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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 8,602 19,683 31,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.49% 20.01% 29.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.68% 23.27% 31.21%
Number of salaries quoted 5,175 11,631 16,917
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,140 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,965 £59,526
% change year-on-year -0.80% -2.62% +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 48,641 84,574 99,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.26% 86.00% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,531 59,798 58,397
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -3 7,655 £65,000 +4.00% 5,254
UK excluding London -6 5,377 £57,500 -0.80% 3,247
Work from Home -1 3,490 £65,000 +6.20% 3,379
London 0 2,850 £85,000 +8.59% 2,353
North of England -4 1,897 £57,500 -0.80% 941
North West -3 1,418 £57,560 -4.07% 599
South East -4 1,145 £60,000 - 717
Midlands -7 873 £55,000 - 526
West Midlands -3 591 £60,000 +4.35% 332
South West -5 531 £57,500 -3.45% 407
Scotland -6 497 £55,000 -8.33% 255
Yorkshire -5 402 £57,750 -0.37% 258
East of England -8 303 £53,000 -7.83% 300
East Midlands -7 279 £47,683 -9.18% 187
Wales -8 121 £55,000 +4.58% 100
North East -14 77 £55,000 +4.76% 88
Northern Ireland -18 15 £32,500 -45.83% 71
Isle of Man +14 4 - - 2
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 -

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
1 395 (4.59%) Confluence
2 290 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
3 240 (2.79%) Apache
4 159 (1.85%) Apache Spark
5 121 (1.41%) CMS
6 102 (1.19%) SharePoint
7 76 (0.88%) Oracle Application Server
8 29 (0.34%) WordPress
9 28 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
10 22 (0.26%) Drupal
11 21 (0.24%) Headless CMS
12 19 (0.22%) IIS
13 14 (0.16%) nginx
13 14 (0.16%) Umbraco
14 13 (0.15%) OpenStack
15 12 (0.14%) JBoss
15 12 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 12 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
16 11 (0.13%) SAS
17 9 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 271 (3.15%) Simulink
2 190 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
3 115 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 94 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
5 60 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 54 (0.63%) Trello
7 46 (0.53%) MS Visio
8 22 (0.26%) Chatbot
9 19 (0.22%) Maya
10 18 (0.21%) Adobe XD
11 11 (0.13%) Sketch
12 9 (0.10%) Photoshop
13 7 (0.081%) Mozilla Thunderbird
14 5 (0.058%) InVision
15 3 (0.035%) Adobe Premiere
15 3 (0.035%) AutoCAD
15 3 (0.035%) Productboard
15 3 (0.035%) UserZoom
16 2 (0.023%) Adobe Captivate
16 2 (0.023%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 126 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 69 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 65 (0.76%) Teamcenter
4 49 (0.57%) Aladdin
5 41 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
6 28 (0.33%) thinkFolio
7 26 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
8 24 (0.28%) NetSuite
9 22 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
10 15 (0.17%) Shopify
11 14 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
12 12 (0.14%) PeopleSoft HCM
13 10 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
13 10 (0.12%) SAP IBP
14 8 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
15 7 (0.081%) Orchestrade
16 6 (0.070%) Oracle BPM
17 5 (0.058%) Adobe Campaign
17 5 (0.058%) Magento
17 5 (0.058%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,811 (21.05%) Azure
2 1,622 (18.86%) AWS
3 628 (7.30%) GCP
4 471 (5.48%) Power Platform
5 460 (5.35%) SaaS
6 417 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
7 411 (4.78%) Serverless
8 268 (3.12%) dbt
9 245 (2.85%) GitHub
10 239 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
11 224 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
12 211 (2.45%) Amazon ECS
13 178 (2.07%) Amazon S3
14 168 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
15 165 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
16 161 (1.87%) Snowflake
17 148 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
18 139 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
19 137 (1.59%) PaaS
20 113 (1.31%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 430 (5.00%) DNS
2 422 (4.91%) VPN
3 78 (0.91%) Firewall
4 64 (0.74%) HTTP
5 46 (0.53%) Network Security
6 44 (0.51%) TCP/IP
7 37 (0.43%) WAN
8 32 (0.37%) Internet
