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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -16 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 392 450 1,030
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.87% 22.23% 22.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.06% 23.33% 25.67%
Number of salaries quoted 293 280 838
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,880 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +11.57% +0.83%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £89,125
North West median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +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 3,250 1,929 4,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.58% 95.31% 87.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,207 1,247 3,253
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,800 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,822 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 April 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 April 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 -5 10 £77,500 +47.62% 5
Bolton +4 7 £50,000 -33.33% 8
Salford -9 5 £74,830 +18.24% 6
Stockport -3 3 £55,000 - 3
Bury - 3 £92,482 - 1
Oldham - 3 £55,000 - 1
Rochdale -3 1 £55,000 +4.76%
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 22 (5.61%) Confluence
2 11 (2.81%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.53%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.28%) Apache
5 3 (0.77%) CMS
5 3 (0.77%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.77%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.51%) CICS
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.26%) PegaRULES
7 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.77%) Sketch
3 2 (0.51%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.26%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 123 (31.38%) Azure
2 102 (26.02%) AWS
3 43 (10.97%) SaaS
4 30 (7.65%) Serverless
5 25 (6.38%) Power Platform
6 24 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (5.87%) GCP
8 20 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (3.32%) Azure AKS
12 12 (3.06%) Figma
12 12 (3.06%) GitHub
13 10 (2.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 10 (2.55%) Azure Functions
13 10 (2.55%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (2.55%) Azure Service Bus
14 9 (2.30%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (2.04%) Entra ID
15 8 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.79%) HTTP
2 5 (1.28%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.02%) AMQP
4 3 (0.77%) SSH
5 2 (0.51%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.26%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.91%) NoSQL
2 14 (3.57%) MySQL
3 13 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (3.06%) MongoDB
4 12 (3.06%) Power BI
5 8 (2.04%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (1.53%) Big Data
7 6 (1.53%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.53%) Hadoop
7 6 (1.53%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.02%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (1.02%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.77%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.77%) GIS
10 3 (0.77%) QGIS
11 2 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.51%) DB2
11 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 46 (11.73%) Git
2 36 (9.18%) JIRA
3 15 (3.83%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.81%) GitLab
5 7 (1.79%) Claude Code
6 6 (1.53%) Postman
7 5 (1.28%) Visual Studio
8 4 (1.02%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.77%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.77%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.77%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.77%) JUnit
10 2 (0.51%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.51%) Selenium
10 2 (0.51%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.51%) XCUITest
11 1 (0.26%) GDB
11 1 (0.26%) Locust
11 1 (0.26%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.26%) WinDbg
General
1 92 (23.47%) Social Skills
2 86 (21.94%) Finance
3 34 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.40%) Public Sector
5 24 (6.12%) Marketing
6 18 (4.59%) Banking
6 18 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (3.83%) Law
8 11 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.04%) Games
11 7 (1.79%) Advertising
11 7 (1.79%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.53%) Electronics
12 6 (1.53%) Retail
13 4 (1.02%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.02%) Legal
13 4 (1.02%) Retail Banking
13 4 (1.02%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.77%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 91 (23.21%) Senior
2 71 (18.11%) Developer
3 66 (16.84%) Software Engineer
4 47 (11.99%) Lead
5 30 (7.65%) Project Manager
6 26 (6.63%) Senior Developer
