Agile Jobs in the North of England

Agile Software Development
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Agile over the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 2,129 3,567 5,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 18.01% 19.11% 31.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.16% 23.47% 32.90%
Number of salaries quoted 934 2,504 2,460
10th Percentile £41,000 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,683 £43,381 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,965 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +0.27% +5.11%
75th Percentile £73,886 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £84,964 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £66,911
% change year-on-year +4.00% -6.59% +2.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,112 15,198 15,734
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 93.99% 81.41% 96.69%
Number of salaries quoted 5,565 11,514 7,805
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £61,967 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,600 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the North of England

Agile
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Agile in the North of England.

Salary trend for Agile in the North of England

Agile
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Agile in the North of England

Agile
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 June 2025. 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
North West -3 1,663 £57,560 -4.07% 4,313
Yorkshire -6 387 £58,100 +1.04% 3,840
North East -14 79 £51,250 -6.82% 1,183
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 210 (9.86%) Confluence
2 15 (0.70%) Oracle Application Server
3 10 (0.47%) Apache Spark
3 10 (0.47%) IIS
3 10 (0.47%) SharePoint
4 7 (0.33%) CMS
5 6 (0.28%) Apache
6 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.23%) SAS
7 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.094%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.094%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.094%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.094%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.047%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.047%) Moodle
9 1 (0.047%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.047%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.047%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.047%) Tomcat
Applications
1 99 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (2.35%) Simulink
3 28 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 22 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (0.99%) Trello
6 14 (0.66%) MS Visio
7 10 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.42%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.094%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.047%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.047%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 65 (3.05%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 65 (3.05%) Teamcenter
2 7 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
4 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.14%) Siebel CRM
5 2 (0.094%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.047%) iTrent
6 1 (0.047%) Magento
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.047%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.047%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 561 (26.35%) Azure
2 536 (25.18%) AWS
3 322 (15.12%) GCP
4 106 (4.98%) Power Platform
5 57 (2.68%) GitHub
6 53 (2.49%) SaaS
7 50 (2.35%) Serverless
8 44 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
9 36 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
10 28 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
11 26 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
12 20 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
13 18 (0.85%) Amazon S3
14 16 (0.75%) Amazon EKS
15 15 (0.70%) Power Automate
16 13 (0.61%) GitHub Actions
17 10 (0.47%) Amazon ECS
17 10 (0.47%) Azure Data Factory
17 10 (0.47%) PaaS
17 10 (0.47%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 400 (18.79%) DNS
2 394 (18.51%) VPN
3 19 (0.89%) Broadband
4 8 (0.38%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.33%) Intranet
6 6 (0.28%) Firewall
6 6 (0.28%) NAS
6 6 (0.28%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.23%) DHCP
7 5 (0.23%) SAN
7 5 (0.23%) VSAN
7 5 (0.23%) WAN
8 4 (0.19%) 5G
8 4 (0.19%) HTTP
9 2 (0.094%) DMZ
9 2 (0.094%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.094%) Internet
9 2 (0.094%) LoRaWAN
9 2 (0.094%) MPLS
9 2 (0.094%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (10.66%) SQL Server
2 86 (4.04%) Power BI
3 66 (3.10%) NoSQL
4 61 (2.87%) MySQL
5 48 (2.25%) MongoDB
5 48 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
6 35 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
7 26 (1.22%) Relational Database
8 21 (0.99%) DynamoDB
9 20 (0.94%) Data Lake
10 18 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
11 15 (0.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 14 (0.66%) Big Data
12 14 (0.66%) BigQuery
13 13 (0.61%) RDBMS
14 12 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (0.47%) Redis
16 9 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 8 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 372 (17.47%) JIRA
2 139 (6.53%) GitLab
3 137 (6.43%) Selenium
4 131 (6.15%) Bitbucket
5 125 (5.87%) Cucumber
6 122 (5.73%) SonarQube
7 113 (5.31%) Maven
8 112 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
9 90 (4.23%) Git
10 84 (3.95%) Rational DOORS
11 31 (1.46%) Jenkins
12 21 (0.99%) eggPlant
13 17 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 12 (0.56%) Postman
15 11 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
16 10 (0.47%) JMeter
17 8 (0.38%) TeamCity
17 8 (0.38%) webpack
18 7 (0.33%) Babel
18 7 (0.33%) JUnit
General
1 861 (40.44%) Finance
2 762 (35.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 526 (24.71%) Analytical Skills
4 457 (21.47%) Social Skills
5 229 (10.76%) Banking
6 121 (5.68%) Retail
7 93 (4.37%) Presentation Skills
8 84 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
9 78 (3.66%) Manufacturing
10 73 (3.43%) Investment Banking
11 72 (3.38%) Corporate Banking
12 68 (3.19%) Law
13 52 (2.44%) Aerospace
14 37 (1.74%) Marketing
15 33 (1.55%) Public Sector
16 22 (1.03%) Military
17 20 (0.94%) Avionics
18 17 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
19 15 (0.70%) Financial Institution
20 14 (0.66%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 604 (28.37%) Developer
2 543 (25.50%) Senior
3 432 (20.29%) Software Developer
4 424 (19.92%) Software Engineer
5 250 (11.74%) Systems Engineer
6 245 (11.51%) Lead
7 239 (11.23%) Senior Software Engineer
8 161 (7.56%) Analyst
9 134 (6.29%) Architect
10 95 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
11 80 (3.76%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 75 (3.52%) Lead Systems Engineer
13 73 (3.43%) Senior Developer
14 69 (3.24%) Team Leader
15 68 (3.19%) Platform Engineer
16 62 (2.91%) Lead Architect
17 60 (2.82%) Lead Solutions Architect
18 53 (2.49%) Project Manager
19 52 (2.44%) Digital Analyst
20 43 (2.02%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 315 (14.80%) .NET
2 245 (11.51%) Node.js
3 228 (10.71%) React
4 185 (8.69%) CSS
5 174 (8.17%) HTML
6 158 (7.42%) Kafka
7 157 (7.37%) Spring
8 150 (7.05%) Spring Boot
9 130 (6.11%) REST
10 123 (5.78%) Redux
11 118 (5.54%) RESTful
12 113 (5.31%) JPA
13 88 (4.13%) HTML5
14 84 (3.95%) Jest
15 78 (3.66%) CSS3
15 78 (3.66%) Sass
16 61 (2.87%) .NET Core
17 45 (2.11%) AngularJS
18 43 (2.02%) Hibernate
19 40 (1.88%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 562 (26.40%) Cyberattack
2 320 (15.03%) Product Ownership
3 198 (9.30%) Self-Motivation
4 172 (8.08%) Linux Command Line
5 122 (5.73%) Enterprise Software
6 82 (3.85%) Management Information System
7 35 (1.64%) Cloud Native
8 30 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
9 29 (1.36%) Mobile App
10 27 (1.27%) Social Media
11 26 (1.22%) Driving Licence
12 21 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
13 18 (0.85%) Onboarding
14 16 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
14 16 (0.75%) Data Centre
14 16 (0.75%) Virtual Team
15 13 (0.61%) Algorithms
16 11 (0.52%) CMDB
16 11 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
17 10 (0.47%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 610 (28.65%) Linux
2 401 (18.84%) Android
3 38 (1.78%) Windows
4 8 (0.38%) zOS
5 7 (0.33%) Unix
