Agile Jobs in the West Midlands

Agile Software Development
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 1,099 2,258 2,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.96% 35.31% 31.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.05% 36.50% 33.38%
Number of salaries quoted 856 883 1,441
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £35,125
25th Percentile £43,227 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,164 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% +5.86% +8.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,964 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Agile is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,087 6,187 6,963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.84% 96.76% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 4,555 3,195 4,738
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 2024. 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 -2 515 £58,382 -0.20% 110
Warwickshire -4 150 £55,000 +2.80% 58
Staffordshire -6 112 £55,000 +10.00% 18
Coventry -2 60 £65,000 - 33
Worcestershire -12 44 £45,000 -10.00% 18
Solihull -2 35 £50,000 -6.98% 6
Wolverhampton -4 30 £55,000 +37.50% 7
Shropshire -18 23 £45,000 -25.00% 6
Walsall 0 13 £46,250 -7.04% 1
Halesowen - 9 £38,000 -
Herefordshire -11 6 £50,000 +5.26% 10
Wednesbury - 2 £83,250 -
Dudley -11 1 £55,000 - 3
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 30 (2.73%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.64%) Confluence
3 13 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.55%) Appian
4 6 (0.55%) Tuxedo
5 5 (0.45%) BizTalk Server
5 5 (0.45%) nginx
6 3 (0.27%) CMS
6 3 (0.27%) WordPress
7 2 (0.18%) Alfresco
7 2 (0.18%) Captiva
7 2 (0.18%) Documentum
7 2 (0.18%) IIS
7 2 (0.18%) Liferay
7 2 (0.18%) Magnolia
7 2 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.091%) Apache
8 1 (0.091%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.091%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.091%) Moodle
Applications
1 24 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.82%) Adobe XD
3 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.73%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.18%) Simulink
7 1 (0.091%) Abaqus
7 1 (0.091%) Autodesk Inventor
7 1 (0.091%) Fusion 360
7 1 (0.091%) Revit
7 1 (0.091%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 30 (2.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.55%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 17 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
3 8 (0.73%) Shopify
4 4 (0.36%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.27%) ProductWriter
5 3 (0.27%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.27%) Sage 300 ERP
6 2 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.18%) Infor LN
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.091%) Magento
7 1 (0.091%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.091%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 298 (27.12%) Azure
2 153 (13.92%) AWS
3 106 (9.65%) Azure DevOps
4 80 (7.28%) Power Platform
5 65 (5.91%) Dynamics 365
5 65 (5.91%) SaaS
6 50 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
7 38 (3.46%) GCP
8 36 (3.28%) GitHub
8 36 (3.28%) PowerApps
9 29 (2.64%) Serverless
10 25 (2.27%) PaaS
10 25 (2.27%) Power Automate
11 22 (2.00%) IaaS
12 18 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (1.27%) Snowflake
14 11 (1.00%) Amazon S3
14 11 (1.00%) Azure Service Bus
15 10 (0.91%) Google Analytics
16 9 (0.82%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.09%) Firewall
2 21 (1.91%) Wireless
3 15 (1.36%) Network Security
3 15 (1.36%) VPN
4 14 (1.27%) Bluetooth
4 14 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (1.00%) VoIP
6 10 (0.91%) NGFW
7 7 (0.64%) DNS
7 7 (0.64%) Internet
7 7 (0.64%) WAN
8 6 (0.55%) Ethernet
8 6 (0.55%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.55%) ZigBee
9 5 (0.45%) GSM
9 5 (0.45%) MQTT
9 5 (0.45%) RS-232
9 5 (0.45%) RS-485
9 5 (0.45%) SAN
10 4 (0.36%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (11.28%) SQL Server
2 58 (5.28%) Power BI
3 52 (4.73%) MySQL
4 38 (3.46%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (2.64%) BigQuery
6 28 (2.55%) Relational Database
7 26 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
8 24 (2.18%) MongoDB
9 20 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (1.82%) NoSQL
10 18 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 14 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
12 13 (1.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 12 (1.09%) Data Lake
14 11 (1.00%) Big Data
14 11 (1.00%) DynamoDB
14 11 (1.00%) Looker
15 10 (0.91%) Tableau
16 9 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
17 8 (0.73%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 101 (9.19%) Git
2 63 (5.73%) JIRA
3 31 (2.82%) Visual Studio
4 24 (2.18%) Cucumber
5 18 (1.64%) Jenkins
6 14 (1.27%) GitLab
7 13 (1.18%) Postman
8 10 (0.91%) MSTest
9 9 (0.82%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.64%) NUnit
10 7 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 5 (0.45%) SoapUI
12 5 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.45%) webpack
13 4 (0.36%) ESLint
13 4 (0.36%) IntelliJ
13 4 (0.36%) Jasmine
13 4 (0.36%) Selenium
13 4 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 261 (23.75%) Social Skills
2 253 (23.02%) Finance
3 149 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (9.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 93 (8.46%) Retail
6 56 (5.10%) Public Sector
7 47 (4.28%) Automotive
8 42 (3.82%) Manufacturing
9 40 (3.64%) Marketing
10 39 (3.55%) Legal
11 32 (2.91%) Law
12 24 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
13 23 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
14 21 (1.91%) Local Government
15 20 (1.82%) Electronics
