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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -20 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 476 1,227 972
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 9.57% 18.27% 25.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.35% 21.68% 27.50%
Number of salaries quoted 311 456 699
10th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,313 £77,542
90th Percentile £86,000 £85,000 £88,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - - +2.43%

All Process and 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 4,195 5,660 3,535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 84.37% 84.29% 94.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,429 2,844 2,666
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +3.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £84,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -3.04%

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 -5 307 £62,500 +4.17% 133
Cheshire -9 73 £55,000 +10.00% 49
Lancashire -20 51 £47,683 -12.98% 80
Merseyside -17 32 £57,500 +4.55% 8
Cumbria -13 11 £57,500 +3.60% 10
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 20 (4.20%) Confluence
2 15 (3.15%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.68%) CMS
4 5 (1.05%) Apache
5 4 (0.84%) nginx
6 3 (0.63%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.63%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.63%) Magnolia
6 3 (0.63%) WordPress
7 2 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.42%) IIS
7 2 (0.42%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.21%) Umbraco
Applications
1 20 (4.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.47%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.63%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.63%) Sketch
6 3 (0.63%) Trello
7 2 (0.42%) Simulink
8 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.21%) InVision
Business Applications
1 9 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.21%) Magento
4 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.21%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 145 (30.46%) Azure
2 119 (25.00%) AWS
3 44 (9.24%) Power Platform
3 44 (9.24%) SaaS
4 37 (7.77%) GCP
5 28 (5.88%) Serverless
6 22 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
8 16 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (3.36%) GitHub
8 16 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (2.73%) Figma
10 10 (2.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (2.10%) Azure Service Bus
10 10 (2.10%) PaaS
11 9 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (1.68%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (1.47%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.47%) Firewall
2 4 (0.84%) HTTP
3 3 (0.63%) DNS
3 3 (0.63%) SSH
3 3 (0.63%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.63%) Wireless
4 2 (0.42%) AMQP
4 2 (0.42%) OpenVPN
4 2 (0.42%) WAN
5 1 (0.21%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (6.93%) SQL Server
2 27 (5.67%) NoSQL
3 26 (5.46%) Power BI
4 21 (4.41%) MongoDB
5 13 (2.73%) MySQL
6 11 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (1.68%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.68%) DynamoDB
7 8 (1.68%) Redis
7 8 (1.68%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.84%) Big Data
9 4 (0.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.63%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.63%) Hazelcast
10 3 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.42%) GIS
Development Applications
1 39 (8.19%) JIRA
2 31 (6.51%) Git
3 14 (2.94%) GitLab
3 14 (2.94%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.89%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.84%) Cucumber
5 4 (0.84%) JMeter
5 4 (0.84%) Selenium
6 3 (0.63%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.63%) Gatling
6 3 (0.63%) JIRA Agile
6 3 (0.63%) JUnit
6 3 (0.63%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.21%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.21%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.21%) Mocha
8 1 (0.21%) Mockito
General
1 144 (30.25%) Social Skills
2 126 (26.47%) Finance
3 55 (11.55%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 21 (4.41%) Banking
5 21 (4.41%) Marketing
6 19 (3.99%) Influencing Skills
6 19 (3.99%) Law
7 17 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (3.57%) Local Government
8 16 (3.36%) Manufacturing
8 16 (3.36%) Retail
9 10 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.89%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.68%) Games
12 7 (1.47%) Avionics
12 7 (1.47%) Electronics
12 7 (1.47%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.26%) Billing
14 5 (1.05%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 123 (25.84%) Senior
2 119 (25.00%) Developer
3 70 (14.71%) Lead
4 41 (8.61%) Analyst
5 40 (8.40%) Senior Developer
6 29 (6.09%) Architect
7 27 (5.67%) Project Manager
8 26 (5.46%) Senior Manager
