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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -11 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 518 589 1,085
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.87% 23.40% 22.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.65% 25.46% 27.94%
Number of salaries quoted 385 267 600
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £41,588
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £47,347
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,445 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.76% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,000 £93,750
North West median annual salary £65,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.44% +0.83% +4.35%

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 4,866 2,313 3,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.91% 91.90% 82.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,829 1,344 2,658
10th Percentile £33,700 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,031 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £98,800 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £51,364
% change year-on-year +9.88% -2.55% -6.61%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 -2 17 £67,500 +3.85% 3
Ashton-under-Lyne +1 14 £51,000 - 2
Oldham -1 8 £67,500 +19.46% 2
Salford -8 7 £74,651 - 4
Stockport -7 4 £55,000 -12.00% 3
Bury 0 3 £92,482 - 3
Bolton -12 3 £55,000 -26.67% 4
Wigan -4 2 £77,500 - 1
Rochdale -2 1 £55,000 -
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 36 (6.95%) Confluence
2 19 (3.67%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.16%) Apache
5 5 (0.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.97%) CMS
5 5 (0.97%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.58%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.58%) nginx
6 3 (0.58%) WordPress
7 2 (0.39%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.39%) CICS
7 2 (0.39%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.19%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) JBoss
8 1 (0.19%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
1 7 (1.35%) Trello
2 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.19%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.58%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 164 (31.66%) Azure
2 142 (27.41%) AWS
3 67 (12.93%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (7.72%) Serverless
5 38 (7.34%) Power Platform
6 35 (6.76%) SaaS
7 33 (6.37%) GitHub
8 30 (5.79%) GCP
9 25 (4.83%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (4.05%) Power Automate
11 19 (3.67%) Microsoft Copilot
12 18 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
13 17 (3.28%) PowerApps
14 14 (2.70%) dbt
15 13 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
16 11 (2.12%) Amazon S3
16 11 (2.12%) Anthropic Claude
16 11 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (2.12%) Copilot Studio
17 10 (1.93%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.39%) AMQP
2 1 (0.19%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (0.19%) HTTP
2 1 (0.19%) iSCSI
2 1 (0.19%) LAN
2 1 (0.19%) LTE
2 1 (0.19%) Network Security
2 1 (0.19%) SAN
2 1 (0.19%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.19%) SSL
2 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.19%) WAN
2 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (2.90%) MongoDB
2 15 (2.90%) NoSQL
2 15 (2.90%) SQL Server
3 14 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (2.70%) Power BI
4 12 (2.32%) DynamoDB
5 11 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (1.74%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.35%) BigQuery
7 7 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (1.35%) MySQL
8 6 (1.16%) Big Data
9 4 (0.77%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.77%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.77%) Flink
10 3 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.58%) GIS
10 3 (0.58%) QGIS
11 2 (0.39%) Db2
Development Applications
1 61 (11.78%) JIRA
2 48 (9.27%) Git
3 19 (3.67%) GitLab
4 17 (3.28%) Jenkins
5 12 (2.32%) Claude Code
6 11 (2.12%) Postman
7 9 (1.74%) JUnit
7 9 (1.74%) Spock
8 8 (1.54%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.77%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.58%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.58%) Maven
12 2 (0.39%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.39%) MSTest
12 2 (0.39%) NUnit
12 2 (0.39%) Vagrant
12 2 (0.39%) XCUITest
13 1 (0.19%) Gemini Tracker
13 1 (0.19%) REST Assured
General
1 137 (26.45%) Social Skills
2 118 (22.78%) Finance
3 53 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (7.72%) Public Sector
5 34 (6.56%) Marketing
6 25 (4.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (3.28%) Retail
9 15 (2.90%) Banking
10 14 (2.70%) Law
11 12 (2.32%) Games
12 11 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.74%) Advertising
14 8 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.16%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.16%) Publishing
16 5 (0.97%) Local Government
16 5 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.97%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.77%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 118 (22.78%) Senior
2 97 (18.73%) Developer
3 61 (11.78%) Software Engineer
4 44 (8.49%) Senior Developer
5 41 (7.92%) Lead
6 33 (6.37%) Project Manager
7 29 (5.60%) Analyst
7 29 (5.60%) Data Engineer
8 28 (5.41%) Business Analyst
9 27 (5.21%) Engineering Manager
9 27 (5.21%) Java Developer
10 21 (4.05%) Delivery Manager
11 20 (3.86%) Cloud Engineer
12 19 (3.67%) Lead Software Engineer
12 19 (3.67%) Senior Software Engineer
13 18 (3.47%) Java Engineer
13 18 (3.47%) Product Owner
14 16 (3.09%) DevOps Engineer
14 16 (3.09%) Senior Data Engineer
14 16 (3.09%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (11.39%) .NET
2 45 (8.69%) HTML
3 41 (7.92%) Spring
4 37 (7.14%) CSS
4 37 (7.14%) Node.js
5 34 (6.56%) AngularJS
6 30 (5.79%) React
6 30 (5.79%) Spring Boot
7 24 (4.63%) REST
8 16 (3.09%) RESTful
9 15 (2.90%) Kafka
10 12 (2.32%) ASP.NET
11 11 (2.12%) Vue
12 10 (1.93%) Microsoft Graph
12 10 (1.93%) PySpark
13 9 (1.74%) ASP.NET Core
13 9 (1.74%) Entity Framework
14 8 (1.54%) HTML5 Canvas
14 8 (1.54%) SPFx
15 7 (1.35%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 62 (11.97%) Product Ownership
2 45 (8.69%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (2.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 13 (2.51%) Mobile App
7 12 (2.32%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.12%) Marketing Technology
9 10 (1.93%) Private Cloud
10 9 (1.74%) Driving Licence
11 7 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.16%) PMI
12 6 (1.16%) Social Media
12 6 (1.16%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
14 4 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
14 4 (0.77%) Cyber Defence
14 4 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
14 4 (0.77%) Low-Code
14 4 (0.77%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.86%) Linux
2 7 (1.35%) Windows
3 6 (1.16%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.97%) Android
5 2 (0.39%) CentOS
5 2 (0.39%) Debian
5 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.39%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.19%) Unix
6 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (32.43%) DevOps
2 163 (31.47%) CI/CD
3 138 (26.64%) Continuous Improvement
4 127 (24.52%) Scrum
5 111 (21.43%) AI
6 98 (18.92%) Software Engineering
7 96 (18.53%) Stakeholder Management
8 76 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
9 74 (14.29%) Roadmaps
10 73 (14.09%) TDD
11 66 (12.74%) Mentoring
12 63 (12.16%) Test Automation
13 60 (11.58%) Kanban
14 59 (11.39%) Coaching
15 57 (11.00%) Microservices
16 52 (10.04%) Collaborative Culture
16 52 (10.04%) Decision-Making
17 50 (9.65%) Full-Stack Development
18 49 (9.46%) Project Management
19 48 (9.27%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 107 (20.66%) Java
2 101 (19.50%) SQL
3 93 (17.95%) Python
4 75 (14.48%) JavaScript
5 58 (11.20%) C#
6 28 (5.41%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.70%) Go
8 12 (2.32%) Bash
9 10 (1.93%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.74%) C++
10 9 (1.74%) PHP
11 5 (0.97%) Apex Code
11 5 (0.97%) Groovy
12 4 (0.77%) SOQL
12 4 (0.77%) Swift
13 3 (0.58%) C
13 3 (0.58%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.58%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.58%) SOSL
14 2 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 62 (11.97%) Security Cleared
2 49 (9.46%) SC Cleared
3 42 (8.11%) Degree
4 23 (4.44%) DV Cleared
5 16 (3.09%) Master's Degree
5 16 (3.09%) PMI Certification
6 10 (1.93%) PMP
7 8 (1.54%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (0.97%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.77%) MBA
10 4 (0.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.39%) Chartered Engineer
11 2 (0.39%) CSPO
11 2 (0.39%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.19%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.76%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.02%) QA
3 10 (1.93%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.74%) GDPR
5 7 (1.35%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.16%) PMO
7 2 (0.39%) SLA
8 1 (0.19%) GRC
8 1 (0.19%) ITGC
8 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (8.88%) Docker
2 3 (0.58%) Ceph
3 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) Firmware
3 1 (0.19%) NFS
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 62 (11.97%) Terraform
2 50 (9.65%) Kubernetes
3 27 (5.21%) Ansible
4 9 (1.74%) Argo
4 9 (1.74%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.16%) Grafana
6 4 (0.77%) Istio
7 3 (0.58%) Check_MK
7 3 (0.58%) Podman
8 2 (0.39%) Packer
8 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.39%) Puppet
9 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.19%) linkerd
9 1 (0.19%) Nagios
9 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 79 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.28%) Salesforce
3 16 (3.09%) Databricks
4 15 (2.90%) Splunk
5 13 (2.51%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.12%) Google
7 10 (1.93%) Adobe
7 10 (1.93%) Oracle
8 9 (1.74%) AppDynamics
9 7 (1.35%) Pega
10 6 (1.16%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.97%) SAP
12 3 (0.58%) Apple
12 3 (0.58%) Dell
12 3 (0.58%) Facebook
12 3 (0.58%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (0.58%) NEC
13 2 (0.39%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.39%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.39%) SaltStack