The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 27 May 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Agile Software DevelopmentUK
6 months to 27 May 2022
Same period 2021
Same period 2020
Rank
1
1
1
Rank change year-on-year
0
0
0
Permanent jobs citing Agile
58,014
27,145
26,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK
34.93%
29.19%
29.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category
36.74%
31.23%
31.73%
Number of salaries quoted
26,466
20,621
21,305
10th Percentile
£40,000
£37,500
£35,000
25th Percentile
£47,500
£45,000
£42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile)
£62,500
£60,000
£57,500
Median % change year-on-year
+4.17%
+4.35%
+4.55%
75th Percentile
£82,500
£77,500
£75,000
90th Percentile
£97,500
£92,500
£92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary
£55,000
£50,000
£50,000
% change year-on-year
+10.00%
-
+1.34%
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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.
All Process and Methodology SkillsUK
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills
157,885
86,906
84,557
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK
95.07%
93.46%
92.91%
Number of salaries quoted
82,357
64,292
67,941
10th Percentile
£34,000
£32,500
£31,250
25th Percentile
£44,824
£41,250
£40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile)
£60,000
£55,000
£55,000
Median % change year-on-year
+9.09%
-
+4.76%
75th Percentile
£80,000
£75,000
£73,750
90th Percentile
£96,250
£90,000
£90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary
£52,500
£48,500
£47,500
% change year-on-year
+8.25%
+2.11%
+5.56%
Agile Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
Agile Salary Trend
3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Agile.
Agile Salary Histogram
Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile over the 6 months to 27 May 2022.
Agile Top 17 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 27 May 2022.
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
0
48,360
£65,000
+8.33%
3,886
London
0
27,170
£75,000
+3.45%
1,710
Work from Home
+1
26,473
£62,500
+8.70%
1,825
UK excluding London
0
23,097
£55,000
+10.00%
2,411
South East
+1
6,616
£60,000
+9.09%
546
North of England
0
6,253
£55,000
+10.00%
684
Midlands
0
3,416
£53,112
+6.22%
403
North West
0
3,330
£55,000
+10.00%
396
South West
0
2,717
£53,112
+6.22%
283
Yorkshire
0
2,558
£55,000
+10.00%
219
West Midlands
0
2,489
£53,300
+4.51%
259
Scotland
0
1,924
£57,500
+15.00%
201
East of England
-1
1,529
£57,500
+4.55%
237
East Midlands
+1
912
£52,500
+5.00%
143
Wales
0
710
£50,000
+5.26%
40
North East
0
374
£52,500
+9.38%
70
Northern Ireland
+1
190
£52,500
+17.98%
23
For the 6 months to 27 May 2022, IT jobs citing Agile also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for Agile.
1
15,941 (27.48%)
AWS
2
15,600 (26.89%)
Finance
3
15,128 (26.08%)
JavaScript
4
14,935 (25.74%)
Social Skills
5
14,879 (25.65%)
DevOps
6
14,419 (24.85%)
