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

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 13,241 41,536 40,469
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.59% 32.87% 31.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 26.13% 34.33% 32.75%
Number of salaries quoted 9,113 23,221 25,571
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,750 £38,375
25th Percentile £52,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,250
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +7.88% +0.42%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% +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 50,664 120,987 123,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.08% 95.74% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 36,731 73,454 82,144
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,347 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year - +0.84% +8.18%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £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 30 November 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 30 November 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 11,265 £67,500 +1.50% 4,667
UK excluding London -1 7,954 £60,000 +2.56% 3,138
Work from Home 0 6,691 £65,351 +0.54% 2,772
London -2 4,446 £80,000 +3.23% 1,969
North of England 0 2,345 £60,000 +0.80% 808
South East -2 1,560 £60,000 - 814
South West -1 1,357 £60,375 +9.77% 383
North West 0 1,158 £60,000 +4.35% 482
Yorkshire 0 1,058 £65,000 +8.33% 241
Midlands -3 1,045 £55,000 - 503
Scotland -1 895 £65,351 +8.92% 218
West Midlands -4 648 £55,000 - 365
East Midlands -2 396 £55,000 - 137
Wales -2 327 £55,000 - 107
East of England -4 306 £55,000 -8.33% 316
Northern Ireland -1 153 £60,000 +14.29% 60
North East -1 128 £57,291 +4.16% 89
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
1 479 (3.62%) Confluence
2 233 (1.76%) SharePoint
3 200 (1.51%) Apache
4 143 (1.08%) Apache Spark
5 128 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
6 109 (0.82%) JBoss
7 104 (0.79%) CMS
8 103 (0.78%) SAS
9 99 (0.75%) Red Hat Fuse
10 60 (0.45%) Tomcat
11 58 (0.44%) IIS
12 40 (0.30%) WebSphere
13 33 (0.25%) WordPress
14 31 (0.23%) Umbraco
15 25 (0.19%) Jetty
15 25 (0.19%) nginx
16 24 (0.18%) Drupal
16 24 (0.18%) MS Exchange
17 23 (0.17%) Captiva
18 21 (0.16%) FileNet
Applications
1 268 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 252 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 120 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
4 113 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 79 (0.60%) MS Visio
6 32 (0.24%) Sketch
7 26 (0.20%) Trello
8 22 (0.17%) Adobe XD
9 12 (0.091%) Chatbot
10 10 (0.076%) Photoshop
11 9 (0.068%) InVision
12 8 (0.060%) CATIA
12 8 (0.060%) InDesign
12 8 (0.060%) Spreadsheet
13 7 (0.053%) Simulink
14 6 (0.045%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 4 (0.030%) 3ds Max
15 4 (0.030%) Adobe Premiere
15 4 (0.030%) LibreOffice
15 4 (0.030%) Maya
Business Applications
1 438 (3.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 53 (0.40%) Endur
3 41 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 19 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
5 16 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
6 15 (0.11%) Magento
6 15 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 15 (0.11%) Siebel CRM
6 15 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 14 (0.11%) Cloudability
8 13 (0.098%) SAP SCM
8 13 (0.098%) Visualfiles
9 12 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
10 11 (0.083%) Dynamics GP
11 10 (0.076%) Dynamics NAV
11 10 (0.076%) NetSuite
11 10 (0.076%) Oracle Financials
11 10 (0.076%) SAP CRM
12 9 (0.068%) SAP EWM
12 9 (0.068%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 4,044 (30.54%) Azure
2 2,755 (20.81%) AWS
3 1,483 (11.20%) GCP
4 1,268 (9.58%) Power Platform
5 1,192 (9.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1,037 (7.83%) SaaS
7 755 (5.70%) Serverless
8 748 (5.65%) PaaS
9 734 (5.54%) Dynamics 365
10 611 (4.61%) IaaS
11 541 (4.09%) GitHub
12 364 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
13 326 (2.46%) Azure Functions
14 238 (1.80%) OpenShift
15 229 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
16 197 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
17 196 (1.48%) PowerApps
18 176 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
19 147 (1.11%) Amazon S3
20 135 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 226 (1.71%) Firewall
