.67%) GitLab
8 213 (1.51%) Cypress.io
9 158 (1.12%) Bitbucket
10 142 (1.01%) Jasmine
11 135 (0.96%) Cucumber
12 107 (0.76%) Maven
13 94 (0.67%) WebDriver
14 93 (0.66%) Bitbucket Server
14 93 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
15 78 (0.55%) Postman
16 77 (0.55%) TeamCity
17 75 (0.53%) Karma Test Runner
18 74 (0.52%) JMeter
19 70 (0.50%) Artifactory
General
1 4,756 (33.70%) Finance
2 3,333 (23.61%) Social Skills
3 3,167 (22.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2,610 (18.49%) Law
5 1,579 (11.19%) Marketing
6 1,505 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
7 1,099 (7.79%) Legal
8 1,038 (7.35%) Banking
9 744 (5.27%) Public Sector
10 607 (4.30%) Retail
11 554 (3.93%) Influencing Skills
12 401 (2.84%) Investment Banking
13 359 (2.54%) Aerospace
14 350 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
15 273 (1.93%) Financial Institution
16 204 (1.45%) Manufacturing
17 188 (1.33%) Games
18 172 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
19 157 (1.11%) Telecoms
20 134 (0.95%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 3,133 (22.20%) Software Engineer
2 2,991 (21.19%) Developer
3 2,514 (17.81%) Senior
4 2,021 (14.32%) Lead
5 1,114 (7.89%) .NET Developer
6 1,061 (7.52%) Analyst
7 1,003 (7.11%) Project Manager
8 910 (6.45%) Java Engineer
9 868 (6.15%) Java Software Engineer
10 859 (6.09%) Architect
11 736 (5.21%) Lead Software Engineer
12 703 (4.98%) Senior Software Engineer
13 613 (4.34%) Senior Developer
14 573 (4.06%) Data Engineer
15 481 (3.41%) Full Stack Engineer
16 444 (3.15%) Software Developer
16 444 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
17 435 (3.08%) C# Developer
18 403 (2.86%) Business Analyst
19 390 (2.76%) Big Data Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,538 (17.98%) .NET
2 2,028 (14.37%) React
3 1,582 (11.21%) AngularJS
4 1,420 (10.06%) HTML
5 1,416 (10.03%) CSS
6 1,192 (8.45%) .NET Core
7 1,090 (7.72%) ASP.NET
8 1,018 (7.21%) Spring
9 755 (5.35%) RESTful
10 746 (5.29%) Node.js
11 709 (5.02%) REST
12 703 (4.98%) ASP.NET Web API
13 687 (4.87%) ASP.NET MVC
14 681 (4.82%) .NET Framework
15 645 (4.57%) Vue
16 622 (4.41%) Spring Boot
17 613 (4.34%) Entity Framework
18 572 (4.05%) Kafka
19 568 (4.02%) HTML5
20 552 (3.91%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1,076 (7.62%) Algorithms
2 1,074 (7.61%) Cloud Native
3 948 (6.72%) Product Ownership
4 546 (3.87%) Public Cloud
5 483 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
6 481 (3.41%) Management Information System
7 369 (2.61%) Data Structures
8 304 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
8 304 (2.15%) Onboarding
9 255 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
10 252 (1.79%) Mobile App
11 203 (1.44%) Blockchain
12 193 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
13 188 (1.33%) e-Learning
14 175 (1.24%) Private Cloud
15 153 (1.08%) IoT
16 142 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
17 115 (0.81%) Reference Data
18 111 (0.79%) Market Risk
19 107 (0.76%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1,025 (7.26%) Linux
2 636 (4.51%) Windows
3 312 (2.21%) Android
4 238 (1.69%) Unix
5 230 (1.63%) Apple iOS
6 133 (0.94%) Windows Server
7 108 (0.77%) Ubuntu
8 102 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 52 (0.37%) Windows 10
10 48 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
11 43 (0.30%) CentOS
12 33 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
13 32 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
14 26 (0.18%) Debian
15 18 (0.13%) Mac OS
16 10 (0.071%) Solaris
16 10 (0.071%) Windows 7
17 9 (0.064%) FreeRTOS
17 9 (0.064%) Windows Phone
17 9 (0.064%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,220 (29.90%) Software Engineering
2 3,108 (22.02%) SDLC
3 3,081 (21.83%) CI/CD
4 2,764 (19.58%) DevOps
5 2,455 (17.39%) Mentoring
6 2,229 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
7 2,220 (15.73%) Scrum
