Agile Software Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 10,407 19,681 24,959
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.81% 18.22% 27.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.53% 22.09% 29.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,913 11,218 14,780
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £87,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,375 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -2.54% +7.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 53,298 89,106 85,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 91.19% 82.51% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 27,465 61,429 52,805
10th Percentile £27,336 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,331
Median % change year-on-year - -8.84% +0.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the UK

Agile
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Agile.

Salary trend for Agile in the UK

Agile
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Agile in the UK

Agile
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the UK over the 6 months to 2 July 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 -2 9,116 £67,500 +8.00% 20,915
UK excluding London -5 6,431 £60,000 +4.35% 12,151
Work from Home -2 4,640 £65,000 +4.00% 10,576
London 0 3,235 £85,000 +6.05% 10,279
North of England -4 2,028 £57,560 -0.70% 3,071
North West -3 1,564 £57,560 -4.07% 1,866
South East -3 1,512 £65,000 +8.33% 3,149
Midlands 0 1,014 £57,468 +4.49% 1,656
Scotland 0 762 £57,500 - 1,006
West Midlands +3 665 £60,000 +4.35% 1,007
South West 0 565 £58,000 +0.87% 1,467
East of England -6 399 £53,000 -3.94% 1,246
Yorkshire -12 374 £60,000 +4.35% 1,001
East Midlands -4 346 £47,683 -9.18% 645
Wales -7 145 £65,000 +22.74% 365
North East -9 90 £45,000 -18.18% 209
Northern Ireland -7 22 £130,000 +100.00% 289
Isle of Man +16 5 £52,500 -2.78% 1
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 - 1

