Agile Job Trends in West Sussex

Agile Software Development
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Agile skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 5 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 -9
Permanent jobs citing Agile 56 63 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 13.73% 13.49% 12.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.43% 17.07% 12.86%
Number of salaries quoted 45 49 51
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% +12.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £70,400 £78,750
South East median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 363 369 622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 88.97% 79.01% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 240 220 382
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,938 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,813 £71,313
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,625 £75,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in West Sussex

Agile
Salary Trend in West Sussex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Agile.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Agile

Agile
Salary Histogram in West Sussex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in West Sussex over the 6 months to 14 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Agile in West Sussex

Agile
Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 14 September 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
Crawley +4 16 £62,500 +8.70% 7
Worthing - 15 £80,000 - 1
Burgess Hill +8 9 £70,000 - 2
East Grinstead -1 3 £62,500 -
Haywards Heath +1 2 - - 2
Horsham -5 2 £75,000 +13.64% 4
Chichester +1 1 £85,700 +101.65% 3
Billingshurst - 1 £57,500 -
Petworth - 1 £75,874 -
Shoreham-by-Sea - 1 - - 2
Agile
South East

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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 5 (8.93%) Confluence
2 1 (1.79%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (26.79%) AWS
2 8 (14.29%) Azure
3 7 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 7 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 6 (10.71%) Nutanix
5 4 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.57%) Google Ads
6 2 (3.57%) SaaS
6 2 (3.57%) Smartsheet
7 1 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.79%) Azure App Service
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.79%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (10.71%) SQL Server
3 3 (5.36%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (3.57%) Couchbase
4 2 (3.57%) MySQL
4 2 (3.57%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.57%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.79%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (12.50%) Git
1 7 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.79%) Liquibase
2 1 (1.79%) Subversion
General
1 38 (67.86%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.50%) Finance
4 6 (10.71%) Advertising
5 5 (8.93%) Manufacturing
6 4 (7.14%) Billing
6 4 (7.14%) Legal
7 3 (5.36%) Electronics
8 2 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.79%) Agriculture
9 1 (1.79%) Banking
9 1 (1.79%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (14.29%) Programme Manager
1 8 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 7 (12.50%) Business Manager
2 7 (12.50%) Development Manager
2 7 (12.50%) Java Development Manager
2 7 (12.50%) Senior
3 6 (10.71%) Consultant
3 6 (10.71%) Senior Consultant
4 5 (8.93%) Analyst
5 4 (7.14%) Applications Manager
5 4 (7.14%) Applications Project Manager
5 4 (7.14%) Automation Consultant
5 4 (7.14%) Business Project Manager
5 4 (7.14%) Linux Consultant
5 4 (7.14%) Security Manager
5 4 (7.14%) Senior Linux Consultant
6 3 (5.36%) Business Relationship Manager
6 3 (5.36%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 3 (5.36%) Product Owner
6 3 (5.36%) Sales Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.50%) React
2 3 (5.36%) Kafka
2 3 (5.36%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (5.36%) REST
3 2 (3.57%) .NET
4 1 (1.79%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.79%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.79%) Blazor
4 1 (1.79%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.79%) gRPC
4 1 (1.79%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.79%) Middleware
4 1 (1.79%) Node.js
4 1 (1.79%) Pandas
4 1 (1.79%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (33.93%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.93%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.57%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.57%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 2 (3.57%) IoT
4 2 (3.57%) Operational Technology
4 2 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (3.57%) SCADA
5 1 (1.79%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.93%) Linux
2 1 (1.79%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (39.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 21 (37.50%) Project Management
3 20 (35.71%) People Management
4 19 (33.93%) Process Improvement
4 19 (33.93%) Scrum
5 17 (30.36%) Waterfall
6 15 (26.79%) Mentoring
7 14 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (25.00%) Project Delivery
7 14 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 13 (23.21%) Programme Management
9 11 (19.64%) Coaching
9 11 (19.64%) Computer Science
9 11 (19.64%) Software Engineering
10 10 (17.86%) Microservices
10 10 (17.86%) PRINCE2
11 9 (16.07%) CRM
12 8 (14.29%) Capacity Management
12 8 (14.29%) Integration Testing
12 8 (14.29%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (19.64%) Java
2 8 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 3 (5.36%) C#
3 3 (5.36%) Python
3 3 (5.36%) SQL
4 2 (3.57%) Go
4 2 (3.57%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.57%) R
5 1 (1.79%) C++
5 1 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.79%) Rust
Qualifications
1 16 (28.57%) Degree
2 11 (19.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (16.07%) PMI Certification
3 9 (16.07%) PMP
4 2 (3.57%) CCNA
4 2 (3.57%) CEH
4 2 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.57%) CISM
4 2 (3.57%) CISSP
5 1 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.79%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (1.79%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.79%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) QA
2 3 (5.36%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.36%) GDPR
3 2 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 5 (8.93%) Docker
2 2 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (12.50%) Ansible
1 7 (12.50%) Terraform
2 4 (7.14%) ZABBIX
3 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (19.64%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.07%) Cisco
3 4 (7.14%) CA Agile Central
3 4 (7.14%) Oracle
3 4 (7.14%) SAP
3 4 (7.14%) Workday
4 2 (3.57%) Extreme Networks
4 2 (3.57%) Fortinet
4 2 (3.57%) Meraki
4 2 (3.57%) Netskope
4 2 (3.57%) Rapid7
4 2 (3.57%) VMware