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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 6 2
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 139 330 419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 11.39% 14.99% 24.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.91% 19.62% 25.86%
Number of salaries quoted 121 210 189
10th Percentile £46,250 £34,975 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £41,250 £41,728
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,847 £53,118
Median % change year-on-year +13.54% -0.51% +6.24%
75th Percentile £71,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
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 999 1,682 1,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 81.89% 76.42% 96.26%
Number of salaries quoted 557 1,114 800
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,975 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £32,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.96% - -5.59%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -11 77 £65,000 +16.07% 82
North Wales +6 30 £47,683 +5.96% 8
West Wales 0 9 £50,124 -16.46% 9
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 (2.16%) CMS
1 3 (2.16%) ColdFusion
1 3 (2.16%) Confluence
1 3 (2.16%) Headless CMS
1 3 (2.16%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.72%) Apache
2 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.72%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 47 (33.81%) Azure
2 18 (12.95%) AWS
3 8 (5.76%) Serverless
4 7 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (5.04%) Power Platform
4 7 (5.04%) PowerApps
5 4 (2.88%) GCP
5 4 (2.88%) Power Automate
6 3 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.16%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (2.16%) Contentful
7 2 (1.44%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.44%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (1.44%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.72%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (0.72%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 22 (15.83%) Network Security
2 10 (7.19%) Modbus
2 10 (7.19%) MQTT
2 10 (7.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.51%) PostgreSQL
1 16 (11.51%) RDBMS
1 16 (11.51%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.44%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.44%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.72%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.72%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.72%) MySQL
3 1 (0.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (10.07%) Git
2 6 (4.32%) JIRA
3 5 (3.60%) JMeter
3 5 (3.60%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (2.16%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.16%) Katalon Studio
5 2 (1.44%) Appium
5 2 (1.44%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.44%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.44%) JUnit
5 2 (1.44%) Maven
5 2 (1.44%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.44%) Selenium
5 2 (1.44%) TestNG
6 1 (0.72%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.72%) SonarQube
General
1 39 (28.06%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.71%) Presentation Skills
3 11 (7.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (7.19%) Retail
5 9 (6.47%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.76%) Finance
7 7 (5.04%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (4.32%) Marketing
9 4 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.44%) Electronics
11 2 (1.44%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.44%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.72%) Banking
12 1 (0.72%) Legal
Job Titles
1 36 (25.90%) Software Engineer
2 29 (20.86%) Developer
2 29 (20.86%) Senior
3 26 (18.71%) Systems Engineer
4 23 (16.55%) Lead
5 16 (11.51%) Principal Engineer
6 14 (10.07%) Principal Software Engineer
7 11 (7.91%) Lead Software Engineer
7 11 (7.91%) Test Engineer
8 10 (7.19%) Senior Software Engineer
9 9 (6.47%) Architect
9 9 (6.47%) Lead Developer
9 9 (6.47%) Software Architect
10 8 (5.76%) Senior Software Test Engineer
10 8 (5.76%) Senior Test Engineer
10 8 (5.76%) Software Team Leader
10 8 (5.76%) Software Test Engineer
10 8 (5.76%) Team Leader
11 7 (5.04%) Senior Developer
12 6 (4.32%) Firmware Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (18.71%) .NET
2 9 (6.47%) Middleware
3 8 (5.76%) Node.js
4 7 (5.04%) React
4 7 (5.04%) REST
5 5 (3.60%) CSS
5 5 (3.60%) HTML
6 4 (2.88%) Symfony
7 3 (2.16%) .NET Framework
7 3 (2.16%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.16%) Bootstrap
7 3 (2.16%) Express.js
7 3 (2.16%) GraphQL
7 3 (2.16%) hapi
7 3 (2.16%) NestJS
7 3 (2.16%) OpenLayers
7 3 (2.16%) React Native
7 3 (2.16%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.16%) Vue
8 2 (1.44%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.95%) IoT
2 10 (7.19%) Device Driver
3 7 (5.04%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.88%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.16%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.16%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.16%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.44%) CUDA
6 2 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.44%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.72%) Blog
7 1 (0.72%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.72%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.72%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (17.99%) Linux
1 25 (17.99%) Unix
2 22 (15.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (44.60%) UML
2 44 (31.65%) Software Engineering
3 40 (28.78%) Computer Science
3 40 (28.78%) Mentoring
4 39 (28.06%) Waterfall
5 31 (22.30%) Configuration Management
5 31 (22.30%) Systems Engineering
6 29 (20.86%) Cybersecurity
7 26 (18.71%) CI/CD
7 26 (18.71%) MODAF
7 26 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (18.71%) SysML
8 25 (17.99%) DevOps
8 25 (17.99%) Technical Leadership
9 24 (17.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (15.83%) Full-Stack Development
11 19 (13.67%) Scrum
12 18 (12.95%) Product Strategy
12 18 (12.95%) Technical Debt
13 17 (12.23%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 26 (18.71%) MATLAB
1 26 (18.71%) SQL
2 21 (15.11%) C#
3 15 (10.79%) JavaScript
4 13 (9.35%) Ada
4 13 (9.35%) C++
5 12 (8.63%) Python
6 10 (7.19%) C
7 9 (6.47%) Java
8 8 (5.76%) TypeScript
9 6 (4.32%) Ada 95
10 5 (3.60%) Groovy
11 4 (2.88%) PHP
12 2 (1.44%) Rust
13 1 (0.72%) R
13 1 (0.72%) Ruby
13 1 (0.72%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 74 (53.24%) Degree
2 57 (41.01%) BPSS Clearance
3 26 (18.71%) Chartered Engineer
4 11 (7.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.32%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.32%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.16%) CSPO
7 1 (0.72%) CSQA
7 1 (0.72%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (20.14%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 6 (4.32%) QA
3 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (7.19%) Firmware
2 4 (2.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.60%) Terraform
2 3 (2.16%) Grafana
2 3 (2.16%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.44%) Argo
Vendors
1 7 (5.04%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.16%) Atlassian
2 3 (2.16%) Google
2 3 (2.16%) IBM
2 3 (2.16%) Oracle
2 3 (2.16%) Salesforce
3 2 (1.44%) PagerDuty
3 2 (1.44%) SAP
4 1 (0.72%) Pega