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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 4 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 222 292 754
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 13.94% 16.06% 37.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.87% 19.82% 38.95%
Number of salaries quoted 165 144 613
10th Percentile £41,074 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £46,985 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,733 £57,965 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% -14.13% +12.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,886 £82,797
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,250 £92,387
Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £57,560 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.58% -7.90% +4.17%

All Process and 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 1,399 1,473 1,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 87.82% 81.02% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 874 780 1,406
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,938 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,409
Median % change year-on-year - -2.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £73,938 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,175 £85,000 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £48,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.62% - -

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 -4 179 £62,500 +4.17% 66
Bradford +4 29 £72,500 +31.82% 8
Halifax +2 1 - - 2
Huddersfield -2 1 £37,500 -26.47% 4
Wakefield -7 1 £67,500 +98.53% 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 11 (4.95%) Confluence
2 7 (3.15%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.70%) Apache
4 4 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.35%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.90%) CMS
6 2 (0.90%) Drupal
6 2 (0.90%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.90%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.45%) FileNet
7 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.90%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (4.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.35%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.90%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.45%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 86 (38.74%) AWS
2 61 (27.48%) Azure
3 32 (14.41%) Serverless
4 25 (11.26%) SaaS
5 22 (9.91%) Amazon S3
6 21 (9.46%) GitHub
7 18 (8.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (8.11%) GCP
8 15 (6.76%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (6.76%) AWS Step Functions
9 12 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (4.05%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (4.05%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (3.15%) dbt
14 6 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (2.70%) Amazon ECR
14 6 (2.70%) Amazon EventBridge
14 6 (2.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.90%) AMQP
1 2 (0.90%) Firewall
2 1 (0.45%) BGP
2 1 (0.45%) DNS
2 1 (0.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.56%) DynamoDB
2 18 (8.11%) SQL Server
3 13 (5.86%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (5.41%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.05%) Data Lake
5 9 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.60%) Relational Database
7 7 (3.15%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (2.25%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (1.80%) Data Vault
9 4 (1.80%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.80%) Power BI
10 3 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.35%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (1.35%) Metadata
10 3 (1.35%) MySQL
10 3 (1.35%) Tableau
11 2 (0.90%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.90%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 19 (8.56%) Git
2 17 (7.66%) Jenkins
3 15 (6.76%) GitLab
4 13 (5.86%) JIRA
5 7 (3.15%) Cypress.io
6 6 (2.70%) Maven
6 6 (2.70%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.35%) Selenium
8 2 (0.90%) Grunt
8 2 (0.90%) gulp
8 2 (0.90%) Storybook
8 2 (0.90%) webpack
9 1 (0.45%) Appium
9 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.45%) Postman
9 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
General
1 78 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 43 (19.37%) Finance
3 30 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.66%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.31%) Retail
6 13 (5.86%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (5.41%) Legal
8 11 (4.95%) Marketing
9 6 (2.70%) Law
10 5 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.80%) Advertising
11 4 (1.80%) Banking
11 4 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.90%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.45%) Games
14 1 (0.45%) Local Government
14 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.45%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (21.62%) Senior
2 44 (19.82%) Developer
3 28 (12.61%) Lead
4 17 (7.66%) Analyst
5 16 (7.21%) Development Manager
6 13 (5.86%) Python Developer
7 12 (5.41%) Data Engineer
8 11 (4.95%) Business Analyst
8 11 (4.95%) Software Development Manager
8 11 (4.95%) Software Engineer
8 11 (4.95%) Software Manager
9 10 (4.50%) Architect
9 10 (4.50%) Consultant
10 9 (4.05%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (4.05%) Software Developer
11 8 (3.60%) Java Developer
11 8 (3.60%) Lead Developer
11 8 (3.60%) Project Manager
11 8 (3.60%) Senior Data Engineer
11 8 (3.60%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (18.92%) React
2 32 (14.41%) .NET
3 26 (11.71%) CSS
4 24 (10.81%) HTML
5 20 (9.01%) Node.js
6 18 (8.11%) REST
7 16 (7.21%) Django
7 16 (7.21%) FastAPI
7 16 (7.21%) Flask
8 15 (6.76%) RESTful
8 15 (6.76%) Spring Boot
9 14 (6.31%) AngularJS
10 13 (5.86%) ASP.NET
10 13 (5.86%) Spring
10 13 (5.86%) Vue
11 10 (4.50%) GraphQL
12 9 (4.05%) .NET Core
12 9 (4.05%) ASP.NET Core
12 9 (4.05%) Blazor
13 7 (3.15%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.16%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.66%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (7.66%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.05%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.70%) NHS
5 5 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.25%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (2.25%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.80%) Mainframe
6 4 (1.80%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.80%) Social Media
7 3 (1.35%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.90%) Graphic Design
8 2 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.45%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.90%) Linux
1 2 (0.90%) Mac OS
1 2 (0.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 66 (29.73%) DevOps
3 63 (28.38%) Mentoring
4 61 (27.48%) Continuous Improvement
5 52 (23.42%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (22.52%) Software Engineering
7 41 (18.47%) Infrastructure as Code
8 38 (17.12%) Stakeholder Management
9 32 (14.41%) Coaching
9 32 (14.41%) Scrum
10 31 (13.96%) Microservices
11 29 (13.06%) SDLC
12 28 (12.61%) Project Management
13 24 (10.81%) Decision-Making
13 24 (10.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 24 (10.81%) Waterfall
14 23 (10.36%) Project Delivery
15 21 (9.46%) Performance Optimisation
15 21 (9.46%) PRINCE2
16 19 (8.56%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 47 (21.17%) SQL
2 46 (20.72%) JavaScript
3 39 (17.57%) Python
4 27 (12.16%) TypeScript
5 23 (10.36%) C#
5 23 (10.36%) Java
6 8 (3.60%) Bash
7 6 (2.70%) PHP
8 5 (2.25%) Groovy
9 4 (1.80%) COBOL
10 3 (1.35%) ABAP
10 3 (1.35%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.90%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.90%) R
11 2 (0.90%) Scala
12 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.45%) Go
12 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (7.21%) Degree
2 14 (6.31%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.41%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.50%) AWS Certification
5 9 (4.05%) AWS Certified Developer
6 5 (2.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 4 (1.80%) ACCA
8 3 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.41%) QA
2 7 (3.15%) GDPR
3 6 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.25%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.25%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.80%) GAAP
5 4 (1.80%) IFRS
6 3 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.35%) PMO
7 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.90%) P3O
7 2 (0.90%) SLA
8 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.45%) GRC
8 1 (0.45%) NCSC
8 1 (0.45%) NIST
8 1 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (20.27%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) Squid
Systems Management
1 46 (20.72%) Terraform
2 19 (8.56%) Kubernetes
3 10 (4.50%) Ansible
4 7 (3.15%) Grafana
4 7 (3.15%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.70%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 19 (8.56%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.76%) SAP
3 9 (4.05%) Databricks
4 5 (2.25%) Oracle
5 3 (1.35%) Pega
5 3 (1.35%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.35%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.35%) WSO2
6 2 (0.90%) Adobe
6 2 (0.90%) Google
6 2 (0.90%) iManage
6 2 (0.90%) Intapp
6 2 (0.90%) New Relic
6 2 (0.90%) Nexthink
7 1 (0.45%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.45%) ESRI
7 1 (0.45%) IBM
7 1 (0.45%) Sage
7 1 (0.45%) TOWER Software