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 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 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 19,646 30,174 53,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.95% 29.71% 34.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.28% 31.07% 35.77%
Number of salaries quoted 11,551 16,357 26,033
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 £100,064 £104,504 £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 84,403 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,565 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
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 £96,750
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 7 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 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
England -2 15,507 £62,500 -7.41% 3,630
UK excluding London 0 14,052 £57,965 -2.62% 2,437
Work from Home -1 8,593 £61,206 -5.84% 2,065
London -2 4,859 £80,000 - 1,353
North of England -1 3,477 £57,965 -2.62% 623
Scotland -1 3,085 £60,000 - 173
South East -2 2,856 £60,000 -4.00% 502
North West -1 1,980 £60,000 +4.35% 371
Midlands -4 1,793 £55,000 -1.79% 448
South West -2 1,644 £60,000 +4.35% 384
Yorkshire -1 1,105 £57,965 -3.39% 184
West Midlands -5 1,090 £57,500 +0.59% 288
East of England -5 740 £57,500 -4.17% 216
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% 45
Isle of Man - 5 £54,000 - 1

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
1 736 (3.75%) Apache Spark
2 561 (2.86%) Apache
3 500 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
4 480 (2.44%) Confluence
5 380 (1.93%) SharePoint
6 343 (1.75%) SAS
7 339 (1.73%) ArcGIS
8 333 (1.70%) GeoServer
9 130 (0.66%) CMS
10 127 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
11 126 (0.64%) FileNet
12 64 (0.33%) IIS
13 60 (0.31%) OpenStack
14 47 (0.24%) WebLogic
14 47 (0.24%) WordPress
15 45 (0.23%) JBoss
16 42 (0.21%) WebSphere
17 39 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
18 38 (0.19%) Tuxedo
19 37 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 809 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 292 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
3 204 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 142 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
5 101 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 76 (0.39%) AutoCAD
7 55 (0.28%) Simulink
8 44 (0.22%) Adobe XD
9 41 (0.21%) Sketch
10 36 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
11 35 (0.18%) UserZoom
12 30 (0.15%) Photoshop
13 22 (0.11%) Stateflow
13 22 (0.11%) Trello
14 19 (0.097%) Revit
15 16 (0.081%) InVision
16 8 (0.041%) Adobe Illustrator
16 8 (0.041%) InDesign
17 7 (0.036%) CANalyzer
17 7 (0.036%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 310 (1.58%) SAP ERP
2 250 (1.27%) 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 39 (0.20%) Siebel CRM
8 28 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
9 26 (0.13%) SDL Web 8
10 24 (0.12%) NEC Housing
11 20 (0.10%) Magento
12 19 (0.097%) SAP Oil and Gas
13 18 (0.092%) Shopify
14 16 (0.081%) Aladdin
14 16 (0.081%) Dynamics AX
14 16 (0.081%) SAP CX
15 15 (0.076%) Payment Gateway
15 15 (0.076%) Primavera
16 14 (0.071%) SAP GTS
17 12 (0.061%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 5,376 (27.36%) Azure
2 4,918 (25.03%) AWS
3 1,518 (7.73%) GCP
4 1,125 (5.73%) Azure DevOps
5 1,023 (5.21%) Power Platform
6 743 (3.78%) SaaS
7 621 (3.16%) Serverless
8 500 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
9 464 (2.36%) GitHub
10 454 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
11 333 (1.70%) PowerApps
12 318 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
13 310 (1.58%) Power Automate
14 309 (1.57%) Amazon S3
15 306 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
16 282 (1.44%) Snowflake
17 278 (1.42%) dbt
18 251 (1.28%) PaaS
19 211 (1.07%) Amazon ECS
20 204 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 824 (4.19%) Broadband
2 317 (1.61%) Firewall
3 283 (1.44%) DNS
4 248 (1.26%) Internet
5 223 (1.14%) TCP/IP
6 163 (0.83%) WAN
7 150 (0.76%) Network Security
8 145 (0.74%) VPN
9 136 (0.69%) DHCP
10 134 (0.68%) LAN
11 129 (0.66%) Wireless
12 125 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
13 84 (0.43%) Kerberos
14 81 (0.41%) Intranet
15 80 (0.41%) HTTP
16 72 (0.37%) SSL
17 67 (0.34%) BGP
18 50 (0.25%) Bluetooth
19 45 (0.23%) SAN
