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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 7,921 21,284 19,498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.21% 32.36% 30.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 26.73% 33.87% 31.61%
Number of salaries quoted 4,995 11,304 12,958
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +8.23% +10.00%
75th Percentile £74,250 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.84% +3.33%

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 29,635 62,838 61,677
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 94.33% 95.55% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 20,187 35,874 42,157
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,831 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% +7.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,763 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% +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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 0 2,277 £60,000 +0.80% 787
South East -2 1,546 £60,000 - 779
South West -1 1,321 £60,249 +9.54% 342
North West 0 1,116 £60,000 +4.35% 449
Midlands -3 1,046 £55,000 - 510
Yorkshire 0 1,034 £65,000 +8.33% 257
Scotland -1 1,005 £65,208 +8.68% 205
West Midlands -4 646 £55,000 - 360
East Midlands -2 397 £55,000 - 147
Wales -2 316 £55,000 - 90
East of England -4 293 £55,000 -8.33% 250
Northern Ireland +1 147 £60,000 +19.40% 34
North East -1 126 £55,000 - 85
Channel Islands +8 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
1 252 (3.18%) Confluence
2 130 (1.64%) SharePoint
3 119 (1.50%) Apache Spark
4 88 (1.11%) JBoss
5 86 (1.09%) Red Hat Fuse
6 73 (0.92%) SAS
7 65 (0.82%) Apache
8 48 (0.61%) CMS
9 35 (0.44%) Tomcat
10 33 (0.42%) IIS
11 29 (0.37%) Umbraco
12 26 (0.33%) WebSphere
13 20 (0.25%) Captiva
14 19 (0.24%) OpenStack
15 18 (0.23%) FileNet
16 15 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
17 14 (0.18%) MS Exchange
18 13 (0.16%) WordPress
19 11 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
19 11 (0.14%) Jetty
Applications
1 162 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
2 142 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 66 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
4 50 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 39 (0.49%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.21%) Trello
7 14 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 10 (0.13%) Photoshop
9 8 (0.10%) CATIA
9 8 (0.10%) InDesign
9 8 (0.10%) Sketch
10 7 (0.088%) Simulink
11 5 (0.063%) UserZoom
12 4 (0.050%) Adobe Premiere
12 4 (0.050%) LibreOffice
13 3 (0.038%) Adobe Captivate
14 2 (0.025%) Acrobat
14 2 (0.025%) Fireworks
14 2 (0.025%) RoboHelp
14 2 (0.025%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 278 (3.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.20%) Siebel CRM
2 16 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
3 14 (0.18%) Cloudability
4 12 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 12 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 11 (0.14%) Magento
6 9 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.11%) ProductWriter
7 8 (0.10%) Teamcenter
8 7 (0.088%) Oracle ERP
8 7 (0.088%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.076%) Maximo
9 6 (0.076%) Oracle Financials
9 6 (0.076%) Primavera
9 6 (0.076%) Visualfiles
10 5 (0.063%) Dynamics GP
10 5 (0.063%) Dynamics NAV
11 4 (0.050%) ENOVIA
11 4 (0.050%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 2,387 (30.14%) Azure
2 1,528 (19.29%) AWS
3 813 (10.26%) Power Platform
4 784 (9.90%) GCP
5 728 (9.19%) SaaS
6 673 (8.50%) Azure DevOps
7 535 (6.75%) PaaS
8 478 (6.03%) Dynamics 365
9 448 (5.66%) IaaS
10 442 (5.58%) Serverless
11 269 (3.40%) GitHub
12 224 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
13 223 (2.82%) Azure Functions
14 114 (1.44%) OpenShift
15 102 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
16 89 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
17 81 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
18 76 (0.96%) Amazon EKS
18 76 (0.96%) Amazon S3
19 65 (0.82%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 165 (2.08%) DNS
2 157 (1.98%) Firewall
3 123 (1.55%) DHCP
4 93 (1.17%) TCP/IP
5 80 (1.01%) HTTP
6 70 (0.88%) VPN
7 54 (0.68%) SAN
8 51 (0.64%) Internet
8 51 (0.64%) WAN
9 41 (0.52%) Network Security
10 34 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
11 32 (0.40%) LAN