7 23 (5.87%) Lead Software Engineer
8 21 (5.36%) Analyst
8 21 (5.36%) Data Engineer
8 21 (5.36%) Java Developer
9 18 (4.59%) Marketing Manager
10 17 (4.34%) Senior Software Engineer
11 16 (4.08%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (4.08%) Senior Data Engineer
12 15 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
12 15 (3.83%) Java Engineer
13 14 (3.57%) Business Analyst
14 13 (3.32%) IT Manager
15 11 (2.81%) Java Software Engineer
15 11 (2.81%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (15.05%) .NET
2 55 (14.03%) React
3 34 (8.67%) CSS
3 34 (8.67%) Node.js
4 33 (8.42%) REST
4 33 (8.42%) RESTful
4 33 (8.42%) Spring
5 32 (8.16%) HTML
5 32 (8.16%) Spring Boot
6 31 (7.91%) AngularJS
7 15 (3.83%) .NET Framework
8 13 (3.32%) Kafka
9 10 (2.55%) Web Services
10 8 (2.04%) CSS3
10 8 (2.04%) HTML5
10 8 (2.04%) Vue
11 7 (1.79%) gRPC
12 5 (1.28%) ASP.NET Core
12 5 (1.28%) PySpark
12 5 (1.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (12.24%) Product Ownership
2 31 (7.91%) Cloud Native
3 26 (6.63%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (3.32%) Mobile App
6 10 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (2.04%) Social Media
8 6 (1.53%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.53%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.28%) Driving Licence
9 5 (1.28%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.02%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.77%) IoT
11 3 (0.77%) PMI
11 3 (0.77%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.83%) Linux
1 15 (3.83%) Windows
2 4 (1.02%) CentOS
2 4 (1.02%) Debian
2 4 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.02%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.51%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.26%) Android
4 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (30.10%) CI/CD
2 102 (26.02%) DevOps
3 92 (23.47%) Software Engineering
4 91 (23.21%) Scrum
5 84 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 64 (16.33%) Microservices
7 56 (14.29%) TDD
8 53 (13.52%) AI
9 52 (13.27%) Mentoring
9 52 (13.27%) Stakeholder Management
10 49 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
11 48 (12.24%) Coaching
12 47 (11.99%) Roadmaps
13 44 (11.22%) Clean Code
13 44 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
14 43 (10.97%) Kanban
15 42 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 40 (10.20%) User Experience
17 39 (9.95%) Project Delivery
18 38 (9.69%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 87 (22.19%) Java
2 69 (17.60%) JavaScript
3 62 (15.82%) SQL
4 56 (14.29%) Python
5 48 (12.24%) C#
6 35 (8.93%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.55%) C++
8 6 (1.53%) Go
9 3 (0.77%) C
9 3 (0.77%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.51%) Scala
10 2 (0.51%) Swift
11 1 (0.26%) Bicep
11 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.26%) Groovy
11 1 (0.26%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.26%) PHP
11 1 (0.26%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (10.20%) Security Cleared
2 29 (7.40%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.34%) PMI Certification
4 14 (3.57%) PMP
5 12 (3.06%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.81%) Degree
7 8 (2.04%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.77%) ACCA
8 3 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.77%) CIMA
8 3 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.51%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.26%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.26%) CIPD
10 1 (0.26%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.87%) QA
2 20 (5.10%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.79%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.28%) PMO
5 3 (0.77%) WCAG
6 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.26%) GxP
6 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.26%) ITGC
6 1 (0.26%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (7.14%) Docker
2 8 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 52 (13.27%) Terraform
2 44 (11.22%) Kubernetes
3 19 (4.85%) Ansible
4 8 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.02%) Puppet
6 3 (0.77%) Rancher
7 2 (0.51%) Packer
7 2 (0.51%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.26%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.26%) Grafana
Vendors
1 36 (9.18%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.57%) Databricks
3 11 (2.81%) Salesforce
4 9 (2.30%) Splunk
5 8 (2.04%) New Relic
5 8 (2.04%) ServiceNow
6 7 (1.79%) Pega
6 7 (1.79%) SAP
7 6 (1.53%) Google
8 5 (1.28%) Adobe
8 5 (1.28%) Oracle
9 4 (1.02%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.02%) Qualtrics
9 4 (1.02%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.02%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.77%) WSO2
11 1 (0.26%) Genesys
11 1 (0.26%) Siebel
11 1 (0.26%) Software AG
11 1 (0.26%) webMethods