6 6 (0.28%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.28%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.28%) Windows Vista
7 5 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.094%) VMS
10 1 (0.047%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.047%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.047%) Solaris
10 1 (0.047%) ThreadX
10 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 580 (27.24%) Software Engineering
2 503 (23.63%) Line Management
3 461 (21.65%) OOP
4 455 (21.37%) OO
5 445 (20.90%) Mentoring
6 434 (20.39%) Microservices
7 426 (20.01%) Design Patterns
8 409 (19.21%) Mathematics
9 395 (18.55%) Android Development
9 395 (18.55%) DevOps
10 352 (16.53%) Scrum
11 331 (15.55%) User Experience
12 324 (15.22%) CI/CD
13 251 (11.79%) Problem-Solving
13 251 (11.79%) SysML
14 224 (10.52%) Test Automation
15 215 (10.10%) Continuous Improvement
16 211 (9.91%) Systems Engineering
17 202 (9.49%) Containerisation
18 197 (9.25%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 883 (41.47%) Java
2 695 (32.64%) Python
3 578 (27.15%) Go
4 574 (26.96%) C++
5 468 (21.98%) JavaScript
6 308 (14.47%) SQL
7 199 (9.35%) TypeScript
8 178 (8.36%) Rust
9 167 (7.84%) C#
10 99 (4.65%) MATLAB
11 35 (1.64%) PHP
12 31 (1.46%) C
13 28 (1.32%) PowerShell
14 16 (0.75%) VB
15 15 (0.70%) Ada
16 14 (0.66%) T-SQL
17 13 (0.61%) Bash
18 8 (0.38%) R
19 6 (0.28%) Bicep
20 4 (0.19%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 591 (27.76%) Security Cleared
2 564 (26.49%) DV Cleared
3 433 (20.34%) Degree
4 379 (17.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 190 (8.92%) AWS Certification
6 180 (8.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 172 (8.08%) AWS Certified Developer
8 79 (3.71%) TOGAF Certification
9 47 (2.21%) DBS Check
10 44 (2.07%) PMP
11 30 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
12 29 (1.36%) Azure Certification
13 28 (1.32%) Chartered Engineer
14 24 (1.13%) PMI Certification
15 20 (0.94%) ACCA
16 19 (0.89%) SC Cleared
17 16 (0.75%) CIMA
17 16 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
18 15 (0.70%) HND
19 12 (0.56%) CCAB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (7.94%) QA
2 104 (4.88%) Accessibility
3 22 (1.03%) Data Quality
3 22 (1.03%) GDPR
4 19 (0.89%) SLA
5 16 (0.75%) PCI DSS
6 14 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 11 (0.52%) HIPAA
8 10 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.42%) NIST
10 8 (0.38%) IFRS
11 7 (0.33%) ISO 9001
11 7 (0.33%) NCSC
11 7 (0.33%) PMO
12 5 (0.23%) HL7
12 5 (0.23%) IEC 62304
12 5 (0.23%) ISO 13485
12 5 (0.23%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.19%) IFRS 9
13 4 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 615 (28.89%) Docker
2 23 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (0.47%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.23%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.094%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.094%) Squid
7 1 (0.047%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.047%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.047%) HDFS
7 1 (0.047%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.047%) NFS
7 1 (0.047%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.047%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 405 (19.02%) Ansible
2 214 (10.05%) Kubernetes
3 68 (3.19%) Terraform
4 10 (0.47%) Grafana
4 10 (0.47%) Prometheus
5 9 (0.42%) SCCM
6 7 (0.33%) Kibana
6 7 (0.33%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.19%) Argo
8 4 (0.19%) Kustomize
8 4 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.094%) Automic
9 2 (0.094%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.094%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.047%) logstash
10 1 (0.047%) Oozie
10 1 (0.047%) Puppet
10 1 (0.047%) SCOM
10 1 (0.047%) WSUS
Vendors
1 211 (9.91%) Microsoft
2 112 (5.26%) Solace
3 98 (4.60%) SAP
4 87 (4.09%) Oracle
5 65 (3.05%) Sparx
6 56 (2.63%) Siemens
7 53 (2.49%) Google
8 50 (2.35%) MathWorks
9 45 (2.11%) Alteryx
10 36 (1.69%) ServiceNow
11 25 (1.17%) Atlassian
12 21 (0.99%) Keysight
13 19 (0.89%) Databricks
14 18 (0.85%) Salesforce
14 18 (0.85%) VMware
15 16 (0.75%) Facebook
16 13 (0.61%) IBM
17 10 (0.47%) Bloomberg
18 9 (0.42%) Ping Identity
19 8 (0.38%) Informatica