Agile Job Trends in Wales

Agile Software Development
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Agile skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -4
Permanent jobs citing Agile 223 95 243
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 9.64% 13.77% 12.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.92% 16.38% 17.19%
Number of salaries quoted 201 87 198
10th Percentile £39,238 £41,250 £34,675
25th Percentile £50,400 £49,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,515 £65,000 £53,978
Median % change year-on-year -11.52% +20.42% -0.04%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -3.85%

All Process & 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 1,495 580 1,414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 64.63% 84.06% 70.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,084 407 1,125
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,393 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.78% +11.98% -
75th Percentile £65,750 £66,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,224 £77,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Agile relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Agile job vacancy trend in Wales

Agile
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Agile.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Agile

Agile
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in Wales over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

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 13 July 2026. 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 +1 133 £55,000 -8.33% 36
West Wales +3 86 £69,501 +38.66% 20
North Wales - 4 £45,000 - 2
Agile
UK

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (5.83%) SharePoint
2 11 (4.93%) Confluence
3 2 (0.90%) Apache
3 2 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 11 (4.93%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (3.14%) Adobe XD
3 6 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.79%) Sketch
5 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.35%) Trello
6 2 (0.90%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (5.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (3.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 83 (37.22%) Azure
2 61 (27.35%) AWS
3 42 (18.83%) Azure DevOps
3 42 (18.83%) Serverless
4 22 (9.87%) GCP
5 21 (9.42%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (8.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (8.07%) GitHub
7 18 (8.07%) Power Platform
8 17 (7.62%) Azure Logic Apps
9 16 (7.17%) Azure Service Bus
9 16 (7.17%) Power Automate
9 16 (7.17%) PowerApps
10 15 (6.73%) Figma
11 14 (6.28%) Azure Functions
11 14 (6.28%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (4.04%) Amazon S3
13 7 (3.14%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (2.69%) dbt
14 6 (2.69%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.69%) LAN
1 6 (2.69%) Unified Communications
1 6 (2.69%) WAN
1 6 (2.69%) WLAN
2 5 (2.24%) Intranet
3 2 (0.90%) Firewall
3 2 (0.90%) SSL
4 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.45%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.83%) MongoDB
2 9 (4.04%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (3.59%) NoSQL
3 8 (3.59%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.24%) Looker
6 5 (2.24%) MySQL
7 4 (1.79%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.35%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.90%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.90%) Power BI
10 1 (0.45%) Adabas
10 1 (0.45%) Redis
10 1 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (11.21%) Git
2 22 (9.87%) JIRA
3 19 (8.52%) Jenkins
4 12 (5.38%) Selenium
5 7 (3.14%) JUnit
6 6 (2.69%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.24%) GitLab
7 5 (2.24%) Postman
8 4 (1.79%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.79%) JMeter
8 4 (1.79%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.79%) Zephyr
9 3 (1.35%) Newman
9 3 (1.35%) TestRail
10 2 (0.90%) Bower
11 1 (0.45%) Burp Suite
11 1 (0.45%) Gatling
11 1 (0.45%) Gradle
11 1 (0.45%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.45%) SpecFlow
General
1 80 (35.87%) Public Sector
2 64 (28.70%) Social Skills
3 53 (23.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (8.07%) Finance
5 15 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.04%) Legal
7 8 (3.59%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.14%) Banking
9 6 (2.69%) Marketing
9 6 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.79%) Welsh Language
11 3 (1.35%) Law
11 3 (1.35%) Retail
12 2 (0.90%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.45%) Agriculture
13 1 (0.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 82 (36.77%) Senior
2 72 (32.29%) Developer
3 32 (14.35%) Senior Developer
4 27 (12.11%) Lead
5 22 (9.87%) Delivery Manager
6 20 (8.97%) Agile Delivery Manager
6 20 (8.97%) Software Developer
7 17 (7.62%) Architect
7 17 (7.62%) Senior Manager
8 15 (6.73%) Designer
9 13 (5.83%) Java Developer
10 12 (5.38%) Analyst
10 12 (5.38%) Senior Delivery Manager
10 12 (5.38%) Senior Software Developer
10 12 (5.38%) Software Engineer
11 11 (4.93%) Project Manager
11 11 (4.93%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
12 10 (4.48%) .NET Developer
12 10 (4.48%) Business Analyst
12 10 (4.48%) Interaction Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (15.70%) Spring Boot
2 34 (15.25%) React
3 30 (13.45%) Node.js
4 28 (12.56%) Spring
5 23 (10.31%) Ruby on Rails
6 20 (8.97%) RESTful
7 18 (8.07%) HTML
8 17 (7.62%) CSS
9 14 (6.28%) Kafka
9 14 (6.28%) REST
10 12 (5.38%) .NET
10 12 (5.38%) ASP.NET
11 11 (4.93%) ASP.NET Core
11 11 (4.93%) AWS CDK
12 9 (4.04%) .NET Core
12 9 (4.04%) AngularJS
12 9 (4.04%) Blazor
12 9 (4.04%) Playwright
13 8 (3.59%) JPA
14 7 (3.14%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 43 (19.28%) Cloud Native
2 20 (8.97%) Mainframe
3 19 (8.52%) Product Ownership
4 15 (6.73%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.14%) Digital Wallet
7 5 (2.24%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.79%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.79%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.35%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.90%) Blog
10 2 (0.90%) e-Learning
11 1 (0.45%) LIMS
11 1 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.45%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.59%) Linux
2 5 (2.24%) Unix
3 4 (1.79%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (42.15%) DevOps
2 72 (32.29%) Scrum
3 68 (30.49%) CI/CD
4 67 (30.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 57 (25.56%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 47 (21.08%) Microservices
7 44 (19.73%) Stakeholder Management
8 43 (19.28%) Collaborative Working
9 40 (17.94%) AI
10 39 (17.49%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 36 (16.14%) Software Engineering
12 34 (15.25%) Mentoring
13 32 (14.35%) Test Automation
14 31 (13.90%) Project Delivery
15 29 (13.00%) Acceptance Criteria
15 29 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
16 28 (12.56%) Containerisation
16 28 (12.56%) Full-Stack Development
16 28 (12.56%) Infrastructure as Code
16 28 (12.56%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 65 (29.15%) Java
2 41 (18.39%) JavaScript
3 29 (13.00%) Python
4 26 (11.66%) C#
4 26 (11.66%) SQL
5 24 (10.76%) Ruby
6 18 (8.07%) TypeScript
7 9 (4.04%) Scala
8 6 (2.69%) COBOL
9 5 (2.24%) PHP
10 4 (1.79%) Bash
10 4 (1.79%) Bicep
11 3 (1.35%) Go
12 2 (0.90%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.90%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.45%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.45%) Natural
Qualifications
1 51 (22.87%) Security Cleared
2 47 (21.08%) SC Cleared
3 19 (8.52%) Degree
4 11 (4.93%) AWS Certification
4 11 (4.93%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 7 (3.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (3.14%) PMI Certification
5 7 (3.14%) PMP
6 6 (2.69%) ISTQB
6 6 (2.69%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (1.79%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 3 (1.35%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.45%) APMP
10 1 (0.45%) CBAP
10 1 (0.45%) CIPD
10 1 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (16.59%) Accessibility
2 15 (6.73%) WCAG
3 13 (5.83%) QA
4 10 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (3.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 6 (2.69%) Government Security Classifications
6 6 (2.69%) NCSC
7 3 (1.35%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.90%) COBIT
8 2 (0.90%) GDPR
8 2 (0.90%) GRC
8 2 (0.90%) NIST
8 2 (0.90%) PMO
8 2 (0.90%) SEPA
System Software
1 33 (14.80%) Docker
2 6 (2.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (14.35%) Terraform
2 29 (13.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.14%) Grafana
4 4 (1.79%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.35%) Ansible
6 2 (0.90%) Opsgenie
6 2 (0.90%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.90%) Puppet
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 43 (19.28%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.48%) Google
3 8 (3.59%) Adobe
4 5 (2.24%) OneLogin
4 5 (2.24%) Oracle
5 4 (1.79%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.35%) Splunk
7 2 (0.90%) Databricks
7 2 (0.90%) GoldenSource
7 2 (0.90%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (0.90%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.90%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.45%) Cisco