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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -11 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 470 606 1,251
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.65% 26.68% 21.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.62% 28.03% 25.46%
Number of salaries quoted 355 283 839
10th Percentile £44,250 £43,750 £40,988
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +0.80%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,778 £87,500
North West median annual salary £62,500 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.10% +7.50% +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 4,424 2,162 4,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.03% 95.20% 82.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,501 1,230 3,674
10th Percentile £32,775 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,159
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.46% -8.05%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,000 £80,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -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 20 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 20 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 -2 15 £67,500 +12.50% 2
Ashton-under-Lyne +1 7 £51,000 - 3
Salford -10 7 £74,651 - 6
Stockport -6 4 £55,000 - 3
Bury +2 3 £92,482 - 1
Oldham -1 3 £69,973 +23.84% 5
Bolton -9 2 £55,000 -26.67% 2
Rochdale -3 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 34 (7.23%) Confluence
2 13 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (1.06%) CMS
5 3 (0.64%) Apache
5 3 (0.64%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.64%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.64%) WordPress
6 2 (0.43%) CICS
6 2 (0.43%) nginx
6 2 (0.43%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.43%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.21%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 6 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.64%) Trello
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.21%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 144 (30.64%) Azure
2 129 (27.45%) AWS
3 54 (11.49%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (8.51%) SaaS
5 34 (7.23%) Serverless
6 28 (5.96%) Power Platform
7 26 (5.53%) GCP
7 26 (5.53%) GitHub
8 22 (4.68%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (2.77%) Anthropic Claude
11 10 (2.13%) Azure AKS
11 10 (2.13%) Microsoft Copilot
12 9 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (1.91%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (1.91%) Power Automate
13 8 (1.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 8 (1.70%) Azure Functions
13 8 (1.70%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (1.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.43%) AMQP
2 1 (0.21%) HTTP
2 1 (0.21%) LTE
2 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.47%) NoSQL
2 15 (3.19%) MongoDB
2 15 (3.19%) Power BI
3 13 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (2.34%) SQL Server
5 10 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (1.91%) MySQL
6 9 (1.91%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.70%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.49%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.28%) Big Data
9 6 (1.28%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.85%) Flink
11 3 (0.64%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.64%) GIS
11 3 (0.64%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.64%) QGIS
12 2 (0.43%) Db2
Development Applications
1 54 (11.49%) JIRA
2 41 (8.72%) Git
3 17 (3.62%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.40%) GitLab
5 14 (2.98%) Claude Code
6 11 (2.34%) Postman
7 7 (1.49%) JUnit
8 6 (1.28%) Spock
9 5 (1.06%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.64%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.64%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.43%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.43%) Maven
12 2 (0.43%) MSTest
12 2 (0.43%) NUnit
12 2 (0.43%) Selenium
12 2 (0.43%) Vagrant
12 2 (0.43%) XCUITest
13 1 (0.21%) REST Assured
General
1 111 (23.62%) Finance
2 99 (21.06%) Social Skills
3 46 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (7.66%) Public Sector
5 30 (6.38%) Marketing
6 20 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (3.19%) Banking
8 15 (3.19%) Retail
9 14 (2.98%) Games
10 12 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.91%) Advertising
11 9 (1.91%) Law
12 7 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.06%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.85%) Publishing
14 4 (0.85%) Retail Banking
14 4 (0.85%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.64%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.64%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 115 (24.47%) Senior
2 85 (18.09%) Developer
3 64 (13.62%) Software Engineer
4 44 (9.36%) Lead
5 39 (8.30%) Senior Developer
6 28 (5.96%) Data Engineer
6 28 (5.96%) Java Developer
7 25 (5.32%) Analyst
