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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 288 689 656
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 12.07% 21.29% 29.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.22% 23.72% 31.06%
Number of salaries quoted 207 255 496
10th Percentile £45,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,625 £50,000 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +5.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £91,592
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +4.35%

All Process and 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 2,025 2,905 2,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 84.83% 89.74% 94.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,230 1,399 1,698
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.60% +5.53%
75th Percentile £71,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +2.98%

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025. 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
Bolton +12 11 £50,000 -9.09% 12
Altrincham -7 8 £65,000 +18.18%
Oldham +5 6 £55,000 -18.52%
Stockport -1 4 £55,000 -2.22% 14
Salford -15 3 £74,830 +15.12% 9
Bury -4 2 - -
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 7 (2.43%) Confluence
2 6 (2.08%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.39%) Apache
4 3 (1.04%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.04%) CMS
5 2 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.69%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.35%) IIS
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 13 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.04%) Adobe XD
3 3 (1.04%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.04%) Sketch
4 2 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.69%) Trello
5 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.35%) InVision
Business Applications
1 5 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) Magento
3 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.35%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 102 (35.42%) Azure
2 88 (30.56%) AWS
3 39 (13.54%) SaaS
4 31 (10.76%) Power Platform
5 30 (10.42%) GCP
6 25 (8.68%) Serverless
7 18 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (4.51%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (4.51%) Figma
9 11 (3.82%) GitHub
10 9 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 8 (2.78%) Azure Functions
11 8 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (2.43%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (2.43%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (2.43%) Entra ID
13 6 (2.08%) Adobe Analytics
13 6 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.08%) HTTP
2 3 (1.04%) SSH
2 3 (1.04%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.69%) AMQP
3 2 (0.69%) DNS
3 2 (0.69%) Firewall
3 2 (0.69%) OpenVPN
3 2 (0.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.03%) NoSQL
2 19 (6.60%) MongoDB
2 19 (6.60%) Power BI
3 13 (4.51%) SQL Server
4 11 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.13%) MySQL
6 6 (2.08%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.74%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.39%) Big Data
8 4 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.39%) Redis
9 3 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.04%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.04%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.69%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (0.69%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (8.33%) Git
2 19 (6.60%) JIRA
3 8 (2.78%) GitLab
3 8 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.39%) JMeter
5 3 (1.04%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.04%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.04%) Gatling
5 3 (1.04%) JUnit
5 3 (1.04%) Selenium
5 3 (1.04%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.69%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.35%) Appium
7 1 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.35%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.35%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.35%) Locust
7 1 (0.35%) Postman
7 1 (0.35%) REST Assured
General
1 89 (30.90%) Social Skills
2 75 (26.04%) Finance
3 40 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (10.07%) Public Sector
5 17 (5.90%) Law
6 14 (4.86%) Influencing Skills
6 14 (4.86%) Marketing
7 12 (4.17%) Local Government
8 11 (3.82%) Banking
8 11 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.78%) Retail
10 7 (2.43%) Electronics
11 6 (2.08%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.74%) Games
12 5 (1.74%) Legal
12 5 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.74%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.04%) Back Office
14 2 (0.69%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.69%) Billing
Job Titles
1 78 (27.08%) Senior
2 76 (26.39%) Developer