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 634 (6.09%) Confluence
2 276 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
3 208 (2.00%) Apache
4 149 (1.43%) Apache Spark
5 145 (1.39%) CMS
6 99 (0.95%) SharePoint
7 76 (0.73%) Oracle Application Server
8 46 (0.44%) IIS
9 39 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
10 31 (0.30%) WordPress
11 25 (0.24%) Appian
12 22 (0.21%) Headless CMS
13 16 (0.15%) Drupal
13 16 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 13 (0.12%) JBoss
15 12 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
16 11 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
16 11 (0.11%) Umbraco
17 9 (0.086%) OpenStack
17 9 (0.086%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 289 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 240 (2.31%) Simulink
3 138 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 79 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
5 68 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 64 (0.61%) MS Visio
7 48 (0.46%) Trello
8 29 (0.28%) Adobe XD
9 25 (0.24%) Chatbot
10 18 (0.17%) Maya
10 18 (0.17%) Sketch
11 13 (0.12%) Photoshop
12 9 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 7 (0.067%) InVision
13 7 (0.067%) Mozilla Thunderbird
14 6 (0.058%) Revit
15 5 (0.048%) Adobe Premiere
16 4 (0.038%) Adobe Illustrator
16 4 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
17 3 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 131 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 72 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 65 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 65 (0.62%) Teamcenter
4 54 (0.52%) Aladdin
5 39 (0.37%) thinkFolio
6 31 (0.30%) NetSuite
7 24 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 19 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
9 18 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
10 17 (0.16%) Shopify
11 15 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
12 12 (0.12%) SAP IBP
13 11 (0.11%) Magento
14 9 (0.086%) Oracle ERP
14 9 (0.086%) PeopleSoft Financials
15 8 (0.077%) Elite 3E
16 7 (0.067%) Adobe Campaign
16 7 (0.067%) Orchestrade
16 7 (0.067%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 2,715 (26.09%) AWS
2 2,605 (25.03%) Azure
3 1,209 (11.62%) GCP
4 642 (6.17%) Serverless
5 477 (4.58%) AWS Lambda
6 448 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
7 440 (4.23%) Power Platform
8 437 (4.20%) SaaS
9 258 (2.48%) GitHub
10 251 (2.41%) dbt
11 231 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
12 223 (2.14%) Amazon S3
13 220 (2.11%) Pulumi
14 171 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
15 170 (1.63%) PaaS
16 162 (1.56%) Snowflake
17 160 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
18 145 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
19 128 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
20 110 (1.06%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 798 (7.67%) Broadband
2 457 (4.39%) DNS
3 434 (4.17%) VPN
4 100 (0.96%) Firewall
5 62 (0.60%) WAN
6 53 (0.51%) TCP/IP
7 50 (0.48%) Network Security
8 47 (0.45%) HTTP
9 37 (0.36%) SD-WAN
10 36 (0.35%) Wireless
11 29 (0.28%) SSL
12 28 (0.27%) LAN
12 28 (0.27%) SAN
13 27 (0.26%) Internet
14 26 (0.25%) Software-Defined Radio
15 21 (0.20%) DHCP
16 18 (0.17%) Software-Defined Networking
17 17 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
18 16 (0.15%) Modbus
18 16 (0.15%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 680 (6.53%) SQL Server
2 509 (4.89%) NoSQL
3 483 (4.64%) Relational Database
4 395 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
5 288 (2.77%) RDBMS
6 284 (2.73%) Power BI
7 281 (2.70%) Data Lake
8 268 (2.58%) MySQL
9 265 (2.55%) Amazon Athena
10 252 (2.42%) Apache Iceberg
11 235 (2.26%) Dremio
12 227 (2.18%) Apache Arrow
12 227 (2.18%) MongoDB
13 225 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
14 199 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
15 167 (1.60%) DynamoDB
16 121 (1.16%) Apache Ignite
17 99 (0.95%) Big Data
18 95 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
19 81 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1,369 (13.15%) JIRA
2 595 (5.72%) Git
3 380 (3.65%) Selenium
4 373 (3.58%) GitLab
5 328 (3.15%) Maven
6 311 (2.99%) SonarQube
7 307 (2.95%) Bitbucket
8 300 (2.88%) Cucumber
9 298 (2.86%) Jenkins
10 281 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
11 215 (2.07%) Jaeger
12 133 (1.28%) JUnit
13 126 (1.21%) Rational DOORS
14 79 (0.76%) Cypress.io
15 63 (0.61%) Visual Studio
16 62 (0.60%) JMeter
17 59 (0.57%) Postman
18 57 (0.55%) Mockito
19 55 (0.53%) Artifactory
20 50 (0.48%) webpack
General
1 3,850 (36.99%) Finance
2 2,527 (24.28%) Social Skills
3 2,034 (19.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,822 (17.51%) Analytical Skills
5 1,314 (12.63%) Banking
6 1,015 (9.75%) Law
7 652 (6.27%) Presentation Skills
8 576 (5.53%) Marketing
9 496 (4.77%) Front Office
10 475 (4.56%) Retail
11 434 (4.17%) Public Sector
12 295 (2.83%) Investment Banking
13 291 (2.80%) Legal
14 284 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
15 274 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
16 273 (2.62%) Aerospace
17 238 (2.29%) Automotive
18 202 (1.94%) Manufacturing
19 125 (1.20%) Financial Institution
20 121 (1.16%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2,402 (23.08%) Senior
2 1,932 (18.56%) Developer
3 1,828 (17.57%) Software Engineer
4 1,338 (12.86%) Lead
5 771 (7.41%) Systems Engineer
6 726 (6.98%) Analyst
7 720 (6.92%) Architect
8 614 (5.90%) Software Developer
9 575 (5.53%) Senior Software Engineer
10 416 (4.00%) Java Engineer
11 410 (3.94%) Senior Developer
12 360 (3.46%) Team Leader
13 344 (3.31%) Java Software Engineer
14 330 (3.17%) Python Engineer
15 315 (3.03%) Business Analyst
16 305 (2.93%) AWS Engineer
17 287 (2.76%) Project Manager
18 282 (2.71%) Principal Engineer
19 273 (2.62%) Senior Manager
20 257 (2.47%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,237 (11.89%) React
2 1,021 (9.81%) .NET
3 703 (6.76%) CSS
4 687 (6.60%) HTML
5 652 (6.27%) Spring
6 651 (6.26%) Kafka
