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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -20 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 398 491 1,071
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.61% 23.37% 21.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.45% 24.49% 25.19%
Number of salaries quoted 295 287 853
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £76,875 £82,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £90,000
North West median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% +3.79%

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 3,809 2,005 4,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.86% 95.43% 86.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,610 1,276 3,407
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,204 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £69,957
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% -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 30 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 30 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 11 £77,500 +44.19% 1
Salford -12 6 £75,000 +11.71% 5
Bolton -1 5 £50,000 -33.33% 1
Oldham +1 3 £55,000 - 5
Bury -4 3 £92,482 -
Stockport -9 2 - - 2
Rochdale -8 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 28 (7.04%) Confluence
2 11 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.51%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.26%) Apache
4 5 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.75%) CMS
5 3 (0.75%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.50%) CICS
6 2 (0.50%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.25%) PegaRULES
7 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.50%) Sketch
4 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 129 (32.41%) Azure
2 101 (25.38%) AWS
3 45 (11.31%) SaaS
4 30 (7.54%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (7.54%) Serverless
5 24 (6.03%) GCP
6 22 (5.53%) Power Platform
7 21 (5.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (3.52%) Azure AKS
8 14 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (3.27%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (2.76%) Anthropic Claude
10 11 (2.76%) GitHub
11 10 (2.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 10 (2.51%) Azure Functions
11 10 (2.51%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (2.51%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (2.51%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (2.26%) Entra ID
13 8 (2.01%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.76%) HTTP
2 5 (1.26%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.01%) AMQP
4 2 (0.50%) OpenVPN
4 2 (0.50%) SSH
5 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (8.04%) NoSQL
2 14 (3.52%) MySQL
3 13 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (3.02%) MongoDB
5 9 (2.26%) Power BI
5 9 (2.26%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.26%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.01%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.76%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.51%) Big Data
8 6 (1.51%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.01%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.01%) Flink
11 3 (0.75%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.75%) GIS
11 3 (0.75%) QGIS
12 2 (0.50%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 45 (11.31%) Git
2 43 (10.80%) JIRA
3 11 (2.76%) Claude Code
3 11 (2.76%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.51%) GitLab
5 9 (2.26%) Postman
6 5 (1.26%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.75%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.75%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.75%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.75%) IntelliJ
7 3 (0.75%) JUnit
8 2 (0.50%) Selenium
8 2 (0.50%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.50%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.25%) GDB
9 1 (0.25%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.25%) WinDbg
General
1 91 (22.86%) Finance
2 86 (21.61%) Social Skills
3 28 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (7.04%) Public Sector
4 21 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (4.52%) Marketing
6 14 (3.52%) Banking
6 14 (3.52%) Law
7 13 (3.27%) Games
8 9 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.76%) Advertising
9 7 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.26%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.01%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.01%) Retail
11 4 (1.01%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.75%) Electronics
12 3 (0.75%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 105 (26.38%) Senior
2 70 (17.59%) Developer
3 67 (16.83%) Software Engineer
4 48 (12.06%) Lead
5 36 (9.05%) Senior Developer
6 29 (7.29%) Project Manager
7 24 (6.03%) Lead Software Engineer
8 23 (5.78%) Data Engineer
9 21 (5.28%) Java Developer
10 20 (5.03%) Senior Data Engineer
11 18 (4.52%) Analyst
11 18 (4.52%) Delivery Manager
11 18 (4.52%) Java Engineer
11 18 (4.52%) Senior Software Engineer
12 14 (3.52%) Cloud Engineer
12 14 (3.52%) Marketing Manager
13 13 (3.27%) Business Analyst
13 13 (3.27%) IT Manager
14 12 (3.02%) .NET Developer
14 12 (3.02%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (13.32%) .NET
2 49 (12.31%) React
3 32 (8.04%) Node.js
3 32 (8.04%) REST
4 31 (7.79%) CSS
5 30 (7.54%) AngularJS
5 30 (7.54%) Spring
6 29 (7.29%) HTML
6 29 (7.29%) Spring Boot
7 28 (7.04%) RESTful
8 15 (3.77%) .NET Framework
8 15 (3.77%) Kafka
9 10 (2.51%) Vue
9 10 (2.51%) Web Services
10 7 (1.76%) gRPC
10 7 (1.76%) PySpark
11 5 (1.26%) AWS CDK
11 5 (1.26%) CSS3
11 5 (1.26%) HTML5
12 4 (1.01%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 48 (12.06%) Product Ownership
2 29 (7.29%) Cloud Native
3 24 (6.03%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (4.27%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (3.27%) Mobile App
6 12 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.51%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.26%) Driving Licence
9 5 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.26%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.26%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.26%) PMI
10 4 (1.01%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.01%) Social Media
11 3 (0.75%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.77%) Linux
2 11 (2.76%) 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 (0.50%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.25%) Android
5 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (28.39%) CI/CD
2 106 (26.63%) DevOps
3 100 (25.13%) Scrum
4 93 (23.37%) Software Engineering
5 92 (23.12%) Continuous Improvement
6 61 (15.33%) Microservices
7 59 (14.82%) TDD
8 52 (13.07%) AI
9 50 (12.56%) Coaching
10 49 (12.31%) Roadmaps
10 49 (12.31%) Stakeholder Management
11 48 (12.06%) Kanban
11 48 (12.06%) Mentoring
12 41 (10.30%) Full-Stack Development
13 40 (10.05%) Clean Code
13 40 (10.05%) Project Management
14 39 (9.80%) Decision-Making
14 39 (9.80%) Problem-Solving
14 39 (9.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 37 (9.30%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 88 (22.11%) Java
2 71 (17.84%) SQL
3 64 (16.08%) Python
4 60 (15.08%) JavaScript
5 44 (11.06%) C#
6 29 (7.29%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.51%) C++
8 4 (1.01%) Bash
8 4 (1.01%) Go
8 4 (1.01%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.75%) C
9 3 (0.75%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.50%) PHP
10 2 (0.50%) Scala
10 2 (0.50%) Swift
11 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.25%) Bicep
11 1 (0.25%) Groovy
11 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.25%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 38 (9.55%) Security Cleared
2 29 (7.29%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.27%) PMI Certification
4 12 (3.02%) Degree
4 12 (3.02%) DV Cleared
4 12 (3.02%) PMP
5 4 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.01%) DBS Check
6 3 (0.75%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.50%) ACCA
8 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.25%) CIMA
8 1 (0.25%) CIPD
8 1 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.25%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.52%) QA
2 12 (3.02%) Accessibility
2 12 (3.02%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.51%) PMO
4 2 (0.50%) WCAG
5 1 (0.25%) GRC
5 1 (0.25%) GxP
5 1 (0.25%) ITGC
5 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (6.78%) Docker
2 9 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (14.07%) Terraform
2 41 (10.30%) Kubernetes
3 20 (5.03%) Ansible
4 8 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.01%) Puppet
6 3 (0.75%) Rancher
7 2 (0.50%) Grafana
7 2 (0.50%) Packer
7 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.50%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.25%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 46 (11.56%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.77%) Salesforce
3 14 (3.52%) Databricks
4 10 (2.51%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.01%) New Relic
5 8 (2.01%) Splunk
6 6 (1.51%) Google
6 6 (1.51%) Pega
7 4 (1.01%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.01%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.01%) SAP
8 3 (0.75%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.75%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (0.75%) Oracle
9 2 (0.50%) Adobe
9 2 (0.50%) WSO2
10 1 (0.25%) Qualtrics
10 1 (0.25%) Spotify