2 221 (1.67%) DNS
3 147 (1.11%) VPN
4 146 (1.10%) DHCP
5 128 (0.97%) HTTP
6 123 (0.93%) Internet
7 120 (0.91%) TCP/IP
8 99 (0.75%) WAN
9 69 (0.52%) Network Security
10 68 (0.51%) SAN
11 65 (0.49%) LAN
12 48 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
13 40 (0.30%) SD-WAN
14 35 (0.26%) VLAN
15 31 (0.23%) AMQP
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%) Wireless
18 27 (0.20%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 974 (7.36%) SQL Server
2 691 (5.22%) Power BI
3 485 (3.66%) NoSQL
4 447 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
5 421 (3.18%) PostgreSQL
6 399 (3.01%) Relational Database
7 394 (2.98%) MySQL
8 309 (2.33%) Data Lake
9 308 (2.33%) MongoDB
10 270 (2.04%) Big Data
11 182 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 180 (1.36%) Tableau
13 171 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
14 144 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 141 (1.06%) Hadoop
16 137 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
17 120 (0.91%) RDBMS
18 115 (0.87%) Metadata
19 112 (0.85%) Apache Ignite
20 111 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1,126 (8.50%) Git
2 1,050 (7.93%) JIRA
3 839 (6.34%) Jenkins
4 396 (2.99%) Selenium
5 247 (1.87%) Cucumber
6 242 (1.83%) GitLab
7 223 (1.68%) Cypress.io
8 176 (1.33%) Maven
9 133 (1.00%) Postman
10 131 (0.99%) Bitbucket
11 129 (0.97%) JUnit
12 114 (0.86%) IntelliJ
12 114 (0.86%) Visual Studio
13 111 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
14 100 (0.76%) SonarQube
15 92 (0.69%) SoapUI
16 87 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
16 87 (0.66%) TeamCity
17 83 (0.63%) JMeter
18 76 (0.57%) Artifactory
General
1 4,669 (35.26%) Finance
2 3,355 (25.34%) Social Skills
3 1,939 (14.64%) Banking
4 1,257 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
5 992 (7.49%) Retail
6 971 (7.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 685 (5.17%) Public Sector
8 524 (3.96%) Marketing
9 470 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
10 439 (3.32%) Front Office
11 342 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
12 301 (2.27%) Legal
13 260 (1.96%) Telecoms
14 250 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
15 242 (1.83%) Law
16 207 (1.56%) Manufacturing
17 185 (1.40%) Aerospace
18 177 (1.34%) Games
19 162 (1.22%) Investment Banking
20 123 (0.93%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2,766 (20.89%) Developer
2 2,336 (17.64%) Senior
3 2,201 (16.62%) Architect
4 1,259 (9.51%) Software Engineer
5 1,187 (8.96%) Lead
6 1,141 (8.62%) Analyst
7 1,075 (8.12%) Solutions Architect
8 795 (6.00%) Project Manager
9 621 (4.69%) Senior Developer
10 618 (4.67%) DevOps Engineer
11 558 (4.21%) Business Analyst
12 493 (3.72%) .NET Developer
13 465 (3.51%) Java Developer
14 451 (3.41%) Enterprise Architect
15 416 (3.14%) Dynamics 365 Architect
16 372 (2.81%) Full Stack Developer
17 353 (2.67%) Software Developer
18 309 (2.33%) Senior Software Engineer
19 304 (2.30%) IT Manager
20 296 (2.24%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,655 (12.50%) .NET
2 1,263 (9.54%) React
3 1,052 (7.95%) HTML
4 935 (7.06%) CSS
5 895 (6.76%) AngularJS
6 751 (5.67%) REST
7 684 (5.17%) Node.js
8 594 (4.49%) RESTful
9 572 (4.32%) Spring
10 496 (3.75%) JSON
11 489 (3.69%) .NET Core
12 487 (3.68%) Web Services
13 477 (3.60%) Kafka
14 420 (3.17%) ASP.NET
15 417 (3.15%) .NET Framework
16 345 (2.61%) XML
17 343 (2.59%) Spring Boot
18 333 (2.51%) SOAP
19 304 (2.30%) Middleware
20 247 (1.87%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1,154 (8.72%) Product Ownership
2 623 (4.71%) Public Cloud
3 524 (3.96%) Cloud Native
4 390 (2.95%) Management Information System
5 370 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
6 301 (2.27%) Virtual Team
7 269 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
8 240 (1.81%) Fixed Income
9 237 (1.79%) Mobile App
10 228 (1.72%) Data Structures
11 226 (1.71%) Private Cloud
12 220 (1.66%) Derivative
13 211 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
14 168 (1.27%) Mainframe
15 160 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 158 (1.19%) Hedge funds
17 153 (1.16%) Onboarding
18 151 (1.14%) Data Centre
19 150 (1.13%) Blockchain
20 143 (1.08%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 867 (6.55%) Linux
2 672 (5.08%) Windows
3 318 (2.40%) Unix
4 202 (1.53%) Android
5 181 (1.37%) Windows Server
6 137 (1.03%) Apple iOS
7 121 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 60 (0.45%) Windows 10