20 44 (0.22%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,782 (9.07%) SQL Server
2 1,271 (6.47%) NoSQL
3 887 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
4 719 (3.66%) Big Data
5 660 (3.36%) Power BI
6 649 (3.30%) MongoDB
7 509 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
7 509 (2.59%) Relational Database
8 497 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
9 461 (2.35%) Data Lake
10 448 (2.28%) MySQL
11 384 (1.95%) BigQuery
12 354 (1.80%) GIS
13 336 (1.71%) Hadoop
14 333 (1.70%) Apache Ignite
15 330 (1.68%) QGIS
16 297 (1.51%) Looker
17 273 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
18 237 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
19 229 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 1,613 (8.21%) Git
2 1,327 (6.75%) JIRA
3 916 (4.66%) Jenkins
4 382 (1.94%) Selenium
5 356 (1.81%) JUnit
6 352 (1.79%) GitLab
7 318 (1.62%) Visual Studio
8 301 (1.53%) Cypress.io
9 188 (0.96%) Bitbucket
10 177 (0.90%) Cucumber
11 147 (0.75%) Jasmine
12 142 (0.72%) Maven
13 128 (0.65%) WebDriver
14 127 (0.65%) TeamCity
15 117 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
16 113 (0.58%) Postman
17 103 (0.52%) Artifactory
18 102 (0.52%) JMeter
19 96 (0.49%) NUnit
20 95 (0.48%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 6,865 (34.94%) Finance
2 5,254 (26.74%) Social Skills
3 3,629 (18.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2,774 (14.12%) Law
5 2,279 (11.60%) Analytical Skills
6 1,895 (9.65%) Marketing
7 1,639 (8.34%) Banking
8 1,310 (6.67%) Legal
9 1,034 (5.26%) Public Sector
10 904 (4.60%) Influencing Skills
11 809 (4.12%) Retail
12 683 (3.48%) Front Office
13 681 (3.47%) Investment Banking
14 549 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
15 403 (2.05%) Aerospace
16 325 (1.65%) Financial Institution
17 263 (1.34%) Games
18 257 (1.31%) Manufacturing
19 237 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
20 223 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4,383 (22.31%) Developer
2 3,732 (19.00%) Software Engineer
3 3,622 (18.44%) Senior
4 2,610 (13.29%) Lead
5 1,720 (8.75%) Analyst
6 1,590 (8.09%) Architect
7 1,417 (7.21%) .NET Developer
8 1,310 (6.67%) Project Manager
9 1,027 (5.23%) Java Engineer
10 960 (4.89%) Java Software Engineer
11 903 (4.60%) Senior Software Engineer
12 895 (4.56%) Senior Developer
13 864 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
14 823 (4.19%) Lead Software Engineer
15 689 (3.51%) Data Engineer
16 641 (3.26%) Business Analyst
17 598 (3.04%) Software Developer
18 596 (3.03%) C# Developer
18 596 (3.03%) Python Engineer
19 558 (2.84%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,341 (17.01%) .NET
2 2,617 (13.32%) React
3 1,949 (9.92%) AngularJS
4 1,727 (8.79%) HTML
5 1,712 (8.71%) CSS
6 1,534 (7.81%) .NET Core
7 1,386 (7.05%) ASP.NET
8 1,172 (5.97%) Spring
9 984 (5.01%) Node.js
10 939 (4.78%) RESTful
11 938 (4.77%) REST
12 880 (4.48%) .NET Framework
13 839 (4.27%) Vue
14 827 (4.21%) ASP.NET MVC
15 824 (4.19%) ASP.NET Web API
16 742 (3.78%) Entity Framework
17 728 (3.71%) Spring Boot
18 705 (3.59%) Web Services
19 698 (3.55%) Kafka
20 662 (3.37%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 1,446 (7.36%) Product Ownership
2 1,218 (6.20%) Cloud Native
3 1,151 (5.86%) Algorithms
4 638 (3.25%) Management Information System
5 637 (3.24%) Public Cloud
6 573 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
7 543 (2.76%) Fixed Income
8 525 (2.67%) Data Structures
9 507 (2.58%) Hedge funds
10 489 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
11 421 (2.14%) Derivative
12 415 (2.11%) Equities
13 396 (2.02%) Onboarding
14 391 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 333 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
16 301 (1.53%) Mobile App
17 238 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
18 231 (1.18%) Blockchain
19 220 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
20 203 (1.03%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1,308 (6.66%) Linux
2 842 (4.29%) Windows
3 376 (1.91%) Android
4 308 (1.57%) Unix
5 297 (1.51%) Apple iOS
6 171 (0.87%) Windows Server
7 161 (0.82%) Ubuntu
8 128 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 63 (0.32%) Windows 10
10 58 (0.30%) CentOS
11 51 (0.26%) VMS
12 50 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
13 38 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
14 34 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
