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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -12 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 548 566 1,003
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.88% 22.82% 22.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.53% 25.09% 27.66%
Number of salaries quoted 394 260 496
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,249 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,250 £97,500
North West median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £59,400
% change year-on-year +4.17% +1.01% +3.30%

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 5,204 2,256 3,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.86% 90.97% 81.85%
Number of salaries quoted 4,068 1,307 2,328
10th Percentile £33,000 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,061 £69,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £83,238
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -7.27%

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 August 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 August 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
Ashton-under-Lyne +1 15 £51,000 - 3
Altrincham -4 13 £65,000 - 4
Salford -10 13 £42,000 - 10
Oldham -3 8 £67,500 +11.11%
Stockport -3 7 £62,500 - 4
Bury 0 3 £92,482 - 1
Bolton -13 3 £55,000 -26.67% 3
Wigan -5 2 £77,500 - 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 35 (6.39%) Confluence
2 20 (3.65%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.82%) Apache
5 5 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.91%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.73%) CMS
7 3 (0.55%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.55%) nginx
8 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.36%) CICS
8 2 (0.36%) IIS
8 2 (0.36%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.36%) WordPress
9 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.18%) JBoss
9 1 (0.18%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.28%) Trello
4 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.73%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 175 (31.93%) Azure
2 150 (27.37%) AWS
3 75 (13.69%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (7.30%) Power Platform
4 40 (7.30%) Serverless
5 39 (7.12%) GitHub
5 39 (7.12%) SaaS
6 33 (6.02%) GCP
7 25 (4.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 23 (4.20%) Power Automate
9 21 (3.83%) Microsoft Copilot
10 19 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
11 18 (3.28%) PowerApps
12 17 (3.10%) Dynamics 365
13 16 (2.92%) dbt
14 15 (2.74%) Snowflake
15 12 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (2.01%) Amazon S3
16 11 (2.01%) Anthropic Claude
16 11 (2.01%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.36%) AMQP
1 2 (0.36%) HTTP
2 1 (0.18%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (0.18%) iSCSI
2 1 (0.18%) LAN
2 1 (0.18%) LTE
2 1 (0.18%) Network Security
2 1 (0.18%) SAN
2 1 (0.18%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.18%) SSL
2 1 (0.18%) WAN
2 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (2.92%) DynamoDB
2 16 (2.92%) MongoDB
2 16 (2.92%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (2.55%) Power BI
5 12 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (2.19%) NoSQL
6 10 (1.82%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.09%) Big Data
8 6 (1.09%) BigQuery
8 6 (1.09%) MySQL
9 4 (0.73%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.73%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.73%) Flink
10 3 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.55%) GIS
10 3 (0.55%) QGIS
11 2 (0.36%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 64 (11.68%) JIRA
2 52 (9.49%) Git
3 23 (4.20%) GitLab
4 18 (3.28%) Jenkins
5 12 (2.19%) Claude Code
6 11 (2.01%) JUnit
6 11 (2.01%) Postman
6 11 (2.01%) Spock
7 8 (1.46%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (0.91%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.73%) Maven
11 3 (0.55%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.55%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.36%) MSTest
12 2 (0.36%) NUnit
12 2 (0.36%) RStudio
12 2 (0.36%) XCUITest
13 1 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
13 1 (0.18%) REST Assured
General
1 146 (26.64%) Social Skills
2 127 (23.18%) Finance
3 57 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (8.21%) Public Sector
5 38 (6.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (5.29%) Marketing
7 20 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
7 20 (3.65%) Retail
8 19 (3.47%) Law
9 17 (3.10%) Telecoms
10 13 (2.37%) Banking
10 13 (2.37%) Games
11 11 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.46%) Advertising
12 8 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.46%) Legal
13 7 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.09%) Local Government
15 5 (0.91%) Publishing
16 4 (0.73%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 127 (23.18%) Senior
