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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -16 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 669 1,297 1,994
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.99% 25.37% 19.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.41% 27.54% 24.07%
Number of salaries quoted 512 369 1,272
10th Percentile £42,520 £41,250 £38,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,684 £77,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £93,750 £93,756 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +10.24% -3.05%

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 7,952 4,709 8,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 71.17% 92.10% 79.41%
Number of salaries quoted 6,115 2,270 6,127
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,854 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,890 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.08% +1.78% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £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 9 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 9 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 -12 493 £66,999 +3.08% 273
Lancashire -9 74 £55,000 +8.97% 105
Cheshire -39 45 £56,250 +7.14% 37
Merseyside -34 34 £55,550 -15.83% 16
Cumbria -8 19 £47,500 -14.41% 6
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 42 (6.28%) Confluence
2 19 (2.84%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.90%) CMS
5 5 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.60%) Apache
6 4 (0.60%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.60%) WordPress
7 3 (0.45%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.45%) Umbraco
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 (2.09%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.90%) Trello
4 3 (0.45%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.15%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 15 (2.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.45%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 216 (32.29%) Azure
2 163 (24.36%) AWS
3 79 (11.81%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (6.73%) Power Platform
4 45 (6.73%) Serverless
5 42 (6.28%) SaaS
6 36 (5.38%) GCP
7 33 (4.93%) GitHub
8 27 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
10 18 (2.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 17 (2.54%) Power Automate
12 16 (2.39%) Azure Service Bus
13 15 (2.24%) dbt
13 15 (2.24%) PowerApps
14 14 (2.09%) Azure AKS
15 13 (1.94%) Azure AI
15 13 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
15 13 (1.94%) Microsoft Copilot
16 12 (1.79%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.45%) AMQP
1 3 (0.45%) TCP/IP
1 3 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (0.45%) Wireless
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%) SSL
3 1 (0.15%) VoIP
3 1 (0.15%) VPN
3 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (5.98%) Azure SQL Database
1 40 (5.98%) MongoDB
2 25 (3.74%) Power BI
3 23 (3.44%) NoSQL
4 22 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (3.29%) SQL Server
5 19 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (2.24%) MySQL
7 13 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (1.49%) BigQuery
9 9 (1.35%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.35%) DynamoDB
9 9 (1.35%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.20%) Big Data
11 4 (0.60%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.60%) Flink
11 4 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.60%) GIS
11 4 (0.60%) QGIS
11 4 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 78 (11.66%) JIRA
2 43 (6.43%) Git
3 24 (3.59%) GitLab
4 19 (2.84%) Jenkins
5 14 (2.09%) Claude Code
6 12 (1.79%) Postman
7 9 (1.35%) JUnit
8 8 (1.20%) Spock
9 7 (1.05%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.75%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.45%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.45%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.45%) Maven
13 2 (0.30%) MSTest
13 2 (0.30%) NUnit
13 2 (0.30%) Selenium
13 2 (0.30%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.30%) Vagrant
13 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 151 (22.57%) Social Skills
2 147 (21.97%) Finance
3 75 (11.21%) Public Sector
4 57 (8.52%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (5.08%) Marketing
6 24 (3.59%) Retail
7 23 (3.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (3.29%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (2.84%) Games
10 18 (2.69%) Banking
11 15 (2.24%) Advertising
12 13 (1.94%) Law
13 11 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (1.49%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.20%) Telecoms
16 7 (1.05%) Aerospace
16 7 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (1.05%) Legal
17 6 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 146 (21.82%) Senior
2 135 (20.18%) Developer
3 80 (11.96%) Software Engineer
4 61 (9.12%) Lead
5 51 (7.62%) Project Manager