Software Engineering
7
14,141 (24.38%)
Scrum
8
13,954 (24.05%)
Azure
9
12,898 (22.23%)
Java
10
12,489 (21.53%)
CI/CD
11
11,718 (20.20%)
React
12
11,616 (20.02%)
Python
13
11,442 (19.72%)
SQL
14
10,371 (17.88%)
Docker
15
9,855 (16.99%)
Git (software)
16
9,484 (16.35%)
Test Automation
17
9,394 (16.19%)
Kubernetes
18
9,378 (16.17%)
Problem-Solving
19
9,253 (15.95%)
C#
20
9,125 (15.73%)
Microservices
21
9,112 (15.71%)
TDD
22
8,590 (14.81%)
.NET
23
8,448 (14.56%)
Mentoring
24
7,940 (13.69%)
Degree
25
7,122 (12.28%)
User Experience
26
7,032 (12.12%)
HTML
27
7,022 (12.10%)
CSS
28
6,972 (12.02%)
Microsoft
29
6,965 (12.01%)
Full Stack Development
30
6,795 (11.71%)
Node.js
Agile Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
Cloud Services
1
15,941 (27.48%)
AWS
2
13,954 (24.05%)
Azure
3
5,961 (10.28%)
GCP
4
4,671 (8.05%)
Serverless
5
4,462 (7.69%)
SaaS
6
3,420 (5.90%)
GitHub
7
2,191 (3.78%)
AWS Lambda
8
1,989 (3.43%)
Power Platform
9
1,480 (2.55%)
PaaS
10
1,301 (2.24%)
Amazon S3
11
1,227 (2.12%)
Cloud Computing
12
1,217 (2.10%)
AWS CloudFormation
13
999 (1.72%)
Amazon EC2
14
973 (1.68%)
Figma
15
972 (1.68%)
Microsoft 365
16
950 (1.64%)
OpenShift
17
767 (1.32%)
IaaS
18
713 (1.23%)
npm
19
711 (1.23%)
Amazon ECS
20
691 (1.19%)
Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1
4,433 (7.64%)
SQL Server
2
3,957 (6.82%)
NoSQL
3
3,913 (6.74%)
PostgreSQL
4
3,378 (5.82%)
MySQL
5
3,334 (5.75%)
Relational Database
6
2,455 (4.23%)
MongoDB
7
2,300 (3.96%)
Big Data
8
1,548 (2.67%)
Data Warehouse
9
1,527 (2.63%)
Power BI
10
1,430 (2.46%)
Redis
11
1,092 (1.88%)
Data Lake
12
948 (1.63%)
Amazon DynamoDB
13
940 (1.62%)
Hadoop
14
845 (1.46%)
Tableau
15
823 (1.42%)
Apache Cassandra
16
747 (1.29%)
BigQuery
17
678 (1.17%)
SQL Server Integration Services
18
636 (1.10%)
RDBMS
19
578 (1.00%)
Amazon RDS
20
491 (0.85%)
Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1
9,855 (16.99%)
Git (software)
2
6,022 (10.38%)
JIRA
3
5,455 (9.40%)
Jenkins
4
2,380 (4.10%)
Selenium
5
1,576 (2.72%)
Cypress.io
6
1,561 (2.69%)
GitLab
7
1,401 (2.41%)
Maven
8
1,344 (2.32%)
Cucumber
9
1,224 (2.11%)
JUnit
10
1,114 (1.92%)
webpack
11
1,061 (1.83%)
Postman
12
936 (1.61%)
Gradle
13
933 (1.61%)
Bitbucket
14
875 (1.51%)
TeamCity
15
793 (1.37%)
CircleCI
16
775 (1.34%)
Visual Studio
17
726 (1.25%)
Subversion
18
672 (1.16%)
Team Foundation Server
19
646 (1.11%)
JMeter
20
642 (1.11%)
SpecFlow
General
1
15,600 (26.89%)
Finance
2
14,935 (25.74%)
Social Skills
3
5,856 (10.09%)
Analytical Skills
4
4,151 (7.16%)
Banking
5
4,067 (7.01%)
Retail
6
3,991 (6.88%)
Marketing
7
3,918 (6.75%)
Inclusion and Diversity
8
3,077 (5.30%)
Public Sector
9
2,605 (4.49%)
Games
10
1,982 (3.42%)
Manufacturing
11
1,925 (3.32%)
Legal
12
1,543 (2.66%)
Presentation Skills
13
1,532 (2.64%)
Law
14
1,272 (2.19%)
Influencing Skills
15
1,205 (2.08%)
Organisational Skills
16
1,128 (1.94%)
Advertising
17
1,027 (1.77%)
Automotive
18
1,024 (1.77%)
Telecoms
19
767 (1.32%)
Publishing
20
754 (1.30%)
