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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 19,721 29,356 55,537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.74% 29.60% 34.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.16% 30.97% 36.09%
Number of salaries quoted 11,553 16,021 26,057
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 £101,250 £105,000 £98,355
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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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 18 May 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 18 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
England -2 15,606 £62,500 -7.41% 3,655
UK excluding London 0 14,064 £57,965 -2.62% 2,629
Work from Home -1 8,595 £61,206 -5.84% 2,180
London -1 4,928 £80,000 - 1,388
North of England -1 3,496 £57,965 -0.92% 665
Scotland -1 3,072 £59,163 -1.40% 175
South East -2 2,878 £60,000 -4.00% 687
North West -1 1,999 £60,000 +4.35% 392
Midlands -4 1,807 £55,000 - 452
South West -3 1,618 £58,000 +0.87% 355
Yorkshire -1 1,099 £57,965 -3.39% 192
West Midlands -6 1,097 £57,500 +2.68% 301
East of England -5 740 £57,500 -1.71% 206
East Midlands -1 694 £52,500 -4.55% 149
North East +1 398 £53,903 -1.99% 85
Wales -4 325 £52,686 -4.00% 94
Northern Ireland -4 131 £62,500 +19.05% 40
Isle of Man - 5 £54,000 - 3

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
1 732 (3.71%) Apache Spark
2 613 (3.11%) Apache
3 550 (2.79%) Apache Airflow
4 486 (2.46%) Confluence
5 380 (1.93%) SharePoint
6 341 (1.73%) SAS
7 339 (1.72%) ArcGIS
8 333 (1.69%) GeoServer
9 131 (0.66%) CMS
10 128 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
11 119 (0.60%) FileNet
12 62 (0.31%) IIS
13 59 (0.30%) OpenStack
14 47 (0.24%) WebLogic
15 46 (0.23%) WordPress
16 39 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
17 38 (0.19%) Tuxedo
18 35 (0.18%) WebSphere
19 33 (0.17%) nginx
20 29 (0.15%) JBoss
Applications
1 819 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 311 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
3 216 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 142 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
5 103 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 77 (0.39%) AutoCAD
7 56 (0.28%) Simulink
8 39 (0.20%) Adobe XD
9 36 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
10 35 (0.18%) Sketch
10 35 (0.18%) UserZoom
11 27 (0.14%) Photoshop
12 22 (0.11%) Stateflow
12 22 (0.11%) Trello
13 20 (0.10%) Revit
14 15 (0.076%) InVision
15 8 (0.041%) Adobe Illustrator
16 7 (0.035%) CANalyzer
16 7 (0.035%) SPSS
17 6 (0.030%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 309 (1.57%) SAP ERP
2 253 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 76 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 61 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
5 53 (0.27%) NetSuite
6 42 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
7 41 (0.21%) Siebel CRM
8 28 (0.14%) SDL Web 8
8 28 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
9 26 (0.13%) NEC Housing
10 19 (0.096%) Magento
10 19 (0.096%) SAP Oil and Gas
11 18 (0.091%) Shopify
12 16 (0.081%) Aladdin
12 16 (0.081%) Dynamics AX
13 15 (0.076%) Primavera
13 15 (0.076%) SAP CX
14 14 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
15 13 (0.066%) SAP GTS
16 11 (0.056%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 5,422 (27.49%) Azure
2 5,027 (25.49%) AWS
3 1,530 (7.76%) GCP
4 1,095 (5.55%) Azure DevOps
5 1,009 (5.12%) Power Platform
6 731 (3.71%) SaaS
7 632 (3.20%) Serverless
8 497 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
9 461 (2.34%) GitHub
10 457 (2.32%) Dynamics 365
11 334 (1.69%) PowerApps
12 330 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
13 321 (1.63%) dbt
13 321 (1.63%) Power Automate
14 316 (1.60%) Snowflake
15 312 (1.58%) Amazon S3
16 306 (1.55%) Amazon EKS
17 243 (1.23%) PaaS
18 214 (1.09%) Amazon ECS
19 211 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 825 (4.18%) Broadband
2 333 (1.69%) Firewall
3 256 (1.30%) DNS
4 249 (1.26%) Internet
5 201 (1.02%) TCP/IP
6 168 (0.85%) WAN
7 150 (0.76%) Network Security
8 142 (0.72%) VPN
9 137 (0.69%) LAN
10 129 (0.65%) Wireless
11 123 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
12 110 (0.56%) DHCP
13 84 (0.43%) Kerberos
14 82 (0.42%) Intranet
15 74 (0.38%) SSL
16 68 (0.34%) BGP
17 58 (0.29%) HTTP
18 50 (0.25%) SD-WAN
19 49 (0.25%) Bluetooth
