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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 455 832 738
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 19.42% 22.69% 29.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.45% 26.67% 31.38%
Number of salaries quoted 220 265 548
10th Percentile £44,000 £41,675 £42,082
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -1.64% +6.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,500 £87,419
North West median annual salary £60,000 £58,650 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.30% -2.25% +6.37%

All Process and 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 2,027 3,120 2,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 86.51% 85.08% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,237 1,447 1,911
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,750 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,042 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.92% -5.38% +4.76%

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 30 October 2025.

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 30 October 2025. 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 +1 31 £65,000 +13.04% 8
Bolton +10 20 £50,000 -9.09% 38
Oldham +2 19 £56,504 -16.29% 2
Stockport +1 17 £55,000 -8.33% 1
Ashton-under-Lyne 0 8 - - 8
Sale -1 8 - -
Bury 0 7 - - 8
Cheadle -1 7 - - 1
Salford -8 6 £74,830 +20.28% 7
Heywood - 6 - -
Dukinfield -1 5 - -
Stalybridge - 5 - -
Wigan - 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 26 (5.71%) Confluence
2 4 (0.88%) CMS
3 3 (0.66%) Apache
3 3 (0.66%) IIS
4 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.44%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.44%) nginx
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 16 (3.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.76%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.32%) Trello
4 5 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.66%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.66%) Sketch
6 2 (0.44%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.22%) InVision
7 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.22%) Magento
3 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.22%) Siebel CRM
3 1 (0.22%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 223 (49.01%) AWS
2 207 (45.49%) Azure
3 128 (28.13%) GCP
4 36 (7.91%) SaaS
5 33 (7.25%) Power Platform
6 27 (5.93%) Serverless
7 21 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (3.74%) GitHub
10 11 (2.42%) Figma
11 8 (1.76%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (1.32%) Adobe Analytics
13 6 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (1.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (1.32%) PaaS
13 6 (1.32%) Power Automate
14 5 (1.10%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.66%) DNS
1 3 (0.66%) Firewall
1 3 (0.66%) WAN
2 2 (0.44%) HTTP
3 1 (0.22%) AMQP
3 1 (0.22%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.22%) SSH
3 1 (0.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (9.67%) SQL Server
2 30 (6.59%) MongoDB
3 28 (6.15%) NoSQL
4 24 (5.27%) Power BI
5 12 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (1.98%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.76%) MySQL
9 7 (1.54%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.10%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.10%) Redis
11 4 (0.88%) GIS
12 3 (0.66%) Big Data
12 3 (0.66%) Hazelcast
12 3 (0.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.44%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.44%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 59 (12.97%) JIRA
2 38 (8.35%) GitLab
3 36 (7.91%) Cucumber
3 36 (7.91%) Selenium
4 28 (6.15%) Bitbucket
5 27 (5.93%) Maven
5 27 (5.93%) SonarQube
5 27 (5.93%) Sonatype Nexus
6 15 (3.30%) Git
7 8 (1.76%) Jenkins
8 5 (1.10%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.88%) JMeter
10 3 (0.66%) Gatling
11 2 (0.44%) JUnit
11 2 (0.44%) webpack
12 1 (0.22%) Appium
12 1 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.22%) Axure RP
12 1 (0.22%) LoadRunner
12 1 (0.22%) NUnit
General
1 133 (29.23%) Finance
2 122 (26.81%) Social Skills
3 115 (25.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 49 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (8.57%) Public Sector
6 38 (8.35%) Banking
7 32 (7.03%) Retail
8 26 (5.71%) Marketing
9 20 (4.40%) Local Government
10 18 (3.96%) Corporate Banking
10 18 (3.96%) Investment Banking
11 17 (3.74%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (2.86%) Law
13 12 (2.64%) Games
14 9 (1.98%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.32%) Back Office
15 6 (1.32%) Electronics
15 6 (1.32%) Legal
15 6 (1.32%) Telecoms
16 5 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 175 (38.46%) Senior
2 136 (29.89%) Software Engineer
3 90 (19.78%) Senior Software Engineer
4 85 (18.68%) Developer
5 37 (8.13%) Lead
6 32 (7.03%) Analyst
7 30 (6.59%) Senior Developer
8 27 (5.93%) Senior Manager
9 23 (5.05%) Project Manager
10 21 (4.62%) Java Developer
11 20 (4.40%) Architect
11 20 (4.40%) Audit Manager
11 20 (4.40%) Senior Audit Manager
12 18 (3.96%) AWS Architect
13 17 (3.74%) .NET Developer
13 17 (3.74%) AWS Solution Architect
13 17 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (3.52%) TOGAF Architect
15 15 (3.30%) Senior Java Developer
16 13 (2.86%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (30.11%) .NET
2 100 (21.98%) Node.js
3 77 (16.92%) React
4 56 (12.31%) Spring
4 56 (12.31%) Spring Boot
5 52 (11.43%) CSS
5 52 (11.43%) Kafka
6 49 (10.77%) HTML
7 42 (9.23%) REST
8 33 (7.25%) RESTful
9 28 (6.15%) Redux
10 27 (5.93%) JPA
11 25 (5.49%) CSS3
12 24 (5.27%) HTML5
13 23 (5.05%) Jest
14 19 (4.18%) Sass
15 17 (3.74%) AngularJS
15 17 (3.74%) Hibernate
16 10 (2.20%) .NET Core
17 9 (1.98%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 91 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 82 (18.02%) Cyberattack
2 82 (18.02%) Linux Command Line
3 64 (14.07%) Product Ownership
4 34 (7.47%) Cloud Native
5 28 (6.15%) Enterprise Software
6 19 (4.18%) Social Media
7 18 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (3.96%) Management Information System
8 12 (2.64%) Mobile App
9 10 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.76%) e-Learning
10 8 (1.76%) Wiki
11 6 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.10%) Data Centre
13 4 (0.88%) Animation
14 3 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 3 (0.66%) Private Cloud
14 3 (0.66%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 2 (0.44%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 88 (19.34%) Linux
2 13 (2.86%) Windows
3 2 (0.44%) Android
3 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.44%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.22%) CentOS
4 1 (0.22%) Debian
4 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (39.56%) Software Engineering
2 165 (36.26%) Microservices
3 158 (34.73%) User Experience
4 154 (33.85%) Mentoring
5 123 (27.03%) DevOps
5 123 (27.03%) Scrum
6 118 (25.93%) CI/CD
7 99 (21.76%) Data Engineering
8 92 (20.22%) Machine Learning
8 92 (20.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 89 (19.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 84 (18.46%) Cloud Security
11 78 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
12 70 (15.38%) Containerisation
13 69 (15.16%) Full-Stack Development
14 65 (14.29%) Roadmaps
14 65 (14.29%) Test Automation
15 64 (14.07%) SDLC
16 57 (12.53%) Coaching
17 51 (11.21%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 174 (38.24%) Java
2 155 (34.07%) JavaScript
3 124 (27.25%) Python
4 85 (18.68%) Go
5 82 (18.02%) C++
5 82 (18.02%) Rust
6 74 (16.26%) SQL
7 63 (13.85%) TypeScript
8 61 (13.41%) C#
9 8 (1.76%) PHP
9 8 (1.76%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.88%) Bash
10 4 (0.88%) Bicep
11 3 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.66%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.44%) Scala
13 1 (0.22%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.22%) Swift
Qualifications
1 109 (23.96%) Security Cleared
2 94 (20.66%) AWS Certification
3 91 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 90 (19.78%) DV Cleared
5 82 (18.02%) AWS Certified Developer
6 32 (7.03%) Degree
7 30 (6.59%) ACCA
8 21 (4.62%) SC Cleared
9 19 (4.18%) DBS Check
10 13 (2.86%) Azure Certification
11 10 (2.20%) CIMA
11 10 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (1.98%) PMI Certification
12 9 (1.98%) PMP
13 7 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.66%) Master's Degree
15 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
16 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 2 (0.44%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (10.99%) QA
2 41 (9.01%) Accessibility
3 20 (4.40%) GAAP
3 20 (4.40%) IFRS
4 10 (2.20%) GDPR
4 10 (2.20%) NIST
5 9 (1.98%) HIPAA
6 6 (1.32%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.66%) WCAG
8 2 (0.44%) HL7
8 2 (0.44%) PMO
9 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.22%) P3O
9 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 80 (17.58%) Docker
2 5 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.22%) HDFS
4 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 73 (16.04%) Kubernetes
2 28 (6.15%) Terraform
3 6 (1.32%) Ansible
4 3 (0.66%) Grafana
5 1 (0.22%) Automic
5 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.22%) Puppet
5 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (8.13%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.93%) Solace
3 21 (4.62%) Google
4 9 (1.98%) Adobe
4 9 (1.98%) Facebook
4 9 (1.98%) SAP
5 7 (1.54%) Bloomberg
6 6 (1.32%) Databricks
6 6 (1.32%) Qualtrics
6 6 (1.32%) Splunk
7 5 (1.10%) Oracle
8 4 (0.88%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.66%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.66%) VMware
10 2 (0.44%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.44%) Dell
10 2 (0.44%) IBM
10 2 (0.44%) Informatica
10 2 (0.44%) Liquidlogic
10 2 (0.44%) Ping Identity