16 17 (1.55%) Banking
17 13 (1.18%) Advertising
17 13 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
17 13 (1.18%) Social Housing
18 11 (1.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 265 (24.11%) Developer
2 148 (13.47%) Senior
3 132 (12.01%) Lead
4 87 (7.92%) Architect
5 83 (7.55%) Project Manager
6 81 (7.37%) Analyst
7 77 (7.01%) .NET Developer
8 57 (5.19%) Software Engineer
9 45 (4.09%) Software Developer
10 38 (3.46%) Data Engineer
10 38 (3.46%) Full Stack Developer
11 35 (3.18%) Business Analyst
12 33 (3.00%) IT Manager
13 30 (2.73%) Senior Developer
13 30 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
14 29 (2.64%) Consultant
15 25 (2.27%) Embedded Engineer
15 25 (2.27%) Technical Leader
16 24 (2.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 24 (2.18%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (18.11%) .NET
2 99 (9.01%) React
3 96 (8.74%) .NET Core
4 93 (8.46%) HTML
5 89 (8.10%) AngularJS
6 82 (7.46%) RESTful
7 71 (6.46%) ASP.NET
8 67 (6.10%) CSS
9 61 (5.55%) .NET Framework
10 57 (5.19%) Entity Framework
11 54 (4.91%) ASP.NET Web API
12 51 (4.64%) ASP.NET MVC
13 45 (4.09%) Node.js
13 45 (4.09%) Vue
14 41 (3.73%) JSON
15 36 (3.28%) HTML5
16 35 (3.18%) REST
17 34 (3.09%) XML
18 27 (2.46%) Web Services
19 23 (2.09%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 120 (10.92%) Product Ownership
2 55 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 48 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
4 33 (3.00%) Mobile App
5 31 (2.82%) IoT
6 26 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
7 24 (2.18%) Data Structures
8 20 (1.82%) Cloud Native
8 20 (1.82%) Private Cloud
8 20 (1.82%) Public Cloud
9 19 (1.73%) Algorithms
9 19 (1.73%) PMI
9 19 (1.73%) Virtual Team
10 15 (1.36%) Onboarding
11 14 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (1.18%) NHS
13 11 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.00%) Fat Client
13 11 (1.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 50 (4.55%) Linux
2 40 (3.64%) Windows
3 14 (1.27%) Embedded Linux
4 13 (1.18%) Unix
5 11 (1.00%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.55%) Solaris
6 6 (0.55%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.45%) Android
7 5 (0.45%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.45%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.18%) VME
9 2 (0.18%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.18%) Windows 8
10 1 (0.091%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (19.75%) DevOps
2 197 (17.93%) Scrum
3 186 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
4 185 (16.83%) Mentoring
5 177 (16.11%) Software Engineering
6 165 (15.01%) Project Management
7 158 (14.38%) Roadmaps
8 156 (14.19%) Coaching
9 145 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 140 (12.74%) Full Stack Development
11 128 (11.65%) CI/CD
12 108 (9.83%) Stakeholder Management
13 102 (9.28%) Test Automation
14 100 (9.10%) Waterfall
15 91 (8.28%) User Experience
16 87 (7.92%) SDLC
17 85 (7.73%) ITIL
17 85 (7.73%) MVC
18 83 (7.55%) TDD
19 80 (7.28%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 208 (18.93%) C#
2 177 (16.11%) SQL
3 167 (15.20%) JavaScript
4 105 (9.55%) TypeScript
5 81 (7.37%) Java
6 68 (6.19%) Python
7 39 (3.55%) C
8 32 (2.91%) PHP
9 26 (2.37%) C++
10 24 (2.18%) T-SQL
11 22 (2.00%) PowerShell
12 15 (1.36%) VB
13 12 (1.09%) COBOL
13 12 (1.09%) Micro Focus COBOL
14 9 (0.82%) XAML
15 6 (0.55%) Embedded C
16 5 (0.45%) Go
17 4 (0.36%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.36%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 166 (15.10%) Degree
2 55 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 49 (4.46%) SC Cleared
4 35 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.64%) PMI Certification
6 21 (1.91%) PMP
7 16 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (1.46%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 11 (1.00%) HND
9 10 (0.91%) ACCA
9 10 (0.91%) CAPM
10 9 (0.82%) APMP
10 9 (0.82%) Azure Certification
10 9 (0.82%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.73%) DBS Check
11 8 (0.73%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.55%) AWS Certification
13 6 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.55%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (8.46%) QA
2 33 (3.00%) Accessibility
3 32 (2.91%) SLA
4 27 (2.46%) PMO
5 19 (1.73%) GDPR
6 14 (1.27%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.64%) MISRA
8 6 (0.55%) Automotive SPICE
8 6 (0.55%) AUTOSAR
8 6 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.27%) JTAG
10 2 (0.18%) MISRA C
10 2 (0.18%) NIST
10 2 (0.18%) WCAG
11 1 (0.091%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.091%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.091%) ISO 26262
11 1 (0.091%) NCSC
System Software
1 57 (5.19%) Docker
2 20 (1.82%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.27%) vSphere
4 12 (1.09%) Firmware
5 10 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (4.09%) Terraform
2 16 (1.46%) SCCM
3 15 (1.36%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.64%) Grafana
5 5 (0.45%) Ansible
6 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.18%) Kibana
7 2 (0.18%) MIIS
7 2 (0.18%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.18%) Puppet
8 1 (0.091%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.091%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 227 (20.66%) Microsoft
2 47 (4.28%) Google
3 29 (2.64%) ServiceNow
4 25 (2.27%) VMware
5 21 (1.91%) SAP
6 19 (1.73%) Oracle
7 18 (1.64%) Citrix
8 15 (1.36%) YouTube
9 14 (1.27%) Atlassian
9 14 (1.27%) Salesforce
10 13 (1.18%) Cisco
11 12 (1.09%) Adobe
11 12 (1.09%) Facebook
11 12 (1.09%) Micro Focus
12 11 (1.00%) Databricks
13 10 (0.91%) Sitecore
14 9 (0.82%) MuleSoft
15 8 (0.73%) DevExpress
16 7 (0.64%) Genesys
16 7 (0.64%) InterSystems