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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 19,678 30,853 53,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.98% 29.79% 34.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.25% 31.16% 35.62%
Number of salaries quoted 11,598 16,741 26,179
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 84,620 99,018 149,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,724 58,165 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £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 4 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 4 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 15,534 £62,500 -7.41% 3,474
UK excluding London 0 14,098 £57,965 -2.62% 2,393
Work from Home -1 8,621 £61,206 -5.84% 2,032
London -2 4,847 £79,691 -0.39% 1,253
North of England -1 3,479 £57,965 -2.62% 597
Scotland -1 3,093 £60,000 - 175
South East 0 2,875 £60,000 -4.00% 499
North West -1 1,973 £60,000 +4.35% 356
Midlands -3 1,803 £55,000 -2.65% 439
South West -2 1,652 £59,556 +3.57% 376
Yorkshire -1 1,112 £57,965 -3.39% 170
West Midlands -5 1,102 £57,500 - 273
East of England -5 743 £57,500 -4.17% 221
East Midlands -2 689 £52,500 -4.55% 163
North East +1 394 £53,903 -1.99% 77
Wales -4 328 £52,593 -0.75% 88
Northern Ireland -3 131 £60,000 +14.29% 42
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
1 740 (3.76%) Apache Spark
2 531 (2.70%) Apache
3 489 (2.49%) Confluence
4 466 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
5 386 (1.96%) SharePoint
6 343 (1.74%) SAS
7 339 (1.72%) ArcGIS
8 333 (1.69%) GeoServer
9 130 (0.66%) CMS
9 130 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
10 126 (0.64%) FileNet
11 66 (0.34%) IIS
12 60 (0.30%) OpenStack
13 48 (0.24%) WordPress
14 47 (0.24%) WebLogic
15 45 (0.23%) JBoss
16 41 (0.21%) WebSphere
17 40 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
18 38 (0.19%) Tuxedo
19 37 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 808 (4.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 291 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
3 202 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 142 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
5 100 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 76 (0.39%) AutoCAD
7 55 (0.28%) Simulink
8 44 (0.22%) Adobe XD
9 42 (0.21%) Sketch
10 36 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
11 35 (0.18%) UserZoom
12 31 (0.16%) Photoshop
13 22 (0.11%) Stateflow
13 22 (0.11%) Trello
14 19 (0.097%) Revit
15 17 (0.086%) InVision
16 9 (0.046%) InDesign
17 8 (0.041%) Adobe Illustrator
18 7 (0.036%) CANalyzer
18 7 (0.036%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 310 (1.58%) SAP ERP
2 247 (1.26%) 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 39 (0.20%) Siebel CRM
8 29 (0.15%) 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 (0.091%) Shopify
14 16 (0.081%) Aladdin
14 16 (0.081%) Dynamics AX
14 16 (0.081%) SAP CX
15 15 (0.076%) Primavera
16 14 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
16 14 (0.071%) SAP GTS
17 12 (0.061%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 5,350 (27.19%) Azure
2 4,886 (24.83%) AWS
3 1,511 (7.68%) GCP
4 1,132 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
5 1,040 (5.29%) Power Platform
6 745 (3.79%) SaaS
7 623 (3.17%) Serverless
8 511 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
9 470 (2.39%) GitHub
10 454 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
11 334 (1.70%) PowerApps
12 319 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
13 313 (1.59%) Amazon S3
14 308 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
15 306 (1.56%) Power Automate
16 266 (1.35%) Snowflake
17 257 (1.31%) dbt
18 250 (1.27%) PaaS
19 212 (1.08%) Amazon ECS
20 205 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 823 (4.18%) Broadband
2 316 (1.61%) Firewall
3 286 (1.45%) DNS
4 250 (1.27%) Internet
5 224 (1.14%) TCP/IP
6 164 (0.83%) WAN
7 150 (0.76%) VPN
8 147 (0.75%) Network Security
9 139 (0.71%) DHCP
10 135 (0.69%) LAN
11 129 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
11 129 (0.66%) Wireless
12 84 (0.43%) Kerberos
13 81 (0.41%) HTTP
13 81 (0.41%) Intranet
14 74 (0.38%) SSL
15 66 (0.34%) BGP
16 50 (0.25%) Bluetooth
17 45 (0.23%) SAN
18 43 (0.22%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,783 (9.06%) SQL Server
