Agile Job Trends

Agile Software Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Agile skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 5 3
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 6,158 7,939 16,097
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 8.44% 18.11% 19.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.81% 19.34% 21.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,713 4,479 11,441
10th Percentile £41,925 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% +10.40% -4.58%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £99,750 £116,250 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year - +1.69% -1.67%

All Process & 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 56,972 41,045 73,238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.05% 93.61% 87.51%
Number of salaries quoted 34,330 22,188 55,854
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%
75th Percentile £77,419 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £94,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Agile relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Agile job vacancy trend in the UK

Agile
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Agile.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Agile

Agile
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

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 11 March 2026. 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 -9 5,347 £65,000 -7.14% 2,869
UK excluding London -18 3,536 £60,000 - 2,217
Work from Home -2 2,527 £63,076 -9.89% 1,850
London -5 2,052 £78,000 -8.24% 845
North of England -19 1,016 £62,500 +0.97% 518
South East -8 896 £60,000 -4.00% 698
Midlands -23 568 £59,000 -1.67% 309
North West -18 526 £62,500 +0.97% 280
Yorkshire -8 403 £62,500 -5.83% 166
South West -15 385 £57,500 -4.17% 302
West Midlands -20 376 £60,000 - 191
Scotland -6 314 £65,000 -3.70% 128
East of England -26 259 £55,000 -8.33% 243
East Midlands -9 191 £55,000 -8.33% 115
North East -12 87 £53,750 -2.27% 77
Wales -11 75 £57,508 +14.73% 53
Northern Ireland -2 44 £62,500 +5.17% 13
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 277 (4.50%) Confluence
2 140 (2.27%) SharePoint
3 88 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
4 78 (1.27%) Apache
5 66 (1.07%) Apache Spark
5 66 (1.07%) CMS
6 25 (0.41%) IIS
7 24 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
8 20 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 20 (0.32%) SAS
9 17 (0.28%) WordPress
10 15 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 11 (0.18%) nginx
12 8 (0.13%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
14 6 (0.097%) Anypoint
14 6 (0.097%) Appian
15 5 (0.081%) CICS
16 4 (0.065%) ArcGIS
16 4 (0.065%) Documentum
Applications
1 143 (2.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 93 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
3 84 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
4 80 (1.30%) MS Visio
5 57 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 50 (0.81%) Adobe XD
7 26 (0.42%) Sketch
8 21 (0.34%) Simulink
9 18 (0.29%) Chatbot
10 17 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
11 16 (0.26%) UserZoom
12 15 (0.24%) CATIA
13 13 (0.21%) InVision
13 13 (0.21%) Maya
14 12 (0.19%) Trello
15 8 (0.13%) Photoshop
16 7 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
17 5 (0.081%) Adobe Creative Suite
18 2 (0.032%) Avid Media Composer
18 2 (0.032%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 67 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 58 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 38 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
4 19 (0.31%) Workday HCM
5 17 (0.28%) Shopify
6 15 (0.24%) SAP ERP
7 14 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
8 10 (0.16%) Endur
9 9 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
10 7 (0.11%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 7 (0.11%) NetSuite
10 7 (0.11%) Teamcenter
11 5 (0.081%) Remedy ITSM
12 4 (0.065%) Fidessa
12 4 (0.065%) Markit EDM
12 4 (0.065%) Oracle EBS
12 4 (0.065%) Oracle Payables
12 4 (0.065%) Oracle Receivables
12 4 (0.065%) Primavera
13 3 (0.049%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 1,676 (27.22%) Azure
2 1,266 (20.56%) AWS
3 483 (7.84%) Power Platform
4 480 (7.79%) Azure DevOps
5 422 (6.85%) GCP
6 366 (5.94%) GitHub
7 363 (5.89%) SaaS
8 300 (4.87%) Serverless
9 236 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
10 179 (2.91%) Amazon S3
11 161 (2.61%) Figma
12 153 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
13 140 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
14 134 (2.18%) PaaS
15 132 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
16 130 (2.11%) Adobe Analytics
17 124 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
