Agile Job Trends in Manchester

Agile Software Development
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Agile skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -10 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 450 612 1,227
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.51% 26.98% 21.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.55% 28.28% 25.75%
Number of salaries quoted 341 282 832
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £40,988
25th Percentile £52,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +0.80%
75th Percentile £81,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £94,366 £93,778 £87,500
North West median annual salary £64,038 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.48% +8.33% +4.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Agile falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,265 2,164 4,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.13% 95.41% 83.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,366 1,224 3,594
10th Percentile £32,875 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,502 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +7.62% -9.19%
75th Percentile £76,184 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £81,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Agile relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Agile job vacancy trend in Manchester

Agile
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Agile.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Agile

Agile
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in Manchester over the 6 months to 11 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Agile in Manchester

Agile
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 11 June 2026. 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
Altrincham -3 14 £67,500 +22.73% 3
Salford -6 7 £74,651 - 7
Ashton-under-Lyne +1 4 £51,000 - 6
Stockport -7 4 £55,000 - 1
Bury +2 3 £92,482 - 2
Oldham -2 3 £69,973 +23.84% 2
Bolton -9 2 £55,000 -26.67%
Rochdale -6 1 £55,000 -
Agile
North West

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 29 (6.44%) Confluence
2 13 (2.89%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (1.11%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.89%) Apache
5 4 (0.89%) CMS
6 3 (0.67%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.67%) WordPress
7 2 (0.44%) CICS
7 2 (0.44%) nginx
7 2 (0.44%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.44%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.22%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 6 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.44%) Trello
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.22%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 142 (31.56%) Azure
2 126 (28.00%) AWS
3 46 (10.22%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (8.89%) SaaS
5 33 (7.33%) Serverless
6 27 (6.00%) GCP
6 27 (6.00%) Power Platform
7 21 (4.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (4.67%) GitHub
8 16 (3.56%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (2.89%) Anthropic Claude
10 11 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (2.44%) Azure AKS
11 9 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
12 8 (1.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 8 (1.78%) Azure Functions
12 8 (1.78%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (1.78%) dbt
13 6 (1.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.67%) AMQP
2 2 (0.44%) HTTP
2 2 (0.44%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.22%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (5.33%) NoSQL
2 15 (3.33%) Power BI
3 14 (3.11%) MongoDB
3 14 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (2.44%) MySQL
4 11 (2.44%) SQL Server
5 10 (2.22%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.56%) Big Data
7 7 (1.56%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.56%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.33%) BigQuery
8 6 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.11%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.89%) Flink
11 3 (0.67%) Cloudera CDH
11 3 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.67%) GIS
11 3 (0.67%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 48 (10.67%) JIRA
2 40 (8.89%) Git
3 16 (3.56%) Jenkins
4 14 (3.11%) GitLab
5 13 (2.89%) Claude Code
6 10 (2.22%) Postman
7 5 (1.11%) JUnit
8 4 (0.89%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.89%) Spock
9 3 (0.67%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.67%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.44%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.44%) Maven
10 2 (0.44%) MSTest
10 2 (0.44%) NUnit
10 2 (0.44%) Selenium
10 2 (0.44%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.44%) XCUITest
General
1 100 (22.22%) Finance
2 96 (21.33%) Social Skills
3 44 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (7.78%) Public Sector
5 28 (6.22%) Marketing
6 23 (5.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (3.33%) Banking
8 13 (2.89%) Games
9 12 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.67%) Retail
10 9 (2.00%) Advertising
11 8 (1.78%) Law
11 8 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.89%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.89%) Publishing
13 4 (0.89%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.67%) Local Government
