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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 1 2
Rank change year-on-year -17 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 609 1,299 2,073
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.71% 27.66% 19.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.26% 29.15% 24.15%
Number of salaries quoted 468 359 1,404
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,725 £38,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,038 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -6.50%

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 7,374 4,457 8,584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 69.12% 94.91% 79.06%
Number of salaries quoted 5,627 2,031 6,513
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 11 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 11 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 -10 450 £65,000 - 208
Lancashire -14 61 £55,000 +8.08% 73
Cheshire -32 45 £55,000 +15.79% 27
Merseyside -34 31 £55,000 -15.06% 9
Cumbria -14 18 £49,500 -10.00% 4
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 39 (6.40%) Confluence
2 16 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (0.82%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.82%) CMS
5 4 (0.66%) Apache
5 4 (0.66%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.66%) WordPress
6 3 (0.49%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.33%) CICS
7 2 (0.33%) nginx
7 2 (0.33%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.16%) IIS
8 1 (0.16%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 11 (1.81%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.33%) 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 11 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.49%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 195 (32.02%) Azure
2 144 (23.65%) AWS
3 59 (9.69%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (6.73%) SaaS
5 38 (6.24%) Power Platform
5 38 (6.24%) Serverless
6 32 (5.25%) GCP
7 27 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
8 23 (3.78%) GitHub
9 22 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (2.63%) Azure AKS
11 14 (2.30%) Azure Service Bus
12 13 (2.13%) Anthropic Claude
12 13 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 12 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (1.97%) dbt
14 11 (1.81%) Azure Logic Apps
15 10 (1.64%) Azure Functions
16 9 (1.48%) Microsoft Copilot
17 8 (1.31%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.49%) AMQP
2 2 (0.33%) HTTP
2 2 (0.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.16%) 4G
3 1 (0.16%) Broadband
3 1 (0.16%) DNS
3 1 (0.16%) LAN
3 1 (0.16%) LTE
3 1 (0.16%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.16%) SSL
3 1 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (5.09%) SQL Server
2 29 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 29 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 22 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (3.61%) Power BI
4 21 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (2.63%) MySQL
6 14 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (1.64%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.48%) BigQuery
9 8 (1.31%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (1.15%) Big Data
10 7 (1.15%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.82%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.66%) Flink
12 4 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (0.66%) GIS
12 4 (0.66%) Metadata
12 4 (0.66%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 70 (11.49%) JIRA
2 42 (6.90%) Git
3 21 (3.45%) GitLab
4 18 (2.96%) Jenkins
5 14 (2.30%) Claude Code
6 10 (1.64%) Postman
7 6 (0.99%) JUnit
8 4 (0.66%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.66%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.66%) Spock
9 3 (0.49%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.33%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.33%) Maven
10 2 (0.33%) MSTest
10 2 (0.33%) NUnit
10 2 (0.33%) Selenium
10 2 (0.33%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.33%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 132 (21.67%) Social Skills
2 129 (21.18%) Finance
3 65 (10.67%) Public Sector
4 54 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (5.09%) Marketing
6 26 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.96%) Games
8 17 (2.79%) Banking
8 17 (2.79%) Retail
9 14 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.81%) Advertising
10 11 (1.81%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.48%) Law
12 8 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.15%) Aerospace
13 7 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.99%) Publishing
14 6 (0.99%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.82%) Legal
16 4 (0.66%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 145 (23.81%) Senior
2 118 (19.38%) Developer
3 78 (12.81%) Software Engineer
4 73 (11.99%) Lead