20 44 (0.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,802 (9.14%) SQL Server
2 1,293 (6.56%) NoSQL
3 907 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
4 727 (3.69%) Big Data
5 653 (3.31%) MongoDB
6 649 (3.29%) Power BI
7 509 (2.58%) Relational Database
8 507 (2.57%) Elasticsearch
9 502 (2.55%) Data Lake
10 487 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
11 454 (2.30%) MySQL
12 379 (1.92%) BigQuery
13 374 (1.90%) Apache Ignite
14 354 (1.80%) GIS
15 330 (1.67%) Hadoop
15 330 (1.67%) QGIS
16 296 (1.50%) Looker
17 277 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
18 268 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
19 264 (1.34%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 1,630 (8.27%) Git
2 1,311 (6.65%) JIRA
3 911 (4.62%) Jenkins
4 375 (1.90%) Selenium
5 361 (1.83%) GitLab
6 352 (1.78%) JUnit
7 334 (1.69%) Visual Studio
8 300 (1.52%) Cypress.io
9 191 (0.97%) Bitbucket
10 169 (0.86%) Cucumber
11 148 (0.75%) Jasmine
12 142 (0.72%) Maven
13 127 (0.64%) TeamCity
14 124 (0.63%) WebDriver
15 121 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
16 114 (0.58%) Postman
17 101 (0.51%) Artifactory
18 99 (0.50%) NUnit
19 98 (0.50%) JMeter
20 92 (0.47%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 6,848 (34.72%) Finance
2 5,278 (26.76%) Social Skills
3 3,622 (18.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2,779 (14.09%) Law
5 2,276 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
6 1,912 (9.70%) Marketing
7 1,650 (8.37%) Banking
8 1,318 (6.68%) Legal
9 1,024 (5.19%) Public Sector
10 894 (4.53%) Influencing Skills
11 833 (4.22%) Retail
12 726 (3.68%) Front Office
13 716 (3.63%) Investment Banking
14 543 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
15 451 (2.29%) Aerospace
16 325 (1.65%) Financial Institution
17 265 (1.34%) Manufacturing
18 262 (1.33%) Games
19 237 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
20 223 (1.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4,426 (22.44%) Developer
2 3,777 (19.15%) Software Engineer
3 3,609 (18.30%) Senior
4 2,624 (13.31%) Lead
5 1,707 (8.66%) Analyst
6 1,588 (8.05%) Architect
7 1,430 (7.25%) .NET Developer
8 1,280 (6.49%) Project Manager
9 1,029 (5.22%) Java Engineer
10 960 (4.87%) Java Software Engineer
11 912 (4.62%) Senior Software Engineer
12 898 (4.55%) Senior Developer
13 839 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
14 833 (4.22%) Lead Software Engineer
15 694 (3.52%) Data Engineer
16 630 (3.19%) Business Analyst
16 630 (3.19%) Python Engineer
17 612 (3.10%) C# Developer
18 607 (3.08%) Software Developer
19 568 (2.88%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,367 (17.07%) .NET
2 2,635 (13.36%) React
3 1,947 (9.87%) AngularJS
4 1,721 (8.73%) CSS
5 1,708 (8.66%) HTML
6 1,540 (7.81%) .NET Core
7 1,395 (7.07%) ASP.NET
8 1,157 (5.87%) Spring
9 982 (4.98%) Node.js
10 934 (4.74%) REST
11 930 (4.72%) RESTful
12 884 (4.48%) .NET Framework
13 851 (4.32%) Vue
14 837 (4.24%) ASP.NET Web API
15 831 (4.21%) ASP.NET MVC
16 753 (3.82%) Entity Framework
17 725 (3.68%) Spring Boot
18 696 (3.53%) Web Services
19 690 (3.50%) Kafka
20 664 (3.37%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 1,460 (7.40%) Product Ownership
2 1,200 (6.08%) Cloud Native
3 1,153 (5.85%) Algorithms
4 653 (3.31%) Management Information System
5 627 (3.18%) Public Cloud
6 586 (2.97%) Fixed Income
7 580 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
8 555 (2.81%) Hedge funds
9 505 (2.56%) Data Structures
10 495 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
11 463 (2.35%) Derivative
12 459 (2.33%) Equities
13 430 (2.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 390 (1.98%) Onboarding
15 338 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
16 307 (1.56%) Mobile App
17 235 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
18 224 (1.14%) Blockchain
19 213 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
20 203 (1.03%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1,311 (6.65%) Linux
2 826 (4.19%) Windows
3 378 (1.92%) Android
4 298 (1.51%) Unix
5 295 (1.50%) Apple iOS
6 174 (0.88%) Windows Server
7 161 (0.82%) Ubuntu
8 127 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 62 (0.31%) Windows 10
10 58 (0.29%) CentOS
11 51 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
11 51 (0.26%) VMS
12 38 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
13 35 (0.18%) Debian
14 34 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
