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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 277 266 639
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 14.75% 18.51% 31.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.42% 20.93% 33.81%
Number of salaries quoted 180 129 547
10th Percentile £44,972 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £45,441 £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -8.19% +4.56%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £82,548
90th Percentile £95,500 £93,778 £93,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £62,904 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.40% -4.17% -4.00%

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 1,504 1,271 1,890
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 80.09% 88.45% 91.75%
Number of salaries quoted 884 631 1,434
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,563 £41,052 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £87,125
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.78%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 -1 243 £65,000 +4.00% 62
Bradford -3 23 £70,000 +27.27% 17
Halifax 0 1 - -
Huddersfield -7 1 £55,000 -4.35% 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 (3.61%) OpenStack
2 9 (3.25%) Confluence
3 8 (2.89%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.53%) Apache
5 5 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.72%) CMS
6 2 (0.72%) Drupal
6 2 (0.72%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.72%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.72%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.36%) FileNet
7 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
1 9 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.72%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (5.05%) SAP ERP
2 9 (3.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.72%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 128 (46.21%) AWS
2 77 (27.80%) Azure
3 61 (22.02%) Serverless
4 46 (16.61%) Amazon S3
5 35 (12.64%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (12.27%) SaaS
7 32 (11.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 31 (11.19%) AWS Step Functions
9 30 (10.83%) Amazon ECS
10 27 (9.75%) Amazon SQS
11 26 (9.39%) GitHub
12 20 (7.22%) GCP
13 17 (6.14%) Amazon ECR
13 17 (6.14%) Apigee
14 16 (5.78%) Amazon EKS
15 15 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
16 12 (4.33%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (3.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (3.97%) Amazon EventBridge
18 8 (2.89%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.08%) DNS
2 2 (0.72%) AMQP
2 2 (0.72%) Firewall
3 1 (0.36%) BGP
3 1 (0.36%) Network Security
3 1 (0.36%) SSL
3 1 (0.36%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (15.16%) DynamoDB
2 32 (11.55%) SQL Server
3 23 (8.30%) NoSQL
4 22 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (4.69%) Relational Database
6 11 (3.97%) Metadata
7 10 (3.61%) Data Lake
7 10 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (2.89%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.81%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (1.44%) Data Vault
10 4 (1.44%) Power BI
10 4 (1.44%) Tableau
11 3 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.08%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (1.08%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.08%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.08%) Spark SQL
12 2 (0.72%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (0.72%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 31 (11.19%) Jenkins
2 30 (10.83%) Git
3 29 (10.47%) GitLab
4 18 (6.50%) Cypress.io
5 17 (6.14%) Maven
5 17 (6.14%) SonarQube
6 10 (3.61%) JIRA
7 3 (1.08%) Selenium
8 2 (0.72%) Grunt
8 2 (0.72%) gulp
8 2 (0.72%) Storybook
8 2 (0.72%) webpack
9 1 (0.36%) Appium
9 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.36%) JUnit
9 1 (0.36%) Postman
9 1 (0.36%) REST Assured
General
1 98 (35.38%) Social Skills
2 41 (14.80%) Finance
3 40 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (9.75%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.42%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (4.33%) Retail
7 10 (3.61%) Marketing
8 9 (3.25%) Legal
9 4 (1.44%) Advertising
9 4 (1.44%) Banking
9 4 (1.44%) Law
10 3 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.72%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.72%) Games
12 1 (0.36%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 68 (24.55%) Developer
2 61 (22.02%) Senior
3 35 (12.64%) Lead
4 23 (8.30%) Java Developer
5 22 (7.94%) Development Manager
6 19 (6.86%) Software Development Manager
6 19 (6.86%) Software Manager
7 18 (6.50%) Analyst
8 16 (5.78%) Architect
8 16 (5.78%) Python Developer
9 15 (5.42%) Business Analyst
10 14 (5.05%) .NET Development Manager
11 13 (4.69%) Data Engineer
12 11 (3.97%) .NET Developer
12 11 (3.97%) AWS Developer
12 11 (3.97%) Consultant
12 11 (3.97%) Senior Developer
12 11 (3.97%) Software Engineer
13 10 (3.61%) Senior Manager
13 10 (3.61%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (20.94%) React
2 41 (14.80%) .NET
3 33 (11.91%) Spring Boot
4 27 (9.75%) Node.js
4 27 (9.75%) REST
5 23 (8.30%) AngularJS
5 23 (8.30%) CSS
5 23 (8.30%) Spring
6 21 (7.58%) HTML
7 17 (6.14%) Gherkin
7 17 (6.14%) Jest
8 16 (5.78%) ASP.NET
8 16 (5.78%) Django
8 16 (5.78%) FastAPI
8 16 (5.78%) Flask
8 16 (5.78%) RESTful
9 15 (5.42%) Vue
10 14 (5.05%) ASP.NET Core
10 14 (5.05%) Blazor
11 13 (4.69%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.91%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.94%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.22%) Data Structures
4 13 (4.69%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.17%) NHS
6 5 (1.81%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.44%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.44%) Social Media
8 3 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.08%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.08%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.72%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.72%) Graphic Design
9 2 (0.72%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.72%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.72%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.72%) Linux
1 2 (0.72%) Mac OS
1 2 (0.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (37.55%) CI/CD
2 92 (33.21%) DevOps
3 78 (28.16%) Continuous Improvement
4 77 (27.80%) Mentoring
5 66 (23.83%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (20.94%) Stakeholder Management
7 55 (19.86%) Software Engineering
8 47 (16.97%) Infrastructure as Code
8 47 (16.97%) SDLC
9 44 (15.88%) Microservices
10 40 (14.44%) Coaching
10 40 (14.44%) Scrum
11 33 (11.91%) Waterfall
12 28 (10.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 27 (9.75%) Project Management
14 26 (9.39%) Decision-Making
14 26 (9.39%) Project Delivery
15 25 (9.03%) Data Modelling
16 24 (8.66%) Full-Stack Development
17 23 (8.30%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 52 (18.77%) JavaScript
1 52 (18.77%) SQL
2 44 (15.88%) Java
3 40 (14.44%) Python
4 37 (13.36%) TypeScript
5 28 (10.11%) C#
6 19 (6.86%) Bash
7 16 (5.78%) Groovy
8 3 (1.08%) ABAP
8 3 (1.08%) PHP
8 3 (1.08%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.08%) Scala
9 2 (0.72%) COBOL
9 2 (0.72%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.72%) R
9 2 (0.72%) VBA
10 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.36%) Go
10 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (10.11%) AWS Certification
2 21 (7.58%) Degree
3 16 (5.78%) AWS Certified Developer
4 15 (5.42%) Security Cleared
5 14 (5.05%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.89%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (2.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 4 (1.44%) ACCA
10 2 (0.72%) IIBA
10 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.94%) QA
2 13 (4.69%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.89%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.89%) GDPR
4 6 (2.17%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.44%) GAAP
6 4 (1.44%) IFRS
7 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.72%) GRC
7 2 (0.72%) NIST
7 2 (0.72%) P3O
7 2 (0.72%) PMO
7 2 (0.72%) SLA
7 2 (0.72%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.36%) NCSC
System Software
1 70 (25.27%) Docker
2 1 (0.36%) Squid
Systems Management
1 55 (19.86%) Terraform
2 23 (8.30%) Kubernetes
3 17 (6.14%) HP Fortify
4 12 (4.33%) Ansible
5 8 (2.89%) Grafana
5 8 (2.89%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.36%) Kibana
6 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (9.39%) SAP
2 25 (9.03%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.89%) Databricks
4 4 (1.44%) Google
4 4 (1.44%) Oracle
5 3 (1.08%) Pega
5 3 (1.08%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.08%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.08%) WSO2
6 2 (0.72%) Adobe
6 2 (0.72%) New Relic
6 2 (0.72%) Nexthink
7 1 (0.36%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.36%) ESRI
7 1 (0.36%) IBM
7 1 (0.36%) TOWER Software