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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -12 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 492 601 1,161
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.71% 24.16% 21.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.52% 26.07% 26.27%
Number of salaries quoted 370 270 704
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,147
25th Percentile £50,313 £51,438 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,472 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,753 £90,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +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 4,678 2,305 4,419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.31% 92.64% 82.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3,709 1,329 3,191
10th Percentile £33,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -7.60%
75th Percentile £78,957 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £98,800 £87,550 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -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 17 July 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 17 July 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 15 £67,500 +3.85% 3
Ashton-under-Lyne +1 13 £51,000 - 2
Salford -9 7 £74,651 - 2
Oldham -2 4 £68,736 +21.65% 2
Stockport -8 4 £55,000 -12.00% 2
Bury 0 3 £92,482 - 2
Bolton -8 3 £55,000 -26.67% 4
Wigan -3 2 £77,500 - 1
Rochdale -2 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 35 (7.11%) Confluence
2 18 (3.66%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (1.02%) CMS
5 3 (0.61%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.61%) WordPress
6 2 (0.41%) Apache
6 2 (0.41%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.41%) CICS
6 2 (0.41%) nginx
6 2 (0.41%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.41%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.20%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (1.42%) Trello
2 6 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 152 (30.89%) Azure
2 136 (27.64%) AWS
3 60 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (7.52%) Serverless
5 33 (6.71%) Power Platform
5 33 (6.71%) SaaS
6 28 (5.69%) GCP
6 28 (5.69%) GitHub
7 25 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (3.25%) Power Automate
10 15 (3.05%) Microsoft Copilot
11 14 (2.85%) PowerApps
12 11 (2.24%) Anthropic Claude
12 11 (2.24%) dbt
13 9 (1.83%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (1.83%) Copilot Studio
14 8 (1.63%) Azure AKS
14 8 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.41%) AMQP
2 1 (0.20%) LAN
2 1 (0.20%) LTE
2 1 (0.20%) Network Security
2 1 (0.20%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.20%) WAN
2 1 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.25%) NoSQL
2 15 (3.05%) MongoDB
2 15 (3.05%) Power BI
3 13 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (2.44%) SQL Server
5 11 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (1.83%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.63%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.42%) BigQuery
9 7 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (1.42%) MySQL
10 6 (1.22%) Big Data
11 4 (0.81%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.81%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.81%) Flink
12 3 (0.61%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.61%) GIS
12 3 (0.61%) QGIS
13 2 (0.41%) Db2
Development Applications
1 58 (11.79%) JIRA
2 41 (8.33%) Git
3 18 (3.66%) GitLab
4 16 (3.25%) Jenkins
5 12 (2.44%) Claude Code
6 11 (2.24%) Postman
7 9 (1.83%) JUnit
7 9 (1.83%) Spock
8 7 (1.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 7 (1.42%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.81%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.61%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.61%) Maven
11 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.41%) MSTest
11 2 (0.41%) NUnit
11 2 (0.41%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.41%) XCUITest
12 1 (0.20%) Gemini Tracker
12 1 (0.20%) REST Assured
General
1 121 (24.59%) Finance
2 117 (23.78%) Social Skills
3 47 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (8.13%) Public Sector
5 31 (6.30%) Marketing
6 23 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (3.25%) Banking
8 16 (3.25%) Retail
9 12 (2.44%) Games
10 11 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (2.03%) Law
12 9 (1.83%) Advertising
13 7 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.22%) Manufacturing
15 5 (1.02%) Local Government
15 5 (1.02%) Publishing
15 5 (1.02%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 115 (23.37%) Senior
2 92 (18.70%) Developer
3 60 (12.20%) Software Engineer
4 42 (8.54%) Lead
5 41 (8.33%) Senior Developer
6 32 (6.50%) Project Manager
7 28 (5.69%) Java Developer
8 27 (5.49%) Analyst
9 26 (5.28%) Data Engineer
10 24 (4.88%) Business Analyst
10 24 (4.88%) Engineering Manager
