Agile Software Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 19,679 31,506 52,297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.04% 30.07% 33.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.30% 31.44% 35.50%
Number of salaries quoted 11,631 17,091 26,149
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,965 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.62% +8.23% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,460 100,219 147,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.03% 95.64% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,759 58,822 83,132
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Agile in the UK

Agile
Top 18 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 26 April 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
England -2 15,537 £62,500 -7.41% 3,457
UK excluding London 0 14,089 £57,965 -2.62% 2,356
Work from Home -1 8,657 £61,206 -5.84% 2,074
London -2 4,854 £77,500 -3.13% 1,284
North of England -1 3,482 £57,965 -2.62% 599
Scotland -1 3,088 £60,000 -2.37% 178
South East 0 2,881 £60,000 -4.00% 524
North West -1 1,965 £60,000 +2.56% 382
Midlands -3 1,796 £55,000 -1.79% 390
South West -2 1,646 £59,556 +3.57% 360
Yorkshire -1 1,128 £57,965 -3.39% 160
West Midlands -5 1,090 £57,500 +1.81% 254
East of England -5 740 £57,500 -4.17% 239
East Midlands -2 694 £52,500 -4.55% 136
North East +1 389 £52,500 -4.55% 62
Wales -2 332 £52,593 -2.49% 88
Northern Ireland -2 130 £60,000 +14.29% 37
Isle of Man - 5 £54,000 - 2

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
1 753 (3.83%) Apache Spark
2 508 (2.58%) Apache
3 496 (2.52%) Confluence
4 434 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
5 390 (1.98%) SharePoint
6 344 (1.75%) SAS
7 339 (1.72%) ArcGIS
8 333 (1.69%) GeoServer
9 132 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
10 128 (0.65%) CMS
11 124 (0.63%) FileNet
12 67 (0.34%) IIS
13 60 (0.30%) OpenStack
14 48 (0.24%) WordPress
15 47 (0.24%) WebLogic
16 45 (0.23%) JBoss
17 41 (0.21%) WebSphere
18 40 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
19 38 (0.19%) Tuxedo
20 36 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 804 (4.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 295 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 188 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 143 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
5 99 (0.50%) MS Visio
6 76 (0.39%) AutoCAD
7 55 (0.28%) Simulink
8 45 (0.23%) Adobe XD
9 43 (0.22%) Sketch
10 35 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
10 35 (0.18%) UserZoom
11 33 (0.17%) Photoshop
12 22 (0.11%) Stateflow
12 22 (0.11%) Trello
13 19 (0.097%) Revit
14 18 (0.091%) InVision
15 11 (0.056%) InDesign
16 8 (0.041%) Adobe Illustrator
17 7 (0.036%) CANalyzer
17 7 (0.036%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 311 (1.58%) SAP ERP
2 245 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 76 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 63 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
5 53 (0.27%) NetSuite
6 43 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 38 (0.19%) Siebel CRM
8 30 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
9 26 (0.13%) SDL Web 8
10 22 (0.11%) NEC Housing
11 19 (0.097%) Magento
11 19 (0.097%) SAP Oil and Gas
12 18 (0.091%) Shopify
13 17 (0.086%) SAP CX
14 15 (0.076%) Aladdin
14 15 (0.076%) Payment Gateway
14 15 (0.076%) Primavera
14 15 (0.076%) SAP GTS
15 14 (0.071%) Dynamics AX
16 12 (0.061%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 5,356 (27.22%) Azure
2 4,843 (24.61%) AWS
3 1,517 (7.71%) GCP
4 1,159 (5.89%) Azure DevOps
5 1,058 (5.38%) Power Platform
6 752 (3.82%) SaaS
7 627 (3.19%) Serverless
8 517 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
9 480 (2.44%) GitHub
10 453 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
11 333 (1.69%) PowerApps
12 324 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
13 310 (1.58%) Amazon S3
14 306 (1.55%) Amazon EKS
15 293 (1.49%) Power Automate
16 253 (1.29%) PaaS
17 241 (1.22%) Snowflake
18 238 (1.21%) dbt
19 213 (1.08%) Amazon ECS
20 210 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 823 (4.18%) Broadband
2 309 (1.57%) Firewall
3 287 (1.46%) DNS
4 248 (1.26%) Internet
5 221 (1.12%) TCP/IP
6 162 (0.82%) WAN
7 151 (0.77%) VPN
8 150 (0.76%) Network Security
9 139 (0.71%) DHCP
10 135 (0.69%) LAN
11 129 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
12 128 (0.65%) Wireless
13 84 (0.43%) Kerberos
14 81 (0.41%) HTTP
14 81 (0.41%) Intranet
