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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 -6
Permanent jobs citing Agile 291 202 322
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 7.11% 13.15% 13.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.42% 14.49% 16.74%
Number of salaries quoted 198 137 205
10th Percentile £38,914 £41,180 £39,234
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,673 £62,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.28% +10.62% -13.16%
75th Percentile £77,131 £78,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £93,634 £91,934 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £58,446 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.49% +8.70% -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 2,793 1,394 1,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 68.24% 90.76% 78.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,136 793 1,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +3.29% -3.18%
75th Percentile £74,059 £70,250 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.47% -5.00% -6.54%

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 August 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 August 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 -8 248 £65,000 +4.00% 90
Bradford -11 13 £75,000 +3.45% 4
Wakefield -3 9 £57,500 +5.50% 2
Elland - 7 £32,500 -
Huddersfield -8 3 £51,500 +37.33% 1
Ossett - 2 - -
Brighouse - 2 £42,500 -
Pontefract +2 1 - - 1
Halifax -4 1 - -
Dewsbury - 1 - -
Batley - 1 - -
Bingley - 1 - -
Wetherby - 1 £35,000 -
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 (2.06%) CMS
1 6 (2.06%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.72%) Confluence
3 3 (1.03%) IIS
4 2 (0.69%) WordPress
5 1 (0.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.34%) JBoss
5 1 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (3.44%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.69%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.69%) Trello
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.34%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (3.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.03%) Shopify
4 1 (0.34%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 75 (25.77%) AWS
2 73 (25.09%) Azure
3 33 (11.34%) Serverless
4 27 (9.28%) AWS Lambda
5 23 (7.90%) Amazon S3
6 22 (7.56%) Amazon ECS
7 21 (7.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (6.19%) AWS Step Functions
9 14 (4.81%) Amazon ECR
9 14 (4.81%) Apigee
9 14 (4.81%) GCP
9 14 (4.81%) GitHub
10 13 (4.47%) Amazon SQS
11 10 (3.44%) SaaS
12 8 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (2.75%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (2.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (2.75%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.84%) Broadband
2 4 (1.37%) Internet
3 3 (1.03%) HTTP
4 2 (0.69%) CTI
4 2 (0.69%) DNS
4 2 (0.69%) Network Security
4 2 (0.69%) Profibus
4 2 (0.69%) VoIP
4 2 (0.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.19%) DynamoDB
2 15 (5.15%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.12%) SQL Server
4 10 (3.44%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (3.09%) BigQuery
6 8 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (2.75%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.72%) MySQL
9 3 (1.03%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.03%) Redis
9 3 (1.03%) Tableau
10 2 (0.69%) Big Data
10 2 (0.69%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.69%) Metadata
10 2 (0.69%) Power BI
11 1 (0.34%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 28 (9.62%) GitLab
1 28 (9.62%) Jenkins
2 23 (7.90%) JIRA
3 19 (6.53%) Cypress.io
4 17 (5.84%) SonarQube
5 16 (5.50%) Git
6 15 (5.15%) Maven
7 5 (1.72%) Selenium
8 4 (1.37%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.03%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.03%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.69%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.34%) Gatling
11 1 (0.34%) JMeter
11 1 (0.34%) JUnit
11 1 (0.34%) Postman
11 1 (0.34%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 72 (24.74%) Social Skills
2 54 (18.56%) Finance
3 47 (16.15%) Public Sector
4 40 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (10.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (5.84%) Games
7 12 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.09%) Advertising
9 6 (2.06%) Banking
9 6 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.72%) Agriculture
10 5 (1.72%) Automotive
10 5 (1.72%) Marketing
11 4 (1.37%) Back Office
11 4 (1.37%) Retail
12 3 (1.03%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.03%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.69%) Legal
13 2 (0.69%) Publishing
