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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -13 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 752 1,218 1,478
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 6.15% 23.34% 18.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.51% 25.98% 23.39%
Number of salaries quoted 536 343 704
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £49,750 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% +4.37% +0.81%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £96,875 £90,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year -7.14% +6.93% -3.02%

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 8,834 4,688 6,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 72.24% 89.83% 77.36%
Number of salaries quoted 6,711 2,286 3,979
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -7.27%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £79,300
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -11 546 £66,750 +2.69% 254
Lancashire -10 76 £55,000 +14.91% 59
Cheshire -31 60 £55,000 - 25
Merseyside -18 49 £60,000 -4.00% 30
Cumbria -6 19 £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 37 (4.92%) Confluence
2 25 (3.32%) SharePoint
3 20 (2.66%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.33%) Apache
5 5 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.66%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.53%) CMS
7 3 (0.40%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.40%) nginx
7 3 (0.40%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.40%) WordPress
8 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.27%) CICS
8 2 (0.27%) IIS
8 2 (0.27%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.27%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.27%) WinCC
9 1 (0.13%) JBoss
9 1 (0.13%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (2.39%) Microsoft Project
2 16 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.93%) Trello
4 6 (0.80%) AutoCAD
4 6 (0.80%) Revit
5 5 (0.66%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.40%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 18 (2.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.53%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 251 (33.38%) Azure
2 172 (22.87%) AWS
3 100 (13.30%) Azure DevOps
4 62 (8.24%) Power Platform
5 45 (5.98%) GCP
6 43 (5.72%) GitHub
6 43 (5.72%) SaaS
6 43 (5.72%) Serverless
7 27 (3.59%) Power Automate
8 26 (3.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 25 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (3.06%) dbt
10 23 (3.06%) Microsoft Copilot
11 21 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
12 20 (2.66%) PowerApps
13 19 (2.53%) Snowflake
14 15 (1.99%) GitHub Copilot
15 14 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
15 14 (1.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 13 (1.73%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (0.40%) Wireless
2 2 (0.27%) AMQP
2 2 (0.27%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.27%) HTTP
2 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.27%) ZigBee
3 1 (0.13%) Broadband
3 1 (0.13%) CTI
3 1 (0.13%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (0.13%) iSCSI
3 1 (0.13%) LAN
3 1 (0.13%) LTE
3 1 (0.13%) Network Security
3 1 (0.13%) SAN
3 1 (0.13%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.13%) SSL
3 1 (0.13%) VoIP
3 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (5.98%) Azure SQL Database
2 36 (4.79%) MongoDB
3 33 (4.39%) Power BI
3 33 (4.39%) SQL Server
4 28 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (2.53%) Relational Database
7 16 (2.13%) DynamoDB
8 15 (1.99%) NoSQL
9 12 (1.60%) BigQuery
9 12 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (1.46%) Data Lake
11 10 (1.33%) MySQL
12 8 (1.06%) Big Data
12 8 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.80%) Metadata
14 4 (0.53%) Data Mining
14 4 (0.53%) Flink
15 3 (0.40%) GIS
15 3 (0.40%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 82 (10.90%) JIRA
2 57 (7.58%) Git
3 30 (3.99%) GitLab
4 19 (2.53%) Jenkins
5 16 (2.13%) JUnit
6 13 (1.73%) Spock
7 12 (1.60%) Claude Code
8 11 (1.46%) Postman
9 8 (1.06%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.06%) IntelliJ
10 7 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (0.80%) Maven
12 5 (0.66%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.40%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.40%) RStudio
13 3 (0.40%) Selenium
14 2 (0.27%) Ant
14 2 (0.27%) MSTest
14 2 (0.27%) NUnit
14 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 202 (26.86%) Social Skills
2 157 (20.88%) Finance
3 79 (10.51%) Public Sector
4 69 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (4.39%) Retail
7 31 (4.12%) Marketing
8 28 (3.72%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (3.19%) Telecoms
10 20 (2.66%) Games
11 19 (2.53%) Law
11 19 (2.53%) Legal
11 19 (2.53%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.73%) Advertising
12 13 (1.73%) Local Government
12 13 (1.73%) Publishing
13 12 (1.60%) Aerospace
14 11 (1.46%) Banking
14 11 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 168 (22.34%) Senior
2 158 (21.01%) Developer
3 77 (10.24%) Software Engineer
4 54 (7.18%) Lead
5 52 (6.91%) Project Manager
5 52 (6.91%) Senior Developer
6 49 (6.52%) Analyst
7 42 (5.59%) .NET Developer
8 41 (5.45%) Business Analyst
9 35 (4.65%) Data Engineer
9 35 (4.65%) Delivery Manager
10 34 (4.52%) Engineering Manager
11 28 (3.72%) Architect
12 26 (3.46%) Java Developer
13 24 (3.19%) IT Manager
13 24 (3.19%) Product Owner
13 24 (3.19%) Senior Software Engineer
14 23 (3.06%) DevOps Engineer
15 22 (2.93%) Software Developer
16 21 (2.79%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (12.90%) .NET
2 72 (9.57%) Terraform
3 60 (7.98%) HTML
4 53 (7.05%) CSS
5 50 (6.65%) Node.js
6 45 (5.98%) React
6 45 (5.98%) Spring
7 44 (5.85%) ASP.NET
8 43 (5.72%) AngularJS
9 41 (5.45%) .NET Core
10 38 (5.05%) ASP.NET Core
11 33 (4.39%) REST
12 28 (3.72%) Spring Boot
13 27 (3.59%) RESTful
14 19 (2.53%) Entity Framework
15 16 (2.13%) Kafka
16 15 (1.99%) Blazor
16 15 (1.99%) Vue
17 13 (1.73%) ASP.NET Web API
17 13 (1.73%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 89 (11.84%) Product Ownership
2 51 (6.78%) Cloud Native
3 34 (4.52%) Enterprise Software
4 27 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
5 25 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (2.26%) Driving Licence
6 17 (2.26%) Mobile App
7 16 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 15 (1.99%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.86%) Private Cloud
10 11 (1.46%) Marketing Technology
10 11 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.06%) IoT
11 8 (1.06%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.06%) PMI
12 7 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.93%) Social Network
13 6 (0.80%) Social Media
13 6 (0.80%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.66%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.59%) Linux
2 11 (1.46%) Windows
3 5 (0.66%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.53%) Android
4 4 (0.53%) Unix
4 4 (0.53%) VMS
5 2 (0.27%) CentOS
5 2 (0.27%) Debian
5 2 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (30.59%) DevOps
2 220 (29.26%) CI/CD
3 207 (27.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 161 (21.41%) AI
5 154 (20.48%) Scrum
6 143 (19.02%) Software Engineering
7 135 (17.95%) Stakeholder Management
8 125 (16.62%) Mentoring
9 114 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
10 95 (12.63%) Coaching
11 87 (11.57%) Full-Stack Development
12 85 (11.30%) Test Automation
13 83 (11.04%) Roadmaps
14 78 (10.37%) Decision-Making
15 76 (10.11%) Microservices
15 76 (10.11%) TDD
16 74 (9.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 67 (8.91%) Project Delivery
18 62 (8.24%) Analytics
18 62 (8.24%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 172 (22.87%) SQL
2 126 (16.76%) Java
3 115 (15.29%) JavaScript
4 109 (14.49%) Python
5 97 (12.90%) C#
6 41 (5.45%) TypeScript
7 18 (2.39%) Go
8 15 (1.99%) C++
9 12 (1.60%) Bash
10 10 (1.33%) PHP
10 10 (1.33%) PowerShell
11 9 (1.20%) Apex Code
12 8 (1.06%) Groovy
13 6 (0.80%) C
13 6 (0.80%) R
14 5 (0.66%) SOQL
15 4 (0.53%) SOSL
16 3 (0.40%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.40%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.40%) Swift
Qualifications
1 92 (12.23%) Degree
2 68 (9.04%) Security Cleared
3 54 (7.18%) SC Cleared
4 26 (3.46%) DV Cleared
5 23 (3.06%) DBS Check
6 20 (2.66%) Master's Degree
6 20 (2.66%) PMI Certification
7 18 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (2.13%) HNC
9 13 (1.73%) PMP
10 10 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (1.20%) AWS Certification
11 9 (1.20%) Azure Certification
12 8 (1.06%) RIBA
13 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (0.53%) MBA
15 4 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 4 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.40%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (6.91%) Data Quality
1 52 (6.91%) QA
2 25 (3.32%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.26%) GDPR
4 12 (1.60%) PMO
5 7 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (0.93%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.53%) SLA
7 3 (0.40%) WCAG
8 2 (0.27%) GRC
8 2 (0.27%) IEC 61131
8 2 (0.27%) IEC 61508
8 2 (0.27%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.13%) NIST
9 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 67 (8.91%) Docker
2 3 (0.40%) Ceph
3 2 (0.27%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.13%) Firmware
4 1 (0.13%) NFS
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 65 (8.64%) Kubernetes
2 31 (4.12%) Ansible
3 13 (1.73%) Argo
4 9 (1.20%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.80%) Grafana
6 4 (0.53%) Istio
7 3 (0.40%) Check_MK
7 3 (0.40%) Podman
7 3 (0.40%) Puppet
8 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.13%) linkerd
9 1 (0.13%) Nagios
9 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 133 (17.69%) Microsoft
2 25 (3.32%) ServiceNow
3 23 (3.06%) Salesforce
4 22 (2.93%) Google
5 21 (2.79%) Databricks
5 21 (2.79%) Oracle
6 20 (2.66%) Splunk
7 13 (1.73%) AppDynamics
7 13 (1.73%) SAP
8 12 (1.60%) YouTube
9 9 (1.20%) Adobe
10 7 (0.93%) Pega
11 6 (0.80%) Autodesk
11 6 (0.80%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.53%) Dell
12 4 (0.53%) IBM
12 4 (0.53%) NEC
12 4 (0.53%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.40%) Apple
13 3 (0.40%) BiZZdesign