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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -16 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 693 1,261 1,737
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 6.07% 24.55% 19.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.51% 26.92% 24.60%
Number of salaries quoted 519 349 1,010
10th Percentile £43,000 £41,174 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,869 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +2.04% +2.26%
75th Percentile £78,531 £77,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £94,366 £91,400 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -0.54%

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 8,145 4,685 7,061
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 71.37% 91.20% 78.54%
Number of salaries quoted 6,237 2,288 5,008
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,055 £50,687
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% -1.25% -7.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £65,603
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,475 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -11.29%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -12 512 £67,249 +3.46% 184
Lancashire -10 70 £55,000 +9.88% 52
Cheshire -37 46 £56,250 +2.27% 41
Merseyside -26 41 £56,800 -11.94% 16
Cumbria -5 20 £47,500 -15.56%
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 42 (6.06%) Confluence
2 23 (3.32%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.87%) CMS
5 5 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.58%) Apache
6 4 (0.58%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.58%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.58%) WordPress
7 3 (0.43%) nginx
7 3 (0.43%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.29%) CICS
9 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.14%) IIS
9 1 (0.14%) JBoss
9 1 (0.14%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.14%) WinCC
Applications
1 14 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.01%) Trello
4 4 (0.58%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.14%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 16 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.43%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (0.29%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 229 (33.04%) Azure
2 165 (23.81%) AWS
3 85 (12.27%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (6.93%) Power Platform
5 45 (6.49%) Serverless
6 42 (6.06%) SaaS
7 37 (5.34%) GitHub
8 35 (5.05%) GCP
9 26 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
10 22 (3.17%) Power Automate
11 18 (2.60%) Microsoft Copilot
12 17 (2.45%) dbt
12 17 (2.45%) PowerApps
13 15 (2.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 15 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
14 13 (1.88%) Azure Service Bus
15 12 (1.73%) Azure AI
15 12 (1.73%) Azure AKS
16 11 (1.59%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.43%) TCP/IP
1 3 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (0.43%) Wireless
2 2 (0.29%) AMQP
2 2 (0.29%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.29%) ZigBee
3 1 (0.14%) Broadband
3 1 (0.14%) CTI
3 1 (0.14%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (0.14%) iSCSI
3 1 (0.14%) LAN
3 1 (0.14%) LTE
3 1 (0.14%) Network Security
3 1 (0.14%) SAN
3 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.14%) SSL
3 1 (0.14%) VoIP
3 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
2 37 (5.34%) MongoDB
3 29 (4.18%) SQL Server
4 24 (3.46%) Power BI
5 22 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (2.89%) NoSQL
8 13 (1.88%) MySQL
9 12 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (1.73%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.44%) BigQuery
10 10 (1.44%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.15%) Big Data
11 8 (1.15%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.58%) Data Mining
13 4 (0.58%) Flink
13 4 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (0.58%) GIS
13 4 (0.58%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 81 (11.69%) JIRA
2 48 (6.93%) Git
3 24 (3.46%) GitLab
4 19 (2.74%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.88%) Claude Code
6 11 (1.59%) Postman
7 10 (1.44%) JUnit
8 9 (1.30%) Spock
9 8 (1.15%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.72%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.43%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.43%) Maven
13 2 (0.29%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.29%) MSTest
13 2 (0.29%) NUnit
13 2 (0.29%) Vagrant
13 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.29%) XCUITest
14 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
General
1 172 (24.82%) Social Skills
2 143 (20.63%) Finance
3 70 (10.10%) Public Sector
4 62 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (5.19%) Marketing
6 27 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (3.46%) Retail
8 23 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (2.60%) Games
10 17 (2.45%) Banking
11 15 (2.16%) Advertising
11 15 (2.16%) Law
12 11 (1.59%) Legal
12 11 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.30%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.30%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.15%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.01%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 144 (20.78%) Senior
2 140 (20.20%) Developer
3 78 (11.26%) Software Engineer
4 58 (8.37%) Lead
5 54 (7.79%) Project Manager
