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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -12 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 498 593 1,125
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.71% 23.79% 22.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.51% 25.69% 26.71%
Number of salaries quoted 375 265 660
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £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 £93,767 £90,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - +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 4,738 2,308 4,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.40% 92.58% 82.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,746 1,329 2,990
10th Percentile £33,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -7.60%
75th Percentile £78,905 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,550 £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 21 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 21 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 16 £67,500 +3.85% 2
Ashton-under-Lyne +1 13 £51,000 - 2
Salford -7 7 £74,651 - 2
Oldham -1 6 £67,500 +19.46% 2
Stockport -8 4 £55,000 -12.00% 2
Bury 0 3 £92,482 - 2
Bolton -10 3 £55,000 -26.67% 4
Wigan -4 2 £77,500 - 1
Rochdale -2 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 (7.03%) Confluence
2 18 (3.61%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (1.00%) CMS
5 3 (0.60%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.60%) WordPress
6 2 (0.40%) Apache
6 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.40%) CICS
6 2 (0.40%) nginx
6 2 (0.40%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.40%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.20%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (1.41%) Trello
2 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.80%) 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 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.40%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 155 (31.12%) Azure
2 136 (27.31%) AWS
3 62 (12.45%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (7.63%) Serverless
5 34 (6.83%) Power Platform
5 34 (6.83%) SaaS
6 28 (5.62%) GCP
6 28 (5.62%) GitHub
7 26 (5.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (3.41%) Power Automate
10 15 (3.01%) Microsoft Copilot
11 14 (2.81%) PowerApps
12 11 (2.21%) Anthropic Claude
12 11 (2.21%) dbt
13 9 (1.81%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (1.81%) Copilot Studio
13 9 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.40%) 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 15 (3.01%) MongoDB
1 15 (3.01%) NoSQL
1 15 (3.01%) Power BI
2 13 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (2.61%) SQL Server
3 11 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (1.81%) DynamoDB
5 8 (1.61%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.41%) BigQuery
6 7 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.41%) MySQL
7 6 (1.20%) Big Data
8 4 (0.80%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.80%) Data Mining
8 4 (0.80%) Flink
9 3 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (0.60%) GIS
9 3 (0.60%) QGIS
10 2 (0.40%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 58 (11.65%) JIRA
2 41 (8.23%) Git
3 18 (3.61%) GitLab
4 16 (3.21%) Jenkins
5 12 (2.41%) Claude Code
6 11 (2.21%) Postman
7 9 (1.81%) JUnit
7 9 (1.81%) Spock
8 7 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 7 (1.41%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.80%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.60%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.60%) Maven
11 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.40%) MSTest
11 2 (0.40%) NUnit
11 2 (0.40%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.40%) XCUITest
12 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.20%) WinDbg
General
1 119 (23.90%) Finance
2 118 (23.69%) Social Skills
3 48 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (8.03%) Public Sector
5 31 (6.22%) Marketing
6 24 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (3.21%) Banking
8 16 (3.21%) Retail
9 12 (2.41%) Games
10 11 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (2.01%) Law
12 9 (1.81%) Advertising
13 7 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.20%) Manufacturing
15 5 (1.00%) Local Government
15 5 (1.00%) Publishing
15 5 (1.00%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.80%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 113 (22.69%) Senior
2 92 (18.47%) Developer
3 59 (11.85%) Software Engineer
4 42 (8.43%) Lead
5 41 (8.23%) Senior Developer
6 32 (6.43%) Project Manager
7 27 (5.42%) Data Engineer
7 27 (5.42%) Java Developer
8 26 (5.22%) Engineering Manager
9 25 (5.02%) Analyst
10 24 (4.82%) Business Analyst
