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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -16 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 668 1,274 1,951
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.93% 24.83% 19.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.34% 27.07% 24.09%
Number of salaries quoted 505 356 1,224
10th Percentile £42,580 £41,250 £38,575
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,869 £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 £78,312 £77,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £94,120 £93,764 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -2.29%

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 8,006 4,706 8,098
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 71.04% 91.72% 78.98%
Number of salaries quoted 6,148 2,276 5,959
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £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 16 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 16 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 -12 492 £67,472 +3.80% 136
Lancashire -9 70 £55,000 +9.88% 37
Cheshire -38 46 £56,250 +4.65% 29
Merseyside -28 35 £55,550 -13.88% 16
Cumbria -9 21 £47,500 -15.18% 2
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 (6.29%) Confluence
2 21 (3.14%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.90%) CMS
5 5 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.60%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.60%) WordPress
7 3 (0.45%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.30%) Apache
8 2 (0.30%) Apache Spark
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 (2.10%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.05%) Trello
4 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.45%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.15%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 15 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.45%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.15%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 211 (31.59%) Azure
2 159 (23.80%) AWS
3 77 (11.53%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (6.89%) Power Platform
5 43 (6.44%) Serverless
6 38 (5.69%) SaaS
7 34 (5.09%) GitHub
8 33 (4.94%) GCP
9 27 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
10 26 (3.89%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (2.84%) Power Automate
12 16 (2.40%) dbt
12 16 (2.40%) PowerApps
13 15 (2.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 14 (2.10%) Microsoft Copilot
15 13 (1.95%) Azure AKS
15 13 (1.95%) Azure Service Bus
15 13 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
16 12 (1.80%) Azure AI
17 11 (1.65%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.45%) TCP/IP
1 3 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (0.45%) Wireless
2 2 (0.30%) AMQP
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%) VoIP
3 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (5.84%) Azure SQL Database
2 37 (5.54%) MongoDB
3 25 (3.74%) Power BI
4 24 (3.59%) SQL Server
5 21 (3.14%) NoSQL
5 21 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (2.10%) MySQL
8 12 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (1.50%) BigQuery
10 9 (1.35%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.20%) Big Data
11 8 (1.20%) Data Lake
11 8 (1.20%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.60%) Data Mining
12 4 (0.60%) Flink
12 4 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (0.60%) GIS
12 4 (0.60%) QGIS
12 4 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 79 (11.83%) JIRA
2 41 (6.14%) Git
3 24 (3.59%) GitLab
4 18 (2.69%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.95%) Claude Code
6 11 (1.65%) Postman
7 10 (1.50%) JUnit
8 9 (1.35%) Spock
9 7 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (1.05%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.75%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.45%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.45%) Maven
12 2 (0.30%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.30%) MSTest
12 2 (0.30%) NUnit
12 2 (0.30%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.30%) Vagrant
12 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.30%) XCUITest
General
1 155 (23.20%) Social Skills
2 146 (21.86%) Finance
3 71 (10.63%) Public Sector
4 57 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (5.09%) Marketing
6 25 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
7 24 (3.59%) Retail
8 18 (2.69%) Banking
8 18 (2.69%) Games
9 15 (2.25%) Advertising
10 13 (1.95%) Law
11 11 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.50%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.20%) Legal
13 8 (1.20%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (0.90%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 144 (21.56%) Senior
2 136 (20.36%) Developer
3 77 (11.53%) Software Engineer
4 59 (8.83%) Lead
5 54 (8.08%) Project Manager
6 46 (6.89%) Senior Developer
7 44 (6.59%) Analyst
8 43 (6.44%) .NET Developer
9 34 (5.09%) Business Analyst
10 30 (4.49%) Java Developer
11 28 (4.19%) Data Engineer
12 27 (4.04%) Engineering Manager
13 26 (3.89%) Architect
13 26 (3.89%) Delivery Manager
14 24 (3.59%) IT Manager
15 22 (3.29%) Lead Software Engineer
15 22 (3.29%) Senior Manager
16 21 (3.14%) Java Engineer
17 20 (2.99%) Cloud Engineer
17 20 (2.99%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (14.22%) .NET
2 52 (7.78%) HTML
3 49 (7.34%) Node.js
4 46 (6.89%) CSS
5 43 (6.44%) Spring
6 41 (6.14%) AngularJS
6 41 (6.14%) ASP.NET
6 41 (6.14%) React
7 40 (5.99%) .NET Core
8 36 (5.39%) ASP.NET Core
9 34 (5.09%) RESTful
10 32 (4.79%) Spring Boot
11 25 (3.74%) REST
12 18 (2.69%) Entity Framework
13 16 (2.40%) Vue
14 14 (2.10%) Kafka
15 13 (1.95%) Blazor
16 12 (1.80%) ML.NET
17 11 (1.65%) ASP.NET Web API
18 10 (1.50%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 74 (11.08%) Product Ownership
2 50 (7.49%) Cloud Native
3 27 (4.04%) Driving Licence
3 27 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (3.74%) Greenfield Project
5 24 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 14 (2.10%) Mobile App
7 10 (1.50%) PMI
8 9 (1.35%) Marketing Technology
8 9 (1.35%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.35%) Private Cloud
9 8 (1.20%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.20%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.05%) Social Network
11 6 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.75%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.59%) Linux
2 12 (1.80%) Windows
3 4 (0.60%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.60%) Unix
4 3 (0.45%) Android
5 2 (0.30%) CentOS
5 2 (0.30%) Debian
5 2 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
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
1 200 (29.94%) CI/CD
1 200 (29.94%) DevOps
2 163 (24.40%) Continuous Improvement
3 153 (22.90%) Scrum
4 124 (18.56%) Software Engineering
5 114 (17.07%) Stakeholder Management
6 108 (16.17%) Mentoring
7 107 (16.02%) AI
8 96 (14.37%) Problem-Solving
9 91 (13.62%) Coaching
10 88 (13.17%) TDD
11 84 (12.57%) Roadmaps
12 81 (12.13%) Full-Stack Development
13 76 (11.38%) Microservices
14 75 (11.23%) Test Automation
15 67 (10.03%) Decision-Making
15 67 (10.03%) Project Management
16 66 (9.88%) Kanban
17 58 (8.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 56 (8.38%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 143 (21.41%) SQL
2 120 (17.96%) Java
3 94 (14.07%) JavaScript
4 93 (13.92%) Python
5 89 (13.32%) C#
6 33 (4.94%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.80%) Bash
8 11 (1.65%) C++
9 10 (1.50%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.35%) Go
11 7 (1.05%) PHP
12 6 (0.90%) Apex Code
13 5 (0.75%) C
13 5 (0.75%) Groovy
13 5 (0.75%) SOQL
14 4 (0.60%) SOSL
15 3 (0.45%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.30%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.30%) Scala
16 2 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (9.73%) Security Cleared
2 49 (7.34%) SC Cleared
3 47 (7.04%) Degree
4 24 (3.59%) PMI Certification
5 22 (3.29%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.25%) PMP
7 12 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (1.80%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.20%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.20%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (0.90%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 3 (0.45%) MBA
13 2 (0.30%) Chartered Engineer
13 2 (0.30%) HND
13 2 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (5.09%) QA
2 27 (4.04%) Data Quality
3 24 (3.59%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.65%) GDPR
5 7 (1.05%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.05%) PMO
6 6 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.60%) SLA
8 2 (0.30%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.30%) WCAG
9 1 (0.15%) GRC
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.15%) ITGC
9 1 (0.15%) NIST
9 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 55 (8.23%) Docker
2 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 73 (10.93%) Terraform
2 60 (8.98%) Kubernetes
3 26 (3.89%) Ansible
4 9 (1.35%) Argo
5 7 (1.05%) Grafana
5 7 (1.05%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.60%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.60%) Puppet
7 2 (0.30%) Packer
8 1 (0.15%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.15%) Istio
8 1 (0.15%) linkerd
Vendors
1 122 (18.26%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.04%) ServiceNow
3 20 (2.99%) Salesforce
4 18 (2.69%) Databricks
4 18 (2.69%) Oracle
5 16 (2.40%) SAP
5 16 (2.40%) Splunk
6 13 (1.95%) Google
7 10 (1.50%) Adobe
8 9 (1.35%) AppDynamics
9 5 (0.75%) Pega
10 4 (0.60%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.45%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (0.45%) Cognos
11 3 (0.45%) Facebook
11 3 (0.45%) IBM
11 3 (0.45%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (0.45%) Siemens
12 2 (0.30%) SaltStack
12 2 (0.30%) WSO2