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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -18 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 634 1,289 2,089
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.78% 27.09% 19.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.23% 28.78% 24.09%
Number of salaries quoted 493 364 1,391
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,363 £38,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £64,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% +7.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £93,750 £93,778 £87,500
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 7,700 4,479 8,671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 70.25% 94.14% 78.99%
Number of salaries quoted 5,907 2,069 6,518
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,675
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 25 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 25 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 -12 470 £66,750 +2.69% 155
Lancashire -10 68 £55,000 +8.08% 58
Cheshire -41 42 £55,000 +15.79% 33
Merseyside -38 33 £55,000 -15.06% 11
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 (6.62%) Confluence
2 17 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.95%) 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%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.47%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.32%) CICS
8 2 (0.32%) nginx
8 2 (0.32%) 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 (1.58%) 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 (2.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.47%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 203 (32.02%) Azure
2 152 (23.97%) AWS
3 72 (11.36%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (6.94%) Power Platform
5 41 (6.47%) SaaS
6 40 (6.31%) Serverless
7 34 (5.36%) GCP
8 30 (4.73%) GitHub
9 25 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (3.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (2.37%) Azure AKS
11 15 (2.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 15 (2.37%) Azure Service Bus
12 14 (2.21%) dbt
12 14 (2.21%) Power Automate
13 13 (2.05%) Anthropic Claude
14 12 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
14 12 (1.89%) PowerApps
15 11 (1.74%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.32%) AMQP
2 1 (0.16%) Broadband
2 1 (0.16%) LTE
2 1 (0.16%) SSL
2 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (5.52%) MongoDB
2 31 (4.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 26 (4.10%) SQL Server
4 25 (3.94%) NoSQL
5 24 (3.79%) Power BI
6 22 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (2.21%) MySQL
9 10 (1.58%) BigQuery
10 9 (1.42%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.42%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.26%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.95%) 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 Mining
Development Applications
1 75 (11.83%) JIRA
2 41 (6.47%) Git
3 22 (3.47%) GitLab
4 19 (3.00%) Jenkins
5 15 (2.37%) Claude Code
6 11 (1.74%) Postman
7 7 (1.10%) JUnit
8 6 (0.95%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.95%) Spock
9 5 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.63%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.47%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.32%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.32%) Maven
12 2 (0.32%) MSTest
12 2 (0.32%) NUnit
12 2 (0.32%) Selenium
12 2 (0.32%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.32%) Vagrant
12 2 (0.32%) XCUITest
General
1 139 (21.92%) Social Skills
2 136 (21.45%) Finance
3 69 (10.88%) Public Sector
4 56 (8.83%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (5.36%) Marketing
6 22 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (3.31%) Retail
8 20 (3.15%) Games
8 20 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
9 17 (2.68%) Banking
10 13 (2.05%) Advertising
11 12 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.58%) Law
13 9 (1.42%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.10%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.95%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.95%) Publishing
16 5 (0.79%) Legal
16 5 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 144 (22.71%) Senior
2 127 (20.03%) Developer
3 76 (11.99%) Software Engineer
4 61 (9.62%) Lead
5 44 (6.94%) Project Manager
5 44 (6.94%) Senior Developer
6 42 (6.62%) Analyst
7 40 (6.31%) .NET Developer
8 32 (5.05%) Business Analyst
9 30 (4.73%) Data Engineer
9 30 (4.73%) Java Developer
10 26 (4.10%) Delivery Manager
11 25 (3.94%) Software Developer
12 24 (3.79%) IT Manager
13 23 (3.63%) Java Engineer
14 22 (3.47%) Engineering Manager
14 22 (3.47%) Lead Software Engineer
15 21 (3.31%) Architect
15 21 (3.31%) Senior Software Engineer
16 20 (3.15%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (14.67%) .NET
2 48 (7.57%) React
3 47 (7.41%) Node.js
4 43 (6.78%) HTML
5 40 (6.31%) CSS
6 38 (5.99%) Spring
7 37 (5.84%) .NET Core
7 37 (5.84%) ASP.NET
8 35 (5.52%) AngularJS
9 33 (5.21%) REST
9 33 (5.21%) RESTful
10 31 (4.89%) Spring Boot
11 27 (4.26%) ASP.NET Core
12 17 (2.68%) .NET Framework
13 16 (2.52%) Vue
14 14 (2.21%) Entity Framework
14 14 (2.21%) Kafka
15 11 (1.74%) Blazor
16 10 (1.58%) ML.NET
17 8 (1.26%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 73 (11.51%) Product Ownership
2 46 (7.26%) Cloud Native
3 29 (4.57%) Driving Licence
4 26 (4.10%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
6 22 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (2.21%) Mobile App
8 10 (1.58%) 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 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (0.95%) Private Cloud
13 5 (0.79%) Low-Code
14 4 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.47%) Linux
2 12 (1.89%) Windows
3 4 (0.63%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.63%) Unix
4 3 (0.47%) Android
5 2 (0.32%) CentOS
5 2 (0.32%) Debian
5 2 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.32%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (30.13%) CI/CD
2 185 (29.18%) DevOps
3 153 (24.13%) Continuous Improvement
4 141 (22.24%) Scrum
5 118 (18.61%) Software Engineering
6 108 (17.03%) Mentoring
7 104 (16.40%) Stakeholder Management
8 95 (14.98%) Coaching
9 93 (14.67%) AI
10 87 (13.72%) TDD
11 85 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
12 78 (12.30%) Roadmaps
13 74 (11.67%) Full-Stack Development
14 73 (11.51%) Microservices
15 70 (11.04%) Test Automation
16 64 (10.09%) Decision-Making
16 64 (10.09%) Project Management
17 63 (9.94%) Kanban
18 55 (8.68%) Infrastructure as Code
19 54 (8.52%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 143 (22.56%) SQL
2 120 (18.93%) Java
3 90 (14.20%) Python
4 88 (13.88%) JavaScript
5 85 (13.41%) C#
6 30 (4.73%) TypeScript
7 11 (1.74%) Bash
8 10 (1.58%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.42%) C++
10 7 (1.10%) Go
11 6 (0.95%) Apex Code
11 6 (0.95%) PHP
12 5 (0.79%) Groovy
12 5 (0.79%) SOQL
13 4 (0.63%) SOSL
14 3 (0.47%) C
14 3 (0.47%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.47%) Scala
15 2 (0.32%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 60 (9.46%) Security Cleared
2 48 (7.57%) SC Cleared
3 36 (5.68%) Degree
4 18 (2.84%) DV Cleared
4 18 (2.84%) PMI Certification
5 13 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.58%) PMP
7 9 (1.42%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.10%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.95%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.95%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.32%) Chartered Engineer
13 2 (0.32%) HND
13 2 (0.32%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.32%) MBA
13 2 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.05%) 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 (0.32%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.32%) 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 (7.73%) Docker
2 2 (0.32%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 75 (11.83%) Terraform
2 55 (8.68%) Kubernetes
3 23 (3.63%) 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 (0.32%) Packer
7 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.16%) Istio
8 1 (0.16%) linkerd
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.16%) Rancher
Vendors
1 117 (18.45%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.26%) ServiceNow
3 20 (3.15%) Databricks
3 20 (3.15%) Salesforce
4 18 (2.84%) Oracle
5 16 (2.52%) SAP
6 12 (1.89%) Splunk
7 11 (1.74%) Google
8 9 (1.42%) Adobe
9 6 (0.95%) AppDynamics
10 5 (0.79%) Pega
11 4 (0.63%) Siemens
12 3 (0.47%) BiZZdesign
12 3 (0.47%) Cognos
12 3 (0.47%) Facebook
12 3 (0.47%) IBM
12 3 (0.47%) LogicMonitor
13 2 (0.32%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.32%) SaltStack
13 2 (0.32%) WSO2