Agile Software Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Agile over the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 8,571 18,053 34,377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.61% 20.00% 31.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.69% 22.91% 32.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,113 11,454 18,387
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,750 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.58% +4.80%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £58,800 £59,526
% change year-on-year -2.21% -1.22% +8.23%

All Process and 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 48,442 78,799 106,065
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.85% 87.28% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 25,695 57,211 62,127
10th Percentile £31,750 £29,175 £34,324
25th Percentile £44,956 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -11.29% +3.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £93,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £54,590
% change year-on-year +5.20% -8.41% +3.98%

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 24 March 2025.

Salary histogram for Agile in the UK

Agile
Top 19 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 24 March 2025. 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 7,626 £65,000 +4.00% 3,834
UK excluding London -4 5,286 £57,500 -2.21% 2,352
Work from Home -1 3,665 £65,000 +4.00% 2,515
London +1 2,959 £85,000 +9.68% 1,919
North of England -5 1,484 £56,000 -4.27% 615
South East +1 1,250 £60,000 - 705
North West -7 960 £56,000 -6.67% 345
Midlands -4 853 £57,500 +4.55% 301
South West -2 617 £57,500 -4.17% 278
West Midlands -5 577 £60,000 +4.35% 175
Scotland -7 562 £56,500 -5.83% 161
Yorkshire -4 412 £58,000 +0.06% 190
East of England +1 396 £57,500 - 273
East Midlands -5 270 £47,683 -9.18% 117
Wales -6 117 £52,796 +0.56% 51
North East -3 112 £55,000 +4.76% 84
Northern Ireland -20 15 £59,430 -4.91% 32
Isle of Man +11 1 - - 6
Channel Islands +4 1 £70,000 -

