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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 13 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 -6 -6
Permanent jobs citing Agile 265 170 290
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 6.31% 10.91% 13.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.07% 12.11% 17.06%
Number of salaries quoted 187 119 153
10th Percentile £42,000 £41,074 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,231
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% -12.01%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £93,634 £84,000 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -6.50%

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 2,922 1,404 1,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 69.59% 90.12% 77.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,233 744 986
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -

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 27 September 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 27 September 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 -5 234 £65,000 +0.78% 171
Bradford -8 14 £75,000 +15.38% 26
Wakefield -3 10 £57,500 +5.50% 9
Huddersfield -10 3 £51,500 +37.33% 2
Elland - 2 £32,500 -
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 (2.26%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.89%) CMS
2 5 (1.89%) Confluence
3 3 (1.13%) IIS
4 2 (0.75%) nginx
4 2 (0.75%) WordPress
5 1 (0.38%) Apache
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.75%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.75%) Trello
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (3.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.13%) Shopify
3 2 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.38%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 87 (32.83%) AWS
2 72 (27.17%) Azure
3 32 (12.08%) Serverless
4 28 (10.57%) AWS Lambda
5 26 (9.81%) Amazon S3
6 21 (7.92%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (7.17%) Amazon ECS
8 18 (6.79%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (6.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 17 (6.42%) GCP
10 16 (6.04%) GitHub
11 13 (4.91%) AWS Step Functions
11 13 (4.91%) SaaS
12 11 (4.15%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (3.77%) Amazon ECR
13 10 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (3.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 9 (3.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (3.40%) Amazon SQS
15 8 (3.02%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.51%) Internet
1 4 (1.51%) Network Security
2 3 (1.13%) DNS
3 2 (0.75%) CTI
3 2 (0.75%) HTTP
3 2 (0.75%) Profibus
3 2 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.75%) VoIP
3 2 (0.75%) VPN
4 1 (0.38%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (0.38%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.66%) MongoDB
1 15 (5.66%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.91%) DynamoDB
3 12 (4.53%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.15%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.02%) BigQuery
7 7 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.89%) MySQL
9 4 (1.51%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.51%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.13%) Metadata
10 3 (1.13%) Power BI
10 3 (1.13%) Redis
10 3 (1.13%) Spark SQL
10 3 (1.13%) Tableau
11 2 (0.75%) Big Data
11 2 (0.75%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 29 (10.94%) GitLab
2 26 (9.81%) Jenkins
2 26 (9.81%) JIRA
3 17 (6.42%) Cypress.io
4 16 (6.04%) Git
5 11 (4.15%) SonarQube
6 9 (3.40%) Maven
7 7 (2.64%) JMeter
8 5 (1.89%) Postman
9 4 (1.51%) Selenium
10 3 (1.13%) Appium
10 3 (1.13%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.13%) Claude Code
10 3 (1.13%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.13%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.75%) Ranorex
12 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.38%) Zephyr
General
1 71 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 60 (22.64%) Public Sector
3 45 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (15.47%) Finance
5 15 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (4.91%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.40%) Advertising
8 8 (3.02%) Banking
9 5 (1.89%) Marketing
10 4 (1.51%) Back Office
10 4 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.51%) Legal
10 4 (1.51%) Retail
11 3 (1.13%) Agriculture
11 3 (1.13%) Automotive
11 3 (1.13%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.75%) Publishing
12 2 (0.75%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.38%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 74 (27.92%) Senior
