Best Magento agencies in Manchester in 2026

Start with what this entry does not have, because on a Manchester page it is the first thing worth knowing. It publishes no Manchester street address and no UK company number, so it scores nothing at all on the fourth criterion, a North West street address, which is worth 15 points and which six of the eight agencies below take most or all of. What it publishes instead is a UK team working GMT and BST hours, with a named key account manager who stays with the account through scoping, build and launch. If having the people who touch your store in the same building matters to you, this is the entry that cannot offer it, and the ranking below exists precisely so you can weigh that yourself.

The credentials behind the rest of the score are published and checkable. It states Adobe Gold Partner on its Adobe Commerce development page, which takes 13 of 16 on the tier ladder rather than the full line, because the ladder runs to Platinum and nobody on this page names Platinum. Adobe's directory also carries a Gold Partner listing, printed here as corroboration that earns no points, because the eight agencies below were never looked up there. The same page states 894+ Adobe certifications, 2,100+ eCommerce projects for 700+ brands, more than $4 billion processed for clients each year and a 95 NPS rating, across 600+ specialists and 23+ years of Magento work. For procurement teams that screen on compliance first, it is certified to ISO 9001, ISO 27001 and ISO 27017 and is PCI DSS compliant.

On the criterion that carries the most weight it has the one thing this lane is short of: a named Manchester client with numbers attached. Its case study for Classic Football Shirts, which its own page describes as a Manchester store carrying more than 22,000 SKUs of classic and vintage football shirts, reports a Page Speed performance score improved by 2.5x after a Hyva implementation across the whole website and a Magento upgrade from 2.4.0 to 2.4.4-p2, with First Input Delay improved 350%, Interaction to Next Paint 45% and Largest Contentful Paint 15%. That matters here because seven of the eight agencies below publish no client location on any case study at all, so a Manchester buyer cannot tell from their sites whether they have ever delivered for a northern brand.

It is a Hyva Platinum Partner, and that is the one claim in this entry confirmed at the source rather than taken from a website: it appears five times in Hyva's own 460 listing register, at Platinum every time, and it is the only Platinum tier in this set. It also publishes Magento 2 migration as a separate practice rather than a line in a services list, which is the shape most work in this lane actually takes, a live store on an ageing build with a date it has to be done by.

On Magento support it publishes a first response within 24 hours, with issues triaged by severity and showstoppers taken first, and states 450+ active support clients and 9,000+ support tickets handled. That is 11 of 14 rather than the full line, and it is beaten outright on this page: no cover window is published, while Interjar publishes a four tier priority table running from a 15 minute response on a critical ticket down to a same day acknowledgement on scheduled work, with the hours that cover sits inside. If a contractual response clock is what decides your shortlist, Interjar has the better published terms, and this page says so rather than burying it.

So the honest reading of 77 is this. It takes the certification line in full on a published count, which only one agency below matches, and the Hyva line in full on a tier nobody below holds. It does not take the Adobe line, the support line, or the client work line in full, and it takes nothing whatsoever on the geography line that gives this page its name. Move 15 points from certifications and Hyva onto a local address and the top of this table changes, which is exactly why every score is printed and not only the rank.

On its own site, Aware Digital states it is a Hyva Gold partner, in two forms on one page: "We're proud to be Gold partners with Hyva Themes" and "As expert Hyva developers and a Hyva Gold Partner Agency", both on its Hyva service page. Hyva's own register agrees, listing it at Gold, so this is one of only two Gold tiers in this set. Its portfolio is the strongest of the eight: every one of nine case studies opened for this edition names Adobe Commerce or Magento and seven also name Hyva, which no other agency here comes close to. Its Audio-Technica case study reports a 671% increase in page speed and a 75% increase in page conversion with a launch in under six months, its Cutwel case study reports a 738% increase in mobile page speed and indexing time cut from 8 hours to 20 minutes across more than 80,000 products, its Ivel Valley case study reports a 68% boost in revenue with page load dropping from over 4 seconds to under 1.5, and its T-T Pumps case study reports mobile page speed up 525%. It also publishes a certification count, 10+ Adobe certifications, which makes it the only agency here other than scandiweb to attach a number to the word certified. Read the geography carefully, because it is the reason this entry is second rather than first. Its head office, its registered office and its only UK phone line are all in Stoke-on-Trent, which its address block abbreviates to S-O-T, and Stoke is not the North West. Its Manchester address, published under the heading Manchester office, carries no phone, no email, no staff and no descriptive copy on any page of the site, so it takes 5 of 15 on the address line. Its Adobe tier reads "Aware Digital is an Adobe Commerce Bronze Partner" on its about and services pages, while its dedicated Adobe Commerce page, its Magento hub and its partners index all state a partnership with no tier at all. Its team size is a trap worth naming: the only headcount on the site is a growth line reading from 2 people in 2018 to 15 by 2023/24, dated on its own careers page, so this edition treats current team size as not published. And it publishes no support terms of any kind across six support and hosting pages, which costs it the whole support line: the only 24/7 reference on its site describes Adobe's support rather than its own.

