Agile Jobs in the North West

Agile Software Development
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,012 2,374 3,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 19.59% 31.32% 34.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 24.09% 32.86% 36.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,402 1,018 1,806
10th Percentile £38,500 £37,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £75,772 £72,647 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,352 7,224 9,166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 81.31% 95.30% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 6,302 3,841 5,330
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,125 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,947
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 £80,000 £81,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the North West

Agile
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Agile in the North West.

Salary trend for Agile in the North West

Agile
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in the North West over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Agile in the North West

Agile
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Manchester -1 1,196 £60,000 +0.80% 248
Merseyside +2 268 £55,000 +22.22% 37
Lancashire +1 261 £57,965 +15.93% 43
Cheshire -2 233 £60,593 +10.17% 62
Cumbria -7 48 £60,000 +36.99% 17
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 57 (2.83%) ArcGIS
1 57 (2.83%) Confluence
1 57 (2.83%) GeoServer
2 25 (1.24%) Apache Spark
3 18 (0.89%) Apache
4 16 (0.80%) IIS
5 12 (0.60%) CMS
5 12 (0.60%) Tuxedo
6 11 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (0.50%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.45%) Apache Solr
9 8 (0.40%) WebLogic
10 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.099%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.099%) SAS
12 2 (0.099%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.099%) WordPress
13 1 (0.050%) Captiva
13 1 (0.050%) Jetty
Applications
1 43 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 18 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.25%) AutoCAD
3 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.25%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.20%) Maya
5 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.099%) MadCap Flare
6 2 (0.099%) RoboHelp
7 1 (0.050%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.050%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.050%) Final Cut Pro
7 1 (0.050%) InVision
7 1 (0.050%) Sketch
7 1 (0.050%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 48 (2.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.19%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.45%) SAP CX
4 9 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.20%) MIS ActiveH
7 3 (0.15%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.099%) SAP Hybris
8 2 (0.099%) Shopify
8 2 (0.099%) Unit4 Business World
9 1 (0.050%) BPCS
9 1 (0.050%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.050%) Magento
9 1 (0.050%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.050%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.050%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.050%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.050%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 655 (32.55%) Azure
2 457 (22.71%) AWS
3 150 (7.46%) GCP
4 145 (7.21%) Azure DevOps
5 116 (5.77%) Power Platform
6 75 (3.73%) IBM Cloud
7 69 (3.43%) SaaS
8 59 (2.93%) Amazon EKS
9 54 (2.68%) Amazon S3
9 54 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
10 53 (2.63%) GitHub
10 53 (2.63%) Serverless
11 49 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
12 44 (2.19%) OCI
13 40 (1.99%) Amazon Kinesis
14 36 (1.79%) Amazon ECR
14 36 (1.79%) Route 53
15 23 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
15 23 (1.14%) Power Automate
16 22 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.44%) Internet
1 29 (1.44%) WAN
2 27 (1.34%) Firewall
3 23 (1.14%) DNS