11 20 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
11 20 (4.07%) Delivery Manager
11 20 (4.07%) Lead Software Engineer
12 18 (3.66%) Java Engineer
12 18 (3.66%) Product Owner
12 18 (3.66%) Senior Software Engineer
13 17 (3.46%) Senior Data Engineer
14 16 (3.25%) Senior Java Developer
15 15 (3.05%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (11.38%) .NET
2 42 (8.54%) Spring
3 40 (8.13%) HTML
4 38 (7.72%) Node.js
5 34 (6.91%) AngularJS
5 34 (6.91%) CSS
6 31 (6.30%) Spring Boot
7 30 (6.10%) React
8 23 (4.67%) REST
9 17 (3.46%) RESTful
10 14 (2.85%) Kafka
11 11 (2.24%) Vue
12 10 (2.03%) ASP.NET
13 9 (1.83%) Microsoft Graph
14 8 (1.63%) ASP.NET Core
14 8 (1.63%) Entity Framework
14 8 (1.63%) PySpark
15 7 (1.42%) .NET Core
15 7 (1.42%) .NET Framework
15 7 (1.42%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 62 (12.60%) Product Ownership
2 41 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 23 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (2.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 12 (2.44%) Mobile App
6 9 (1.83%) Driving Licence
6 9 (1.83%) Marketing Technology
6 9 (1.83%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.83%) Private Cloud
7 7 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.42%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.22%) PMI
9 5 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (0.81%) IVR
11 3 (0.61%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (0.61%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.46%) Linux
2 7 (1.42%) Windows
3 5 (1.02%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.81%) Android
5 2 (0.41%) CentOS
5 2 (0.41%) Debian
5 2 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.41%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.20%) Unix
6 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (31.71%) CI/CD
2 155 (31.50%) DevOps
3 130 (26.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 124 (25.20%) Scrum
5 94 (19.11%) AI
6 93 (18.90%) Software Engineering
7 87 (17.68%) Stakeholder Management
8 76 (15.45%) TDD
9 73 (14.84%) Roadmaps
10 72 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
11 64 (13.01%) Mentoring
12 61 (12.40%) Test Automation
13 60 (12.20%) Coaching
14 59 (11.99%) Microservices
15 58 (11.79%) Kanban
16 53 (10.77%) Decision-Making
17 52 (10.57%) Collaborative Culture
18 51 (10.37%) Full-Stack Development
19 48 (9.76%) Infrastructure as Code
20 46 (9.35%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 105 (21.34%) Java
2 93 (18.90%) SQL
3 85 (17.28%) Python
4 72 (14.63%) JavaScript
5 54 (10.98%) C#
6 26 (5.28%) TypeScript
7 12 (2.44%) Bash
8 10 (2.03%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.83%) C++
9 9 (1.83%) Go
10 7 (1.42%) PHP
11 5 (1.02%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.02%) Groovy
12 4 (0.81%) SOQL
13 3 (0.61%) C
13 3 (0.61%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.61%) SOSL
13 3 (0.61%) Swift
14 2 (0.41%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 64 (13.01%) Security Cleared
2 48 (9.76%) SC Cleared
3 33 (6.71%) Degree
4 22 (4.47%) DV Cleared
5 16 (3.25%) PMI Certification
6 12 (2.44%) Master's Degree
7 10 (2.03%) PMP
8 8 (1.63%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (1.02%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 3 (0.61%) MBA
13 2 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.41%) Chartered Engineer
13 2 (0.41%) CSPO
13 2 (0.41%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.20%) SAFe Agilist
14 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.28%) Data Quality
2 23 (4.67%) QA
3 12 (2.44%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.83%) GDPR
5 7 (1.42%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.02%) PMO
8 2 (0.41%) SLA
8 2 (0.41%) WCAG
9 1 (0.20%) GRC
9 1 (0.20%) ITGC
9 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 43 (8.74%) Docker
2 2 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 61 (12.40%) Terraform
2 48 (9.76%) Kubernetes
3 23 (4.67%) Ansible
4 6 (1.22%) Argo
4 6 (1.22%) Grafana
4 6 (1.22%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.41%) Packer
5 2 (0.41%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.41%) Puppet
6 1 (0.20%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.20%) Istio
6 1 (0.20%) linkerd
Vendors
1 70 (14.23%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.25%) Salesforce
2 16 (3.25%) ServiceNow
3 14 (2.85%) Databricks
3 14 (2.85%) Splunk
4 10 (2.03%) Adobe
5 9 (1.83%) AppDynamics
5 9 (1.83%) Google
6 8 (1.63%) Oracle
7 5 (1.02%) Pega
7 5 (1.02%) SAP
8 3 (0.61%) Facebook
8 3 (0.61%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (0.41%) Apple
9 2 (0.41%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.41%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.41%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.41%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.41%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.41%) WSO2