18 119 (1.93%) Entra ID
19 118 (1.92%) Snowflake
20 110 (1.79%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 279 (4.53%) Broadband
2 60 (0.97%) DNS
3 53 (0.86%) Firewall
4 42 (0.68%) TCP/IP
5 35 (0.57%) WAN
6 29 (0.47%) VPN
7 28 (0.45%) DHCP
7 28 (0.45%) Wireless
8 25 (0.41%) HTTP
9 24 (0.39%) CHAP
10 22 (0.36%) LAN
11 21 (0.34%) Multicast
12 15 (0.24%) 4G
12 15 (0.24%) BGP
12 15 (0.24%) MPLS
13 12 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
13 12 (0.19%) Internet
13 12 (0.19%) Network Security
13 12 (0.19%) RS-232
13 12 (0.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 308 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 299 (4.86%) Power BI
3 214 (3.48%) NoSQL
4 194 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
5 163 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
6 156 (2.53%) Relational Database
7 141 (2.29%) MySQL
8 129 (2.09%) Data Lake
9 121 (1.96%) MongoDB
10 110 (1.79%) Metadata
11 94 (1.53%) DynamoDB
12 81 (1.32%) Tableau
13 61 (0.99%) RDBMS
14 54 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
15 47 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
16 43 (0.70%) BigQuery
17 39 (0.63%) Oracle Database
18 38 (0.62%) Big Data
19 33 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
19 33 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 564 (9.16%) JIRA
2 534 (8.67%) Git
3 297 (4.82%) Jenkins
4 198 (3.22%) GitLab
5 120 (1.95%) Selenium
6 84 (1.36%) Cypress.io
7 81 (1.32%) SonarQube
8 55 (0.89%) Postman
9 52 (0.84%) Cucumber
10 50 (0.81%) Maven
11 49 (0.80%) Rational DOORS
11 49 (0.80%) TeamCity
12 46 (0.75%) Visual Studio
13 45 (0.73%) JUnit
14 42 (0.68%) JMeter
15 39 (0.63%) WebDriver
16 37 (0.60%) Bitbucket
17 36 (0.58%) Axure RP
18 33 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
18 33 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2,015 (32.72%) Social Skills
2 1,959 (31.81%) Finance
3 857 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
4 525 (8.53%) Public Sector
5 441 (7.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 399 (6.48%) Banking
7 325 (5.28%) Marketing
8 316 (5.13%) Law
9 280 (4.55%) Games
10 261 (4.24%) Legal
11 205 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
11 205 (3.33%) Retail
12 147 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
13 128 (2.08%) Telecoms
14 118 (1.92%) Manufacturing
15 117 (1.90%) Financial Institution
16 116 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
17 96 (1.56%) Front Office
18 83 (1.35%) Aerospace
19 77 (1.25%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,242 (20.17%) Senior
2 1,083 (17.59%) Developer
3 788 (12.80%) Lead
4 658 (10.69%) Analyst
5 462 (7.50%) Architect
6 399 (6.48%) Software Engineer
7 387 (6.28%) Business Analyst
8 304 (4.94%) Project Manager
9 281 (4.56%) Senior Manager
10 202 (3.28%) Senior Developer
11 191 (3.10%) Software Developer
12 180 (2.92%) Consultant
13 172 (2.79%) Data Engineer
14 168 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
15 157 (2.55%) Java Developer
16 154 (2.50%) Product Manager
17 151 (2.45%) Full-Stack Developer
18 147 (2.39%) Designer
19 140 (2.27%) Delivery Manager
20 133 (2.16%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 579 (9.40%) React
2 570 (9.26%) .NET
3 362 (5.88%) REST
4 360 (5.85%) HTML
5 342 (5.55%) CSS
6 271 (4.40%) Node.js
7 269 (4.37%) RESTful
8 226 (3.67%) AngularJS
9 212 (3.44%) SOAP
10 197 (3.20%) Spring Boot
11 194 (3.15%) Spring
12 170 (2.76%) Kafka
13 137 (2.22%) .NET Core
14 132 (2.14%) .NET Framework
15 124 (2.01%) Vue
16 122 (1.98%) Middleware
17 113 (1.84%) ASP.NET
18 111 (1.80%) Lightning Web Components
19 100 (1.62%) GraphQL
20 98 (1.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 735 (11.94%) Product Ownership
2 411 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 206 (3.35%) Management Information System
4 194 (3.15%) Mobile App
5 186 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
6 169 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
7 168 (2.73%) Social Media
8 158 (2.57%) Onboarding
9 149 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
10 106 (1.72%) Low-Code
11 97 (1.58%) Fixed Income
12 96 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
13 88 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
14 79 (1.28%) Data Structures
15 77 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
16 73 (1.19%) Life Science
17 61 (0.99%) Algorithms
18 60 (0.97%) Virtual Team
19 59 (0.96%) Public Cloud
20 57 (0.93%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 289 (4.69%) Linux
2 198 (3.22%) Windows
3 103 (1.67%) Android
4 75 (1.22%) Apple iOS
5 65 (1.06%) Windows Server
6 58 (0.94%) Unix
7 23 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 21 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 20 (0.32%) CentOS
10 14 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
11 13 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
11 13 (0.21%) Windows 10
11 13 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
12 11 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
13 8 (0.13%) VMS
14 5 (0.081%) Debian
15 4 (0.065%) FreeRTOS
15 4 (0.065%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.049%) OpenWrt
17 2 (0.032%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,398 (22.70%) DevOps
2 1,397 (22.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,392 (22.60%) CI/CD
4 1,173 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
5 1,162 (18.87%) Mentoring
6 1,025 (16.65%) Scrum
7 971 (15.77%) Roadmaps
8 945 (15.35%) AI
9 856 (13.90%) Software Engineering
10 855 (13.88%) Coaching
11 845 (13.72%) Analytics
12 777 (12.62%) Stakeholder Management
13 640 (10.39%) Project Management
14 602 (9.78%) Test Automation
15 561 (9.11%) Decision-Making
16 560 (9.09%) User Experience
17 549 (8.92%) Microservices
18 519 (8.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 479 (7.78%) Full-Stack Development
20 472 (7.66%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 995 (16.16%) Python
2 990 (16.08%) SQL
3 805 (13.07%) Java
4 739 (12.00%) JavaScript
5 574 (9.32%) C#
6 465 (7.55%) TypeScript
7 175 (2.84%) Bash
8 164 (2.66%) PowerShell
9 150 (2.44%) C++
10 114 (1.85%) Apex Code
11 113 (1.84%) PHP
12 111 (1.80%) Go
13 86 (1.40%) C
14 62 (1.01%) Kotlin
15 60 (0.97%) SOQL
16 55 (0.89%) Scala
17 50 (0.81%) VBA
18 49 (0.80%) PL/SQL
18 49 (0.80%) Shell Script
19 46 (0.75%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 1,004 (16.30%) Degree
2 732 (11.89%) Security Cleared
3 406 (6.59%) SC Cleared
4 269 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 211 (3.43%) PMI Certification
6 207 (3.36%) DV Cleared
7 188 (3.05%) PMP
8 187 (3.04%) Master's Degree
9 155 (2.52%) AWS Certification
10 149 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 80 (1.30%) CISSP
12 76 (1.23%) DBS Check
13 69 (1.12%) Azure Certification
13 69 (1.12%) ISTQB
14 54 (0.88%) CISM
15 40 (0.65%) ACCA
16 39 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 38 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
18 37 (0.60%) CREST Certified
19 36 (0.58%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 480 (7.79%) Accessibility
2 478 (7.76%) QA
3 178 (2.89%) Data Quality
4 130 (2.11%) GDPR
5 107 (1.74%) WCAG
6 99 (1.61%) PMO
7 94 (1.53%) NIST
8 82 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 50 (0.81%) SLA
10 44 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 28 (0.45%) COBIT
12 27 (0.44%) GRC
13 26 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
13 26 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 15288
14 23 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
14 23 (0.37%) NCSC
14 23 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 22 (0.36%) GxP
16 19 (0.31%) ISO 20022
17 16 (0.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 516 (8.38%) Docker
2 144 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 46 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.44%) Firmware
5 21 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 19 (0.31%) Hyper-V
7 17 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
8 13 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (0.13%) KVM
9 8 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.13%) vSphere
10 3 (0.049%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.049%) RACF
11 2 (0.032%) IAG
11 2 (0.032%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.016%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.016%) pfSense
12 1 (0.016%) QEMU
12 1 (0.016%) Squid
12 1 (0.016%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 489 (7.94%) Kubernetes
2 470 (7.63%) Terraform
3 173 (2.81%) Ansible
4 108 (1.75%) Grafana
5 71 (1.15%) Prometheus
6 55 (0.89%) Argo
7 50 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
8 45 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
9 30 (0.49%) HP Fortify
10 25 (0.41%) Kibana
11 23 (0.37%) SCCM
12 22 (0.36%) Puppet
13 19 (0.31%) Kustomize
14 13 (0.21%) Nessus
15 11 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
15 11 (0.18%) Rancher
16 10 (0.16%) Progress Chef
17 8 (0.13%) linkerd
17 8 (0.13%) logstash
17 8 (0.13%) Mesos
Vendors
1 892 (14.49%) Microsoft
2 223 (3.62%) Oracle
3 213 (3.46%) Google
4 211 (3.43%) Salesforce
5 204 (3.31%) Adobe
6 198 (3.22%) SAP
7 145 (2.35%) Databricks
8 128 (2.08%) ServiceNow
9 91 (1.48%) Splunk
10 66 (1.07%) IBM
11 62 (1.01%) VMware
12 55 (0.89%) Red Hat
13 52 (0.84%) Workday
14 50 (0.81%) Atlassian
15 46 (0.75%) Cisco
16 37 (0.60%) Dell
17 36 (0.58%) MuleSoft
18 34 (0.55%) Siemens
19 32 (0.52%) Blue Prism
20 31 (0.50%) Informatica