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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -16 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 653 1,290 2,060
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.88% 26.29% 19.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.32% 28.26% 24.08%
Number of salaries quoted 509 369 1,347
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £64,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% +7.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £93,750 £93,778 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -6.02%

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 7,851 4,565 8,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 70.65% 93.03% 79.15%
Number of salaries quoted 6,042 2,162 6,396
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,775 £27,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,564 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.66% +3.13% -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,375 £68,114 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £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 1 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 1 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 -11 484 £66,750 +2.69% 224
Lancashire -8 74 £55,000 +8.08% 65
Cheshire -43 41 £55,000 +15.79% 43
Merseyside -34 33 £55,550 -15.83% 15
Cumbria -12 17 £47,500 -13.64% 3
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 (6.43%) Confluence
2 18 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.92%) CMS
5 5 (0.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.61%) Apache
6 4 (0.61%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.61%) WordPress
7 3 (0.46%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.46%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.31%) CICS
8 2 (0.31%) nginx
8 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.15%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 14 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.61%) Trello
5 3 (0.46%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.15%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 15 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.46%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 210 (32.16%) Azure
2 158 (24.20%) AWS
3 76 (11.64%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (7.04%) Power Platform
5 44 (6.74%) Serverless
6 41 (6.28%) SaaS
7 35 (5.36%) GCP
8 32 (4.90%) GitHub
9 26 (3.98%) AWS CloudFormation
10 25 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
11 17 (2.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 16 (2.45%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (2.45%) Power Automate
13 15 (2.30%) Azure AKS
14 14 (2.14%) dbt
14 14 (2.14%) PowerApps
15 13 (1.99%) Anthropic Claude
15 13 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
15 13 (1.99%) Microsoft Copilot
16 12 (1.84%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.46%) AMQP
2 2 (0.31%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.31%) Wireless
3 1 (0.15%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.15%) Broadband
3 1 (0.15%) CTI
3 1 (0.15%) LAN
3 1 (0.15%) LTE
3 1 (0.15%) Network Security
3 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.15%) SSL
3 1 (0.15%) VoIP
3 1 (0.15%) VPN
3 1 (0.15%) WAN
3 1 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (5.82%) MongoDB
2 37 (5.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 25 (3.83%) Power BI
4 24 (3.68%) NoSQL
4 24 (3.68%) SQL Server
5 22 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (2.14%) MySQL
8 11 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (1.53%) BigQuery
10 9 (1.38%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.38%) DynamoDB
10 9 (1.38%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.07%) Big Data
12 4 (0.61%) Data Mining
12 4 (0.61%) Flink
12 4 (0.61%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (0.61%) GIS
12 4 (0.61%) Metadata
12 4 (0.61%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 76 (11.64%) JIRA
2 41 (6.28%) Git
3 22 (3.37%) GitLab
4 19 (2.91%) Jenkins
5 15 (2.30%) Claude Code
6 11 (1.68%) Postman
7 7 (1.07%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.07%) JUnit
8 6 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (0.92%) Spock
9 4 (0.61%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.46%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.31%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.31%) Maven
11 2 (0.31%) MSTest
11 2 (0.31%) NUnit
11 2 (0.31%) Selenium
11 2 (0.31%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.31%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.31%) XCUITest
General
1 140 (21.44%) Finance
1 140 (21.44%) Social Skills
2 73 (11.18%) Public Sector
3 56 (8.58%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (5.21%) Marketing
5 23 (3.52%) Retail
6 21 (3.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (3.22%) Influencing Skills
7 19 (2.91%) Games
8 18 (2.76%) Banking
9 14 (2.14%) Advertising
10 12 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (1.68%) Law
12 8 (1.23%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.23%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.07%) Aerospace
13 7 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.92%) Legal
14 6 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 144 (22.05%) Senior
2 132 (20.21%) Developer
3 78 (11.94%) Software Engineer
4 61 (9.34%) Lead
5 46 (7.04%) Project Manager
6 44 (6.74%) Senior Developer
7 43 (6.58%) .NET Developer
7 43 (6.58%) Analyst
8 33 (5.05%) Business Analyst
9 30 (4.59%) Data Engineer
9 30 (4.59%) Java Developer
10 27 (4.13%) Delivery Manager
11 24 (3.68%) Engineering Manager
11 24 (3.68%) IT Manager
12 23 (3.52%) Architect
12 23 (3.52%) Java Engineer
12 23 (3.52%) Software Developer
13 22 (3.37%) Lead Software Engineer
14 21 (3.22%) Senior Software Engineer
15 20 (3.06%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (14.70%) .NET
2 51 (7.81%) Node.js
2 51 (7.81%) React
3 47 (7.20%) HTML
4 43 (6.58%) CSS
5 40 (6.13%) Spring
6 39 (5.97%) .NET Core
6 39 (5.97%) ASP.NET
7 38 (5.82%) AngularJS
8 35 (5.36%) RESTful
9 33 (5.05%) REST
9 33 (5.05%) Spring Boot
10 32 (4.90%) ASP.NET Core
11 17 (2.60%) Vue
12 16 (2.45%) Entity Framework
13 15 (2.30%) Kafka
14 13 (1.99%) .NET Framework
14 13 (1.99%) Blazor
15 12 (1.84%) ML.NET
16 10 (1.53%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 74 (11.33%) Product Ownership
2 48 (7.35%) Cloud Native
3 28 (4.29%) Driving Licence
4 26 (3.98%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (3.68%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (2.30%) Mobile App
7 12 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (1.38%) Marketing Technology
8 9 (1.38%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.38%) PMI
9 8 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.23%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.23%) Social Network
10 7 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.07%) Virtual Team
11 6 (0.92%) Private Cloud
12 5 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.77%) IVR
12 5 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.68%) Linux
2 12 (1.84%) Windows
3 4 (0.61%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.61%) Unix
4 3 (0.46%) Android
4 3 (0.46%) CentOS
4 3 (0.46%) Debian
4 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.46%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.31%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (30.02%) CI/CD
2 192 (29.40%) DevOps
3 157 (24.04%) Continuous Improvement
4 147 (22.51%) Scrum
5 122 (18.68%) Software Engineering
6 113 (17.30%) Mentoring
7 107 (16.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 99 (15.16%) AI
9 96 (14.70%) Coaching
10 89 (13.63%) TDD
11 87 (13.32%) Problem-Solving
12 84 (12.86%) Roadmaps
13 79 (12.10%) Full-Stack Development
14 76 (11.64%) Microservices
15 71 (10.87%) Test Automation
16 64 (9.80%) Decision-Making
16 64 (9.80%) Kanban
16 64 (9.80%) Project Management
17 58 (8.88%) Analytics
18 57 (8.73%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 145 (22.21%) SQL
2 122 (18.68%) Java
3 94 (14.40%) JavaScript
3 94 (14.40%) Python
4 88 (13.48%) C#
5 31 (4.75%) TypeScript
6 11 (1.68%) Bash
7 10 (1.53%) C++
7 10 (1.53%) PowerShell
8 7 (1.07%) Go
9 6 (0.92%) Apex Code
9 6 (0.92%) PHP
10 5 (0.77%) Groovy
10 5 (0.77%) SOQL
11 4 (0.61%) C
11 4 (0.61%) SOSL
12 3 (0.46%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.31%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.31%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 63 (9.65%) Security Cleared
2 50 (7.66%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.13%) Degree
4 20 (3.06%) DV Cleared
5 19 (2.91%) PMI Certification
6 12 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.68%) PMP
8 9 (1.38%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.38%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.07%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (0.92%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.46%) MBA
14 2 (0.31%) Chartered Engineer
14 2 (0.31%) HND
14 2 (0.31%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.90%) QA
2 26 (3.98%) Data Quality
3 23 (3.52%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.68%) GDPR
5 7 (1.07%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.07%) PMO
6 6 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.61%) SLA
8 2 (0.31%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.31%) WCAG
9 1 (0.15%) GRC
9 1 (0.15%) ITGC
9 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 50 (7.66%) Docker
2 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 76 (11.64%) Terraform
2 59 (9.04%) Kubernetes
3 25 (3.83%) Ansible
4 9 (1.38%) Argo
5 7 (1.07%) Grafana
5 7 (1.07%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.77%) Puppet
7 4 (0.61%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.31%) Packer
9 1 (0.15%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.15%) Istio
9 1 (0.15%) linkerd
9 1 (0.15%) Rancher
9 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 120 (18.38%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.29%) ServiceNow
3 20 (3.06%) Salesforce
4 19 (2.91%) Databricks
5 18 (2.76%) Oracle
6 15 (2.30%) SAP
7 12 (1.84%) Google
7 12 (1.84%) Splunk
8 10 (1.53%) Adobe
9 6 (0.92%) AppDynamics
10 5 (0.77%) Pega
11 3 (0.46%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (0.46%) Cognos
11 3 (0.46%) Facebook
11 3 (0.46%) IBM
11 3 (0.46%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (0.46%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.46%) SaltStack
11 3 (0.46%) Siemens
12 2 (0.31%) WSO2