Agile Job Trends in the North West

Agile Software Development
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Agile skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 5 2
Rank change year-on-year -18 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 506 791 1,430
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 6.65% 18.19% 21.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.60% 19.39% 24.44%
Number of salaries quoted 355 385 1,170
10th Percentile £44,972 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £69,500 £63,500
% change year-on-year -6.47% +9.45% -5.93%

All Process & 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 5,885 4,079 5,852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 77.37% 93.81% 86.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,141 2,091 4,759
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,748 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £66,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Agile relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Agile job vacancy trend in the North West

Agile
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Agile.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Agile

Agile
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in the North West over the 6 months to 27 February 2026.

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 27 February 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
Manchester -18 324 £65,000 - 166
Cheshire -13 70 £55,000 +10.00% 26
Lancashire -21 53 £55,000 +4.76% 57
Merseyside -26 36 £50,000 -16.67% 17
Cumbria -5 20 £60,250 +31.70% 3
Agile
England

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 30 (5.93%) Confluence
2 17 (3.36%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.19%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.99%) Apache
4 5 (0.99%) CMS
5 3 (0.59%) nginx
6 2 (0.40%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.20%) IIS
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.59%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.59%) Sketch
5 2 (0.40%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.40%) Simulink
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.20%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 155 (30.63%) Azure
2 101 (19.96%) AWS
3 48 (9.49%) SaaS
4 36 (7.11%) Power Platform
5 31 (6.13%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (5.73%) GCP
6 29 (5.73%) Serverless
7 18 (3.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (2.96%) Figma
9 12 (2.37%) Azure AKS
9 12 (2.37%) GitHub
10 10 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (1.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 10 (1.98%) Azure Functions
10 10 (1.98%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (1.98%) Azure Service Bus
10 10 (1.98%) Entra ID
10 10 (1.98%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.58%) HTTP
2 5 (0.99%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.79%) AMQP
3 4 (0.79%) DNS
3 4 (0.79%) Firewall
4 3 (0.59%) SSH
5 2 (0.40%) OpenVPN
5 2 (0.40%) Unified Communications
5 2 (0.40%) WAN
6 1 (0.20%) 4G
6 1 (0.20%) LAN
6 1 (0.20%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.20%) SSL
6 1 (0.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (6.32%) SQL Server
2 31 (6.13%) NoSQL
3 18 (3.56%) Power BI
4 17 (3.36%) MongoDB
5 16 (3.16%) MySQL
6 13 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (1.58%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.19%) Big Data
9 6 (1.19%) Hadoop
10 5 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.99%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.79%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (0.79%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.59%) Redis
12 3 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 44 (8.70%) JIRA
2 37 (7.31%) Git
3 13 (2.57%) GitLab
4 12 (2.37%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.38%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.79%) JUnit
6 4 (0.79%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.59%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.59%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.59%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.40%) JIRA Agile
8 2 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.40%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.20%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.20%) JMeter
9 1 (0.20%) Locust
9 1 (0.20%) Postman
9 1 (0.20%) Selenium
9 1 (0.20%) XCUITest
General
1 129 (25.49%) Social Skills
2 110 (21.74%) Finance
3 55 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (6.72%) Public Sector
5 26 (5.14%) Banking
6 22 (4.35%) Manufacturing
7 21 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (3.95%) Marketing
9 16 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (3.16%) Law
10 11 (2.17%) Retail
11 8 (1.58%) Billing
11 8 (1.58%) Legal
11 8 (1.58%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.19%) Avionics
13 6 (1.19%) Electronics
13 6 (1.19%) Games
13 6 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.99%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 116 (22.92%) Senior
2 95 (18.77%) Developer
3 83 (16.40%) Lead
4 50 (9.88%) Software Engineer
5 37 (7.31%) Analyst
6 33 (6.52%) Project Manager
7 32 (6.32%) Senior Developer
8 31 (6.13%) Software Developer
9 29 (5.73%) Architect
10 24 (4.74%) Business Analyst
