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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 347 808 689
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 14.29% 22.34% 29.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.78% 26.03% 30.79%
Number of salaries quoted 226 250 525
10th Percentile £44,625 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +5.81%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £78,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,500
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +4.35%

All Process and 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 2,068 3,104 2,238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 85.17% 85.82% 94.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,284 1,408 1,819
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.65% +8.28%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,850 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%

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 13 November 2025.

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 13 November 2025. 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 -1 18 £65,000 +13.04% 20
Bolton +13 14 £50,000 -9.09% 21
Oldham +3 11 £55,752 -17.40% 2
Stockport -9 8 £55,000 -8.33% 3
Salford -13 3 £74,830 +20.28% 5
Bury -2 2 - - 21
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 17 (4.90%) Confluence
2 4 (1.15%) Apache
2 4 (1.15%) CMS
3 3 (0.86%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.86%) IIS
4 2 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.58%) nginx
4 2 (0.58%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 13 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.15%) Adobe XD
3 4 (1.15%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.15%) Sketch
4 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.58%) Trello
5 1 (0.29%) InVision
5 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.29%) Magento
3 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.29%) Siebel CRM
3 1 (0.29%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 113 (32.56%) AWS
2 102 (29.39%) Azure
3 36 (10.37%) GCP
3 36 (10.37%) SaaS
4 29 (8.36%) Power Platform
5 28 (8.07%) Serverless
6 21 (6.05%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (5.19%) GitHub
9 12 (3.46%) Figma
10 8 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (2.02%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.02%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (2.02%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (1.73%) Adobe Analytics
12 6 (1.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 5 (1.44%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (1.44%) Azure Functions
13 5 (1.44%) PaaS
13 5 (1.44%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.15%) HTTP
2 2 (0.58%) AMQP
2 2 (0.58%) DNS
2 2 (0.58%) Firewall
2 2 (0.58%) SSH
2 2 (0.58%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.58%) WAN
3 1 (0.29%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.65%) MongoDB
1 30 (8.65%) NoSQL
2 19 (5.48%) Power BI
3 16 (4.61%) SQL Server
4 12 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (2.59%) DynamoDB
7 7 (2.02%) MySQL
8 5 (1.44%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.44%) Redis
8 5 (1.44%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.15%) Big Data
9 4 (1.15%) GIS
10 3 (0.86%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.86%) Hazelcast
10 3 (0.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.58%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 28 (8.07%) JIRA
2 20 (5.76%) Git
3 12 (3.46%) GitLab
4 9 (2.59%) Cucumber
4 9 (2.59%) Selenium
5 8 (2.31%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.73%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.15%) JMeter
8 3 (0.86%) Gatling
9 2 (0.58%) JUnit
9 2 (0.58%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.58%) webpack
10 1 (0.29%) Appium
10 1 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.29%) Axure RP
10 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.29%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.29%) Locust
10 1 (0.29%) NUnit
10 1 (0.29%) REST Assured
General
1 120 (34.58%) Social Skills
2 110 (31.70%) Finance
3 46 (13.26%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (11.82%) Public Sector
5 27 (7.78%) Marketing
6 20 (5.76%) Local Government
7 17 (4.90%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (4.32%) Law
9 11 (3.17%) Banking
9 11 (3.17%) Retail
10 10 (2.88%) Games
11 8 (2.31%) Electronics
11 8 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (2.31%) Manufacturing
12 7 (2.02%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.73%) Legal
13 6 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.44%) Back Office
15 3 (0.86%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 98 (28.24%) Senior
2 86 (24.78%) Developer
3 40 (11.53%) Lead
4 33 (9.51%) Software Engineer
5 32 (9.22%) Senior Developer
6 28 (8.07%) Analyst
