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

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 19,639 30,073 54,535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.83% 29.71% 34.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.18% 31.08% 35.88%
Number of salaries quoted 11,574 16,382 26,130
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 £98,750
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 84,735 96,775 152,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,708 57,079 82,921
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 13 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 13 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 15,524 £62,500 -7.41% 3,586
UK excluding London 0 14,022 £57,965 -2.62% 2,442
Work from Home -1 8,564 £61,206 -5.84% 2,087
London -2 4,884 £80,000 - 1,324
North of England -1 3,483 £57,965 -1.76% 623
Scotland -1 3,074 £59,526 -0.79% 174
South East -2 2,862 £60,000 -4.00% 523
North West -1 1,983 £60,000 +4.35% 366
Midlands -4 1,798 £55,000 -1.79% 450
South West -2 1,621 £59,556 +3.57% 367
Yorkshire -1 1,105 £57,965 -3.39% 181
West Midlands -6 1,100 £57,500 +1.81% 289
East of England -5 738 £57,500 -4.17% 210
East Midlands -2 683 £52,500 -4.55% 159
North East +1 395 £53,903 -1.99% 79
Wales -4 323 £52,686 -4.00% 93
Northern Ireland -4 128 £60,000 +14.29% 48
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
1 734 (3.74%) Apache Spark
2 587 (2.99%) Apache
3 527 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
4 483 (2.46%) Confluence
5 381 (1.94%) SharePoint
6 344 (1.75%) SAS
7 339 (1.73%) ArcGIS
8 333 (1.70%) GeoServer
9 130 (0.66%) CMS
10 126 (0.64%) FileNet
10 126 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
11 62 (0.32%) IIS
12 60 (0.31%) OpenStack
13 47 (0.24%) WebLogic
14 46 (0.23%) WordPress
15 42 (0.21%) WebSphere
16 38 (0.19%) Tuxedo
17 37 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
18 32 (0.16%) nginx
19 30 (0.15%) Captiva
Applications
1 810 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 298 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
3 213 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 141 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
5 102 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 77 (0.39%) AutoCAD
7 56 (0.29%) Simulink
8 41 (0.21%) Adobe XD
9 38 (0.19%) Sketch
10 36 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
11 35 (0.18%) UserZoom
12 28 (0.14%) Photoshop
13 22 (0.11%) Stateflow
13 22 (0.11%) Trello
14 20 (0.10%) Revit
15 16 (0.081%) InVision
16 8 (0.041%) Adobe Illustrator
17 7 (0.036%) CANalyzer
17 7 (0.036%) SPSS
18 6 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 309 (1.57%) SAP ERP
2 250 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 76 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 62 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
5 53 (0.27%) NetSuite
6 42 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
7 40 (0.20%) Siebel CRM
8 28 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
9 26 (0.13%) NEC Housing
9 26 (0.13%) SDL Web 8
10 20 (0.10%) Magento
11 19 (0.097%) SAP Oil and Gas
12 18 (0.092%) Shopify
13 16 (0.081%) Aladdin
13 16 (0.081%) Dynamics AX
14 15 (0.076%) Primavera
14 15 (0.076%) SAP CX
15 14 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
16 13 (0.066%) SAP GTS
17 11 (0.056%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 5,378 (27.38%) Azure
2 4,953 (25.22%) AWS
3 1,534 (7.81%) GCP
4 1,100 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
5 1,016 (5.17%) Power Platform
6 742 (3.78%) SaaS
7 620 (3.16%) Serverless
8 500 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
9 467 (2.38%) GitHub
10 455 (2.32%) Dynamics 365
11 334 (1.70%) PowerApps
12 320 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
13 315 (1.60%) Power Automate
14 314 (1.60%) Amazon S3
15 306 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
16 300 (1.53%) Snowflake
17 298 (1.52%) dbt
18 250 (1.27%) PaaS
19 215 (1.09%) Amazon ECS
20 207 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 824 (4.20%) Broadband
2 325 (1.65%) Firewall
3 273 (1.39%) DNS
4 247 (1.26%) Internet
5 215 (1.09%) TCP/IP
6 164 (0.84%) WAN
7 152 (0.77%) Network Security
8 142 (0.72%) VPN
9 135 (0.69%) LAN
10 130 (0.66%) Wireless
11 125 (0.64%) DHCP
12 124 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
13 84 (0.43%) Kerberos
14 82 (0.42%) Intranet
15 73 (0.37%) SSL
16 71 (0.36%) HTTP
17 67 (0.34%) BGP
18 50 (0.25%) Bluetooth
19 47 (0.24%) SD-WAN
20 45 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,778 (9.05%) SQL Server
2 1,280 (6.52%) NoSQL
3 900 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
4 722 (3.68%) Big Data
5 654 (3.33%) MongoDB
5 654 (3.33%) Power BI
6 513 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
7 508 (2.59%) Relational Database
8 484 (2.46%) Data Lake
8 484 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
9 452 (2.30%) MySQL
10 382 (1.95%) BigQuery
11 355 (1.81%) Apache Ignite
12 354 (1.80%) GIS
13 333 (1.70%) Hadoop
14 330 (1.68%) QGIS
15 297 (1.51%) Looker
16 274 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
17 248 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
18 240 (1.22%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 1,614 (8.22%) Git
2 1,325 (6.75%) JIRA
3 910 (4.63%) Jenkins
4 381 (1.94%) Selenium
5 355 (1.81%) JUnit
6 347 (1.77%) GitLab
7 324 (1.65%) Visual Studio
8 304 (1.55%) Cypress.io
9 192 (0.98%) Bitbucket
10 175 (0.89%) Cucumber
11 148 (0.75%) Jasmine
12 143 (0.73%) Maven
13 126 (0.64%) WebDriver
14 125 (0.64%) 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 6,860 (34.93%) Finance
2 5,246 (26.71%) Social Skills
3 3,627 (18.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2,777 (14.14%) Law
5 2,293 (11.68%) Analytical Skills
6 1,908 (9.72%) Marketing
7 1,648 (8.39%) Banking
8 1,312 (6.68%) Legal
9 1,017 (5.18%) Public Sector
10 900 (4.58%) Influencing Skills
11 824 (4.20%) Retail
12 708 (3.61%) Front Office
13 699 (3.56%) Investment Banking
14 545 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
15 427 (2.17%) Aerospace
16 324 (1.65%) Financial Institution
17 261 (1.33%) Games
17 261 (1.33%) Manufacturing
18 233 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
19 220 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4,410 (22.46%) Developer
2 3,743 (19.06%) Software Engineer
3 3,597 (18.32%) Senior
4 2,614 (13.31%) Lead
5 1,710 (8.71%) Analyst
6 1,568 (7.98%) Architect
7 1,417 (7.22%) .NET Developer
8 1,287 (6.55%) Project Manager
9 1,021 (5.20%) Java Engineer
10 951 (4.84%) Java Software Engineer
11 897 (4.57%) Senior Developer
12 896 (4.56%) Senior Software Engineer
13 835 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
14 828 (4.22%) Lead Software Engineer
15 690 (3.51%) Data Engineer
16 636 (3.24%) Business Analyst
17 611 (3.11%) Python Engineer
18 606 (3.09%) Software Developer
19 597 (3.04%) C# Developer
20 559 (2.85%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,352 (17.07%) .NET
2 2,625 (13.37%) React
3 1,933 (9.84%) AngularJS
4 1,717 (8.74%) CSS
4 1,717 (8.74%) HTML
5 1,538 (7.83%) .NET Core
6 1,382 (7.04%) ASP.NET
7 1,157 (5.89%) Spring
8 982 (5.00%) Node.js
9 924 (4.70%) REST
9 924 (4.70%) RESTful
10 878 (4.47%) .NET Framework
11 842 (4.29%) Vue
12 828 (4.22%) ASP.NET Web API
13 826 (4.21%) ASP.NET MVC
14 745 (3.79%) Entity Framework
15 731 (3.72%) Spring Boot
16 699 (3.56%) Kafka
17 692 (3.52%) Web Services
18 664 (3.38%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 1,459 (7.43%) Product Ownership
2 1,202 (6.12%) Cloud Native
3 1,155 (5.88%) Algorithms
4 637 (3.24%) Management Information System
5 628 (3.20%) Public Cloud
6 574 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
7 564 (2.87%) Fixed Income
8 531 (2.70%) Hedge funds
9 508 (2.59%) Data Structures
10 493 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
11 440 (2.24%) Derivative
12 438 (2.23%) Equities
13 411 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 395 (2.01%) Onboarding
15 335 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
16 303 (1.54%) Mobile App
17 236 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
18 230 (1.17%) Blockchain
19 211 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
20 204 (1.04%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,306 (6.65%) Linux
2 822 (4.19%) Windows
3 379 (1.93%) Android
4 309 (1.57%) Unix
5 297 (1.51%) Apple iOS
6 170 (0.87%) Windows Server
7 159 (0.81%) Ubuntu
8 126 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 62 (0.32%) Windows 10
10 57 (0.29%) CentOS
