Agile Jobs in the North West

Agile Software Development
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 1,569 2,194 2,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 20.04% 19.72% 29.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.61% 24.76% 30.92%
Number of salaries quoted 533 1,326 1,009
10th Percentile £43,750 £38,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,869 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,560 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.07% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,772 £73,550
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £63,500 £66,000
% change year-on-year +6.30% -3.79% +1.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,259 8,861 6,682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 92.71% 79.66% 95.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3,710 6,369 3,854
10th Percentile £25,000 £28,000 £30,825
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,298 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +0.54% -12.00% +4.17%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the North West

Agile
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Agile in the North West

Agile
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in the North West over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Agile in the North West

Agile
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the North West region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
Lancashire -7 637 £54,793 -5.47% 379
Manchester -2 622 £65,000 +8.33% 1,261
Cheshire -3 155 £50,000 -13.04% 267
Cumbria -38 89 £55,000 - 28
Merseyside -8 66 £66,000 +10.00% 145
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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
1 140 (8.92%) Confluence
2 15 (0.96%) Oracle Application Server
3 9 (0.57%) IIS
3 9 (0.57%) SharePoint
4 8 (0.51%) CMS
5 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.13%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.064%) Apache
7 1 (0.064%) Magnolia
7 1 (0.064%) Moodle
7 1 (0.064%) nginx
7 1 (0.064%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.064%) Totara
7 1 (0.064%) WordPress
Applications
1 84 (5.35%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (3.19%) Simulink
3 23 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
3 23 (1.47%) Trello
4 20 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
5 16 (1.02%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.064%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.064%) Sketch
8 1 (0.064%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 65 (4.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 65 (4.14%) Teamcenter
2 10 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.19%) Siebel CRM
4 2 (0.13%) Magento
5 1 (0.064%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.064%) Shopify
5 1 (0.064%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 451 (28.74%) AWS
2 445 (28.36%) Azure
3 275 (17.53%) GCP
4 51 (3.25%) Power Platform
5 32 (2.04%) Serverless
6 29 (1.85%) SaaS
7 23 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
9 21 (1.34%) GitHub
10 19 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (0.83%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (0.70%) Power Automate
14 10 (0.64%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (0.57%) Azure Monitor
16 8 (0.51%) Miro
17 7 (0.45%) Azure Service Bus
17 7 (0.45%) Cloud Composer
17 7 (0.45%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 389 (24.79%) DNS
2 383 (24.41%) VPN
3 11 (0.70%) Broadband
4 7 (0.45%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.32%) DHCP
5 5 (0.32%) NAS
5 5 (0.32%) SAN
5 5 (0.32%) VSAN
6 4 (0.25%) HTTP
7 2 (0.13%) DMZ
7 2 (0.13%) Firewall
7 2 (0.13%) Internet
7 2 (0.13%) LoRaWAN
7 2 (0.13%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.13%) WAN
8 1 (0.064%) ADSL
8 1 (0.064%) FTP
8 1 (0.064%) MPLS
8 1 (0.064%) RTP
8 1 (0.064%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (10.58%) SQL Server
2 45 (2.87%) MongoDB
3 43 (2.74%) NoSQL
4 36 (2.29%) MySQL
4 36 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
5 32 (2.04%) Power BI
6 18 (1.15%) Relational Database
7 17 (1.08%) DynamoDB
8 15 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (0.96%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 15 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
9 12 (0.76%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.51%) RDBMS
11 7 (0.45%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.45%) Redis
12 5 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.32%) GIS
13 4 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (0.25%) Hazelcast
14 3 (0.19%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 268 (17.08%) JIRA
2 129 (8.22%) GitLab
3 126 (8.03%) Selenium
4 118 (7.52%) Cucumber
4 118 (7.52%) SonarQube
5 112 (7.14%) Bitbucket
6 111 (7.07%) Maven
7 110 (7.01%) Sonatype Nexus
8 66 (4.21%) Rational DOORS
9 53 (3.38%) Git
10 12 (0.76%) Jenkins
11 11 (0.70%) JMeter
12 7 (0.45%) Postman
13 6 (0.38%) LoadRunner
14 5 (0.32%) JUnit
14 5 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
15 4 (0.25%) Balsamiq
15 4 (0.25%) Cypress.io
15 4 (0.25%) Fiddler
15 4 (0.25%) webpack
General
1 725 (46.21%) Finance
2 687 (43.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 471 (30.02%) Analytical Skills
4 278 (17.72%) Social Skills
5 152 (9.69%) Banking
6 98 (6.25%) Retail
7 70 (4.46%) Corporate Banking
7 70 (4.46%) Investment Banking
8 66 (4.21%) Manufacturing
9 50 (3.19%) Aerospace
10 41 (2.61%) Law
11 37 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
12 29 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
13 27 (1.72%) Public Sector
14 24 (1.53%) Marketing
15 20 (1.27%) Avionics
16 19 (1.21%) Local Government
17 17 (1.08%) Financial Institution
17 17 (1.08%) Military
18 16 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 510 (32.50%) Developer
2 408 (26.00%) Senior
3 388 (24.73%) Software Developer
4 346 (22.05%) Software Engineer
5 217 (13.83%) Lead
6 201 (12.81%) Systems Engineer
7 191 (12.17%) Senior Software Engineer
8 88 (5.61%) Architect
9 85 (5.42%) Lead Systems Engineer
10 80 (5.10%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 77 (4.91%) Analyst
11 77 (4.91%) Solutions Architect
12 65 (4.14%) Platform Engineer
12 65 (4.14%) Team Leader
13 56 (3.57%) Lead Architect
13 56 (3.57%) Lead Solutions Architect
14 53 (3.38%) Senior Developer
15 34 (2.17%) .NET Developer
16 29 (1.85%) Project Manager
17 25 (1.59%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (16.57%) .NET
2 220 (14.02%) Node.js
3 176 (11.22%) React
4 151 (9.62%) CSS
5 149 (9.50%) Kafka
6 148 (9.43%) HTML
7 145 (9.24%) Spring
8 140 (8.92%) Spring Boot
9 113 (7.20%) Redux
10 110 (7.01%) JPA
11 98 (6.25%) RESTful
12 94 (5.99%) REST
13 77 (4.91%) Jest
14 76 (4.84%) Sass
15 75 (4.78%) HTML5
16 74 (4.72%) CSS3
17 44 (2.80%) Hibernate
18 42 (2.68%) .NET Core
19 25 (1.59%) AngularJS
20 24 (1.53%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 552 (35.18%) Cyberattack
2 239 (15.23%) Product Ownership
3 186 (11.85%) Self-Motivation
4 172 (10.96%) Linux Command Line
5 112 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
6 44 (2.80%) Management Information System
7 30 (1.91%) Social Media
8 26 (1.66%) Mobile App
9 24 (1.53%) Cloud Native
10 20 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (0.64%) Wiki
13 9 (0.57%) Driving Licence
13 9 (0.57%) e-Learning
13 9 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (0.57%) Onboarding
14 7 (0.45%) Algorithms
14 7 (0.45%) Hybrid Cloud
15 6 (0.38%) Private Cloud
16 5 (0.32%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 580 (36.97%) Linux
2 386 (24.60%) Android
3 25 (1.59%) Windows
4 8 (0.51%) Windows Vista
5 6 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.38%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.25%) Unix
7 3 (0.19%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.064%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.064%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 473 (30.15%) Line Management
2 424 (27.02%) Software Engineering
3 408 (26.00%) OOP
4 400 (25.49%) Design Patterns
5 395 (25.18%) Mathematics
6 385 (24.54%) OO
7 382 (24.35%) Android Development
8 381 (24.28%) Microservices
9 362 (23.07%) Mentoring
10 321 (20.46%) User Experience
11 282 (17.97%) DevOps
12 259 (16.51%) Scrum
13 236 (15.04%) CI/CD
14 200 (12.75%) SysML
15 188 (11.98%) Data Engineering
16 186 (11.85%) Machine Learning
17 184 (11.73%) Cloud Security
18 176 (11.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 175 (11.15%) Containerisation
20 172 (10.96%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 773 (49.27%) Java
2 626 (39.90%) Python
3 563 (35.88%) Go
4 554 (35.31%) C++
5 382 (24.35%) JavaScript
6 222 (14.15%) SQL
7 174 (11.09%) Rust
8 158 (10.07%) TypeScript
9 81 (5.16%) C#
10 50 (3.19%) MATLAB
11 16 (1.02%) PowerShell
12 15 (0.96%) C
12 15 (0.96%) PHP
13 8 (0.51%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.38%) Bash
15 3 (0.19%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.13%) Bicep
16 2 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.13%) Objective-C
16 2 (0.13%) Swift
Qualifications
1 570 (36.33%) Security Cleared
2 554 (35.31%) DV Cleared
3 272 (17.34%) BPSS Clearance
4 259 (16.51%) Degree
5 191 (12.17%) AWS Certification
6 184 (11.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 172 (10.96%) AWS Certified Developer
8 74 (4.72%) TOGAF Certification
9 51 (3.25%) DBS Check
10 27 (1.72%) Azure Certification
11 26 (1.66%) ACCA
12 23 (1.47%) PMI Certification
12 23 (1.47%) PMP
13 22 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
14 15 (0.96%) HND
15 12 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.76%) SC Cleared
16 10 (0.64%) CIMA
17 7 (0.45%) Chartered Engineer
17 7 (0.45%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (8.92%) QA
2 91 (5.80%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.02%) GAAP
3 16 (1.02%) IFRS
4 15 (0.96%) GDPR
5 14 (0.89%) Data Quality
5 14 (0.89%) HIPAA
6 12 (0.76%) NIST
7 8 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.38%) ISO 9001
8 6 (0.38%) SLA
9 5 (0.32%) HL7
9 5 (0.32%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.25%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.25%) PMO
10 4 (0.25%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.19%) GRC
11 3 (0.19%) IEC 62304
11 3 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 580 (36.97%) Docker
2 21 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.45%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.32%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.064%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.064%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.064%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 383 (24.41%) Ansible
2 184 (11.73%) Kubernetes
3 33 (2.10%) Terraform
4 11 (0.70%) SCCM
5 7 (0.45%) Grafana
5 7 (0.45%) Progress Chef
6 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.25%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.19%) Argo
8 3 (0.19%) Kibana
8 3 (0.19%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.064%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.064%) Automic
10 1 (0.064%) Puppet
Vendors
1 161 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 109 (6.95%) Solace
3 86 (5.48%) SAP
4 65 (4.14%) Sparx
5 56 (3.57%) Siemens
6 55 (3.51%) Google
7 50 (3.19%) MathWorks
8 31 (1.98%) Oracle
9 23 (1.47%) ServiceNow
10 21 (1.34%) Facebook
11 15 (0.96%) Salesforce
12 12 (0.76%) Bloomberg
13 10 (0.64%) Databricks
14 9 (0.57%) Alteryx
14 9 (0.57%) VMware
15 8 (0.51%) Splunk
16 7 (0.45%) Ping Identity
17 5 (0.32%) Blue Prism
17 5 (0.32%) Liquidlogic
17 5 (0.32%) UiPath