8 26 (5.46%) Software Engineer
9 23 (4.83%) Java Developer
10 21 (4.41%) Software Developer
10 21 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
11 18 (3.78%) Business Analyst
12 17 (3.57%) Systems Engineer
13 16 (3.36%) .NET Developer
13 16 (3.36%) Audit Manager
13 16 (3.36%) Senior Audit Manager
14 15 (3.15%) Data Engineer
14 15 (3.15%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 14 (2.94%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (15.55%) .NET
2 63 (13.24%) React
3 39 (8.19%) CSS
4 35 (7.35%) HTML
5 27 (5.67%) AngularJS
5 27 (5.67%) Spring Boot
6 26 (5.46%) Spring
7 25 (5.25%) RESTful
8 24 (5.04%) .NET Core
8 24 (5.04%) .NET Framework
8 24 (5.04%) REST
9 23 (4.83%) Node.js
10 21 (4.41%) ASP.NET
11 17 (3.57%) Kafka
12 10 (2.10%) RabbitMQ
13 9 (1.89%) Hibernate
13 9 (1.89%) Web Services
14 8 (1.68%) ASP.NET Web API
14 8 (1.68%) Entity Framework
14 8 (1.68%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.61%) Cloud Native
2 38 (7.98%) Product Ownership
3 23 (4.83%) Management Information System
4 21 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (3.78%) Mobile App
6 14 (2.94%) Social Media
7 12 (2.52%) IoT
7 12 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.89%) Driving Licence
10 8 (1.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 7 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.05%) e-Learning
12 5 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.05%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.84%) Animation
13 4 (0.84%) Data Centre
13 4 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.09%) Windows
2 15 (3.15%) Linux
3 10 (2.10%) Windows 10
4 6 (1.26%) Android
5 4 (0.84%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.63%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.42%) CentOS
7 2 (0.42%) Debian
7 2 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.42%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (25.21%) CI/CD
2 115 (24.16%) DevOps
3 110 (23.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 105 (22.06%) Problem-Solving
5 90 (18.91%) Mentoring
6 82 (17.23%) Coaching
7 74 (15.55%) Software Engineering
8 67 (14.08%) Microservices
9 63 (13.24%) Roadmaps
9 63 (13.24%) Scrum
10 58 (12.18%) User Experience
11 49 (10.29%) Containerisation
11 49 (10.29%) Project Management
12 48 (10.08%) Project Delivery
12 48 (10.08%) Stakeholder Management
13 47 (9.87%) Clean Code
14 44 (9.24%) Full-Stack Development
15 42 (8.82%) Decision-Making
16 40 (8.40%) Infrastructure as Code
16 40 (8.40%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 76 (15.97%) C#
2 64 (13.45%) Java
2 64 (13.45%) JavaScript
3 63 (13.24%) SQL
4 47 (9.87%) TypeScript
5 42 (8.82%) Python
6 14 (2.94%) Go
7 10 (2.10%) MATLAB
8 9 (1.89%) PowerShell
9 8 (1.68%) Elixir
9 8 (1.68%) Ruby
10 7 (1.47%) Bash
10 7 (1.47%) PHP
11 4 (0.84%) Bicep
11 4 (0.84%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.63%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.42%) C
13 2 (0.42%) C++
13 2 (0.42%) Swift
Qualifications
1 62 (13.03%) Degree
2 33 (6.93%) BPSS Clearance
3 30 (6.30%) Security Cleared
4 23 (4.83%) ACCA
5 22 (4.62%) SC Cleared
6 15 (3.15%) DBS Check
7 11 (2.31%) Azure Certification
7 11 (2.31%) PMP
8 10 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.10%) PMI Certification
9 9 (1.89%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.68%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.47%) CIMA
11 7 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.84%) HNC
13 4 (0.84%) HND
14 3 (0.63%) CCNA
14 3 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (7.56%) QA
2 29 (6.09%) Accessibility
3 16 (3.36%) GAAP
3 16 (3.36%) IFRS
4 10 (2.10%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.68%) GDPR
5 8 (1.68%) SEPA
5 8 (1.68%) TARGET2
6 7 (1.47%) NIST
6 7 (1.47%) PMO
7 6 (1.26%) HIPAA
7 6 (1.26%) SLA
8 4 (0.84%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 2 (0.42%) WCAG
10 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.21%) HL7
10 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 58 (12.18%) Docker
2 19 (3.99%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.21%) HDFS
4 1 (0.21%) KVM
4 1 (0.21%) QEMU
4 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 54 (11.34%) Kubernetes
2 43 (9.03%) Terraform
3 11 (2.31%) Ansible
4 10 (2.10%) SCCM
5 9 (1.89%) Grafana
6 8 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.05%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.42%) Puppet
10 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.21%) Rancher
Vendors
1 66 (13.87%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.20%) Google
3 16 (3.36%) SAP
4 15 (3.15%) Salesforce
5 11 (2.31%) ServiceNow
6 10 (2.10%) Databricks
7 8 (1.68%) Adobe
8 7 (1.47%) Splunk
9 6 (1.26%) Bloomberg
9 6 (1.26%) Facebook
9 6 (1.26%) Qualtrics
9 6 (1.26%) Sophos
10 5 (1.05%) Siemens
10 5 (1.05%) UiPath
11 4 (0.84%) Oracle
12 3 (0.63%) Aruba
12 3 (0.63%) Cisco
12 3 (0.63%) Meraki
12 3 (0.63%) New Relic
12 3 (0.63%) Veeam