Agile Jobs in Wales

Agile Software Development
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 325 403 663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 15.90% 24.44% 34.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.21% 25.41% 36.61%
Number of salaries quoted 215 190 442
10th Percentile £34,600 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,369 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,686 £53,937 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +7.87% +5.26%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,500 £70,000
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
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,608 1,586 1,811
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 78.67% 96.18% 94.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,058 796 1,141
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,391 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,125 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +9.09%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Wales

Agile
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Agile in Wales

Agile
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in Wales over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Agile in Wales

Agile
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Wales region over the 6 months to 10 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
South Wales -4 246 £52,686 -4.21% 74
West Wales +2 35 £57,500 +30.31% 14
North Wales +15 27 £45,000 -30.77% 7
Mid Wales -4 6 £89,092 +138.96% 2
Agile
UK

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 27 (8.31%) ArcGIS
1 27 (8.31%) GeoServer
2 10 (3.08%) Confluence
3 8 (2.46%) WordPress
4 7 (2.15%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.85%) SAS
6 4 (1.23%) Apache
6 4 (1.23%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.23%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.92%) nginx
8 1 (0.31%) CMS
8 1 (0.31%) Drupal
8 1 (0.31%) JBoss
8 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.62%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (2.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.62%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 130 (40.00%) Azure
2 75 (23.08%) AWS
3 31 (9.54%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (5.23%) GCP
4 17 (5.23%) GitHub
4 17 (5.23%) Heroku
5 15 (4.62%) Power Platform
6 11 (3.38%) SaaS
7 10 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (2.46%) PowerApps
9 7 (2.15%) Nutanix
10 5 (1.54%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (1.54%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.23%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (1.23%) Azure API Management
11 4 (1.23%) OpenShift
11 4 (1.23%) WhatsApp
12 3 (0.92%) Azure AKS
12 3 (0.92%) DigitalOcean
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.00%) DNS
2 8 (2.46%) DHCP
3 4 (1.23%) BGP
3 4 (1.23%) SSL
3 4 (1.23%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.92%) SMS
5 2 (0.62%) DSL
5 2 (0.62%) HTTP
6 1 (0.31%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (9.54%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (8.62%) GIS
3 27 (8.31%) QGIS
3 27 (8.31%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.46%) Looker
5 7 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (1.85%) BigQuery
6 6 (1.85%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.54%) MySQL
8 4 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.23%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.23%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.23%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.92%) MariaDB
9 3 (0.92%) Power BI
10 2 (0.62%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.62%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 41 (12.62%) Git
2 19 (5.85%) GitLab
3 16 (4.92%) JIRA
4 7 (2.15%) Selenium
5 6 (1.85%) Postman
6 4 (1.23%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.92%) IBM UrbanCode
7 3 (0.92%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.92%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.62%) DBeaver
8 2 (0.62%) JMeter
8 2 (0.62%) NUnit
8 2 (0.62%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.62%) Visual Studio Team System
9 1 (0.31%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.31%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.31%) MSTest
9 1 (0.31%) SpecFlow
General
1 90 (27.69%) Social Skills
2 60 (18.46%) Finance
3 28 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (5.85%) Retail
5 16 (4.92%) Banking
6 15 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (4.31%) Public Sector
8 13 (4.00%) Marketing
9 9 (2.77%) Games
9 9 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.85%) Police
10 6 (1.85%) Welsh Language
11 3 (0.92%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.62%) Advertising
12 2 (0.62%) Retail Finance
12 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.31%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.31%) Law
13 1 (0.31%) Legal
Job Titles
1 101 (31.08%) Developer
