Agile Job Trends in Bristol

Agile Software Development
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Agile skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 5 1
Rank change year-on-year -12 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 125 281 603
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 6.99% 16.00% 37.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.33% 19.09% 39.39%
Number of salaries quoted 95 132 510
10th Percentile £46,750 £42,275 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £51,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.94% +9.31%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,000 £83,980
90th Percentile £87,000 £92,500 £96,539
South West median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -4.17% -0.41% +9.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

Agile falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,210 1,472 1,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 67.64% 83.83% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 898 821 1,267
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +0.80% +8.23%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,125 £85,000 £87,700
South West median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +1.85% +8.00%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Agile relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Agile job vacancy trend in Bristol

Agile
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Agile.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Agile

Agile
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in Bristol over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Agile in Bristol

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (7.20%) Confluence
2 3 (2.40%) Tomcat
2 3 (2.40%) WebLogic
2 3 (2.40%) WebLogic Portal
3 2 (1.60%) CMS
3 2 (1.60%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.80%) JBoss
4 1 (0.80%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.40%) Simulink
3 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.60%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.80%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (3.20%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (3.20%) Primavera
2 3 (2.40%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.80%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 36 (28.80%) Azure
2 21 (16.80%) AWS
3 10 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (8.00%) Power Platform
4 9 (7.20%) SaaS
5 7 (5.60%) GitHub
6 3 (2.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.40%) GCP
6 3 (2.40%) OCI
6 3 (2.40%) Power Automate
6 3 (2.40%) PowerApps
6 3 (2.40%) Serverless
7 2 (1.60%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.60%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.60%) Boomi
7 2 (1.60%) Datadog
7 2 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.60%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.60%) Firewall
2 1 (0.80%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.60%) Power BI
2 4 (3.20%) Looker
2 4 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.20%) Tableau
3 3 (2.40%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.40%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.40%) Oracle Discoverer
3 3 (2.40%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.60%) DB2
4 2 (1.60%) GIS
4 2 (1.60%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.60%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.80%) Power Query
5 1 (0.80%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (8.00%) JIRA
2 8 (6.40%) Git
2 8 (6.40%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.20%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (2.40%) GitLab
4 3 (2.40%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (1.60%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.60%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.80%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.80%) Appium
6 1 (0.80%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.80%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.80%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.80%) webpack
6 1 (0.80%) Xcode
General
1 40 (32.00%) Finance
2 37 (29.60%) Social Skills
3 17 (13.60%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (13.60%) Public Sector
4 12 (9.60%) Telecoms
5 11 (8.80%) Manufacturing
5 11 (8.80%) Marketing
6 7 (5.60%) Electronics
7 4 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.20%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.40%) Back Office
8 3 (2.40%) Military
8 3 (2.40%) Retail
9 2 (1.60%) Cyber-Physical System
9 2 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.60%) Legal
9 2 (1.60%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.80%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.80%) Games
10 1 (0.80%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 27 (21.60%) Developer
2 20 (16.00%) Lead
3 18 (14.40%) Senior
4 10 (8.00%) Product Owner
4 10 (8.00%) Project Manager
5 9 (7.20%) Principal Engineer
5 9 (7.20%) Software Developer
6 7 (5.60%) Analyst
7 6 (4.80%) Architect
7 6 (4.80%) Business Analyst
7 6 (4.80%) Senior Developer
7 6 (4.80%) Software Engineer
7 6 (4.80%) Systems Engineer
7 6 (4.80%) Technical Leader
8 5 (4.00%) Applications Developer
8 5 (4.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 5 (4.00%) Project Leader
8 5 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (4.00%) Technical Manager
8 5 (4.00%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.40%) .NET
2 11 (8.80%) React
3 8 (6.40%) .NET Framework
4 7 (5.60%) .NET Core
4 7 (5.60%) WPF
5 6 (4.80%) Spring
5 6 (4.80%) Spring Boot
6 5 (4.00%) HTML
6 5 (4.00%) REST
6 5 (4.00%) Universal Windows Platform
6 5 (4.00%) WinUI
7 4 (3.20%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.20%) CSS
8 3 (2.40%) Entity Framework
8 3 (2.40%) ModSecurity
8 3 (2.40%) Oracle ADF
8 3 (2.40%) RESTful
8 3 (2.40%) WebCenter
9 2 (1.60%) Redux
9 2 (1.60%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.00%) Product Ownership
2 13 (10.40%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.20%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.40%) Reinsurance
4 3 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.60%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.60%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.60%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.60%) PMI
5 2 (1.60%) Smart City
6 1 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.80%) IoT
6 1 (0.80%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.80%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.80%) Smart Home
6 1 (0.80%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.20%) Windows
2 5 (4.00%) Linux
3 4 (3.20%) Android
4 3 (2.40%) Unix
5 1 (0.80%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.80%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 24 (19.20%) Scrum
3 20 (16.00%) DevOps
3 20 (16.00%) Software Engineering
4 19 (15.20%) Business Intelligence
5 18 (14.40%) AI
6 17 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (12.00%) CI/CD
8 14 (11.20%) Collaborative Culture
8 14 (11.20%) Full-Stack Development
8 14 (11.20%) Kanban
8 14 (11.20%) Machine Learning
9 13 (10.40%) Project Management
9 13 (10.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 12 (9.60%) Coaching
10 12 (9.60%) Project Delivery
10 12 (9.60%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (9.60%) Test Automation
10 12 (9.60%) Validation
11 11 (8.80%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 18 (14.40%) JavaScript
2 17 (13.60%) Python
3 14 (11.20%) C#
3 14 (11.20%) SQL
4 11 (8.80%) Java
5 7 (5.60%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.20%) C
6 4 (3.20%) C++
6 4 (3.20%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.40%) Bash
7 3 (2.40%) MATLAB
7 3 (2.40%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.60%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.60%) XAML
9 1 (0.80%) Bicep
9 1 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.80%) PHP
Qualifications
1 31 (24.80%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.20%) DV Cleared
4 11 (8.80%) Degree
5 8 (6.40%) ACCA
6 7 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.20%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.40%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.60%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.60%) CCNA
9 2 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.60%) CISM
9 2 (1.60%) CISSP
9 2 (1.60%) MAPM
10 1 (0.80%) APMG
10 1 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.80%) CAPM
10 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.40%) GAAP
1 8 (6.40%) IFRS
2 4 (3.20%) QA
3 2 (1.60%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.60%) Def Stans
3 2 (1.60%) GRC
3 2 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.60%) NIST
4 1 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.80%) P3O
4 1 (0.80%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.80%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (7.20%) Docker
2 3 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.80%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (11.20%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.80%) Terraform
3 3 (2.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (1.60%) Ansible
5 1 (0.80%) Grafana
5 1 (0.80%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (9.60%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.40%) SAP
3 5 (4.00%) Oracle
3 5 (4.00%) Syncfusion
3 5 (4.00%) Telerik
4 3 (2.40%) IFS
5 2 (1.60%) Cisco
5 2 (1.60%) Samsung
5 2 (1.60%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.60%) SnapLogic
6 1 (0.80%) Google
6 1 (0.80%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.80%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.80%) Sparx