Agile Software Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Agile over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 9,006 19,717 30,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.68% 19.95% 29.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.78% 23.27% 31.13%
Number of salaries quoted 5,176 11,609 16,580
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,869 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,064 £103,911
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,965 £59,526
% change year-on-year -0.80% -2.62% +8.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50,654 84,747 98,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.80% 85.73% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,617 59,812 57,648
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the UK

Agile
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Agile in the UK

Agile
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Agile in the UK

Agile
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the UK over the 6 months to 8 May 2025. 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
England -3 7,949 £65,000 +4.00% 7,151
UK excluding London -6 5,819 £57,500 -0.80% 4,828
Work from Home -2 3,886 £65,000 +6.20% 5,080
London 0 2,808 £85,000 +6.25% 3,453
North of England -3 2,091 £57,500 -0.80% 1,213
North West -3 1,605 £57,560 -4.07% 772
South East -3 1,210 £60,000 - 1,581
Midlands -4 936 £55,000 - 633
West Midlands -4 612 £57,875 +0.65% 378
Scotland -3 601 £55,000 -8.33% 355
South West -5 528 £57,500 -4.17% 534
Yorkshire -6 406 £57,500 -0.80% 335
East of England -13 323 £53,000 -7.83% 484
East Midlands -8 321 £47,683 -9.18% 222
Wales -9 126 £58,929 +11.85% 122
North East -13 80 £55,000 +4.46% 124
Northern Ireland -20 11 £32,500 -45.83% 96
Isle of Man +13 4 - - 4
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 -

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 548 (6.08%) Confluence
2 286 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
3 230 (2.55%) Apache
4 155 (1.72%) Apache Spark
5 123 (1.37%) CMS
6 103 (1.14%) SharePoint
7 76 (0.84%) Oracle Application Server
8 29 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
8 29 (0.32%) WordPress
9 23 (0.26%) IIS
10 20 (0.22%) Drupal
10 20 (0.22%) Headless CMS
11 14 (0.16%) Umbraco
12 13 (0.14%) JBoss
12 13 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 13 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
13 12 (0.13%) nginx
13 12 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 12 (0.13%) SAS
14 11 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 271 (3.01%) Simulink
2 194 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
3 117 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
4 92 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
5 61 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 52 (0.58%) Trello
7 49 (0.54%) MS Visio
8 24 (0.27%) Chatbot
9 19 (0.21%) Adobe XD
9 19 (0.21%) Maya
10 13 (0.14%) Sketch
11 9 (0.100%) Photoshop
12 7 (0.078%) Mozilla Thunderbird
13 6 (0.067%) InVision
14 3 (0.033%) Adobe Premiere
14 3 (0.033%) AutoCAD
14 3 (0.033%) Productboard
14 3 (0.033%) UserZoom
15 2 (0.022%) Adobe Captivate
15 2 (0.022%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 126 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 70 (0.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 65 (0.72%) Teamcenter
4 54 (0.60%) Aladdin
5 41 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
6 32 (0.36%) thinkFolio
7 26 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
8 24 (0.27%) NetSuite
9 22 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
10 14 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
10 14 (0.16%) Shopify
11 10 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
11 10 (0.11%) SAP IBP
12 9 (0.100%) Payment Gateway
13 7 (0.078%) Orchestrade
14 6 (0.067%) Oracle BPM
15 5 (0.056%) Adobe Campaign
15 5 (0.056%) Magento
15 5 (0.056%) Oracle Applications
16 4 (0.044%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 2,138 (23.74%) Azure
2 1,914 (21.25%) AWS
3 893 (9.92%) GCP
4 458 (5.09%) Power Platform
5 443 (4.92%) SaaS
6 427 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
7 394 (4.37%) Serverless
8 268 (2.98%) dbt
9 237 (2.63%) GitHub
10 222 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
11 213 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
12 201 (2.23%) Amazon ECS
13 163 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
14 162 (1.80%) Snowflake
15 160 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
16 158 (1.75%) Amazon S3
17 152 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
