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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -19 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 481 1,236 971
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 9.63% 18.13% 25.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.42% 21.68% 27.37%
Number of salaries quoted 307 462 699
10th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £41,227
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,000 £77,542
90th Percentile £84,650 £85,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - - +3.63%

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 4,213 5,700 3,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 84.33% 83.60% 94.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,433 2,858 2,686
10th Percentile £27,050 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +3.54%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £84,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025. 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 -5 319 £62,500 +4.17% 162
Cheshire -8 73 £55,000 +10.00% 45
Lancashire -20 44 £47,592 -13.14% 119
Merseyside -14 33 £57,500 +2.22% 9
Cumbria -10 11 £57,500 +3.14% 10
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 20 (4.16%) Confluence
2 15 (3.12%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.46%) CMS
4 5 (1.04%) Apache
5 3 (0.62%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.62%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.62%) Magnolia
5 3 (0.62%) nginx
5 3 (0.62%) WordPress
6 2 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.42%) IIS
6 2 (0.42%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.21%) Umbraco
Applications
1 20 (4.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.46%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.62%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.62%) Sketch
6 3 (0.62%) Trello
7 2 (0.42%) Simulink
8 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.21%) InVision
Business Applications
1 9 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.21%) Magento
4 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.21%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 138 (28.69%) Azure
2 124 (25.78%) AWS
3 44 (9.15%) Power Platform
3 44 (9.15%) SaaS
4 38 (7.90%) GCP
5 29 (6.03%) Serverless
6 22 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
9 16 (3.33%) GitHub
9 16 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (2.49%) Figma
11 10 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (1.87%) PaaS
13 8 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (1.66%) Power Automate
14 7 (1.46%) Azure Functions
14 7 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.46%) Firewall
2 4 (0.83%) HTTP
2 4 (0.83%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.62%) SSH
3 3 (0.62%) Wireless
4 2 (0.42%) AMQP
4 2 (0.42%) DNS
4 2 (0.42%) OpenVPN
4 2 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (6.44%) SQL Server
2 26 (5.41%) Power BI
3 25 (5.20%) NoSQL
4 22 (4.57%) MongoDB
5 13 (2.70%) MySQL
6 11 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (1.66%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.66%) DynamoDB
7 8 (1.66%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.46%) Redis
9 4 (0.83%) Big Data
9 4 (0.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.62%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.62%) Hazelcast
10 3 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 41 (8.52%) JIRA
2 31 (6.44%) Git
3 14 (2.91%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.70%) GitLab
5 10 (2.08%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.83%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.83%) JMeter
6 4 (0.83%) Selenium
7 3 (0.62%) Gatling
7 3 (0.62%) JIRA Agile
7 3 (0.62%) JUnit
7 3 (0.62%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.42%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.42%) webpack
9 1 (0.21%) Appium
9 1 (0.21%) Maven
9 1 (0.21%) NUnit
9 1 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.21%) Sinon.JS
General
1 152 (31.60%) Social Skills
2 136 (28.27%) Finance
3 56 (11.64%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (8.32%) Public Sector
5 28 (5.82%) Marketing
6 22 (4.57%) Banking
7 21 (4.37%) Local Government
8 20 (4.16%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (3.74%) Law
9 18 (3.74%) Manufacturing
10 17 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (3.33%) Retail
12 11 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (2.29%) Telecoms
13 10 (2.08%) Games
14 9 (1.87%) Electronics
15 8 (1.66%) Financial Institution
16 7 (1.46%) Avionics
17 6 (1.25%) Billing
18 5 (1.04%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 127 (26.40%) Senior
2 120 (24.95%) Developer
3 66 (13.72%) Lead
4 43 (8.94%) Analyst
5 41 (8.52%) Senior Developer
6 30 (6.24%) Project Manager
6 30 (6.24%) Senior Manager
7 29 (6.03%) Architect
7 29 (6.03%) Software Engineer
8 23 (4.78%) Solutions Architect
9 22 (4.57%) Java Developer
10 20 (4.16%) Audit Manager
10 20 (4.16%) Senior Audit Manager
11 19 (3.95%) Software Developer
12 18 (3.74%) Business Analyst
13 17 (3.53%) .NET Developer
13 17 (3.53%) Systems Engineer
14 16 (3.33%) Backend Developer
15 15 (3.12%) AWS Architect
15 15 (3.12%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (15.18%) .NET
2 62 (12.89%) React
3 38 (7.90%) CSS
4 35 (7.28%) HTML
5 27 (5.61%) AngularJS
5 27 (5.61%) Spring Boot
6 26 (5.41%) REST
6 26 (5.41%) Spring
7 25 (5.20%) Node.js
7 25 (5.20%) RESTful
8 22 (4.57%) .NET Core
8 22 (4.57%) .NET Framework
9 18 (3.74%) ASP.NET
9 18 (3.74%) Kafka
10 10 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (1.87%) Jest
11 9 (1.87%) Web Services
12 8 (1.66%) CSS3
12 8 (1.66%) Entity Framework
12 8 (1.66%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.73%) Cloud Native
2 40 (8.32%) Product Ownership
3 25 (5.20%) Management Information System
4 20 (4.16%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (3.74%) Mobile App
6 16 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (2.91%) Social Media
8 11 (2.29%) IoT
9 10 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.87%) Driving Licence
11 8 (1.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 7 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (1.25%) e-Learning
14 5 (1.04%) Animation
14 5 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (1.04%) Onboarding
15 4 (0.83%) Data Centre
16 3 (0.62%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.03%) Windows
2 14 (2.91%) Linux
3 10 (2.08%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.04%) Android
5 4 (0.83%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.62%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.42%) CentOS
7 2 (0.42%) Debian
7 2 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.42%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (24.53%) CI/CD
2 116 (24.12%) DevOps
3 109 (22.66%) Continuous Improvement
4 105 (21.83%) Problem-Solving
5 86 (17.88%) Coaching
6 85 (17.67%) Mentoring
7 75 (15.59%) Software Engineering
8 64 (13.31%) Microservices
9 62 (12.89%) Roadmaps
10 61 (12.68%) Scrum
11 58 (12.06%) User Experience
12 50 (10.40%) Containerisation
12 50 (10.40%) Stakeholder Management
13 49 (10.19%) Project Management
14 48 (9.98%) Project Delivery
15 47 (9.77%) Clean Code
16 45 (9.36%) Full-Stack Development
17 41 (8.52%) SDLC
18 40 (8.32%) Test Automation
19 39 (8.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 77 (16.01%) C#
2 66 (13.72%) JavaScript
3 65 (13.51%) Java
4 62 (12.89%) SQL
5 51 (10.60%) TypeScript
6 41 (8.52%) Python
7 13 (2.70%) Go
8 10 (2.08%) MATLAB
9 9 (1.87%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.66%) Elixir
10 8 (1.66%) PHP
10 8 (1.66%) Ruby
11 7 (1.46%) Bash
12 4 (0.83%) Bicep
12 4 (0.83%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.42%) C
14 2 (0.42%) C++
14 2 (0.42%) Objective-C
14 2 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 60 (12.47%) Degree
2 32 (6.65%) Security Cleared
3 30 (6.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 27 (5.61%) ACCA
5 22 (4.57%) SC Cleared
6 15 (3.12%) DBS Check
7 12 (2.49%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.08%) AWS Certification
8 10 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.08%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.08%) PMP
9 9 (1.87%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.66%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.46%) CIMA
12 4 (0.83%) HNC
12 4 (0.83%) HND
13 3 (0.62%) CCNA
13 3 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (7.48%) QA
2 26 (5.41%) Accessibility
3 20 (4.16%) GAAP
3 20 (4.16%) IFRS
4 10 (2.08%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.87%) GDPR
5 9 (1.87%) PMO
6 8 (1.66%) NIST
6 8 (1.66%) SEPA
6 8 (1.66%) TARGET2
7 7 (1.46%) HIPAA
8 6 (1.25%) SLA
9 4 (0.83%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.42%) WCAG
11 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.21%) HL7
11 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 58 (12.06%) Docker
2 18 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.21%) HDFS
4 1 (0.21%) KVM
4 1 (0.21%) QEMU
4 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 53 (11.02%) Kubernetes
2 41 (8.52%) Terraform
3 10 (2.08%) Ansible
4 9 (1.87%) SCCM
5 8 (1.66%) Grafana
6 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.04%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.42%) Puppet
10 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 64 (13.31%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.78%) Google
3 17 (3.53%) SAP
4 16 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 11 (2.29%) ServiceNow
6 10 (2.08%) Databricks
7 8 (1.66%) Adobe
7 8 (1.66%) Splunk
8 6 (1.25%) Bloomberg
8 6 (1.25%) Facebook
8 6 (1.25%) Oracle
8 6 (1.25%) Qualtrics
8 6 (1.25%) Sophos
9 5 (1.04%) Siemens
9 5 (1.04%) UiPath
10 3 (0.62%) Aruba
10 3 (0.62%) Blue Prism
10 3 (0.62%) Cisco
10 3 (0.62%) Veeam
10 3 (0.62%) Zerto