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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -11 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 462 609 1,242
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.58% 26.88% 21.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.57% 28.18% 25.45%
Number of salaries quoted 350 279 834
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,500 £40,988
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,875 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £82,188 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £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 4,371 2,161 4,880
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.73% 95.37% 82.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,454 1,219 3,650
10th Percentile £32,875 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -9.48%
75th Percentile £77,375 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £80,492
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -2 15 £67,500 +22.73% 2
Salford -8 7 £74,651 - 12
Ashton-under-Lyne +1 6 £47,500 - 4
Stockport -6 4 £55,000 - 8
Bury +2 3 £92,482 - 4
Oldham -1 3 £69,973 +23.84% 9
Bolton -7 2 £55,000 -26.67% 3
Rochdale -4 1 £55,000 - 3
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 32 (6.93%) Confluence
2 13 (2.81%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (1.08%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.08%) CMS
5 4 (0.87%) Apache
6 3 (0.65%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.65%) WordPress
7 2 (0.43%) CICS
7 2 (0.43%) nginx
7 2 (0.43%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.43%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.22%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.43%) Trello
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.22%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 144 (31.17%) Azure
2 129 (27.92%) AWS
3 51 (11.04%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (8.87%) SaaS
5 34 (7.36%) Serverless
6 27 (5.84%) GCP
6 27 (5.84%) Power Platform
7 25 (5.41%) GitHub
8 22 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (2.81%) Anthropic Claude
11 10 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (2.16%) Azure AKS
11 10 (2.16%) Microsoft Copilot
12 9 (1.95%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (1.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 8 (1.73%) Azure Functions
13 8 (1.73%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (1.73%) dbt
13 8 (1.73%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.65%) AMQP
2 1 (0.22%) HTTP
2 1 (0.22%) LTE
2 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.76%) NoSQL
2 15 (3.25%) Power BI
3 14 (3.03%) MongoDB
4 13 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.38%) SQL Server
6 10 (2.16%) MySQL
7 9 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (1.95%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (1.52%) Big Data
9 7 (1.52%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.52%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.30%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.08%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.87%) Flink
13 3 (0.65%) Cloudera CDH
13 3 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
13 3 (0.65%) GIS
13 3 (0.65%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 52 (11.26%) JIRA
2 41 (8.87%) Git
3 17 (3.68%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.46%) GitLab
5 14 (3.03%) Claude Code
6 11 (2.38%) Postman
7 7 (1.52%) JUnit
8 6 (1.30%) Spock
9 4 (0.87%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.65%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.65%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.43%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.43%) Maven
11 2 (0.43%) MSTest
11 2 (0.43%) NUnit
11 2 (0.43%) Selenium
11 2 (0.43%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.43%) XCUITest
12 1 (0.22%) WinDbg
General
1 106 (22.94%) Finance
2 99 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 44 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (7.36%) Public Sector
5 30 (6.49%) Marketing
6 21 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (3.25%) Banking
7 15 (3.25%) Games
8 14 (3.03%) Retail
9 13 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.95%) Advertising
11 9 (1.95%) Law
12 7 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.87%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.87%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.87%) Publishing
13 4 (0.87%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.87%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.65%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 114 (24.68%) Senior
2 84 (18.18%) Developer
3 67 (14.50%) Software Engineer
4 46 (9.96%) Lead
5 37 (8.01%) Senior Developer
6 28 (6.06%) Java Developer
7 27 (5.84%) Data Engineer
8 25 (5.41%) Analyst
9 24 (5.19%) Project Manager
10 22 (4.76%) Business Analyst
