Agile Jobs in the West Midlands

Agile Software Development
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 8 2
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 666 1,147 1,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.34% 13.58% 29.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.37% 16.89% 30.60%
Number of salaries quoted 242 788 830
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,000 £43,227 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +2.22% +7.14%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,375 £84,964 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £66,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% -5.30% +1.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,626 6,790 5,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.98% 80.38% 96.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,724 4,604 3,157
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.82% -12.00% +4.17%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the West Midlands

Agile
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Agile in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Agile in the West Midlands

Agile
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Agile in the West Midlands

Agile
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Birmingham +3 259 £60,000 +2.04% 161
Warwickshire -4 196 £60,250 +9.55% 66
Coventry -1 54 £75,000 +15.38% 34
Staffordshire -15 40 £60,000 +4.35% 84
Shropshire +17 27 £60,000 +33.33% 33
Solihull 0 24 £60,000 +20.00% 6
Wolverhampton +7 13 £62,500 +13.64% 4
Worcestershire -6 12 £56,250 +25.00% 13
Herefordshire +6 7 £52,500 +5.00% 13
Walsall +1 5 £55,000 +29.95% 3
Dudley +5 1 £45,000 -18.18% 2
West Bromwich - 1 £69,500 -
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 51 (7.66%) Confluence
2 11 (1.65%) CMS
3 4 (0.60%) WordPress
4 3 (0.45%) Headless CMS
4 3 (0.45%) IIS
4 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.45%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.15%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.15%) SAS
6 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 119 (17.87%) Simulink
2 28 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.75%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.60%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (2.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (2.70%) Dynamics AX
3 9 (1.35%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (1.05%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.30%) Shopify
8 1 (0.15%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 116 (17.42%) Azure
2 85 (12.76%) AWS
3 36 (5.41%) SaaS
4 29 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
5 28 (4.20%) Power Platform
6 27 (4.05%) GCP
7 23 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
9 20 (3.00%) Amazon S3
9 20 (3.00%) Serverless
10 15 (2.25%) AWS KMS
11 14 (2.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (1.65%) GitHub
14 10 (1.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (1.35%) Miro
16 8 (1.20%) Amazon ELB
16 8 (1.20%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.15%) Firewall
2 8 (1.20%) DNS
3 7 (1.05%) Broadband
3 7 (1.05%) HTTP
4 6 (0.90%) Network Security
5 5 (0.75%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (0.75%) SSL
5 5 (0.75%) WAN
6 4 (0.60%) DHCP
6 4 (0.60%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.60%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.45%) LAN
7 3 (0.45%) MPLS
7 3 (0.45%) VPN
7 3 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.30%) FTP
8 2 (0.30%) Internet
8 2 (0.30%) Intranet
8 2 (0.30%) SAN
8 2 (0.30%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (6.61%) SQL Server
2 32 (4.80%) MySQL
3 25 (3.75%) NoSQL
4 23 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 20 (3.00%) Power BI
6 18 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (1.35%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.05%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.90%) Tableau
12 5 (0.75%) Big Data
12 5 (0.75%) Metadata
13 4 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.60%) Cloud Spanner
13 4 (0.60%) RDBMS
14 3 (0.45%) BusinessObjects
14 3 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.45%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 106 (15.92%) JIRA
2 55 (8.26%) Git
3 42 (6.31%) Bitbucket
4 34 (5.11%) Maven
5 31 (4.65%) SonarQube
6 30 (4.50%) GitLab
6 30 (4.50%) Sonatype Nexus
7 27 (4.05%) Selenium
8 25 (3.75%) Cucumber
9 22 (3.30%) Jenkins
10 20 (3.00%) JUnit
11 15 (2.25%) Mockito
12 10 (1.50%) Bitbucket Server
13 8 (1.20%) Vagrant
14 6 (0.90%) DbUnit
14 6 (0.90%) jMock
15 4 (0.60%) Eclipse
15 4 (0.60%) IntelliJ
15 4 (0.60%) Karma Test Runner
15 4 (0.60%) NUnit
General
1 178 (26.73%) Finance
2 134 (20.12%) Automotive
3 124 (18.62%) Social Skills
4 121 (18.17%) Aerospace
5 74 (11.11%) Retail
6 61 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
7 53 (7.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 44 (6.61%) Telecoms
9 35 (5.26%) Marketing
10 34 (5.11%) Law
11 30 (4.50%) Public Sector
12 28 (4.20%) Banking
13 25 (3.75%) Manufacturing
14 22 (3.30%) Games
15 17 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (1.65%) Corporate Banking
17 11 (1.65%) Investment Banking
18 9 (1.35%) Electronics
18 9 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 112 (16.82%) Senior
2 106 (15.92%) Software Engineer
3 87 (13.06%) Developer
4 85 (12.76%) Principal Engineer
5 78 (11.71%) Systems Engineer
6 66 (9.91%) Development Engineer
6 66 (9.91%) Software Development Engineer