9 28 (0.33%) SSL
10 22 (0.26%) DHCP
10 22 (0.26%) SD-WAN
11 18 (0.21%) LAN
12 16 (0.19%) Modbus
12 16 (0.19%) Multicast
12 16 (0.19%) Wireless
13 15 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
14 14 (0.16%) MQTT
14 14 (0.16%) SAN
15 13 (0.15%) 5G
15 13 (0.15%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 492 (5.72%) SQL Server
2 331 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
3 298 (3.46%) Data Lake
4 282 (3.28%) NoSQL
5 275 (3.20%) Power BI
6 271 (3.15%) Amazon Athena
7 259 (3.01%) Relational Database
8 258 (3.00%) Apache Iceberg
8 258 (3.00%) Dremio
9 233 (2.71%) Apache Arrow
10 232 (2.70%) MySQL
11 206 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
12 174 (2.02%) Apache Ignite
12 174 (2.02%) MongoDB
13 116 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
14 91 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
15 89 (1.03%) Tableau
16 84 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
16 84 (0.98%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 83 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 797 (9.27%) JIRA
2 598 (6.95%) Git
3 306 (3.56%) Jenkins
4 134 (1.56%) Rational DOORS
5 133 (1.55%) Selenium
6 123 (1.43%) JUnit
7 121 (1.41%) GitLab
8 105 (1.22%) Artifactory
9 96 (1.12%) Visual Studio
10 95 (1.10%) Bitbucket
11 79 (0.92%) Cypress.io
12 66 (0.77%) SonarQube
13 65 (0.76%) JMeter
14 63 (0.73%) Postman
15 61 (0.71%) Maven
16 60 (0.70%) webpack
17 59 (0.69%) Cucumber
17 59 (0.69%) Mockito
18 50 (0.58%) TeamCity
19 44 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2,982 (34.67%) Finance
2 2,368 (27.53%) Social Skills
3 1,461 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
4 901 (10.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 838 (9.74%) Banking
6 602 (7.00%) Front Office
7 592 (6.88%) Presentation Skills
8 438 (5.09%) Law
9 387 (4.50%) Marketing
10 351 (4.08%) Public Sector
11 336 (3.91%) Retail
12 285 (3.31%) Aerospace
13 281 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
14 263 (3.06%) Automotive
15 258 (3.00%) Legal
16 215 (2.50%) Manufacturing
17 177 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
18 155 (1.80%) Investment Banking
19 152 (1.77%) Games
20 125 (1.45%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,803 (20.96%) Developer
2 1,784 (20.74%) Senior
3 1,052 (12.23%) Software Engineer
4 930 (10.81%) Lead
5 747 (8.68%) Systems Engineer
6 707 (8.22%) Analyst
7 608 (7.07%) Software Developer
8 588 (6.84%) Architect
9 404 (4.70%) Senior Software Engineer
10 339 (3.94%) AWS Engineer
11 336 (3.91%) Senior Developer
12 327 (3.80%) Business Analyst
13 312 (3.63%) Project Manager
14 288 (3.35%) Principal Engineer
15 280 (3.26%) Python Engineer
16 275 (3.20%) Senior Manager
17 257 (2.99%) Product Manager
18 243 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
19 233 (2.71%) Data Engineer
20 213 (2.48%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 921 (10.71%) .NET
2 848 (9.86%) React
3 464 (5.39%) AngularJS
4 459 (5.34%) CSS
5 453 (5.27%) HTML
6 436 (5.07%) Node.js
7 383 (4.45%) REST
8 317 (3.69%) RESTful
9 302 (3.51%) Kafka
10 256 (2.98%) Spring
11 250 (2.91%) .NET Core
12 234 (2.72%) Pandas
13 229 (2.66%) .NET Framework
14 228 (2.65%) Spring Boot
15 206 (2.39%) Web Services
16 202 (2.35%) Vue
17 185 (2.15%) ASP.NET
17 185 (2.15%) PySpark
18 182 (2.12%) NumPy
19 176 (2.05%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 720 (8.37%) Product Ownership
2 469 (5.45%) Cyberattack
3 439 (5.10%) Fixed Income
4 328 (3.81%) Derivative
5 322 (3.74%) Hedge funds
6 320 (3.72%) Equities
7 309 (3.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 307 (3.57%) Management Information System
9 222 (2.58%) Cloud Native
10 192 (2.23%) Mobile App
11 191 (2.22%) Algorithms
12 159 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
13 137 (1.59%) Onboarding
14 120 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
15 113 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
16 109 (1.27%) Virtual Team
17 94 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
18 87 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
19 85 (0.99%) Blockchain
19 85 (0.99%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 817 (9.50%) Linux
2 549 (6.38%) Android
3 256 (2.98%) Windows
4 136 (1.58%) Apple iOS
5 67 (0.78%) Unix
6 39 (0.45%) Windows Server
7 24 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 23 (0.27%) zOS
9 10 (0.12%) Solaris
9 10 (0.12%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.12%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.12%) Windows Vista
