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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 12 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 -5 -6
Permanent jobs citing Agile 255 180 269
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 6.18% 11.40% 13.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.81% 12.52% 17.40%
Number of salaries quoted 173 129 130
10th Percentile £42,750 £41,074 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - +12.14% -14.13%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £89,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £62,617 £57,560
% change year-on-year -4.18% +8.79% -11.45%

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 2,896 1,438 1,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 70.21% 91.07% 77.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,184 759 852
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,850 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -0.08%
75th Percentile £74,985 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -0.47%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -8 227 £65,000 - 40
Bradford -5 15 £70,148 +3.92% 2
Wakefield +1 10 £57,500 +5.50%
Huddersfield -9 1 £52,500 +40.00%
Wetherby - 1 £35,000 - 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 6 (2.35%) Confluence
1 6 (2.35%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.96%) CMS
3 3 (1.18%) IIS
3 3 (1.18%) nginx
4 2 (0.78%) WordPress
5 1 (0.39%) Apache
5 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.78%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.78%) Revit
3 2 (0.78%) Trello
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (3.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.18%) Shopify
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 85 (33.33%) AWS
2 67 (26.27%) Azure
3 29 (11.37%) Serverless
4 24 (9.41%) Amazon S3
5 23 (9.02%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (7.06%) Amazon ECS
7 18 (7.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (7.06%) GitHub
8 17 (6.67%) GCP
9 16 (6.27%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (5.10%) AWS Step Functions
11 11 (4.31%) Amazon ECR
11 11 (4.31%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (4.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 11 (4.31%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (3.92%) SaaS
13 9 (3.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (3.53%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (3.14%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.96%) Network Security
2 4 (1.57%) DNS
2 4 (1.57%) Internet
3 3 (1.18%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.78%) BIG-IP
4 2 (0.78%) CTI
4 2 (0.78%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (0.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (0.78%) Firewall
4 2 (0.78%) HTTP
4 2 (0.78%) Profibus
4 2 (0.78%) VoIP
4 2 (0.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 14 (5.49%) MongoDB
3 13 (5.10%) DynamoDB
4 10 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (3.92%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (3.14%) BigQuery
7 7 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (1.96%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.96%) MySQL
9 4 (1.57%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.18%) Metadata
10 3 (1.18%) Power BI
10 3 (1.18%) Redis
10 3 (1.18%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.78%) Big Data
11 2 (0.78%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 26 (10.20%) GitLab
2 23 (9.02%) JIRA
3 22 (8.63%) Jenkins
4 17 (6.67%) Cypress.io
5 11 (4.31%) Git
6 9 (3.53%) Maven
7 8 (3.14%) SonarQube
8 7 (2.75%) JMeter
9 5 (1.96%) Postman
10 4 (1.57%) Selenium
11 3 (1.18%) Appium
11 3 (1.18%) Claude Code
11 3 (1.18%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.78%) Ranorex
13 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.39%) Zephyr
General
1 62 (24.31%) Public Sector
1 62 (24.31%) Social Skills
2 44 (17.25%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (14.51%) Finance
4 14 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (4.71%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (3.53%) Advertising
6 9 (3.53%) Banking
7 5 (1.96%) Legal
7 5 (1.96%) Retail
8 4 (1.57%) Back Office
8 4 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.18%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.78%) Marketing
10 2 (0.78%) Publishing
10 2 (0.78%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.39%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.39%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 72 (28.24%) Senior
2 58 (22.75%) Developer
3 46 (18.04%) Lead
4 33 (12.94%) Analyst
5 30 (11.76%) Business Analyst
6 24 (9.41%) Software Engineer
7 17 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
8 16 (6.27%) Java Developer
8 16 (6.27%) Senior Developer
9 15 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
10 13 (5.10%) .NET Developer
10 13 (5.10%) Architect
11 11 (4.31%) Delivery Manager
11 11 (4.31%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (3.92%) Python Developer
13 9 (3.53%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 9 (3.53%) Data Engineer
13 9 (3.53%) Senior Manager
13 9 (3.53%) Technical Architect
13 9 (3.53%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.94%) .NET
2 27 (10.59%) Node.js
2 27 (10.59%) React
3 24 (9.41%) AngularJS
4 17 (6.67%) RESTful
4 17 (6.67%) Spring Boot
5 16 (6.27%) Terraform
6 15 (5.88%) ASP.NET
6 15 (5.88%) ASP.NET Core
7 13 (5.10%) .NET Core
7 13 (5.10%) Gherkin
8 12 (4.71%) CSS
8 12 (4.71%) Playwright
9 11 (4.31%) HTML
9 11 (4.31%) REST
9 11 (4.31%) Spring
10 10 (3.92%) Jest
11 9 (3.53%) Blazor
11 9 (3.53%) Entity Framework
12 8 (3.14%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.06%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (2.75%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (2.35%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.96%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.96%) Driving Licence
6 5 (1.96%) NHS
7 4 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.57%) Learning Management System
7 4 (1.57%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.18%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.78%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.78%) PMI
9 2 (0.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.92%) Linux
2 8 (3.14%) Unix
3 7 (2.75%) Windows
4 1 (0.39%) Android
4 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (29.02%) CI/CD
2 65 (25.49%) Continuous Improvement
2 65 (25.49%) DevOps
3 64 (25.10%) Mentoring
4 52 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (20.00%) Coaching
6 45 (17.65%) Scrum
6 45 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
7 41 (16.08%) Software Engineering
8 38 (14.90%) Full-Stack Development
9 35 (13.73%) AI
9 35 (13.73%) Test Automation
10 31 (12.16%) Microservices
11 30 (11.76%) SDLC
12 29 (11.37%) Technical Leadership
13 26 (10.20%) Acceptance Criteria
13 26 (10.20%) Kanban
14 24 (9.41%) Roadmaps
14 24 (9.41%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 23 (9.02%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 48 (18.82%) SQL
2 41 (16.08%) Java
2 41 (16.08%) JavaScript
3 37 (14.51%) Python
3 37 (14.51%) TypeScript
4 36 (14.12%) C#
5 13 (5.10%) Bash
6 11 (4.31%) Groovy
7 7 (2.75%) Scala
8 6 (2.35%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.35%) PHP
9 3 (1.18%) C++
9 3 (1.18%) Ruby
10 2 (0.78%) ActionScript
10 2 (0.78%) Ladder Logic
11 1 (0.39%) Bicep
11 1 (0.39%) R
11 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (7.45%) Security Cleared
2 16 (6.27%) Degree
2 16 (6.27%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.53%) AWS Certification
4 8 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 7 (2.75%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (1.96%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.96%) PMP
7 4 (1.57%) Chartered Engineer
8 3 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.78%) APMP
9 2 (0.78%) CAPM
9 2 (0.78%) PgMP
10 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.39%) CSPO
10 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.41%) QA
2 14 (5.49%) Accessibility
2 14 (5.49%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.96%) WCAG
4 4 (1.57%) PMO
5 2 (0.78%) IEC 61131
5 2 (0.78%) ISO 19650
6 1 (0.39%) GRC
System Software
1 23 (9.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (4.31%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.14%) HP Fortify
3 3 (1.18%) Ansible
3 3 (1.18%) Grafana
3 3 (1.18%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.78%) Argo
4 2 (0.78%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 42 (16.47%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.10%) SAP
3 6 (2.35%) Databricks
4 5 (1.96%) Google
4 5 (1.96%) Oracle
4 5 (1.96%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.57%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.18%) Adobe
6 3 (1.18%) TOWER Software
7 2 (0.78%) Allen-Bradley
7 2 (0.78%) Avaya
7 2 (0.78%) Cisco
7 2 (0.78%) F5
7 2 (0.78%) Genesys
7 2 (0.78%) Informatica
7 2 (0.78%) Pega
7 2 (0.78%) Siemens
8 1 (0.39%) Foundry
8 1 (0.39%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud