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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 336 506 936
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.93% 21.91% 23.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.89% 22.92% 26.91%
Number of salaries quoted 257 250 763
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year - +7.44% +0.83%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,822 £86,250
North West median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £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 2,827 2,208 3,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.17% 95.63% 88.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,829 1,157 2,861
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £74,258 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 4 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 4 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
Altrincham -7 8 £81,250 +54.76% 8
Bolton +5 6 £50,000 -9.09% 11
Salford -16 5 £74,830 +25.91% 8
Oldham - 4 £52,500 - 3
Bury - 3 £92,482 - 2
Rochdale -4 1 £55,000 +4.76%
Stockport -4 1 £55,000 - 17
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 13 (3.87%) Confluence
2 12 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.79%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.49%) Apache
4 5 (1.49%) CMS
5 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.30%) nginx
6 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (2.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.89%) Sketch
3 2 (0.60%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.30%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 106 (31.55%) Azure
2 84 (25.00%) AWS
3 44 (13.10%) SaaS
4 27 (8.04%) Power Platform
5 26 (7.74%) Serverless
6 25 (7.44%) GCP
7 15 (4.46%) Figma
7 15 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (3.57%) Azure AKS
10 10 (2.98%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (2.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 10 (2.98%) Azure Functions
10 10 (2.98%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (2.98%) Azure Service Bus
10 10 (2.98%) Entra ID
11 9 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (2.68%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (2.68%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.38%) HTTP
2 5 (1.49%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.19%) AMQP
4 3 (0.89%) SSH
5 2 (0.60%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.30%) DNS
6 1 (0.30%) Firewall
6 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (9.23%) NoSQL
2 14 (4.17%) MySQL
3 13 (3.87%) Power BI
4 12 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (3.57%) MongoDB
5 9 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.08%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.79%) Big Data
7 6 (1.79%) Hadoop
7 6 (1.79%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.49%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.19%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (1.19%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.60%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 36 (10.71%) Git
2 24 (7.14%) JIRA
3 7 (2.08%) GitLab
4 5 (1.49%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.19%) JUnit
5 4 (1.19%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.89%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.89%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.89%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.60%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.30%) JMeter
8 1 (0.30%) Locust
8 1 (0.30%) Postman
8 1 (0.30%) Selenium
8 1 (0.30%) XCUITest
General
1 86 (25.60%) Social Skills
2 70 (20.83%) Finance
3 35 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (6.85%) Marketing
5 18 (5.36%) Public Sector
6 17 (5.06%) Banking
7 15 (4.46%) Law
8 14 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.38%) Retail
11 7 (2.08%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.79%) Electronics
12 6 (1.79%) Games
13 5 (1.49%) Legal
14 4 (1.19%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.19%) Billing
14 4 (1.19%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.89%) Advertising
15 3 (0.89%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 78 (23.21%) Senior
2 65 (19.35%) Developer
3 50 (14.88%) Software Engineer
4 43 (12.80%) Lead
5 24 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 24 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 22 (6.55%) Project Manager
7 19 (5.65%) Analyst
8 16 (4.76%) Marketing Manager
8 16 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
9 15 (4.46%) Lead Software Engineer
10 13 (3.87%) Java Developer
11 12 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
12 11 (3.27%) .NET Developer
12 11 (3.27%) Software Developer
13 10 (2.98%) Business Analyst
13 10 (2.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 10 (2.98%) IT Manager
13 10 (2.98%) Java Engineer
14 9 (2.68%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (16.67%) React
2 55 (16.37%) .NET
3 33 (9.82%) CSS
3 33 (9.82%) REST
4 32 (9.52%) HTML
5 29 (8.63%) RESTful
6 28 (8.33%) Spring
7 27 (8.04%) Spring Boot
8 26 (7.74%) AngularJS
8 26 (7.74%) Node.js
9 16 (4.76%) .NET Framework
10 13 (3.87%) Kafka
11 8 (2.38%) gRPC
11 8 (2.38%) Web Services
12 7 (2.08%) CSS3
12 7 (2.08%) HTML5
12 7 (2.08%) Vue
13 6 (1.79%) ASP.NET
13 6 (1.79%) ASP.NET Core
13 6 (1.79%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 38 (11.31%) Product Ownership
2 35 (10.42%) Cloud Native
3 23 (6.85%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.87%) Mobile App
5 12 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.38%) Social Media
7 7 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.79%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.19%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.19%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.89%) IoT
10 3 (0.89%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.89%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.60%) Housing Association
11 2 (0.60%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.87%) Windows
2 11 (3.27%) Linux
3 4 (1.19%) CentOS
3 4 (1.19%) Debian
3 4 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.19%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.60%) Android
4 2 (0.60%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (28.87%) CI/CD
2 80 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
2 80 (23.81%) DevOps
3 79 (23.51%) Software Engineering
4 61 (18.15%) Scrum
5 59 (17.56%) Microservices
6 54 (16.07%) Mentoring
7 53 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
8 47 (13.99%) User Experience
9 45 (13.39%) AI
9 45 (13.39%) Coaching
10 44 (13.10%) TDD
11 40 (11.90%) Containerisation
11 40 (11.90%) Full-Stack Development
11 40 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
12 39 (11.61%) Clean Code
12 39 (11.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 35 (10.42%) Roadmaps
14 32 (9.52%) SDLC
15 31 (9.23%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 64 (19.05%) Java
2 61 (18.15%) JavaScript
3 53 (15.77%) SQL
4 51 (15.18%) C#
5 41 (12.20%) Python
5 41 (12.20%) TypeScript
6 6 (1.79%) Go
7 4 (1.19%) C++
8 3 (0.89%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.60%) Bicep
9 2 (0.60%) C
9 2 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.60%) Scala
9 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.30%) Groovy
10 1 (0.30%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.30%) PHP
10 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 32 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 22 (6.55%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.46%) PMI Certification
4 13 (3.87%) PMP
5 12 (3.57%) Degree
6 11 (3.27%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.38%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.89%) ACCA
9 3 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.89%) CIMA
10 2 (0.60%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.30%) CIPD
11 1 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.30%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.30%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 22 (6.55%) QA
3 5 (1.49%) PMO
4 3 (0.89%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.89%) WCAG
5 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.30%) GDPR
5 1 (0.30%) GxP
5 1 (0.30%) HL7
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.30%) ITGC
5 1 (0.30%) NIST
5 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (7.44%) Docker
2 11 (3.27%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (11.31%) Terraform
2 35 (10.42%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.57%) Ansible
4 8 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.19%) Puppet
6 3 (0.89%) Rancher
7 2 (0.60%) Packer
7 2 (0.60%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.30%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.30%) Grafana
Vendors
1 34 (10.12%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.17%) Databricks
3 9 (2.68%) Salesforce
3 9 (2.68%) Splunk
4 8 (2.38%) Adobe
4 8 (2.38%) Google
4 8 (2.38%) New Relic
4 8 (2.38%) SAP
5 7 (2.08%) Qualtrics
6 6 (1.79%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.19%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.19%) Oracle
7 4 (1.19%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.19%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.60%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.60%) Pega
9 1 (0.30%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.30%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.30%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.30%) WSO2