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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 346 245 569
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 12.81% 22.05% 20.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.43% 23.14% 23.53%
Number of salaries quoted 209 158 443
10th Percentile £43,135 £42,500 £42,147
25th Percentile £54,250 £47,231 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £70,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% +17.54% -5.22%
75th Percentile £81,250 £93,771 £75,886
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £91,934
Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £66,367 £57,965
% change year-on-year -5.83% +14.50% -3.39%

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 1,985 1,059 2,418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 73.46% 95.32% 86.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,338 685 1,874
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,313 £28,075
25th Percentile £39,188 £36,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £69,979
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £84,964
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -1 304 £65,000 -3.70% 99
Bradford -11 14 £72,500 - 5
Elland - 6 £32,500 - 2
Huddersfield -7 3 £51,500 -10.43% 6
Ossett - 3 - -
Wakefield -7 2 £42,500 -33.33% 4
Pudsey - 2 - -
Brighouse - 2 £42,500 - 1
Dewsbury - 2 - -
Halifax 0 1 - - 1
Pontefract - 1 - -
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 10 (2.89%) OpenStack
2 5 (1.45%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.16%) Apache
3 4 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.87%) Confluence
4 3 (0.87%) JBoss
4 3 (0.87%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.29%) CMS
5 1 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (2.89%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.58%) Sketch
5 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (4.05%) SAP ERP
2 7 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.58%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 152 (43.93%) AWS
2 95 (27.46%) Serverless
3 77 (22.25%) Azure
4 64 (18.50%) Amazon S3
5 62 (17.92%) AWS Lambda
6 54 (15.61%) Amazon ECS
7 48 (13.87%) AWS Step Functions
8 47 (13.58%) AWS CloudFormation
9 39 (11.27%) Amazon SQS
10 36 (10.40%) Amazon ECR
10 36 (10.40%) Apigee
11 29 (8.38%) GitHub
11 29 (8.38%) SaaS
12 17 (4.91%) Amazon EKS
12 17 (4.91%) GCP
13 14 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (3.76%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (3.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (3.18%) Amazon EventBridge
15 11 (3.18%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 33 (9.54%) Broadband
2 2 (0.58%) DNS
2 2 (0.58%) HTTP
3 1 (0.29%) SSL
3 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (16.47%) DynamoDB
2 32 (9.25%) SQL Server
3 23 (6.65%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (6.36%) NoSQL
5 15 (4.34%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.60%) Metadata
7 8 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.02%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.45%) BusinessObjects
10 5 (1.45%) MySQL
10 5 (1.45%) Tableau
11 4 (1.16%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.16%) Power BI
12 3 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.87%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.58%) Amazon QuickSight
13 2 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.58%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.58%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 57 (16.47%) Jenkins
2 54 (15.61%) GitLab
3 39 (11.27%) SonarQube
4 37 (10.69%) Cypress.io
5 36 (10.40%) Maven
6 35 (10.12%) Git
7 14 (4.05%) JIRA
8 8 (2.31%) Selenium
9 7 (2.02%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.87%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.87%) JUnit
11 2 (0.58%) Postman
12 1 (0.29%) Gatling
12 1 (0.29%) JMeter
12 1 (0.29%) REST Assured
General
1 102 (29.48%) Social Skills
2 54 (15.61%) Finance
3 44 (12.72%) Public Sector
4 42 (12.14%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (10.12%) Games
6 17 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.47%) Retail
8 11 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.60%) Marketing
10 5 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.16%) Advertising
12 3 (0.87%) Banking
12 3 (0.87%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.58%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.58%) Automotive
13 2 (0.58%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.58%) Legal
14 1 (0.29%) Digital Health
14 1 (0.29%) Law
Job Titles
1 111 (32.08%) Developer
2 71 (20.52%) Senior
3 58 (16.76%) Lead
4 45 (13.01%) Java Developer
5 26 (7.51%) Analyst
6 23 (6.65%) Python Developer
7 20 (5.78%) Development Manager
7 20 (5.78%) Full-Stack Developer
8 19 (5.49%) Business Analyst
8 19 (5.49%) Software Engineer
9 18 (5.20%) Senior Developer
10 17 (4.91%) Software Manager
11 16 (4.62%) Software Development Manager
11 16 (4.62%) Technical Leader
12 15 (4.34%) AWS Developer
12 15 (4.34%) Senior Manager
13 14 (4.05%) .NET Development Manager
14 12 (3.47%) .NET Developer
14 12 (3.47%) Delivery Manager
14 12 (3.47%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (19.36%) React
2 50 (14.45%) Spring Boot
3 49 (14.16%) AngularJS
4 36 (10.40%) Gherkin
4 36 (10.40%) Jest
5 35 (10.12%) .NET
6 29 (8.38%) REST
7 28 (8.09%) Vue
8 26 (7.51%) Node.js
9 25 (7.23%) HTML
10 24 (6.94%) CSS
11 21 (6.07%) Spring
12 20 (5.78%) Flask
13 18 (5.20%) RESTful
14 17 (4.91%) GraphQL
15 16 (4.62%) Django
16 15 (4.34%) .NET Core
16 15 (4.34%) ASP.NET
16 15 (4.34%) Elastic Stack
16 15 (4.34%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.54%) Mobile App
2 28 (8.09%) Cloud Native
3 25 (7.23%) Data Structures
4 24 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (6.07%) Onboarding
6 20 (5.78%) Product Ownership
7 15 (4.34%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (4.34%) Social Media
8 11 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.02%) Legacy Applications
9 7 (2.02%) NHS
10 5 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.45%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.16%) PKI
12 3 (0.87%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.58%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.58%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.25%) Android
2 21 (6.07%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.87%) Linux
4 1 (0.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (45.09%) CI/CD
2 111 (32.08%) Mentoring
3 101 (29.19%) DevOps
4 87 (25.14%) Problem-Solving
5 80 (23.12%) Continuous Improvement
6 58 (16.76%) SDLC
7 55 (15.90%) Stakeholder Management
8 51 (14.74%) Software Engineering
9 48 (13.87%) Microservices
10 47 (13.58%) Coaching
10 47 (13.58%) Infrastructure as Code
11 45 (13.01%) Project Management
12 44 (12.72%) AI
13 43 (12.43%) Decision-Making
14 41 (11.85%) Full-Stack Development
14 41 (11.85%) Observability
15 39 (11.27%) Design Patterns
15 39 (11.27%) Roadmaps
16 36 (10.40%) Scrum
16 36 (10.40%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 86 (24.86%) Java
2 61 (17.63%) JavaScript
3 60 (17.34%) TypeScript
4 57 (16.47%) SQL
5 44 (12.72%) Python
6 38 (10.98%) Groovy
7 35 (10.12%) Bash
8 34 (9.83%) C#
9 14 (4.05%) Kotlin
10 7 (2.02%) PHP
11 4 (1.16%) Go
11 4 (1.16%) VBA
12 2 (0.58%) COBOL
12 2 (0.58%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.58%) R
13 1 (0.29%) ABAP
13 1 (0.29%) Perl
13 1 (0.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 47 (13.58%) AWS Certification
2 23 (6.65%) ITIL Certification
3 22 (6.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 21 (6.07%) Degree
5 20 (5.78%) AWS Certified Developer
6 19 (5.49%) Security Cleared
7 18 (5.20%) SC Cleared
8 6 (1.73%) IIBA
9 5 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.16%) CBAP
10 4 (1.16%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.58%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.58%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.58%) PMP
13 1 (0.29%) CIPD
13 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.54%) Accessibility
2 28 (8.09%) QA
3 20 (5.78%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.02%) GDPR
5 6 (1.73%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.87%) PMO
8 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.58%) GRC
8 2 (0.58%) NIST
8 2 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.29%) P3O
9 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 89 (25.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 59 (17.05%) Terraform
2 36 (10.40%) HP Fortify
3 24 (6.94%) Kubernetes
4 15 (4.34%) Ansible
5 6 (1.73%) Grafana
5 6 (1.73%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.87%) Packer
7 2 (0.58%) Kibana
8 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (7.23%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.94%) SAP
3 6 (1.73%) Databricks
4 5 (1.45%) AppDynamics
4 5 (1.45%) IBM
5 4 (1.16%) Google
6 3 (0.87%) Oracle
6 3 (0.87%) Pega
6 3 (0.87%) WSO2
7 2 (0.58%) Adobe
7 2 (0.58%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.58%) TOWER Software
8 1 (0.29%) Foundry
8 1 (0.29%) Informatica
8 1 (0.29%) New Relic
8 1 (0.29%) Nintex
8 1 (0.29%) Palantir