15 25 (0.13%) Mac OS
16 15 (0.076%) Solaris
17 13 (0.066%) Windows Server 2008
18 11 (0.056%) zOS
19 10 (0.051%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,468 (27.73%) Software Engineering
2 3,966 (20.11%) DevOps
3 3,818 (19.36%) CI/CD
4 3,422 (17.35%) SDLC
5 3,228 (16.37%) Mentoring
6 3,196 (16.21%) Scrum
7 3,126 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
8 2,522 (12.79%) Full Stack Development
9 2,487 (12.61%) Project Management
10 2,353 (11.93%) Artificial Intelligence
11 2,260 (11.46%) Microservices
12 2,201 (11.16%) Continuous Improvement
13 2,182 (11.06%) Roadmaps
14 1,977 (10.02%) Coaching
15 1,956 (9.92%) Machine Learning
16 1,872 (9.49%) Actionable Insight
17 1,868 (9.47%) Decision-Making
18 1,818 (9.22%) Operational Stability
19 1,811 (9.18%) TDD
20 1,558 (7.90%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3,926 (19.91%) JavaScript
2 3,809 (19.31%) SQL
3 3,641 (18.46%) Java
4 3,559 (18.05%) C#
5 3,450 (17.49%) Python
6 1,836 (9.31%) TypeScript
7 460 (2.33%) Scala
8 403 (2.04%) PHP
9 377 (1.91%) C
10 371 (1.88%) C++
11 349 (1.77%) PowerShell
12 339 (1.72%) Go
13 279 (1.41%) Kotlin
14 273 (1.38%) T-SQL
15 199 (1.01%) PL/SQL
16 182 (0.92%) Bash
17 137 (0.69%) Ruby
18 130 (0.66%) R
19 109 (0.55%) MATLAB
20 100 (0.51%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2,723 (13.81%) Degree
2 2,342 (11.88%) Security Cleared
3 1,561 (7.92%) SC Cleared
4 672 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 531 (2.69%) DV Cleared
6 481 (2.44%) ACCA
7 473 (2.40%) CIMA
8 315 (1.60%) Master's Degree
9 278 (1.41%) PMI Certification
10 227 (1.15%) PMP
11 214 (1.09%) AWS Certification
12 207 (1.05%) Azure Certification
13 162 (0.82%) DBS Check
14 152 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
15 147 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
16 115 (0.58%) HNC
17 111 (0.56%) HND
18 100 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 92 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
20 91 (0.46%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1,124 (5.70%) QA
2 423 (2.14%) Data Quality
3 379 (1.92%) Accessibility
4 319 (1.62%) GDPR
5 258 (1.31%) PMO
6 139 (0.70%) SLA
7 98 (0.50%) WCAG
8 95 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 80 (0.41%) NIST
10 50 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
11 44 (0.22%) ISO 9001
12 30 (0.15%) MISRA
13 28 (0.14%) PCI DSS
14 27 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
15 26 (0.13%) NCSC
15 26 (0.13%) NIST 800
16 23 (0.12%) GRC
17 19 (0.096%) Automotive SPICE
17 19 (0.096%) AUTOSAR
18 18 (0.091%) ITGC
System Software
1 1,320 (6.69%) Docker
2 398 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 186 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 118 (0.60%) HDFS
5 90 (0.46%) Hyper-V
6 89 (0.45%) Firmware
7 72 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
8 63 (0.32%) vSphere
9 60 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
10 53 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
11 29 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
12 25 (0.13%) VMware NSX
13 22 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
14 14 (0.071%) Time Sharing Option
15 11 (0.056%) RACF
16 9 (0.046%) KVM
16 9 (0.046%) Terminal Services
17 7 (0.035%) Microsoft App-V
18 5 (0.025%) DFS Replication
18 5 (0.025%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 1,608 (8.15%) Kubernetes
2 1,183 (6.00%) Terraform
3 533 (2.70%) Ansible
4 255 (1.29%) Grafana
5 190 (0.96%) Prometheus
6 133 (0.67%) Puppet
7 97 (0.49%) Progress Chef
8 71 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
9 70 (0.35%) SCCM
10 61 (0.31%) Kibana
11 40 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 37 (0.19%) WSUS
13 33 (0.17%) SCOM
14 31 (0.16%) HAProxy
15 30 (0.15%) ZABBIX
16 28 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
16 28 (0.14%) vCenter Server
17 26 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
18 21 (0.11%) Zipkin
19 18 (0.091%) Packer
Vendors
1 3,499 (17.74%) Microsoft
2 1,192 (6.04%) Oracle
3 949 (4.81%) Google
4 632 (3.20%) SAP
5 458 (2.32%) Databricks
6 338 (1.71%) ESRI
7 304 (1.54%) Salesforce
8 300 (1.52%) Anaplan
9 299 (1.52%) Hyperion
10 295 (1.50%) IBM
11 264 (1.34%) Red Hat
12 240 (1.22%) Splunk
13 235 (1.19%) Dynatrace
14 220 (1.12%) VMware
15 217 (1.10%) ServiceNow
16 154 (0.78%) Informatica
17 153 (0.78%) Atlassian
18 133 (0.67%) Cisco
19 108 (0.55%) Adobe
20 107 (0.54%) Facebook