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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 1,161 1,354 1,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 22.65% 17.53% 26.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 25.36% 22.51% 28.48%
Number of salaries quoted 293 554 832
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £38,900
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,982 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% +0.84% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,438 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,350 £90,000 £84,056
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% - +3.85%

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 4,578 6,014 4,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 89.31% 77.85% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,176 3,441 3,211
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,055 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% -8.99% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.26% +3.33%

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

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 16 September 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 16 September 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
Manchester -2 502 £62,500 +4.17% 290
Lancashire -11 428 £53,019 -8.11% 187
Cheshire +7 163 £57,500 +21.05% 102
Merseyside 0 57 £62,500 -10.71% 39
Cumbria -13 10 £57,500 +1.77% 6
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 61 (5.25%) Confluence
2 8 (0.69%) IIS
3 7 (0.60%) CMS
4 5 (0.43%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.34%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.26%) Apache
6 3 (0.26%) Magnolia
6 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.26%) nginx
6 3 (0.26%) WordPress
7 2 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.086%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.086%) Umbraco
Applications
1 21 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.12%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.69%) Trello
5 3 (0.26%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.17%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.17%) Sketch
7 1 (0.086%) InVision
7 1 (0.086%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (0.34%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.17%) Magento
4 1 (0.086%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.086%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.086%) Shopify
4 1 (0.086%) Siebel CRM
4 1 (0.086%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 427 (36.78%) AWS
2 404 (34.80%) Azure
3 251 (21.62%) GCP
4 45 (3.88%) Power Platform
5 35 (3.01%) SaaS
6 25 (2.15%) Serverless
7 23 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
9 17 (1.46%) GitHub
10 16 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (1.12%) Power Automate
12 9 (0.78%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (0.78%) PaaS
13 8 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (0.52%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Copilot
14 6 (0.52%) PowerApps
15 5 (0.43%) Figma
15 5 (0.43%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 384 (33.07%) DNS
2 382 (32.90%) VPN
3 7 (0.60%) Firewall
4 5 (0.43%) HTTP
5 4 (0.34%) WAN
6 3 (0.26%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.26%) Wireless
7 2 (0.17%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.086%) ADSL
8 1 (0.086%) DMZ
8 1 (0.086%) Internet
8 1 (0.086%) MPLS
8 1 (0.086%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (12.66%) SQL Server
2 41 (3.53%) NoSQL
3 37 (3.19%) MongoDB
4 28 (2.41%) MySQL
5 26 (2.24%) Power BI
6 18 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (1.12%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.03%) Data Lake
8 12 (1.03%) DynamoDB
9 7 (0.60%) Redis
10 6 (0.52%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.34%) GIS
11 4 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (0.26%) Data Hub
12 3 (0.26%) Hazelcast
12 3 (0.26%) SQL CLR
13 2 (0.17%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.17%) Big Data
13 2 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 168 (14.47%) JIRA
2 128 (11.02%) GitLab
3 125 (10.77%) Selenium
4 118 (10.16%) Cucumber
5 112 (9.65%) SonarQube
6 111 (9.56%) Bitbucket
7 110 (9.47%) Maven
7 110 (9.47%) Sonatype Nexus
8 30 (2.58%) Git
9 10 (0.86%) JMeter
10 9 (0.78%) Jenkins
11 7 (0.60%) Postman
12 6 (0.52%) JUnit
13 5 (0.43%) Appium
13 5 (0.43%) LoadRunner
14 4 (0.34%) Cypress.io
14 4 (0.34%) Fiddler
14 4 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
15 3 (0.26%) Gatling
16 2 (0.17%) webpack
General
1 669 (57.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 636 (54.78%) Finance
3 437 (37.64%) Analytical Skills
4 167 (14.38%) Social Skills
5 123 (10.59%) Banking
6 95 (8.18%) Retail
7 70 (6.03%) Corporate Banking
7 70 (6.03%) Investment Banking
8 39 (3.36%) Public Sector
9 25 (2.15%) Marketing
10 23 (1.98%) Local Government
11 21 (1.81%) Law
12 15 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (1.12%) Financial Institution
14 12 (1.03%) Games
14 12 (1.03%) Manufacturing
15 10 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (0.78%) Back Office
17 6 (0.52%) Digital Healthcare
