Salary Report

Information Technology Job

Director
of Agile
Software Development

United States Location

Denver - Boulder - Greeley
CO
USA Metropolitan Area

Competitive Position® Salary Report

Data Observed 9/1/23 to 8/30/24

Salary Average

$132,556

Experience Requirement

7 Years and 9 Months

Raise +1 Year

$7,001 at 5.28%

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Salary and Number of Jobs

Graph of succeeding salary information

About Salary and Jobs

Salary Range :

At required Experience of 7 Years & 9 Months: $132,556 is Salary average; 50% of Jobs pay between $115,584 & $149,527; and, 5% of Jobs top $174,123.

Number of Jobs :

Most Jobs are available closest to the Salary Average.

Fewer Jobs are available at Lower and Higher Salaries.

Salary End Points :

$26,400 = annual salary at $15 per hour working between: 44 weeks at 40 hours a week, to, 52 weeks at 34 hours a week.

$353,226 = annual salary for the highest paying IT Job in the highest paying US City at the Top 2.5% Experience and Top 2.5% Salary.

Job Market :

Job offers, publicly posted in want ads by employers, were observed and measured from 9/1/23 to 8/30/24.

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Top Salaries

Top Percentile of Job market Top Salary
2.5% $182,196
5% $174,123
10% $164,876
25% $149,527
33% $143,272
50% $132,556
Top Percentile of Job Market =

Number of Jobs Above the Top Salary
÷
Number of all Jobs at 7 Years and 9 Months Experience.

Salary Range and Jobs

Percentage of Jobs within Salary Lows and Highs
Percent of Job Market Salary Range
Low Salary High Salary
10% $129,396 $135,715
25% $124,543 $140,568
33% $121,839 $143,272
50% $115,584 $149,527
67% $108,022 $157,089
95% $82,915 $182,196
Salary Average =

$132,556

Mid Point between each Low/High pair.

Percent of Job Market =

Number of Jobs with Salary between Low/High pair
÷
Number of all Jobs at 7 Years and 9 Months Experience.

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Salary and Experience

Graph of succeeding salary information

Salary ±1 Year

Experience Salary Average Raise +1 Year
6 Years and 9 Months $125,540 $7,015 at 5.59%
7 Years and 9 Months $132,556 $7,001 at 5.28%
8 Years and 9 Months $139,557 $6,992 at 5.01%

About Salary and Experience

Salary by Year :

Salary increases steadily in the first years, rises stably with greater experience and grows consistently into maturity.

Salary Growth Overall :

The increase in Salary average from low to high experience is equal to that in the USA IT job market as a whole.

Salary and Experience Range :

Salary average rises with experience: $90,958 at the low experience of 1 Year and 11 Months; $132,556 at the average experience of 7 Years and 9 Months; and, $172,717 at the top experience of 13 Years and 6 Months.

Experience End Points :

0 = Entry Level.

14 Years and 7 Months = Top 2.5% Experience in the IT Job with the highest required experience in the USA.

Job Market :

Job offers, publicly posted in want ads by employers, were observed and measured from 9/1/23 to 8/30/24.

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Salary and Experience Range

95% of Jobs require Experience between the Low and Top
Experience Salary Average Raise +1 Year
Low 1 Year and 11 Months $90,958 $7,364 at 8.10%
Average 7 Years and 9 Months $132,556 $7,001 at 5.28%
Top 13 Years and 6 Months $172,717 $6,970 at 4.04%

Qualifications

Description

Directing software development, cost efficient staff leadership optimizing Agile methodology from end-user need discovery to model, code, test and deploy, is the position's primary responsibility.

Skills

The qualifications of this information technology Job:
  • Director of Software (SW) Development,
    Agile, Application (App), Back End, Big Data, Business Intelligence (BI), Cloud, Customer Resource Management (CRM), Database, Data Management, Data Warehouse, .Net, Embedded, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Front End, Full Stack, Human Resource Information System (HRIS), Human Resource Management System (HRMS), Machine Learning, Mobile, Portal, Software (SW), Supply Chain Management (SCM), User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX) or Web,
    and
    Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Director of Information Technology (IT) or Information Technology (IT) Vice President;
  • Agile software methodology.

Characteristics

A+ Skills
Additional IT skills requested in some job descriptions:
Project Lead,
Development Manager, Lead Developer, Project Lead, Project Manager, Project Supervisor, Team Lead, Team Supervisor or Technical Lead,
16.5% of job descriptions;
Master of Arts/Science or Ph.D. Graduate Degree,
37.6% of job descriptions;
Bachelor of Arts/Science Degree,
78.9% of job descriptions;
Financial Sector,
Asset Management, Banking, Brokerage, Commodity Trading, Derivative Trading, Equity Trading, Finance, Insurance, Investment, Securities Trading, Stock Market or Wall Street,
50.4% of job descriptions;
Git,
15.8% of job descriptions;
Java,
32.3% of job descriptions;
Python,
24.8% of job descriptions;
AngularJS,
14.3% of job descriptions;
NoSQL,
15% of job descriptions;
Scrum software methodology,
22.6% of job descriptions;
Microsoft Azure,
7.5% of job descriptions;
AWS (Amazon Web Services),
15.8% of job descriptions.

Location

Denver, CO

Colorado,
Adams, Arapahoe, Arvada, Aurora, Boulder, Brighton, Broadway Estates, Broomfield, Castle Rock, Cherry Hills Village, Cherry Knolls, Commerce City, Denver, Douglas, Dupont, Edgewater, Englewood, Evergreen, Federal Heights, Fort Lupton, Golden, Greeley, Greenwood Village, Highlands Ranch, Jefferson, Lafayetville, Lakewood, Littleton, Loisville, Longmont, Northglen, Parker, Sheridan, Sherrelwood, Thornton, Weld, Westminster, Wheat Ridge and Windsor.

These locations are all included in the Denver, CO metropolitan area as defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB).