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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 -7 -6
Permanent jobs citing Agile 253 171 279
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 6.10% 10.91% 13.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.74% 12.00% 17.40%
Number of salaries quoted 174 121 135
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,074 £41,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +7.82% -11.30%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,815
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,530
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.64% -11.49%

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 1,425 1,603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 69.78% 90.94% 77.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,187 735 886
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,550 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £42,303
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £74,985 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,065 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.61% -9.52% -0.94%

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 9 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 9 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 -5 226 £65,000 - 221
Bradford -9 14 £75,000 +15.38% 19
Wakefield +1 10 £57,500 +5.50% 8
Huddersfield -8 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 (2.37%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.98%) CMS
2 5 (1.98%) Confluence
3 3 (1.19%) IIS
3 3 (1.19%) nginx
4 2 (0.79%) WordPress
5 1 (0.40%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.79%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.79%) Revit
3 2 (0.79%) Trello
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (3.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.19%) Shopify
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.40%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 85 (33.60%) AWS
2 69 (27.27%) Azure
3 29 (11.46%) Serverless
4 24 (9.49%) Amazon S3
5 23 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (8.30%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (7.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (7.11%) Amazon ECS
9 17 (6.72%) GCP
9 17 (6.72%) GitHub
10 16 (6.32%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (5.14%) AWS Step Functions
12 11 (4.35%) Amazon ECR
12 11 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 11 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (4.35%) SaaS
13 9 (3.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (3.56%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (3.16%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.98%) Network Security
2 4 (1.58%) DNS
2 4 (1.58%) Internet
3 3 (1.19%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.79%) BIG-IP
4 2 (0.79%) CTI
4 2 (0.79%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (0.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (0.79%) Firewall
4 2 (0.79%) HTTP
4 2 (0.79%) Profibus
4 2 (0.79%) VoIP
4 2 (0.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.32%) SQL Server
2 15 (5.93%) MongoDB
3 13 (5.14%) DynamoDB
4 11 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (3.95%) Relational Database
6 9 (3.56%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (3.16%) BigQuery
8 7 (2.77%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (2.77%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.98%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.98%) MySQL
10 4 (1.58%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.19%) Metadata
11 3 (1.19%) Power BI
11 3 (1.19%) Redis
11 3 (1.19%) Spark SQL
12 2 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.79%) Big Data
12 2 (0.79%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 28 (11.07%) GitLab
2 22 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 21 (8.30%) JIRA
4 17 (6.72%) Cypress.io
5 11 (4.35%) Git
6 9 (3.56%) Maven
7 8 (3.16%) SonarQube
8 7 (2.77%) JMeter
9 5 (1.98%) Postman
10 4 (1.58%) Selenium
11 3 (1.19%) Appium
11 3 (1.19%) Claude Code
11 3 (1.19%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.79%) Ranorex
13 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.40%) Zephyr
General
1 62 (24.51%) Public Sector
1 62 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 43 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (14.23%) Finance
4 13 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (4.74%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (3.56%) Advertising
6 9 (3.56%) Banking
7 4 (1.58%) Back Office
7 4 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.58%) Legal
7 4 (1.58%) Retail
8 3 (1.19%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.19%) Marketing
9 2 (0.79%) Agriculture
9 2 (0.79%) Automotive
9 2 (0.79%) Publishing
9 2 (0.79%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.40%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (28.46%) Senior
2 61 (24.11%) Developer
3 44 (17.39%) Lead
4 33 (13.04%) Analyst
5 30 (11.86%) Business Analyst
6 24 (9.49%) Software Engineer
7 18 (7.11%) Full-Stack Developer
8 16 (6.32%) DevOps Engineer
8 16 (6.32%) Java Developer
9 15 (5.93%) Senior Developer
10 13 (5.14%) .NET Developer
10 13 (5.14%) Architect
11 12 (4.74%) Senior Software Engineer
12 11 (4.35%) Python Developer
13 9 (3.56%) Data Engineer
13 9 (3.56%) Technical Architect
13 9 (3.56%) Test Engineer
14 8 (3.16%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 8 (3.16%) Senior Manager
15 7 (2.77%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (13.04%) .NET
2 28 (11.07%) Node.js
2 28 (11.07%) React
3 25 (9.88%) AngularJS
4 18 (7.11%) Terraform
5 17 (6.72%) Spring Boot
6 16 (6.32%) ASP.NET
6 16 (6.32%) RESTful
7 15 (5.93%) ASP.NET Core
8 13 (5.14%) .NET Core
8 13 (5.14%) CSS
8 13 (5.14%) Gherkin
9 12 (4.74%) HTML
9 12 (4.74%) Playwright
10 11 (4.35%) REST
10 11 (4.35%) Spring
11 10 (3.95%) Jest
12 9 (3.56%) Blazor
12 9 (3.56%) Entity Framework
13 8 (3.16%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.51%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.72%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.77%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (2.77%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (2.37%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.98%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.98%) Driving Licence
5 5 (1.98%) NHS
6 4 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.58%) Learning Management System
6 4 (1.58%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.19%) Educational Technology
7 3 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.79%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.79%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.79%) Robotics
8 2 (0.79%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.35%) Linux
2 9 (3.56%) Unix
3 8 (3.16%) Windows
4 1 (0.40%) Android
4 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (29.64%) CI/CD
2 66 (26.09%) DevOps
2 66 (26.09%) Mentoring
3 61 (24.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 52 (20.55%) Coaching
5 50 (19.76%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (18.58%) Scrum
7 43 (17.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 41 (16.21%) Software Engineering
9 39 (15.42%) Full-Stack Development
10 34 (13.44%) AI
10 34 (13.44%) Test Automation
11 33 (13.04%) SDLC
12 32 (12.65%) Microservices
13 29 (11.46%) Technical Leadership
14 26 (10.28%) Acceptance Criteria
14 26 (10.28%) Kanban
15 25 (9.88%) Roadmaps
16 24 (9.49%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 22 (8.70%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 50 (19.76%) SQL
2 43 (17.00%) JavaScript
3 42 (16.60%) Java
4 39 (15.42%) C#
5 38 (15.02%) Python
5 38 (15.02%) TypeScript
6 13 (5.14%) Bash
7 11 (4.35%) Groovy
8 8 (3.16%) PHP
9 7 (2.77%) Scala
10 6 (2.37%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.19%) C++
11 3 (1.19%) Ruby
12 2 (0.79%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.79%) Ladder Logic
13 1 (0.40%) Bicep
13 1 (0.40%) R
13 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (7.11%) Security Cleared
2 16 (6.32%) Degree
3 15 (5.93%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.56%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 7 (2.77%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (1.98%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.98%) PMP
8 4 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.58%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (0.79%) APMP
9 2 (0.79%) CAPM
9 2 (0.79%) PgMP
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.40%) CSPO
10 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.49%) QA
2 14 (5.53%) Accessibility
2 14 (5.53%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.98%) WCAG
4 4 (1.58%) PMO
5 2 (0.79%) IEC 61131
5 2 (0.79%) ISO 19650
6 1 (0.40%) GRC
System Software
1 23 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (4.74%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.16%) HP Fortify
3 4 (1.58%) Ansible
4 3 (1.19%) Argo
4 3 (1.19%) Grafana
4 3 (1.19%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.79%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 40 (15.81%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.14%) SAP
3 6 (2.37%) Databricks
4 5 (1.98%) Google
4 5 (1.98%) Oracle
4 5 (1.98%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.19%) Adobe
5 3 (1.19%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.19%) TOWER Software
6 2 (0.79%) Allen-Bradley
6 2 (0.79%) Avaya
6 2 (0.79%) Cisco
6 2 (0.79%) F5
6 2 (0.79%) Genesys
6 2 (0.79%) Informatica
6 2 (0.79%) Pega
6 2 (0.79%) Siemens
7 1 (0.40%) Foundry
7 1 (0.40%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.40%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud