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 25 May 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Agile Software DevelopmentUK
6 months to 25 May 2022
Same period 2021
Same period 2020
Rank
1
1
1
Rank change year-on-year
0
0
0
Permanent jobs citing Agile
57,262
26,858
27,160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK
34.86%
29.13%
29.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category
36.68%
31.18%
31.68%
Number of salaries quoted
26,232
20,526
21,569
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
156,116
86,136
85,734
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK
95.04%
93.41%
92.89%
Number of salaries quoted
81,833
64,007
68,913
10th Percentile
£34,000
£32,500
£31,250
25th Percentile
£44,750
£41,250
£40,250
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 25 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 25 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
47,775
£65,000
+8.33%
3,704
London
0
26,792
£75,000
+3.45%
1,614
Work from Home
+1
26,081
£62,500
+8.70%
1,711
UK excluding London
0
22,877
£55,000
+10.00%
2,326
South East
+1
6,542
£60,000
+9.09%
516
North of England
0
6,190
£55,000
+10.00%
649
Midlands
0
3,405
£53,300
+6.60%
389
North West
0
3,312
£55,000
+10.00%
369
South West
0
2,697
£53,112
+6.22%
268
Yorkshire
0
2,521
£55,000
+10.00%
205
West Midlands
0
2,482
£53,654
+5.20%
253
Scotland
0
1,908
£57,500
+15.00%
205
East of England
-2
1,510
£57,500
+4.55%
237
East Midlands
+1
908
£52,500
+5.00%
133
Wales
0
703
£50,000
+5.26%
46
North East
0
367
£52,500
+9.38%
77
Northern Ireland
+1
186
£51,500
+15.73%
22
For the 6 months to 25 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
15,730 (27.47%)
AWS
2
15,377 (26.85%)
Finance
3
14,934 (26.08%)
JavaScript
4
14,751 (25.76%)
Social Skills
5
14,704 (25.68%)
DevOps
6
14,208 (24.81%)
Software Engineering
7
13,955 (24.37%)
Scrum
8
13,802 (24.10%)
Azure
9
12,721 (22.22%)
Java
10
12,290 (21.46%)
CI/CD
11
11,553 (20.18%)
React
12
11,464 (20.02%)
Python
13
11,282 (19.70%)
SQL
14
10,222 (17.85%)
Docker
15
9,727 (16.99%)
Git (software)
16
9,342 (16.31%)
Test Automation
17
9,261 (16.17%)
Kubernetes
18
9,236 (16.13%)
Problem-Solving
19
9,168 (16.01%)
C#
20
9,019 (15.75%)
Microservices
21
8,997 (15.71%)
TDD
22
8,497 (14.84%)
.NET
23
8,339 (14.56%)
Mentoring
24
7,840 (13.69%)
Degree
25
7,033 (12.28%)
User Experience
26
6,970 (12.17%)
HTML
27
6,946 (12.13%)
CSS
28
6,899 (12.05%)
Microsoft
29
6,866 (11.99%)
Full Stack Development
30
6,697 (11.70%)
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
15,730 (27.47%)
AWS
2
13,802 (24.10%)
Azure
3
5,870 (10.25%)
GCP
4
4,611 (8.05%)
Serverless
5
4,413 (7.71%)
SaaS
6
3,385 (5.91%)
GitHub
7
2,154 (3.76%)
AWS Lambda
8
1,956 (3.42%)
Power Platform
9
1,467 (2.56%)
PaaS
10
1,275 (2.23%)
Amazon S3
11
1,209 (2.11%)
Cloud Computing
12
1,195 (2.09%)
AWS CloudFormation
13
980 (1.71%)
Amazon EC2
14
970 (1.69%)
Microsoft 365
15
954 (1.67%)
Figma
16
948 (1.66%)
OpenShift
17
760 (1.33%)
IaaS
18
704 (1.23%)
npm
19
697 (1.22%)
Amazon ECS
20
677 (1.18%)
Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1
4,397 (7.68%)
SQL Server
2
3,897 (6.81%)
NoSQL
3
3,873 (6.76%)
PostgreSQL
4
3,340 (5.83%)
MySQL
5
3,296 (5.76%)
Relational Database
6
2,423 (4.23%)
MongoDB
7
2,274 (3.97%)
Big Data
8
1,526 (2.66%)
Data Warehouse
9
1,497 (2.61%)
Power BI
10
1,410 (2.46%)
Redis
11
1,078 (1.88%)
Data Lake
12
935 (1.63%)
Amazon DynamoDB
13
922 (1.61%)
Hadoop
14
828 (1.45%)
Tableau
15
820 (1.43%)
Apache Cassandra
16
736 (1.29%)
BigQuery
17
672 (1.17%)
SQL Server Integration Services
18
630 (1.10%)
RDBMS
19
567 (0.99%)
Amazon RDS
20
487 (0.85%)
Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1
9,727 (16.99%)
Git (software)
2
5,934 (10.36%)
JIRA
3
5,366 (9.37%)
Jenkins
4
2,339 (4.08%)
Selenium
5
1,550 (2.71%)
Cypress.io
6
1,533 (2.68%)
GitLab
7
1,381 (2.41%)
Maven
8
1,320 (2.31%)
Cucumber
9
1,213 (2.12%)
JUnit
10
1,100 (1.92%)
webpack
11
1,042 (1.82%)
Postman
12
924 (1.61%)
Gradle
13
918 (1.60%)
Bitbucket
14
863 (1.51%)
TeamCity
15
780 (1.36%)
CircleCI
16
764 (1.33%)
Visual Studio
17
724 (1.26%)
Subversion
18
660 (1.15%)
Team Foundation Server
19
642 (1.12%)
JMeter
20
626 (1.09%)
SpecFlow
General
1
15,377 (26.85%)
Finance
2
14,751 (25.76%)
Social Skills
3
5,775 (10.09%)
Analytical Skills
4
4,091 (7.14%)
Banking
5
3,980 (6.95%)
Retail
6
3,933 (6.87%)
Marketing
7
3,862 (6.74%)
Inclusion and Diversity
8
3,040 (5.31%)
Public Sector
9
2,536 (4.43%)
Games
10
1,964 (3.43%)
Manufacturing
11
1,895 (3.31%)
Legal
12
1,524 (2.66%)
Presentation Skills
13
1,507 (2.63%)
Law
14
1,265 (2.21%)
Influencing Skills
15
1,192 (2.08%)
Organisational Skills
16
1,117 (1.95%)
Advertising
17
1,015 (1.77%)
Telecoms
18
1,013 (1.77%)
Automotive
19
759 (1.33%)
Publishing
20
730 (1.27%)
Front Office
Job Titles
1
16,264 (28.40%)
Developer
2
7,398 (12.92%)
Software Engineer
3
4,558 (7.96%)
Analyst
4
4,500 (7.86%)
Senior Developer
5
2,804 (4.90%)
Architect
6
2,463 (4.30%)
Senior Software Engineer
7
2,442 (4.26%)
Java Developer
8
2,347 (4.10%)
Project Manager
9
2,265 (3.96%)
Software Developer
10
2,238 (3.91%)
Business Analyst
11
2,094 (3.66%)
Full Stack Developer
12
2,042 (3.57%)
DevOps Engineer
13
1,919 (3.35%)
Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14
1,914 (3.34%)
.NET Developer
15
1,539 (2.69%)
Product Manager
16
1,518 (2.65%)
Java Engineer
17
1,513 (2.64%)
Data Engineer
18
1,313 (2.29%)
C# Developer
19
1,293 (2.26%)
Designer
20
1,261 (2.20%)
Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1
11,553 (20.18%)
React
2
8,497 (14.84%)
.NET
3
6,970 (12.17%)
HTML
4
6,946 (12.13%)
CSS
5
6,697 (11.70%)
Node.js
6
5,092 (8.89%)
AngularJS
7
4,615 (8.06%)
REST
8
4,186 (7.31%)
RESTful
9
3,745 (6.54%)
Spring
10
3,335 (5.82%)
Kafka
11
3,217 (5.62%)
.NET Core
12
2,652 (4.63%)
Web Services
13
2,629 (4.59%)
Vue.js
14
2,590 (4.52%)
HTML5
15
2,470 (4.31%)
ASP.NET
16
2,410 (4.21%)
Spring Boot
17
2,307 (4.03%)
GraphQL
18
2,081 (3.63%)
Redux
19
2,023 (3.53%)
JSON
20
2,001 (3.49%)
.NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1
7,033 (12.28%)
User Experience
2
2,586 (4.52%)
Mobile App
3
2,458 (4.29%)
Self-Motivation
4
2,451 (4.28%)
Cloud Native
5
2,084 (3.64%)
Algorithms
6
1,872 (3.27%)
Greenfield Project
7
1,643 (2.87%)
Data Structures
8
1,476 (2.58%)
Virtual Team
9
1,367 (2.39%)
Management Information System
10
1,318 (2.30%)
Enterprise Software
11
1,307 (2.28%)
Public Cloud
12
1,156 (2.02%)
Life Science
13
971 (1.70%)
Social Media
14
894 (1.56%)
Blockchain
15
818 (1.43%)
Blog
16
714 (1.25%)
IoT
17
629 (1.10%)
Legacy Systems
18
622 (1.09%)
Hedge funds
19
609 (1.06%)
Derivative
20
568 (0.99%)
NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1
14,704 (25.68%)
DevOps
2
14,208 (24.81%)
Software Engineering
3
13,955 (24.37%)
Scrum
4
12,290 (21.46%)
CI/CD
5
9,342 (16.31%)
Test Automation
6
9,236 (16.13%)
Problem-Solving
7
9,019 (15.75%)
Microservices
8
8,997 (15.71%)
TDD
9
8,339 (14.56%)
Mentoring
10
6,866 (11.99%)
Full Stack Development
11
6,501 (11.35%)
Analytics
12
6,297 (11.00%)
Continuous Integration
13
6,133 (10.71%)
Coaching
14
5,742 (10.03%)
SDLC
15
5,615 (9.81%)
Project Management
16
5,117 (8.94%)
Computer Science
17
4,850 (8.47%)
Continuous Improvement
18
4,594 (8.02%)
Stakeholder Management
19
4,475 (7.81%)
BDD
20
4,418 (7.72%)
Kanban
Programming Languages
1
14,934 (26.08%)
JavaScript
2
12,721 (22.22%)
Java
3
11,464 (20.02%)
Python
4
11,282 (19.70%)
SQL
5
9,168 (16.01%)
C#
6
6,204 (10.83%)
TypeScript
7
2,647 (4.62%)
PHP
8
2,337 (4.08%)
Go
9
2,012 (3.51%)
C
10
1,950 (3.41%)
C++
11
1,897 (3.31%)
Ruby
12
1,850 (3.23%)
Kotlin
13
1,822 (3.18%)
PowerShell
14
1,646 (2.87%)
Scala
15
1,594 (2.78%)
Bash
16
1,298 (2.27%)
T-SQL
17
1,087 (1.90%)
ES6
18
727 (1.27%)
Shell Script
19
713 (1.25%)
R
20
549 (0.96%)
Groovy