6 45 (6.73%) .NET Developer
6 45 (6.73%) Senior Developer
7 42 (6.28%) Analyst
8 32 (4.78%) Business Analyst
9 30 (4.48%) Java Developer
10 29 (4.33%) Data Engineer
11 27 (4.04%) Delivery Manager
12 26 (3.89%) Engineering Manager
13 25 (3.74%) Architect
13 25 (3.74%) IT Manager
14 22 (3.29%) Java Engineer
14 22 (3.29%) Lead Software Engineer
15 21 (3.14%) Cloud Engineer
15 21 (3.14%) Senior Manager
16 20 (2.99%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (14.50%) .NET
2 51 (7.62%) Node.js
3 50 (7.47%) HTML
3 50 (7.47%) React
4 46 (6.88%) CSS
5 44 (6.58%) Spring
6 41 (6.13%) AngularJS
7 40 (5.98%) .NET Core
7 40 (5.98%) ASP.NET
8 36 (5.38%) ASP.NET Core
9 35 (5.23%) RESTful
10 33 (4.93%) REST
10 33 (4.93%) Spring Boot
11 17 (2.54%) Entity Framework
11 17 (2.54%) Vue
12 15 (2.24%) Kafka
13 14 (2.09%) Blazor
14 13 (1.94%) ML.NET
15 11 (1.64%) ASP.NET Web API
16 9 (1.35%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 73 (10.91%) Product Ownership
2 51 (7.62%) Cloud Native
3 28 (4.19%) Driving Licence
4 26 (3.89%) Enterprise Software
4 26 (3.89%) Greenfield Project
5 25 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.39%) Mobile App
7 12 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (1.49%) PMI
9 9 (1.35%) Marketing Technology
9 9 (1.35%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.20%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.20%) Private Cloud
10 8 (1.20%) Social Network
10 8 (1.20%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (0.75%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.89%) Linux
2 12 (1.79%) Windows
3 4 (0.60%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.60%) Unix
4 3 (0.45%) Android
4 3 (0.45%) CentOS
4 3 (0.45%) Debian
4 3 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.45%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (0.30%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (30.34%) CI/CD
2 201 (30.04%) DevOps
3 165 (24.66%) Continuous Improvement
4 152 (22.72%) Scrum
5 127 (18.98%) Software Engineering
6 114 (17.04%) Mentoring
7 112 (16.74%) Stakeholder Management
8 105 (15.70%) AI
9 97 (14.50%) Coaching
10 92 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
11 91 (13.60%) TDD
12 85 (12.71%) Roadmaps
13 84 (12.56%) Full-Stack Development
14 79 (11.81%) Microservices
15 75 (11.21%) Test Automation
16 67 (10.01%) Kanban
16 67 (10.01%) Project Management
17 66 (9.87%) Decision-Making
18 58 (8.67%) Infrastructure as Code
19 57 (8.52%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 145 (21.67%) SQL
2 124 (18.54%) Java
3 96 (14.35%) JavaScript
3 96 (14.35%) Python
4 90 (13.45%) C#
5 35 (5.23%) TypeScript
6 12 (1.79%) Bash
7 11 (1.64%) C++
8 10 (1.49%) Go
8 10 (1.49%) PowerShell
9 6 (0.90%) Apex Code
9 6 (0.90%) Groovy
9 6 (0.90%) PHP
10 5 (0.75%) C
10 5 (0.75%) SOQL
11 4 (0.60%) SOSL
12 3 (0.45%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.30%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.30%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 65 (9.72%) Security Cleared
2 50 (7.47%) SC Cleared
3 44 (6.58%) Degree
4 23 (3.44%) DV Cleared
4 23 (3.44%) PMI Certification
5 14 (2.09%) PMP
6 12 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.64%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.35%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.05%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (0.90%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.45%) MBA
14 2 (0.30%) Chartered Engineer
14 2 (0.30%) HND
14 2 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (5.08%) QA
2 27 (4.04%) Data Quality
3 23 (3.44%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.64%) GDPR
5 8 (1.20%) PMO
6 7 (1.05%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.60%) SLA
9 2 (0.30%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.30%) WCAG
10 1 (0.15%) GRC
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.15%) ITGC
10 1 (0.15%) NIST
10 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 54 (8.07%) Docker
2 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 76 (11.36%) Terraform
2 61 (9.12%) Kubernetes
3 27 (4.04%) Ansible
4 9 (1.35%) Argo
5 7 (1.05%) Grafana
5 7 (1.05%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.75%) Puppet
7 4 (0.60%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.30%) Packer
9 1 (0.15%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.15%) Istio
9 1 (0.15%) linkerd
9 1 (0.15%) Rancher
9 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 122 (18.24%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.19%) ServiceNow
3 21 (3.14%) Salesforce
4 19 (2.84%) Databricks
5 18 (2.69%) Oracle
6 16 (2.39%) SAP
7 14 (2.09%) Splunk
8 13 (1.94%) Google
9 10 (1.49%) Adobe
10 8 (1.20%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.75%) Pega
12 3 (0.45%) BiZZdesign
12 3 (0.45%) Cognos
12 3 (0.45%) Facebook
12 3 (0.45%) IBM
12 3 (0.45%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (0.45%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.45%) SaltStack
12 3 (0.45%) Siemens
13 2 (0.30%) WSO2