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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 19,691 29,952 54,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.84% 29.69% 34.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.19% 31.06% 35.83%
Number of salaries quoted 11,605 16,322 25,960
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,064 £105,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,965 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.62% +8.23% +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 84,921 96,445 150,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.59% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 59,902 56,808 82,456
10th Percentile £29,010 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

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 11 May 2024.

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 11 May 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 -2 15,571 £62,500 -7.41% 3,406
UK excluding London 0 14,069 £57,965 -2.62% 2,325
Work from Home -1 8,592 £61,206 -5.84% 2,002
London -2 4,889 £80,000 - 1,246
North of England -1 3,490 £57,965 -0.93% 603
Scotland -1 3,078 £60,000 - 162
South East -2 2,870 £60,000 -4.00% 488
North West -1 1,990 £60,000 +4.35% 356
Midlands -4 1,803 £55,000 - 429
South West -2 1,639 £59,541 +3.55% 353
Yorkshire -1 1,105 £57,965 -3.39% 172
West Midlands -6 1,101 £57,500 +1.79% 271
East of England -5 742 £57,500 -4.17% 206
East Midlands -2 687 £52,500 -4.55% 156
North East +1 395 £53,903 -1.99% 79
Wales -4 323 £52,686 -4.00% 93
Northern Ireland -3 129 £60,000 +14.29% 38
Isle of Man - 5 £54,000 - 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
1 735 (3.73%) Apache Spark
2 575 (2.92%) Apache
3 515 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
4 485 (2.46%) Confluence
5 383 (1.95%) SharePoint
6 344 (1.75%) SAS
7 339 (1.72%) ArcGIS
8 333 (1.69%) GeoServer
9 130 (0.66%) CMS
10 128 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
11 126 (0.64%) FileNet
12 62 (0.31%) IIS
13 60 (0.30%) OpenStack
14 47 (0.24%) WebLogic
14 47 (0.24%) WordPress
15 42 (0.21%) WebSphere
16 38 (0.19%) Tuxedo
17 37 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
18 32 (0.16%) nginx
19 30 (0.15%) Captiva
Applications
1 812 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 297 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
3 210 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 142 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
5 102 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 77 (0.39%) AutoCAD
7 56 (0.28%) Simulink
8 43 (0.22%) Adobe XD
9 40 (0.20%) Sketch
10 36 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
11 35 (0.18%) UserZoom
12 28 (0.14%) Photoshop
13 22 (0.11%) Stateflow
13 22 (0.11%) Trello
14 20 (0.10%) Revit
15 16 (0.081%) InVision
16 8 (0.041%) Adobe Illustrator
17 7 (0.036%) CANalyzer
17 7 (0.036%) SPSS
18 6 (0.030%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 310 (1.57%) SAP ERP
2 250 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 76 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 62 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
5 53 (0.27%) NetSuite
6 43 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 40 (0.20%) Siebel CRM
8 28 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
9 26 (0.13%) NEC Housing
9 26 (0.13%) SDL Web 8
10 20 (0.10%) Magento
11 19 (0.096%) SAP Oil and Gas
12 18 (0.091%) Shopify
13 16 (0.081%) Aladdin
13 16 (0.081%) Dynamics AX
14 15 (0.076%) Primavera
14 15 (0.076%) SAP CX
15 14 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
16 13 (0.066%) SAP GTS
17 11 (0.056%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 5,389 (27.37%) Azure
2 4,960 (25.19%) AWS
3 1,528 (7.76%) GCP
4 1,107 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
5 1,024 (5.20%) Power Platform
6 747 (3.79%) SaaS
7 621 (3.15%) Serverless
8 504 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
9 467 (2.37%) GitHub
10 457 (2.32%) Dynamics 365
11 336 (1.71%) PowerApps
12 320 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
13 315 (1.60%) Power Automate
14 313 (1.59%) Amazon S3
15 306 (1.55%) Amazon EKS
16 292 (1.48%) Snowflake
17 291 (1.48%) dbt
18 253 (1.28%) PaaS
19 214 (1.09%) Amazon ECS
20 207 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 824 (4.18%) Broadband
2 322 (1.64%) Firewall
3 284 (1.44%) DNS
4 248 (1.26%) Internet
5 227 (1.15%) TCP/IP
6 164 (0.83%) WAN
7 152 (0.77%) Network Security
8 144 (0.73%) VPN
9 137 (0.70%) DHCP
10 136 (0.69%) LAN
