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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -19 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 270 622 636
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 9.77% 22.68% 28.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.08% 24.34% 30.39%
Number of salaries quoted 198 237 496
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,470
25th Percentile £52,125 £50,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,600 £77,715
90th Percentile £87,150 £87,500 £95,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,836 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.74% -3.61% +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 2,236 2,555 2,093
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 80.90% 93.15% 92.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,307 1,196 1,664
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £33,815
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £84,964
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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 1 January 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 1 January 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
Bolton +8 8 £50,000 -9.09% 23
Oldham 0 4 £55,000 -18.52% 2
Salford -20 3 £74,830 +25.91% 12
Stockport -6 2 £55,000 - 7
Bury - 2 - - 2
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 10 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.59%) Confluence
3 6 (2.22%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.85%) Apache
5 3 (1.11%) CMS
6 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.74%) nginx
7 1 (0.37%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.11%) Adobe XD
2 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.11%) Sketch
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.37%) InVision
4 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.37%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 101 (37.41%) Azure
2 79 (29.26%) AWS
3 41 (15.19%) SaaS
4 30 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 28 (10.37%) GCP
6 22 (8.15%) Serverless
7 14 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (4.81%) Figma
9 12 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (4.07%) Entra ID
11 10 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 9 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (2.96%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (2.96%) Azure Functions
13 8 (2.96%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (2.96%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (2.96%) Microsoft Purview
13 8 (2.96%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.96%) HTTP
2 4 (1.48%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.11%) AMQP
3 3 (1.11%) SSH
4 2 (0.74%) DNS
4 2 (0.74%) Firewall
4 2 (0.74%) OpenVPN
4 2 (0.74%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.37%) NoSQL
2 15 (5.56%) Power BI
3 13 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (4.81%) MongoDB
4 10 (3.70%) MySQL
5 8 (2.96%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.59%) Big Data
6 7 (2.59%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.22%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.48%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.11%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (1.11%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.74%) Apache Iceberg
11 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 28 (10.37%) Git
2 15 (5.56%) JIRA
3 7 (2.59%) GitLab
4 6 (2.22%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.48%) JUnit
5 4 (1.48%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.11%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.11%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.74%) JMeter
8 1 (0.37%) Appium
8 1 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.37%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.37%) Gatling
8 1 (0.37%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.37%) Locust
8 1 (0.37%) Postman
8 1 (0.37%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.37%) Selenium
General
1 81 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 59 (21.85%) Finance
3 39 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (9.63%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.93%) Law
6 14 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (4.81%) Marketing
8 11 (4.07%) Banking
8 11 (4.07%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.59%) Electronics
9 7 (2.59%) Retail
10 6 (2.22%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.85%) Legal
11 5 (1.85%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.48%) Games
12 4 (1.48%) Local Government
12 4 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.11%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.74%) Billing
14 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (25.19%) Developer
2 63 (23.33%) Senior
3 37 (13.70%) Lead
4 31 (11.48%) Software Engineer
5 23 (8.52%) Senior Developer
6 17 (6.30%) Analyst
7 16 (5.93%) Data Engineer
7 16 (5.93%) Project Manager
8 12 (4.44%) .NET Developer
8 12 (4.44%) Software Developer
9 11 (4.07%) Architect
9 11 (4.07%) Senior Manager
10 10 (3.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 10 (3.70%) Java Developer
11 9 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (3.33%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (2.96%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (2.96%) Lead Software Engineer
12 8 (2.96%) Product Manager
12 8 (2.96%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (20.00%) .NET
2 49 (18.15%) React
3 33 (12.22%) CSS
4 29 (10.74%) HTML
4 29 (10.74%) REST
5 24 (8.89%) AngularJS
6 23 (8.52%) RESTful
7 20 (7.41%) Node.js
7 20 (7.41%) Spring
7 20 (7.41%) Spring Boot
8 14 (5.19%) .NET Framework
9 13 (4.81%) Kafka
10 8 (2.96%) Web Services
11 7 (2.59%) ASP.NET
11 7 (2.59%) gRPC
12 6 (2.22%) .NET Core
12 6 (2.22%) ASP.NET Core
12 6 (2.22%) Hibernate
13 5 (1.85%) JSON
13 5 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.85%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.26%) Product Ownership
3 20 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.07%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (3.70%) Mobile App
5 10 (3.70%) Social Media
6 8 (2.96%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.48%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.48%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.11%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.11%) IoT
10 3 (1.11%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.74%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.74%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.81%) Windows
2 10 (3.70%) Linux
3 3 (1.11%) CentOS
3 3 (1.11%) Debian
3 3 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.11%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.37%) Android
4 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (32.96%) CI/CD
2 78 (28.89%) DevOps
3 64 (23.70%) Continuous Improvement
4 58 (21.48%) Software Engineering
5 57 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (19.63%) Microservices
7 50 (18.52%) Mentoring
8 48 (17.78%) User Experience
9 41 (15.19%) Scrum
10 39 (14.44%) AI
11 38 (14.07%) Containerisation
12 36 (13.33%) Coaching
13 34 (12.59%) Full-Stack Development
14 32 (11.85%) Clean Code
14 32 (11.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 30 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
15 30 (11.11%) Roadmaps
16 27 (10.00%) Decision-Making
16 27 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
17 26 (9.63%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 54 (20.00%) C#
2 50 (18.52%) JavaScript
3 45 (16.67%) Java
4 42 (15.56%) SQL
5 36 (13.33%) Python
5 36 (13.33%) TypeScript
6 5 (1.85%) Go
7 4 (1.48%) C++
7 4 (1.48%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.48%) Scala
8 3 (1.11%) Bicep
8 3 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.11%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.74%) Bash
9 2 (0.74%) C
9 2 (0.74%) PHP
10 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (10.37%) Security Cleared
2 20 (7.41%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.70%) DBS Check
3 10 (3.70%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.33%) ACCA
4 9 (3.33%) Degree
4 9 (3.33%) PMI Certification
4 9 (3.33%) PMP
5 5 (1.85%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.85%) CIMA
5 5 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.48%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.37%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 20 (7.41%) QA
3 5 (1.85%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.48%) GAAP
4 4 (1.48%) GDPR
4 4 (1.48%) IFRS
4 4 (1.48%) NIST
5 3 (1.11%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.11%) PMO
6 2 (0.74%) WCAG
7 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.37%) GxP
7 1 (0.37%) HL7
7 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (11.11%) Docker
2 13 (4.81%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.37%) HDFS
3 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (12.59%) Terraform
2 32 (11.85%) Kubernetes
3 11 (4.07%) Ansible
4 8 (2.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.96%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.11%) Puppet
6 2 (0.74%) Grafana
6 2 (0.74%) Rancher
7 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 33 (12.22%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.70%) Google
3 9 (3.33%) SAP
3 9 (3.33%) Splunk
4 8 (2.96%) Databricks
4 8 (2.96%) New Relic
5 7 (2.59%) Adobe
6 6 (2.22%) Qualtrics
6 6 (2.22%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.48%) Oracle
8 3 (1.11%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.11%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.74%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.74%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.74%) Dell
9 2 (0.74%) Informatica
9 2 (0.74%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.74%) Pega
9 2 (0.74%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.74%) SnapLogic