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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 6 5
Rank change year-on-year -8 -1 +8
Permanent jobs citing Agile 56 55 65
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 6.47% 13.35% 13.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.86% 15.07% 17.33%
Number of salaries quoted 47 44 50
10th Percentile £50,250 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,625 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.92% +4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,906 £68,625
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £72,300
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

All Process & 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 632 365 375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 72.98% 88.59% 79.28%
Number of salaries quoted 470 241 225
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,853 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.79% -3.90% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,438 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,125 £75,000 £73,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,125
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.62% -1.59%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Agile relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Agile job vacancy trend 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 11 September 2026.

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 11 September 2026. 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 -12 18 £61,250 -2.00% 10
Worthing -9 14 £75,000 -6.25% 3
Burgess Hill -7 8 £67,500 -3.57% 11
Chichester -11 6 £57,500 -32.91% 1
Haywards Heath -4 3 £70,000 - 1
Horsham -7 1 £75,000 +66.67% 4
Agile
South East

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (12.50%) Confluence
1 7 (12.50%) OpenStack
2 6 (10.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 30 (53.57%) Azure
2 22 (39.29%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (10.71%) AWS
3 6 (10.71%) Azure AI
3 6 (10.71%) Power Automate
3 6 (10.71%) Power Platform
3 6 (10.71%) PowerApps
4 5 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.79%) Figma
6 1 (1.79%) IaaS
6 1 (1.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.71%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (32.14%) MongoDB
2 12 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (10.71%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (10.71%) Metadata
4 5 (8.93%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (3.57%) Couchbase
5 2 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (12.50%) JIRA
2 4 (7.14%) Git
3 2 (3.57%) Cucumber
3 2 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.57%) JMeter
3 2 (3.57%) JUnit
3 2 (3.57%) Rational DOORS
General
1 16 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.86%) Finance
3 6 (10.71%) Games
4 5 (8.93%) Advertising
5 3 (5.36%) Aerospace
5 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.36%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.57%) Retail
7 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 28 (50.00%) Developer
2 18 (32.14%) .NET Developer
3 14 (25.00%) Lead
4 7 (12.50%) Analyst
4 7 (12.50%) Team Leader
5 6 (10.71%) Senior
6 5 (8.93%) Lead Developer
6 5 (8.93%) SharePoint Developer
7 4 (7.14%) Backend Developer
7 4 (7.14%) Java Developer
7 4 (7.14%) Test Analyst
8 3 (5.36%) Business Analyst
8 3 (5.36%) Portfolio Manager
8 3 (5.36%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (5.36%) Technical Business Analyst
9 2 (3.57%) Digital Delivery Manager
9 2 (3.57%) Payments Analyst
9 2 (3.57%) Portfolio Delivery Manager
9 2 (3.57%) Senior Manager
9 2 (3.57%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (42.86%) .NET
2 23 (41.07%) ASP.NET
2 23 (41.07%) ASP.NET Core
3 18 (32.14%) React
4 12 (21.43%) .NET Core
4 12 (21.43%) Entity Framework
5 7 (12.50%) RESTful
6 6 (10.71%) .NET Framework
6 6 (10.71%) AngularJS
6 6 (10.71%) ASP.NET Web API
6 6 (10.71%) Blazor
6 6 (10.71%) CSS
6 6 (10.71%) HTML
6 6 (10.71%) ML.NET
6 6 (10.71%) Node.js
6 6 (10.71%) Vue
6 6 (10.71%) WinForms
6 6 (10.71%) WPF
7 5 (8.93%) Kafka
7 5 (8.93%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.43%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (16.07%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.14%) Mobile App
4 3 (5.36%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (5.36%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.50%) Debian
1 7 (12.50%) Linux
1 7 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (5.36%) CentOS
2 3 (5.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (60.71%) DevOps
2 25 (44.64%) CI/CD
3 20 (35.71%) Scrum
4 19 (33.93%) Full-Stack Development
5 18 (32.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (23.21%) Mentoring
7 12 (21.43%) SDLC
8 11 (19.64%) Coaching
8 11 (19.64%) Kanban
8 11 (19.64%) Microservices
8 11 (19.64%) Technical Leadership
9 10 (17.86%) User Experience
10 8 (14.29%) Analytics
10 8 (14.29%) BDD
10 8 (14.29%) High Availability
10 8 (14.29%) ITIL
10 8 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (14.29%) TDD
11 7 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 25 (44.64%) SQL
2 24 (42.86%) C#
3 18 (32.14%) JavaScript
4 12 (21.43%) TypeScript
5 5 (8.93%) Go
5 5 (8.93%) PowerShell
6 4 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (16.07%) Degree
2 5 (8.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (7.14%) PMP
4 3 (5.36%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.07%) QA
2 3 (5.36%) ISO 20022
2 3 (5.36%) ISO 8583
3 2 (3.57%) SLA
4 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.79%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (14.29%) Docker
2 3 (5.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 8 (14.29%) Ansible
1 8 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.50%) Puppet
2 7 (12.50%) ZABBIX
3 5 (8.93%) Grafana
4 2 (3.57%) Kibana
Vendors
1 24 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.36%) Oracle
2 3 (5.36%) Thales
3 2 (3.57%) IBM
3 2 (3.57%) Splunk