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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -15 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 747 1,239 1,567
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 6.20% 23.81% 18.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.62% 26.33% 24.14%
Number of salaries quoted 536 351 807
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +2.04% +2.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -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 8,667 4,705 6,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 71.94% 90.43% 77.42%
Number of salaries quoted 6,600 2,277 4,285
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -7.27%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.90% -11.20%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -12 546 £66,999 +3.08% 163
Lancashire -11 74 £55,000 +12.34% 50
Cheshire -29 58 £55,000 -4.35% 27
Merseyside -22 47 £60,000 -5.51% 17
Cumbria -7 19 £47,500 -17.39% 5
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 39 (5.22%) Confluence
2 26 (3.48%) SharePoint
3 20 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.34%) Apache
5 5 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.67%) CMS
5 5 (0.67%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.40%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.40%) nginx
6 3 (0.40%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.40%) WordPress
7 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.27%) CICS
7 2 (0.27%) IIS
7 2 (0.27%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.27%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.27%) WinCC
8 1 (0.13%) JBoss
8 1 (0.13%) PegaRULES
8 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (2.41%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.94%) Trello
5 5 (0.67%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.67%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.67%) Revit
6 3 (0.40%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 18 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.54%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.40%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 252 (33.73%) Azure
2 174 (23.29%) AWS
3 99 (13.25%) Azure DevOps
4 59 (7.90%) Power Platform
5 46 (6.16%) SaaS
6 45 (6.02%) Serverless
7 44 (5.89%) GCP
7 44 (5.89%) GitHub
8 27 (3.61%) Power Automate
9 26 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 25 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
11 23 (3.08%) dbt
11 23 (3.08%) Microsoft Copilot
12 21 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
13 20 (2.68%) PowerApps
14 19 (2.54%) Snowflake
15 15 (2.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 15 (2.01%) GitHub Copilot
16 13 (1.74%) Azure AI
16 13 (1.74%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (0.40%) Wireless
2 2 (0.27%) AMQP
2 2 (0.27%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.27%) HTTP
2 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.27%) ZigBee
3 1 (0.13%) Broadband
3 1 (0.13%) CTI
3 1 (0.13%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (0.13%) iSCSI
3 1 (0.13%) LAN
3 1 (0.13%) LTE
3 1 (0.13%) Network Security
3 1 (0.13%) SAN
3 1 (0.13%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.13%) SSL
3 1 (0.13%) VoIP
3 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (6.02%) Azure SQL Database
2 36 (4.82%) MongoDB
3 33 (4.42%) SQL Server
4 30 (4.02%) Power BI
5 29 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
6 25 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (2.28%) NoSQL
8 16 (2.14%) DynamoDB
8 16 (2.14%) Relational Database
9 12 (1.61%) BigQuery
9 12 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (1.47%) Data Lake
11 10 (1.34%) MySQL
12 8 (1.07%) Big Data
12 8 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.67%) Metadata
14 4 (0.54%) Data Mining
14 4 (0.54%) Flink
15 3 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
15 3 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 83 (11.11%) JIRA
2 57 (7.63%) Git
3 28 (3.75%) GitLab
4 19 (2.54%) Jenkins
5 14 (1.87%) JUnit
6 13 (1.74%) Claude Code
7 11 (1.47%) Postman
7 11 (1.47%) Spock
8 8 (1.07%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (0.80%) IntelliJ
11 5 (0.67%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.54%) Maven
13 3 (0.40%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.40%) Selenium
14 2 (0.27%) Ant
14 2 (0.27%) Mockito
14 2 (0.27%) MSTest
14 2 (0.27%) NUnit
14 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 198 (26.51%) Social Skills
2 156 (20.88%) Finance
3 75 (10.04%) Public Sector
4 68 (9.10%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (6.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (4.55%) Marketing
7 33 (4.42%) Retail
8 26 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
9 21 (2.81%) Law
10 20 (2.68%) Telecoms
11 19 (2.54%) Games
11 19 (2.54%) Legal
12 15 (2.01%) Banking
12 15 (2.01%) Manufacturing
13 14 (1.87%) Advertising
14 13 (1.74%) Local Government
14 13 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (1.61%) Aerospace
15 12 (1.61%) Publishing
16 10 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 163 (21.82%) Senior
2 159 (21.29%) Developer
3 77 (10.31%) Software Engineer
4 55 (7.36%) Lead
5 54 (7.23%) Project Manager
5 54 (7.23%) Senior Developer
6 47 (6.29%) Analyst
7 43 (5.76%) .NET Developer
8 40 (5.35%) Business Analyst
9 34 (4.55%) Data Engineer
9 34 (4.55%) Delivery Manager
9 34 (4.55%) Engineering Manager
10 27 (3.61%) Architect
10 27 (3.61%) Java Developer
11 26 (3.48%) Product Owner
12 24 (3.21%) IT Manager
13 23 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
13 23 (3.08%) Senior Software Engineer
13 23 (3.08%) Software Developer
14 21 (2.81%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (13.39%) .NET
2 74 (9.91%) Terraform
3 59 (7.90%) HTML
4 52 (6.96%) CSS
5 48 (6.43%) Node.js
6 44 (5.89%) ASP.NET
6 44 (5.89%) React
6 44 (5.89%) Spring
7 41 (5.49%) .NET Core
7 41 (5.49%) AngularJS
8 38 (5.09%) ASP.NET Core
9 33 (4.42%) REST
10 29 (3.88%) RESTful
10 29 (3.88%) Spring Boot
11 19 (2.54%) Entity Framework
12 15 (2.01%) Blazor
12 15 (2.01%) Kafka
12 15 (2.01%) Vue
13 13 (1.74%) ASP.NET Web API
13 13 (1.74%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 92 (12.32%) Product Ownership
2 55 (7.36%) Cloud Native
3 33 (4.42%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
6 18 (2.41%) Driving Licence
6 18 (2.41%) Mobile App
7 16 (2.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 15 (2.01%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.61%) Marketing Technology
9 12 (1.61%) Private Cloud
10 10 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.20%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.20%) PMI
12 8 (1.07%) IoT
13 7 (0.94%) Social Network
14 6 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (0.80%) Social Media
14 6 (0.80%) Virtual Team
15 5 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.48%) Linux
2 10 (1.34%) Windows
3 5 (0.67%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.54%) Android
5 3 (0.40%) Unix
6 2 (0.27%) CentOS
6 2 (0.27%) Debian
6 2 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
6 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.27%) VMS
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (31.59%) DevOps
2 222 (29.72%) CI/CD
3 199 (26.64%) Continuous Improvement
4 158 (21.15%) Scrum
5 154 (20.62%) AI
6 142 (19.01%) Software Engineering
7 134 (17.94%) Stakeholder Management
8 118 (15.80%) Mentoring
9 111 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
10 87 (11.65%) Coaching
11 86 (11.51%) Roadmaps
12 84 (11.24%) Full-Stack Development
12 84 (11.24%) Test Automation
13 80 (10.71%) TDD
14 77 (10.31%) Microservices
15 74 (9.91%) Decision-Making
16 69 (9.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 65 (8.70%) Project Delivery
18 63 (8.43%) Project Management
19 62 (8.30%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 172 (23.03%) SQL
2 123 (16.47%) Java
3 111 (14.86%) Python
4 110 (14.73%) JavaScript
5 100 (13.39%) C#
6 37 (4.95%) TypeScript
7 18 (2.41%) Go
8 14 (1.87%) C++
9 12 (1.61%) Bash
10 10 (1.34%) PHP
10 10 (1.34%) PowerShell
11 9 (1.20%) Apex Code
12 6 (0.80%) C
12 6 (0.80%) Groovy
13 5 (0.67%) R
13 5 (0.67%) SOQL
14 4 (0.54%) SOSL
15 3 (0.40%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.40%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.40%) Swift
Qualifications
1 86 (11.51%) Degree
2 67 (8.97%) Security Cleared
3 53 (7.10%) SC Cleared
4 26 (3.48%) DV Cleared
5 22 (2.95%) PMI Certification
6 20 (2.68%) Master's Degree
7 19 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 19 (2.54%) DBS Check
8 14 (1.87%) PMP
9 12 (1.61%) HNC
10 10 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (1.20%) AWS Certification
11 9 (1.20%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.94%) RIBA
13 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (0.54%) MBA
15 4 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 4 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.40%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (6.69%) QA
2 49 (6.56%) Data Quality
3 23 (3.08%) Accessibility
4 14 (1.87%) GDPR
5 13 (1.74%) PMO
6 7 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.94%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.67%) SLA
8 2 (0.27%) GRC
8 2 (0.27%) IEC 61131
8 2 (0.27%) IEC 61508
8 2 (0.27%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.27%) WCAG
9 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.13%) NIST
9 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 65 (8.70%) Docker
2 3 (0.40%) Ceph
3 2 (0.27%) Active Directory
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 67 (8.97%) Kubernetes
2 31 (4.15%) Ansible
3 13 (1.74%) Argo
4 9 (1.20%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.80%) Grafana
6 4 (0.54%) Istio
7 3 (0.40%) Check_MK
7 3 (0.40%) Podman
7 3 (0.40%) Puppet
8 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.13%) linkerd
9 1 (0.13%) Nagios
9 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 136 (18.21%) Microsoft
2 25 (3.35%) ServiceNow
3 24 (3.21%) Salesforce
4 21 (2.81%) Databricks
4 21 (2.81%) Google
5 20 (2.68%) Oracle
6 18 (2.41%) Splunk
7 13 (1.74%) SAP
8 11 (1.47%) AppDynamics
9 9 (1.20%) Adobe
10 8 (1.07%) YouTube
11 7 (0.94%) Pega
12 6 (0.80%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.67%) Autodesk
13 5 (0.67%) IBM
14 4 (0.54%) Dell
14 4 (0.54%) NEC
14 4 (0.54%) OpenAI
15 3 (0.40%) Alteryx
15 3 (0.40%) BiZZdesign