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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -16 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 700 1,261 1,723
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 6.09% 24.50% 19.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.54% 26.88% 24.67%
Number of salaries quoted 521 349 997
10th Percentile £43,000 £41,174 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,869 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £94,366 £91,400 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -0.54%

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 8,195 4,691 6,984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 71.34% 91.16% 78.33%
Number of salaries quoted 6,271 2,290 4,928
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,175
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £39,390
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,055 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% -1.85% -7.27%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £65,603
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,325 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -11.29%

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 28 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 28 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 -12 514 £67,249 +3.46% 186
Lancashire -11 74 £55,000 +9.88% 47
Cheshire -39 46 £56,250 +2.27% 38
Merseyside -25 42 £57,500 -10.85% 18
Cumbria -7 20 £47,500 -15.56% 1
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 (6.00%) Confluence
2 23 (3.29%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.86%) CMS
5 5 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.71%) Apache
5 5 (0.71%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.57%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.57%) WordPress
7 3 (0.43%) nginx
7 3 (0.43%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.29%) CICS
8 2 (0.29%) IIS
9 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.14%) JBoss
9 1 (0.14%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.14%) WinCC
Applications
1 14 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.00%) Trello
4 4 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.14%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 17 (2.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.43%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (0.29%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 230 (32.86%) Azure
2 167 (23.86%) AWS
3 86 (12.29%) Azure DevOps
4 50 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 46 (6.57%) Serverless
6 41 (5.86%) SaaS
7 38 (5.43%) GCP
7 38 (5.43%) GitHub
8 26 (3.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
9 24 (3.43%) Power Automate
10 20 (2.86%) dbt
11 19 (2.71%) Microsoft Copilot
12 18 (2.57%) PowerApps
13 17 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
14 15 (2.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 13 (1.86%) Azure Service Bus
16 12 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (1.71%) Azure AI
16 12 (1.71%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.43%) TCP/IP
1 3 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (0.43%) Wireless
2 2 (0.29%) AMQP
2 2 (0.29%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.29%) ZigBee
3 1 (0.14%) Broadband
3 1 (0.14%) CTI
3 1 (0.14%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (0.14%) HTTP
3 1 (0.14%) iSCSI
3 1 (0.14%) LAN
3 1 (0.14%) LTE
3 1 (0.14%) Network Security
3 1 (0.14%) SAN
3 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.14%) SSL
3 1 (0.14%) VoIP
3 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (6.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 37 (5.29%) MongoDB
3 30 (4.29%) SQL Server
4 24 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (3.43%) Power BI
5 23 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (2.86%) NoSQL
7 13 (1.86%) BigQuery
7 13 (1.86%) MySQL
8 12 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (1.71%) Relational Database
9 11 (1.57%) DynamoDB
10 9 (1.29%) Data Lake
11 8 (1.14%) Big Data
12 5 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.57%) Data Mining
13 4 (0.57%) Flink
13 4 (0.57%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (0.57%) GIS
13 4 (0.57%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 81 (11.57%) JIRA
2 51 (7.29%) Git
3 24 (3.43%) GitLab
4 19 (2.71%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.86%) Claude Code
6 11 (1.57%) Postman
7 10 (1.43%) JUnit
8 9 (1.29%) Spock
9 8 (1.14%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.71%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.43%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.43%) Maven
13 2 (0.29%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.29%) MSTest
13 2 (0.29%) NUnit
13 2 (0.29%) Vagrant
13 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.29%) XCUITest
14 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
General
1 180 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 145 (20.71%) Finance
3 70 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 64 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (5.29%) Marketing
6 27 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (3.57%) Retail
8 24 (3.43%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (2.57%) Games
10 17 (2.43%) Banking
11 15 (2.14%) Advertising
11 15 (2.14%) Law
12 12 (1.71%) Legal
13 11 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.29%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.29%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (1.14%) Telecoms
16 7 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (1.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 146 (20.86%) Senior
2 141 (20.14%) Developer
3 79 (11.29%) Software Engineer
4 57 (8.14%) Lead
5 55 (7.86%) Project Manager
6 50 (7.14%) Senior Developer
7 44 (6.29%) Analyst
8 43 (6.14%) .NET Developer
9 37 (5.29%) Business Analyst
10 35 (5.00%) Data Engineer
11 31 (4.43%) Delivery Manager
12 29 (4.14%) Engineering Manager
13 28 (4.00%) Java Developer
14 26 (3.71%) Architect
15 23 (3.29%) IT Manager
16 22 (3.14%) Lead Software Engineer
16 22 (3.14%) Senior Manager
17 21 (3.00%) Java Engineer
17 21 (3.00%) Product Owner
17 21 (3.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (14.14%) .NET
2 57 (8.14%) HTML
3 50 (7.14%) CSS
4 49 (7.00%) Node.js
5 43 (6.14%) ASP.NET
6 42 (6.00%) Spring
7 41 (5.86%) AngularJS
7 41 (5.86%) React
8 40 (5.71%) .NET Core
9 37 (5.29%) ASP.NET Core
10 32 (4.57%) RESTful
11 31 (4.43%) Spring Boot
12 26 (3.71%) REST
13 19 (2.71%) Entity Framework
14 16 (2.29%) Vue
15 15 (2.14%) Kafka
16 14 (2.00%) Blazor
17 12 (1.71%) ASP.NET Web API
17 12 (1.71%) ML.NET
18 11 (1.57%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 79 (11.29%) Product Ownership
2 53 (7.57%) Cloud Native
3 29 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (3.57%) Driving Licence
4 25 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (2.43%) Mobile App
7 15 (2.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 12 (1.71%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.57%) Marketing Technology
10 10 (1.43%) PMI
10 10 (1.43%) Private Cloud
11 9 (1.29%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.00%) Social Network
12 7 (1.00%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (0.86%) Social Media
14 5 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (0.71%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.71%) Linux
2 11 (1.57%) Windows
3 5 (0.71%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.57%) Android
4 4 (0.57%) Unix
5 2 (0.29%) CentOS
5 2 (0.29%) Debian
5 2 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.14%) VMS
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (30.57%) CI/CD
1 214 (30.57%) DevOps
2 177 (25.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 158 (22.57%) Scrum
4 131 (18.71%) Software Engineering
5 124 (17.71%) AI
6 123 (17.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 113 (16.14%) Mentoring
8 100 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 90 (12.86%) Coaching
10 88 (12.57%) Roadmaps
11 87 (12.43%) TDD
12 81 (11.57%) Full-Stack Development
13 79 (11.29%) Test Automation
14 75 (10.71%) Microservices
15 69 (9.86%) Kanban
16 68 (9.71%) Decision-Making
17 67 (9.57%) Project Management
18 66 (9.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 58 (8.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 158 (22.57%) SQL
2 121 (17.29%) Java
3 102 (14.57%) Python
4 99 (14.14%) JavaScript
5 94 (13.43%) C#
6 35 (5.00%) TypeScript
7 13 (1.86%) Go
8 12 (1.71%) Bash
9 11 (1.57%) C++
10 10 (1.43%) PowerShell
11 8 (1.14%) PHP
12 6 (0.86%) Apex Code
13 5 (0.71%) C
13 5 (0.71%) Groovy
13 5 (0.71%) SOQL
14 4 (0.57%) SOSL
15 3 (0.43%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.43%) Swift
16 2 (0.29%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (9.00%) Security Cleared
2 56 (8.00%) Degree
3 50 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 24 (3.43%) PMI Certification
5 23 (3.29%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.14%) Master's Degree
6 15 (2.14%) PMP
7 14 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.14%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.14%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.86%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.57%) MBA
12 4 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 3 (0.43%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.29%) Chartered Engineer
14 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (5.57%) QA
2 35 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 22 (3.14%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.57%) GDPR
5 9 (1.29%) PMO
6 7 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.00%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.71%) SLA
8 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.14%) GRC
9 1 (0.14%) IEC 61131
9 1 (0.14%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.14%) ITGC
9 1 (0.14%) NIST
9 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (8.57%) Docker
2 3 (0.43%) Ceph
3 2 (0.29%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.14%) Firmware
4 1 (0.14%) NFS
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 76 (10.86%) Terraform
2 62 (8.86%) Kubernetes
3 29 (4.14%) Ansible
4 12 (1.71%) Argo
5 10 (1.43%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.00%) Grafana
7 4 (0.57%) Istio
8 3 (0.43%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.43%) Podman
8 3 (0.43%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.43%) Puppet
9 2 (0.29%) Packer
10 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.14%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.14%) linkerd
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.14%) Nagios
10 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 133 (19.00%) Microsoft
2 26 (3.71%) ServiceNow
3 21 (3.00%) Salesforce
4 18 (2.57%) Databricks
4 18 (2.57%) Google
4 18 (2.57%) Oracle
5 17 (2.43%) Splunk
6 15 (2.14%) SAP
7 10 (1.43%) Adobe
8 9 (1.29%) AppDynamics
9 7 (1.00%) Pega
10 6 (0.86%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.57%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.43%) BiZZdesign
12 3 (0.43%) Cognos
12 3 (0.43%) Dell
12 3 (0.43%) Facebook
12 3 (0.43%) IBM
12 3 (0.43%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (0.43%) Siemens