3 23 (1.14%) SAN
4 17 (0.84%) TCP/IP
5 16 (0.80%) LAN
6 14 (0.70%) SSL
7 13 (0.65%) Broadband
7 13 (0.65%) Network Security
8 12 (0.60%) DHCP
8 12 (0.60%) iSCSI
8 12 (0.60%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.55%) AMQP
9 11 (0.55%) Remote Desktop
10 10 (0.50%) Wireless
11 8 (0.40%) BGP
12 5 (0.25%) NAS
12 5 (0.25%) VPN
12 5 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (11.68%) SQL Server
2 162 (8.05%) PostgreSQL
3 124 (6.16%) NoSQL
4 81 (4.03%) MySQL
5 74 (3.68%) Power BI
6 71 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
7 70 (3.48%) MongoDB
8 65 (3.23%) BigQuery
9 61 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
10 57 (2.83%) GIS
10 57 (2.83%) QGIS
11 47 (2.34%) DynamoDB
12 44 (2.19%) Relational Database
13 43 (2.14%) Data Vault
14 39 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
15 38 (1.89%) Looker
16 37 (1.84%) DB2
17 30 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
18 28 (1.39%) Big Data
18 28 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 169 (8.40%) Git
1 169 (8.40%) JIRA
2 46 (2.29%) Jenkins
3 45 (2.24%) GitLab
4 34 (1.69%) Visual Studio
5 25 (1.24%) Postman
6 19 (0.94%) JUnit
7 17 (0.84%) Gatling
8 16 (0.80%) Cypress.io
9 15 (0.75%) Appium
9 15 (0.75%) Gradle
9 15 (0.75%) Selenium
9 15 (0.75%) TeamCity
10 11 (0.55%) IntelliJ
10 11 (0.55%) Mockito
10 11 (0.55%) NUnit
11 9 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
12 8 (0.40%) Jasmine
12 8 (0.40%) JMeter
12 8 (0.40%) SonarQube
General
1 431 (21.42%) Social Skills
2 352 (17.50%) Finance
3 197 (9.79%) Public Sector
4 161 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 150 (7.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 137 (6.81%) Retail
7 92 (4.57%) Legal
8 77 (3.83%) Marketing
9 66 (3.28%) Banking
10 39 (1.94%) Law
11 34 (1.69%) Aerospace
12 33 (1.64%) Advertising
13 32 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
14 26 (1.29%) Games
15 25 (1.24%) Manufacturing
16 22 (1.09%) Telecoms
17 21 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
18 19 (0.94%) Electronics
19 18 (0.89%) Billing
20 17 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 485 (24.11%) Developer
2 437 (21.72%) Senior
3 286 (14.21%) Lead
4 202 (10.04%) .NET Developer
5 196 (9.74%) Software Engineer
6 140 (6.96%) Project Manager
7 133 (6.61%) Analyst
8 127 (6.31%) Architect
9 102 (5.07%) Data Engineer
10 101 (5.02%) Senior Developer
11 78 (3.88%) Senior Software Engineer
12 77 (3.83%) C# Developer
13 71 (3.53%) DevOps Engineer
14 70 (3.48%) Technical Leader
15 64 (3.18%) Software Developer
16 61 (3.03%) Business Analyst
17 60 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
18 59 (2.93%) C# .NET Developer
19 53 (2.63%) Azure Engineer
20 49 (2.44%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 403 (20.03%) .NET
2 247 (12.28%) React
3 237 (11.78%) CSS
4 215 (10.69%) HTML
5 189 (9.39%) .NET Core
6 188 (9.34%) AngularJS
7 160 (7.95%) ASP.NET
8 143 (7.11%) REST
9 126 (6.26%) Node.js
10 101 (5.02%) ASP.NET MVC
11 98 (4.87%) Vue
12 95 (4.72%) Web Services
13 93 (4.62%) .NET Framework
14 92 (4.57%) RESTful
15 90 (4.47%) Entity Framework
16 80 (3.98%) HTML5
16 80 (3.98%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 76 (3.78%) Spring
18 73 (3.63%) ASP.NET Web API
19 64 (3.18%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 130 (6.46%) Product Ownership
2 89 (4.42%) Public Cloud
3 86 (4.27%) Data Structures
4 83 (4.13%) e-Learning
4 83 (4.13%) Greenfield Project
5 82 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 77 (3.83%) Blockchain
7 75 (3.73%) Management Information System
8 64 (3.18%) Cloud Native
9 55 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
10 50 (2.49%) Mobile App
11 46 (2.29%) Algorithms
12 42 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
13 40 (1.99%) Reinsurance
14 36 (1.79%) Blog
15 29 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
16 26 (1.29%) Media Streaming
17 21 (1.04%) PMI
18 19 (0.94%) Private Cloud
18 19 (0.94%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 160 (7.95%) Linux
2 92 (4.57%) Windows