On its own site, Fluid Commerce states that its "recognition as a Hyva Gold Partner reflects the number of client projects we have delivered", on exactly one page, its Hyva page, and nowhere else on the site. Hyva's register confirms Gold. Its Adobe tier reads "Our silver-level Adobe Solution Partner status includes specialisms in Magento Commerce Cloud", again on exactly one page, its partners page, while its own Adobe Commerce page names no tier. It says outright that it works with B2B and D2C companies such as suppliers, manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors, and the portfolio backs that: 16 projects of which 12 publish figures. Its Netceed UK case study describes a Hyva migration away from the legacy Luma theme and reports a 6.6% eCommerce revenue increase, a 21% rise in average order value and a 31% rise in sessions, with Lighthouse home page desktop performance at 94 up from 56 and mobile at 82 up from 48, and a named quote from Netceed's head of IT. Its Fletcher Stewart case study reports a 32.83% eCommerce revenue increase, a 22.6% rise in average order value, an 11% conversion rate increase and an 8.3% rise in order numbers in the first two months after launch, with product page Lighthouse scores moving from 49 to 99 on desktop and 12 to 95 on mobile. Its Stoves Are Us case study reports a Core Web Vitals performance score improved from 28 out of 100 to 99 out of 100 and page load cut from 3.5 seconds to 0.9, and carries a testimonial from Hyva's own VP of marketing and strategy, which is the strongest third party endorsement any agency on this page publishes. What costs it most is the address line, and it is an unusual failure: Fluid publishes four different Manchester addresses across its own pages. Its site wide footer gives a Manchester headquarters at 5th Floor, 19 Spring Gardens, M2 1FB on every page; the body of its contact page gives Colony Jactin House, 24 Hood St, M4 6WX; its master terms give a registered address at 18 Hilton Street, M1 1FR; and its about page timeline describes a 2023 move to Ancoats. Its own blog post dated April 2023 confirms Colony Jactin House as that Ancoats move, and no post anywhere on the site announces Spring Gardens. It publishes company number 07026218 in the footer but no VAT number, publishes no team size, no certification count, and no response time or cover hours on its support page or in its full master terms.

On its own site, CTI Digital describes itself as a Manchester-based digital and marketing agency and publishes two real North West street addresses on its contact page: South Central, 11 Peter Street, Manchester M2 5QR, and Storey House, White Cross Business Park, Lancaster LA1 4XQ. Both are named buildings, neither uses serviced office language, and it is the only agency in this set with a second North West address, which is why it takes the address line in full at 15 of 15. It publishes a team of 150+ specialists, with the Adobe delivery team stated separately as 30+ Adobe Magento developers and 15+ Adobe marketing consultants, and states that since 2008 it has designed, built, hosted and supported over 100 Adobe Commerce websites. Its Adobe tier is the strangest finding on this page. The tier word appears nowhere in visible text anywhere on the site: on its partners page the Adobe block's heading is simply Adobe Commerce, and the only evidence of a level is the logo image filename, which reads adobe_solution_partner_bronze-1.png. Its own dedicated Adobe Commerce page contains no tier and not even the word partner in its body copy, while the same partners page states Umbraco's tier in plain prose as a Platinum Contributing Partner, so CTI clearly states a tier when it chooses to. It is scored at Bronze on the badge, and Hyva's register independently lists it at Bronze too, a tier its site never mentions. The portfolio is wide and shallow on platform evidence: 50 case studies are published, and of ten opened for this edition only two name the platform. Its Rivet & Hide case study names a Magento 2 rebuild and reports revenue up 34.65% year on year, conversion rates up 25% and a 12 times return on ad spend, though the same page prints both 34.65% and 34.7% for that figure. Its Department of Health and Social Care case study states that Adobe Commerce was chosen for its scalability and quick deployment capabilities, and reports 8.75 billion items of PPE ordered, 96% user satisfaction and a six week migration. Little Greene is featured by CTI as one of its two Adobe Commerce success stories yet the case study itself never names a platform, and its Manchester case study, Bruntwood Works, is built on Umbraco rather than Adobe. On support it publishes only that its UK-based support team is available 24/7/365, with no response time, no triage model, no priority levels and no prices, and its own hosting and support page names Umbraco, Drupal and AWS but not Adobe Commerce. It publishes company number 04884651 and VAT number GB823546431 on four pages, and no certification count: over 30 certified developers counts people rather than certifications.

