Agile Jobs in Wales

Agile Software Development
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 21 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 117 332 432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 13.21% 16.69% 26.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.94% 20.84% 27.20%
Number of salaries quoted 104 223 219
10th Percentile £42,500 £34,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,637 £41,250 £41,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.34% +9.76%
75th Percentile £70,250 £68,750 £67,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £80,700
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 734 1,593 1,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 82.84% 80.09% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 404 1,049 806
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,700 £26,391
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,173 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.49% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,530 £55,000 £61,750
% change year-on-year +4.60% -10.93% +2.92%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Wales

Agile
Salary Trend in Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Agile in Wales.

Salary trend for Agile in Wales

Agile
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in Wales over the 6 months to 21 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Agile in Wales

Agile
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Wales region over the 6 months to 21 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
South Wales -10 58 £60,000 +13.88% 122
North Wales +4 24 £47,683 +5.96% 5
West Wales -5 11 £49,104 -10.72% 5
Dyfed - 1 £80,000 -
Agile
UK

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 3 (2.56%) CMS
1 3 (2.56%) Confluence
1 3 (2.56%) Headless CMS
2 2 (1.71%) Apache
2 2 (1.71%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.71%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 4 (3.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.42%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 56 (47.86%) Azure
2 23 (19.66%) AWS
3 15 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (7.69%) Serverless
5 7 (5.98%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.42%) GCP
7 3 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.56%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (2.56%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (2.56%) Contentful
7 3 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.56%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.71%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (1.71%) GitHub
9 1 (0.85%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.85%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.85%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.85%) IaaS
9 1 (0.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (18.80%) Network Security
2 10 (8.55%) Modbus
2 10 (8.55%) MQTT
2 10 (8.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.24%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (13.68%) RDBMS
2 16 (13.68%) Relational Database
3 6 (5.13%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.42%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.56%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.56%) Power BI
5 3 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.71%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.71%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (1.71%) MySQL
6 2 (1.71%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.71%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 13 (11.11%) Git
2 8 (6.84%) JMeter
3 6 (5.13%) JIRA
4 5 (4.27%) Cucumber
4 5 (4.27%) Selenium
5 4 (3.42%) Appium
5 4 (3.42%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.42%) Maven
6 3 (2.56%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.71%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.71%) JUnit
7 2 (1.71%) Katalon Studio
7 2 (1.71%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (1.71%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (1.71%) Postman
7 2 (1.71%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (1.71%) TestNG
8 1 (0.85%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.85%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.85%) SpecFlow
General
1 35 (29.91%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
3 12 (10.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 12 (10.26%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.98%) Retail
6 6 (5.13%) Finance
7 4 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.56%) Marketing
9 2 (1.71%) Electronics
9 2 (1.71%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.71%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (27.35%) Developer
2 31 (26.50%) Senior
3 30 (25.64%) Software Engineer
4 21 (17.95%) Lead
5 18 (15.38%) Systems Engineer
6 11 (9.40%) Lead Software Engineer
6 11 (9.40%) Test Engineer
7 10 (8.55%) Principal Engineer
7 10 (8.55%) Senior Software Engineer
8 9 (7.69%) Lead Developer
8 9 (7.69%) Senior Developer
9 8 (6.84%) Delivery Manager
9 8 (6.84%) Principal Software Engineer
9 8 (6.84%) Software Team Leader
9 8 (6.84%) Team Leader
10 7 (5.98%) Senior Software Test Engineer
10 7 (5.98%) Senior Test Engineer
10 7 (5.98%) Software Test Engineer
11 6 (5.13%) Firmware Developer
12 5 (4.27%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (23.08%) .NET
2 10 (8.55%) REST
3 9 (7.69%) Node.js
4 8 (6.84%) CSS
4 8 (6.84%) HTML
4 8 (6.84%) React
5 7 (5.98%) SOAP
5 7 (5.98%) Web Services
6 5 (4.27%) AngularJS
6 5 (4.27%) RESTful
7 4 (3.42%) Symfony
8 3 (2.56%) ASP.NET
8 3 (2.56%) Bootstrap
8 3 (2.56%) Express.js
8 3 (2.56%) GraphQL
8 3 (2.56%) hapi
8 3 (2.56%) NestJS
8 3 (2.56%) OpenLayers
8 3 (2.56%) React Native
8 3 (2.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.38%) IoT
2 10 (8.55%) Device Driver
3 9 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.56%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.56%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.56%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.71%) CUDA
6 2 (1.71%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.71%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.85%) Blog
7 1 (0.85%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (22.22%) Linux
1 26 (22.22%) Unix
2 22 (18.80%) Windows
3 1 (0.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (33.33%) UML
2 36 (30.77%) Software Engineering
3 31 (26.50%) CI/CD
4 30 (25.64%) Mentoring
5 26 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (21.37%) Computer Science
6 25 (21.37%) DevOps
7 24 (20.51%) Full-Stack Development
7 24 (20.51%) Waterfall
8 23 (19.66%) Technical Leadership
9 22 (18.80%) Scrum
9 22 (18.80%) Test Automation
10 20 (17.09%) Systems Engineering
11 18 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
11 18 (15.38%) MODAF
11 18 (15.38%) Product Strategy
11 18 (15.38%) SysML
11 18 (15.38%) Technical Debt
12 16 (13.68%) Web Development
13 14 (11.97%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 37 (31.62%) SQL
2 27 (23.08%) C#
3 18 (15.38%) MATLAB
4 13 (11.11%) C++
4 13 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 13 (11.11%) Python
5 12 (10.26%) TypeScript
6 11 (9.40%) Java
7 10 (8.55%) C
8 6 (5.13%) Ada
8 6 (5.13%) Groovy
9 4 (3.42%) PHP
10 2 (1.71%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.71%) Rust
11 1 (0.85%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.85%) R
11 1 (0.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 49 (41.88%) Degree
2 32 (27.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 10 (8.55%) Security Cleared
4 9 (7.69%) Chartered Engineer
4 9 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.27%) CSPO
6 3 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.56%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.56%) SAFe Agilist
7 2 (1.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.85%) CSQA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 8 (6.84%) QA
3 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (8.55%) Firmware
2 6 (5.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.27%) Terraform
2 4 (3.42%) Grafana
3 2 (1.71%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.85%) Argo
Vendors
1 10 (8.55%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.42%) Oracle
3 3 (2.56%) Atlassian
3 3 (2.56%) Google
4 2 (1.71%) PagerDuty
4 2 (1.71%) SAP