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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 5 2
Rank change year-on-year -18 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 529 779 1,517
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 6.66% 18.59% 20.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.66% 19.72% 24.39%
Number of salaries quoted 368 392 1,236
10th Percentile £44,972 £42,550 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,092 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,813 £75,772
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +11.11% -6.67%

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 6,111 3,950 6,221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 76.95% 94.27% 85.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,311 2,085 5,034
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,620 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,119 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,435
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -17 345 £65,000 -3.18% 211
Cheshire -13 69 £55,000 +10.00% 35
Lancashire -22 56 £55,000 +4.76% 65
Merseyside -23 36 £50,000 -16.67% 22
Cumbria -6 20 £60,250 +31.70% 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 33 (6.24%) Confluence
2 18 (3.40%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.13%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.13%) CMS
4 5 (0.95%) Apache
5 3 (0.57%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.38%) CICS
6 2 (0.38%) nginx
6 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.19%) IIS
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.19%) PegaRULES
7 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.57%) Sketch
5 2 (0.38%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.38%) Simulink
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.38%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.19%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 163 (30.81%) Azure
2 110 (20.79%) AWS
3 49 (9.26%) SaaS
4 36 (6.81%) Power Platform
5 34 (6.43%) GCP
6 31 (5.86%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (5.86%) Serverless
7 20 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (3.40%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (2.84%) Figma
10 14 (2.65%) Azure AKS
10 14 (2.65%) GitHub
11 10 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (1.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 10 (1.89%) Azure Functions
11 10 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (1.89%) Azure Service Bus
11 10 (1.89%) Entra ID
12 9 (1.70%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.51%) HTTP
2 5 (0.95%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.76%) AMQP
4 3 (0.57%) DNS
4 3 (0.57%) Firewall
4 3 (0.57%) SSH
5 2 (0.38%) OpenVPN
5 2 (0.38%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.19%) 4G
6 1 (0.19%) LAN
6 1 (0.19%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.19%) SSL
6 1 (0.19%) VPN
6 1 (0.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (6.43%) NoSQL
2 32 (6.05%) SQL Server
3 18 (3.40%) Power BI
4 17 (3.21%) MongoDB
4 17 (3.21%) MySQL
5 14 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.32%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.32%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.13%) Big Data
8 6 (1.13%) Hadoop
9 5 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.76%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (0.76%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.57%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.57%) GIS
11 3 (0.57%) QGIS
11 3 (0.57%) Redis
11 3 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 49 (9.26%) JIRA
2 43 (8.13%) Git
3 17 (3.21%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.46%) GitLab
5 7 (1.32%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.76%) Claude Code
6 4 (0.76%) JUnit
6 4 (0.76%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.57%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.57%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.57%) IntelliJ
7 3 (0.57%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.38%) JIRA Agile
8 2 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.38%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.19%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.19%) JMeter
9 1 (0.19%) Locust
9 1 (0.19%) Selenium
General
1 136 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 119 (22.50%) Finance
3 55 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (7.18%) Public Sector
5 27 (5.10%) Banking
6 24 (4.54%) Marketing
7 22 (4.16%) Manufacturing
8 21 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (3.02%) Law
11 12 (2.27%) Retail
12 8 (1.51%) Billing
12 8 (1.51%) Legal
12 8 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.51%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.13%) Avionics
13 6 (1.13%) Electronics
13 6 (1.13%) Games
13 6 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.95%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 122 (23.06%) Senior
2 99 (18.71%) Developer
3 88 (16.64%) Lead
4 57 (10.78%) Software Engineer
5 38 (7.18%) Analyst
6 35 (6.62%) Project Manager
6 35 (6.62%) Senior Developer
7 29 (5.48%) Architect
7 29 (5.48%) Software Developer
8 25 (4.73%) Business Analyst
9 24 (4.54%) Data Engineer
10 20 (3.78%) Java Developer
11 18 (3.40%) .NET Developer
11 18 (3.40%) Lead Software Engineer
11 18 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
12 16 (3.02%) IT Manager
12 16 (3.02%) Marketing Manager
13 15 (2.84%) Cloud Engineer
13 15 (2.84%) Senior Data Engineer
13 15 (2.84%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (15.50%) .NET
2 63 (11.91%) React
3 40 (7.56%) RESTful
4 38 (7.18%) CSS
5 37 (6.99%) HTML
6 36 (6.81%) .NET Framework
7 34 (6.43%) REST
8 32 (6.05%) Node.js
9 31 (5.86%) Spring
10 30 (5.67%) AngularJS
10 30 (5.67%) Spring Boot
11 27 (5.10%) ASP.NET
12 24 (4.54%) .NET Core
13 16 (3.02%) Kafka
14 10 (1.89%) CSS3
14 10 (1.89%) HTML5
14 10 (1.89%) Web Services
15 8 (1.51%) gRPC
15 8 (1.51%) RabbitMQ
15 8 (1.51%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 47 (8.88%) Product Ownership
2 42 (7.94%) Cloud Native
3 23 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (3.02%) Mobile App
5 13 (2.46%) Driving Licence
5 13 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (1.51%) Low-Code
6 8 (1.51%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.51%) Social Media
6 8 (1.51%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 7 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.32%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (0.95%) IoT
10 4 (0.76%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (0.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.73%) Windows
2 16 (3.02%) Linux
3 6 (1.13%) Android
3 6 (1.13%) Windows 10
4 5 (0.95%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.76%) CentOS
5 4 (0.76%) Debian
5 4 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.76%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.57%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.38%) VMS
7 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (24.57%) CI/CD
2 123 (23.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 105 (19.85%) Software Engineering
4 103 (19.47%) DevOps
5 100 (18.90%) Scrum
6 97 (18.34%) Mentoring
7 86 (16.26%) Problem-Solving
8 85 (16.07%) Coaching
9 67 (12.67%) Microservices
10 66 (12.48%) Stakeholder Management
11 59 (11.15%) TDD
12 58 (10.96%) Project Management
13 52 (9.83%) User Experience
14 51 (9.64%) AI
14 51 (9.64%) Full-Stack Development
15 49 (9.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 47 (8.88%) Project Delivery
16 47 (8.88%) Roadmaps
17 46 (8.70%) Containerisation
18 42 (7.94%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 85 (16.07%) Java
2 83 (15.69%) SQL
3 76 (14.37%) JavaScript
4 74 (13.99%) C#
5 50 (9.45%) Python
6 44 (8.32%) TypeScript
7 8 (1.51%) Go
8 6 (1.13%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.76%) C++
9 4 (0.76%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.57%) Bash
10 3 (0.57%) Bicep
10 3 (0.57%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.57%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.38%) C
11 2 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.38%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.38%) Scala
11 2 (0.38%) VBA
12 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (6.62%) Security Cleared
2 33 (6.24%) BPSS Clearance
2 33 (6.24%) Degree
3 24 (4.54%) SC Cleared
4 22 (4.16%) PMI Certification
5 20 (3.78%) PMP
6 11 (2.08%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.70%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.13%) HND
9 5 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (0.76%) HNC
11 3 (0.57%) ACCA
11 3 (0.57%) CIMA
11 3 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.38%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.38%) SAFe Agilist
13 1 (0.19%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.19%) ISEB
13 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.19%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.24%) QA
2 28 (5.29%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.08%) PMO
4 8 (1.51%) SEPA
4 8 (1.51%) TARGET2
5 4 (0.76%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.76%) ISO 20022
6 3 (0.57%) SLA
6 3 (0.57%) WCAG
7 2 (0.38%) GDPR
7 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.19%) GxP
8 1 (0.19%) HL7
8 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.19%) ITGC
8 1 (0.19%) NIST
System Software
1 36 (6.81%) Docker
2 20 (3.78%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.19%) KVM
5 1 (0.19%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 52 (9.83%) Terraform
2 47 (8.88%) Kubernetes
3 16 (3.02%) Ansible
4 12 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (1.51%) SCCM
7 6 (1.13%) Grafana
7 6 (1.13%) Puppet
8 4 (0.76%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.57%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.57%) Rancher
10 2 (0.38%) Packer
11 1 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 91 (17.20%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.16%) SAP
3 16 (3.02%) Google
4 14 (2.65%) Salesforce
4 14 (2.65%) ServiceNow
5 13 (2.46%) Databricks
6 12 (2.27%) Siemens
7 10 (1.89%) Splunk
8 8 (1.51%) Adobe
8 8 (1.51%) New Relic
8 8 (1.51%) Oracle
9 7 (1.32%) Qualtrics
10 6 (1.13%) Sophos
11 5 (0.95%) Pega
11 5 (0.95%) SaltStack
12 4 (0.76%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.76%) IBM
12 4 (0.76%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.38%) Bloomberg
13 2 (0.38%) Cognos