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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 326 269 598
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 13.32% 23.70% 22.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.50% 24.70% 25.21%
Number of salaries quoted 192 150 488
10th Percentile £44,975 £42,500 £42,482
25th Percentile £56,250 £46,495 £50,172
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,924 £68,750 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +14.11% -3.60%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,451 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £91,934
Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £59,556
% change year-on-year -3.85% +9.14% -0.95%

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 1,863 1,089 2,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 76.10% 95.95% 87.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,150 642 1,821
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,313 £27,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,938 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,750 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% -2.76% -2.07%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,525 £85,000
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 12 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 12 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 -2 283 £67,500 - 86
Bradford -8 20 £71,250 -1.72% 5
Ossett - 3 - -
Wakefield -13 2 £42,500 -10.53% 4
Pudsey - 2 - -
Dewsbury - 2 - -
Elland - 2 £32,500 - 1
Halifax 0 1 - - 2
Huddersfield -11 1 £55,000 -4.35% 3
Brighouse - 1 £42,500 - 2
Batley - 1 - -
Bingley - 1 - -
Pontefract - 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 (3.07%) OpenStack
2 7 (2.15%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.84%) Apache
4 5 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.23%) Confluence
6 2 (0.61%) JBoss
6 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.31%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.61%) Sketch
4 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (4.29%) SAP ERP
2 9 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.61%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 143 (43.87%) AWS
2 82 (25.15%) Serverless
3 73 (22.39%) Azure
4 59 (18.10%) Amazon S3
5 52 (15.95%) AWS Lambda
6 46 (14.11%) Amazon ECS
7 43 (13.19%) AWS Step Functions
8 42 (12.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 36 (11.04%) Amazon SQS
10 32 (9.82%) SaaS
11 30 (9.20%) Amazon ECR
11 30 (9.20%) Apigee
12 27 (8.28%) GitHub
13 17 (5.21%) GCP
14 15 (4.60%) Amazon EKS
15 14 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
16 13 (3.99%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (3.68%) Power Platform
18 11 (3.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 11 (3.37%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 33 (10.12%) Broadband
2 2 (0.61%) DNS
3 1 (0.31%) Firewall
3 1 (0.31%) HTTP
3 1 (0.31%) Network Security
3 1 (0.31%) SSL
3 1 (0.31%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (16.56%) DynamoDB
2 32 (9.82%) SQL Server
3 23 (7.06%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (6.75%) NoSQL
5 14 (4.29%) Relational Database
6 10 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (2.76%) Data Lake
7 9 (2.76%) Metadata
8 8 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.53%) BusinessObjects
9 5 (1.53%) MySQL
10 4 (1.23%) Power BI
10 4 (1.23%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.23%) Tableau
11 3 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.92%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.92%) Data Vault
11 3 (0.92%) Spark SQL
12 2 (0.61%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (0.61%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 46 (14.11%) Jenkins
2 45 (13.80%) GitLab
3 31 (9.51%) Cypress.io
4 30 (9.20%) Maven
4 30 (9.20%) SonarQube
5 29 (8.90%) Git
6 7 (2.15%) JIRA
7 6 (1.84%) Selenium
8 3 (0.92%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.61%) JUnit
10 1 (0.31%) Gatling
10 1 (0.31%) JMeter
10 1 (0.31%) Postman
10 1 (0.31%) REST Assured
General
1 99 (30.37%) Social Skills
2 49 (15.03%) Finance
3 40 (12.27%) Public Sector
4 38 (11.66%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (10.74%) Games
6 17 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (4.29%) Retail
8 11 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (3.07%) Marketing
10 5 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.23%) Advertising
12 3 (0.92%) Legal
13 2 (0.61%) Banking
13 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.61%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.31%) Digital Health
14 1 (0.31%) Fire and Rescue
14 1 (0.31%) Law
14 1 (0.31%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 95 (29.14%) Developer
2 67 (20.55%) Senior
3 53 (16.26%) Lead
4 35 (10.74%) Java Developer
5 23 (7.06%) Development Manager
6 22 (6.75%) Analyst
7 20 (6.13%) Python Developer
8 19 (5.83%) Software Manager
9 18 (5.52%) Business Analyst
9 18 (5.52%) Software Development Manager
10 15 (4.60%) Senior Developer
11 14 (4.29%) .NET Development Manager
11 14 (4.29%) AWS Developer
11 14 (4.29%) Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (4.29%) Software Engineer
12 13 (3.99%) Data Engineer
12 13 (3.99%) Engineering Manager
12 13 (3.99%) Senior Manager
12 13 (3.99%) Technical Leader
13 12 (3.68%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (19.63%) React
2 42 (12.88%) Spring Boot
3 37 (11.35%) .NET
4 36 (11.04%) AngularJS
5 30 (9.20%) Gherkin
5 30 (9.20%) Jest
6 29 (8.90%) Node.js
7 28 (8.59%) REST
8 21 (6.44%) HTML
9 20 (6.13%) CSS
10 19 (5.83%) GraphQL
10 19 (5.83%) Spring
10 19 (5.83%) Vue
11 16 (4.91%) Django
11 16 (4.91%) Flask
11 16 (4.91%) RESTful
12 15 (4.60%) FastAPI
13 14 (4.29%) .NET Core
13 14 (4.29%) ASP.NET
14 13 (3.99%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.12%) Mobile App
2 27 (8.28%) Cloud Native
3 22 (6.75%) Data Structures
4 21 (6.44%) Onboarding
5 20 (6.13%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (5.52%) Product Ownership
7 16 (4.91%) Social Media
8 15 (4.60%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (2.15%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.53%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.53%) NHS
12 4 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.92%) Public Cloud
14 2 (0.61%) Educational Technology
14 2 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
14 2 (0.61%) Mainframe
14 2 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.82%) Android
2 21 (6.44%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.31%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (45.09%) CI/CD
2 110 (33.74%) Mentoring
3 95 (29.14%) DevOps
4 80 (24.54%) Problem-Solving
5 75 (23.01%) Continuous Improvement
6 55 (16.87%) Software Engineering
7 54 (16.56%) SDLC
7 54 (16.56%) Stakeholder Management
8 49 (15.03%) Coaching
9 47 (14.42%) Microservices
9 47 (14.42%) Project Management
10 44 (13.50%) AI
10 44 (13.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 44 (13.50%) Observability
11 41 (12.58%) Roadmaps
12 39 (11.96%) Decision-Making
13 36 (11.04%) Scrum
13 36 (11.04%) Waterfall
14 34 (10.43%) Design Patterns
14 34 (10.43%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 72 (22.09%) Java
2 55 (16.87%) JavaScript
3 53 (16.26%) TypeScript
4 50 (15.34%) SQL
5 38 (11.66%) Python
6 30 (9.20%) Bash
6 30 (9.20%) C#
7 29 (8.90%) Groovy
8 13 (3.99%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.15%) PHP
10 4 (1.23%) VBA
11 3 (0.92%) ABAP
11 3 (0.92%) Go
12 2 (0.61%) COBOL
12 2 (0.61%) R
13 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.31%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (12.58%) AWS Certification
2 19 (5.83%) AWS Certified Developer
2 19 (5.83%) Degree
3 18 (5.52%) ITIL Certification
4 17 (5.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 8 (2.45%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.45%) Security Cleared
6 6 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.84%) IIBA
7 3 (0.92%) CBAP
7 3 (0.92%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.61%) PMP
9 1 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.31%) CIPD
9 1 (0.31%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.20%) Accessibility
2 25 (7.67%) QA
3 15 (4.60%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.45%) GDPR
5 7 (2.15%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.23%) PMO
8 2 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.61%) GRC
8 2 (0.61%) NIST
8 2 (0.61%) P3O
8 2 (0.61%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.31%) NCSC
9 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 78 (23.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) Squid
Systems Management
1 54 (16.56%) Terraform
2 30 (9.20%) HP Fortify
3 19 (5.83%) Kubernetes
4 10 (3.07%) Ansible
5 6 (1.84%) Grafana
5 6 (1.84%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.31%) Kibana
6 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (8.28%) SAP
2 23 (7.06%) Microsoft
3 5 (1.53%) Databricks
4 4 (1.23%) Google
5 3 (0.92%) Pega
5 3 (0.92%) 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 (0.31%) Informatica
7 1 (0.31%) Nintex
7 1 (0.31%) TOWER Software