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 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 3 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 13,096 41,131 40,421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.54% 32.82% 31.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 26.09% 34.28% 32.74%
Number of salaries quoted 8,971 23,122 25,573
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,750 £38,250
25th Percentile £52,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +6.56% +1.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £58,752 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.12% +6.82% +10.00%

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 50,205 119,980 123,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.09% 95.73% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 36,305 73,101 82,277
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% +4.17%

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 December 2023.

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 2 December 2023. 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 11,115 £67,500 +1.50% 4,479
UK excluding London -1 7,903 £60,000 +2.12% 2,940
Work from Home 0 6,565 £65,351 +0.54% 2,634
London -2 4,374 £80,000 +3.23% 1,895
North of England 0 2,306 £60,000 +0.80% 763
South East -2 1,554 £60,000 - 717
South West -1 1,339 £61,000 +10.91% 374
North West 0 1,141 £60,000 +4.35% 448
Midlands -3 1,041 £55,000 - 487
Yorkshire 0 1,037 £63,000 +5.00% 234
Scotland -1 926 £65,351 +8.92% 236
West Midlands -4 645 £55,000 - 355
East Midlands -2 394 £55,000 - 130
Wales -2 319 £55,000 - 100
East of England -4 300 £55,000 -8.33% 274
Northern Ireland +1 151 £60,000 +14.29% 53
North East -1 127 £57,291 +4.16% 84
Channel Islands +7 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
1 472 (3.60%) Confluence
2 238 (1.82%) SharePoint
3 195 (1.49%) Apache
4 155 (1.18%) Apache Spark
5 122 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
6 108 (0.82%) JBoss
7 103 (0.79%) CMS
8 102 (0.78%) SAS
9 99 (0.76%) Red Hat Fuse
10 59 (0.45%) IIS
11 53 (0.40%) Tomcat
12 40 (0.31%) WebSphere
13 33 (0.25%) WordPress
14 31 (0.24%) Umbraco
15 25 (0.19%) nginx
16 24 (0.18%) Captiva
16 24 (0.18%) Drupal
16 24 (0.18%) MS Exchange
17 22 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
17 22 (0.17%) FileNet
Applications
1 259 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 250 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
3 126 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
4 106 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 87 (0.66%) MS Visio
6 31 (0.24%) Sketch
7 24 (0.18%) Trello
8 21 (0.16%) Adobe XD
9 11 (0.084%) Chatbot
10 10 (0.076%) Photoshop
11 9 (0.069%) InVision
12 8 (0.061%) CATIA
12 8 (0.061%) InDesign
12 8 (0.061%) Spreadsheet
13 7 (0.053%) Simulink
14 6 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 4 (0.031%) 3ds Max
15 4 (0.031%) Adobe Premiere
15 4 (0.031%) LibreOffice
15 4 (0.031%) Maya
Business Applications
1 433 (3.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 53 (0.40%) Endur
3 40 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 27 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
5 16 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
5 16 (0.12%) Siebel CRM
5 16 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 15 (0.11%) Magento
6 15 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 14 (0.11%) Cloudability
8 13 (0.099%) SAP SCM
8 13 (0.099%) Visualfiles
9 12 (0.092%) Oracle ERP
10 10 (0.076%) Dynamics GP
10 10 (0.076%) Dynamics NAV
10 10 (0.076%) NetSuite
10 10 (0.076%) Oracle Financials
10 10 (0.076%) SAP CRM
11 9 (0.069%) ProductWriter
11 9 (0.069%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 3,991 (30.47%) Azure
2 2,730 (20.85%) AWS
3 1,461 (11.16%) GCP
4 1,264 (9.65%) Power Platform
5 1,183 (9.03%) Azure DevOps
6 1,020 (7.79%) SaaS
7 746 (5.70%) Serverless
8 743 (5.67%) PaaS
9 730 (5.57%) Dynamics 365
10 608 (4.64%) IaaS
11 529 (4.04%) GitHub
12 368 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
13 323 (2.47%) Azure Functions
14 234 (1.79%) OpenShift
15 226 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
16 196 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
16 196 (1.50%) PowerApps
17 175 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
18 146 (1.11%) Amazon S3
19 132 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 228 (1.74%) Firewall
2 221 (1.69%) DNS
3 147 (1.12%) VPN
4 146 (1.11%) DHCP
5 127 (0.97%) HTTP
