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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -10 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 435 610 1,214
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.27% 27.35% 22.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.17% 28.61% 26.30%
Number of salaries quoted 330 279 834
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,500 £41,066
25th Percentile £52,125 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,967 £80,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £93,778 £87,500
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 4,277 2,132 4,616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.44% 95.61% 83.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3,243 1,204 3,519
10th Percentile £33,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £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 5 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 5 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% 5
Salford -8 7 £74,651 - 6
Stockport -13 4 £55,000 -
Bury 0 3 £92,482 - 3
Oldham -3 3 £69,973 +23.84% 3
Ashton-under-Lyne -3 3 £51,000 - 6
Bolton -5 3 £55,000 -26.67% 2
Rochdale -5 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 (6.67%) Confluence
2 11 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (1.15%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.92%) Apache
5 4 (0.92%) CMS
6 3 (0.69%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.69%) WordPress
7 2 (0.46%) CICS
7 2 (0.46%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.46%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.23%) nginx
8 1 (0.23%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 6 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.46%) Trello
5 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.23%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 137 (31.49%) Azure
2 120 (27.59%) AWS
3 44 (10.11%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (8.74%) SaaS
5 32 (7.36%) Serverless
6 26 (5.98%) GCP
7 23 (5.29%) Power Platform
8 21 (4.83%) AWS CloudFormation
8 21 (4.83%) GitHub
9 14 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (2.99%) Anthropic Claude
11 11 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (2.53%) Azure AKS
12 8 (1.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 8 (1.84%) Azure Functions
12 8 (1.84%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (1.84%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (1.84%) dbt
13 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Copilot
14 6 (1.38%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.69%) AMQP
2 2 (0.46%) HTTP
2 2 (0.46%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.23%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.29%) NoSQL
2 14 (3.22%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (2.99%) MongoDB
4 12 (2.76%) Power BI
5 11 (2.53%) SQL Server
6 10 (2.30%) MySQL
6 10 (2.30%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.61%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.61%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.38%) Big Data
8 6 (1.38%) BigQuery
8 6 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.15%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.92%) Flink
11 3 (0.69%) Cloudera CDH
11 3 (0.69%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.69%) GIS
11 3 (0.69%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 48 (11.03%) JIRA
2 41 (9.43%) Git
3 16 (3.68%) Jenkins
4 14 (3.22%) GitLab
5 13 (2.99%) Claude Code
6 10 (2.30%) Postman
7 5 (1.15%) JUnit
8 4 (0.92%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.92%) Spock
9 3 (0.69%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.69%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.46%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.46%) Maven
10 2 (0.46%) MSTest
10 2 (0.46%) NUnit
10 2 (0.46%) Selenium
10 2 (0.46%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.46%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.46%) XCUITest
General
1 99 (22.76%) Finance
2 94 (21.61%) Social Skills
3 41 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (7.36%) Public Sector
5 26 (5.98%) Marketing
6 23 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (3.68%) Banking
8 13 (2.99%) Games
9 12 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.53%) Retail
11 9 (2.07%) Advertising
11 9 (2.07%) Law
12 8 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.92%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.92%) Publishing
14 4 (0.92%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.69%) Local Government
15 3 (0.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 113 (25.98%) Senior
2 78 (17.93%) Developer
3 68 (15.63%) Software Engineer
4 48 (11.03%) Lead
5 36 (8.28%) Senior Developer
6 28 (6.44%) Java Developer
7 27 (6.21%) Project Manager
8 26 (5.98%) Data Engineer
9 23 (5.29%) Lead Software Engineer
