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 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -18 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 399 458 1,048
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.27% 22.97% 22.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.27% 24.12% 25.48%
Number of salaries quoted 295 288 846
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £52,000 £53,563 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £90,000
North West median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +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 3,539 1,899 4,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.36% 95.24% 86.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,411 1,244 3,321
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,822 £82,500
North West median annual salary £52,500 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.18% +9.59% -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 13 April 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 13 April 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 -6 10 £77,500 +44.19% 4
Bolton +1 5 £50,000 -33.33% 2
Salford -9 5 £74,651 +11.19% 6
Bury - 3 £92,482 -
Oldham - 3 £55,000 - 1
Stockport -6 2 - - 3
Rochdale -4 1 £55,000 +4.76%
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 26 (6.52%) Confluence
2 11 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.50%) Apache
5 4 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.75%) CMS
6 3 (0.75%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.50%) CICS
7 2 (0.50%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.25%) PegaRULES
8 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.75%) Sketch
3 2 (0.50%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.25%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 132 (33.08%) Azure
2 100 (25.06%) AWS
3 47 (11.78%) SaaS
4 31 (7.77%) Serverless
5 28 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (6.52%) GCP
7 24 (6.02%) Power Platform
8 21 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (3.76%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (3.26%) Azure AKS
12 12 (3.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 12 (3.01%) Azure Functions
12 12 (3.01%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (3.01%) Azure Service Bus
12 12 (3.01%) GitHub
13 11 (2.76%) Figma
14 9 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (2.01%) Anthropic Claude
15 8 (2.01%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.75%) HTTP
2 5 (1.25%) AMQP
2 5 (1.25%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.75%) SSH
4 2 (0.50%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.27%) NoSQL
2 14 (3.51%) MySQL
3 13 (3.26%) MongoDB
4 12 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.76%) Power BI
6 9 (2.26%) Relational Database
7 8 (2.01%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.01%) SQL Server
8 7 (1.75%) Big Data
8 7 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.75%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.50%) DynamoDB
10 5 (1.25%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.75%) GIS
11 3 (0.75%) QGIS
12 2 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.50%) DB2
12 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 45 (11.28%) Git
2 40 (10.03%) JIRA
3 11 (2.76%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.26%) GitLab
5 8 (2.01%) Claude Code
5 8 (2.01%) Postman
6 5 (1.25%) Visual Studio
7 4 (1.00%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.75%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.75%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.75%) IntelliJ
8 3 (0.75%) JUnit
9 2 (0.50%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.50%) Selenium
9 2 (0.50%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.50%) XCUITest
10 1 (0.25%) GDB
10 1 (0.25%) Locust
10 1 (0.25%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.25%) WinDbg
General
1 89 (22.31%) Social Skills
2 85 (21.30%) Finance
3 32 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.77%) Public Sector
5 21 (5.26%) Marketing
6 19 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (4.26%) Banking
8 13 (3.26%) Law
9 10 (2.51%) Games
10 9 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.75%) Advertising
12 5 (1.25%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.25%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.25%) Retail
13 4 (1.00%) Electronics
13 4 (1.00%) Legal
13 4 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.00%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.75%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 95 (23.81%) Senior
2 70 (17.54%) Developer
3 65 (16.29%) Software Engineer
4 50 (12.53%) Lead
