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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -16 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 730 1,256 1,632
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 6.21% 24.40% 19.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.66% 26.88% 25.02%
Number of salaries quoted 537 348 873
10th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,563 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,500 £90,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -3.70%

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 8,432 4,672 6,522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 71.70% 90.77% 77.52%
Number of salaries quoted 6,452 2,275 4,424
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,250 £65,603
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -11 536 £67,249 +3.46% 237
Lancashire -6 79 £55,000 +9.88% 48
Cheshire -39 48 £55,000 -2.22% 51
Merseyside -26 43 £60,000 -4.00% 32
Cumbria -7 20 £47,500 -15.56% 5
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 40 (5.48%) Confluence
2 25 (3.42%) SharePoint
3 20 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.23%) Apache
5 5 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.68%) CMS
5 5 (0.68%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.41%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.41%) IIS
6 3 (0.41%) nginx
6 3 (0.41%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.41%) WordPress
7 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.27%) CICS
7 2 (0.27%) WinCC
8 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.14%) JBoss
8 1 (0.14%) PegaRULES
8 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.96%) Trello
5 5 (0.68%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.41%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.14%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 18 (2.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.55%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.41%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 246 (33.70%) Azure
2 174 (23.84%) AWS
3 95 (13.01%) Azure DevOps
4 55 (7.53%) Power Platform
5 45 (6.16%) Serverless
6 43 (5.89%) GCP
6 43 (5.89%) GitHub
6 43 (5.89%) SaaS
7 28 (3.84%) Microsoft 365
8 27 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (3.70%) Power Automate
9 24 (3.29%) dbt
10 22 (3.01%) Microsoft Copilot
11 20 (2.74%) PowerApps
12 19 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
13 18 (2.47%) Snowflake
14 15 (2.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 15 (2.05%) GitHub Copilot
15 13 (1.78%) Azure AI
15 13 (1.78%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.41%) TCP/IP
1 3 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (0.41%) Wireless
2 2 (0.27%) AMQP
2 2 (0.27%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.27%) HTTP
2 2 (0.27%) ZigBee
3 1 (0.14%) Broadband
3 1 (0.14%) CTI
3 1 (0.14%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (0.14%) iSCSI
3 1 (0.14%) LAN
3 1 (0.14%) LTE
3 1 (0.14%) Network Security
3 1 (0.14%) SAN
3 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.14%) SSL
3 1 (0.14%) VoIP
3 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (6.03%) Azure SQL Database
2 38 (5.21%) MongoDB
3 33 (4.52%) SQL Server
4 28 (3.84%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (3.56%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (3.56%) Power BI
6 19 (2.60%) NoSQL
7 15 (2.05%) DynamoDB
8 13 (1.78%) BigQuery
9 12 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (1.64%) MySQL
9 12 (1.64%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.37%) Data Lake
11 8 (1.10%) Big Data
12 7 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.68%) Metadata
14 4 (0.55%) Data Mining
14 4 (0.55%) Flink
15 3 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
15 3 (0.41%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 80 (10.96%) JIRA
2 58 (7.95%) Git
3 26 (3.56%) GitLab
4 19 (2.60%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.78%) Claude Code
5 13 (1.78%) JUnit
6 11 (1.51%) Postman
6 11 (1.51%) Spock
7 8 (1.10%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (0.82%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.55%) Maven
11 3 (0.41%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.41%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.27%) MSTest
12 2 (0.27%) NUnit
12 2 (0.27%) Selenium
12 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.27%) XCUITest
13 1 (0.14%) Vagrant
General
1 189 (25.89%) Social Skills
2 152 (20.82%) Finance
3 69 (9.45%) Public Sector
4 66 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (5.07%) Marketing
6 32 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 28 (3.84%) Retail
8 25 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
9 20 (2.74%) Law
10 18 (2.47%) Games
11 17 (2.33%) Legal
12 16 (2.19%) Banking
13 14 (1.92%) Advertising
14 12 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (1.64%) Telecoms
15 11 (1.51%) Aerospace
16 9 (1.23%) Manufacturing
17 8 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
17 8 (1.10%) Local Government
17 8 (1.10%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 158 (21.64%) Senior
2 154 (21.10%) Developer
3 79 (10.82%) Software Engineer
4 55 (7.53%) Lead
4 55 (7.53%) Project Manager
4 55 (7.53%) Senior Developer
5 44 (6.03%) .NET Developer
5 44 (6.03%) Analyst
6 42 (5.75%) Business Analyst
7 36 (4.93%) Data Engineer
8 35 (4.79%) Delivery Manager
9 31 (4.25%) Engineering Manager
10 28 (3.84%) Architect
11 27 (3.70%) Java Developer
12 26 (3.56%) Product Owner
13 23 (3.15%) IT Manager
14 22 (3.01%) Senior Manager
14 22 (3.01%) Software Developer
15 21 (2.88%) Lead Software Engineer
15 21 (2.88%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (13.84%) .NET
2 60 (8.22%) HTML
3 52 (7.12%) CSS
4 48 (6.58%) Node.js
5 45 (6.16%) ASP.NET
6 44 (6.03%) Spring
7 42 (5.75%) .NET Core
7 42 (5.75%) React
8 41 (5.62%) AngularJS
9 38 (5.21%) ASP.NET Core
10 32 (4.38%) RESTful
11 30 (4.11%) REST
11 30 (4.11%) Spring Boot
12 19 (2.60%) Entity Framework
13 15 (2.05%) Blazor
13 15 (2.05%) Kafka
13 15 (2.05%) Vue
14 13 (1.78%) ASP.NET Web API
14 13 (1.78%) ML.NET
15 12 (1.64%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 91 (12.47%) Product Ownership
2 56 (7.67%) Cloud Native
3 31 (4.25%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
6 23 (3.15%) Driving Licence
7 19 (2.60%) Mobile App
8 16 (2.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (1.92%) Onboarding
10 12 (1.64%) Marketing Technology
10 12 (1.64%) Private Cloud
11 10 (1.37%) PMI
12 9 (1.23%) Management Information System
13 7 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (0.96%) Social Network
13 7 (0.96%) Virtual Team
14 6 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (0.82%) Social Media
15 5 (0.68%) Cyber Defence
15 5 (0.68%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.56%) Linux
2 11 (1.51%) Windows
3 6 (0.82%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.68%) Android
5 4 (0.55%) Unix
6 2 (0.27%) CentOS
6 2 (0.27%) Debian
6 2 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
6 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.27%) VMS
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (31.37%) DevOps
2 224 (30.68%) CI/CD
3 188 (25.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 162 (22.19%) Scrum
5 139 (19.04%) Software Engineering
6 138 (18.90%) AI
7 129 (17.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 119 (16.30%) Mentoring
9 109 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
10 90 (12.33%) Coaching
11 87 (11.92%) Roadmaps
12 86 (11.78%) TDD
13 84 (11.51%) Test Automation
14 83 (11.37%) Full-Stack Development
15 78 (10.68%) Microservices
16 70 (9.59%) Decision-Making
17 67 (9.18%) Kanban
17 67 (9.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 65 (8.90%) Project Management
19 64 (8.77%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 168 (23.01%) SQL
2 124 (16.99%) Java
3 109 (14.93%) Python
4 106 (14.52%) JavaScript
5 101 (13.84%) C#
6 37 (5.07%) TypeScript
7 16 (2.19%) Go
8 13 (1.78%) C++
9 12 (1.64%) Bash
10 10 (1.37%) PHP
10 10 (1.37%) PowerShell
11 7 (0.96%) Apex Code
12 6 (0.82%) C
12 6 (0.82%) Groovy
13 5 (0.68%) SOQL
14 4 (0.55%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.55%) SOSL
14 4 (0.55%) Swift
15 3 (0.41%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 68 (9.32%) Degree
2 65 (8.90%) Security Cleared
3 51 (6.99%) SC Cleared
4 24 (3.29%) DV Cleared
5 23 (3.15%) PMI Certification
6 19 (2.60%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.92%) PMP
9 10 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (1.37%) DBS Check
10 9 (1.23%) AWS Certification
10 9 (1.23%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.55%) HNC
13 4 (0.55%) MBA
13 4 (0.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 3 (0.41%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.27%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (6.03%) QA
2 43 (5.89%) Data Quality
3 23 (3.15%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.51%) GDPR
4 11 (1.51%) PMO
5 7 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (0.96%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.68%) SLA
7 2 (0.27%) GRC
7 2 (0.27%) IEC 61131
7 2 (0.27%) IEC 61508
7 2 (0.27%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.27%) WCAG
8 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.14%) ITGC
8 1 (0.14%) NIST
8 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 65 (8.90%) Docker
2 3 (0.41%) Ceph
3 2 (0.27%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.14%) Firmware
4 1 (0.14%) NFS
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 76 (10.41%) Terraform
2 64 (8.77%) Kubernetes
3 29 (3.97%) Ansible
4 12 (1.64%) Argo
5 10 (1.37%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.96%) Grafana
7 4 (0.55%) Istio
8 3 (0.41%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.41%) Podman
8 3 (0.41%) Puppet
9 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.27%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.14%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.14%) linkerd
10 1 (0.14%) Nagios
10 1 (0.14%) Packer
10 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 136 (18.63%) Microsoft
2 26 (3.56%) ServiceNow
3 22 (3.01%) Databricks
3 22 (3.01%) Salesforce
4 21 (2.88%) Google
5 20 (2.74%) Oracle
6 18 (2.47%) Splunk
7 14 (1.92%) SAP
8 11 (1.51%) AppDynamics
9 9 (1.23%) Adobe
10 7 (0.96%) Pega
11 6 (0.82%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.55%) IBM
12 4 (0.55%) NEC
12 4 (0.55%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.41%) BiZZdesign
13 3 (0.41%) Cognos
13 3 (0.41%) Dell
13 3 (0.41%) LogicMonitor
13 3 (0.41%) Siemens