6 120 (0.92%) TCP/IP
7 118 (0.90%) Internet
8 101 (0.77%) WAN
9 69 (0.53%) SAN
10 68 (0.52%) Network Security
11 66 (0.50%) LAN
12 51 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
13 40 (0.31%) SD-WAN
14 34 (0.26%) VLAN
15 31 (0.24%) AMQP
15 31 (0.24%) Wireless
16 30 (0.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 30 (0.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 30 (0.23%) MPLS
17 29 (0.22%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 955 (7.29%) SQL Server
2 686 (5.24%) Power BI
3 493 (3.76%) NoSQL
4 444 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
5 414 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
6 398 (3.04%) Relational Database
7 391 (2.99%) MySQL
8 308 (2.35%) Data Lake
9 302 (2.31%) MongoDB
10 276 (2.11%) Big Data
11 181 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 174 (1.33%) Tableau
13 171 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
14 144 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 140 (1.07%) Hadoop
16 136 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
17 121 (0.92%) RDBMS
18 116 (0.89%) Metadata
19 111 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
20 110 (0.84%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1,108 (8.46%) Git
2 1,031 (7.87%) JIRA
3 822 (6.28%) Jenkins
4 378 (2.89%) Selenium
5 240 (1.83%) Cucumber
5 240 (1.83%) GitLab
6 226 (1.73%) Cypress.io
7 162 (1.24%) Maven
8 128 (0.98%) Postman
9 127 (0.97%) Bitbucket
10 126 (0.96%) JUnit
11 114 (0.87%) IntelliJ
12 110 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
12 110 (0.84%) Visual Studio
13 100 (0.76%) SonarQube
14 87 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
15 86 (0.66%) TeamCity
16 85 (0.65%) SoapUI
17 79 (0.60%) JMeter
18 76 (0.58%) Artifactory
General
1 4,645 (35.47%) Finance
2 3,305 (25.24%) Social Skills
3 1,906 (14.55%) Banking
4 1,242 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
5 996 (7.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 964 (7.36%) Retail
7 678 (5.18%) Public Sector
8 538 (4.11%) Marketing
9 474 (3.62%) Presentation Skills
10 430 (3.28%) Front Office
11 345 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
12 303 (2.31%) Legal
13 280 (2.14%) Law
14 257 (1.96%) Telecoms
15 249 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
16 203 (1.55%) Manufacturing
17 187 (1.43%) Aerospace
18 173 (1.32%) Games
19 162 (1.24%) Investment Banking
20 119 (0.91%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2,728 (20.83%) Developer
2 2,314 (17.67%) Senior
3 2,176 (16.62%) Architect
4 1,272 (9.71%) Software Engineer
5 1,171 (8.94%) Lead
6 1,129 (8.62%) Analyst
7 1,062 (8.11%) Solutions Architect
8 790 (6.03%) Project Manager
9 612 (4.67%) Senior Developer
10 608 (4.64%) DevOps Engineer
11 551 (4.21%) Business Analyst
12 485 (3.70%) .NET Developer
13 464 (3.54%) Java Developer
14 449 (3.43%) Enterprise Architect
15 416 (3.18%) Dynamics 365 Architect
16 373 (2.85%) Full Stack Developer
17 348 (2.66%) Software Developer
18 304 (2.32%) Senior Software Engineer
19 295 (2.25%) IT Manager
20 287 (2.19%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,635 (12.48%) .NET
2 1,249 (9.54%) React
3 1,036 (7.91%) HTML
4 919 (7.02%) CSS
5 896 (6.84%) AngularJS
6 745 (5.69%) REST
7 653 (4.99%) Node.js
8 588 (4.49%) RESTful
9 571 (4.36%) Spring
10 484 (3.70%) Web Services
11 480 (3.67%) .NET Core
12 475 (3.63%) Kafka
13 474 (3.62%) JSON
14 415 (3.17%) ASP.NET
15 413 (3.15%) .NET Framework
16 350 (2.67%) Spring Boot
17 336 (2.57%) XML
18 326 (2.49%) SOAP
19 299 (2.28%) Middleware
20 245 (1.87%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1,140 (8.70%) Product Ownership
2 616 (4.70%) Public Cloud
3 532 (4.06%) Cloud Native
4 375 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 360 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
6 298 (2.28%) Virtual Team
7 268 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
8 238 (1.82%) Fixed Income
9 230 (1.76%) Mobile App
9 230 (1.76%) Private Cloud
10 226 (1.73%) Data Structures
11 216 (1.65%) Derivative
12 209 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
13 162 (1.24%) Mainframe
14 160 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 158 (1.21%) Hedge funds
16 152 (1.16%) Onboarding
17 149 (1.14%) Blockchain
18 144 (1.10%) Algorithms
18 144 (1.10%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 838 (6.40%) Linux
2 660 (5.04%) Windows
3 315 (2.41%) Unix
4 199 (1.52%) Android
5 178 (1.36%) Windows Server
6 139 (1.06%) Apple iOS
7 115 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 59 (0.45%) Windows 10
