Agile Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Agile Software Development
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Agile skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 4 8
Rank change year-on-year -19 +4 -7
Permanent jobs citing Agile 37 93 85
As % of all permanent jobs in South Yorkshire 6.03% 15.92% 15.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.96% 18.20% 17.75%
Number of salaries quoted 35 41 69
10th Percentile £30,000 £40,988 £41,014
25th Percentile £44,972 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.51% +0.81%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,772 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,253 £81,250 £79,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £57,100 £60,125
% change year-on-year +9.46% -5.03% -2.24%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 465 511 479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 75.73% 87.50% 88.54%
Number of salaries quoted 339 204 393
10th Percentile £26,500 £35,075 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £35,623
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £60,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +26.32% -
75th Percentile £58,125 £75,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,791 £82,500 £71,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.34%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Agile relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Agile job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Agile
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Agile.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Agile

Agile
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Agile in South Yorkshire

Agile
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Sheffield -14 34 £55,000 -7.15% 29
Doncaster -9 1 £45,000 - 1
Agile
Yorkshire

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 13 (35.14%) Azure
2 9 (24.32%) SaaS
3 3 (8.11%) AWS
3 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.11%) GitHub
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.70%) IaaS
4 1 (2.70%) PaaS
4 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) Data Lake
1 4 (10.81%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (8.11%) MySQL
2 3 (8.11%) Relational Database
2 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Git
2 2 (5.41%) GitLab
2 2 (5.41%) JIRA
General
1 14 (37.84%) Finance
2 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Electronics
3 5 (13.51%) Manufacturing
4 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.41%) Law
5 2 (5.41%) Marketing
6 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (16.22%) Developer
1 6 (16.22%) Senior
2 5 (13.51%) Design Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Electronics Design Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Electronics Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Embedded Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Embedded Software Design Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Lead
2 5 (13.51%) Software Design Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Graduate
3 4 (10.81%) Graduate Developer
4 3 (8.11%) .NET Software Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Business Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) IT Graduate
4 3 (8.11%) Product Manager
4 3 (8.11%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) C# Software Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Head of Software Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) .NET
1 7 (18.92%) CSS
2 6 (16.22%) ASP.NET
3 5 (13.51%) Node.js
4 4 (10.81%) HTML
5 3 (8.11%) .NET Core
5 3 (8.11%) AngularJS
5 3 (8.11%) CSS3
5 3 (8.11%) HTML5
5 3 (8.11%) jQuery
5 3 (8.11%) Sass
6 2 (5.41%) Bootstrap
6 2 (5.41%) React
6 2 (5.41%) Redux
7 1 (2.70%) Middleware
7 1 (2.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Product Ownership
2 5 (13.51%) Analogue Electronics
2 5 (13.51%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (5.41%) Robotics
4 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.70%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (35.14%) Coaching
1 13 (35.14%) Mentoring
2 9 (24.32%) Roadmaps
3 8 (21.62%) SDLC
4 7 (18.92%) Software Engineering
5 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (13.51%) Product Strategy
7 4 (10.81%) AI
7 4 (10.81%) Computer Science
7 4 (10.81%) Data Engineering
7 4 (10.81%) DevOps
7 4 (10.81%) ETL
7 4 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (8.11%) Data Science
8 3 (8.11%) Decision-Making
8 3 (8.11%) Product Roadmap
8 3 (8.11%) Project Delivery
8 3 (8.11%) Sprint Planning
8 3 (8.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 11 (29.73%) SQL
2 8 (21.62%) C#
2 8 (21.62%) C++
3 5 (13.51%) C
3 5 (13.51%) Embedded C
3 5 (13.51%) Embedded C++
4 4 (10.81%) PHP
5 3 (8.11%) Java
5 3 (8.11%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.41%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (8.11%) Degree
2 1 (2.70%) DBS Check
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.41%) QA
3 1 (2.70%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.70%) COBIT
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) Embedded Firmware
1 5 (13.51%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) Databricks
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft