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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -12 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 469 614 1,227
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.58% 26.70% 21.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.46% 28.11% 25.59%
Number of salaries quoted 358 285 802
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,375 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,250 £93,778 £89,750
North West median annual salary £63,076 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% +4.17% +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 4,485 2,184 4,795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.49% 94.96% 83.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,551 1,243 3,561
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -9.48%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,072 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £81,250
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 26 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 26 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 -1 15 £67,500 +12.50% 2
Ashton-under-Lyne +1 9 £51,000 - 1
Salford -10 7 £74,651 - 6
Stockport -6 4 £55,000 - 2
Bury +1 3 £92,482 -
Oldham 0 3 £69,973 +23.84% 4
Bolton -9 2 £55,000 -26.67% 2
Rochdale -5 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 (7.25%) Confluence
2 14 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.07%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (1.07%) CMS
5 3 (0.64%) Apache
5 3 (0.64%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.64%) WordPress
6 2 (0.43%) Apache Spark
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 (1.07%) 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
1 145 (30.92%) Azure
2 131 (27.93%) AWS
3 55 (11.73%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (8.32%) SaaS
5 34 (7.25%) Serverless
6 31 (6.61%) Power Platform
7 26 (5.54%) GCP
7 26 (5.54%) GitHub
8 22 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (2.77%) Anthropic Claude
11 12 (2.56%) Microsoft Copilot
11 12 (2.56%) Power Automate
12 10 (2.13%) Azure AKS
12 10 (2.13%) PowerApps
13 9 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
13 9 (1.92%) dbt
14 8 (1.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 8 (1.71%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.43%) AMQP
2 1 (0.21%) LTE
2 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.26%) NoSQL
2 16 (3.41%) Power BI
3 15 (3.20%) MongoDB
4 14 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.35%) SQL Server
6 9 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (1.92%) MySQL
6 9 (1.92%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.71%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.49%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.28%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.07%) Big Data
11 4 (0.85%) Flink
12 3 (0.64%) Data Mining
12 3 (0.64%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.64%) GIS
12 3 (0.64%) QGIS
13 2 (0.43%) Db2
Development Applications
1 53 (11.30%) JIRA
2 40 (8.53%) Git
3 17 (3.62%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.41%) GitLab
5 14 (2.99%) Claude Code
6 11 (2.35%) Postman
7 6 (1.28%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.28%) JUnit
7 6 (1.28%) Spock
8 5 (1.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.64%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.64%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.43%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.43%) Maven
10 2 (0.43%) MSTest
10 2 (0.43%) NUnit
10 2 (0.43%) Selenium
10 2 (0.43%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.43%) XCUITest
11 1 (0.21%) WinDbg
General
1 110 (23.45%) Finance
2 99 (21.11%) Social Skills
3 44 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (7.89%) Public Sector
5 31 (6.61%) Marketing
6 19 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (3.20%) Banking
8 15 (3.20%) Retail
9 14 (2.99%) Games
10 12 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.92%) Advertising
11 9 (1.92%) Law
12 7 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.07%) 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%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 115 (24.52%) Senior
2 87 (18.55%) Developer
3 63 (13.43%) Software Engineer
4 43 (9.17%) Lead
5 39 (8.32%) Senior Developer
