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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -18 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 635 1,289 2,058
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.79% 26.99% 18.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.23% 28.68% 23.97%
Number of salaries quoted 495 364 1,357
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,960 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £93,750 £93,778 £88,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -5.38%

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 7,714 4,494 8,585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 70.40% 94.10% 78.96%
Number of salaries quoted 5,922 2,079 6,441
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,750
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 £82,751 £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 26 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 26 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 -12 469 £66,375 +2.12% 161
Lancashire -9 69 £55,000 +8.08% 58
Cheshire -37 43 £55,000 +15.79% 30
Merseyside -36 33 £55,000 -14.73% 9
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 (6.61%) Confluence
2 17 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.94%) 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%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.31%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.31%) CICS
8 2 (0.31%) nginx
8 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.16%) IIS
9 1 (0.16%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 13 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.10%) 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 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.47%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 202 (31.81%) Azure
2 151 (23.78%) AWS
3 72 (11.34%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (6.93%) Power Platform
5 40 (6.30%) SaaS
5 40 (6.30%) Serverless
6 33 (5.20%) GCP
7 30 (4.72%) GitHub
8 25 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (3.62%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (2.36%) Azure AKS
10 15 (2.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 15 (2.36%) Azure Service Bus
10 15 (2.36%) Power Automate
11 14 (2.20%) dbt
12 13 (2.05%) Anthropic Claude
12 13 (2.05%) PowerApps
13 12 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (1.89%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.31%) AMQP
1 2 (0.31%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.16%) Broadband
2 1 (0.16%) LTE
2 1 (0.16%) SSL
2 1 (0.16%) VPN
2 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.16%) Wireless
2 1 (0.16%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (5.51%) MongoDB
2 31 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 26 (4.09%) SQL Server
4 25 (3.94%) NoSQL
5 24 (3.78%) Power BI
6 22 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (2.20%) MySQL
9 10 (1.57%) BigQuery
10 9 (1.42%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.42%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.26%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.79%) Big Data
13 4 (0.63%) Flink
13 4 (0.63%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (0.63%) GIS
13 4 (0.63%) Metadata
13 4 (0.63%) QGIS
14 3 (0.47%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 75 (11.81%) JIRA
2 41 (6.46%) Git
3 22 (3.46%) GitLab
4 19 (2.99%) Jenkins
5 15 (2.36%) Claude Code
6 11 (1.73%) Postman
7 7 (1.10%) JUnit
8 6 (0.94%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.94%) Spock
9 5 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.63%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.47%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.31%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.31%) Maven
12 2 (0.31%) MSTest
12 2 (0.31%) NUnit
12 2 (0.31%) Selenium
12 2 (0.31%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.31%) Vagrant
12 2 (0.31%) XCUITest
General
1 137 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 136 (21.42%) Finance
3 69 (10.87%) Public Sector
4 54 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (5.35%) Marketing
6 21 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (3.31%) Retail
7 20 (3.15%) Games
7 20 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (2.68%) Banking
9 13 (2.05%) Advertising
10 12 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.57%) Law
12 9 (1.42%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.10%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.94%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.94%) Publishing
15 5 (0.79%) Legal
15 5 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 145 (22.83%) Senior
2 128 (20.16%) Developer
3 77 (12.13%) Software Engineer
4 61 (9.61%) Lead
5 45 (7.09%) Senior Developer
6 44 (6.93%) Project Manager
7 42 (6.61%) Analyst
8 40 (6.30%) .NET Developer
9 32 (5.04%) Business Analyst
10 30 (4.72%) Data Engineer
10 30 (4.72%) Java Developer
11 26 (4.09%) Delivery Manager
12 25 (3.94%) Software Developer
13 24 (3.78%) IT Manager
