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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 1 2
Rank change year-on-year -16 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 621 1,292 2,099
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.74% 27.40% 18.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.26% 28.91% 23.97%
Number of salaries quoted 478 357 1,413
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,700 £38,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,481 £77,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £90,750 £93,778 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -6.42%

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 7,514 4,469 8,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 69.45% 94.78% 78.63%
Number of salaries quoted 5,754 2,035 6,609
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,850 £27,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,050 £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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -11 462 £65,000 - 260
Lancashire -11 63 £55,000 +8.08% 56
Cheshire -39 43 £55,000 +15.79% 35
Merseyside -37 31 £55,000 -15.06% 12
Cumbria -12 18 £47,500 -13.64% 4
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 (6.60%) Confluence
2 17 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.97%) CMS
5 5 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.81%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.64%) Apache
6 4 (0.64%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.64%) WordPress
7 3 (0.48%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.32%) CICS
8 2 (0.32%) nginx
8 2 (0.32%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.16%) IIS
9 1 (0.16%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 12 (1.93%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.48%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.32%) Trello
6 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.16%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.48%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 199 (32.05%) Azure
2 147 (23.67%) AWS
3 65 (10.47%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (6.60%) Power Platform
5 40 (6.44%) SaaS
5 40 (6.44%) Serverless
6 33 (5.31%) GCP
7 28 (4.51%) GitHub
8 26 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (2.58%) Azure AKS
11 15 (2.42%) Azure Service Bus
12 13 (2.09%) Anthropic Claude
12 13 (2.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 12 (1.93%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (1.93%) dbt
14 11 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (1.77%) Azure Functions
14 11 (1.77%) Power Automate
15 10 (1.61%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.48%) AMQP
2 1 (0.16%) Broadband
2 1 (0.16%) HTTP
2 1 (0.16%) LTE
2 1 (0.16%) SSL
2 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (4.99%) MongoDB
2 28 (4.51%) NoSQL
2 28 (4.51%) SQL Server
3 24 (3.86%) Azure SQL Database
4 22 (3.54%) Power BI
5 21 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (2.42%) MySQL
7 14 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (1.45%) BigQuery
8 9 (1.45%) Relational Database
9 8 (1.29%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.13%) Big Data
10 7 (1.13%) DynamoDB
10 7 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.81%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.64%) Flink
12 4 (0.64%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (0.64%) GIS
12 4 (0.64%) Metadata
12 4 (0.64%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 73 (11.76%) JIRA
2 42 (6.76%) Git
3 22 (3.54%) GitLab
4 19 (3.06%) Jenkins
5 15 (2.42%) Claude Code
6 11 (1.77%) Postman
7 8 (1.29%) JUnit
8 6 (0.97%) Spock
9 4 (0.64%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.64%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.48%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.32%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.32%) Maven
11 2 (0.32%) MSTest
11 2 (0.32%) NUnit
11 2 (0.32%) Selenium
11 2 (0.32%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.32%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.32%) XCUITest
General
1 134 (21.58%) Finance
1 134 (21.58%) Social Skills
2 63 (10.14%) Public Sector
3 55 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (5.31%) Marketing
5 24 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (3.22%) Games
7 19 (3.06%) Retail
8 17 (2.74%) Banking
9 15 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.93%) Advertising
11 10 (1.61%) Law
11 10 (1.61%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.13%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.13%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.97%) Publishing
14 5 (0.81%) Legal
14 5 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 146 (23.51%) Senior
2 122 (19.65%) Developer
3 78 (12.56%) Software Engineer
4 67 (10.79%) Lead
5 44 (7.09%) Senior Developer
6 43 (6.92%) Analyst
6 43 (6.92%) Project Manager
7 36 (5.80%) .NET Developer
8 33 (5.31%) Business Analyst
9 30 (4.83%) Java Developer
10 28 (4.51%) Data Engineer
11 27 (4.35%) Software Developer
12 25 (4.03%) Delivery Manager
13 23 (3.70%) IT Manager
13 23 (3.70%) Java Engineer
13 23 (3.70%) Lead Software Engineer
14 22 (3.54%) Senior Software Engineer
15 19 (3.06%) Engineering Manager
15 19 (3.06%) IT Project Manager
15 19 (3.06%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (14.81%) .NET
2 49 (7.89%) React
3 46 (7.41%) Node.js
4 41 (6.60%) HTML
5 39 (6.28%) CSS
5 39 (6.28%) Spring
6 35 (5.64%) AngularJS
6 35 (5.64%) REST
7 34 (5.48%) .NET Core
7 34 (5.48%) ASP.NET
8 33 (5.31%) RESTful
9 32 (5.15%) Spring Boot
10 22 (3.54%) .NET Framework
11 21 (3.38%) ASP.NET Core
12 15 (2.42%) Vue
13 13 (2.09%) Kafka
14 11 (1.77%) Entity Framework
15 9 (1.45%) Blazor
16 8 (1.29%) ML.NET
16 8 (1.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 72 (11.59%) Product Ownership
2 43 (6.92%) Cloud Native
3 28 (4.51%) Driving Licence
4 26 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
5 25 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (3.22%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (2.09%) Mobile App
8 9 (1.45%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.45%) PMI
9 8 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.29%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.13%) Marketing Technology
11 6 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.97%) Low-Code
11 6 (0.97%) Private Cloud
11 6 (0.97%) Social Network
11 6 (0.97%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.64%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.54%) Linux
2 11 (1.77%) Windows
3 4 (0.64%) Unix
4 3 (0.48%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.48%) CentOS
4 3 (0.48%) Debian
4 3 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.48%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.32%) Android
5 2 (0.32%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (29.15%) CI/CD
2 173 (27.86%) DevOps
3 142 (22.87%) Continuous Improvement
4 140 (22.54%) Scrum
5 119 (19.16%) Software Engineering
6 105 (16.91%) Mentoring
7 96 (15.46%) Coaching
8 94 (15.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 85 (13.69%) TDD
10 84 (13.53%) AI
11 83 (13.37%) Problem-Solving
12 75 (12.08%) Microservices
13 71 (11.43%) Full-Stack Development
14 69 (11.11%) Roadmaps
15 68 (10.95%) Test Automation
16 65 (10.47%) Project Management
17 64 (10.31%) Kanban
18 60 (9.66%) Decision-Making
19 55 (8.86%) Infrastructure as Code
20 51 (8.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 138 (22.22%) SQL
2 120 (19.32%) Java
3 88 (14.17%) Python
4 87 (14.01%) JavaScript
5 82 (13.20%) C#
6 31 (4.99%) TypeScript
7 10 (1.61%) Bash
8 9 (1.45%) PowerShell
9 8 (1.29%) C++
10 6 (0.97%) Apex Code
10 6 (0.97%) Go
10 6 (0.97%) PHP
11 5 (0.81%) Groovy
11 5 (0.81%) SOQL
12 4 (0.64%) SOSL
13 3 (0.48%) C
13 3 (0.48%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.48%) Scala
14 2 (0.32%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 59 (9.50%) Security Cleared
2 47 (7.57%) SC Cleared
3 31 (4.99%) Degree
4 20 (3.22%) DV Cleared
5 18 (2.90%) PMI Certification
6 15 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.61%) PMP
8 9 (1.45%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.81%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.81%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.64%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.32%) Chartered Engineer
12 2 (0.32%) HND
12 2 (0.32%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 2 (0.32%) RIBA
12 2 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.83%) QA
2 24 (3.86%) Data Quality
3 22 (3.54%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.13%) PMO
5 6 (0.97%) GDPR
6 2 (0.32%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.32%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.32%) SLA
6 2 (0.32%) WCAG
7 1 (0.16%) GRC
7 1 (0.16%) ITGC
7 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 46 (7.41%) Docker
2 4 (0.64%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 75 (12.08%) Terraform
2 55 (8.86%) Kubernetes
3 24 (3.86%) Ansible
4 8 (1.29%) Argo
5 7 (1.13%) Grafana
5 7 (1.13%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.81%) Puppet
7 4 (0.64%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.32%) Packer
10 1 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.16%) Istio
10 1 (0.16%) linkerd
10 1 (0.16%) Rancher
Vendors
1 111 (17.87%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.19%) ServiceNow
3 21 (3.38%) Databricks
3 21 (3.38%) Salesforce
4 16 (2.58%) Oracle
4 16 (2.58%) SAP
5 13 (2.09%) Google
5 13 (2.09%) Splunk
6 8 (1.29%) Adobe
7 6 (0.97%) AppDynamics
8 5 (0.81%) Pega
8 5 (0.81%) Siemens
9 3 (0.48%) Cognos
9 3 (0.48%) Facebook
9 3 (0.48%) IBM
9 3 (0.48%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.48%) New Relic
9 3 (0.48%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.48%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.32%) WSO2