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
1 346 (4.04%) Confluence
2 278 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
3 235 (2.74%) Apache
4 149 (1.74%) Apache Spark
5 107 (1.25%) CMS
6 103 (1.20%) SharePoint
7 75 (0.88%) Oracle Application Server
8 28 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
8 28 (0.33%) WordPress
9 23 (0.27%) nginx
9 23 (0.27%) SAS
10 22 (0.26%) Drupal
11 15 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 11 (0.13%) JBoss
12 11 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
12 11 (0.13%) Umbraco
13 10 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 8 (0.093%) Headless CMS
15 7 (0.082%) IIS
16 6 (0.070%) CICS
Applications
1 196 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
2 189 (2.21%) Simulink
3 125 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
4 89 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
5 61 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 55 (0.64%) Trello
7 44 (0.51%) MS Visio
8 19 (0.22%) Chatbot
9 10 (0.12%) Maya
10 7 (0.082%) Adobe XD
11 6 (0.070%) Photoshop
11 6 (0.070%) Sketch
12 3 (0.035%) AutoCAD
12 3 (0.035%) Mozilla Thunderbird
12 3 (0.035%) Productboard
12 3 (0.035%) UserZoom
13 2 (0.023%) Acrobat
13 2 (0.023%) Fireworks
13 2 (0.023%) InVision
13 2 (0.023%) RoboHelp
Business Applications
1 123 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 29 (0.34%) Aladdin
4 26 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
5 24 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 20 (0.23%) Teamcenter
7 18 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
7 18 (0.21%) NetSuite
8 14 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
8 14 (0.16%) Shopify
9 12 (0.14%) PeopleSoft HCM
10 10 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
11 8 (0.093%) thinkFolio
12 7 (0.082%) Orchestrade
12 7 (0.082%) Payment Gateway
13 6 (0.070%) Oracle BPM
14 5 (0.058%) Adobe Campaign
14 5 (0.058%) NEC Housing
14 5 (0.058%) Oracle Applications
15 4 (0.047%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,856 (21.65%) Azure
2 1,745 (20.36%) AWS
3 740 (8.63%) Serverless
4 668 (7.79%) GCP
5 580 (6.77%) Power Platform
6 545 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
7 498 (5.81%) SaaS
8 468 (5.46%) GitHub
9 455 (5.31%) AWS Lambda
10 412 (4.81%) Amazon S3
11 316 (3.69%) Amazon SQS
12 261 (3.05%) dbt
13 258 (3.01%) PaaS
14 235 (2.74%) PowerApps
15 230 (2.68%) Amazon Kinesis
16 219 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
17 210 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
18 190 (2.22%) Power Automate
19 176 (2.05%) Azure Functions
20 172 (2.01%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 125 (1.46%) Broadband
2 88 (1.03%) Firewall
3 73 (0.85%) Network Security
4 66 (0.77%) HTTP
5 53 (0.62%) TCP/IP
6 38 (0.44%) Internet
7 35 (0.41%) DNS
8 32 (0.37%) VPN
9 29 (0.34%) Wireless
10 28 (0.33%) SSL
11 25 (0.29%) DHCP
11 25 (0.29%) WAN
12 20 (0.23%) SD-WAN
13 19 (0.22%) Cisco ASA
14 18 (0.21%) BGP
15 17 (0.20%) Modbus
15 17 (0.20%) MQTT
15 17 (0.20%) Multicast
16 16 (0.19%) EIGRP
17 14 (0.16%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 622 (7.26%) SQL Server
2 503 (5.87%) PostgreSQL
3 294 (3.43%) NoSQL
4 292 (3.41%) Data Lake
5 281 (3.28%) DynamoDB
6 276 (3.22%) Redis
7 269 (3.14%) Power BI
8 254 (2.96%) Amazon Athena
9 243 (2.84%) Relational Database
10 242 (2.82%) Apache Iceberg
11 241 (2.81%) Dremio
12 215 (2.51%) MySQL
13 207 (2.42%) Apache Arrow
14 203 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
15 177 (2.07%) Apache Ignite
16 176 (2.05%) MongoDB
17 102 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
18 91 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
19 90 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
20 85 (0.99%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 764 (8.91%) JIRA
2 629 (7.34%) Git
3 519 (6.06%) Jenkins
4 135 (1.58%) Selenium
5 116 (1.35%) GitLab
5 116 (1.35%) Visual Studio
6 113 (1.32%) Artifactory
7 112 (1.31%) Bitbucket
8 111 (1.30%) JUnit
9 90 (1.05%) Cypress.io
10 82 (0.96%) Rational DOORS
11 71 (0.83%) SonarQube
12 66 (0.77%) Maven
12 66 (0.77%) webpack
13 61 (0.71%) Cucumber
14 54 (0.63%) Postman
14 54 (0.63%) TeamCity
15 53 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
16 49 (0.57%) Mockito
17 48 (0.56%) JMeter
General
1 2,613 (30.49%) Finance
2 2,457 (28.67%) Social Skills
3 1,006 (11.74%) Analytical Skills
4 893 (10.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 811 (9.46%) Banking
6 614 (7.16%) Marketing
7 605 (7.06%) Front Office
8 516 (6.02%) Presentation Skills
9 400 (4.67%) Law
10 323 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
11 322 (3.76%) Public Sector
11 322 (3.76%) Retail
12 319 (3.72%) Advertising
13 255 (2.98%) Legal
14 242 (2.82%) Games
15 202 (2.36%) Aerospace
16 191 (2.23%) Telecoms
17 162 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
18 160 (1.87%) Automotive
19 153 (1.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1,932 (22.54%) Senior
2 1,371 (16.00%) Developer
3 1,216 (14.19%) Software Engineer
4 998 (11.64%) Lead
5 830 (9.68%) Analyst
6 584 (6.81%) Architect
7 485 (5.66%) Systems Engineer
8 411 (4.80%) Senior Software Engineer
9 359 (4.19%) Senior Developer
10 356 (4.15%) Senior Manager
11 338 (3.94%) AWS Engineer
12 335 (3.91%) Business Analyst
13 311 (3.63%) Project Manager
14 303 (3.54%) Python Engineer
15 277 (3.23%) Product Manager
16 263 (3.07%) Audit Manager
17 254 (2.96%) Data Engineer
18 223 (2.60%) Principal Engineer
19 214 (2.50%) DevOps Engineer
20 194 (2.26%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,076 (12.55%) React
2 951 (11.10%) .NET
3 682 (7.96%) AngularJS
4 589 (6.87%) Node.js
5 577 (6.73%) REST
6 463 (5.40%) CSS
7 458 (5.34%) HTML
8 334 (3.90%) RESTful
9 290 (3.38%) Kafka
10 258 (3.01%) .NET Core
10 258 (3.01%) .NET Framework
