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 10 August 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Agile Software DevelopmentUK
6 months to 10 Aug 2022
Same period 2021
Same period 2020
Rank
1
1
2
Rank change year-on-year
0
+1
-1
Permanent jobs citing Agile
60,530
34,695
18,632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK
35.60%
30.38%
28.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category
37.17%
32.30%
31.09%
Number of salaries quoted
27,636
23,124
15,057
10th Percentile
£40,000
£37,500
£36,250
25th Percentile
£47,610
£46,250
£43,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile)
£64,500
£60,000
£57,500
Median % change year-on-year
+7.50%
+4.35%
+4.55%
75th Percentile
£82,500
£77,500
£75,000
90th Percentile
£100,000
£93,750
£93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary
£55,000
£52,500
£50,000
% change year-on-year
+4.76%
+5.00%
-
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.
All Process and Methodology SkillsUK
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills
162,861
107,406
59,927
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK
95.78%
94.05%
93.06%
Number of salaries quoted
83,795
73,009
48,582
10th Percentile
£34,000
£32,500
£32,500
25th Percentile
£45,000
£42,500
£41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile)
£60,000
£55,000
£55,000
Median % change year-on-year
+9.09%
-
+4.76%
75th Percentile
£80,000
£75,000
£73,750
90th Percentile
£96,965
£92,500
£90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary
£52,500
£50,000
£47,500
% change year-on-year
+5.00%
+5.26%
+5.56%
Agile Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
Agile Salary Trend
3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Agile.
Agile Salary Histogram
Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile over the 6 months to 10 August 2022.
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 10 August 2022.
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
0
50,487
£65,000
+8.33%
4,049
Work from Home
+1
28,513
£62,500
+8.70%
2,054
London
0
27,971
£75,000
+3.45%
1,760
UK excluding London
0
24,669
£55,000
+4.76%
2,556
North of England
0
6,807
£55,000
+6.80%
665
South East
0
6,650
£60,000
+9.09%
545
Midlands
0
4,107
£52,500
+5.00%
455
North West
0
3,539
£55,000
+4.76%
375
West Midlands
0
3,137
£52,500
-
287
Yorkshire
0
2,886
£55,000
+4.76%
203
South West
0
2,840
£53,500
+7.00%
330
Scotland
0
1,888
£57,500
+15.00%
226
East of England
-1
1,659
£56,044
+2.83%
248
East Midlands
0
956
£52,500
+5.00%
166
Wales
0
650
£52,500
+10.53%
53
North East
0
392
£52,500
+5.00%
87
Northern Ireland
-1
295
£52,500
+16.67%
36
Channel Islands
-11
2
£100,000
-
1
For the 6 months to 10 August 2022, IT jobs citing Agile also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for Agile.
1
16,520 (27.29%)
Finance
2
16,247 (26.84%)
Social Skills
3
15,856 (26.20%)
AWS
4
15,659 (25.87%)
DevOps
5
15,085 (24.92%)
Software Engineering
6
15,007 (24.79%)
JavaScript
7
