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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -12 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 544 570 1,003
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.89% 22.84% 22.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.55% 25.10% 27.81%
Number of salaries quoted 395 260 499
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £81,875 £77,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,250 £97,500
North West median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £58,800
% change year-on-year +4.17% +2.04% +2.26%

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 5,157 2,271 3,607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.75% 90.99% 81.92%
Number of salaries quoted 4,045 1,317 2,329
10th Percentile £33,000 £29,750 £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 £72,500 £69,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £83,500
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 17 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 17 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 -3 13 £65,000 - 3
Salford -5 13 £42,000 - 12
Oldham -2 9 £67,500 +11.11% 2
Stockport -3 7 £62,500 - 6
Bury 0 3 £92,482 -
Bolton -11 3 £55,000 -26.67% 5
Wigan -5 2 £77,500 - 4
Rochdale -3 1 £55,000 - 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 (6.43%) Confluence
2 20 (3.68%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.84%) Apache
5 5 (0.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.92%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.74%) CMS
7 3 (0.55%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.55%) nginx
8 2 (0.37%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.37%) CICS
8 2 (0.37%) IIS
8 2 (0.37%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.37%) WordPress
9 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.18%) JBoss
9 1 (0.18%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 8 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.29%) Trello
3 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.74%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 174 (31.99%) Azure
2 151 (27.76%) AWS
3 74 (13.60%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (7.35%) Power Platform
4 40 (7.35%) Serverless
5 39 (7.17%) GitHub
5 39 (7.17%) SaaS
6 33 (6.07%) GCP
7 26 (4.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 23 (4.23%) Power Automate
9 21 (3.86%) Microsoft Copilot
10 19 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
11 18 (3.31%) PowerApps
12 17 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
13 16 (2.94%) dbt
14 15 (2.76%) Snowflake
15 12 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (2.02%) Amazon S3
16 11 (2.02%) Anthropic Claude
16 11 (2.02%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.37%) AMQP
1 2 (0.37%) 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 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (2.94%) DynamoDB
2 16 (2.94%) MongoDB
2 16 (2.94%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (2.57%) Power BI
5 12 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (2.21%) NoSQL
6 10 (1.84%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.10%) Big Data
8 6 (1.10%) BigQuery
8 6 (1.10%) MySQL
9 4 (0.74%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.74%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.74%) Flink
10 3 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.55%) GIS
10 3 (0.55%) QGIS
11 2 (0.37%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 64 (11.76%) JIRA
2 52 (9.56%) Git
3 23 (4.23%) GitLab
4 18 (3.31%) Jenkins
5 12 (2.21%) Claude Code
6 11 (2.02%) JUnit
6 11 (2.02%) Postman
6 11 (2.02%) Spock
7 8 (1.47%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (0.92%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.74%) Maven
11 3 (0.55%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.55%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.37%) MSTest
12 2 (0.37%) NUnit
12 2 (0.37%) XCUITest
13 1 (0.18%) Gemini Tracker
13 1 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
13 1 (0.18%) REST Assured
General
1 141 (25.92%) Social Skills
2 125 (22.98%) Finance
3 54 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (8.09%) Public Sector
5 38 (6.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (5.70%) Marketing
7 20 (3.68%) Retail
8 18 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
8 18 (3.31%) Law
9 17 (3.13%) Telecoms
10 13 (2.39%) Banking
10 13 (2.39%) Games
11 11 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.47%) Advertising
12 8 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.47%) Legal
13 7 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.10%) Local Government
15 5 (0.92%) Publishing
16 4 (0.74%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 127 (23.35%) Senior
2 108 (19.85%) Developer
3 56 (10.29%) Software Engineer
4 47 (8.64%) Senior Developer
