Agile Jobs in England

Agile Software Development
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 3 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 15,606 25,923 46,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.05% 29.39% 34.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.20% 30.74% 35.85%
Number of salaries quoted 10,495 14,082 23,033
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £103,885 £106,250 £100,000
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
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,598 84,339 129,671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.11% 95.60% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 53,968 50,108 73,057
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in England

Agile
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Agile in England

Agile
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Agile in England

Agile
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the England region 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
London -1 4,928 £80,000 - 1,389
North of England -1 3,496 £57,965 -0.92% 682
South East -2 2,878 £60,000 -4.00% 683
North West -1 1,999 £60,000 +4.35% 402
Midlands -4 1,807 £55,000 - 462
South West -3 1,618 £58,000 +0.87% 353
Yorkshire -1 1,099 £57,965 -3.39% 197
West Midlands -6 1,097 £57,500 +2.68% 309
East of England -5 740 £57,500 -1.71% 203
East Midlands -1 694 £52,500 -4.55% 151
North East +1 398 £53,903 -1.99% 87
Agile
UK

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 497 (3.18%) Apache
2 427 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
3 381 (2.44%) Confluence
4 345 (2.21%) SharePoint
5 329 (2.11%) SAS
6 205 (1.31%) ArcGIS
7 199 (1.28%) GeoServer
8 143 (0.92%) Apache Spark
9 123 (0.79%) CMS
10 118 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
11 62 (0.40%) IIS
12 51 (0.33%) OpenStack
13 37 (0.24%) Tuxedo
14 32 (0.21%) WordPress
15 29 (0.19%) nginx
15 29 (0.19%) WebLogic
16 24 (0.15%) JBoss
17 23 (0.15%) Umbraco
18 22 (0.14%) WebSphere
19 18 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 775 (4.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 286 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
3 178 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 130 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
5 87 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 75 (0.48%) AutoCAD
7 55 (0.35%) Simulink
8 39 (0.25%) Adobe XD
9 31 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
10 27 (0.17%) Photoshop
11 22 (0.14%) Stateflow
11 22 (0.14%) Trello
12 20 (0.13%) Sketch
13 18 (0.12%) Revit
14 12 (0.077%) InVision
15 8 (0.051%) Adobe Illustrator
16 7 (0.045%) CANalyzer
17 6 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
17 6 (0.038%) SPSS
18 4 (0.026%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 308 (1.97%) SAP ERP
2 217 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 58 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 51 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 50 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 41 (0.26%) Siebel CRM
7 33 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
8 28 (0.18%) SDL Web 8
9 26 (0.17%) NEC Housing
10 19 (0.12%) Magento
11 18 (0.12%) Shopify
12 17 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
13 16 (0.10%) Aladdin
13 16 (0.10%) Unit4 Business World
14 15 (0.096%) SAP CX
15 14 (0.090%) Payment Gateway
16 13 (0.083%) SAP GTS
17 11 (0.070%) Dynamics AX
18 10 (0.064%) Dynamics GP
18 10 (0.064%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 4,685 (30.02%) Azure
2 3,443 (22.06%) AWS
3 1,271 (8.14%) GCP
4 973 (6.23%) Azure DevOps
5 890 (5.70%) Power Platform
6 614 (3.93%) SaaS
7 519 (3.33%) Serverless
8 464 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
9 374 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
10 342 (2.19%) GitHub
11 307 (1.97%) dbt
12 305 (1.95%) Snowflake
13 273 (1.75%) Power Automate
13 273 (1.75%) PowerApps
14 254 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
15 212 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
16 210 (1.35%) PaaS
17 208 (1.33%) Amazon S3
18 180 (1.15%) IBM Cloud
19 155 (0.99%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 804 (5.15%) Broadband
2 323 (2.07%) Firewall
3 230 (1.47%) Internet
4 225 (1.44%) DNS
5 158 (1.01%) WAN
6 156 (1.00%) TCP/IP
7 137 (0.88%) Network Security
8 130 (0.83%) VPN
9 127 (0.81%) LAN
10 123 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
