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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 328 805 682
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 13.64% 22.53% 29.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.06% 26.09% 30.92%
Number of salaries quoted 214 256 513
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,688 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,313 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +5.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £88,500
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +4.35%

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 2,042 3,086 2,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 84.94% 86.37% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,286 1,403 1,776
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.60% +8.23%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,600 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%

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 20 November 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 20 November 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
Bolton +14 15 £50,000 -2.44% 16
Altrincham -3 14 £65,000 +13.04% 18
Oldham +3 11 £55,752 -17.40% 3
Stockport -10 8 £55,000 -8.33% 3
Salford -15 3 £74,830 +15.12% 5
Bury -3 2 - - 16
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 12 (3.66%) Confluence
2 4 (1.22%) Apache
3 3 (0.91%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.91%) IIS
3 3 (0.91%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.61%) CMS
4 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.61%) nginx
5 1 (0.30%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 13 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.91%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.91%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.91%) Sketch
4 2 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.61%) Trello
5 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.30%) InVision
5 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.30%) Magento
3 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.30%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 102 (31.10%) AWS
2 99 (30.18%) Azure
3 35 (10.67%) SaaS
4 33 (10.06%) GCP
5 30 (9.15%) Power Platform
6 27 (8.23%) Serverless
7 20 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (4.57%) GitHub
10 12 (3.66%) Figma
11 8 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (2.13%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (1.83%) Adobe Analytics
13 6 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (1.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 5 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (1.52%) PaaS
14 5 (1.52%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.91%) HTTP
1 3 (0.91%) SSH
2 2 (0.61%) AMQP
2 2 (0.61%) DNS
2 2 (0.61%) Firewall
2 2 (0.61%) OpenVPN
2 2 (0.61%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.93%) MongoDB
1 26 (7.93%) NoSQL
2 19 (5.79%) Power BI
3 15 (4.57%) SQL Server
4 11 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.44%) DynamoDB
5 8 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.13%) MySQL
7 5 (1.52%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.52%) Redis
8 4 (1.22%) Big Data
8 4 (1.22%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.91%) GIS
9 3 (0.91%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.91%) Hazelcast
9 3 (0.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.61%) SQL CLR
10 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (6.71%) JIRA
2 21 (6.40%) Git
3 9 (2.74%) GitLab
4 8 (2.44%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.83%) Cucumber
5 6 (1.83%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.83%) Selenium
6 4 (1.22%) JMeter
7 3 (0.91%) Gatling
8 2 (0.61%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.61%) webpack
9 1 (0.30%) Appium
9 1 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.30%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.30%) JUnit
9 1 (0.30%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.30%) NUnit
9 1 (0.30%) Postman
9 1 (0.30%) REST Assured
General
1 111 (33.84%) Social Skills
2 101 (30.79%) Finance
3 44 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (12.20%) Public Sector
5 25 (7.62%) Marketing
6 20 (6.10%) Local Government
7 16 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
7 16 (4.88%) Law
8 12 (3.66%) Banking
9 10 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.74%) Electronics
10 9 (2.74%) Games
10 9 (2.74%) Retail
11 8 (2.44%) Manufacturing
12 7 (2.13%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.22%) Back Office
14 4 (1.22%) Legal
14 4 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.61%) Billing
Job Titles
1 93 (28.35%) Senior
2 84 (25.61%) Developer
3 37 (11.28%) Lead
4 30 (9.15%) Senior Developer
5 29 (8.84%) Software Engineer