15 76 (0.39%) SSL
16 66 (0.34%) BGP
17 49 (0.25%) Bluetooth
18 45 (0.23%) SAN
19 41 (0.21%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,790 (9.10%) SQL Server
2 1,261 (6.41%) NoSQL
3 880 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
4 733 (3.72%) Big Data
5 698 (3.55%) Power BI
6 643 (3.27%) MongoDB
7 519 (2.64%) Relational Database
8 506 (2.57%) Elasticsearch
9 493 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
10 474 (2.41%) MySQL
11 422 (2.14%) Data Lake
12 398 (2.02%) BigQuery
13 354 (1.80%) GIS
14 340 (1.73%) Hadoop
15 330 (1.68%) QGIS
16 308 (1.57%) Looker
17 278 (1.41%) Apache Ignite
18 262 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
19 241 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
20 209 (1.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1,638 (8.32%) Git
2 1,360 (6.91%) JIRA
3 953 (4.84%) Jenkins
4 393 (2.00%) Selenium
5 354 (1.80%) JUnit
6 353 (1.79%) GitLab
7 309 (1.57%) Visual Studio
8 293 (1.49%) Cypress.io
9 189 (0.96%) Bitbucket
10 187 (0.95%) Cucumber
11 148 (0.75%) Maven
12 147 (0.75%) Jasmine
13 132 (0.67%) TeamCity
13 132 (0.67%) WebDriver
14 122 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
15 120 (0.61%) Postman
16 108 (0.55%) Artifactory
17 106 (0.54%) JMeter
18 97 (0.49%) Bitbucket Server
18 97 (0.49%) NUnit
General
1 6,895 (35.04%) Finance
2 5,287 (26.87%) Social Skills
3 3,575 (18.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2,750 (13.97%) Law
5 2,331 (11.85%) Analytical Skills
6 1,865 (9.48%) Marketing
7 1,667 (8.47%) Banking
8 1,322 (6.72%) Legal
9 1,034 (5.25%) Public Sector
10 915 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
11 816 (4.15%) Retail
12 638 (3.24%) Investment Banking
13 616 (3.13%) Front Office
14 550 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
15 374 (1.90%) Aerospace
16 323 (1.64%) Financial Institution
17 264 (1.34%) Games
18 262 (1.33%) Manufacturing
19 245 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
20 226 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4,352 (22.11%) Developer
2 3,686 (18.73%) Software Engineer
3 3,632 (18.46%) Senior
4 2,586 (13.14%) Lead
5 1,746 (8.87%) Analyst
6 1,577 (8.01%) Architect
7 1,403 (7.13%) .NET Developer
8 1,333 (6.77%) Project Manager
9 1,004 (5.10%) Java Engineer
10 941 (4.78%) Java Software Engineer
11 901 (4.58%) Senior Developer
12 885 (4.50%) Senior Software Engineer
13 878 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
14 807 (4.10%) Lead Software Engineer
15 684 (3.48%) Data Engineer
16 660 (3.35%) Business Analyst
17 593 (3.01%) Software Developer
18 588 (2.99%) C# Developer
19 554 (2.82%) Python Engineer
20 552 (2.81%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,313 (16.84%) .NET
2 2,591 (13.17%) React
3 1,954 (9.93%) AngularJS
4 1,741 (8.85%) HTML
5 1,710 (8.69%) CSS
6 1,523 (7.74%) .NET Core
7 1,371 (6.97%) ASP.NET
8 1,176 (5.98%) Spring
9 993 (5.05%) Node.js
10 962 (4.89%) RESTful
11 942 (4.79%) REST
12 874 (4.44%) .NET Framework
13 827 (4.20%) Vue
14 817 (4.15%) ASP.NET MVC
15 813 (4.13%) ASP.NET Web API
16 738 (3.75%) Spring Boot
17 733 (3.72%) Entity Framework
18 728 (3.70%) Kafka
19 688 (3.50%) Web Services
20 658 (3.34%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 1,465 (7.44%) Product Ownership
2 1,194 (6.07%) Cloud Native
3 1,135 (5.77%) Algorithms
4 651 (3.31%) Public Cloud
5 628 (3.19%) Management Information System
6 573 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
7 514 (2.61%) Data Structures
8 486 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
9 477 (2.42%) Fixed Income
10 438 (2.23%) Hedge funds
11 397 (2.02%) Onboarding
12 375 (1.91%) Derivative
13 357 (1.81%) Equities
14 351 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 336 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
16 297 (1.51%) Mobile App
17 225 (1.14%) Blockchain
17 225 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
18 222 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
19 200 (1.02%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,271 (6.46%) Linux
2 835 (4.24%) Windows
3 369 (1.88%) Android
4 315 (1.60%) Unix
5 297 (1.51%) Apple iOS
6 172 (0.87%) Windows Server
7 157 (0.80%) Ubuntu
8 123 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 63 (0.32%) Windows 10
10 54 (0.27%) CentOS
11 50 (0.25%) VMS
12 49 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
13 37 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
14 34 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
15 30 (0.15%) Debian
16 27 (0.14%) Mac OS
