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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -16 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 677 1,269 1,895
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.99% 24.81% 19.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.43% 27.07% 24.18%
Number of salaries quoted 512 352 1,171
10th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,823 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £78,312 £77,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £93,750 £92,000 £88,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -0.76%

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 8,033 4,687 7,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 71.09% 91.63% 78.99%
Number of salaries quoted 6,169 2,275 5,725
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,600 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,563 £38,250
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 £81,150 £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 18 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 18 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 -11 500 £67,472 +3.80% 137
Lancashire -12 70 £55,000 +9.88% 37
Cheshire -39 46 £56,250 +4.65% 34
Merseyside -32 37 £56,100 -13.02% 14
Cumbria -10 20 £47,500 -15.18%
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 (6.06%) Confluence
2 22 (3.25%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.89%) CMS
5 5 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.59%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.59%) WordPress
7 3 (0.44%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.30%) Apache
8 2 (0.30%) Apache Spark
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 (2.07%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.03%) Trello
4 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.44%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.15%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 15 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.44%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (0.30%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 219 (32.35%) Azure
2 162 (23.93%) AWS
3 79 (11.67%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (7.24%) Power Platform
5 44 (6.50%) Serverless
6 39 (5.76%) SaaS
7 35 (5.17%) GCP
8 34 (5.02%) GitHub
9 28 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
10 27 (3.99%) AWS CloudFormation
11 21 (3.10%) Power Automate
12 17 (2.51%) PowerApps
13 16 (2.36%) dbt
13 16 (2.36%) Microsoft Copilot
14 15 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 14 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
16 13 (1.92%) Azure AKS
16 13 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
17 12 (1.77%) Azure AI
18 11 (1.62%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.44%) TCP/IP
1 3 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (0.44%) Wireless
2 2 (0.30%) AMQP
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%) VoIP
3 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (5.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 37 (5.47%) MongoDB
3 26 (3.84%) Power BI
4 25 (3.69%) SQL Server
5 21 (3.10%) NoSQL
5 21 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (2.07%) MySQL
8 12 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (1.48%) BigQuery
10 9 (1.33%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.18%) Big Data
11 8 (1.18%) Data Lake
11 8 (1.18%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.59%) Data Mining
12 4 (0.59%) Flink
12 4 (0.59%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (0.59%) GIS
12 4 (0.59%) QGIS
12 4 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 79 (11.67%) JIRA
2 42 (6.20%) Git
3 24 (3.55%) GitLab
4 18 (2.66%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.92%) Claude Code
6 11 (1.62%) Postman
7 10 (1.48%) JUnit
8 9 (1.33%) Spock
9 7 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (1.03%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.74%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.44%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.44%) 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
1 157 (23.19%) Social Skills
2 148 (21.86%) Finance
3 71 (10.49%) Public Sector
4 58 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (5.02%) Marketing
6 26 (3.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (3.55%) Influencing Skills
7 24 (3.55%) Retail
8 18 (2.66%) Banking
8 18 (2.66%) Games
9 15 (2.22%) Advertising
10 13 (1.92%) Law
11 11 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.48%) Legal
13 9 (1.33%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.18%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (1.03%) Publishing
16 6 (0.89%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 146 (21.57%) Senior
2 140 (20.68%) Developer
3 77 (11.37%) Software Engineer
4 58 (8.57%) Lead
5 54 (7.98%) Project Manager
6 49 (7.24%) Senior Developer
7 43 (6.35%) .NET Developer
7 43 (6.35%) Analyst
8 33 (4.87%) Business Analyst
9 30 (4.43%) Java Developer
10 29 (4.28%) Data Engineer
11 28 (4.14%) Delivery Manager
11 28 (4.14%) Engineering Manager
12 26 (3.84%) Architect
13 24 (3.55%) IT Manager
14 22 (3.25%) Lead Software Engineer
14 22 (3.25%) Senior Manager
15 21 (3.10%) Cloud Engineer
15 21 (3.10%) DevOps Engineer
15 21 (3.10%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (14.48%) .NET
2 54 (7.98%) HTML
3 49 (7.24%) Node.js
4 47 (6.94%) CSS
5 43 (6.35%) Spring
6 41 (6.06%) AngularJS
6 41 (6.06%) ASP.NET
6 41 (6.06%) React
7 40 (5.91%) .NET Core
8 36 (5.32%) ASP.NET Core
9 34 (5.02%) RESTful
10 32 (4.73%) Spring Boot
11 26 (3.84%) REST
12 18 (2.66%) Entity Framework
13 16 (2.36%) Vue
14 15 (2.22%) Kafka
15 13 (1.92%) Blazor
16 12 (1.77%) ML.NET
17 11 (1.62%) ASP.NET Web API
18 10 (1.48%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 74 (10.93%) Product Ownership
2 51 (7.53%) Cloud Native
3 28 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
4 27 (3.99%) Driving Licence
5 25 (3.69%) Greenfield Project
6 24 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 15 (2.22%) Mobile App
8 10 (1.48%) Marketing Technology
8 10 (1.48%) PMI
9 9 (1.33%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.33%) Private Cloud
10 8 (1.18%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.18%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.03%) Social Network
12 6 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (0.74%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.55%) Linux
2 12 (1.77%) Windows
3 5 (0.74%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.59%) Android
4 4 (0.59%) Unix
5 2 (0.30%) CentOS
5 2 (0.30%) Debian
5 2 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
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
1 207 (30.58%) DevOps
2 204 (30.13%) CI/CD
3 167 (24.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 155 (22.90%) Scrum
5 125 (18.46%) Software Engineering
6 116 (17.13%) Stakeholder Management
7 112 (16.54%) AI
8 109 (16.10%) Mentoring
9 100 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
10 91 (13.44%) Coaching
11 88 (13.00%) TDD
12 87 (12.85%) Roadmaps
13 81 (11.96%) Full-Stack Development
14 77 (11.37%) Microservices
15 76 (11.23%) Test Automation
16 67 (9.90%) Decision-Making
16 67 (9.90%) Project Management
17 66 (9.75%) Kanban
18 60 (8.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 56 (8.27%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 145 (21.42%) SQL
2 123 (18.17%) Java
3 97 (14.33%) JavaScript
4 95 (14.03%) Python
5 92 (13.59%) C#
6 33 (4.87%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.77%) Bash
8 11 (1.62%) C++
9 10 (1.48%) Go
9 10 (1.48%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.18%) PHP
11 6 (0.89%) Apex Code
12 5 (0.74%) C
12 5 (0.74%) Groovy
12 5 (0.74%) SOQL
13 4 (0.59%) SOSL
14 3 (0.44%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.44%) Swift
15 2 (0.30%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (9.75%) Security Cleared
2 50 (7.39%) SC Cleared
3 48 (7.09%) Degree
4 24 (3.55%) PMI Certification
5 23 (3.40%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.22%) PMP
7 13 (1.92%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.18%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.18%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.89%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.59%) MBA
13 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 2 (0.30%) Chartered Engineer
14 2 (0.30%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.17%) QA
2 27 (3.99%) Data Quality
3 24 (3.55%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.62%) GDPR
5 8 (1.18%) PMO
6 7 (1.03%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.59%) SLA
9 2 (0.30%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.30%) WCAG
10 1 (0.15%) GRC
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.15%) ITGC
10 1 (0.15%) NIST
10 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 55 (8.12%) Docker
2 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 74 (10.93%) Terraform
2 61 (9.01%) Kubernetes
3 27 (3.99%) Ansible
4 9 (1.33%) Argo
5 7 (1.03%) Grafana
5 7 (1.03%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.59%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.59%) Puppet
7 2 (0.30%) Packer
8 1 (0.15%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.15%) Istio
8 1 (0.15%) linkerd
Vendors
1 127 (18.76%) Microsoft
2 27 (3.99%) ServiceNow
3 20 (2.95%) Salesforce
4 18 (2.66%) Databricks
4 18 (2.66%) Oracle
5 16 (2.36%) Splunk
6 15 (2.22%) SAP
7 14 (2.07%) Google
8 11 (1.62%) Adobe
9 9 (1.33%) AppDynamics
10 5 (0.74%) Pega
11 4 (0.59%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.44%) BiZZdesign
12 3 (0.44%) Cognos
12 3 (0.44%) Facebook
12 3 (0.44%) IBM
12 3 (0.44%) LogicMonitor
13 2 (0.30%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.30%) SaltStack
13 2 (0.30%) WSO2