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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 364 507 1,010
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 9.13% 22.83% 23.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.23% 23.79% 26.51%
Number of salaries quoted 275 281 830
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £41,925
25th Percentile £50,625 £54,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £87,000 £93,778 £86,375
North West median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +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 2,976 2,131 3,810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.66% 95.95% 88.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,961 1,240 3,133
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +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 14 March 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 14 March 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 0 8 £50,000 -33.33% 10
Altrincham -7 8 £81,250 +54.76% 6
Salford -15 5 £74,830 +25.91% 11
Bury - 3 £92,482 - 2
Oldham - 3 £55,000 - 3
Stockport -5 2 £55,000 - 4
Rochdale -3 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 16 (4.40%) Confluence
2 12 (3.30%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.65%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.37%) Apache
4 5 (1.37%) CMS
5 2 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.55%) CICS
5 2 (0.55%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.55%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.27%) PegaRULES
6 1 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.82%) Sketch
3 2 (0.55%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.27%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 116 (31.87%) Azure
2 96 (26.37%) AWS
3 44 (12.09%) SaaS
4 30 (8.24%) Serverless
5 28 (7.69%) GCP
6 25 (6.87%) Power Platform
7 18 (4.95%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (4.12%) Figma
9 14 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (3.57%) Azure AKS
11 11 (3.02%) GitHub
12 10 (2.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 10 (2.75%) Azure Functions
12 10 (2.75%) Azure Logic Apps
12 10 (2.75%) Azure Service Bus
12 10 (2.75%) Entra ID
13 9 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (2.47%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.92%) HTTP
2 5 (1.37%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.10%) AMQP
4 3 (0.82%) SSH
5 2 (0.55%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.52%) NoSQL
2 12 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (3.30%) MongoDB
2 12 (3.30%) MySQL
2 12 (3.30%) Power BI
3 10 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.92%) Data Lake
4 7 (1.92%) Relational Database
4 7 (1.92%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.65%) Big Data
5 6 (1.65%) Hadoop
6 5 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.10%) Cloudera CDH
7 4 (1.10%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.55%) DB2
9 2 (0.55%) GIS
9 2 (0.55%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 40 (10.99%) Git
2 28 (7.69%) JIRA
3 12 (3.30%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.47%) GitLab
5 5 (1.37%) Claude Code
6 4 (1.10%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.10%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.82%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.82%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.82%) IntelliJ
7 3 (0.82%) JUnit
8 2 (0.55%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.55%) Postman
8 2 (0.55%) Selenium
8 2 (0.55%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.55%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.27%) JMeter
9 1 (0.27%) Locust
9 1 (0.27%) REST Assured
General
1 91 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 74 (20.33%) Finance
3 34 (9.34%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (6.87%) Marketing
5 24 (6.59%) Public Sector
6 19 (5.22%) Banking
7 16 (4.40%) Law
8 14 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (2.20%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.92%) Retail
13 6 (1.65%) Electronics
13 6 (1.65%) Games
14 4 (1.10%) Advertising
14 4 (1.10%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.10%) Legal
14 4 (1.10%) Retail Banking
14 4 (1.10%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.82%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 83 (22.80%) Senior
2 70 (19.23%) Developer
3 57 (15.66%) Software Engineer
4 48 (13.19%) Lead
5 27 (7.42%) Project Manager
5 27 (7.42%) Senior Developer
6 24 (6.59%) Data Engineer
7 20 (5.49%) Lead Software Engineer
8 19 (5.22%) Analyst
9 18 (4.95%) Java Developer
9 18 (4.95%) Marketing Manager