11 121 (0.78%) Wireless
12 102 (0.65%) DHCP
13 81 (0.52%) Intranet
14 57 (0.37%) HTTP
15 52 (0.33%) SSL
16 50 (0.32%) BGP
17 49 (0.31%) Bluetooth
18 48 (0.31%) SD-WAN
19 44 (0.28%) SAN
20 41 (0.26%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,691 (10.84%) SQL Server
2 736 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
3 597 (3.83%) NoSQL
4 592 (3.79%) Power BI
5 545 (3.49%) MongoDB
6 421 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
7 417 (2.67%) Data Lake
8 400 (2.56%) MySQL
9 374 (2.40%) Apache Ignite
10 350 (2.24%) BigQuery
11 349 (2.24%) Relational Database
12 337 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
13 267 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
14 264 (1.69%) Dremio
15 262 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
16 258 (1.65%) Apache Arrow
17 245 (1.57%) Looker
18 223 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
19 216 (1.38%) GIS
20 210 (1.35%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1,332 (8.54%) Git
2 1,083 (6.94%) JIRA
3 563 (3.61%) Jenkins
4 302 (1.94%) GitLab
5 300 (1.92%) Visual Studio
6 289 (1.85%) Selenium
7 199 (1.28%) Cypress.io
8 136 (0.87%) Cucumber
9 134 (0.86%) JUnit
10 121 (0.78%) TeamCity
11 108 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
12 99 (0.63%) Bitbucket
13 93 (0.60%) NUnit
14 90 (0.58%) Postman
15 71 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
16 62 (0.40%) JMeter
16 62 (0.40%) Subversion
17 60 (0.38%) Maven
18 57 (0.37%) SpecFlow
18 57 (0.37%) WebDriver
General
1 4,583 (29.37%) Social Skills
2 4,189 (26.84%) Finance
3 2,059 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
4 1,155 (7.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,069 (6.85%) Banking
6 899 (5.76%) Public Sector
7 780 (5.00%) Retail
8 705 (4.52%) Front Office
9 691 (4.43%) Influencing Skills
10 622 (3.99%) Marketing
11 619 (3.97%) Legal
12 439 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
13 436 (2.79%) Law
14 426 (2.73%) Aerospace
15 377 (2.42%) Investment Banking
16 242 (1.55%) Manufacturing
17 222 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
18 210 (1.35%) Telecoms
19 197 (1.26%) Games
20 191 (1.22%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 3,937 (25.23%) Developer
2 2,940 (18.84%) Senior
3 1,760 (11.28%) Lead
4 1,546 (9.91%) Analyst
5 1,523 (9.76%) Software Engineer
6 1,403 (8.99%) Architect
7 1,373 (8.80%) .NET Developer
8 1,135 (7.27%) Project Manager
9 802 (5.14%) Senior Developer
10 761 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
11 587 (3.76%) C# Developer
12 550 (3.52%) Software Developer
13 545 (3.49%) Senior Software Engineer
14 537 (3.44%) Business Analyst
15 427 (2.74%) C# .NET Developer
16 426 (2.73%) Full Stack Developer
17 409 (2.62%) Data Engineer
18 399 (2.56%) Senior Analyst
19 369 (2.36%) Senior Manager
20 365 (2.34%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,974 (19.06%) .NET
2 1,928 (12.35%) React
3 1,473 (9.44%) AngularJS
4 1,338 (8.57%) HTML
5 1,336 (8.56%) .NET Core
6 1,301 (8.34%) ASP.NET
7 1,270 (8.14%) CSS
8 802 (5.14%) .NET Framework
9 792 (5.07%) Vue
10 776 (4.97%) ASP.NET Web API
11 768 (4.92%) ASP.NET MVC
12 750 (4.81%) REST
13 706 (4.52%) Node.js
14 700 (4.49%) Entity Framework
15 689 (4.41%) RESTful
16 595 (3.81%) HTML5
17 521 (3.34%) Web Services
18 435 (2.79%) gRPC
19 434 (2.78%) Spring
20 361 (2.31%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 1,259 (8.07%) Product Ownership
2 579 (3.71%) Fixed Income
3 548 (3.51%) Hedge funds
4 535 (3.43%) Self-Motivation
5 467 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
6 459 (2.94%) Equities
7 457 (2.93%) Management Information System
8 455 (2.92%) Derivative
9 398 (2.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 394 (2.52%) Data Structures
11 370 (2.37%) Algorithms
12 353 (2.26%) Cloud Native
13 315 (2.02%) Public Cloud
14 283 (1.81%) Mobile App
15 274 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
16 230 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
17 217 (1.39%) Blockchain
18 198 (1.27%) e-Learning
19 192 (1.23%) Onboarding
20 182 (1.17%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1,072 (6.87%) Linux
2 759 (4.86%) Windows
3 335 (2.15%) Android
4 279 (1.79%) Apple iOS
5 150 (0.96%) Windows Server
6 140 (0.90%) Ubuntu
7 124 (0.79%) Unix
8 104 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 61 (0.39%) Windows 10
10 58 (0.37%) CentOS
11 48 (0.31%) VMS
12 44 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
