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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 19,681 30,099 53,723
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.86% 29.70% 34.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.21% 31.06% 35.79%
Number of salaries quoted 11,582 16,336 25,890
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 £100,064 £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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
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 £96,550
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 9 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 9 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 15,555 £62,500 -7.41% 3,367
UK excluding London 0 14,069 £57,965 -2.62% 2,313
Work from Home -1 8,594 £61,206 -5.84% 1,987
London -2 4,878 £80,000 - 1,216
North of England -1 3,483 £57,965 -2.62% 598
Scotland -1 3,079 £60,000 - 169
South East -2 2,871 £60,000 -4.00% 469
North West -1 1,984 £60,000 +4.35% 357
Midlands -4 1,806 £55,000 -1.79% 422
South West -2 1,641 £59,526 +3.52% 364
West Midlands -6 1,104 £57,500 +0.73% 275
Yorkshire -1 1,103 £57,965 -3.39% 172
East of England -5 738 £57,500 -4.17% 211
East Midlands -2 687 £52,500 -4.55% 145
North East +1 396 £52,806 -3.99% 73
Wales -4 326 £52,593 +0.18% 87
Northern Ireland -3 130 £60,000 +14.29% 38
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
1 735 (3.73%) Apache Spark
2 575 (2.92%) Apache
3 515 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
4 484 (2.46%) Confluence
5 384 (1.95%) SharePoint
6 344 (1.75%) SAS
7 339 (1.72%) ArcGIS
8 333 (1.69%) GeoServer
9 130 (0.66%) CMS
10 128 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
11 126 (0.64%) FileNet
12 63 (0.32%) IIS
13 60 (0.30%) OpenStack
14 47 (0.24%) WebLogic
14 47 (0.24%) 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
1 808 (4.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 292 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
3 207 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 141 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
5 102 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 77 (0.39%) AutoCAD
7 55 (0.28%) Simulink
8 44 (0.22%) Adobe XD
9 41 (0.21%) 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 (0.030%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 310 (1.58%) SAP ERP
2 250 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 76 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 63 (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 (0.091%) Shopify
13 16 (0.081%) Aladdin
13 16 (0.081%) Dynamics AX
13 16 (0.081%) SAP CX
14 15 (0.076%) Payment Gateway
14 15 (0.076%) Primavera
15 14 (0.071%) SAP GTS
16 12 (0.061%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 5,395 (27.41%) Azure
2 4,960 (25.20%) AWS
3 1,527 (7.76%) GCP
4 1,124 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
5 1,025 (5.21%) Power Platform
6 746 (3.79%) SaaS
7 620 (3.15%) Serverless
8 504 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
9 464 (2.36%) GitHub
10 458 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
11 337 (1.71%) PowerApps
12 319 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
13 315 (1.60%) Power Automate
14 312 (1.59%) Amazon S3
15 306 (1.55%) Amazon EKS
16 295 (1.50%) Snowflake
17 291 (1.48%) dbt
18 251 (1.28%) PaaS
19 214 (1.09%) Amazon ECS
20 205 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 824 (4.19%) Broadband
2 321 (1.63%) Firewall
3 284 (1.44%) DNS
4 248 (1.26%) Internet
5 226 (1.15%) TCP/IP
6 163 (0.83%) WAN
7 150 (0.76%) Network Security
8 143 (0.73%) VPN
9 137 (0.70%) DHCP
10 133 (0.68%) LAN
11 130 (0.66%) Wireless
12 126 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
13 84 (0.43%) Kerberos
14 82 (0.42%) HTTP
14 82 (0.42%) Intranet
15 73 (0.37%) SSL
16 67 (0.34%) BGP
17 50 (0.25%) Bluetooth
18 46 (0.23%) SD-WAN
19 45 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,784 (9.06%) SQL Server
2 1,274 (6.47%) NoSQL
3 890 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
4 723 (3.67%) Big Data
5 661 (3.36%) Power BI
