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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 7 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -6 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 209 275 790
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 12.81% 15.03% 37.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.47% 19.16% 39.60%
Number of salaries quoted 157 125 634
10th Percentile £41,074 £41,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,465 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% -13.39% +12.50%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £83,512
90th Percentile £86,000 £88,250 £92,330
Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £57,965 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.82% -10.82% +9.20%

All Process and 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 1,444 1,435 1,995
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 88.53% 78.42% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 867 755 1,448
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,242
Median % change year-on-year - -0.44% +0.44%
75th Percentile £72,750 £71,991 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £48,500 £53,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.49% +0.95% -

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 2025. 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 -4 167 £62,500 +4.17% 129
Bradford +4 28 £72,500 +31.82% 11
Wakefield -7 2 £54,500 +28.24% 3
Halifax +3 1 - - 1
Huddersfield -1 1 £37,500 -21.81% 3
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 11 (5.26%) Confluence
2 6 (2.87%) Apache
2 6 (2.87%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.44%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.96%) CMS
4 2 (0.96%) Drupal
4 2 (0.96%) EPiServer
4 2 (0.96%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.48%) FileNet
5 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.48%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (4.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.96%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (4.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.96%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.48%) Primavera
3 1 (0.48%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 76 (36.36%) AWS
2 56 (26.79%) Azure
3 24 (11.48%) Serverless
4 23 (11.00%) SaaS
5 19 (9.09%) GitHub
6 16 (7.66%) GCP
7 14 (6.70%) Amazon S3
8 12 (5.74%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (5.74%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (4.31%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (3.83%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (3.35%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (3.35%) AWS Step Functions
12 6 (2.87%) dbt
12 6 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (2.39%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (2.39%) Amazon EventBridge
13 5 (2.39%) Power Platform
14 4 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 3 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.96%) AMQP
1 2 (0.96%) Firewall
2 1 (0.48%) BGP
2 1 (0.48%) DNS
2 1 (0.48%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.70%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.74%) DynamoDB
3 11 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (4.78%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.31%) Data Lake
5 9 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.83%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.87%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (2.39%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (1.91%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.44%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (1.44%) Data Vault
10 3 (1.44%) MySQL
10 3 (1.44%) Power BI
11 2 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.96%) Metadata
11 2 (0.96%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.96%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (7.18%) Git
1 15 (7.18%) JIRA
2 11 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.83%) GitLab
4 2 (0.96%) Grunt
4 2 (0.96%) gulp
4 2 (0.96%) Storybook
4 2 (0.96%) webpack
5 1 (0.48%) Appium
5 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.48%) Postman
5 1 (0.48%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.48%) Selenium
General
1 78 (37.32%) Social Skills
2 44 (21.05%) Finance
3 29 (13.88%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.61%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.74%) Legal
5 12 (5.74%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (5.26%) Retail
7 8 (3.83%) Marketing
8 7 (3.35%) Law
9 6 (2.87%) Banking
10 5 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.44%) Advertising
13 2 (0.96%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.48%) Games
14 1 (0.48%) Local Government
14 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.48%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (21.05%) Senior
2 39 (18.66%) Developer
3 22 (10.53%) Lead
4 18 (8.61%) Analyst
5 14 (6.70%) Python Developer
6 13 (6.22%) Development Manager
7 12 (5.74%) Data Engineer
8 11 (5.26%) Architect
8 11 (5.26%) Business Analyst
9 10 (4.78%) Software Engineer
10 9 (4.31%) Consultant
10 9 (4.31%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (4.31%) Project Manager
10 9 (4.31%) Software Development Manager
10 9 (4.31%) Software Manager
11 8 (3.83%) Senior Data Engineer
11 8 (3.83%) Senior Developer
11 8 (3.83%) Software Developer
12 7 (3.35%) Senior Manager
13 6 (2.87%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (19.14%) React
2 28 (13.40%) .NET
3 24 (11.48%) CSS
4 22 (10.53%) HTML
5 19 (9.09%) Node.js
6 18 (8.61%) REST
7 16 (7.66%) Django
7 16 (7.66%) FastAPI
7 16 (7.66%) Flask
8 15 (7.18%) RESTful
9 13 (6.22%) Vue
10 10 (4.78%) GraphQL
11 9 (4.31%) ASP.NET
12 8 (3.83%) Spring
12 8 (3.83%) Spring Boot
13 7 (3.35%) .NET Core
13 7 (3.35%) ASP.NET Core
13 7 (3.35%) Blazor
14 6 (2.87%) AngularJS
15 4 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.13%) Product Ownership
3 15 (7.18%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.31%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.87%) NHS
5 6 (2.87%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.91%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.91%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.44%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.44%) Social Media
8 2 (0.96%) Graphic Design
8 2 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.48%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.48%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.48%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.48%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.96%) Linux
1 2 (0.96%) Mac OS
1 2 (0.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (29.67%) CI/CD
2 59 (28.23%) Mentoring
3 57 (27.27%) DevOps
4 56 (26.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 48 (22.97%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (22.01%) Software Engineering
7 39 (18.66%) Infrastructure as Code
8 35 (16.75%) Stakeholder Management
9 31 (14.83%) Coaching
10 29 (13.88%) Scrum
11 28 (13.40%) Project Management
12 27 (12.92%) Microservices
12 27 (12.92%) SDLC
13 24 (11.48%) Decision-Making
13 24 (11.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 23 (11.00%) Waterfall
15 22 (10.53%) PRINCE2
16 20 (9.57%) Project Delivery
17 18 (8.61%) Design Patterns
18 17 (8.13%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 43 (20.57%) JavaScript
2 42 (20.10%) SQL
3 38 (18.18%) Python
4 21 (10.05%) C#
4 21 (10.05%) TypeScript
5 16 (7.66%) Java
6 5 (2.39%) PHP
7 4 (1.91%) Bash
7 4 (1.91%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.44%) ABAP
8 3 (1.44%) Apex Code
8 3 (1.44%) COBOL
9 2 (0.96%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.96%) Scala
9 2 (0.96%) SOQL
10 1 (0.48%) Go
10 1 (0.48%) R
10 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (7.18%) Degree
2 13 (6.22%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.39%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 4 (1.91%) ACCA
5 4 (1.91%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.96%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.48%) APMG
8 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.48%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.83%) QA
2 5 (2.39%) GDPR
3 4 (1.91%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.91%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.91%) GAAP
3 4 (1.91%) IFRS
3 4 (1.91%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.44%) PMO
5 2 (0.96%) P3O
5 2 (0.96%) SLA
6 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.48%) NCSC
System Software
1 35 (16.75%) Docker
2 2 (0.96%) Squid
Systems Management
1 44 (21.05%) Terraform
2 17 (8.13%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.31%) Ansible
4 6 (2.87%) Grafana
4 6 (2.87%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.96%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (8.13%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.22%) SAP
3 9 (4.31%) Databricks
4 7 (3.35%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.39%) Oracle
6 3 (1.44%) iManage
6 3 (1.44%) Intapp
6 3 (1.44%) Pega
6 3 (1.44%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.44%) WSO2
7 2 (0.96%) New Relic
7 2 (0.96%) Nexthink
8 1 (0.48%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.48%) ESRI
8 1 (0.48%) Google
8 1 (0.48%) IBM
8 1 (0.48%) Sage
8 1 (0.48%) TOWER Software