Front Office
Job Titles
1
16,467 (28.38%)
Developer
2
7,496 (12.92%)
Software Engineer
3
4,602 (7.93%)
Analyst
4
4,563 (7.87%)
Senior Developer
5
2,836 (4.89%)
Architect
6
2,498 (4.31%)
Senior Software Engineer
7
2,478 (4.27%)
Java Developer
8
2,366 (4.08%)
Project Manager
9
2,285 (3.94%)
Software Developer
10
2,259 (3.89%)
Business Analyst
11
2,119 (3.65%)
Full Stack Developer
12
2,076 (3.58%)
DevOps Engineer
13
1,936 (3.34%)
Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14
1,929 (3.33%)
.NET Developer
15
1,566 (2.70%)
Product Manager
16
1,550 (2.67%)
Java Engineer
17
1,530 (2.64%)
Data Engineer
18
1,332 (2.30%)
C# Developer
19
1,312 (2.26%)
Designer
20
1,285 (2.21%)
Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1
11,718 (20.20%)
React
2
8,590 (14.81%)
.NET
3
7,032 (12.12%)
HTML
4
7,022 (12.10%)
CSS
5
6,795 (11.71%)
Node.js
6
5,147 (8.87%)
AngularJS
7
4,710 (8.12%)
REST
8
4,237 (7.30%)
RESTful
9
3,801 (6.55%)
Spring
10
3,400 (5.86%)
Kafka
11
3,259 (5.62%)
.NET Core
12
2,705 (4.66%)
Web Services
13
2,663 (4.59%)
Vue.js
14
2,603 (4.49%)
HTML5
15
2,491 (4.29%)
ASP.NET
16
2,442 (4.21%)
Spring Boot
17
2,337 (4.03%)
GraphQL
18
2,121 (3.66%)
Redux
19
2,035 (3.51%)
JSON
20
2,011 (3.47%)
.NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1
7,122 (12.28%)
User Experience
2
2,637 (4.55%)
Mobile App
3
2,496 (4.30%)
Self-Motivation
4
2,487 (4.29%)
Cloud Native
5
2,107 (3.63%)
Algorithms
6
1,913 (3.30%)
Greenfield Project
7
1,663 (2.87%)
Data Structures
8
1,507 (2.60%)
Virtual Team
9
1,379 (2.38%)
Management Information System
10
1,331 (2.29%)
Enterprise Software
11
1,317 (2.27%)
Public Cloud
12
1,164 (2.01%)
Life Science
13
983 (1.69%)
Social Media
14
909 (1.57%)
Blockchain
15
831 (1.43%)
Blog
16
718 (1.24%)
IoT
17
642 (1.11%)
Legacy Systems
18
641 (1.10%)
Hedge funds
19
632 (1.09%)
Derivative
20
578 (1.00%)
Equities
Processes & Methodologies
1
14,879 (25.65%)
DevOps
2
14,419 (24.85%)
Software Engineering
3
14,141 (24.38%)
Scrum
4
12,489 (21.53%)
CI/CD
5
9,484 (16.35%)
Test Automation
6
9,378 (16.17%)
Problem-Solving
7
9,125 (15.73%)
Microservices
8
9,112 (15.71%)
TDD
9
8,448 (14.56%)
Mentoring
10
6,965 (12.01%)
Full Stack Development
11
6,602 (11.38%)
Analytics
12
6,385 (11.01%)
Continuous Integration
13
6,210 (10.70%)
Coaching
14
5,806 (10.01%)
SDLC
15
5,670 (9.77%)
Project Management
16
5,177 (8.92%)
Computer Science
17
4,915 (8.47%)
Continuous Improvement
18
4,625 (7.97%)
Stakeholder Management
19
4,536 (7.82%)
BDD
20
4,480 (7.72%)
Kanban
Programming Languages
1
15,128 (26.08%)
JavaScript
2
12,898 (22.23%)
Java
3
11,616 (20.02%)
Python
4
11,442 (19.72%)
SQL
5
9,253 (15.95%)
C#
6
6,280 (10.82%)
TypeScript
7
2,686 (4.63%)
PHP
8
2,382 (4.11%)
Go
9
2,028 (3.50%)
C
10
1,965 (3.39%)
C++
11
1,925 (3.32%)
Ruby
12
1,897 (3.27%)
Kotlin
13
1,839 (3.17%)
PowerShell
14
1,669 (2.88%)
Scala
15
1,634 (2.82%)
Bash
16
1,312 (2.26%)
T-SQL
17
1,102 (1.90%)
ES6
18
733 (1.26%)
Shell Script
19
732 (1.26%)
R
20
563 (0.97%)
Groovy