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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -13 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 802 1,154 1,343
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 6.23% 22.18% 18.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.54% 24.84% 22.79%
Number of salaries quoted 537 293 484
10th Percentile £42,000 £41,900 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -3.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £70,313
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -

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 9,393 4,645 5,894
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 73.00% 89.26% 80.30%
Number of salaries quoted 6,969 2,191 3,077
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,803
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -1.58% -7.63%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -13 569 £65,000 - 537
Lancashire -5 88 £60,000 +9.50% 49
Merseyside -8 63 £62,500 +4.17% 52
Cheshire -28 58 £55,000 -4.35% 67
Cumbria +9 21 £47,500 -17.39% 5
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 34 (4.24%) SharePoint
2 29 (3.62%) Confluence
3 21 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.62%) Apache
5 5 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.62%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.50%) CMS
6 4 (0.50%) nginx
7 3 (0.37%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.37%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.37%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.25%) IIS
8 2 (0.25%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.25%) WinCC
8 2 (0.25%) WordPress
9 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.12%) JBoss
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 17 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 17 (2.12%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.87%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.87%) Trello
4 6 (0.75%) AutoCAD
4 6 (0.75%) Revit
5 3 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.12%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 20 (2.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.50%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.12%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 1 (0.12%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.12%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.12%) Sage CRM
5 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 228 (28.43%) Azure
2 184 (22.94%) AWS
3 84 (10.47%) Azure DevOps
4 76 (9.48%) Power Platform
5 50 (6.23%) GitHub
6 48 (5.99%) Serverless
7 40 (4.99%) GCP
7 40 (4.99%) Power Automate
8 36 (4.49%) Microsoft Copilot
9 35 (4.36%) Microsoft 365
10 33 (4.11%) SaaS
11 30 (3.74%) PowerApps
12 26 (3.24%) AWS CloudFormation
13 25 (3.12%) dbt
14 24 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
15 23 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
16 22 (2.74%) Copilot Studio
17 18 (2.24%) Amazon S3
17 18 (2.24%) Snowflake
18 14 (1.75%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.12%) DNS
2 8 (1.00%) Network Security
3 6 (0.75%) BIG-IP
3 6 (0.75%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 6 (0.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 6 (0.75%) Firewall
4 3 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.37%) Wireless
5 2 (0.25%) AMQP
5 2 (0.25%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.25%) DHCP
5 2 (0.25%) HTTP
5 2 (0.25%) NetScaler
5 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.25%) ZigBee
6 1 (0.12%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.12%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.12%) LAN
6 1 (0.12%) VoIP
6 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (5.49%) Azure SQL Database
2 40 (4.99%) MongoDB
3 39 (4.86%) Power BI
4 31 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (3.49%) SQL Server
6 21 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (2.00%) Data Lake
8 15 (1.87%) DynamoDB
8 15 (1.87%) NoSQL
9 14 (1.75%) Relational Database
10 12 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (1.37%) BigQuery
12 9 (1.12%) Metadata
13 8 (1.00%) Big Data
14 7 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (0.87%) MySQL
14 7 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
16 5 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
17 4 (0.50%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 73 (9.10%) JIRA
2 51 (6.36%) Git
3 40 (4.99%) GitLab
4 19 (2.37%) Jenkins
5 16 (2.00%) JUnit
6 13 (1.62%) Spock
7 9 (1.12%) Claude Code
8 8 (1.00%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.00%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (0.87%) Maven
9 7 (0.87%) Postman
10 6 (0.75%) Selenium
11 4 (0.50%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.50%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.50%) Vagrant
12 3 (0.37%) Ant
12 3 (0.37%) Mockito
12 3 (0.37%) RStudio
13 2 (0.25%) MSTest
General
1 224 (27.93%) Social Skills
2 131 (16.33%) Finance
3 84 (10.47%) Public Sector
4 78 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
5 72 (8.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 46 (5.74%) Telecoms
7 40 (4.99%) Retail
8 32 (3.99%) Influencing Skills
9 26 (3.24%) Marketing
10 23 (2.87%) Publishing
11 19 (2.37%) Aerospace
11 19 (2.37%) Law
11 19 (2.37%) Legal
11 19 (2.37%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.62%) Games
13 10 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.25%) Local Government
13 10 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 191 (23.82%) Senior
2 160 (19.95%) Developer
3 84 (10.47%) Software Engineer
4 61 (7.61%) Lead
5 54 (6.73%) Analyst
6 52 (6.48%) Senior Developer