18 130 (1.44%) PaaS
19 121 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
20 112 (1.24%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 431 (4.79%) DNS
2 420 (4.66%) VPN
3 81 (0.90%) Firewall
4 58 (0.64%) HTTP
5 48 (0.53%) Network Security
6 44 (0.49%) TCP/IP
7 39 (0.43%) WAN
8 29 (0.32%) SSL
9 28 (0.31%) Internet
10 23 (0.26%) DHCP
10 23 (0.26%) SD-WAN
11 20 (0.22%) LAN
12 16 (0.18%) Modbus
12 16 (0.18%) Wireless
13 15 (0.17%) Multicast
13 15 (0.17%) SAN
13 15 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
14 14 (0.16%) MQTT
15 13 (0.14%) 5G
16 12 (0.13%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 691 (7.67%) SQL Server
2 337 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
3 299 (3.32%) Data Lake
4 282 (3.13%) NoSQL
5 278 (3.09%) Power BI
6 270 (3.00%) Amazon Athena
7 256 (2.84%) Apache Iceberg
7 256 (2.84%) Dremio
8 250 (2.78%) Relational Database
9 234 (2.60%) Apache Arrow
10 230 (2.55%) MySQL
11 207 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
12 182 (2.02%) MongoDB
13 166 (1.84%) Apache Ignite
14 115 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
15 91 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
16 89 (0.99%) DynamoDB
17 88 (0.98%) Tableau
18 83 (0.92%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
19 82 (0.91%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1,001 (11.11%) JIRA
2 598 (6.64%) Git
3 347 (3.85%) Selenium
4 329 (3.65%) GitLab
5 302 (3.35%) Bitbucket
6 297 (3.30%) Jenkins
7 275 (3.05%) SonarQube
8 271 (3.01%) Maven
9 263 (2.92%) Cucumber
10 253 (2.81%) Sonatype Nexus
11 134 (1.49%) Rational DOORS
12 121 (1.34%) JUnit
13 94 (1.04%) Artifactory
14 91 (1.01%) Visual Studio
15 81 (0.90%) Cypress.io
16 67 (0.74%) JMeter
17 64 (0.71%) Postman
18 60 (0.67%) webpack
19 59 (0.66%) Mockito
20 50 (0.56%) TeamCity
General
1 3,239 (35.96%) Finance
2 2,367 (26.28%) Social Skills
3 1,462 (16.23%) Analytical Skills
4 1,237 (13.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,081 (12.00%) Banking
6 641 (7.12%) Presentation Skills
7 576 (6.40%) Front Office
8 458 (5.09%) Law
9 393 (4.36%) Retail
10 391 (4.34%) Marketing
11 344 (3.82%) Public Sector
12 285 (3.16%) Aerospace
13 284 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
14 263 (2.92%) Automotive
15 262 (2.91%) Legal
16 215 (2.39%) Manufacturing
17 207 (2.30%) Investment Banking
18 182 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
19 148 (1.64%) Games
20 129 (1.43%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,945 (21.60%) Senior
2 1,803 (20.02%) Developer
3 1,376 (15.28%) Software Engineer
4 931 (10.34%) Lead
5 788 (8.75%) Systems Engineer
6 705 (7.83%) Analyst
7 617 (6.85%) Software Developer
8 597 (6.63%) Architect
9 509 (5.65%) Senior Software Engineer
10 326 (3.62%) Senior Developer
11 321 (3.56%) Business Analyst
12 320 (3.55%) AWS Engineer
13 314 (3.49%) Project Manager
14 296 (3.29%) Principal Engineer
15 286 (3.18%) Senior Manager
16 266 (2.95%) Python Engineer
17 240 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
18 239 (2.65%) Product Manager
19 223 (2.48%) Data Engineer
20 207 (2.30%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,058 (11.75%) React
2 1,012 (11.24%) .NET
3 664 (7.37%) CSS
4 657 (7.30%) HTML
5 553 (6.14%) Node.js
6 498 (5.53%) Kafka
7 471 (5.23%) Spring
8 464 (5.15%) AngularJS
9 439 (4.87%) Spring Boot
10 432 (4.80%) REST
11 368 (4.09%) RESTful
12 321 (3.56%) Redux
13 246 (2.73%) .NET Core
13 246 (2.73%) JPA
14 237 (2.63%) Hibernate
15 232 (2.58%) Pandas
16 226 (2.51%) .NET Framework
17 203 (2.25%) Vue
17 203 (2.25%) Web Services
18 182 (2.02%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 932 (10.35%) Product Ownership
2 583 (6.47%) Cyberattack
3 431 (4.79%) Fixed Income
4 322 (3.58%) Derivative
5 320 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
6 318 (3.53%) Hedge funds
7 317 (3.52%) Equities
8 308 (3.42%) Management Information System
9 307 (3.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 232 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
11 220 (2.44%) Cloud Native
12 192 (2.13%) Mobile App
13 183 (2.03%) Algorithms
14 153 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
15 141 (1.57%) Onboarding
16 122 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
17 108 (1.20%) Virtual Team
18 94 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
19 87 (0.97%) Public Cloud
20 85 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 930 (10.33%) Linux
2 547 (6.07%) Android
3 264 (2.93%) Windows
4 129 (1.43%) Apple iOS
5 69 (0.77%) Unix
6 38 (0.42%) Windows Server
7 23 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 23 (0.26%) zOS
8 10 (0.11%) Solaris
8 10 (0.11%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.100%) VMS
9 9 (0.100%) Windows 10
9 9 (0.100%) Windows Vista
10 4 (0.044%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.044%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.033%) CentOS
11 3 (0.033%) Debian
12 2 (0.022%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.011%) Rocky
13 1 (0.011%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,261 (25.11%) Software Engineering
2 1,919 (21.31%) DevOps
3 1,586 (17.61%) CI/CD
4 1,414 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
5 1,340 (14.88%) Mentoring
6 1,173 (13.02%) Scrum
7 1,153 (12.80%) Roadmaps
8 1,141 (12.67%) Microservices
9 1,086 (12.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,011 (11.23%) Project Management
11 942 (10.46%) Stakeholder Management
12 919 (10.20%) Systems Engineering
13 918 (10.19%) Test Automation
14 885 (9.83%) Analytics
15 863 (9.58%) SDLC
16 798 (8.86%) Coaching
17 776 (8.62%) User Experience
18 762 (8.46%) Line Management
19 746 (8.28%) UML
20 741 (8.23%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,986 (22.05%) Java
2 1,846 (20.50%) Python
3 1,541 (17.11%) JavaScript
4 1,390 (15.43%) SQL
5 960 (10.66%) C#
6 752 (8.35%) C++
7 728 (8.08%) TypeScript
8 713 (7.92%) Go
9 709 (7.87%) MATLAB
10 242 (2.69%) Rust
11 168 (1.87%) PHP
12 165 (1.83%) PowerShell
13 126 (1.40%) C
14 79 (0.88%) Ada
15 69 (0.77%) Bash
16 63 (0.70%) R
17 55 (0.61%) Kotlin
18 49 (0.54%) Shell Script
19 46 (0.51%) T-SQL
20 45 (0.50%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 2,050 (22.76%) Degree
2 1,265 (14.05%) BPSS Clearance
3 1,042 (11.57%) Security Cleared
4 699 (7.76%) DV Cleared
5 325 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 313 (3.48%) SC Cleared
7 201 (2.23%) Master's Degree
8 192 (2.13%) AWS Certification
9 184 (2.04%) PMI Certification
10 173 (1.92%) PMP
11 168 (1.87%) Chartered Engineer
12 163 (1.81%) DBS Check
13 137 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 132 (1.47%) Azure Certification
15 117 (1.30%) AWS Certified Developer
16 101 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
17 92 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
18 87 (0.97%) CISSP
19 84 (0.93%) ISTQB
20 66 (0.73%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 712 (7.91%) QA
2 324 (3.60%) Accessibility
3 173 (1.92%) Data Quality
4 120 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 117 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 113 (1.25%) GDPR
7 84 (0.93%) PMO
8 66 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 63 (0.70%) ITGC
10 59 (0.66%) MiFID
11 56 (0.62%) NIST
11 56 (0.62%) SLA
12 47 (0.52%) PCI DSS
13 43 (0.48%) IFRS
14 33 (0.37%) SOC 2
15 32 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
16 30 (0.33%) GAAP
17 29 (0.32%) WCAG
18 25 (0.28%) NCSC
19 22 (0.24%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1,407 (15.62%) Docker
2 88 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 53 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
4 34 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 29 (0.32%) Firmware
6 20 (0.22%) Hyper-V
7 17 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 10 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
10 8 (0.089%) vSphere
11 5 (0.056%) Apache Flume
11 5 (0.056%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.033%) Postfix
13 1 (0.011%) KVM
13 1 (0.011%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.011%) NFS
13 1 (0.011%) RACF
13 1 (0.011%) Squid
13 1 (0.011%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 1 (0.011%) Xen
Systems Management
1 954 (10.59%) Kubernetes
2 590 (6.55%) Ansible
3 426 (4.73%) Terraform
4 59 (0.66%) Prometheus
5 54 (0.60%) Grafana
6 40 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 35 (0.39%) Progress Chef
8 31 (0.34%) Kibana
9 29 (0.32%) Puppet
10 27 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
11 22 (0.24%) Argo
12 12 (0.13%) WMI
13 11 (0.12%) Nessus
13 11 (0.12%) SCCM
14 9 (0.100%) CASB
15 7 (0.078%) Proxmox
16 6 (0.067%) Failover Clustering
16 6 (0.067%) HP ALM
16 6 (0.067%) Kustomize
17 5 (0.056%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1,098 (12.19%) Microsoft
2 321 (3.56%) Oracle
3 311 (3.45%) Google
4 268 (2.98%) SAP
5 214 (2.38%) Solace
6 198 (2.20%) Salesforce
7 163 (1.81%) Databricks
8 152 (1.69%) Siemens
9 137 (1.52%) ServiceNow
10 133 (1.48%) IBM
11 108 (1.20%) Atlassian
12 79 (0.88%) VMware
13 70 (0.78%) Sparx
14 65 (0.72%) Alteryx
15 56 (0.62%) Adobe
16 55 (0.61%) Red Hat
17 53 (0.59%) BISAM
18 50 (0.56%) MathWorks
19 49 (0.54%) Splunk
20 44 (0.49%) Cisco