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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -11 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 550 564 988
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.79% 22.54% 22.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.36% 24.89% 27.26%
Number of salaries quoted 390 259 471
10th Percentile £43,000 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,250 £97,500
North West median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £58,465
% change year-on-year - +6.90% +1.68%

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 5,310 2,266 3,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.20% 90.57% 81.70%
Number of salaries quoted 4,140 1,325 2,268
10th Percentile £32,978 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £41,719
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -7.27%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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
Ashton-under-Lyne +1 15 £51,000 - 2
Salford -6 14 £42,000 - 6
Altrincham -4 11 £65,000 - 3
Stockport -3 8 £60,000 -4.00% 2
Oldham -4 8 £67,500 +11.11% 1
Bolton -11 3 £55,000 -26.67% 4
Bury -1 2 £92,482 -
Wigan -2 2 £77,500 - 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 34 (6.18%) Confluence
2 20 (3.64%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.82%) Apache
5 5 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.91%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.73%) CMS
7 3 (0.55%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.55%) nginx
8 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.36%) CICS
8 2 (0.36%) IIS
8 2 (0.36%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.36%) WordPress
9 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.18%) JBoss
9 1 (0.18%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.27%) Trello
4 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.73%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 173 (31.45%) Azure
2 145 (26.36%) AWS
3 75 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (7.27%) Power Platform
5 37 (6.73%) GitHub
5 37 (6.73%) SaaS
5 37 (6.73%) Serverless
6 33 (6.00%) GCP
7 25 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 23 (4.18%) Power Automate
9 21 (3.82%) Microsoft Copilot
10 19 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
11 18 (3.27%) Dynamics 365
11 18 (3.27%) PowerApps
12 16 (2.91%) dbt
13 15 (2.73%) Snowflake
14 12 (2.18%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (2.00%) Copilot Studio
16 10 (1.82%) Anthropic Claude
16 10 (1.82%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.36%) AMQP
1 2 (0.36%) HTTP
2 1 (0.18%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (0.18%) iSCSI
2 1 (0.18%) LAN
2 1 (0.18%) LTE
2 1 (0.18%) Network Security
2 1 (0.18%) SAN
2 1 (0.18%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.18%) SSL
2 1 (0.18%) WAN
2 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (2.91%) DynamoDB
2 16 (2.91%) MongoDB
2 16 (2.91%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (2.55%) Power BI
5 12 (2.18%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (2.18%) NoSQL
6 10 (1.82%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.09%) Big Data
8 6 (1.09%) BigQuery
8 6 (1.09%) MySQL
9 4 (0.73%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.73%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.73%) Flink
10 3 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.55%) GIS
10 3 (0.55%) QGIS
11 2 (0.36%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 64 (11.64%) JIRA
2 50 (9.09%) Git
3 24 (4.36%) GitLab
4 18 (3.27%) Jenkins
5 12 (2.18%) JUnit
5 12 (2.18%) Spock
6 11 (2.00%) Claude Code
6 11 (2.00%) Postman
7 8 (1.45%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (1.09%) IntelliJ
10 5 (0.91%) Maven
11 3 (0.55%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.55%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.55%) RStudio
12 2 (0.36%) MSTest
12 2 (0.36%) NUnit
13 1 (0.18%) Subversion
13 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
13 1 (0.18%) Xcode
General
1 151 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 128 (23.27%) Finance
3 57 (10.36%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 42 (7.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (5.09%) Marketing
7 21 (3.82%) Influencing Skills
7 21 (3.82%) Telecoms
8 19 (3.45%) Law
8 19 (3.45%) Retail
9 13 (2.36%) Games
10 11 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.64%) Banking
11 9 (1.64%) Legal
12 8 (1.45%) Advertising
12 8 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.91%) Local Government
14 5 (0.91%) Publishing
15 4 (0.73%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 127 (23.09%) Senior
2 104 (18.91%) Developer
3 57 (10.36%) Software Engineer
4 45 (8.18%) Lead
5 43 (7.82%) Senior Developer
6 34 (6.18%) Analyst
7 32 (5.82%) Project Manager
8 31 (5.64%) Engineering Manager
9 28 (5.09%) Business Analyst
10 27 (4.91%) Data Engineer
