Agile Jobs in the UK excluding London

Agile Software Development
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 2 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 14,052 17,518 22,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.95% 29.07% 31.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.71% 30.40% 33.04%
Number of salaries quoted 7,797 8,388 12,985
10th Percentile £37,900 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% +8.23% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,750
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,266 57,626 66,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.13% 95.63% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 41,003 29,573 41,244
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Agile in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the UK excluding London 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
North of England -1 3,477 £57,965 -2.62% 618
Scotland -1 3,085 £60,000 - 175
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
Wales -4 327 £52,686 +0.35% 90
Northern Ireland -2 131 £60,000 +14.29% 47
Isle of Man - 5 £54,000 - 1
Agile
UK

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 656 (4.67%) Apache Spark
2 323 (2.30%) Confluence
3 292 (2.08%) ArcGIS
4 287 (2.04%) GeoServer
5 240 (1.71%) SharePoint
6 186 (1.32%) Apache
7 138 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
8 120 (0.85%) FileNet
9 110 (0.78%) SAS
10 77 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
11 54 (0.38%) CMS
12 52 (0.37%) OpenStack
13 41 (0.29%) WebLogic
14 40 (0.28%) IIS
15 38 (0.27%) JBoss
15 38 (0.27%) Tuxedo
16 35 (0.25%) WebSphere
17 33 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
18 32 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
19 30 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 447 (3.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 216 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
3 163 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 112 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
5 73 (0.52%) AutoCAD
6 71 (0.51%) MS Visio
7 55 (0.39%) Simulink
8 35 (0.25%) UserZoom
9 26 (0.19%) Sketch
10 24 (0.17%) Adobe XD
11 22 (0.16%) Stateflow
12 21 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
13 18 (0.13%) Revit
14 17 (0.12%) Trello
15 7 (0.050%) CANalyzer
16 6 (0.043%) Photoshop
17 4 (0.028%) InDesign
17 4 (0.028%) InVision
17 4 (0.028%) Maya
18 3 (0.021%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 165 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 81 (0.58%) SAP ERP
3 55 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 41 (0.29%) NetSuite
5 39 (0.28%) Siebel CRM
6 36 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
7 23 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
8 22 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
9 20 (0.14%) NEC Housing
10 19 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
11 12 (0.085%) Shopify
12 10 (0.071%) Magento
12 10 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
13 9 (0.064%) Dynamics AX
13 9 (0.064%) Primavera
13 9 (0.064%) SAP CX
14 8 (0.057%) Dynamics GP
15 7 (0.050%) SAP GTS
15 7 (0.050%) Teamcenter
16 6 (0.043%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 3,729 (26.54%) Azure
2 3,394 (24.15%) AWS
3 795 (5.66%) GCP
4 748 (5.32%) Azure DevOps
5 647 (4.60%) Power Platform
6 496 (3.53%) SaaS
7 371 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
8 317 (2.26%) Serverless
9 297 (2.11%) GitHub
10 258 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
11 242 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
12 213 (1.52%) Amazon S3
13 206 (1.47%) PowerApps
14 198 (1.41%) Power Automate
15 167 (1.19%) IBM Cloud
16 158 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
17 142 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
18 128 (0.91%) Amazon ECS
19 123 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
20 117 (0.83%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 351 (2.50%) Broadband
2 196 (1.39%) Firewall
3 193 (1.37%) DNS
4 166 (1.18%) Internet
5 165 (1.17%) TCP/IP
6 114 (0.81%) Wireless
7 108 (0.77%) DHCP
8 97 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
9 84 (0.60%) Network Security
10 83 (0.59%) Kerberos
11 72 (0.51%) WAN
12 63 (0.45%) Intranet
13 57 (0.41%) SSL
14 56 (0.40%) HTTP
15 51 (0.36%) VPN
16 49 (0.35%) BGP
16 49 (0.35%) Bluetooth
17 46 (0.33%) LAN
18 34 (0.24%) SAN
19 32 (0.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,354 (9.64%) SQL Server
2 1,136 (8.08%) NoSQL
3 659 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
4 622 (4.43%) Big Data
5 496 (3.53%) MongoDB
6 442 (3.15%) Power BI
7 407 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
8 394 (2.80%) Relational Database
9 373 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
10 350 (2.49%) BigQuery
10 350 (2.49%) MySQL
11 302 (2.15%) GIS
12 284 (2.02%) QGIS
13 281 (2.00%) Hadoop
14 269 (1.91%) Looker
15 204 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
16 187 (1.33%) Data Lake
17 161 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
18 160 (1.14%) DB2
19 142 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1,202 (8.55%) Git
2 960 (6.83%) JIRA
3 688 (4.90%) Jenkins
4 299 (2.13%) Selenium
5 292 (2.08%) JUnit
6 244 (1.74%) Visual Studio
7 231 (1.64%) GitLab
8 210 (1.49%) Cypress.io
9 156 (1.11%) Bitbucket
10 142 (1.01%) Jasmine
11 127 (0.90%) Cucumber
12 103 (0.73%) Maven
13 93 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
14 92 (0.65%) Bitbucket Server
14 92 (0.65%) WebDriver
15 76 (0.54%) TeamCity
16 75 (0.53%) Karma Test Runner
17 73 (0.52%) JMeter
18 72 (0.51%) Postman
19 69 (0.49%) Artifactory
General
1 4,712 (33.53%) Finance
2 3,308 (23.54%) Social Skills
3 3,162 (22.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2,605 (18.54%) Law
5 1,585 (11.28%) Marketing
6 1,488 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
7 1,093 (7.78%) Legal
8 1,006 (7.16%) Banking
9 738 (5.25%) Public Sector
10 613 (4.36%) Retail
11 549 (3.91%) Influencing Skills
12 400 (2.85%) Investment Banking
13 374 (2.66%) Aerospace
14 349 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
15 273 (1.94%) Financial Institution
16 203 (1.44%) Manufacturing
17 188 (1.34%) Games
18 170 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
19 156 (1.11%) Telecoms
20 134 (0.95%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 3,130 (22.27%) Software Engineer
2 2,988 (21.26%) Developer
3 2,489 (17.71%) Senior
4 2,022 (14.39%) Lead
5 1,128 (8.03%) .NET Developer
6 1,041 (7.41%) Analyst
7 988 (7.03%) Project Manager
8 908 (6.46%) Java Engineer
9 866 (6.16%) Architect
9 866 (6.16%) Java Software Engineer
10 736 (5.24%) Lead Software Engineer
11 701 (4.99%) Senior Software Engineer
12 602 (4.28%) Senior Developer
13 572 (4.07%) Data Engineer
14 478 (3.40%) Full Stack Engineer
15 443 (3.15%) C# Developer
16 441 (3.14%) Software Developer
17 430 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
18 395 (2.81%) Business Analyst
19 390 (2.78%) Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,548 (18.13%) .NET
2 2,031 (14.45%) React
3 1,588 (11.30%) AngularJS
4 1,424 (10.13%) HTML
5 1,417 (10.08%) CSS
6 1,201 (8.55%) .NET Core
7 1,099 (7.82%) ASP.NET
8 1,009 (7.18%) Spring
9 748 (5.32%) Node.js
10 747 (5.32%) RESTful
11 712 (5.07%) ASP.NET Web API
12 698 (4.97%) REST
13 694 (4.94%) ASP.NET MVC
14 684 (4.87%) .NET Framework
15 651 (4.63%) Vue
16 620 (4.41%) Entity Framework
17 612 (4.36%) Spring Boot
18 574 (4.08%) HTML5
19 560 (3.99%) Kafka
20 551 (3.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1,083 (7.71%) Cloud Native
2 1,076 (7.66%) Algorithms
3 930 (6.62%) Product Ownership
4 537 (3.82%) Public Cloud
5 484 (3.44%) Management Information System
6 480 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
7 370 (2.63%) Data Structures
8 305 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
9 303 (2.16%) Onboarding
10 252 (1.79%) Mobile App
11 248 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
12 200 (1.42%) Blockchain
13 193 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
14 188 (1.34%) e-Learning
15 175 (1.25%) Private Cloud
16 152 (1.08%) IoT
17 141 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
18 115 (0.82%) Reference Data
19 111 (0.79%) Market Risk
20 107 (0.76%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1,036 (7.37%) Linux
2 629 (4.48%) Windows
3 310 (2.21%) Android
4 236 (1.68%) Unix
5 227 (1.62%) Apple iOS
6 131 (0.93%) Windows Server
7 109 (0.78%) Ubuntu
8 104 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 52 (0.37%) Windows 10
10 48 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
11 45 (0.32%) CentOS
12 33 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
12 33 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
13 28 (0.20%) Debian
14 18 (0.13%) Mac OS
15 10 (0.071%) Solaris
15 10 (0.071%) Windows 7
16 9 (0.064%) FreeRTOS
16 9 (0.064%) Windows Phone
16 9 (0.064%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,209 (29.95%) Software Engineering
2 3,101 (22.07%) SDLC
3 3,070 (21.85%) CI/CD
4 2,754 (19.60%) DevOps
5 2,438 (17.35%) Mentoring
6 2,214 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
7 2,210 (15.73%) Scrum
8 1,960 (13.95%) Artificial Intelligence
9 1,885 (13.41%) Full Stack Development
10 1,810 (12.88%) Project Management
11 1,801 (12.82%) Operational Stability
12 1,763 (12.55%) Microservices
13 1,724 (12.27%) Continuous Improvement
14 1,620 (11.53%) Coaching
14 1,620 (11.53%) Machine Learning
15 1,478 (10.52%) Actionable Insight
16 1,379 (9.81%) Community of Practice
17 1,369 (9.74%) Roadmaps
18 1,273 (9.06%) TDD
19 1,246 (8.87%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 2,905 (20.67%) JavaScript
2 2,880 (20.50%) SQL
3 2,740 (19.50%) Java
4 2,696 (19.19%) C#
5 2,165 (15.41%) Python
6 1,124 (8.00%) TypeScript
7 362 (2.58%) Scala
8 331 (2.36%) PHP
9 315 (2.24%) C
10 299 (2.13%) C++
11 234 (1.67%) PowerShell
12 205 (1.46%) Go
13 176 (1.25%) T-SQL
14 174 (1.24%) PL/SQL
15 132 (0.94%) Kotlin
16 124 (0.88%) Bash
17 100 (0.71%) MATLAB
18 85 (0.60%) COBOL
18 85 (0.60%) Ruby
19 82 (0.58%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,907 (13.57%) Degree
2 1,834 (13.05%) Security Cleared
3 1,202 (8.55%) SC Cleared
4 442 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 394 (2.80%) DV Cleared
6 236 (1.68%) ACCA
7 225 (1.60%) CIMA
8 202 (1.44%) Master's Degree
9 197 (1.40%) PMI Certification
10 162 (1.15%) PMP
11 161 (1.15%) AWS Certification
12 137 (0.97%) Azure Certification
13 105 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
14 102 (0.73%) HND
15 98 (0.70%) HNC
16 91 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 86 (0.61%) DBS Check
18 79 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
19 75 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
20 72 (0.51%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 760 (5.41%) QA
2 288 (2.05%) Accessibility
3 268 (1.91%) GDPR
4 210 (1.49%) Data Quality
5 188 (1.34%) PMO
6 117 (0.83%) SLA
7 68 (0.48%) WCAG
8 60 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 47 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
10 39 (0.28%) NIST
11 34 (0.24%) ISO 9001
12 29 (0.21%) MISRA
13 20 (0.14%) Automotive SPICE
13 20 (0.14%) AUTOSAR
14 18 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
14 18 (0.13%) NIST 800
15 17 (0.12%) CRD IV
15 17 (0.12%) PCI DSS
16 16 (0.11%) IFRS
17 15 (0.11%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 931 (6.63%) Docker
2 250 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 127 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 102 (0.73%) HDFS
5 72 (0.51%) Firmware
6 61 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 47 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 42 (0.30%) vSphere
9 37 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
10 23 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
10 23 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
11 21 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
12 18 (0.13%) VMware NSX
13 12 (0.085%) Time Sharing Option
14 9 (0.064%) Terminal Services
15 7 (0.050%) Microsoft App-V
16 5 (0.036%) SRDF
17 2 (0.014%) Apache Flume
17 2 (0.014%) Apache ZooKeeper
17 2 (0.014%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 1,194 (8.50%) Kubernetes
2 802 (5.71%) Terraform
3 351 (2.50%) Ansible
4 212 (1.51%) Grafana
5 148 (1.05%) Prometheus
6 76 (0.54%) Puppet
7 66 (0.47%) SCCM
8 64 (0.46%) Progress Chef
9 50 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
10 44 (0.31%) Kibana
11 34 (0.24%) SCOM
12 30 (0.21%) ZABBIX
13 28 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 26 (0.19%) ITRS Geneos
15 21 (0.15%) HAProxy
15 21 (0.15%) Zipkin
16 20 (0.14%) WSUS
17 17 (0.12%) vCenter Server
18 14 (0.100%) Docker Swarm
19 12 (0.085%) Istio
Vendors
1 2,303 (16.39%) Microsoft
2 802 (5.71%) Oracle
3 630 (4.48%) Google
4 349 (2.48%) Databricks
5 314 (2.23%) SAP
6 290 (2.06%) ESRI
7 270 (1.92%) IBM
8 228 (1.62%) Red Hat
9 219 (1.56%) Dynatrace
10 206 (1.47%) Splunk
11 192 (1.37%) Salesforce
12 160 (1.14%) ServiceNow
13 151 (1.07%) VMware
14 144 (1.02%) Informatica
15 124 (0.88%) Atlassian
16 100 (0.71%) Facebook
17 76 (0.54%) Micro Focus
18 75 (0.53%) Anaplan
18 75 (0.53%) Hyperion
19 72 (0.51%) Cloudera