6 28 (8.07%) Senior Manager
7 23 (6.63%) Project Manager
8 20 (5.76%) Audit Manager
8 20 (5.76%) Senior Audit Manager
9 19 (5.48%) Java Developer
10 18 (5.19%) Architect
11 17 (4.90%) AWS Architect
12 16 (4.61%) AWS Solution Architect
12 16 (4.61%) Solutions Architect
13 15 (4.32%) .NET Developer
13 15 (4.32%) TOGAF Architect
14 14 (4.03%) Data Engineer
14 14 (4.03%) Senior Java Developer
15 13 (3.75%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (16.43%) .NET
1 57 (16.43%) React
2 29 (8.36%) CSS
2 29 (8.36%) Spring
2 29 (8.36%) Spring Boot
3 26 (7.49%) HTML
4 25 (7.20%) Kafka
4 25 (7.20%) REST
5 21 (6.05%) AngularJS
5 21 (6.05%) Node.js
6 16 (4.61%) RESTful
7 11 (3.17%) .NET Framework
8 9 (2.59%) .NET Core
9 8 (2.31%) Hibernate
9 8 (2.31%) Web Services
9 8 (2.31%) WebSockets
10 7 (2.02%) Amazon Corretto
10 7 (2.02%) CSS3
10 7 (2.02%) Entity Framework
10 7 (2.02%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 38 (10.95%) Cloud Native
2 37 (10.66%) Product Ownership
3 20 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (5.19%) Management Information System
5 13 (3.75%) Social Media
6 12 (3.46%) Mobile App
7 10 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (2.31%) Wiki
9 7 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (2.02%) e-Learning
10 6 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.44%) Animation
12 4 (1.15%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.15%) Private Cloud
13 3 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 3 (0.86%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 2 (0.58%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.75%) Windows
2 7 (2.02%) Linux
3 2 (0.58%) Android
3 2 (0.58%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.58%) CentOS
3 2 (0.58%) Debian
3 2 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.58%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (28.24%) DevOps
2 95 (27.38%) CI/CD
3 83 (23.92%) Continuous Improvement
4 76 (21.90%) Software Engineering
5 73 (21.04%) Problem-Solving
6 60 (17.29%) Microservices
6 60 (17.29%) Roadmaps
7 59 (17.00%) Coaching
7 59 (17.00%) User Experience
8 58 (16.71%) Mentoring
9 46 (13.26%) Containerisation
10 43 (12.39%) Full-Stack Development
10 43 (12.39%) Scrum
10 43 (12.39%) Stakeholder Management
11 41 (11.82%) Clean Code
11 41 (11.82%) Decision-Making
12 40 (11.53%) TDD
13 39 (11.24%) Test Automation
14 37 (10.66%) SDLC
15 31 (8.93%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 65 (18.73%) Java
2 63 (18.16%) C#
3 52 (14.99%) JavaScript
4 47 (13.54%) TypeScript
5 46 (13.26%) SQL
6 42 (12.10%) Python
7 8 (2.31%) PHP
8 6 (1.73%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.15%) Bash
10 3 (0.86%) Bicep
10 3 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.86%) Go
10 3 (0.86%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.58%) C++
11 2 (0.58%) Scala
12 1 (0.29%) C
12 1 (0.29%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.29%) Swift
Qualifications
1 31 (8.93%) Security Cleared
2 28 (8.07%) Degree
3 27 (7.78%) ACCA
4 22 (6.34%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.46%) DBS Check
6 11 (3.17%) AWS Certification
6 11 (3.17%) Azure Certification
7 10 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.88%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (2.02%) CIMA
9 7 (2.02%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (1.73%) PMI Certification
10 6 (1.73%) PMP
11 4 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.86%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.58%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.29%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.92%) QA
2 22 (6.34%) Accessibility
3 20 (5.76%) GAAP
3 20 (5.76%) IFRS
4 9 (2.59%) GDPR
4 9 (2.59%) NIST
5 8 (2.31%) HIPAA
6 6 (1.73%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.86%) WCAG
8 2 (0.58%) PMO
9 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.29%) HL7
9 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (14.99%) Docker
2 6 (1.73%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.29%) HDFS
4 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 48 (13.83%) Kubernetes
2 31 (8.93%) Terraform
3 8 (2.31%) Ansible
4 3 (0.86%) Grafana
5 2 (0.58%) Puppet
6 1 (0.29%) Automic
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (11.24%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.76%) Google
3 11 (3.17%) SAP
4 9 (2.59%) Adobe
5 7 (2.02%) Bloomberg
5 7 (2.02%) Facebook
5 7 (2.02%) Splunk
6 6 (1.73%) Databricks
6 6 (1.73%) Qualtrics
7 5 (1.44%) Oracle
8 4 (1.15%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.86%) VMware
10 2 (0.58%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.58%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.58%) Dell
10 2 (0.58%) Informatica
10 2 (0.58%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.58%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.58%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.58%) UiPath