11 26 (4.73%) Delivery Manager
12 25 (4.55%) Java Developer
13 20 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
13 20 (3.64%) Senior Software Engineer
14 19 (3.45%) Design Engineer
14 19 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
14 19 (3.45%) Lead Software Engineer
15 18 (3.27%) Product Owner
16 17 (3.09%) Software Developer
17 16 (2.91%) Microsoft 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (11.09%) .NET
2 60 (10.91%) Terraform
3 47 (8.55%) HTML
4 41 (7.45%) Spring
5 40 (7.27%) CSS
6 39 (7.09%) Node.js
7 35 (6.36%) AngularJS
8 31 (5.64%) React
9 28 (5.09%) REST
10 27 (4.91%) Spring Boot
11 16 (2.91%) Kafka
12 14 (2.55%) ASP.NET
12 14 (2.55%) RESTful
13 11 (2.00%) Microsoft Graph
14 10 (1.82%) ASP.NET Core
14 10 (1.82%) Vue
15 9 (1.64%) .NET Core
15 9 (1.64%) HTML5 Canvas
15 9 (1.64%) PySpark
15 9 (1.64%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 67 (12.18%) Product Ownership
2 46 (8.36%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.36%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (2.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 14 (2.55%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.36%) Private Cloud
8 12 (2.18%) Marketing Technology
9 11 (2.00%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.27%) Driving Licence
11 7 (1.27%) IoT
12 6 (1.09%) Social Media
13 5 (0.91%) Cyber Defence
13 5 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (0.91%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.91%) PMI
13 5 (0.91%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
14 4 (0.73%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.64%) Linux
2 6 (1.09%) Windows
3 5 (0.91%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.73%) Android
5 3 (0.55%) VMS
6 2 (0.36%) CentOS
6 2 (0.36%) Debian
6 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (32.36%) DevOps
2 162 (29.45%) CI/CD
3 156 (28.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 134 (24.36%) AI
5 123 (22.36%) Scrum
6 107 (19.45%) Software Engineering
7 105 (19.09%) Stakeholder Management
8 92 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
9 79 (14.36%) Mentoring
10 70 (12.73%) Roadmaps
11 66 (12.00%) Test Automation
12 64 (11.64%) Coaching
13 62 (11.27%) TDD
14 61 (11.09%) Microservices
15 57 (10.36%) Decision-Making
15 57 (10.36%) Full-Stack Development
15 57 (10.36%) Kanban
16 53 (9.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 52 (9.45%) Collaborative Culture
17 52 (9.45%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 107 (19.45%) Java
1 107 (19.45%) SQL
2 98 (17.82%) Python
3 88 (16.00%) JavaScript
4 62 (11.27%) C#
5 31 (5.64%) TypeScript
6 18 (3.27%) Go
7 12 (2.18%) Bash
7 12 (2.18%) C++
8 10 (1.82%) PHP
8 10 (1.82%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.27%) Groovy
10 6 (1.09%) Apex Code
10 6 (1.09%) R
11 4 (0.73%) C
11 4 (0.73%) SOQL
12 3 (0.55%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.55%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.55%) SOSL
12 3 (0.55%) Swift
Qualifications
1 68 (12.36%) Security Cleared
2 65 (11.82%) Degree
3 54 (9.82%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.73%) DV Cleared
5 20 (3.64%) Master's Degree
6 18 (3.27%) DBS Check
7 16 (2.91%) HNC
8 15 (2.73%) PMI Certification
9 10 (1.82%) PMP
10 8 (1.45%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.91%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.73%) MBA
13 4 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 2 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.36%) Chartered Engineer
14 2 (0.36%) CSPO
15 1 (0.18%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (7.82%) Data Quality
2 30 (5.45%) QA
3 9 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.64%) GDPR
4 8 (1.45%) PMO
5 7 (1.27%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.36%) SLA
8 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.18%) GRC
8 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 51 (9.27%) Docker
2 3 (0.55%) Ceph
3 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) Firmware
3 1 (0.18%) NFS
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (9.82%) Kubernetes
2 29 (5.27%) Ansible
3 10 (1.82%) Argo
4 9 (1.64%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.09%) Grafana
6 4 (0.73%) Istio
7 3 (0.55%) Check_MK
7 3 (0.55%) Podman
8 2 (0.36%) Puppet
9 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.18%) linkerd
9 1 (0.18%) Nagios
9 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 81 (14.73%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.45%) Salesforce
3 18 (3.27%) Splunk
4 17 (3.09%) Databricks
5 14 (2.55%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.18%) AppDynamics
6 12 (2.18%) Google
6 12 (2.18%) YouTube
7 11 (2.00%) Oracle
8 9 (1.64%) Adobe
9 7 (1.27%) Pega
10 6 (1.09%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.91%) SAP
12 4 (0.73%) Dell
12 4 (0.73%) NEC
13 3 (0.55%) Apple
13 3 (0.55%) Facebook
13 3 (0.55%) LogicMonitor
14 2 (0.36%) OpenAI
14 2 (0.36%) SaltStack