Agile Software Development
UK

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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 19,571 32,444 51,702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.13% 30.46% 33.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.35% 31.84% 35.36%
Number of salaries quoted 11,656 17,487 26,277
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,965 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.62% +8.23% +8.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83,814 101,905 146,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 95.67% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 59,590 59,680 83,719
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +9.38%

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 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Agile in the UK

Agile
Top 18 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 19 April 2024. 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 15,492 £62,500 -7.41% 3,350
UK excluding London 0 14,001 £57,965 -2.62% 2,299
Work from Home -1 8,670 £61,206 -5.84% 1,927
London -2 4,836 £77,500 -3.13% 1,254
North of England -1 3,470 £57,965 -2.62% 606
Scotland -1 3,029 £60,000 -2.37% 213
South East 0 2,868 £60,000 -4.00% 502
North West -1 1,945 £60,000 +0.80% 389
Midlands -3 1,788 £55,000 -1.79% 377
South West -2 1,648 £59,556 +3.78% 335
Yorkshire -1 1,140 £57,965 -3.39% 169
West Midlands -4 1,095 £57,500 +2.68% 242
East of England -5 742 £57,500 -4.17% 216
East Midlands -2 681 £52,500 -4.55% 135
North East +1 385 £52,500 -4.55% 56
Wales -2 332 £52,500 -4.34% 77
Northern Ireland -2 132 £60,000 +14.29% 37
Isle of Man - 5 £54,000 - 2

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
1 741 (3.79%) Apache Spark
2 491 (2.51%) Confluence
3 475 (2.43%) Apache
4 403 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
5 387 (1.98%) SharePoint
6 345 (1.76%) SAS
7 339 (1.73%) ArcGIS
8 333 (1.70%) GeoServer
9 131 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
10 127 (0.65%) CMS
11 121 (0.62%) FileNet
12 67 (0.34%) IIS
13 61 (0.31%) OpenStack
14 51 (0.26%) WordPress
15 47 (0.24%) WebLogic
16 44 (0.22%) JBoss
17 41 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
17 41 (0.21%) WebSphere
18 37 (0.19%) Tuxedo
19 34 (0.17%) nginx
Applications
1 796 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 296 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
3 178 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 142 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
5 98 (0.50%) MS Visio
6 75 (0.38%) AutoCAD
7 54 (0.28%) Simulink
8 44 (0.22%) Adobe XD
9 42 (0.21%) Sketch
10 35 (0.18%) UserZoom
11 34 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
12 33 (0.17%) Photoshop
13 23 (0.12%) Trello
14 22 (0.11%) Stateflow
15 18 (0.092%) Revit
16 17 (0.087%) InVision
17 12 (0.061%) InDesign
18 8 (0.041%) Adobe Illustrator
19 7 (0.036%) CANalyzer
20 6 (0.031%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 310 (1.58%) SAP ERP
2 243 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 73 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 62 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
5 52 (0.27%) NetSuite
6 42 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
7 37 (0.19%) Siebel CRM
8 32 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
9 22 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
10 20 (0.10%) Magento
11 19 (0.097%) NEC Housing
11 19 (0.097%) SAP Oil and Gas
12 18 (0.092%) SAP CX
12 18 (0.092%) Shopify
13 16 (0.082%) SAP GTS
14 15 (0.077%) Primavera
15 14 (0.072%) Aladdin
15 14 (0.072%) Dynamics AX
15 14 (0.072%) Payment Gateway
16 13 (0.066%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 5,330 (27.23%) Azure
2 4,770 (24.37%) AWS
3 1,507 (7.70%) GCP
4 1,169 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
5 1,071 (5.47%) Power Platform
6 746 (3.81%) SaaS
7 634 (3.24%) Serverless
8 517 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
9 486 (2.48%) GitHub
10 455 (2.32%) Dynamics 365
11 333 (1.70%) PowerApps
12 329 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
13 303 (1.55%) Amazon S3
14 297 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
15 285 (1.46%) Power Automate
16 257 (1.31%) PaaS
17 218 (1.11%) dbt
18 216 (1.10%) Snowflake
19 214 (1.09%) Amazon ECS
20 207 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 823 (4.21%) Broadband
2 306 (1.56%) Firewall
3 285 (1.46%) DNS
4 245 (1.25%) Internet
5 220 (1.12%) TCP/IP
6 161 (0.82%) WAN
7 151 (0.77%) VPN
8 150 (0.77%) Network Security
9 140 (0.72%) DHCP
10 132 (0.67%) LAN
11 127 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
12 126 (0.64%) Wireless
13 82 (0.42%) Kerberos
14 81 (0.41%) HTTP
14 81 (0.41%) Intranet
15 75 (0.38%) SSL
16 66 (0.34%) BGP
17 49 (0.25%) Bluetooth
18 47 (0.24%) SAN
19 43 (0.22%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,787 (9.13%) SQL Server
2 1,218 (6.22%) NoSQL
3 859 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
4 723 (3.69%) Big Data
5 715 (3.65%) Power BI
6 626 (3.20%) MongoDB
7 527 (2.69%) Relational Database
8 507 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
9 491 (2.51%) MySQL
10 481 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
11 400 (2.04%) Data Lake
12 397 (2.03%) BigQuery
13 354 (1.81%) GIS
14 335 (1.71%) Hadoop
15 330 (1.69%) QGIS
16 308 (1.57%) Looker
17 265 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
18 251 (1.28%) Apache Ignite
19 235 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
20 210 (1.07%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1,643 (8.40%) Git
2 1,358 (6.94%) JIRA
3 949 (4.85%) Jenkins
4 394 (2.01%) Selenium
5 352 (1.80%) JUnit
6 349 (1.78%) GitLab
7 307 (1.57%) Visual Studio
8 285 (1.46%) Cypress.io
9 188 (0.96%) Bitbucket
10 186 (0.95%) Cucumber
11 147 (0.75%) Jasmine
12 145 (0.74%) Maven
13 131 (0.67%) WebDriver
14 129 (0.66%) TeamCity
15 127 (0.65%) Postman
16 126 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
17 110 (0.56%) Artifactory
18 101 (0.52%) JMeter
19 96 (0.49%) Bitbucket Server
20 92 (0.47%) NUnit
General
1 6,846 (34.98%) Finance
2 5,267 (26.91%) Social Skills
3 3,467 (17.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2,690 (13.74%) Law
5 2,343 (11.97%) Analytical Skills
6 1,827 (9.34%) Marketing
7 1,665 (8.51%) Banking
8 1,313 (6.71%) Legal
9 998 (5.10%) Public Sector
10 911 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
11 809 (4.13%) Retail
12 607 (3.10%) Investment Banking
13 585 (2.99%) Front Office
14 545 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
15 371 (1.90%) Aerospace
16 316 (1.61%) Financial Institution
17 265 (1.35%) Manufacturing
18 262 (1.34%) Games
19 246 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
20 228 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4,347 (22.21%) Developer
2 3,639 (18.59%) Software Engineer
3 3,612 (18.46%) Senior
4 2,562 (13.09%) Lead
5 1,757 (8.98%) Analyst
6 1,559 (7.97%) Architect
7 1,403 (7.17%) .NET Developer
8 1,323 (6.76%) Project Manager
9 975 (4.98%) Java Engineer
10 913 (4.67%) Java Software Engineer
11 907 (4.63%) Senior Developer
12 865 (4.42%) Senior Software Engineer
13 862 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
14 792 (4.05%) Lead Software Engineer
15 683 (3.49%) Data Engineer
16 660 (3.37%) Business Analyst
17 597 (3.05%) C# Developer
18 586 (2.99%) Software Developer
19 536 (2.74%) Full Stack Engineer
20 531 (2.71%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,304 (16.88%) .NET
2 2,552 (13.04%) React
3 1,944 (9.93%) AngularJS
4 1,742 (8.90%) HTML
5 1,695 (8.66%) CSS
6 1,534 (7.84%) .NET Core
7 1,353 (6.91%) ASP.NET
8 1,172 (5.99%) Spring
9 1,009 (5.16%) Node.js
10 981 (5.01%) RESTful
11 920 (4.70%) REST
12 877 (4.48%) .NET Framework
13 819 (4.18%) ASP.NET MVC
14 809 (4.13%) ASP.NET Web API
15 801 (4.09%) Vue
16 743 (3.80%) Spring Boot
17 733 (3.75%) Entity Framework
18 718 (3.67%) Kafka
19 656 (3.35%) HTML5
19 656 (3.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1,458 (7.45%) Product Ownership
2 1,157 (5.91%) Cloud Native
3 1,099 (5.62%) Algorithms
4 648 (3.31%) Public Cloud
5 626 (3.20%) Management Information System
6 556 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
7 499 (2.55%) Data Structures
8 488 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
9 444 (2.27%) Fixed Income
10 402 (2.05%) Hedge funds
11 390 (1.99%) Onboarding
12 340 (1.74%) Derivative
13 339 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
14 324 (1.66%) Equities
15 323 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 301 (1.54%) Mobile App
17 220 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
18 201 (1.03%) Private Cloud
19 199 (1.02%) Blockchain
20 195 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,228 (6.27%) Linux
2 807 (4.12%) Windows
3 353 (1.80%) Android
4 313 (1.60%) Unix
5 282 (1.44%) Apple iOS
6 171 (0.87%) Windows Server
7 152 (0.78%) Ubuntu
8 120 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 61 (0.31%) Windows 10
10 53 (0.27%) CentOS
11 48 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
12 47 (0.24%) VMS
13 37 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
