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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 4 1
Rank change year-on-year -16 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 373 476 1,022
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 9.12% 22.27% 23.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.26% 23.28% 26.38%
Number of salaries quoted 280 278 832
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,625 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,688 £75,772
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £86,250
North West median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +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 3,042 2,045 3,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.36% 95.69% 87.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,014 1,246 3,166
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £30,125
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £41,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,125 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -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 20 March 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 March 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 -4 10 £77,500 +47.62% 5
Bolton +4 8 £50,000 -33.33% 6
Salford -11 5 £74,830 +25.91% 6
Bury - 3 £92,482 - 1
Oldham - 3 £55,000 - 2
Stockport -6 2 £55,000 - 3
Rochdale -3 1 £55,000 +4.76%
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 18 (4.83%) Confluence
2 12 (3.22%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.61%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.34%) Apache
4 5 (1.34%) CMS
5 3 (0.80%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.54%) CICS
6 2 (0.54%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.27%) PegaRULES
7 1 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.80%) Sketch
3 2 (0.54%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.27%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 117 (31.37%) Azure
2 98 (26.27%) AWS
3 44 (11.80%) SaaS
4 32 (8.58%) Serverless
5 25 (6.70%) GCP
5 25 (6.70%) Power Platform
6 18 (4.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (4.02%) Figma
9 14 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (3.49%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (3.49%) Azure AKS
11 11 (2.95%) GitHub
12 10 (2.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 10 (2.68%) Azure Functions
12 10 (2.68%) Azure Logic Apps
12 10 (2.68%) Azure Service Bus
12 10 (2.68%) Entra ID
13 9 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (2.41%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.88%) HTTP
2 5 (1.34%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.07%) AMQP
4 3 (0.80%) SSH
5 2 (0.54%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.27%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.31%) NoSQL
2 12 (3.22%) MongoDB
2 12 (3.22%) MySQL
2 12 (3.22%) Power BI
3 10 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.14%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.88%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.61%) Big Data
6 6 (1.61%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.61%) Hadoop
7 5 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.07%) Cloudera CDH
8 4 (1.07%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (0.80%) GIS
9 3 (0.80%) QGIS
9 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.54%) DB2
10 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 42 (11.26%) Git
2 30 (8.04%) JIRA
3 14 (3.75%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.41%) GitLab
5 6 (1.61%) Claude Code
6 5 (1.34%) Visual Studio
7 4 (1.07%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.80%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.80%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.80%) IntelliJ
8 3 (0.80%) JUnit
9 2 (0.54%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.54%) Postman
9 2 (0.54%) Selenium
9 2 (0.54%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.54%) XCUITest
10 1 (0.27%) GDB
10 1 (0.27%) Locust
10 1 (0.27%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.27%) WinDbg
General
1 91 (24.40%) Social Skills
2 76 (20.38%) Finance
3 36 (9.65%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (6.97%) Public Sector
5 25 (6.70%) Marketing
6 20 (5.36%) Banking
7 16 (4.29%) Law
8 14 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (3.75%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.14%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.88%) Retail
12 6 (1.61%) Electronics
12 6 (1.61%) Games
13 5 (1.34%) Advertising
14 4 (1.07%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.07%) Legal
14 4 (1.07%) Retail Banking
14 4 (1.07%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.80%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 84 (22.52%) Senior
2 69 (18.50%) Developer
3 63 (16.89%) Software Engineer
4 51 (13.67%) Lead
5 27 (7.24%) Project Manager
