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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 313 540 884
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.76% 21.92% 24.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.60% 23.04% 26.94%
Number of salaries quoted 234 252 724
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £65,000 £61,103
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +6.38% +1.84%
75th Percentile £77,188 £81,563 £75,772
90th Percentile £87,125 £90,614 £86,250
North West median annual salary £60,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.83% - +0.80%

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 2,698 2,344 3,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.53% 95.17% 89.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,710 1,179 2,710
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £74,015 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £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 22 February 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 22 February 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
Bolton +9 6 £50,000 -9.09% 3
Altrincham -9 6 £85,000 +61.90% 5
Salford -19 4 £74,566 +25.47% 13
Oldham - 4 £52,500 - 3
Bury - 2 - - 1
Rochdale -1 1 £55,000 +4.76% 1
Stockport -6 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 11 (3.51%) Confluence
1 11 (3.51%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.60%) Apache
4 4 (1.28%) CMS
5 2 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.64%) nginx
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (3.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.96%) Sketch
3 2 (0.64%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.32%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 102 (32.59%) Azure
2 77 (24.60%) AWS
3 41 (13.10%) SaaS
4 27 (8.63%) Power Platform
5 24 (7.67%) GCP
6 23 (7.35%) Serverless
7 15 (4.79%) Figma
7 15 (4.79%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (4.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (3.19%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (3.19%) Azure AKS
9 10 (3.19%) Entra ID
10 9 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (2.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 9 (2.88%) Azure Functions
10 9 (2.88%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (2.88%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (2.88%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (2.56%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.56%) HTTP
2 5 (1.60%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.28%) AMQP
4 3 (0.96%) SSH
5 2 (0.64%) DNS
5 2 (0.64%) Firewall
5 2 (0.64%) OpenVPN
5 2 (0.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (8.95%) NoSQL
2 13 (4.15%) MySQL
2 13 (4.15%) Power BI
3 12 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (3.83%) MongoDB
4 8 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (2.24%) Big Data
5 7 (2.24%) Data Lake
5 7 (2.24%) Hadoop
6 5 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.60%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.60%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.28%) Cloudera CDH
7 4 (1.28%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.64%) Apache Iceberg
9 2 (0.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (9.90%) Git
2 21 (6.71%) JIRA
3 7 (2.24%) GitLab
4 5 (1.60%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.28%) JUnit
5 4 (1.28%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.96%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.96%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.64%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.64%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.32%) JMeter
8 1 (0.32%) Locust
8 1 (0.32%) Postman
8 1 (0.32%) Selenium
8 1 (0.32%) XCUITest
General
1 81 (25.88%) Social Skills
2 65 (20.77%) Finance
3 33 (10.54%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.75%) Marketing
5 17 (5.43%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (4.15%) Banking
7 13 (4.15%) Law
8 11 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.24%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.24%) Retail
10 6 (1.92%) Electronics
10 6 (1.92%) Games
10 6 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.28%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.28%) Billing
11 4 (1.28%) Legal
11 4 (1.28%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 70 (22.36%) Senior
2 62 (19.81%) Developer
3 45 (14.38%) Software Engineer
4 40 (12.78%) Lead
5 23 (7.35%) Data Engineer
6 21 (6.71%) Senior Developer
7 19 (6.07%) Analyst
7 19 (6.07%) Project Manager
8 15 (4.79%) Senior Data Engineer
9 12 (3.83%) Marketing Manager
10 11 (3.51%) Lead Software Engineer
10 11 (3.51%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (3.51%) Software Developer
11 10 (3.19%) .NET Developer
11 10 (3.19%) Business Analyst
11 10 (3.19%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (3.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 10 (3.19%) Java Developer
12 9 (2.88%) Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (2.88%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (18.53%) React
2 52 (16.61%) .NET
3 33 (10.54%) REST
4 32 (10.22%) CSS
5 31 (9.90%) HTML
6 26 (8.31%) AngularJS
6 26 (8.31%) Node.js
6 26 (8.31%) RESTful
7 25 (7.99%) Spring
8 24 (7.67%) Spring Boot
9 14 (4.47%) .NET Framework
10 13 (4.15%) Kafka
11 8 (2.56%) gRPC
11 8 (2.56%) Web Services
12 6 (1.92%) ASP.NET
12 6 (1.92%) ASP.NET Core
12 6 (1.92%) CSS3
12 6 (1.92%) Hibernate
12 6 (1.92%) HTML5
13 5 (1.60%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 35 (11.18%) Product Ownership
2 33 (10.54%) Cloud Native
3 23 (7.35%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.83%) Mobile App
5 11 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.56%) Social Media
7 6 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.92%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.28%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.28%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.96%) IoT
10 3 (0.96%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.96%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.64%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.64%) Housing Association
11 2 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.15%) Windows
2 12 (3.83%) Linux
3 4 (1.28%) CentOS
3 4 (1.28%) Debian
3 4 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.28%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.64%) Android
4 2 (0.64%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (28.75%) CI/CD
2 73 (23.32%) DevOps
3 72 (23.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 72 (23.00%) Software Engineering
4 54 (17.25%) Microservices
4 54 (17.25%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (17.25%) Scrum
5 51 (16.29%) Mentoring
6 48 (15.34%) User Experience
7 42 (13.42%) AI
7 42 (13.42%) Coaching
8 40 (12.78%) Containerisation
9 39 (12.46%) Full-Stack Development
9 39 (12.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 37 (11.82%) Stakeholder Management
10 37 (11.82%) TDD
11 35 (11.18%) Clean Code
12 31 (9.90%) Decision-Making
13 30 (9.58%) Roadmaps
14 29 (9.27%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 60 (19.17%) JavaScript
2 58 (18.53%) Java
3 47 (15.02%) C#
3 47 (15.02%) SQL
4 41 (13.10%) TypeScript
5 39 (12.46%) Python
6 6 (1.92%) Go
7 4 (1.28%) C++
8 3 (0.96%) Bicep
8 3 (0.96%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.96%) Scala
9 2 (0.64%) C
9 2 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.64%) PHP
9 2 (0.64%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.32%) Groovy
10 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.32%) Swift
Qualifications
1 34 (10.86%) Security Cleared
2 24 (7.67%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.15%) PMI Certification
4 11 (3.51%) Degree
4 11 (3.51%) DV Cleared
4 11 (3.51%) PMP
5 8 (2.56%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.96%) ACCA
7 3 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.96%) CIMA
8 2 (0.64%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.32%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.32%) CIPD
9 1 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.32%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.32%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.99%) Accessibility
2 20 (6.39%) QA
3 5 (1.60%) PMO
4 3 (0.96%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.96%) WCAG
5 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.32%) GDPR
5 1 (0.32%) GxP
5 1 (0.32%) HL7
5 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.32%) ITGC
5 1 (0.32%) NIST
5 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (7.67%) Docker
2 12 (3.83%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.32%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 36 (11.50%) Terraform
2 32 (10.22%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.83%) Ansible
4 8 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.28%) Puppet
6 3 (0.96%) Rancher
7 2 (0.64%) Packer
7 2 (0.64%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.32%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.32%) Grafana
Vendors
1 33 (10.54%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.47%) Databricks
3 9 (2.88%) Splunk
4 8 (2.56%) Adobe
4 8 (2.56%) New Relic
4 8 (2.56%) Salesforce
4 8 (2.56%) SAP
5 7 (2.24%) Google
5 7 (2.24%) Qualtrics
6 5 (1.60%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.28%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.28%) Oracle
7 4 (1.28%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.28%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.64%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.64%) Pega
9 1 (0.32%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.32%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.32%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.32%) WSO2