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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 1 2
Rank change year-on-year -17 +1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 598 1,303 2,062
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.61% 27.78% 19.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.15% 29.26% 24.21%
Number of salaries quoted 459 362 1,399
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £38,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £78,750 £75,761
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -6.81%

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 7,340 4,453 8,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 68.84% 94.93% 79.26%
Number of salaries quoted 5,580 2,032 6,460
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,625 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,975 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -10 442 £66,750 +2.69% 195
Lancashire -14 59 £55,000 +8.08% 58
Cheshire -37 45 £55,000 +12.82% 17
Merseyside -38 30 £55,000 -15.06% 11
Cumbria -17 18 £51,500 -6.36% 4
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 40 (6.69%) Confluence
2 14 (2.34%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.84%) CMS
5 4 (0.67%) Apache
5 4 (0.67%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.67%) WordPress
6 3 (0.50%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.33%) CICS
7 2 (0.33%) nginx
7 2 (0.33%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) IIS
8 1 (0.17%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 11 (1.84%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.33%) Trello
5 1 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 11 (1.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.50%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 188 (31.44%) Azure
2 140 (23.41%) AWS
3 57 (9.53%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (6.52%) SaaS
5 38 (6.35%) Serverless
6 35 (5.85%) Power Platform
7 31 (5.18%) GCP
8 25 (4.18%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (3.85%) GitHub
10 22 (3.68%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (2.68%) Azure AKS
12 14 (2.34%) Azure Service Bus
13 13 (2.17%) Anthropic Claude
14 12 (2.01%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (2.01%) dbt
15 11 (1.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 10 (1.67%) Azure Functions
16 10 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
17 7 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
17 7 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.50%) AMQP
2 2 (0.33%) HTTP
2 2 (0.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.17%) 4G
3 1 (0.17%) Broadband
3 1 (0.17%) DNS
3 1 (0.17%) LAN
3 1 (0.17%) LTE
3 1 (0.17%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.17%) SSL
3 1 (0.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (5.18%) SQL Server
2 29 (4.85%) NoSQL
3 27 (4.52%) MongoDB
4 22 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (3.34%) Power BI
6 17 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (2.68%) MySQL
8 12 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (1.67%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.51%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.34%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.17%) DynamoDB
13 6 (1.00%) Big Data
13 6 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.84%) Hadoop
15 4 (0.67%) Flink
15 4 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
15 4 (0.67%) GIS
15 4 (0.67%) Metadata
15 4 (0.67%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 71 (11.87%) JIRA
2 43 (7.19%) Git
3 21 (3.51%) GitLab
4 18 (3.01%) Jenkins
5 14 (2.34%) Claude Code
6 10 (1.67%) Postman
7 6 (1.00%) JUnit
8 4 (0.67%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.67%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.67%) Spock
9 3 (0.50%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.33%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.33%) Maven
10 2 (0.33%) MSTest
10 2 (0.33%) NUnit
10 2 (0.33%) Selenium
10 2 (0.33%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.33%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 131 (21.91%) Social Skills
2 129 (21.57%) Finance
3 60 (10.03%) Public Sector
4 51 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (5.02%) Marketing
6 26 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.01%) Banking
8 17 (2.84%) Games
9 16 (2.68%) Retail
10 13 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (2.01%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.84%) Advertising
13 10 (1.67%) Law
14 8 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.17%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (1.00%) Publishing
17 5 (0.84%) Legal
17 5 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
17 5 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 145 (24.25%) Senior
2 113 (18.90%) Developer
3 78 (13.04%) Software Engineer
4 73 (12.21%) Lead
5 44 (7.36%) Project Manager
5 44 (7.36%) Senior Developer
6 42 (7.02%) Analyst
7 31 (5.18%) Business Analyst
