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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 9
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing Agile 300 201 329
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 7.44% 13.09% 13.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.98% 14.33% 16.94%
Number of salaries quoted 203 138 209
10th Percentile £39,437 £42,350 £40,568
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,594 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +6.52% -11.63%
75th Percentile £77,462 £80,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £93,634 £93,758 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -4.17%

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 2,733 1,403 1,942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 67.80% 91.40% 79.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,086 801 1,301
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £40,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,250 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.41%

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 August 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 August 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 -9 256 £64,500 +5.31% 159
Bradford -14 13 £75,000 +3.45% 8
Wakefield -3 10 £57,500 +5.50% 4
Elland - 7 £32,500 -
Huddersfield -10 3 £51,500 +37.33% 2
Brighouse - 2 £42,500 -
Dewsbury - 2 - -
Ossett - 2 - -
Pontefract +5 1 - - 1
Halifax -4 1 - - 1
Wetherby - 1 £35,000 -
Pudsey - 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 6 (2.00%) CMS
2 5 (1.67%) Confluence
2 5 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.00%) IIS
3 3 (1.00%) JBoss
4 2 (0.67%) Apache
4 2 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.67%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.67%) WordPress
5 1 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.00%) Trello
4 2 (0.67%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.67%) Sketch
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (3.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.33%) Shopify
3 1 (0.33%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 81 (27.00%) AWS
2 73 (24.33%) Azure
3 38 (12.67%) Serverless
4 31 (10.33%) AWS Lambda
5 26 (8.67%) Amazon ECS
5 26 (8.67%) Amazon S3
6 24 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (7.00%) AWS Step Functions
8 20 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (6.00%) Amazon ECR
9 18 (6.00%) Apigee
10 15 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (4.67%) GCP
11 14 (4.67%) GitHub
12 10 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (3.33%) Power Platform
13 9 (3.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (3.00%) SaaS
14 8 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.33%) Broadband
2 4 (1.33%) HTTP
2 4 (1.33%) Internet
3 2 (0.67%) CTI
3 2 (0.67%) DNS
3 2 (0.67%) Profibus
3 2 (0.67%) VoIP
3 2 (0.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.00%) DynamoDB
2 16 (5.33%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (3.67%) SQL Server
5 10 (3.33%) BigQuery
6 9 (3.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (2.33%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.00%) MySQL
9 5 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.33%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.33%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.33%) Tableau
11 3 (1.00%) Power BI
11 3 (1.00%) Redis
12 2 (0.67%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (0.67%) Big Data
12 2 (0.67%) Metadata
13 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 34 (11.33%) GitLab
1 34 (11.33%) Jenkins
2 24 (8.00%) JIRA
3 22 (7.33%) Cypress.io
4 21 (7.00%) SonarQube
5 19 (6.33%) Maven
6 17 (5.67%) Git
7 6 (2.00%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.00%) Selenium
8 3 (1.00%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.00%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.67%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.67%) JUnit
9 2 (0.67%) Postman
10 1 (0.33%) Gatling
10 1 (0.33%) JMeter
10 1 (0.33%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 74 (24.67%) Social Skills
2 56 (18.67%) Finance
3 45 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 41 (13.67%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (7.33%) Games
7 13 (4.33%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.33%) Advertising
9 6 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.67%) Agriculture
10 5 (1.67%) Automotive
10 5 (1.67%) Banking
10 5 (1.67%) Retail
11 4 (1.33%) Back Office
11 4 (1.33%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.33%) Marketing
12 3 (1.00%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.67%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.67%) Legal