On its own site, Actuate Digital states it started in 2014, works from 3b Tariff Street, Manchester, M1 2FF in the footer of every page, and carries three partner badges: Adobe Commerce Bronze Partner, Hyva Silver Partner and Shopify Select Partner. Hyva's register confirms Silver. It publishes twelve case studies, ten of which carry figures, and seven of those name Magento 2 with a Hyva frontend. Its Reliant case study reports a 141% increase in annual turnover, a 78% increase in conversion rate and a 17% increase in average order value, with eight weeks from receiving designs to a live Hyva site. Its Helmet City case study reports a 16% increase in conversion rate and four seconds shaved off page load time after a full Hyva rebuild. Its Skirting Board Shop case study reports a 51% increase in conversion rate, and its Be My Bear case study a 113% conversion rate uplift with a named client quote. It is also the only agency in this set to publish build prices: a new Magento 2 build from 36,000 pounds plus VAT, an Adobe Commerce site from 42,000 pounds plus VAT and a Hyva build from 46,000 pounds plus VAT, which is more useful at the shortlist stage than most of what the other eight publish. Two things hold it at 49. Its own privacy policy contradicts its footer and its terms page on where the company is registered, giving 1st Floor Swan Buildings, 20 Swan Street, M4 5JW, and a third address for its data protection officer in Chester, neither of which appears anywhere else on the site, which costs it on the address line. And it publishes no support terms at all: no response time, no cover hours, no triage and no escalation, checked on its dedicated maintenance and support page, which describes retainer shapes instead. It publishes no headcount, describing itself only as a small, specialist team in Manchester, and no certification count. Its North West page names Liverpool, Chester, Preston, Warrington, Bolton and Stockport, and publishes no address and no client in any of them. It publishes company number 12291125 and VAT number GB337351308, and won Best Small Digital Agency of the Year 2026 at the Northern Digital Awards.

On its own site, Interjar states it is an Adobe Silver Solution Partner and was founded in 2017, working from Regus House, Herons Way, Chester Business Park, Chester CH4 9QR. It publishes the best support terms on this page by a distance, and it beats scandiweb outright on that line. Its support page carries a four tier priority table: P1 critical, a 15 minute response with a 2 hour resolution target; P2 major, a 2 hour response with same business day resolution; P3 minor, a 4 hour response with 2 business day resolution; and P4 scheduled, a same day acknowledgement scheduled by sprint. Cover hours are stated as Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM GMT, with emergency support available around the clock for existing retainer clients, and its hosting page publishes a 99.95% uptime SLA. Pricing is a flat 100 pounds per hour, one rate for everyone, billed to the exact minute, with no minimum number of hours and a month to month contract at 30 days notice and no exit fees. Nobody else here publishes any of that. Two cautions. Its widely quoted promise to respond within 4 business hours is a sales enquiry commitment, not a support one, and appears only in new enquiry contexts, so do not read it as an SLA: the priority table is the real one. And its geography is thinner than it reads. It says it works with merchants in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Bristol and Edinburgh from its Chester base, but that is a coverage sentence with nothing behind it: there is no Manchester address, no Manchester phone line and no Manchester client anywhere on the site, and the single address it does publish is a Regus building, which its site presents under the plain heading Address without distinguishing a staffed office from a serviced one. It scores nothing on the Hyva line because it is absent from Hyva's register and its own Hyva page returns a 404. Its five case studies are uneven: Dinny Hall names an upgrade to Magento 2.4.8-p2 with 99.9% uptime through peak season, and Tieroom reports a 45% increase in conversions and 65% faster page load times, but two more name the client only in a small meta line rather than the heading or body, a fifth names no client at all, and its homepage cards do not match the studies they link to, attributing a 300% growth figure and a 99.9% uptime figure to pages that publish neither. It publishes company number 10801558 and VAT number GB270174911, and no certification count.

On its own site, PushON describes itself as a Manchester-based eCommerce agency and has done since 2008, works from 3rd Floor, Waulk Mill, Bengal St, Ancoats, Manchester M4 6LN, was founded in 2005, and has been working with Magento since 2008 and an Adobe Solution Partner since 2012. That is the longest continuous Magento record published by anyone on this page, and its 45+ experienced specialists is the largest Magento specific headcount in this set. It is also the only agency here that runs the local scene rather than just occupying it: its eCommerce Brunch Group meets at its own Bengal Street building and invites leaders to connect with like-minded leaders from across the North West, and it hosts Magento meetups at Northern Monk Refectory on Tariff Street. If your reason for hiring locally is the network rather than the postcode, that is a real and checkable difference. The most interesting finding about PushON is one it does not make itself. It runs a dedicated Hyva page and claims no Hyva partner status, no tier and no certification anywhere on its site, yet Hyva's own register lists it at Silver. It holds a tier it never mentions, and it is scored on the register like everyone else. Its Adobe claim runs the other way: it states Adobe Solution Partner status held since 2012 and no tier word, Bronze, Silver, Gold or Platinum, appears anywhere on the site, so it takes 4 of 16 on that line. Its Edinburgh presence has changed since it was last checked and the change is worth knowing: it now publishes a full Edinburgh address, that address is a WeWork on George Street, and the Edinburgh page itself carries only the Manchester phone line. Its registered address is a third Manchester location, on Blackfriars Street, separate from the Ancoats trading address. Of eight case studies, four publish figures: Russell Hobbs reports a 54% reduced bounce rate, 500% page consumption and a 52% improvement in page load speed, an anonymised pet retailer reports more than 2 million pounds of subscription revenue and 29,000+ subscriptions in five months on Adobe Commerce, and its strongest recent numbers, a 112% year on year revenue increase for P. Louise, are from a Shopify build rather than a Magento one. Only one of the eight publishes a client location. It publishes no support terms whatsoever across both of its support pages, the closest wording being that support tickets are typically resolved quickly, publishes no certification count and no VAT number, and publishes company number 05614768.

On its own site, VisionSharp states it was established in 2014, is a close-knit team of 7, and works from The Stables, Paradise Wharf, Ducie Street, Manchester. Its eCommerce sector page says it was established in 2014 and works with clients throughout Manchester and the North West, and unusually for this set it backs that up: it is the only agency here whose portfolio names North West client towns, with GGR Group in Oldham, Hello Oriental in Middleton, Musbury Fabrics in Rossendale and Astons of Manchester. For a buyer who wants comparable local references, that is worth more than the score suggests. What the score reflects is everything it does not publish. It claims no Adobe partner tier of any kind on any page, including its Magento hub and both Magento sub-pages, and there is no partners page in its 69 URL sitemap. The word Hyva does not appear once anywhere on the site, and it is absent from Hyva's register, so it scores nothing on either partner line, the only agency here to score nothing on both. Its four Magento case studies publish one number between them, a claim of website load times under 2 seconds on the GGR Group page with no baseline to compare it to, and none carries a client quote or a project date. The site also disagrees with itself in small ways that are worth noticing on a page about technical competence: its footer prints its own postcode without a space, its homepage carries a 12+ years experience tile beside body copy saying over 10 years, and figures attributed to its Eatlean client on the sector page do not appear on Eatlean's own case study. There is no privacy policy and no terms page: the privacy URL returns a 404 and neither appears in the sitemap, so company number 09443398 and VAT number 230420956 in the footer are the only registration detail published. On support it publishes no response time, no cover hours and no prices, stating only that problems are triaged by commercial impact and, explicitly deferring the rest, that response expectations and support hours are agreed in advance. Its footer also still carries a live COVID-19 notice saying the company is operating remotely, alongside a photo caption elsewhere describing its team in the Manchester office.

On its own site, Smartebusiness makes the boldest local claim on this page: that it is one of the oldest Magento agencies in Manchester and has completed dozens of complex site builds for a huge range of clients over the past 15 years. It works from Colony, Jactin House, 24 Hood Street, Ancoats Urban Village, Manchester M4 6WX, and that address is identical on every page including its privacy policy's registered address, which makes it the most internally consistent location in this set, though it is worth knowing that Colony Jactin House is a co-working building and that Fluid Commerce's contact page gives the same building as its own Manchester address. It publishes company number 05136667 and VAT number GB834651718, and names its owners, the brothers Ian and Mark Hammersley. Everything else is missing, and the gap is unusually wide. It claims no Adobe partner tier at all, anywhere: the word Adobe appears on its Magento page only as the bare product string Adobe Commerce and does not appear on its about page. It claims no Hyva tier and is absent from Hyva's register, naming Hyva only as a technology it uses. It publishes no founding year, only over 20 years in eCommerce and over 15 years in Magento with no year anchoring either, no team size, no certification count beyond a line saying its team hold all the relevant Magento certifications, and no phone line on any page. It publishes no support terms and has no support or maintenance page at all in its 18 URL sitemap. Most decisively for a criterion worth 24 points, not one of its nine case studies publishes a percentage or a hard performance figure: Brook Taverner, AGA Cookshop, Barriers Direct, GSF Car Parts, Aldridge Security, My Motor World and Hayloft Plants all name Magento, and the strongest quantified statement across all of them is a client's phrase about double digit growth year on year. Sixteen further clients appear as logos with no case study. It ranks last on what is missing rather than on what is there, and the fifteen year Manchester Magento record it claims may well be real: it simply is not evidenced anywhere a buyer can check.