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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 13 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 -10 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 100 97 195
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 9.35% 10.72% 22.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.21% 12.97% 24.47%
Number of salaries quoted 92 69 159
10th Percentile £44,336 £37,500 £36,221
25th Percentile £48,250 £43,449 £43,172
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £69,308
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £72,446
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,351
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.29% -2.46%

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 819 748 797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 76.61% 82.65% 92.67%
Number of salaries quoted 563 370 593
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,122 £49,104 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +3.38% -1.44%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £61,445
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,433
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 +4 81 £55,000 -7.45% 25
North Wales +10 9 £85,000 - 14
West Wales -2 8 £57,145 +16.37% 4
Dyfed -2 1 £70,000 -12.50%
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 1 (1.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.00%) ColdFusion
1 1 (1.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.00%) EPLAN
3 1 (1.00%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (22.00%) Azure
2 8 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (7.00%) AWS
4 5 (5.00%) Serverless
5 4 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (4.00%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.00%) SaaS
7 2 (2.00%) Azure API Management
7 2 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.00%) Figma
7 2 (2.00%) GCP
7 2 (2.00%) GitHub
7 2 (2.00%) PaaS
8 1 (1.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.00%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (1.00%) dbt
8 1 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.00%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.00%) Profibus
2 1 (1.00%) Broadband
2 1 (1.00%) Firewall
2 1 (1.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.00%) MySQL
2 3 (3.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.00%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.00%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.00%) Big Data
4 1 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.00%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.00%) GIS
4 1 (1.00%) Parquet
4 1 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (12.00%) Git
2 6 (6.00%) JIRA
3 4 (4.00%) Selenium
3 4 (4.00%) WebDriver
4 3 (3.00%) Cucumber
4 3 (3.00%) SpecFlow
5 2 (2.00%) git-flow
5 2 (2.00%) GitLab
5 2 (2.00%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.00%) JMeter
5 2 (2.00%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (2.00%) Zephyr
6 1 (1.00%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.00%) Locust
6 1 (1.00%) Postman
General
1 20 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.00%) Finance
3 11 (11.00%) Aviation
4 10 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.00%) Retail
5 9 (9.00%) Electronics
5 9 (9.00%) Marketing
6 8 (8.00%) Public Sector
7 7 (7.00%) Aerospace
7 7 (7.00%) Automotive
8 6 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (5.00%) Legal
10 1 (1.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 22 (22.00%) Lead
2 16 (16.00%) Analyst
3 11 (11.00%) Firmware Engineer
4 9 (9.00%) Product Manager
5 8 (8.00%) Business Analyst
6 7 (7.00%) Applications Support
6 7 (7.00%) Applications Support Analyst
6 7 (7.00%) Engineering Manager
6 7 (7.00%) Software Engineering Manager
6 7 (7.00%) Software Manager
6 7 (7.00%) Support Analyst
7 6 (6.00%) Product Owner
7 6 (6.00%) Senior
8 5 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) CRM Manager
9 4 (4.00%) Developer
9 4 (4.00%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.00%) Architect
10 3 (3.00%) Quality Engineer
10 3 (3.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.00%) CSS
1 7 (7.00%) Django
1 7 (7.00%) React
2 6 (6.00%) .NET
2 6 (6.00%) HTML
2 6 (6.00%) HTML5
3 5 (5.00%) Node.js
4 4 (4.00%) Web Services
5 3 (3.00%) Kafka
5 3 (3.00%) REST
6 2 (2.00%) GraphQL
6 2 (2.00%) RESTful
7 1 (1.00%) Bootstrap
7 1 (1.00%) Gherkin
7 1 (1.00%) Playwright
7 1 (1.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.00%) Onboarding
2 11 (11.00%) FPGA
3 8 (8.00%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.00%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (4.00%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.00%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.00%) Educational Technology
6 2 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.00%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.00%) Robotics
6 2 (2.00%) SCADA
7 1 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.00%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.00%) PMI
7 1 (1.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.00%) Linux
1 1 (1.00%) Unix
1 1 (1.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (28.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 27 (27.00%) CI/CD
3 24 (24.00%) Mentoring
3 24 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (22.00%) DevOps
4 22 (22.00%) Scrum
5 21 (21.00%) Test Automation
6 20 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 12 (12.00%) Configuration Management
7 12 (12.00%) User Experience
8 11 (11.00%) Decision-Making
8 11 (11.00%) System Testing
8 11 (11.00%) Waterfall
9 10 (10.00%) AI
9 10 (10.00%) CRM
9 10 (10.00%) Kanban
10 9 (9.00%) Deployment Automation
10 9 (9.00%) Process Improvement
10 9 (9.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (9.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (12.00%) C#
1 12 (12.00%) Python
2 11 (11.00%) C
3 10 (10.00%) Java
4 9 (9.00%) JavaScript
5 8 (8.00%) SQL
6 7 (7.00%) C++
7 3 (3.00%) Ada
7 3 (3.00%) Ada 95
8 2 (2.00%) Ladder Logic
8 2 (2.00%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.00%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.00%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (14.00%) Degree
2 6 (6.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (5.00%) Chartered Engineer
3 5 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.00%) IIBA
4 1 (1.00%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.00%) QA
2 4 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.00%) IEC 61508
2 4 (4.00%) ISO 26262
3 3 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 2 (2.00%) IEC 61131
5 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.00%) NCSC
5 1 (1.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (11.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 11 (11.00%) Firmware
2 4 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (9.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.00%) Terraform
3 4 (4.00%) Argo
4 1 (1.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (9.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.00%) Salesforce
3 5 (5.00%) IBM
3 5 (5.00%) Oracle
4 4 (4.00%) PagerDuty
5 3 (3.00%) SAP
6 2 (2.00%) Adobe
6 2 (2.00%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.00%) Siemens
7 1 (1.00%) Databricks
7 1 (1.00%) ESRI