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 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 12,418 15,048 48,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.41% 25.31% 34.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.58% 26.81% 35.61%
Number of salaries quoted 5,411 10,188 24,547
10th Percentile £43,227 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,351 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% +0.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £84,625 £83,750
90th Percentile £116,250 £105,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +9.52%

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 63,410 56,130 135,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.81% 94.41% 96.14%
Number of salaries quoted 31,055 40,211 76,155
10th Percentile £33,875 £32,500 £33,986
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £97,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £52,700 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.47% +0.38% +5.00%

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 23 October 2024.

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 23 October 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 -3 10,857 £67,500 - 2,865
UK excluding London -2 8,192 £60,000 - 2,081
Work from Home -1 5,128 £67,500 +3.29% 4,171
London -1 3,887 £85,000 +6.25% 910
North of England -4 2,166 £57,500 -4.17% 556
South East -2 1,973 £60,000 +1.69% 500
North West -3 1,363 £57,500 -3.40% 329
Scotland 0 1,144 £60,000 -7.69% 102
Midlands -5 1,141 £57,500 +4.55% 330
South West -5 1,027 £59,908 -0.15% 325
West Midlands -4 668 £59,715 +8.57% 205
Yorkshire -9 576 £57,500 -11.54% 159
East of England -1 528 £55,000 -4.35% 233
East Midlands -4 466 £55,000 -4.35% 123
North East -4 227 £57,965 +1.18% 75
Wales -4 164 £60,000 +9.09% 61
Northern Ireland -10 51 £65,000 +13.46% 29
Isle of Man - 6 - -
Channel Islands -8 1 - - 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
1 584 (4.70%) Apache
2 577 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
3 266 (2.14%) Confluence
4 197 (1.59%) SharePoint
5 114 (0.92%) CMS
6 101 (0.81%) Apache Spark
7 86 (0.69%) Oracle Application Server
8 75 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
8 75 (0.60%) SAS
9 44 (0.35%) Umbraco
10 34 (0.27%) IIS
11 30 (0.24%) nginx
12 25 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
13 16 (0.13%) ArcGIS
14 14 (0.11%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
15 13 (0.10%) JBoss
16 12 (0.097%) Apache Solr
16 12 (0.097%) WildFly
17 11 (0.089%) Headless CMS
17 11 (0.089%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 576 (4.64%) Microsoft Office
2 530 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 77 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
4 76 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 61 (0.49%) MS Visio
6 54 (0.43%) Simulink
7 25 (0.20%) Trello
8 18 (0.14%) Adobe XD
8 18 (0.14%) Photoshop
8 18 (0.14%) Sketch
9 16 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 16 (0.13%) RoboHelp
10 12 (0.097%) SOLIDWORKS
11 9 (0.072%) Acrobat
11 9 (0.072%) Fireworks
12 8 (0.064%) InVision
13 7 (0.056%) MadCap Flare
14 6 (0.048%) Spreadsheet
15 5 (0.040%) AutoCAD
15 5 (0.040%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 115 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 93 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
3 53 (0.43%) Aladdin
4 42 (0.34%) SAP ERP
5 41 (0.33%) NEC Housing
6 33 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
7 30 (0.24%) Ripple
8 26 (0.21%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 19 (0.15%) Maximo
10 18 (0.14%) Magento
11 13 (0.10%) SDL Web 8
11 13 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 12 (0.097%) Shopify
13 8 (0.064%) Remedy ITSM
13 8 (0.064%) Unit4 Business World
14 7 (0.056%) Elite 3E
14 7 (0.056%) Salesforce CRM
14 7 (0.056%) Visualfiles
15 6 (0.048%) Raiser’s Edge
15 6 (0.048%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 3,040 (24.48%) AWS
2 2,878 (23.18%) Azure
3 1,062 (8.55%) GCP
4 703 (5.66%) Serverless
5 645 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
6 611 (4.92%) Power Platform
7 582 (4.69%) dbt
8 539 (4.34%) SaaS
9 481 (3.87%) Snowflake
10 448 (3.61%) GitHub
11 400 (3.22%) Amazon S3
12 389 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
13 304 (2.45%) Amazon SQS
14 281 (2.26%) PowerApps
15 278 (2.24%) Power Automate
16 265 (2.13%) Amazon Kinesis
17 240 (1.93%) PaaS
18 213 (1.72%) Azure Logic Apps
19 211 (1.70%) Amazon EKS
20 207 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 819 (6.60%) Broadband
