Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 30 July 2021

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Agile Software Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Agile Software Development over the 6 months to 30 July 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Agile Software Development
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
30 Jul 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile Software Development 7,397 1,555 2,351
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 32.23% 28.69% 29.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 34.24% 30.80% 30.89%
Number of salaries quoted 5,914 1,378 2,108
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,885 £35,700
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +12.52%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,938 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +4.76%

Agile Software Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,604 5,048 7,610
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 94.14% 93.14% 94.03%
Number of salaries quoted 17,158 4,368 6,610
10th Percentile £36,000 £35,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,431 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.12% -0.12% +9.52%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%

Agile Software Development
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Agile Software Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Agile Software Development trend for jobs with a WFH option

Agile Software Development
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Agile Software Development.

Agile Software Development salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Agile Software Development
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Agile Software Development over the 6 months to 30 July 2021.

Agile Software Development salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 30 July 2021, Agile Software Development job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for Agile Software Development.

1 2,347 (31.73%) JavaScript
2 2,049 (27.70%) Scrum
3 2,022 (27.34%) AWS
4 1,941 (26.24%) Azure
5 1,913 (25.86%) DevOps
6 1,765 (23.86%) SQL
7 1,684 (22.77%) React
8 1,671 (22.59%) Finance
9 1,640 (22.17%) Software Engineering
10 1,542 (20.85%) Java
11 1,501 (20.29%) Social Skills
12 1,476 (19.95%) C#
13 1,439 (19.45%) .NET
14 1,340 (18.12%) Microservices
15 1,274 (17.22%) Docker
16 1,152 (15.57%) Full Stack Development
17 1,136 (15.36%) Git (software)
18 1,124 (15.20%) Kubernetes
19 1,076 (14.55%) TDD
20 1,039 (14.05%) Python
21 1,015 (13.72%) Test Automation
22 1,008 (13.63%) HTML
23 977 (13.21%) AngularJS
24 955 (12.91%) Microsoft
25 950 (12.84%) CSS
26 890 (12.03%) TypeScript
27 849 (11.48%) Node.js
28 806 (10.90%) Web Services
29 788 (10.65%) Mentoring
30 743 (10.04%) Linux

