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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -12 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 489 617 1,217
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.74% 25.35% 21.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.57% 27.09% 26.09%
Number of salaries quoted 370 286 769
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £41,198
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £75,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £90,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +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 4,627 2,278 4,665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.21% 93.59% 83.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,669 1,315 3,426
10th Percentile £32,975 £29,850 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,830
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.11% -8.91%
75th Percentile £78,312 £73,625 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £89,500 £82,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,890 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.08% +1.78% -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 8 July 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 8 July 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 -2 15 £67,500 +3.85% 5
Ashton-under-Lyne +1 10 £47,500 - 3
Salford -10 7 £74,651 - 10
Stockport -7 4 £55,000 -12.00% 1
Bury 0 3 £92,482 - 3
Oldham 0 3 £69,973 +23.84% 9
Wigan -3 2 £77,500 - 1
Bolton -9 2 £55,000 -26.67% 2
Rochdale -3 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 35 (7.16%) Confluence
2 15 (3.07%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (1.02%) CMS
5 4 (0.82%) Apache
6 3 (0.61%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.61%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.61%) WordPress
7 2 (0.41%) CICS
7 2 (0.41%) nginx
7 2 (0.41%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.41%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.20%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 6 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
1 6 (1.23%) Trello
2 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 153 (31.29%) Azure
2 139 (28.43%) AWS
3 61 (12.47%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (7.98%) Serverless
5 38 (7.77%) SaaS
6 30 (6.13%) Power Platform
7 28 (5.73%) GCP
8 27 (5.52%) GitHub
9 26 (5.32%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (2.66%) Microsoft Copilot
11 13 (2.66%) Power Automate
12 12 (2.45%) Anthropic Claude
13 11 (2.25%) PowerApps
14 10 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (2.04%) dbt
15 9 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (1.84%) Azure AKS
15 9 (1.84%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (1.84%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.61%) AMQP
2 1 (0.20%) LAN
2 1 (0.20%) LTE
2 1 (0.20%) Network Security
2 1 (0.20%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.20%) WAN
2 1 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.68%) NoSQL
2 17 (3.48%) MongoDB
3 15 (3.07%) Power BI
4 14 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (2.25%) SQL Server
6 9 (1.84%) DynamoDB
6 9 (1.84%) MySQL
6 9 (1.84%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (1.43%) Big Data
8 7 (1.43%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.02%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.82%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.82%) Flink
11 3 (0.61%) Cloudera CDH
11 3 (0.61%) GIS
11 3 (0.61%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.61%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 57 (11.66%) JIRA
2 41 (8.38%) Git
3 18 (3.68%) GitLab
4 17 (3.48%) Jenkins
5 13 (2.66%) Claude Code
6 11 (2.25%) Postman
7 8 (1.64%) JUnit
7 8 (1.64%) Spock
8 7 (1.43%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.82%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.61%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.61%) Maven
12 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.41%) MSTest
12 2 (0.41%) NUnit
12 2 (0.41%) Selenium
12 2 (0.41%) Vagrant
12 2 (0.41%) XCUITest
13 1 (0.20%) REST Assured
General
1 120 (24.54%) Finance
2 110 (22.49%) Social Skills
3 47 (9.61%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (7.98%) Public Sector
5 31 (6.34%) Marketing
6 21 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (3.27%) Banking
7 16 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
7 16 (3.27%) Retail
8 13 (2.66%) Games
9 11 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.04%) Law
11 9 (1.84%) Advertising
12 7 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.23%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.02%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.82%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.82%) Publishing
15 4 (0.82%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 115 (23.52%) Senior
2 90 (18.40%) Developer
3 63 (12.88%) Software Engineer
4 44 (9.00%) Lead
5 39 (7.98%) Senior Developer