2 211 (1.70%) Firewall
3 140 (1.13%) Network Security
4 118 (0.95%) Internet
5 102 (0.82%) TCP/IP
6 90 (0.72%) DNS
7 88 (0.71%) HTTP
8 61 (0.49%) VPN
9 57 (0.46%) SSL
10 54 (0.43%) Wireless
11 52 (0.42%) BGP
12 49 (0.39%) OSPF
13 46 (0.37%) VLAN
13 46 (0.37%) WAN
14 40 (0.32%) Cisco ASA
14 40 (0.32%) LAN
15 39 (0.31%) Ethernet
16 36 (0.29%) DHCP
16 36 (0.29%) SD-WAN
17 29 (0.23%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 847 (6.82%) SQL Server
2 623 (5.02%) Data Lake
3 606 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
4 509 (4.10%) Dremio
5 500 (4.03%) Apache Ignite
6 479 (3.86%) Amazon Athena
7 455 (3.66%) Apache Arrow
8 427 (3.44%) NoSQL
9 375 (3.02%) MySQL
10 365 (2.94%) Relational Database
11 348 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
12 328 (2.64%) Power BI
13 324 (2.61%) DynamoDB
14 292 (2.35%) Redis
15 240 (1.93%) MongoDB
16 171 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
17 137 (1.10%) Tableau
18 135 (1.09%) RDBMS
19 133 (1.07%) Big Data
20 132 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 823 (6.63%) Git
2 763 (6.14%) JIRA
3 537 (4.32%) Jenkins
4 270 (2.17%) GitLab
5 242 (1.95%) Selenium
6 209 (1.68%) Rational DOORS
7 203 (1.63%) Visual Studio
8 129 (1.04%) Cypress.io
9 111 (0.89%) Bitbucket
10 93 (0.75%) JUnit
11 89 (0.72%) Maven
12 77 (0.62%) TeamCity
13 72 (0.58%) Cucumber
14 63 (0.51%) Gatling
15 62 (0.50%) JMeter
15 62 (0.50%) SonarQube
16 57 (0.46%) Subversion
17 56 (0.45%) SpecFlow
18 52 (0.42%) Postman
18 52 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3,768 (30.34%) Social Skills
2 3,330 (26.82%) Finance
3 2,023 (16.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,592 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
5 1,028 (8.28%) Marketing
6 1,018 (8.20%) Banking
7 804 (6.47%) Front Office
8 755 (6.08%) Retail
9 649 (5.23%) Games
9 649 (5.23%) Public Sector
10 648 (5.22%) Telecoms
11 545 (4.39%) Investment Banking
12 407 (3.28%) Law
13 341 (2.75%) Legal
14 319 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
15 315 (2.54%) Advertising
16 296 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
17 276 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
18 231 (1.86%) Manufacturing
19 225 (1.81%) Military
Job Titles
1 2,707 (21.80%) Senior
2 2,321 (18.69%) Developer
3 1,770 (14.25%) Software Engineer
4 1,592 (12.82%) Architect
5 1,284 (10.34%) Lead
6 1,036 (8.34%) Analyst
7 599 (4.82%) Senior Developer
8 583 (4.69%) Senior Software Engineer
9 477 (3.84%) Solutions Architect
10 452 (3.64%) .NET Developer
11 436 (3.51%) Senior Manager
12 418 (3.37%) Python Engineer
13 408 (3.29%) Development Manager
14 400 (3.22%) Systems Architect
15 396 (3.19%) Project Manager
16 384 (3.09%) AWS Engineer
17 383 (3.08%) Software Developer
18 348 (2.80%) Java Engineer
19 319 (2.57%) Consultant
20 312 (2.51%) Audit Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,423 (11.46%) React
2 1,409 (11.35%) .NET
3 891 (7.18%) AngularJS
4 798 (6.43%) HTML
5 745 (6.00%) CSS
6 676 (5.44%) REST
7 655 (5.27%) Node.js
8 513 (4.13%) gRPC
9 512 (4.12%) NumPy
9 512 (4.12%) Pandas
10 498 (4.01%) Protocol Buffers
11 485 (3.91%) SciPy
12 429 (3.45%) ASP.NET
13 418 (3.37%) RESTful
14 407 (3.28%) Web Services
15 384 (3.09%) .NET Core
16 370 (2.98%) .NET Framework
17 349 (2.81%) Spring
18 278 (2.24%) Vue
19 236 (1.90%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 745 (6.00%) Product Ownership
2 661 (5.32%) Fixed Income
3 589 (4.74%) Hedge funds
4 572 (4.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 567 (4.57%) Derivative
5 567 (4.57%) Equities
6 432 (3.48%) Management Information System
7 381 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
8 360 (2.90%) Cyberattack
9 327 (2.63%) Cloud Native
10 302 (2.43%) Blog
11 259 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
12 242 (1.95%) Data Structures
13 227 (1.83%) Mobile App
14 219 (1.76%) Digital Media
15 206 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
16 189 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
17 174 (1.40%) Onboarding
18 161 (1.30%) Blockchain
19 153 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 670 (5.40%) Linux
2 404 (3.25%) Windows
3 178 (1.43%) Android
4 132 (1.06%) Apple iOS
5 117 (0.94%) Unix
6 99 (0.80%) Windows Server
7 70 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 42 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 24 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
10 23 (0.19%) Windows 10
11 22 (0.18%) VxWorks
12 21 (0.17%) CentOS
13 18 (0.14%) VMS
14 16 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
