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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -11 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 459 610 1,240
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.59% 26.88% 21.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.63% 28.20% 25.60%
Number of salaries quoted 347 279 834
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,500 £41,066
25th Percentile £51,625 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £94,620 £93,778 £87,500
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 4,318 2,163 4,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.40% 95.33% 83.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,408 1,218 3,623
10th Percentile £33,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,501
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -9.18%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £81,200
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 14 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 14 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 -3 14 £67,500 +22.73% 5
Salford -8 7 £74,651 - 6
Ashton-under-Lyne +1 5 £51,000 - 6
Stockport -6 4 £55,000 - 4
Bury +2 3 £92,482 - 4
Oldham -2 3 £69,973 +23.84% 2
Bolton -8 2 £55,000 -26.67% 3
Rochdale -5 1 £55,000 -
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 (6.97%) Confluence
2 13 (2.83%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (1.09%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.09%) CMS
5 4 (0.87%) Apache
6 3 (0.65%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.65%) WordPress
7 2 (0.44%) CICS
7 2 (0.44%) nginx
7 2 (0.44%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.44%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.22%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 6 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.44%) Trello
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.22%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 145 (31.59%) Azure
2 127 (27.67%) AWS
3 50 (10.89%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (8.50%) SaaS
5 34 (7.41%) Serverless
6 28 (6.10%) Power Platform
7 27 (5.88%) GCP
8 25 (5.45%) GitHub
9 22 (4.79%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (2.83%) Anthropic Claude
12 11 (2.40%) Azure AKS
13 10 (2.18%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (1.96%) Microsoft Copilot
15 8 (1.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 8 (1.74%) Azure Functions
15 8 (1.74%) Azure Service Bus
15 8 (1.74%) dbt
16 7 (1.53%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.65%) AMQP
2 2 (0.44%) HTTP
2 2 (0.44%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.22%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.01%) NoSQL
2 15 (3.27%) Power BI
3 14 (3.05%) MongoDB
4 13 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.40%) SQL Server
6 10 (2.18%) MySQL
6 10 (2.18%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (1.53%) Big Data
9 7 (1.53%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.53%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.31%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.09%) 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 51 (11.11%) JIRA
2 41 (8.93%) Git
3 17 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.49%) GitLab
5 14 (3.05%) Claude Code
6 11 (2.40%) Postman
7 7 (1.53%) JUnit
8 6 (1.31%) Spock
9 4 (0.87%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.65%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.65%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.44%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.44%) Maven
11 2 (0.44%) MSTest
11 2 (0.44%) NUnit
11 2 (0.44%) Selenium
11 2 (0.44%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.44%) XCUITest
General
1 104 (22.66%) Finance
2 96 (20.92%) Social Skills
3 44 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (6.97%) Public Sector
5 29 (6.32%) Marketing
6 22 (4.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (3.27%) Banking
7 15 (3.27%) Games
7 15 (3.27%) Retail
8 12 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (1.96%) Advertising
9 9 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.74%) Law
11 7 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.87%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.87%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.87%) Publishing
12 4 (0.87%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.65%) Back Office
13 3 (0.65%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 116 (25.27%) Senior
2 83 (18.08%) Developer
3 68 (14.81%) Software Engineer
4 47 (10.24%) Lead
5 37 (8.06%) Senior Developer
6 28 (6.10%) Data Engineer
6 28 (6.10%) Java Developer
7 24 (5.23%) Analyst
7 24 (5.23%) Project Manager
8 21 (4.58%) Business Analyst
8 21 (4.58%) Lead Software Engineer
8 21 (4.58%) Senior Software Engineer
9 20 (4.36%) Delivery Manager
9 20 (4.36%) Java Engineer
9 20 (4.36%) Senior Data Engineer
10 19 (4.14%) Cloud Engineer
11 17 (3.70%) Engineering Manager
11 17 (3.70%) Product Owner
12 16 (3.49%) Senior Java Developer
13 14 (3.05%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (12.42%) .NET
2 42 (9.15%) React
3 38 (8.28%) Node.js
3 38 (8.28%) Spring
4 33 (7.19%) REST
5 32 (6.97%) AngularJS
5 32 (6.97%) HTML
6 31 (6.75%) CSS
6 31 (6.75%) Spring Boot
7 21 (4.58%) RESTful
8 13 (2.83%) Kafka
9 12 (2.61%) Vue
10 10 (2.18%) .NET Framework
11 8 (1.74%) PySpark
12 7 (1.53%) Web Services
13 6 (1.31%) ASP.NET
13 6 (1.31%) SOAP
14 5 (1.09%) CSS3
14 5 (1.09%) HTML5
14 5 (1.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 60 (13.07%) Product Ownership
2 34 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 25 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (2.83%) Mobile App
6 9 (1.96%) Driving Licence
6 9 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (1.74%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.53%) Marketing Technology
8 7 (1.53%) PMI
9 6 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.31%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.09%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.87%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.65%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.44%) Mainframe
13 2 (0.44%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.70%) Linux
2 7 (1.53%) 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 (0.44%) Android
5 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (32.03%) CI/CD
2 137 (29.85%) DevOps
3 116 (25.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 115 (25.05%) Scrum
5 99 (21.57%) Software Engineering
6 74 (16.12%) AI
6 74 (16.12%) TDD
7 68 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
8 64 (13.94%) Microservices
9 63 (13.73%) Mentoring
10 61 (13.29%) Coaching
10 61 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
11 59 (12.85%) Roadmaps
12 56 (12.20%) Kanban
13 55 (11.98%) Test Automation
14 51 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
15 50 (10.89%) Decision-Making
16 48 (10.46%) Infrastructure as Code
17 43 (9.37%) Collaborative Culture
17 43 (9.37%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 104 (22.66%) Java
2 93 (20.26%) SQL
3 84 (18.30%) Python
4 68 (14.81%) JavaScript
5 49 (10.68%) C#
6 27 (5.88%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.18%) Bash
8 9 (1.96%) C++
8 9 (1.96%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.09%) Apex Code
9 5 (1.09%) Go
9 5 (1.09%) Groovy
9 5 (1.09%) PHP
10 4 (0.87%) SOQL
11 3 (0.65%) C
11 3 (0.65%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.65%) Scala
11 3 (0.65%) SOSL
12 2 (0.44%) Bicep
12 2 (0.44%) Swift
Qualifications
1 57 (12.42%) Security Cleared
2 45 (9.80%) SC Cleared
3 21 (4.58%) Degree
4 20 (4.36%) DV Cleared
5 13 (2.83%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.31%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.31%) PMP
7 5 (1.09%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.65%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.44%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (0.44%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.22%) ACCA
10 1 (0.22%) CIPD
10 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.22%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.01%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.58%) QA
3 10 (2.18%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.09%) PMO
5 4 (0.87%) GDPR
6 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.44%) WCAG
7 1 (0.22%) GRC
7 1 (0.22%) ITGC
7 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 38 (8.28%) Docker
2 4 (0.87%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (13.73%) Terraform
2 47 (10.24%) Kubernetes
3 21 (4.58%) Ansible
4 6 (1.31%) Grafana
4 6 (1.31%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.09%) Argo
6 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.65%) Puppet
6 3 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.44%) Packer
7 2 (0.44%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.22%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.22%) Istio
8 1 (0.22%) linkerd
8 1 (0.22%) Rancher
Vendors
1 57 (12.42%) Microsoft
2 18 (3.92%) Salesforce
3 17 (3.70%) Databricks
4 15 (3.27%) ServiceNow
5 11 (2.40%) Splunk
6 8 (1.74%) Adobe
7 7 (1.53%) Google
7 7 (1.53%) Oracle
8 6 (1.31%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.09%) Pega
10 4 (0.87%) SAP
11 3 (0.65%) Facebook
11 3 (0.65%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (0.65%) New Relic
11 3 (0.65%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.65%) SaltStack
12 2 (0.44%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.44%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.44%) WSO2
13 1 (0.22%) Proofpoint