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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,120 2,275 3,348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 19.87% 30.78% 34.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 24.61% 32.28% 36.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,404 1,015 1,801
10th Percentile £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £75,756 £72,823 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £66,603 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.16% +2.47% +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 8,616 7,048 9,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 80.75% 95.36% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 6,399 3,818 5,301
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £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 £81,500 £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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1,255 £60,000 +0.80% 253
Lancashire +2 307 £57,965 +15.93% 48
Merseyside +1 270 £55,000 +22.22% 40
Cheshire -2 235 £60,000 +9.09% 49
Cumbria -9 47 £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 58 (2.74%) Confluence
2 57 (2.69%) ArcGIS
2 57 (2.69%) GeoServer
3 26 (1.23%) Apache Spark
4 18 (0.85%) Apache
5 16 (0.75%) IIS
6 12 (0.57%) Tuxedo
7 11 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
7 11 (0.52%) CMS
8 9 (0.42%) Apache Solr
9 8 (0.38%) SharePoint
9 8 (0.38%) WebLogic
10 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.094%) SAS
12 2 (0.094%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.094%) WordPress
13 1 (0.047%) NetWeaver
13 1 (0.047%) nginx
Applications
1 43 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 18 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.24%) AutoCAD
3 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.24%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.19%) Maya
4 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.14%) MadCap Flare
5 3 (0.14%) RoboHelp
5 3 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.047%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.047%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.047%) Final Cut Pro
6 1 (0.047%) InVision
6 1 (0.047%) Sketch
6 1 (0.047%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 48 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.13%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.42%) SAP CX
4 9 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.19%) MIS ActiveH
7 3 (0.14%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.094%) SAP Hybris
8 2 (0.094%) Shopify
8 2 (0.094%) Unit4 Business World
9 1 (0.047%) BPCS
9 1 (0.047%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.047%) Magento
9 1 (0.047%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.047%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.047%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.047%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.047%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 661 (31.18%) Azure
2 467 (22.03%) AWS
3 147 (6.93%) Azure DevOps
4 145 (6.84%) GCP
5 116 (5.47%) Power Platform
6 75 (3.54%) IBM Cloud
7 73 (3.44%) SaaS
8 59 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
9 54 (2.55%) Amazon S3
10 53 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
11 52 (2.45%) Serverless
12 51 (2.41%) GitHub
13 50 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
14 44 (2.08%) OCI
15 43 (2.03%) Amazon Kinesis
16 36 (1.70%) Amazon ECR
16 36 (1.70%) Route 53
17 23 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
17 23 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
18 22 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.37%) Internet
1 29 (1.37%) WAN
2 26 (1.23%) Firewall
3 23 (1.08%) DNS
4 22 (1.04%) SAN
5 18 (0.85%) TCP/IP
6 17 (0.80%) LAN
7 14 (0.66%) SSL
8 13 (0.61%) Broadband
8 13 (0.61%) Network Security
9 12 (0.57%) DHCP
9 12 (0.57%) iSCSI
9 12 (0.57%) Remote Desktop
9 12 (0.57%) SD-WAN
10 11 (0.52%) AMQP
10 11 (0.52%) Wireless
11 8 (0.38%) BGP
12 5 (0.24%) NAS
12 5 (0.24%) VPN
13 4 (0.19%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 237 (11.18%) SQL Server
2 165 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
3 129 (6.08%) NoSQL
4 82 (3.87%) MySQL
5 76 (3.58%) Power BI
6 73 (3.44%) Data Warehouse
7 70 (3.30%) MongoDB
8 65 (3.07%) BigQuery
9 61 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
10 57 (2.69%) GIS
10 57 (2.69%) QGIS
11 50 (2.36%) DynamoDB
12 44 (2.08%) Relational Database
13 42 (1.98%) Data Vault
14 41 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
15 38 (1.79%) Looker
16 37 (1.75%) DB2
17 33 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
18 28 (1.32%) Big Data
18 28 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 170 (8.02%) Git
2 169 (7.97%) JIRA
3 44 (2.08%) GitLab
4 43 (2.03%) Jenkins
5 34 (1.60%) Visual Studio
6 25 (1.18%) Postman
7 19 (0.90%) Gatling
7 19 (0.90%) JUnit
8 15 (0.71%) Appium
8 15 (0.71%) Gradle
8 15 (0.71%) Selenium
8 15 (0.71%) TeamCity
9 14 (0.66%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.52%) IntelliJ
10 11 (0.52%) Mockito
10 11 (0.52%) NUnit
11 9 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
12 8 (0.38%) JMeter
12 8 (0.38%) Maven
12 8 (0.38%) SonarQube
General
1 435 (20.52%) Social Skills
2 345 (16.27%) Finance
3 242 (11.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 196 (9.25%) Public Sector
5 160 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
6 141 (6.65%) Retail
7 90 (4.25%) Legal
8 77 (3.63%) Marketing
9 56 (2.64%) Banking
10 40 (1.89%) Law
11 34 (1.60%) Aerospace
12 33 (1.56%) Advertising
13 30 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
14 26 (1.23%) Games
14 26 (1.23%) Manufacturing
15 21 (0.99%) Electronics
15 21 (0.99%) Telecoms
16 20 (0.94%) Billing
17 19 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
18 17 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 494 (23.30%) Developer
2 439 (20.71%) Senior
3 316 (14.91%) Lead
4 227 (10.71%) Software Engineer
5 206 (9.72%) .NET Developer
6 163 (7.69%) Architect
7 138 (6.51%) Project Manager
8 134 (6.32%) Analyst
9 103 (4.86%) Data Engineer
10 102 (4.81%) Senior Developer
11 79 (3.73%) Senior Software Engineer
12 77 (3.63%) C# Developer
13 71 (3.35%) Technical Leader
14 70 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
15 66 (3.11%) Software Developer
16 61 (2.88%) Business Analyst
16 61 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
17 59 (2.78%) C# .NET Developer
18 52 (2.45%) Azure Engineer
19 49 (2.31%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 410 (19.34%) .NET
2 250 (11.79%) React
3 237 (11.18%) CSS
4 215 (10.14%) HTML
5 191 (9.01%) .NET Core
6 186 (8.77%) AngularJS
7 161 (7.59%) ASP.NET
8 147 (6.93%) REST
9 127 (5.99%) Node.js
10 101 (4.76%) ASP.NET MVC
11 98 (4.62%) Web Services
12 97 (4.58%) Vue
13 94 (4.43%) .NET Framework
14 90 (4.25%) Entity Framework
14 90 (4.25%) RESTful
15 80 (3.77%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 79 (3.73%) HTML5
17 77 (3.63%) Spring
18 73 (3.44%) ASP.NET Web API
19 66 (3.11%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 129 (6.08%) Product Ownership
2 91 (4.29%) Cyberattack
3 88 (4.15%) Data Structures
3 88 (4.15%) Public Cloud
4 83 (3.92%) e-Learning
4 83 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
5 82 (3.87%) Hybrid Cloud
6 76 (3.58%) Blockchain
7 74 (3.49%) Management Information System
8 64 (3.02%) Cloud Native
9 56 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
10 52 (2.45%) Mobile App
11 46 (2.17%) Algorithms
12 43 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
13 40 (1.89%) Reinsurance
14 39 (1.84%) Blog
15 31 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
16 29 (1.37%) Media Streaming
17 21 (0.99%) PMI
18 19 (0.90%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 158 (7.45%) Linux
2 91 (4.29%) Windows
3 83 (3.92%) Android
4 67 (3.16%) Apple iOS
5 25 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (0.90%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.61%) Unix
