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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 504 897 797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 21.27% 22.07% 28.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.81% 26.66% 30.22%
Number of salaries quoted 214 324 572
10th Percentile £43,825 £41,363 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,313 £47,500 £47,354
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +6.37%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £77,542
90th Percentile £87,350 £97,431 £87,419
North West median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% +0.87% +4.55%

All Process and 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 2,117 3,364 2,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 89.32% 82.78% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,200 1,787 2,067
10th Percentile £28,975 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,994 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,125 £83,750 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,055 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.11% -8.99% +4.76%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Agile 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 0 39 £65,000 +13.04% 3
Bolton 0 22 £50,000 +5.26% 18
Oldham +4 20 £56,504 +22.17% 7
Stockport -2 16 - - 11
Cheadle 0 11 - - 5
Bury +1 10 - - 3
Sale -1 9 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne 0 8 - - 2
Heywood - 7 - -
Wigan - 7 - - 1
Dukinfield -3 6 - -
Stalybridge - 5 - -
Salford -11 4 £77,217 +18.80% 11
Rochdale +1 3 - -
Littleborough - 1 - -
Agile
North West

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (4.76%) Confluence
2 8 (1.59%) IIS
3 3 (0.60%) CMS
3 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.40%) Apache
4 2 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.40%) nginx
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 13 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.79%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (1.59%) Trello
4 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.40%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.40%) Sketch
6 1 (0.20%) InVision
6 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.40%) Magento
2 2 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.20%) Siebel CRM
3 1 (0.20%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 227 (45.04%) AWS
2 209 (41.47%) Azure
3 130 (25.79%) GCP
4 34 (6.75%) Power Platform
5 29 (5.75%) SaaS
6 23 (4.56%) Serverless
7 21 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (3.37%) GitHub
9 15 (2.98%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (1.39%) Power Automate
13 6 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (0.99%) Azure Service Bus
14 5 (0.99%) PaaS
15 4 (0.79%) Azure Logic Apps
15 4 (0.79%) Figma
15 4 (0.79%) Firebase
15 4 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 30 (5.95%) DNS
2 28 (5.56%) VPN
3 5 (0.99%) HTTP
4 3 (0.60%) Firewall
4 3 (0.60%) WAN
5 1 (0.20%) DMZ
5 1 (0.20%) MPLS
5 1 (0.20%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.20%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (10.52%) SQL Server
2 40 (7.94%) NoSQL
3 37 (7.34%) MongoDB
4 21 (4.17%) Power BI
5 16 (3.17%) MySQL
6 11 (2.18%) DynamoDB
7 9 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (1.79%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.39%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.19%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.99%) Redis
11 4 (0.79%) GIS
12 3 (0.60%) Data Hub
12 3 (0.60%) Hazelcast
12 3 (0.60%) SQL CLR
12 3 (0.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (0.40%) Big Data
13 2 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
14 1 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 71 (14.09%) JIRA
2 42 (8.33%) Selenium
3 38 (7.54%) GitLab
4 35 (6.94%) Cucumber
5 28 (5.56%) Bitbucket
6 27 (5.36%) Maven
6 27 (5.36%) SonarQube
6 27 (5.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 19 (3.77%) Git
8 10 (1.98%) JMeter
9 7 (1.39%) Postman
10 5 (0.99%) Appium
10 5 (0.99%) Jenkins
10 5 (0.99%) JUnit
10 5 (0.99%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.79%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.79%) Fiddler
12 3 (0.60%) Gatling
13 2 (0.40%) NUnit
13 2 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 173 (34.33%) Finance
2 142 (28.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 133 (26.39%) Social Skills
4 72 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (7.74%) Public Sector
6 38 (7.54%) Retail
7 33 (6.55%) Banking
8 22 (4.37%) Local Government
8 22 (4.37%) Marketing
9 18 (3.57%) Corporate Banking
9 18 (3.57%) Investment Banking
10 17 (3.37%) Law
11 14 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.98%) Games
13 9 (1.79%) Back Office
14 7 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.19%) Digital Healthcare
16 5 (0.99%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 192 (38.10%) Senior
2 143 (28.37%) Software Engineer
3 110 (21.83%) Developer
4 94 (18.65%) Senior Software Engineer
5 40 (7.94%) Lead
6 37 (7.34%) Analyst
