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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -12 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 555 504 897
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.49% 21.26% 22.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.89% 23.76% 26.71%
Number of salaries quoted 374 213 323
10th Percentile £42,000 £43,750 £41,325
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,999 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,400 £97,779
North West median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,982
% change year-on-year +4.17% +3.48% +0.84%

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 5,612 2,121 3,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.79% 89.46% 82.77%
Number of salaries quoted 4,293 1,204 1,784
10th Percentile £32,050 £29,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £83,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,055
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.11% -8.99%

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 16 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 16 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
Salford -8 18 £42,000 -45.61% 28
Ashton-under-Lyne +1 17 £51,000 - 5
Altrincham -2 15 £65,000 - 24
Stockport -3 11 £60,000 - 11
Oldham -4 8 £67,500 +19.46% 7
Wigan -4 3 £77,500 - 1
Bolton -14 1 £55,000 +10.00% 18
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 31 (5.59%) Confluence
2 21 (3.78%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.98%) Apache
5 5 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.72%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.54%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.54%) CMS
7 3 (0.54%) nginx
8 2 (0.36%) IIS
8 2 (0.36%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.36%) WordPress
9 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.18%) JBoss
9 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.26%) Trello
4 6 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.54%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.72%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.18%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
3 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 165 (29.73%) Azure
2 145 (26.13%) AWS
3 74 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (8.11%) Power Platform
5 39 (7.03%) Serverless
6 34 (6.13%) GitHub
6 34 (6.13%) SaaS
7 28 (5.05%) GCP
7 28 (5.05%) Power Automate
8 26 (4.68%) Microsoft Copilot
9 23 (4.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (3.96%) PowerApps
11 21 (3.78%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
13 16 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
14 15 (2.70%) Copilot Studio
14 15 (2.70%) dbt
14 15 (2.70%) Snowflake
15 13 (2.34%) Amazon S3
16 11 (1.98%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.54%) AMQP
2 2 (0.36%) DHCP
2 2 (0.36%) DNS
2 2 (0.36%) HTTP
2 2 (0.36%) NetScaler
2 2 (0.36%) Network Security
3 1 (0.18%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (0.18%) Firewall
3 1 (0.18%) iSCSI
3 1 (0.18%) LAN
3 1 (0.18%) LTE
3 1 (0.18%) SAN
3 1 (0.18%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.18%) SSL
3 1 (0.18%) WAN
3 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.42%) MongoDB
2 18 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (2.88%) DynamoDB
4 15 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (2.70%) Power BI
4 15 (2.70%) SQL Server
5 12 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (1.98%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.26%) Big Data
7 7 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (1.26%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.08%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.90%) BigQuery
9 5 (0.90%) MySQL
10 4 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.72%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.72%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.54%) Cloudera CDH
11 3 (0.54%) Flink
12 2 (0.36%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 60 (10.81%) JIRA
2 44 (7.93%) Git
3 27 (4.86%) GitLab
4 14 (2.52%) Jenkins
5 13 (2.34%) JUnit
5 13 (2.34%) Spock
6 12 (2.16%) Postman
7 9 (1.62%) Claude Code
8 8 (1.44%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (1.26%) Maven
10 5 (0.90%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.72%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.54%) RStudio
12 3 (0.54%) Selenium
13 2 (0.36%) MSTest
13 2 (0.36%) NUnit
13 2 (0.36%) Vagrant
13 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio
14 1 (0.18%) Subversion
General
1 161 (29.01%) Social Skills
2 116 (20.90%) Finance
3 60 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (8.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 40 (7.21%) Public Sector
6 28 (5.05%) Telecoms
7 23 (4.14%) Influencing Skills
8 22 (3.96%) Marketing
9 21 (3.78%) Retail
10 15 (2.70%) Law
11 14 (2.52%) Games
12 11 (1.98%) Publishing
13 10 (1.80%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.44%) Legal
15 8 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (1.26%) Banking
16 7 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (0.90%) Advertising
18 3 (0.54%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 130 (23.42%) Senior
2 109 (19.64%) Developer