2 84 (25.85%) Senior
3 44 (13.54%) Lead
4 38 (11.69%) Software Engineer
5 31 (9.54%) Project Manager
6 25 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
7 23 (7.08%) .NET Developer
7 23 (7.08%) Architect
8 20 (6.15%) Analyst
9 18 (5.54%) Senior Developer
10 17 (5.23%) Salesforce Developer
11 15 (4.62%) Business Analyst
12 14 (4.31%) Presales Manager
13 13 (4.00%) C# Developer
13 13 (4.00%) Lead Developer
14 11 (3.38%) Senior Analyst
15 10 (3.08%) C# .NET Developer
15 10 (3.08%) Technical Leader
16 9 (2.77%) Platform Engineer
16 9 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (26.15%) .NET
2 57 (17.54%) CSS
3 54 (16.62%) .NET Core
4 53 (16.31%) React
5 36 (11.08%) HTML
6 27 (8.31%) Leaflet
6 27 (8.31%) OpenLayers
6 27 (8.31%) PostGIS
7 25 (7.69%) REST
8 23 (7.08%) ASP.NET
9 21 (6.46%) AngularJS
9 21 (6.46%) HTML5
9 21 (6.46%) RESTful
10 17 (5.23%) Lightning Web Components
10 17 (5.23%) Visualforce
11 15 (4.62%) Node.js
12 14 (4.31%) ASP.NET MVC
12 14 (4.31%) CSS3
12 14 (4.31%) Web Services
13 12 (3.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.85%) Product Ownership
1 19 (5.85%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (4.92%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (3.08%) Data Centre
3 10 (3.08%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.08%) Public Cloud
4 8 (2.46%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.15%) Private Cloud
6 6 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.23%) Credit Risk
7 4 (1.23%) FMCG
7 4 (1.23%) Housing Association
8 3 (0.92%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.92%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.62%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.31%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.31%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.31%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.08%) Linux
2 11 (3.38%) Windows
3 7 (2.15%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.23%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.23%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.92%) Android
5 3 (0.92%) Unix
6 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (30.77%) DevOps
2 85 (26.15%) Scrum
3 73 (22.46%) Actionable Insight
4 67 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (16.31%) Project Management
6 48 (14.77%) Software Engineering
7 46 (14.15%) Mentoring
8 44 (13.54%) SDLC
9 43 (13.23%) Full Stack Development
10 34 (10.46%) Web Development
11 31 (9.54%) CI/CD
12 30 (9.23%) Microservices
13 29 (8.92%) Test Automation
14 27 (8.31%) Roadmaps
15 26 (8.00%) Agile Project Management
15 26 (8.00%) Data Modelling
15 26 (8.00%) Project Delivery
16 24 (7.38%) Software Delivery
17 22 (6.77%) Continuous Improvement
18 21 (6.46%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 86 (26.46%) JavaScript
2 78 (24.00%) C#
3 60 (18.46%) Python
4 53 (16.31%) SQL
5 29 (8.92%) Java
6 21 (6.46%) TypeScript
7 17 (5.23%) Apex Code
8 11 (3.38%) PHP
9 6 (1.85%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.23%) Groovy
10 4 (1.23%) R
11 3 (0.92%) C++
11 3 (0.92%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.62%) Bash
12 2 (0.62%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.31%) Bicep
13 1 (0.31%) Ruby
13 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 83 (25.54%) Security Cleared
2 74 (22.77%) SC Cleared
3 36 (11.08%) Degree
4 8 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.23%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (1.23%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 3 (0.92%) CSPO
6 3 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.62%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.62%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.31%) CBAP
8 1 (0.31%) IIBA
8 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.31%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.54%) QA
2 9 (2.77%) GDPR
3 7 (2.15%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.23%) CRD IV
4 4 (1.23%) IFRS
4 4 (1.23%) IFRS 9
5 3 (0.92%) PMO
6 2 (0.62%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.31%) PMBOK
7 1 (0.31%) SLA
7 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (7.08%) Docker
2 8 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 13 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.38%) Ansible
3 10 (3.08%) Terraform
4 9 (2.77%) Progress Chef
5 8 (2.46%) SCCM
6 3 (0.92%) Galera Cluster
7 2 (0.62%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.31%) Grafana
8 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.31%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 67 (20.62%) Microsoft
2 27 (8.31%) ESRI
3 26 (8.00%) Oracle
4 18 (5.54%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.69%) Google
6 7 (2.15%) WooCommerce
7 5 (1.54%) Sparx
8 3 (0.92%) IBM
8 3 (0.92%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.31%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.31%) Cadence
9 1 (0.31%) Canon
9 1 (0.31%) Databricks
9 1 (0.31%) Dell
9 1 (0.31%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.31%) UiPath
9 1 (0.31%) Veeam