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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -20 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 465 1,221 975
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 9.40% 18.44% 26.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.16% 21.81% 27.80%
Number of salaries quoted 302 452 704
10th Percentile £44,972 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £85,775 £85,000 £89,625
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - - +2.27%

All Process and 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 4,165 5,598 3,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 84.18% 84.55% 94.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,397 2,809 2,667
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,000 £31,150
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -5.91% +3.54%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -3.23%

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025. 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 -5 302 £62,500 +4.17% 107
Cheshire -13 69 £55,000 +10.00% 40
Lancashire -19 51 £47,683 -12.98% 76
Merseyside -17 30 £60,000 +9.09% 6
Cumbria -14 11 £57,500 +3.60% 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 18 (3.87%) Confluence
2 15 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.72%) CMS
4 4 (0.86%) Apache
5 3 (0.65%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.65%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.65%) Magnolia
5 3 (0.65%) nginx
5 3 (0.65%) WordPress
6 2 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.43%) IIS
6 2 (0.43%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.22%) Umbraco
Applications
1 21 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.51%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.65%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.65%) Sketch
6 3 (0.65%) Trello
7 2 (0.43%) Simulink
8 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.22%) InVision
Business Applications
1 8 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.22%) Magento
3 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.22%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 137 (29.46%) Azure
2 114 (24.52%) AWS
3 42 (9.03%) SaaS
4 41 (8.82%) Power Platform
5 36 (7.74%) GCP
6 27 (5.81%) Serverless
7 21 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (3.44%) GitHub
8 16 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
10 13 (2.80%) Figma
11 10 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (2.15%) PaaS
12 9 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
14 7 (1.51%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (1.51%) Azure AKS
14 7 (1.51%) Azure Functions
14 7 (1.51%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.51%) Firewall
2 4 (0.86%) HTTP
3 3 (0.65%) DNS
3 3 (0.65%) SSH
3 3 (0.65%) Wireless
4 2 (0.43%) AMQP
4 2 (0.43%) OpenVPN
4 2 (0.43%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.43%) WAN
5 1 (0.22%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 26 (5.59%) NoSQL
3 25 (5.38%) Power BI
4 21 (4.52%) MongoDB
5 11 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (2.15%) MySQL
7 7 (1.51%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.51%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.29%) Redis
8 6 (1.29%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.86%) Big Data
9 4 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.65%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.65%) Hazelcast
10 3 (0.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 36 (7.74%) JIRA
2 29 (6.24%) Git
3 14 (3.01%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.80%) GitLab
5 8 (1.72%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.86%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.86%) JMeter
6 4 (0.86%) Selenium
7 3 (0.65%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.65%) Gatling
7 3 (0.65%) JIRA Agile
7 3 (0.65%) JUnit
7 3 (0.65%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.22%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.22%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.22%) Maven
9 1 (0.22%) Mockito
General
1 143 (30.75%) Social Skills
2 125 (26.88%) Finance
3 54 (11.61%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (7.10%) Public Sector
5 21 (4.52%) Banking
6 20 (4.30%) Marketing
7 19 (4.09%) Influencing Skills
7 19 (4.09%) Law
8 17 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (3.66%) Local Government
9 15 (3.23%) Manufacturing
9 15 (3.23%) Retail
10 10 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.94%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.72%) Games
13 7 (1.51%) Avionics
13 7 (1.51%) Electronics
13 7 (1.51%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.29%) Billing
15 5 (1.08%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 117 (25.16%) Senior
2 109 (23.44%) Developer
3 70 (15.05%) Lead
4 41 (8.82%) Analyst
5 34 (7.31%) Senior Developer
6 29 (6.24%) Architect