6 28 (5.97%) Data Engineer
6 28 (5.97%) Java Developer
7 26 (5.54%) Analyst
8 24 (5.12%) Project Manager
9 23 (4.90%) Business Analyst
10 21 (4.48%) Delivery Manager
11 20 (4.26%) Engineering Manager
11 20 (4.26%) Java Engineer
11 20 (4.26%) Lead Software Engineer
11 20 (4.26%) Senior Software Engineer
12 19 (4.05%) Cloud Engineer
12 19 (4.05%) Senior Data Engineer
13 18 (3.84%) Product Owner
14 16 (3.41%) Senior Java Developer
15 14 (2.99%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (12.15%) .NET
2 39 (8.32%) React
3 38 (8.10%) Node.js
4 37 (7.89%) Spring
5 34 (7.25%) HTML
6 31 (6.61%) AngularJS
6 31 (6.61%) CSS
7 30 (6.40%) REST
7 30 (6.40%) Spring Boot
8 19 (4.05%) RESTful
9 14 (2.99%) Kafka
10 12 (2.56%) Vue
11 8 (1.71%) .NET Framework
11 8 (1.71%) PySpark
12 7 (1.49%) ASP.NET
12 7 (1.49%) Microsoft Graph
13 6 (1.28%) ASP.NET Core
13 6 (1.28%) SOAP
14 5 (1.07%) AWS CDK
14 5 (1.07%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 64 (13.65%) Product Ownership
2 37 (7.89%) Cloud Native
3 23 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (2.99%) Mobile App
5 13 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 9 (1.92%) Driving Licence
8 8 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.71%) Marketing Technology
8 8 (1.71%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.49%) PMI
9 7 (1.49%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.28%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (0.64%) IVR
13 3 (0.64%) Low-Code
13 3 (0.64%) Management Information System
14 2 (0.43%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.62%) Linux
2 7 (1.49%) 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
1 153 (32.62%) CI/CD
2 142 (30.28%) DevOps
3 128 (27.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 114 (24.31%) Scrum
5 94 (20.04%) Software Engineering
6 81 (17.27%) AI
7 78 (16.63%) Stakeholder Management
8 77 (16.42%) TDD
9 68 (14.50%) Roadmaps
10 64 (13.65%) Problem-Solving
11 63 (13.43%) Mentoring
12 62 (13.22%) Coaching
13 61 (13.01%) Microservices
14 57 (12.15%) Test Automation
15 56 (11.94%) Kanban
16 51 (10.87%) Decision-Making
17 49 (10.45%) Full-Stack Development
17 49 (10.45%) Infrastructure as Code
18 44 (9.38%) Collaborative Culture
19 40 (8.53%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 103 (21.96%) Java
2 94 (20.04%) SQL
3 84 (17.91%) Python
4 69 (14.71%) JavaScript
5 54 (11.51%) C#
6 25 (5.33%) TypeScript
7 11 (2.35%) Bash
8 10 (2.13%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.92%) C++
10 7 (1.49%) Go
11 6 (1.28%) PHP
12 5 (1.07%) Apex Code
12 5 (1.07%) Groovy
13 4 (0.85%) SOQL
14 3 (0.64%) C
14 3 (0.64%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.64%) SOSL
15 2 (0.43%) Bicep
15 2 (0.43%) Scala
15 2 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 58 (12.37%) Security Cleared
2 46 (9.81%) SC Cleared
3 25 (5.33%) Degree
4 18 (3.84%) 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 4 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.12%) Data Quality
2 23 (4.90%) QA
3 10 (2.13%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.49%) GDPR
5 5 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.07%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.07%) PMO
6 2 (0.43%) SLA
6 2 (0.43%) WCAG
7 1 (0.21%) GRC
7 1 (0.21%) ITGC
7 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 39 (8.32%) Docker
2 2 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 62 (13.22%) Terraform
2 46 (9.81%) Kubernetes
3 20 (4.26%) Ansible
4 6 (1.28%) Argo
4 6 (1.28%) Grafana
4 6 (1.28%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.43%) Packer
5 2 (0.43%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.43%) Puppet
6 1 (0.21%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.21%) Istio
6 1 (0.21%) linkerd
6 1 (0.21%) Rancher
Vendors
1 62 (13.22%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.41%) Databricks
2 16 (3.41%) Salesforce
3 15 (3.20%) ServiceNow
4 9 (1.92%) Adobe
4 9 (1.92%) Splunk
5 8 (1.71%) Oracle
6 6 (1.28%) AppDynamics
6 6 (1.28%) Google
7 5 (1.07%) Pega
8 4 (0.85%) SAP
9 3 (0.64%) Facebook
9 3 (0.64%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.43%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.43%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.43%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.43%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.43%) WSO2
11 1 (0.21%) Apple
11 1 (0.21%) Sony