15 14 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
16 11 (0.089%) Debian
16 11 (0.089%) Mac OS
16 11 (0.089%) Windows 7
17 10 (0.081%) Windows Server 2012
18 8 (0.064%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,054 (24.59%) Software Engineering
2 2,483 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2,350 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
4 1,999 (16.10%) Scrum
5 1,951 (15.71%) Mentoring
6 1,671 (13.46%) Roadmaps
7 1,482 (11.93%) CI/CD
8 1,480 (11.92%) Coaching
9 1,203 (9.69%) Full-Stack Development
10 1,104 (8.89%) Project Management
11 1,078 (8.68%) User Experience
12 957 (7.71%) Asset Management
13 955 (7.69%) Analytics
14 924 (7.44%) Test Automation
15 909 (7.32%) Continuous Improvement
16 901 (7.26%) Computer Science
17 886 (7.13%) TDD
18 885 (7.13%) Stakeholder Management
19 883 (7.11%) Machine Learning
20 877 (7.06%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 2,122 (17.09%) SQL
2 2,112 (17.01%) Python
3 2,020 (16.27%) JavaScript
4 1,809 (14.57%) Java
5 1,678 (13.51%) C#
6 1,523 (12.26%) TypeScript
7 366 (2.95%) C++
8 290 (2.34%) PowerShell
9 243 (1.96%) PHP
10 223 (1.80%) Kotlin
11 200 (1.61%) Scala
12 181 (1.46%) C
13 148 (1.19%) T-SQL
14 147 (1.18%) MATLAB
15 138 (1.11%) Bash
16 120 (0.97%) Go
17 76 (0.61%) R
18 71 (0.57%) Rust
19 67 (0.54%) Shell Script
20 56 (0.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,813 (14.60%) Degree
2 1,123 (9.04%) Security Cleared
3 685 (5.52%) SC Cleared
4 438 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 371 (2.99%) DV Cleared
6 279 (2.25%) ACCA
7 271 (2.18%) Azure Certification
8 233 (1.88%) DBS Check
9 221 (1.78%) Chartered Engineer
10 180 (1.45%) Master's Degree
11 143 (1.15%) PMI Certification
12 140 (1.13%) HNC
13 130 (1.05%) PMP
14 101 (0.81%) AWS Certification
15 90 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
16 69 (0.56%) ISTQB
17 54 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
18 49 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
18 49 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
19 48 (0.39%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 606 (4.88%) QA
2 344 (2.77%) Data Quality
3 295 (2.38%) IFRS
4 252 (2.03%) GAAP
5 224 (1.80%) Accessibility
6 145 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 141 (1.14%) GDPR
8 117 (0.94%) NIST
9 111 (0.89%) PMO
10 74 (0.60%) HIPAA
11 59 (0.48%) SLA
12 56 (0.45%) WCAG
13 54 (0.43%) IEC 61508
14 30 (0.24%) Solvency II
15 26 (0.21%) GRC
16 23 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 21 (0.17%) HL7
18 18 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
18 18 (0.14%) ISO 9001
19 16 (0.13%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 1,055 (8.50%) Docker
2 204 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 95 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
4 84 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 57 (0.46%) Firmware
6 54 (0.43%) RACF
7 27 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
8 24 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
9 21 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
9 21 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 21 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 21 (0.17%) vSphere
10 19 (0.15%) VMware NSX
11 9 (0.072%) Microsoft App-V
11 9 (0.072%) NDS
11 9 (0.072%) NetIQ eDirectory
12 7 (0.056%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.024%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.016%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 2 (0.016%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1,071 (8.62%) Kubernetes
2 599 (4.82%) Terraform
3 252 (2.03%) Ansible
4 192 (1.55%) Grafana
5 124 (1.00%) Prometheus
6 90 (0.72%) Puppet
7 77 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
8 66 (0.53%) Kibana
9 53 (0.43%) Progress Chef
10 37 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
11 34 (0.27%) SCCM
12 31 (0.25%) Packer
13 25 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 25 (0.20%) WSUS
14 19 (0.15%) Consul
15 17 (0.14%) FortiGate
15 17 (0.14%) Salt
16 16 (0.13%) Istio
17 14 (0.11%) Amdocs OSS
17 14 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,922 (15.48%) Microsoft
2 346 (2.79%) Google
3 341 (2.75%) Oracle
4 261 (2.10%) ServiceNow
5 217 (1.75%) SAP
6 202 (1.63%) Databricks
7 178 (1.43%) Red Hat
8 158 (1.27%) IBM
9 150 (1.21%) Salesforce
10 129 (1.04%) Dynatrace
11 126 (1.01%) Bloomberg
12 114 (0.92%) VMware
13 109 (0.88%) Cisco
14 88 (0.71%) Atlassian
15 69 (0.56%) Reuters
16 61 (0.49%) CyberArk
17 56 (0.45%) Adobe
18 53 (0.43%) Xamarin
19 49 (0.39%) BISAM
19 49 (0.39%) Splunk