11 130 (0.66%) Wireless
12 126 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
13 84 (0.43%) Kerberos
14 82 (0.42%) HTTP
14 82 (0.42%) Intranet
15 73 (0.37%) SSL
16 67 (0.34%) BGP
17 50 (0.25%) Bluetooth
18 46 (0.23%) SD-WAN
19 45 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,787 (9.08%) SQL Server
2 1,278 (6.49%) NoSQL
3 895 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
4 722 (3.67%) Big Data
5 660 (3.35%) Power BI
6 654 (3.32%) MongoDB
7 513 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
8 510 (2.59%) Relational Database
9 485 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
10 476 (2.42%) Data Lake
11 452 (2.30%) MySQL
12 382 (1.94%) BigQuery
13 354 (1.80%) GIS
14 343 (1.74%) Apache Ignite
15 333 (1.69%) Hadoop
16 330 (1.68%) QGIS
17 297 (1.51%) Looker
18 274 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
19 240 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
20 237 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1,618 (8.22%) Git
2 1,333 (6.77%) JIRA
3 912 (4.63%) Jenkins
4 380 (1.93%) Selenium
5 355 (1.80%) JUnit
6 348 (1.77%) GitLab
7 324 (1.65%) Visual Studio
8 301 (1.53%) Cypress.io
9 192 (0.98%) Bitbucket
10 176 (0.89%) Cucumber
11 148 (0.75%) Jasmine
12 143 (0.73%) Maven
13 126 (0.64%) TeamCity
13 126 (0.64%) WebDriver
14 117 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
15 113 (0.57%) Postman
16 103 (0.52%) Artifactory
17 102 (0.52%) JMeter
18 96 (0.49%) NUnit
19 95 (0.48%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 6,877 (34.92%) Finance
2 5,271 (26.77%) Social Skills
3 3,647 (18.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2,785 (14.14%) Law
5 2,293 (11.64%) Analytical Skills
6 1,905 (9.67%) Marketing
7 1,636 (8.31%) Banking
8 1,310 (6.65%) Legal
9 1,019 (5.17%) Public Sector
10 899 (4.57%) Influencing Skills
11 821 (4.17%) Retail
12 698 (3.54%) Front Office
13 692 (3.51%) Investment Banking
14 543 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
15 419 (2.13%) Aerospace
16 324 (1.65%) Financial Institution
17 263 (1.34%) Games
18 261 (1.33%) Manufacturing
19 234 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
20 222 (1.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4,416 (22.43%) Developer
2 3,737 (18.98%) Software Engineer
3 3,611 (18.34%) Senior
4 2,616 (13.29%) Lead
5 1,716 (8.71%) Analyst
6 1,579 (8.02%) Architect
7 1,420 (7.21%) .NET Developer
8 1,292 (6.56%) Project Manager
9 1,019 (5.17%) Java Engineer
10 950 (4.82%) Java Software Engineer
11 897 (4.56%) Senior Developer
11 897 (4.56%) Senior Software Engineer
12 839 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
13 825 (4.19%) Lead Software Engineer
14 692 (3.51%) Data Engineer
15 640 (3.25%) Business Analyst
16 605 (3.07%) Python Engineer
17 604 (3.07%) Software Developer
18 600 (3.05%) C# Developer
19 557 (2.83%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,361 (17.07%) .NET
2 2,625 (13.33%) React
3 1,937 (9.84%) AngularJS
4 1,740 (8.84%) HTML
5 1,726 (8.77%) CSS
6 1,542 (7.83%) .NET Core
7 1,389 (7.05%) ASP.NET
8 1,159 (5.89%) Spring
9 984 (5.00%) Node.js
10 926 (4.70%) REST
10 926 (4.70%) RESTful
11 886 (4.50%) .NET Framework
12 842 (4.28%) Vue
13 831 (4.22%) ASP.NET MVC
14 829 (4.21%) ASP.NET Web API
15 746 (3.79%) Entity Framework
16 731 (3.71%) Spring Boot
17 700 (3.55%) Kafka
18 693 (3.52%) Web Services
19 667 (3.39%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 1,464 (7.43%) Product Ownership
2 1,215 (6.17%) Cloud Native
3 1,155 (5.87%) Algorithms
4 639 (3.25%) Management Information System
5 630 (3.20%) Public Cloud
6 573 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
7 554 (2.81%) Fixed Income
8 521 (2.65%) Hedge funds
9 505 (2.56%) Data Structures
10 496 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
11 434 (2.20%) Derivative
12 426 (2.16%) Equities
13 403 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 394 (2.00%) Onboarding
15 336 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
16 303 (1.54%) Mobile App
17 237 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
18 230 (1.17%) Blockchain
19 211 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
20 205 (1.04%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,308 (6.64%) Linux
2 822 (4.17%) Windows
3 381 (1.93%) Android
4 309 (1.57%) Unix
5 299 (1.52%) Apple iOS
6 168 (0.85%) Windows Server
7 160 (0.81%) Ubuntu
8 126 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 63 (0.32%) Windows 10
10 58 (0.29%) CentOS
11 51 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
11 51 (0.26%) VMS
