Agile Jobs in the North West

Agile Software Development
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 1,984 2,490 3,223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 20.18% 31.80% 34.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 24.37% 33.24% 36.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,421 1,044 1,798
10th Percentile £38,500 £36,550 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £75,772 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Agile is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,141 7,491 8,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 82.81% 95.67% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 6,183 3,900 5,267
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,124
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the North West

Agile
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Agile in the North West.

Salary trend for Agile in the North West

Agile
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in the North West over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

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 May 2024. 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 0 1,176 £60,000 +0.80% 221
Merseyside +2 255 £50,000 +6.38% 30
Lancashire 0 254 £57,965 +15.93% 42
Cheshire -2 245 £59,778 -0.37% 61
Cumbria -4 48 £60,000 +50.00% 8
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 58 (2.92%) Confluence
2 57 (2.87%) ArcGIS
2 57 (2.87%) GeoServer
3 27 (1.36%) Apache Spark
4 19 (0.96%) Apache
5 16 (0.81%) IIS
6 13 (0.66%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (0.60%) Tuxedo
8 10 (0.50%) CMS
9 8 (0.40%) Apache Solr
9 8 (0.40%) WebLogic
10 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.20%) Captiva
11 4 (0.20%) FileNet
11 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.10%) JBoss
13 2 (0.10%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 37 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 18 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.25%) AutoCAD
3 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.25%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.20%) Maya
5 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.050%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.050%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.050%) Final Cut Pro
6 1 (0.050%) InVision
6 1 (0.050%) Sketch
6 1 (0.050%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 51 (2.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.21%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.45%) SAP CX
4 9 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.20%) MIS ActiveH
7 3 (0.15%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.10%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.10%) Shopify
8 2 (0.10%) Unit4 Business World
9 1 (0.050%) BPCS
9 1 (0.050%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.050%) Magento
9 1 (0.050%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.050%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.050%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.050%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.050%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 649 (32.71%) Azure
2 426 (21.47%) AWS
3 155 (7.81%) GCP
4 141 (7.11%) Azure DevOps
5 122 (6.15%) Power Platform
6 75 (3.78%) IBM Cloud
7 70 (3.53%) SaaS
8 59 (2.97%) Amazon EKS
8 59 (2.97%) GitHub
9 55 (2.77%) Amazon S3
9 55 (2.77%) Microsoft 365
10 53 (2.67%) Serverless
11 51 (2.57%) Dynamics 365
12 43 (2.17%) OCI
13 36 (1.81%) Amazon ECR
13 36 (1.81%) Route 53
14 24 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
15 23 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
16 22 (1.11%) Power Automate
17 21 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.46%) Firewall
1 29 (1.46%) Internet
1 29 (1.46%) WAN
2 23 (1.16%) SAN
3 22 (1.11%) DNS
4 17 (0.86%) TCP/IP
5 16 (0.81%) LAN
6 15 (0.76%) SSL
7 13 (0.66%) Broadband
