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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 19,714 30,894 53,170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.01% 29.76% 34.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.28% 31.13% 35.62%
Number of salaries quoted 11,639 16,804 26,133
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 84,683 99,249 149,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,831 58,284 83,142
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,182 £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 £82,500 £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 2 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 2 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 15,568 £62,500 -7.41% 3,357
UK excluding London 0 14,104 £57,965 -2.62% 2,330
Work from Home -1 8,638 £61,206 -5.84% 1,969
London -2 4,879 £79,632 -0.46% 1,204
North of England -1 3,479 £57,965 -2.62% 568
Scotland -1 3,095 £60,000 -0.21% 175
South East 0 2,878 £60,000 -4.00% 524
North West -1 1,974 £60,000 +4.35% 362
Midlands -3 1,799 £55,000 -2.62% 405
South West -2 1,652 £59,556 +3.57% 361
Yorkshire -1 1,113 £57,965 -3.39% 149
West Midlands -5 1,101 £57,500 - 259
East of England -5 746 £57,500 -4.17% 222
East Midlands -2 686 £52,500 -4.55% 142
North East +1 392 £52,653 -4.27% 62
Wales -4 330 £52,500 -0.47% 86
Northern Ireland -2 131 £60,000 +14.29% 36
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
1 743 (3.77%) Apache Spark
2 533 (2.70%) Apache
3 491 (2.49%) Confluence
4 468 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
5 387 (1.96%) SharePoint
6 343 (1.74%) SAS
7 339 (1.72%) ArcGIS
8 333 (1.69%) GeoServer
9 131 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
10 130 (0.66%) CMS
11 126 (0.64%) FileNet
12 66 (0.33%) IIS
13 60 (0.30%) OpenStack
14 47 (0.24%) WebLogic
14 47 (0.24%) WordPress
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
1 809 (4.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 292 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
3 199 (1.01%) 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 43 (0.22%) Sketch
10 36 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
11 35 (0.18%) UserZoom
12 33 (0.17%) Photoshop
13 22 (0.11%) Stateflow
13 22 (0.11%) Trello
14 19 (0.096%) Revit
15 18 (0.091%) InVision
16 11 (0.056%) InDesign
17 8 (0.041%) Adobe Illustrator
18 7 (0.036%) CANalyzer
18 7 (0.036%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 310 (1.57%) SAP ERP
2 246 (1.25%) 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 19 (0.096%) Magento
11 19 (0.096%) SAP Oil and Gas
12 18 (0.091%) Shopify
13 17 (0.086%) SAP CX
14 16 (0.081%) Aladdin
15 15 (0.076%) Payment Gateway
15 15 (0.076%) Primavera
15 15 (0.076%) SAP GTS
16 14 (0.071%) Dynamics AX
17 12 (0.061%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 5,362 (27.20%) Azure
2 4,893 (24.82%) AWS
3 1,519 (7.71%) GCP
4 1,145 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
5 1,044 (5.30%) Power Platform
6 754 (3.82%) SaaS
7 629 (3.19%) Serverless
8 513 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
9 470 (2.38%) GitHub
10 452 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
11 336 (1.70%) PowerApps
12 322 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
13 312 (1.58%) Amazon S3
14 307 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
14 307 (1.56%) Power Automate
15 266 (1.35%) Snowflake
16 259 (1.31%) dbt
17 251 (1.27%) PaaS
18 212 (1.08%) Amazon ECS
19 206 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 823 (4.17%) Broadband
2 315 (1.60%) Firewall
3 287 (1.46%) DNS
4 251 (1.27%) Internet
5 223 (1.13%) TCP/IP
6 163 (0.83%) WAN
7 149 (0.76%) Network Security
7 149 (0.76%) VPN
8 139 (0.71%) DHCP
9 134 (0.68%) LAN
10 129 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
10 129 (0.65%) Wireless
11 84 (0.43%) Kerberos
12 82 (0.42%) HTTP
13 81 (0.41%) Intranet
14 74 (0.38%) SSL
15 66 (0.33%) BGP
16 50 (0.25%) Bluetooth
17 45 (0.23%) SAN
18 43 (0.22%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,788 (9.07%) SQL Server
2 1,267 (6.43%) NoSQL
3 879 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
4 725 (3.68%) Big Data
5 680 (3.45%) Power BI
6 637 (3.23%) MongoDB
7 513 (2.60%) Relational Database
8 510 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
9 497 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
10 459 (2.33%) MySQL
11 440 (2.23%) Data Lake
12 389 (1.97%) BigQuery
13 354 (1.80%) GIS
14 337 (1.71%) Hadoop
15 330 (1.67%) QGIS
16 307 (1.56%) Apache Ignite
17 301 (1.53%) Looker
18 265 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
19 240 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
20 213 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 1,626 (8.25%) Git
2 1,347 (6.83%) JIRA
3 938 (4.76%) Jenkins
4 387 (1.96%) Selenium
5 357 (1.81%) JUnit
6 355 (1.80%) GitLab
7 317 (1.61%) Visual Studio
8 297 (1.51%) Cypress.io
9 190 (0.96%) Bitbucket
10 184 (0.93%) Cucumber
11 148 (0.75%) Maven
12 147 (0.75%) Jasmine
13 130 (0.66%) TeamCity
14 129 (0.65%) WebDriver
15 120 (0.61%) Postman
16 118 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
17 106 (0.54%) Artifactory
18 105 (0.53%) JMeter
19 97 (0.49%) NUnit
20 96 (0.49%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 6,894 (34.97%) Finance
2 5,291 (26.84%) Social Skills
3 3,625 (18.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2,777 (14.09%) Law
5 2,299 (11.66%) Analytical Skills
6 1,892 (9.60%) Marketing
7 1,653 (8.38%) Banking
8 1,319 (6.69%) Legal
9 1,041 (5.28%) Public Sector
10 913 (4.63%) Influencing Skills
11 801 (4.06%) Retail
12 670 (3.40%) Investment Banking
13 655 (3.32%) Front Office
14 549 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
15 386 (1.96%) Aerospace
16 327 (1.66%) Financial Institution
17 265 (1.34%) Games
18 260 (1.32%) Manufacturing
19 243 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
20 228 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4,376 (22.20%) Developer
2 3,715 (18.84%) Software Engineer
3 3,657 (18.55%) Senior
4 2,608 (13.23%) Lead
5 1,748 (8.87%) Analyst
6 1,582 (8.02%) Architect
7 1,404 (7.12%) .NET Developer
8 1,338 (6.79%) Project Manager
9 1,022 (5.18%) Java Engineer
10 958 (4.86%) Java Software Engineer
11 907 (4.60%) Senior Developer
12 903 (4.58%) Senior Software Engineer
13 878 (4.45%) Solutions Architect
14 818 (4.15%) Lead Software Engineer
15 690 (3.50%) Data Engineer
16 658 (3.34%) Business Analyst
17 599 (3.04%) Software Developer
18 590 (2.99%) C# Developer
19 580 (2.94%) Python Engineer
20 551 (2.79%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,324 (16.86%) .NET
2 2,595 (13.16%) React
3 1,936 (9.82%) AngularJS
4 1,720 (8.72%) HTML
5 1,706 (8.65%) CSS
6 1,528 (7.75%) .NET Core
7 1,374 (6.97%) ASP.NET
8 1,185 (6.01%) Spring
9 982 (4.98%) Node.js
10 949 (4.81%) REST
11 947 (4.80%) RESTful
12 879 (4.46%) .NET Framework
13 824 (4.18%) Vue
14 820 (4.16%) ASP.NET MVC
15 816 (4.14%) ASP.NET Web API
16 740 (3.75%) Spring Boot
17 737 (3.74%) Entity Framework
18 717 (3.64%) Kafka
19 696 (3.53%) Web Services
20 655 (3.32%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 1,471 (7.46%) Product Ownership
2 1,210 (6.14%) Cloud Native
3 1,144 (5.80%) Algorithms
4 647 (3.28%) Public Cloud
5 630 (3.20%) Management Information System
6 576 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
7 517 (2.62%) Data Structures
8 513 (2.60%) Fixed Income
9 488 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
10 477 (2.42%) Hedge funds
11 402 (2.04%) Derivative
12 401 (2.03%) Onboarding
13 390 (1.98%) Equities
14 376 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 340 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
16 300 (1.52%) Mobile App
