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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 8 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -7 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 635 1,121 1,968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.18% 14.20% 33.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.65% 17.51% 34.18%
Number of salaries quoted 235 839 852
10th Percentile £37,800 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,750 £43,227 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +2.68% +4.67%
75th Percentile £71,125 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £79,750 £84,964 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £67,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -6.72% +3.08%

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 3,814 6,401 5,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.20% 81.10% 96.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,573 4,665 3,155
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,350 £30,602
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,700 £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 £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -1 254 £57,500 -2.21% 172
Warwickshire -5 185 £58,750 +6.82% 85
Coventry -5 53 £70,000 +7.69% 40
Staffordshire -12 48 £52,344 -4.83% 115
Shropshire +15 20 £57,500 +27.78% 50
Solihull -8 16 £60,000 +20.00% 16
Worcestershire -2 12 £56,250 +25.00% 28
Wolverhampton +4 8 £61,250 +11.36% 8
Herefordshire +5 6 £52,500 +5.00% 9
Walsall -3 4 £51,250 +21.09% 5
Dudley +4 1 £45,000 -18.18% 1
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 46 (7.24%) Confluence
2 12 (1.89%) CMS
3 4 (0.63%) WordPress
4 3 (0.47%) Headless CMS
4 3 (0.47%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.31%) IIS
5 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.16%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 137 (21.57%) Simulink
2 23 (3.62%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.63%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 4 (0.63%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.31%) Trello
8 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 22 (3.46%) Dynamics AX
2 17 (2.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (1.89%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (1.10%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.31%) Shopify
8 1 (0.16%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 114 (17.95%) Azure
2 79 (12.44%) AWS
3 32 (5.04%) SaaS
4 27 (4.25%) Dynamics 365
4 27 (4.25%) Power Platform
5 24 (3.78%) GCP
6 23 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (2.68%) Serverless
8 16 (2.52%) Amazon S3
9 15 (2.36%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (1.89%) AWS KMS
11 11 (1.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (1.42%) Miro
12 9 (1.42%) PowerApps
13 8 (1.26%) GitHub
14 7 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (1.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 6 (0.94%) Amazon ELB
15 6 (0.94%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.68%) Firewall
2 7 (1.10%) Broadband
3 6 (0.94%) DNS
4 5 (0.79%) HTTP
4 5 (0.79%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (0.79%) Network Security
4 5 (0.79%) SSL
4 5 (0.79%) WAN
5 4 (0.63%) DHCP
5 4 (0.63%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.63%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.47%) LAN
6 3 (0.47%) MPLS
6 3 (0.47%) VPN
7 2 (0.31%) Internet
7 2 (0.31%) Intranet
7 2 (0.31%) SAN
7 2 (0.31%) VoIP
7 2 (0.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (7.09%) SQL Server
2 31 (4.88%) MySQL
3 23 (3.62%) NoSQL
4 21 (3.31%) Relational Database
5 17 (2.68%) Power BI
6 14 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (1.26%) DynamoDB
10 7 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (0.79%) Big Data
11 5 (0.79%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.79%) Metadata
12 4 (0.63%) Cloud Spanner
12 4 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.47%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.47%) MongoDB
13 3 (0.47%) SAP BW
13 3 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 104 (16.38%) JIRA
2 50 (7.87%) Git
3 43 (6.77%) Bitbucket
4 32 (5.04%) Maven
5 30 (4.72%) SonarQube
6 29 (4.57%) GitLab
7 28 (4.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 27 (4.25%) Selenium
9 24 (3.78%) Cucumber
10 19 (2.99%) JUnit
11 16 (2.52%) Jenkins
12 15 (2.36%) Mockito
13 9 (1.42%) Bitbucket Server
14 7 (1.10%) Eclipse
14 7 (1.10%) IntelliJ
14 7 (1.10%) Jasmine
14 7 (1.10%) Karma Test Runner
14 7 (1.10%) Protractor
15 6 (0.94%) Vagrant
16 5 (0.79%) DbUnit
General
1 159 (25.04%) Finance
2 153 (24.09%) Automotive
3 138 (21.73%) Aerospace
4 103 (16.22%) Social Skills
5 81 (12.76%) Retail
6 55 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
7 49 (7.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 48 (7.56%) Telecoms
9 35 (5.51%) Law
10 31 (4.88%) Marketing
11 29 (4.57%) Banking
12 28 (4.41%) Manufacturing
12 28 (4.41%) Public Sector
13 26 (4.09%) Games
14 18 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (1.73%) Corporate Banking
15 11 (1.73%) Investment Banking
15 11 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (1.42%) Electronics
17 7 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 114 (17.95%) Senior
2 106 (16.69%) Software Engineer
3 91 (14.33%) Principal Engineer
4 83 (13.07%) Developer
5 77 (12.13%) Systems Engineer
6 66 (10.39%) Development Engineer
6 66 (10.39%) Software Development Engineer
7 47 (7.40%) Lead
8 42 (6.61%) Principal Software Engineer
