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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 787 1,155 1,355
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 6.15% 22.60% 17.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.46% 25.32% 22.76%
Number of salaries quoted 540 294 547
10th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £38,900
25th Percentile £46,789 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,854 £60,000 £58,465
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% +2.63% +1.68%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £83,750 £87,500
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 9,305 4,561 5,953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 72.75% 89.24% 78.37%
Number of salaries quoted 6,975 2,175 3,353
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,400 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% -8.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.11% -7.18%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -12 560 £66,000 +1.54% 573
Lancashire -8 83 £55,000 +7.33% 68
Merseyside -11 61 £62,500 - 65
Cheshire -31 61 £55,000 -2.22% 64
Cumbria +6 20 £47,500 -17.39% 9
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 36 (4.57%) Confluence
2 30 (3.81%) SharePoint
3 19 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.40%) Apache
5 5 (0.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.51%) CMS
6 4 (0.51%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.38%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.38%) nginx
7 3 (0.38%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.38%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.38%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.38%) WordPress
8 2 (0.25%) IIS
8 2 (0.25%) WinCC
9 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.13%) JBoss
9 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (2.16%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.02%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.89%) Trello
5 6 (0.76%) AutoCAD
5 6 (0.76%) Revit
6 3 (0.38%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.51%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.13%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 1 (0.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 246 (31.26%) Azure
2 177 (22.49%) AWS
3 95 (12.07%) Azure DevOps
4 72 (9.15%) Power Platform
5 48 (6.10%) Serverless
6 43 (5.46%) GitHub
7 42 (5.34%) GCP
8 39 (4.96%) SaaS
9 36 (4.57%) Power Automate
10 33 (4.19%) Microsoft Copilot
11 32 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
12 26 (3.30%) PowerApps
13 25 (3.18%) AWS CloudFormation
14 23 (2.92%) Dynamics 365
15 22 (2.80%) dbt
16 21 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
17 19 (2.41%) Copilot Studio
17 19 (2.41%) Snowflake
18 14 (1.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 14 (1.78%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.51%) DNS
1 4 (0.51%) Network Security
2 3 (0.38%) AMQP
2 3 (0.38%) Firewall
2 3 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (0.38%) Wireless
3 2 (0.25%) BIG-IP
3 2 (0.25%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.25%) DHCP
3 2 (0.25%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 2 (0.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (0.25%) HTTP
3 2 (0.25%) NetScaler
3 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.25%) ZigBee
4 1 (0.13%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.13%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.13%) LAN
4 1 (0.13%) VoIP
4 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (5.59%) Azure SQL Database
2 39 (4.96%) MongoDB
3 37 (4.70%) Power BI
4 31 (3.94%) SQL Server
5 29 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (2.16%) Relational Database
8 16 (2.03%) DynamoDB
9 15 (1.91%) Data Lake
9 15 (1.91%) NoSQL
10 12 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (1.40%) BigQuery
12 9 (1.14%) Big Data
12 9 (1.14%) MySQL
13 8 (1.02%) Metadata
13 8 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.51%) Data Mining
14 4 (0.51%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.51%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 79 (10.04%) JIRA
2 50 (6.35%) Git
3 32 (4.07%) GitLab
4 16 (2.03%) JUnit
5 15 (1.91%) Jenkins
6 13 (1.65%) Spock
7 11 (1.40%) Claude Code
7 11 (1.40%) Postman
8 8 (1.02%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.02%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (0.89%) Maven
10 6 (0.76%) Selenium
11 4 (0.51%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.51%) Vagrant
12 3 (0.38%) Ant
12 3 (0.38%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.38%) Mockito
12 3 (0.38%) RStudio
13 2 (0.25%) MSTest
General
1 219 (27.83%) Social Skills
2 141 (17.92%) Finance
3 80 (10.17%) Public Sector
4 77 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (8.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (5.08%) Telecoms
7 38 (4.83%) Retail
8 28 (3.56%) Influencing Skills
9 27 (3.43%) Marketing
10 20 (2.54%) Publishing
11 19 (2.41%) Games
11 19 (2.41%) Law
11 19 (2.41%) Legal
11 19 (2.41%) Manufacturing
12 18 (2.29%) Aerospace
13 11 (1.40%) Local Government
13 11 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.27%) Advertising
14 10 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.14%) Banking
Job Titles
1 181 (23.00%) Senior
2 161 (20.46%) Developer
3 78 (9.91%) Software Engineer
4 55 (6.99%) Lead
5 52 (6.61%) Analyst
