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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 5 2
Rank change year-on-year -19 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 563 668 1,723
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 6.11% 18.67% 19.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.17% 19.86% 23.83%
Number of salaries quoted 408 403 1,381
10th Percentile £44,815 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +0.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £85,300 £92,400 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,668 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.19% +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 6,891 3,364 7,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 74.85% 94.02% 83.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,971 2,120 5,778
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £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 £71,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 6 April 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 6 April 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 -15 398 £65,000 -3.70% 217
Lancashire -21 63 £55,000 +4.76% 50
Cheshire -25 52 £55,000 +10.00% 35
Merseyside -29 27 £52,500 -20.75% 20
Cumbria -14 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 42 (7.46%) Confluence
2 11 (1.95%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.07%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.89%) Apache
5 4 (0.71%) CMS
5 4 (0.71%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.71%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.36%) CICS
7 2 (0.36%) nginx
7 2 (0.36%) WordPress
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%) Umbraco
Applications
1 13 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.53%) Sketch
5 2 (0.36%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.36%) Simulink
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.36%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.18%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 167 (29.66%) Azure
2 114 (20.25%) AWS
3 48 (8.53%) SaaS
4 33 (5.86%) Serverless
5 32 (5.68%) Power Platform
6 30 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (4.62%) GCP
8 24 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (3.91%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (3.02%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (2.84%) Azure AKS
12 14 (2.49%) GitHub
13 12 (2.13%) Figma
14 11 (1.95%) Azure Logic Apps
15 10 (1.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 10 (1.78%) Azure Functions
15 10 (1.78%) Azure Service Bus
16 9 (1.60%) Azure Monitor
17 8 (1.42%) Entra ID
17 8 (1.42%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.24%) HTTP
2 5 (0.89%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.71%) AMQP
4 3 (0.53%) SSH
5 2 (0.36%) DNS
5 2 (0.36%) Firewall
5 2 (0.36%) OpenVPN
5 2 (0.36%) 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 35 (6.22%) NoSQL
2 32 (5.68%) SQL Server
3 19 (3.37%) MongoDB
4 18 (3.20%) MySQL
4 18 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (2.66%) Power BI
6 11 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (1.60%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.42%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.07%) Big Data
9 6 (1.07%) Hadoop
10 5 (0.89%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.71%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.71%) GIS
11 4 (0.71%) QGIS
12 3 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.53%) Redis
12 3 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 63 (11.19%) JIRA
2 50 (8.88%) Git
3 17 (3.02%) Jenkins
4 16 (2.84%) GitLab
5 8 (1.42%) Claude Code
6 7 (1.24%) Postman
7 5 (0.89%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.89%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.71%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.71%) JUnit
9 3 (0.53%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.53%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.36%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.36%) JIRA Agile
10 2 (0.36%) Selenium
10 2 (0.36%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.36%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.36%) XCUITest
11 1 (0.18%) GDB
11 1 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
General
1 134 (23.80%) Social Skills
2 120 (21.31%) Finance
3 50 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (8.88%) Public Sector
4 27 (4.80%) Marketing
5 24 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (3.91%) Manufacturing
7 19 (3.37%) Banking
8 16 (2.84%) Law
9 13 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.78%) Retail
11 9 (1.60%) Games
11 9 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.24%) Advertising
12 7 (1.24%) Legal
13 6 (1.07%) Electronics
13 6 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.07%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.89%) Avionics
15 4 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 132 (23.45%) Senior
2 100 (17.76%) Developer
3 89 (15.81%) Lead
4 72 (12.79%) Software Engineer
5 46 (8.17%) Project Manager
6 36 (6.39%) Senior Developer
7 32 (5.68%) Analyst
8 30 (5.33%) Software Developer
9 28 (4.97%) Architect
10 24 (4.26%) Java Developer
11 23 (4.09%) Data Engineer
11 23 (4.09%) Lead Software Engineer
12 22 (3.91%) Business Analyst
13 19 (3.37%) .NET Developer
13 19 (3.37%) Cloud Engineer
14 18 (3.20%) Java Engineer
14 18 (3.20%) Marketing Manager
14 18 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
15 17 (3.02%) IT Manager
15 17 (3.02%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (14.92%) .NET
2 58 (10.30%) React
3 39 (6.93%) RESTful
4 36 (6.39%) .NET Framework
4 36 (6.39%) CSS
5 35 (6.22%) Node.js
6 34 (6.04%) HTML
6 34 (6.04%) REST
6 34 (6.04%) Spring
7 33 (5.86%) Spring Boot
8 31 (5.51%) AngularJS
9 27 (4.80%) ASP.NET
10 24 (4.26%) .NET Core
11 13 (2.31%) Kafka
12 12 (2.13%) Web Services
13 8 (1.42%) CSS3
13 8 (1.42%) HTML5
13 8 (1.42%) Vue
14 7 (1.24%) ASP.NET Core
14 7 (1.24%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 53 (9.41%) Product Ownership
2 39 (6.93%) Cloud Native
3 26 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (3.02%) Driving Licence
5 16 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (2.66%) Mobile App
7 14 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (1.60%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.42%) Low-Code
9 8 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.42%) Social Media
10 7 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.24%) Onboarding
11 5 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.71%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (0.71%) IoT
12 4 (0.71%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (3.73%) Windows
2 20 (3.55%) Linux
3 5 (0.89%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.71%) Android
4 4 (0.71%) CentOS
4 4 (0.71%) Debian
4 4 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.71%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.18%) Unix
7 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (24.87%) CI/CD
2 123 (21.85%) Continuous Improvement
3 121 (21.49%) DevOps
4 118 (20.96%) Scrum
5 112 (19.89%) Software Engineering
6 92 (16.34%) Mentoring
7 84 (14.92%) Coaching
8 77 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
9 74 (13.14%) Stakeholder Management
10 71 (12.61%) Microservices
11 67 (11.90%) Project Management
12 62 (11.01%) TDD
13 56 (9.95%) AI
14 55 (9.77%) Roadmaps
15 54 (9.59%) Project Delivery
16 53 (9.41%) Full-Stack Development
17 51 (9.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 49 (8.70%) Kanban
19 47 (8.35%) User Experience
20 46 (8.17%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 97 (17.23%) Java
2 91 (16.16%) SQL
3 78 (13.85%) JavaScript
4 73 (12.97%) C#
5 62 (11.01%) Python
6 36 (6.39%) TypeScript
7 10 (1.78%) C++
8 5 (0.89%) Go
9 4 (0.71%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.53%) Bash
10 3 (0.53%) C
10 3 (0.53%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.36%) Bicep
11 2 (0.36%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.36%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.36%) Scala
11 2 (0.36%) Swift
11 2 (0.36%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.36%) VBA
12 1 (0.18%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 42 (7.46%) Security Cleared
2 31 (5.51%) BPSS Clearance
2 31 (5.51%) SC Cleared
3 27 (4.80%) Degree
4 23 (4.09%) PMI Certification
5 20 (3.55%) PMP
6 12 (2.13%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.60%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.89%) HND
9 3 (0.53%) ACCA
9 3 (0.53%) CIMA
9 3 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.53%) HNC
9 3 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.36%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.36%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.18%) CIPD
11 1 (0.18%) ISEB
11 1 (0.18%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.04%) QA
2 27 (4.80%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.78%) PMO
4 8 (1.42%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.53%) WCAG
6 2 (0.36%) 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 34 (6.04%) Docker
2 11 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.18%) KVM
4 1 (0.18%) QEMU
4 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 62 (11.01%) Terraform
2 51 (9.06%) Kubernetes
3 24 (4.26%) Ansible
4 12 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.07%) Puppet
7 5 (0.89%) Grafana
8 4 (0.71%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.53%) Rancher
10 2 (0.36%) Packer
10 2 (0.36%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.36%) SCCM
11 1 (0.18%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 92 (16.34%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.73%) SAP
3 18 (3.20%) Salesforce
4 14 (2.49%) Databricks
5 12 (2.13%) Google
5 12 (2.13%) Siemens
6 11 (1.95%) ServiceNow
6 11 (1.95%) Splunk
7 8 (1.42%) New Relic
7 8 (1.42%) Oracle
8 7 (1.24%) Pega
9 5 (0.89%) Adobe
9 5 (0.89%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.71%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.71%) Qualtrics
10 4 (0.71%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.53%) IBM
11 3 (0.53%) WSO2
12 2 (0.36%) Cognos
13 1 (0.18%) Siebel