Agile Jobs in the UK excluding London

Agile Software Development
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 2 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 14,081 17,067 22,680
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.66% 28.86% 31.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.54% 30.19% 33.17%
Number of salaries quoted 7,775 8,256 13,062
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% +8.23% +9.99%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £85,000 £83,750
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,818 56,534 68,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.50% 95.59% 94.17%
Number of salaries quoted 41,261 29,197 41,375
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Agile in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
North of England -1 3,500 £57,965 -0.94% 722
Scotland -1 3,067 £58,800 -2.00% 197
South East -2 2,885 £60,000 -4.00% 731
North West -1 1,999 £60,000 +4.35% 422
Midlands -3 1,812 £55,000 - 479
South West -3 1,623 £58,000 +0.87% 365
Yorkshire -1 1,099 £57,965 -3.39% 213
West Midlands -6 1,097 £57,500 +2.68% 324
East of England -5 741 £57,500 -1.71% 206
East Midlands -2 699 £52,500 -4.55% 153
North East +1 402 £55,000 - 91
Wales -4 326 £52,593 -4.17% 96
Northern Ireland -4 130 £62,500 +19.05% 42
Isle of Man - 5 £54,000 - 1
Agile
UK

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 653 (4.64%) Apache Spark
2 322 (2.29%) Confluence
3 292 (2.07%) ArcGIS
4 287 (2.04%) GeoServer
5 239 (1.70%) SharePoint
6 186 (1.32%) Apache
7 139 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
8 115 (0.82%) FileNet
9 107 (0.76%) SAS
10 79 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
11 55 (0.39%) CMS
12 52 (0.37%) OpenStack
13 41 (0.29%) WebLogic
14 38 (0.27%) IIS
14 38 (0.27%) Tuxedo
15 32 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
16 30 (0.21%) WebSphere
16 30 (0.21%) WordPress
17 24 (0.17%) JBoss
18 21 (0.15%) GemFire
Applications
1 452 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 231 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
3 173 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 111 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
5 74 (0.53%) AutoCAD
6 73 (0.52%) MS Visio
7 56 (0.40%) Simulink
8 35 (0.25%) UserZoom
9 23 (0.16%) Sketch
10 22 (0.16%) Stateflow
11 21 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
12 20 (0.14%) Adobe XD
13 19 (0.13%) Revit
14 17 (0.12%) Trello
15 7 (0.050%) CANalyzer
16 4 (0.028%) InVision
16 4 (0.028%) Maya
17 3 (0.021%) MadCap Flare
17 3 (0.021%) S-PLUS
17 3 (0.021%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 166 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 80 (0.57%) SAP ERP
3 55 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 41 (0.29%) NetSuite
4 41 (0.29%) Siebel CRM
5 37 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
6 22 (0.16%) NEC Housing
6 22 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
6 22 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
7 19 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 12 (0.085%) Shopify
9 10 (0.071%) Magento
10 9 (0.064%) Dynamics AX
10 9 (0.064%) Payment Gateway
10 9 (0.064%) SAP CX
11 8 (0.057%) Dynamics GP
11 8 (0.057%) Primavera
12 7 (0.050%) SAP GTS
12 7 (0.050%) Teamcenter
13 6 (0.043%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 3,764 (26.73%) Azure
2 3,428 (24.34%) AWS
3 788 (5.60%) GCP
4 726 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
5 631 (4.48%) Power Platform
6 499 (3.54%) SaaS
7 368 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
8 318 (2.26%) Serverless
9 297 (2.11%) GitHub
10 258 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
11 244 (1.73%) Amazon EKS
12 216 (1.53%) Amazon S3
13 205 (1.46%) PowerApps
14 203 (1.44%) Power Automate
15 167 (1.19%) IBM Cloud
16 161 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
17 145 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
18 129 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
19 115 (0.82%) Amazon SQS
20 113 (0.80%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 351 (2.49%) Broadband
2 212 (1.51%) Firewall
3 170 (1.21%) Internet
4 168 (1.19%) DNS
5 140 (0.99%) TCP/IP
6 114 (0.81%) Wireless
7 93 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
8 87 (0.62%) Network Security
9 83 (0.59%) DHCP
9 83 (0.59%) Kerberos
10 76 (0.54%) WAN
11 63 (0.45%) Intranet
12 58 (0.41%) SSL
13 50 (0.36%) VPN
14 49 (0.35%) BGP
15 48 (0.34%) Bluetooth