12 38 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
13 34 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
14 33 (0.17%) Debian
15 26 (0.13%) Mac OS
16 14 (0.071%) Solaris
17 11 (0.056%) zOS
18 10 (0.051%) Windows 7
19 9 (0.046%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,424 (27.55%) Software Engineering
2 3,935 (19.98%) DevOps
3 3,805 (19.32%) CI/CD
4 3,458 (17.56%) SDLC
5 3,228 (16.39%) Mentoring
6 3,190 (16.20%) Scrum
7 3,121 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
8 2,501 (12.70%) Project Management
9 2,490 (12.65%) Full Stack Development
10 2,359 (11.98%) Artificial Intelligence
11 2,256 (11.46%) Microservices
12 2,214 (11.24%) Roadmaps
13 2,210 (11.22%) Continuous Improvement
14 1,973 (10.02%) Coaching
15 1,958 (9.94%) Machine Learning
16 1,887 (9.58%) Actionable Insight
17 1,878 (9.54%) Decision-Making
18 1,817 (9.23%) Operational Stability
19 1,793 (9.11%) TDD
20 1,564 (7.94%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3,903 (19.82%) JavaScript
2 3,816 (19.38%) SQL
3 3,627 (18.42%) Java
4 3,553 (18.04%) C#
5 3,410 (17.32%) Python
6 1,813 (9.21%) TypeScript
7 450 (2.29%) Scala
8 398 (2.02%) PHP
9 374 (1.90%) C
10 369 (1.87%) C++
11 340 (1.73%) PowerShell
12 339 (1.72%) Go
13 276 (1.40%) T-SQL
14 273 (1.39%) Kotlin
15 203 (1.03%) PL/SQL
16 179 (0.91%) Bash
17 140 (0.71%) Ruby
18 135 (0.69%) R
19 108 (0.55%) MATLAB
20 101 (0.51%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2,716 (13.79%) Degree
2 2,358 (11.98%) Security Cleared
3 1,554 (7.89%) SC Cleared
4 658 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 544 (2.76%) DV Cleared
6 478 (2.43%) ACCA
7 472 (2.40%) CIMA
8 321 (1.63%) Master's Degree
9 274 (1.39%) PMI Certification
10 236 (1.20%) AWS Certification
11 226 (1.15%) PMP
12 204 (1.04%) Azure Certification
13 158 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
14 152 (0.77%) DBS Check
15 146 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
16 118 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 115 (0.58%) HNC
18 111 (0.56%) HND
19 99 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
20 90 (0.46%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1,117 (5.67%) QA
2 415 (2.11%) Data Quality
3 389 (1.98%) Accessibility
4 327 (1.66%) GDPR
5 261 (1.33%) PMO
6 138 (0.70%) SLA
7 103 (0.52%) WCAG
8 94 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 78 (0.40%) NIST
10 50 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
11 44 (0.22%) ISO 9001
12 30 (0.15%) MISRA
13 29 (0.15%) PCI DSS
14 27 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
15 26 (0.13%) NCSC
15 26 (0.13%) NIST 800
16 23 (0.12%) GRC
17 20 (0.10%) Automotive SPICE
17 20 (0.10%) AUTOSAR
17 20 (0.10%) IFRS
System Software
1 1,320 (6.70%) Docker
2 388 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 180 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 118 (0.60%) HDFS
5 87 (0.44%) Firmware
5 87 (0.44%) Hyper-V
6 68 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
7 63 (0.32%) vSphere
8 60 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
9 54 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
10 27 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
11 22 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 20 (0.10%) VMware NSX
13 14 (0.071%) Time Sharing Option
14 9 (0.046%) KVM
14 9 (0.046%) Terminal Services
15 7 (0.036%) Microsoft App-V
16 6 (0.030%) DFS Replication
17 5 (0.025%) SRDF
18 3 (0.015%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,609 (8.17%) Kubernetes
2 1,208 (6.13%) Terraform
3 529 (2.69%) Ansible
4 257 (1.31%) Grafana
5 191 (0.97%) Prometheus
6 132 (0.67%) Puppet
7 97 (0.49%) Progress Chef
8 71 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
8 71 (0.36%) SCCM
9 61 (0.31%) Kibana
10 39 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 37 (0.19%) WSUS
12 34 (0.17%) SCOM
13 32 (0.16%) HAProxy
14 30 (0.15%) ZABBIX
15 29 (0.15%) vCenter Server
16 26 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
16 26 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
17 21 (0.11%) Zipkin
18 18 (0.091%) Packer
Vendors
1 3,476 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 1,202 (6.10%) Oracle
3 954 (4.84%) Google
4 639 (3.25%) SAP
5 455 (2.31%) Databricks
6 338 (1.72%) ESRI
7 303 (1.54%) IBM
8 300 (1.52%) Anaplan
8 300 (1.52%) Hyperion
8 300 (1.52%) Salesforce
9 260 (1.32%) Red Hat
10 242 (1.23%) Splunk
11 236 (1.20%) Dynatrace
12 229 (1.16%) ServiceNow
13 211 (1.07%) VMware
14 157 (0.80%) Informatica
15 152 (0.77%) Atlassian
16 127 (0.64%) Cisco
17 114 (0.58%) Adobe
18 107 (0.54%) Facebook