8 42 (6.61%) Principal Systems Engineer
9 41 (6.46%) Analyst
10 37 (5.83%) Senior Software Engineer
11 26 (4.09%) Project Manager
12 25 (3.94%) Business Analyst
13 24 (3.78%) Senior Development Engineer
13 24 (3.78%) Senior Software Development Engineer
13 24 (3.78%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 23 (3.62%) Risk Manager
14 23 (3.62%) Technology Risk Manager
15 19 (2.99%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (10.39%) React
2 56 (8.82%) .NET
3 46 (7.24%) CSS
4 39 (6.14%) JPA
5 38 (5.98%) HTML
6 37 (5.83%) Spring
7 33 (5.20%) Spring Boot
8 28 (4.41%) Hibernate
9 27 (4.25%) REST
9 27 (4.25%) RESTful
10 26 (4.09%) Kafka
11 25 (3.94%) AngularJS
11 25 (3.94%) Redux
12 21 (3.31%) Node.js
13 17 (2.68%) HTML5
13 17 (2.68%) Jest
14 14 (2.20%) CSS3
15 13 (2.05%) Web Services
16 12 (1.89%) Sass
17 11 (1.73%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 56 (8.82%) Product Ownership
2 46 (7.24%) Robotics
3 45 (7.09%) Blockchain
4 29 (4.57%) Management Information System
5 27 (4.25%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (1.89%) Mobile App
8 11 (1.73%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.57%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.57%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.10%) Cloud Native
10 7 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.10%) Driving Licence
10 7 (1.10%) Taxonomies
11 6 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (0.94%) SCADA
11 6 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.79%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (0.63%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 49 (7.72%) Linux
2 34 (5.35%) Windows
3 10 (1.57%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.26%) Android
5 6 (0.94%) VMS
6 5 (0.79%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.79%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.47%) Unix
8 2 (0.31%) CentOS
8 2 (0.31%) Debian
8 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (32.28%) Software Testing
2 198 (31.18%) Software Engineering
3 152 (23.94%) Systems Engineering
4 148 (23.31%) Validation
5 125 (19.69%) SDLC
6 109 (17.17%) Mentoring
7 101 (15.91%) DevOps
8 98 (15.43%) Waterfall
9 89 (14.02%) CI/CD
10 80 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
11 79 (12.44%) Artificial Intelligence
11 79 (12.44%) Coaching
12 78 (12.28%) Analytics
13 68 (10.71%) Project Management
14 67 (10.55%) Scrum
15 65 (10.24%) Roadmaps
16 60 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
16 60 (9.45%) Project Delivery
17 58 (9.13%) Stakeholder Management
18 55 (8.66%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 137 (21.57%) MATLAB
2 89 (14.02%) SQL
3 74 (11.65%) JavaScript
4 69 (10.87%) Java
5 65 (10.24%) C#
6 31 (4.88%) Python
6 31 (4.88%) TypeScript
7 18 (2.83%) PHP
8 11 (1.73%) C++
9 8 (1.26%) PowerShell
10 6 (0.94%) Bash
10 6 (0.94%) Go
10 6 (0.94%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.79%) Groovy
11 5 (0.79%) Perl
11 5 (0.79%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.47%) Ruby
12 3 (0.47%) Swift
13 2 (0.31%) Bicep
13 2 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 214 (33.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 108 (17.01%) Degree
3 27 (4.25%) Security Cleared
4 22 (3.46%) CISA
4 22 (3.46%) ISACA
5 16 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.36%) SC Cleared
7 12 (1.89%) ACCA
8 10 (1.57%) PMP
9 9 (1.42%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.42%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.26%) CISSP
11 5 (0.79%) CISM
11 5 (0.79%) CITP
11 5 (0.79%) SANS
12 4 (0.63%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.63%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.47%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.47%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (7.40%) QA
2 45 (7.09%) ITGC
3 15 (2.36%) Accessibility
4 14 (2.20%) PMO
5 9 (1.42%) GDPR
5 9 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.94%) Automotive SPICE
7 5 (0.79%) ISO 26262
8 4 (0.63%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.63%) PMBOK
9 2 (0.31%) COBIT
9 2 (0.31%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.31%) NIST
10 1 (0.16%) AUTOSAR
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) DO-254
10 1 (0.16%) GRC
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 54 (8.50%) Docker
2 11 (1.73%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.47%) Firmware
6 2 (0.31%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.31%) Postfix
7 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 36 (5.67%) Kubernetes
2 31 (4.88%) Ansible
3 11 (1.73%) Terraform
4 8 (1.26%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.94%) Grafana
6 5 (0.79%) Functional Safety
6 5 (0.79%) HP ALM
6 5 (0.79%) Nessus
7 4 (0.63%) Nagios
7 4 (0.63%) Proxmox
7 4 (0.63%) Puppet
8 3 (0.47%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.31%) Argo
9 2 (0.31%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.31%) SCOM
9 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.16%) Automic
10 1 (0.16%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 67 (10.55%) Microsoft
2 60 (9.45%) Siemens
3 36 (5.67%) Oracle
4 35 (5.51%) SAP
5 24 (3.78%) Salesforce
5 24 (3.78%) Solace
6 23 (3.62%) Atlassian
7 13 (2.05%) Google
8 9 (1.42%) Databricks
8 9 (1.42%) IBM
8 9 (1.42%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.26%) Juniper
10 7 (1.10%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.94%) HP
11 6 (0.94%) VMware
12 5 (0.79%) Cisco
12 5 (0.79%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.79%) Okta
13 3 (0.47%) Guidewire
13 3 (0.47%) Meraki