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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -17 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 503 1,220 1,017
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 9.90% 17.59% 26.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.68% 21.57% 27.73%
Number of salaries quoted 317 431 715
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,641
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,400 £85,000 £87,419
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - - +3.85%

All Process and 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 4,308 5,655 3,667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 84.75% 81.54% 94.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,435 2,815 2,780
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,500 £31,225
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025. 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 -4 340 £62,500 +4.17% 366
Cheshire -7 72 £57,500 +15.00% 57
Lancashire -22 44 £47,592 -13.47% 145
Merseyside -18 35 £57,500 -4.17% 11
Cumbria -11 11 £57,500 +3.14% 12
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 28 (5.57%) Confluence
2 13 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.59%) CMS
4 5 (0.99%) Apache
5 3 (0.60%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.60%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.60%) IIS
5 3 (0.60%) Magnolia
5 3 (0.60%) nginx
5 3 (0.60%) WordPress
6 2 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.40%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Umbraco
Applications
1 21 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.59%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.80%) Adobe XD
5 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.80%) Sketch
6 3 (0.60%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.60%) Trello
7 2 (0.40%) Simulink
8 1 (0.20%) InVision
8 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.20%) Magento
4 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.20%) Siebel CRM
4 1 (0.20%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 138 (27.44%) Azure
2 136 (27.04%) AWS
3 44 (8.75%) Power Platform
3 44 (8.75%) SaaS
4 42 (8.35%) GCP
5 30 (5.96%) Serverless
6 23 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (4.57%) GitHub
7 19 (3.78%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (3.58%) Dynamics 365
9 15 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (2.39%) Figma
11 10 (1.99%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (1.79%) PaaS
12 9 (1.79%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (1.39%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.39%) Firewall
2 4 (0.80%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.60%) HTTP
3 3 (0.60%) Wireless
4 2 (0.40%) AMQP
4 2 (0.40%) DNS
4 2 (0.40%) SSH
4 2 (0.40%) WAN
5 1 (0.20%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (6.36%) SQL Server
2 30 (5.96%) NoSQL
3 29 (5.77%) MongoDB
4 27 (5.37%) Power BI
5 14 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (2.19%) MySQL
7 9 (1.79%) Data Lake
7 9 (1.79%) DynamoDB
7 9 (1.79%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.39%) Redis
9 4 (0.80%) Big Data
9 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.60%) GIS
10 3 (0.60%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.60%) Hazelcast
11 2 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.40%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 48 (9.54%) JIRA
2 26 (5.17%) Git
3 18 (3.58%) GitLab
4 14 (2.78%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.99%) Cucumber
5 10 (1.99%) Cypress.io
5 10 (1.99%) Selenium
6 4 (0.80%) JMeter
7 3 (0.60%) Gatling
7 3 (0.60%) JIRA Agile
7 3 (0.60%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.40%) JUnit
8 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.40%) webpack
9 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.20%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.20%) Maven
9 1 (0.20%) NUnit
9 1 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
General
1 161 (32.01%) Social Skills
2 149 (29.62%) Finance
3 60 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (8.15%) Public Sector
5 30 (5.96%) Marketing
6 23 (4.57%) Banking
7 21 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
7 21 (4.17%) Local Government
8 18 (3.58%) Manufacturing
9 17 (3.38%) Law
9 17 (3.38%) Retail
10 16 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (2.19%) Games
12 11 (2.19%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.59%) Electronics
13 8 (1.59%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.39%) Avionics
14 7 (1.39%) Back Office
15 6 (1.19%) Legal
Job Titles
1 129 (25.65%) Senior
2 121 (24.06%) Developer
3 68 (13.52%) Lead
4 48 (9.54%) Analyst
5 42 (8.35%) Senior Developer
6 31 (6.16%) Senior Manager
6 31 (6.16%) Software Engineer
7 30 (5.96%) Architect
7 30 (5.96%) Project Manager
8 24 (4.77%) Solutions Architect
9 23 (4.57%) Java Developer
