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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 3 5
Rank change year-on-year -19 +2 +6
Permanent jobs citing Agile 31 39 148
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 5.59% 18.22% 22.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.38% 20.10% 25.61%
Number of salaries quoted 19 19 110
10th Percentile £56,000 £42,750 £42,250
25th Percentile £59,375 £56,485 £46,811
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +20.83% -
75th Percentile £81,700 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £99,500 £88,500 £77,750
South East median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -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 370 194 578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 66.67% 90.65% 86.27%
Number of salaries quoted 244 121 390
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £26,175
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,800 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £73,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -3 10 £67,500 +3.85% 2
Horsham +4 6 £95,000 +111.11% 2
Worthing +1 5 £60,000 -25.00% 3
Crawley -16 4 £62,500 -23.08% 5
Chichester -20 3 £75,900 +102.40% 1
Haywards Heath - 2 £70,000 - 1
Gatwick -2 1 £70,000 +7.69% 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 3 (9.68%) Confluence
1 3 (9.68%) SAS
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (9.68%) CATIA
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.90%) Adobe Analytics
1 4 (12.90%) AWS
1 4 (12.90%) Azure
1 4 (12.90%) SaaS
2 2 (6.45%) Entra ID
2 2 (6.45%) Google Ads
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.23%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) Broadband
2 2 (6.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (9.68%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (9.68%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.45%) Pentaho
4 1 (3.23%) Couchbase
4 1 (3.23%) GIS
4 1 (3.23%) Redis
4 1 (3.23%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (29.03%) JIRA
2 3 (9.68%) Cucumber
2 3 (9.68%) Git
2 3 (9.68%) Jenkins
2 3 (9.68%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (9.68%) REST Assured
3 2 (6.45%) Appium
3 2 (6.45%) JUnit
3 2 (6.45%) Katalon Studio
3 2 (6.45%) Selenium
4 1 (3.23%) Apache Continuum
4 1 (3.23%) JMeter
4 1 (3.23%) mountebank
4 1 (3.23%) SpecFlow
4 1 (3.23%) Subversion
4 1 (3.23%) TestNG
4 1 (3.23%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Games
3 3 (9.68%) Finance
3 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.45%) Advertising
4 2 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Agriculture
5 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Legal
5 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Lead
2 6 (19.35%) Senior
3 5 (16.13%) Java Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Java Software Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Software Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Data Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Java Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Designer
6 2 (6.45%) Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Lead Designer
6 2 (6.45%) Lead Product Designer
6 2 (6.45%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Product Designer
6 2 (6.45%) Team Leader
7 1 (3.23%) Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) Kafka
1 4 (12.90%) React
2 3 (9.68%) REST
2 3 (9.68%) RESTful
3 2 (6.45%) .NET
3 2 (6.45%) .NET Framework
3 2 (6.45%) Playwright
4 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.23%) Entity Framework
4 1 (3.23%) Memcached
4 1 (3.23%) Next.js
4 1 (3.23%) Node.js
4 1 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.23%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (3.23%) Spring
4 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.23%) Vert.x
4 1 (3.23%) Vue
4 1 (3.23%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Product Ownership
2 4 (12.90%) Social Media
3 2 (6.45%) Acoustics
3 2 (6.45%) Augmented Reality
3 2 (6.45%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) CentOS
2 1 (3.23%) Debian
2 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) CI/CD
2 9 (29.03%) Software Engineering
3 7 (22.58%) AI
3 7 (22.58%) Analytics
3 7 (22.58%) DevOps
3 7 (22.58%) Mentoring
3 7 (22.58%) Scrum
3 7 (22.58%) Waterfall
4 6 (19.35%) Microservices
4 6 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (16.13%) Coaching
5 5 (16.13%) Customer Experience
5 5 (16.13%) Roadmaps
6 4 (12.90%) DesignOps
6 4 (12.90%) Digital Customer Experience
6 4 (12.90%) Inclusive Design
6 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (12.90%) Product Strategy
6 4 (12.90%) User Research
6 4 (12.90%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 7 (22.58%) Java
1 7 (22.58%) SQL
2 3 (9.68%) Python
2 3 (9.68%) TypeScript
3 2 (6.45%) Bash
3 2 (6.45%) C#
3 2 (6.45%) Go
4 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (9.68%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.23%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.23%) PMP
3 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) Accessibility
1 4 (12.90%) QA
1 4 (12.90%) WCAG
2 3 (9.68%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 3 (9.68%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 2 (6.45%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.45%) Ansible
2 2 (6.45%) Grafana
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.45%) Puppet
2 2 (6.45%) ZABBIX
3 1 (3.23%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Adobe
2 3 (9.68%) IBM
2 3 (9.68%) Oracle
3 2 (6.45%) Cloudera
3 2 (6.45%) Informatica
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.45%) Talend
3 2 (6.45%) VMware
4 1 (3.23%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (3.23%) ESRI
4 1 (3.23%) Splunk