3 57 (10.27%) Software Engineer
4 43 (7.75%) Lead
5 42 (7.57%) Senior Developer
6 40 (7.21%) Analyst
7 34 (6.13%) Business Analyst
7 34 (6.13%) Engineering Manager
8 28 (5.05%) Data Engineer
9 26 (4.68%) Delivery Manager
9 26 (4.68%) Design Engineer
10 25 (4.50%) Project Manager
11 22 (3.96%) Senior Software Engineer
12 21 (3.78%) DevOps Engineer
12 21 (3.78%) Java Developer
13 19 (3.42%) Software Developer
14 18 (3.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 18 (3.24%) Microsoft 365 Developer
15 17 (3.06%) Cloud Engineer
15 17 (3.06%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (10.81%) Terraform
2 52 (9.37%) Spring
3 51 (9.19%) .NET
4 44 (7.93%) HTML
5 38 (6.85%) React
6 35 (6.31%) CSS
6 35 (6.31%) Spring Boot
7 34 (6.13%) AngularJS
8 33 (5.95%) Node.js
9 28 (5.05%) REST
10 23 (4.14%) Kafka
11 14 (2.52%) ASP.NET
12 11 (1.98%) Microsoft Graph
13 10 (1.80%) ASP.NET Core
13 10 (1.80%) PySpark
13 10 (1.80%) Vue
14 9 (1.62%) .NET Core
14 9 (1.62%) Entity Framework
14 9 (1.62%) HTML5 Canvas
14 9 (1.62%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 61 (10.99%) Product Ownership
2 51 (9.19%) Cloud Native
3 21 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (3.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 14 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (2.52%) Private Cloud
6 13 (2.34%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (1.98%) IoT
8 11 (1.98%) Marketing Technology
9 9 (1.62%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.08%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.08%) Media Streaming
11 6 (1.08%) Podcast
11 6 (1.08%) Social Media
12 5 (0.90%) Cyber Defence
12 5 (0.90%) Low-Code
12 5 (0.90%) PMI
12 5 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.86%) Linux
2 8 (1.44%) Windows
3 5 (0.90%) Android
3 5 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.72%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.72%) VMS
5 3 (0.54%) CentOS
5 3 (0.54%) Debian
5 3 (0.54%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.36%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (33.51%) DevOps
2 176 (31.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 158 (28.47%) CI/CD
4 149 (26.85%) AI
5 113 (20.36%) Scrum
5 113 (20.36%) Software Engineering
6 107 (19.28%) Problem-Solving
6 107 (19.28%) Stakeholder Management
7 101 (18.20%) Mentoring
8 70 (12.61%) Coaching
9 67 (12.07%) Test Automation
10 62 (11.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 60 (10.81%) Roadmaps
12 59 (10.63%) Microservices
13 57 (10.27%) TDD
14 55 (9.91%) Collaborative Culture
14 55 (9.91%) Decision-Making
15 53 (9.55%) Kanban
16 51 (9.19%) Full-Stack Development
17 49 (8.83%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 110 (19.82%) Java
2 97 (17.48%) Python
3 96 (17.30%) SQL
4 83 (14.95%) JavaScript
5 56 (10.09%) C#
6 40 (7.21%) TypeScript
7 20 (3.60%) Go
8 15 (2.70%) Bash
9 12 (2.16%) C++
10 11 (1.98%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.80%) PHP
12 8 (1.44%) Groovy
13 6 (1.08%) Apex Code
13 6 (1.08%) R
14 4 (0.72%) C
14 4 (0.72%) SOQL
15 3 (0.54%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.54%) Rust
15 3 (0.54%) SOSL
16 2 (0.36%) Swift
Qualifications
1 84 (15.14%) Security Cleared
2 77 (13.87%) Degree
3 61 (10.99%) SC Cleared
4 36 (6.49%) DV Cleared
5 25 (4.50%) DBS Check
6 23 (4.14%) HNC
7 20 (3.60%) Master's Degree
8 12 (2.16%) PMI Certification
9 10 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (1.44%) AWS Certification
12 7 (1.26%) PMP
13 5 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.90%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.72%) MBA
14 4 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 2 (0.36%) Chartered Engineer
15 2 (0.36%) MCSE
15 2 (0.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (8.47%) Data Quality
2 30 (5.41%) QA
3 14 (2.52%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.62%) GDPR
5 7 (1.26%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.26%) PMO
6 6 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.72%) 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 59 (10.63%) Docker
2 3 (0.54%) Ceph
3 2 (0.36%) UAG
3 2 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.18%) Firmware
4 1 (0.18%) NFS
4 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (11.35%) Kubernetes
2 32 (5.77%) Ansible
3 11 (1.98%) Argo
4 10 (1.80%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.26%) Grafana
6 5 (0.90%) Podman
7 4 (0.72%) Istio
8 3 (0.54%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.54%) Puppet
9 2 (0.36%) AirWatch
9 2 (0.36%) Packer
9 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.36%) SCCM
9 2 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.36%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.18%) linkerd
10 1 (0.18%) Nagios
Vendors
1 84 (15.14%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.96%) YouTube
3 19 (3.42%) Splunk
4 18 (3.24%) Salesforce
5 17 (3.06%) Databricks
6 14 (2.52%) Google
7 13 (2.34%) AppDynamics
8 11 (1.98%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.80%) Oracle
10 9 (1.62%) Adobe
10 9 (1.62%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.72%) Dell
11 4 (0.72%) NEC
11 4 (0.72%) Thales
12 3 (0.54%) Apple
12 3 (0.54%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (0.54%) Pega
12 3 (0.54%) SaltStack
12 3 (0.54%) SAP
12 3 (0.54%) VMware