7 50 (6.23%) Business Analyst
8 42 (5.24%) Data Engineer
9 41 (5.11%) Design Engineer
9 41 (5.11%) Project Manager
10 39 (4.86%) .NET Developer
10 39 (4.86%) Delivery Manager
10 39 (4.86%) DevOps Engineer
11 37 (4.61%) Engineering Manager
12 32 (3.99%) Architect
13 31 (3.87%) Senior Software Engineer
14 26 (3.24%) IT Manager
15 24 (2.99%) Microsoft 365 Developer
16 23 (2.87%) Senior Design Engineer
17 21 (2.62%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (10.72%) .NET
2 77 (9.60%) Terraform
3 60 (7.48%) HTML
3 60 (7.48%) Spring
4 58 (7.23%) React
5 45 (5.61%) CSS
6 41 (5.11%) ASP.NET
7 40 (4.99%) Node.js
8 39 (4.86%) Spring Boot
9 38 (4.74%) .NET Core
10 37 (4.61%) ASP.NET Core
11 35 (4.36%) AngularJS
12 34 (4.24%) Kafka
13 30 (3.74%) REST
14 19 (2.37%) Entity Framework
14 19 (2.37%) RESTful
15 16 (2.00%) Middleware
16 15 (1.87%) ASP.NET Web API
17 14 (1.75%) Blazor
18 12 (1.50%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 86 (10.72%) Product Ownership
2 59 (7.36%) Cloud Native
3 39 (4.86%) Enterprise Software
4 28 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
6 23 (2.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 21 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
8 18 (2.24%) IoT
9 17 (2.12%) Private Cloud
10 16 (2.00%) Onboarding
11 15 (1.87%) Driving Licence
12 12 (1.50%) Data Centre
12 12 (1.50%) Media Streaming
12 12 (1.50%) Mobile App
12 12 (1.50%) Podcast
13 11 (1.37%) Marketing Technology
14 8 (1.00%) Management Information System
15 7 (0.87%) Public Cloud
16 6 (0.75%) IVR
16 6 (0.75%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.36%) Linux
2 12 (1.50%) Windows
3 8 (1.00%) Unix
4 5 (0.62%) Android
4 5 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.50%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.50%) VMS
6 2 (0.25%) CentOS
6 2 (0.25%) Debian
6 2 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
6 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.25%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.25%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (32.54%) Continuous Improvement
2 245 (30.55%) DevOps
3 236 (29.43%) CI/CD
4 195 (24.31%) AI
5 166 (20.70%) Problem-Solving
6 165 (20.57%) Mentoring
7 159 (19.83%) Software Engineering
8 144 (17.96%) Stakeholder Management
9 136 (16.96%) Scrum
10 107 (13.34%) Coaching
11 97 (12.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 88 (10.97%) Test Automation
13 79 (9.85%) Microservices
14 78 (9.73%) Decision-Making
15 76 (9.48%) Full-Stack Development
16 74 (9.23%) Roadmaps
17 66 (8.23%) Analytics
18 64 (7.98%) Collaborative Culture
18 64 (7.98%) Infrastructure as Code
19 62 (7.73%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 162 (20.20%) SQL
2 134 (16.71%) Java
3 113 (14.09%) Python
4 112 (13.97%) JavaScript
5 92 (11.47%) C#
6 58 (7.23%) TypeScript
7 23 (2.87%) Go
8 18 (2.24%) Bash
9 12 (1.50%) C++
9 12 (1.50%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.12%) PHP
11 8 (1.00%) Apex Code
11 8 (1.00%) Groovy
12 6 (0.75%) R
13 5 (0.62%) ActionScript
13 5 (0.62%) C
14 4 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.37%) Rust
15 3 (0.37%) SOQL
15 3 (0.37%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 124 (15.46%) Degree
2 101 (12.59%) Security Cleared
3 73 (9.10%) SC Cleared
4 46 (5.74%) DBS Check
5 38 (4.74%) DV Cleared
5 38 (4.74%) HNC
6 21 (2.62%) Master's Degree
7 20 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (2.00%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.50%) AWS Certification
9 12 (1.50%) PMP
10 10 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.00%) Azure Certification
11 8 (1.00%) RIBA
12 7 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 5 (0.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (0.50%) MBA
14 4 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.37%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (7.36%) Data Quality
2 56 (6.98%) QA
3 46 (5.74%) Accessibility
4 18 (2.24%) GDPR
5 11 (1.37%) PMO
6 7 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.87%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.62%) SLA
8 4 (0.50%) WCAG
9 3 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.37%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.25%) IEC 61131
10 2 (0.25%) IEC 61508
11 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.12%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.12%) SEPA
11 1 (0.12%) TARGET2
System Software
1 84 (10.47%) Docker
2 3 (0.37%) Ceph
3 2 (0.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.25%) UAG
3 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.12%) Firmware
4 1 (0.12%) NFS
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 91 (11.35%) Kubernetes
2 32 (3.99%) Ansible
3 14 (1.75%) Argo
4 10 (1.25%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.87%) Grafana
6 6 (0.75%) Podman
7 5 (0.62%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.50%) Istio
8 4 (0.50%) Packer
9 3 (0.37%) Check_MK
9 3 (0.37%) Puppet
10 2 (0.25%) AirWatch
10 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.25%) SCCM
10 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.25%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.12%) linkerd
11 1 (0.12%) Nagios
11 1 (0.12%) Opsview
Vendors
1 133 (16.58%) Microsoft
2 29 (3.62%) YouTube
3 26 (3.24%) Databricks
4 23 (2.87%) Google
4 23 (2.87%) Oracle
5 19 (2.37%) ServiceNow
5 19 (2.37%) Splunk
6 14 (1.75%) Salesforce
7 13 (1.62%) AppDynamics
8 12 (1.50%) SAP
9 9 (1.12%) Adobe
9 9 (1.12%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.00%) F5
11 6 (0.75%) Autodesk
11 6 (0.75%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.62%) Thales
13 4 (0.50%) Dell
13 4 (0.50%) IBM
13 4 (0.50%) NEC
14 3 (0.37%) VMware