7 35 (6.94%) Senior Developer
8 33 (6.55%) Software Developer
9 28 (5.56%) Architect
10 25 (4.96%) .NET Developer
10 25 (4.96%) Senior Manager
11 24 (4.76%) Project Manager
12 20 (3.97%) Audit Manager
12 20 (3.97%) AWS Architect
12 20 (3.97%) Senior Audit Manager
12 20 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
13 19 (3.77%) AWS Solution Architect
13 19 (3.77%) TOGAF Architect
14 15 (2.98%) Applications Support Manager
14 15 (2.98%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (27.38%) .NET
2 103 (20.44%) Node.js
3 70 (13.89%) React
4 55 (10.91%) CSS
5 54 (10.71%) Kafka
6 52 (10.32%) HTML
7 51 (10.12%) Spring
7 51 (10.12%) Spring Boot
8 44 (8.73%) REST
9 31 (6.15%) RESTful
10 29 (5.75%) Redux
11 27 (5.36%) JPA
12 23 (4.56%) Jest
13 22 (4.37%) Sass
14 21 (4.17%) CSS3
15 20 (3.97%) HTML5
16 19 (3.77%) AngularJS
17 17 (3.37%) .NET Core
18 15 (2.98%) Hibernate
19 14 (2.78%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 108 (21.43%) Cyberattack
2 92 (18.25%) Self-Motivation
3 82 (16.27%) Linux Command Line
4 66 (13.10%) Product Ownership
5 29 (5.75%) Cloud Native
6 28 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
7 22 (4.37%) Management Information System
8 18 (3.57%) Mobile App
8 18 (3.57%) Social Media
9 17 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (1.79%) Wiki
12 8 (1.59%) e-Learning
13 5 (0.99%) Data Centre
13 5 (0.99%) LIMS
13 5 (0.99%) Private Cloud
14 3 (0.60%) Animation
14 3 (0.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 3 (0.60%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 116 (23.02%) Linux
2 28 (5.56%) Android
3 13 (2.58%) Windows
4 4 (0.79%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (36.90%) Software Engineering
2 171 (33.93%) Microservices
3 157 (31.15%) User Experience
4 144 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 125 (24.80%) DevOps
6 120 (23.81%) Scrum
7 112 (22.22%) CI/CD
8 95 (18.85%) Data Engineering
9 92 (18.25%) Machine Learning
10 90 (17.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 88 (17.46%) Cloud Security
12 81 (16.07%) Roadmaps
13 78 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
14 75 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
15 71 (14.09%) Containerisation
16 66 (13.10%) Full-Stack Development
17 63 (12.50%) Test Automation
18 57 (11.31%) SDLC
19 56 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
20 53 (10.52%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 199 (39.48%) Java
2 165 (32.74%) JavaScript
3 159 (31.55%) Python
4 109 (21.63%) C++
4 109 (21.63%) Go
5 84 (16.67%) SQL
6 82 (16.27%) Rust
7 65 (12.90%) C#
8 63 (12.50%) TypeScript
9 12 (2.38%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.79%) PHP
11 5 (0.99%) Bash
12 3 (0.60%) Bicep
12 3 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.60%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.40%) Scala
14 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.20%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.20%) Swift
Qualifications
1 130 (25.79%) Security Cleared
2 112 (22.22%) DV Cleared
3 97 (19.25%) AWS Certification
4 94 (18.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 82 (16.27%) AWS Certified Developer
6 41 (8.13%) Degree
7 30 (5.95%) ACCA
8 18 (3.57%) DBS Check
9 17 (3.37%) Azure Certification
9 17 (3.37%) SC Cleared
10 14 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (1.98%) CIMA
12 9 (1.79%) PMI Certification
12 9 (1.79%) PMP
12 9 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (1.19%) ISTQB
14 5 (0.99%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
16 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 2 (0.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (10.71%) QA
2 34 (6.75%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.97%) GAAP
3 20 (3.97%) IFRS
4 13 (2.58%) GDPR
4 13 (2.58%) NIST
5 12 (2.38%) HIPAA
6 6 (1.19%) HL7
7 3 (0.60%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.40%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.40%) WCAG
9 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.20%) GRC
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.20%) NCSC
9 1 (0.20%) P3O
9 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.20%) PMO
9 1 (0.20%) SEPA
9 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 108 (21.43%) Docker
2 4 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.60%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.20%) HDFS
4 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 69 (13.69%) Kubernetes
2 28 (5.56%) Ansible
3 23 (4.56%) Terraform
4 3 (0.60%) Grafana
5 1 (0.20%) Automic
5 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (8.53%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.36%) Solace
3 22 (4.37%) Google
4 15 (2.98%) Facebook
5 10 (1.98%) ServiceNow
6 9 (1.79%) Bloomberg
7 8 (1.59%) Oracle
8 7 (1.39%) Databricks
8 7 (1.39%) SAP
8 7 (1.39%) Splunk
9 6 (1.19%) Ping Identity
10 5 (0.99%) Liquidlogic
11 4 (0.79%) Adobe
11 4 (0.79%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.79%) VMware
12 2 (0.40%) Alteryx
12 2 (0.40%) IBM
12 2 (0.40%) Informatica
12 2 (0.40%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.40%) SnapLogic