Agile Jobs in the North West

Agile Software Development
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 1,945 2,668 3,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 20.32% 32.89% 34.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 24.39% 34.33% 35.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,421 1,120 1,815
10th Percentile £38,500 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +8.23% +10.00%
75th Percentile £75,772 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £86,250 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Agile is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,976 7,771 9,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.34% 95.80% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 6,093 3,995 5,418
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £30,274
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £65,603 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 2024. 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
Manchester 0 1,145 £60,000 +0.80% 241
Cheshire -2 251 £60,119 -3.81% 63
Merseyside +1 250 £50,000 +5.82% 33
Lancashire 0 242 £57,965 +15.93% 42
Cumbria -5 47 £60,000 +71.43% 12
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 57 (2.93%) ArcGIS
1 57 (2.93%) GeoServer
2 56 (2.88%) Confluence
3 29 (1.49%) Apache Spark
4 19 (0.98%) Apache
5 16 (0.82%) IIS
6 13 (0.67%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (0.62%) Tuxedo
8 9 (0.46%) CMS
9 8 (0.41%) WebLogic
10 7 (0.36%) Apache Solr
11 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.26%) JBoss
12 5 (0.26%) Red Hat Fuse
13 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 4 (0.21%) Captiva
13 4 (0.21%) FileNet
13 4 (0.21%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 19 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.31%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.26%) AutoCAD
4 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.21%) Maya
5 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.051%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.051%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.051%) Final Cut Pro
7 1 (0.051%) InVision
7 1 (0.051%) Sketch
7 1 (0.051%) Trello
7 1 (0.051%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 50 (2.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.23%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.46%) SAP CX
4 9 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.21%) MIS ActiveH
7 3 (0.15%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.10%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.10%) Shopify
8 2 (0.10%) Unit4 Business World
9 1 (0.051%) BPCS
9 1 (0.051%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.051%) Magento
9 1 (0.051%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.051%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.051%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.051%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 626 (32.19%) Azure
2 408 (20.98%) AWS
3 161 (8.28%) GCP
4 139 (7.15%) Azure DevOps
5 121 (6.22%) Power Platform
6 64 (3.29%) SaaS
7 63 (3.24%) GitHub
7 63 (3.24%) IBM Cloud
8 56 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
9 52 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
10 49 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
10 49 (2.52%) Serverless
11 48 (2.47%) Amazon S3
12 38 (1.95%) OCI
13 30 (1.54%) Amazon ECR
13 30 (1.54%) Route 53
14 23 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
15 22 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
16 21 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
16 21 (1.08%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.54%) Firewall
1 30 (1.54%) WAN
2 28 (1.44%) Internet
3 23 (1.18%) SAN
4 22 (1.13%) DNS
5 17 (0.87%) TCP/IP
6 16 (0.82%) LAN
7 15 (0.77%) SSL
8 13 (0.67%) Broadband
8 13 (0.67%) SD-WAN
9 12 (0.62%) DHCP
9 12 (0.62%) iSCSI
9 12 (0.62%) Network Security
10 11 (0.57%) AMQP
10 11 (0.57%) Remote Desktop
11 8 (0.41%) BGP
11 8 (0.41%) Wireless
12 5 (0.26%) NAS
12 5 (0.26%) VPN
12 5 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (11.83%) SQL Server
2 141 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
3 92 (4.73%) MySQL
4 87 (4.47%) NoSQL
5 78 (4.01%) Power BI
6 74 (3.80%) MongoDB
7 70 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
8 66 (3.39%) BigQuery
9 57 (2.93%) GIS
9 57 (2.93%) QGIS
10 55 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
11 46 (2.37%) Relational Database
12 40 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
13 39 (2.01%) Data Vault
13 39 (2.01%) Looker
14 31 (1.59%) DB2
15 29 (1.49%) Big Data
15 29 (1.49%) Tableau
16 27 (1.39%) Delta Lake
17 26 (1.34%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 175 (9.00%) Git
2 165 (8.48%) JIRA
3 54 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 41 (2.11%) GitLab
5 35 (1.80%) Visual Studio
6 23 (1.18%) Postman
7 21 (1.08%) Cypress.io
7 21 (1.08%) IntelliJ
8 20 (1.03%) Gradle
9 18 (0.93%) TeamCity
10 17 (0.87%) JUnit
10 17 (0.87%) Selenium
11 16 (0.82%) Mockito
11 16 (0.82%) Spinnaker
12 15 (0.77%) Appium
13 10 (0.51%) Jasmine
14 9 (0.46%) NUnit
15 8 (0.41%) Bitbucket
15 8 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
16 7 (0.36%) SonarQube
General
1 396 (20.36%) Social Skills
2 395 (20.31%) Finance
3 190 (9.77%) Public Sector
4 183 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
5 146 (7.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 112 (5.76%) Retail
7 110 (5.66%) Banking
8 78 (4.01%) Legal
9 48 (2.47%) Law
10 47 (2.42%) Marketing
11 39 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
12 30 (1.54%) Advertising
12 30 (1.54%) Aerospace
13 23 (1.18%) Games
13 23 (1.18%) Telecoms
14 22 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
15 21 (1.08%) Manufacturing
16 19 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
17 15 (0.77%) Publishing
18 11 (0.57%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 468 (24.06%) Developer
2 435 (22.37%) Senior
3 269 (13.83%) Lead
4 204 (10.49%) Software Engineer
5 189 (9.72%) .NET Developer
6 138 (7.10%) Project Manager
7 130 (6.68%) Analyst
8 119 (6.12%) Architect
9 102 (5.24%) Data Engineer
10 101 (5.19%) Senior Developer
11 87 (4.47%) Senior Software Engineer
12 77 (3.96%) C# Developer
13 65 (3.34%) Business Analyst
14 64 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
15 63 (3.24%) DevOps Engineer
15 63 (3.24%) Technical Leader
16 59 (3.03%) Software Developer
17 57 (2.93%) C# .NET Developer
18 52 (2.67%) Azure Engineer
18 52 (2.67%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 381 (19.59%) .NET
2 246 (12.65%) React
3 225 (11.57%) CSS
4 212 (10.90%) HTML
5 192 (9.87%) AngularJS
6 180 (9.25%) .NET Core
7 150 (7.71%) ASP.NET
8 130 (6.68%) Node.js
9 112 (5.76%) REST
10 110 (5.66%) RESTful
11 98 (5.04%) ASP.NET MVC
12 91 (4.68%) Vue
13 85 (4.37%) .NET Framework
13 85 (4.37%) Entity Framework
14 77 (3.96%) ASP.NET Web API
15 75 (3.86%) HTML5
16 73 (3.75%) Spring
17 71 (3.65%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 67 (3.44%) Web Services
19 65 (3.34%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 137 (7.04%) Product Ownership
2 93 (4.78%) Public Cloud
3 82 (4.22%) Data Structures
4 80 (4.11%) Greenfield Project
5 73 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 71 (3.65%) e-Learning
7 68 (3.50%) Blockchain
8 60 (3.08%) Management Information System
9 54 (2.78%) Cloud Native
10 50 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
11 48 (2.47%) Mobile App
12 45 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
13 40 (2.06%) Algorithms
13 40 (2.06%) Reinsurance
14 23 (1.18%) PMI
14 23 (1.18%) Video\Live Streaming
15 21 (1.08%) Private Cloud
16 16 (0.82%) Mainframe
17 15 (0.77%) Virtual Team
18 14 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 148 (7.61%) Linux
2 87 (4.47%) Windows
3 74 (3.80%) Android
4 57 (2.93%) Apple iOS
5 24 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 21 (1.08%) Unix
7 19 (0.98%) Ubuntu
8 11 (0.57%) CentOS
8 11 (0.57%) Debian
8 11 (0.57%) Windows 10
9 9 (0.46%) Windows Phone
10 5 (0.26%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
12 3 (0.15%) Windows Server
12 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.10%) Windows Vista
14 1 (0.051%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.051%) CoreOS
14 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.051%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 508 (26.12%) Mentoring
2 461 (23.70%) DevOps
3 380 (19.54%) Software Engineering
4 373 (19.18%) Coaching
5 294 (15.12%) Scrum
6 279 (14.34%) Project Management
7 259 (13.32%) Problem-Solving
8 239 (12.29%) Full Stack Development
9 236 (12.13%) Roadmaps
9 236 (12.13%) TDD
10 208 (10.69%) Actionable Insight
11 181 (9.31%) CI/CD
12 178 (9.15%) SDLC
13 177 (9.10%) Analytics
14 174 (8.95%) Microservices
15 164 (8.43%) MVC
16 158 (8.12%) Kanban
17 146 (7.51%) Test Automation
18 141 (7.25%) Design Patterns
19 130 (6.68%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 432 (22.21%) JavaScript
2 399 (20.51%) C#
3 348 (17.89%) SQL
4 247 (12.70%) Java
5 243 (12.49%) Python
6 124 (6.38%) TypeScript
7 54 (2.78%) PHP
8 40 (2.06%) C
9 28 (1.44%) C++
9 28 (1.44%) T-SQL
10 26 (1.34%) PowerShell
11 22 (1.13%) COBOL
11 22 (1.13%) Go
11 22 (1.13%) Micro Focus COBOL
11 22 (1.13%) VB.NET
12 16 (0.82%) Ruby
13 13 (0.67%) Bash
13 13 (0.67%) Kotlin
13 13 (0.67%) Perl
14 10 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 205 (10.54%) Degree
2 202 (10.39%) Security Cleared
3 155 (7.97%) SC Cleared
4 48 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (2.42%) PMP
6 41 (2.11%) PMI Certification
7 36 (1.85%) DV Cleared
8 26 (1.34%) AWS Certification
9 20 (1.03%) Azure Certification
10 17 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 16 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
12 15 (0.77%) HND
13 13 (0.67%) DBS Check
14 12 (0.62%) APMP
15 11 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 9 (0.46%) CCNP
18 8 (0.41%) HNC
18 8 (0.41%) ISEB
18 8 (0.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (4.68%) QA
2 62 (3.19%) Data Quality
3 46 (2.37%) Accessibility
4 45 (2.31%) GDPR
5 20 (1.03%) PMO
6 9 (0.46%) WCAG
7 6 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.31%) SLA
8 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.15%) NIST
10 2 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.10%) EMIR
10 2 (0.10%) MiFID
11 1 (0.051%) GAMP
11 1 (0.051%) GMP
11 1 (0.051%) GxP
System Software
1 139 (7.15%) Docker
2 26 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
4 10 (0.51%) Firmware
5 9 (0.46%) Terminal Services
6 5 (0.26%) SRDF
7 4 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.051%) RACF
9 1 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 162 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 149 (7.66%) Terraform
3 46 (2.37%) Ansible
4 33 (1.70%) Prometheus
5 17 (0.87%) ZABBIX
6 12 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 12 (0.62%) Opsgenie
6 12 (0.62%) Puppet
6 12 (0.62%) VxRail
7 9 (0.46%) AirWatch
8 8 (0.41%) Grafana
8 8 (0.41%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.31%) Kibana
10 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.15%) Podman
11 3 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.051%) Oracle Identity Management
13 1 (0.051%) Packer
13 1 (0.051%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 278 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 113 (5.81%) Google
3 90 (4.63%) Oracle
4 77 (3.96%) Red Hat
5 74 (3.80%) IBM
6 57 (2.93%) ESRI
7 47 (2.42%) Databricks
8 44 (2.26%) Informatica
9 31 (1.59%) Facebook
9 31 (1.59%) SAP
10 30 (1.54%) Dynatrace
11 28 (1.44%) VMware
12 23 (1.18%) ServiceNow
13 22 (1.13%) Micro Focus
14 20 (1.03%) Atlassian
15 19 (0.98%) Salesforce
16 17 (0.87%) Cisco
16 17 (0.87%) Fortinet
17 13 (0.67%) Adobe
17 13 (0.67%) Confluent