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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 10 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 -7
Permanent jobs citing Agile 306 199 383
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 8.16% 13.00% 14.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.87% 14.08% 17.81%
Number of salaries quoted 207 137 255
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £40,988
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £75,625 £82,500 £72,212
90th Percentile £93,634 £98,474 £86,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% -4.17%

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 2,577 1,413 2,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 68.74% 92.29% 79.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,977 812 1,545
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,750 £69,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.90%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -4 260 £62,788 -3.40% 85
Bradford -10 14 £75,000 +3.45% 4
Wakefield -3 9 £57,500 +21.05% 3
Elland - 7 £32,500 -
Huddersfield -7 3 £51,500 +37.33% 1
Ossett - 3 - -
Brighouse - 2 £42,500 -
Dewsbury - 2 - -
Pudsey - 2 - -
Pontefract +5 1 - -
Halifax -6 1 - - 2
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 4 (1.31%) CMS
1 4 (1.31%) Confluence
1 4 (1.31%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.98%) IIS
2 3 (0.98%) JBoss
3 2 (0.65%) Apache
3 2 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.65%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.98%) Trello
3 2 (0.65%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.65%) Sketch
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 85 (27.78%) AWS
2 73 (23.86%) Azure
3 43 (14.05%) Serverless
4 35 (11.44%) AWS Lambda
5 29 (9.48%) Amazon ECS
5 29 (9.48%) Amazon S3
6 26 (8.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (7.52%) AWS Step Functions
8 22 (7.19%) Amazon ECR
8 22 (7.19%) Apigee
9 18 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
9 18 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (4.90%) GCP
11 12 (3.92%) GitHub
11 12 (3.92%) Power Platform
12 10 (3.27%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (2.94%) SaaS
14 8 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (10.78%) Broadband
2 4 (1.31%) HTTP
2 4 (1.31%) Internet
3 2 (0.65%) CTI
3 2 (0.65%) DNS
3 2 (0.65%) VoIP
3 2 (0.65%) VPN
4 1 (0.33%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.52%) DynamoDB
2 17 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 12 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (3.27%) BigQuery
5 9 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (2.94%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.61%) MySQL
6 8 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (1.96%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.63%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.31%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.31%) Power BI
9 4 (1.31%) Tableau
10 3 (0.98%) Redis
11 2 (0.65%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.65%) Big Data
11 2 (0.65%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 39 (12.75%) GitLab
2 38 (12.42%) Jenkins
3 26 (8.50%) Cypress.io
4 25 (8.17%) SonarQube
5 23 (7.52%) JIRA
5 23 (7.52%) Maven
6 17 (5.56%) Git
7 6 (1.96%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.96%) Selenium
8 3 (0.98%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.98%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.65%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.65%) JUnit
9 2 (0.65%) Postman
10 1 (0.33%) Gatling
10 1 (0.33%) JMeter
10 1 (0.33%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 71 (23.20%) Social Skills
2 58 (18.95%) Finance
3 49 (16.01%) Public Sector
4 34 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (10.78%) Games
6 28 (9.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.63%) Advertising
9 5 (1.63%) Agriculture
9 5 (1.63%) Automotive
9 5 (1.63%) Retail
10 4 (1.31%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.31%) Marketing
11 3 (0.98%) Banking
12 2 (0.65%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.65%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.65%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.33%) Back Office
13 1 (0.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 97 (31.70%) Developer
2 71 (23.20%) Senior
3 55 (17.97%) Lead
4 32 (10.46%) Analyst
5 31 (10.13%) Java Developer
6 27 (8.82%) Business Analyst
7 25 (8.17%) Full-Stack Developer
8 22 (7.19%) Software Engineer
9 20 (6.54%) Python Developer
10 16 (5.23%) Senior Manager
11 15 (4.90%) Engineering Manager
12 14 (4.58%) Senior Developer
13 13 (4.25%) .NET Developer
13 13 (4.25%) Technical Leader
14 12 (3.92%) Full-Stack Python Developer
15 11 (3.59%) DevOps Engineer
16 10 (3.27%) Delivery Manager
16 10 (3.27%) Project Manager
16 10 (3.27%) Senior Analyst
16 10 (3.27%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (14.71%) React
2 43 (14.05%) AngularJS
3 26 (8.50%) Spring Boot
4 24 (7.84%) Jest
4 24 (7.84%) Vue
5 23 (7.52%) .NET
5 23 (7.52%) Node.js
6 22 (7.19%) Gherkin
7 18 (5.88%) ASP.NET
8 17 (5.56%) ASP.NET Core
9 16 (5.23%) CSS
9 16 (5.23%) HTML
9 16 (5.23%) RESTful
10 15 (4.90%) REST
11 13 (4.25%) GraphQL
12 12 (3.92%) .NET Core
13 11 (3.59%) Android SDK
13 11 (3.59%) Flask
14 10 (3.27%) Entity Framework
15 7 (2.29%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.78%) Mobile App
2 23 (7.52%) Onboarding
3 21 (6.86%) Product Ownership
4 14 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (3.92%) Cloud Native
5 12 (3.92%) Social Media
6 10 (3.27%) Data Structures
6 10 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.94%) NHS
8 5 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.31%) Learning Management System
9 4 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.31%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.31%) Media Streaming
10 3 (0.98%) Driving Licence
10 3 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.98%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.46%) Android
2 21 (6.86%) Apple iOS
3 11 (3.59%) Linux
4 7 (2.29%) Windows
5 6 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (33.66%) CI/CD
2 99 (32.35%) Mentoring
3 69 (22.55%) DevOps
4 62 (20.26%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (19.93%) AI
6 53 (17.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 50 (16.34%) Roadmaps
8 49 (16.01%) Coaching
9 47 (15.36%) Full-Stack Development
10 45 (14.71%) Scrum
11 42 (13.73%) Project Management
12 41 (13.40%) Technical Leadership
13 40 (13.07%) Decision-Making
14 39 (12.75%) SDLC
15 36 (11.76%) Software Engineering
15 36 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
16 34 (11.11%) Observability
17 29 (9.48%) Acceptance Criteria
17 29 (9.48%) Test Automation
18 28 (9.15%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 70 (22.88%) Java
2 54 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 53 (17.32%) SQL
4 51 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 48 (15.69%) Python
6 42 (13.73%) C#
7 28 (9.15%) Groovy
8 24 (7.84%) Bash
9 14 (4.58%) Kotlin
10 10 (3.27%) PHP
11 6 (1.96%) Scala
12 3 (0.98%) Go
12 3 (0.98%) Ruby
13 2 (0.65%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.65%) VBA
14 1 (0.33%) Bicep
14 1 (0.33%) Ladder Logic
14 1 (0.33%) Perl
14 1 (0.33%) R
14 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (9.15%) Degree
2 23 (7.52%) AWS Certification
3 20 (6.54%) Security Cleared
4 17 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 17 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
4 17 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 10 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.29%) PMI Certification
7 6 (1.96%) PMP
8 5 (1.63%) IIBA
9 4 (1.31%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.31%) CBAP
10 3 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.65%) APMP
11 2 (0.65%) CAPM
11 2 (0.65%) Chartered Engineer
11 2 (0.65%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.65%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.44%) Accessibility
2 24 (7.84%) QA
3 21 (6.86%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.63%) PMO
5 2 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.65%) GDPR
5 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.65%) WCAG
6 1 (0.33%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 37 (12.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (7.19%) HP Fortify
2 21 (6.86%) Terraform
3 14 (4.58%) Kubernetes
4 6 (1.96%) Ansible
5 3 (0.98%) Argo
5 3 (0.98%) Packer
6 2 (0.65%) Kibana
6 2 (0.65%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 36 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.59%) SAP
3 7 (2.29%) ServiceNow
4 6 (1.96%) Databricks
4 6 (1.96%) TOWER Software
5 5 (1.63%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.63%) IBM
6 4 (1.31%) Oracle
7 2 (0.65%) Avaya
7 2 (0.65%) Cisco
7 2 (0.65%) Foundry
7 2 (0.65%) Genesys
7 2 (0.65%) Google
7 2 (0.65%) Pega
7 2 (0.65%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.33%) Allen-Bradley
8 1 (0.33%) Informatica
8 1 (0.33%) Nintex
8 1 (0.33%) Palantir
8 1 (0.33%) Progress