11 21 (4.22%) Cloud Engineer
12 20 (4.02%) Delivery Manager
12 20 (4.02%) Lead Software Engineer
13 18 (3.61%) Java Engineer
13 18 (3.61%) Product Owner
14 17 (3.41%) Senior Data Engineer
14 17 (3.41%) Senior Software Engineer
15 16 (3.21%) DevOps Engineer
16 15 (3.01%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (11.65%) .NET
2 41 (8.23%) HTML
2 41 (8.23%) Spring
3 38 (7.63%) Node.js
4 34 (6.83%) AngularJS
4 34 (6.83%) CSS
5 30 (6.02%) Spring Boot
6 29 (5.82%) React
7 23 (4.62%) REST
8 16 (3.21%) RESTful
9 15 (3.01%) Kafka
10 11 (2.21%) Vue
11 10 (2.01%) ASP.NET
12 9 (1.81%) Microsoft Graph
13 8 (1.61%) ASP.NET Core
13 8 (1.61%) Entity Framework
13 8 (1.61%) PySpark
14 7 (1.41%) .NET Core
14 7 (1.41%) HTML5 Canvas
14 7 (1.41%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 62 (12.45%) Product Ownership
2 41 (8.23%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (2.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 12 (2.41%) Mobile App
7 10 (2.01%) Marketing Technology
8 9 (1.81%) Driving Licence
8 9 (1.81%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.81%) Private Cloud
9 7 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.41%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.20%) PMI
11 5 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.80%) Cyber Defence
12 4 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (0.80%) IVR
13 3 (0.60%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.41%) Linux
2 7 (1.41%) Windows
3 5 (1.00%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.80%) Android
5 2 (0.40%) CentOS
5 2 (0.40%) Debian
5 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.40%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.20%) Unix
6 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (31.93%) DevOps
2 156 (31.33%) CI/CD
3 131 (26.31%) Continuous Improvement
4 125 (25.10%) Scrum
5 96 (19.28%) AI
6 93 (18.67%) Software Engineering
7 89 (17.87%) Stakeholder Management
8 75 (15.06%) TDD
9 74 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
10 73 (14.66%) Roadmaps
11 65 (13.05%) Mentoring
12 61 (12.25%) Test Automation
13 60 (12.05%) Coaching
14 58 (11.65%) Kanban
14 58 (11.65%) Microservices
15 52 (10.44%) Collaborative Culture
15 52 (10.44%) Decision-Making
16 51 (10.24%) Full-Stack Development
17 48 (9.64%) Infrastructure as Code
18 46 (9.24%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 105 (21.08%) Java
2 94 (18.88%) SQL
3 86 (17.27%) Python
4 73 (14.66%) JavaScript
5 55 (11.04%) C#
6 26 (5.22%) TypeScript
7 12 (2.41%) Bash
8 11 (2.21%) Go
9 10 (2.01%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.81%) C++
11 8 (1.61%) PHP
12 5 (1.00%) Apex Code
12 5 (1.00%) Groovy
13 4 (0.80%) SOQL
14 3 (0.60%) C
14 3 (0.60%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.60%) SOSL
14 3 (0.60%) Swift
15 2 (0.40%) Bicep
15 2 (0.40%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 64 (12.85%) Security Cleared
2 49 (9.84%) SC Cleared
3 35 (7.03%) Degree
4 23 (4.62%) DV Cleared
5 16 (3.21%) PMI Certification
6 13 (2.61%) Master's Degree
7 10 (2.01%) PMP
8 8 (1.61%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (1.00%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.80%) MBA
11 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 2 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.40%) Chartered Engineer
12 2 (0.40%) CSPO
12 2 (0.40%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.20%) SAFe Agilist
13 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.22%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.82%) QA
3 12 (2.41%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.81%) GDPR
5 7 (1.41%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.00%) PMO
8 2 (0.40%) SLA
8 2 (0.40%) 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 42 (8.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 62 (12.45%) Terraform
2 47 (9.44%) Kubernetes
3 24 (4.82%) Ansible
4 6 (1.20%) Argo
4 6 (1.20%) Grafana
4 6 (1.20%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.40%) Packer
5 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.40%) Puppet
6 1 (0.20%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.20%) Istio
6 1 (0.20%) linkerd
Vendors
1 73 (14.66%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.21%) Salesforce
2 16 (3.21%) ServiceNow
3 14 (2.81%) Databricks
3 14 (2.81%) Splunk
4 11 (2.21%) Adobe
5 9 (1.81%) AppDynamics
5 9 (1.81%) Google
6 8 (1.61%) Oracle
7 5 (1.00%) Pega
7 5 (1.00%) SAP
8 3 (0.60%) Facebook
8 3 (0.60%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (0.40%) Apple
9 2 (0.40%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.40%) NEC
9 2 (0.40%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.40%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.40%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.40%) WSO2