9 57 (0.43%) Ubuntu
10 28 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
11 27 (0.20%) Mac OS
12 26 (0.20%) VMS
13 24 (0.18%) Solaris
14 23 (0.17%) Windows 7
14 23 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
15 22 (0.17%) zOS
16 17 (0.13%) CentOS
17 16 (0.12%) HPUX
18 13 (0.098%) AIX
19 8 (0.060%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,489 (26.35%) DevOps
2 2,449 (18.50%) Software Engineering
3 2,375 (17.94%) Scrum
4 2,177 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
5 1,935 (14.61%) Roadmaps
6 1,885 (14.24%) CI/CD
7 1,735 (13.10%) Mentoring
8 1,597 (12.06%) Project Management
9 1,574 (11.89%) Actionable Insight
10 1,474 (11.13%) Microservices
11 1,338 (10.10%) Analytics
12 1,295 (9.78%) SDLC
13 1,127 (8.51%) Test Automation
14 1,122 (8.47%) Project Delivery
15 1,117 (8.44%) Waterfall
16 1,100 (8.31%) Stakeholder Management
17 968 (7.31%) TDD
18 935 (7.06%) Coaching
19 916 (6.92%) Continuous Improvement
20 891 (6.73%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2,340 (17.67%) SQL
2 2,198 (16.60%) Java
3 2,073 (15.66%) JavaScript
4 1,992 (15.04%) Python
5 1,806 (13.64%) C#
6 946 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 608 (4.59%) PowerShell
8 360 (2.72%) Bash
9 291 (2.20%) C++
10 270 (2.04%) PL/SQL
11 228 (1.72%) PHP
12 214 (1.62%) Go
13 208 (1.57%) T-SQL
14 166 (1.25%) Ruby
15 160 (1.21%) C
16 141 (1.06%) Kotlin
17 119 (0.90%) Groovy
18 115 (0.87%) Scala
19 113 (0.85%) R
19 113 (0.85%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,713 (12.94%) Degree
2 1,592 (12.02%) Security Cleared
3 1,100 (8.31%) SC Cleared
4 525 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 437 (3.30%) DV Cleared
6 219 (1.65%) TOGAF Certification
7 173 (1.31%) AWS Certification
8 158 (1.19%) Master's Degree
9 148 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
10 136 (1.03%) Azure Certification
11 134 (1.01%) PMI Certification
12 112 (0.85%) PMP
13 100 (0.76%) ISTQB
14 99 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
15 66 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 65 (0.49%) ISEB
17 50 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
18 41 (0.31%) CISSP
19 40 (0.30%) DBS Check
20 34 (0.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 859 (6.49%) QA
2 257 (1.94%) Data Quality
3 187 (1.41%) PMO
4 173 (1.31%) Accessibility
5 110 (0.83%) GDPR
6 78 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 73 (0.55%) SLA
8 63 (0.48%) WCAG
9 59 (0.45%) NIST
10 43 (0.32%) GRC
11 36 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
12 35 (0.26%) COBIT
13 32 (0.24%) PCI DSS
14 30 (0.23%) IFRS
15 28 (0.21%) IFRS 9
15 28 (0.21%) SEPA
16 21 (0.16%) ISO 9001
17 20 (0.15%) ISO 20022
18 18 (0.14%) NIST 800
19 17 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1,289 (9.73%) Docker
2 298 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 203 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 75 (0.57%) Hyper-V
5 61 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 60 (0.45%) Firmware
6 60 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
7 45 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
8 36 (0.27%) vSphere
9 22 (0.17%) IAG
10 18 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
11 13 (0.098%) Embedded Firmware
12 12 (0.091%) LXC
13 11 (0.083%) Oracle RAC
14 9 (0.068%) Terminal Server
15 8 (0.060%) BitLocker
16 7 (0.053%) HDFS
16 7 (0.053%) Virtual Servers
17 5 (0.038%) Apache ZooKeeper
17 5 (0.038%) KVM
Systems Management
1 1,476 (11.15%) Kubernetes
2 1,075 (8.12%) Terraform
3 609 (4.60%) Ansible
4 158 (1.19%) Puppet
5 102 (0.77%) Grafana
6 94 (0.71%) SCCM
7 90 (0.68%) Progress Chef
8 84 (0.63%) Prometheus
9 80 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
10 68 (0.51%) Istio
11 53 (0.40%) SCOM
12 49 (0.37%) Packer
12 49 (0.37%) WSUS
13 45 (0.34%) Rancher
14 44 (0.33%) Kibana
15 43 (0.32%) Nagios
16 42 (0.32%) Argo
17 36 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 29 (0.22%) HP Quality Center
19 26 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2,048 (15.47%) Microsoft
2 634 (4.79%) Google
3 582 (4.40%) Oracle
4 280 (2.11%) Salesforce
5 264 (1.99%) ServiceNow
6 251 (1.90%) VMware
7 246 (1.86%) SAP
8 161 (1.22%) NEC
9 148 (1.12%) IBM
10 127 (0.96%) Databricks
10 127 (0.96%) Splunk
11 119 (0.90%) Atlassian
12 96 (0.73%) HP
13 92 (0.69%) Cisco
14 88 (0.66%) Red Hat
15 71 (0.54%) Adobe
16 69 (0.52%) Dynatrace
17 67 (0.51%) New Relic
18 65 (0.49%) Citrix
19 58 (0.44%) Dell