Agile Jobs in Wales

Agile Software Development
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 3 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +3
Permanent jobs citing Agile 316 449 546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 28.75% 28.01% 33.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 29.67% 28.82% 35.76%
Number of salaries quoted 170 306 419
10th Percentile £37,240 £33,284 £32,715
25th Percentile £43,487 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £69,314 £66,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,433 £77,607 £69,012
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.84% +3.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 advertised in Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,065 1,558 1,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 96.91% 97.19% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 615 959 1,108
10th Percentile £30,450 £31,250 £27,350
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £35,206
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £49,890 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.79% +10.87% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,169 £72,500 £67,513
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% +9.09%

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 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
South Wales -1 262 £57,395 +4.36% 67
West Wales +4 46 £50,000 +25.00% 16
Dyfed +2 1 £55,000 +23.60%
North Wales -3 1 £52,500 -25.00% 9
Mid Wales -12 1 £49,884 +50.51%
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 10 (3.16%) SAS
2 8 (2.53%) Confluence
2 8 (2.53%) Tomcat
3 7 (2.22%) JBoss
3 7 (2.22%) Red Hat Fuse
4 4 (1.27%) Apache
4 4 (1.27%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.27%) Oracle Application Server
5 2 (0.63%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.63%) WordPress
6 1 (0.32%) Anypoint
Applications
1 5 (1.58%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.32%) Trello
3 1 (0.32%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 25 (7.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.32%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 138 (43.67%) Azure
2 65 (20.57%) AWS
3 50 (15.82%) Power Platform
4 43 (13.61%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (12.34%) Dynamics 365
6 38 (12.03%) SaaS
7 33 (10.44%) IaaS
7 33 (10.44%) PaaS
8 31 (9.81%) GCP
9 30 (9.49%) Serverless
10 19 (6.01%) Azure Functions
11 8 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (2.53%) Entra ID
11 8 (2.53%) GitHub
11 8 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (1.58%) OpenShift
13 4 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.27%) dbt
13 4 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.38%) DNS
2 12 (3.80%) TCP/IP
3 8 (2.53%) SSL
4 6 (1.90%) HTTP
5 5 (1.58%) SAN
6 4 (1.27%) Firewall
7 3 (0.95%) DHCP
7 3 (0.95%) SMS
8 2 (0.63%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.28%) SQL Server
2 20 (6.33%) MySQL
3 16 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (4.11%) Power BI
5 8 (2.53%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.22%) Big Data
7 6 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.58%) Delta Lake
8 5 (1.58%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.27%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.27%) Oracle Database 12c
10 3 (0.95%) Data Vault
10 3 (0.95%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.63%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.32%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.32%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 26 (8.23%) Git
2 16 (5.06%) JIRA
3 7 (2.22%) IntelliJ
4 5 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.58%) Oracle APEX
4 5 (1.58%) Selenium
5 4 (1.27%) GitLab
5 4 (1.27%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.63%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (0.63%) Postman
7 1 (0.32%) Bower
7 1 (0.32%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.32%) JMeter
7 1 (0.32%) MSTest
7 1 (0.32%) PVCS
7 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.32%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 108 (34.18%) Finance
2 79 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 41 (12.97%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (11.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (8.86%) Banking
6 19 (6.01%) Presentation Skills
6 19 (6.01%) Public Sector
7 17 (5.38%) Retail
8 11 (3.48%) Telecoms
9 10 (3.16%) Advertising
10 8 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.22%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.58%) Marketing
13 2 (0.63%) Digital Economy
13 2 (0.63%) Legal
13 2 (0.63%) Retail Finance
13 2 (0.63%) Welsh Language