8 30 (5.02%) .NET Developer
8 30 (5.02%) Java Developer
8 30 (5.02%) Software Developer
9 28 (4.68%) Data Engineer
10 25 (4.18%) Lead Software Engineer
11 24 (4.01%) Delivery Manager
12 23 (3.85%) Java Engineer
13 22 (3.68%) IT Manager
14 20 (3.34%) Cloud Engineer
14 20 (3.34%) Senior Data Engineer
14 20 (3.34%) Senior Software Engineer
15 19 (3.18%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (14.55%) .NET
2 48 (8.03%) React
3 44 (7.36%) Node.js
4 36 (6.02%) Spring
5 35 (5.85%) CSS
5 35 (5.85%) HTML
6 34 (5.69%) REST
7 32 (5.35%) AngularJS
8 31 (5.18%) RESTful
8 31 (5.18%) Spring Boot
9 30 (5.02%) .NET Core
9 30 (5.02%) ASP.NET
10 25 (4.18%) .NET Framework
11 14 (2.34%) ASP.NET Core
11 14 (2.34%) Vue
12 13 (2.17%) Kafka
13 8 (1.34%) Entity Framework
13 8 (1.34%) PySpark
13 8 (1.34%) Web Services
14 7 (1.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 66 (11.04%) Product Ownership
2 38 (6.35%) Cloud Native
3 27 (4.52%) Driving Licence
4 25 (4.18%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (2.01%) Mobile App
8 10 (1.67%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.34%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.34%) PMI
10 7 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.00%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
11 6 (1.00%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.84%) Social Network
13 4 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 4 (0.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (3.51%) Linux
2 13 (2.17%) Windows
3 4 (0.67%) Unix
4 3 (0.50%) CentOS
4 3 (0.50%) Debian
4 3 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.50%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.33%) Android
5 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.33%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (27.59%) CI/CD
2 158 (26.42%) DevOps
3 134 (22.41%) Scrum
4 131 (21.91%) Continuous Improvement
5 116 (19.40%) Software Engineering
6 102 (17.06%) Mentoring
7 91 (15.22%) Coaching
8 87 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
9 78 (13.04%) TDD
10 77 (12.88%) Problem-Solving
11 73 (12.21%) Microservices
12 71 (11.87%) AI
13 66 (11.04%) Project Management
14 64 (10.70%) Test Automation
15 63 (10.54%) Full-Stack Development
15 63 (10.54%) Roadmaps
16 61 (10.20%) Kanban
17 57 (9.53%) Decision-Making
18 52 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
18 52 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 132 (22.07%) SQL
2 116 (19.40%) Java
3 84 (14.05%) Python
4 78 (13.04%) JavaScript
5 71 (11.87%) C#
6 28 (4.68%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.51%) C++
8 7 (1.17%) Bash
8 7 (1.17%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.00%) Apex Code
10 5 (0.84%) Go
10 5 (0.84%) Groovy
10 5 (0.84%) PHP
10 5 (0.84%) SOQL
11 4 (0.67%) SOSL
12 3 (0.50%) C
12 3 (0.50%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.33%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.33%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 54 (9.03%) Security Cleared
2 44 (7.36%) SC Cleared
3 26 (4.35%) Degree
4 19 (3.18%) DV Cleared
4 19 (3.18%) PMI Certification
5 17 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (2.01%) PMP
7 8 (1.34%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.84%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.67%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.33%) Chartered Engineer
10 2 (0.33%) HND
10 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 2 (0.33%) RIBA
11 1 (0.17%) CAPM
11 1 (0.17%) CIPD
11 1 (0.17%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.35%) QA
2 23 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 19 (3.18%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.34%) PMO
5 4 (0.67%) GDPR
6 2 (0.33%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.33%) SLA
6 2 (0.33%) WCAG
7 1 (0.17%) GRC
7 1 (0.17%) GxP
7 1 (0.17%) ITGC
7 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 39 (6.52%) Docker
2 6 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 74 (12.37%) Terraform
2 51 (8.53%) Kubernetes
3 24 (4.01%) Ansible
4 6 (1.00%) Argo
5 5 (0.84%) Grafana
5 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.84%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.84%) Puppet
5 5 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.67%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.33%) Packer
7 2 (0.33%) Rancher
8 1 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 104 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.35%) ServiceNow
3 23 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 20 (3.34%) Databricks
5 17 (2.84%) SAP
6 15 (2.51%) Oracle
7 12 (2.01%) Google
8 11 (1.84%) Splunk
9 7 (1.17%) Adobe
9 7 (1.17%) Siemens
10 6 (1.00%) Pega
11 4 (0.67%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.67%) New Relic
12 3 (0.50%) Cognos
12 3 (0.50%) IBM
12 3 (0.50%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (0.50%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.50%) SaltStack
13 2 (0.33%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.33%) Facebook