3 37 (12.85%) Lead
4 28 (9.72%) Senior Developer
5 24 (8.33%) Software Engineer
6 22 (7.64%) Analyst
7 20 (6.94%) Senior Manager
8 17 (5.90%) Project Manager
9 16 (5.56%) Java Developer
10 14 (4.86%) .NET Developer
10 14 (4.86%) Data Engineer
11 13 (4.51%) Architect
11 13 (4.51%) Software Developer
12 12 (4.17%) Audit Manager
12 12 (4.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 12 (4.17%) Principal Developer
12 12 (4.17%) Senior Audit Manager
13 11 (3.82%) AWS Architect
13 11 (3.82%) Senior Java Developer
14 10 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (19.10%) .NET
2 52 (18.06%) React
3 31 (10.76%) CSS
4 27 (9.38%) HTML
5 25 (8.68%) REST
6 21 (7.29%) Spring
6 21 (7.29%) Spring Boot
7 20 (6.94%) AngularJS
7 20 (6.94%) RESTful
8 19 (6.60%) Node.js
9 17 (5.90%) Kafka
10 12 (4.17%) .NET Framework
11 8 (2.78%) .NET Core
11 8 (2.78%) Hibernate
12 7 (2.43%) ASP.NET
13 6 (2.08%) ASP.NET Core
13 6 (2.08%) Entity Framework
13 6 (2.08%) Web Services
13 6 (2.08%) WebSockets
14 5 (1.74%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 35 (12.15%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.72%) Product Ownership
3 22 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.51%) Management Information System
4 13 (4.51%) Social Media
5 11 (3.82%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.39%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.04%) Animation
9 3 (1.04%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.04%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.04%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.04%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.69%) IoT
10 2 (0.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.86%) Windows
2 9 (3.13%) Linux
3 2 (0.69%) CentOS
3 2 (0.69%) Debian
3 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.69%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.35%) Android
4 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (31.94%) CI/CD
2 80 (27.78%) DevOps
3 68 (23.61%) Continuous Improvement
4 64 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (19.44%) Microservices
5 56 (19.44%) Software Engineering
6 53 (18.40%) Mentoring
7 51 (17.71%) User Experience
8 44 (15.28%) Roadmaps
9 42 (14.58%) Coaching
10 39 (13.54%) Containerisation
11 37 (12.85%) Scrum
12 36 (12.50%) Clean Code
12 36 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
13 33 (11.46%) Decision-Making
14 32 (11.11%) AI
15 31 (10.76%) Infrastructure as Code
15 31 (10.76%) SDLC
16 29 (10.07%) Stakeholder Management
17 28 (9.72%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 61 (21.18%) C#
2 47 (16.32%) Java
2 47 (16.32%) JavaScript
3 40 (13.89%) SQL
4 39 (13.54%) TypeScript
5 34 (11.81%) Python
6 6 (2.08%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.39%) Bash
7 4 (1.39%) Go
8 3 (1.04%) Bicep
8 3 (1.04%) C++
8 3 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.04%) PHP
8 3 (1.04%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.69%) C
9 2 (0.69%) Scala
10 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 20 (6.94%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.60%) ACCA
4 18 (6.25%) Degree
5 13 (4.51%) DBS Check
6 8 (2.78%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.78%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.78%) PMI Certification
6 8 (2.78%) PMP
7 7 (2.43%) CIMA
7 7 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (1.04%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.69%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.35%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 23 (7.99%) QA
3 12 (4.17%) GAAP
3 12 (4.17%) IFRS
4 6 (2.08%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.08%) GDPR
4 6 (2.08%) NIST
5 5 (1.74%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.69%) WCAG
7 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.35%) HL7
7 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.35%) PMO
7 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (13.89%) Docker
2 9 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.35%) HDFS
4 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 37 (12.85%) Kubernetes
2 32 (11.11%) Terraform
3 9 (3.13%) Ansible
4 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.04%) Grafana
6 2 (0.69%) Puppet
7 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.35%) Rancher
Vendors
1 32 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.51%) Google
3 9 (3.13%) SAP
4 8 (2.78%) Adobe
4 8 (2.78%) Splunk
5 6 (2.08%) Databricks
5 6 (2.08%) Qualtrics
6 4 (1.39%) Bloomberg
6 4 (1.39%) New Relic
6 4 (1.39%) Oracle
7 3 (1.04%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.69%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.69%) Dell
8 2 (0.69%) Facebook
8 2 (0.69%) Informatica
8 2 (0.69%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.69%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.69%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.69%) SnapLogic
8 2 (0.69%) VMware