14,424 (23.83%)
Azure
8
14,311 (23.64%)
Scrum
9
13,228 (21.85%)
Java
10
12,976 (21.44%)
CI/CD
11
12,213 (20.18%)
Python
12
11,998 (19.82%)
SQL
13
11,499 (19.00%)
React
14
9,905 (16.36%)
Git (software)
15
9,882 (16.33%)
Docker
16
9,692 (16.01%)
Problem-Solving
17
9,557 (15.79%)
Test Automation
18
9,438 (15.59%)
C#
19
9,152 (15.12%)
Microservices
20
9,101 (15.04%)
Mentoring
21
9,036 (14.93%)
Kubernetes
22
8,863 (14.64%)
.NET
23
8,685 (14.35%)
TDD
24
8,596 (14.20%)
Degree
25
7,989 (13.20%)
Microsoft
26
7,230 (11.94%)
User Experience
27
7,225 (11.94%)
Analytics
28
6,847 (11.31%)
HTML
29
6,726 (11.11%)
CSS
30
6,700 (11.07%)
Full Stack Development
Agile Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
Cloud Services
1
15,856 (26.20%)
AWS
2
14,424 (23.83%)
Azure
3
6,610 (10.92%)
GCP
4
4,945 (8.17%)
Serverless
5
4,444 (7.34%)
SaaS
6
3,647 (6.03%)
Azure DevOps
7
3,361 (5.55%)
GitHub
8
2,272 (3.75%)
AWS Lambda
9
2,222 (3.67%)
Power Platform
10
1,433 (2.37%)
PaaS
11
1,336 (2.21%)
Cloud Computing
12
1,265 (2.09%)
Amazon S3
13
1,201 (1.98%)
AWS CloudFormation
14
1,003 (1.66%)
Amazon EC2
15
971 (1.60%)
Figma
16
964 (1.59%)
Azure Service Bus
17
913 (1.51%)
Microsoft 365
18
865 (1.43%)
OpenShift
19
861 (1.42%)
Azure Functions
20
782 (1.29%)
IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1
4,635 (7.66%)
SQL Server
2
3,755 (6.20%)
NoSQL
3
3,501 (5.78%)
PostgreSQL
4
3,189 (5.27%)
Relational Database
5
2,923 (4.83%)
MySQL
6
2,564 (4.24%)
Big Data
7
2,210 (3.65%)
MongoDB
8
1,764 (2.91%)
Power BI
9
1,616 (2.67%)
Data Warehouse
10
1,246 (2.06%)
Redis
11
1,165 (1.92%)
Elasticsearch
12
1,113 (1.84%)
Data Lake
13
1,041 (1.72%)
Tableau
14
1,014 (1.68%)
DynamoDB
15
921 (1.52%)
Hadoop
16
753 (1.24%)
BigQuery
17
669 (1.11%)
Apache Cassandra
18
666 (1.10%)
Amazon RDS
19
634 (1.05%)
SQL Server Integration Services
20
620 (1.02%)
RDBMS
Development Applications
1
9,905 (16.36%)
Git (software)
2
6,427 (10.62%)
JIRA
3
5,485 (9.06%)
Jenkins
4
2,431 (4.02%)
Selenium
5
1,608 (2.66%)
GitLab
6
1,485 (2.45%)
Cypress.io
7
1,379 (2.28%)
Cucumber
8
1,328 (2.19%)
Maven
9
1,180 (1.95%)
JUnit
10
1,056 (1.74%)
Team Foundation Server
11
1,030 (1.70%)
Postman
12
1,000 (1.65%)
webpack
13
944 (1.56%)
Gradle
14
889 (1.47%)
TeamCity
15
847 (1.40%)
Bitbucket
16
748 (1.24%)
CircleCI
17
727 (1.20%)
Visual Studio
18
709 (1.17%)
Octopus Deploy
19
674 (1.11%)
Subversion
20
634 (1.05%)
SpecFlow
General
1
16,520 (27.29%)
Finance
2
16,247 (26.84%)
Social Skills
3
5,950 (9.83%)
Analytical Skills
4
4,818 (7.96%)
Banking
5
4,569 (7.55%)
Retail
6
4,335 (7.16%)
Inclusion and Diversity
7
4,029 (6.66%)
Marketing
8
3,203 (5.29%)
Games
9
2,851 (4.71%)
Public Sector
10
2,443 (4.04%)
Legal
11
2,020 (3.34%)
Manufacturing
12
1,899 (3.14%)
Presentation Skills
13
1,634 (2.70%)
Law
14
1,436 (2.37%)
Automotive
15
1,270 (2.10%)
Influencing Skills
16
1,139 (1.88%)
Organisational Skills
17
1,021 (1.69%)
Advertising
18
947 (1.56%)
Front Office
19
912 (1.51%)
Telecoms
20
703 (1.16%)
Publishing