13 2 (0.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 91 (31.27%) Developer
2 74 (25.43%) Senior
3 49 (16.84%) Lead
4 42 (14.43%) Analyst
5 37 (12.71%) Business Analyst
6 26 (8.93%) Full-Stack Developer
7 25 (8.59%) Java Developer
8 23 (7.90%) Software Engineer
9 18 (6.19%) Python Developer
10 17 (5.84%) Senior Developer
11 14 (4.81%) .NET Developer
12 13 (4.47%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (4.47%) Senior Business Analyst
13 12 (4.12%) Software Developer
14 11 (3.78%) DevOps Engineer
14 11 (3.78%) Senior Manager
15 10 (3.44%) Full-Stack Python Developer
16 9 (3.09%) Delivery Manager
16 9 (3.09%) Senior Software Engineer
16 9 (3.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (13.75%) AngularJS
1 40 (13.75%) React
2 30 (10.31%) .NET
3 24 (8.25%) Node.js
4 22 (7.56%) Spring Boot
4 22 (7.56%) Vue
5 19 (6.53%) Terraform
6 18 (6.19%) ASP.NET
7 17 (5.84%) ASP.NET Core
7 17 (5.84%) CSS
8 16 (5.50%) HTML
8 16 (5.50%) Jest
8 16 (5.50%) RESTful
9 14 (4.81%) .NET Core
9 14 (4.81%) Gherkin
9 14 (4.81%) REST
10 11 (3.78%) Entity Framework
10 11 (3.78%) Flask
10 11 (3.78%) GraphQL
11 10 (3.44%) Android SDK
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.90%) Mobile App
2 19 (6.53%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.84%) Cloud Native
4 12 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (3.78%) Data Structures
6 10 (3.44%) NHS
6 10 (3.44%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.44%) Social Media
7 9 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.72%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.37%) Learning Management System
11 4 (1.37%) Media Streaming
12 3 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (1.03%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.03%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.84%) Android
2 11 (3.78%) Linux
3 7 (2.41%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.41%) Windows
4 6 (2.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (29.55%) CI/CD
2 81 (27.84%) Mentoring
3 67 (23.02%) DevOps
4 64 (21.99%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (20.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 47 (16.15%) AI
7 45 (15.46%) Full-Stack Development
8 44 (15.12%) Coaching
9 42 (14.43%) Scrum
10 40 (13.75%) Stakeholder Management
11 38 (13.06%) SDLC
11 38 (13.06%) Software Engineering
12 34 (11.68%) Roadmaps
12 34 (11.68%) Technical Leadership
13 32 (11.00%) Acceptance Criteria
13 32 (11.00%) Waterfall
14 31 (10.65%) Decision-Making
15 30 (10.31%) Test Automation
16 29 (9.97%) Microservices
17 26 (8.93%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 63 (21.65%) Java
2 55 (18.90%) SQL
3 49 (16.84%) C#
3 49 (16.84%) JavaScript
4 46 (15.81%) TypeScript
5 45 (15.46%) Python
6 20 (6.87%) Groovy
7 16 (5.50%) Bash
8 15 (5.15%) Kotlin
9 10 (3.44%) PHP
10 7 (2.41%) Scala
11 3 (1.03%) Ruby
12 2 (0.69%) Go
12 2 (0.69%) Ladder Logic
12 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.34%) Bicep
13 1 (0.34%) Perl
13 1 (0.34%) R
13 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (8.25%) Degree
2 18 (6.19%) Security Cleared
3 15 (5.15%) SC Cleared
4 14 (4.81%) AWS Certification
5 12 (4.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 12 (4.12%) ITIL Certification
6 9 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.06%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.72%) PMP
9 4 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.37%) CBAP
9 4 (1.37%) Chartered Engineer
9 4 (1.37%) IIBA
10 2 (0.69%) APMP
10 2 (0.69%) CAPM
10 2 (0.69%) PgMP
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.34%) CSPO
11 1 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.93%) QA
2 24 (8.25%) Accessibility
3 20 (6.87%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.37%) PMO
4 4 (1.37%) WCAG
5 2 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.69%) IEC 61131
6 1 (0.34%) GDPR
6 1 (0.34%) GRC
6 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (11.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (4.81%) HP Fortify
1 14 (4.81%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.06%) Ansible
3 3 (1.03%) Argo
3 3 (1.03%) Packer
4 2 (0.69%) Kibana
4 2 (0.69%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 42 (14.43%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.47%) SAP
3 6 (2.06%) Databricks
3 6 (2.06%) TOWER Software
4 5 (1.72%) AppDynamics
4 5 (1.72%) IBM
4 5 (1.72%) Oracle
4 5 (1.72%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.03%) Google
5 3 (1.03%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.69%) Adobe
6 2 (0.69%) Allen-Bradley
6 2 (0.69%) Avaya
6 2 (0.69%) Cisco
6 2 (0.69%) Foundry
6 2 (0.69%) Genesys
6 2 (0.69%) Pega
6 2 (0.69%) Siemens
7 1 (0.34%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.34%) Progress