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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 1,964 2,551 3,228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 20.26% 32.04% 34.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 24.36% 33.46% 35.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,421 1,077 1,807
10th Percentile £38,500 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £75,772 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £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 8,062 7,624 8,971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.15% 95.74% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 6,132 3,949 5,362
10th Percentile £27,775 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,050 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
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 27 April 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 27 April 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 0 1,161 £60,000 - 236
Merseyside +1 252 £50,000 +6.38% 35
Cheshire -2 251 £60,000 -2.04% 60
Lancashire 0 246 £57,965 +15.93% 39
Cumbria -5 48 £60,000 +71.43% 7
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 (2.90%) ArcGIS
1 57 (2.90%) GeoServer
2 56 (2.85%) Confluence
3 28 (1.43%) Apache Spark
4 19 (0.97%) Apache
5 16 (0.81%) IIS
6 13 (0.66%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (0.61%) Tuxedo
8 9 (0.46%) CMS
9 8 (0.41%) WebLogic
10 7 (0.36%) Apache Solr
11 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.25%) JBoss
12 5 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
13 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 4 (0.20%) Captiva
13 4 (0.20%) FileNet
13 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 22 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 18 (0.92%) 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 1 (0.051%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.051%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.051%) Final Cut Pro
6 1 (0.051%) InVision
6 1 (0.051%) Sketch
6 1 (0.051%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 50 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.22%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.46%) SAP CX
4 9 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.20%) MIS ActiveH
7 3 (0.15%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.10%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.10%) Shopify
8 2 (0.10%) Unit4 Business World
9 1 (0.051%) BPCS
9 1 (0.051%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.051%) Magento
9 1 (0.051%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.051%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.051%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.051%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 634 (32.28%) Azure
2 418 (21.28%) AWS
3 158 (8.04%) GCP
4 139 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
5 121 (6.16%) Power Platform
6 75 (3.82%) IBM Cloud
7 67 (3.41%) SaaS
8 60 (3.05%) GitHub
9 58 (2.95%) Amazon EKS
10 54 (2.75%) Amazon S3
10 54 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
11 49 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
11 49 (2.49%) Serverless
12 44 (2.24%) OCI
13 36 (1.83%) Amazon ECR
13 36 (1.83%) Route 53
14 24 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
15 22 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
16 21 (1.07%) AWS CloudFormation
16 21 (1.07%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.48%) Firewall
1 29 (1.48%) Internet
1 29 (1.48%) WAN
2 23 (1.17%) SAN
3 22 (1.12%) DNS
4 17 (0.87%) TCP/IP
5 16 (0.81%) LAN
6 15 (0.76%) SSL
7 13 (0.66%) Broadband
8 12 (0.61%) DHCP
8 12 (0.61%) iSCSI
8 12 (0.61%) Network Security
8 12 (0.61%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.56%) AMQP
9 11 (0.56%) Remote Desktop
10 9 (0.46%) Wireless
11 8 (0.41%) BGP
12 5 (0.25%) NAS
12 5 (0.25%) VPN