7 600 (5.77%) Node.js
8 561 (5.39%) Spring Boot
9 519 (4.99%) REST
10 482 (4.63%) AngularJS
11 475 (4.56%) Middleware
12 443 (4.26%) RESTful
13 351 (3.37%) Redux
14 291 (2.80%) JPA
15 253 (2.43%) Hibernate
16 248 (2.38%) Vue
17 247 (2.37%) Pandas
18 238 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
19 237 (2.28%) .NET Core
20 231 (2.22%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1,054 (10.13%) Product Ownership
2 645 (6.20%) Cyberattack
3 611 (5.87%) Self-Motivation
4 435 (4.18%) Cloud Native
5 381 (3.66%) Fixed Income
6 370 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
7 293 (2.82%) Equities
8 287 (2.76%) Management Information System
9 283 (2.72%) Derivative
10 281 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 261 (2.51%) Algorithms
12 251 (2.41%) Embedded Systems
13 232 (2.23%) Hedge funds
14 198 (1.90%) Mobile App
15 183 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
16 182 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
17 161 (1.55%) Onboarding
18 149 (1.43%) Public Cloud
19 126 (1.21%) Virtual Team
20 123 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1,216 (11.68%) Linux
2 543 (5.22%) Android
3 307 (2.95%) Unix
4 277 (2.66%) Windows
5 108 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 58 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 29 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
8 21 (0.20%) zOS
9 15 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (0.13%) VMS
11 10 (0.096%) Ubuntu
11 10 (0.096%) Windows 10
11 10 (0.096%) Windows Vista
12 6 (0.058%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.048%) AIX
13 5 (0.048%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.029%) Debian
14 3 (0.029%) Solaris
15 2 (0.019%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.019%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,586 (24.85%) Software Engineering
2 2,413 (23.19%) CI/CD
3 2,266 (21.77%) DevOps
4 2,109 (20.27%) Mentoring
5 1,821 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
6 1,571 (15.10%) Roadmaps
7 1,417 (13.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,376 (13.22%) SDLC
9 1,235 (11.87%) Scrum
10 1,223 (11.75%) Microservices
11 1,140 (10.95%) Artificial Intelligence
12 1,107 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management
13 1,059 (10.18%) Test Automation
14 1,039 (9.98%) Project Management
15 971 (9.33%) Containerisation
16 951 (9.14%) User Experience
17 925 (8.89%) Machine Learning
18 903 (8.68%) Coaching
19 901 (8.66%) Analytics
20 879 (8.45%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2,515 (24.17%) Python
2 2,502 (24.04%) Java
3 1,895 (18.21%) JavaScript
4 1,571 (15.10%) SQL
5 1,126 (10.82%) TypeScript
6 1,001 (9.62%) Go
7 868 (8.34%) C++
8 848 (8.15%) C#
9 664 (6.38%) MATLAB
10 310 (2.98%) Rust
11 291 (2.80%) Bash
12 203 (1.95%) PowerShell
13 161 (1.55%) PHP
14 135 (1.30%) C
15 86 (0.83%) Ada
16 75 (0.72%) R
17 63 (0.61%) Ada 95
17 63 (0.61%) Shell Script
18 62 (0.60%) Kotlin
19 51 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2,238 (21.50%) Degree
2 1,353 (13.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1,187 (11.41%) Security Cleared
4 802 (7.71%) DV Cleared
5 592 (5.69%) AWS Certification
6 431 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 367 (3.53%) SC Cleared
8 255 (2.45%) Chartered Engineer
9 248 (2.38%) PhD
10 215 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 196 (1.88%) PMI Certification
12 185 (1.78%) AWS Certified Developer
13 180 (1.73%) Master's Degree
14 178 (1.71%) DBS Check
15 169 (1.62%) Azure Certification
16 154 (1.48%) PMP
17 103 (0.99%) ACCA
17 103 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
18 94 (0.90%) CISSP
19 88 (0.85%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 738 (7.09%) QA
2 418 (4.02%) Accessibility
3 214 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 151 (1.45%) Data Quality
5 142 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 130 (1.25%) GDPR
7 103 (0.99%) PMO
8 69 (0.66%) NIST
9 66 (0.63%) IFRS
10 58 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 58 (0.56%) SLA
11 56 (0.54%) GAAP
12 51 (0.49%) ITGC
13 41 (0.39%) SOC 2
14 38 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
15 36 (0.35%) WCAG
16 35 (0.34%) MiFID
17 34 (0.33%) NCSC
18 32 (0.31%) PCI DSS
19 27 (0.26%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1,565 (15.04%) Docker
2 105 (1.01%) Active Directory
3 66 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
4 58 (0.56%) Firmware
5 55 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
6 36 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
7 22 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 17 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.12%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.077%) Apache Flume
10 8 (0.077%) HDFS
11 7 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.048%) vSphere
13 4 (0.038%) DFS Replication
13 4 (0.038%) Postfix
13 4 (0.038%) Time Sharing Option
14 3 (0.029%) RACF
14 3 (0.029%) Terminal Server
15 2 (0.019%) Squid
15 2 (0.019%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,204 (11.57%) Kubernetes
2 821 (7.89%) Ansible
3 691 (6.64%) Terraform
4 280 (2.69%) Prometheus
5 230 (2.21%) Argo
6 217 (2.09%) Kustomize
7 86 (0.83%) Grafana
8 51 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
8 51 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
9 36 (0.35%) Kibana
10 30 (0.29%) Progress Chef
11 29 (0.28%) SCCM
12 26 (0.25%) Puppet
13 24 (0.23%) WMI
14 10 (0.096%) Nessus
15 8 (0.077%) CASB
15 8 (0.077%) Mesos
15 8 (0.077%) Oozie
16 7 (0.067%) FortiGate
16 7 (0.067%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,226 (11.78%) Microsoft
2 572 (5.50%) Google
3 379 (3.64%) Oracle
4 319 (3.07%) SAP
5 286 (2.75%) Salesforce
6 251 (2.41%) Solace
7 206 (1.98%) Databricks
8 199 (1.91%) Siemens
9 171 (1.64%) IBM
10 141 (1.35%) ServiceNow
11 102 (0.98%) VMware
12 85 (0.82%) Red Hat
13 82 (0.79%) Atlassian
14 81 (0.78%) Adobe
15 78 (0.75%) Splunk
16 73 (0.70%) Sparx
17 57 (0.55%) Workday
18 54 (0.52%) Cisco
19 51 (0.49%) BISAM
20 50 (0.48%) MathWorks