12 28 (0.35%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 28 (0.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 26 (0.33%) Wireless
14 25 (0.32%) SNMP
15 21 (0.27%) VLAN
16 18 (0.23%) SD-WAN
16 18 (0.23%) SSL
17 13 (0.16%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 538 (6.79%) SQL Server
2 403 (5.09%) Power BI
3 343 (4.33%) NoSQL
4 322 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
5 268 (3.38%) MySQL
6 246 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
7 217 (2.74%) Relational Database
8 211 (2.66%) Big Data
9 184 (2.32%) Data Lake
10 161 (2.03%) MongoDB
11 104 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 98 (1.24%) Tableau
13 92 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 88 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
15 80 (1.01%) BigQuery
16 63 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
17 61 (0.77%) Hadoop
18 58 (0.73%) Oracle Database
19 48 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
20 45 (0.57%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 730 (9.22%) Git
2 594 (7.50%) JIRA
3 540 (6.82%) Jenkins
4 241 (3.04%) Selenium
5 135 (1.70%) Cucumber
6 133 (1.68%) GitLab
7 125 (1.58%) Cypress.io
8 92 (1.16%) IntelliJ
9 87 (1.10%) Maven
10 73 (0.92%) SonarQube
11 69 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
12 61 (0.77%) Spinnaker
13 59 (0.74%) Bitbucket
14 58 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
15 57 (0.72%) JUnit
15 57 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
16 55 (0.69%) Visual Studio
17 54 (0.68%) IBM UrbanCode
17 54 (0.68%) TeamCity
18 49 (0.62%) Postman
General
1 2,835 (35.79%) Finance
2 1,968 (24.85%) Social Skills
3 1,365 (17.23%) Banking
4 707 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
5 581 (7.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 573 (7.23%) Retail
7 380 (4.80%) Public Sector
8 349 (4.41%) Marketing
9 296 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
10 277 (3.50%) Law
11 217 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
12 186 (2.35%) Legal
13 171 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
14 161 (2.03%) Telecoms
15 145 (1.83%) Aerospace
16 144 (1.82%) Manufacturing
17 95 (1.20%) Automotive
18 69 (0.87%) Retail Banking
19 67 (0.85%) Electronics
20 57 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,514 (19.11%) Architect
2 1,464 (18.48%) Developer
3 1,396 (17.62%) Senior
4 893 (11.27%) Software Engineer
5 757 (9.56%) Solutions Architect
6 632 (7.98%) Lead
7 606 (7.65%) Analyst
8 442 (5.58%) Project Manager
9 382 (4.82%) Enterprise Architect
10 362 (4.57%) Senior Developer
11 352 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
12 338 (4.27%) Dynamics 365 Architect
13 241 (3.04%) Software Developer
14 238 (3.00%) Business Analyst
15 236 (2.98%) Java Developer
16 234 (2.95%) Senior Software Engineer
17 227 (2.87%) .NET Developer
18 203 (2.56%) Systems Engineer
19 201 (2.54%) Java Engineer
20 183 (2.31%) CRM Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 969 (12.23%) .NET
2 684 (8.64%) HTML
3 635 (8.02%) React
4 589 (7.44%) CSS
5 557 (7.03%) AngularJS
6 403 (5.09%) REST
6 403 (5.09%) Spring
7 380 (4.80%) Node.js
8 369 (4.66%) RESTful
9 297 (3.75%) Web Services
10 282 (3.56%) .NET Core
11 281 (3.55%) Kafka
12 270 (3.41%) JSON
13 268 (3.38%) Spring Boot
14 240 (3.03%) SOAP
15 224 (2.83%) XML
16 222 (2.80%) Middleware
17 219 (2.76%) .NET Framework
18 193 (2.44%) ASP.NET
19 160 (2.02%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 646 (8.16%) Product Ownership
2 459 (5.79%) Public Cloud
3 376 (4.75%) Cloud Native
4 273 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 222 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
6 166 (2.10%) Private Cloud
7 143 (1.81%) Virtual Team
8 136 (1.72%) Data Structures
8 136 (1.72%) Mainframe
9 126 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
10 123 (1.55%) Algorithms
11 115 (1.45%) Blockchain
12 106 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
13 103 (1.30%) Mobile App
14 98 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
15 89 (1.12%) Data Centre
16 81 (1.02%) Onboarding
17 76 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
18 69 (0.87%) Cyberattack
19 61 (0.77%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 583 (7.36%) Linux
2 448 (5.66%) Windows
3 220 (2.78%) Unix
4 120 (1.51%) Windows Server
5 117 (1.48%) Android
6 81 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 52 (0.66%) Apple iOS
8 38 (0.48%) Windows 10
9 24 (0.30%) Mac OS
10 23 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
