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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -12 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 548 556 954
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.74% 22.39% 22.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.29% 24.80% 27.13%
Number of salaries quoted 389 254 428
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 £82,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,250 £97,500
North West median annual salary £62,500 £60,500 £57,965
% change year-on-year +3.31% +4.37% +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 5,324 2,242 3,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.19% 90.29% 81.82%
Number of salaries quoted 4,145 1,320 2,143
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £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 29 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 29 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 - 1
Salford -10 14 £42,000 - 16
Altrincham -4 11 £65,000 - 2
Stockport -3 8 £60,000 -4.00% 3
Oldham -4 8 £67,500 +11.11% 5
Bolton -9 3 £55,000 -26.67% 8
Bury -1 2 £92,482 -
Wigan -2 2 £77,500 - 6
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 (6.20%) Confluence
2 19 (3.47%) 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 3 (0.55%) CMS
6 3 (0.55%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.55%) nginx
7 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.36%) CICS
7 2 (0.36%) IIS
7 2 (0.36%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.36%) 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 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.28%) Trello
4 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.73%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 173 (31.57%) Azure
2 145 (26.46%) AWS
3 76 (13.87%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (7.30%) Power Platform
5 37 (6.75%) GitHub
5 37 (6.75%) Serverless
6 36 (6.57%) SaaS
7 33 (6.02%) GCP
8 25 (4.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (4.20%) Power Automate
10 21 (3.83%) Microsoft Copilot
11 19 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
12 18 (3.28%) PowerApps
13 16 (2.92%) dbt
14 15 (2.74%) Snowflake
15 12 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (2.01%) Copilot Studio
17 10 (1.82%) Anthropic Claude
17 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 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (2.92%) DynamoDB
2 16 (2.92%) MongoDB
2 16 (2.92%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (2.55%) Power BI
5 12 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (2.01%) NoSQL
7 10 (1.82%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.09%) Big Data
9 6 (1.09%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.09%) MySQL
10 4 (0.73%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.73%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.73%) Flink
11 3 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.55%) GIS
11 3 (0.55%) QGIS
12 2 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 65 (11.86%) JIRA
2 50 (9.12%) Git
3 24 (4.38%) GitLab
4 18 (3.28%) Jenkins
5 12 (2.19%) JUnit
5 12 (2.19%) Spock
6 11 (2.01%) Claude Code
6 11 (2.01%) Postman
7 8 (1.46%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.28%) 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
1 149 (27.19%) Social Skills
2 126 (22.99%) Finance
3 57 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (8.03%) Public Sector
5 42 (7.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (4.93%) Marketing
7 22 (4.01%) Influencing Skills
8 21 (3.83%) Telecoms
9 19 (3.47%) Retail
10 17 (3.10%) Law
11 14 (2.55%) Games
12 9 (1.64%) Banking
12 9 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (1.46%) Advertising
13 8 (1.46%) Legal
14 7 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.91%) Local Government
15 5 (0.91%) Publishing
16 4 (0.73%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 126 (22.99%) Senior
2 105 (19.16%) Developer
3 57 (10.40%) Software Engineer
4 46 (8.39%) Lead
5 43 (7.85%) Senior Developer
6 35 (6.39%) Analyst
7 31 (5.66%) Engineering Manager
8 30 (5.47%) Project Manager
9 29 (5.29%) Business Analyst
10 27 (4.93%) Data Engineer
11 26 (4.74%) Delivery Manager
12 25 (4.56%) Java Developer
13 20 (3.65%) Cloud Engineer
13 20 (3.65%) Senior Software Engineer
14 19 (3.47%) Design Engineer
14 19 (3.47%) DevOps Engineer
14 19 (3.47%) Lead Software Engineer
15 17 (3.10%) Product Owner
15 17 (3.10%) Software Developer
16 16 (2.92%) Microsoft 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (10.95%) .NET
1 60 (10.95%) Terraform
2 47 (8.58%) HTML
3 41 (7.48%) Spring
4 40 (7.30%) CSS
5 39 (7.12%) Node.js
6 35 (6.39%) AngularJS
7 32 (5.84%) React
8 28 (5.11%) REST
9 27 (4.93%) Spring Boot
10 16 (2.92%) Kafka
11 14 (2.55%) ASP.NET
12 13 (2.37%) RESTful
13 11 (2.01%) 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 66 (12.04%) Product Ownership
2 45 (8.21%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (2.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 13 (2.37%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.37%) Private Cloud
6 11 (2.01%) Marketing Technology
6 11 (2.01%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.28%) Driving Licence
8 7 (1.28%) IoT
9 6 (1.09%) Social Media
10 5 (0.91%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (0.91%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.91%) PMI
10 5 (0.91%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.73%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.65%) 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
1 177 (32.30%) DevOps
2 161 (29.38%) CI/CD
3 154 (28.10%) Continuous Improvement
4 134 (24.45%) AI
5 122 (22.26%) Scrum
6 107 (19.53%) Software Engineering
7 106 (19.34%) Stakeholder Management
8 93 (16.97%) Problem-Solving
9 81 (14.78%) Mentoring
10 69 (12.59%) Roadmaps
11 66 (12.04%) Test Automation
12 65 (11.86%) Coaching
13 63 (11.50%) TDD
14 60 (10.95%) Microservices
15 57 (10.40%) Decision-Making
15 57 (10.40%) Full-Stack Development
15 57 (10.40%) Kanban
16 53 (9.67%) Collaborative Culture
16 53 (9.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 51 (9.31%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 107 (19.53%) Java
2 106 (19.34%) SQL
3 98 (17.88%) Python
4 88 (16.06%) JavaScript
5 61 (11.13%) C#
6 32 (5.84%) TypeScript
7 18 (3.28%) Go
8 12 (2.19%) Bash
8 12 (2.19%) C++
9 10 (1.82%) PHP
9 10 (1.82%) PowerShell
10 7 (1.28%) Groovy
11 6 (1.09%) Apex Code
11 6 (1.09%) 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 68 (12.41%) Security Cleared
2 65 (11.86%) Degree
3 54 (9.85%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.74%) DV Cleared
5 20 (3.65%) Master's Degree
6 18 (3.28%) DBS Check
7 16 (2.92%) HNC
8 14 (2.55%) PMI Certification
9 9 (1.64%) PMP
10 8 (1.46%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.46%) 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%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (7.85%) Data Quality
2 30 (5.47%) QA
3 9 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.64%) GDPR
4 8 (1.46%) PMO
5 7 (1.28%) 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 (9.31%) 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 (9.67%) Kubernetes
2 29 (5.29%) 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 79 (14.42%) Microsoft
2 18 (3.28%) Salesforce
2 18 (3.28%) Splunk
3 17 (3.10%) Databricks
4 14 (2.55%) ServiceNow
5 12 (2.19%) AppDynamics
5 12 (2.19%) Google
5 12 (2.19%) YouTube
6 11 (2.01%) Oracle
7 9 (1.64%) Adobe
8 7 (1.28%) Pega
9 6 (1.09%) Red Hat
10 5 (0.91%) SAP
11 4 (0.73%) Dell
11 4 (0.73%) NEC
12 3 (0.55%) Apple
12 3 (0.55%) Facebook
12 3 (0.55%) LogicMonitor
13 2 (0.36%) New Relic
13 2 (0.36%) OpenAI