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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -19 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 398 501 1,069
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.80% 23.85% 21.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.65% 24.99% 25.33%
Number of salaries quoted 295 293 854
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £90,000
North West median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +0.80%

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 3,736 2,005 4,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.20% 95.43% 86.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,561 1,275 3,395
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £94,366 £91,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £52,500 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.18% +9.59% -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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -6 10 £77,500 +44.19% 1
Salford -13 6 £75,000 +11.71% 6
Bolton 0 5 £50,000 -33.33% 2
Oldham +1 3 £55,000 - 4
Bury -4 3 £92,482 - 1
Stockport -7 2 - - 1
Rochdale -8 1 £55,000 +4.76%
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 27 (6.78%) Confluence
2 11 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.51%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.26%) Apache
5 4 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.75%) CMS
6 3 (0.75%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.50%) CICS
7 2 (0.50%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.25%) PegaRULES
8 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.50%) Sketch
4 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.25%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 129 (32.41%) Azure
2 98 (24.62%) AWS
3 45 (11.31%) SaaS
4 30 (7.54%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (7.29%) Serverless
6 24 (6.03%) GCP
7 23 (5.78%) Power Platform
8 20 (5.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (3.52%) Azure AKS
9 14 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (3.27%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (2.76%) GitHub
12 10 (2.51%) Anthropic Claude
12 10 (2.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 10 (2.51%) Azure Functions
12 10 (2.51%) Azure Logic Apps
12 10 (2.51%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (2.51%) Azure Service Bus
13 9 (2.26%) Entra ID
14 8 (2.01%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.76%) HTTP
2 5 (1.26%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.01%) AMQP
4 2 (0.50%) OpenVPN
4 2 (0.50%) SSH
5 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (8.04%) NoSQL
2 14 (3.52%) MySQL
3 13 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (3.02%) MongoDB
5 10 (2.51%) Power BI
6 9 (2.26%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.26%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.01%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.01%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.51%) Big Data
8 6 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.51%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.01%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.75%) Flink
10 3 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.75%) GIS
10 3 (0.75%) QGIS
11 2 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.50%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 44 (11.06%) Git
2 42 (10.55%) JIRA
3 11 (2.76%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.51%) Claude Code
5 9 (2.26%) GitLab
5 9 (2.26%) Postman
6 5 (1.26%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.75%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.75%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.75%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.75%) IntelliJ
7 3 (0.75%) JUnit
8 2 (0.50%) Selenium
8 2 (0.50%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.50%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.25%) GDB
9 1 (0.25%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.25%) WinDbg
General
1 90 (22.61%) Finance
2 88 (22.11%) Social Skills
3 30 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.29%) Public Sector
5 21 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (4.77%) Marketing
7 14 (3.52%) Banking
7 14 (3.52%) Law
8 12 (3.02%) Games
9 10 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.76%) Advertising
10 7 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.26%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.26%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.01%) Electronics
12 4 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.01%) Retail
12 4 (1.01%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.75%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 101 (25.38%) Senior
