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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -14 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 563 498 923
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.36% 20.97% 23.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.65% 23.48% 27.54%
Number of salaries quoted 372 215 311
10th Percentile £42,000 £43,850 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £74,375 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £93,750
North West median annual salary £61,500 £60,000 £57,530
% change year-on-year +2.50% +4.29% -3.35%

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 5,833 2,121 3,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.22% 89.31% 83.93%
Number of salaries quoted 4,385 1,189 1,671
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £34,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £69,900
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £84,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% -8.18%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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
Salford -2 22 £42,000 -45.61% 13
Ashton-under-Lyne +1 20 £44,000 - 6
Altrincham -2 18 £65,000 - 21
Stockport -4 12 £60,000 - 6
Oldham -4 8 £67,500 +19.46% 1
Wigan -2 3 £77,500 - 2
Bolton -16 1 £55,000 +10.00% 19
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 29 (5.15%) Confluence
2 24 (4.26%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.95%) Apache
5 5 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.71%) CMS
7 3 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.53%) nginx
7 3 (0.53%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.36%) IIS
8 2 (0.36%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.36%) WordPress
9 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.18%) JBoss
9 1 (0.18%) SAS
9 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 10 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.24%) Trello
4 6 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.71%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.71%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.18%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
3 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 156 (27.71%) Azure
2 152 (27.00%) AWS
3 67 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (8.35%) Power Platform
5 39 (6.93%) GitHub
6 37 (6.57%) Serverless
7 32 (5.68%) Power Automate
8 30 (5.33%) Microsoft Copilot
9 29 (5.15%) GCP
9 29 (5.15%) SaaS
10 25 (4.44%) PowerApps
11 24 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 24 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (3.55%) Dynamics 365
13 18 (3.20%) Copilot Studio
14 16 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
15 15 (2.66%) dbt
16 14 (2.49%) Snowflake
17 13 (2.31%) Amazon S3
18 12 (2.13%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.07%) DNS
2 5 (0.89%) Network Security
3 4 (0.71%) Firewall
4 3 (0.53%) AMQP
4 3 (0.53%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.53%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (0.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (0.36%) DHCP
5 2 (0.36%) HTTP
5 2 (0.36%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.18%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.18%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.18%) LAN
6 1 (0.18%) SAN
6 1 (0.18%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.18%) SSL
6 1 (0.18%) WAN
6 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.91%) MongoDB
2 17 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (2.84%) DynamoDB
4 15 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (2.49%) Power BI
5 14 (2.49%) SQL Server
6 12 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (1.42%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.24%) Big Data
8 7 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.07%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.07%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.89%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.71%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.71%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.53%) Cloudera CDH
12 3 (0.53%) Flink
12 3 (0.53%) MySQL
13 2 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 58 (10.30%) JIRA
2 41 (7.28%) Git
3 30 (5.33%) GitLab
4 17 (3.02%) Jenkins
5 13 (2.31%) JUnit
5 13 (2.31%) Spock
6 9 (1.60%) Postman
7 8 (1.42%) Bitbucket
7 8 (1.42%) Claude Code
8 7 (1.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 7 (1.24%) Maven
9 5 (0.89%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.71%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.71%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.71%) Vagrant
11 3 (0.53%) RStudio
11 3 (0.53%) Selenium
12 2 (0.36%) MSTest
12 2 (0.36%) NUnit
13 1 (0.18%) Subversion
General
1 163 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 104 (18.47%) Finance
3 59 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (9.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (6.93%) Public Sector
6 37 (6.57%) Telecoms
7 23 (4.09%) Influencing Skills
8 22 (3.91%) Marketing
8 22 (3.91%) Retail
9 17 (3.02%) Publishing
10 15 (2.66%) Law
11 12 (2.13%) Games
12 11 (1.95%) Aerospace
13 8 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.42%) Legal
13 8 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.07%) Banking
15 3 (0.53%) Local Government
15 3 (0.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 138 (24.51%) Senior
2 109 (19.36%) Developer
3 59 (10.48%) Software Engineer
4 46 (8.17%) Lead
5 44 (7.82%) Senior Developer
6 41 (7.28%) Analyst
7 35 (6.22%) Design Engineer
8 34 (6.04%) Engineering Manager
9 33 (5.86%) Business Analyst
10 28 (4.97%) Data Engineer
11 26 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
12 25 (4.44%) Delivery Manager
13 23 (4.09%) Project Manager
14 21 (3.73%) Microsoft 365 Developer
14 21 (3.73%) Senior Software Engineer
15 19 (3.37%) Senior Design Engineer
16 18 (3.20%) Lead Software Engineer
17 17 (3.02%) Architect
17 17 (3.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 17 (3.02%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (11.01%) Terraform
2 56 (9.95%) Spring
3 48 (8.53%) .NET
4 46 (8.17%) React
5 45 (7.99%) HTML
6 38 (6.75%) Spring Boot
7 32 (5.68%) CSS
8 30 (5.33%) Kafka
8 30 (5.33%) Node.js
9 29 (5.15%) AngularJS
10 26 (4.62%) REST
11 14 (2.49%) ASP.NET
12 11 (1.95%) Microsoft Graph
13 10 (1.78%) ASP.NET Core
13 10 (1.78%) HTML5 Canvas
14 9 (1.60%) .NET Core
14 9 (1.60%) Entity Framework
14 9 (1.60%) PySpark
14 9 (1.60%) SPFx
15 8 (1.42%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 55 (9.77%) Product Ownership
2 53 (9.41%) Cloud Native
3 21 (3.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 18 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (2.84%) Private Cloud
6 15 (2.66%) IoT
7 14 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (2.31%) Onboarding
9 12 (2.13%) Media Streaming
9 12 (2.13%) Podcast
10 11 (1.95%) Marketing Technology
11 9 (1.60%) Data Centre
12 8 (1.42%) Mobile App
13 6 (1.07%) Social Media
14 5 (0.89%) Cyber Defence
14 5 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (0.89%) IVR
14 5 (0.89%) Low-Code
14 5 (0.89%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.62%) Linux
2 6 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (1.07%) Windows
3 5 (0.89%) Android
4 4 (0.71%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.71%) VMS
5 3 (0.53%) CentOS
5 3 (0.53%) Debian
5 3 (0.53%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.36%) Unix
6 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.36%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (33.93%) Continuous Improvement
2 186 (33.04%) DevOps
3 161 (28.60%) CI/CD
4 160 (28.42%) AI
5 122 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
6 121 (21.49%) Software Engineering
7 111 (19.72%) Mentoring
8 107 (19.01%) Stakeholder Management
9 102 (18.12%) Scrum
10 71 (12.61%) Coaching
11 68 (12.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 65 (11.55%) Test Automation
13 62 (11.01%) Microservices
14 55 (9.77%) Roadmaps
15 52 (9.24%) Decision-Making
15 52 (9.24%) Infrastructure as Code
16 51 (9.06%) Collaborative Culture
17 50 (8.88%) TDD
18 49 (8.70%) Observability
19 48 (8.53%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 110 (19.54%) Java
2 100 (17.76%) Python
3 92 (16.34%) SQL
4 82 (14.56%) JavaScript
5 54 (9.59%) C#
6 50 (8.88%) TypeScript
7 22 (3.91%) Go
8 19 (3.37%) Bash
9 14 (2.49%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.60%) PHP
11 8 (1.42%) Groovy
12 6 (1.07%) Apex Code
12 6 (1.07%) C++
12 6 (1.07%) R
13 4 (0.71%) SOQL
14 3 (0.53%) ActionScript
14 3 (0.53%) C
14 3 (0.53%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.53%) Rust
14 3 (0.53%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 88 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 86 (15.28%) Degree
3 66 (11.72%) SC Cleared
4 36 (6.39%) DV Cleared
5 34 (6.04%) DBS Check
6 32 (5.68%) HNC
7 20 (3.55%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.95%) PMI Certification
9 10 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.42%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.24%) PMP
12 6 (1.07%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 5 (0.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (0.71%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.71%) MBA
15 2 (0.36%) Chartered Engineer
15 2 (0.36%) MCSE
15 2 (0.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (7.82%) Data Quality
2 31 (5.51%) QA
3 21 (3.73%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.60%) GDPR
5 7 (1.24%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.24%) PMO
6 6 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.71%) SLA
8 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.18%) GRC
8 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 65 (11.55%) Docker
2 3 (0.53%) Ceph
3 2 (0.36%) UAG
3 2 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.18%) Firmware
4 1 (0.18%) NFS
4 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 75 (13.32%) Kubernetes
2 31 (5.51%) Ansible
3 11 (1.95%) Argo
3 11 (1.95%) Prometheus
4 8 (1.42%) Grafana
5 6 (1.07%) Podman
6 4 (0.71%) Istio
6 4 (0.71%) Packer
6 4 (0.71%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.53%) Check_MK
7 3 (0.53%) Puppet
8 2 (0.36%) AirWatch
8 2 (0.36%) SCCM
8 2 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.36%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.18%) linkerd
9 1 (0.18%) Nagios
9 1 (0.18%) Opsview
Vendors
1 84 (14.92%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.97%) YouTube
3 19 (3.37%) Splunk
4 17 (3.02%) Databricks
5 15 (2.66%) Google
6 14 (2.49%) Salesforce
7 13 (2.31%) AppDynamics
8 11 (1.95%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.78%) Oracle
9 10 (1.78%) Red Hat
10 9 (1.60%) Adobe
11 5 (0.89%) F5
11 5 (0.89%) Thales
12 4 (0.71%) Dell
12 4 (0.71%) NEC
12 4 (0.71%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.53%) Apple
13 3 (0.53%) Facebook
13 3 (0.53%) SAP
13 3 (0.53%) VMware