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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -16 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 402 454 1,047
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.54% 22.76% 22.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.61% 23.89% 25.67%
Number of salaries quoted 297 288 846
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £52,000 £52,500 £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 £82,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £89,375
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 3,464 1,900 4,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.58% 95.24% 86.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,359 1,246 3,300
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,598 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.91% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,822 £82,500
North West median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% -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 10 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 10 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% 5
Bolton +1 6 £50,000 -33.33% 8
Salford -10 5 £74,651 +17.96% 6
Bury - 3 £92,482 - 1
Oldham - 3 £55,000 - 1
Stockport -5 2 - - 3
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 27 (6.72%) Confluence
2 11 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.49%) Apache
5 3 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.75%) CMS
5 3 (0.75%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.75%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.50%) CICS
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.25%) PegaRULES
7 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.75%) Sketch
3 2 (0.50%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
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
1 131 (32.59%) Azure
2 101 (25.12%) AWS
3 47 (11.69%) SaaS
4 33 (8.21%) Serverless
5 28 (6.97%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (6.22%) GCP
6 25 (6.22%) Power Platform
7 21 (5.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (3.23%) Azure AKS
11 12 (2.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 12 (2.99%) Azure Functions
11 12 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (2.99%) Azure Service Bus
11 12 (2.99%) Figma
11 12 (2.99%) GitHub
12 9 (2.24%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (1.99%) Anthropic Claude
13 8 (1.99%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.74%) HTTP
2 5 (1.24%) AMQP
2 5 (1.24%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.75%) SSH
4 2 (0.50%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.96%) NoSQL
2 14 (3.48%) MySQL
3 13 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (2.99%) MongoDB
4 12 (2.99%) Power BI
5 10 (2.49%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.74%) Big Data
6 7 (1.74%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.74%) Hadoop
6 7 (1.74%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.24%) Cloudera CDH
7 5 (1.24%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (0.75%) GIS
8 3 (0.75%) QGIS
9 2 (0.50%) DB2
9 2 (0.50%) Flink
9 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 47 (11.69%) Git
2 41 (10.20%) JIRA
3 13 (3.23%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.24%) GitLab
5 8 (1.99%) Claude Code
5 8 (1.99%) Postman
6 5 (1.24%) Visual Studio
7 4 (1.00%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.75%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.75%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.75%) IntelliJ
8 3 (0.75%) JUnit
9 2 (0.50%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.50%) Selenium
9 2 (0.50%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.50%) XCUITest
10 1 (0.25%) GDB
10 1 (0.25%) Locust
10 1 (0.25%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.25%) WinDbg
General
1 91 (22.64%) Social Skills
2 86 (21.39%) Finance
3 34 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.72%) Public Sector
5 21 (5.22%) Marketing
6 19 (4.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (4.48%) Banking
8 14 (3.48%) Law
9 10 (2.49%) Games
9 10 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.74%) Advertising
12 5 (1.24%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.24%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.24%) Retail
13 4 (1.00%) Electronics
13 4 (1.00%) Legal
13 4 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.00%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.75%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 95 (23.63%) Senior
2 72 (17.91%) Developer
3 65 (16.17%) Software Engineer
4 49 (12.19%) Lead
5 30 (7.46%) Project Manager
6 29 (7.21%) Senior Developer