Agile Software Development
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 260 (3.51%) Confluence
2 237 (3.20%) Elasticsearch
3 202 (2.73%) CMS
4 119 (1.61%) SharePoint
5 100 (1.35%) Apache
6 96 (1.30%) Apache Spark
7 50 (0.68%) WordPress
8 48 (0.65%) nginx
9 47 (0.64%) Tomcat
9 47 (0.64%) Umbraco
10 41 (0.55%) Sitecore CMS
11 40 (0.54%) IIS
12 39 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
13 38 (0.51%) Drupal
14 30 (0.41%) BizTalk Server
15 24 (0.32%) Apache Solr
16 23 (0.31%) OpenStack
17 16 (0.22%) SAS
18 15 (0.20%) Headless CMS
19 14 (0.19%) Documentum
Applications
1 108 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 59 (0.80%) Sketch
4 58 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
5 42 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 38 (0.51%) Figma
7 36 (0.49%) MS Visio
8 31 (0.42%) InVision
9 22 (0.30%) Adobe XD
10 20 (0.27%) Chatbot
11 12 (0.16%) Photoshop
11 12 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
12 9 (0.12%) Zeplin
13 8 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 8 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
13 8 (0.11%) Marvel
14 7 (0.095%) Adobe Premiere
14 7 (0.095%) OmniGraffle
15 6 (0.081%) Final Cut Pro
15 6 (0.081%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 74 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 61 (0.82%) Shopify
3 41 (0.55%) Magento
4 36 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
5 21 (0.28%) NetSuite
6 18 (0.24%) SAP Hybris
7 15 (0.20%) Oracle Applications
8 14 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
9 12 (0.16%) Sentinel
10 10 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
11 9 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
11 9 (0.12%) TrackWise
12 8 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
13 6 (0.081%) Remedy ITSM
13 6 (0.081%) Sage 200
13 6 (0.081%) Salesforce.com CRM
14 5 (0.068%) Dynamics NAV
14 5 (0.068%) SDL Web 8
15 4 (0.054%) SAP ERP
16 3 (0.041%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 2,022 (27.34%) AWS
2 1,941 (26.24%) Azure
3 691 (9.34%) SaaS
4 676 (9.14%) GCP
5 531 (7.18%) Serverless
6 217 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
7 213 (2.88%) GitHub
8 204 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 189 (2.56%) Amazon S3
10 187 (2.53%) Power Platform
11 163 (2.20%) PaaS
12 130 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
13 125 (1.69%) IaaS
14 111 (1.50%) Amazon SQS
14 111 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
15 104 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
16 90 (1.22%) npm
17 81 (1.10%) Azure Service Bus
18 76 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
19 68 (0.92%) Azure Active Directory
Communications & Networking
1 71 (0.96%) Firewall
2 68 (0.92%) HTTP
3 51 (0.69%) Internet
4 36 (0.49%) TCP/IP
5 35 (0.47%) VPN
6 31 (0.42%) DNS
7 29 (0.39%) Broadband
8 20 (0.27%) WAN
9 17 (0.23%) DHCP
9 17 (0.23%) VLAN
10 13 (0.18%) LAN
10 13 (0.18%) Network Security
10 13 (0.18%) SD-WAN
11 12 (0.16%) SSL
12 11 (0.15%) IPv4
13 10 (0.14%) VoIP
13 10 (0.14%) Wireless
14 9 (0.12%) IPsec
14 9 (0.12%) IPv6
14 9 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 678 (9.17%) SQL Server
2 624 (8.44%) NoSQL
3 442 (5.98%) PostgreSQL
4 408 (5.52%) MySQL
5 300 (4.06%) MongoDB
6 289 (3.91%) Amazon DynamoDB
7 252 (3.41%) Relational Database
8 235 (3.18%) Big Data
9 159 (2.15%) Redis
10 131 (1.77%) Power BI
11 121 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
12 114 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
13 98 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 89 (1.20%) Hadoop
15 87 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 80 (1.08%) Tableau
17 72 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
18 64 (0.87%) BigQuery
19 58 (0.78%) RDBMS
20 54 (0.73%) Blockchain
Development Applications
