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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 5 2
Rank change year-on-year -19 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 545 661 1,716
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 6.21% 18.27% 19.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.27% 19.43% 23.93%
Number of salaries quoted 390 396 1,376
10th Percentile £44,920 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +0.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,125 £89,375
England median annual salary £65,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.43% +12.00% -7.41%

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 6,588 3,402 7,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 75.01% 94.06% 83.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,743 2,129 5,730
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,650 £40,620 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,163 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.06% +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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -14 382 £65,000 -3.70% 217
Lancashire -24 60 £55,000 +4.76% 50
Cheshire -21 52 £55,000 +10.00% 35
Merseyside -26 28 £47,500 -28.30% 20
Cumbria -12 20 £60,250 +14.76% 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 (7.52%) Confluence
2 11 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.10%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.92%) Apache
4 5 (0.92%) CMS
5 4 (0.73%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.55%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.37%) CICS
7 2 (0.37%) nginx
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.18%) IIS
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.18%) PegaRULES
8 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (2.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.55%) Sketch
5 2 (0.37%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.37%) Simulink
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.18%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 155 (28.44%) Azure
2 108 (19.82%) AWS
3 45 (8.26%) SaaS
4 32 (5.87%) Power Platform
5 31 (5.69%) Serverless
6 26 (4.77%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (4.77%) GCP
7 24 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
8 21 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (2.75%) Azure AKS
10 12 (2.20%) Figma
10 12 (2.20%) GitHub
11 9 (1.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 9 (1.65%) Azure Functions
11 9 (1.65%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (1.65%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (1.65%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (1.47%) Entra ID
12 8 (1.47%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.28%) HTTP
2 5 (0.92%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.73%) AMQP
4 3 (0.55%) SSH
5 2 (0.37%) DNS
5 2 (0.37%) Firewall
5 2 (0.37%) OpenVPN
5 2 (0.37%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.18%) 4G
6 1 (0.18%) Broadband
6 1 (0.18%) LAN
6 1 (0.18%) LTE
6 1 (0.18%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.18%) SSL
6 1 (0.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (6.06%) NoSQL
2 29 (5.32%) SQL Server
3 18 (3.30%) MongoDB
4 17 (3.12%) MySQL
5 16 (2.94%) Power BI
6 15 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.28%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.28%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.10%) Big Data
9 6 (1.10%) Hadoop
10 5 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.73%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (0.73%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.73%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.73%) GIS
11 4 (0.73%) QGIS
12 3 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.55%) Redis
13 2 (0.37%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 60 (11.01%) JIRA
2 47 (8.62%) Git
3 17 (3.12%) Jenkins
4 16 (2.94%) GitLab
5 7 (1.28%) Claude Code
6 5 (0.92%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.92%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.73%) IntelliJ
7 4 (0.73%) JUnit
7 4 (0.73%) Postman
8 3 (0.55%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.55%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.37%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.37%) JIRA Agile
9 2 (0.37%) Selenium
9 2 (0.37%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.37%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.37%) XCUITest
10 1 (0.18%) Locust
10 1 (0.18%) REST Assured
General
1 130 (23.85%) Social Skills
2 116 (21.28%) Finance
3 49 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (8.26%) Public Sector
5 27 (4.95%) Marketing
6 23 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (4.04%) Manufacturing
8 19 (3.49%) Banking
9 16 (2.94%) Law
10 13 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (1.83%) Retail
12 9 (1.65%) Games
12 9 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.28%) Legal
13 7 (1.28%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.10%) Advertising
14 6 (1.10%) Electronics
14 6 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.92%) Avionics
16 4 (0.73%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 127 (23.30%) Senior
2 94 (17.25%) Developer
3 86 (15.78%) Lead
4 72 (13.21%) Software Engineer
5 45 (8.26%) Project Manager
6 34 (6.24%) Senior Developer
7 32 (5.87%) Analyst
8 29 (5.32%) Software Developer
9 27 (4.95%) Architect
10 23 (4.22%) Lead Software Engineer
11 22 (4.04%) Business Analyst
12 21 (3.85%) Data Engineer
12 21 (3.85%) Java Developer
13 18 (3.30%) IT Manager
13 18 (3.30%) Marketing Manager
13 18 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
14 17 (3.12%) .NET Developer
14 17 (3.12%) Cloud Engineer
14 17 (3.12%) Java Engineer
14 17 (3.12%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (15.05%) .NET
2 59 (10.83%) React
3 38 (6.97%) RESTful
4 36 (6.61%) CSS
5 34 (6.24%) .NET Framework
5 34 (6.24%) HTML
5 34 (6.24%) Node.js
6 32 (5.87%) REST
6 32 (5.87%) Spring
7 31 (5.69%) Spring Boot
8 29 (5.32%) AngularJS
9 25 (4.59%) ASP.NET
10 22 (4.04%) .NET Core
11 12 (2.20%) Kafka
12 11 (2.02%) Web Services
13 8 (1.47%) CSS3
13 8 (1.47%) HTML5
13 8 (1.47%) Vue
14 7 (1.28%) ASP.NET Core
14 7 (1.28%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 56 (10.28%) Product Ownership
2 37 (6.79%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (3.12%) Driving Licence
5 16 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (2.57%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (2.57%) Mobile App
7 9 (1.65%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.47%) Low-Code
8 8 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.47%) Social Media
9 7 (1.28%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.73%) IoT
11 4 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.73%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (3.85%) Windows
2 20 (3.67%) Linux
3 5 (0.92%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.73%) Android
4 4 (0.73%) CentOS
4 4 (0.73%) Debian
4 4 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.73%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.18%) Unix
7 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (24.22%) CI/CD
2 124 (22.75%) Continuous Improvement
3 116 (21.28%) Scrum
4 113 (20.73%) DevOps
5 111 (20.37%) Software Engineering
6 91 (16.70%) Mentoring
7 84 (15.41%) Coaching
8 76 (13.94%) Problem-Solving
9 74 (13.58%) Stakeholder Management
10 68 (12.48%) Microservices
11 66 (12.11%) Project Management
12 59 (10.83%) TDD
13 56 (10.28%) AI
13 56 (10.28%) Roadmaps
14 53 (9.72%) Project Delivery
15 52 (9.54%) Full-Stack Development
16 51 (9.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 47 (8.62%) Kanban
18 46 (8.44%) Clean Code
19 45 (8.26%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 91 (16.70%) Java
2 86 (15.78%) SQL
3 77 (14.13%) JavaScript
4 70 (12.84%) C#
5 59 (10.83%) Python
6 37 (6.79%) TypeScript
7 10 (1.83%) C++
8 6 (1.10%) Go
9 4 (0.73%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.55%) Bash
10 3 (0.55%) C
10 3 (0.55%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.37%) Bicep
11 2 (0.37%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.37%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.37%) Scala
11 2 (0.37%) Swift
11 2 (0.37%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.37%) VBA
12 1 (0.18%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 39 (7.16%) Security Cleared
2 31 (5.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 30 (5.50%) Degree
4 28 (5.14%) SC Cleared
5 24 (4.40%) PMI Certification
6 21 (3.85%) PMP
7 12 (2.20%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.65%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.92%) HND
10 3 (0.55%) ACCA
10 3 (0.55%) CIMA
10 3 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.55%) HNC
10 3 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.37%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.18%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.18%) CIPD
12 1 (0.18%) ISEB
12 1 (0.18%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.42%) QA
2 26 (4.77%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.02%) PMO
4 5 (0.92%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.55%) WCAG
6 2 (0.37%) SLA
7 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.18%) GDPR
7 1 (0.18%) GxP
7 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.18%) ITGC
7 1 (0.18%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (6.06%) Docker
2 11 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.18%) KVM
4 1 (0.18%) QEMU
4 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (10.46%) Terraform
2 47 (8.62%) Kubernetes
3 20 (3.67%) Ansible
4 12 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.10%) Puppet
7 5 (0.92%) Grafana
8 4 (0.73%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.55%) Rancher
10 2 (0.37%) Packer
10 2 (0.37%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.37%) SCCM
11 1 (0.18%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 84 (15.41%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.04%) SAP
3 16 (2.94%) Salesforce
4 14 (2.57%) Databricks
5 12 (2.20%) Google
5 12 (2.20%) Siemens
6 11 (2.02%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.02%) Splunk
7 8 (1.47%) New Relic
7 8 (1.47%) Oracle
8 6 (1.10%) Pega
9 5 (0.92%) Adobe
9 5 (0.92%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.73%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.73%) Qualtrics
10 4 (0.73%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.55%) IBM
12 2 (0.37%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.37%) Cognos
12 2 (0.37%) WSO2