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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -16 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 395 453 1,042
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.45% 22.64% 22.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.48% 23.79% 25.52%
Number of salaries quoted 292 289 843
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £50,938 £52,500 £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 £82,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £89,750
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 3,441 1,904 4,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.62% 95.15% 86.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,341 1,256 3,304
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,531 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,687 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.32% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £89,375 £82,500
North West median annual salary £51,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.92% +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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -6 10 £77,500 +44.19% 5
Bolton +2 6 £50,000 -33.33% 8
Salford -7 5 £74,651 +17.96% 6
Bury - 3 £92,482 - 1
Oldham - 3 £55,000 - 1
Stockport -6 2 - - 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 24 (6.08%) Confluence
2 11 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.27%) Apache
5 3 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.76%) CMS
5 3 (0.76%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.76%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.51%) CICS
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.25%) PegaRULES
7 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.76%) Sketch
3 2 (0.51%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.25%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 126 (31.90%) Azure
2 101 (25.57%) AWS
3 45 (11.39%) SaaS
4 30 (7.59%) Serverless
5 25 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (6.33%) GCP
5 25 (6.33%) Power Platform
6 20 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (4.05%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (3.29%) Azure AKS
10 12 (3.04%) Figma
10 12 (3.04%) GitHub
11 10 (2.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 10 (2.53%) Azure Functions
11 10 (2.53%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (2.53%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (2.28%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (2.03%) Anthropic Claude
13 8 (2.03%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.77%) HTTP
2 5 (1.27%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.01%) AMQP
4 3 (0.76%) SSH
5 2 (0.51%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (8.10%) NoSQL
2 14 (3.54%) MySQL
3 13 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (3.04%) MongoDB
4 12 (3.04%) Power BI
5 10 (2.53%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.77%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.77%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.52%) Big Data
7 6 (1.52%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.27%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.01%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (0.76%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.76%) GIS
10 3 (0.76%) QGIS
11 2 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.51%) DB2
11 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 47 (11.90%) Git
2 38 (9.62%) JIRA
3 14 (3.54%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.53%) GitLab
5 8 (2.03%) Claude Code
6 7 (1.77%) Postman
7 5 (1.27%) Visual Studio
8 4 (1.01%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.76%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.76%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.76%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.76%) JUnit
10 2 (0.51%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.51%) Selenium
10 2 (0.51%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.51%) XCUITest
11 1 (0.25%) GDB
11 1 (0.25%) Locust
11 1 (0.25%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.25%) WinDbg
General
1 90 (22.78%) Social Skills
2 85 (21.52%) Finance
3 34 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.09%) Public Sector
5 23 (5.82%) Marketing
6 18 (4.56%) Banking
6 18 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (3.54%) Law
8 10 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.77%) Advertising
11 6 (1.52%) Games
11 6 (1.52%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.27%) Electronics
12 5 (1.27%) Retail
13 4 (1.01%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.01%) Legal
13 4 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.01%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 94 (23.80%) Senior
2 70 (17.72%) Developer
3 64 (16.20%) Software Engineer
4 48 (12.15%) Lead
5 30 (7.59%) Project Manager
6 28 (7.09%) Senior Developer
7 22 (5.57%) Data Engineer
7 22 (5.57%) Java Developer
7 22 (5.57%) Lead Software Engineer
8 20 (5.06%) Analyst
9 17 (4.30%) Marketing Manager
9 17 (4.30%) Senior Data Engineer
10 16 (4.05%) Senior Software Engineer
11 15 (3.80%) Cloud Engineer
11 15 (3.80%) Full-Stack Developer
11 15 (3.80%) Java Engineer
12 14 (3.54%) Business Analyst
13 12 (3.04%) IT Manager
13 12 (3.04%) Product Owner
14 11 (2.78%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (14.43%) .NET
2 52 (13.16%) React
3 33 (8.35%) CSS
3 33 (8.35%) REST
4 32 (8.10%) Node.js
4 32 (8.10%) Spring
5 31 (7.85%) AngularJS
5 31 (7.85%) HTML
5 31 (7.85%) Spring Boot
6 30 (7.59%) RESTful
7 15 (3.80%) .NET Framework
8 13 (3.29%) Kafka
9 9 (2.28%) Web Services
10 8 (2.03%) Vue
11 7 (1.77%) CSS3
11 7 (1.77%) gRPC
11 7 (1.77%) HTML5
12 5 (1.27%) Hibernate
12 5 (1.27%) PySpark
12 5 (1.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (12.41%) Product Ownership
2 31 (7.85%) Cloud Native
3 27 (6.84%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (3.29%) Mobile App
6 10 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.52%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.52%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.52%) Social Media
9 5 (1.27%) Driving Licence
9 5 (1.27%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.01%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.76%) IoT
11 3 (0.76%) PMI
11 3 (0.76%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.80%) Linux
2 13 (3.29%) Windows
3 4 (1.01%) CentOS
3 4 (1.01%) Debian
3 4 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.01%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.51%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.25%) Android
5 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (29.87%) CI/CD
2 105 (26.58%) DevOps
3 91 (23.04%) Software Engineering
4 90 (22.78%) Scrum
5 84 (21.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 64 (16.20%) Microservices
7 56 (14.18%) TDD
8 51 (12.91%) AI
8 51 (12.91%) Stakeholder Management
9 49 (12.41%) Roadmaps
10 48 (12.15%) Mentoring
11 46 (11.65%) Coaching
11 46 (11.65%) Full-Stack Development
12 43 (10.89%) Clean Code
12 43 (10.89%) Kanban
12 43 (10.89%) Problem-Solving
13 41 (10.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 39 (9.87%) User Experience
15 38 (9.62%) Project Delivery
15 38 (9.62%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (21.77%) Java
2 67 (16.96%) JavaScript
3 64 (16.20%) SQL
4 58 (14.68%) Python
5 46 (11.65%) C#
6 32 (8.10%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.53%) C++
8 5 (1.27%) Go
9 3 (0.76%) C
9 3 (0.76%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.76%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.51%) Bash
10 2 (0.51%) Scala
10 2 (0.51%) Swift
11 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.25%) Bicep
11 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.25%) Groovy
11 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.25%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 39 (9.87%) Security Cleared
2 29 (7.34%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.05%) PMI Certification
4 13 (3.29%) PMP
5 11 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.53%) Degree
7 6 (1.52%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.51%) ACCA
9 2 (0.51%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.51%) CIMA
9 2 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.25%) CIPD
10 1 (0.25%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.32%) QA
2 20 (5.06%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.28%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.52%) PMO
5 3 (0.76%) WCAG
6 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.25%) GxP
6 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.25%) ITGC
6 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (7.09%) Docker
2 8 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 54 (13.67%) Terraform
2 44 (11.14%) Kubernetes
3 21 (5.32%) Ansible
4 8 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.01%) Puppet
6 3 (0.76%) Rancher
7 2 (0.51%) Grafana
7 2 (0.51%) Packer
7 2 (0.51%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.25%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 41 (10.38%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.80%) Databricks
3 13 (3.29%) Salesforce
4 9 (2.28%) Splunk
5 8 (2.03%) New Relic
5 8 (2.03%) ServiceNow
6 7 (1.77%) Pega
7 6 (1.52%) Google
7 6 (1.52%) SAP
8 5 (1.27%) Adobe
9 4 (1.01%) Oracle
9 4 (1.01%) Qualtrics
9 4 (1.01%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.01%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.76%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.76%) WSO2
11 2 (0.51%) LogicMonitor
12 1 (0.25%) Genesys
12 1 (0.25%) Software AG
12 1 (0.25%) Spotify