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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 31 51 96
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 7.52% 16.45% 19.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.44% 18.55% 21.48%
Number of salaries quoted 26 20 77
10th Percentile £48,125 £43,875 £42,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £54,102 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £74,375 £79,063 £73,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £83,875 £80,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

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 297 275 447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 72.09% 88.71% 89.94%
Number of salaries quoted 217 139 311
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,650 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -10.38% -7.83%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,375
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £75,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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
Burgess Hill 0 12 £67,500 -10.00%
Horsham +13 7 £105,000 - 1
Worthing +6 5 £60,000 -25.00% 6
Crawley -13 4 £65,000 -10.34% 49
Gatwick -1 1 £70,000 +29.11%
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 5 (16.13%) Confluence
2 2 (6.45%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 7 (22.58%) AWS
2 6 (19.35%) Azure
3 5 (16.13%) SaaS
4 4 (12.90%) Entra ID
4 4 (12.90%) Google Ads
4 4 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (9.68%) GitHub
5 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (9.68%) Nutanix
6 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (12.90%) NoSQL
1 4 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (9.68%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (6.45%) Pentaho
3 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.23%) Couchbase
4 1 (3.23%) GIS
4 1 (3.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (29.03%) JIRA
2 5 (16.13%) Git
2 5 (16.13%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.90%) REST Assured
4 3 (9.68%) Appium
4 3 (9.68%) Cucumber
4 3 (9.68%) Selenium
5 2 (6.45%) JUnit
5 2 (6.45%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (3.23%) Cypress.io
6 1 (3.23%) JMeter
6 1 (3.23%) mountebank
6 1 (3.23%) Postman
6 1 (3.23%) SpecFlow
6 1 (3.23%) Subversion
6 1 (3.23%) TestNG
6 1 (3.23%) WebDriver
General
1 17 (54.84%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Advertising
3 5 (16.13%) Legal
4 4 (12.90%) Finance
5 3 (9.68%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (6.45%) Billing
6 2 (6.45%) Electronics
6 2 (6.45%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.23%) Agriculture
7 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (3.23%) Banking
7 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.23%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (12.90%) Lead
1 4 (12.90%) Product Owner
1 4 (12.90%) Senior
2 3 (9.68%) Consultant
2 3 (9.68%) Java Engineer
2 3 (9.68%) Senior Consultant
3 2 (6.45%) Analyst
3 2 (6.45%) Applications Manager
3 2 (6.45%) Business Manager
3 2 (6.45%) Business Project Manager
3 2 (6.45%) CRM Project Manager
3 2 (6.45%) Developer
3 2 (6.45%) ERP Manager
3 2 (6.45%) ERP Project Manager
3 2 (6.45%) Linux Consultant
3 2 (6.45%) Project Manager
3 2 (6.45%) Sales Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Senior Linux Consultant
3 2 (6.45%) Test Automation Specialist
3 2 (6.45%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) Kafka
2 4 (12.90%) React
3 3 (9.68%) Playwright
3 3 (9.68%) REST
3 3 (9.68%) RESTful
4 2 (6.45%) .NET
4 2 (6.45%) .NET Framework
4 2 (6.45%) Spring
4 2 (6.45%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.23%) Entity Framework
5 1 (3.23%) Memcached
5 1 (3.23%) Next.js
5 1 (3.23%) Node.js
5 1 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (3.23%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (3.23%) Vert.x
5 1 (3.23%) Vue
5 1 (3.23%) WebdriverIO
5 1 (3.23%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Product Ownership
2 5 (16.13%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) Scrum
2 11 (35.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (29.03%) CI/CD
3 9 (29.03%) Mentoring
3 9 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (22.58%) DevOps
4 7 (22.58%) Microservices
5 6 (19.35%) Coaching
5 6 (19.35%) SDLC
6 5 (16.13%) Line Management
6 5 (16.13%) Risk Management
6 5 (16.13%) Sprint Planning
7 4 (12.90%) AI
7 4 (12.90%) Backlog Management
7 4 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (12.90%) CRM
7 4 (12.90%) Data Enrichment
7 4 (12.90%) Project Management
7 4 (12.90%) Test Automation
7 4 (12.90%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (29.03%) SQL
2 6 (19.35%) Java
3 4 (12.90%) Python
3 4 (12.90%) TypeScript
4 3 (9.68%) Go
5 2 (6.45%) Bash
5 2 (6.45%) C#
5 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) CEH
2 1 (3.23%) CISM
2 1 (3.23%) CISSP
2 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) QA
2 3 (9.68%) PMO
3 1 (3.23%) GDPR
3 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (9.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.45%) Ansible
2 2 (6.45%) Grafana
2 2 (6.45%) Terraform
2 2 (6.45%) ZABBIX
3 1 (3.23%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
1 4 (12.90%) VMware
2 3 (9.68%) Oracle
3 2 (6.45%) Cloudera
3 2 (6.45%) Informatica
3 2 (6.45%) SAP
3 2 (6.45%) Splunk
3 2 (6.45%) Talend
3 2 (6.45%) Workday
4 1 (3.23%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (3.23%) ESRI
4 1 (3.23%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.23%) Netskope
4 1 (3.23%) Rapid7