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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -16 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 698 1,265 1,712
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 6.08% 24.53% 19.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.52% 26.95% 24.89%
Number of salaries quoted 517 355 974
10th Percentile £43,450 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,495 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% +0.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £94,366 £91,250 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -0.54%

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 8,194 4,694 6,877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 71.41% 91.04% 78.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6,269 2,293 4,813
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,055 £51,364
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% -2.55% -6.61%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £65,603
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,200 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £56,185 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.79% +2.16% -11.29%

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 July 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 29 July 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 -11 515 £67,500 +3.85% 191
Lancashire -9 75 £55,000 +9.88% 61
Cheshire -43 43 £57,500 +2.22% 43
Merseyside -25 41 £58,750 -8.91% 17
Cumbria -2 20 £47,500 -15.56% 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 40 (5.73%) Confluence
2 23 (3.30%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.86%) Apache
4 6 (0.86%) CMS
5 5 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.72%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.57%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.57%) WordPress
7 3 (0.43%) nginx
7 3 (0.43%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.29%) CICS
8 2 (0.29%) IIS
9 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.14%) JBoss
9 1 (0.14%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.14%) WinCC
Applications
1 14 (2.01%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.00%) Trello
4 4 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.14%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 17 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.43%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 3 (0.43%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 230 (32.95%) Azure
2 167 (23.93%) AWS
3 86 (12.32%) Azure DevOps
4 50 (7.16%) Power Platform
5 46 (6.59%) Serverless
6 40 (5.73%) SaaS
7 39 (5.59%) GitHub
8 38 (5.44%) GCP
9 26 (3.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 25 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
11 24 (3.44%) Power Automate
12 21 (3.01%) dbt
13 19 (2.72%) Microsoft Copilot
14 18 (2.58%) PowerApps
15 16 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
16 15 (2.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 13 (1.86%) Azure Service Bus
17 13 (1.86%) Snowflake
18 12 (1.72%) Azure AI
18 12 (1.72%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.43%) TCP/IP
1 3 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (0.43%) Wireless
2 2 (0.29%) AMQP
2 2 (0.29%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.29%) ZigBee
3 1 (0.14%) Broadband
3 1 (0.14%) CTI
3 1 (0.14%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (0.14%) HTTP
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 42 (6.02%) Azure SQL Database
2 37 (5.30%) MongoDB
3 30 (4.30%) SQL Server
4 25 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (3.44%) Power BI
6 20 (2.87%) NoSQL
7 13 (1.86%) BigQuery
7 13 (1.86%) MySQL
8 12 (1.72%) DynamoDB
8 12 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (1.72%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.29%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.15%) Big Data
11 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.57%) Data Mining
12 4 (0.57%) Flink
12 4 (0.57%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (0.57%) Metadata
12 4 (0.57%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 79 (11.32%) JIRA
2 51 (7.31%) Git
3 24 (3.44%) GitLab
4 19 (2.72%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.86%) Claude Code
6 11 (1.58%) Postman
7 10 (1.43%) JUnit
8 9 (1.29%) Spock
9 8 (1.15%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.72%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.43%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.43%) Maven
13 2 (0.29%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.29%) MSTest
13 2 (0.29%) NUnit
13 2 (0.29%) Vagrant
13 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.29%) XCUITest
14 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
General
1 181 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 145 (20.77%) Finance
3 69 (9.89%) Public Sector
4 64 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (5.30%) Marketing
6 27 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (3.58%) Retail
8 24 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (2.58%) Games
10 17 (2.44%) Banking
11 16 (2.29%) Law
12 15 (2.15%) Advertising
13 12 (1.72%) Legal
14 11 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.29%) Aerospace
15 9 (1.29%) Manufacturing
16 8 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
16 8 (1.15%) Telecoms
17 7 (1.00%) Local Government
17 7 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 149 (21.35%) Senior