12 5 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 231 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 145 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
3 96 (4.89%) NoSQL
4 85 (4.33%) MySQL
5 78 (3.97%) Power BI
6 75 (3.82%) MongoDB
7 74 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
8 66 (3.36%) BigQuery
9 61 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
10 57 (2.90%) GIS
10 57 (2.90%) QGIS
11 45 (2.29%) Relational Database
12 40 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
13 39 (1.99%) Data Vault
13 39 (1.99%) Looker
14 37 (1.88%) DB2
15 29 (1.48%) Big Data
15 29 (1.48%) Tableau
16 27 (1.37%) Delta Lake
17 26 (1.32%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 172 (8.76%) Git
2 165 (8.40%) JIRA
3 53 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 41 (2.09%) GitLab
5 36 (1.83%) Visual Studio
6 23 (1.17%) Postman
7 21 (1.07%) Cypress.io
8 20 (1.02%) IntelliJ
9 19 (0.97%) Gradle
10 18 (0.92%) Selenium
10 18 (0.92%) TeamCity
11 16 (0.81%) JUnit
12 15 (0.76%) Appium
12 15 (0.76%) Mockito
12 15 (0.76%) Spinnaker
13 10 (0.51%) Jasmine
14 9 (0.46%) NUnit
15 8 (0.41%) Bitbucket
15 8 (0.41%) Maven
15 8 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 405 (20.62%) Social Skills
2 381 (19.40%) Finance
3 203 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 176 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
5 158 (8.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 117 (5.96%) Retail
7 98 (4.99%) Banking
8 80 (4.07%) Legal
9 54 (2.75%) Marketing
10 47 (2.39%) Law
11 38 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
12 31 (1.58%) Aerospace
13 30 (1.53%) Advertising
14 23 (1.17%) Games
15 22 (1.12%) Manufacturing
16 21 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
16 21 (1.07%) Telecoms
17 19 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
18 15 (0.76%) Publishing
19 11 (0.56%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 464 (23.63%) Developer
2 439 (22.35%) Senior
3 272 (13.85%) Lead
4 195 (9.93%) Software Engineer
5 187 (9.52%) .NET Developer
6 140 (7.13%) Project Manager
7 129 (6.57%) Analyst
8 123 (6.26%) Architect
9 104 (5.30%) Data Engineer
10 97 (4.94%) Senior Developer
11 86 (4.38%) Senior Software Engineer
12 74 (3.77%) C# Developer
13 70 (3.56%) DevOps Engineer
14 68 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
15 65 (3.31%) Technical Leader
16 64 (3.26%) Business Analyst
17 61 (3.11%) Software Developer
18 57 (2.90%) Azure Engineer
18 57 (2.90%) C# .NET Developer
19 53 (2.70%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 384 (19.55%) .NET
2 245 (12.47%) React
3 223 (11.35%) CSS
4 205 (10.44%) HTML
5 191 (9.73%) AngularJS
6 180 (9.16%) .NET Core
7 158 (8.04%) ASP.NET
8 124 (6.31%) Node.js
9 120 (6.11%) REST
10 101 (5.14%) RESTful
11 98 (4.99%) ASP.NET MVC
12 95 (4.84%) Vue
13 85 (4.33%) .NET Framework
13 85 (4.33%) Entity Framework
14 78 (3.97%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 76 (3.87%) ASP.NET Web API
15 76 (3.87%) Web Services
16 75 (3.82%) HTML5
17 73 (3.72%) Spring
18 64 (3.26%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 138 (7.03%) Product Ownership
2 93 (4.74%) Public Cloud
3 88 (4.48%) Data Structures
4 84 (4.28%) Hybrid Cloud
5 83 (4.23%) e-Learning
6 80 (4.07%) Blockchain
6 80 (4.07%) Greenfield Project
7 60 (3.05%) Management Information System
8 56 (2.85%) Cloud Native
9 49 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
9 49 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
10 48 (2.44%) Mobile App
11 46 (2.34%) Algorithms
12 40 (2.04%) Reinsurance
13 23 (1.17%) PMI
13 23 (1.17%) Video\Live Streaming
14 21 (1.07%) Private Cloud
15 17 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
15 17 (0.87%) Mainframe
16 15 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 158 (8.04%) Linux
2 93 (4.74%) Windows
3 80 (4.07%) Android
4 64 (3.26%) Apple iOS
5 25 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 21 (1.07%) Unix
