Agile Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Agile Software Development
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Agile skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 356 246 567
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 12.71% 22.02% 20.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.36% 23.14% 23.47%
Number of salaries quoted 216 158 441
10th Percentile £43,522 £42,500 £42,147
25th Percentile £53,813 £47,231 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £70,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% +17.54% -4.71%
75th Percentile £81,563 £93,771 £76,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,474 £91,934
Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £66,367 £57,965
% change year-on-year -5.83% +14.50% -3.39%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,051 1,063 2,416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 73.22% 95.17% 86.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,384 685 1,869
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,313 £28,000
25th Percentile £39,938 £36,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £69,914
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £84,964
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Agile job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Agile
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Agile.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Agile

Agile
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 7 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Agile in West Yorkshire

Agile
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 7 April 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
Leeds -2 315 £65,000 -3.70% 99
Bradford -12 13 £72,500 - 5
Elland - 6 £32,500 - 2
Huddersfield -8 3 £51,500 -10.43% 6
Ossett - 3 - -
Wakefield -7 2 £42,500 -33.33% 4
Pudsey - 2 - -
Brighouse - 2 £42,500 - 1
Dewsbury - 2 - -
Halifax 0 1 - - 1
Pontefract - 1 - -
Batley - 1 - -
Bingley - 1 - -
Agile
Yorkshire