10 21 (4.83%) Analyst
11 20 (4.60%) Java Engineer
11 20 (4.60%) Senior Data Engineer
12 19 (4.37%) Cloud Engineer
12 19 (4.37%) Delivery Manager
12 19 (4.37%) Senior Software Engineer
13 18 (4.14%) Business Analyst
14 16 (3.68%) Product Owner
14 16 (3.68%) Senior Java Developer
15 14 (3.22%) Java Software Engineer
15 14 (3.22%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (11.95%) .NET
2 42 (9.66%) React
3 37 (8.51%) Node.js
4 35 (8.05%) Spring
5 31 (7.13%) AngularJS
5 31 (7.13%) REST
6 30 (6.90%) CSS
6 30 (6.90%) HTML
6 30 (6.90%) Spring Boot
7 21 (4.83%) RESTful
8 13 (2.99%) Kafka
9 11 (2.53%) Vue
10 10 (2.30%) .NET Framework
11 8 (1.84%) PySpark
12 7 (1.61%) Web Services
13 6 (1.38%) SOAP
14 5 (1.15%) AWS CDK
14 5 (1.15%) CSS3
14 5 (1.15%) HTML5
14 5 (1.15%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 57 (13.10%) Product Ownership
2 29 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.83%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (2.53%) Mobile App
6 10 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.07%) Driving Licence
7 9 (2.07%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.38%) Marketing Technology
8 6 (1.38%) PMI
9 5 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (0.92%) Low-Code
10 4 (0.92%) Private Cloud
10 4 (0.92%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.69%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.46%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.46%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.45%) Linux
2 8 (1.84%) Windows
3 3 (0.69%) CentOS
3 3 (0.69%) Debian
3 3 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (0.69%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.23%) Android
5 1 (0.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (30.80%) CI/CD
2 127 (29.20%) DevOps
3 111 (25.52%) Scrum
4 105 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 94 (21.61%) Software Engineering
6 69 (15.86%) TDD
7 62 (14.25%) AI
8 61 (14.02%) Microservices
8 61 (14.02%) Stakeholder Management
9 60 (13.79%) Mentoring
10 55 (12.64%) Coaching
11 54 (12.41%) Kanban
11 54 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
11 54 (12.41%) Roadmaps
12 49 (11.26%) Test Automation
13 47 (10.80%) Full-Stack Development
14 46 (10.57%) Decision-Making
14 46 (10.57%) Project Management
15 44 (10.11%) Infrastructure as Code
16 39 (8.97%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 100 (22.99%) Java
2 88 (20.23%) SQL
3 77 (17.70%) Python
4 63 (14.48%) JavaScript
5 40 (9.20%) C#
6 26 (5.98%) TypeScript
7 9 (2.07%) C++
8 7 (1.61%) Bash
8 7 (1.61%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.15%) Apex Code
9 5 (1.15%) Groovy
10 4 (0.92%) Go
10 4 (0.92%) PHP
10 4 (0.92%) SOQL
11 3 (0.69%) C
11 3 (0.69%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.69%) SOSL
12 2 (0.46%) Scala
12 2 (0.46%) Swift
13 1 (0.23%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 51 (11.72%) Security Cleared
2 41 (9.43%) SC Cleared
3 19 (4.37%) DV Cleared
4 18 (4.14%) Degree
5 15 (3.45%) PMI Certification
6 9 (2.07%) PMP
7 5 (1.15%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.92%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.69%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.46%) Chartered Engineer
10 2 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.23%) ACCA
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.23%) CIPD
11 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.23%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.23%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.83%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.91%) QA
3 9 (2.07%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.38%) PMO
5 2 (0.46%) GDPR
5 2 (0.46%) WCAG
6 1 (0.23%) GRC
6 1 (0.23%) GxP
6 1 (0.23%) ITGC
6 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 34 (7.82%) Docker
2 5 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 61 (14.02%) Terraform
2 45 (10.34%) Kubernetes
3 21 (4.83%) Ansible
4 4 (0.92%) Grafana
4 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.92%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.69%) Argo
5 3 (0.69%) Puppet
6 2 (0.46%) Packer
6 2 (0.46%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.46%) Rancher
7 1 (0.23%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 51 (11.72%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.37%) Salesforce
3 15 (3.45%) Databricks
3 15 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 9 (2.07%) Splunk
5 7 (1.61%) Adobe
5 7 (1.61%) Oracle
6 6 (1.38%) Google
6 6 (1.38%) Pega
7 4 (0.92%) AppDynamics
7 4 (0.92%) New Relic
7 4 (0.92%) SAP
8 3 (0.69%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (0.69%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.69%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.46%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.46%) Facebook
9 2 (0.46%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.46%) WSO2
10 1 (0.23%) Proofpoint