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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -11 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 545 549 958
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.65% 22.25% 22.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.17% 24.72% 27.11%
Number of salaries quoted 379 250 424
10th Percentile £43,000 £43,750 £40,988
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,125 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,125 £97,500
North West median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year +4.17% +3.51% +0.81%

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 5,357 2,221 3,534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.23% 90.03% 82.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4,159 1,305 2,121
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £41,250
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 £69,250
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 1 September 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 1 September 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 - 3
Salford -10 14 £42,000 - 20
Altrincham -4 11 £65,000 - 6
Oldham -4 8 £67,500 +11.11% 2
Stockport -4 8 £60,000 -4.00% 5
Bolton -9 3 £55,000 -26.67% 10
Wigan -2 2 £77,500 - 5
Bury -2 1 £92,482 -
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 35 (6.42%) Confluence
2 19 (3.49%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.83%) Apache
5 5 (0.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.92%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.55%) CMS
6 3 (0.55%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.55%) nginx
7 2 (0.37%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.37%) CICS
7 2 (0.37%) IIS
7 2 (0.37%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.37%) WordPress
8 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.18%) JBoss
8 1 (0.18%) PegaRULES
8 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.28%) Trello
4 3 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.55%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.73%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 170 (31.19%) Azure
2 143 (26.24%) AWS
3 76 (13.94%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (7.52%) Power Platform
5 37 (6.79%) Serverless
6 36 (6.61%) SaaS
7 35 (6.42%) GitHub
8 31 (5.69%) GCP
9 25 (4.59%) AWS CloudFormation
10 24 (4.40%) Power Automate
11 22 (4.04%) Microsoft Copilot
12 19 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
13 18 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
13 18 (3.30%) PowerApps
14 15 (2.75%) dbt
14 15 (2.75%) Snowflake
15 12 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (2.02%) Copilot Studio
17 10 (1.83%) Anthropic Claude
17 10 (1.83%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.37%) AMQP
1 2 (0.37%) 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 19 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (2.94%) DynamoDB
2 16 (2.94%) MongoDB
3 15 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (2.75%) Power BI
3 15 (2.75%) SQL Server
4 12 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (1.83%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.65%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.10%) Big Data
9 5 (0.92%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.73%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.73%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.73%) Flink
10 4 (0.73%) MySQL
11 3 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.55%) GIS
11 3 (0.55%) QGIS
12 2 (0.37%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 65 (11.93%) JIRA
2 47 (8.62%) Git
3 26 (4.77%) GitLab
4 18 (3.30%) Jenkins
5 13 (2.39%) JUnit
5 13 (2.39%) Spock
6 11 (2.02%) Claude Code
6 11 (2.02%) Postman
7 8 (1.47%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 7 (1.28%) IntelliJ
9 6 (1.10%) Maven
10 3 (0.55%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.55%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.55%) RStudio
11 2 (0.37%) MSTest
11 2 (0.37%) NUnit
12 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.18%) Mocha
12 1 (0.18%) WinDbg
General
1 151 (27.71%) Social Skills
2 127 (23.30%) Finance
3 57 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (8.07%) Public Sector
5 42 (7.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (4.59%) Marketing
7 23 (4.22%) Influencing Skills
8 21 (3.85%) Telecoms
9 18 (3.30%) Retail
10 16 (2.94%) Law
11 14 (2.57%) Games
12 9 (1.65%) Banking
12 9 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (1.47%) Legal
14 7 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.10%) Advertising
16 5 (0.92%) Publishing
17 4 (0.73%) Aerospace
17 4 (0.73%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 124 (22.75%) Senior
