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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -14 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 755 1,172 1,364
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 6.01% 22.71% 17.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.30% 25.41% 22.57%
Number of salaries quoted 523 305 575
10th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +3.51% +0.81%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £90,000
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 9,091 4,613 6,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 72.43% 89.38% 77.60%
Number of salaries quoted 6,869 2,205 3,529
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,550 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,055
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -0.11% -8.99%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £79,300
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 13 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 13 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 -12 540 £66,750 +2.69% 323
Lancashire -10 80 £55,000 +9.88% 53
Cheshire -32 60 £55,000 -4.35% 33
Merseyside -14 54 £62,000 -0.80% 37
Cumbria +1 19 £47,500 -17.39% 7
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 35 (4.64%) Confluence
2 26 (3.44%) SharePoint
3 19 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.46%) Apache
5 5 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.53%) CMS
6 4 (0.53%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.40%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.40%) nginx
7 3 (0.40%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.40%) WordPress
8 2 (0.26%) IIS
8 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.26%) WebSphere
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 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.93%) Trello
4 6 (0.79%) AutoCAD
4 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.79%) Revit
5 3 (0.40%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 18 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.53%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.13%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 1 (0.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 244 (32.32%) Azure
2 173 (22.91%) AWS
3 94 (12.45%) Azure DevOps
4 65 (8.61%) Power Platform
5 48 (6.36%) Serverless
6 42 (5.56%) GCP
7 41 (5.43%) SaaS
8 39 (5.17%) GitHub
9 29 (3.84%) Power Automate
10 27 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
11 26 (3.44%) Microsoft Copilot
12 23 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
13 22 (2.91%) dbt
14 21 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
14 21 (2.78%) PowerApps
15 19 (2.52%) Snowflake
16 14 (1.85%) Amazon S3
16 14 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 13 (1.72%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.40%) AMQP
1 3 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (0.40%) Wireless
2 2 (0.26%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.26%) DHCP
2 2 (0.26%) DNS
2 2 (0.26%) HTTP
2 2 (0.26%) NetScaler
2 2 (0.26%) Network Security
2 2 (0.26%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.26%) ZigBee
3 1 (0.13%) CTI
3 1 (0.13%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (0.13%) Firewall
3 1 (0.13%) iSCSI
3 1 (0.13%) LAN
3 1 (0.13%) SAN
3 1 (0.13%) SSL
3 1 (0.13%) VoIP
3 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (5.83%) Azure SQL Database
2 36 (4.77%) MongoDB
3 35 (4.64%) Power BI
4 32 (4.24%) SQL Server
5 28 (3.71%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (2.25%) Relational Database
8 16 (2.12%) DynamoDB
8 16 (2.12%) NoSQL
9 14 (1.85%) Data Lake
10 12 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (1.46%) BigQuery
12 9 (1.19%) Big Data
12 9 (1.19%) MySQL
13 8 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (0.93%) Metadata
15 4 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (0.53%) Data Mining
15 4 (0.53%) Hadoop
15 4 (0.53%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 79 (10.46%) JIRA
2 51 (6.75%) Git
3 29 (3.84%) GitLab
4 15 (1.99%) JUnit
5 13 (1.72%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.72%) Spock
6 11 (1.46%) Postman
7 10 (1.32%) Claude Code
8 8 (1.06%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (0.93%) Maven
10 6 (0.79%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.53%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.53%) Selenium
12 3 (0.40%) Ant
12 3 (0.40%) RStudio
13 2 (0.26%) MSTest
13 2 (0.26%) NUnit
13 2 (0.26%) Vagrant
13 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 207 (27.42%) Social Skills
2 144 (19.07%) Finance
3 80 (10.60%) Public Sector
4 76 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 37 (4.90%) Retail
7 28 (3.71%) Marketing
7 28 (3.71%) Telecoms
8 27 (3.58%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (2.52%) Games
9 19 (2.52%) Law
9 19 (2.52%) Legal
9 19 (2.52%) Manufacturing
10 18 (2.38%) Aerospace
10 18 (2.38%) Publishing
11 12 (1.59%) Advertising
12 11 (1.46%) Local Government
