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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -13 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 782 1,164 1,372
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 6.15% 22.57% 17.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.45% 25.29% 22.58%
Number of salaries quoted 536 297 566
10th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £38,875
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,854 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% +3.45% -2.56%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £83,750 £89,375
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -

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 9,249 4,603 6,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 72.74% 89.24% 78.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,937 2,199 3,467
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,309
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -0.61% -8.53%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
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 18 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 18 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 -12 557 £66,750 +2.69% 602
Lancashire -8 83 £55,000 +3.74% 70
Cheshire -31 61 £55,000 -2.22% 84
Merseyside -8 59 £62,500 - 65
Cumbria +6 20 £47,500 -17.39% 8
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 33 (4.22%) Confluence
2 28 (3.58%) SharePoint
3 19 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.41%) Apache
5 5 (0.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.51%) CMS
6 4 (0.51%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.38%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.38%) nginx
7 3 (0.38%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.38%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.38%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.38%) WordPress
8 2 (0.26%) IIS
8 2 (0.26%) WinCC
9 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.13%) JBoss
9 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (2.30%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.90%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.90%) Trello
4 6 (0.77%) AutoCAD
4 6 (0.77%) Revit
5 3 (0.38%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 20 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.51%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.13%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 1 (0.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 248 (31.71%) Azure
2 175 (22.38%) AWS
3 95 (12.15%) Azure DevOps
4 68 (8.70%) Power Platform
5 46 (5.88%) Serverless
6 42 (5.37%) GCP
7 41 (5.24%) GitHub
8 40 (5.12%) SaaS
9 33 (4.22%) Power Automate
10 30 (3.84%) Microsoft 365
10 30 (3.84%) Microsoft Copilot
11 24 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
11 24 (3.07%) PowerApps
12 23 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
13 22 (2.81%) dbt
14 21 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (2.43%) Snowflake
16 17 (2.17%) Copilot Studio
17 14 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 14 (1.79%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.38%) AMQP
1 3 (0.38%) DNS
1 3 (0.38%) Network Security
1 3 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (0.38%) Wireless
2 2 (0.26%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.26%) DHCP
2 2 (0.26%) Firewall
2 2 (0.26%) HTTP
2 2 (0.26%) NetScaler
2 2 (0.26%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.26%) ZigBee
3 1 (0.13%) CTI
3 1 (0.13%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (0.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (0.13%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (0.13%) LAN
3 1 (0.13%) SSL
3 1 (0.13%) VoIP
3 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (5.63%) Azure SQL Database
2 39 (4.99%) MongoDB
3 35 (4.48%) Power BI
4 32 (4.09%) SQL Server
5 28 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (2.17%) Relational Database
8 16 (2.05%) DynamoDB
8 16 (2.05%) NoSQL
9 14 (1.79%) Data Lake
10 12 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (1.41%) BigQuery
12 9 (1.15%) Big Data
12 9 (1.15%) MySQL
13 8 (1.02%) Metadata
13 8 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.51%) Data Mining
14 4 (0.51%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.51%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 76 (9.72%) JIRA
2 50 (6.39%) Git
3 32 (4.09%) GitLab
4 16 (2.05%) JUnit
5 14 (1.79%) Jenkins
6 13 (1.66%) Spock
7 12 (1.53%) Postman
8 11 (1.41%) Claude Code
9 8 (1.02%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.02%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 7 (0.90%) Maven
11 6 (0.77%) Selenium
12 4 (0.51%) IntelliJ
13 3 (0.38%) Ant
13 3 (0.38%) Mockito
13 3 (0.38%) RStudio
14 2 (0.26%) MSTest
14 2 (0.26%) Vagrant
14 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 220 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 143 (18.29%) Finance
3 81 (10.36%) Public Sector
4 76 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (7.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (4.86%) Retail
7 36 (4.60%) Telecoms
8 28 (3.58%) Influencing Skills
9 27 (3.45%) Marketing
10 20 (2.56%) Publishing
11 19 (2.43%) Games
11 19 (2.43%) Law
11 19 (2.43%) Legal
11 19 (2.43%) Manufacturing
12 18 (2.30%) Aerospace
13 12 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (1.41%) Advertising
14 11 (1.41%) Local Government
15 10 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 178 (22.76%) Senior
2 160 (20.46%) Developer
3 79 (10.10%) Software Engineer
4 54 (6.91%) Lead
5 53 (6.78%) Analyst
6 50 (6.39%) Senior Developer
7 49 (6.27%) Business Analyst
7 49 (6.27%) Project Manager
8 41 (5.24%) .NET Developer
8 41 (5.24%) Data Engineer
9 37 (4.73%) Delivery Manager
9 37 (4.73%) Engineering Manager
10 32 (4.09%) Architect
11 31 (3.96%) Design Engineer
12 27 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
13 26 (3.32%) DevOps Engineer
14 23 (2.94%) Software Developer
15 22 (2.81%) IT Manager
15 22 (2.81%) Product Owner
16 21 (2.69%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (11.64%) .NET
2 71 (9.08%) Terraform
3 57 (7.29%) HTML
4 56 (7.16%) Spring
5 53 (6.78%) React
6 48 (6.14%) CSS
7 44 (5.63%) Node.js
8 43 (5.50%) ASP.NET
9 41 (5.24%) AngularJS
10 40 (5.12%) .NET Core
11 37 (4.73%) ASP.NET Core
12 35 (4.48%) Spring Boot
13 34 (4.35%) REST
14 26 (3.32%) Kafka
15 22 (2.81%) RESTful
16 19 (2.43%) Entity Framework
17 16 (2.05%) Middleware
18 15 (1.92%) PySpark
18 15 (1.92%) Vue
19 14 (1.79%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 86 (11.00%) Product Ownership
2 58 (7.42%) Cloud Native
3 33 (4.22%) Enterprise Software
4 24 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
6 22 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 16 (2.05%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.92%) Mobile App
9 15 (1.92%) Private Cloud
10 14 (1.79%) IoT
11 13 (1.66%) Driving Licence
12 11 (1.41%) Marketing Technology
13 8 (1.02%) PMI
14 7 (0.90%) Data Centre
14 7 (0.90%) Media Streaming
14 7 (0.90%) Podcast
15 6 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
15 6 (0.77%) Social Network
15 6 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.22%) Linux
2 13 (1.66%) Windows
3 6 (0.77%) Unix
4 5 (0.64%) Android
4 5 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.51%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.51%) VMS
6 3 (0.38%) CentOS
6 3 (0.38%) Debian
6 3 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.26%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.26%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (30.31%) Continuous Improvement
2 236 (30.18%) DevOps
3 223 (28.52%) CI/CD
4 180 (23.02%) AI
5 153 (19.57%) Mentoring
6 151 (19.31%) Software Engineering
7 144 (18.41%) Scrum
8 139 (17.77%) Stakeholder Management
9 137 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
10 106 (13.55%) Coaching
11 87 (11.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 86 (11.00%) Test Automation
13 82 (10.49%) Full-Stack Development
14 80 (10.23%) Decision-Making
15 77 (9.85%) Microservices
16 74 (9.46%) Roadmaps
17 67 (8.57%) Analytics
17 67 (8.57%) TDD
18 65 (8.31%) Project Delivery
19 62 (7.93%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 166 (21.23%) SQL
2 133 (17.01%) Java
3 112 (14.32%) JavaScript
4 109 (13.94%) Python
5 96 (12.28%) C#
6 49 (6.27%) TypeScript
7 20 (2.56%) Go
8 16 (2.05%) C++
9 15 (1.92%) Bash
10 11 (1.41%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.28%) PHP
12 9 (1.15%) Apex Code
13 8 (1.02%) Groovy
14 6 (0.77%) C
14 6 (0.77%) R
15 4 (0.51%) SOQL
16 3 (0.38%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.38%) Rust
16 3 (0.38%) SOSL
17 2 (0.26%) Swift
Qualifications
1 110 (14.07%) Degree
2 87 (11.13%) Security Cleared
3 63 (8.06%) SC Cleared
4 36 (4.60%) DV Cleared
5 35 (4.48%) DBS Check
6 28 (3.58%) HNC
7 21 (2.69%) Master's Degree
8 18 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (2.30%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.53%) PMP
10 11 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.15%) AWS Certification
12 9 (1.15%) Azure Certification
13 8 (1.02%) RIBA
14 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (0.51%) MBA
15 4 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 4 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.38%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (7.93%) Data Quality
2 52 (6.65%) QA
3 33 (4.22%) Accessibility
4 18 (2.30%) GDPR
5 11 (1.41%) PMO
6 7 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.90%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.64%) SLA
8 4 (0.51%) WCAG
9 2 (0.26%) GRC
9 2 (0.26%) IEC 61131
9 2 (0.26%) IEC 61508
9 2 (0.26%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.13%) NIST
10 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 72 (9.21%) Docker
2 3 (0.38%) Ceph
3 2 (0.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.26%) UAG
3 2 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
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 75 (9.59%) Kubernetes
2 34 (4.35%) Ansible
3 14 (1.79%) Argo
4 10 (1.28%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.90%) Grafana
6 5 (0.64%) Podman
7 4 (0.51%) Istio
7 4 (0.51%) Puppet
8 3 (0.38%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.38%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.26%) AirWatch
9 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.26%) Packer
9 2 (0.26%) SCCM
9 2 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.26%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.13%) linkerd
10 1 (0.13%) Nagios
Vendors
1 141 (18.03%) Microsoft
2 24 (3.07%) Google
3 23 (2.94%) Salesforce
4 22 (2.81%) Databricks
4 22 (2.81%) Oracle
4 22 (2.81%) ServiceNow
4 22 (2.81%) YouTube
5 19 (2.43%) Splunk
6 13 (1.66%) AppDynamics
7 12 (1.53%) SAP
8 9 (1.15%) Adobe
8 9 (1.15%) Red Hat
9 6 (0.77%) Autodesk
10 4 (0.51%) Dell
10 4 (0.51%) IBM
10 4 (0.51%) NEC
10 4 (0.51%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.51%) Thales
11 3 (0.38%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (0.38%) LogicMonitor