Job Titles
1
16,112 (26.62%)
Developer
2
7,520 (12.42%)
Software Engineer
3
4,698 (7.76%)
Analyst
4
4,627 (7.64%)
Senior Developer
5
2,810 (4.64%)
Architect
6
2,569 (4.24%)
Project Manager
7
2,464 (4.07%)
Java Developer
8
2,403 (3.97%)
Business Analyst
9
2,319 (3.83%)
Senior Software Engineer
10
2,191 (3.62%)
Software Developer
11
2,053 (3.39%)
Full Stack Developer
12
2,016 (3.33%)
.NET Developer
13
1,925 (3.18%)
DevOps Engineer
14
1,792 (2.96%)
Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15
1,747 (2.89%)
Product Manager
16
1,522 (2.51%)
Data Engineer
17
1,503 (2.48%)
Product Owner
18
1,498 (2.47%)
Java Engineer
19
1,463 (2.42%)
Designer
20
1,397 (2.31%)
Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1
11,499 (19.00%)
React
2
8,863 (14.64%)
.NET
3
6,847 (11.31%)
HTML
4
6,726 (11.11%)
CSS
5
6,591 (10.89%)
Node.js
6
4,813 (7.95%)
AngularJS
7
4,615 (7.62%)
REST
8
3,962 (6.55%)
RESTful
9
3,876 (6.40%)
Spring
10
3,568 (5.89%)
.NET Core
11
3,380 (5.58%)
Kafka
12
2,634 (4.35%)
Web Services
13
2,545 (4.20%)
.NET Framework
14
2,477 (4.09%)
Vue.js
15
2,255 (3.73%)
ASP.NET
16
2,228 (3.68%)
HTML5
17
2,224 (3.67%)
Spring Boot
18
2,217 (3.66%)
GraphQL
19
1,887 (3.12%)
JSON
20
1,845 (3.05%)
Redux
Miscellaneous
1
7,230 (11.94%)
User Experience
2
2,815 (4.65%)
Mobile App
3
2,656 (4.39%)
Cloud Native
4
2,592 (4.28%)
Self-Motivation
5
2,588 (4.28%)
Algorithms
6
2,148 (3.55%)
Greenfield Project
7
1,811 (2.99%)
Data Structures
8
1,569 (2.59%)
Management Information System
9
1,468 (2.43%)
Virtual Team
10
1,327 (2.19%)
Public Cloud
11
1,216 (2.01%)
Life Science
12
1,206 (1.99%)
Enterprise Software
13
956 (1.58%)
Blog
14
870 (1.44%)
Derivative
15
836 (1.38%)
Social Media
16
817 (1.35%)
Blockchain
17
812 (1.34%)
Hedge funds
18
711 (1.17%)
Legacy Systems
19
700 (1.16%)
Fixed Income
20
683 (1.13%)
IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1
15,659 (25.87%)
DevOps
2
15,085 (24.92%)
Software Engineering
3
14,311 (23.64%)
Scrum
4
12,976 (21.44%)
CI/CD
5
9,692 (16.01%)
Problem-Solving
6
9,557 (15.79%)
Test Automation
7
9,152 (15.12%)
Microservices
8
9,101 (15.04%)
Mentoring
9
8,685 (14.35%)
TDD
10
7,225 (11.94%)
Analytics
11
6,700 (11.07%)
Full Stack Development
12
6,513 (10.76%)
Coaching
13
6,224 (10.28%)
Continuous Integration
14
5,972 (9.87%)
SDLC
15
5,959 (9.84%)
Project Management
16
5,351 (8.84%)
Computer Science
17
5,136 (8.49%)
Continuous Improvement
18
4,967 (8.21%)
User Stories
19
4,654 (7.69%)
Stakeholder Management
20
4,346 (7.18%)
Kanban
Programming Languages
1
15,007 (24.79%)
JavaScript
2
13,228 (21.85%)
Java
3
12,213 (20.18%)
Python
4
11,998 (19.82%)
SQL
5
9,438 (15.59%)
C#
6
6,230 (10.29%)
TypeScript
7
2,558 (4.23%)
PHP
8
2,343 (3.87%)
Go
9
2,156 (3.56%)
C
10
2,106 (3.48%)
C++
11
1,909 (3.15%)
Ruby
12
1,888 (3.12%)
PowerShell
13
1,851 (3.06%)
Kotlin
14
1,665 (2.75%)
Bash
15
1,608 (2.66%)
Scala
16
1,315 (2.17%)
T-SQL
17
1,056 (1.74%)
ES6
18
860 (1.42%)
R
19
680 (1.12%)
Shell Script
20
572 (0.94%)
Apple Swift