Agile Jobs in England

Agile Software Development
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 15,507 26,699 45,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.20% 29.52% 34.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.27% 30.87% 35.58%
Number of salaries quoted 10,472 14,384 23,062
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,750 £40,399
25th Percentile £47,788 £51,475 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Agile 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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,894 86,501 127,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.58% 95.63% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 53,677 51,101 73,310
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in England

Agile
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Agile in England.

Salary trend for Agile in England

Agile
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Agile in England

Agile
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the England region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
London -2 4,859 £80,000 - 1,359
North of England -1 3,477 £57,965 -2.62% 618
South East -2 2,856 £60,000 -4.00% 506
North West -1 1,980 £60,000 +4.35% 369
Midlands -4 1,793 £55,000 -1.79% 447
South West -2 1,644 £60,000 +4.35% 385
Yorkshire -1 1,105 £57,965 -3.39% 181
West Midlands -5 1,090 £57,500 +0.59% 287
East of England -5 740 £57,500 -4.17% 219
East Midlands -2 689 £52,500 -4.55% 157
North East +1 392 £52,500 -4.55% 74
Agile
UK

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 443 (2.86%) Apache
2 377 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
3 371 (2.39%) Confluence
4 345 (2.22%) SharePoint
5 329 (2.12%) SAS
6 205 (1.32%) ArcGIS
7 199 (1.28%) GeoServer
8 145 (0.94%) Apache Spark
9 122 (0.79%) CMS
10 118 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
11 64 (0.41%) IIS
12 52 (0.34%) OpenStack
13 37 (0.24%) Tuxedo
14 34 (0.22%) JBoss
15 33 (0.21%) WordPress
16 29 (0.19%) WebLogic
17 28 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
18 27 (0.17%) nginx
18 27 (0.17%) WebSphere
19 24 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 763 (4.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 266 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
3 165 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 130 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
5 86 (0.55%) MS Visio
6 74 (0.48%) AutoCAD
7 54 (0.35%) Simulink
8 44 (0.28%) Adobe XD
9 31 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
10 30 (0.19%) Photoshop
11 25 (0.16%) Sketch
12 22 (0.14%) Stateflow
12 22 (0.14%) Trello
13 17 (0.11%) Revit
14 13 (0.084%) InVision
15 8 (0.052%) Adobe Illustrator
15 8 (0.052%) InDesign
16 7 (0.045%) CANalyzer
17 6 (0.039%) Adobe Creative Suite
17 6 (0.039%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 309 (1.99%) SAP ERP
2 214 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 59 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 51 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 50 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 39 (0.25%) Siebel CRM
7 33 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
8 26 (0.17%) SDL Web 8
9 24 (0.15%) NEC Housing
10 20 (0.13%) Magento
11 18 (0.12%) Shopify
12 17 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
13 16 (0.10%) Aladdin
13 16 (0.10%) SAP CX
13 16 (0.10%) Unit4 Business World
14 15 (0.097%) Payment Gateway
15 14 (0.090%) SAP GTS
16 11 (0.071%) Dynamics AX
17 10 (0.064%) Dynamics GP
17 10 (0.064%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 4,650 (29.99%) Azure
2 3,350 (21.60%) AWS
3 1,253 (8.08%) GCP
4 996 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
5 905 (5.84%) Power Platform
6 625 (4.03%) SaaS
7 508 (3.28%) Serverless
8 466 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
9 373 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
10 342 (2.21%) GitHub
11 274 (1.77%) PowerApps
12 271 (1.75%) Snowflake
13 264 (1.70%) dbt
13 264 (1.70%) Power Automate
14 240 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
15 217 (1.40%) PaaS
16 210 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
17 205 (1.32%) Amazon S3
18 180 (1.16%) IBM Cloud
19 177 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 803 (5.18%) Broadband
2 307 (1.98%) Firewall
3 251 (1.62%) DNS
4 230 (1.48%) Internet
5 178 (1.15%) TCP/IP
6 153 (0.99%) WAN
7 137 (0.88%) Network Security
8 133 (0.86%) VPN
9 128 (0.83%) DHCP