11 232 (2.71%) Tailwind CSS
12 228 (2.66%) Spring
13 213 (2.49%) Web Services
14 211 (2.46%) ASP.NET
15 201 (2.35%) Spring Boot
16 193 (2.25%) PySpark
17 178 (2.08%) Pandas
18 174 (2.03%) NumPy
19 169 (1.97%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 663 (7.74%) Product Ownership
2 416 (4.85%) Fixed Income
3 317 (3.70%) Derivative
4 309 (3.61%) Hedge funds
5 305 (3.56%) Management Information System
6 295 (3.44%) Equities
7 276 (3.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 253 (2.95%) Digital Media
9 240 (2.80%) Blog
10 222 (2.59%) Cloud Native
11 196 (2.29%) Data Structures
12 192 (2.24%) Algorithms
12 192 (2.24%) Mobile App
13 158 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
14 128 (1.49%) Driving Licence
15 111 (1.30%) Virtual Team
16 109 (1.27%) Onboarding
17 107 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
18 105 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
19 96 (1.12%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 393 (4.59%) Linux
2 267 (3.12%) Windows
3 155 (1.81%) Apple iOS
4 127 (1.48%) Android
5 68 (0.79%) Unix
6 38 (0.44%) Windows Server
7 22 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 21 (0.25%) zOS
9 13 (0.15%) VMS
9 13 (0.15%) Windows 10
10 10 (0.12%) Solaris
11 9 (0.11%) VxWorks
12 7 (0.082%) Embedded Linux
13 6 (0.070%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.070%) Windows Vista
14 4 (0.047%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.035%) CentOS
15 3 (0.035%) Windows Server 2016
15 3 (0.035%) Windows Server 2019
16 2 (0.023%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,246 (26.20%) Software Engineering
2 1,822 (21.26%) DevOps
3 1,369 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
4 1,357 (15.83%) Mentoring
5 1,325 (15.46%) CI/CD
6 1,268 (14.79%) Scrum
7 1,227 (14.32%) Roadmaps
8 1,021 (11.91%) Project Management
9 1,000 (11.67%) Coaching
10 906 (10.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 844 (9.85%) Analytics
12 819 (9.56%) Stakeholder Management
13 813 (9.49%) Microservices
14 744 (8.68%) Computer Science
15 740 (8.63%) User Experience
16 690 (8.05%) Test Automation
17 666 (7.77%) Full-Stack Development
18 658 (7.68%) Systems Engineering
19 656 (7.65%) Waterfall
20 647 (7.55%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,398 (16.31%) Python
2 1,335 (15.58%) SQL
3 1,210 (14.12%) Java
4 1,146 (13.37%) JavaScript
5 1,085 (12.66%) C#
6 896 (10.45%) TypeScript
7 480 (5.60%) MATLAB
8 226 (2.64%) C++
9 199 (2.32%) PHP
10 173 (2.02%) Go
11 157 (1.83%) PowerShell
12 149 (1.74%) C
13 86 (1.00%) Kotlin
14 82 (0.96%) Bash
15 80 (0.93%) Rust
16 62 (0.72%) T-SQL
17 60 (0.70%) Scala
18 59 (0.69%) Ada
19 47 (0.55%) Swift
20 44 (0.51%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 1,921 (22.41%) Degree
2 831 (9.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 469 (5.47%) Security Cleared
4 297 (3.47%) SC Cleared
5 296 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 252 (2.94%) Azure Certification
7 203 (2.37%) Master's Degree
8 179 (2.09%) Chartered Engineer
9 174 (2.03%) PMP
10 160 (1.87%) PMI Certification
11 157 (1.83%) DBS Check
12 136 (1.59%) DV Cleared
13 109 (1.27%) ACCA
14 86 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
15 76 (0.89%) AWS Certification
16 69 (0.81%) ISTQB
17 68 (0.79%) PhD
18 59 (0.69%) CISSP
19 45 (0.53%) CISA
20 44 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 513 (5.99%) QA
2 215 (2.51%) Accessibility
3 153 (1.79%) Data Quality
4 125 (1.46%) IFRS
5 117 (1.37%) GDPR
6 116 (1.35%) GAAP
7 114 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 84 (0.98%) PMO
9 75 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 65 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 62 (0.72%) SLA
12 61 (0.71%) NIST
13 60 (0.70%) MiFID
14 44 (0.51%) ITGC
15 42 (0.49%) PCI DSS
16 39 (0.46%) HIPAA
17 26 (0.30%) WCAG
18 23 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
18 23 (0.27%) IFRS 9
19 22 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1,016 (11.85%) Docker
2 86 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 48 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 32 (0.37%) Firmware
4 32 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.16%) Hyper-V
6 12 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.14%) vSphere
7 11 (0.13%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.082%) Embedded Firmware
9 6 (0.070%) Apache Flume
10 5 (0.058%) NDS
11 4 (0.047%) NetIQ eDirectory
11 4 (0.047%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.035%) RACF
13 2 (0.023%) NFS
14 1 (0.012%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.012%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.012%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 979 (11.42%) Kubernetes
2 417 (4.87%) Terraform
3 170 (1.98%) Ansible
4 87 (1.02%) Grafana
5 64 (0.75%) Kibana
6 55 (0.64%) Prometheus
7 29 (0.34%) Progress Chef
8 27 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
9 22 (0.26%) Puppet
10 21 (0.25%) Argo
11 17 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
12 10 (0.12%) SCCM
12 10 (0.12%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.082%) CASB
13 7 (0.082%) Istio
13 7 (0.082%) Kustomize
13 7 (0.082%) Nessus
14 6 (0.070%) Failover Clustering
14 6 (0.070%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.070%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1,176 (13.72%) Microsoft
2 329 (3.84%) Google
3 298 (3.48%) Oracle
4 183 (2.14%) Salesforce
5 175 (2.04%) Databricks
6 174 (2.03%) SAP
7 163 (1.90%) ServiceNow
8 124 (1.45%) IBM
9 115 (1.34%) Atlassian
10 81 (0.95%) Siemens
11 76 (0.89%) Dynatrace
12 66 (0.77%) VMware
13 60 (0.70%) Alteryx
14 52 (0.61%) Cisco
15 50 (0.58%) MathWorks
16 48 (0.56%) Red Hat
17 45 (0.53%) Apple
18 40 (0.47%) Adobe
19 35 (0.41%) Informatica
20 33 (0.39%) Splunk