6 26 (6.97%) Senior Developer
7 23 (6.17%) Data Engineer
7 23 (6.17%) Lead Software Engineer
8 19 (5.09%) Java Developer
9 18 (4.83%) Analyst
9 18 (4.83%) Marketing Manager
10 15 (4.02%) Senior Data Engineer
10 15 (4.02%) Senior Software Engineer
11 14 (3.75%) Java Engineer
12 13 (3.49%) Full-Stack Developer
12 13 (3.49%) IT Manager
13 12 (3.22%) Software Developer
14 11 (2.95%) Business Analyst
14 11 (2.95%) Cloud Engineer
14 11 (2.95%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (16.35%) .NET
2 58 (15.55%) React
3 35 (9.38%) CSS
4 33 (8.85%) HTML
4 33 (8.85%) Node.js
4 33 (8.85%) RESTful
5 32 (8.58%) REST
6 30 (8.04%) Spring
7 29 (7.77%) Spring Boot
8 27 (7.24%) AngularJS
9 17 (4.56%) .NET Framework
10 13 (3.49%) Kafka
11 9 (2.41%) CSS3
11 9 (2.41%) HTML5
11 9 (2.41%) Web Services
12 7 (1.88%) gRPC
12 7 (1.88%) Vue
13 6 (1.61%) ASP.NET
13 6 (1.61%) ASP.NET Core
13 6 (1.61%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 45 (12.06%) Product Ownership
2 34 (9.12%) Cloud Native
3 24 (6.43%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (3.49%) Mobile App
6 10 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (2.14%) Social Media
8 6 (1.61%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.61%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.34%) Driving Licence
9 5 (1.34%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.07%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.80%) IoT
11 3 (0.80%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.80%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.54%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.02%) Windows
2 14 (3.75%) Linux
3 4 (1.07%) CentOS
3 4 (1.07%) Debian
3 4 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.07%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.54%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.27%) Android
5 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (30.29%) CI/CD
2 92 (24.66%) DevOps
3 91 (24.40%) Software Engineering
4 85 (22.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 83 (22.25%) Scrum
6 63 (16.89%) Microservices
7 55 (14.75%) Mentoring
8 53 (14.21%) TDD
9 52 (13.94%) AI
10 51 (13.67%) Problem-Solving
11 49 (13.14%) Stakeholder Management
12 48 (12.87%) Full-Stack Development
13 47 (12.60%) Coaching
14 44 (11.80%) User Experience
15 43 (11.53%) Clean Code
16 42 (11.26%) Roadmaps
17 39 (10.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 38 (10.19%) Containerisation
18 38 (10.19%) Kanban
19 36 (9.65%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 81 (21.72%) Java
2 70 (18.77%) JavaScript
3 61 (16.35%) SQL
4 54 (14.48%) Python
5 52 (13.94%) C#
6 39 (10.46%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.14%) C++
8 6 (1.61%) Go
9 4 (1.07%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.80%) C
11 2 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.54%) Scala
11 2 (0.54%) Swift
11 2 (0.54%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.27%) Bicep
12 1 (0.27%) Groovy
12 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.27%) PHP
12 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (9.12%) Security Cleared
2 23 (6.17%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.29%) PMI Certification
4 14 (3.75%) PMP
5 12 (3.22%) Degree
5 12 (3.22%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.14%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.80%) ACCA
7 3 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.80%) CIMA
7 3 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.27%) CIPD
9 1 (0.27%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.43%) Accessibility
2 23 (6.17%) QA
3 6 (1.61%) PMO
4 4 (1.07%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.80%) WCAG
6 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.27%) GxP
6 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.27%) ITGC
6 1 (0.27%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (7.51%) Docker
2 10 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 46 (12.33%) Terraform
2 40 (10.72%) Kubernetes
3 14 (3.75%) Ansible
4 8 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.07%) Puppet
6 3 (0.80%) Rancher
7 2 (0.54%) Packer
7 2 (0.54%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.27%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.27%) Grafana
Vendors
1 36 (9.65%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.75%) Databricks
3 9 (2.41%) Salesforce
3 9 (2.41%) Splunk
4 8 (2.14%) Adobe
4 8 (2.14%) New Relic
4 8 (2.14%) SAP
4 8 (2.14%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.88%) Google
5 7 (1.88%) Qualtrics
6 6 (1.61%) Oracle
6 6 (1.61%) Pega
7 4 (1.07%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.07%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.07%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.54%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.54%) WSO2
9 1 (0.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.27%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.27%) webMethods