10 125 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
11 124 (0.80%) LAN
12 121 (0.78%) Wireless
13 80 (0.52%) Intranet
14 79 (0.51%) HTTP
15 50 (0.32%) Bluetooth
15 50 (0.32%) SSL
16 49 (0.32%) BGP
17 45 (0.29%) SAN
18 42 (0.27%) SD-WAN
19 40 (0.26%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,672 (10.78%) SQL Server
2 715 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
3 602 (3.88%) Power BI
4 572 (3.69%) NoSQL
5 541 (3.49%) MongoDB
6 431 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
7 390 (2.51%) MySQL
8 376 (2.42%) Data Lake
9 354 (2.28%) BigQuery
10 349 (2.25%) Relational Database
11 340 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
12 333 (2.15%) Apache Ignite
13 258 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
14 246 (1.59%) Looker
15 228 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
16 221 (1.43%) Dremio
17 216 (1.39%) Apache Arrow
17 216 (1.39%) GIS
18 213 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
19 200 (1.29%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1,310 (8.45%) Git
2 1,090 (7.03%) JIRA
3 559 (3.60%) Jenkins
4 295 (1.90%) Selenium
5 283 (1.82%) GitLab
5 283 (1.82%) Visual Studio
6 200 (1.29%) Cypress.io
7 144 (0.93%) Cucumber
8 138 (0.89%) JUnit
9 121 (0.78%) TeamCity
10 104 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
11 96 (0.62%) Bitbucket
12 90 (0.58%) NUnit
13 88 (0.57%) Postman
14 68 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
15 66 (0.43%) JMeter
16 64 (0.41%) Maven
17 62 (0.40%) Subversion
18 61 (0.39%) WebDriver
19 57 (0.37%) SpecFlow
General
1 4,565 (29.44%) Social Skills
2 4,188 (27.01%) Finance
3 2,052 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
4 1,160 (7.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,037 (6.69%) Banking
6 894 (5.77%) Public Sector
7 754 (4.86%) Retail
8 699 (4.51%) Influencing Skills
9 662 (4.27%) Front Office
10 611 (3.94%) Legal
11 605 (3.90%) Marketing
12 443 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
13 431 (2.78%) Law
14 379 (2.44%) Aerospace
15 341 (2.20%) Investment Banking
16 235 (1.52%) Manufacturing
17 222 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
18 209 (1.35%) Telecoms
19 200 (1.29%) Games
20 196 (1.26%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 3,905 (25.18%) Developer
2 2,931 (18.90%) Senior
3 1,743 (11.24%) Lead
4 1,555 (10.03%) Analyst
5 1,466 (9.45%) Software Engineer
6 1,409 (9.09%) Architect
7 1,362 (8.78%) .NET Developer
8 1,155 (7.45%) Project Manager
9 801 (5.17%) Senior Developer
10 778 (5.02%) Solutions Architect
11 573 (3.70%) C# Developer
12 545 (3.51%) Business Analyst
13 542 (3.50%) Software Developer
14 528 (3.40%) Senior Software Engineer
15 421 (2.71%) Full Stack Developer
16 416 (2.68%) C# .NET Developer
17 404 (2.61%) Data Engineer
18 396 (2.55%) Senior Analyst
19 370 (2.39%) DevOps Engineer
20 366 (2.36%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,954 (19.05%) .NET
2 1,911 (12.32%) React
3 1,471 (9.49%) AngularJS
4 1,353 (8.73%) HTML
5 1,332 (8.59%) .NET Core
6 1,294 (8.34%) ASP.NET
7 1,256 (8.10%) CSS
8 799 (5.15%) .NET Framework
9 782 (5.04%) Vue
10 766 (4.94%) ASP.NET MVC
11 765 (4.93%) ASP.NET Web API
12 747 (4.82%) REST
13 708 (4.57%) Node.js
14 691 (4.46%) Entity Framework
15 690 (4.45%) RESTful
16 594 (3.83%) HTML5
17 523 (3.37%) Web Services
18 447 (2.88%) Spring
19 389 (2.51%) gRPC
20 354 (2.28%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 1,242 (8.01%) Product Ownership
2 536 (3.46%) Fixed Income
3 528 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
4 500 (3.22%) Hedge funds
5 463 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
6 442 (2.85%) Management Information System
7 415 (2.68%) Equities
8 414 (2.67%) Derivative
9 404 (2.61%) Data Structures
10 370 (2.39%) Cloud Native
11 368 (2.37%) Algorithms
12 360 (2.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 320 (2.06%) Public Cloud
14 277 (1.79%) Mobile App
15 271 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
16 233 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
17 222 (1.43%) Blockchain
18 197 (1.27%) e-Learning
19 192 (1.24%) Onboarding
20 179 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1,054 (6.80%) Linux
2 764 (4.93%) Windows
3 334 (2.15%) Android
4 282 (1.82%) Apple iOS
5 147 (0.95%) Windows Server
6 139 (0.90%) Ubuntu
7 129 (0.83%) Unix
8 103 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 62 (0.40%) Windows 10
10 58 (0.37%) CentOS
11 48 (0.31%) VMS
12 43 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