13 38 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
14 35 (0.22%) Debian
15 34 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
16 17 (0.11%) Mac OS
17 13 (0.083%) Solaris
17 13 (0.083%) Windows Server 2008
18 11 (0.070%) zOS
19 10 (0.064%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,276 (20.99%) DevOps
2 2,906 (18.62%) Software Engineering
3 2,820 (18.07%) Mentoring
4 2,721 (17.44%) Scrum
5 2,485 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
6 2,202 (14.11%) Project Management
7 2,040 (13.07%) Full Stack Development
8 1,919 (12.30%) Roadmaps
9 1,684 (10.79%) CI/CD
10 1,675 (10.73%) Coaching
11 1,636 (10.48%) Microservices
12 1,457 (9.34%) TDD
13 1,447 (9.27%) Actionable Insight
14 1,284 (8.23%) Decision-Making
15 1,200 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
16 1,181 (7.57%) MVC
17 1,171 (7.50%) SDLC
18 1,147 (7.35%) Project Delivery
19 1,136 (7.28%) Analytics
20 1,130 (7.24%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3,268 (20.94%) JavaScript
2 3,145 (20.15%) C#
3 2,517 (16.13%) SQL
4 2,308 (14.79%) Python
5 1,906 (12.21%) Java
6 1,535 (9.84%) TypeScript
7 373 (2.39%) PHP
8 343 (2.20%) C
9 329 (2.11%) PowerShell
10 316 (2.02%) C++
11 240 (1.54%) Kotlin
12 228 (1.46%) T-SQL
13 221 (1.42%) Go
14 161 (1.03%) Bash
15 137 (0.88%) Scala
16 119 (0.76%) R
17 108 (0.69%) MATLAB
18 99 (0.63%) Ruby
19 75 (0.48%) COBOL
20 74 (0.47%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 2,373 (15.21%) Degree
2 1,932 (12.38%) Security Cleared
3 1,196 (7.66%) SC Cleared
4 599 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 518 (3.32%) DV Cleared
6 468 (3.00%) ACCA
7 462 (2.96%) CIMA
8 266 (1.70%) PMI Certification
9 253 (1.62%) Master's Degree
10 214 (1.37%) PMP
11 178 (1.14%) Azure Certification
12 170 (1.09%) AWS Certification
13 160 (1.03%) DBS Check
14 137 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
15 125 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
16 110 (0.70%) HNC
17 103 (0.66%) HND
18 89 (0.57%) CISSP
19 82 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
20 78 (0.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 982 (6.29%) QA
2 359 (2.30%) Data Quality
3 272 (1.74%) GDPR
4 250 (1.60%) Accessibility
5 215 (1.38%) PMO
6 94 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 87 (0.56%) WCAG
8 80 (0.51%) NIST
9 75 (0.48%) SLA
10 30 (0.19%) MISRA
11 27 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
12 26 (0.17%) ISO 9001
12 26 (0.17%) NIST 800
12 26 (0.17%) PCI DSS
13 25 (0.16%) NCSC
14 20 (0.13%) GRC
15 19 (0.12%) Automotive SPICE
15 19 (0.12%) AUTOSAR
16 16 (0.10%) PSD2
17 15 (0.096%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1,172 (7.51%) Docker
2 311 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 177 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 85 (0.54%) Hyper-V
5 80 (0.51%) Firmware
6 71 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
7 63 (0.40%) vSphere
8 58 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
9 53 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
10 29 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
11 25 (0.16%) VMware NSX
12 21 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
13 16 (0.10%) HDFS
14 10 (0.064%) RACF
15 9 (0.058%) KVM
15 9 (0.058%) Terminal Services
16 7 (0.045%) Microsoft App-V
17 5 (0.032%) DFS Replication
17 5 (0.032%) SRDF
18 3 (0.019%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,171 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 870 (5.57%) Terraform
3 478 (3.06%) Ansible
4 131 (0.84%) Puppet
5 124 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 83 (0.53%) Grafana
6 83 (0.53%) Progress Chef
7 66 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
8 62 (0.40%) SCCM
9 40 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 37 (0.24%) WSUS
11 35 (0.22%) Kibana
12 33 (0.21%) SCOM
13 30 (0.19%) ZABBIX
14 28 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
14 28 (0.18%) vCenter Server
15 17 (0.11%) Nagios
15 17 (0.11%) Packer
16 15 (0.096%) Docker Swarm
17 14 (0.090%) Nmap
Vendors
1 3,218 (20.62%) Microsoft
2 810 (5.19%) Google
3 747 (4.79%) Oracle
4 571 (3.66%) SAP
5 300 (1.92%) Anaplan
6 299 (1.92%) Hyperion
7 269 (1.72%) IBM
8 263 (1.69%) Red Hat
9 262 (1.68%) Salesforce
10 209 (1.34%) VMware
11 208 (1.33%) Databricks
12 203 (1.30%) ESRI
13 164 (1.05%) ServiceNow
14 125 (0.80%) Cisco
15 124 (0.79%) Atlassian
16 106 (0.68%) Adobe
17 101 (0.65%) Facebook
18 87 (0.56%) Dynatrace
19 77 (0.49%) Micro Focus
20 75 (0.48%) Bloomberg