14 34 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
15 29 (0.15%) Debian
16 27 (0.14%) Mac OS
17 16 (0.082%) zOS
18 12 (0.061%) Solaris
19 10 (0.051%) Windows 7
19 10 (0.051%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,333 (27.25%) Software Engineering
2 3,955 (20.21%) DevOps
3 3,771 (19.27%) CI/CD
4 3,449 (17.62%) SDLC
5 3,226 (16.48%) Mentoring
6 3,203 (16.37%) Scrum
7 3,110 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
8 2,543 (12.99%) Project Management
9 2,421 (12.37%) Full Stack Development
10 2,274 (11.62%) Microservices
11 2,241 (11.45%) Artificial Intelligence
12 2,210 (11.29%) Roadmaps
13 2,160 (11.04%) Continuous Improvement
14 2,007 (10.25%) Actionable Insight
15 1,905 (9.73%) Coaching
16 1,891 (9.66%) Decision-Making
17 1,878 (9.60%) Machine Learning
18 1,776 (9.07%) TDD
19 1,750 (8.94%) Operational Stability
20 1,558 (7.96%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3,804 (19.44%) JavaScript
2 3,781 (19.32%) SQL
3 3,547 (18.12%) Java
4 3,494 (17.85%) C#
5 3,272 (16.72%) Python
6 1,712 (8.75%) TypeScript
7 439 (2.24%) Scala
8 409 (2.09%) PHP
9 361 (1.84%) C
10 358 (1.83%) C++
11 356 (1.82%) PowerShell
12 332 (1.70%) Go
13 286 (1.46%) T-SQL
14 247 (1.26%) Kotlin
15 203 (1.04%) PL/SQL
16 185 (0.95%) Bash
17 150 (0.77%) Ruby
18 146 (0.75%) R
19 102 (0.52%) Groovy
19 102 (0.52%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 2,697 (13.78%) Degree
2 2,326 (11.88%) Security Cleared
3 1,566 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 657 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 534 (2.73%) DV Cleared
6 479 (2.45%) ACCA
7 471 (2.41%) CIMA
8 322 (1.65%) Master's Degree
9 280 (1.43%) PMI Certification
10 226 (1.15%) PMP
11 221 (1.13%) AWS Certification
12 197 (1.01%) Azure Certification
13 175 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
14 146 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
15 145 (0.74%) DBS Check
16 115 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 115 (0.59%) HNC
17 111 (0.57%) HND
18 99 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 90 (0.46%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1,141 (5.83%) QA
2 386 (1.97%) Accessibility
3 375 (1.92%) Data Quality
4 332 (1.70%) GDPR
5 270 (1.38%) PMO
6 136 (0.69%) SLA
7 109 (0.56%) WCAG
8 92 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 78 (0.40%) NIST
10 70 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
11 41 (0.21%) ISO 9001
12 30 (0.15%) PCI DSS
13 29 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
13 29 (0.15%) MISRA
14 27 (0.14%) NCSC
15 26 (0.13%) NIST 800
16 23 (0.12%) GRC
17 21 (0.11%) ITGC
18 20 (0.10%) AUTOSAR
18 20 (0.10%) IFRS
System Software
1 1,385 (7.08%) Docker
2 385 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 182 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 116 (0.59%) HDFS
5 89 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 79 (0.40%) Firmware
7 66 (0.34%) vSphere
8 62 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
9 60 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
10 58 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
11 23 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
11 23 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
12 16 (0.082%) VMware NSX
13 13 (0.066%) Time Sharing Option
14 9 (0.046%) KVM
14 9 (0.046%) Terminal Services
15 7 (0.036%) Microsoft App-V
16 6 (0.031%) DFS Replication
17 5 (0.026%) SRDF
18 4 (0.020%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1,627 (8.31%) Kubernetes
2 1,177 (6.01%) Terraform
3 523 (2.67%) Ansible
4 242 (1.24%) Grafana
5 175 (0.89%) Prometheus
6 127 (0.65%) Puppet
7 96 (0.49%) Progress Chef
8 75 (0.38%) SCCM
9 73 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
10 62 (0.32%) Kibana
11 39 (0.20%) WSUS
12 37 (0.19%) SCOM
13 35 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 32 (0.16%) HAProxy
15 30 (0.15%) vCenter Server
16 29 (0.15%) ZABBIX
17 26 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
18 24 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
19 21 (0.11%) Packer
19 21 (0.11%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 3,459 (17.67%) Microsoft
2 1,193 (6.10%) Oracle
3 948 (4.84%) Google
4 644 (3.29%) SAP
5 453 (2.31%) Databricks
6 338 (1.73%) ESRI
7 317 (1.62%) Salesforce
8 303 (1.55%) Anaplan
9 300 (1.53%) Hyperion
10 273 (1.39%) IBM
11 229 (1.17%) Splunk
12 228 (1.16%) ServiceNow
13 226 (1.15%) Dynatrace
14 213 (1.09%) VMware
15 210 (1.07%) Red Hat
16 160 (0.82%) Atlassian
17 159 (0.81%) Informatica
18 128 (0.65%) Adobe
19 127 (0.65%) Cisco
20 107 (0.55%) Facebook