13 2 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 95 (31.67%) Developer
2 76 (25.33%) Senior
3 52 (17.33%) Lead
4 41 (13.67%) Analyst
5 37 (12.33%) Business Analyst
6 29 (9.67%) Java Developer
7 25 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
8 23 (7.67%) Software Engineer
9 19 (6.33%) Python Developer
10 16 (5.33%) Senior Developer
11 15 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
11 15 (5.00%) Senior Business Analyst
12 14 (4.67%) .NET Developer
13 12 (4.00%) Engineering Manager
13 12 (4.00%) Senior Manager
14 11 (3.67%) DevOps Engineer
14 11 (3.67%) Full-Stack Python Developer
14 11 (3.67%) Software Developer
15 10 (3.33%) Technical Leader
16 9 (3.00%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (14.33%) AngularJS
2 41 (13.67%) React
3 27 (9.00%) .NET
4 25 (8.33%) Node.js
4 25 (8.33%) Spring Boot
5 23 (7.67%) Vue
6 20 (6.67%) Jest
7 18 (6.00%) ASP.NET
7 18 (6.00%) CSS
7 18 (6.00%) Gherkin
7 18 (6.00%) HTML
8 17 (5.67%) ASP.NET Core
9 16 (5.33%) RESTful
10 14 (4.67%) .NET Core
11 13 (4.33%) REST
12 11 (3.67%) Entity Framework
12 11 (3.67%) Flask
12 11 (3.67%) GraphQL
13 10 (3.33%) Android SDK
14 9 (3.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.33%) Mobile App
2 21 (7.00%) Product Ownership
3 15 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 15 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 12 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (3.67%) Data Structures
5 11 (3.67%) NHS
6 10 (3.33%) Social Media
7 9 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.67%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.33%) Learning Management System
11 4 (1.33%) Media Streaming
12 3 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.00%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.00%) PKI
12 3 (1.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.33%) Android
2 12 (4.00%) Apple iOS
3 11 (3.67%) Linux
4 7 (2.33%) Windows
5 6 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (30.33%) CI/CD
2 87 (29.00%) Mentoring
3 67 (22.33%) DevOps
4 66 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (18.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 50 (16.67%) AI
7 47 (15.67%) Coaching
8 45 (15.00%) Scrum
9 44 (14.67%) Full-Stack Development
10 42 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 41 (13.67%) Roadmaps
12 38 (12.67%) SDLC
12 38 (12.67%) Software Engineering
13 35 (11.67%) Decision-Making
14 34 (11.33%) Acceptance Criteria
14 34 (11.33%) Technical Leadership
15 29 (9.67%) Microservices
15 29 (9.67%) Project Management
16 28 (9.33%) Kanban
16 28 (9.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 67 (22.33%) Java
2 55 (18.33%) SQL
3 53 (17.67%) JavaScript
4 47 (15.67%) TypeScript
5 46 (15.33%) Python
6 45 (15.00%) C#
7 24 (8.00%) Groovy
8 20 (6.67%) Bash
9 16 (5.33%) Kotlin
10 11 (3.67%) PHP
11 6 (2.00%) Scala
12 3 (1.00%) Ruby
13 2 (0.67%) Go
13 2 (0.67%) Ladder Logic
13 2 (0.67%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.33%) Bicep
14 1 (0.33%) Perl
14 1 (0.33%) R
14 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (9.00%) Degree
2 20 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 18 (6.00%) AWS Certification
4 17 (5.67%) SC Cleared
5 14 (4.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 14 (4.67%) ITIL Certification
6 10 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.00%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.67%) PMP
9 4 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.33%) CBAP
9 4 (1.33%) Chartered Engineer
9 4 (1.33%) IIBA
10 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.67%) APMP
11 2 (0.67%) CAPM
11 2 (0.67%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.67%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.33%) Accessibility
2 23 (7.67%) QA
3 21 (7.00%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.33%) PMO
4 4 (1.33%) WCAG
5 2 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.67%) GDPR
5 2 (0.67%) IEC 61131
5 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (12.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (7.00%) Terraform
2 18 (6.00%) HP Fortify
3 14 (4.67%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.00%) Ansible
5 3 (1.00%) Argo
5 3 (1.00%) Packer
6 2 (0.67%) Kibana
6 2 (0.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 38 (12.67%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.00%) SAP
3 6 (2.00%) Databricks
3 6 (2.00%) ServiceNow
3 6 (2.00%) TOWER Software
4 5 (1.67%) AppDynamics
4 5 (1.67%) IBM
4 5 (1.67%) Oracle
5 2 (0.67%) Allen-Bradley
5 2 (0.67%) Avaya
5 2 (0.67%) Cisco
5 2 (0.67%) Foundry
5 2 (0.67%) Genesys
5 2 (0.67%) Google
5 2 (0.67%) Pega
5 2 (0.67%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.67%) Siemens
6 1 (0.33%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.33%) Nintex
6 1 (0.33%) Palantir