14 1 (0.32%) Brand Awareness
14 1 (0.32%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 87 (27.53%) Senior
2 85 (26.90%) Architect
3 54 (17.09%) Developer
4 38 (12.03%) Solutions Architect
5 34 (10.76%) Dynamics 365 Architect
6 27 (8.54%) Software Engineer
7 23 (7.28%) Analyst
8 21 (6.65%) Senior Developer
9 19 (6.01%) CRM Architect
9 19 (6.01%) Dynamics CRM Architect
9 19 (6.01%) Lead
10 17 (5.38%) DevOps Engineer
11 16 (5.06%) Project Manager
12 13 (4.11%) Enterprise Architect
12 13 (4.11%) Full Stack Developer
13 12 (3.80%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
14 11 (3.48%) Senior Software Engineer
15 10 (3.16%) Data Engineer
15 10 (3.16%) Senior Architect
15 10 (3.16%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (9.49%) HTML
1 30 (9.49%) RESTful
2 27 (8.54%) CSS
3 25 (7.91%) AngularJS
4 24 (7.59%) React
5 21 (6.65%) .NET
6 17 (5.38%) JSON
7 16 (5.06%) Web Services
8 14 (4.43%) Node.js
8 14 (4.43%) XML
9 12 (3.80%) SOAP
10 10 (3.16%) Hibernate
10 10 (3.16%) Middleware
10 10 (3.16%) Spring
11 9 (2.85%) Vue
12 8 (2.53%) CSS3
12 8 (2.53%) HTML5
13 7 (2.22%) Express.js
13 7 (2.22%) JPA
13 7 (2.22%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.91%) Public Cloud
2 22 (6.96%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.85%) Cloud Native
4 9 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.53%) Driving Licence
5 8 (2.53%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.22%) Credit Risk
6 7 (2.22%) Legacy Code
6 7 (2.22%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.90%) Blog
7 6 (1.90%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.58%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.95%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.63%) CMDB
12 1 (0.32%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.32%) Graphic Design
12 1 (0.32%) IoT
12 1 (0.32%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 25 (7.91%) Linux
2 20 (6.33%) Windows
3 8 (2.53%) Unix
4 6 (1.90%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.27%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (32.28%) Actionable Insight
2 87 (27.53%) DevOps
3 67 (21.20%) Scrum
4 62 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
4 62 (19.62%) Software Engineering
5 60 (18.99%) Mentoring
6 54 (17.09%) Roadmaps
7 38 (12.03%) Project Management
8 34 (10.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (10.44%) TOGAF
10 32 (10.13%) Presales
11 30 (9.49%) CI/CD
12 29 (9.18%) Software Delivery
13 28 (8.86%) CRM
13 28 (8.86%) Enterprise Architecture
13 28 (8.86%) SDLC
14 26 (8.23%) Front End Development
14 26 (8.23%) Infrastructure as Code
14 26 (8.23%) Strategic Roadmap
15 25 (7.91%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 47 (14.87%) Python
2 37 (11.71%) Java
3 35 (11.08%) C#
3 35 (11.08%) SQL
4 29 (9.18%) JavaScript
5 14 (4.43%) Bash
5 14 (4.43%) PowerShell
6 11 (3.48%) PL/SQL
7 8 (2.53%) R
7 8 (2.53%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.90%) PHP
9 2 (0.63%) C++
9 2 (0.63%) Go
9 2 (0.63%) Groovy
10 1 (0.32%) Bicep
10 1 (0.32%) Perl
10 1 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 47 (14.87%) Security Cleared
2 43 (13.61%) Degree
3 41 (12.97%) SC Cleared
4 19 (6.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (4.43%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (4.11%) TOGAF Certification
7 9 (2.85%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.95%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.63%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.63%) CSPO
9 2 (0.63%) OCP
9 2 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.32%) PhD
10 1 (0.32%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.06%) QA
2 5 (1.58%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.27%) CRD IV
3 4 (1.27%) IFRS
3 4 (1.27%) IFRS 9
4 3 (0.95%) GDPR
5 2 (0.63%) SLA
6 1 (0.32%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (6.01%) Docker
2 10 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.95%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (6.96%) Kubernetes
1 22 (6.96%) Terraform
2 14 (4.43%) Ansible
3 5 (1.58%) Grafana
3 5 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.95%) Puppet
5 2 (0.63%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 74 (23.42%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.43%) SAP
3 13 (4.11%) Oracle
4 10 (3.16%) Databricks
5 8 (2.53%) Atlassian
6 7 (2.22%) TOWER Software
6 7 (2.22%) VMware
7 6 (1.90%) MuleSoft
7 6 (1.90%) NEC
7 6 (1.90%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.58%) Google
9 4 (1.27%) IBM
9 4 (1.27%) New Relic
9 4 (1.27%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.95%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.95%) Teradata
11 2 (0.63%) Remedy
11 2 (0.63%) Snow
12 1 (0.32%) Concur
12 1 (0.32%) Hotjar