13 38 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
14 34 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
15 33 (0.21%) Debian
16 17 (0.11%) Mac OS
17 16 (0.10%) zOS
18 12 (0.077%) Solaris
19 10 (0.064%) Windows 7
20 9 (0.058%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,232 (20.84%) DevOps
2 2,842 (18.33%) Software Engineering
3 2,816 (18.16%) Mentoring
4 2,717 (17.52%) Scrum
5 2,463 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
6 2,221 (14.32%) Project Management
7 2,003 (12.92%) Full Stack Development
8 1,940 (12.51%) Roadmaps
9 1,668 (10.76%) CI/CD
10 1,657 (10.69%) Coaching
11 1,629 (10.50%) Microservices
12 1,531 (9.87%) Actionable Insight
13 1,428 (9.21%) TDD
14 1,291 (8.33%) Decision-Making
15 1,213 (7.82%) SDLC
16 1,182 (7.62%) Continuous Improvement
17 1,174 (7.57%) MVC
18 1,167 (7.53%) Project Delivery
19 1,135 (7.32%) Analytics
20 1,133 (7.31%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3,223 (20.78%) JavaScript
2 3,116 (20.09%) C#
3 2,499 (16.12%) SQL
4 2,233 (14.40%) Python
5 1,869 (12.05%) Java
6 1,496 (9.65%) TypeScript
7 367 (2.37%) PHP
8 334 (2.15%) C
9 327 (2.11%) PowerShell
10 301 (1.94%) C++
11 231 (1.49%) T-SQL
12 228 (1.47%) Kotlin
13 218 (1.41%) Go
14 158 (1.02%) Bash
15 123 (0.79%) Scala
16 122 (0.79%) R
17 106 (0.68%) MATLAB
18 101 (0.65%) Ruby
19 74 (0.48%) COBOL
20 73 (0.47%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 2,337 (15.07%) Degree
2 1,938 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 1,188 (7.66%) SC Cleared
4 580 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 530 (3.42%) DV Cleared
6 467 (3.01%) ACCA
7 461 (2.97%) CIMA
8 267 (1.72%) PMI Certification
9 252 (1.63%) Master's Degree
10 215 (1.39%) PMP
11 186 (1.20%) AWS Certification
12 173 (1.12%) Azure Certification
13 149 (0.96%) DBS Check
14 136 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
15 128 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
16 110 (0.71%) HNC
17 103 (0.66%) HND
18 97 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 88 (0.57%) CISSP
20 79 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 968 (6.24%) QA
2 342 (2.21%) Data Quality
3 278 (1.79%) GDPR
4 257 (1.66%) Accessibility
5 216 (1.39%) PMO
6 92 (0.59%) WCAG
7 91 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 77 (0.50%) NIST
9 72 (0.46%) SLA
10 29 (0.19%) MISRA
11 27 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
11 27 (0.17%) PCI DSS
12 26 (0.17%) ISO 9001
12 26 (0.17%) NIST 800
13 25 (0.16%) NCSC
14 20 (0.13%) Automotive SPICE
14 20 (0.13%) AUTOSAR
15 18 (0.12%) GRC
16 16 (0.10%) PSD2
17 15 (0.097%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1,178 (7.60%) Docker
2 299 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 170 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 81 (0.52%) Hyper-V
5 75 (0.48%) Firmware
6 67 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
7 62 (0.40%) vSphere
8 57 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
9 53 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
10 25 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
11 21 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
12 18 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 16 (0.10%) HDFS
14 9 (0.058%) KVM
14 9 (0.058%) Terminal Services
15 7 (0.045%) Microsoft App-V
16 6 (0.039%) DFS Replication
17 5 (0.032%) SRDF
18 3 (0.019%) NFS
18 3 (0.019%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1,161 (7.49%) Kubernetes
2 880 (5.67%) Terraform
3 467 (3.01%) Ansible
4 129 (0.83%) Puppet
5 123 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 83 (0.54%) Progress Chef
7 82 (0.53%) Grafana
8 66 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
9 63 (0.41%) SCCM
10 38 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 37 (0.24%) WSUS
12 34 (0.22%) Kibana
12 34 (0.22%) SCOM
13 30 (0.19%) ZABBIX
14 29 (0.19%) vCenter Server
15 24 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
16 17 (0.11%) Packer
17 16 (0.10%) Nagios
18 14 (0.090%) Docker Swarm
18 14 (0.090%) Nmap
Vendors
1 3,172 (20.46%) Microsoft
2 810 (5.22%) Google
3 752 (4.85%) Oracle
4 575 (3.71%) SAP
5 300 (1.93%) Hyperion
6 299 (1.93%) Anaplan
7 274 (1.77%) IBM
8 262 (1.69%) Salesforce
9 257 (1.66%) Red Hat
10 203 (1.31%) ESRI
11 201 (1.30%) Databricks
12 197 (1.27%) VMware
13 170 (1.10%) ServiceNow
14 119 (0.77%) Atlassian
15 118 (0.76%) Cisco
16 117 (0.75%) Adobe
17 101 (0.65%) Facebook
18 89 (0.57%) Dynatrace
19 76 (0.49%) Micro Focus
20 72 (0.46%) Bloomberg