1 1,136 (15.36%) Git (software)
2 655 (8.85%) JIRA
3 619 (8.37%) Jenkins
4 276 (3.73%) Selenium
5 230 (3.11%) Maven
6 208 (2.81%) GitLab
7 194 (2.62%) JUnit
8 155 (2.10%) Cucumber
8 155 (2.10%) Visual Studio
9 150 (2.03%) TeamCity
10 139 (1.88%) Cypress.io
11 137 (1.85%) Octopus Deploy
12 133 (1.80%) webpack
13 90 (1.22%) Team Foundation Server
14 82 (1.11%) WebDriver
15 81 (1.10%) Gradle
16 76 (1.03%) Bitbucket
16 76 (1.03%) SpecFlow
17 62 (0.84%) Babel
17 62 (0.84%) Postman
General
1 1,671 (22.59%) Finance
2 1,501 (20.29%) Social Skills
3 493 (6.66%) Analytical Skills
4 418 (5.65%) Retail
5 412 (5.57%) Marketing
6 364 (4.92%) Public Sector
7 305 (4.12%) Banking
8 213 (2.88%) Games
9 195 (2.64%) Law
10 177 (2.39%) Telecoms
11 162 (2.19%) Front Office
12 125 (1.69%) Electronics
13 122 (1.65%) Manufacturing
14 118 (1.60%) Legal
15 101 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
16 91 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
17 82 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
18 78 (1.05%) Advertising
19 77 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 73 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3,058 (41.34%) Developer
2 717 (9.69%) Software Engineer
3 626 (8.46%) Senior Developer
4 596 (8.06%) React Developer
5 526 (7.11%) Java Developer
6 443 (5.99%) .NET Developer
7 428 (5.79%) C# Developer
8 424 (5.73%) DevOps Engineer
9 412 (5.57%) Full Stack Developer
10 410 (5.54%) Analyst
11 306 (4.14%) Project Manager
12 304 (4.11%) Architect
12 304 (4.11%) Software Developer
13 263 (3.56%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 247 (3.34%) Business Analyst
15 240 (3.24%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 234 (3.16%) Lead Developer
17 229 (3.10%) AWS Engineer
18 226 (3.06%) JavaScript Developer
19 212 (2.87%) Angular Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,684 (22.77%) React
2 1,439 (19.45%) .NET
3 1,008 (13.63%) HTML
4 977 (13.21%) AngularJS
5 950 (12.84%) CSS
6 849 (11.48%) Node.js
7 806 (10.90%) Web Services
8 693 (9.37%) REST
9 615 (8.31%) RESTful
10 593 (8.02%) .NET Core
11 513 (6.94%) Spring
12 467 (6.31%) Vue.js
13 362 (4.89%) ASP.NET
14 354 (4.79%) React Native
15 351 (4.75%) Spring Boot
16 320 (4.33%) HTML5
17 282 (3.81%) .NET Framework
18 281 (3.80%) Redux
19 276 (3.73%) Kafka
20 275 (3.72%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 704 (9.52%) User Experience
2 441 (5.96%) Greenfield Project
3 364 (4.92%) Mobile App
4 272 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
5 204 (2.76%) Virtual Team
6 142 (1.92%) Cloud Native
7 128 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
8 124 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
9 115 (1.55%) Algorithms
10 107 (1.45%) Hedge funds
11 106 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
12 100 (1.35%) iPad
12 100 (1.35%) Management Information System
13 93 (1.26%) Data Structures
14 86 (1.16%) Public Cloud
15 78 (1.05%) Fixed Income
16 75 (1.01%) Data Centre
17 70 (0.95%) Derivative
18 50 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 46 (0.62%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 743 (10.04%) Linux
2 309 (4.18%) Android
3 267 (3.61%) Windows
4 258 (3.49%) Apple iOS
5 88 (1.19%) Unix
6 72 (0.97%) Windows Server
7 29 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 26 (0.35%) CentOS
9 22 (0.30%) Ubuntu
10 18 (0.24%) Windows 10
11 12 (0.16%) Fedora
11 12 (0.16%) SUSE
12 8 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (0.095%) Mac OS
13 7 (0.095%) Solaris
14 6 (0.081%) VMS
14 6 (0.081%) Windows Server 2019
15 5 (0.068%) AIX
15 5 (0.068%) Mac OS X
16 4 (0.054%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,049 (27.70%) Scrum
2 1,913 (25.86%) DevOps
3 1,640 (22.17%) Software Engineering
4 1,340 (18.12%) Microservices
5 1,152 (15.57%) Full Stack Development
6 1,076 (14.55%) TDD