8 1,969 (13.95%) Artificial Intelligence
9 1,875 (13.28%) Full Stack Development
10 1,826 (12.94%) Project Management
11 1,801 (12.76%) Operational Stability
12 1,771 (12.55%) Microservices
13 1,740 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
14 1,630 (11.55%) Machine Learning
15 1,629 (11.54%) Coaching
16 1,485 (10.52%) Actionable Insight
17 1,378 (9.76%) Roadmaps
18 1,376 (9.75%) Community of Practice
19 1,268 (8.98%) TDD
20 1,261 (8.93%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 2,909 (20.61%) JavaScript
2 2,898 (20.53%) SQL
3 2,764 (19.58%) Java
4 2,689 (19.05%) C#
5 2,171 (15.38%) Python
6 1,127 (7.98%) TypeScript
7 363 (2.57%) Scala
8 334 (2.37%) PHP
9 314 (2.22%) C
10 303 (2.15%) C++
11 233 (1.65%) PowerShell
12 204 (1.45%) Go
13 181 (1.28%) T-SQL
14 176 (1.25%) PL/SQL
15 129 (0.91%) Kotlin
16 125 (0.89%) Bash
17 99 (0.70%) MATLAB
18 85 (0.60%) COBOL
18 85 (0.60%) Ruby
19 84 (0.60%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,923 (13.62%) Degree
2 1,835 (13.00%) Security Cleared
3 1,210 (8.57%) SC Cleared
4 445 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 394 (2.79%) DV Cleared
6 236 (1.67%) ACCA
7 225 (1.59%) CIMA
8 201 (1.42%) Master's Degree
9 197 (1.40%) PMI Certification
10 162 (1.15%) PMP
11 161 (1.14%) AWS Certification
12 137 (0.97%) Azure Certification
13 107 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
14 102 (0.72%) HND
15 98 (0.69%) HNC
16 91 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 86 (0.61%) DBS Check
18 80 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
19 75 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
20 71 (0.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 768 (5.44%) QA
2 290 (2.05%) Accessibility
3 271 (1.92%) GDPR
4 211 (1.49%) Data Quality
5 190 (1.35%) PMO
6 116 (0.82%) SLA
7 70 (0.50%) WCAG
8 60 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 54 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
10 40 (0.28%) NIST
11 34 (0.24%) ISO 9001
12 29 (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
1 948 (6.72%) Docker
2 250 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 128 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 102 (0.72%) HDFS
5 71 (0.50%) Firmware
6 61 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 46 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 42 (0.30%) vSphere
9 36 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
10 23 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
10 23 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
11 22 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
12 18 (0.13%) VMware NSX
13 12 (0.085%) Time Sharing Option
14 9 (0.064%) Terminal Services
15 7 (0.050%) Microsoft App-V
16 5 (0.035%) SRDF
17 2 (0.014%) Apache Flume
17 2 (0.014%) Apache ZooKeeper
17 2 (0.014%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1,209 (8.57%) Kubernetes
2 807 (5.72%) Terraform
3 349 (2.47%) Ansible
4 212 (1.50%) Grafana
5 148 (1.05%) Prometheus
6 75 (0.53%) Puppet
7 68 (0.48%) SCCM
8 64 (0.45%) Progress Chef
9 49 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
10 44 (0.31%) Kibana
11 35 (0.25%) SCOM
12 31 (0.22%) ZABBIX
13 28 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 26 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
15 21 (0.15%) HAProxy
15 21 (0.15%) Zipkin
16 20 (0.14%) WSUS
17 17 (0.12%) vCenter Server
18 14 (0.099%) Docker Swarm
19 12 (0.085%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 2,304 (16.32%) Microsoft
2 806 (5.71%) Oracle
3 640 (4.53%) Google
4 353 (2.50%) Databricks
5 318 (2.25%) SAP
6 290 (2.05%) ESRI
7 273 (1.93%) IBM
8 228 (1.62%) Red Hat
9 220 (1.56%) Dynatrace
10 206 (1.46%) Splunk
11 193 (1.37%) Salesforce
12 162 (1.15%) ServiceNow
13 152 (1.08%) VMware
14 145 (1.03%) Informatica
15 131 (0.93%) Atlassian
16 100 (0.71%) Facebook
17 76 (0.54%) Micro Focus
18 75 (0.53%) Anaplan
18 75 (0.53%) Hyperion
19 72 (0.51%) Cloudera