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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 7 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 +7 -9
Permanent jobs citing Agile 50 53 64
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 12.89% 12.47% 12.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.88% 15.23% 12.72%
Number of salaries quoted 42 31 55
10th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £42,250
25th Percentile £54,375 £45,625 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -10.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £78,969 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £76,500
South East median annual salary £63,575 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.96% - -

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 336 348 503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 86.60% 81.88% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 225 183 349
10th Percentile £28,700 £32,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,625 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,853 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,375 £72,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,400 £75,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -2 12 £62,500 +13.64% 18
Burgess Hill +6 11 £67,500 -3.57% 7
Worthing - 10 £70,000 - 4
Horsham +1 4 £105,000 +52.17% 6
Haywards Heath +4 2 - - 1
East Grinstead 0 2 £62,500 -
Chichester -1 1 £85,700 +101.65% 3
Billingshurst - 1 £57,500 -
Petworth - 1 £75,874 -
Shoreham-by-Sea - 1 - -
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 4 (8.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (24.00%) AWS
2 9 (18.00%) Azure
3 6 (12.00%) Nutanix
4 4 (8.00%) Google Ads
4 4 (8.00%) SaaS
5 3 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (6.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.00%) Entra ID
5 3 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (4.00%) GitHub
6 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (4.00%) Smartsheet
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (6.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (4.00%) MySQL
3 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) JIRA
2 6 (12.00%) Git
3 4 (8.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.00%) REST Assured
5 2 (4.00%) Appium
5 2 (4.00%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.00%) Selenium
6 1 (2.00%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.00%) JUnit
6 1 (2.00%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (2.00%) mountebank
6 1 (2.00%) Postman
6 1 (2.00%) SpecFlow
6 1 (2.00%) Subversion
6 1 (2.00%) TestNG
6 1 (2.00%) WebDriver
General
1 31 (62.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.00%) Advertising
2 8 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Finance
3 5 (10.00%) Legal
3 5 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.00%) Billing
4 3 (6.00%) Electronics
5 2 (4.00%) Banking
5 2 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.00%) Agriculture
6 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.00%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (14.00%) Senior
2 6 (12.00%) Consultant
2 6 (12.00%) Programme Manager
2 6 (12.00%) Project Manager
2 6 (12.00%) Senior Consultant
3 5 (10.00%) Analyst
3 5 (10.00%) Business Manager
4 4 (8.00%) Automation Consultant
4 4 (8.00%) Linux Consultant
4 4 (8.00%) Product Owner
4 4 (8.00%) Senior Linux Consultant
5 3 (6.00%) Applications Manager
5 3 (6.00%) Applications Project Manager
5 3 (6.00%) Business Project Manager
5 3 (6.00%) Development Manager
5 3 (6.00%) Java Development Manager
5 3 (6.00%) Java Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Sales Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Security Manager
6 2 (4.00%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) Kafka
2 4 (8.00%) REST
3 3 (6.00%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (6.00%) React
4 2 (4.00%) .NET
4 2 (4.00%) Playwright
5 1 (2.00%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.00%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.00%) Blazor
5 1 (2.00%) Middleware
5 1 (2.00%) Node.js
5 1 (2.00%) Pandas
5 1 (2.00%) RESTful
5 1 (2.00%) Spring
5 1 (2.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.00%) WebdriverIO
5 1 (2.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 14 (28.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.00%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.00%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (2.00%) IoT
4 1 (2.00%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 18 (36.00%) Scrum
3 16 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (30.00%) Project Management
5 14 (28.00%) Mentoring
5 14 (28.00%) Waterfall
6 12 (24.00%) People Management
7 11 (22.00%) Process Improvement
8 10 (20.00%) Coaching
9 9 (18.00%) Programme Management
9 9 (18.00%) Project Delivery
9 9 (18.00%) SDLC
9 9 (18.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (16.00%) CI/CD
10 8 (16.00%) Computer Science
10 8 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (16.00%) CRM
10 8 (16.00%) Microservices
11 7 (14.00%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (14.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.00%) Java
2 6 (12.00%) SQL
3 5 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (8.00%) Python
5 3 (6.00%) C#
5 3 (6.00%) Go
6 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.00%) R
7 1 (2.00%) C++
7 1 (2.00%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (2.00%) Rust
7 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (24.00%) Degree
2 8 (16.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (12.00%) PMI Certification
3 6 (12.00%) PMP
4 2 (4.00%) CCNA
4 2 (4.00%) CEH
4 2 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.00%) CISM
4 2 (4.00%) CISSP
5 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.00%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (2.00%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) QA
2 3 (6.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.00%) GDPR
3 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.00%) PMO
4 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 4 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (6.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.00%) Ansible
1 5 (10.00%) Terraform
2 4 (8.00%) ZABBIX
3 3 (6.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (18.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.00%) Cisco
3 4 (8.00%) VMware
4 3 (6.00%) SAP
4 3 (6.00%) Workday
5 2 (4.00%) Extreme Networks
5 2 (4.00%) Fortinet
5 2 (4.00%) Meraki
5 2 (4.00%) Netskope
5 2 (4.00%) Oracle
5 2 (4.00%) Rapid7
6 1 (2.00%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (2.00%) Splunk