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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -16 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 671 1,291 1,956
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.95% 25.06% 19.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.38% 27.28% 24.11%
Number of salaries quoted 509 364 1,233
10th Percentile £42,660 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,960 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £78,312 £77,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £94,366 £93,769 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £63,624
% change year-on-year -7.14% +10.02% -2.86%

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 8,008 4,732 8,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 71.02% 91.87% 79.04%
Number of salaries quoted 6,152 2,288 5,974
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,925 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,625 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,150 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 13 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 13 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 -11 492 £67,500 +3.85% 235
Lancashire -8 73 £55,000 +9.88% 62
Cheshire -39 46 £55,000 +4.76% 41
Merseyside -32 35 £55,550 -15.83% 15
Cumbria -6 21 £47,500 -14.41% 5
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 43 (6.41%) Confluence
2 21 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.89%) CMS
5 5 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.60%) Apache
6 4 (0.60%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.60%) WordPress
7 3 (0.45%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.45%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.30%) CICS
8 2 (0.30%) nginx
8 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.15%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 14 (2.09%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.89%) Trello
4 3 (0.45%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.15%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 15 (2.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.45%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 212 (31.59%) Azure
2 163 (24.29%) AWS
3 77 (11.48%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (7.00%) Power Platform
5 44 (6.56%) Serverless
6 37 (5.51%) SaaS
7 36 (5.37%) GCP
8 34 (5.07%) GitHub
9 29 (4.32%) AWS CloudFormation
10 27 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
11 19 (2.83%) Power Automate
12 17 (2.53%) PowerApps
13 16 (2.38%) dbt
14 15 (2.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 14 (2.09%) Azure AKS
15 14 (2.09%) Microsoft Copilot
16 13 (1.94%) Azure Service Bus
16 13 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
17 12 (1.79%) Azure AI
18 11 (1.64%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.45%) AMQP
1 3 (0.45%) TCP/IP
1 3 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (0.45%) Wireless
2 2 (0.30%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.30%) ZigBee
3 1 (0.15%) Broadband
3 1 (0.15%) CTI
3 1 (0.15%) LAN
3 1 (0.15%) LTE
3 1 (0.15%) Network Security
3 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.15%) SSL
3 1 (0.15%) VoIP
3 1 (0.15%) VPN
3 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (5.81%) Azure SQL Database
1 39 (5.81%) MongoDB
2 25 (3.73%) Power BI
3 23 (3.43%) NoSQL
3 23 (3.43%) SQL Server
4 22 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (2.24%) MySQL
7 13 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (1.49%) BigQuery
8 10 (1.49%) DynamoDB
9 9 (1.34%) Big Data
10 8 (1.19%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.19%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.60%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.60%) Flink
11 4 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.60%) GIS
11 4 (0.60%) Metadata
11 4 (0.60%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 79 (11.77%) JIRA
2 42 (6.26%) Git
3 24 (3.58%) GitLab
4 18 (2.68%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.94%) Claude Code
6 11 (1.64%) Postman
7 9 (1.34%) JUnit
8 8 (1.19%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.19%) Spock
9 7 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.75%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.45%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.45%) Maven
12 2 (0.30%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.30%) MSTest
12 2 (0.30%) NUnit
12 2 (0.30%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.30%) Vagrant
12 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.30%) XCUITest
General
1 155 (23.10%) Social Skills
2 146 (21.76%) Finance
3 75 (11.18%) Public Sector
4 57 (8.49%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (5.07%) Marketing
6 25 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (3.58%) Influencing Skills
7 24 (3.58%) Retail
8 19 (2.83%) Games
9 18 (2.68%) Banking
10 15 (2.24%) Advertising
11 13 (1.94%) Law
12 11 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (1.49%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.19%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.04%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (1.04%) Legal
16 6 (0.89%) Local Government
16 6 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 144 (21.46%) Senior
2 134 (19.97%) Developer
3 77 (11.48%) Software Engineer
4 59 (8.79%) Lead
5 55 (8.20%) Project Manager
6 44 (6.56%) Senior Developer
7 43 (6.41%) .NET Developer
7 43 (6.41%) Analyst
8 33 (4.92%) Business Analyst
9 30 (4.47%) Java Developer
10 28 (4.17%) Data Engineer
10 28 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
10 28 (4.17%) Engineering Manager
11 27 (4.02%) Architect
12 25 (3.73%) IT Manager
13 24 (3.58%) Senior Manager
14 22 (3.28%) Cloud Engineer
14 22 (3.28%) Lead Software Engineer
15 21 (3.13%) Java Engineer
16 20 (2.98%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (13.71%) .NET
2 52 (7.75%) Node.js
3 51 (7.60%) HTML
4 46 (6.86%) CSS
5 43 (6.41%) React
5 43 (6.41%) Spring
6 40 (5.96%) AngularJS
6 40 (5.96%) ASP.NET
7 39 (5.81%) .NET Core
8 35 (5.22%) ASP.NET Core
9 34 (5.07%) RESTful
10 33 (4.92%) Spring Boot
11 27 (4.02%) REST
12 18 (2.68%) Entity Framework
13 16 (2.38%) Vue
14 15 (2.24%) Kafka
15 13 (1.94%) Blazor
16 12 (1.79%) ML.NET
17 11 (1.64%) ASP.NET Web API
18 10 (1.49%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 73 (10.88%) Product Ownership
2 52 (7.75%) Cloud Native
3 28 (4.17%) Driving Licence
4 26 (3.87%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (3.73%) Greenfield Project
6 23 (3.43%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 14 (2.09%) Mobile App
8 11 (1.64%) PMI
9 9 (1.34%) Marketing Technology
9 9 (1.34%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.19%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.19%) Private Cloud
10 8 (1.19%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.04%) Social Network
12 6 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (0.75%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.87%) Linux
2 12 (1.79%) Windows
3 4 (0.60%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.60%) Unix
4 3 (0.45%) Android
4 3 (0.45%) CentOS
4 3 (0.45%) Debian
4 3 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.45%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (0.30%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (29.96%) CI/CD
2 200 (29.81%) DevOps
3 164 (24.44%) Continuous Improvement
4 152 (22.65%) Scrum
5 122 (18.18%) Software Engineering
6 113 (16.84%) Stakeholder Management
7 111 (16.54%) Mentoring
8 104 (15.50%) AI
9 95 (14.16%) Coaching
9 95 (14.16%) Problem-Solving
10 87 (12.97%) TDD
11 85 (12.67%) Roadmaps
12 80 (11.92%) Full-Stack Development
13 76 (11.33%) Microservices
14 75 (11.18%) Test Automation
15 68 (10.13%) Project Management
16 67 (9.99%) Decision-Making
16 67 (9.99%) Kanban
17 59 (8.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 58 (8.64%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 144 (21.46%) SQL
2 121 (18.03%) Java
3 96 (14.31%) JavaScript
4 95 (14.16%) Python
5 86 (12.82%) C#
6 33 (4.92%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.79%) Bash
8 11 (1.64%) C++
9 10 (1.49%) Go
9 10 (1.49%) PowerShell
10 6 (0.89%) Apex Code
10 6 (0.89%) Groovy
10 6 (0.89%) PHP
11 5 (0.75%) C
11 5 (0.75%) SOQL
12 4 (0.60%) SOSL
13 3 (0.45%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.30%) Bicep
14 2 (0.30%) Swift
14 2 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (9.84%) Security Cleared
2 51 (7.60%) SC Cleared
3 45 (6.71%) Degree
4 24 (3.58%) PMI Certification
5 23 (3.43%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.09%) PMP
7 12 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (1.79%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.34%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.19%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.89%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 3 (0.45%) MBA
15 2 (0.30%) Chartered Engineer
15 2 (0.30%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.30%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.92%) QA
2 27 (4.02%) Data Quality
3 24 (3.58%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.64%) GDPR
5 7 (1.04%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.04%) PMO
6 6 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.60%) SLA
8 2 (0.30%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.30%) WCAG
9 1 (0.15%) GRC
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.15%) ITGC
9 1 (0.15%) NIST
9 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 54 (8.05%) Docker
2 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 77 (11.48%) Terraform
2 62 (9.24%) Kubernetes
3 28 (4.17%) Ansible
4 9 (1.34%) Argo
5 7 (1.04%) Grafana
5 7 (1.04%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.75%) Puppet
7 4 (0.60%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.30%) Packer
9 1 (0.15%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.15%) Istio
9 1 (0.15%) linkerd
9 1 (0.15%) Rancher
9 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 124 (18.48%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.17%) ServiceNow
3 20 (2.98%) Salesforce
4 18 (2.68%) Databricks
4 18 (2.68%) Oracle
5 16 (2.38%) SAP
6 15 (2.24%) Google
6 15 (2.24%) Splunk
7 10 (1.49%) Adobe
8 8 (1.19%) AppDynamics
9 5 (0.75%) Pega
10 4 (0.60%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.45%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (0.45%) Cognos
11 3 (0.45%) Facebook
11 3 (0.45%) IBM
11 3 (0.45%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (0.45%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.45%) SaltStack
11 3 (0.45%) Siemens