7 45 (6.76%) Instrumentation Engineer
8 43 (6.46%) Analyst
8 43 (6.46%) Lead
9 42 (6.31%) Principal Software Engineer
9 42 (6.31%) Principal Systems Engineer
10 37 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
11 26 (3.90%) Project Manager
12 24 (3.60%) Business Analyst
12 24 (3.60%) Senior Development Engineer
12 24 (3.60%) Senior Software Development Engineer
12 24 (3.60%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 23 (3.45%) Java Developer
14 19 (2.85%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (10.06%) React
2 57 (8.56%) .NET
3 48 (7.21%) CSS
4 45 (6.76%) Spring
5 44 (6.61%) HTML
6 40 (6.01%) Spring Boot
7 37 (5.56%) JPA
8 32 (4.80%) RESTful
9 29 (4.35%) Hibernate
9 29 (4.35%) REST
10 27 (4.05%) Kafka
11 25 (3.75%) AngularJS
11 25 (3.75%) Redux
12 23 (3.45%) Node.js
13 17 (2.55%) HTML5
13 17 (2.55%) Jest
14 16 (2.40%) Web Services
15 14 (2.10%) CSS3
16 12 (1.80%) Sass
17 11 (1.65%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 61 (9.16%) Product Ownership
2 38 (5.71%) Robotics
3 37 (5.56%) Blockchain
4 27 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 23 (3.45%) Management Information System
6 12 (1.80%) Mobile App
7 11 (1.65%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.50%) Cloud Native
8 10 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.35%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.20%) Driving Licence
11 7 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.05%) Taxonomies
12 6 (0.90%) Data Structures
12 6 (0.90%) SCADA
12 6 (0.90%) Security Posture
13 5 (0.75%) Algorithms
13 5 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 48 (7.21%) Linux
2 36 (5.41%) Windows
3 10 (1.50%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.20%) Android
4 8 (1.20%) VMS
5 6 (0.90%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.75%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.60%) Unix
8 2 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.30%) CentOS
8 2 (0.30%) Debian
8 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (32.43%) Software Testing
2 203 (30.48%) Software Engineering
3 152 (22.82%) SDLC
4 134 (20.12%) Systems Engineering
5 131 (19.67%) Validation
6 124 (18.62%) Waterfall
7 110 (16.52%) DevOps
8 106 (15.92%) Mentoring
9 96 (14.41%) CI/CD
10 81 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
11 73 (10.96%) Artificial Intelligence
11 73 (10.96%) Coaching
11 73 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 70 (10.51%) Scrum
13 68 (10.21%) Analytics
14 63 (9.46%) Roadmaps
14 63 (9.46%) Stakeholder Management
15 62 (9.31%) Project Management
16 60 (9.01%) Project Delivery
17 55 (8.26%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 119 (17.87%) MATLAB
2 93 (13.96%) SQL
3 79 (11.86%) JavaScript
4 76 (11.41%) Java
5 64 (9.61%) C#
6 32 (4.80%) Python
7 30 (4.50%) TypeScript
8 17 (2.55%) PHP
9 11 (1.65%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.35%) C++
11 8 (1.20%) Shell Script
12 7 (1.05%) Bash
12 7 (1.05%) Groovy
12 7 (1.05%) Perl
12 7 (1.05%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.90%) Go
14 3 (0.45%) Ruby
14 3 (0.45%) Swift
15 2 (0.30%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 223 (33.48%) BPSS Clearance
2 132 (19.82%) Degree
3 33 (4.95%) Security Cleared
4 21 (3.15%) ACCA
5 20 (3.00%) SC Cleared
6 18 (2.70%) CISA
6 18 (2.70%) ISACA
7 14 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.50%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.35%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.75%) CISM
10 5 (0.75%) CISSP
10 5 (0.75%) CITP
10 5 (0.75%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.75%) PMP
10 5 (0.75%) SANS
11 4 (0.60%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.60%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (8.11%) QA
2 37 (5.56%) ITGC
3 15 (2.25%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.80%) PMO
5 9 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.05%) GDPR
7 5 (0.75%) Automotive SPICE
7 5 (0.75%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.75%) ISO 26262
8 4 (0.60%) PMBOK
9 2 (0.30%) COBIT
10 1 (0.15%) DO-254
10 1 (0.15%) GRC
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (9.01%) Docker
2 14 (2.10%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.60%) DFS Replication
4 4 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.30%) Firmware
5 2 (0.30%) Postfix
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.15%) HDFS
6 1 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 43 (6.46%) Kubernetes
2 31 (4.65%) Ansible
3 14 (2.10%) Terraform
4 10 (1.50%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.20%) Grafana
6 5 (0.75%) Functional Safety
6 5 (0.75%) HP ALM
6 5 (0.75%) Nessus
7 4 (0.60%) Nagios
7 4 (0.60%) Proxmox
7 4 (0.60%) Puppet
8 3 (0.45%) Kibana
8 3 (0.45%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.30%) Argo
9 2 (0.30%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.30%) SCOM
9 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.15%) Automic
10 1 (0.15%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.15%) Oozie
Vendors
1 88 (13.21%) Siemens
2 71 (10.66%) Microsoft
3 34 (5.11%) Oracle
4 28 (4.20%) SAP
5 24 (3.60%) Atlassian
5 24 (3.60%) Solace
6 22 (3.30%) Salesforce
7 15 (2.25%) Google
8 10 (1.50%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.20%) Juniper
10 7 (1.05%) IBM
11 6 (0.90%) Databricks
11 6 (0.90%) Guidewire
11 6 (0.90%) HP
11 6 (0.90%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.90%) VMware
12 5 (0.75%) Cisco
12 5 (0.75%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.75%) Okta
13 4 (0.60%) Splunk