6 51 (6.48%) Senior Developer
7 48 (6.10%) Business Analyst
8 46 (5.84%) Project Manager
9 41 (5.21%) .NET Developer
9 41 (5.21%) Data Engineer
10 38 (4.83%) Delivery Manager
11 37 (4.70%) Engineering Manager
12 35 (4.45%) Design Engineer
13 33 (4.19%) Architect
14 28 (3.56%) DevOps Engineer
15 27 (3.43%) Senior Software Engineer
16 22 (2.80%) Product Owner
16 22 (2.80%) Software Developer
17 21 (2.67%) IT Manager
17 21 (2.67%) Microsoft 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (11.31%) .NET
2 74 (9.40%) Terraform
3 58 (7.37%) HTML
3 58 (7.37%) Spring
4 54 (6.86%) React
5 46 (5.84%) CSS
6 43 (5.46%) ASP.NET
7 42 (5.34%) Node.js
8 40 (5.08%) .NET Core
8 40 (5.08%) AngularJS
9 37 (4.70%) ASP.NET Core
9 37 (4.70%) Spring Boot
10 34 (4.32%) REST
11 26 (3.30%) Kafka
12 21 (2.67%) RESTful
13 19 (2.41%) Entity Framework
14 17 (2.16%) Middleware
15 15 (1.91%) PySpark
16 14 (1.78%) Blazor
16 14 (1.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 86 (10.93%) Product Ownership
2 60 (7.62%) Cloud Native
3 33 (4.19%) Enterprise Software
4 24 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
6 22 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (2.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 16 (2.03%) IoT
8 16 (2.03%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.91%) Mobile App
9 15 (1.91%) Private Cloud
10 12 (1.52%) Driving Licence
11 11 (1.40%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (1.02%) Data Centre
12 8 (1.02%) PMI
13 7 (0.89%) Media Streaming
13 7 (0.89%) Podcast
14 6 (0.76%) Low-Code
14 6 (0.76%) Social Media
14 6 (0.76%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.19%) Linux
2 12 (1.52%) Windows
3 7 (0.89%) Unix
4 5 (0.64%) Android
4 5 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.51%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.51%) VMS
6 3 (0.38%) CentOS
6 3 (0.38%) Debian
6 3 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.25%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.25%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (30.88%) Continuous Improvement
2 240 (30.50%) DevOps
3 225 (28.59%) CI/CD
4 182 (23.13%) AI
5 156 (19.82%) Mentoring
6 151 (19.19%) Software Engineering
7 143 (18.17%) Problem-Solving
7 143 (18.17%) Scrum
8 139 (17.66%) Stakeholder Management
9 107 (13.60%) Coaching
10 89 (11.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 85 (10.80%) Test Automation
12 81 (10.29%) Decision-Making
13 79 (10.04%) Full-Stack Development
14 76 (9.66%) Microservices
15 73 (9.28%) Roadmaps
16 68 (8.64%) Analytics
16 68 (8.64%) TDD
17 65 (8.26%) Project Delivery
18 61 (7.75%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 164 (20.84%) SQL
2 132 (16.77%) Java
3 111 (14.10%) JavaScript
4 107 (13.60%) Python
5 95 (12.07%) C#
6 51 (6.48%) TypeScript
7 20 (2.54%) Go
8 16 (2.03%) Bash
9 13 (1.65%) C++
10 12 (1.52%) PowerShell
11 9 (1.14%) Apex Code
11 9 (1.14%) PHP
12 8 (1.02%) Groovy
13 6 (0.76%) R
14 5 (0.64%) C
15 4 (0.51%) SOQL
16 3 (0.38%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.38%) Rust
16 3 (0.38%) SOSL
17 2 (0.25%) Swift
Qualifications
1 113 (14.36%) Degree
2 87 (11.05%) Security Cleared
3 64 (8.13%) SC Cleared
4 40 (5.08%) DBS Check
5 36 (4.57%) DV Cleared
6 32 (4.07%) HNC
7 21 (2.67%) Master's Degree
8 19 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (2.29%) PMI Certification
10 12 (1.52%) PMP
11 10 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.14%) AWS Certification
12 9 (1.14%) Azure Certification
13 8 (1.02%) RIBA
14 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (0.51%) MBA
15 4 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 4 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.38%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (7.88%) Data Quality
2 52 (6.61%) QA
3 35 (4.45%) Accessibility
4 18 (2.29%) GDPR
5 11 (1.40%) PMO
6 7 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.89%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.64%) SLA
8 4 (0.51%) WCAG
9 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.25%) GRC
9 2 (0.25%) IEC 61131
9 2 (0.25%) IEC 61508
9 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.13%) NIST
10 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 76 (9.66%) Docker
2 3 (0.38%) Ceph
3 2 (0.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.25%) UAG
3 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) Firmware
4 1 (0.13%) NFS
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 80 (10.17%) Kubernetes
2 35 (4.45%) Ansible
3 14 (1.78%) Argo
4 11 (1.40%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.02%) Grafana
6 5 (0.64%) Podman
6 5 (0.64%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.51%) Istio
7 4 (0.51%) Packer
7 4 (0.51%) Puppet
8 3 (0.38%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.25%) AirWatch
9 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.25%) SCCM
9 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.25%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.13%) linkerd
10 1 (0.13%) Nagios
Vendors
1 142 (18.04%) Microsoft
2 24 (3.05%) Google
2 24 (3.05%) YouTube
3 22 (2.80%) Databricks
3 22 (2.80%) Salesforce
4 21 (2.67%) Oracle
4 21 (2.67%) ServiceNow
5 19 (2.41%) Splunk
6 13 (1.65%) AppDynamics
7 11 (1.40%) SAP
8 9 (1.14%) Adobe
8 9 (1.14%) Red Hat
9 6 (0.76%) Autodesk
10 4 (0.51%) Dell
10 4 (0.51%) F5
10 4 (0.51%) IBM
10 4 (0.51%) NEC
10 4 (0.51%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.51%) Thales
11 3 (0.38%) BiZZdesign