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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -14 +1 +6
Permanent jobs citing Agile 32 39 144
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 6.31% 17.03% 22.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.55% 18.57% 25.81%
Number of salaries quoted 20 17 107
10th Percentile £56,125 £45,750 £42,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £58,750 £46,416
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +20.83% +2.56%
75th Percentile £94,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £89,500 £77,500
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 335 210 558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 66.07% 91.70% 87.05%
Number of salaries quoted 224 119 378
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,025 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,625 £78,750 £73,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -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 9 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 9 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 -1 12 £67,500 -10.00% 3
Horsham - 8 £105,000 - 7
Worthing +1 5 £60,000 -25.00% 2
Crawley -16 3 - - 25
Chichester -18 3 £75,900 +102.40% 1
Gatwick 0 1 £70,000 -2.93%
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 (12.50%) Confluence
2 3 (9.38%) SAS
3 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) CATIA
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.75%) Azure
2 5 (15.63%) SaaS
3 4 (12.50%) Adobe Analytics
3 4 (12.50%) AWS
3 4 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 4 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (9.38%) GitHub
4 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (6.25%) Google Ads
6 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) Broadband
2 2 (6.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 4 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (9.38%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (6.25%) Pentaho
4 1 (3.13%) Couchbase
4 1 (3.13%) GIS
4 1 (3.13%) Redis
4 1 (3.13%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (31.25%) JIRA
2 5 (15.63%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.50%) REST Assured
4 3 (9.38%) Appium
4 3 (9.38%) Cucumber
4 3 (9.38%) Git
4 3 (9.38%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (9.38%) Selenium
5 2 (6.25%) JUnit
5 2 (6.25%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (3.13%) Apache Continuum
6 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
6 1 (3.13%) JMeter
6 1 (3.13%) mountebank
6 1 (3.13%) Postman
6 1 (3.13%) SpecFlow
6 1 (3.13%) Subversion
6 1 (3.13%) TestNG
6 1 (3.13%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Advertising
2 4 (12.50%) Finance
2 4 (12.50%) Games
3 3 (9.38%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.13%) Agriculture
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Banking
4 1 (3.13%) International Banking
4 1 (3.13%) Legal
4 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (18.75%) Java Engineer
1 6 (18.75%) Lead
1 6 (18.75%) Senior
2 4 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Data Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Senior Java Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Senior Java Software Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Designer
4 2 (6.25%) Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Lead Designer
4 2 (6.25%) Lead Product Designer
4 2 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Product Designer
4 2 (6.25%) Programme Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Test Automation Specialist
4 2 (6.25%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) Kafka
2 4 (12.50%) React
3 3 (9.38%) Playwright
3 3 (9.38%) REST
3 3 (9.38%) RESTful
4 2 (6.25%) .NET
4 2 (6.25%) .NET Framework
4 2 (6.25%) Spring
4 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.13%) Entity Framework
5 1 (3.13%) Memcached
5 1 (3.13%) Next.js
5 1 (3.13%) Node.js
5 1 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (3.13%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (3.13%) Vert.x
5 1 (3.13%) Vue
5 1 (3.13%) WebdriverIO
5 1 (3.13%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Product Ownership
2 4 (12.50%) Social Media
3 3 (9.38%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (6.25%) Acoustics
4 2 (6.25%) Augmented Reality
4 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) CI/CD
2 9 (28.13%) Software Engineering
3 8 (25.00%) AI
3 8 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 8 (25.00%) Scrum
4 7 (21.88%) Analytics
4 7 (21.88%) DevOps
4 7 (21.88%) Microservices
4 7 (21.88%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (21.88%) Waterfall
5 6 (18.75%) Coaching
5 6 (18.75%) Line Management
5 6 (18.75%) Roadmaps
6 5 (15.63%) Customer Experience
6 5 (15.63%) Programme Delivery
7 4 (12.50%) Decision-Making
7 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (12.50%) Product Strategy
7 4 (12.50%) Prototyping
7 4 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) Java
2 8 (25.00%) SQL
3 4 (12.50%) Python
3 4 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 3 (9.38%) Go
5 2 (6.25%) Bash
5 2 (6.25%) C#
5 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (9.38%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.13%) PMP
3 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 4 (12.50%) QA
1 4 (12.50%) WCAG
2 3 (9.38%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 3 (9.38%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 3 (9.38%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Docker
1 3 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.25%) Grafana
3 1 (3.13%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (12.50%) Adobe
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) IBM
2 3 (9.38%) Oracle
2 3 (9.38%) VMware
3 2 (6.25%) Cloudera
3 2 (6.25%) Informatica
3 2 (6.25%) Splunk
3 2 (6.25%) Talend
4 1 (3.13%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (3.13%) ESRI