Agile Developer Job Trends

Agile Developer
UK

The median Agile Developer salary in the UK is £107,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 643 743 703
Rank change year-on-year +100 -40 +302
Permanent jobs requiring an Agile Developer 6 16 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.024% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.026% 0.041%
Number of salaries quoted 6 10 19
10th Percentile £93,125 £45,000 £47,000
25th Percentile £100,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +95.45% +10.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £111,250 - £64,375
90th Percentile - £62,000 £79,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 48,849 62,485 48,786
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.27% 94.31% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 30,833 34,885 37,936
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.65% -0.95% -

Agile Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Agile Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Agile Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Agile Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Agile Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Agile Developer job vacancies in the UK

Agile Developer
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 29 November 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
England +93 6 £107,500 +95.45%
London +67 6 £107,500 +115.00%

Agile Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 29 November 2025, Agile Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Agile Developer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 6 (100.00%) BDD
1 6 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Confluence
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
1 6 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 6 (100.00%) DB2
1 6 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
1 6 (100.00%) Dynamic Code Analysis
1 6 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (100.00%) Epics
1 6 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 6 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 6 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (100.00%) JIRA
1 6 (100.00%) Kanban
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (100.00%) MS Visio
1 6 (100.00%) Node.js

Agile Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (100.00%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) DB2
1 6 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 6 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (100.00%) JIRA
1 6 (100.00%) Selenium
1 6 (100.00%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (100.00%) Banking
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
1 6 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) Node.js
1 6 (100.00%) React
1 6 (100.00%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) BDD
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 6 (100.00%) Dynamic Code Analysis
1 6 (100.00%) Epics
1 6 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 6 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 6 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 6 (100.00%) Kanban
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
1 6 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 6 (100.00%) Scrum
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 6 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 6 (100.00%) Static Code Analysis
1 6 (100.00%) Systems Analysis
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 6 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 6 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) RPG
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (16.67%) IBM