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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 302 543 857
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.92% 21.50% 23.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.64% 22.67% 26.89%
Number of salaries quoted 227 248 707
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £41,700
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £46,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £89,371 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.83% - +0.80%

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 2,594 2,395 3,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.65% 94.85% 89.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,617 1,186 2,649
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,875 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.06%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £89,700 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%

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 12 February 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 12 February 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
Bolton +11 6 £50,000 -9.09% 1
Altrincham -13 3 £85,000 +61.90% 4
Salford -21 3 £74,830 +25.91% 13
Oldham - 3 £55,000 - 3
Bury - 2 - -
Stockport -4 1 £55,000 - 1
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 11 (3.64%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.31%) Confluence
3 7 (2.32%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.99%) Apache
5 4 (1.32%) CMS
6 2 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.66%) nginx
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.66%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.66%) Sketch
3 1 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.33%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 107 (35.43%) Azure
2 82 (27.15%) AWS
3 43 (14.24%) SaaS
4 28 (9.27%) Power Platform
5 27 (8.94%) GCP
6 23 (7.62%) Serverless
7 15 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (4.64%) Figma
8 14 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (3.97%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (3.31%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (3.31%) Azure AKS
10 10 (3.31%) Entra ID
11 9 (2.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 9 (2.98%) Azure Functions
11 9 (2.98%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (2.98%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (2.98%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (2.65%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.65%) HTTP
2 4 (1.32%) AMQP
2 4 (1.32%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.99%) SSH
4 2 (0.66%) DNS
4 2 (0.66%) Firewall
4 2 (0.66%) OpenVPN
4 2 (0.66%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (9.60%) NoSQL
2 13 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (4.30%) MySQL
2 13 (4.30%) Power BI
3 12 (3.97%) MongoDB
4 8 (2.65%) Big Data
5 7 (2.32%) Data Lake
5 7 (2.32%) Hadoop
5 7 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.66%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.66%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.32%) Cloudera CDH
7 4 (1.32%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.66%) Apache Iceberg
9 2 (0.66%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (9.93%) Git
2 20 (6.62%) JIRA
3 7 (2.32%) GitLab
4 6 (1.99%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.32%) JUnit
5 4 (1.32%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.99%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.99%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.66%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.33%) JMeter
8 1 (0.33%) Locust
8 1 (0.33%) Postman
8 1 (0.33%) Selenium
8 1 (0.33%) Vagrant
General
1 78 (25.83%) Social Skills
2 61 (20.20%) Finance
3 34 (11.26%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (5.63%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.64%) Law
5 14 (4.64%) Marketing
6 13 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.97%) Banking
8 10 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.32%) Retail
10 6 (1.99%) Electronics
10 6 (1.99%) Games
10 6 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.66%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.32%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.32%) Billing
12 4 (1.32%) Legal
12 4 (1.32%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 67 (22.19%) Senior
2 64 (21.19%) Developer
3 43 (14.24%) Software Engineer
4 42 (13.91%) Lead
5 23 (7.62%) Data Engineer
6 20 (6.62%) Senior Developer
7 17 (5.63%) Analyst
7 17 (5.63%) Project Manager
8 14 (4.64%) Senior Data Engineer
9 12 (3.97%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (3.64%) Lead Software Engineer
10 11 (3.64%) Software Developer
11 10 (3.31%) .NET Developer
11 10 (3.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 10 (3.31%) Java Developer
12 9 (2.98%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (2.98%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 9 (2.98%) Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (2.98%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (2.65%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (19.54%) React
2 56 (18.54%) .NET
3 34 (11.26%) REST
4 33 (10.93%) CSS
5 30 (9.93%) HTML
6 27 (8.94%) AngularJS
7 26 (8.61%) Node.js
7 26 (8.61%) RESTful
8 25 (8.28%) Spring
9 24 (7.95%) Spring Boot
10 14 (4.64%) .NET Framework
11 13 (4.30%) Kafka
12 9 (2.98%) Web Services
13 8 (2.65%) gRPC
14 7 (2.32%) Hibernate
15 6 (1.99%) ASP.NET
15 6 (1.99%) ASP.NET Core
15 6 (1.99%) CSS3
15 6 (1.99%) HTML5
15 6 (1.99%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.26%) Cloud Native
2 30 (9.93%) Product Ownership
3 24 (7.95%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.97%) Mobile App
5 11 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.65%) Social Media
7 7 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.99%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.32%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.32%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.99%) IoT
11 3 (0.99%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.99%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.66%) Animation
12 2 (0.66%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.66%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.97%) Windows
2 11 (3.64%) Linux
3 4 (1.32%) CentOS
3 4 (1.32%) Debian
3 4 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.32%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.33%) Android
4 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (29.47%) CI/CD
2 75 (24.83%) DevOps
3 72 (23.84%) Software Engineering
4 68 (22.52%) Continuous Improvement
5 56 (18.54%) Microservices
5 56 (18.54%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (16.89%) Mentoring
7 49 (16.23%) Scrum
8 46 (15.23%) User Experience
9 42 (13.91%) AI
10 41 (13.58%) Containerisation
11 40 (13.25%) Full-Stack Development
12 38 (12.58%) Coaching
12 38 (12.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 34 (11.26%) Stakeholder Management
13 34 (11.26%) TDD
14 33 (10.93%) Clean Code
15 29 (9.60%) Decision-Making
15 29 (9.60%) Infrastructure as Code
15 29 (9.60%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 59 (19.54%) JavaScript
2 55 (18.21%) Java
3 51 (16.89%) C#
4 48 (15.89%) SQL
5 41 (13.58%) Python
6 39 (12.91%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.32%) Go
8 4 (1.32%) C++
8 4 (1.32%) Scala
9 3 (0.99%) Bicep
9 3 (0.99%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.66%) C
10 2 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.66%) PHP
10 2 (0.66%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.33%) Bash
11 1 (0.33%) Groovy
11 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (10.93%) Security Cleared
2 23 (7.62%) SC Cleared
3 12 (3.97%) PMI Certification
4 11 (3.64%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.31%) PMP
6 9 (2.98%) Degree
7 8 (2.65%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.99%) ACCA
9 3 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.99%) CIMA
10 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.33%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.33%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.95%) Accessibility
2 20 (6.62%) QA
3 5 (1.66%) PMO
4 3 (0.99%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.66%) WCAG
6 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.33%) GDPR
6 1 (0.33%) GxP
6 1 (0.33%) HL7
6 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.33%) NIST
6 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (8.28%) Docker
2 12 (3.97%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 37 (12.25%) Terraform
2 33 (10.93%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.97%) Ansible
4 8 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.32%) Puppet
6 3 (0.99%) Rancher
7 1 (0.33%) Grafana
7 1 (0.33%) Packer
7 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 33 (10.93%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.30%) Databricks
3 9 (2.98%) Splunk
4 8 (2.65%) Adobe
4 8 (2.65%) New Relic
4 8 (2.65%) SAP
5 7 (2.32%) Qualtrics
5 7 (2.32%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.99%) Google
7 5 (1.66%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.32%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.32%) Oracle
8 4 (1.32%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.32%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.66%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.66%) Dell
9 2 (0.66%) Informatica
9 2 (0.66%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.66%) Pega
9 2 (0.66%) SnapLogic