10 24 (4.74%) Data Engineer
11 18 (3.56%) .NET Developer
11 18 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
12 16 (3.16%) Cloud Engineer
13 15 (2.96%) Java Developer
13 15 (2.96%) Lead Developer
13 15 (2.96%) Senior Data Engineer
13 15 (2.96%) Senior Manager
14 14 (2.77%) IT Manager
15 13 (2.57%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (15.22%) .NET
2 62 (12.25%) React
3 35 (6.92%) .NET Framework
4 34 (6.72%) CSS
4 34 (6.72%) REST
4 34 (6.72%) RESTful
5 33 (6.52%) HTML
6 30 (5.93%) Spring
7 29 (5.73%) Spring Boot
8 28 (5.53%) ASP.NET
8 28 (5.53%) Node.js
9 27 (5.34%) AngularJS
10 25 (4.94%) .NET Core
11 13 (2.57%) Kafka
12 10 (1.98%) Web Services
13 8 (1.58%) gRPC
13 8 (1.58%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (1.38%) ASP.NET Core
14 7 (1.38%) Hibernate
15 6 (1.19%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 45 (8.89%) Product Ownership
2 41 (8.10%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (3.16%) Mobile App
5 12 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (2.17%) Driving Licence
6 11 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.58%) Low-Code
7 8 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.58%) Social Media
7 8 (1.58%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 7 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.38%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (0.99%) IoT
10 5 (0.99%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.79%) Client/Server
11 4 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (0.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.94%) Windows
2 16 (3.16%) Linux
3 6 (1.19%) Android
3 6 (1.19%) Windows 10
4 5 (0.99%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.79%) CentOS
5 4 (0.79%) Debian
5 4 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.79%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.59%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.40%) VMS
7 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (23.91%) CI/CD
2 117 (23.12%) Continuous Improvement
3 97 (19.17%) DevOps
4 96 (18.97%) Software Engineering
5 92 (18.18%) Mentoring
6 88 (17.39%) Scrum
7 85 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
8 82 (16.21%) Coaching
9 62 (12.25%) Microservices
9 62 (12.25%) Stakeholder Management
10 56 (11.07%) Project Management
11 54 (10.67%) TDD
12 53 (10.47%) User Experience
13 49 (9.68%) AI
13 49 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 47 (9.29%) Containerisation
15 46 (9.09%) Project Delivery
16 44 (8.70%) Full-Stack Development
17 42 (8.30%) Roadmaps
18 40 (7.91%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 74 (14.62%) Java
1 74 (14.62%) SQL
2 72 (14.23%) C#
3 67 (13.24%) JavaScript
4 45 (8.89%) Python
5 44 (8.70%) TypeScript
6 8 (1.58%) Go
7 6 (1.19%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.79%) Bicep
8 4 (0.79%) C++
9 3 (0.59%) Bash
9 3 (0.59%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.59%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.40%) C
10 2 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.40%) Scala
10 2 (0.40%) VBA
11 1 (0.20%) PHP
11 1 (0.20%) Swift
11 1 (0.20%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 37 (7.31%) Security Cleared
2 32 (6.32%) Degree
3 30 (5.93%) BPSS Clearance
4 26 (5.14%) SC Cleared
5 21 (4.15%) PMI Certification
6 19 (3.75%) PMP
7 11 (2.17%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.78%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (0.79%) HNC
10 4 (0.79%) HND
11 3 (0.59%) ACCA
11 3 (0.59%) CIMA
11 3 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.40%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.40%) SAFe Agilist
13 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.20%) ISEB
13 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.20%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.13%) QA
2 29 (5.73%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.17%) PMO
4 8 (1.58%) SEPA
4 8 (1.58%) TARGET2
5 4 (0.79%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.79%) ISO 20022
6 3 (0.59%) WCAG
7 2 (0.40%) GDPR
7 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.20%) GxP
8 1 (0.20%) HL7
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.20%) ITGC
8 1 (0.20%) NIST
8 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (7.31%) Docker
2 21 (4.15%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.20%) KVM
5 1 (0.20%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 50 (9.88%) Terraform
2 46 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 16 (3.16%) Ansible
4 12 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (1.58%) SCCM
7 6 (1.19%) Grafana
7 6 (1.19%) Puppet
8 4 (0.79%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.59%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.59%) Rancher
10 2 (0.40%) Packer
11 1 (0.20%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 91 (17.98%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.35%) SAP
3 15 (2.96%) Google
4 14 (2.77%) Databricks
5 13 (2.57%) Salesforce
5 13 (2.57%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.37%) Siemens
7 10 (1.98%) Splunk
8 8 (1.58%) Adobe
8 8 (1.58%) New Relic
9 7 (1.38%) Qualtrics
10 6 (1.19%) Oracle
10 6 (1.19%) Sophos
11 5 (0.99%) SaltStack
12 4 (0.79%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.79%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.40%) AppDynamics
13 2 (0.40%) Bloomberg
13 2 (0.40%) IBM
13 2 (0.40%) Pega