5 44 (8.09%) Lead
6 33 (6.07%) Project Manager
7 31 (5.70%) Analyst
8 29 (5.33%) Engineering Manager
9 28 (5.15%) Business Analyst
10 27 (4.96%) Data Engineer
11 26 (4.78%) Java Developer
12 24 (4.41%) Delivery Manager
13 21 (3.86%) Cloud Engineer
13 21 (3.86%) Senior Software Engineer
14 19 (3.49%) DevOps Engineer
15 18 (3.31%) Lead Software Engineer
15 18 (3.31%) Product Owner
15 18 (3.31%) Software Developer
16 16 (2.94%) Microsoft 365 Developer
17 15 (2.76%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (11.40%) .NET
2 48 (8.82%) HTML
3 41 (7.54%) Spring
4 40 (7.35%) CSS
5 39 (7.17%) Node.js
6 34 (6.25%) AngularJS
7 31 (5.70%) React
8 29 (5.33%) REST
9 28 (5.15%) Spring Boot
10 15 (2.76%) Kafka
11 14 (2.57%) ASP.NET
11 14 (2.57%) RESTful
12 11 (2.02%) Microsoft Graph
13 10 (1.84%) ASP.NET Core
13 10 (1.84%) Vue
14 9 (1.65%) .NET Core
14 9 (1.65%) Entity Framework
14 9 (1.65%) HTML5 Canvas
14 9 (1.65%) PySpark
14 9 (1.65%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 70 (12.87%) Product Ownership
2 49 (9.01%) Cloud Native
3 23 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 13 (2.39%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.21%) Marketing Technology
7 12 (2.21%) Mobile App
7 12 (2.21%) Private Cloud
8 8 (1.47%) Driving Licence
9 7 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.29%) IoT
10 6 (1.10%) Social Media
11 5 (0.92%) Cyber Defence
11 5 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (0.92%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.92%) PMI
11 5 (0.92%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.68%) Linux
2 7 (1.29%) Windows
3 6 (1.10%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.92%) Android
5 2 (0.37%) CentOS
5 2 (0.37%) Debian
5 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (33.09%) DevOps
2 166 (30.51%) CI/CD
3 149 (27.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 129 (23.71%) Scrum
5 127 (23.35%) AI
6 103 (18.93%) Software Engineering
6 103 (18.93%) Stakeholder Management
7 91 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
8 77 (14.15%) Mentoring
9 72 (13.24%) Roadmaps
10 70 (12.87%) TDD
11 66 (12.13%) Test Automation
12 61 (11.21%) Microservices
13 59 (10.85%) Kanban
14 58 (10.66%) Coaching
15 56 (10.29%) Full-Stack Development
16 54 (9.93%) Collaborative Culture
17 51 (9.38%) Project Delivery
18 50 (9.19%) Decision-Making
19 48 (8.82%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 108 (19.85%) Java
2 107 (19.67%) SQL
3 99 (18.20%) Python
4 87 (15.99%) JavaScript
5 63 (11.58%) C#
6 31 (5.70%) TypeScript
7 18 (3.31%) Go
8 12 (2.21%) Bash
8 12 (2.21%) C++
9 10 (1.84%) PHP
9 10 (1.84%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.10%) Apex Code
10 6 (1.10%) Groovy
11 4 (0.74%) C
11 4 (0.74%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.74%) SOQL
11 4 (0.74%) Swift
12 3 (0.55%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.55%) SOSL
13 2 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 68 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 58 (10.66%) Degree
3 54 (9.93%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.78%) DV Cleared
5 20 (3.68%) Master's Degree
6 15 (2.76%) PMI Certification
7 14 (2.57%) DBS Check
8 12 (2.21%) HNC
9 10 (1.84%) PMP
10 8 (1.47%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.92%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.74%) MBA
13 4 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 2 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.37%) Chartered Engineer
14 2 (0.37%) CSPO
15 1 (0.18%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (7.35%) Data Quality
2 27 (4.96%) QA
3 10 (1.84%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.65%) GDPR
5 8 (1.47%) PMO
6 7 (1.29%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.37%) SLA
9 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.18%) GRC
9 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (9.19%) 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 63 (11.58%) Terraform
2 54 (9.93%) Kubernetes
3 29 (5.33%) Ansible
4 10 (1.84%) Argo
5 9 (1.65%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.10%) Grafana
7 4 (0.74%) Istio
8 3 (0.55%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.55%) Podman
9 2 (0.37%) Puppet
10 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.18%) linkerd
10 1 (0.18%) Nagios
10 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 81 (14.89%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.49%) Salesforce
3 17 (3.13%) Databricks
3 17 (3.13%) Splunk
4 14 (2.57%) ServiceNow
5 11 (2.02%) AppDynamics
5 11 (2.02%) Google
5 11 (2.02%) Oracle
6 9 (1.65%) Adobe
7 7 (1.29%) Pega
8 6 (1.10%) Red Hat
9 5 (0.92%) SAP
10 4 (0.74%) Dell
10 4 (0.74%) NEC
11 3 (0.55%) Apple
11 3 (0.55%) Facebook
11 3 (0.55%) LogicMonitor
12 2 (0.37%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.37%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.37%) YouTube