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

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 19,646 29,816 55,029
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.84% 29.71% 34.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.19% 31.08% 35.96%
Number of salaries quoted 11,577 16,219 26,149
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 84,701 95,929 153,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.52% 95.60% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 59,701 56,502 82,944
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 14 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 14 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% 3,526
UK excluding London 0 14,026 £57,965 -2.62% 2,442
Work from Home -1 8,572 £61,206 -5.84% 2,115
London -2 4,888 £80,000 - 1,266
North of England -1 3,493 £57,965 -1.35% 663
Scotland -1 3,074 £59,763 -0.40% 175
South East -2 2,857 £60,000 -4.00% 531
North West -1 1,993 £60,000 +4.35% 400
Midlands -4 1,796 £55,000 - 428
South West -2 1,622 £59,526 +3.52% 354
Yorkshire -1 1,105 £57,965 -3.39% 183
West Midlands -6 1,099 £57,500 +2.68% 276
East of England -5 737 £57,500 -2.54% 211
East Midlands -2 682 £52,500 -4.55% 149
North East +1 395 £53,903 -1.99% 84
Wales -4 323 £52,686 -4.00% 92
Northern Ireland -4 128 £60,000 +14.29% 35
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
2 600 (3.05%) Apache
3 539 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
4 484 (2.46%) Confluence
5 380 (1.93%) 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 63 (0.32%) IIS
12 59 (0.30%) OpenStack
13 47 (0.24%) WebLogic
14 46 (0.23%) WordPress
15 42 (0.21%) WebSphere
16 38 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
16 38 (0.19%) Tuxedo
17 32 (0.16%) nginx
18 30 (0.15%) Captiva
Applications
1 809 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 298 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
3 214 (1.09%) 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 40 (0.20%) Adobe XD
9 36 (0.18%) Sketch
9 36 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
10 35 (0.18%) UserZoom
11 28 (0.14%) Photoshop
12 22 (0.11%) Stateflow
12 22 (0.11%) Trello
13 20 (0.10%) Revit
14 15 (0.076%) InVision
15 8 (0.041%) Adobe Illustrator
16 7 (0.036%) CANalyzer
16 7 (0.036%) SPSS
17 6 (0.031%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 309 (1.57%) SAP ERP
2 252 (1.28%) 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 5,373 (27.35%) Azure
2 4,966 (25.28%) AWS
3 1,539 (7.83%) GCP
4 1,098 (5.59%) Azure DevOps
5 1,013 (5.16%) Power Platform
6 741 (3.77%) SaaS
7 619 (3.15%) Serverless
8 500 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
9 466 (2.37%) GitHub
10 455 (2.32%) Dynamics 365
11 333 (1.70%) PowerApps
12 320 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
13 317 (1.61%) Power Automate
14 313 (1.59%) Amazon S3
15 308 (1.57%) dbt
16 306 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
16 306 (1.56%) Snowflake
17 249 (1.27%) PaaS
18 214 (1.09%) Amazon ECS
19 209 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 824 (4.19%) Broadband
2 328 (1.67%) Firewall
3 273 (1.39%) DNS
4 247 (1.26%) Internet
5 216 (1.10%) TCP/IP
6 165 (0.84%) WAN
7 152 (0.77%) Network Security
8 141 (0.72%) VPN
9 136 (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 68 (0.35%) BGP
18 50 (0.25%) Bluetooth
19 48 (0.24%) SD-WAN
20 45 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,781 (9.07%) SQL Server
2 1,283 (6.53%) NoSQL
3 902 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
4 722 (3.68%) Big Data
5 652 (3.32%) MongoDB
6 651 (3.31%) Power BI
7 511 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
8 508 (2.59%) Relational Database
9 492 (2.50%) Data Lake
10 483 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
11 452 (2.30%) MySQL
12 382 (1.94%) BigQuery
13 367 (1.87%) Apache Ignite
14 354 (1.80%) GIS
15 332 (1.69%) Hadoop
16 330 (1.68%) QGIS
17 297 (1.51%) Looker
18 274 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
19 258 (1.31%) Amazon Athena
20 250 (1.27%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 1,619 (8.24%) Git
2 1,320 (6.72%) JIRA
3 908 (4.62%) Jenkins
4 381 (1.94%) Selenium
5 353 (1.80%) JUnit
6 347 (1.77%) GitLab
7 325 (1.65%) Visual Studio
8 304 (1.55%) Cypress.io
9 192 (0.98%) Bitbucket
10 174 (0.89%) Cucumber
11 148 (0.75%) Jasmine
12 143 (0.73%) Maven
13 126 (0.64%) WebDriver
14 125 (0.64%) TeamCity
15 118 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
16 113 (0.58%) Postman
17 101 (0.51%) Artifactory
17 101 (0.51%) JMeter
18 96 (0.49%) NUnit
19 94 (0.48%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 6,867 (34.95%) Finance
2 5,251 (26.73%) Social Skills
3 3,632 (18.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2,777 (14.14%) Law
5 2,287 (11.64%) Analytical Skills
6 1,910 (9.72%) Marketing
7 1,655 (8.42%) Banking
8 1,307 (6.65%) Legal
9 1,019 (5.19%) Public Sector
10 900 (4.58%) Influencing Skills
11 827 (4.21%) Retail
12 717 (3.65%) Front Office
13 706 (3.59%) Investment Banking
14 546 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
15 426 (2.17%) Aerospace
16 324 (1.65%) Financial Institution
17 261 (1.33%) Games
17 261 (1.33%) Manufacturing
18 234 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
19 222 (1.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4,413 (22.46%) Developer
2 3,751 (19.09%) Software Engineer
3 3,598 (18.31%) Senior
4 2,616 (13.32%) Lead
5 1,702 (8.66%) Analyst
6 1,569 (7.99%) Architect
7 1,418 (7.22%) .NET Developer
8 1,285 (6.54%) Project Manager
9 1,024 (5.21%) Java Engineer
10 954 (4.86%) Java Software Engineer
11 898 (4.57%) Senior Software Engineer
12 896 (4.56%) Senior Developer
13 835 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
14 828 (4.21%) Lead Software Engineer
15 690 (3.51%) Data Engineer
16 630 (3.21%) Business Analyst
17 616 (3.14%) Python Engineer
18 605 (3.08%) Software Developer
19 600 (3.05%) C# Developer
20 558 (2.84%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,350 (17.05%) .NET
2 2,627 (13.37%) React
3 1,935 (9.85%) AngularJS
4 1,717 (8.74%) CSS
4 1,717 (8.74%) HTML
5 1,536 (7.82%) .NET Core
6 1,382 (7.03%) ASP.NET
7 1,159 (5.90%) Spring
8 983 (5.00%) Node.js
9 926 (4.71%) REST
10 922 (4.69%) RESTful
11 877 (4.46%) .NET Framework
12 845 (4.30%) Vue
13 828 (4.21%) ASP.NET Web API
14 826 (4.20%) ASP.NET MVC
15 745 (3.79%) Entity Framework
16 731 (3.72%) Spring Boot
17 698 (3.55%) Kafka
18 688 (3.50%) Web Services
19 662 (3.37%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 1,461 (7.44%) Product Ownership
2 1,201 (6.11%) Cloud Native
3 1,154 (5.87%) Algorithms
4 637 (3.24%) Management Information System
5 629 (3.20%) Public Cloud
6 574 (2.92%) Fixed Income
6 574 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
7 540 (2.75%) Hedge funds
8 510 (2.60%) Data Structures
9 492 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
10 449 (2.29%) Derivative
11 446 (2.27%) Equities
12 418 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 393 (2.00%) Onboarding
14 337 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
15 303 (1.54%) Mobile App
16 236 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
17 230 (1.17%) Blockchain
18 210 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
19 205 (1.04%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,310 (6.67%) Linux
2 821 (4.18%) Windows
3 377 (1.92%) Android
4 309 (1.57%) Unix
5 295 (1.50%) Apple iOS
6 170 (0.87%) Windows Server
7 160 (0.81%) Ubuntu
8 125 (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 15 (0.076%) Solaris
18 11 (0.056%) zOS
19 10 (0.051%) Windows 7
19 10 (0.051%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,441 (27.70%) Software Engineering
2 3,919 (19.95%) DevOps
3 3,791 (19.30%) CI/CD
4 3,434 (17.48%) SDLC
5 3,225 (16.42%) Mentoring
6 3,181 (16.19%) Scrum
7 3,111 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
8 2,493 (12.69%) Project Management
9 2,492 (12.68%) Full Stack Development
10 2,363 (12.03%) Artificial Intelligence
11 2,258 (11.49%) Microservices
12 2,204 (11.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 2,197 (11.18%) Roadmaps
14 1,972 (10.04%) Coaching
15 1,957 (9.96%) Machine Learning
16 1,877 (9.55%) Decision-Making
17 1,872 (9.53%) Actionable Insight
18 1,817 (9.25%) Operational Stability
19 1,791 (9.12%) TDD
20 1,560 (7.94%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3,913 (19.92%) JavaScript
2 3,796 (19.32%) SQL
3 3,641 (18.53%) Java
4 3,538 (18.01%) C#
5 3,423 (17.42%) Python
6 1,830 (9.31%) TypeScript
7 451 (2.30%) Scala
8 401 (2.04%) PHP
9 373 (1.90%) C
10 366 (1.86%) C++
11 340 (1.73%) PowerShell
12 338 (1.72%) Go
13 273 (1.39%) T-SQL
14 272 (1.38%) Kotlin
15 201 (1.02%) PL/SQL
16 179 (0.91%) Bash
17 138 (0.70%) Ruby
18 131 (0.67%) R
19 107 (0.54%) MATLAB
20 101 (0.51%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2,717 (13.83%) Degree
2 2,333 (11.88%) Security Cleared
3 1,556 (7.92%) SC Cleared
4 662 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 524 (2.67%) DV Cleared
6 479 (2.44%) ACCA
7 472 (2.40%) CIMA
8 321 (1.63%) Master's Degree
9 275 (1.40%) PMI Certification
10 227 (1.16%) PMP
11 224 (1.14%) AWS Certification
12 207 (1.05%) Azure Certification
13 155 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
14 152 (0.77%) DBS Check
15 147 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
16 115 (0.59%) HNC
17 111 (0.57%) HND
18 106 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 99 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
20 90 (0.46%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1,113 (5.67%) QA
2 423 (2.15%) Data Quality
3 379 (1.93%) Accessibility
4 325 (1.65%) GDPR
5 260 (1.32%) PMO
6 139 (0.71%) SLA
7 100 (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 (6.71%) 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%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,608 (8.18%) Kubernetes
2 1,192 (6.07%) Terraform
3 528 (2.69%) Ansible
4 256 (1.30%) Grafana
5 191 (0.97%) Prometheus
6 133 (0.68%) Puppet
7 97 (0.49%) Progress Chef
8 71 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
9 70 (0.36%) SCCM
10 61 (0.31%) Kibana
11 39 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 37 (0.19%) WSUS
13 34 (0.17%) SCOM
14 32 (0.16%) HAProxy
15 30 (0.15%) ZABBIX
16 29 (0.15%) vCenter Server
17 27 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
18 26 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
19 21 (0.11%) Zipkin
20 18 (0.092%) Packer
Vendors
1 3,464 (17.63%) Microsoft
2 1,197 (6.09%) Oracle
3 952 (4.85%) Google
4 640 (3.26%) SAP
5 453 (2.31%) Databricks
6 338 (1.72%) ESRI
7 303 (1.54%) IBM
8 301 (1.53%) Salesforce
9 300 (1.53%) Anaplan
9 300 (1.53%) Hyperion
10 260 (1.32%) Red Hat
11 240 (1.22%) Splunk
12 236 (1.20%) Dynatrace
13 226 (1.15%) ServiceNow
14 213 (1.08%) VMware
15 157 (0.80%) Informatica
16 152 (0.77%) Atlassian
17 129 (0.66%) Cisco
18 112 (0.57%) Adobe
19 107 (0.54%) Facebook