6 50 (7.22%) Senior Developer
7 44 (6.35%) Analyst
8 43 (6.20%) .NET Developer
9 36 (5.19%) Business Analyst
10 31 (4.47%) Data Engineer
10 31 (4.47%) Delivery Manager
11 29 (4.18%) Engineering Manager
12 28 (4.04%) Java Developer
13 26 (3.75%) Architect
14 23 (3.32%) IT Manager
15 22 (3.17%) Lead Software Engineer
16 21 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
16 21 (3.03%) Java Engineer
16 21 (3.03%) Senior Manager
17 20 (2.89%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (14.29%) .NET
2 56 (8.08%) HTML
3 49 (7.07%) CSS
4 48 (6.93%) Node.js
5 43 (6.20%) React
6 42 (6.06%) AngularJS
6 42 (6.06%) ASP.NET
6 42 (6.06%) Spring
7 40 (5.77%) .NET Core
8 37 (5.34%) ASP.NET Core
9 32 (4.62%) RESTful
10 31 (4.47%) Spring Boot
11 26 (3.75%) REST
12 19 (2.74%) Entity Framework
13 16 (2.31%) Vue
14 15 (2.16%) Kafka
15 14 (2.02%) Blazor
16 12 (1.73%) ML.NET
17 11 (1.59%) ASP.NET Web API
17 11 (1.59%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 78 (11.26%) Product Ownership
2 52 (7.50%) Cloud Native
3 29 (4.18%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (3.61%) Driving Licence
4 25 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (2.45%) Mobile App
7 15 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 12 (1.73%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.44%) Marketing Technology
9 10 (1.44%) PMI
9 10 (1.44%) Private Cloud
10 8 (1.15%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.01%) Social Network
11 7 (1.01%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (0.72%) IVR
13 5 (0.72%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.61%) Linux
2 11 (1.59%) Windows
3 5 (0.72%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.58%) Android
4 4 (0.58%) Unix
5 2 (0.29%) CentOS
5 2 (0.29%) Debian
5 2 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.14%) VMS
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (30.74%) DevOps
2 210 (30.30%) CI/CD
3 174 (25.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 156 (22.51%) Scrum
5 131 (18.90%) Software Engineering
6 123 (17.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 121 (17.46%) AI
8 113 (16.31%) Mentoring
9 98 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
10 90 (12.99%) Coaching
11 87 (12.55%) Roadmaps
12 86 (12.41%) TDD
13 82 (11.83%) Full-Stack Development
14 79 (11.40%) Test Automation
15 77 (11.11%) Microservices
16 69 (9.96%) Kanban
17 67 (9.67%) Project Management
18 66 (9.52%) Decision-Making
19 63 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 58 (8.37%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 151 (21.79%) SQL
2 121 (17.46%) Java
3 97 (14.00%) JavaScript
3 97 (14.00%) Python
4 94 (13.56%) C#
5 34 (4.91%) TypeScript
6 12 (1.73%) Bash
6 12 (1.73%) Go
7 11 (1.59%) C++
8 10 (1.44%) PowerShell
9 8 (1.15%) PHP
10 6 (0.87%) Apex Code
11 5 (0.72%) C
11 5 (0.72%) Groovy
11 5 (0.72%) SOQL
12 4 (0.58%) SOSL
13 3 (0.43%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.43%) Swift
14 2 (0.29%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 54 (7.79%) Degree
3 52 (7.50%) SC Cleared
4 24 (3.46%) PMI Certification
5 23 (3.32%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.16%) PMP
7 14 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (2.02%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.15%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.15%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.87%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.58%) MBA
12 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 3 (0.43%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.29%) Chartered Engineer
14 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (5.63%) QA
2 31 (4.47%) Data Quality
3 23 (3.32%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.59%) GDPR
5 9 (1.30%) PMO
6 7 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.01%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.72%) SLA
8 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.29%) WCAG
9 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.14%) GRC
9 1 (0.14%) IEC 61131
9 1 (0.14%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.14%) ITGC
9 1 (0.14%) NIST
9 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 57 (8.23%) Docker
2 2 (0.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.29%) Ceph
3 1 (0.14%) Firmware
3 1 (0.14%) NFS
3 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 74 (10.68%) Terraform
2 61 (8.80%) Kubernetes
3 28 (4.04%) Ansible
4 11 (1.59%) Argo
5 9 (1.30%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.01%) Grafana
7 3 (0.43%) Istio
7 3 (0.43%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.43%) Puppet
8 2 (0.29%) Check_MK
8 2 (0.29%) Packer
8 2 (0.29%) Podman
9 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.14%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.14%) linkerd
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.14%) Nagios
9 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 131 (18.90%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.04%) ServiceNow
3 21 (3.03%) Salesforce
4 18 (2.60%) Oracle
5 17 (2.45%) Databricks
5 17 (2.45%) Splunk
6 15 (2.16%) Google
6 15 (2.16%) SAP
7 10 (1.44%) Adobe
8 9 (1.30%) AppDynamics
9 7 (1.01%) Pega
10 5 (0.72%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.58%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.43%) BiZZdesign
12 3 (0.43%) Cognos
12 3 (0.43%) Facebook
12 3 (0.43%) IBM
12 3 (0.43%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (0.43%) Siemens
13 2 (0.29%) WSO2