3 81 (4.03%) Android
4 65 (3.23%) Apple iOS
5 25 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (0.94%) Ubuntu
7 15 (0.75%) Unix
8 11 (0.55%) CentOS
8 11 (0.55%) Debian
8 11 (0.55%) Windows 10
9 9 (0.45%) Windows Phone
10 5 (0.25%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
12 3 (0.15%) VME
12 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.099%) Windows Server
13 2 (0.099%) Windows Vista
14 1 (0.050%) HPUX
14 1 (0.050%) Solaris
14 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 539 (26.79%) Mentoring
2 516 (25.65%) DevOps
3 405 (20.13%) Coaching
4 372 (18.49%) Software Engineering
5 315 (15.66%) Scrum
6 282 (14.02%) Project Management
7 261 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
8 251 (12.48%) Full Stack Development
9 242 (12.03%) TDD
10 230 (11.43%) Roadmaps
11 223 (11.08%) Analytics
12 189 (9.39%) CI/CD
13 179 (8.90%) Actionable Insight
13 179 (8.90%) Microservices
14 173 (8.60%) MVC
15 170 (8.45%) SDLC
16 161 (8.00%) Kanban
17 157 (7.80%) Test Automation
18 142 (7.06%) Design Patterns
19 136 (6.76%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 449 (22.32%) JavaScript
2 423 (21.02%) C#
3 347 (17.25%) SQL
4 247 (12.28%) Python
5 242 (12.03%) Java
6 127 (6.31%) TypeScript
7 49 (2.44%) PHP
8 42 (2.09%) C
9 37 (1.84%) PowerShell
10 27 (1.34%) Scala
11 25 (1.24%) C++
11 25 (1.24%) COBOL
11 25 (1.24%) Go
11 25 (1.24%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 22 (1.09%) VB.NET
13 21 (1.04%) T-SQL
14 17 (0.84%) Ruby
15 14 (0.70%) Perl
16 13 (0.65%) Kotlin
17 11 (0.55%) Bash
Qualifications
1 228 (11.33%) Degree
2 200 (9.94%) Security Cleared
3 154 (7.65%) SC Cleared
4 69 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (2.34%) PMP
6 39 (1.94%) PMI Certification
7 31 (1.54%) DV Cleared
8 30 (1.49%) AWS Certification
9 22 (1.09%) Azure Certification
10 18 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 15 (0.75%) HND
12 14 (0.70%) DBS Check
12 14 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.65%) APMP
14 12 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
15 11 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 11 (0.55%) Master's Degree
16 10 (0.50%) CCNP
17 9 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
18 8 (0.40%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (4.92%) QA
2 69 (3.43%) Data Quality
3 42 (2.09%) GDPR
4 39 (1.94%) Accessibility
5 19 (0.94%) PMO
6 9 (0.45%) WCAG
7 5 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.25%) SLA
8 4 (0.20%) NIST
9 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.099%) EMIR
10 2 (0.099%) MiFID
11 1 (0.050%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.050%) GAMP
11 1 (0.050%) GxP
11 1 (0.050%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 118 (5.86%) Docker
2 33 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
4 12 (0.60%) Firmware
5 10 (0.50%) RACF
6 9 (0.45%) Terminal Services
7 5 (0.25%) SRDF
8 4 (0.20%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.099%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 166 (8.25%) Terraform
2 161 (8.00%) Kubernetes
3 54 (2.68%) Ansible
4 37 (1.84%) Prometheus
5 17 (0.84%) ZABBIX
6 12 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 12 (0.60%) Opsgenie
6 12 (0.60%) Puppet
6 12 (0.60%) VxRail
7 9 (0.45%) AirWatch
8 8 (0.40%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.30%) Grafana
9 6 (0.30%) Kibana
10 5 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.15%) Podman
12 2 (0.099%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.050%) CSIRT
13 1 (0.050%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.050%) Kiali
13 1 (0.050%) Packer
Vendors
1 291 (14.46%) Microsoft
2 109 (5.42%) Google
3 90 (4.47%) Red Hat
4 81 (4.03%) Oracle
5 80 (3.98%) IBM
6 57 (2.83%) ESRI
7 48 (2.39%) Databricks
7 48 (2.39%) Informatica
8 36 (1.79%) Dynatrace
9 32 (1.59%) Facebook
10 30 (1.49%) SAP
11 25 (1.24%) Micro Focus
12 23 (1.14%) VMware
13 22 (1.09%) Atlassian
13 22 (1.09%) ServiceNow
14 19 (0.94%) Salesforce
15 17 (0.84%) Cisco
15 17 (0.84%) Fortinet
16 12 (0.60%) Dell
16 12 (0.60%) Teradata