17 18 (0.091%) zOS
18 14 (0.071%) Solaris
19 11 (0.056%) Windows Server 2012
20 10 (0.051%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,378 (27.33%) Software Engineering
2 3,947 (20.06%) DevOps
3 3,816 (19.39%) CI/CD
4 3,491 (17.74%) SDLC
5 3,261 (16.57%) Mentoring
6 3,211 (16.32%) Scrum
7 3,122 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
8 2,548 (12.95%) Project Management
9 2,446 (12.43%) Full Stack Development
10 2,322 (11.80%) Artificial Intelligence
11 2,272 (11.55%) Microservices
12 2,214 (11.25%) Roadmaps
13 2,187 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 2,002 (10.17%) Actionable Insight
15 1,949 (9.90%) Coaching
16 1,928 (9.80%) Machine Learning
17 1,902 (9.67%) Decision-Making
18 1,796 (9.13%) Operational Stability
19 1,781 (9.05%) TDD
20 1,564 (7.95%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3,848 (19.55%) JavaScript
2 3,804 (19.33%) SQL
3 3,585 (18.22%) Java
4 3,508 (17.83%) C#
5 3,319 (16.87%) Python
6 1,744 (8.86%) TypeScript
7 447 (2.27%) Scala
8 410 (2.08%) PHP
9 365 (1.85%) C
10 360 (1.83%) C++
11 355 (1.80%) PowerShell
12 337 (1.71%) Go
13 283 (1.44%) T-SQL
14 253 (1.29%) Kotlin
15 204 (1.04%) PL/SQL
16 184 (0.94%) Bash
17 146 (0.74%) Ruby
18 140 (0.71%) R
19 105 (0.53%) MATLAB
20 102 (0.52%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2,720 (13.82%) Degree
2 2,348 (11.93%) Security Cleared
3 1,575 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 659 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 537 (2.73%) DV Cleared
6 478 (2.43%) ACCA
7 471 (2.39%) CIMA
8 324 (1.65%) Master's Degree
9 277 (1.41%) PMI Certification
10 225 (1.14%) AWS Certification
10 225 (1.14%) PMP
11 199 (1.01%) Azure Certification
12 170 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
13 149 (0.76%) DBS Check
14 145 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
15 115 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 115 (0.58%) HNC
16 111 (0.56%) HND
17 98 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 91 (0.46%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1,130 (5.74%) QA
2 389 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 380 (1.93%) Data Quality
4 332 (1.69%) GDPR
5 263 (1.34%) PMO
6 136 (0.69%) SLA
7 110 (0.56%) WCAG
8 91 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 78 (0.40%) NIST
10 66 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
11 42 (0.21%) ISO 9001
12 30 (0.15%) PCI DSS
13 29 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
13 29 (0.15%) MISRA
14 27 (0.14%) NCSC
15 26 (0.13%) NIST 800
16 21 (0.11%) GRC
17 20 (0.10%) Automotive SPICE
17 20 (0.10%) AUTOSAR
17 20 (0.10%) IFRS
System Software
1 1,374 (6.98%) Docker
2 385 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 182 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 118 (0.60%) HDFS
5 88 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 81 (0.41%) Firmware
7 66 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
8 63 (0.32%) vSphere
9 60 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
10 56 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
11 24 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
11 24 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
12 16 (0.081%) VMware NSX
13 14 (0.071%) Time Sharing Option
14 9 (0.046%) KVM
14 9 (0.046%) Terminal Services
15 7 (0.036%) Microsoft App-V
16 6 (0.030%) DFS Replication
17 5 (0.025%) SRDF
18 3 (0.015%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,641 (8.34%) Kubernetes
2 1,205 (6.12%) Terraform
3 523 (2.66%) Ansible
4 252 (1.28%) Grafana
5 189 (0.96%) Prometheus
6 130 (0.66%) Puppet
7 97 (0.49%) Progress Chef
8 74 (0.38%) SCCM
9 71 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
10 62 (0.32%) Kibana
11 39 (0.20%) WSUS
12 36 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 36 (0.18%) SCOM
13 32 (0.16%) HAProxy
14 31 (0.16%) ZABBIX
15 29 (0.15%) vCenter Server
16 26 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
17 25 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
18 21 (0.11%) Zipkin
19 20 (0.10%) Packer
Vendors
1 3,453 (17.55%) Microsoft
2 1,195 (6.07%) Oracle
3 956 (4.86%) Google
4 641 (3.26%) SAP
5 460 (2.34%) Databricks
6 338 (1.72%) ESRI
7 306 (1.55%) Salesforce
8 302 (1.53%) Anaplan
9 300 (1.52%) Hyperion
9 300 (1.52%) IBM
10 244 (1.24%) Red Hat
11 238 (1.21%) Splunk
12 236 (1.20%) Dynatrace
13 231 (1.17%) ServiceNow
14 210 (1.07%) VMware
15 162 (0.82%) Atlassian
16 160 (0.81%) Informatica
17 126 (0.64%) Cisco
18 125 (0.64%) Adobe
19 107 (0.54%) Facebook