10 22 (4.37%) Business Analyst
11 20 (3.98%) Audit Manager
11 20 (3.98%) Senior Audit Manager
12 19 (3.78%) .NET Developer
13 17 (3.38%) AWS Architect
13 17 (3.38%) Software Developer
13 17 (3.38%) Systems Engineer
14 16 (3.18%) AWS Solution Architect
14 16 (3.18%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (14.31%) .NET
2 61 (12.13%) React
3 35 (6.96%) CSS
4 33 (6.56%) Spring Boot
5 32 (6.36%) HTML
5 32 (6.36%) Spring
6 25 (4.97%) AngularJS
6 25 (4.97%) Kafka
7 24 (4.77%) Node.js
7 24 (4.77%) REST
8 23 (4.57%) RESTful
9 22 (4.37%) .NET Core
10 19 (3.78%) .NET Framework
11 16 (3.18%) ASP.NET
12 11 (2.19%) RabbitMQ
13 9 (1.79%) Entity Framework
13 9 (1.79%) Hibernate
13 9 (1.79%) Jest
14 8 (1.59%) ASP.NET Web API
14 8 (1.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 44 (8.75%) Product Ownership
2 41 (8.15%) Cloud Native
3 26 (5.17%) Management Information System
4 19 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (3.78%) Mobile App
5 15 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.58%) Social Media
7 10 (1.99%) IoT
8 9 (1.79%) Driving Licence
9 8 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 8 (1.59%) Wiki
10 7 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.39%) e-Learning
10 7 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.19%) Onboarding
12 5 (0.99%) Animation
13 4 (0.80%) Data Centre
13 4 (0.80%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (5.77%) Windows
2 13 (2.58%) Linux
3 10 (1.99%) Windows 10
4 5 (0.99%) Android
4 5 (0.99%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.40%) CentOS
6 2 (0.40%) Debian
6 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.40%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (25.65%) DevOps
2 123 (24.45%) CI/CD
3 113 (22.47%) Continuous Improvement
4 109 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
5 88 (17.50%) Mentoring
6 86 (17.10%) Coaching
7 84 (16.70%) Software Engineering
8 77 (15.31%) Roadmaps
9 69 (13.72%) Microservices
10 63 (12.52%) User Experience
11 61 (12.13%) Scrum
12 57 (11.33%) Stakeholder Management
13 55 (10.93%) Containerisation
14 50 (9.94%) Project Management
15 49 (9.74%) Clean Code
16 48 (9.54%) Full-Stack Development
16 48 (9.54%) TDD
17 47 (9.34%) Project Delivery
18 46 (9.15%) Decision-Making
18 46 (9.15%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 78 (15.51%) C#
2 75 (14.91%) Java
3 67 (13.32%) SQL
4 64 (12.72%) JavaScript
5 48 (9.54%) TypeScript
6 44 (8.75%) Python
7 13 (2.58%) Go
8 10 (1.99%) MATLAB
9 9 (1.79%) PHP
9 9 (1.79%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.59%) Elixir
10 8 (1.59%) Ruby
11 7 (1.39%) Bash
12 5 (0.99%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.80%) Bicep
14 3 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.40%) C++
15 2 (0.40%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.40%) Objective-C
15 2 (0.40%) Swift
Qualifications
1 64 (12.72%) Degree
2 32 (6.36%) Security Cleared
3 30 (5.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 27 (5.37%) ACCA
5 22 (4.37%) SC Cleared
6 14 (2.78%) DBS Check
7 13 (2.58%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.19%) AWS Certification
8 11 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (1.99%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.79%) PMP
10 9 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
11 8 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (1.59%) PMI Certification
12 7 (1.39%) CIMA
13 4 (0.80%) HNC
13 4 (0.80%) HND
14 3 (0.60%) CCNA
14 3 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (7.16%) QA
2 26 (5.17%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.98%) GAAP
3 20 (3.98%) IFRS
4 10 (1.99%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.99%) GDPR
5 9 (1.79%) NIST
5 9 (1.79%) PMO
6 8 (1.59%) HIPAA
6 8 (1.59%) SEPA
6 8 (1.59%) TARGET2
7 6 (1.19%) SLA
8 4 (0.80%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.60%) WCAG
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.20%) HL7
10 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 67 (13.32%) Docker
2 16 (3.18%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.20%) HDFS
5 1 (0.20%) KVM
5 1 (0.20%) QEMU
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 61 (12.13%) Kubernetes
2 40 (7.95%) Terraform
3 10 (1.99%) Ansible
3 10 (1.99%) SCCM
4 8 (1.59%) Grafana
5 6 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.99%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.40%) Puppet
7 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 66 (13.12%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.37%) Google
3 16 (3.18%) SAP
4 15 (2.98%) Salesforce
5 12 (2.39%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.19%) Databricks
7 9 (1.79%) Adobe
7 9 (1.79%) Facebook
8 7 (1.39%) Splunk
9 6 (1.19%) Bloomberg
9 6 (1.19%) Oracle
9 6 (1.19%) Qualtrics
9 6 (1.19%) Sophos
9 6 (1.19%) UiPath
10 4 (0.80%) Blue Prism
10 4 (0.80%) Siemens
11 3 (0.60%) Aruba
11 3 (0.60%) Cisco
11 3 (0.60%) Veeam
11 3 (0.60%) VMware