2 1,274 (6.47%) NoSQL
3 884 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
4 724 (3.68%) Big Data
5 678 (3.45%) Power BI
6 645 (3.28%) MongoDB
7 514 (2.61%) Relational Database
8 507 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
9 496 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
10 456 (2.32%) MySQL
11 438 (2.23%) Data Lake
12 390 (1.98%) BigQuery
13 354 (1.80%) GIS
14 334 (1.70%) Hadoop
15 330 (1.68%) QGIS
16 302 (1.53%) Apache Ignite
17 301 (1.53%) Looker
18 266 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
19 241 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
20 211 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 1,620 (8.23%) Git
2 1,345 (6.84%) JIRA
3 935 (4.75%) Jenkins
4 387 (1.97%) Selenium
5 356 (1.81%) JUnit
6 355 (1.80%) GitLab
7 317 (1.61%) Visual Studio
8 297 (1.51%) Cypress.io
9 190 (0.97%) Bitbucket
10 183 (0.93%) Cucumber
11 147 (0.75%) Jasmine
11 147 (0.75%) Maven
12 129 (0.66%) WebDriver
13 128 (0.65%) TeamCity
14 119 (0.60%) Postman
15 117 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
16 106 (0.54%) Artifactory
17 105 (0.53%) JMeter
18 97 (0.49%) NUnit
19 96 (0.49%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 6,875 (34.94%) Finance
2 5,279 (26.83%) Social Skills
3 3,633 (18.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2,776 (14.11%) Law
5 2,297 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
6 1,888 (9.59%) Marketing
7 1,648 (8.37%) Banking
8 1,316 (6.69%) Legal
9 1,046 (5.32%) Public Sector
10 912 (4.63%) Influencing Skills
11 806 (4.10%) Retail
12 667 (3.39%) Investment Banking
13 652 (3.31%) Front Office
14 550 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
15 386 (1.96%) Aerospace
16 326 (1.66%) Financial Institution
17 265 (1.35%) Games
18 260 (1.32%) Manufacturing
19 241 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
20 225 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4,371 (22.21%) Developer
2 3,706 (18.83%) Software Engineer
3 3,644 (18.52%) Senior
4 2,605 (13.24%) Lead
5 1,740 (8.84%) Analyst
6 1,575 (8.00%) Architect
7 1,405 (7.14%) .NET Developer
8 1,330 (6.76%) Project Manager
9 1,023 (5.20%) Java Engineer
10 957 (4.86%) Java Software Engineer
11 908 (4.61%) Senior Developer
12 901 (4.58%) Senior Software Engineer
13 874 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
14 818 (4.16%) Lead Software Engineer
15 686 (3.49%) Data Engineer
16 651 (3.31%) Business Analyst
17 596 (3.03%) Software Developer
18 588 (2.99%) C# Developer
19 578 (2.94%) Python Engineer
20 555 (2.82%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,330 (16.92%) .NET
2 2,597 (13.20%) React
3 1,941 (9.86%) AngularJS
4 1,726 (8.77%) HTML
5 1,711 (8.69%) CSS
6 1,526 (7.75%) .NET Core
7 1,379 (7.01%) ASP.NET
8 1,180 (6.00%) Spring
9 977 (4.96%) Node.js
10 947 (4.81%) REST
11 944 (4.80%) RESTful
12 876 (4.45%) .NET Framework
13 831 (4.22%) Vue
14 820 (4.17%) ASP.NET MVC
15 816 (4.15%) ASP.NET Web API
16 738 (3.75%) Spring Boot
17 736 (3.74%) Entity Framework
18 711 (3.61%) Kafka
19 704 (3.58%) Web Services
20 657 (3.34%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 1,462 (7.43%) Product Ownership
2 1,208 (6.14%) Cloud Native
3 1,152 (5.85%) Algorithms
4 647 (3.29%) Public Cloud
5 634 (3.22%) Management Information System
6 575 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
7 524 (2.66%) Data Structures
8 512 (2.60%) Fixed Income
9 487 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
10 478 (2.43%) Hedge funds
11 403 (2.05%) Derivative
12 400 (2.03%) Onboarding
13 391 (1.99%) Equities
14 375 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 340 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
16 300 (1.52%) Mobile App
17 237 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
18 233 (1.18%) Blockchain
19 221 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
20 203 (1.03%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1,294 (6.58%) Linux
2 847 (4.30%) Windows
3 380 (1.93%) Android
4 310 (1.58%) Unix
5 302 (1.53%) Apple iOS
6 173 (0.88%) Windows Server
7 160 (0.81%) Ubuntu
8 126 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 63 (0.32%) Windows 10
10 56 (0.28%) CentOS
11 51 (0.26%) VMS
12 50 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
13 37 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
14 34 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
15 31 (0.16%) 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 5,396 (27.42%) Software Engineering
2 3,915 (19.90%) DevOps
3 3,820 (19.41%) CI/CD
4 3,483 (17.70%) SDLC
5 3,259 (16.56%) Mentoring
6 3,206 (16.29%) Scrum
7 3,119 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
8 2,539 (12.90%) Project Management
9 2,455 (12.48%) Full Stack Development
10 2,346 (11.92%) Artificial Intelligence
11 2,262 (11.50%) Microservices
12 2,211 (11.24%) Roadmaps
13 2,207 (11.22%) Continuous Improvement
14 2,001 (10.17%) Actionable Insight
15 1,972 (10.02%) Coaching
16 1,951 (9.91%) Machine Learning
17 1,905 (9.68%) Decision-Making
18 1,816 (9.23%) Operational Stability
19 1,776 (9.03%) TDD
20 1,573 (7.99%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3,859 (19.61%) JavaScript
2 3,810 (19.36%) SQL
3 3,608 (18.34%) Java
4 3,516 (17.87%) C#
5 3,350 (17.02%) Python
6 1,764 (8.96%) TypeScript
7 446 (2.27%) Scala
8 402 (2.04%) PHP
9 367 (1.87%) C
10 363 (1.84%) C++
11 349 (1.77%) PowerShell
12 338 (1.72%) Go
13 282 (1.43%) T-SQL
14 262 (1.33%) Kotlin
15 203 (1.03%) PL/SQL
16 182 (0.92%) Bash
17 142 (0.72%) Ruby
18 137 (0.70%) R
19 107 (0.54%) MATLAB
20 99 (0.50%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2,710 (13.77%) Degree
2 2,372 (12.05%) Security Cleared
3 1,580 (8.03%) SC Cleared
4 655 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 545 (2.77%) DV Cleared
6 478 (2.43%) ACCA
7 472 (2.40%) CIMA
8 320 (1.63%) Master's Degree
9 278 (1.41%) PMI Certification
10 230 (1.17%) AWS Certification
11 228 (1.16%) PMP
12 201 (1.02%) Azure Certification
13 167 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
14 151 (0.77%) DBS Check
15 146 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
16 117 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 115 (0.58%) HNC
18 111 (0.56%) HND
19 97 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
20 90 (0.46%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1,123 (5.71%) QA
2 397 (2.02%) Data Quality
3 391 (1.99%) Accessibility
4 331 (1.68%) GDPR
5 260 (1.32%) PMO
6 135 (0.69%) SLA
7 107 (0.54%) WCAG
8 91 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 78 (0.40%) NIST
10 57 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
11 43 (0.22%) ISO 9001
12 29 (0.15%) MISRA
12 29 (0.15%) PCI DSS
13 27 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
13 27 (0.14%) 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 1,346 (6.84%) Docker
2 386 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 183 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 118 (0.60%) HDFS
5 88 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 84 (0.43%) Firmware
7 67 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
8 63 (0.32%) vSphere
9 59 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
10 56 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
11 25 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
12 22 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
13 18 (0.091%) 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 (0.030%) DFS Replication
18 5 (0.025%) SRDF
19 3 (0.015%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,619 (8.23%) Kubernetes
2 1,198 (6.09%) Terraform
3 520 (2.64%) Ansible
4 258 (1.31%) Grafana
5 194 (0.99%) Prometheus
6 130 (0.66%) Puppet
7 96 (0.49%) Progress Chef
8 73 (0.37%) SCCM
9 70 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
10 60 (0.30%) Kibana
11 39 (0.20%) WSUS
12 36 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 35 (0.18%) SCOM
14 32 (0.16%) HAProxy
15 31 (0.16%) ZABBIX
16 29 (0.15%) vCenter Server
17 26 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
18 24 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
19 21 (0.11%) Zipkin
20 20 (0.10%) Packer
Vendors
1 3,453 (17.55%) Microsoft
2 1,202 (6.11%) Oracle
3 956 (4.86%) Google
4 642 (3.26%) SAP
5 454 (2.31%) Databricks
6 338 (1.72%) ESRI
7 309 (1.57%) Salesforce
8 307 (1.56%) IBM
9 300 (1.52%) Hyperion
10 299 (1.52%) Anaplan
11 258 (1.31%) Red Hat
12 240 (1.22%) Splunk
13 238 (1.21%) Dynatrace
14 230 (1.17%) ServiceNow
15 211 (1.07%) VMware
16 157 (0.80%) Atlassian
16 157 (0.80%) Informatica
17 127 (0.65%) Cisco
18 122 (0.62%) Adobe
19 107 (0.54%) Facebook