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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -13 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 805 1,158 1,349
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 6.25% 22.09% 18.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.58% 24.71% 22.97%
Number of salaries quoted 543 293 489
10th Percentile £42,000 £41,900 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -3.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -

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 9,387 4,686 5,873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 72.89% 89.38% 80.20%
Number of salaries quoted 6,981 2,204 3,068
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,073 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% -8.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -14 574 £65,000 - 596
Lancashire -7 85 £60,000 +9.50% 43
Merseyside -8 63 £62,500 +4.17% 56
Cheshire -29 59 £55,000 -4.35% 71
Cumbria +10 21 £47,500 -17.39% 8
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 34 (4.22%) SharePoint
2 32 (3.98%) Confluence
3 20 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.61%) Apache
5 5 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.62%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.50%) CMS
6 4 (0.50%) nginx
7 3 (0.37%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.37%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.37%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.25%) IIS
8 2 (0.25%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.25%) WinCC
8 2 (0.25%) WordPress
9 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.12%) JBoss
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 17 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 17 (2.11%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.87%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.87%) Trello
4 6 (0.75%) AutoCAD
4 6 (0.75%) Revit
5 3 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.12%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 20 (2.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.50%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.12%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 1 (0.12%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.12%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.12%) Sage CRM
5 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 233 (28.94%) Azure
2 182 (22.61%) AWS
3 87 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
4 75 (9.32%) Power Platform
5 49 (6.09%) GitHub
5 49 (6.09%) Serverless
6 40 (4.97%) GCP
6 40 (4.97%) Power Automate
7 36 (4.47%) Microsoft Copilot
8 35 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
8 35 (4.35%) SaaS
9 30 (3.73%) PowerApps
10 25 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 24 (2.98%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (2.98%) dbt
12 23 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
13 22 (2.73%) Copilot Studio
14 18 (2.24%) Snowflake
15 17 (2.11%) Amazon S3
16 14 (1.74%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.12%) DNS
2 8 (0.99%) Network Security
3 6 (0.75%) BIG-IP
3 6 (0.75%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 6 (0.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 6 (0.75%) Firewall
4 3 (0.37%) AMQP
4 3 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.37%) Wireless
5 2 (0.25%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.25%) DHCP
5 2 (0.25%) HTTP
5 2 (0.25%) NetScaler
5 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.25%) ZigBee
6 1 (0.12%) LAN
6 1 (0.12%) SAN
6 1 (0.12%) SSL
6 1 (0.12%) VoIP
6 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (5.47%) Azure SQL Database
2 40 (4.97%) MongoDB
3 38 (4.72%) Power BI
4 30 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (3.48%) SQL Server
6 21 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (1.99%) Data Lake
8 15 (1.86%) DynamoDB
8 15 (1.86%) NoSQL
9 14 (1.74%) Relational Database
10 12 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (1.37%) BigQuery
12 9 (1.12%) Big Data
12 9 (1.12%) Metadata
13 7 (0.87%) MySQL
13 7 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
15 5 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
16 4 (0.50%) Hadoop
16 4 (0.50%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 76 (9.44%) JIRA
2 50 (6.21%) Git
3 39 (4.84%) GitLab
4 19 (2.36%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.99%) JUnit
6 13 (1.61%) Spock
7 9 (1.12%) Claude Code
8 8 (0.99%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.99%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (0.87%) Maven
9 7 (0.87%) Postman
10 6 (0.75%) Selenium
11 4 (0.50%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.50%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.50%) Vagrant
12 3 (0.37%) Ant
12 3 (0.37%) Mockito
12 3 (0.37%) RStudio
13 2 (0.25%) MSTest
General
1 223 (27.70%) Social Skills
2 133 (16.52%) Finance
3 83 (10.31%) Public Sector
4 78 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
5 72 (8.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 46 (5.71%) Telecoms
7 40 (4.97%) Retail
8 31 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
9 26 (3.23%) Marketing
10 24 (2.98%) Publishing
11 19 (2.36%) Aerospace
11 19 (2.36%) Law
11 19 (2.36%) Legal
11 19 (2.36%) Manufacturing
12 17 (2.11%) Games
13 10 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.24%) Local Government
13 10 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.12%) Banking
Job Titles
1 191 (23.73%) Senior
2 162 (20.12%) Developer
3 85 (10.56%) Software Engineer
4 62 (7.70%) Lead
5 53 (6.58%) Analyst
5 53 (6.58%) Senior Developer
6 49 (6.09%) Business Analyst
7 42 (5.22%) Delivery Manager