11 21 (4.55%) Lead Software Engineer
12 20 (4.33%) Delivery Manager
12 20 (4.33%) Java Engineer
12 20 (4.33%) Senior Software Engineer
13 19 (4.11%) Cloud Engineer
13 19 (4.11%) Senior Data Engineer
14 18 (3.90%) Engineering Manager
14 18 (3.90%) Product Owner
15 16 (3.46%) Senior Java Developer
16 14 (3.03%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (12.34%) .NET
2 42 (9.09%) React
3 38 (8.23%) Node.js
3 38 (8.23%) Spring
4 33 (7.14%) HTML
5 32 (6.93%) AngularJS
5 32 (6.93%) REST
6 31 (6.71%) CSS
6 31 (6.71%) Spring Boot
7 20 (4.33%) RESTful
8 13 (2.81%) Kafka
9 12 (2.60%) Vue
10 9 (1.95%) .NET Framework
11 8 (1.73%) PySpark
12 6 (1.30%) ASP.NET
12 6 (1.30%) SOAP
12 6 (1.30%) Web Services
13 5 (1.08%) CSS3
13 5 (1.08%) HTML5
13 5 (1.08%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 63 (13.64%) Product Ownership
2 35 (7.58%) Cloud Native
3 25 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (2.81%) Mobile App
6 9 (1.95%) Driving Licence
6 9 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (1.73%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.52%) Marketing Technology
8 7 (1.52%) PMI
9 6 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.30%) Private Cloud
9 6 (1.30%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (0.65%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.65%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.43%) IVR
13 2 (0.43%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.68%) Linux
2 6 (1.30%) Windows
3 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.65%) CentOS
3 3 (0.65%) Debian
3 3 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (0.65%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.43%) Android
5 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (31.82%) CI/CD
2 137 (29.65%) DevOps
3 119 (25.76%) Continuous Improvement
4 116 (25.11%) Scrum
5 98 (21.21%) Software Engineering
6 76 (16.45%) TDD
7 75 (16.23%) AI
8 71 (15.37%) Stakeholder Management
9 64 (13.85%) Mentoring
10 63 (13.64%) Coaching
10 63 (13.64%) Microservices
11 62 (13.42%) Problem-Solving
12 60 (12.99%) Roadmaps
13 57 (12.34%) Kanban
14 55 (11.90%) Test Automation
15 51 (11.04%) Full-Stack Development
16 49 (10.61%) Decision-Making
16 49 (10.61%) Infrastructure as Code
17 43 (9.31%) Project Management
18 42 (9.09%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 104 (22.51%) Java
2 93 (20.13%) SQL
3 83 (17.97%) Python
4 69 (14.94%) JavaScript
5 51 (11.04%) C#
6 27 (5.84%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.16%) Bash
8 9 (1.95%) PowerShell
9 8 (1.73%) C++
10 6 (1.30%) Go
10 6 (1.30%) PHP
11 5 (1.08%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.08%) Groovy
12 4 (0.87%) SOQL
13 3 (0.65%) C
13 3 (0.65%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.65%) Scala
13 3 (0.65%) SOSL
14 2 (0.43%) Bicep
14 2 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 57 (12.34%) Security Cleared
2 45 (9.74%) SC Cleared
3 23 (4.98%) Degree
4 20 (4.33%) DV Cleared
5 13 (2.81%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.30%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.30%) PMP
7 5 (1.08%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.87%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.43%) Chartered Engineer
10 2 (0.43%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.22%) ACCA
11 1 (0.22%) CSPO
11 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.22%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.98%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.55%) QA
3 10 (2.16%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.30%) PMO
5 5 (1.08%) GDPR
6 3 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.65%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.43%) WCAG
8 1 (0.22%) GRC
8 1 (0.22%) ITGC
8 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 38 (8.23%) Docker
2 3 (0.65%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (13.64%) Terraform
2 46 (9.96%) Kubernetes
3 21 (4.55%) Ansible
4 6 (1.30%) Grafana
4 6 (1.30%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.08%) Argo
6 3 (0.65%) Puppet
7 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.43%) Packer
7 2 (0.43%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.22%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.22%) Istio
8 1 (0.22%) linkerd
8 1 (0.22%) Rancher
Vendors
1 56 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.68%) Databricks
2 17 (3.68%) Salesforce
3 15 (3.25%) ServiceNow
4 10 (2.16%) Splunk
5 8 (1.73%) Adobe
6 7 (1.52%) Google
6 7 (1.52%) Oracle
7 6 (1.30%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.08%) Pega
9 4 (0.87%) SAP
10 3 (0.65%) Facebook
10 3 (0.65%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.65%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.65%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.43%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.43%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.43%) New Relic
11 2 (0.43%) WSO2
12 1 (0.22%) Sony