5 29 (7.27%) Project Manager
5 29 (7.27%) Senior Developer
6 23 (5.76%) Data Engineer
7 22 (5.51%) Lead Software Engineer
8 20 (5.01%) Java Developer
9 19 (4.76%) Analyst
10 18 (4.51%) Senior Data Engineer
11 16 (4.01%) Marketing Manager
11 16 (4.01%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (3.76%) Cloud Engineer
12 15 (3.76%) Java Engineer
13 14 (3.51%) Business Analyst
14 13 (3.26%) .NET Developer
14 13 (3.26%) Delivery Manager
14 13 (3.26%) Full-Stack Developer
15 12 (3.01%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (14.79%) .NET
2 53 (13.28%) React
3 34 (8.52%) REST
4 33 (8.27%) CSS
5 31 (7.77%) HTML
5 31 (7.77%) Node.js
5 31 (7.77%) Spring
6 30 (7.52%) AngularJS
6 30 (7.52%) RESTful
6 30 (7.52%) Spring Boot
7 15 (3.76%) .NET Framework
8 14 (3.51%) Kafka
9 8 (2.01%) gRPC
9 8 (2.01%) Vue
9 8 (2.01%) Web Services
10 7 (1.75%) CSS3
10 7 (1.75%) HTML5
11 5 (1.25%) Hibernate
11 5 (1.25%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (1.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (12.53%) Product Ownership
2 32 (8.02%) Cloud Native
3 26 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (3.76%) Mobile App
5 10 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (1.50%) Low-Code
7 6 (1.50%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.25%) Driving Licence
8 5 (1.25%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.00%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.00%) PMI
9 4 (1.00%) Social Media
10 3 (0.75%) IoT
10 3 (0.75%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.01%) Linux
2 11 (2.76%) Windows
3 5 (1.25%) CentOS
3 5 (1.25%) Debian
3 5 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.25%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.25%) Android
5 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (30.08%) CI/CD
2 106 (26.57%) DevOps
3 93 (23.31%) Scrum
4 92 (23.06%) Software Engineering
5 90 (22.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 63 (15.79%) Microservices
7 56 (14.04%) TDD
8 52 (13.03%) Stakeholder Management
9 51 (12.78%) AI
9 51 (12.78%) Roadmaps
10 49 (12.28%) Coaching
10 49 (12.28%) Mentoring
11 46 (11.53%) Kanban
12 44 (11.03%) Full-Stack Development
13 43 (10.78%) Clean Code
13 43 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
14 40 (10.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 39 (9.77%) Project Management
15 39 (9.77%) User Experience
16 37 (9.27%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 85 (21.30%) Java
2 66 (16.54%) JavaScript
3 65 (16.29%) SQL
4 61 (15.29%) Python
5 48 (12.03%) C#
6 32 (8.02%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.51%) C++
8 5 (1.25%) Go
9 4 (1.00%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.75%) Bash
10 3 (0.75%) C
10 3 (0.75%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.50%) Scala
11 2 (0.50%) Swift
12 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.25%) Groovy
12 1 (0.25%) PHP
12 1 (0.25%) SOQL
12 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 29 (7.27%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.01%) PMI Certification
4 12 (3.01%) PMP
5 11 (2.76%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.51%) Degree
7 4 (1.00%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.25%) ACCA
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.25%) CIMA
10 1 (0.25%) CIPD
10 1 (0.25%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.01%) QA
2 19 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.51%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.50%) PMO
5 3 (0.75%) WCAG
6 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.25%) GRC
6 1 (0.25%) GxP
6 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.25%) ITGC
6 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 26 (6.52%) Docker
2 8 (2.01%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 55 (13.78%) Terraform
2 43 (10.78%) Kubernetes
3 21 (5.26%) Ansible
4 8 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.25%) Puppet
6 3 (0.75%) Grafana
6 3 (0.75%) Rancher
7 2 (0.50%) Packer
7 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.50%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.25%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 45 (11.28%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.76%) Databricks
3 14 (3.51%) Salesforce
4 9 (2.26%) ServiceNow
4 9 (2.26%) Splunk
5 8 (2.01%) New Relic
6 7 (1.75%) Google
7 6 (1.50%) Pega
8 5 (1.25%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.25%) SaltStack
8 5 (1.25%) SAP
9 4 (1.00%) Adobe
9 4 (1.00%) Oracle
10 3 (0.75%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.75%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.75%) Qualtrics
11 2 (0.50%) WSO2
12 1 (0.25%) Genesys
12 1 (0.25%) Siebel
12 1 (0.25%) Software AG