2 70 (17.59%) Developer
3 64 (16.08%) Software Engineer
4 47 (11.81%) Lead
5 34 (8.54%) Senior Developer
6 30 (7.54%) Project Manager
7 23 (5.78%) Lead Software Engineer
8 22 (5.53%) Data Engineer
9 20 (5.03%) Analyst
9 20 (5.03%) Java Developer
10 18 (4.52%) Senior Data Engineer
11 17 (4.27%) Delivery Manager
11 17 (4.27%) Java Engineer
11 17 (4.27%) Senior Software Engineer
12 14 (3.52%) Business Analyst
12 14 (3.52%) Cloud Engineer
12 14 (3.52%) Marketing Manager
13 13 (3.27%) IT Manager
14 12 (3.02%) .NET Developer
14 12 (3.02%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (13.32%) .NET
2 48 (12.06%) React
3 32 (8.04%) Node.js
4 31 (7.79%) CSS
4 31 (7.79%) REST
5 30 (7.54%) AngularJS
6 29 (7.29%) HTML
6 29 (7.29%) Spring
7 28 (7.04%) RESTful
7 28 (7.04%) Spring Boot
8 15 (3.77%) .NET Framework
9 14 (3.52%) Kafka
10 10 (2.51%) Web Services
11 9 (2.26%) Vue
12 7 (1.76%) gRPC
13 6 (1.51%) PySpark
14 5 (1.26%) AWS CDK
14 5 (1.26%) CSS3
14 5 (1.26%) HTML5
15 4 (1.01%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 49 (12.31%) Product Ownership
2 29 (7.29%) Cloud Native
3 25 (6.28%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (4.52%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (3.27%) Mobile App
6 12 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.51%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.51%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.26%) Driving Licence
9 5 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.26%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.26%) PMI
10 4 (1.01%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.01%) Social Media
11 3 (0.75%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.77%) Linux
2 11 (2.76%) Windows
3 4 (1.01%) CentOS
3 4 (1.01%) Debian
3 4 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.01%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.25%) Android
5 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (28.39%) CI/CD
2 107 (26.88%) DevOps
3 98 (24.62%) Scrum
4 90 (22.61%) Continuous Improvement
4 90 (22.61%) Software Engineering
5 62 (15.58%) Microservices
6 57 (14.32%) TDD
7 51 (12.81%) AI
8 50 (12.56%) Coaching
8 50 (12.56%) Roadmaps
8 50 (12.56%) Stakeholder Management
9 48 (12.06%) Mentoring
10 47 (11.81%) Kanban
11 42 (10.55%) Full-Stack Development
12 41 (10.30%) Project Management
13 40 (10.05%) Clean Code
13 40 (10.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 39 (9.80%) Decision-Making
14 39 (9.80%) Problem-Solving
15 38 (9.55%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 86 (21.61%) Java
2 69 (17.34%) SQL
3 61 (15.33%) JavaScript
3 61 (15.33%) Python
4 44 (11.06%) C#
5 29 (7.29%) TypeScript
6 10 (2.51%) C++
7 4 (1.01%) Bash
7 4 (1.01%) Go
7 4 (1.01%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.75%) C
8 3 (0.75%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.50%) PHP
9 2 (0.50%) Scala
9 2 (0.50%) Swift
10 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.25%) Bicep
10 1 (0.25%) Groovy
10 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.25%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 38 (9.55%) Security Cleared
2 28 (7.04%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.27%) PMI Certification
4 12 (3.02%) Degree
4 12 (3.02%) PMP
5 11 (2.76%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.01%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.75%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.50%) ACCA
8 2 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.25%) CIMA
9 1 (0.25%) CIPD
9 1 (0.25%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.52%) QA
2 14 (3.52%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.76%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.51%) PMO
5 2 (0.50%) WCAG
6 1 (0.25%) GRC
6 1 (0.25%) GxP
6 1 (0.25%) ITGC
6 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (6.28%) Docker
2 9 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (13.32%) Terraform
2 40 (10.05%) Kubernetes
3 20 (5.03%) Ansible
4 8 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.01%) Puppet
6 3 (0.75%) Rancher
7 2 (0.50%) Grafana
7 2 (0.50%) Packer
7 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.50%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.25%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 47 (11.81%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.77%) Databricks
2 15 (3.77%) Salesforce
3 10 (2.51%) ServiceNow
4 8 (2.01%) New Relic
4 8 (2.01%) Splunk
5 6 (1.51%) Google
5 6 (1.51%) Pega
6 5 (1.26%) SAP
7 4 (1.01%) Oracle
7 4 (1.01%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.01%) SaltStack
8 3 (0.75%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.75%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (0.50%) Adobe
9 2 (0.50%) WSO2
10 1 (0.25%) Genesys
10 1 (0.25%) Siebel
10 1 (0.25%) Software AG
10 1 (0.25%) webMethods