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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -15 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 626 1,289 2,113
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.75% 27.24% 18.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.25% 28.79% 23.95%
Number of salaries quoted 482 362 1,423
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,638 £38,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,788 £64,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +7.92% +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £93,520 £93,778 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -6.16%

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 7,588 4,478 8,824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 69.67% 94.63% 78.64%
Number of salaries quoted 5,812 2,047 6,661
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 19 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 19 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 -12 466 £65,000 - 187
Lancashire -11 66 £55,000 +8.08% 61
Cheshire -42 40 £55,000 +15.79% 24
Merseyside -36 32 £55,000 -15.06% 10
Cumbria -14 18 £47,500 -13.64% 2
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 (6.71%) Confluence
2 16 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.96%) CMS
5 5 (0.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.64%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.64%) WordPress
7 3 (0.48%) Apache
7 3 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.48%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.32%) CICS
8 2 (0.32%) nginx
8 2 (0.32%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.16%) IIS
9 1 (0.16%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 13 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.48%) Trello
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.16%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 14 (2.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.48%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 194 (30.99%) Azure
2 147 (23.48%) AWS
3 68 (10.86%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (6.55%) SaaS
5 39 (6.23%) Power Platform
5 39 (6.23%) Serverless
6 31 (4.95%) GCP
7 28 (4.47%) GitHub
8 24 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (2.40%) Azure AKS
10 15 (2.40%) Azure Service Bus
11 14 (2.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 13 (2.08%) Anthropic Claude
13 12 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (1.92%) dbt
13 12 (1.92%) Power Automate
14 11 (1.76%) Azure Functions
14 11 (1.76%) PowerApps
15 10 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.32%) AMQP
2 1 (0.16%) Broadband
2 1 (0.16%) HTTP
2 1 (0.16%) LTE
2 1 (0.16%) SSL
2 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (5.11%) MongoDB
2 26 (4.15%) Azure SQL Database
2 26 (4.15%) NoSQL
3 25 (3.99%) SQL Server
4 22 (3.51%) Power BI
5 21 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (2.24%) MySQL
8 9 (1.44%) BigQuery
8 9 (1.44%) Relational Database
9 8 (1.28%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (1.12%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.96%) Big Data
12 4 (0.64%) Flink
12 4 (0.64%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (0.64%) GIS
12 4 (0.64%) Metadata
12 4 (0.64%) QGIS
13 3 (0.48%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 76 (12.14%) JIRA
2 42 (6.71%) Git
3 22 (3.51%) GitLab
4 19 (3.04%) Jenkins
5 15 (2.40%) Claude Code
6 11 (1.76%) Postman
7 8 (1.28%) JUnit
8 6 (0.96%) Spock
9 4 (0.64%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.64%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.48%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.32%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.32%) Maven
11 2 (0.32%) MSTest
11 2 (0.32%) NUnit
11 2 (0.32%) Selenium
11 2 (0.32%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.32%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.32%) XCUITest
General
1 136 (21.73%) Finance
2 135 (21.57%) Social Skills
3 68 (10.86%) Public Sector
4 55 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (5.27%) Marketing
6 22 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (3.04%) Games
7 19 (3.04%) Influencing Skills
7 19 (3.04%) Retail
8 17 (2.72%) Banking
9 12 (1.92%) Advertising
10 11 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.60%) Law
11 10 (1.60%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.12%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.96%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.96%) Publishing
14 5 (0.80%) Legal
14 5 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 145 (23.16%) Senior
2 121 (19.33%) Developer
3 77 (12.30%) Software Engineer
4 64 (10.22%) Lead
5 45 (7.19%) Senior Developer
6 44 (7.03%) Project Manager
7 42 (6.71%) Analyst
8 36 (5.75%) .NET Developer
9 32 (5.11%) Business Analyst
10 30 (4.79%) Java Developer
11 29 (4.63%) Data Engineer
12 26 (4.15%) Delivery Manager
13 25 (3.99%) Software Developer
14 24 (3.83%) IT Manager
15 23 (3.67%) Java Engineer
15 23 (3.67%) Lead Software Engineer
16 21 (3.35%) Senior Software Engineer
17 20 (3.19%) IT Project Manager
18 19 (3.04%) Architect
18 19 (3.04%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (14.06%) .NET
2 47 (7.51%) React
3 46 (7.35%) Node.js
4 42 (6.71%) HTML
5 40 (6.39%) CSS
6 38 (6.07%) Spring
7 35 (5.59%) AngularJS
8 34 (5.43%) REST
9 33 (5.27%) .NET Core
9 33 (5.27%) ASP.NET
9 33 (5.27%) RESTful
10 31 (4.95%) Spring Boot
11 23 (3.67%) ASP.NET Core
12 17 (2.72%) .NET Framework
13 16 (2.56%) Vue
14 13 (2.08%) Entity Framework
14 13 (2.08%) Kafka
15 9 (1.44%) Blazor
16 8 (1.28%) ML.NET
16 8 (1.28%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 74 (11.82%) Product Ownership
2 44 (7.03%) Cloud Native
3 29 (4.63%) Driving Licence
4 26 (4.15%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (3.99%) Distributed Systems
6 20 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (2.24%) Mobile App
8 9 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (1.44%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.44%) PMI
9 8 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.28%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
11 6 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.96%) Private Cloud
11 6 (0.96%) Social Network
11 6 (0.96%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.80%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.64%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (3.35%) Linux
2 11 (1.76%) Windows
3 4 (0.64%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.64%) Unix
4 3 (0.48%) Android
5 2 (0.32%) CentOS
5 2 (0.32%) Debian
5 2 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.32%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (29.23%) CI/CD
2 178 (28.43%) DevOps
3 146 (23.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 142 (22.68%) Scrum
5 116 (18.53%) Software Engineering
6 104 (16.61%) Mentoring
7 100 (15.97%) Stakeholder Management
8 95 (15.18%) Coaching
9 88 (14.06%) AI
10 85 (13.58%) TDD
11 83 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
12 76 (12.14%) Roadmaps
13 72 (11.50%) Full-Stack Development
13 72 (11.50%) Microservices
14 68 (10.86%) Test Automation
15 64 (10.22%) Kanban
15 64 (10.22%) Project Management
16 62 (9.90%) Decision-Making
17 54 (8.63%) Infrastructure as Code
18 51 (8.15%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 135 (21.57%) SQL
2 119 (19.01%) Java
3 86 (13.74%) JavaScript
3 86 (13.74%) Python
4 79 (12.62%) C#
5 31 (4.95%) TypeScript
6 10 (1.60%) Bash
7 9 (1.44%) C++
7 9 (1.44%) PowerShell
8 6 (0.96%) Apex Code
8 6 (0.96%) Go
8 6 (0.96%) PHP
9 5 (0.80%) Groovy
9 5 (0.80%) SOQL
10 4 (0.64%) SOSL
11 3 (0.48%) C
11 3 (0.48%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.48%) Scala
12 2 (0.32%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 60 (9.58%) Security Cleared
2 47 (7.51%) SC Cleared
3 32 (5.11%) Degree
4 19 (3.04%) DV Cleared
5 18 (2.88%) PMI Certification
6 15 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.60%) PMP
8 9 (1.44%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.80%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.80%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.80%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.32%) Chartered Engineer
12 2 (0.32%) CSPO
12 2 (0.32%) HND
12 2 (0.32%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 2 (0.32%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.79%) QA
2 25 (3.99%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.35%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.28%) GDPR
5 7 (1.12%) PMO
6 4 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.64%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.64%) SLA
7 2 (0.32%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.32%) WCAG
8 1 (0.16%) GRC
8 1 (0.16%) ITGC
8 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 46 (7.35%) Docker
2 2 (0.32%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 72 (11.50%) Terraform
2 53 (8.47%) Kubernetes
3 23 (3.67%) Ansible
4 8 (1.28%) Argo
5 7 (1.12%) Grafana
5 7 (1.12%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.64%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.64%) Puppet
7 2 (0.32%) Packer
7 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.16%) Istio
8 1 (0.16%) linkerd
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.16%) Rancher
Vendors
1 106 (16.93%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.31%) ServiceNow
3 21 (3.35%) Databricks
4 20 (3.19%) Salesforce
5 17 (2.72%) Oracle
5 17 (2.72%) SAP
6 12 (1.92%) Google
7 11 (1.76%) Splunk
8 8 (1.28%) Adobe
9 6 (0.96%) AppDynamics
10 5 (0.80%) Pega
10 5 (0.80%) Siemens
11 3 (0.48%) Cognos
11 3 (0.48%) Facebook
11 3 (0.48%) IBM
11 3 (0.48%) LogicMonitor
12 2 (0.32%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.32%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.32%) SaltStack
12 2 (0.32%) WSO2