Salary Report

Information Technology Job

Director
of Agile
Software Development

United States Location

Seattle - Tacoma - Bremerton
WA
USA Metropolitan Area

Competitive Position® Salary Report

Data Observed 1/2/25 to 12/31/25

Salary Average

$274,489

Experience Requirement

14 Years and 7 Months

Raise +1 Year

$3,115 at 1.13%

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Salary and Number of Jobs

Graph of succeeding salary information

About Salary and Jobs

Salary Range :

At required Experience of 14 Years & 7 Months: $274,489 is Salary average; 50% of Jobs pay between $247,458 & $301,520; and, 5% of Jobs top $340,545.

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.

$451,447 = 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 1/2/25 to 12/31/25.

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Top Salaries

Top Percentile of Job market Top Salary
2.5% $353,282
5% $340,545
10% $325,904
25% $301,520
33% $291,563
50% $274,489
Top Percentile of Job Market =

Number of Jobs Above the Top Salary
÷
Number of all Jobs at 14 Years and 7 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% $269,455 $279,523
25% $261,724 $287,254
33% $257,415 $291,563
50% $247,458 $301,520
67% $235,433 $313,545
95% $195,696 $353,282
Salary Average =

$274,489

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 14 Years and 7 Months Experience.

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Salary and Experience

Graph of succeeding salary information

Salary ±1 Year

Experience Salary Average Raise +1 Year
13 Years and 7 Months $271,165 $3,324 at 1.23%
14 Years and 7 Months $274,489 $3,115 at 1.13%

About Salary and Experience

Salary by Year :

Salary increases rapidly in the first years, rises moderately with greater experience and approaches a ceiling with 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: $232,984 at the low experience of 5 Years and 10 Months; $257,762 at the average experience of 10 Years and 2 Months; and, $274,489 at the top experience of 14 Years and 7 Months.

Experience End Points :

0 = Entry Level.

16 Years and 5 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 1/2/25 to 12/31/25.

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Salary and Experience Range

95% of Jobs require Experience between the Low and Top

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,
6.2% of job descriptions;
Master of Arts/Science or Ph.D. Graduate Degree,
30.7% of job descriptions;
Bachelor of Arts/Science Degree,
83.9% 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,
5.5% of job descriptions;
Git,
5.8% of job descriptions;
Java,
52.9% of job descriptions;
Python,
15% of job descriptions;
AngularJS,
44.5% of job descriptions;
NoSQL,
6.2% of job descriptions;
Scrum software methodology,
52.9% of job descriptions;
Microsoft Azure,
19.3% of job descriptions;
AWS (Amazon Web Services),
29.9% of job descriptions.

Location

Seattle, WA

Washington,
Auburn, Bainbridge Island, Bellevue, Bonney Lake, Bothell, Bremerton, Burien, Des Moines, Edmonds, Everett, Federal Way, Fircrest, Inglewood, Island County, Issaquah, Kenmore, Kent, King County, Kirkland, Kitsap County, Lacy, Lakewood, Langley, Lynnwood, Mercer Island, Mill Creek, Mountlake Terrace, Mukiteo, Newcastle, Normandy Park, Normandy Pk, Oak Harbor, Olympia, Parkland, Pierce County, Poulsbo, Puyallup, Redmond, Renton, Riverton Heights, Sea Tac, Seattle, Sheridan Beach, Shoreline, Skyway, Snohomish County, Sumner, Tacoma, Thurston County, Tukwila, Tumwater, University Place, White Center and Woodinville.

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