10 16 (4.40%) Senior Data Engineer
11 13 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
11 13 (3.57%) IT Manager
11 13 (3.57%) Java Engineer
12 12 (3.30%) Senior Software Engineer
13 11 (3.02%) .NET Developer
13 11 (3.02%) Business Analyst
13 11 (3.02%) Cloud Engineer
14 10 (2.75%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (16.21%) .NET
2 58 (15.93%) React
3 34 (9.34%) CSS
3 34 (9.34%) REST
4 33 (9.07%) HTML
5 32 (8.79%) Node.js
5 32 (8.79%) RESTful
6 29 (7.97%) Spring
7 28 (7.69%) Spring Boot
8 27 (7.42%) AngularJS
9 17 (4.67%) .NET Framework
10 14 (3.85%) Kafka
11 10 (2.75%) CSS3
11 10 (2.75%) HTML5
12 9 (2.47%) Web Services
13 7 (1.92%) gRPC
13 7 (1.92%) Hibernate
13 7 (1.92%) Vue
14 6 (1.65%) ASP.NET
14 6 (1.65%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 42 (11.54%) Product Ownership
2 36 (9.89%) Cloud Native
3 25 (6.87%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (3.85%) Mobile App
5 13 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.20%) Social Media
7 7 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.65%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.37%) Driving Licence
9 5 (1.37%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.37%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.10%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.82%) IoT
11 3 (0.82%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.55%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.57%) Windows
2 11 (3.02%) Linux
3 4 (1.10%) CentOS
3 4 (1.10%) Debian
3 4 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.10%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.27%) Android
5 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (30.49%) CI/CD
2 88 (24.18%) DevOps
3 87 (23.90%) Continuous Improvement
4 85 (23.35%) Software Engineering
5 77 (21.15%) Scrum
6 63 (17.31%) Microservices
7 52 (14.29%) Mentoring
7 52 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (13.46%) AI
8 49 (13.46%) TDD
9 47 (12.91%) Stakeholder Management
10 46 (12.64%) Full-Stack Development
11 45 (12.36%) Coaching
12 43 (11.81%) Clean Code
12 43 (11.81%) User Experience
13 40 (10.99%) Roadmaps
13 40 (10.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 38 (10.44%) Containerisation
15 35 (9.62%) Decision-Making
15 35 (9.62%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 75 (20.60%) Java
2 68 (18.68%) JavaScript
3 60 (16.48%) SQL
4 51 (14.01%) C#
5 48 (13.19%) Python
6 40 (10.99%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.65%) Go
8 4 (1.10%) C++
8 4 (1.10%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.55%) C
9 2 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.55%) Scala
9 2 (0.55%) Swift
9 2 (0.55%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.27%) Bicep
10 1 (0.27%) Groovy
10 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (9.62%) Security Cleared
2 25 (6.87%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.40%) PMI Certification
4 14 (3.85%) PMP
5 12 (3.30%) Degree
6 11 (3.02%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.20%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.82%) ACCA
8 3 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.82%) CIMA
8 3 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.27%) CIPD
10 1 (0.27%) SAFe Agilist
10 1 (0.27%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.59%) Accessibility
2 23 (6.32%) QA
3 6 (1.65%) PMO
4 4 (1.10%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.82%) WCAG
6 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.27%) GDPR
6 1 (0.27%) GxP
6 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.27%) ITGC
6 1 (0.27%) NIST
6 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (7.42%) Docker
2 10 (2.75%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 44 (12.09%) Terraform
2 40 (10.99%) Kubernetes
3 15 (4.12%) Ansible
4 8 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.10%) Puppet
6 3 (0.82%) Rancher
7 2 (0.55%) Packer
7 2 (0.55%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.27%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.27%) Grafana
Vendors
1 35 (9.62%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.85%) Databricks
3 9 (2.47%) Salesforce
3 9 (2.47%) SAP
3 9 (2.47%) Splunk
4 8 (2.20%) Adobe
4 8 (2.20%) Google
4 8 (2.20%) New Relic
4 8 (2.20%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.92%) Qualtrics
6 6 (1.65%) Oracle
6 6 (1.65%) Pega
7 4 (1.10%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.10%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.10%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.55%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.55%) WSO2
9 1 (0.27%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.27%) SnapLogic