2 69 (26.04%) Developer
3 39 (14.72%) Lead
4 38 (14.34%) Analyst
5 32 (12.08%) Business Analyst
6 23 (8.68%) Software Engineer
7 21 (7.92%) Full-Stack Developer
7 21 (7.92%) Java Developer
8 16 (6.04%) DevOps Engineer
8 16 (6.04%) Senior Developer
9 14 (5.28%) Python Developer
10 13 (4.91%) Architect
11 12 (4.53%) .NET Developer
12 11 (4.15%) Senior Software Engineer
13 10 (3.77%) Senior Manager
14 9 (3.40%) Data Engineer
14 9 (3.40%) Technical Architect
14 9 (3.40%) Test Engineer
15 8 (3.02%) AWS Engineer
15 8 (3.02%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.45%) .NET
1 33 (12.45%) React
2 29 (10.94%) AngularJS
3 26 (9.81%) Node.js
4 21 (7.92%) Terraform
5 19 (7.17%) Spring Boot
6 18 (6.79%) RESTful
7 17 (6.42%) REST
8 16 (6.04%) ASP.NET
9 15 (5.66%) ASP.NET Core
10 13 (4.91%) CSS
10 13 (4.91%) Gherkin
10 13 (4.91%) Spring
11 12 (4.53%) .NET Core
11 12 (4.53%) HTML
11 12 (4.53%) Playwright
12 10 (3.77%) Jest
12 10 (3.77%) Vue
13 9 (3.40%) Entity Framework
14 8 (3.02%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.55%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.79%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.64%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (2.64%) Data Structures
3 7 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (2.64%) Mobile App
3 7 (2.64%) NHS
4 6 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.26%) Driving Licence
5 4 (1.51%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.51%) Learning Management System
5 4 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.51%) Media Streaming
5 4 (1.51%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.13%) Educational Technology
6 3 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.13%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.13%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.91%) Linux
2 8 (3.02%) Unix
2 8 (3.02%) Windows
3 1 (0.38%) Android
3 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (28.68%) CI/CD
2 69 (26.04%) DevOps
2 69 (26.04%) Mentoring
3 65 (24.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 53 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (19.25%) Coaching
5 51 (19.25%) Scrum
6 43 (16.23%) Full-Stack Development
6 43 (16.23%) Stakeholder Management
7 40 (15.09%) Software Engineering
8 36 (13.58%) SDLC
9 35 (13.21%) AI
9 35 (13.21%) Microservices
9 35 (13.21%) Test Automation
10 30 (11.32%) Acceptance Criteria
10 30 (11.32%) Kanban
10 30 (11.32%) Technical Leadership
11 28 (10.57%) Roadmaps
12 25 (9.43%) Waterfall
13 24 (9.06%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 56 (21.13%) SQL
2 49 (18.49%) Java
3 45 (16.98%) JavaScript
4 43 (16.23%) Python
5 42 (15.85%) C#
6 40 (15.09%) TypeScript
7 14 (5.28%) Groovy
8 12 (4.53%) Bash
9 8 (3.02%) PHP
10 7 (2.64%) Scala
11 6 (2.26%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.13%) C++
12 3 (1.13%) Ruby
13 2 (0.75%) Ladder Logic
13 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.38%) ActionScript
14 1 (0.38%) Bicep
14 1 (0.38%) Go
14 1 (0.38%) R
14 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (7.55%) Degree
2 19 (7.17%) Security Cleared
3 15 (5.66%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.40%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 7 (2.64%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.26%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.89%) PMP
9 4 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.51%) Chartered Engineer
10 2 (0.75%) APMP
10 2 (0.75%) CAPM
10 2 (0.75%) PgMP
11 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.38%) CBAP
11 1 (0.38%) CSPO
11 1 (0.38%) IIBA
11 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.94%) QA
2 17 (6.42%) Data Quality
3 16 (6.04%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.89%) WCAG
5 4 (1.51%) PMO
6 2 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.75%) IEC 61131
7 1 (0.38%) GRC
System Software
1 26 (9.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (6.42%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.02%) Ansible
2 8 (3.02%) HP Fortify
3 3 (1.13%) Argo
3 3 (1.13%) Packer
4 2 (0.75%) Grafana
4 2 (0.75%) Kibana
4 2 (0.75%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 42 (15.85%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.91%) SAP
3 7 (2.64%) Databricks
3 7 (2.64%) Oracle
4 5 (1.89%) AppDynamics
4 5 (1.89%) Google
4 5 (1.89%) IBM
4 5 (1.89%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.51%) TOWER Software
6 3 (1.13%) Adobe
6 3 (1.13%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.75%) Allen-Bradley
7 2 (0.75%) Avaya
7 2 (0.75%) Cisco
7 2 (0.75%) Foundry
7 2 (0.75%) Genesys
7 2 (0.75%) Informatica
7 2 (0.75%) Pega
7 2 (0.75%) Siemens
8 1 (0.38%) Guidewire