8 41 (5.09%) .NET Developer
8 41 (5.09%) Data Engineer
8 41 (5.09%) Design Engineer
8 41 (5.09%) Project Manager
9 38 (4.72%) DevOps Engineer
10 37 (4.60%) Engineering Manager
11 32 (3.98%) Architect
12 31 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
13 26 (3.23%) IT Manager
14 24 (2.98%) Microsoft 365 Developer
15 23 (2.86%) Senior Design Engineer
16 21 (2.61%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (10.93%) .NET
2 76 (9.44%) Terraform
3 61 (7.58%) Spring
4 60 (7.45%) HTML
5 59 (7.33%) React
6 45 (5.59%) CSS
7 41 (5.09%) ASP.NET
7 41 (5.09%) Node.js
8 40 (4.97%) Spring Boot
9 38 (4.72%) .NET Core
10 37 (4.60%) ASP.NET Core
11 36 (4.47%) AngularJS
12 33 (4.10%) Kafka
13 32 (3.98%) REST
14 19 (2.36%) Entity Framework
14 19 (2.36%) RESTful
15 16 (1.99%) Middleware
16 15 (1.86%) ASP.NET Web API
17 14 (1.74%) Blazor
18 12 (1.49%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 88 (10.93%) Product Ownership
2 59 (7.33%) Cloud Native
3 39 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
4 28 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (2.98%) Greenfield Project
6 23 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 21 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
8 18 (2.24%) IoT
9 17 (2.11%) Private Cloud
10 16 (1.99%) Onboarding
11 15 (1.86%) Driving Licence
12 14 (1.74%) Mobile App
13 12 (1.49%) Data Centre
13 12 (1.49%) Media Streaming
13 12 (1.49%) Podcast
14 11 (1.37%) Marketing Technology
15 8 (0.99%) Management Information System
16 7 (0.87%) PMI
16 7 (0.87%) Public Cloud
17 6 (0.75%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 36 (4.47%) Linux
2 12 (1.49%) Windows
3 8 (0.99%) Unix
4 6 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.62%) Android
6 4 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.50%) VMS
7 3 (0.37%) CentOS
7 3 (0.37%) Debian
7 3 (0.37%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (0.25%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.25%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (32.92%) Continuous Improvement
2 246 (30.56%) DevOps
3 239 (29.69%) CI/CD
4 193 (23.98%) AI
5 166 (20.62%) Mentoring
6 164 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
7 160 (19.88%) Software Engineering
8 145 (18.01%) Stakeholder Management
9 139 (17.27%) Scrum
10 111 (13.79%) Coaching
11 97 (12.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 88 (10.93%) Test Automation
13 80 (9.94%) Decision-Making
14 79 (9.81%) Microservices
15 76 (9.44%) Full-Stack Development
16 74 (9.19%) Roadmaps
17 66 (8.20%) Analytics
18 64 (7.95%) Infrastructure as Code
19 63 (7.83%) Software Delivery
19 63 (7.83%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 160 (19.88%) SQL
2 135 (16.77%) Java
3 113 (14.04%) JavaScript
4 112 (13.91%) Python
5 94 (11.68%) C#
6 58 (7.20%) TypeScript
7 23 (2.86%) Go
8 18 (2.24%) Bash
9 12 (1.49%) C++
9 12 (1.49%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.12%) PHP
11 8 (0.99%) Apex Code
11 8 (0.99%) Groovy
12 6 (0.75%) R
13 5 (0.62%) ActionScript
13 5 (0.62%) C
14 3 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.37%) Rust
14 3 (0.37%) SOQL
14 3 (0.37%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 122 (15.16%) Degree
2 99 (12.30%) Security Cleared
3 72 (8.94%) SC Cleared
4 46 (5.71%) DBS Check
5 38 (4.72%) DV Cleared
5 38 (4.72%) HNC
6 21 (2.61%) Master's Degree
7 20 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (2.11%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.49%) PMP
10 11 (1.37%) AWS Certification
11 10 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.99%) Azure Certification
12 8 (0.99%) RIBA
13 7 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (0.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (0.50%) MBA
15 4 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.37%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (7.20%) Data Quality
2 56 (6.96%) QA
3 43 (5.34%) Accessibility
4 18 (2.24%) GDPR
5 10 (1.24%) PMO
6 7 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.87%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.62%) SLA
8 4 (0.50%) WCAG
9 3 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.37%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.25%) GRC
10 2 (0.25%) IEC 61131
10 2 (0.25%) IEC 61508
11 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.12%) NIST
11 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.12%) TARGET2
System Software
1 83 (10.31%) Docker
2 3 (0.37%) Ceph
3 2 (0.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.25%) UAG
3 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.12%) Firmware
4 1 (0.12%) NFS
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 90 (11.18%) Kubernetes
2 32 (3.98%) Ansible
3 14 (1.74%) Argo
4 10 (1.24%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.87%) Grafana
6 6 (0.75%) Podman
7 5 (0.62%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.50%) Istio
8 4 (0.50%) Packer
8 4 (0.50%) Puppet
9 3 (0.37%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.25%) AirWatch
10 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.25%) SCCM
10 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.25%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.12%) linkerd
11 1 (0.12%) Nagios
11 1 (0.12%) Opsview
Vendors
1 135 (16.77%) Microsoft
2 29 (3.60%) YouTube
3 25 (3.11%) Databricks
4 24 (2.98%) Google
5 23 (2.86%) Oracle
6 21 (2.61%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.36%) Splunk
8 15 (1.86%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.61%) AppDynamics
10 12 (1.49%) SAP
11 10 (1.24%) Red Hat
12 9 (1.12%) Adobe
13 8 (0.99%) F5
14 6 (0.75%) Autodesk
14 6 (0.75%) OpenAI
15 5 (0.62%) Thales
16 4 (0.50%) Dell
16 4 (0.50%) IBM
16 4 (0.50%) NEC
17 3 (0.37%) VMware