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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -15 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 632 1,286 2,113
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.79% 27.21% 18.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.27% 28.82% 23.93%
Number of salaries quoted 490 363 1,423
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,325 £38,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% +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 7,639 4,462 8,830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 69.97% 94.41% 78.52%
Number of salaries quoted 5,863 2,055 6,667
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,900
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,350 £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 21 June 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 June 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 -11 471 £65,000 - 143
Lancashire -10 66 £55,000 +8.08% 55
Cheshire -42 41 £55,000 +15.79% 27
Merseyside -36 33 £55,000 -15.06% 10
Cumbria -12 17 £47,500 -13.64% 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 42 (6.65%) Confluence
2 17 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.95%) CMS
5 5 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.63%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.63%) WordPress
7 3 (0.47%) Apache
7 3 (0.47%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.47%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.32%) CICS
8 2 (0.32%) nginx
8 2 (0.32%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.16%) IIS
9 1 (0.16%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 13 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.47%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.47%) Trello
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.16%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 14 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.47%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 197 (31.17%) Azure
2 148 (23.42%) AWS
3 70 (11.08%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (6.65%) Power Platform
5 41 (6.49%) SaaS
6 40 (6.33%) Serverless
7 32 (5.06%) GCP
8 29 (4.59%) GitHub
9 25 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (2.37%) Azure AKS
11 15 (2.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 15 (2.37%) Azure Service Bus
12 13 (2.06%) Anthropic Claude
12 13 (2.06%) Power Automate
13 12 (1.90%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (1.90%) dbt
13 12 (1.90%) PowerApps
14 11 (1.74%) Azure Functions
14 11 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.32%) AMQP
2 1 (0.16%) Broadband
2 1 (0.16%) HTTP
2 1 (0.16%) LTE
2 1 (0.16%) SSL
2 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (5.38%) MongoDB
2 28 (4.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 26 (4.11%) NoSQL
4 25 (3.96%) SQL Server
5 23 (3.64%) Power BI
6 22 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (2.22%) MySQL
9 9 (1.42%) BigQuery
9 9 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (1.42%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.27%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.27%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.95%) Big Data
12 4 (0.63%) Flink
12 4 (0.63%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (0.63%) GIS
12 4 (0.63%) Metadata
12 4 (0.63%) QGIS
13 3 (0.47%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 76 (12.03%) JIRA
2 42 (6.65%) Git
3 22 (3.48%) GitLab
4 19 (3.01%) Jenkins
5 15 (2.37%) Claude Code
6 11 (1.74%) Postman
7 8 (1.27%) JUnit
8 6 (0.95%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.95%) Spock
9 5 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.63%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.47%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.32%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.32%) Maven
12 2 (0.32%) MSTest
12 2 (0.32%) NUnit
12 2 (0.32%) Selenium
12 2 (0.32%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.32%) Vagrant
12 2 (0.32%) XCUITest
General
1 137 (21.68%) Finance
2 136 (21.52%) Social Skills
3 67 (10.60%) Public Sector
4 56 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (5.38%) Marketing
6 22 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (3.32%) Retail
8 20 (3.16%) Games
9 19 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (2.69%) Banking
11 12 (1.90%) Advertising
11 12 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.58%) Law
13 9 (1.42%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.11%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.95%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.95%) Publishing
16 5 (0.79%) Legal
16 5 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 145 (22.94%) Senior
2 124 (19.62%) Developer
3 76 (12.03%) Software Engineer
4 62 (9.81%) Lead
5 45 (7.12%) Senior Developer
6 44 (6.96%) Project Manager
7 41 (6.49%) Analyst
8 38 (6.01%) .NET Developer