8 12 (0.57%) Windows 10
9 11 (0.52%) CentOS
9 11 (0.52%) Debian
10 9 (0.42%) Windows Phone
11 5 (0.24%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
13 3 (0.14%) VME
13 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.094%) Windows Server
14 2 (0.094%) Windows Vista
15 1 (0.047%) HPUX
15 1 (0.047%) Solaris
15 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 633 (29.86%) Mentoring
2 526 (24.81%) DevOps
3 464 (21.89%) Software Engineering
4 407 (19.20%) Coaching
5 348 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
6 321 (15.14%) Scrum
7 280 (13.21%) Project Management
8 254 (11.98%) Full Stack Development
9 245 (11.56%) TDD
10 231 (10.90%) Analytics
11 230 (10.85%) Roadmaps
12 215 (10.14%) User Experience
13 196 (9.25%) CI/CD
14 179 (8.44%) Actionable Insight
15 176 (8.30%) Microservices
16 174 (8.21%) MVC
17 173 (8.16%) SDLC
18 164 (7.74%) Data Engineering
19 162 (7.64%) Kanban
20 159 (7.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 451 (21.27%) JavaScript
2 428 (20.19%) C#
3 356 (16.79%) SQL
4 250 (11.79%) Python
5 244 (11.51%) Java
6 126 (5.94%) TypeScript
7 48 (2.26%) PHP
8 43 (2.03%) C
9 38 (1.79%) PowerShell
10 31 (1.46%) Scala
11 25 (1.18%) C++
11 25 (1.18%) COBOL
11 25 (1.18%) Go
11 25 (1.18%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 22 (1.04%) T-SQL
12 22 (1.04%) VB.NET
13 17 (0.80%) Ruby
14 14 (0.66%) Perl
15 12 (0.57%) Kotlin
16 11 (0.52%) Bash
Qualifications
1 232 (10.94%) Degree
2 201 (9.48%) Security Cleared
3 152 (7.17%) SC Cleared
4 72 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (2.22%) PMP
6 39 (1.84%) PMI Certification
7 31 (1.46%) DV Cleared
8 30 (1.42%) AWS Certification
9 22 (1.04%) Azure Certification
10 18 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 15 (0.71%) DBS Check
11 15 (0.71%) HND
12 14 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.61%) APMP
14 12 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
15 11 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 11 (0.52%) Master's Degree
16 10 (0.47%) CCNP
17 9 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
18 8 (0.38%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (4.81%) QA
2 70 (3.30%) Data Quality
3 41 (1.93%) GDPR
4 39 (1.84%) Accessibility
5 19 (0.90%) PMO
6 9 (0.42%) WCAG
7 5 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.24%) SLA
8 4 (0.19%) NIST
9 3 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.094%) EMIR
10 2 (0.094%) MiFID
11 1 (0.047%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.047%) GAMP
11 1 (0.047%) GxP
11 1 (0.047%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.047%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 117 (5.52%) Docker
2 34 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
4 13 (0.61%) Firmware
5 10 (0.47%) RACF
6 9 (0.42%) Terminal Services
7 5 (0.24%) SRDF
8 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.094%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 165 (7.78%) Terraform
2 158 (7.45%) Kubernetes
3 53 (2.50%) Ansible
4 37 (1.75%) Prometheus
5 17 (0.80%) ZABBIX
6 12 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 12 (0.57%) Opsgenie
6 12 (0.57%) Puppet
6 12 (0.57%) VxRail
7 9 (0.42%) AirWatch
8 7 (0.33%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.28%) Grafana
9 6 (0.28%) Kibana
10 5 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.14%) Podman
12 2 (0.094%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.047%) CSIRT
13 1 (0.047%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.047%) Kiali
13 1 (0.047%) Packer
Vendors
1 291 (13.73%) Microsoft
2 108 (5.09%) Google
3 90 (4.25%) Red Hat
4 81 (3.82%) Oracle
5 78 (3.68%) IBM
6 57 (2.69%) ESRI
7 50 (2.36%) Informatica
8 49 (2.31%) Databricks
9 36 (1.70%) Dynatrace
10 33 (1.56%) Facebook
11 30 (1.42%) SAP
12 25 (1.18%) Micro Focus
13 23 (1.08%) VMware
14 22 (1.04%) Atlassian
15 21 (0.99%) ServiceNow
16 19 (0.90%) Salesforce
17 17 (0.80%) Cisco
17 17 (0.80%) Fortinet
18 12 (0.57%) Dell
18 12 (0.57%) Teradata