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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -23 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 558 1,046 1,799
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.39% 25.09% 19.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.30% 26.38% 23.61%
Number of salaries quoted 409 393 1,421
10th Percentile £42,660 £42,500 £38,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +3.79%
75th Percentile £74,987 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £86,253 £92,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £66,250 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.36% +12.00% -7.41%

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 7,639 3,965 7,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 73.78% 95.11% 82.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,520 2,158 6,062
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,603
90th Percentile £88,148 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -19 397 £65,000 -3.70% 196
Lancashire -33 59 £60,472 +15.18% 49
Cheshire -25 53 £55,000 +10.00% 15
Merseyside -33 27 £55,000 -16.98% 9
Cumbria -18 18 £55,000 +11.96% 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 45 (8.06%) Confluence
2 11 (1.97%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.08%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.90%) Apache
6 4 (0.72%) CMS
6 4 (0.72%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.36%) CICS
7 2 (0.36%) nginx
7 2 (0.36%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.36%) WordPress
8 1 (0.18%) IIS
8 1 (0.18%) PegaRULES
8 1 (0.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.36%) Simulink
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.18%) Sketch
5 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.36%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 174 (31.18%) Azure
2 117 (20.97%) AWS
3 47 (8.42%) SaaS
4 38 (6.81%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (5.91%) Serverless
6 29 (5.20%) Power Platform
7 28 (5.02%) GCP
8 24 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (3.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 20 (3.58%) Azure AKS
11 14 (2.51%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (2.15%) GitHub
14 11 (1.97%) Anthropic Claude
14 11 (1.97%) Azure Logic Apps
15 10 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 10 (1.79%) Azure Functions
15 10 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
15 10 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
16 9 (1.61%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.08%) HTTP
2 4 (0.72%) AMQP
2 4 (0.72%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.36%) DNS
3 2 (0.36%) Firewall
3 2 (0.36%) OpenVPN
3 2 (0.36%) SSH
3 2 (0.36%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.18%) 4G
4 1 (0.18%) Broadband
4 1 (0.18%) LAN
4 1 (0.18%) LTE
4 1 (0.18%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.18%) SSL
4 1 (0.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (6.27%) NoSQL
2 34 (6.09%) SQL Server
3 21 (3.76%) MongoDB
3 21 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (3.41%) MySQL
5 13 (2.33%) Power BI
6 10 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (1.61%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.43%) Data Lake
8 8 (1.43%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.08%) Big Data
9 6 (1.08%) Hadoop
10 5 (0.90%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.72%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.72%) Flink
11 4 (0.72%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.72%) GIS
11 4 (0.72%) QGIS
12 3 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 68 (12.19%) JIRA
2 47 (8.42%) Git
3 18 (3.23%) GitLab
4 13 (2.33%) Jenkins
5 12 (2.15%) Claude Code
6 9 (1.61%) Postman
7 4 (0.72%) IntelliJ
7 4 (0.72%) JUnit
7 4 (0.72%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.54%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.54%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.36%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.36%) Selenium
9 2 (0.36%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.36%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.36%) XCUITest
10 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.18%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.18%) WinDbg
General
1 126 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 119 (21.33%) Finance
3 54 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 45 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (3.76%) Marketing
7 16 (2.87%) Banking
7 16 (2.87%) Manufacturing
8 15 (2.69%) Law
9 14 (2.51%) Games
10 11 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (1.79%) Retail
12 8 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.25%) Advertising
14 5 (0.90%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.90%) Legal
15 4 (0.72%) Local Government
15 4 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.72%) Retail Banking
16 3 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 136 (24.37%) Senior
2 96 (17.20%) Developer
3 87 (15.59%) Lead
4 74 (13.26%) Software Engineer
5 45 (8.06%) Project Manager
6 43 (7.71%) Senior Developer
7 32 (5.73%) Analyst
8 28 (5.02%) Software Developer
9 25 (4.48%) Lead Software Engineer
10 24 (4.30%) Architect
10 24 (4.30%) Business Analyst
10 24 (4.30%) Data Engineer
11 23 (4.12%) Delivery Manager
11 23 (4.12%) Java Developer
12 21 (3.76%) Java Engineer
13 20 (3.58%) .NET Developer
13 20 (3.58%) IT Manager
13 20 (3.58%) Senior Data Engineer
14 18 (3.23%) Senior Software Engineer
15 17 (3.05%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (14.52%) .NET
2 52 (9.32%) React
3 36 (6.45%) .NET Framework
3 36 (6.45%) Node.js
4 34 (6.09%) RESTful
5 33 (5.91%) REST
6 31 (5.56%) Spring
7 30 (5.38%) AngularJS
7 30 (5.38%) CSS
7 30 (5.38%) Spring Boot
8 29 (5.20%) HTML
9 24 (4.30%) .NET Core
9 24 (4.30%) ASP.NET
10 15 (2.69%) Kafka
11 11 (1.97%) Web Services
12 10 (1.79%) Vue
13 7 (1.25%) gRPC
13 7 (1.25%) PySpark
13 7 (1.25%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (0.90%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 56 (10.04%) Product Ownership
2 37 (6.63%) Cloud Native
3 25 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (3.58%) Driving Licence
4 20 (3.58%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (2.51%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.43%) Low-Code
7 8 (1.43%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.08%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.08%) PMI
9 5 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (0.72%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.72%) Social Media
10 4 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.94%) Linux
2 18 (3.23%) Windows
3 4 (0.72%) CentOS
3 4 (0.72%) Debian
3 4 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.72%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.72%) Unix
3 4 (0.72%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.54%) Android
4 3 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (24.73%) CI/CD
2 128 (22.94%) Scrum
3 127 (22.76%) DevOps
4 126 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 113 (20.25%) Software Engineering
6 91 (16.31%) Mentoring
7 87 (15.59%) Coaching
8 72 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
9 71 (12.72%) Microservices
10 69 (12.37%) Stakeholder Management
11 66 (11.83%) Project Management
12 64 (11.47%) TDD
13 56 (10.04%) AI
13 56 (10.04%) Roadmaps
14 55 (9.86%) Kanban
15 51 (9.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 50 (8.96%) Project Delivery
17 47 (8.42%) Full-Stack Development
18 45 (8.06%) Decision-Making
19 44 (7.89%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 102 (18.28%) SQL
2 101 (18.10%) Java
3 68 (12.19%) Python
4 67 (12.01%) C#
4 67 (12.01%) JavaScript
5 31 (5.56%) TypeScript
6 9 (1.61%) C++
7 5 (0.90%) Bash
7 5 (0.90%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.72%) Go
9 3 (0.54%) C
9 3 (0.54%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.36%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.36%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.36%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.36%) PHP
10 2 (0.36%) Scala
10 2 (0.36%) SOQL
10 2 (0.36%) Swift
10 2 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 42 (7.53%) Security Cleared
2 32 (5.73%) SC Cleared
3 29 (5.20%) Degree
4 22 (3.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 22 (3.94%) PMI Certification
5 16 (2.87%) PMP
6 14 (2.51%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.08%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.90%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.90%) HND
9 4 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.54%) HNC
11 2 (0.36%) ACCA
11 2 (0.36%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.18%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.18%) CIMA
12 1 (0.18%) ISEB
12 1 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.18%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.02%) QA
2 18 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.51%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.43%) PMO
5 2 (0.36%) SLA
5 2 (0.36%) WCAG
6 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.18%) GDPR
6 1 (0.18%) GRC
6 1 (0.18%) GxP
6 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 1 (0.18%) ITGC
6 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 33 (5.91%) Docker
2 12 (2.15%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 69 (12.37%) Terraform
2 47 (8.42%) Kubernetes
3 24 (4.30%) Ansible
4 11 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.25%) Puppet
7 5 (0.90%) Grafana
7 5 (0.90%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.54%) Argo
8 3 (0.54%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.54%) Rancher
9 2 (0.36%) Packer
9 2 (0.36%) SCCM
10 1 (0.18%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 94 (16.85%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.12%) Salesforce
3 18 (3.23%) SAP
4 17 (3.05%) ServiceNow
5 16 (2.87%) Databricks
6 12 (2.15%) Google
7 10 (1.79%) Siemens
7 10 (1.79%) Splunk
8 9 (1.61%) Oracle
9 8 (1.43%) New Relic
10 6 (1.08%) Pega
11 4 (0.72%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.72%) SaltStack
12 3 (0.54%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.54%) IBM
12 3 (0.54%) LogicMonitor
13 2 (0.36%) Adobe
13 2 (0.36%) Cognos
13 2 (0.36%) WSO2
14 1 (0.18%) Intel