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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -13 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 754 1,211 1,483
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 6.16% 23.35% 18.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.52% 26.04% 23.40%
Number of salaries quoted 533 340 704
10th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £49,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +3.51% +0.81%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £96,000 £87,625 £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 8,852 4,651 6,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 72.35% 89.68% 77.45%
Number of salaries quoted 6,725 2,263 3,976
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 £79,413
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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -12 542 £66,750 +2.69% 550
Lancashire -11 78 £55,000 +14.91% 80
Cheshire -31 61 £55,000 - 46
Merseyside -15 52 £60,000 -4.00% 47
Cumbria -6 19 £47,500 -17.39% 10
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 38 (5.04%) Confluence
2 25 (3.32%) SharePoint
3 19 (2.52%) 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%) 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%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.13%) JBoss
9 1 (0.13%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (2.39%) Microsoft Project
2 16 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.93%) Trello
4 6 (0.80%) AutoCAD
4 6 (0.80%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.80%) Revit
5 3 (0.40%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 18 (2.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.53%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 247 (32.76%) Azure
2 172 (22.81%) AWS
3 100 (13.26%) Azure DevOps
4 64 (8.49%) Power Platform
5 44 (5.84%) GCP
6 43 (5.70%) Serverless
7 42 (5.57%) SaaS
8 41 (5.44%) GitHub
9 28 (3.71%) Power Automate
10 26 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 25 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
12 24 (3.18%) Microsoft Copilot
13 22 (2.92%) dbt
14 21 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
15 20 (2.65%) PowerApps
16 19 (2.52%) Snowflake
17 16 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
18 14 (1.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 14 (1.86%) GitHub Copilot
19 13 (1.72%) 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 (5.97%) Azure SQL Database
2 37 (4.91%) MongoDB
3 35 (4.64%) Power BI
4 32 (4.24%) SQL Server
5 27 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
6 24 (3.18%) PostgreSQL
7 20 (2.65%) Relational Database
8 16 (2.12%) DynamoDB
9 15 (1.99%) NoSQL
10 12 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (1.46%) BigQuery
11 11 (1.46%) Data Lake
12 9 (1.19%) MySQL
13 8 (1.06%) Big Data
13 8 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (0.93%) Metadata
15 4 (0.53%) Data Mining
15 4 (0.53%) Flink
16 3 (0.40%) Data Vault
16 3 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 82 (10.88%) JIRA
2 54 (7.16%) Git
3 32 (4.24%) GitLab
4 18 (2.39%) Jenkins
5 16 (2.12%) JUnit
6 13 (1.72%) Spock
7 11 (1.46%) Claude Code
7 11 (1.46%) Postman
8 8 (1.06%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.06%) IntelliJ
9 7 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (0.93%) Maven
10 5 (0.66%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.40%) Ant
11 3 (0.40%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.40%) RStudio
11 3 (0.40%) Selenium
12 2 (0.27%) Mockito
12 2 (0.27%) NUnit
12 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 206 (27.32%) Social Skills
2 154 (20.42%) Finance
3 79 (10.48%) Public Sector
4 73 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (6.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (4.51%) Retail
7 31 (4.11%) Marketing
8 29 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (3.18%) Telecoms
10 20 (2.65%) Games
10 20 (2.65%) Law
10 20 (2.65%) Manufacturing
11 19 (2.52%) Legal
12 15 (1.99%) Publishing
13 12 (1.59%) Advertising
13 12 (1.59%) Aerospace
13 12 (1.59%) Local Government
14 11 (1.46%) Banking
14 11 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 168 (22.28%) Senior
2 160 (21.22%) Developer
3 74 (9.81%) Software Engineer
4 52 (6.90%) Lead
4 52 (6.90%) Senior Developer
5 51 (6.76%) Analyst
5 51 (6.76%) Project Manager
6 43 (5.70%) Business Analyst
7 42 (5.57%) .NET Developer
8 37 (4.91%) Delivery Manager
9 36 (4.77%) Data Engineer
10 34 (4.51%) Engineering Manager
11 29 (3.85%) Architect
12 26 (3.45%) Java Developer
13 24 (3.18%) Product Owner
13 24 (3.18%) Senior Software Engineer
14 23 (3.05%) DevOps Engineer
14 23 (3.05%) Software Developer
15 22 (2.92%) IT Manager
16 21 (2.79%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (12.60%) .NET
2 70 (9.28%) Terraform
3 58 (7.69%) HTML
4 51 (6.76%) CSS
5 48 (6.37%) React
5 48 (6.37%) Spring
6 46 (6.10%) Node.js
7 44 (5.84%) ASP.NET
8 43 (5.70%) AngularJS
9 41 (5.44%) .NET Core
10 38 (5.04%) ASP.NET Core
11 35 (4.64%) REST
12 31 (4.11%) Spring Boot
13 26 (3.45%) RESTful
14 20 (2.65%) Kafka
15 19 (2.52%) Entity Framework
16 15 (1.99%) Blazor
17 14 (1.86%) Vue
18 13 (1.72%) ASP.NET Web API
18 13 (1.72%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 91 (12.07%) Product Ownership
2 53 (7.03%) Cloud Native
3 34 (4.51%) Enterprise Software
4 26 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (2.25%) Mobile App
6 17 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (2.12%) Driving Licence
7 16 (2.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 15 (1.99%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.86%) Private Cloud
10 11 (1.46%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (1.06%) IoT
11 8 (1.06%) PMI
12 7 (0.93%) Social Network
13 6 (0.80%) Management Information System
13 6 (0.80%) Social Media
13 6 (0.80%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.66%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.71%) Linux
2 11 (1.46%) Windows
3 5 (0.66%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.66%) Unix
4 4 (0.53%) Android
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
1 233 (30.90%) DevOps
2 223 (29.58%) CI/CD
3 215 (28.51%) Continuous Improvement
4 170 (22.55%) AI
5 153 (20.29%) Scrum
6 141 (18.70%) Stakeholder Management
7 139 (18.44%) Software Engineering
8 129 (17.11%) Mentoring
9 116 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
10 98 (13.00%) Coaching
11 85 (11.27%) Test Automation
12 84 (11.14%) Full-Stack Development
13 82 (10.88%) Roadmaps
14 79 (10.48%) Decision-Making
15 75 (9.95%) Microservices
15 75 (9.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 72 (9.55%) TDD
17 67 (8.89%) Project Delivery
18 63 (8.36%) Analytics
19 61 (8.09%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 171 (22.68%) SQL
2 125 (16.58%) Java
3 111 (14.72%) JavaScript
4 104 (13.79%) Python
5 98 (13.00%) C#
6 43 (5.70%) TypeScript
7 18 (2.39%) Go
8 17 (2.25%) C++
9 12 (1.59%) Bash
10 10 (1.33%) Apex Code
10 10 (1.33%) PHP
10 10 (1.33%) PowerShell
11 8 (1.06%) Groovy
12 6 (0.80%) C
12 6 (0.80%) R
13 5 (0.66%) SOQL
14 4 (0.53%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.53%) SOSL
15 3 (0.40%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.40%) Swift
Qualifications
1 93 (12.33%) Degree
2 73 (9.68%) Security Cleared
3 55 (7.29%) SC Cleared
4 30 (3.98%) DV Cleared
5 23 (3.05%) DBS Check
6 20 (2.65%) Master's Degree
7 19 (2.52%) PMI Certification
8 18 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (2.12%) HNC
10 12 (1.59%) PMP
11 10 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (1.19%) AWS Certification
12 9 (1.19%) Azure Certification
13 8 (1.06%) RIBA
14 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 4 (0.53%) MBA
16 4 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 4 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
17 3 (0.40%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (7.43%) Data Quality
2 50 (6.63%) QA
3 26 (3.45%) Accessibility
4 18 (2.39%) GDPR
5 12 (1.59%) PMO
6 7 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.93%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.40%) 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 68 (9.02%) 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 69 (9.15%) Kubernetes
2 32 (4.24%) Ansible
3 13 (1.72%) Argo
4 9 (1.19%) 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
8 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.13%) linkerd
9 1 (0.13%) Nagios
9 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 133 (17.64%) Microsoft
2 24 (3.18%) Salesforce
2 24 (3.18%) ServiceNow
3 22 (2.92%) Oracle
4 21 (2.79%) Databricks
4 21 (2.79%) Google
5 20 (2.65%) Splunk
6 16 (2.12%) YouTube
7 13 (1.72%) AppDynamics
7 13 (1.72%) SAP
8 9 (1.19%) Adobe
9 7 (0.93%) Pega
10 6 (0.80%) Autodesk
10 6 (0.80%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.53%) Dell
11 4 (0.53%) NEC
11 4 (0.53%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.40%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.40%) BiZZdesign
12 3 (0.40%) LogicMonitor