2 105 (19.27%) Developer
3 55 (10.09%) Software Engineer
4 45 (8.26%) Lead
5 42 (7.71%) Senior Developer
6 37 (6.79%) Analyst
7 31 (5.69%) Business Analyst
7 31 (5.69%) Engineering Manager
8 30 (5.50%) Project Manager
9 26 (4.77%) Data Engineer
9 26 (4.77%) Delivery Manager
10 23 (4.22%) Java Developer
11 20 (3.67%) Cloud Engineer
11 20 (3.67%) Senior Software Engineer
12 19 (3.49%) Design Engineer
12 19 (3.49%) DevOps Engineer
13 18 (3.30%) Lead Software Engineer
13 18 (3.30%) Software Developer
14 16 (2.94%) Microsoft 365 Developer
14 16 (2.94%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (11.01%) Terraform
2 58 (10.64%) .NET
3 45 (8.26%) HTML
4 41 (7.52%) Spring
5 39 (7.16%) Node.js
6 38 (6.97%) CSS
7 36 (6.61%) AngularJS
8 32 (5.87%) React
9 28 (5.14%) REST
10 26 (4.77%) Spring Boot
11 16 (2.94%) Kafka
12 14 (2.57%) ASP.NET
13 11 (2.02%) Microsoft Graph
13 11 (2.02%) RESTful
14 10 (1.83%) ASP.NET Core
15 9 (1.65%) .NET Core
15 9 (1.65%) Entity Framework
15 9 (1.65%) HTML5 Canvas
15 9 (1.65%) PySpark
15 9 (1.65%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 66 (12.11%) Product Ownership
2 45 (8.26%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 14 (2.57%) Private Cloud
6 13 (2.39%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.02%) Marketing Technology
7 11 (2.02%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.28%) Driving Licence
9 7 (1.28%) IoT
10 6 (1.10%) Social Media
11 5 (0.92%) Cyber Defence
11 5 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (0.92%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.92%) PMI
11 5 (0.92%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.73%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.67%) Linux
2 6 (1.10%) Windows
3 5 (0.92%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.73%) Android
4 4 (0.73%) VMS
5 2 (0.37%) CentOS
5 2 (0.37%) Debian
5 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (32.66%) DevOps
2 159 (29.17%) CI/CD
3 157 (28.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 139 (25.50%) AI
5 123 (22.57%) Scrum
6 108 (19.82%) Stakeholder Management
7 104 (19.08%) Software Engineering
8 92 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
9 81 (14.86%) Mentoring
10 67 (12.29%) Test Automation
11 66 (12.11%) Roadmaps
12 65 (11.93%) Coaching
13 62 (11.38%) TDD
14 58 (10.64%) Kanban
14 58 (10.64%) Microservices
15 57 (10.46%) Decision-Making
16 56 (10.28%) Full-Stack Development
17 55 (10.09%) Collaborative Culture
18 54 (9.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 52 (9.54%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 106 (19.45%) Java
2 102 (18.72%) SQL
3 97 (17.80%) Python
4 86 (15.78%) JavaScript
5 58 (10.64%) C#
6 32 (5.87%) TypeScript
7 18 (3.30%) Go
8 12 (2.20%) Bash
8 12 (2.20%) C++
9 10 (1.83%) PHP
9 10 (1.83%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.47%) Groovy
11 6 (1.10%) Apex Code
11 6 (1.10%) R
12 4 (0.73%) C
12 4 (0.73%) SOQL
13 3 (0.55%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.55%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.55%) SOSL
13 3 (0.55%) Swift
Qualifications
1 72 (13.21%) Security Cleared
2 65 (11.93%) Degree
3 54 (9.91%) SC Cleared
4 30 (5.50%) DV Cleared
5 20 (3.67%) Master's Degree
6 18 (3.30%) DBS Check
7 16 (2.94%) HNC
8 13 (2.39%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.47%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.47%) PMP
10 6 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.92%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.73%) MBA
12 4 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 2 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.37%) Chartered Engineer
13 2 (0.37%) CSPO
14 1 (0.18%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (7.89%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.14%) QA
3 9 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.65%) GDPR
4 8 (1.47%) PMO
5 7 (1.28%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.37%) 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 52 (9.54%) 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 53 (9.72%) Kubernetes
2 30 (5.50%) Ansible
3 10 (1.83%) Argo
4 9 (1.65%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.10%) Grafana
6 4 (0.73%) Istio
7 3 (0.55%) Check_MK
7 3 (0.55%) Podman
8 2 (0.37%) 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 79 (14.50%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.49%) Splunk
3 18 (3.30%) Salesforce
4 17 (3.12%) Databricks
5 14 (2.57%) YouTube
6 13 (2.39%) AppDynamics
6 13 (2.39%) ServiceNow
7 11 (2.02%) Google
7 11 (2.02%) Oracle
8 9 (1.65%) Adobe
9 7 (1.28%) Pega
10 6 (1.10%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.92%) 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 (0.37%) MuleSoft
14 2 (0.37%) OpenAI