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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 1 2
Rank change year-on-year -28 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 584 1,287 1,832
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.35% 28.50% 18.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.46% 29.78% 23.37%
Number of salaries quoted 443 350 1,402
10th Percentile £42,540 £42,500 £38,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £88,018 £93,778 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -6.99%

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 7,826 4,321 7,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 71.75% 95.68% 80.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,200 1,938 6,200
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £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 £72,500 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £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 26 May 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 May 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 -11 421 £65,000 - 252
Lancashire -27 63 £55,000 +8.08% 41
Cheshire -41 49 £55,000 +12.82% 22
Merseyside -33 29 £55,000 -15.38% 16
Cumbria -18 17 £51,500 +16.06% 3
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 41 (7.02%) Confluence
2 10 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.03%) CMS
4 5 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.68%) Apache
5 4 (0.68%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.68%) WordPress
6 3 (0.51%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.34%) CICS
7 2 (0.34%) nginx
7 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) IIS
8 1 (0.17%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 13 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.34%) Trello
5 1 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 11 (1.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.34%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 191 (32.71%) Azure
2 136 (23.29%) AWS
3 50 (8.56%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (7.02%) SaaS
5 39 (6.68%) Serverless
6 34 (5.82%) Power Platform
7 33 (5.65%) GCP
8 23 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (3.60%) GitHub
11 19 (3.25%) Azure AKS
12 15 (2.57%) Azure Service Bus
13 14 (2.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 13 (2.23%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (2.23%) Anthropic Claude
15 12 (2.05%) Azure Functions
15 12 (2.05%) Azure Logic Apps
16 10 (1.71%) dbt
17 8 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
17 8 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.68%) HTTP
2 3 (0.51%) AMQP
2 3 (0.51%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.34%) DNS
3 2 (0.34%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.17%) 4G
4 1 (0.17%) Broadband
4 1 (0.17%) LAN
4 1 (0.17%) LTE
4 1 (0.17%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.17%) SSL
4 1 (0.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (6.16%) SQL Server
2 31 (5.31%) NoSQL
3 27 (4.62%) MongoDB
4 22 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (3.08%) Power BI
6 16 (2.74%) MySQL
7 13 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (1.71%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.54%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.37%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.20%) DynamoDB
12 6 (1.03%) Big Data
12 6 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.86%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.68%) Flink
14 4 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (0.68%) GIS
14 4 (0.68%) Metadata
14 4 (0.68%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 70 (11.99%) JIRA
2 46 (7.88%) Git
3 23 (3.94%) GitLab
4 18 (3.08%) Jenkins
5 14 (2.40%) Claude Code
6 10 (1.71%) Postman
7 7 (1.20%) JUnit
8 4 (0.68%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.68%) Spock
9 3 (0.51%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.51%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.51%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.34%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.34%) Maven
10 2 (0.34%) MSTest
10 2 (0.34%) NUnit
10 2 (0.34%) Selenium
10 2 (0.34%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.34%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.34%) XCUITest
General
1 127 (21.75%) Social Skills
2 122 (20.89%) Finance
3 61 (10.45%) Public Sector
4 51 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (4.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (4.45%) Marketing
6 18 (3.08%) Banking
7 16 (2.74%) Games
8 12 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (2.05%) Manufacturing
8 12 (2.05%) Retail
9 10 (1.71%) Law
10 9 (1.54%) Advertising
10 9 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.03%) Publishing
13 5 (0.86%) Legal
14 4 (0.68%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.68%) Back Office
14 4 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 145 (24.83%) Senior
2 114 (19.52%) Developer
3 79 (13.53%) Lead
4 74 (12.67%) Software Engineer
5 48 (8.22%) Senior Developer
6 44 (7.53%) Project Manager
7 37 (6.34%) Analyst
8 32 (5.48%) Java Developer
9 31 (5.31%) .NET Developer
9 31 (5.31%) Software Developer
10 27 (4.62%) Business Analyst
11 26 (4.45%) Data Engineer
12 25 (4.28%) Lead Software Engineer
13 24 (4.11%) Delivery Manager
14 23 (3.94%) Java Engineer
15 22 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
16 21 (3.60%) Architect
16 21 (3.60%) IT Manager
17 20 (3.42%) Senior Data Engineer
18 19 (3.25%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (14.90%) .NET
2 49 (8.39%) React
3 41 (7.02%) Node.js
4 38 (6.51%) Spring
5 35 (5.99%) REST
6 34 (5.82%) AngularJS
6 34 (5.82%) RESTful
7 33 (5.65%) CSS
7 33 (5.65%) Spring Boot
8 32 (5.48%) HTML
9 31 (5.31%) .NET Core
10 30 (5.14%) ASP.NET
11 29 (4.97%) .NET Framework
12 14 (2.40%) Kafka
13 13 (2.23%) ASP.NET Core
14 12 (2.05%) Vue
15 8 (1.37%) Entity Framework
15 8 (1.37%) PySpark
15 8 (1.37%) Web Services
16 7 (1.20%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 62 (10.62%) Product Ownership
2 37 (6.34%) Cloud Native
3 25 (4.28%) Driving Licence
3 25 (4.28%) Enterprise Software
4 23 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.57%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (2.23%) Mobile App
7 10 (1.71%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.54%) Low-Code
9 8 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.37%) PMI
10 7 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.03%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
12 5 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.86%) Social Network
13 4 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (0.68%) Private Cloud
13 4 (0.68%) Public Cloud
13 4 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.25%) Linux
2 14 (2.40%) Windows
3 4 (0.68%) Unix
4 3 (0.51%) CentOS
4 3 (0.51%) Debian
4 3 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.51%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.51%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.34%) Android
5 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (28.94%) CI/CD
2 153 (26.20%) DevOps
3 131 (22.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 131 (22.43%) Scrum
4 111 (19.01%) Software Engineering
5 103 (17.64%) Mentoring
6 90 (15.41%) Coaching
7 77 (13.18%) Microservices
7 77 (13.18%) TDD
8 76 (13.01%) Problem-Solving
8 76 (13.01%) Stakeholder Management
9 66 (11.30%) Project Management
10 65 (11.13%) AI
10 65 (11.13%) Roadmaps
11 62 (10.62%) Full-Stack Development
12 60 (10.27%) Kanban
12 60 (10.27%) Test Automation
13 53 (9.08%) Decision-Making
14 50 (8.56%) Infrastructure as Code
14 50 (8.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 118 (20.21%) SQL
2 116 (19.86%) Java
3 78 (13.36%) Python
4 76 (13.01%) JavaScript
5 68 (11.64%) C#
6 32 (5.48%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.54%) C++
8 6 (1.03%) Bash
8 6 (1.03%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.86%) Apex Code
9 5 (0.86%) Groovy
9 5 (0.86%) SOQL
10 4 (0.68%) Go
10 4 (0.68%) SOSL
11 3 (0.51%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.34%) C
12 2 (0.34%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.34%) PHP
12 2 (0.34%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 50 (8.56%) Security Cleared
2 41 (7.02%) SC Cleared
3 27 (4.62%) Degree
4 21 (3.60%) PMI Certification
5 17 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (2.91%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.40%) PMP
7 8 (1.37%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.86%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.51%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.34%) Chartered Engineer
11 2 (0.34%) HND
11 2 (0.34%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.17%) ACCA
12 1 (0.17%) APMP
12 1 (0.17%) CAPM
12 1 (0.17%) CIPD
12 1 (0.17%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.28%) QA
2 23 (3.94%) Accessibility
3 21 (3.60%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.37%) PMO
5 3 (0.51%) GDPR
6 2 (0.34%) SLA
6 2 (0.34%) WCAG
7 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.17%) GRC
7 1 (0.17%) GxP
7 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 1 (0.17%) ITGC
7 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 45 (7.71%) Docker
2 9 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 76 (13.01%) Terraform
2 53 (9.08%) Kubernetes
3 26 (4.45%) Ansible
4 8 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (1.20%) Grafana
6 6 (1.03%) Puppet
6 6 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.86%) Argo
7 5 (0.86%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.86%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.51%) Rancher
9 2 (0.34%) Packer
9 2 (0.34%) SCCM
10 1 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 99 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.11%) ServiceNow
3 22 (3.77%) Salesforce
4 16 (2.74%) Databricks
4 16 (2.74%) SAP
5 14 (2.40%) Oracle
6 12 (2.05%) Google
7 11 (1.88%) Splunk
8 7 (1.20%) Adobe
8 7 (1.20%) Siemens
9 6 (1.03%) Pega
10 5 (0.86%) New Relic
11 4 (0.68%) AppDynamics
12 3 (0.51%) IBM
12 3 (0.51%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (0.51%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.51%) SaltStack
13 2 (0.34%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.34%) Cognos
13 2 (0.34%) Facebook