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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -16 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 717 1,265 1,620
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 6.17% 24.43% 19.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.62% 26.90% 24.86%
Number of salaries quoted 528 354 883
10th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.88% +0.42% +4.35%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £94,366 £91,250 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -0.76%

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 8,321 4,703 6,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 71.57% 90.83% 77.52%
Number of salaries quoted 6,359 2,298 4,483
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 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £66,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -11.29%

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 2 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 2 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 -11 526 £67,249 +3.46% 267
Lancashire -7 78 £55,000 +9.88% 57
Cheshire -40 46 £56,250 - 49
Merseyside -26 44 £60,000 -6.98% 25
Cumbria -7 19 £47,500 -15.56% 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 40 (5.58%) Confluence
2 23 (3.21%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.84%) Apache
5 5 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.70%) CMS
5 5 (0.70%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.56%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.42%) nginx
7 3 (0.42%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.42%) WordPress
8 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.28%) CICS
8 2 (0.28%) IIS
9 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.14%) JBoss
9 1 (0.14%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.14%) WinCC
Applications
1 14 (1.95%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.98%) Trello
5 5 (0.70%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.42%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.14%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 17 (2.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.42%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 3 (0.42%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 238 (33.19%) Azure
2 169 (23.57%) AWS
3 91 (12.69%) Azure DevOps
4 53 (7.39%) Power Platform
5 45 (6.28%) Serverless
6 41 (5.72%) GCP
6 41 (5.72%) SaaS
7 40 (5.58%) GitHub
8 26 (3.63%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
9 25 (3.49%) Power Automate
10 21 (2.93%) dbt
10 21 (2.93%) Microsoft Copilot
11 19 (2.65%) PowerApps
12 17 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
13 15 (2.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 14 (1.95%) Snowflake
15 13 (1.81%) Azure AI
15 13 (1.81%) Azure Service Bus
16 12 (1.67%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.42%) TCP/IP
1 3 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (0.42%) Wireless
2 2 (0.28%) AMQP
2 2 (0.28%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.28%) ZigBee
3 1 (0.14%) Broadband
3 1 (0.14%) CTI
3 1 (0.14%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (0.14%) HTTP
3 1 (0.14%) iSCSI
3 1 (0.14%) LAN
3 1 (0.14%) LTE
3 1 (0.14%) Network Security
3 1 (0.14%) SAN
3 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.14%) SSL
3 1 (0.14%) VoIP
3 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (6.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 38 (5.30%) MongoDB
3 31 (4.32%) SQL Server
4 26 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (3.63%) Power BI
5 24 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (2.79%) NoSQL
7 13 (1.81%) BigQuery
7 13 (1.81%) MySQL
8 12 (1.67%) DynamoDB
8 12 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (1.67%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.26%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.12%) Big Data
11 6 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.70%) Metadata
13 4 (0.56%) Data Mining
13 4 (0.56%) Flink
13 4 (0.56%) GIS
13 4 (0.56%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 79 (11.02%) JIRA
2 57 (7.95%) Git
3 26 (3.63%) GitLab
4 19 (2.65%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.81%) Claude Code
6 12 (1.67%) JUnit
7 11 (1.53%) Postman
7 11 (1.53%) Spock
8 8 (1.12%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (0.84%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.56%) Maven
12 3 (0.42%) Eclipse
13 2 (0.28%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.28%) MSTest
13 2 (0.28%) NUnit
13 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.28%) XCUITest
14 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
14 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
General
1 188 (26.22%) Social Skills
2 151 (21.06%) Finance
3 69 (9.62%) Public Sector
4 67 (9.34%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (5.02%) Marketing
6 32 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (3.63%) Retail
8 25 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (2.51%) Games
9 18 (2.51%) Law
10 17 (2.37%) Banking
11 15 (2.09%) Advertising
12 14 (1.95%) Legal
13 12 (1.67%) Telecoms
14 11 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (1.39%) Aerospace
16 8 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
16 8 (1.12%) Manufacturing
16 8 (1.12%) Publishing
17 7 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 153 (21.34%) Senior
2 149 (20.78%) Developer
3 77 (10.74%) Software Engineer
4 56 (7.81%) Lead
4 56 (7.81%) Project Manager
5 52 (7.25%) Senior Developer
6 44 (6.14%) .NET Developer
6 44 (6.14%) Analyst
7 41 (5.72%) Business Analyst
8 35 (4.88%) Data Engineer
9 32 (4.46%) Delivery Manager
10 30 (4.18%) Engineering Manager
11 28 (3.91%) Java Developer
12 26 (3.63%) Architect
13 25 (3.49%) Product Owner
14 24 (3.35%) IT Manager
15 22 (3.07%) Senior Manager
16 21 (2.93%) DevOps Engineer
16 21 (2.93%) Lead Software Engineer
16 21 (2.93%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (13.95%) .NET
2 58 (8.09%) HTML
3 50 (6.97%) CSS
4 48 (6.69%) Node.js
5 44 (6.14%) ASP.NET
6 43 (6.00%) Spring
7 42 (5.86%) AngularJS
8 41 (5.72%) .NET Core
8 41 (5.72%) React
9 38 (5.30%) ASP.NET Core
10 32 (4.46%) RESTful
11 30 (4.18%) REST
11 30 (4.18%) Spring Boot
12 19 (2.65%) Entity Framework
13 16 (2.23%) Vue
14 15 (2.09%) Blazor
14 15 (2.09%) Kafka
15 13 (1.81%) ML.NET
16 12 (1.67%) ASP.NET Web API
17 11 (1.53%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 84 (11.72%) Product Ownership
2 53 (7.39%) Cloud Native
3 30 (4.18%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
5 24 (3.35%) Driving Licence
6 18 (2.51%) Mobile App
7 15 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 13 (1.81%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.67%) Private Cloud
10 11 (1.53%) Marketing Technology
11 10 (1.39%) PMI
12 9 (1.26%) Management Information System
13 7 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (0.98%) Social Network
13 7 (0.98%) Virtual Team
14 6 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (0.84%) Social Media
15 5 (0.70%) Cyber Defence
15 5 (0.70%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.63%) Linux
2 11 (1.53%) Windows
3 6 (0.84%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.70%) Android
5 4 (0.56%) Unix
6 2 (0.28%) CentOS
6 2 (0.28%) Debian
6 2 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
6 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.28%) VMS
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (30.96%) DevOps
2 220 (30.68%) CI/CD
3 185 (25.80%) Continuous Improvement
4 162 (22.59%) Scrum
5 134 (18.69%) Software Engineering
6 133 (18.55%) AI
7 128 (17.85%) Stakeholder Management
8 116 (16.18%) Mentoring
9 108 (15.06%) Problem-Solving
10 90 (12.55%) Coaching
11 89 (12.41%) Roadmaps
12 86 (11.99%) TDD
13 84 (11.72%) Test Automation
14 83 (11.58%) Full-Stack Development
15 78 (10.88%) Microservices
16 70 (9.76%) Decision-Making
17 69 (9.62%) Kanban
17 69 (9.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 68 (9.48%) Project Management
19 61 (8.51%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 163 (22.73%) SQL
2 123 (17.15%) Java
3 106 (14.78%) Python
4 104 (14.50%) JavaScript
5 96 (13.39%) C#
6 35 (4.88%) TypeScript
7 14 (1.95%) Go
8 12 (1.67%) Bash
8 12 (1.67%) C++
9 10 (1.39%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.26%) PHP
11 7 (0.98%) Apex Code
12 6 (0.84%) Groovy
13 5 (0.70%) C
13 5 (0.70%) SOQL
14 4 (0.56%) SOSL
14 4 (0.56%) Swift
15 3 (0.42%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.42%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.28%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 63 (8.79%) Degree
1 63 (8.79%) Security Cleared
2 50 (6.97%) SC Cleared
3 25 (3.49%) PMI Certification
4 23 (3.21%) DV Cleared
5 16 (2.23%) Master's Degree
5 16 (2.23%) PMP
6 14 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.39%) DBS Check
8 8 (1.12%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.12%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.56%) HNC
11 4 (0.56%) MBA
11 4 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 3 (0.42%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.28%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (6.00%) QA
2 39 (5.44%) Data Quality
3 22 (3.07%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.53%) GDPR
5 9 (1.26%) PMO
6 7 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.98%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.70%) SLA
8 2 (0.28%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.14%) GRC
9 1 (0.14%) IEC 61131
9 1 (0.14%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.14%) ITGC
9 1 (0.14%) NIST
9 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (8.65%) Docker
2 3 (0.42%) Ceph
3 2 (0.28%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.14%) Firmware
4 1 (0.14%) NFS
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 75 (10.46%) Terraform
2 62 (8.65%) Kubernetes
3 29 (4.04%) Ansible
4 12 (1.67%) Argo
5 10 (1.39%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.98%) Grafana
7 4 (0.56%) Istio
8 3 (0.42%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.42%) Podman
8 3 (0.42%) Puppet
9 2 (0.28%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.14%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.14%) linkerd
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.14%) Nagios
10 1 (0.14%) Packer
10 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 134 (18.69%) Microsoft
2 26 (3.63%) ServiceNow
3 22 (3.07%) Salesforce
4 20 (2.79%) Google
5 19 (2.65%) Databricks
5 19 (2.65%) Oracle
6 18 (2.51%) Splunk
7 14 (1.95%) SAP
8 11 (1.53%) AppDynamics
9 9 (1.26%) Adobe
10 7 (0.98%) Pega
11 6 (0.84%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.56%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.42%) Alteryx
13 3 (0.42%) Apple
13 3 (0.42%) Cognos
13 3 (0.42%) Dell
13 3 (0.42%) Facebook
13 3 (0.42%) IBM
13 3 (0.42%) NEC