9 31 (4.91%) Business Analyst
10 30 (4.75%) Java Developer
11 29 (4.59%) Data Engineer
12 26 (4.11%) Delivery Manager
13 25 (3.96%) Software Developer
14 24 (3.80%) IT Manager
15 23 (3.64%) Java Engineer
16 22 (3.48%) Lead Software Engineer
17 21 (3.32%) Engineering Manager
17 21 (3.32%) Senior Software Engineer
18 20 (3.16%) Architect
18 20 (3.16%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (14.24%) .NET
2 48 (7.59%) React
3 47 (7.44%) Node.js
4 44 (6.96%) HTML
5 41 (6.49%) CSS
6 39 (6.17%) Spring
7 36 (5.70%) AngularJS
8 35 (5.54%) .NET Core
8 35 (5.54%) ASP.NET
9 34 (5.38%) REST
10 33 (5.22%) RESTful
11 32 (5.06%) Spring Boot
12 25 (3.96%) ASP.NET Core
13 17 (2.69%) .NET Framework
14 16 (2.53%) Vue
15 15 (2.37%) Kafka
16 14 (2.22%) Entity Framework
17 10 (1.58%) Blazor
18 8 (1.27%) ML.NET
18 8 (1.27%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 74 (11.71%) Product Ownership
2 45 (7.12%) Cloud Native
3 29 (4.59%) Driving Licence
4 26 (4.11%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
6 22 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (2.22%) Mobile App
8 10 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (1.42%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.42%) PMI
10 8 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.27%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.27%) Marketing Technology
11 6 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.95%) Private Cloud
11 6 (0.95%) Social Network
11 6 (0.95%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.79%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.48%) Linux
2 12 (1.90%) Windows
3 4 (0.63%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.63%) Unix
4 3 (0.47%) Android
5 2 (0.32%) CentOS
5 2 (0.32%) Debian
5 2 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.32%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (29.75%) CI/CD
2 183 (28.96%) DevOps
3 149 (23.58%) Continuous Improvement
4 142 (22.47%) Scrum
5 116 (18.35%) Software Engineering
6 104 (16.46%) Mentoring
7 102 (16.14%) Stakeholder Management
8 94 (14.87%) Coaching
9 89 (14.08%) AI
10 85 (13.45%) Problem-Solving
10 85 (13.45%) TDD
11 76 (12.03%) Roadmaps
12 74 (11.71%) Microservices
13 73 (11.55%) Full-Stack Development
14 69 (10.92%) Test Automation
15 64 (10.13%) Project Management
16 63 (9.97%) Decision-Making
16 63 (9.97%) Kanban
17 54 (8.54%) Infrastructure as Code
18 53 (8.39%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 138 (21.84%) SQL
2 120 (18.99%) Java
3 88 (13.92%) JavaScript
4 87 (13.77%) Python
5 81 (12.82%) C#
6 31 (4.91%) TypeScript
7 11 (1.74%) Bash
8 10 (1.58%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.42%) C++
10 6 (0.95%) Apex Code
10 6 (0.95%) Go
10 6 (0.95%) PHP
11 5 (0.79%) Groovy
11 5 (0.79%) SOQL
12 4 (0.63%) SOSL
13 3 (0.47%) C
13 3 (0.47%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.47%) Scala
14 2 (0.32%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 62 (9.81%) Security Cleared
2 49 (7.75%) SC Cleared
3 34 (5.38%) Degree
4 19 (3.01%) DV Cleared
5 18 (2.85%) PMI Certification
6 13 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.58%) PMP
8 9 (1.42%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.11%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.95%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (0.79%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.32%) CSPO
14 2 (0.32%) HND
14 2 (0.32%) MBA
14 2 (0.32%) RIBA
14 2 (0.32%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.75%) QA
2 25 (3.96%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.32%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.27%) GDPR
5 7 (1.11%) PMO
6 4 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.63%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.63%) SLA
7 2 (0.32%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.32%) WCAG
8 1 (0.16%) GRC
8 1 (0.16%) ITGC
8 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 46 (7.28%) Docker
2 2 (0.32%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 72 (11.39%) Terraform
2 54 (8.54%) Kubernetes
3 23 (3.64%) Ansible
4 9 (1.42%) Argo
5 7 (1.11%) Grafana
5 7 (1.11%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.63%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.63%) Puppet
7 2 (0.32%) Packer
7 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.16%) Istio
8 1 (0.16%) linkerd
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.16%) Rancher
Vendors
1 112 (17.72%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.27%) ServiceNow
3 21 (3.32%) Databricks
4 20 (3.16%) Salesforce
5 17 (2.69%) Oracle
6 16 (2.53%) SAP
7 12 (1.90%) Google
7 12 (1.90%) Splunk
8 9 (1.42%) Adobe
9 6 (0.95%) AppDynamics
10 5 (0.79%) Pega
11 4 (0.63%) Siemens
12 3 (0.47%) Cognos
12 3 (0.47%) Facebook
12 3 (0.47%) IBM
12 3 (0.47%) LogicMonitor
13 2 (0.32%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.32%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.32%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.32%) WSO2