7 1,015 (13.72%) Test Automation
8 788 (10.65%) Mentoring
9 734 (9.92%) Problem-Solving
10 686 (9.27%) Continuous Integration
11 683 (9.23%) SDLC
12 598 (8.08%) BDD
13 568 (7.68%) Front End Development
14 567 (7.67%) Project Management
15 506 (6.84%) MVC
16 489 (6.61%) Fintech
17 468 (6.33%) Computer Science
18 463 (6.26%) E-Commerce
19 394 (5.33%) Stakeholder Management
20 393 (5.31%) OO
Programming Languages
1 2,347 (31.73%) JavaScript
2 1,765 (23.86%) SQL
3 1,542 (20.85%) Java
4 1,476 (19.95%) C#
5 1,039 (14.05%) Python
6 890 (12.03%) TypeScript
7 405 (5.48%) PHP
8 246 (3.33%) Go
9 218 (2.95%) Kotlin
10 209 (2.83%) PowerShell
11 202 (2.73%) T-SQL
12 188 (2.54%) Scala
13 185 (2.50%) Java 8
14 183 (2.47%) Ruby
15 144 (1.95%) C++
16 119 (1.61%) C
17 117 (1.58%) ES6
18 108 (1.46%) Bash Shell
19 72 (0.97%) Clojure
20 59 (0.80%) Java 11
Qualifications
1 654 (8.84%) Degree
2 282 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 270 (3.65%) Security Cleared
4 240 (3.24%) SC Cleared
5 79 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 64 (0.87%) PMI Certification
7 46 (0.62%) PhD
8 44 (0.59%) ISTQB
9 40 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 37 (0.50%) PMP
11 36 (0.49%) ISEB
12 34 (0.46%) Master's Degree
13 29 (0.39%) CISSP
14 28 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 26 (0.35%) AWS Certification
16 25 (0.34%) CISM
17 21 (0.28%) APMP
18 19 (0.26%) MCSD
19 18 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
20 15 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 644 (8.71%) QA
2 199 (2.69%) Accessibility
3 84 (1.14%) GDPR
4 54 (0.73%) PMO
5 46 (0.62%) Data Quality
6 42 (0.57%) SLA
7 41 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 40 (0.54%) NIST
9 28 (0.38%) WCAG
10 18 (0.24%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.16%) GRC
11 12 (0.16%) ISO 13485
11 12 (0.16%) NCSC
12 7 (0.095%) COBIT
12 7 (0.095%) IEC 62304
13 4 (0.054%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.054%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.054%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 4 (0.054%) PMBOK
13 4 (0.054%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1,274 (17.22%) Docker
2 108 (1.46%) Active Directory
3 45 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.23%) vSphere
6 11 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.12%) ISA Server
8 7 (0.095%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 6 (0.081%) iptables
10 5 (0.068%) Firmware
10 5 (0.068%) LXC
10 5 (0.068%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.068%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.054%) Apache Flume
11 4 (0.054%) HDFS
11 4 (0.054%) VirtualBox
11 4 (0.054%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.041%) KVM
12 3 (0.041%) Xen
13 2 (0.027%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 1,124 (15.20%) Kubernetes
2 683 (9.23%) Terraform
3 293 (3.96%) Ansible
4 274 (3.70%) Puppet
5 233 (3.15%) Opscode Chef
6 62 (0.84%) Istio
7 58 (0.78%) Prometheus
8 43 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
9 34 (0.46%) Grafana
10 31 (0.42%) Rancher
11 28 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
12 25 (0.34%) Kibana
13 15 (0.20%) logstash
13 15 (0.20%) PTC Integrity
14 14 (0.19%) SCCM
15 12 (0.16%) Kustomize
15 12 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
15 12 (0.16%) Nagios
15 12 (0.16%) ZABBIX
16 8 (0.11%) Icinga
Vendors
1 955 (12.91%) Microsoft
2 361 (4.88%) Oracle
3 290 (3.92%) Google
4 181 (2.45%) SAP
5 149 (2.01%) Salesforce.com
6 85 (1.15%) Adobe
7 84 (1.14%) IBM
8 82 (1.11%) ServiceNow
9 78 (1.05%) Mercator
10 76 (1.03%) Atlassian
11 73 (0.99%) Xamarin
12 64 (0.87%) VMware
13 49 (0.66%) Databricks
14 43 (0.58%) Sitecore
15 40 (0.54%) Yahoo!
16 39 (0.53%) Elastic Path
17 38 (0.51%) Zend
18 34 (0.46%) Red Hat
19 29 (0.39%) Apple
20 27 (0.37%) hybris