8 24 (5.11%) Project Manager
9 22 (4.68%) Business Analyst
10 21 (4.47%) Delivery Manager
11 20 (4.26%) Java Engineer
11 20 (4.26%) Lead Software Engineer
11 20 (4.26%) Senior Software Engineer
12 19 (4.04%) Cloud Engineer
12 19 (4.04%) Engineering Manager
12 19 (4.04%) Senior Data Engineer
13 18 (3.83%) Product Owner
14 16 (3.40%) Senior Java Developer
15 14 (2.98%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (11.91%) .NET
2 40 (8.51%) React
3 38 (8.09%) Node.js
3 38 (8.09%) Spring
4 34 (7.23%) HTML
5 32 (6.81%) AngularJS
5 32 (6.81%) CSS
6 31 (6.60%) REST
6 31 (6.60%) Spring Boot
7 20 (4.26%) RESTful
8 14 (2.98%) Kafka
9 12 (2.55%) Vue
10 8 (1.70%) .NET Framework
10 8 (1.70%) PySpark
11 7 (1.49%) ASP.NET
12 6 (1.28%) ASP.NET Core
12 6 (1.28%) Microsoft Graph
12 6 (1.28%) SOAP
13 5 (1.06%) .NET Core
13 5 (1.06%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 65 (13.83%) Product Ownership
2 36 (7.66%) Cloud Native
3 24 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (2.98%) Mobile App
5 9 (1.91%) Driving Licence
5 9 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (1.70%) Marketing Technology
6 8 (1.70%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.49%) PMI
8 6 (1.28%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.28%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.64%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.64%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.43%) IVR
12 2 (0.43%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.40%) Linux
2 6 (1.28%) Windows
3 4 (0.85%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.64%) Android
5 2 (0.43%) CentOS
5 2 (0.43%) Debian
5 2 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.43%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (32.13%) CI/CD
2 142 (30.21%) DevOps
3 122 (25.96%) Continuous Improvement
4 115 (24.47%) Scrum
5 93 (19.79%) Software Engineering
6 80 (17.02%) AI
7 76 (16.17%) Stakeholder Management
7 76 (16.17%) TDD
8 67 (14.26%) Roadmaps
9 64 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
10 62 (13.19%) Coaching
10 62 (13.19%) Microservices
11 61 (12.98%) Mentoring
12 56 (11.91%) Kanban
12 56 (11.91%) Test Automation
13 51 (10.85%) Decision-Making
14 50 (10.64%) Full-Stack Development
15 48 (10.21%) Infrastructure as Code
16 43 (9.15%) Collaborative Culture
17 41 (8.72%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 104 (22.13%) Java
2 94 (20.00%) SQL
3 83 (17.66%) Python
4 68 (14.47%) JavaScript
5 51 (10.85%) C#
6 26 (5.53%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.13%) Bash
8 9 (1.91%) C++
8 9 (1.91%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.28%) Go
9 6 (1.28%) PHP
10 5 (1.06%) Apex Code
10 5 (1.06%) Groovy
11 4 (0.85%) SOQL
12 3 (0.64%) C
12 3 (0.64%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.64%) Scala
12 3 (0.64%) SOSL
13 2 (0.43%) Bicep
13 2 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 59 (12.55%) Security Cleared
2 46 (9.79%) SC Cleared
3 25 (5.32%) Degree
4 19 (4.04%) DV Cleared
5 13 (2.77%) PMI Certification
6 7 (1.49%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.28%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.28%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.28%) PMP
8 5 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.43%) Chartered Engineer
10 2 (0.43%) CSPO
10 2 (0.43%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.43%) MBA
10 2 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 2 (0.43%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.21%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.11%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.47%) QA
3 10 (2.13%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.28%) GDPR
5 5 (1.06%) PMO
6 4 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.85%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.43%) SLA
7 2 (0.43%) WCAG
8 1 (0.21%) GRC
8 1 (0.21%) ITGC
8 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 38 (8.09%) Docker
2 2 (0.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 61 (12.98%) Terraform
2 45 (9.57%) Kubernetes
3 20 (4.26%) Ansible
4 6 (1.28%) Grafana
4 6 (1.28%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.06%) Argo
6 2 (0.43%) Packer
6 2 (0.43%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.43%) Puppet
7 1 (0.21%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.21%) Istio
7 1 (0.21%) linkerd
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.21%) Rancher
7 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (12.34%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.62%) Databricks
3 16 (3.40%) Salesforce
4 15 (3.19%) ServiceNow
5 10 (2.13%) Splunk
6 9 (1.91%) Adobe
7 7 (1.49%) Oracle
8 6 (1.28%) AppDynamics
8 6 (1.28%) Google
9 5 (1.06%) Pega
10 4 (0.85%) SAP
11 3 (0.64%) Facebook
11 3 (0.64%) LogicMonitor
12 2 (0.43%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.43%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.43%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.43%) SaltStack
12 2 (0.43%) WSO2
13 1 (0.21%) Apple
13 1 (0.21%) Sony