10 8 (0.093%) VMS
11 4 (0.047%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.035%) CentOS
12 3 (0.035%) Debian
12 3 (0.035%) Embedded Linux
13 2 (0.023%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.012%) Rocky
14 1 (0.012%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,970 (22.90%) Software Engineering
2 1,705 (19.82%) DevOps
3 1,414 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
4 1,399 (16.26%) CI/CD
5 1,156 (13.44%) Mentoring
6 1,152 (13.39%) Roadmaps
7 1,062 (12.35%) Scrum
8 968 (11.25%) Project Management
9 914 (10.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 881 (10.24%) Analytics
11 879 (10.22%) Stakeholder Management
12 874 (10.16%) Systems Engineering
13 828 (9.63%) Microservices
14 784 (9.11%) Coaching
15 762 (8.86%) Line Management
16 732 (8.51%) Computer Science
17 702 (8.16%) Test Automation
18 700 (8.14%) OO
19 693 (8.06%) Design Patterns
20 690 (8.02%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1,769 (20.56%) Python
2 1,681 (19.54%) Java
3 1,224 (14.23%) JavaScript
4 1,188 (13.81%) SQL
5 991 (11.52%) C#
6 673 (7.82%) TypeScript
7 667 (7.75%) MATLAB
8 638 (7.42%) C++
9 605 (7.03%) Go
10 173 (2.01%) PHP
11 160 (1.86%) PowerShell
12 128 (1.49%) C
12 128 (1.49%) Rust
13 72 (0.84%) Bash
14 64 (0.74%) Ada
15 63 (0.73%) R
16 59 (0.69%) Kotlin
17 49 (0.57%) Shell Script
18 47 (0.55%) T-SQL
19 45 (0.52%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 2,006 (23.32%) Degree
2 1,194 (13.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 939 (10.92%) Security Cleared
4 583 (6.78%) DV Cleared
5 316 (3.67%) SC Cleared
6 314 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 203 (2.36%) Master's Degree
8 184 (2.14%) PMI Certification
9 172 (2.00%) PMP
10 167 (1.94%) DBS Check
11 140 (1.63%) Chartered Engineer
12 132 (1.53%) Azure Certification
13 101 (1.17%) TOGAF Certification
14 92 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
15 83 (0.96%) CISSP
16 81 (0.94%) AWS Certification
17 79 (0.92%) ISTQB
18 67 (0.78%) PhD
19 62 (0.72%) CISA
20 47 (0.55%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 506 (5.88%) QA
2 229 (2.66%) Accessibility
3 163 (1.89%) Data Quality
4 113 (1.31%) GDPR
5 112 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 92 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 85 (0.99%) PMO
8 68 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 61 (0.71%) ITGC
10 59 (0.69%) MiFID
11 54 (0.63%) NIST
11 54 (0.63%) SLA
12 47 (0.55%) PCI DSS
13 38 (0.44%) IFRS
14 33 (0.38%) SOC 2
15 31 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
16 28 (0.33%) WCAG
17 26 (0.30%) GAAP
18 22 (0.26%) NCSC
19 21 (0.24%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1,213 (14.10%) Docker
2 89 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 53 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
4 31 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 29 (0.34%) Firmware
6 20 (0.23%) Hyper-V
7 17 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.13%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.10%) vSphere
10 7 (0.081%) Embedded Firmware
11 6 (0.070%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.058%) Apache Flume
13 3 (0.035%) RACF
14 2 (0.023%) Postfix
15 1 (0.012%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.012%) Microsoft App-V
15 1 (0.012%) NFS
15 1 (0.012%) Squid
15 1 (0.012%) Time Sharing Option
15 1 (0.012%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 776 (9.02%) Kubernetes
2 601 (6.99%) Ansible
3 451 (5.24%) Terraform
4 60 (0.70%) Prometheus
5 52 (0.60%) Grafana
6 37 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 37 (0.43%) Progress Chef
7 30 (0.35%) Kibana
8 27 (0.31%) Puppet
9 25 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
10 24 (0.28%) Argo
11 11 (0.13%) Nessus
12 10 (0.12%) SCCM
12 10 (0.12%) WMI
13 9 (0.10%) CASB
14 7 (0.081%) HP ALM
14 7 (0.081%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.081%) Proxmox
15 6 (0.070%) Failover Clustering
15 6 (0.070%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,103 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 335 (3.89%) Oracle
3 316 (3.67%) Google
4 267 (3.10%) SAP
5 196 (2.28%) Salesforce
6 170 (1.98%) Databricks
7 152 (1.77%) Siemens
8 140 (1.63%) IBM
9 131 (1.52%) ServiceNow
10 108 (1.26%) Atlassian
11 76 (0.88%) VMware
12 69 (0.80%) Sparx
13 65 (0.76%) Alteryx
14 60 (0.70%) Red Hat
15 53 (0.62%) Adobe
16 50 (0.58%) MathWorks
17 49 (0.57%) BISAM
17 49 (0.57%) Splunk
18 45 (0.52%) Cisco
19 43 (0.50%) Workday