6 28 (5.73%) Java Developer
6 28 (5.73%) Project Manager
7 27 (5.52%) Data Engineer
8 26 (5.32%) Analyst
9 23 (4.70%) Business Analyst
10 22 (4.50%) Engineering Manager
11 21 (4.29%) Cloud Engineer
11 21 (4.29%) Delivery Manager
12 20 (4.09%) Lead Software Engineer
13 19 (3.89%) Java Engineer
13 19 (3.89%) Senior Software Engineer
14 18 (3.68%) Product Owner
14 18 (3.68%) Senior Data Engineer
15 16 (3.27%) Senior Java Developer
16 15 (3.07%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (12.07%) .NET
2 43 (8.79%) Spring
3 40 (8.18%) Node.js
4 38 (7.77%) React
5 37 (7.57%) HTML
6 35 (7.16%) AngularJS
7 33 (6.75%) CSS
8 32 (6.54%) Spring Boot
9 30 (6.13%) REST
10 18 (3.68%) RESTful
11 15 (3.07%) Kafka
12 12 (2.45%) Vue
13 9 (1.84%) ASP.NET
14 8 (1.64%) ASP.NET Core
14 8 (1.64%) PySpark
15 7 (1.43%) .NET Core
15 7 (1.43%) Entity Framework
15 7 (1.43%) Microsoft Graph
16 6 (1.23%) .NET Framework
16 6 (1.23%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 62 (12.68%) Product Ownership
2 41 (8.38%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.91%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (2.86%) Mobile App
5 13 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 9 (1.84%) Driving Licence
7 9 (1.84%) Marketing Technology
8 8 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.64%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.64%) Private Cloud
9 7 (1.43%) PMI
9 7 (1.43%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.82%) IVR
12 3 (0.61%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.41%) Mainframe
13 2 (0.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.68%) Linux
2 7 (1.43%) Windows
3 4 (0.82%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.61%) Android
4 3 (0.61%) CentOS
4 3 (0.61%) Debian
4 3 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.61%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.20%) Unix
5 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (31.49%) CI/CD
2 151 (30.88%) DevOps
3 131 (26.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 123 (25.15%) Scrum
5 96 (19.63%) Software Engineering
6 88 (18.00%) AI
7 84 (17.18%) Stakeholder Management
8 79 (16.16%) TDD
9 73 (14.93%) Roadmaps
10 68 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
11 66 (13.50%) Mentoring
12 64 (13.09%) Microservices
13 62 (12.68%) Coaching
14 59 (12.07%) Kanban
14 59 (12.07%) Test Automation
15 53 (10.84%) Full-Stack Development
16 51 (10.43%) Decision-Making
17 50 (10.22%) Infrastructure as Code
18 47 (9.61%) Collaborative Culture
19 43 (8.79%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 107 (21.88%) Java
2 94 (19.22%) SQL
3 87 (17.79%) Python
4 72 (14.72%) JavaScript
5 55 (11.25%) C#
6 27 (5.52%) TypeScript
7 11 (2.25%) Bash
8 10 (2.04%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.84%) C++
9 9 (1.84%) Go
10 6 (1.23%) Groovy
10 6 (1.23%) PHP
11 5 (1.02%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.82%) SOQL
13 3 (0.61%) C
13 3 (0.61%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.61%) SOSL
14 2 (0.41%) Bicep
14 2 (0.41%) Scala
14 2 (0.41%) Swift
Qualifications
1 62 (12.68%) Security Cleared
2 49 (10.02%) SC Cleared
3 31 (6.34%) Degree
4 21 (4.29%) DV Cleared
5 16 (3.27%) PMI Certification
6 11 (2.25%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.84%) PMP
8 7 (1.43%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.23%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.61%) MBA
12 2 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.41%) Chartered Engineer
12 2 (0.41%) CSPO
12 2 (0.41%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 2 (0.41%) SAFe Agilist
13 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.32%) Data Quality
2 23 (4.70%) QA
3 11 (2.25%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.84%) GDPR
5 7 (1.43%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.23%) PMO
7 2 (0.41%) SLA
7 2 (0.41%) WCAG
8 1 (0.20%) GRC
8 1 (0.20%) ITGC
8 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 41 (8.38%) Docker
2 2 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (12.88%) Terraform
2 48 (9.82%) Kubernetes
3 23 (4.70%) Ansible
4 6 (1.23%) Argo
4 6 (1.23%) Grafana
4 6 (1.23%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.61%) Puppet
6 2 (0.41%) Packer
6 2 (0.41%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.20%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.20%) Istio
7 1 (0.20%) linkerd
7 1 (0.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 66 (13.50%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.48%) Salesforce
3 16 (3.27%) ServiceNow
4 15 (3.07%) Databricks
5 12 (2.45%) Splunk
6 10 (2.04%) Adobe
7 8 (1.64%) AppDynamics
7 8 (1.64%) Oracle
8 7 (1.43%) Google
9 5 (1.02%) Pega
9 5 (1.02%) SAP
10 3 (0.61%) Facebook
10 3 (0.61%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.61%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.61%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.41%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.41%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.41%) WSO2
12 1 (0.20%) Apple
12 1 (0.20%) Proofpoint