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 6 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 7 3
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 +8
Permanent jobs citing Agile 59 47 135
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 7.67% 13.28% 18.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.75% 14.46% 23.28%
Number of salaries quoted 46 36 107
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,938 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £71,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.86% +18.75% -9.43%
75th Percentile £77,100 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £73,750
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 549 325 580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 71.39% 91.81% 79.67%
Number of salaries quoted 379 208 405
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £72,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,362 £72,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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
Worthing -8 16 £75,000 -6.25% 4
Crawley -2 12 £60,000 -21.31% 9
Burgess Hill -3 11 £67,500 -3.57%
Chichester - 9 £57,500 - 1
Haywards Heath - 4 £70,000 - 1
Horsham -4 1 - - 3
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 (11.86%) Confluence
2 6 (10.17%) SharePoint
3 4 (6.78%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.69%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (5.08%) CATIA
Cloud Services
1 27 (45.76%) Azure
2 20 (33.90%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (10.17%) AWS
3 6 (10.17%) Azure AI
3 6 (10.17%) Power Automate
3 6 (10.17%) Power Platform
3 6 (10.17%) PowerApps
4 5 (8.47%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (6.78%) Adobe Analytics
5 4 (6.78%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.17%) Internet
2 4 (6.78%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (28.81%) MongoDB
2 11 (18.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (10.17%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (10.17%) Metadata
4 5 (8.47%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.39%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (3.39%) Couchbase
5 2 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.69%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (13.56%) JIRA
2 4 (6.78%) Git
3 3 (5.08%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (3.39%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.39%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.39%) JMeter
4 2 (3.39%) JUnit
5 1 (1.69%) Apache Continuum
General
1 14 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.25%) Finance
2 9 (15.25%) Games
3 5 (8.47%) Advertising
4 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.39%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.39%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (45.76%) Developer
2 17 (28.81%) .NET Developer
3 14 (23.73%) Lead
4 7 (11.86%) Analyst
4 7 (11.86%) Senior
5 5 (8.47%) Lead Developer
5 5 (8.47%) SharePoint Developer
5 5 (8.47%) Team Leader
6 4 (6.78%) Backend Developer
6 4 (6.78%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.78%) Portfolio Manager
6 4 (6.78%) Test Analyst
7 3 (5.08%) Business Analyst
7 3 (5.08%) Java Software Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (5.08%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (38.98%) .NET
2 22 (37.29%) ASP.NET
2 22 (37.29%) ASP.NET Core
3 18 (30.51%) React
4 11 (18.64%) .NET Core
4 11 (18.64%) Entity Framework
5 7 (11.86%) RESTful
6 6 (10.17%) .NET Framework
6 6 (10.17%) AngularJS
6 6 (10.17%) ASP.NET Web API
6 6 (10.17%) Blazor
6 6 (10.17%) ML.NET
6 6 (10.17%) Node.js
6 6 (10.17%) Vue
6 6 (10.17%) WinForms
6 6 (10.17%) WPF
7 5 (8.47%) CSS
7 5 (8.47%) HTML
7 5 (8.47%) Kafka
7 5 (8.47%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.64%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (16.95%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.78%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.78%) Mobile App
3 4 (6.78%) Social Media
4 3 (5.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.39%) Acoustics
5 2 (3.39%) Augmented Reality
5 2 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.47%) Linux
2 4 (6.78%) Debian
2 4 (6.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (5.08%) CentOS
3 3 (5.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (47.46%) DevOps
2 21 (35.59%) CI/CD
3 20 (33.90%) Scrum
4 18 (30.51%) Full-Stack Development
5 15 (25.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (20.34%) Coaching
6 12 (20.34%) Mentoring
7 11 (18.64%) Analytics
7 11 (18.64%) Kanban
7 11 (18.64%) Microservices
7 11 (18.64%) SDLC
7 11 (18.64%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (16.95%) AI
8 10 (16.95%) User Experience
9 9 (15.25%) User Research
10 8 (13.56%) BDD
10 8 (13.56%) Roadmaps
10 8 (13.56%) TDD
11 7 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (10.17%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 24 (40.68%) SQL
2 23 (38.98%) C#
3 18 (30.51%) JavaScript
4 12 (20.34%) TypeScript
5 7 (11.86%) Java
6 5 (8.47%) Go
6 5 (8.47%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (13.56%) Degree
2 6 (10.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (8.47%) PMP
4 4 (6.78%) PMI Certification
5 3 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.69%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.56%) QA
2 4 (6.78%) Accessibility
2 4 (6.78%) WCAG
3 3 (5.08%) ISO 20022
3 3 (5.08%) ISO 8583
3 3 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 3 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 2 (3.39%) SLA
5 1 (1.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (8.47%) Docker
2 3 (5.08%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 5 (8.47%) Ansible
1 5 (8.47%) Grafana
1 5 (8.47%) Kubernetes
1 5 (8.47%) Puppet
1 5 (8.47%) ZABBIX
2 2 (3.39%) Kibana
Vendors
1 22 (37.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.78%) Adobe
3 3 (5.08%) IBM
3 3 (5.08%) Oracle
4 2 (3.39%) Splunk