15 33 (0.17%) Debian
16 27 (0.14%) Mac OS
17 18 (0.092%) zOS
18 14 (0.071%) Solaris
19 10 (0.051%) Windows 7
20 9 (0.046%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,419 (27.58%) Software Engineering
2 3,912 (19.91%) DevOps
3 3,803 (19.36%) CI/CD
4 3,480 (17.71%) SDLC
5 3,240 (16.49%) Mentoring
6 3,202 (16.30%) Scrum
7 3,111 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
8 2,516 (12.81%) Project Management
9 2,483 (12.64%) Full Stack Development
10 2,345 (11.94%) Artificial Intelligence
11 2,259 (11.50%) Microservices
12 2,207 (11.23%) Roadmaps
13 2,188 (11.14%) Continuous Improvement
14 1,993 (10.14%) Actionable Insight
15 1,965 (10.00%) Coaching
16 1,950 (9.93%) Machine Learning
17 1,888 (9.61%) Decision-Making
18 1,816 (9.24%) Operational Stability
19 1,784 (9.08%) TDD
20 1,566 (7.97%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3,879 (19.74%) JavaScript
2 3,797 (19.33%) SQL
3 3,607 (18.36%) Java
4 3,528 (17.96%) C#
5 3,381 (17.21%) Python
6 1,795 (9.14%) TypeScript
7 446 (2.27%) Scala
8 396 (2.02%) PHP
9 368 (1.87%) C
10 358 (1.82%) C++
11 352 (1.79%) PowerShell
12 336 (1.71%) Go
13 276 (1.40%) T-SQL
14 266 (1.35%) Kotlin
15 201 (1.02%) PL/SQL
16 186 (0.95%) Bash
17 141 (0.72%) Ruby
18 135 (0.69%) R
19 107 (0.54%) MATLAB
20 97 (0.49%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2,689 (13.69%) Degree
2 2,360 (12.01%) Security Cleared
3 1,563 (7.96%) SC Cleared
4 651 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 543 (2.76%) DV Cleared
6 478 (2.43%) ACCA
7 472 (2.40%) CIMA
8 319 (1.62%) Master's Degree
9 277 (1.41%) PMI Certification
10 230 (1.17%) AWS Certification
11 228 (1.16%) PMP
12 202 (1.03%) Azure Certification
13 160 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
14 151 (0.77%) DBS Check
15 144 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
16 117 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 115 (0.59%) HNC
18 111 (0.57%) HND
19 97 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
20 90 (0.46%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1,111 (5.66%) QA
2 405 (2.06%) Data Quality
3 387 (1.97%) Accessibility
4 326 (1.66%) GDPR
5 258 (1.31%) PMO
6 136 (0.69%) SLA
7 103 (0.52%) WCAG
8 92 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 77 (0.39%) NIST
10 50 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
11 44 (0.22%) ISO 9001
12 29 (0.15%) MISRA
12 29 (0.15%) PCI DSS
13 27 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
14 26 (0.13%) NCSC
14 26 (0.13%) NIST 800
15 21 (0.11%) GRC
16 20 (0.10%) Automotive SPICE
16 20 (0.10%) AUTOSAR
16 20 (0.10%) IFRS
System Software
1 1,331 (6.77%) Docker
2 387 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 179 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 118 (0.60%) HDFS
5 86 (0.44%) Hyper-V
6 84 (0.43%) Firmware
7 68 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
8 62 (0.32%) vSphere
9 59 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
10 53 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
11 25 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
12 22 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
13 18 (0.092%) VMware NSX
14 14 (0.071%) Time Sharing Option
15 9 (0.046%) KVM
15 9 (0.046%) Terminal Services
16 7 (0.036%) Microsoft App-V
17 6 (0.031%) DFS Replication
18 5 (0.025%) SRDF
19 3 (0.015%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,605 (8.17%) Kubernetes
2 1,196 (6.09%) Terraform
3 525 (2.67%) Ansible
4 259 (1.32%) Grafana
5 194 (0.99%) Prometheus
6 131 (0.67%) Puppet
7 97 (0.49%) Progress Chef
8 71 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
8 71 (0.36%) SCCM
9 60 (0.31%) Kibana
10 38 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 37 (0.19%) WSUS
12 34 (0.17%) SCOM
13 32 (0.16%) HAProxy
14 30 (0.15%) ZABBIX
15 29 (0.15%) vCenter Server
16 26 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
17 24 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
18 21 (0.11%) Zipkin
19 18 (0.092%) Packer
Vendors
1 3,447 (17.55%) Microsoft
2 1,197 (6.09%) Oracle
3 955 (4.86%) Google
4 637 (3.24%) SAP
5 451 (2.30%) Databricks
6 338 (1.72%) ESRI
7 309 (1.57%) Salesforce
8 304 (1.55%) IBM
9 300 (1.53%) Hyperion
10 299 (1.52%) Anaplan
11 258 (1.31%) Red Hat
12 240 (1.22%) Splunk
13 237 (1.21%) Dynatrace
14 228 (1.16%) ServiceNow
15 208 (1.06%) VMware
16 157 (0.80%) Informatica
17 149 (0.76%) Atlassian
18 126 (0.64%) Cisco
19 120 (0.61%) Adobe
20 107 (0.54%) Facebook