2 142 (20.34%) Developer
3 79 (11.32%) Software Engineer
4 56 (8.02%) Lead
5 55 (7.88%) Project Manager
6 51 (7.31%) Senior Developer
7 43 (6.16%) .NET Developer
8 42 (6.02%) Analyst
9 37 (5.30%) Business Analyst
10 35 (5.01%) Data Engineer
11 31 (4.44%) Delivery Manager
12 30 (4.30%) Engineering Manager
13 28 (4.01%) Java Developer
14 27 (3.87%) Architect
15 23 (3.30%) IT Manager
16 22 (3.15%) Product Owner
16 22 (3.15%) Senior Manager
17 21 (3.01%) DevOps Engineer
17 21 (3.01%) Java Engineer
17 21 (3.01%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (14.18%) .NET
2 58 (8.31%) HTML
3 50 (7.16%) CSS
4 48 (6.88%) Node.js
5 43 (6.16%) ASP.NET
6 42 (6.02%) Spring
7 41 (5.87%) AngularJS
7 41 (5.87%) React
8 40 (5.73%) .NET Core
9 37 (5.30%) ASP.NET Core
10 32 (4.58%) RESTful
11 31 (4.44%) Spring Boot
12 26 (3.72%) REST
13 19 (2.72%) Entity Framework
14 16 (2.29%) Vue
15 15 (2.15%) Kafka
16 14 (2.01%) Blazor
17 12 (1.72%) ASP.NET Web API
17 12 (1.72%) ML.NET
18 11 (1.58%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 79 (11.32%) Product Ownership
2 54 (7.74%) Cloud Native
3 30 (4.30%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (3.58%) Greenfield Project
5 24 (3.44%) Driving Licence
6 23 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (2.44%) Mobile App
8 15 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 12 (1.72%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.58%) Marketing Technology
11 10 (1.43%) PMI
11 10 (1.43%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.29%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.00%) Social Network
13 7 (1.00%) Virtual Team
14 6 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (0.86%) Social Media
15 5 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
15 5 (0.72%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.72%) Linux
2 11 (1.58%) Windows
3 5 (0.72%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.57%) Android
4 4 (0.57%) Unix
5 2 (0.29%) CentOS
5 2 (0.29%) Debian
5 2 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.14%) VMS
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (30.80%) DevOps
2 214 (30.66%) CI/CD
3 176 (25.21%) Continuous Improvement
4 158 (22.64%) Scrum
5 131 (18.77%) Software Engineering
6 126 (18.05%) AI
7 124 (17.77%) Stakeholder Management
8 113 (16.19%) Mentoring
9 100 (14.33%) Problem-Solving
10 89 (12.75%) Coaching
11 88 (12.61%) Roadmaps
12 86 (12.32%) TDD
13 80 (11.46%) Full-Stack Development
14 79 (11.32%) Test Automation
15 75 (10.74%) Microservices
16 68 (9.74%) Decision-Making
17 67 (9.60%) Kanban
17 67 (9.60%) Project Management
18 66 (9.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 58 (8.31%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 159 (22.78%) SQL
2 121 (17.34%) Java
3 104 (14.90%) Python
4 98 (14.04%) JavaScript
5 95 (13.61%) C#
6 35 (5.01%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.01%) Go
8 12 (1.72%) Bash
9 11 (1.58%) C++
10 10 (1.43%) PowerShell
11 9 (1.29%) PHP
12 6 (0.86%) Apex Code
13 5 (0.72%) C
13 5 (0.72%) Groovy
13 5 (0.72%) SOQL
14 4 (0.57%) SOSL
15 3 (0.43%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.43%) Swift
16 2 (0.29%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 63 (9.03%) Security Cleared
2 57 (8.17%) Degree
3 50 (7.16%) SC Cleared
4 24 (3.44%) PMI Certification
5 23 (3.30%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.29%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.15%) PMP
8 14 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.15%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.15%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.86%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.57%) MBA
13 4 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 3 (0.43%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.29%) Chartered Engineer
15 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (5.59%) QA
2 37 (5.30%) Data Quality
3 22 (3.15%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.58%) GDPR
5 9 (1.29%) PMO
6 7 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.00%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.72%) SLA
8 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.14%) GRC
9 1 (0.14%) IEC 61131
9 1 (0.14%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.14%) ITGC
9 1 (0.14%) NIST
9 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (8.60%) Docker
2 3 (0.43%) Ceph
3 2 (0.29%) 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 (10.89%) Terraform
2 62 (8.88%) Kubernetes
3 29 (4.15%) Ansible
4 12 (1.72%) Argo
5 10 (1.43%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.00%) Grafana
7 4 (0.57%) Istio
8 3 (0.43%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.43%) Podman
8 3 (0.43%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.43%) Puppet
9 2 (0.29%) Packer
10 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.14%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.14%) linkerd
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.14%) Nagios
10 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 131 (18.77%) Microsoft
2 25 (3.58%) ServiceNow
3 20 (2.87%) Databricks
3 20 (2.87%) Salesforce
4 19 (2.72%) Oracle
5 18 (2.58%) Google
6 16 (2.29%) Splunk
7 15 (2.15%) SAP
8 10 (1.43%) Adobe
9 9 (1.29%) AppDynamics
10 7 (1.00%) Pega
11 6 (0.86%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.57%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.43%) BiZZdesign
13 3 (0.43%) Dell
13 3 (0.43%) Facebook
13 3 (0.43%) IBM
13 3 (0.43%) LogicMonitor
13 3 (0.43%) NEC
13 3 (0.43%) Siemens