7 13 (0.66%) Network Security
8 12 (0.60%) DHCP
8 12 (0.60%) iSCSI
8 12 (0.60%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.55%) AMQP
9 11 (0.55%) Remote Desktop
10 10 (0.50%) Wireless
11 8 (0.40%) BGP
12 5 (0.25%) NAS
12 5 (0.25%) VPN
12 5 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (11.74%) SQL Server
2 142 (7.16%) PostgreSQL
3 102 (5.14%) NoSQL
4 83 (4.18%) MySQL
5 78 (3.93%) Power BI
6 75 (3.78%) Data Warehouse
7 72 (3.63%) MongoDB
8 66 (3.33%) BigQuery
9 61 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
10 57 (2.87%) GIS
10 57 (2.87%) QGIS
11 45 (2.27%) Relational Database
12 41 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
13 40 (2.02%) Data Vault
14 39 (1.97%) Looker
15 37 (1.86%) DB2
16 29 (1.46%) Big Data
16 29 (1.46%) Tableau
17 27 (1.36%) Data Lake
17 27 (1.36%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 169 (8.52%) JIRA
2 168 (8.47%) Git
3 50 (2.52%) Jenkins
4 43 (2.17%) GitLab
5 37 (1.86%) Visual Studio
6 25 (1.26%) Postman
7 21 (1.06%) Cypress.io
8 18 (0.91%) Selenium
9 17 (0.86%) Gradle
10 16 (0.81%) JUnit
10 16 (0.81%) TeamCity
11 15 (0.76%) Appium
11 15 (0.76%) IntelliJ
12 13 (0.66%) Mockito
13 12 (0.60%) Spinnaker
14 10 (0.50%) Jasmine
15 9 (0.45%) NUnit
16 8 (0.40%) Bitbucket
16 8 (0.40%) Maven
16 8 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 411 (20.72%) Social Skills
2 363 (18.30%) Finance
3 198 (9.98%) Public Sector
4 172 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
5 158 (7.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 133 (6.70%) Retail
7 80 (4.03%) Legal
8 74 (3.73%) Banking
9 70 (3.53%) Marketing
10 47 (2.37%) Law
11 37 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
12 34 (1.71%) Aerospace
13 31 (1.56%) Advertising
14 25 (1.26%) Manufacturing
15 24 (1.21%) Games
16 21 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
16 21 (1.06%) Telecoms
17 19 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
18 15 (0.76%) Publishing
19 11 (0.55%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 479 (24.14%) Developer
2 438 (22.08%) Senior
3 275 (13.86%) Lead
4 197 (9.93%) .NET Developer
5 185 (9.32%) Software Engineer
6 139 (7.01%) Project Manager
7 127 (6.40%) Analyst
7 127 (6.40%) Architect
8 104 (5.24%) Data Engineer
9 100 (5.04%) Senior Developer
10 82 (4.13%) Senior Software Engineer
11 74 (3.73%) C# Developer
12 70 (3.53%) DevOps Engineer
13 65 (3.28%) Business Analyst
14 64 (3.23%) Software Developer
14 64 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
14 64 (3.23%) Technical Leader
15 57 (2.87%) C# .NET Developer
16 55 (2.77%) Azure Engineer
17 49 (2.47%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 400 (20.16%) .NET
2 246 (12.40%) React
3 226 (11.39%) CSS
4 204 (10.28%) HTML
5 187 (9.43%) AngularJS
6 186 (9.38%) .NET Core
7 160 (8.06%) ASP.NET
8 121 (6.10%) Node.js
8 121 (6.10%) REST
9 100 (5.04%) ASP.NET MVC
10 98 (4.94%) Vue
11 95 (4.79%) RESTful
12 89 (4.49%) .NET Framework
13 88 (4.44%) Entity Framework
14 80 (4.03%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 79 (3.98%) HTML5
16 77 (3.88%) ASP.NET Web API
16 77 (3.88%) Web Services
17 72 (3.63%) Spring
18 64 (3.23%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 135 (6.80%) Product Ownership
2 90 (4.54%) Public Cloud
3 86 (4.33%) Data Structures
4 84 (4.23%) Greenfield Project
4 84 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 83 (4.18%) e-Learning
6 80 (4.03%) Blockchain
7 64 (3.23%) Cloud Native
8 62 (3.13%) Management Information System
9 49 (2.47%) Mobile App
9 49 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
10 46 (2.32%) Algorithms
10 46 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
11 39 (1.97%) Reinsurance
12 24 (1.21%) Video\Live Streaming
13 23 (1.16%) PMI
14 21 (1.06%) Private Cloud
15 19 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
16 16 (0.81%) Mainframe
17 14 (0.71%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 163 (8.22%) Linux
2 93 (4.69%) Windows
3 80 (4.03%) Android
4 64 (3.23%) Apple iOS
5 25 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (1.01%) Unix
7 19 (0.96%) Ubuntu
8 11 (0.55%) CentOS
8 11 (0.55%) Debian
8 11 (0.55%) Windows 10
9 9 (0.45%) Windows Phone
10 5 (0.25%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
12 3 (0.15%) VME
12 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.10%) Windows Server
13 2 (0.10%) Windows Vista
14 1 (0.050%) HPUX
14 1 (0.050%) Solaris
14 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (26.51%) Mentoring
2 485 (24.45%) DevOps
3 388 (19.56%) Coaching
4 363 (18.30%) Software Engineering
5 313 (15.78%) Scrum
6 283 (14.26%) Project Management
7 267 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
8 244 (12.30%) TDD
9 243 (12.25%) Full Stack Development
10 234 (11.79%) Roadmaps
11 201 (10.13%) Analytics
12 194 (9.78%) Actionable Insight
13 186 (9.38%) CI/CD
14 176 (8.87%) Microservices
15 171 (8.62%) MVC
16 167 (8.42%) SDLC
17 161 (8.11%) Kanban
18 156 (7.86%) Test Automation
19 148 (7.46%) Design Patterns
20 138 (6.96%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 439 (22.13%) JavaScript
2 418 (21.07%) C#
3 354 (17.84%) SQL
4 243 (12.25%) Python
5 232 (11.69%) Java
6 129 (6.50%) TypeScript
7 52 (2.62%) PHP
8 42 (2.12%) C
9 28 (1.41%) C++
10 26 (1.31%) PowerShell
11 25 (1.26%) COBOL
11 25 (1.26%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 24 (1.21%) T-SQL
13 23 (1.16%) Go
14 22 (1.11%) VB.NET
15 16 (0.81%) Ruby
16 13 (0.66%) Bash
16 13 (0.66%) Kotlin
16 13 (0.66%) Perl
17 10 (0.50%) R
Qualifications
1 211 (10.64%) Degree
2 204 (10.28%) Security Cleared
3 151 (7.61%) SC Cleared
4 51 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (2.37%) PMP
6 41 (2.07%) PMI Certification
7 38 (1.92%) DV Cleared
8 28 (1.41%) AWS Certification
9 21 (1.06%) Azure Certification
10 18 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 15 (0.76%) HND
11 15 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (0.66%) APMP
12 13 (0.66%) DBS Check
13 12 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 10 (0.50%) CCNP
15 10 (0.50%) Master's Degree
16 8 (0.40%) ISEB
16 8 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (4.94%) QA
2 66 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 46 (2.32%) Accessibility
4 45 (2.27%) GDPR
5 20 (1.01%) PMO
6 9 (0.45%) WCAG
7 6 (0.30%) SLA
8 5 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.15%) NIST
10 2 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.10%) EMIR
10 2 (0.10%) MiFID
11 1 (0.050%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.050%) GAMP
11 1 (0.050%) GMP
11 1 (0.050%) GxP
System Software
1 122 (6.15%) Docker
2 24 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.16%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
4 12 (0.60%) Firmware
5 9 (0.45%) Terminal Services
6 5 (0.25%) SRDF
7 4 (0.20%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.050%) RACF
9 1 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 163 (8.22%) Kubernetes
2 162 (8.17%) Terraform
3 49 (2.47%) Ansible
4 39 (1.97%) Prometheus
5 17 (0.86%) ZABBIX
6 12 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 12 (0.60%) Opsgenie
6 12 (0.60%) Puppet
6 12 (0.60%) VxRail
7 9 (0.45%) AirWatch
8 8 (0.40%) Grafana
8 8 (0.40%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.30%) Kibana
10 5 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.15%) Podman
12 2 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.050%) CSIRT
13 1 (0.050%) Kiali
13 1 (0.050%) Packer
13 1 (0.050%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 284 (14.31%) Microsoft
2 109 (5.49%) Google
3 90 (4.54%) Red Hat
4 89 (4.49%) Oracle
5 83 (4.18%) IBM
6 57 (2.87%) ESRI
7 47 (2.37%) Databricks
8 44 (2.22%) Informatica
9 36 (1.81%) Dynatrace
10 33 (1.66%) SAP
11 31 (1.56%) Facebook
12 25 (1.26%) Micro Focus
12 25 (1.26%) VMware
13 23 (1.16%) ServiceNow
14 20 (1.01%) Atlassian
15 18 (0.91%) Salesforce
16 17 (0.86%) Cisco
16 17 (0.86%) Fortinet
17 13 (0.66%) Adobe
18 12 (0.60%) NetApp