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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -12 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 540 512 897
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.35% 21.32% 22.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.74% 23.81% 26.68%
Number of salaries quoted 364 220 334
10th Percentile £42,000 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,938 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £74,063 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £99,542
North West median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year +4.17% +3.51% +0.81%

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 5,545 2,150 3,362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.51% 89.51% 82.50%
Number of salaries quoted 4,264 1,228 1,827
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £34,938 £41,000
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 £86,250 £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 13 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 13 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
Ashton-under-Lyne +1 16 £51,000 - 3
Salford -9 16 £42,000 -45.61% 13
Altrincham -3 13 £65,000 - 5
Stockport -5 11 £60,000 -4.00% 3
Oldham -4 8 £67,500 +19.46% 7
Wigan -6 2 £77,500 - 1
Bolton -14 1 £55,000 +10.00% 8
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 (5.93%) Confluence
2 20 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (2.04%) Apache
5 5 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.74%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.56%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.56%) CMS
7 3 (0.56%) nginx
8 2 (0.37%) IIS
8 2 (0.37%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.37%) WordPress
9 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.19%) JBoss
9 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.30%) Trello
4 6 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.74%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.19%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
3 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 164 (30.37%) Azure
2 143 (26.48%) AWS
3 71 (13.15%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (7.78%) Power Platform
5 39 (7.22%) Serverless
6 34 (6.30%) SaaS
7 33 (6.11%) GitHub
8 29 (5.37%) GCP
9 25 (4.63%) Power Automate
10 23 (4.26%) Microsoft Copilot
11 22 (4.07%) AWS CloudFormation
12 20 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
13 19 (3.52%) PowerApps
14 18 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
15 16 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
16 15 (2.78%) dbt
16 15 (2.78%) Snowflake
17 13 (2.41%) Amazon S3
18 12 (2.22%) Copilot Studio
19 11 (2.04%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.56%) AMQP
2 2 (0.37%) DHCP
2 2 (0.37%) DNS
2 2 (0.37%) HTTP
2 2 (0.37%) NetScaler
2 2 (0.37%) Network Security
3 1 (0.19%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (0.19%) Firewall
3 1 (0.19%) iSCSI
3 1 (0.19%) LAN
3 1 (0.19%) LTE
3 1 (0.19%) SAN
3 1 (0.19%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.19%) SSL
3 1 (0.19%) WAN
3 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (3.15%) MongoDB
3 16 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (2.96%) DynamoDB
4 15 (2.78%) Power BI
4 15 (2.78%) SQL Server
5 12 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (2.04%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.30%) Big Data
7 7 (1.30%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (1.30%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.93%) BigQuery
8 5 (0.93%) MySQL
9 4 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.74%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.74%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.56%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (0.56%) Flink
11 2 (0.37%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 62 (11.48%) JIRA
2 45 (8.33%) Git
3 25 (4.63%) GitLab
4 13 (2.41%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.41%) JUnit
4 13 (2.41%) Spock
5 11 (2.04%) Postman
6 9 (1.67%) Claude Code
7 8 (1.48%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 7 (1.30%) Maven
9 4 (0.74%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.74%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.56%) RStudio
11 2 (0.37%) MSTest
11 2 (0.37%) NUnit
11 2 (0.37%) Selenium
11 2 (0.37%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.19%) Subversion
12 1 (0.19%) Xcode
General
1 151 (27.96%) Social Skills
2 115 (21.30%) Finance
3 61 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 40 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 25 (4.63%) Telecoms
7 23 (4.26%) Marketing
8 21 (3.89%) Influencing Skills
8 21 (3.89%) Retail
9 15 (2.78%) Law
10 14 (2.59%) Games
11 10 (1.85%) Aerospace
11 10 (1.85%) Publishing
12 8 (1.48%) Legal
12 8 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.11%) Advertising
14 6 (1.11%) Banking
15 3 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 128 (23.70%) Senior
2 105 (19.44%) Developer
3 55 (10.19%) Software Engineer
4 43 (7.96%) Lead
5 42 (7.78%) Senior Developer
6 39 (7.22%) Analyst
7 33 (6.11%) Business Analyst
8 31 (5.74%) Engineering Manager
9 28 (5.19%) Data Engineer
10 26 (4.81%) Delivery Manager
11 25 (4.63%) Project Manager
12 23 (4.26%) Design Engineer
13 22 (4.07%) Java Developer
14 21 (3.89%) Senior Software Engineer
15 20 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
16 18 (3.33%) Software Developer
17 17 (3.15%) Architect
17 17 (3.15%) Cloud Engineer
17 17 (3.15%) Microsoft 365 Developer
18 16 (2.96%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (10.74%) Terraform
2 51 (9.44%) .NET
3 50 (9.26%) Spring
4 43 (7.96%) HTML
5 36 (6.67%) React
6 35 (6.48%) CSS
6 35 (6.48%) Spring Boot
7 33 (6.11%) AngularJS
7 33 (6.11%) Node.js
8 26 (4.81%) REST
9 20 (3.70%) Kafka
10 14 (2.59%) ASP.NET
11 11 (2.04%) Microsoft Graph
12 10 (1.85%) ASP.NET Core
12 10 (1.85%) PySpark
13 9 (1.67%) .NET Core
13 9 (1.67%) Entity Framework
13 9 (1.67%) HTML5 Canvas
13 9 (1.67%) SPFx
13 9 (1.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 63 (11.67%) Product Ownership
2 49 (9.07%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (3.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 15 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (2.59%) Private Cloud
7 12 (2.22%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.04%) Marketing Technology
8 11 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.85%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.67%) IoT
11 7 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.11%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.11%) Social Media
13 5 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
13 5 (0.93%) Media Streaming
13 5 (0.93%) PMI
13 5 (0.93%) Podcast
13 5 (0.93%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.74%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.00%) Linux
2 8 (1.48%) Windows
3 5 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.74%) Android
4 4 (0.74%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.74%) VMS
5 3 (0.56%) CentOS
5 3 (0.56%) Debian
5 3 (0.56%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.37%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (33.33%) DevOps
2 168 (31.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 157 (29.07%) CI/CD
4 144 (26.67%) AI
5 113 (20.93%) Scrum
6 107 (19.81%) Software Engineering
6 107 (19.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 101 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
8 94 (17.41%) Mentoring
9 67 (12.41%) Coaching
9 67 (12.41%) Test Automation
10 64 (11.85%) Roadmaps
11 58 (10.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 57 (10.56%) Microservices
12 57 (10.56%) TDD
13 54 (10.00%) Decision-Making
14 52 (9.63%) Collaborative Culture
14 52 (9.63%) Kanban
15 48 (8.89%) Full-Stack Development
15 48 (8.89%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 108 (20.00%) Java
2 97 (17.96%) Python
2 97 (17.96%) SQL
3 81 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 56 (10.37%) C#
5 39 (7.22%) TypeScript
6 20 (3.70%) Go
7 14 (2.59%) Bash
8 12 (2.22%) C++
9 10 (1.85%) PHP
9 10 (1.85%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.48%) Groovy
11 6 (1.11%) Apex Code
11 6 (1.11%) R
12 4 (0.74%) C
12 4 (0.74%) SOQL
13 3 (0.56%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.56%) SOSL
14 2 (0.37%) Rust
14 2 (0.37%) Swift
Qualifications
1 82 (15.19%) Security Cleared
2 73 (13.52%) Degree
3 60 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 34 (6.30%) DV Cleared
5 22 (4.07%) DBS Check
6 20 (3.70%) HNC
6 20 (3.70%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.22%) PMI Certification
8 8 (1.48%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.30%) PMP
10 5 (0.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.93%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.74%) MBA
11 4 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 2 (0.37%) Chartered Engineer
12 2 (0.37%) MCSE
12 2 (0.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.19%) QA
3 13 (2.41%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.67%) GDPR
5 7 (1.30%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.30%) PMO
6 6 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.74%) SLA
8 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.19%) GRC
8 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 56 (10.37%) Docker
2 3 (0.56%) Ceph
3 2 (0.37%) UAG
3 2 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.19%) Firmware
4 1 (0.19%) NFS
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 59 (10.93%) Kubernetes
2 31 (5.74%) Ansible
3 10 (1.85%) Argo
4 9 (1.67%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.11%) Grafana
6 5 (0.93%) Podman
7 4 (0.74%) Istio
8 3 (0.56%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.56%) Puppet
9 2 (0.37%) AirWatch
9 2 (0.37%) Packer
9 2 (0.37%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.37%) SCCM
9 2 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.37%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.19%) linkerd
10 1 (0.19%) Nagios
Vendors
1 82 (15.19%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.70%) YouTube
3 19 (3.52%) Splunk
4 18 (3.33%) Databricks
4 18 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 14 (2.59%) Google
6 13 (2.41%) AppDynamics
7 11 (2.04%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.85%) Oracle
9 9 (1.67%) Adobe
9 9 (1.67%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.74%) Dell
10 4 (0.74%) NEC
10 4 (0.74%) Thales
11 3 (0.56%) Apple
11 3 (0.56%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (0.56%) Pega
11 3 (0.56%) SaltStack
11 3 (0.56%) SAP
11 3 (0.56%) VMware