7 22 (5.47%) Data Engineer
7 22 (5.47%) Java Developer
7 22 (5.47%) Lead Software Engineer
8 20 (4.98%) Analyst
9 17 (4.23%) Senior Data Engineer
10 16 (3.98%) Marketing Manager
10 16 (3.98%) Senior Software Engineer
11 15 (3.73%) Cloud Engineer
11 15 (3.73%) Full-Stack Developer
11 15 (3.73%) Java Engineer
12 14 (3.48%) Business Analyst
13 13 (3.23%) .NET Developer
13 13 (3.23%) Delivery Manager
14 12 (2.99%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (14.68%) .NET
2 53 (13.18%) React
3 36 (8.96%) REST
4 33 (8.21%) CSS
4 33 (8.21%) Node.js
4 33 (8.21%) Spring
5 32 (7.96%) AngularJS
5 32 (7.96%) Spring Boot
6 31 (7.71%) HTML
7 30 (7.46%) RESTful
8 15 (3.73%) .NET Framework
9 13 (3.23%) Kafka
10 9 (2.24%) Web Services
11 8 (1.99%) gRPC
11 8 (1.99%) Vue
12 7 (1.74%) CSS3
12 7 (1.74%) HTML5
13 5 (1.24%) Hibernate
13 5 (1.24%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (1.24%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (12.44%) Product Ownership
2 31 (7.71%) Cloud Native
3 27 (6.72%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (3.73%) Mobile App
5 10 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (1.49%) Low-Code
7 6 (1.49%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.49%) Social Media
8 5 (1.24%) Driving Licence
8 5 (1.24%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.00%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.00%) PMI
10 3 (0.75%) IoT
10 3 (0.75%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.98%) Linux
2 13 (3.23%) Windows
3 5 (1.24%) CentOS
3 5 (1.24%) Debian
3 5 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.24%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.25%) Android
5 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (30.10%) CI/CD
2 107 (26.62%) DevOps
3 95 (23.63%) Scrum
4 92 (22.89%) Software Engineering
5 90 (22.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 65 (16.17%) Microservices
7 58 (14.43%) TDD
8 53 (13.18%) Stakeholder Management
9 51 (12.69%) AI
9 51 (12.69%) Roadmaps
10 50 (12.44%) Coaching
11 49 (12.19%) Mentoring
12 48 (11.94%) Kanban
13 46 (11.44%) Full-Stack Development
14 44 (10.95%) Problem-Solving
15 43 (10.70%) Clean Code
16 41 (10.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 40 (9.95%) User Experience
18 39 (9.70%) Project Management
19 38 (9.45%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 87 (21.64%) Java
2 68 (16.92%) JavaScript
3 64 (15.92%) SQL
4 59 (14.68%) Python
5 48 (11.94%) C#
6 32 (7.96%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.49%) C++
8 5 (1.24%) Go
9 3 (0.75%) C
9 3 (0.75%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.75%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.50%) Bash
10 2 (0.50%) Scala
10 2 (0.50%) Swift
11 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.25%) Bicep
11 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.25%) Groovy
11 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.25%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 39 (9.70%) Security Cleared
2 30 (7.46%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.23%) PMI Certification
4 13 (3.23%) PMP
5 11 (2.74%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.49%) Degree
7 6 (1.49%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.50%) ACCA
9 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.50%) CIMA
9 2 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.25%) CIPD
10 1 (0.25%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.22%) QA
2 20 (4.98%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.24%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.49%) PMO
5 3 (0.75%) WCAG
6 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.25%) GRC
6 1 (0.25%) GxP
6 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.25%) ITGC
6 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (6.72%) Docker
2 8 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 55 (13.68%) Terraform
2 44 (10.95%) Kubernetes
3 22 (5.47%) Ansible
4 8 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.24%) Puppet
6 3 (0.75%) Rancher
7 2 (0.50%) Grafana
7 2 (0.50%) Packer
7 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.25%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 43 (10.70%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.73%) Databricks
3 14 (3.48%) Salesforce
4 9 (2.24%) ServiceNow
4 9 (2.24%) Splunk
5 8 (1.99%) New Relic
6 7 (1.74%) Google
6 7 (1.74%) Pega
7 5 (1.24%) Adobe
7 5 (1.24%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.24%) SaltStack
7 5 (1.24%) SAP
8 4 (1.00%) Oracle
8 4 (1.00%) Qualtrics
9 3 (0.75%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.75%) WSO2
10 2 (0.50%) LogicMonitor
11 1 (0.25%) Genesys
11 1 (0.25%) Software AG
11 1 (0.25%) Spotify