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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 284 612 711
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 9.51% 22.88% 26.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.03% 24.31% 28.98%
Number of salaries quoted 217 247 575
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,692 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £75,386
90th Percentile £87,500 £89,579 £90,000
North West median annual salary £61,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.92% - +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 2,361 2,517 2,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 79.07% 94.09% 90.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,429 1,189 1,980
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,092
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%

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 18 January 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 18 January 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 +4 6 £50,000 -9.09% 5
Oldham +1 3 £55,000 -18.52% 1
Salford -18 3 £74,830 +25.91% 14
Bury - 2 - -
Stockport -6 1 £55,000 - 6
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 10 (3.52%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.82%) Confluence
3 7 (2.46%) Apache
3 7 (2.46%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.06%) CMS
5 2 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.70%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (3.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.06%) Adobe XD
2 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.06%) Sketch
3 2 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.35%) InVision
4 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.35%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 105 (36.97%) Azure
2 81 (28.52%) AWS
3 47 (16.55%) SaaS
4 29 (10.21%) Power Platform
5 26 (9.15%) GCP
5 26 (9.15%) Serverless
6 15 (5.28%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (4.58%) Figma
7 13 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (4.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 11 (3.87%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (3.87%) Azure Functions
9 11 (3.87%) Azure Logic Apps
9 11 (3.87%) Azure Service Bus
9 11 (3.87%) Entra ID
10 10 (3.52%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (2.82%) Azure AKS
12 8 (2.82%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.82%) HTTP
2 4 (1.41%) AMQP
2 4 (1.41%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.06%) SSH
4 2 (0.70%) DNS
4 2 (0.70%) Firewall
4 2 (0.70%) OpenVPN
4 2 (0.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (10.21%) NoSQL
2 15 (5.28%) MongoDB
3 14 (4.93%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (4.93%) Power BI
4 12 (4.23%) MySQL
5 8 (2.82%) Big Data
6 7 (2.46%) Data Lake
6 7 (2.46%) Hadoop
6 7 (2.46%) SQL Server
7 6 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.76%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.41%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (1.41%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.70%) Apache Iceberg
11 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.35%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 29 (10.21%) Git
2 15 (5.28%) JIRA
3 8 (2.82%) GitLab
4 7 (2.46%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.41%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.41%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.41%) JUnit
5 4 (1.41%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.70%) JMeter
6 2 (0.70%) Postman
6 2 (0.70%) Selenium
7 1 (0.35%) Appium
7 1 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.35%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.35%) Gatling
7 1 (0.35%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.35%) Locust
7 1 (0.35%) REST Assured
General
1 77 (27.11%) Social Skills
2 58 (20.42%) Finance
3 37 (13.03%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.39%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.63%) Law
6 14 (4.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (4.58%) Marketing
8 11 (3.87%) Banking
9 9 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.46%) Electronics
10 7 (2.46%) Retail
11 6 (2.11%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.76%) Games
12 5 (1.76%) Legal
12 5 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.76%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.41%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.70%) Billing
14 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 69 (24.30%) Developer
2 64 (22.54%) Senior
3 39 (13.73%) Lead
4 36 (12.68%) Software Engineer
5 24 (8.45%) Senior Developer
6 19 (6.69%) Data Engineer
7 17 (5.99%) Analyst
8 15 (5.28%) Project Manager
9 13 (4.58%) .NET Developer
10 11 (3.87%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 11 (3.87%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (3.87%) Software Developer
11 10 (3.52%) Java Developer
12 9 (3.17%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (3.17%) Senior Data Engineer
13 8 (2.82%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (2.82%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (2.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 8 (2.82%) Lead Software Engineer
13 8 (2.82%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (20.77%) React
2 58 (20.42%) .NET
3 37 (13.03%) REST
4 34 (11.97%) CSS
5 30 (10.56%) HTML
6 26 (9.15%) AngularJS
7 25 (8.80%) Node.js
8 24 (8.45%) RESTful
9 23 (8.10%) Spring
10 22 (7.75%) Spring Boot
11 14 (4.93%) .NET Framework
11 14 (4.93%) Kafka
12 9 (3.17%) Web Services
13 8 (2.82%) gRPC
14 7 (2.46%) ASP.NET
15 6 (2.11%) .NET Core
15 6 (2.11%) ASP.NET Core
15 6 (2.11%) Hibernate
15 6 (2.11%) JSON
16 5 (1.76%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.62%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.86%) Product Ownership
3 22 (7.75%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.58%) Mobile App
5 11 (3.87%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (3.17%) Social Media
7 7 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.76%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.41%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.41%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.41%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.06%) IoT
12 2 (0.70%) Animation
12 2 (0.70%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.70%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.58%) Windows
2 12 (4.23%) Linux
3 4 (1.41%) CentOS
3 4 (1.41%) Debian
3 4 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.41%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.35%) Android
4 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (32.39%) CI/CD
2 79 (27.82%) DevOps
3 67 (23.59%) Software Engineering
4 66 (23.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 57 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (19.72%) Microservices
7 51 (17.96%) Mentoring
8 47 (16.55%) User Experience
9 46 (16.20%) Scrum
10 42 (14.79%) AI
11 40 (14.08%) Containerisation
12 37 (13.03%) Full-Stack Development
13 34 (11.97%) Coaching
14 33 (11.62%) Clean Code
14 33 (11.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 32 (11.27%) Infrastructure as Code
16 31 (10.92%) TDD
17 29 (10.21%) Roadmaps
18 28 (9.86%) Stakeholder Management
19 27 (9.51%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 56 (19.72%) C#
1 56 (19.72%) JavaScript
2 51 (17.96%) Java
3 43 (15.14%) SQL
4 39 (13.73%) Python
4 39 (13.73%) TypeScript
5 7 (2.46%) Go
6 4 (1.41%) C++
6 4 (1.41%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.41%) Scala
7 3 (1.06%) Bicep
8 2 (0.70%) Bash
8 2 (0.70%) C
8 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.70%) PHP
8 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.35%) Groovy
9 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (11.62%) Security Cleared
2 25 (8.80%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.58%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.17%) DBS Check
4 9 (3.17%) Degree
4 9 (3.17%) PMI Certification
5 8 (2.82%) PMP
6 5 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.41%) ACCA
7 4 (1.41%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.41%) CIMA
8 3 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.70%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.35%) SAFe Agilist
10 1 (0.35%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.51%) Accessibility
2 20 (7.04%) QA
3 5 (1.76%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.41%) PMO
5 2 (0.70%) GDPR
5 2 (0.70%) NIST
5 2 (0.70%) WCAG
6 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.35%) GxP
6 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.35%) HL7
6 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (9.51%) Docker
2 13 (4.58%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.35%) HDFS
3 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 39 (13.73%) Terraform
2 33 (11.62%) Kubernetes
3 13 (4.58%) Ansible
4 8 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.41%) Puppet
6 3 (1.06%) Rancher
7 2 (0.70%) Grafana
8 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 34 (11.97%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.17%) SAP
2 9 (3.17%) Splunk
3 8 (2.82%) Databricks
3 8 (2.82%) New Relic
4 7 (2.46%) Adobe
4 7 (2.46%) Google
4 7 (2.46%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.11%) Qualtrics
6 4 (1.41%) Oracle
6 4 (1.41%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.41%) SaltStack
7 2 (0.70%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.70%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.70%) Dell
7 2 (0.70%) Informatica
7 2 (0.70%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.70%) Pega
7 2 (0.70%) SnapLogic
7 2 (0.70%) UiPath