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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 330 261 579
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 13.03% 23.97% 21.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.44% 24.83% 24.07%
Number of salaries quoted 199 158 457
10th Percentile £43,659 £42,500 £42,250
25th Percentile £54,875 £47,231 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% +16.67% -4.26%
75th Percentile £80,625 £93,771 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £91,934
Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year -3.85% +12.14% -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 1,892 1,051 2,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 74.69% 96.51% 87.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,206 661 1,835
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,313 £28,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £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 £70,000
90th Percentile £89,074 £97,500 £84,985
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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -2 288 £63,076 -6.55% 100
Bradford -12 16 £71,250 -1.72% 3
Elland - 4 £32,500 - 2
Ossett - 3 - -
Wakefield -9 2 £42,500 -33.33% 4
Pudsey - 2 - -
Brighouse - 2 £42,500 - 1
Dewsbury - 2 - -
Halifax +1 1 - - 1
Huddersfield -11 1 £55,000 -4.35% 6
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 (3.03%) OpenStack
2 5 (1.52%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.21%) Apache
3 4 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.91%) Confluence
4 3 (0.91%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.61%) JBoss
6 1 (0.30%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.61%) Sketch
5 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (4.24%) SAP ERP
2 7 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.61%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 145 (43.94%) AWS
2 85 (25.76%) Serverless
3 75 (22.73%) Azure
4 59 (17.88%) Amazon S3
5 53 (16.06%) AWS Lambda
6 48 (14.55%) Amazon ECS
7 44 (13.33%) AWS Step Functions
8 43 (13.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 37 (11.21%) Amazon SQS
10 32 (9.70%) Amazon ECR
10 32 (9.70%) Apigee
11 30 (9.09%) SaaS
12 28 (8.48%) GitHub
13 18 (5.45%) GCP
14 14 (4.24%) Amazon EKS
14 14 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (3.94%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (3.33%) Amazon EventBridge
16 11 (3.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 33 (10.00%) Broadband
2 2 (0.61%) DNS
2 2 (0.61%) HTTP
3 1 (0.30%) Firewall
3 1 (0.30%) Network Security
3 1 (0.30%) SSL
3 1 (0.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (16.67%) DynamoDB
2 32 (9.70%) SQL Server
3 23 (6.97%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (6.67%) NoSQL
5 14 (4.24%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.73%) Metadata
7 8 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.12%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.52%) BusinessObjects
10 5 (1.52%) MySQL
11 4 (1.21%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.21%) Power BI
11 4 (1.21%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.91%) Spark SQL
12 3 (0.91%) Tableau
13 2 (0.61%) Amazon QuickSight
13 2 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.61%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 49 (14.85%) Jenkins
2 48 (14.55%) GitLab
3 33 (10.00%) Cypress.io
4 32 (9.70%) Maven
4 32 (9.70%) SonarQube
5 30 (9.09%) Git
6 8 (2.42%) JIRA
7 7 (2.12%) Selenium
8 3 (0.91%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.91%) JUnit
9 2 (0.61%) Postman
10 1 (0.30%) Gatling
10 1 (0.30%) JMeter
10 1 (0.30%) REST Assured
General
1 98 (29.70%) Social Skills
2 53 (16.06%) Finance
3 42 (12.73%) Public Sector
4 38 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (10.61%) Games
6 17 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (4.24%) Retail
8 11 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (3.03%) Marketing
10 6 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.21%) Advertising
12 3 (0.91%) Legal
13 2 (0.61%) Banking
13 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.61%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.30%) Agriculture
14 1 (0.30%) Automotive
14 1 (0.30%) Digital Health
14 1 (0.30%) Fire and Rescue
14 1 (0.30%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 100 (30.30%) Developer
2 69 (20.91%) Senior
3 54 (16.36%) Lead
4 37 (11.21%) Java Developer
5 23 (6.97%) Analyst
6 22 (6.67%) Development Manager
6 22 (6.67%) Python Developer
7 19 (5.76%) Business Analyst
8 18 (5.45%) Software Manager
9 17 (5.15%) Full-Stack Developer
9 17 (5.15%) Software Development Manager
9 17 (5.15%) Software Engineer
10 16 (4.85%) Senior Developer
11 14 (4.24%) .NET Development Manager
11 14 (4.24%) AWS Developer
11 14 (4.24%) Senior Manager
11 14 (4.24%) Technical Leader
12 13 (3.94%) Engineering Manager
13 12 (3.64%) Architect
13 12 (3.64%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (19.70%) React
2 44 (13.33%) Spring Boot
3 41 (12.42%) AngularJS
4 37 (11.21%) .NET
5 32 (9.70%) Gherkin
5 32 (9.70%) Jest
6 28 (8.48%) Node.js
7 27 (8.18%) REST
8 25 (7.58%) Vue
9 24 (7.27%) HTML
10 23 (6.97%) CSS
11 19 (5.76%) GraphQL
11 19 (5.76%) Spring
12 18 (5.45%) Flask
13 17 (5.15%) RESTful
14 16 (4.85%) Django
15 15 (4.55%) .NET Core
15 15 (4.55%) ASP.NET
15 15 (4.55%) FastAPI
16 13 (3.94%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.00%) Mobile App
2 27 (8.18%) Cloud Native
3 24 (7.27%) Data Structures
4 21 (6.36%) Onboarding
5 19 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (5.76%) Product Ownership
6 16 (4.85%) Social Media
7 15 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.42%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (1.82%) NHS
11 5 (1.52%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.91%) PKI
13 3 (0.91%) Public Cloud
14 2 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
14 2 (0.61%) Mainframe
14 2 (0.61%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.70%) Android
2 21 (6.36%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 113 (34.24%) Mentoring
3 97 (29.39%) DevOps
4 82 (24.85%) Problem-Solving
5 75 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 56 (16.97%) SDLC
7 54 (16.36%) Software Engineering
8 52 (15.76%) Stakeholder Management
9 48 (14.55%) Coaching
10 46 (13.94%) Project Management
11 45 (13.64%) Microservices
12 44 (13.33%) AI
12 44 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
13 43 (13.03%) Observability
14 40 (12.12%) Decision-Making
15 39 (11.82%) Roadmaps
16 37 (11.21%) Full-Stack Development
17 35 (10.61%) Design Patterns
18 34 (10.30%) Scrum
18 34 (10.30%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 75 (22.73%) Java
2 60 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 57 (17.27%) TypeScript
4 52 (15.76%) SQL
5 39 (11.82%) Python
6 32 (9.70%) Bash
6 32 (9.70%) C#
7 31 (9.39%) Groovy
8 13 (3.94%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.12%) PHP
10 4 (1.21%) VBA
11 3 (0.91%) Go
12 2 (0.61%) COBOL
12 2 (0.61%) R
13 1 (0.30%) ABAP
13 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 43 (13.03%) AWS Certification
2 21 (6.36%) Degree
3 20 (6.06%) ITIL Certification
4 19 (5.76%) AWS Certified Developer
4 19 (5.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 10 (3.03%) SC Cleared
5 10 (3.03%) Security Cleared
6 6 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.82%) IIBA
7 3 (0.91%) CBAP
7 3 (0.91%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.61%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.61%) PMP
9 1 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.30%) CIPD
9 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.39%) Accessibility
2 26 (7.88%) QA
3 16 (4.85%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.73%) GDPR
5 8 (2.42%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.91%) PMO
9 2 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.61%) GRC
9 2 (0.61%) NIST
9 2 (0.61%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.30%) NCSC
10 1 (0.30%) P3O
10 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 81 (24.55%) Docker
2 1 (0.30%) Squid
Systems Management
1 55 (16.67%) Terraform
2 32 (9.70%) HP Fortify
3 19 (5.76%) Kubernetes
4 10 (3.03%) Ansible
5 6 (1.82%) Grafana
5 6 (1.82%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.30%) Kibana
6 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (7.27%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.97%) SAP
3 6 (1.82%) Databricks
4 4 (1.21%) Google
5 3 (0.91%) Pega
5 3 (0.91%) WSO2
6 2 (0.61%) Adobe
6 2 (0.61%) New Relic
6 2 (0.61%) Oracle
6 2 (0.61%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.61%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.30%) Informatica
7 1 (0.30%) Nintex
7 1 (0.30%) TOWER Software