7 27 (5.81%) Project Manager
8 26 (5.59%) Senior Manager
8 26 (5.59%) Software Engineer
9 23 (4.95%) Java Developer
10 21 (4.52%) Software Developer
10 21 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
11 18 (3.87%) Business Analyst
12 17 (3.66%) Systems Engineer
13 16 (3.44%) .NET Developer
13 16 (3.44%) Audit Manager
13 16 (3.44%) Senior Audit Manager
14 15 (3.23%) Data Engineer
15 14 (3.01%) DevOps Engineer
15 14 (3.01%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (14.84%) .NET
2 61 (13.12%) React
3 37 (7.96%) CSS
4 33 (7.10%) HTML
5 27 (5.81%) AngularJS
5 27 (5.81%) Spring Boot
6 26 (5.59%) Spring
7 24 (5.16%) RESTful
8 23 (4.95%) .NET Framework
8 23 (4.95%) REST
9 22 (4.73%) .NET Core
9 22 (4.73%) Node.js
10 19 (4.09%) ASP.NET
11 17 (3.66%) Kafka
12 10 (2.15%) RabbitMQ
13 9 (1.94%) Hibernate
14 8 (1.72%) Jest
14 8 (1.72%) Web Services
15 7 (1.51%) Entity Framework
15 7 (1.51%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.82%) Cloud Native
2 38 (8.17%) Product Ownership
3 23 (4.95%) Management Information System
4 21 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (3.44%) Mobile App
6 14 (3.01%) Social Media
7 12 (2.58%) IoT
7 12 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.94%) Driving Licence
10 8 (1.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 7 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.08%) e-Learning
12 5 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.08%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.86%) Animation
13 4 (0.86%) Data Centre
13 4 (0.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.24%) Windows
2 12 (2.58%) Linux
3 10 (2.15%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.08%) Android
5 4 (0.86%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.43%) CentOS
7 2 (0.43%) Debian
7 2 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (24.73%) CI/CD
2 112 (24.09%) DevOps
3 106 (22.80%) Continuous Improvement
4 100 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
5 88 (18.92%) Mentoring
6 82 (17.63%) Coaching
7 71 (15.27%) Software Engineering
8 64 (13.76%) Microservices
9 62 (13.33%) Roadmaps
10 61 (13.12%) Scrum
11 57 (12.26%) User Experience
12 49 (10.54%) Containerisation
13 47 (10.11%) Stakeholder Management
14 46 (9.89%) Clean Code
14 46 (9.89%) Project Delivery
14 46 (9.89%) Project Management
15 42 (9.03%) Full-Stack Development
16 40 (8.60%) Decision-Making
16 40 (8.60%) Infrastructure as Code
16 40 (8.60%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 73 (15.70%) C#
2 62 (13.33%) Java
3 60 (12.90%) JavaScript
4 58 (12.47%) SQL
5 45 (9.68%) TypeScript
6 38 (8.17%) Python
7 14 (3.01%) Go
8 10 (2.15%) MATLAB
9 9 (1.94%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.72%) Elixir
10 8 (1.72%) Ruby
11 7 (1.51%) Bash
12 4 (0.86%) Bicep
12 4 (0.86%) PHP
13 3 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.65%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.65%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.43%) C
14 2 (0.43%) C++
14 2 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 60 (12.90%) Degree
2 33 (7.10%) BPSS Clearance
3 29 (6.24%) Security Cleared
4 23 (4.95%) ACCA
5 21 (4.52%) SC Cleared
6 15 (3.23%) DBS Check
7 11 (2.37%) Azure Certification
7 11 (2.37%) PMP
8 10 (2.15%) PMI Certification
9 9 (1.94%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.72%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.51%) CIMA
11 7 (1.51%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.86%) HNC
13 4 (0.86%) HND
14 3 (0.65%) CCNA
14 3 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (7.74%) QA
2 28 (6.02%) Accessibility
3 16 (3.44%) GAAP
3 16 (3.44%) IFRS
4 10 (2.15%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.72%) SEPA
5 8 (1.72%) TARGET2
6 7 (1.51%) GDPR
6 7 (1.51%) NIST
6 7 (1.51%) PMO
7 6 (1.29%) HIPAA
7 6 (1.29%) SLA
8 4 (0.86%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 2 (0.43%) WCAG
10 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.22%) HL7
10 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 54 (11.61%) Docker
2 19 (4.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.22%) HDFS
4 1 (0.22%) KVM
4 1 (0.22%) QEMU
4 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 52 (11.18%) Kubernetes
2 42 (9.03%) Terraform
3 11 (2.37%) Ansible
4 9 (1.94%) Grafana
4 9 (1.94%) SCCM
5 7 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (1.08%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.43%) Puppet
9 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.22%) Rancher
Vendors
1 62 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 18 (3.87%) Google
3 16 (3.44%) SAP
4 14 (3.01%) Salesforce
5 11 (2.37%) ServiceNow
6 9 (1.94%) Databricks
7 8 (1.72%) Adobe
8 7 (1.51%) Splunk
9 6 (1.29%) Bloomberg
9 6 (1.29%) Qualtrics
9 6 (1.29%) Sophos
10 5 (1.08%) Facebook
10 5 (1.08%) Siemens
11 4 (0.86%) UiPath
12 3 (0.65%) Aruba
12 3 (0.65%) Meraki
12 3 (0.65%) New Relic
12 3 (0.65%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.65%) SaltStack
12 3 (0.65%) Zerto