14 23 (3.62%) Java Engineer
15 22 (3.46%) Engineering Manager
15 22 (3.46%) Lead Software Engineer
16 21 (3.31%) Architect
16 21 (3.31%) Senior Software Engineer
17 20 (3.15%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (14.65%) .NET
2 48 (7.56%) React
3 47 (7.40%) Node.js
4 44 (6.93%) HTML
5 41 (6.46%) CSS
6 38 (5.98%) Spring
7 37 (5.83%) .NET Core
7 37 (5.83%) ASP.NET
8 35 (5.51%) AngularJS
9 33 (5.20%) REST
9 33 (5.20%) RESTful
10 31 (4.88%) Spring Boot
11 27 (4.25%) ASP.NET Core
12 17 (2.68%) .NET Framework
13 16 (2.52%) Vue
14 14 (2.20%) Entity Framework
14 14 (2.20%) Kafka
15 11 (1.73%) Blazor
16 10 (1.57%) ML.NET
17 8 (1.26%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 73 (11.50%) Product Ownership
2 46 (7.24%) Cloud Native
3 29 (4.57%) Driving Licence
4 25 (3.94%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
6 22 (3.46%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (2.20%) Mobile App
8 11 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (1.42%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.42%) PMI
10 8 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.26%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.26%) Marketing Technology
11 7 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.10%) Social Network
11 7 (1.10%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.94%) Private Cloud
13 5 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (0.79%) Low-Code
14 4 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.62%) Linux
2 12 (1.89%) Windows
3 4 (0.63%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.63%) Unix
4 3 (0.47%) Android
5 2 (0.31%) CentOS
5 2 (0.31%) Debian
5 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.31%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.31%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (30.24%) CI/CD
2 185 (29.13%) DevOps
3 155 (24.41%) Continuous Improvement
4 141 (22.20%) Scrum
5 119 (18.74%) Software Engineering
6 108 (17.01%) Mentoring
7 104 (16.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 95 (14.96%) Coaching
9 92 (14.49%) AI
10 87 (13.70%) TDD
11 84 (13.23%) Problem-Solving
12 78 (12.28%) Roadmaps
13 74 (11.65%) Full-Stack Development
14 73 (11.50%) Microservices
15 70 (11.02%) Test Automation
16 64 (10.08%) Decision-Making
17 63 (9.92%) Kanban
17 63 (9.92%) Project Management
18 55 (8.66%) Infrastructure as Code
19 54 (8.50%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 142 (22.36%) SQL
2 119 (18.74%) Java
3 90 (14.17%) Python
4 89 (14.02%) JavaScript
5 86 (13.54%) C#
6 30 (4.72%) TypeScript
7 11 (1.73%) Bash
8 10 (1.57%) C++
8 10 (1.57%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.10%) Go
10 6 (0.94%) Apex Code
10 6 (0.94%) PHP
11 5 (0.79%) Groovy
11 5 (0.79%) SOQL
12 4 (0.63%) C
12 4 (0.63%) SOSL
13 3 (0.47%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.31%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.31%) Swift
14 2 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (9.45%) Security Cleared
2 48 (7.56%) SC Cleared
3 36 (5.67%) Degree
4 18 (2.83%) DV Cleared
4 18 (2.83%) PMI Certification
5 13 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.57%) PMP
7 9 (1.42%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.10%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.94%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.94%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.31%) CSPO
13 2 (0.31%) HND
13 2 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 2 (0.31%) RIBA
13 2 (0.31%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.04%) QA
2 25 (3.94%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.31%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.42%) GDPR
5 7 (1.10%) PMO
6 5 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.79%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.63%) SLA
8 2 (0.31%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.31%) WCAG
9 1 (0.16%) GRC
9 1 (0.16%) ITGC
9 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 49 (7.72%) Docker
2 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.16%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 74 (11.65%) Terraform
2 55 (8.66%) Kubernetes
3 23 (3.62%) Ansible
4 9 (1.42%) Argo
5 7 (1.10%) Grafana
5 7 (1.10%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.63%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.63%) Puppet
7 2 (0.31%) Packer
8 1 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.16%) Istio
8 1 (0.16%) linkerd
8 1 (0.16%) Rancher
8 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 117 (18.43%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.25%) ServiceNow
3 20 (3.15%) Databricks
3 20 (3.15%) Salesforce
4 18 (2.83%) Oracle
5 16 (2.52%) SAP
6 11 (1.73%) Google
6 11 (1.73%) Splunk
7 9 (1.42%) Adobe
8 6 (0.94%) AppDynamics
9 5 (0.79%) Pega
10 4 (0.63%) Siemens
11 3 (0.47%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (0.47%) Cognos
11 3 (0.47%) Facebook
11 3 (0.47%) IBM
11 3 (0.47%) LogicMonitor
12 2 (0.31%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.31%) SaltStack
12 2 (0.31%) WSO2