Agile Jobs in the North West

Agile Software Development
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Agile over the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 1,105 1,116 3,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.55% 27.54% 36.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.46% 29.01% 38.39%
Number of salaries quoted 496 660 1,638
10th Percentile £40,685 £41,250 £37,885
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,306 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +6.04%
75th Percentile £68,875 £77,510 £73,827
90th Percentile £83,000 £91,318 £85,375
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £67,000
% change year-on-year - +0.75% +7.20%

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 6,714 3,847 8,569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 88.39% 94.92% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,387 2,588 4,969
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,175 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £40,834
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Agile in the North West.

Salary trend for Agile in the North West

Agile
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in the North West over the 6 months to 8 December 2024.

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 8 December 2024. 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 -1 678 £60,000 -4.00% 211
Lancashire -4 222 £54,793 +9.59% 41
Cheshire -10 77 £50,000 -16.04% 42
Merseyside -6 70 £55,000 +10.00% 30
Cumbria -43 55 £56,000 -11.81% 18
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 31 (2.81%) Confluence
2 21 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.72%) IIS
4 12 (1.09%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.00%) SAS
6 8 (0.72%) CMS
7 7 (0.63%) Apache
8 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.36%) nginx
9 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.090%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.090%) WildFly
Applications
1 22 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.72%) Simulink
4 13 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.36%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.27%) MadCap Flare
7 3 (0.27%) RoboHelp
7 3 (0.27%) Sketch
8 2 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.090%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.090%) Revit
9 1 (0.090%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.72%) NEC Housing
3 6 (0.54%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 2 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.18%) Magento
4 2 (0.18%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 1 (0.090%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 216 (19.55%) AWS
2 214 (19.37%) Azure
3 59 (5.34%) Power Platform
4 50 (4.52%) GCP
5 47 (4.25%) OCI
6 44 (3.98%) Amazon S3
6 44 (3.98%) IBM Cloud
7 41 (3.71%) SaaS
8 40 (3.62%) Amazon EKS
9 39 (3.53%) Amazon ECR
9 39 (3.53%) Route 53
10 37 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
11 30 (2.71%) Amazon Kinesis
12 26 (2.35%) GitHub
13 24 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
14 19 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
15 18 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
16 16 (1.45%) PaaS
17 13 (1.18%) Figma
18 10 (0.90%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (1.99%) Internet
2 20 (1.81%) Broadband
3 17 (1.54%) Intrusion Detection
3 17 (1.54%) SSL
4 6 (0.54%) Wireless
5 5 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.36%) BGP
6 4 (0.36%) Firewall
6 4 (0.36%) GPON
6 4 (0.36%) OSPF
7 3 (0.27%) Bluetooth
7 3 (0.27%) MQTT
7 3 (0.27%) SMS
8 1 (0.090%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (5.25%) NoSQL
2 54 (4.89%) SQL Server
3 53 (4.80%) Amazon RDS
4 43 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
5 40 (3.62%) Power BI
6 38 (3.44%) MySQL
7 31 (2.81%) DynamoDB
8 29 (2.62%) Relational Database
9 26 (2.35%) Redis
10 25 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
11 24 (2.17%) MongoDB
12 23 (2.08%) Data Lake
13 19 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
13 19 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
14 15 (1.36%) Metadata
15 8 (0.72%) Data Vault
15 8 (0.72%) Tableau
16 7 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
16 7 (0.63%) DTS
16 7 (0.63%) FileMaker
Development Applications
1 59 (5.34%) JIRA
2 37 (3.35%) Git
3 20 (1.81%) Gatling
4 19 (1.72%) Rational Rhapsody
5 12 (1.09%) Selenium
6 9 (0.81%) GitLab
6 9 (0.81%) Rational DOORS
7 8 (0.72%) Cypress.io
7 8 (0.72%) SpecFlow
8 7 (0.63%) Postman
8 7 (0.63%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.54%) Babel
9 6 (0.54%) Vagrant
9 6 (0.54%) webpack
10 5 (0.45%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.36%) Jasmine
11 4 (0.36%) Jenkins
11 4 (0.36%) JMeter
11 4 (0.36%) JUnit
11 4 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 386 (34.93%) Social Skills
2 217 (19.64%) Finance
3 155 (14.03%) Analytical Skills
4 144 (13.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 91 (8.24%) Public Sector
6 56 (5.07%) Organisational Skills
7 51 (4.62%) Retail
8 49 (4.43%) Law
9 30 (2.71%) Banking
10 28 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
11 27 (2.44%) Games
11 27 (2.44%) Legal
12 24 (2.17%) Telecoms
13 23 (2.08%) Manufacturing
13 23 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (1.63%) Marketing
15 15 (1.36%) Electronics
16 11 (1.00%) Police
17 10 (0.90%) Automotive
18 9 (0.81%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 294 (26.61%) Senior
2 182 (16.47%) Developer
3 166 (15.02%) Lead
4 115 (10.41%) Analyst
5 104 (9.41%) Software Engineer
6 78 (7.06%) Architect
7 71 (6.43%) Senior Manager
8 60 (5.43%) Project Manager
9 51 (4.62%) Systems Engineer
10 45 (4.07%) DevOps Engineer
11 42 (3.80%) Senior Developer
12 41 (3.71%) .NET Developer
12 41 (3.71%) Business Analyst
13 40 (3.62%) Senior Software Engineer
14 37 (3.35%) Software Developer
15 35 (3.17%) Audit Manager
15 35 (3.17%) Consultant
15 35 (3.17%) Product Manager
16 33 (2.99%) Senior DevOps
16 33 (2.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (12.04%) .NET
2 85 (7.69%) HTML
3 84 (7.60%) CSS
3 84 (7.60%) React
4 67 (6.06%) AngularJS
5 65 (5.88%) Web Services
6 46 (4.16%) REST
7 38 (3.44%) ASP.NET
7 38 (3.44%) GraphQL
8 37 (3.35%) .NET Core
8 37 (3.35%) .NET Framework
9 34 (3.08%) RESTful
10 32 (2.90%) Node.js
11 30 (2.71%) Vue
12 25 (2.26%) http4s
12 25 (2.26%) Scalaz
13 23 (2.08%) XML
14 21 (1.90%) Ajax
14 21 (1.90%) LDAP
14 21 (1.90%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 78 (7.06%) Product Ownership
2 54 (4.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 51 (4.62%) Management Information System
4 46 (4.16%) Distributed Systems
5 44 (3.98%) Blockchain
5 44 (3.98%) e-Learning
6 43 (3.89%) Media Streaming
7 38 (3.44%) Mobile App
7 38 (3.44%) Self-Motivation
8 31 (2.81%) Blog
9 27 (2.44%) Cyberattack
9 27 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
10 21 (1.90%) Driving Licence
11 17 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
12 15 (1.36%) IoT
13 14 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (1.18%) Data Structures
15 11 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
16 10 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
16 10 (0.90%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 41 (3.71%) Windows
2 37 (3.35%) Linux
3 24 (2.17%) Android
4 18 (1.63%) Apple iOS
5 17 (1.54%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.72%) Windows Vista
7 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.090%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (24.71%) Mentoring
2 264 (23.89%) DevOps
3 230 (20.81%) Coaching
4 218 (19.73%) Software Engineering
5 206 (18.64%) Roadmaps
6 193 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
7 179 (16.20%) Scrum
8 149 (13.48%) Project Management
9 116 (10.50%) Analytics
10 114 (10.32%) Stakeholder Management
11 106 (9.59%) Test Automation
12 102 (9.23%) User Experience
13 96 (8.69%) Artificial Intelligence
14 95 (8.60%) CI/CD
15 93 (8.42%) Microservices
16 91 (8.24%) Containerisation
17 85 (7.69%) SDLC
18 83 (7.51%) TDD
19 82 (7.42%) Continuous Integration
20 78 (7.06%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 142 (12.85%) SQL
2 136 (12.31%) JavaScript
3 120 (10.86%) C#
4 104 (9.41%) Java
5 101 (9.14%) Python
6 53 (4.80%) TypeScript
7 47 (4.25%) Scala
8 28 (2.53%) PHP
9 27 (2.44%) Kotlin
10 21 (1.90%) PowerShell
11 16 (1.45%) Go
12 14 (1.27%) R
13 13 (1.18%) C
13 13 (1.18%) C++
13 13 (1.18%) MATLAB
14 9 (0.81%) Bash
14 9 (0.81%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.36%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.36%) Rust
15 4 (0.36%) Swift
Qualifications
1 203 (18.37%) Degree
2 73 (6.61%) Security Cleared
3 43 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 40 (3.62%) DV Cleared
5 39 (3.53%) SC Cleared
6 34 (3.08%) ACCA
7 24 (2.17%) Chartered Engineer
7 24 (2.17%) PMP
8 22 (1.99%) Azure Certification
8 22 (1.99%) DBS Check
8 22 (1.99%) PMI Certification
9 18 (1.63%) Master's Degree
10 12 (1.09%) HND
11 11 (1.00%) HNC
12 9 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 7 (0.63%) AWS Certification
14 6 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (0.54%) CCNA
14 6 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (6.79%) QA
2 37 (3.35%) Accessibility
3 36 (3.26%) Data Quality
4 25 (2.26%) GAAP
5 20 (1.81%) IFRS
6 16 (1.45%) PMO
7 13 (1.18%) SLA
8 10 (0.90%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.72%) GDPR
9 8 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.54%) IEC 62304
10 6 (0.54%) ISO 13485
10 6 (0.54%) NIST
11 5 (0.45%) WCAG
12 4 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.36%) SEPA
13 3 (0.27%) IEC 61508
13 3 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.27%) WAI
System Software
1 48 (4.34%) Docker
2 27 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.63%) Firmware
4 5 (0.45%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 5 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 96 (8.69%) Terraform
2 84 (7.60%) Kubernetes
3 41 (3.71%) Prometheus
4 21 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (1.27%) Ansible
6 12 (1.09%) Puppet
7 6 (0.54%) Packer
7 6 (0.54%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.36%) CSIRT
10 3 (0.27%) Galera Cluster
10 3 (0.27%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.18%) Grafana
Vendors
1 110 (9.95%) Microsoft
2 49 (4.43%) Red Hat
3 47 (4.25%) IBM
4 39 (3.53%) Dynatrace
5 30 (2.71%) Google
6 27 (2.44%) ServiceNow
7 24 (2.17%) Databricks
8 23 (2.08%) Alteryx
9 20 (1.81%) Oracle
10 19 (1.72%) Cadence
11 12 (1.09%) Informatica
11 12 (1.09%) Siemens
12 10 (0.90%) Atlassian
13 8 (0.72%) BT
13 8 (0.72%) NEC
13 8 (0.72%) SAP
14 7 (0.63%) Salesforce
15 6 (0.54%) Cisco
15 6 (0.54%) PeopleSoft
15 6 (0.54%) VMware