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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 493 608 1,184
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.72% 24.46% 21.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.55% 26.35% 25.99%
Number of salaries quoted 369 273 728
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,750 £42,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £90,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +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 4,672 2,307 4,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.18% 92.80% 82.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,703 1,324 3,317
10th Percentile £33,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,438 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -10.12%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £98,300 £88,333 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -3 15 £67,500 +3.85% 6
Ashton-under-Lyne +1 12 £47,500 - 2
Salford -11 7 £74,651 - 4
Oldham -2 4 £68,736 +21.65% 4
Stockport -8 4 £55,000 -12.00%
Bury 0 3 £92,482 - 2
Bolton -10 3 £55,000 -26.67% 1
Wigan -2 2 £77,500 -
Rochdale -3 1 £55,000 -
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 (7.10%) Confluence
2 17 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.01%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (1.01%) CMS
5 3 (0.61%) Apache
5 3 (0.61%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.61%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.61%) WordPress
6 2 (0.41%) CICS
6 2 (0.41%) nginx
6 2 (0.41%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.41%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.20%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (1.42%) Trello
2 6 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 152 (30.83%) Azure
2 137 (27.79%) AWS
3 60 (12.17%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (7.71%) Serverless
5 33 (6.69%) SaaS
6 32 (6.49%) Power Platform
7 29 (5.88%) GCP
8 28 (5.68%) GitHub
9 27 (5.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (3.04%) Power Automate
12 14 (2.84%) Microsoft Copilot
13 13 (2.64%) PowerApps
14 11 (2.23%) Anthropic Claude
14 11 (2.23%) dbt
15 10 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
16 9 (1.83%) Amazon S3
16 9 (1.83%) Azure AKS
16 9 (1.83%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.61%) AMQP
2 1 (0.20%) LAN
2 1 (0.20%) LTE
2 1 (0.20%) Network Security
2 1 (0.20%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.20%) WAN
2 1 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.45%) NoSQL
2 16 (3.25%) MongoDB
3 15 (3.04%) Power BI
4 14 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (2.43%) SQL Server
6 11 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (2.03%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (1.62%) MySQL
8 8 (1.62%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.42%) Big Data
9 7 (1.42%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.81%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.81%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.81%) Flink
11 3 (0.61%) Cloudera CDH
11 3 (0.61%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.61%) GIS
11 3 (0.61%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 58 (11.76%) JIRA
2 41 (8.32%) Git
3 19 (3.85%) GitLab
4 16 (3.25%) Jenkins
5 12 (2.43%) Claude Code
6 11 (2.23%) Postman
7 9 (1.83%) JUnit
7 9 (1.83%) Spock
8 8 (1.62%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.81%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.61%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.61%) Maven
12 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.41%) MSTest
12 2 (0.41%) NUnit
12 2 (0.41%) Vagrant
12 2 (0.41%) XCUITest
13 1 (0.20%) Gemini Tracker
13 1 (0.20%) Gradle
General
1 121 (24.54%) Finance
2 118 (23.94%) Social Skills
3 47 (9.53%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 31 (6.29%) Marketing
6 23 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (3.25%) Banking
8 16 (3.25%) Retail
9 12 (2.43%) Games
10 11 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (2.03%) Law
12 9 (1.83%) Advertising
13 7 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.22%) Manufacturing
15 5 (1.01%) Local Government
15 5 (1.01%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.81%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.81%) Publishing
16 4 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 114 (23.12%) Senior
2 90 (18.26%) Developer
3 61 (12.37%) Software Engineer
4 42 (8.52%) Lead
5 39 (7.91%) Senior Developer
6 32 (6.49%) Project Manager
7 28 (5.68%) Analyst
7 28 (5.68%) Java Developer
8 25 (5.07%) Business Analyst
8 25 (5.07%) Data Engineer
9 24 (4.87%) Engineering Manager
10 21 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
11 20 (4.06%) Delivery Manager
11 20 (4.06%) Lead Software Engineer
12 18 (3.65%) Java Engineer
12 18 (3.65%) Product Owner
12 18 (3.65%) Senior Software Engineer
13 17 (3.45%) Senior Data Engineer
14 16 (3.25%) Senior Java Developer
15 15 (3.04%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (11.36%) .NET
2 43 (8.72%) Spring
3 39 (7.91%) HTML
3 39 (7.91%) Node.js
4 35 (7.10%) AngularJS
5 33 (6.69%) CSS
6 32 (6.49%) Spring Boot
7 31 (6.29%) React
8 23 (4.67%) REST
9 18 (3.65%) RESTful
10 14 (2.84%) Kafka
11 11 (2.23%) Vue
12 10 (2.03%) ASP.NET
13 8 (1.62%) ASP.NET Core
13 8 (1.62%) Entity Framework
13 8 (1.62%) Microsoft Graph
13 8 (1.62%) PySpark
14 7 (1.42%) .NET Core
14 7 (1.42%) .NET Framework
15 6 (1.22%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 62 (12.58%) Product Ownership
2 42 (8.52%) Cloud Native
3 23 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (2.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 11 (2.23%) Mobile App
7 9 (1.83%) Driving Licence
7 9 (1.83%) Marketing Technology
7 9 (1.83%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.83%) Private Cloud
8 7 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.42%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.22%) PMI
10 5 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.81%) IVR
12 3 (0.61%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (0.61%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.85%) Linux
2 7 (1.42%) Windows
3 4 (0.81%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.61%) Android
4 3 (0.61%) CentOS
4 3 (0.61%) Debian
4 3 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.61%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.20%) Unix
5 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (31.44%) CI/CD
1 155 (31.44%) DevOps
2 128 (25.96%) Continuous Improvement
3 125 (25.35%) Scrum
4 94 (19.07%) Software Engineering
5 93 (18.86%) AI
6 88 (17.85%) Stakeholder Management
7 76 (15.42%) TDD
8 73 (14.81%) Roadmaps
9 72 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
10 64 (12.98%) Mentoring
11 61 (12.37%) Microservices
11 61 (12.37%) Test Automation
12 60 (12.17%) Coaching
13 59 (11.97%) Kanban
14 53 (10.75%) Collaborative Culture
14 53 (10.75%) Decision-Making
15 51 (10.34%) Full-Stack Development
16 50 (10.14%) Infrastructure as Code
17 46 (9.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 106 (21.50%) Java
2 94 (19.07%) SQL
3 87 (17.65%) Python
4 72 (14.60%) JavaScript
5 53 (10.75%) C#
6 26 (5.27%) TypeScript
7 12 (2.43%) Bash
8 10 (2.03%) Go
8 10 (2.03%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.83%) C++
10 7 (1.42%) PHP
11 5 (1.01%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.01%) Groovy
12 4 (0.81%) SOQL
13 3 (0.61%) C
13 3 (0.61%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.61%) SOSL
14 2 (0.41%) Bicep
14 2 (0.41%) Scala
14 2 (0.41%) Swift
Qualifications
1 65 (13.18%) Security Cleared
2 49 (9.94%) SC Cleared
3 33 (6.69%) Degree
4 23 (4.67%) DV Cleared
5 16 (3.25%) PMI Certification
6 12 (2.43%) Master's Degree
7 10 (2.03%) PMP
8 8 (1.62%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (1.01%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 3 (0.61%) MBA
13 2 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.41%) Chartered Engineer
13 2 (0.41%) CSPO
13 2 (0.41%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.20%) SAFe Agilist
14 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.27%) Data Quality
2 23 (4.67%) QA
3 12 (2.43%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.83%) GDPR
5 7 (1.42%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.01%) PMO
8 2 (0.41%) SLA
8 2 (0.41%) WCAG
9 1 (0.20%) GRC
9 1 (0.20%) ITGC
9 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 43 (8.72%) Docker
2 2 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (12.78%) Terraform
2 50 (10.14%) Kubernetes
3 25 (5.07%) Ansible
4 6 (1.22%) Argo
4 6 (1.22%) Grafana
4 6 (1.22%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.61%) Puppet
6 2 (0.41%) Packer
6 2 (0.41%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.20%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.20%) Istio
7 1 (0.20%) linkerd
7 1 (0.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 69 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.25%) Salesforce
2 16 (3.25%) ServiceNow
3 14 (2.84%) Databricks
3 14 (2.84%) Splunk
4 10 (2.03%) Adobe
5 9 (1.83%) AppDynamics
5 9 (1.83%) Google
6 8 (1.62%) Oracle
7 5 (1.01%) Pega
7 5 (1.01%) SAP
8 3 (0.61%) Facebook
8 3 (0.61%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (0.61%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.61%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.41%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.41%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.41%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.41%) WSO2
10 1 (0.20%) Proofpoint