17 229 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
18 227 (1.15%) Blockchain
19 222 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
20 201 (1.02%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,290 (6.54%) Linux
2 840 (4.26%) Windows
3 375 (1.90%) Android
4 310 (1.57%) Unix
5 297 (1.51%) Apple iOS
6 174 (0.88%) Windows Server
7 159 (0.81%) Ubuntu
8 126 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 63 (0.32%) Windows 10
10 56 (0.28%) CentOS
11 50 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
11 50 (0.25%) VMS
12 37 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
13 34 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
14 31 (0.16%) Debian
15 27 (0.14%) Mac OS
16 18 (0.091%) zOS
17 14 (0.071%) Solaris
18 11 (0.056%) Windows Server 2012
19 10 (0.051%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,410 (27.44%) Software Engineering
2 3,936 (19.97%) DevOps
3 3,827 (19.41%) CI/CD
4 3,494 (17.72%) SDLC
5 3,256 (16.52%) Mentoring
6 3,222 (16.34%) Scrum
7 3,130 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
8 2,544 (12.90%) Project Management
9 2,448 (12.42%) Full Stack Development
10 2,338 (11.86%) Artificial Intelligence
11 2,273 (11.53%) Microservices
12 2,219 (11.26%) Roadmaps
13 2,206 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
14 2,001 (10.15%) Actionable Insight
15 1,966 (9.97%) Coaching
16 1,950 (9.89%) Machine Learning
17 1,906 (9.67%) Decision-Making
18 1,816 (9.21%) Operational Stability
19 1,786 (9.06%) TDD
20 1,573 (7.98%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3,864 (19.60%) JavaScript
2 3,815 (19.35%) SQL
3 3,620 (18.36%) Java
4 3,516 (17.84%) C#
5 3,366 (17.07%) Python
6 1,770 (8.98%) TypeScript
7 448 (2.27%) Scala
8 403 (2.04%) PHP
9 368 (1.87%) C
10 367 (1.86%) C++
11 354 (1.80%) PowerShell
12 338 (1.71%) Go
13 285 (1.45%) T-SQL
14 261 (1.32%) Kotlin
15 205 (1.04%) PL/SQL
16 184 (0.93%) Bash
17 145 (0.74%) Ruby
18 137 (0.69%) R
19 105 (0.53%) MATLAB
20 100 (0.51%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2,715 (13.77%) Degree
2 2,372 (12.03%) Security Cleared
3 1,583 (8.03%) SC Cleared
4 657 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 543 (2.75%) DV Cleared
6 478 (2.42%) ACCA
7 472 (2.39%) CIMA
8 320 (1.62%) Master's Degree
9 277 (1.41%) PMI Certification
10 229 (1.16%) AWS Certification
11 227 (1.15%) PMP
12 199 (1.01%) Azure Certification
13 169 (0.86%) 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 1,131 (5.74%) QA
2 395 (2.00%) Data Quality
3 391 (1.98%) Accessibility
4 331 (1.68%) GDPR
5 261 (1.32%) PMO
6 135 (0.68%) SLA
7 108 (0.55%) 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 20 (0.10%) Automotive SPICE
15 20 (0.10%) AUTOSAR
15 20 (0.10%) GRC
15 20 (0.10%) IFRS
System Software
1 1,354 (6.87%) Docker
2 385 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 183 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 118 (0.60%) HDFS
5 89 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 83 (0.42%) 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 24 (0.12%) 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 1,624 (8.24%) Kubernetes
2 1,200 (6.09%) Terraform
3 522 (2.65%) Ansible
4 258 (1.31%) Grafana
5 193 (0.98%) Prometheus
6 131 (0.66%) Puppet
7 97 (0.49%) Progress Chef
8 73 (0.37%) SCCM
9 71 (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 25 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
19 21 (0.11%) Zipkin
20 20 (0.10%) Packer
Vendors
1 3,460 (17.55%) Microsoft
2 1,202 (6.10%) Oracle
3 961 (4.87%) Google
4 641 (3.25%) SAP
5 457 (2.32%) Databricks
6 338 (1.71%) ESRI
7 308 (1.56%) Salesforce
8 300 (1.52%) Hyperion
9 299 (1.52%) Anaplan
9 299 (1.52%) IBM
10 250 (1.27%) Red Hat
11 240 (1.22%) Splunk
12 237 (1.20%) Dynatrace
13 229 (1.16%) ServiceNow
14 211 (1.07%) VMware
15 158 (0.80%) Informatica
16 157 (0.80%) Atlassian
17 127 (0.64%) Cisco
18 124 (0.63%) Adobe
19 107 (0.54%) Facebook