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (2.81%) OpenStack
2 5 (1.40%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.12%) Apache
3 4 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.84%) Confluence
4 3 (0.84%) JBoss
4 3 (0.84%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.28%) CMS
5 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.56%) Sketch
5 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (3.93%) SAP ERP
2 7 (1.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.56%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 151 (42.42%) AWS
2 95 (26.69%) Serverless
3 79 (22.19%) Azure
4 64 (17.98%) Amazon S3
5 62 (17.42%) AWS Lambda
6 54 (15.17%) Amazon ECS
7 48 (13.48%) AWS Step Functions
8 47 (13.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 39 (10.96%) Amazon SQS
10 36 (10.11%) Amazon ECR
10 36 (10.11%) Apigee
11 30 (8.43%) SaaS
12 29 (8.15%) GitHub
13 17 (4.78%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (4.78%) GCP
14 14 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (3.37%) Power Platform
17 11 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (3.09%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 33 (9.27%) Broadband
2 2 (0.56%) DNS
2 2 (0.56%) HTTP
3 1 (0.28%) SSL
3 1 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (16.01%) DynamoDB
2 32 (8.99%) SQL Server
3 23 (6.46%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (6.18%) NoSQL
5 15 (4.21%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.53%) Metadata
7 8 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.97%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.40%) BusinessObjects
10 5 (1.40%) MySQL
10 5 (1.40%) Tableau
11 4 (1.12%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.12%) Power BI
12 3 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.84%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.56%) Amazon QuickSight
13 2 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.56%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.56%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 57 (16.01%) Jenkins
2 54 (15.17%) GitLab
3 39 (10.96%) SonarQube
4 37 (10.39%) Cypress.io
5 36 (10.11%) Maven
6 35 (9.83%) Git
7 14 (3.93%) JIRA
8 8 (2.25%) Selenium
9 7 (1.97%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.84%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.84%) JUnit
11 2 (0.56%) Postman
12 1 (0.28%) Gatling
12 1 (0.28%) JMeter
12 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
General
1 105 (29.49%) Social Skills
2 59 (16.57%) Finance
3 44 (12.36%) Public Sector
4 42 (11.80%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (9.83%) Games
6 19 (5.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.37%) Retail
8 11 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (2.81%) Marketing
10 5 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.12%) Advertising
12 3 (0.84%) Agriculture
12 3 (0.84%) Automotive
12 3 (0.84%) Banking
12 3 (0.84%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.56%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.56%) Legal
14 1 (0.28%) Digital Health
14 1 (0.28%) Law
Job Titles
1 114 (32.02%) Developer
2 74 (20.79%) Senior
3 60 (16.85%) Lead
4 45 (12.64%) Java Developer
5 27 (7.58%) Analyst
6 25 (7.02%) Python Developer
7 22 (6.18%) Full-Stack Developer
8 21 (5.90%) Software Engineer
9 20 (5.62%) Business Analyst
9 20 (5.62%) Development Manager
10 18 (5.06%) Senior Developer
10 18 (5.06%) Software Manager
11 16 (4.49%) Senior Manager
11 16 (4.49%) Software Development Manager
11 16 (4.49%) Technical Leader
12 15 (4.21%) AWS Developer
13 14 (3.93%) .NET Development Manager
14 13 (3.65%) Delivery Manager
14 13 (3.65%) Engineering Manager
15 12 (3.37%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (19.10%) React
2 51 (14.33%) AngularJS
3 50 (14.04%) Spring Boot
4 36 (10.11%) Gherkin
4 36 (10.11%) Jest
5 35 (9.83%) .NET
6 30 (8.43%) Vue
7 29 (8.15%) REST
8 26 (7.30%) Node.js
9 25 (7.02%) HTML
10 24 (6.74%) CSS
11 22 (6.18%) Flask
12 21 (5.90%) Spring
13 18 (5.06%) RESTful
14 17 (4.78%) GraphQL
15 16 (4.49%) Django
16 15 (4.21%) .NET Core
16 15 (4.21%) ASP.NET
16 15 (4.21%) Elastic Stack
16 15 (4.21%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.27%) Mobile App
2 29 (8.15%) Cloud Native
3 26 (7.30%) Data Structures
4 23 (6.46%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (5.90%) Onboarding
6 19 (5.34%) Product Ownership
7 15 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (4.21%) Social Media
8 11 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.97%) Legacy Applications
9 7 (1.97%) NHS
10 5 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.40%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.12%) PKI
12 3 (0.84%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.84%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.56%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 32 (8.99%) Android
2 21 (5.90%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.84%) Linux
4 1 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (43.82%) CI/CD
2 114 (32.02%) Mentoring
3 102 (28.65%) DevOps
4 89 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 82 (23.03%) Continuous Improvement
6 61 (17.13%) SDLC
7 58 (16.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 53 (14.89%) Software Engineering
9 48 (13.48%) Coaching
10 47 (13.20%) Infrastructure as Code
10 47 (13.20%) Microservices
11 46 (12.92%) Project Management
12 44 (12.36%) AI
13 43 (12.08%) Decision-Making
14 42 (11.80%) Full-Stack Development
15 41 (11.52%) Observability
16 40 (11.24%) Roadmaps
16 40 (11.24%) Waterfall
17 38 (10.67%) Design Patterns
18 37 (10.39%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 86 (24.16%) Java
2 64 (17.98%) JavaScript
3 62 (17.42%) TypeScript
4 59 (16.57%) SQL
5 46 (12.92%) Python
6 38 (10.67%) Groovy
7 36 (10.11%) C#
8 35 (9.83%) Bash
9 14 (3.93%) Kotlin
10 7 (1.97%) PHP
11 4 (1.12%) Go
11 4 (1.12%) VBA
12 2 (0.56%) COBOL
12 2 (0.56%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.56%) R
13 1 (0.28%) ABAP
13 1 (0.28%) Perl
13 1 (0.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 47 (13.20%) AWS Certification
2 23 (6.46%) Degree
2 23 (6.46%) ITIL Certification
3 22 (6.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 20 (5.62%) AWS Certified Developer
5 19 (5.34%) Security Cleared
6 18 (5.06%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.97%) IIBA
8 6 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.12%) CBAP
9 4 (1.12%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.56%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.56%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.56%) PMP
12 1 (0.28%) CIPD
12 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.27%) Accessibility
2 29 (8.15%) QA
3 20 (5.62%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.97%) GDPR
5 6 (1.69%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.84%) PMO
8 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.56%) GRC
8 2 (0.56%) NIST
8 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.28%) P3O
9 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 89 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 59 (16.57%) Terraform
2 36 (10.11%) HP Fortify
3 24 (6.74%) Kubernetes
4 15 (4.21%) Ansible
5 6 (1.69%) Grafana
5 6 (1.69%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.84%) Packer
7 2 (0.56%) Kibana
8 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (7.30%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.74%) SAP
3 7 (1.97%) Databricks
4 5 (1.40%) AppDynamics
4 5 (1.40%) IBM
5 4 (1.12%) Google
6 3 (0.84%) Oracle
6 3 (0.84%) Pega
6 3 (0.84%) TOWER Software
6 3 (0.84%) WSO2
7 2 (0.56%) Adobe
7 2 (0.56%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.28%) Foundry
8 1 (0.28%) Informatica
8 1 (0.28%) New Relic
8 1 (0.28%) Nintex
8 1 (0.28%) Palantir