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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -12 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 529 582 1,048
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.88% 23.16% 23.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.64% 25.28% 28.29%
Number of salaries quoted 391 263 547
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £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 £82,500 £77,500 £75,988
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,000 £96,000
North West median annual salary £62,500 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.31% +0.83% +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 4,972 2,302 3,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.02% 91.60% 81.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,914 1,339 2,460
10th Percentile £33,150 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £42,000
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 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £83,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -3.85% -5.45%

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 5 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 5 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 - 4
Altrincham -3 15 £65,000 - 5
Oldham -1 9 £67,500 +19.46%
Salford -8 9 £62,151 - 7
Stockport -7 5 £55,000 -12.00% 3
Bury 0 3 £92,482 - 3
Bolton -11 3 £55,000 -26.67% 4
Wigan -3 2 £77,500 - 2
Rochdale -1 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 36 (6.81%) Confluence
2 20 (3.78%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.51%) Apache
5 5 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.95%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.76%) CMS
7 3 (0.57%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.57%) nginx
8 2 (0.38%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.38%) CICS
8 2 (0.38%) IIS
8 2 (0.38%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.38%) WordPress
9 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.19%) JBoss
9 1 (0.19%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 8 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.32%) Trello
3 6 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.38%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.19%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.57%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 170 (32.14%) Azure
2 145 (27.41%) AWS
3 72 (13.61%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (7.37%) Serverless
5 38 (7.18%) Power Platform
6 37 (6.99%) SaaS
7 36 (6.81%) GitHub
8 32 (6.05%) GCP
9 25 (4.73%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (4.35%) Power Automate
11 21 (3.97%) Microsoft Copilot
12 19 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
13 18 (3.40%) PowerApps
14 16 (3.02%) dbt
15 14 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
16 12 (2.27%) Snowflake
17 11 (2.08%) Amazon S3
17 11 (2.08%) Anthropic Claude
17 11 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
17 11 (2.08%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.38%) AMQP
1 2 (0.38%) HTTP
2 1 (0.19%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (0.19%) iSCSI
2 1 (0.19%) LAN
2 1 (0.19%) LTE
2 1 (0.19%) Network Security
2 1 (0.19%) SAN
2 1 (0.19%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.19%) SSL
2 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.19%) WAN
2 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (3.02%) MongoDB
2 16 (3.02%) SQL Server
3 14 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (2.65%) DynamoDB
4 13 (2.46%) NoSQL
4 13 (2.46%) Power BI
5 12 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (1.70%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.32%) BigQuery
7 7 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.13%) Big Data
8 6 (1.13%) MySQL
9 4 (0.76%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.76%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.76%) Flink
10 3 (0.57%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.57%) GIS
10 3 (0.57%) QGIS
11 2 (0.38%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 61 (11.53%) JIRA
2 51 (9.64%) Git
3 21 (3.97%) GitLab
4 17 (3.21%) Jenkins
5 12 (2.27%) Claude Code
6 11 (2.08%) JUnit
6 11 (2.08%) Postman
6 11 (2.08%) Spock
7 8 (1.51%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (0.95%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.76%) Maven
11 3 (0.57%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.38%) MSTest
12 2 (0.38%) NUnit
12 2 (0.38%) XCUITest
13 1 (0.19%) Selenium
13 1 (0.19%) Subversion
13 1 (0.19%) WinDbg
General
1 138 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 120 (22.68%) Finance
3 54 (10.21%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (7.56%) Public Sector
5 34 (6.43%) Marketing
6 30 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
8 18 (3.40%) Retail
9 16 (3.02%) Law
10 14 (2.65%) Banking
11 12 (2.27%) Games
12 10 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.70%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.51%) Advertising
14 8 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.13%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.13%) Publishing
16 5 (0.95%) Local Government
16 5 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 120 (22.68%) Senior
2 103 (19.47%) Developer
3 58 (10.96%) Software Engineer
4 45 (8.51%) Senior Developer
5 41 (7.75%) Lead
6 34 (6.43%) Project Manager
7 29 (5.48%) Data Engineer
8 28 (5.29%) Analyst
8 28 (5.29%) Engineering Manager
9 27 (5.10%) Business Analyst
10 26 (4.91%) Java Developer
11 23 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
12 20 (3.78%) Cloud Engineer
13 19 (3.59%) Lead Software Engineer
13 19 (3.59%) Senior Software Engineer
14 18 (3.40%) Product Owner
15 17 (3.21%) Software Developer
16 16 (3.02%) DevOps Engineer
16 16 (3.02%) Microsoft 365 Developer
17 15 (2.84%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (11.53%) .NET
2 46 (8.70%) HTML
3 41 (7.75%) Spring
4 38 (7.18%) CSS
4 38 (7.18%) Node.js
5 34 (6.43%) AngularJS
6 29 (5.48%) React
7 28 (5.29%) Spring Boot
8 27 (5.10%) REST
9 15 (2.84%) Kafka
10 14 (2.65%) ASP.NET
10 14 (2.65%) RESTful
11 11 (2.08%) Microsoft Graph
12 10 (1.89%) ASP.NET Core
12 10 (1.89%) Vue
13 9 (1.70%) Entity Framework
13 9 (1.70%) HTML5 Canvas
13 9 (1.70%) PySpark
13 9 (1.70%) SPFx
14 8 (1.51%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 66 (12.48%) Product Ownership
2 45 (8.51%) Cloud Native
3 23 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (3.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 13 (2.46%) Mobile App
5 13 (2.46%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.27%) Marketing Technology
6 12 (2.27%) Private Cloud
7 9 (1.70%) Driving Licence
8 7 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.13%) PMI
9 6 (1.13%) Social Media
9 6 (1.13%) Virtual Team
10 5 (0.95%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (0.95%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.76%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.78%) Linux
2 7 (1.32%) Windows
3 6 (1.13%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.95%) Android
5 2 (0.38%) CentOS
5 2 (0.38%) Debian
5 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.38%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.38%) VMS
6 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (33.08%) DevOps
2 166 (31.38%) CI/CD
3 140 (26.47%) Continuous Improvement
4 129 (24.39%) Scrum
5 117 (22.12%) AI
6 101 (19.09%) Software Engineering
7 98 (18.53%) Stakeholder Management
8 82 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
9 73 (13.80%) Roadmaps
9 73 (13.80%) TDD
10 69 (13.04%) Mentoring
11 65 (12.29%) Test Automation
12 62 (11.72%) Kanban
13 59 (11.15%) Coaching
14 58 (10.96%) Microservices
15 53 (10.02%) Full-Stack Development
16 52 (9.83%) Collaborative Culture
17 51 (9.64%) Decision-Making
18 49 (9.26%) Project Management
19 47 (8.88%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 106 (20.04%) Java
2 104 (19.66%) SQL
3 94 (17.77%) Python
4 82 (15.50%) JavaScript
5 61 (11.53%) C#
6 29 (5.48%) TypeScript
7 16 (3.02%) Go
8 12 (2.27%) Bash
9 10 (1.89%) C++
9 10 (1.89%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.70%) PHP
11 6 (1.13%) Apex Code
11 6 (1.13%) Groovy
12 4 (0.76%) SOQL
12 4 (0.76%) Swift
13 3 (0.57%) C
13 3 (0.57%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.57%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.57%) SOSL
14 2 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 62 (11.72%) Security Cleared
2 49 (9.26%) Degree
2 49 (9.26%) SC Cleared
3 23 (4.35%) DV Cleared
4 18 (3.40%) Master's Degree
5 16 (3.02%) PMI Certification
6 10 (1.89%) PMP
7 8 (1.51%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.13%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (0.95%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.76%) HNC
10 4 (0.76%) MBA
10 4 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.38%) Chartered Engineer
11 2 (0.38%) CSPO
12 1 (0.19%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.99%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.29%) QA
3 10 (1.89%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.70%) GDPR
5 7 (1.32%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.32%) PMO
6 6 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.38%) SLA
8 1 (0.19%) GRC
8 1 (0.19%) ITGC
8 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (9.07%) Docker
2 3 (0.57%) Ceph
3 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) Firmware
3 1 (0.19%) NFS
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 61 (11.53%) Terraform
2 49 (9.26%) Kubernetes
3 27 (5.10%) Ansible
4 9 (1.70%) Argo
4 9 (1.70%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.13%) Grafana
6 4 (0.76%) Istio
7 3 (0.57%) Check_MK
7 3 (0.57%) Podman
8 2 (0.38%) Puppet
9 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.19%) linkerd
9 1 (0.19%) Nagios
9 1 (0.19%) Packer
9 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 80 (15.12%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.59%) Salesforce
3 17 (3.21%) Splunk
4 16 (3.02%) Databricks
5 14 (2.65%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.27%) Google
7 11 (2.08%) AppDynamics
8 10 (1.89%) Oracle
9 9 (1.70%) Adobe
10 7 (1.32%) Pega
11 6 (1.13%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.95%) SAP
13 3 (0.57%) Apple
13 3 (0.57%) Dell
13 3 (0.57%) Facebook
13 3 (0.57%) LogicMonitor
13 3 (0.57%) NEC
14 2 (0.38%) OpenAI
14 2 (0.38%) SaltStack
14 2 (0.38%) WSO2