6 28 (8.54%) Senior Manager
7 25 (7.62%) Analyst
8 24 (7.32%) Project Manager
9 20 (6.10%) Audit Manager
9 20 (6.10%) Senior Audit Manager
10 18 (5.49%) Java Developer
11 16 (4.88%) Architect
12 15 (4.57%) AWS Architect
13 14 (4.27%) .NET Developer
13 14 (4.27%) AWS Solution Architect
13 14 (4.27%) Data Engineer
13 14 (4.27%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 14 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (3.96%) Senior Java Developer
14 13 (3.96%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (17.07%) .NET
1 56 (17.07%) React
2 29 (8.84%) CSS
3 26 (7.93%) HTML
4 25 (7.62%) Spring
4 25 (7.62%) Spring Boot
5 22 (6.71%) REST
6 21 (6.40%) Kafka
6 21 (6.40%) Node.js
7 19 (5.79%) AngularJS
8 16 (4.88%) RESTful
9 12 (3.66%) .NET Framework
10 8 (2.44%) .NET Core
10 8 (2.44%) Hibernate
10 8 (2.44%) WebSockets
11 7 (2.13%) CSS3
11 7 (2.13%) Entity Framework
11 7 (2.13%) React Native
12 6 (1.83%) HTML5
12 6 (1.83%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 38 (11.59%) Cloud Native
2 30 (9.15%) Product Ownership
3 18 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (5.18%) Management Information System
5 14 (4.27%) Social Media
6 11 (3.35%) Mobile App
6 11 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.83%) e-Learning
8 6 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.52%) Animation
9 5 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.52%) Wiki
10 4 (1.22%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.22%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 2 (0.61%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (0.61%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.27%) Windows
2 8 (2.44%) Linux
3 2 (0.61%) Android
3 2 (0.61%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.61%) CentOS
3 2 (0.61%) Debian
3 2 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.61%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (27.74%) CI/CD
1 91 (27.74%) DevOps
2 78 (23.78%) Continuous Improvement
3 71 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
4 68 (20.73%) Software Engineering
5 58 (17.68%) Coaching
6 56 (17.07%) Mentoring
7 54 (16.46%) Microservices
8 53 (16.16%) User Experience
9 49 (14.94%) Roadmaps
10 42 (12.80%) Containerisation
11 41 (12.50%) Clean Code
12 40 (12.20%) Full-Stack Development
13 39 (11.89%) Decision-Making
13 39 (11.89%) Scrum
13 39 (11.89%) Stakeholder Management
14 35 (10.67%) TDD
14 35 (10.67%) Test Automation
15 34 (10.37%) SDLC
16 32 (9.76%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 61 (18.60%) C#
2 57 (17.38%) Java
3 51 (15.55%) JavaScript
4 44 (13.41%) TypeScript
5 43 (13.11%) SQL
6 36 (10.98%) Python
7 7 (2.13%) PHP
8 6 (1.83%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.22%) Bash
10 3 (0.91%) Bicep
10 3 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.91%) Go
10 3 (0.91%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.61%) C
11 2 (0.61%) C++
11 2 (0.61%) Scala
12 1 (0.30%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.30%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 31 (9.45%) Security Cleared
2 27 (8.23%) ACCA
3 25 (7.62%) Degree
4 22 (6.71%) SC Cleared
5 13 (3.96%) DBS Check
6 10 (3.05%) AWS Certification
6 10 (3.05%) Azure Certification
6 10 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.05%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (2.13%) CIMA
7 7 (2.13%) PMI Certification
7 7 (2.13%) PMP
8 6 (1.83%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.91%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.61%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.32%) QA
2 22 (6.71%) Accessibility
3 20 (6.10%) GAAP
3 20 (6.10%) IFRS
4 8 (2.44%) GDPR
4 8 (2.44%) NIST
5 7 (2.13%) HIPAA
6 6 (1.83%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.61%) PMO
7 2 (0.61%) WCAG
8 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.30%) HL7
8 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (14.02%) Docker
2 7 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.30%) HDFS
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 43 (13.11%) Kubernetes
2 31 (9.45%) Terraform
3 8 (2.44%) Ansible
4 3 (0.91%) Grafana
5 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.61%) Puppet
5 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 36 (10.98%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.49%) Google
3 11 (3.35%) SAP
4 8 (2.44%) Adobe
4 8 (2.44%) Splunk
5 6 (1.83%) Bloomberg
5 6 (1.83%) Databricks
5 6 (1.83%) Qualtrics
6 5 (1.52%) Oracle
7 4 (1.22%) Facebook
7 4 (1.22%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.91%) VMware
9 2 (0.61%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.61%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.61%) Dell
9 2 (0.61%) Informatica
9 2 (0.61%) New Relic
9 2 (0.61%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.61%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.61%) ServiceNow