11 21 (0.27%) Windows 7
12 18 (0.23%) zOS
13 17 (0.21%) Ubuntu
14 15 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
15 13 (0.16%) AIX
16 10 (0.13%) Solaris
17 9 (0.11%) CentOS
18 5 (0.063%) CoreOS
18 5 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
18 5 (0.063%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,049 (25.87%) DevOps
2 1,611 (20.34%) Software Engineering
3 1,334 (16.84%) Scrum
4 1,319 (16.65%) Problem-Solving
5 1,299 (16.40%) Actionable Insight
6 1,161 (14.66%) Roadmaps
7 1,090 (13.76%) CI/CD
8 1,051 (13.27%) Mentoring
9 951 (12.01%) Project Management
10 859 (10.84%) SDLC
11 837 (10.57%) Microservices
12 744 (9.39%) Analytics
13 685 (8.65%) Enterprise Architecture
14 656 (8.28%) Waterfall
15 615 (7.76%) Test Automation
16 602 (7.60%) Project Delivery
17 597 (7.54%) Coaching
18 577 (7.28%) Stakeholder Management
19 554 (6.99%) Infrastructure as Code
20 546 (6.89%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,477 (18.65%) SQL
2 1,341 (16.93%) Java
3 1,179 (14.88%) JavaScript
4 1,100 (13.89%) Python
5 1,031 (13.02%) C#
6 423 (5.34%) TypeScript
7 331 (4.18%) PowerShell
8 224 (2.83%) Bash
9 223 (2.82%) PL/SQL
10 222 (2.80%) C++
11 139 (1.75%) PHP
12 130 (1.64%) T-SQL
13 119 (1.50%) C
14 96 (1.21%) Go
15 82 (1.04%) Groovy
16 74 (0.93%) Ruby
17 71 (0.90%) Scala
18 64 (0.81%) Rust
19 57 (0.72%) R
20 51 (0.64%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,106 (13.96%) Security Cleared
2 1,003 (12.66%) Degree
3 771 (9.73%) SC Cleared
4 309 (3.90%) DV Cleared
5 293 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 173 (2.18%) TOGAF Certification
7 129 (1.63%) AWS Certification
8 88 (1.11%) Azure Certification
9 69 (0.87%) PMI Certification
10 61 (0.77%) ISTQB
11 59 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 53 (0.67%) Master's Degree
12 53 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
13 51 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
14 48 (0.61%) PMP
15 32 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
16 31 (0.39%) DBS Check
17 28 (0.35%) ISEB
18 27 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
19 26 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 395 (4.99%) QA
2 111 (1.40%) Data Quality
3 96 (1.21%) PMO
4 81 (1.02%) Accessibility
5 72 (0.91%) GDPR
6 59 (0.74%) SLA
7 47 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 39 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
9 29 (0.37%) GRC
9 29 (0.37%) WCAG
10 28 (0.35%) NIST
10 28 (0.35%) SEPA
11 22 (0.28%) IFRS
11 22 (0.28%) IFRS 9
12 21 (0.27%) ISO 9001
13 16 (0.20%) CRD IV
14 15 (0.19%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.16%) COBIT
15 13 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
16 11 (0.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 810 (10.23%) Docker
2 195 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 124 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (0.76%) Hyper-V
5 48 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
6 46 (0.58%) Firmware
7 31 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
9 16 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
10 14 (0.18%) vSphere
11 13 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
12 9 (0.11%) Terminal Server
13 8 (0.10%) HDFS
13 8 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
14 6 (0.076%) BitLocker
15 3 (0.038%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.038%) Time Sharing Option
16 2 (0.025%) Apache Flume
16 2 (0.025%) KVM
16 2 (0.025%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 915 (11.55%) Kubernetes
2 624 (7.88%) Terraform
3 339 (4.28%) Ansible
4 77 (0.97%) Puppet
5 59 (0.74%) SCCM
6 57 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
7 55 (0.69%) Istio
8 51 (0.64%) Grafana
9 48 (0.61%) SCOM
10 43 (0.54%) WSUS
11 41 (0.52%) Prometheus
12 32 (0.40%) Progress Chef
13 27 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 24 (0.30%) Packer
15 23 (0.29%) Kibana
15 23 (0.29%) Nagios
16 13 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
17 10 (0.13%) vCenter Server
18 6 (0.076%) Rancher
18 6 (0.076%) WMI
Vendors
1 1,220 (15.40%) Microsoft
2 357 (4.51%) Google
3 336 (4.24%) Oracle
4 185 (2.34%) ServiceNow
5 162 (2.05%) VMware
6 152 (1.92%) Salesforce
7 149 (1.88%) NEC
8 130 (1.64%) SAP
9 118 (1.49%) IBM
10 88 (1.11%) Splunk
11 74 (0.93%) Atlassian
12 70 (0.88%) Databricks
13 64 (0.81%) Dynatrace
14 63 (0.80%) Cisco
15 57 (0.72%) Red Hat
16 43 (0.54%) Adobe
17 42 (0.53%) Teradata
18 35 (0.44%) F5
19 34 (0.43%) Fortinet
20 32 (0.40%) Dell