9 57 (0.44%) Ubuntu
10 28 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
11 27 (0.21%) Mac OS
12 24 (0.18%) VMS
13 23 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
14 22 (0.17%) Windows 7
14 22 (0.17%) zOS
15 20 (0.15%) Solaris
16 17 (0.13%) CentOS
17 13 (0.099%) AIX
18 12 (0.092%) HPUX
19 8 (0.061%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,423 (26.14%) DevOps
2 2,454 (18.74%) Software Engineering
3 2,345 (17.91%) Scrum
4 2,152 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
5 1,905 (14.55%) Roadmaps
6 1,881 (14.36%) CI/CD
7 1,708 (13.04%) Mentoring
8 1,578 (12.05%) Project Management
9 1,562 (11.93%) Actionable Insight
10 1,449 (11.06%) Microservices
11 1,312 (10.02%) SDLC
12 1,309 (10.00%) Analytics
13 1,114 (8.51%) Test Automation
14 1,110 (8.48%) Waterfall
15 1,102 (8.41%) Project Delivery
16 1,075 (8.21%) Stakeholder Management
17 955 (7.29%) TDD
18 923 (7.05%) Coaching
19 911 (6.96%) Continuous Improvement
20 881 (6.73%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2,321 (17.72%) SQL
2 2,181 (16.65%) Java
3 2,026 (15.47%) JavaScript
4 1,955 (14.93%) Python
5 1,782 (13.61%) C#
6 935 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 595 (4.54%) PowerShell
8 343 (2.62%) Bash
9 289 (2.21%) C++
10 272 (2.08%) PL/SQL
11 216 (1.65%) PHP
12 212 (1.62%) Go
13 207 (1.58%) T-SQL
14 162 (1.24%) C
15 148 (1.13%) Ruby
16 139 (1.06%) Kotlin
17 121 (0.92%) Scala
18 119 (0.91%) Groovy
19 111 (0.85%) VB
20 108 (0.82%) R
Qualifications
1 1,702 (13.00%) Degree
2 1,584 (12.10%) Security Cleared
3 1,097 (8.38%) SC Cleared
4 516 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 433 (3.31%) DV Cleared
6 218 (1.66%) TOGAF Certification
7 174 (1.33%) AWS Certification
8 158 (1.21%) Master's Degree
9 142 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
10 134 (1.02%) Azure Certification
11 128 (0.98%) PMI Certification
12 105 (0.80%) PMP
13 100 (0.76%) ISTQB
14 98 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
15 66 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 65 (0.50%) ISEB
17 47 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
18 40 (0.31%) CISSP
19 38 (0.29%) DBS Check
20 33 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 849 (6.48%) QA
2 255 (1.95%) Data Quality
3 184 (1.41%) PMO
4 172 (1.31%) Accessibility
5 111 (0.85%) GDPR
6 75 (0.57%) SLA
7 66 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 64 (0.49%) WCAG
9 61 (0.47%) NIST
10 43 (0.33%) GRC
11 37 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
12 34 (0.26%) COBIT
13 32 (0.24%) PCI DSS
14 29 (0.22%) IFRS
15 28 (0.21%) SEPA
16 27 (0.21%) IFRS 9
17 21 (0.16%) ISO 9001
18 19 (0.15%) ISO 20022
19 18 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
19 18 (0.14%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1,265 (9.66%) Docker
2 294 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 198 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 76 (0.58%) Hyper-V
5 60 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 59 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
7 52 (0.40%) Firmware
8 45 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
9 36 (0.27%) vSphere
10 20 (0.15%) IAG
11 17 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
12 13 (0.099%) Embedded Firmware
13 11 (0.084%) Oracle RAC
14 9 (0.069%) HDFS
14 9 (0.069%) Terminal Server
15 8 (0.061%) BitLocker
16 7 (0.053%) Virtual Servers
17 5 (0.038%) KVM
18 4 (0.031%) Apache ZooKeeper
18 4 (0.031%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 1,454 (11.10%) Kubernetes
2 1,066 (8.14%) Terraform
3 588 (4.49%) Ansible
4 153 (1.17%) Puppet
5 101 (0.77%) Grafana
6 93 (0.71%) SCCM
7 84 (0.64%) Prometheus
8 79 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
9 75 (0.57%) Progress Chef
10 68 (0.52%) Istio
11 53 (0.40%) SCOM
12 48 (0.37%) Packer
13 47 (0.36%) WSUS
14 45 (0.34%) Rancher
15 42 (0.32%) Argo
15 42 (0.32%) Kibana
16 35 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 32 (0.24%) Nagios
18 27 (0.21%) HP Quality Center
19 24 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2,010 (15.35%) Microsoft
2 626 (4.78%) Google
3 583 (4.45%) Oracle
4 285 (2.18%) Salesforce
5 259 (1.98%) ServiceNow
6 245 (1.87%) VMware
7 242 (1.85%) SAP
8 161 (1.23%) NEC
9 145 (1.11%) IBM
10 131 (1.00%) Databricks
11 117 (0.89%) Atlassian
11 117 (0.89%) Splunk
12 90 (0.69%) Cisco
12 90 (0.69%) HP
13 86 (0.66%) Red Hat
14 70 (0.53%) Adobe
14 70 (0.53%) Dynatrace
15 67 (0.51%) New Relic
16 65 (0.50%) Citrix
17 59 (0.45%) Dell