6 651 (3.31%) MongoDB
7 512 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
8 510 (2.59%) Relational Database
9 498 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
10 476 (2.42%) Data Lake
11 452 (2.30%) MySQL
12 382 (1.94%) BigQuery
13 354 (1.80%) GIS
14 343 (1.74%) Apache Ignite
15 333 (1.69%) Hadoop
16 330 (1.68%) QGIS
17 297 (1.51%) Looker
18 274 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
19 240 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
20 236 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1,618 (8.22%) Git
2 1,329 (6.75%) JIRA
3 923 (4.69%) Jenkins
4 383 (1.95%) Selenium
5 358 (1.82%) GitLab
6 355 (1.80%) JUnit
7 323 (1.64%) Visual Studio
8 300 (1.52%) Cypress.io
9 191 (0.97%) Bitbucket
10 176 (0.89%) Cucumber
11 147 (0.75%) Jasmine
12 141 (0.72%) Maven
13 128 (0.65%) TeamCity
14 127 (0.65%) WebDriver
15 116 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
16 114 (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 6,872 (34.92%) Finance
2 5,262 (26.74%) Social Skills
3 3,641 (18.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2,781 (14.13%) Law
5 2,287 (11.62%) Analytical Skills
6 1,900 (9.65%) Marketing
7 1,634 (8.30%) Banking
8 1,311 (6.66%) Legal
9 1,016 (5.16%) Public Sector
10 903 (4.59%) Influencing Skills
11 810 (4.12%) Retail
12 696 (3.54%) Front Office
13 693 (3.52%) Investment Banking
14 544 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
15 419 (2.13%) Aerospace
16 325 (1.65%) Financial Institution
17 262 (1.33%) Games
18 261 (1.33%) Manufacturing
19 235 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
20 224 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4,401 (22.36%) Developer
2 3,732 (18.96%) Software Engineer
3 3,620 (18.39%) Senior
4 2,608 (13.25%) Lead
5 1,716 (8.72%) Analyst
6 1,589 (8.07%) Architect
7 1,420 (7.22%) .NET Developer
8 1,300 (6.61%) Project Manager
9 1,020 (5.18%) Java Engineer
10 951 (4.83%) Java Software Engineer
11 898 (4.56%) Senior Software Engineer
12 896 (4.55%) Senior Developer
13 852 (4.33%) Solutions Architect
14 824 (4.19%) Lead Software Engineer
15 690 (3.51%) Data Engineer
16 637 (3.24%) Business Analyst
17 605 (3.07%) Python Engineer
18 602 (3.06%) Software Developer
19 599 (3.04%) C# Developer
20 557 (2.83%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,355 (17.05%) .NET
2 2,618 (13.30%) React
3 1,935 (9.83%) AngularJS
4 1,738 (8.83%) HTML
5 1,723 (8.75%) CSS
6 1,540 (7.82%) .NET Core
7 1,388 (7.05%) ASP.NET
8 1,155 (5.87%) Spring
9 982 (4.99%) Node.js
10 925 (4.70%) RESTful
11 924 (4.69%) REST
12 885 (4.50%) .NET Framework
13 840 (4.27%) Vue
14 831 (4.22%) ASP.NET MVC
15 828 (4.21%) ASP.NET Web API
16 745 (3.79%) Entity Framework
17 730 (3.71%) Spring Boot
18 701 (3.56%) Kafka
19 689 (3.50%) Web Services
20 666 (3.38%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 1,458 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 1,227 (6.23%) Cloud Native
3 1,151 (5.85%) Algorithms
4 642 (3.26%) Public Cloud
5 638 (3.24%) Management Information System
6 573 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
7 552 (2.80%) Fixed Income
8 519 (2.64%) Hedge funds
9 513 (2.61%) Data Structures
10 495 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
11 432 (2.20%) Derivative
12 424 (2.15%) Equities
13 400 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 395 (2.01%) Onboarding
15 334 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
16 303 (1.54%) Mobile App
17 237 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
18 231 (1.17%) Blockchain
19 222 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
20 204 (1.04%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,319 (6.70%) Linux
2 834 (4.24%) Windows
3 379 (1.93%) Android
4 309 (1.57%) Unix
5 298 (1.51%) Apple iOS
6 169 (0.86%) Windows Server
7 159 (0.81%) Ubuntu
8 127 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 63 (0.32%) Windows 10
10 58 (0.29%) CentOS
11 50 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
11 50 (0.25%) VMS
12 38 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
