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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 6 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 -5 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 591 1,088 2,400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.24% 15.03% 36.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.52% 18.08% 37.18%
Number of salaries quoted 234 850 931
10th Percentile £38,775 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,227 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +0.88% +5.56%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,964 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% +3.85%

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 4,071 6,019 6,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.18% 83.14% 96.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,681 4,532 3,272
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,250 £30,510
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -4 241 £60,000 +3.51% 134
Warwickshire -6 184 £62,500 +13.64% 69
Coventry -7 50 £65,000 - 37
Staffordshire -8 45 £52,344 -0.30% 95
Shropshire +9 12 £51,250 +13.89% 11
Worcestershire -1 12 £62,500 +38.89% 17
Solihull -11 12 £60,000 +20.00% 15
Wolverhampton -5 4 £61,250 +11.36% 5
Herefordshire +7 3 - - 8
Walsall -12 2 £55,000 +22.22% 7
Dudley 0 1 £45,000 -18.18%
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 28 (4.74%) Confluence
2 12 (2.03%) CMS
3 8 (1.35%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.68%) WordPress
5 3 (0.51%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.34%) Apache
6 2 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.17%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.17%) IIS
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 137 (23.18%) Simulink
2 24 (4.06%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.20%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.68%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 4 (0.68%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (3.72%) Dynamics AX
2 16 (2.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (2.03%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (1.02%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.34%) Shopify
7 1 (0.17%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 100 (16.92%) Azure
2 45 (7.61%) AWS
3 34 (5.75%) SaaS
4 26 (4.40%) Power Platform
5 24 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (3.89%) Dynamics 365
7 20 (3.38%) Serverless
8 12 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (2.03%) PowerApps
9 11 (1.86%) GCP
10 9 (1.52%) Amazon S3
10 9 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (1.35%) Miro
12 7 (1.18%) GitHub
13 6 (1.02%) Azure API Management
13 6 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (1.02%) Figma
14 4 (0.68%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.02%) Firewall
2 5 (0.85%) HTTP
2 5 (0.85%) SSL
2 5 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.51%) Bluetooth
3 3 (0.51%) DHCP
3 3 (0.51%) DNS
3 3 (0.51%) GSM
3 3 (0.51%) J1939
3 3 (0.51%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.51%) Wireless
4 2 (0.34%) Intranet
4 2 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.34%) LAN
4 2 (0.34%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.34%) VoIP
4 2 (0.34%) WAN
5 1 (0.17%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.17%) Modbus
5 1 (0.17%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (5.08%) MySQL
2 28 (4.74%) SQL Server
3 21 (3.55%) Relational Database
4 20 (3.38%) NoSQL
5 14 (2.37%) Power BI
6 10 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (1.52%) Big Data
8 7 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.85%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.68%) Cloud Spanner
11 4 (0.68%) SAP BW
12 3 (0.51%) Tableau
13 2 (0.34%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.34%) Data Mining
13 2 (0.34%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.34%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.34%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 73 (12.35%) JIRA
2 37 (6.26%) Git
3 20 (3.38%) Bitbucket
4 13 (2.20%) JUnit
5 9 (1.52%) Mockito
6 7 (1.18%) Eclipse
6 7 (1.18%) IntelliJ
6 7 (1.18%) Jasmine
6 7 (1.18%) Karma Test Runner
6 7 (1.18%) Protractor
7 6 (1.02%) Visual Studio
7 6 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.85%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.68%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (0.68%) GitLab
9 4 (0.68%) NUnit
9 4 (0.68%) Selenium
10 3 (0.51%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.34%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.34%) Storybook
General
1 154 (26.06%) Automotive
2 138 (23.35%) Aerospace
3 122 (20.64%) Finance
4 105 (17.77%) Social Skills
5 64 (10.83%) Retail
6 55 (9.31%) Analytical Skills
7 49 (8.29%) Telecoms
8 33 (5.58%) Marketing
9 31 (5.25%) Manufacturing
10 29 (4.91%) Games
11 28 (4.74%) Law
12 19 (3.21%) Public Sector
13 18 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
14 17 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 11 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (1.52%) Electronics
17 7 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
18 6 (1.02%) Banking
19 4 (0.68%) Legal
19 4 (0.68%) Police
Job Titles
1 113 (19.12%) Senior
2 93 (15.74%) Principal Engineer
3 87 (14.72%) Software Engineer