7 19 (0.97%) Ubuntu
8 11 (0.56%) CentOS
8 11 (0.56%) Debian
8 11 (0.56%) Windows 10
9 9 (0.46%) Windows Phone
10 5 (0.25%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
12 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.10%) Windows Server
13 2 (0.10%) Windows Vista
14 1 (0.051%) HPUX
14 1 (0.051%) Solaris
14 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.051%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 527 (26.83%) Mentoring
2 471 (23.98%) DevOps
3 390 (19.86%) Coaching
4 369 (18.79%) Software Engineering
5 303 (15.43%) Scrum
6 282 (14.36%) Project Management
7 264 (13.44%) Problem-Solving
8 239 (12.17%) Full Stack Development
9 234 (11.91%) Roadmaps
9 234 (11.91%) TDD
10 206 (10.49%) Actionable Insight
11 186 (9.47%) Analytics
12 179 (9.11%) CI/CD
13 172 (8.76%) SDLC
14 171 (8.71%) Microservices
15 168 (8.55%) MVC
16 158 (8.04%) Kanban
17 155 (7.89%) Test Automation
18 147 (7.48%) Design Patterns
19 137 (6.98%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 434 (22.10%) JavaScript
2 404 (20.57%) C#
3 351 (17.87%) SQL
4 243 (12.37%) Python
5 240 (12.22%) Java
6 124 (6.31%) TypeScript
7 52 (2.65%) PHP
8 41 (2.09%) C
9 28 (1.43%) C++
10 27 (1.37%) PowerShell
10 27 (1.37%) T-SQL
11 23 (1.17%) COBOL
11 23 (1.17%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 22 (1.12%) Go
12 22 (1.12%) VB.NET
13 16 (0.81%) Ruby
14 13 (0.66%) Kotlin
14 13 (0.66%) Perl
15 12 (0.61%) Bash
16 9 (0.46%) R
Qualifications
1 207 (10.54%) Degree
2 203 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 155 (7.89%) SC Cleared
4 48 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (2.39%) PMP
6 41 (2.09%) PMI Certification
7 37 (1.88%) DV Cleared
8 26 (1.32%) AWS Certification
9 20 (1.02%) Azure Certification
10 17 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 15 (0.76%) HND
11 15 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (0.66%) APMP
12 13 (0.66%) DBS Check
13 11 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
14 10 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 9 (0.46%) CCNP
15 9 (0.46%) Master's Degree
16 8 (0.41%) HNC
16 8 (0.41%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (4.79%) QA
2 63 (3.21%) Data Quality
3 46 (2.34%) Accessibility
4 45 (2.29%) GDPR
5 19 (0.97%) PMO
6 9 (0.46%) WCAG
7 6 (0.31%) SLA
8 5 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.15%) NIST
10 2 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.10%) EMIR
10 2 (0.10%) MiFID
11 1 (0.051%) GAMP
11 1 (0.051%) GMP
11 1 (0.051%) GxP
System Software
1 130 (6.62%) Docker
2 25 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.17%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
4 11 (0.56%) Firmware
5 9 (0.46%) Terminal Services
6 5 (0.25%) SRDF
7 4 (0.20%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.051%) RACF
9 1 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 164 (8.35%) Kubernetes
2 156 (7.94%) Terraform
3 47 (2.39%) Ansible
4 39 (1.99%) Prometheus
5 17 (0.87%) ZABBIX
6 12 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 12 (0.61%) Opsgenie
6 12 (0.61%) Puppet
6 12 (0.61%) VxRail
7 9 (0.46%) AirWatch
8 8 (0.41%) Grafana
8 8 (0.41%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.31%) Kibana
10 5 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.15%) Podman
12 2 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.051%) CSIRT
13 1 (0.051%) Kiali
13 1 (0.051%) Packer
13 1 (0.051%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 277 (14.10%) Microsoft
2 112 (5.70%) Google
3 90 (4.58%) Oracle
3 90 (4.58%) Red Hat
4 86 (4.38%) IBM
5 57 (2.90%) ESRI
6 47 (2.39%) Databricks
7 44 (2.24%) Informatica
8 36 (1.83%) Dynatrace
9 31 (1.58%) Facebook
9 31 (1.58%) SAP
10 26 (1.32%) VMware
11 23 (1.17%) Micro Focus
11 23 (1.17%) ServiceNow
12 20 (1.02%) Atlassian
13 19 (0.97%) Salesforce
14 17 (0.87%) Cisco
14 17 (0.87%) Fortinet
15 13 (0.66%) Adobe
16 12 (0.61%) Dell