5 44 (7.22%) Analyst
5 44 (7.22%) Project Manager
5 44 (7.22%) Senior Developer
6 34 (5.58%) .NET Developer
7 33 (5.42%) Business Analyst
8 30 (4.93%) Java Developer
8 30 (4.93%) Software Developer
9 29 (4.76%) Data Engineer
10 25 (4.11%) Lead Software Engineer
11 24 (3.94%) Delivery Manager
12 23 (3.78%) Java Engineer
13 22 (3.61%) IT Manager
14 20 (3.28%) Cloud Engineer
14 20 (3.28%) Senior Data Engineer
14 20 (3.28%) Senior Software Engineer
15 19 (3.12%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (14.94%) .NET
2 47 (7.72%) React
3 46 (7.55%) Node.js
4 38 (6.24%) CSS
4 38 (6.24%) HTML
5 36 (5.91%) Spring
6 35 (5.75%) REST
7 34 (5.58%) .NET Core
7 34 (5.58%) ASP.NET
8 33 (5.42%) AngularJS
9 32 (5.25%) RESTful
10 31 (5.09%) Spring Boot
11 25 (4.11%) .NET Framework
12 18 (2.96%) ASP.NET Core
13 15 (2.46%) Vue
14 13 (2.13%) Kafka
15 11 (1.81%) Entity Framework
16 8 (1.31%) PySpark
16 8 (1.31%) Web Services
17 7 (1.15%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 67 (11.00%) Product Ownership
2 39 (6.40%) Cloud Native
3 27 (4.43%) Driving Licence
4 26 (4.27%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (2.13%) Mobile App
8 9 (1.48%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.31%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.31%) PMI
10 7 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
11 6 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (0.99%) Low-Code
11 6 (0.99%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.82%) Social Network
13 4 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (0.66%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (3.45%) Linux
2 13 (2.13%) Windows
3 4 (0.66%) Unix
4 3 (0.49%) Android
4 3 (0.49%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.49%) CentOS
4 3 (0.49%) Debian
4 3 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.49%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.33%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (27.75%) CI/CD
2 164 (26.93%) DevOps
3 135 (22.17%) Scrum
4 133 (21.84%) Continuous Improvement
5 116 (19.05%) Software Engineering
6 104 (17.08%) Mentoring
7 92 (15.11%) Stakeholder Management
8 91 (14.94%) Coaching
9 79 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
9 79 (12.97%) TDD
10 77 (12.64%) AI
11 74 (12.15%) Microservices
12 67 (11.00%) Full-Stack Development
12 67 (11.00%) Roadmaps
13 66 (10.84%) Project Management
14 64 (10.51%) Test Automation
15 60 (9.85%) Kanban
16 58 (9.52%) Decision-Making
17 53 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 52 (8.54%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 137 (22.50%) SQL
2 118 (19.38%) Java
3 86 (14.12%) Python
4 81 (13.30%) JavaScript
5 77 (12.64%) C#
6 28 (4.60%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.48%) C++
8 7 (1.15%) Bash
8 7 (1.15%) PowerShell
9 6 (0.99%) Apex Code
10 5 (0.82%) Go
10 5 (0.82%) Groovy
10 5 (0.82%) PHP
10 5 (0.82%) SOQL
11 4 (0.66%) SOSL
12 3 (0.49%) C
12 3 (0.49%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.49%) Scala
13 2 (0.33%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 56 (9.20%) Security Cleared
2 45 (7.39%) SC Cleared
3 28 (4.60%) Degree
4 19 (3.12%) DV Cleared
4 19 (3.12%) PMI Certification
5 16 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.97%) PMP
7 8 (1.31%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.82%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.66%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.33%) Chartered Engineer
10 2 (0.33%) HND
10 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.33%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 2 (0.33%) RIBA
10 2 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.16%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.43%) QA
2 24 (3.94%) Data Quality
3 19 (3.12%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.31%) PMO
5 6 (0.99%) GDPR
6 2 (0.33%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.33%) SLA
6 2 (0.33%) WCAG
7 1 (0.16%) GRC
7 1 (0.16%) ITGC
7 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 39 (6.40%) Docker
2 6 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 74 (12.15%) Terraform
2 51 (8.37%) Kubernetes
3 24 (3.94%) Ansible
4 6 (0.99%) Argo
5 5 (0.82%) Grafana
5 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.82%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.82%) Puppet
5 5 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.66%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.33%) Packer
7 2 (0.33%) Rancher
8 1 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 110 (18.06%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.11%) ServiceNow
3 23 (3.78%) Salesforce
4 21 (3.45%) Databricks
5 16 (2.63%) SAP
6 15 (2.46%) Oracle
7 12 (1.97%) Google
8 11 (1.81%) Splunk
9 8 (1.31%) Adobe
10 6 (0.99%) Siemens
11 5 (0.82%) Pega
12 4 (0.66%) AppDynamics
12 4 (0.66%) New Relic
13 3 (0.49%) Cognos
13 3 (0.49%) IBM
13 3 (0.49%) LogicMonitor
13 3 (0.49%) Red Hat
13 3 (0.49%) SaltStack
14 2 (0.33%) Atlassian
14 2 (0.33%) Facebook