13 10 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 174 (23.05%) Senior
2 157 (20.79%) Developer
3 78 (10.33%) Software Engineer
4 53 (7.02%) Analyst
4 53 (7.02%) Lead
5 51 (6.75%) Senior Developer
6 47 (6.23%) Project Manager
7 46 (6.09%) Business Analyst
8 41 (5.43%) .NET Developer
9 40 (5.30%) Data Engineer
10 37 (4.90%) Delivery Manager
11 34 (4.50%) Engineering Manager
12 31 (4.11%) Architect
13 27 (3.58%) Senior Software Engineer
14 24 (3.18%) DevOps Engineer
14 24 (3.18%) Product Owner
15 23 (3.05%) Design Engineer
15 23 (3.05%) Java Developer
15 23 (3.05%) Software Developer
16 21 (2.78%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (12.05%) .NET
2 70 (9.27%) Terraform
3 56 (7.42%) HTML
4 53 (7.02%) Spring
5 48 (6.36%) CSS
5 48 (6.36%) React
6 44 (5.83%) Node.js
7 43 (5.70%) ASP.NET
8 40 (5.30%) .NET Core
8 40 (5.30%) AngularJS
9 37 (4.90%) ASP.NET Core
10 36 (4.77%) Spring Boot
11 31 (4.11%) REST
12 21 (2.78%) RESTful
13 20 (2.65%) Kafka
14 19 (2.52%) Entity Framework
15 14 (1.85%) Blazor
15 14 (1.85%) Middleware
15 14 (1.85%) PySpark
15 14 (1.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 87 (11.52%) Product Ownership
2 56 (7.42%) Cloud Native
3 33 (4.37%) Enterprise Software
4 24 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 16 (2.12%) Mobile App
8 14 (1.85%) Driving Licence
8 14 (1.85%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.85%) Private Cloud
9 11 (1.46%) Marketing Technology
10 10 (1.32%) IoT
11 8 (1.06%) PMI
12 6 (0.79%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (0.79%) Management Information System
12 6 (0.79%) Social Media
12 6 (0.79%) Social Network
12 6 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.50%) Linux
2 13 (1.72%) Windows
3 5 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (0.66%) Unix
4 4 (0.53%) Android
4 4 (0.53%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.53%) VMS
5 3 (0.40%) CentOS
5 3 (0.40%) Debian
5 3 (0.40%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
6 2 (0.26%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.26%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (30.73%) DevOps
2 221 (29.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 220 (29.14%) CI/CD
4 172 (22.78%) AI
5 145 (19.21%) Scrum
5 145 (19.21%) Software Engineering
6 143 (18.94%) Mentoring
7 139 (18.41%) Stakeholder Management
8 124 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
9 102 (13.51%) Coaching
10 85 (11.26%) Test Automation
11 79 (10.46%) Decision-Making
11 79 (10.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 78 (10.33%) Full-Stack Development
12 78 (10.33%) Roadmaps
13 74 (9.80%) Microservices
14 69 (9.14%) TDD
15 68 (9.01%) Analytics
16 65 (8.61%) Project Delivery
17 58 (7.68%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 166 (21.99%) SQL
2 130 (17.22%) Java
3 109 (14.44%) JavaScript
4 108 (14.30%) Python
5 96 (12.72%) C#
6 47 (6.23%) TypeScript
7 20 (2.65%) Go
8 18 (2.38%) C++
9 14 (1.85%) Bash
10 10 (1.32%) PHP
10 10 (1.32%) PowerShell
11 9 (1.19%) Apex Code
12 8 (1.06%) Groovy
13 6 (0.79%) C
13 6 (0.79%) R
14 4 (0.53%) SOQL
15 3 (0.40%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.40%) SOSL
16 2 (0.26%) Rust
16 2 (0.26%) Swift
Qualifications
1 100 (13.25%) Degree
2 83 (10.99%) Security Cleared
3 61 (8.08%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.50%) DV Cleared
5 27 (3.58%) DBS Check
6 21 (2.78%) Master's Degree
7 20 (2.65%) HNC
8 19 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (2.38%) PMI Certification
10 11 (1.46%) PMP
11 10 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (1.19%) AWS Certification
12 9 (1.19%) Azure Certification
13 8 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (1.06%) RIBA
14 5 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (0.53%) MBA
15 4 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 4 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.40%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (7.81%) Data Quality
2 50 (6.62%) QA
3 30 (3.97%) Accessibility
4 18 (2.38%) GDPR
5 11 (1.46%) PMO
6 7 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.93%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.66%) SLA
8 3 (0.40%) 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 70 (9.27%) Docker
2 3 (0.40%) 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 71 (9.40%) Kubernetes
2 33 (4.37%) Ansible
3 13 (1.72%) Argo
4 9 (1.19%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.79%) Grafana
6 5 (0.66%) Podman
7 4 (0.53%) Istio
7 4 (0.53%) Puppet
8 3 (0.40%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.40%) 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
1 136 (18.01%) Microsoft
2 24 (3.18%) Google
3 23 (3.05%) Salesforce
4 22 (2.91%) Databricks
4 22 (2.91%) ServiceNow
5 20 (2.65%) Oracle
5 20 (2.65%) YouTube
6 19 (2.52%) Splunk
7 13 (1.72%) AppDynamics
8 11 (1.46%) SAP
9 9 (1.19%) Adobe
9 9 (1.19%) Red Hat
10 6 (0.79%) Autodesk
11 4 (0.53%) Dell
11 4 (0.53%) NEC
11 4 (0.53%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.53%) Thales
12 3 (0.40%) BiZZdesign
12 3 (0.40%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (0.40%) SaltStack