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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 5 2
Rank change year-on-year -20 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 569 664 1,746
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 6.04% 18.54% 19.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.08% 19.71% 23.77%
Number of salaries quoted 410 407 1,394
10th Percentile £44,427 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +0.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,375 £75,772
90th Percentile £86,250 £91,293 £90,000
England median annual salary £66,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +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 7,040 3,369 7,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 74.67% 94.05% 82.84%
Number of salaries quoted 4,088 2,127 5,864
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +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 10 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 10 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 -16 402 £65,000 -3.70% 217
Lancashire -22 63 £55,000 +4.76% 50
Cheshire -23 54 £55,000 +10.00% 35
Merseyside -25 27 £52,500 -22.22% 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 47 (8.26%) Confluence
2 11 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.23%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.05%) Apache
5 4 (0.70%) CMS
5 4 (0.70%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.70%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.35%) CICS
7 2 (0.35%) nginx
7 2 (0.35%) 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 12 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.53%) Sketch
4 2 (0.35%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.35%) Simulink
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.35%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.18%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 171 (30.05%) Azure
2 112 (19.68%) AWS
3 51 (8.96%) SaaS
4 36 (6.33%) Serverless
5 33 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (5.45%) Power Platform
7 27 (4.75%) GCP
8 24 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (2.81%) Azure AKS
12 14 (2.46%) GitHub
13 13 (2.28%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (2.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 12 (2.11%) Azure Functions
14 12 (2.11%) Azure Service Bus
14 12 (2.11%) Figma
15 9 (1.58%) Azure Monitor
16 8 (1.41%) OneDrive
16 8 (1.41%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.23%) HTTP
2 5 (0.88%) AMQP
2 5 (0.88%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.53%) SSH
4 2 (0.35%) DNS
4 2 (0.35%) Firewall
4 2 (0.35%) OpenVPN
4 2 (0.35%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.18%) 4G
5 1 (0.18%) Broadband
5 1 (0.18%) LAN
5 1 (0.18%) LTE
5 1 (0.18%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.18%) SSL
5 1 (0.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (6.15%) NoSQL
2 31 (5.45%) SQL Server
3 18 (3.16%) MongoDB
3 18 (3.16%) MySQL
4 17 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (2.64%) Power BI
6 11 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (1.76%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.41%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.23%) Big Data
9 7 (1.23%) Hadoop
10 5 (0.88%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (0.88%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.70%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.70%) GIS
11 4 (0.70%) QGIS
12 3 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.53%) Redis
12 3 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 68 (11.95%) JIRA
2 51 (8.96%) Git
3 15 (2.64%) Jenkins
4 14 (2.46%) GitLab
5 9 (1.58%) Claude Code
6 8 (1.41%) Postman
7 5 (0.88%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.88%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.70%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.70%) JUnit
9 3 (0.53%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.53%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.35%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.35%) JIRA Agile
10 2 (0.35%) Selenium
10 2 (0.35%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.35%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.35%) XCUITest
11 1 (0.18%) GDB
11 1 (0.18%) WinDbg
General
1 134 (23.55%) Social Skills
2 120 (21.09%) Finance
3 52 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (8.26%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (4.22%) Marketing
6 21 (3.69%) Banking
7 20 (3.51%) Manufacturing
8 15 (2.64%) Law
9 12 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.93%) Games
11 9 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.58%) Retail
12 7 (1.23%) Advertising
12 7 (1.23%) Legal
13 6 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.88%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.88%) Avionics
15 4 (0.70%) Local Government
15 4 (0.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 133 (23.37%) Senior
2 101 (17.75%) Developer
3 90 (15.82%) Lead
4 71 (12.48%) Software Engineer
5 46 (8.08%) Project Manager
6 38 (6.68%) Senior Developer
7 32 (5.62%) Analyst
8 28 (4.92%) Software Developer
9 27 (4.75%) Architect
10 24 (4.22%) Java Developer
11 23 (4.04%) Business Analyst
11 23 (4.04%) Data Engineer
12 22 (3.87%) Lead Software Engineer
13 21 (3.69%) .NET Developer
14 20 (3.51%) Delivery Manager
15 19 (3.34%) Cloud Engineer
16 18 (3.16%) Java Engineer
16 18 (3.16%) Solutions Architect
17 17 (2.99%) IT Manager
17 17 (2.99%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (14.94%) .NET
2 57 (10.02%) React
3 37 (6.50%) REST
4 36 (6.33%) .NET Framework
4 36 (6.33%) RESTful
5 35 (6.15%) CSS
6 34 (5.98%) Node.js
6 34 (5.98%) Spring
7 33 (5.80%) HTML
7 33 (5.80%) Spring Boot
8 32 (5.62%) AngularJS
9 26 (4.57%) ASP.NET
10 24 (4.22%) .NET Core
11 13 (2.28%) Kafka
12 11 (1.93%) Web Services
13 8 (1.41%) gRPC
13 8 (1.41%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (1.41%) Vue
14 7 (1.23%) CSS3
14 7 (1.23%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 57 (10.02%) Product Ownership
2 38 (6.68%) Cloud Native
3 27 (4.75%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (2.99%) Driving Licence
4 17 (2.99%) Mobile App
5 16 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (1.58%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.41%) Low-Code
8 8 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.05%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.05%) Social Media
11 5 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (0.88%) PMI
12 4 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (0.70%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (0.70%) IoT
12 4 (0.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (3.69%) Linux
2 19 (3.34%) Windows
3 5 (0.88%) CentOS
3 5 (0.88%) Debian
3 5 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (0.88%) Ubuntu
3 5 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.70%) Android
5 3 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (24.60%) CI/CD
2 128 (22.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 123 (21.62%) DevOps
4 122 (21.44%) Scrum
5 112 (19.68%) Software Engineering
6 91 (15.99%) Mentoring
7 87 (15.29%) Coaching
8 78 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
9 75 (13.18%) Stakeholder Management
10 72 (12.65%) Microservices
11 68 (11.95%) Project Management
12 64 (11.25%) TDD
13 58 (10.19%) Roadmaps
14 55 (9.67%) AI
15 54 (9.49%) Kanban
15 54 (9.49%) Project Delivery
16 51 (8.96%) Full-Stack Development
17 50 (8.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 46 (8.08%) Clean Code
18 46 (8.08%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 96 (16.87%) Java
2 93 (16.34%) SQL
3 77 (13.53%) JavaScript
4 73 (12.83%) C#
5 63 (11.07%) Python
6 34 (5.98%) TypeScript
7 10 (1.76%) C++
8 5 (0.88%) Go
8 5 (0.88%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.70%) Bash
10 3 (0.53%) C
10 3 (0.53%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.35%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.35%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.35%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.35%) Scala
11 2 (0.35%) SOQL
11 2 (0.35%) Swift
11 2 (0.35%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 41 (7.21%) Security Cleared
2 32 (5.62%) SC Cleared
3 31 (5.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 27 (4.75%) Degree
5 23 (4.04%) PMI Certification
6 19 (3.34%) PMP
7 11 (1.93%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.23%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.88%) HND
10 3 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.53%) HNC
10 3 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.35%) ACCA
11 2 (0.35%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.35%) CIMA
11 2 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.35%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.18%) CIPD
12 1 (0.18%) ISEB
12 1 (0.18%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.62%) QA
2 27 (4.75%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.76%) PMO
4 9 (1.58%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.53%) WCAG
6 2 (0.35%) SLA
7 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.18%) GDPR
7 1 (0.18%) GRC
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 33 (5.80%) Docker
2 11 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.18%) KVM
4 1 (0.18%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 64 (11.25%) Terraform
2 51 (8.96%) Kubernetes
3 26 (4.57%) Ansible
4 12 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.23%) Puppet
7 5 (0.88%) Grafana
8 4 (0.70%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.53%) Rancher
10 2 (0.35%) Packer
10 2 (0.35%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.35%) SCCM
11 1 (0.18%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 95 (16.70%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.69%) Salesforce
3 19 (3.34%) SAP
4 15 (2.64%) Databricks
5 14 (2.46%) ServiceNow
6 13 (2.28%) Google
7 12 (2.11%) Siemens
8 11 (1.93%) Splunk
9 8 (1.41%) New Relic
10 7 (1.23%) Oracle
10 7 (1.23%) Pega
11 6 (1.05%) SaltStack
12 5 (0.88%) Adobe
12 5 (0.88%) Red Hat
13 4 (0.70%) Qualtrics
14 3 (0.53%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.53%) IBM
14 3 (0.53%) WSO2
15 2 (0.35%) Cognos
15 2 (0.35%) LogicMonitor