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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -10 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 436 595 1,102
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.33% 27.31% 20.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.16% 28.50% 24.88%
Number of salaries quoted 331 274 834
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,875 £41,066
25th Percentile £52,250 £52,500 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +0.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £87,500
North West median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +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 4,291 2,088 4,430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.18% 95.82% 84.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,173 1,178 3,484
10th Percentile £32,875 £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 £92,875 £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 30 May 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 30 May 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% 1
Salford -11 7 £74,651 - 6
Stockport -12 4 £55,000 -
Bury -3 3 £92,482 - 3
Oldham -4 3 £69,973 +23.84%
Bolton -4 3 £55,000 -26.67% 2
Ashton-under-Lyne -3 1 £51,000 - 3
Rochdale -8 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 (6.65%) Confluence
2 11 (2.52%) 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 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.46%) Trello
4 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.23%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 141 (32.34%) Azure
2 118 (27.06%) AWS
3 45 (10.32%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (9.40%) SaaS
5 34 (7.80%) Serverless
6 26 (5.96%) GCP
7 25 (5.73%) Power Platform
8 20 (4.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (4.59%) GitHub
9 14 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (2.98%) Anthropic Claude
11 11 (2.52%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (2.52%) Azure AKS
11 11 (2.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 11 (2.52%) Azure Functions
11 11 (2.52%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (2.52%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (1.83%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (1.61%) dbt
13 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.92%) HTTP
2 3 (0.69%) AMQP
2 3 (0.69%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.23%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.73%) NoSQL
2 14 (3.21%) MongoDB
2 14 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (2.98%) Power BI
4 12 (2.75%) SQL Server
5 10 (2.29%) MySQL
5 10 (2.29%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.61%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (1.38%) Big Data
7 6 (1.38%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.38%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.15%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.92%) Flink
10 3 (0.69%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (0.69%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.69%) GIS
10 3 (0.69%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 49 (11.24%) JIRA
2 43 (9.86%) Git
3 16 (3.67%) Jenkins
4 14 (3.21%) GitLab
5 13 (2.98%) Claude Code
6 10 (2.29%) Postman
7 6 (1.38%) JUnit
8 4 (0.92%) Spock
9 3 (0.69%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.69%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.69%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.69%) Visual Studio
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%) XCUITest
11 1 (0.23%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 98 (22.48%) Finance
2 97 (22.25%) Social Skills
3 44 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (7.34%) Public Sector
5 26 (5.96%) Marketing
6 24 (5.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (3.67%) Banking
8 13 (2.98%) Games
9 12 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.29%) Retail
11 9 (2.06%) Advertising
11 9 (2.06%) Law
11 9 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.92%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.92%) Publishing
13 4 (0.92%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.69%) Back Office
14 3 (0.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 116 (26.61%) Senior
2 81 (18.58%) Developer
3 68 (15.60%) Software Engineer
4 50 (11.47%) Lead
5 39 (8.94%) Senior Developer
6 28 (6.42%) Java Developer
6 28 (6.42%) Project Manager
7 25 (5.73%) Data Engineer
8 23 (5.28%) Lead Software Engineer
9 22 (5.05%) Analyst
10 20 (4.59%) Java Engineer
10 20 (4.59%) Senior Data Engineer
11 19 (4.36%) Business Analyst
11 19 (4.36%) Cloud Engineer
11 19 (4.36%) Delivery Manager
11 19 (4.36%) Senior Software Engineer
12 16 (3.67%) Product Owner
12 16 (3.67%) Senior Java Developer
13 15 (3.44%) .NET Developer
14 14 (3.21%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (12.84%) .NET
2 43 (9.86%) React
3 36 (8.26%) Node.js
4 35 (8.03%) REST
4 35 (8.03%) Spring
5 32 (7.34%) CSS
6 31 (7.11%) AngularJS
6 31 (7.11%) HTML
7 30 (6.88%) Spring Boot
8 23 (5.28%) RESTful
9 14 (3.21%) Kafka
10 11 (2.52%) Vue
11 10 (2.29%) .NET Framework
12 8 (1.83%) PySpark
13 7 (1.61%) Web Services
14 6 (1.38%) SOAP
15 5 (1.15%) ASP.NET
15 5 (1.15%) CSS3
15 5 (1.15%) HTML5
15 5 (1.15%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 58 (13.30%) Product Ownership
2 29 (6.65%) Cloud Native
3 22 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (4.13%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (3.21%) Mobile App
6 10 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.06%) Driving Licence
7 9 (2.06%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.38%) Low-Code
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%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.69%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.69%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.46%) Client/Server
12 2 (0.46%) Cyberattack
12 2 (0.46%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.44%) Linux
2 9 (2.06%) 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
1 138 (31.65%) CI/CD
2 130 (29.82%) DevOps
3 112 (25.69%) Scrum
4 107 (24.54%) Continuous Improvement
5 94 (21.56%) Software Engineering
6 71 (16.28%) TDD
7 64 (14.68%) AI
8 63 (14.45%) Microservices
9 61 (13.99%) Stakeholder Management
10 59 (13.53%) Mentoring
11 56 (12.84%) Roadmaps
12 55 (12.61%) Kanban
13 54 (12.39%) Coaching
13 54 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
14 49 (11.24%) Full-Stack Development
15 48 (11.01%) Test Automation
16 47 (10.78%) Project Management
17 44 (10.09%) Decision-Making
18 43 (9.86%) Infrastructure as Code
19 39 (8.94%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 99 (22.71%) Java
2 85 (19.50%) SQL
3 75 (17.20%) Python
4 64 (14.68%) JavaScript
5 43 (9.86%) C#
6 28 (6.42%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.29%) 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%) PHP
10 4 (0.92%) SOQL
11 3 (0.69%) C
11 3 (0.69%) Go
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 (11.70%) Security Cleared
2 41 (9.40%) SC Cleared
3 19 (4.36%) DV Cleared
4 17 (3.90%) Degree
5 16 (3.67%) PMI Certification
6 10 (2.29%) PMP
7 5 (1.15%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.69%) AWS Certification
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%) CIPD
11 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.23%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.59%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.13%) QA
3 9 (2.06%) 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 35 (8.03%) Docker
2 6 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 61 (13.99%) Terraform
2 45 (10.32%) Kubernetes
3 21 (4.82%) Ansible
4 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.92%) Grafana
5 4 (0.92%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.69%) Argo
6 3 (0.69%) Puppet
7 2 (0.46%) Packer
7 2 (0.46%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.46%) Rancher
8 1 (0.23%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 53 (12.16%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.36%) Salesforce
3 15 (3.44%) ServiceNow
4 14 (3.21%) Databricks
5 9 (2.06%) Splunk
6 7 (1.61%) Adobe
6 7 (1.61%) Oracle
7 6 (1.38%) Google
7 6 (1.38%) Pega
8 5 (1.15%) New Relic
9 4 (0.92%) AppDynamics
9 4 (0.92%) SAP
10 3 (0.69%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.69%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.69%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.46%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.46%) Facebook
11 2 (0.46%) WSO2
12 1 (0.23%) Proofpoint
12 1 (0.23%) Qualtrics