14 3 (0.67%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 114 (25.33%) Senior
2 80 (17.78%) Developer
3 69 (15.33%) Software Engineer
4 50 (11.11%) Lead
5 36 (8.00%) Senior Developer
6 28 (6.22%) Data Engineer
6 28 (6.22%) Java Developer
7 26 (5.78%) Project Manager
8 24 (5.33%) Analyst
9 23 (5.11%) Lead Software Engineer
10 21 (4.67%) Business Analyst
11 20 (4.44%) Java Engineer
11 20 (4.44%) Senior Data Engineer
11 20 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
12 19 (4.22%) Cloud Engineer
12 19 (4.22%) Delivery Manager
13 17 (3.78%) Product Owner
14 16 (3.56%) Senior Java Developer
15 15 (3.33%) Engineering Manager
16 14 (3.11%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (12.44%) .NET
2 41 (9.11%) React
3 38 (8.44%) Node.js
4 35 (7.78%) Spring
5 33 (7.33%) REST
6 31 (6.89%) CSS
6 31 (6.89%) HTML
7 30 (6.67%) AngularJS
7 30 (6.67%) Spring Boot
8 21 (4.67%) RESTful
9 13 (2.89%) Kafka
10 12 (2.67%) Vue
11 10 (2.22%) .NET Framework
12 8 (1.78%) PySpark
13 7 (1.56%) Web Services
14 6 (1.33%) SOAP
15 5 (1.11%) ASP.NET
15 5 (1.11%) CSS3
15 5 (1.11%) HTML5
15 5 (1.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 58 (12.89%) Product Ownership
2 32 (7.11%) Cloud Native
3 23 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (3.78%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (2.89%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.00%) Driving Licence
6 9 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (1.78%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.56%) Marketing Technology
9 6 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.33%) PMI
10 5 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.11%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.89%) Low-Code
11 4 (0.89%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.67%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.44%) Mainframe
13 2 (0.44%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.56%) Linux
2 7 (1.56%) Windows
3 3 (0.67%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.67%) CentOS
3 3 (0.67%) Debian
3 3 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (0.67%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.44%) Android
5 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (30.67%) CI/CD
2 132 (29.33%) DevOps
3 112 (24.89%) Scrum
4 110 (24.44%) Continuous Improvement
5 98 (21.78%) Software Engineering
6 71 (15.78%) TDD
7 70 (15.56%) AI
8 69 (15.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 63 (14.00%) Mentoring
9 63 (14.00%) Microservices
10 58 (12.89%) Coaching
10 58 (12.89%) Problem-Solving
11 57 (12.67%) Roadmaps
12 53 (11.78%) Kanban
13 52 (11.56%) Test Automation
14 49 (10.89%) Full-Stack Development
15 47 (10.44%) Decision-Making
16 46 (10.22%) Infrastructure as Code
17 45 (10.00%) Project Management
18 40 (8.89%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 103 (22.89%) Java
2 92 (20.44%) SQL
3 82 (18.22%) Python
4 65 (14.44%) JavaScript
5 46 (10.22%) C#
6 24 (5.33%) TypeScript
7 9 (2.00%) C++
8 7 (1.56%) Bash
8 7 (1.56%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.11%) Apex Code
9 5 (1.11%) Go
9 5 (1.11%) Groovy
9 5 (1.11%) PHP
10 4 (0.89%) SOQL
11 3 (0.67%) C
11 3 (0.67%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.67%) Scala
11 3 (0.67%) SOSL
12 2 (0.44%) Swift
13 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 54 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 43 (9.56%) SC Cleared
3 20 (4.44%) Degree
4 19 (4.22%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.11%) PMI Certification
6 8 (1.78%) PMP
7 5 (1.11%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.89%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.44%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (0.44%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.44%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.22%) ACCA
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.22%) MBA
10 1 (0.22%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.11%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.00%) QA
3 8 (1.78%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.33%) PMO
5 4 (0.89%) GDPR
6 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.44%) WCAG
7 1 (0.22%) GRC
7 1 (0.22%) ITGC
7 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 33 (7.33%) Docker
2 5 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 62 (13.78%) Terraform
2 45 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 21 (4.67%) Ansible
4 4 (0.89%) Grafana
4 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.89%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.67%) Argo
5 3 (0.67%) Puppet
6 2 (0.44%) Packer
6 2 (0.44%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.44%) Rancher
7 1 (0.22%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 55 (12.22%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.22%) Salesforce
3 17 (3.78%) Databricks
4 15 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.00%) Splunk
6 8 (1.78%) Adobe
7 7 (1.56%) Oracle
8 6 (1.33%) Google
9 5 (1.11%) Pega
10 4 (0.89%) AppDynamics
10 4 (0.89%) New Relic
10 4 (0.89%) SAP
11 3 (0.67%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (0.67%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.67%) SaltStack
12 2 (0.44%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.44%) Facebook
12 2 (0.44%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.44%) WSO2
13 1 (0.22%) Proofpoint