2 108 (19.71%) Developer
3 57 (10.40%) Software Engineer
4 47 (8.58%) Senior Developer
5 45 (8.21%) Lead
6 32 (5.84%) Analyst
6 32 (5.84%) Project Manager
7 31 (5.66%) Engineering Manager
8 27 (4.93%) Business Analyst
8 27 (4.93%) Data Engineer
9 26 (4.74%) Java Developer
10 25 (4.56%) Delivery Manager
11 21 (3.83%) Senior Software Engineer
12 20 (3.65%) Cloud Engineer
13 19 (3.47%) DevOps Engineer
13 19 (3.47%) Lead Software Engineer
14 18 (3.28%) Product Owner
14 18 (3.28%) Software Developer
15 16 (2.92%) Microsoft 365 Developer
16 15 (2.74%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (11.31%) .NET
1 62 (11.31%) Terraform
2 47 (8.58%) HTML
3 41 (7.48%) Spring
4 40 (7.30%) CSS
5 38 (6.93%) Node.js
6 34 (6.20%) AngularJS
7 31 (5.66%) React
8 28 (5.11%) REST
8 28 (5.11%) Spring Boot
9 15 (2.74%) Kafka
10 14 (2.55%) ASP.NET
10 14 (2.55%) RESTful
11 11 (2.01%) Microsoft Graph
12 10 (1.82%) ASP.NET Core
12 10 (1.82%) Vue
13 9 (1.64%) .NET Core
13 9 (1.64%) HTML5 Canvas
13 9 (1.64%) PySpark
13 9 (1.64%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 67 (12.23%) Product Ownership
2 48 (8.76%) Cloud Native
3 23 (4.20%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (2.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 13 (2.37%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.19%) Marketing Technology
7 12 (2.19%) Mobile App
7 12 (2.19%) Private Cloud
8 7 (1.28%) Driving Licence
8 7 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.28%) IoT
9 6 (1.09%) Social Media
10 5 (0.91%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (0.91%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.91%) PMI
10 5 (0.91%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.65%) Linux
2 6 (1.09%) Apple iOS
2 6 (1.09%) Windows
3 5 (0.91%) Android
4 2 (0.36%) CentOS
4 2 (0.36%) Debian
4 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (33.39%) DevOps
2 166 (30.29%) CI/CD
3 152 (27.74%) Continuous Improvement
4 133 (24.27%) AI
5 125 (22.81%) Scrum
6 106 (19.34%) Software Engineering
7 103 (18.80%) Stakeholder Management
8 90 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
9 76 (13.87%) Mentoring
10 71 (12.96%) Roadmaps
11 70 (12.77%) TDD
12 66 (12.04%) Test Automation
13 63 (11.50%) Coaching
14 60 (10.95%) Microservices
15 57 (10.40%) Kanban
16 56 (10.22%) Full-Stack Development
17 54 (9.85%) Decision-Making
18 53 (9.67%) Collaborative Culture
19 51 (9.31%) Project Delivery
20 48 (8.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 108 (19.71%) Java
1 108 (19.71%) SQL
2 100 (18.25%) Python
3 86 (15.69%) JavaScript
4 63 (11.50%) C#
5 30 (5.47%) TypeScript
6 18 (3.28%) Go
7 12 (2.19%) Bash
7 12 (2.19%) C++
8 10 (1.82%) PHP
8 10 (1.82%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.09%) Apex Code
9 6 (1.09%) Groovy
10 5 (0.91%) R
11 4 (0.73%) C
11 4 (0.73%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.73%) SOQL
11 4 (0.73%) Swift
12 3 (0.55%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.55%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 67 (12.23%) Security Cleared
2 59 (10.77%) Degree
3 53 (9.67%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.74%) DV Cleared
5 20 (3.65%) Master's Degree
6 15 (2.74%) PMI Certification
7 14 (2.55%) DBS Check
8 12 (2.19%) HNC
9 10 (1.82%) PMP
10 8 (1.46%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.91%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.73%) MBA
13 4 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 2 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.36%) Chartered Engineer
14 2 (0.36%) CSPO
15 1 (0.18%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (7.66%) Data Quality
2 29 (5.29%) QA
3 9 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.64%) GDPR
4 8 (1.46%) PMO
5 7 (1.28%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.36%) SLA
8 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.18%) GRC
8 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 50 (9.12%) Docker
2 3 (0.55%) Ceph
3 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) Firmware
3 1 (0.18%) NFS
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (9.85%) Kubernetes
2 29 (5.29%) Ansible
3 10 (1.82%) Argo
4 9 (1.64%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.09%) Grafana
6 4 (0.73%) Istio
7 3 (0.55%) Check_MK
7 3 (0.55%) Podman
8 2 (0.36%) Puppet
9 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.18%) linkerd
9 1 (0.18%) Nagios
9 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 81 (14.78%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.47%) Salesforce
3 17 (3.10%) Databricks
3 17 (3.10%) Splunk
4 14 (2.55%) ServiceNow
5 11 (2.01%) AppDynamics
5 11 (2.01%) Google
5 11 (2.01%) Oracle
6 9 (1.64%) Adobe
7 8 (1.46%) YouTube
8 7 (1.28%) Pega
9 6 (1.09%) Red Hat
10 5 (0.91%) SAP
11 4 (0.73%) Dell
11 4 (0.73%) NEC
12 3 (0.55%) Apple
12 3 (0.55%) Facebook
12 3 (0.55%) LogicMonitor
13 2 (0.36%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.36%) SaltStack