13 34 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
14 33 (0.17%) Debian
15 27 (0.14%) Mac OS
16 14 (0.071%) Solaris
17 11 (0.056%) zOS
18 10 (0.051%) Windows 7
19 9 (0.046%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,427 (27.57%) Software Engineering
2 3,928 (19.96%) DevOps
3 3,814 (19.38%) CI/CD
4 3,466 (17.61%) SDLC
5 3,220 (16.36%) Mentoring
6 3,211 (16.32%) Scrum
7 3,112 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
8 2,510 (12.75%) Project Management
9 2,486 (12.63%) Full Stack Development
10 2,347 (11.93%) Artificial Intelligence
11 2,267 (11.52%) Microservices
12 2,209 (11.22%) Roadmaps
13 2,201 (11.18%) Continuous Improvement
14 1,969 (10.00%) Coaching
15 1,954 (9.93%) Machine Learning
16 1,927 (9.79%) Actionable Insight
17 1,879 (9.55%) Decision-Making
18 1,817 (9.23%) Operational Stability
19 1,794 (9.12%) TDD
20 1,570 (7.98%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3,901 (19.82%) JavaScript
2 3,807 (19.34%) SQL
3 3,611 (18.35%) Java
4 3,547 (18.02%) C#
5 3,407 (17.31%) Python
6 1,809 (9.19%) TypeScript
7 447 (2.27%) Scala
8 398 (2.02%) PHP
9 371 (1.89%) C
10 363 (1.84%) C++
11 355 (1.80%) PowerShell
12 338 (1.72%) Go
13 276 (1.40%) T-SQL
14 271 (1.38%) Kotlin
15 202 (1.03%) PL/SQL
16 191 (0.97%) Bash
17 141 (0.72%) Ruby
18 135 (0.69%) R
19 106 (0.54%) MATLAB
20 101 (0.51%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2,706 (13.75%) Degree
2 2,353 (11.96%) Security Cleared
3 1,555 (7.90%) SC Cleared
4 654 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 542 (2.75%) DV Cleared
6 478 (2.43%) ACCA
7 472 (2.40%) CIMA
8 321 (1.63%) Master's Degree
9 276 (1.40%) PMI Certification
10 236 (1.20%) AWS Certification
11 227 (1.15%) PMP
12 204 (1.04%) Azure Certification
13 159 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
14 152 (0.77%) DBS Check
15 145 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
16 118 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 115 (0.58%) HNC
18 111 (0.56%) HND
19 98 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
20 90 (0.46%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1,115 (5.67%) QA
2 415 (2.11%) Data Quality
3 390 (1.98%) Accessibility
4 328 (1.67%) GDPR
5 260 (1.32%) PMO
6 138 (0.70%) SLA
7 103 (0.52%) WCAG
8 93 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 78 (0.40%) NIST
10 50 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
11 44 (0.22%) ISO 9001
12 29 (0.15%) MISRA
12 29 (0.15%) PCI DSS
13 27 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
14 26 (0.13%) NCSC
14 26 (0.13%) NIST 800
15 23 (0.12%) GRC
16 20 (0.10%) Automotive SPICE
16 20 (0.10%) AUTOSAR
16 20 (0.10%) IFRS
System Software
1 1,333 (6.77%) Docker
2 386 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 181 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 118 (0.60%) HDFS
5 87 (0.44%) Hyper-V
6 85 (0.43%) Firmware
7 68 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
8 63 (0.32%) vSphere
9 60 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
10 54 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
11 26 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
12 22 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
13 20 (0.10%) 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 1,610 (8.18%) Kubernetes
2 1,207 (6.13%) Terraform
3 528 (2.68%) Ansible
4 267 (1.36%) Grafana
5 202 (1.03%) Prometheus
6 132 (0.67%) Puppet
7 97 (0.49%) Progress Chef
8 71 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
8 71 (0.36%) SCCM
9 60 (0.30%) 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
17 25 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
18 21 (0.11%) Zipkin
19 18 (0.091%) Packer
Vendors
1 3,467 (17.62%) Microsoft
2 1,200 (6.10%) Oracle
3 952 (4.84%) Google
4 640 (3.25%) SAP
5 454 (2.31%) Databricks
6 338 (1.72%) ESRI
7 303 (1.54%) IBM
8 300 (1.52%) Anaplan
8 300 (1.52%) Hyperion
9 297 (1.51%) Salesforce
10 260 (1.32%) Red Hat
11 242 (1.23%) Splunk
12 236 (1.20%) Dynatrace
13 230 (1.17%) ServiceNow
14 212 (1.08%) VMware
15 157 (0.80%) Informatica
16 151 (0.77%) Atlassian
17 127 (0.65%) Cisco
18 115 (0.58%) Adobe
19 107 (0.54%) Facebook