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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -18 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 446 917 951
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 7.09% 17.96% 22.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.65% 19.81% 25.70%
Number of salaries quoted 300 398 754
10th Percentile £44,972 £40,996 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,965 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.76% -1.73% +3.45%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,375 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,066
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.74% -3.61%

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 5,155 4,630 3,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 81.98% 90.66% 87.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,507 2,263 2,857
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,114 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,389 £69,800
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -18 274 £62,500 -3.85% 159
Cheshire -14 74 £55,000 +10.00% 51
Lancashire -15 51 £47,683 -9.18% 91
Merseyside -18 28 £62,500 +8.70% 18
Cumbria -4 17 £57,500 +6.98% 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 20 (4.48%) Confluence
1 20 (4.48%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.57%) CMS
3 6 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.12%) Apache
5 4 (0.90%) nginx
6 2 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.45%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.45%) Magnolia
6 2 (0.45%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.45%) WordPress
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.22%) Umbraco
Applications
1 19 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.67%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.67%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.67%) Sketch
5 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.45%) Simulink
6 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.22%) InVision
6 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.22%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 145 (32.51%) Azure
2 94 (21.08%) AWS
3 49 (10.99%) SaaS
4 38 (8.52%) Power Platform
5 30 (6.73%) GCP
6 26 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (5.38%) Serverless
8 15 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (2.91%) Figma
9 13 (2.91%) GitHub
10 12 (2.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (2.47%) Entra ID
12 10 (2.24%) PaaS
13 9 (2.02%) Azure AKS
13 9 (2.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 9 (2.02%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (1.79%) Azure Service Bus
14 8 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.79%) HTTP
2 7 (1.57%) Firewall
3 4 (0.90%) DNS
3 4 (0.90%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.67%) AMQP
4 3 (0.67%) SSH
4 3 (0.67%) Wireless
5 2 (0.45%) OpenVPN
5 2 (0.45%) Unified Communications
5 2 (0.45%) WAN
6 1 (0.22%) 4G
6 1 (0.22%) LAN
6 1 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.17%) SQL Server
2 29 (6.50%) NoSQL
3 20 (4.48%) Power BI
4 15 (3.36%) MongoDB
5 13 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (2.47%) MySQL
7 7 (1.57%) Big Data
7 7 (1.57%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.35%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.12%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.67%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (0.67%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.67%) Redis
10 3 (0.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 33 (7.40%) JIRA
2 32 (7.17%) Git
3 12 (2.69%) GitLab
3 12 (2.69%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.57%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.90%) JUnit
5 4 (0.90%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.67%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.67%) JIRA Agile
7 2 (0.45%) JMeter
7 2 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (0.45%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.22%) Appium
8 1 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.22%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.22%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.22%) Gatling
8 1 (0.22%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.22%) Selenium
General
1 128 (28.70%) Social Skills
2 99 (22.20%) Finance
3 56 (12.56%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.05%) Public Sector
5 22 (4.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (4.71%) Manufacturing
7 20 (4.48%) Banking
8 16 (3.59%) Law
9 14 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (3.14%) Marketing
10 11 (2.47%) Retail
11 9 (2.02%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.57%) Avionics
13 7 (1.57%) Electronics
14 6 (1.35%) Billing
14 6 (1.35%) Games
14 6 (1.35%) Legal
15 5 (1.12%) Financial Institution
15 5 (1.12%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 101 (22.65%) Developer
2 100 (22.42%) Senior
3 79 (17.71%) Lead
4 37 (8.30%) Analyst
5 34 (7.62%) Senior Developer
6 32 (7.17%) Software Engineer
7 28 (6.28%) Software Developer
8 27 (6.05%) Architect
9 22 (4.93%) Project Manager
10 18 (4.04%) Data Engineer
10 18 (4.04%) Solutions Architect
11 17 (3.81%) Business Analyst
12 16 (3.59%) .NET Developer
12 16 (3.59%) Systems Engineer
13 13 (2.91%) Cloud Engineer
13 13 (2.91%) Java Developer
13 13 (2.91%) Senior Manager
14 12 (2.69%) Backend Developer
14 12 (2.69%) DevOps Engineer
14 12 (2.69%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (16.82%) .NET
2 56 (12.56%) React
3 37 (8.30%) CSS
4 33 (7.40%) HTML
5 32 (7.17%) .NET Framework
6 31 (6.95%) REST
7 27 (6.05%) AngularJS
8 26 (5.83%) ASP.NET
8 26 (5.83%) RESTful
9 24 (5.38%) .NET Core
10 23 (5.16%) Node.js
10 23 (5.16%) Spring
10 23 (5.16%) Spring Boot
11 13 (2.91%) Kafka
12 10 (2.24%) RabbitMQ
13 9 (2.02%) Web Services
14 7 (1.57%) gRPC
15 6 (1.35%) ASP.NET Core
15 6 (1.35%) Hibernate
15 6 (1.35%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.07%) Cloud Native
2 32 (7.17%) Product Ownership
3 21 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (3.14%) Mobile App
5 13 (2.91%) IoT
5 13 (2.91%) Management Information System
6 11 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (2.24%) Social Media
8 9 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 7 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.57%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.12%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.12%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.90%) Client/Server
13 3 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (0.67%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.95%) Windows
2 14 (3.14%) Linux
3 10 (2.24%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.12%) Android
5 4 (0.90%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.67%) CentOS
6 3 (0.67%) Debian
6 3 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.45%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.45%) VMS
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (25.34%) CI/CD
2 102 (22.87%) DevOps
3 99 (22.20%) Continuous Improvement
4 97 (21.75%) Problem-Solving
5 86 (19.28%) Mentoring
6 74 (16.59%) Software Engineering
7 69 (15.47%) Coaching
8 66 (14.80%) Scrum
9 59 (13.23%) Microservices
10 53 (11.88%) User Experience
11 48 (10.76%) Roadmaps
12 47 (10.54%) AI
12 47 (10.54%) Containerisation
13 41 (9.19%) Project Delivery
13 41 (9.19%) Stakeholder Management
14 40 (8.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 39 (8.74%) Project Management
16 38 (8.52%) Clean Code
17 37 (8.30%) Infrastructure as Code
18 35 (7.85%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 75 (16.82%) C#
2 60 (13.45%) SQL
3 59 (13.23%) JavaScript
4 54 (12.11%) Java
5 40 (8.97%) Python
6 39 (8.74%) TypeScript
7 15 (3.36%) Go
8 9 (2.02%) MATLAB
9 8 (1.79%) Elixir
9 8 (1.79%) Ruby
10 7 (1.57%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.12%) Bash
12 4 (0.90%) Bicep
12 4 (0.90%) C++
12 4 (0.90%) Scala
13 3 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.67%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.45%) C
14 2 (0.45%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 43 (9.64%) Degree
2 36 (8.07%) BPSS Clearance
3 30 (6.73%) Security Cleared
4 21 (4.71%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.69%) PMP
6 11 (2.47%) PMI Certification
7 10 (2.24%) DBS Check
7 10 (2.24%) DV Cleared
8 9 (2.02%) ACCA
9 6 (1.35%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.12%) CIMA
11 4 (0.90%) HNC
11 4 (0.90%) HND
12 3 (0.67%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.67%) CCNA
12 3 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.22%) City & Guilds
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.07%) QA
2 33 (7.40%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.02%) PMO
4 8 (1.79%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.79%) SEPA
4 8 (1.79%) TARGET2
5 6 (1.35%) SLA
6 4 (0.90%) GAAP
6 4 (0.90%) IFRS
6 4 (0.90%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.67%) GDPR
7 3 (0.67%) NIST
8 2 (0.45%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 2 (0.45%) WCAG
9 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.22%) GxP
9 1 (0.22%) HL7
9 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 41 (9.19%) Docker
2 26 (5.83%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.22%) HDFS
4 1 (0.22%) KVM
4 1 (0.22%) QEMU
4 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 47 (10.54%) Terraform
2 46 (10.31%) Kubernetes
3 14 (3.14%) Ansible
4 12 (2.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (2.02%) Grafana
5 9 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (1.79%) SCCM
7 5 (1.12%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.90%) Puppet
9 2 (0.45%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.45%) Rancher
Vendors
1 79 (17.71%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.48%) SAP
3 14 (3.14%) Google
4 12 (2.69%) ServiceNow
5 11 (2.47%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.02%) Databricks
6 9 (2.02%) Siemens
6 9 (2.02%) Splunk
7 8 (1.79%) New Relic
8 7 (1.57%) Adobe
9 6 (1.35%) Qualtrics
9 6 (1.35%) Sophos
10 5 (1.12%) Oracle
11 4 (0.90%) SaltStack
12 3 (0.67%) Aruba
12 3 (0.67%) Cisco
12 3 (0.67%) Meraki
12 3 (0.67%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.67%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.67%) Zerto