18 5 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 503 (43.32%) Developer
2 388 (33.42%) Software Developer
3 315 (27.13%) Software Engineer
4 304 (26.18%) Senior
5 184 (15.85%) Senior Software Engineer
6 60 (5.17%) Lead
7 49 (4.22%) Analyst
8 45 (3.88%) Senior Developer
9 33 (2.84%) Architect
10 28 (2.41%) .NET Developer
11 27 (2.33%) Senior Manager
12 26 (2.24%) Project Manager
13 23 (1.98%) Solutions Architect
14 20 (1.72%) Applications Support
14 20 (1.72%) Audit Manager
14 20 (1.72%) Business Analyst
14 20 (1.72%) Senior Audit Manager
15 19 (1.64%) AWS Architect
15 19 (1.64%) AWS Solution Architect
15 19 (1.64%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (20.76%) .NET
2 202 (17.40%) Node.js
3 155 (13.35%) React
4 142 (12.23%) CSS
5 139 (11.97%) HTML
6 137 (11.80%) Kafka
7 136 (11.71%) Spring Boot
8 135 (11.63%) Spring
9 112 (9.65%) Redux
10 110 (9.47%) JPA
11 97 (8.35%) REST
12 88 (7.58%) RESTful
13 76 (6.55%) Jest
14 74 (6.37%) Sass
15 73 (6.29%) CSS3
16 72 (6.20%) HTML5
17 46 (3.96%) Hibernate
18 28 (2.41%) .NET Core
19 24 (2.07%) AngularJS
20 16 (1.38%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 551 (47.46%) Cyberattack
2 184 (15.85%) Self-Motivation
3 172 (14.81%) Linux Command Line
4 160 (13.78%) Product Ownership
5 110 (9.47%) Enterprise Software
6 30 (2.58%) Management Information System
7 29 (2.50%) Cloud Native
8 21 (1.81%) Mobile App
9 18 (1.55%) Social Media
10 17 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (0.86%) Driving Licence
12 9 (0.78%) e-Learning
12 9 (0.78%) IoT
12 9 (0.78%) Wiki
13 6 (0.52%) Data Centre
13 6 (0.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 5 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.43%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.43%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 562 (48.41%) Linux
2 382 (32.90%) Android
3 20 (1.72%) Windows
4 4 (0.34%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.34%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (34.63%) Line Management
1 402 (34.63%) OOP
2 397 (34.19%) Design Patterns
3 384 (33.07%) OO
4 383 (32.99%) Mathematics
5 379 (32.64%) Android Development
6 363 (31.27%) Software Engineering
7 354 (30.49%) Microservices
8 312 (26.87%) User Experience
9 306 (26.36%) Mentoring
10 238 (20.50%) DevOps
11 225 (19.38%) Scrum
12 216 (18.60%) CI/CD
13 185 (15.93%) Data Engineering
14 182 (15.68%) Cloud Security
14 182 (15.68%) Machine Learning
15 181 (15.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 159 (13.70%) Containerisation
16 159 (13.70%) Full-Stack Development
17 149 (12.83%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 731 (62.96%) Java
2 605 (52.11%) Python
3 564 (48.58%) Go
4 552 (47.55%) C++
5 353 (30.40%) JavaScript
6 190 (16.37%) SQL
7 172 (14.81%) Rust
8 125 (10.77%) TypeScript
9 78 (6.72%) C#
10 13 (1.12%) PowerShell
11 11 (0.95%) MATLAB
11 11 (0.95%) PHP
12 8 (0.69%) Elixir
12 8 (0.69%) Ruby
12 8 (0.69%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.43%) Bash
14 4 (0.34%) Bicep
15 3 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.26%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 573 (49.35%) Security Cleared
2 555 (47.80%) DV Cleared
3 188 (16.19%) AWS Certification
4 185 (15.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 172 (14.81%) AWS Certified Developer
6 74 (6.37%) Degree
7 31 (2.67%) ACCA
8 25 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (1.98%) DBS Check
10 21 (1.81%) Azure Certification
11 15 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
11 15 (1.29%) SC Cleared
12 13 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
13 11 (0.95%) CIMA
14 9 (0.78%) PMI Certification
14 9 (0.78%) PMP
15 6 (0.52%) ISTQB
16 5 (0.43%) Master's Degree
17 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
18 3 (0.26%) CCAB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (12.75%) QA
2 89 (7.67%) Accessibility
3 20 (1.72%) GAAP
3 20 (1.72%) IFRS
4 13 (1.12%) GDPR
4 13 (1.12%) NIST
5 12 (1.03%) HIPAA
6 8 (0.69%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.52%) HL7
7 6 (0.52%) SEPA
8 5 (0.43%) SLA
8 5 (0.43%) TARGET2
9 4 (0.34%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.26%) PMO
11 2 (0.17%) WCAG
12 1 (0.086%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.086%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.086%) GRC
12 1 (0.086%) NCSC
12 1 (0.086%) P3O
System Software
1 559 (48.15%) Docker
2 7 (0.60%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.086%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 381 (32.82%) Ansible
2 160 (13.78%) Kubernetes
3 29 (2.50%) Terraform
4 7 (0.60%) Grafana
5 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.43%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.43%) SCCM
6 3 (0.26%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.086%) Automic
7 1 (0.086%) Puppet
Vendors
1 109 (9.39%) Solace
2 60 (5.17%) Microsoft
3 26 (2.24%) Google
4 20 (1.72%) Facebook
5 15 (1.29%) ServiceNow
6 13 (1.12%) Databricks
7 12 (1.03%) Salesforce
8 9 (0.78%) Bloomberg
8 9 (0.78%) Oracle
8 9 (0.78%) SAP
9 7 (0.60%) Splunk
9 7 (0.60%) UiPath
10 6 (0.52%) Ping Identity
11 5 (0.43%) Blue Prism
11 5 (0.43%) Liquidlogic
11 5 (0.43%) Meraki
12 4 (0.34%) Adobe
12 4 (0.34%) Sparx
12 4 (0.34%) VMware
13 3 (0.26%) Cisco