15 48 (0.34%) LAN
16 36 (0.26%) SD-WAN
17 34 (0.24%) HTTP
17 34 (0.24%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,369 (9.72%) SQL Server
2 1,151 (8.17%) NoSQL
3 675 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
4 623 (4.42%) Big Data
5 497 (3.53%) MongoDB
6 429 (3.05%) Power BI
7 407 (2.89%) Elasticsearch
8 392 (2.78%) Relational Database
9 367 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
10 352 (2.50%) MySQL
11 345 (2.45%) BigQuery
12 302 (2.14%) GIS
13 284 (2.02%) QGIS
14 277 (1.97%) Hadoop
15 268 (1.90%) Looker
16 203 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
17 186 (1.32%) Data Lake
18 161 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
19 159 (1.13%) DB2
20 143 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1,204 (8.55%) Git
2 950 (6.75%) JIRA
3 686 (4.87%) Jenkins
4 296 (2.10%) Selenium
5 291 (2.07%) JUnit
6 257 (1.83%) Visual Studio
7 229 (1.63%) GitLab
8 208 (1.48%) Cypress.io
9 159 (1.13%) Bitbucket
10 141 (1.00%) Jasmine
11 121 (0.86%) Cucumber
12 105 (0.75%) Maven
13 94 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
14 91 (0.65%) Bitbucket Server
15 89 (0.63%) WebDriver
16 75 (0.53%) Karma Test Runner
16 75 (0.53%) TeamCity
17 72 (0.51%) JMeter
17 72 (0.51%) Postman
18 69 (0.49%) Artifactory
General
1 4,661 (33.10%) Finance
2 3,312 (23.52%) Social Skills
3 3,115 (22.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2,598 (18.45%) Law
5 1,602 (11.38%) Marketing
6 1,479 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
7 1,114 (7.91%) Legal
8 980 (6.96%) Banking
9 728 (5.17%) Public Sector
10 626 (4.45%) Retail
11 541 (3.84%) Influencing Skills
12 422 (3.00%) Aerospace
13 400 (2.84%) Investment Banking
14 337 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
15 273 (1.94%) Financial Institution
16 204 (1.45%) Manufacturing
17 189 (1.34%) Games
18 169 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
19 157 (1.11%) Telecoms
20 146 (1.04%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 3,131 (22.24%) Software Engineer
2 3,023 (21.47%) Developer
3 2,466 (17.51%) Senior
4 2,021 (14.35%) Lead
5 1,144 (8.12%) .NET Developer
6 1,038 (7.37%) Analyst
7 954 (6.78%) Project Manager
8 894 (6.35%) Java Engineer
9 857 (6.09%) Architect
10 851 (6.04%) Java Software Engineer
11 740 (5.26%) Lead Software Engineer
12 689 (4.89%) Senior Software Engineer
13 602 (4.28%) Senior Developer
14 568 (4.03%) Data Engineer
15 476 (3.38%) Full Stack Engineer
16 455 (3.23%) C# Developer
17 450 (3.20%) Software Developer
18 398 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
19 390 (2.77%) Big Data Engineer
19 390 (2.77%) Big Data Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,572 (18.27%) .NET
2 2,032 (14.43%) React
3 1,581 (11.23%) AngularJS
4 1,425 (10.12%) CSS
5 1,403 (9.96%) HTML
6 1,212 (8.61%) .NET Core
7 1,109 (7.88%) ASP.NET
8 994 (7.06%) Spring
9 745 (5.29%) Node.js
10 730 (5.18%) RESTful
11 721 (5.12%) ASP.NET Web API
12 700 (4.97%) ASP.NET MVC
13 698 (4.96%) REST
14 685 (4.86%) .NET Framework
15 659 (4.68%) Vue
16 627 (4.45%) Entity Framework
17 608 (4.32%) Spring Boot
18 578 (4.10%) HTML5
19 551 (3.91%) Kafka
20 547 (3.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1,082 (7.68%) Algorithms
2 1,054 (7.49%) Cloud Native
3 929 (6.60%) Product Ownership
4 531 (3.77%) Public Cloud
5 512 (3.64%) Management Information System
6 489 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
7 352 (2.50%) Data Structures
8 312 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
9 304 (2.16%) Onboarding
10 255 (1.81%) Mobile App
11 254 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
12 193 (1.37%) Blockchain
13 191 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
14 188 (1.34%) e-Learning
15 170 (1.21%) Private Cloud
16 148 (1.05%) IoT
17 139 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
18 121 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
19 116 (0.82%) Reference Data
20 111 (0.79%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1,047 (7.44%) Linux
2 618 (4.39%) Windows
3 315 (2.24%) Android
4 229 (1.63%) Unix
5 227 (1.61%) Apple iOS
6 135 (0.96%) Windows Server
7 110 (0.78%) Ubuntu
8 105 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 52 (0.37%) Windows 10
10 49 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
11 45 (0.32%) CentOS
12 34 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
12 34 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
13 30 (0.21%) Debian
14 14 (0.099%) Mac OS
