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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -10 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 437 608 1,163
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.27% 27.47% 21.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.08% 28.68% 25.57%
Number of salaries quoted 334 276 839
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,125 £40,988
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £46,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +0.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,375 £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 4,335 2,120 4,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.11% 95.80% 83.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3,209 1,191 3,524
10th Percentile £32,875 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £81,250
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 2 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 2 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% 7
Salford -8 7 £74,651 - 5
Stockport -13 4 £55,000 -
Bury -2 3 £92,482 - 5
Oldham -5 3 £69,973 +23.84% 1
Bolton -5 3 £55,000 -26.67% 2
Ashton-under-Lyne -3 1 £51,000 - 5
Rochdale -8 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 29 (6.64%) Confluence
2 10 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (1.14%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.92%) Apache
5 4 (0.92%) CMS
6 3 (0.69%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.69%) WordPress
7 2 (0.46%) CICS
7 2 (0.46%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.46%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.23%) nginx
8 1 (0.23%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.46%) Trello
4 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.23%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 140 (32.04%) Azure
2 119 (27.23%) AWS
3 45 (10.30%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (9.15%) SaaS
5 34 (7.78%) Serverless
6 26 (5.95%) GCP
7 24 (5.49%) Power Platform
8 20 (4.58%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (4.58%) GitHub
9 13 (2.97%) Anthropic Claude
9 13 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (2.52%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (2.52%) Azure AKS
10 11 (2.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 11 (2.52%) Azure Functions
10 11 (2.52%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (2.52%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (1.60%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (1.60%) dbt
12 6 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.69%) AMQP
1 3 (0.69%) HTTP
1 3 (0.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.23%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (5.49%) NoSQL
2 14 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (2.97%) MongoDB
3 13 (2.97%) Power BI
4 12 (2.75%) SQL Server
5 10 (2.29%) MySQL
5 10 (2.29%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.60%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (1.37%) Big Data
7 6 (1.37%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.37%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.14%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.92%) Flink
10 3 (0.69%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (0.69%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.69%) GIS
10 3 (0.69%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 48 (10.98%) JIRA
2 42 (9.61%) Git
3 16 (3.66%) Jenkins
4 14 (3.20%) GitLab
5 13 (2.97%) Claude Code
6 10 (2.29%) Postman
7 5 (1.14%) JUnit
8 4 (0.92%) Spock
9 3 (0.69%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.69%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.69%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.69%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.46%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.46%) Maven
10 2 (0.46%) MSTest
10 2 (0.46%) NUnit
10 2 (0.46%) Selenium
10 2 (0.46%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.46%) XCUITest
11 1 (0.23%) REST Assured
General
1 97 (22.20%) Finance
1 97 (22.20%) Social Skills
2 43 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (7.32%) Public Sector
4 26 (5.95%) Marketing
5 23 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (3.66%) Banking
7 13 (2.97%) Games
8 12 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.29%) Retail
10 9 (2.06%) Advertising
10 9 (2.06%) Law
10 9 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.92%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.92%) Publishing
12 4 (0.92%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.69%) Legal
13 3 (0.69%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 116 (26.54%) Senior
2 81 (18.54%) Developer
3 68 (15.56%) Software Engineer
4 50 (11.44%) Lead
5 39 (8.92%) Senior Developer
6 28 (6.41%) Java Developer
6 28 (6.41%) Project Manager
7 25 (5.72%) Data Engineer
8 23 (5.26%) Lead Software Engineer
9 22 (5.03%) Analyst
10 20 (4.58%) Java Engineer
10 20 (4.58%) Senior Data Engineer
11 19 (4.35%) Business Analyst
11 19 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
11 19 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
11 19 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
12 16 (3.66%) Product Owner
12 16 (3.66%) Senior Java Developer
13 15 (3.43%) .NET Developer
14 14 (3.20%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (12.81%) .NET
2 43 (9.84%) React
3 36 (8.24%) Node.js
4 34 (7.78%) REST
4 34 (7.78%) Spring
5 31 (7.09%) CSS
6 30 (6.86%) AngularJS
6 30 (6.86%) HTML
7 29 (6.64%) Spring Boot
8 22 (5.03%) RESTful
9 13 (2.97%) Kafka
10 11 (2.52%) Vue
11 10 (2.29%) .NET Framework
12 8 (1.83%) PySpark
13 7 (1.60%) Web Services
14 6 (1.37%) SOAP
15 5 (1.14%) ASP.NET
15 5 (1.14%) CSS3
15 5 (1.14%) HTML5
15 5 (1.14%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 57 (13.04%) Product Ownership
2 29 (6.64%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (3.89%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (3.20%) Mobile App
6 10 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.06%) Driving Licence
7 9 (2.06%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.37%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.37%) Marketing Technology
8 6 (1.37%) PMI
9 5 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (0.92%) Private Cloud
10 4 (0.92%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.69%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.46%) Client/Server
12 2 (0.46%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.46%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.43%) Linux
2 9 (2.06%) Windows
3 3 (0.69%) CentOS
3 3 (0.69%) Debian
3 3 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (0.69%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.23%) Android
5 1 (0.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (31.35%) CI/CD
2 129 (29.52%) DevOps
3 111 (25.40%) Scrum
4 108 (24.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 95 (21.74%) Software Engineering
6 72 (16.48%) TDD
7 63 (14.42%) AI
8 62 (14.19%) Microservices
8 62 (14.19%) Stakeholder Management
9 60 (13.73%) Mentoring
10 56 (12.81%) Roadmaps
11 55 (12.59%) Coaching
11 55 (12.59%) Kanban
12 53 (12.13%) Problem-Solving
13 49 (11.21%) Test Automation
14 48 (10.98%) Full-Stack Development
15 47 (10.76%) Project Management
16 44 (10.07%) Decision-Making
16 44 (10.07%) Infrastructure as Code
17 39 (8.92%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 99 (22.65%) Java
2 85 (19.45%) SQL
3 76 (17.39%) Python
4 63 (14.42%) JavaScript
5 44 (10.07%) C#
6 27 (6.18%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.29%) C++
8 7 (1.60%) Bash
8 7 (1.60%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.14%) Apex Code
9 5 (1.14%) Groovy
10 4 (0.92%) Go
10 4 (0.92%) PHP
10 4 (0.92%) SOQL
11 3 (0.69%) C
11 3 (0.69%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.69%) SOSL
12 2 (0.46%) Scala
12 2 (0.46%) Swift
13 1 (0.23%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 51 (11.67%) Security Cleared
2 41 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 19 (4.35%) DV Cleared
4 17 (3.89%) Degree
5 16 (3.66%) PMI Certification
6 10 (2.29%) PMP
7 5 (1.14%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.69%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.69%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.46%) Chartered Engineer
10 2 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.23%) ACCA
11 1 (0.23%) CIPD
11 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.23%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.58%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.12%) QA
3 9 (2.06%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.37%) PMO
5 2 (0.46%) GDPR
5 2 (0.46%) WCAG
6 1 (0.23%) GRC
6 1 (0.23%) GxP
6 1 (0.23%) ITGC
6 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 35 (8.01%) Docker
2 5 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 61 (13.96%) Terraform
2 45 (10.30%) Kubernetes
3 21 (4.81%) Ansible
4 4 (0.92%) Grafana
4 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.92%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.69%) Argo
5 3 (0.69%) Puppet
6 2 (0.46%) Packer
6 2 (0.46%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.46%) Rancher
7 1 (0.23%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 52 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.35%) Salesforce
3 15 (3.43%) ServiceNow
4 14 (3.20%) Databricks
5 8 (1.83%) Splunk
6 7 (1.60%) Adobe
6 7 (1.60%) Oracle
7 6 (1.37%) Google
7 6 (1.37%) Pega
8 4 (0.92%) AppDynamics
8 4 (0.92%) New Relic
8 4 (0.92%) SAP
9 3 (0.69%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.69%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.69%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.46%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.46%) Facebook
10 2 (0.46%) WSO2
11 1 (0.23%) Proofpoint
11 1 (0.23%) Qualtrics