4 77 (13.03%) Systems Engineer
5 66 (11.17%) Development Engineer
5 66 (11.17%) Software Development Engineer
6 65 (11.00%) Developer
7 43 (7.28%) Principal Software Engineer
8 42 (7.11%) Principal Systems Engineer
9 39 (6.60%) Lead
10 38 (6.43%) Senior Software Engineer
11 37 (6.26%) Analyst
12 28 (4.74%) Project Manager
13 26 (4.40%) Business Analyst
14 24 (4.06%) Senior Development Engineer
14 24 (4.06%) Senior Software Development Engineer
14 24 (4.06%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 23 (3.89%) Risk Manager
15 23 (3.89%) Technology Risk Manager
16 16 (2.71%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (9.48%) .NET
2 40 (6.77%) React
3 23 (3.89%) CSS
4 20 (3.38%) AngularJS
5 18 (3.05%) Node.js
6 15 (2.54%) .NET Core
7 14 (2.37%) HTML
8 13 (2.20%) REST
8 13 (2.20%) RESTful
8 13 (2.20%) Vue
9 12 (2.03%) ASP.NET
10 10 (1.69%) Laravel
11 8 (1.35%) ADO
11 8 (1.35%) Hibernate
11 8 (1.35%) JPA
11 8 (1.35%) React Native
12 7 (1.18%) jQuery
12 7 (1.18%) Next.js
12 7 (1.18%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (1.02%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 46 (7.78%) Robotics
2 45 (7.61%) Blockchain
3 32 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 29 (4.91%) Management Information System
5 16 (2.71%) Mobile App
6 13 (2.20%) Algorithms
6 13 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.69%) Cloud Native
7 10 (1.69%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.52%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.02%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (1.02%) Driving Licence
9 6 (1.02%) SCADA
9 6 (1.02%) Taxonomies
10 5 (0.85%) IoT
10 5 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 40 (6.77%) Linux
2 30 (5.08%) Windows
3 11 (1.86%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.52%) Android
5 5 (0.85%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.51%) VMS
6 3 (0.51%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.34%) CentOS
7 2 (0.34%) Debian
7 2 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (33.50%) Software Testing
2 173 (29.27%) Software Engineering
3 151 (25.55%) Systems Engineering
4 146 (24.70%) Validation
5 102 (17.26%) Mentoring
6 91 (15.40%) SDLC
7 88 (14.89%) Waterfall
8 84 (14.21%) Problem-Solving
9 80 (13.54%) Coaching
10 75 (12.69%) Analytics
10 75 (12.69%) Project Management
11 72 (12.18%) Artificial Intelligence
12 71 (12.01%) DevOps
13 70 (11.84%) Project Delivery
14 69 (11.68%) Scrum
15 68 (11.51%) Roadmaps
16 64 (10.83%) CI/CD
17 55 (9.31%) Stakeholder Management
18 51 (8.63%) Risk Management
19 50 (8.46%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 137 (23.18%) MATLAB
2 66 (11.17%) C#
3 55 (9.31%) SQL
4 47 (7.95%) JavaScript
5 34 (5.75%) Java
6 28 (4.74%) Python
7 23 (3.89%) TypeScript
8 21 (3.55%) PHP
9 14 (2.37%) C++
10 6 (1.02%) C
10 6 (1.02%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.85%) Go
11 5 (0.85%) Perl
12 4 (0.68%) Bash
12 4 (0.68%) R
12 4 (0.68%) Swift
13 3 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.51%) Groovy
13 3 (0.51%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 203 (34.35%) BPSS Clearance
2 101 (17.09%) Degree
3 22 (3.72%) CISA
3 22 (3.72%) ISACA
4 17 (2.88%) Security Cleared
5 14 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.03%) PMP
7 10 (1.69%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.02%) SC Cleared
9 5 (0.85%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.85%) CISSP
10 4 (0.68%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.51%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.51%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.34%) CBAP
12 2 (0.34%) CISM
12 2 (0.34%) IISP
12 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.34%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (7.61%) ITGC
2 31 (5.25%) QA
3 17 (2.88%) PMO
4 10 (1.69%) GDPR
5 9 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.35%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.18%) Automotive SPICE
8 5 (0.85%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.68%) ISO 26262
9 4 (0.68%) PMBOK
10 3 (0.51%) AUTOSAR
11 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.34%) NIST
12 1 (0.17%) DO-254
12 1 (0.17%) GRC
12 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.17%) P3O
12 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.17%) SLA
12 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 23 (3.89%) Docker
2 9 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.02%) Firmware
4 4 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (4.23%) Ansible
2 11 (1.86%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.69%) Terraform
4 5 (0.85%) HP ALM
4 5 (0.85%) Nessus
5 4 (0.68%) Functional Safety
5 4 (0.68%) Proxmox
6 3 (0.51%) Nagios
6 3 (0.51%) Puppet
7 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.34%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.34%) SCOM
8 1 (0.17%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 76 (12.86%) Microsoft
2 49 (8.29%) Siemens
3 36 (6.09%) Oracle
4 34 (5.75%) SAP
5 22 (3.72%) Salesforce
6 19 (3.21%) Atlassian
7 12 (2.03%) IBM
8 11 (1.86%) Databricks
8 11 (1.86%) Google
9 7 (1.18%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.02%) MuleSoft
10 6 (1.02%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.85%) HP
11 5 (0.85%) VMware
12 4 (0.68%) Facebook
12 4 (0.68%) Juniper
12 4 (0.68%) Okta
13 3 (0.51%) Instagram
13 3 (0.51%) Twitter
13 3 (0.51%) YouTube