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 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 1 2
Rank change year-on-year -27 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 588 1,308 1,949
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.24% 28.32% 19.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.34% 29.68% 23.81%
Number of salaries quoted 451 361 1,402
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £38,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,601 £78,750 £75,767
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -6.81%

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 8,015 4,407 8,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 71.46% 95.41% 79.80%
Number of salaries quoted 5,385 1,991 6,334
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,800 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,400 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -10 433 £65,000 - 285
Lancashire -29 59 £55,000 +8.08% 49
Cheshire -45 46 £55,000 +10.00% 23
Merseyside -35 30 £55,000 -15.38% 15
Cumbria -18 16 £49,500 -5.71% 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 41 (6.97%) Confluence
2 12 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.85%) CMS
5 4 (0.68%) Apache
5 4 (0.68%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.68%) WordPress
6 3 (0.51%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.34%) CICS
7 2 (0.34%) nginx
7 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) IIS
8 1 (0.17%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 11 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (1.87%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.34%) Trello
4 1 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.51%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 186 (31.63%) Azure
2 137 (23.30%) AWS
3 56 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (6.46%) SaaS
5 36 (6.12%) Serverless
6 35 (5.95%) Power Platform
7 31 (5.27%) GCP
8 25 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (3.74%) GitHub
10 21 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (2.89%) Azure AKS
12 14 (2.38%) Azure Service Bus
13 13 (2.21%) Anthropic Claude
14 12 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (1.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 11 (1.87%) dbt
16 10 (1.70%) Azure Functions
16 10 (1.70%) Azure Logic Apps
17 7 (1.19%) Azure Monitor
17 7 (1.19%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.51%) AMQP
2 2 (0.34%) HTTP
2 2 (0.34%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.17%) 4G
3 1 (0.17%) Broadband
3 1 (0.17%) DNS
3 1 (0.17%) LAN
3 1 (0.17%) LTE
3 1 (0.17%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.17%) SSL
3 1 (0.17%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (5.44%) SQL Server
2 28 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 28 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 22 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (3.23%) Power BI
5 17 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (2.55%) MySQL
7 10 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (1.70%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.53%) BigQuery
9 8 (1.36%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.02%) Big Data
10 6 (1.02%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.85%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.68%) Flink
12 4 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (0.68%) GIS
12 4 (0.68%) Metadata
12 4 (0.68%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 70 (11.90%) JIRA
2 43 (7.31%) Git
3 21 (3.57%) GitLab
4 18 (3.06%) Jenkins
5 14 (2.38%) Claude Code
6 10 (1.70%) Postman
7 6 (1.02%) JUnit
8 4 (0.68%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.68%) Spock
9 3 (0.51%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.51%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.34%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.34%) Maven
10 2 (0.34%) MSTest
10 2 (0.34%) NUnit
10 2 (0.34%) Selenium
10 2 (0.34%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.34%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.34%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.34%) XCUITest
General
1 131 (22.28%) Social Skills
2 125 (21.26%) Finance
3 61 (10.37%) Public Sector
4 52 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (4.93%) Marketing
6 26 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.06%) Banking
8 17 (2.89%) Games
9 14 (2.38%) Retail
10 13 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (2.04%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.87%) Advertising
13 10 (1.70%) Law
14 8 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (1.02%) Legal
16 6 (1.02%) Publishing
17 5 (0.85%) Aerospace
17 5 (0.85%) Telecoms
18 4 (0.68%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 143 (24.32%) Senior
2 114 (19.39%) Developer
3 77 (13.10%) Software Engineer
4 74 (12.59%) Lead
5 46 (7.82%) Project Manager
6 45 (7.65%) Senior Developer
7 38 (6.46%) Analyst
8 30 (5.10%) .NET Developer
8 30 (5.10%) Java Developer
8 30 (5.10%) Software Developer
9 28 (4.76%) Business Analyst
10 26 (4.42%) Data Engineer
11 25 (4.25%) Lead Software Engineer
12 24 (4.08%) Delivery Manager
13 23 (3.91%) Java Engineer
14 22 (3.74%) IT Manager
15 20 (3.40%) Cloud Engineer
15 20 (3.40%) Senior Data Engineer
16 19 (3.23%) Architect
16 19 (3.23%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (14.46%) .NET
2 48 (8.16%) React
3 43 (7.31%) Node.js
4 37 (6.29%) CSS
4 37 (6.29%) HTML
5 35 (5.95%) Spring
6 33 (5.61%) REST
7 32 (5.44%) AngularJS
8 31 (5.27%) RESTful
9 30 (5.10%) .NET Core
9 30 (5.10%) ASP.NET
9 30 (5.10%) Spring Boot
10 26 (4.42%) .NET Framework
11 14 (2.38%) ASP.NET Core
12 13 (2.21%) Kafka
12 13 (2.21%) Vue
13 9 (1.53%) Entity Framework
14 8 (1.36%) PySpark
14 8 (1.36%) Web Services
15 7 (1.19%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 66 (11.22%) Product Ownership
2 37 (6.29%) Cloud Native
3 27 (4.59%) Driving Licence
4 25 (4.25%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (2.89%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (1.87%) Mobile App
8 10 (1.70%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.36%) PMI
10 7 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.19%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.02%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
12 5 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.85%) Social Network
12 5 (0.85%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 4 (0.68%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.40%) Linux
2 14 (2.38%) Windows
3 4 (0.68%) Unix
4 3 (0.51%) CentOS
4 3 (0.51%) Debian
4 3 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.51%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.34%) Android
5 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.34%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (28.23%) CI/CD
2 158 (26.87%) DevOps
3 131 (22.28%) Scrum
4 130 (22.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 115 (19.56%) Software Engineering
6 101 (17.18%) Mentoring
7 88 (14.97%) Coaching
8 83 (14.12%) Stakeholder Management
9 77 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
9 77 (13.10%) TDD
10 72 (12.24%) Microservices
11 69 (11.73%) AI
12 68 (11.56%) Project Management
13 64 (10.88%) Roadmaps
14 62 (10.54%) Full-Stack Development
15 60 (10.20%) Kanban
15 60 (10.20%) Test Automation
16 53 (9.01%) Decision-Making
17 51 (8.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 50 (8.50%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 126 (21.43%) SQL
2 114 (19.39%) Java
3 79 (13.44%) JavaScript
3 79 (13.44%) Python
4 69 (11.73%) C#
5 30 (5.10%) TypeScript
6 9 (1.53%) C++
7 7 (1.19%) Bash
7 7 (1.19%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.02%) Apex Code
9 5 (0.85%) Groovy
9 5 (0.85%) SOQL
10 4 (0.68%) Go
10 4 (0.68%) PHP
10 4 (0.68%) SOSL
11 3 (0.51%) C
11 3 (0.51%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.34%) Scala
12 2 (0.34%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 53 (9.01%) Security Cleared
2 43 (7.31%) SC Cleared
3 24 (4.08%) Degree
4 21 (3.57%) PMI Certification
5 19 (3.23%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (2.38%) PMP
8 8 (1.36%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.85%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.51%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.34%) Chartered Engineer
12 2 (0.34%) HND
12 2 (0.34%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 1 (0.17%) CAPM
13 1 (0.17%) ISEB
13 1 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.25%) QA
2 21 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 21 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.36%) PMO
4 4 (0.68%) GDPR
5 2 (0.34%) SLA
5 2 (0.34%) WCAG
6 1 (0.17%) GRC
6 1 (0.17%) GxP
6 1 (0.17%) ITGC
6 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 41 (6.97%) Docker
2 7 (1.19%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 73 (12.41%) Terraform
2 52 (8.84%) Kubernetes
3 24 (4.08%) Ansible
4 6 (1.02%) Argo
4 6 (1.02%) Grafana
4 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.85%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.85%) Puppet
5 5 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.68%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.34%) Packer
7 2 (0.34%) Rancher
8 1 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 103 (17.52%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.25%) ServiceNow
3 23 (3.91%) Salesforce
4 18 (3.06%) Databricks
5 17 (2.89%) SAP
6 15 (2.55%) Oracle
7 12 (2.04%) Google
8 10 (1.70%) Splunk
9 7 (1.19%) Adobe
9 7 (1.19%) Siemens
10 6 (1.02%) Pega
11 4 (0.68%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.68%) New Relic
12 3 (0.51%) Cognos
12 3 (0.51%) IBM
12 3 (0.51%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (0.51%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.51%) SaltStack
13 2 (0.34%) Facebook
13 2 (0.34%) WSO2