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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -16 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 673 1,262 1,828
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.91% 24.65% 19.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.31% 26.96% 24.43%
Number of salaries quoted 510 349 1,089
10th Percentile £43,000 £41,174 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,688 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £78,640 £77,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £94,366 £92,350 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -0.54%

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 8,101 4,681 7,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 71.16% 91.43% 78.80%
Number of salaries quoted 6,213 2,271 5,385
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £38,750
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 £65,593
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £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 22 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 22 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 -12 497 £67,500 +3.85% 190
Lancashire -11 71 £55,000 +9.88% 38
Cheshire -39 47 £56,250 +12.50% 42
Merseyside -34 35 £57,500 -10.85% 14
Cumbria -9 19 £47,500 -15.18% 3
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 (6.09%) Confluence
2 22 (3.27%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.63%) 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 (0.45%) 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 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.04%) Trello
4 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.45%) 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 16 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.45%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (0.30%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 217 (32.24%) Azure
2 158 (23.48%) AWS
3 80 (11.89%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (7.28%) Power Platform
5 44 (6.54%) Serverless
6 40 (5.94%) SaaS
7 34 (5.05%) GCP
7 34 (5.05%) GitHub
8 26 (3.86%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
9 21 (3.12%) Power Automate
10 17 (2.53%) PowerApps
11 16 (2.38%) dbt
11 16 (2.38%) Microsoft Copilot
12 15 (2.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 15 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
13 13 (1.93%) Azure Service Bus
14 12 (1.78%) Azure AI
14 12 (1.78%) Azure AKS
15 11 (1.63%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.45%) TCP/IP
1 3 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (0.45%) 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 (5.79%) Azure SQL Database
2 37 (5.50%) MongoDB
3 25 (3.71%) Power BI
4 24 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 20 (2.97%) NoSQL
5 20 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (1.93%) MySQL
8 12 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (1.49%) BigQuery
10 9 (1.34%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.19%) Big Data
11 8 (1.19%) Data Lake
11 8 (1.19%) 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 78 (11.59%) JIRA
2 42 (6.24%) Git
3 24 (3.57%) GitLab
4 18 (2.67%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.93%) Claude Code
6 11 (1.63%) Postman
7 10 (1.49%) JUnit
8 9 (1.34%) Spock
9 7 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (1.04%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.74%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.45%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.45%) 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
1 154 (22.88%) Social Skills
2 143 (21.25%) Finance
3 72 (10.70%) Public Sector
4 58 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (5.05%) Marketing
6 26 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (3.71%) Retail
8 24 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (2.67%) Banking
9 18 (2.67%) Games
10 15 (2.23%) Advertising
11 13 (1.93%) Law
12 11 (1.63%) Legal
12 11 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.34%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.19%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (1.04%) Local Government
15 7 (1.04%) Publishing
16 6 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 146 (21.69%) Senior
2 138 (20.51%) Developer
3 77 (11.44%) Software Engineer
4 59 (8.77%) Lead
5 54 (8.02%) Project Manager
6 49 (7.28%) Senior Developer
7 43 (6.39%) .NET Developer
8 41 (6.09%) Analyst
9 33 (4.90%) Business Analyst
10 29 (4.31%) Data Engineer
10 29 (4.31%) Delivery Manager
10 29 (4.31%) Engineering Manager
10 29 (4.31%) Java Developer
11 26 (3.86%) Architect
12 25 (3.71%) IT Manager
13 23 (3.42%) Senior Manager
14 22 (3.27%) Lead Software Engineer
15 21 (3.12%) DevOps Engineer
15 21 (3.12%) Java Engineer
16 20 (2.97%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (14.56%) .NET
2 54 (8.02%) HTML
3 48 (7.13%) Node.js
4 47 (6.98%) CSS
5 42 (6.24%) Spring
6 41 (6.09%) AngularJS
6 41 (6.09%) ASP.NET
7 40 (5.94%) .NET Core
8 39 (5.79%) React
9 36 (5.35%) ASP.NET Core
10 33 (4.90%) RESTful
11 31 (4.61%) Spring Boot
12 25 (3.71%) REST
13 18 (2.67%) Entity Framework
14 16 (2.38%) Vue
15 15 (2.23%) Kafka
16 13 (1.93%) Blazor
17 12 (1.78%) ML.NET
18 11 (1.63%) ASP.NET Web API
19 10 (1.49%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 74 (11.00%) Product Ownership
2 49 (7.28%) Cloud Native
3 28 (4.16%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (3.71%) Driving Licence
4 25 (3.71%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.38%) Mobile App
7 15 (2.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (1.49%) Marketing Technology
8 10 (1.49%) PMI
9 9 (1.34%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.34%) Private Cloud
10 8 (1.19%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.19%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.04%) Social Network
12 6 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (0.74%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.42%) Linux
2 11 (1.63%) 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
6 1 (0.15%) VMS
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (30.61%) DevOps
2 203 (30.16%) CI/CD
3 169 (25.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 153 (22.73%) Scrum
5 124 (18.42%) Software Engineering
6 115 (17.09%) Stakeholder Management
7 112 (16.64%) AI
8 110 (16.34%) Mentoring
9 97 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
10 92 (13.67%) Coaching
11 87 (12.93%) Roadmaps
12 86 (12.78%) TDD
13 81 (12.04%) Full-Stack Development
14 76 (11.29%) Test Automation
15 75 (11.14%) Microservices
16 66 (9.81%) Decision-Making
16 66 (9.81%) Kanban
16 66 (9.81%) Project Management
17 60 (8.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 56 (8.32%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 145 (21.55%) SQL
2 121 (17.98%) Java
3 94 (13.97%) JavaScript
4 93 (13.82%) Python
5 92 (13.67%) C#
6 32 (4.75%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.78%) Bash
8 11 (1.63%) C++
8 11 (1.63%) Go
9 10 (1.49%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.19%) 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 (0.45%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.45%) Swift
15 2 (0.30%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (9.51%) Security Cleared
2 50 (7.43%) SC Cleared
3 49 (7.28%) Degree
4 24 (3.57%) PMI Certification
5 23 (3.42%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.23%) PMP
7 13 (1.93%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.19%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.19%) 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 3 (0.45%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.30%) Chartered Engineer
15 2 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.35%) QA
2 27 (4.01%) Data Quality
3 24 (3.57%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.63%) GDPR
5 7 (1.04%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.04%) PMO
6 6 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.59%) SLA
8 2 (0.30%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.30%) WCAG
9 1 (0.15%) GRC
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.15%) ITGC
9 1 (0.15%) NIST
9 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 54 (8.02%) Docker
2 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 73 (10.85%) Terraform
2 59 (8.77%) Kubernetes
3 26 (3.86%) Ansible
4 9 (1.34%) Argo
5 7 (1.04%) Grafana
5 7 (1.04%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.45%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.45%) Puppet
7 2 (0.30%) Packer
8 1 (0.15%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.15%) Istio
8 1 (0.15%) linkerd
Vendors
1 125 (18.57%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.01%) ServiceNow
3 20 (2.97%) Salesforce
4 18 (2.67%) Databricks
5 17 (2.53%) Oracle
6 16 (2.38%) Splunk
7 15 (2.23%) SAP
8 14 (2.08%) Google
9 11 (1.63%) Adobe
10 9 (1.34%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.74%) Pega
12 4 (0.59%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.45%) BiZZdesign
13 3 (0.45%) Cognos
13 3 (0.45%) Facebook
13 3 (0.45%) IBM
13 3 (0.45%) LogicMonitor
14 2 (0.30%) MuleSoft
14 2 (0.30%) SaltStack
14 2 (0.30%) WSO2