14 14 (0.099%) Windows Server 2008
15 12 (0.085%) Solaris
16 11 (0.078%) Windows 7
17 9 (0.064%) FreeRTOS
17 9 (0.064%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,206 (29.87%) Software Engineering
2 3,072 (21.82%) CI/CD
3 3,050 (21.66%) SDLC
4 2,810 (19.96%) DevOps
5 2,426 (17.23%) Mentoring
6 2,199 (15.62%) Scrum
7 2,196 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
8 1,961 (13.93%) Artificial Intelligence
9 1,904 (13.52%) Full Stack Development
10 1,801 (12.79%) Operational Stability
11 1,788 (12.70%) Project Management
12 1,764 (12.53%) Microservices
13 1,729 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
14 1,646 (11.69%) Coaching
15 1,610 (11.43%) Machine Learning
16 1,382 (9.81%) Community of Practice
17 1,379 (9.79%) Actionable Insight
18 1,353 (9.61%) Roadmaps
19 1,281 (9.10%) TDD
20 1,233 (8.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2,910 (20.67%) JavaScript
2 2,882 (20.47%) SQL
3 2,735 (19.42%) Java
4 2,719 (19.31%) C#
5 2,170 (15.41%) Python
6 1,126 (8.00%) TypeScript
7 373 (2.65%) Scala
8 339 (2.41%) PHP
9 322 (2.29%) C
10 308 (2.19%) C++
11 253 (1.80%) PowerShell
12 208 (1.48%) Go
13 176 (1.25%) PL/SQL
14 173 (1.23%) T-SQL
15 139 (0.99%) Kotlin
16 118 (0.84%) Bash
17 102 (0.72%) MATLAB
18 86 (0.61%) COBOL
19 83 (0.59%) Groovy
19 83 (0.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,935 (13.74%) Degree
2 1,836 (13.04%) Security Cleared
3 1,220 (8.66%) SC Cleared
4 462 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 381 (2.71%) DV Cleared
6 238 (1.69%) ACCA
7 225 (1.60%) CIMA
8 204 (1.45%) Master's Degree
9 195 (1.38%) PMI Certification
10 159 (1.13%) PMP
11 137 (0.97%) Azure Certification
12 135 (0.96%) AWS Certification
13 104 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
14 102 (0.72%) HND
15 98 (0.70%) HNC
16 87 (0.62%) DBS Check
17 79 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
18 76 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 70 (0.50%) ISTQB
20 66 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 767 (5.45%) QA
2 280 (1.99%) Accessibility
3 261 (1.85%) GDPR
4 210 (1.49%) Data Quality
5 188 (1.34%) PMO
6 117 (0.83%) SLA
7 68 (0.48%) WCAG
8 61 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 47 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
10 39 (0.28%) NIST
11 34 (0.24%) ISO 9001
12 30 (0.21%) MISRA
13 19 (0.13%) Automotive SPICE
13 19 (0.13%) AUTOSAR
14 18 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
14 18 (0.13%) NIST 800
15 17 (0.12%) PCI DSS
16 15 (0.11%) ISO 26262
16 15 (0.11%) WAI
17 14 (0.099%) CRD IV
System Software
1 922 (6.55%) Docker
2 277 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 138 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 102 (0.72%) HDFS
5 77 (0.55%) Firmware
6 67 (0.48%) Hyper-V
7 47 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 43 (0.31%) vSphere
9 37 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
10 27 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
11 26 (0.18%) RACF
11 26 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 25 (0.18%) VMware NSX
13 21 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
14 12 (0.085%) Time Sharing Option
15 9 (0.064%) Terminal Services
16 8 (0.057%) Microsoft App-V
17 5 (0.036%) SRDF
18 2 (0.014%) Apache ZooKeeper
18 2 (0.014%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 1,202 (8.54%) Kubernetes
2 782 (5.55%) Terraform
3 368 (2.61%) Ansible
4 208 (1.48%) Grafana
5 143 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 82 (0.58%) Puppet
7 68 (0.48%) SCCM
8 65 (0.46%) Progress Chef
9 50 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
10 44 (0.31%) Kibana
11 35 (0.25%) SCOM
12 30 (0.21%) ZABBIX
13 29 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 26 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
15 21 (0.15%) HAProxy
15 21 (0.15%) WSUS
15 21 (0.15%) Zipkin
16 17 (0.12%) vCenter Server
17 16 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
18 13 (0.092%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2,366 (16.80%) Microsoft
2 802 (5.70%) Oracle
3 620 (4.40%) Google
4 350 (2.49%) Databricks
5 310 (2.20%) SAP
6 290 (2.06%) ESRI
7 264 (1.87%) IBM
8 234 (1.66%) Red Hat
9 217 (1.54%) Dynatrace
10 206 (1.46%) Splunk
11 176 (1.25%) Salesforce
12 166 (1.18%) VMware
13 152 (1.08%) ServiceNow
14 144 (1.02%) Informatica
15 127 (0.90%) Atlassian
16 100 (0.71%) Facebook
17 77 (0.55%) Micro Focus
18 76 (0.54%) Anaplan
19 75 (0.53%) Hyperion
20 72 (0.51%) Cisco