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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 10,479 19,525 24,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.70% 18.17% 27.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.48% 22.04% 29.13%
Number of salaries quoted 4,964 11,081 14,827
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 £87,500 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £58,671
% change year-on-year +4.35% -2.00% +6.67%

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 53,805 88,576 84,734
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 90.87% 82.43% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 27,901 60,925 53,023
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,424 £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 4 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 4 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 9,179 £67,500 +6.30% 17,018
UK excluding London -5 6,463 £60,000 +4.35% 9,471
Work from Home -2 4,674 £65,000 +4.00% 8,486
London 0 3,269 £85,000 +3.03% 8,742
North of England -4 2,035 £57,560 -0.70% 2,503
North West -3 1,569 £57,560 -4.07% 1,467
South East -3 1,525 £65,000 +8.33% 2,332
Midlands 0 1,018 £57,468 +4.49% 1,368
Scotland 0 763 £57,500 -0.43% 703
West Midlands +3 667 £60,000 +4.35% 832
South West 0 567 £57,500 - 1,162
East of England -7 402 £52,750 -4.39% 967
Yorkshire -14 375 £60,000 +4.35% 857
East Midlands -4 348 £47,683 -9.18% 532
Wales -7 147 £65,000 +22.74% 295
North East -10 91 £45,000 -18.18% 185
Northern Ireland -6 22 £130,000 +100.00% 231
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
1 636 (6.07%) Confluence
2 276 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
3 208 (1.98%) Apache
4 148 (1.41%) Apache Spark
5 145 (1.38%) CMS
6 100 (0.95%) SharePoint
7 76 (0.73%) Oracle Application Server
8 46 (0.44%) IIS
9 40 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
10 32 (0.31%) WordPress
11 25 (0.24%) Appian
11 25 (0.24%) Headless CMS
12 16 (0.15%) Drupal
12 16 (0.15%) Tomcat
13 13 (0.12%) JBoss
14 12 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
15 11 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
15 11 (0.10%) Umbraco
16 10 (0.095%) OpenStack
17 9 (0.086%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 290 (2.77%) Microsoft Office
2 241 (2.30%) Simulink
3 140 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 79 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
5 69 (0.66%) 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 (0.057%) Revit
15 5 (0.048%) Adobe Premiere
16 4 (0.038%) Adobe Illustrator
16 4 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
17 3 (0.029%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 132 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 72 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 66 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 65 (0.62%) Teamcenter
5 54 (0.52%) Aladdin
6 39 (0.37%) thinkFolio
7 32 (0.31%) NetSuite
8 24 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
9 19 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
9 19 (0.18%) Shopify
10 18 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
11 15 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
12 12 (0.11%) SAP IBP
13 11 (0.10%) Magento
14 9 (0.086%) Oracle ERP
14 9 (0.086%) PeopleSoft Financials
15 8 (0.076%) Elite 3E
16 7 (0.067%) Adobe Campaign
16 7 (0.067%) Orchestrade
16 7 (0.067%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 2,740 (26.15%) AWS
2 2,632 (25.12%) Azure
3 1,222 (11.66%) GCP
4 645 (6.16%) Serverless
5 479 (4.57%) AWS Lambda
6 457 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
7 443 (4.23%) Power Platform
8 439 (4.19%) SaaS
9 262 (2.50%) GitHub
10 251 (2.40%) dbt
11 236 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
12 226 (2.16%) Amazon S3
13 220 (2.10%) Pulumi
14 171 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
15 170 (1.62%) PaaS
16 162 (1.55%) Snowflake
17 161 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
18 148 (1.41%) Amazon ECS
19 128 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
20 111 (1.06%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 798 (7.62%) Broadband
2 457 (4.36%) DNS
3 434 (4.14%) VPN
4 100 (0.95%) Firewall
5 62 (0.59%) WAN
6 54 (0.52%) TCP/IP
7 50 (0.48%) Network Security
8 47 (0.45%) HTTP
9 37 (0.35%) SD-WAN
9 37 (0.35%) Wireless
10 29 (0.28%) SSL
11 28 (0.27%) LAN
11 28 (0.27%) SAN
12 27 (0.26%) Internet
12 27 (0.26%) Software-Defined Radio
13 21 (0.20%) DHCP
14 18 (0.17%) Software-Defined Networking
15 17 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
16 16 (0.15%) Modbus
16 16 (0.15%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 682 (6.51%) SQL Server
2 514 (4.91%) NoSQL
3 484 (4.62%) Relational Database
4 396 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
5 288 (2.75%) RDBMS
6 283 (2.70%) Power BI
7 282 (2.69%) Data Lake
8 268 (2.56%) MySQL
9 265 (2.53%) Amazon Athena
10 252 (2.40%) Apache Iceberg
11 235 (2.24%) Dremio
12 227 (2.17%) Apache Arrow
12 227 (2.17%) MongoDB
13 226 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
14 199 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
15 167 (1.59%) DynamoDB
16 121 (1.15%) Apache Ignite
17 99 (0.94%) Big Data
18 95 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
19 80 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1,374 (13.11%) JIRA
2 600 (5.73%) Git
3 381 (3.64%) Selenium
4 375 (3.58%) GitLab
5 328 (3.13%) Maven
6 311 (2.97%) SonarQube
7 307 (2.93%) Bitbucket
8 301 (2.87%) Jenkins
9 300 (2.86%) Cucumber
10 281 (2.68%) Sonatype Nexus
11 215 (2.05%) Jaeger
12 133 (1.27%) JUnit
13 126 (1.20%) Rational DOORS
14 83 (0.79%) Cypress.io
15 63 (0.60%) Visual Studio
16 62 (0.59%) JMeter
17 61 (0.58%) Postman
18 57 (0.54%) Mockito
19 55 (0.52%) Artifactory
20 50 (0.48%) webpack
General
1 3,875 (36.98%) Finance
2 2,549 (24.32%) Social Skills
3 2,038 (19.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,829 (17.45%) Analytical Skills
5 1,318 (12.58%) Banking
6 1,024 (9.77%) Law
7 655 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
8 580 (5.53%) Marketing
9 505 (4.82%) Front Office
10 477 (4.55%) Retail
11 439 (4.19%) Public Sector
12 296 (2.82%) Investment Banking
13 295 (2.82%) Legal
14 286 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
15 276 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
16 274 (2.61%) Aerospace
17 238 (2.27%) Automotive
18 205 (1.96%) Manufacturing
19 126 (1.20%) Financial Institution
20 121 (1.15%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2,414 (23.04%) Senior
2 1,955 (18.66%) Developer
3 1,837 (17.53%) Software Engineer
4 1,351 (12.89%) Lead
5 774 (7.39%) Systems Engineer
6 731 (6.98%) Analyst
7 725 (6.92%) Architect
8 616 (5.88%) Software Developer
9 574 (5.48%) Senior Software Engineer
10 418 (3.99%) Java Engineer
11 412 (3.93%) Senior Developer
12 361 (3.44%) Team Leader
13 346 (3.30%) Java Software Engineer
14 330 (3.15%) Python Engineer
15 316 (3.02%) Business Analyst
16 305 (2.91%) AWS Engineer
17 290 (2.77%) Project Manager
18 285 (2.72%) Principal Engineer
19 274 (2.61%) Senior Manager
20 262 (2.50%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,255 (11.98%) React
2 1,029 (9.82%) .NET
3 705 (6.73%) CSS
4 689 (6.58%) HTML
5 659 (6.29%) Kafka
6 653 (6.23%) Spring
7 612 (5.84%) Node.js
8 563 (5.37%) Spring Boot
9 523 (4.99%) REST
10 484 (4.62%) AngularJS
11 475 (4.53%) Middleware
12 445 (4.25%) RESTful
13 359 (3.43%) Redux
14 291 (2.78%) JPA
15 253 (2.41%) Hibernate
16 251 (2.40%) Vue
17 245 (2.34%) Pandas
18 239 (2.28%) Elastic Stack
19 238 (2.27%) .NET Core
20 231 (2.20%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1,062 (10.13%) Product Ownership
2 645 (6.16%) Cyberattack
3 612 (5.84%) Self-Motivation
4 442 (4.22%) Cloud Native
5 389 (3.71%) Fixed Income
6 369 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
7 294 (2.81%) Management Information System
8 293 (2.80%) Equities
9 283 (2.70%) Derivative
10 282 (2.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 259 (2.47%) Algorithms
12 252 (2.40%) Embedded Systems
13 232 (2.21%) Hedge funds
14 199 (1.90%) Mobile App
15 183 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
15 183 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
16 161 (1.54%) Onboarding
17 150 (1.43%) Public Cloud
18 126 (1.20%) Virtual Team
19 123 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1,220 (11.64%) Linux
2 544 (5.19%) Android
3 307 (2.93%) Unix
4 278 (2.65%) Windows
5 110 (1.05%) Apple iOS
6 58 (0.55%) Windows Server
7 30 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
8 21 (0.20%) zOS