11 51 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
12 50 (0.25%) VMS
13 38 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
14 34 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
15 33 (0.17%) Debian
16 26 (0.13%) Mac OS
17 14 (0.071%) Solaris
18 11 (0.056%) zOS
19 10 (0.051%) Windows 7
19 10 (0.051%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,427 (27.63%) Software Engineering
2 3,922 (19.97%) DevOps
3 3,795 (19.32%) CI/CD
4 3,436 (17.50%) SDLC
5 3,225 (16.42%) Mentoring
6 3,182 (16.20%) Scrum
7 3,117 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
8 2,492 (12.69%) Project Management
9 2,490 (12.68%) Full Stack Development
10 2,364 (12.04%) Artificial Intelligence
11 2,256 (11.49%) Microservices
12 2,206 (11.23%) Continuous Improvement
13 2,196 (11.18%) Roadmaps
14 1,973 (10.05%) Coaching
15 1,961 (9.99%) Machine Learning
16 1,879 (9.57%) Decision-Making
17 1,872 (9.53%) Actionable Insight
18 1,817 (9.25%) Operational Stability
19 1,789 (9.11%) TDD
20 1,558 (7.93%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3,904 (19.88%) JavaScript
2 3,806 (19.38%) SQL
3 3,632 (18.49%) Java
4 3,543 (18.04%) C#
5 3,414 (17.38%) Python
6 1,819 (9.26%) TypeScript
7 451 (2.30%) Scala
8 398 (2.03%) PHP
9 374 (1.90%) C
10 366 (1.86%) C++
11 340 (1.73%) PowerShell
12 339 (1.73%) Go
13 273 (1.39%) T-SQL
14 272 (1.38%) Kotlin
15 203 (1.03%) PL/SQL
16 180 (0.92%) Bash
17 140 (0.71%) Ruby
18 132 (0.67%) R
19 107 (0.54%) MATLAB
20 101 (0.51%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2,718 (13.84%) Degree
2 2,334 (11.88%) Security Cleared
3 1,554 (7.91%) SC Cleared
4 661 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 525 (2.67%) DV Cleared
6 478 (2.43%) ACCA
7 472 (2.40%) CIMA
8 322 (1.64%) Master's Degree
9 275 (1.40%) PMI Certification
10 228 (1.16%) PMP
11 223 (1.14%) AWS Certification
12 204 (1.04%) Azure Certification
13 158 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
14 152 (0.77%) DBS Check
15 146 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
16 115 (0.59%) HNC
17 111 (0.57%) HND
18 105 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 99 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
20 90 (0.46%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1,115 (5.68%) QA
2 413 (2.10%) Data Quality
3 380 (1.93%) Accessibility
4 327 (1.67%) GDPR
5 260 (1.32%) PMO
6 137 (0.70%) SLA
7 101 (0.51%) WCAG
8 94 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 78 (0.40%) 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 20 (0.10%) Automotive SPICE
17 20 (0.10%) AUTOSAR
17 20 (0.10%) IFRS
System Software
1 1,319 (6.72%) Docker
2 387 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 182 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 118 (0.60%) HDFS
5 88 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 87 (0.44%) Firmware
7 68 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
8 62 (0.32%) vSphere
9 59 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
10 54 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
11 27 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
12 22 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 22 (0.11%) VMware NSX
13 14 (0.071%) Time Sharing Option
14 9 (0.046%) KVM
14 9 (0.046%) Terminal Services
15 7 (0.036%) Microsoft App-V
16 6 (0.031%) DFS Replication
17 5 (0.025%) SRDF
18 3 (0.015%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,608 (8.19%) Kubernetes
2 1,190 (6.06%) Terraform
3 528 (2.69%) Ansible
4 257 (1.31%) Grafana
5 191 (0.97%) Prometheus
6 132 (0.67%) Puppet
7 96 (0.49%) Progress Chef
8 71 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
8 71 (0.36%) SCCM
9 61 (0.31%) Kibana
10 39 (0.20%) 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
16 26 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
17 21 (0.11%) Zipkin
18 18 (0.092%) Packer
Vendors
1 3,469 (17.66%) Microsoft
2 1,199 (6.11%) Oracle
3 952 (4.85%) Google
4 637 (3.24%) SAP
5 455 (2.32%) Databricks
6 338 (1.72%) ESRI
7 303 (1.54%) IBM
8 300 (1.53%) Anaplan
8 300 (1.53%) Hyperion
8 300 (1.53%) Salesforce
9 261 (1.33%) Red Hat
10 242 (1.23%) Splunk
11 236 (1.20%) Dynatrace
12 228 (1.16%) ServiceNow
13 213 (1.08%) VMware
14 156 (0.79%) Informatica
15 152 (0.77%) Atlassian
16 128 (0.65%) Cisco
17 112 (0.57%) Adobe
18 107 (0.54%) Facebook