9 16 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (0.13%) VMS
11 11 (0.10%) Windows 10
12 10 (0.095%) Ubuntu
12 10 (0.095%) Windows Vista
13 6 (0.057%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
14 5 (0.048%) AIX
15 3 (0.029%) Debian
15 3 (0.029%) Solaris
16 2 (0.019%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.019%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,601 (24.82%) Software Engineering
2 2,428 (23.17%) CI/CD
3 2,282 (21.78%) DevOps
4 2,117 (20.20%) Mentoring
5 1,836 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
6 1,585 (15.13%) Roadmaps
7 1,438 (13.72%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,382 (13.19%) SDLC
9 1,242 (11.85%) Scrum
10 1,231 (11.75%) Microservices
11 1,144 (10.92%) Artificial Intelligence
12 1,120 (10.69%) Stakeholder Management
13 1,066 (10.17%) Test Automation
14 1,044 (9.96%) Project Management
15 974 (9.29%) Containerisation
16 958 (9.14%) User Experience
17 926 (8.84%) Machine Learning
18 906 (8.65%) Coaching
19 902 (8.61%) Analytics
20 882 (8.42%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2,528 (24.12%) Python
2 2,517 (24.02%) Java
3 1,914 (18.27%) JavaScript
4 1,580 (15.08%) SQL
5 1,140 (10.88%) TypeScript
6 1,009 (9.63%) Go
7 872 (8.32%) C++
8 860 (8.21%) C#
9 665 (6.35%) MATLAB
10 310 (2.96%) Rust
11 291 (2.78%) Bash
12 205 (1.96%) PowerShell
13 161 (1.54%) PHP
14 138 (1.32%) C
15 86 (0.82%) Ada
16 75 (0.72%) R
17 63 (0.60%) Ada 95
17 63 (0.60%) Kotlin
17 63 (0.60%) Shell Script
18 50 (0.48%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 2,249 (21.46%) Degree
2 1,353 (12.91%) BPSS Clearance
3 1,195 (11.40%) Security Cleared
4 803 (7.66%) DV Cleared
5 594 (5.67%) AWS Certification
6 436 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 375 (3.58%) SC Cleared
8 254 (2.42%) Chartered Engineer
9 246 (2.35%) PhD
10 216 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 200 (1.91%) PMI Certification
12 185 (1.77%) AWS Certified Developer
13 180 (1.72%) Master's Degree
14 178 (1.70%) DBS Check
15 171 (1.63%) Azure Certification
16 158 (1.51%) PMP
17 104 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
18 103 (0.98%) ACCA
19 95 (0.91%) CISSP
20 89 (0.85%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 745 (7.11%) QA
2 422 (4.03%) Accessibility
3 214 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 153 (1.46%) Data Quality
5 144 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 133 (1.27%) GDPR
7 103 (0.98%) PMO
8 72 (0.69%) NIST
9 66 (0.63%) IFRS
10 58 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 58 (0.55%) SLA
11 56 (0.53%) GAAP
12 51 (0.49%) ITGC
13 41 (0.39%) SOC 2
14 38 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
15 36 (0.34%) MiFID
15 36 (0.34%) WCAG
16 35 (0.33%) NCSC
17 32 (0.31%) PCI DSS
18 28 (0.27%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1,572 (15.00%) Docker
2 106 (1.01%) Active Directory
3 66 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
4 59 (0.56%) Firmware
5 56 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
6 37 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
7 22 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 17 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.11%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.076%) Apache Flume
10 8 (0.076%) 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 1,210 (11.55%) Kubernetes
2 822 (7.84%) Ansible
3 693 (6.61%) Terraform
4 280 (2.67%) Prometheus
5 230 (2.19%) Argo
6 217 (2.07%) Kustomize
7 87 (0.83%) Grafana
8 51 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
8 51 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
9 36 (0.34%) Kibana
10 31 (0.30%) Progress Chef
11 29 (0.28%) SCCM
12 26 (0.25%) Puppet
13 24 (0.23%) WMI
14 10 (0.095%) Nessus
15 8 (0.076%) CASB
15 8 (0.076%) Mesos
15 8 (0.076%) Oozie
15 8 (0.076%) SCOM
16 7 (0.067%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,238 (11.81%) Microsoft
2 576 (5.50%) Google
3 379 (3.62%) Oracle
4 319 (3.04%) SAP
5 286 (2.73%) Salesforce
6 251 (2.40%) Solace
7 207 (1.98%) Databricks
8 199 (1.90%) Siemens
9 171 (1.63%) IBM
10 142 (1.36%) ServiceNow
11 103 (0.98%) VMware
12 85 (0.81%) Red Hat
13 82 (0.78%) Atlassian
14 81 (0.77%) Adobe
15 79 (0.75%) Splunk
16 73 (0.70%) Sparx
17 59 (0.56%) Workday
18 55 (0.52%) Cisco
19 51 (0.49%) BISAM
20 50 (0.48%) MathWorks