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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 305 267 607
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 13.45% 22.25% 23.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.46% 23.73% 26.60%
Number of salaries quoted 178 142 505
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,406 £45,000 £50,172
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,924 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +8.00% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £91,934
Yorkshire median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% -2.44%

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 1,747 1,125 2,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 77.06% 93.75% 88.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,068 611 1,760
10th Percentile £28,600 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,025 £39,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -0.72%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,528 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £48,445 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.72% +5.00% -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 1 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 1 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 -3 268 £67,174 -0.48% 87
Bradford -7 19 £72,500 +31.82% 13
Ossett - 2 - -
Pudsey - 2 - -
Huddersfield -9 1 £55,000 -4.35%
Wakefield -11 1 £42,500 -10.53% 11
Pontefract - 1 - -
Dewsbury - 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 (3.28%) OpenStack
2 7 (2.30%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.97%) Apache
3 6 (1.97%) Confluence
4 5 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.66%) JBoss
5 2 (0.66%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.33%) FileNet
Applications
1 7 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.33%) Sketch
3 1 (0.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (4.59%) SAP ERP
2 9 (2.95%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.66%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 140 (45.90%) AWS
2 77 (25.25%) Serverless
3 70 (22.95%) Azure
4 57 (18.69%) Amazon S3
5 49 (16.07%) AWS Lambda
6 44 (14.43%) Amazon ECS
7 42 (13.77%) AWS Step Functions
8 41 (13.44%) AWS CloudFormation
9 35 (11.48%) Amazon SQS
10 32 (10.49%) SaaS
11 29 (9.51%) Amazon ECR
11 29 (9.51%) Apigee
12 25 (8.20%) GitHub
13 17 (5.57%) GCP
14 15 (4.92%) Amazon EKS
15 14 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
16 12 (3.93%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (3.61%) Amazon EventBridge
18 10 (3.28%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 27 (8.85%) Broadband
2 2 (0.66%) DNS
3 1 (0.33%) Firewall
3 1 (0.33%) HTTP
3 1 (0.33%) Network Security
3 1 (0.33%) SSL
3 1 (0.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (17.38%) DynamoDB
2 31 (10.16%) SQL Server
3 23 (7.54%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (7.21%) NoSQL
5 14 (4.59%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.95%) Data Lake
6 9 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (2.95%) Metadata
7 7 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (1.64%) BusinessObjects
8 5 (1.64%) MySQL
9 4 (1.31%) Power BI
9 4 (1.31%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.31%) Tableau
10 3 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.98%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.98%) Data Vault
10 3 (0.98%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.66%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 43 (14.10%) Jenkins
2 42 (13.77%) GitLab
3 29 (9.51%) Cypress.io
3 29 (9.51%) Git
3 29 (9.51%) Maven
3 29 (9.51%) SonarQube
4 8 (2.62%) JIRA
5 5 (1.64%) Selenium
6 3 (0.98%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.66%) JUnit
8 1 (0.33%) Postman
General
1 94 (30.82%) Social Skills
2 42 (13.77%) Finance
3 37 (12.13%) Public Sector
4 36 (11.80%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (9.51%) Games
6 14 (4.59%) Retail
7 11 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (3.28%) Marketing
9 7 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.31%) Advertising
10 4 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.31%) Legal
11 2 (0.66%) Law
12 1 (0.33%) Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.33%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.33%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.33%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 84 (27.54%) Developer
2 64 (20.98%) Senior
3 48 (15.74%) Lead
4 34 (11.15%) Java Developer
5 23 (7.54%) Development Manager
6 19 (6.23%) Software Manager
7 18 (5.90%) Analyst
7 18 (5.90%) Python Developer
7 18 (5.90%) Software Development Manager
8 15 (4.92%) Business Analyst
9 14 (4.59%) .NET Development Manager
9 14 (4.59%) AWS Developer
9 14 (4.59%) Senior Developer
9 14 (4.59%) Software Engineer
10 13 (4.26%) Architect
10 13 (4.26%) Senior Manager
11 12 (3.93%) Data Engineer
11 12 (3.93%) Full-Stack Developer
11 12 (3.93%) Project Manager
11 12 (3.93%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (20.00%) React
2 41 (13.44%) Spring Boot
3 36 (11.80%) .NET
4 34 (11.15%) AngularJS
5 29 (9.51%) Gherkin
5 29 (9.51%) Jest
5 29 (9.51%) Node.js
5 29 (9.51%) REST
6 20 (6.56%) HTML
7 19 (6.23%) CSS
7 19 (6.23%) Spring
8 16 (5.25%) Vue
9 15 (4.92%) Django
9 15 (4.92%) FastAPI
9 15 (4.92%) Flask
9 15 (4.92%) RESTful
10 13 (4.26%) .NET Core
10 13 (4.26%) ASP.NET
10 13 (4.26%) Blazor
10 13 (4.26%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.85%) Cloud Native
1 27 (8.85%) Mobile App
2 21 (6.89%) Data Structures
2 21 (6.89%) Onboarding
3 20 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (5.25%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.28%) Social Media
6 9 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.30%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.64%) NHS
10 4 (1.31%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.98%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.66%) Educational Technology
12 2 (0.66%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.66%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.52%) Android
2 21 (6.89%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (44.26%) CI/CD
2 105 (34.43%) Mentoring
3 93 (30.49%) DevOps
4 74 (24.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 71 (23.28%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (18.03%) Software Engineering
6 55 (18.03%) Stakeholder Management
7 49 (16.07%) SDLC
8 48 (15.74%) Coaching
9 47 (15.41%) Microservices
9 47 (15.41%) Project Management
10 42 (13.77%) Infrastructure as Code
11 39 (12.79%) Decision-Making
11 39 (12.79%) Roadmaps
12 38 (12.46%) Observability
13 36 (11.80%) Scrum
14 35 (11.48%) AI
15 31 (10.16%) Waterfall
16 30 (9.84%) Full-Stack Development
16 30 (9.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 62 (20.33%) Java
2 51 (16.72%) JavaScript
3 50 (16.39%) TypeScript
4 46 (15.08%) SQL
5 34 (11.15%) Python
6 29 (9.51%) Bash
7 28 (9.18%) Groovy
8 25 (8.20%) C#
9 7 (2.30%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.64%) PHP
11 4 (1.31%) VBA
12 3 (0.98%) ABAP
13 2 (0.66%) COBOL
13 2 (0.66%) Go
13 2 (0.66%) R
14 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (13.11%) AWS Certification
2 19 (6.23%) AWS Certified Developer
3 18 (5.90%) Degree
4 17 (5.57%) ITIL Certification
5 16 (5.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 9 (2.95%) SC Cleared
6 9 (2.95%) Security Cleared
7 6 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.98%) IIBA
8 3 (0.98%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.66%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.66%) PMP
9 2 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.33%) CIPD
10 1 (0.33%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.18%) Accessibility
2 24 (7.87%) QA
3 12 (3.93%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.62%) GDPR
5 7 (2.30%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.98%) PMO
9 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.66%) GRC
9 2 (0.66%) NIST
9 2 (0.66%) P3O
9 2 (0.66%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.33%) NCSC
10 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 76 (24.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 53 (17.38%) Terraform
2 29 (9.51%) HP Fortify
3 19 (6.23%) Kubernetes
4 10 (3.28%) Ansible
5 6 (1.97%) Grafana
5 6 (1.97%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.33%) Kibana
6 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (8.52%) SAP
2 19 (6.23%) Microsoft
3 5 (1.64%) Databricks
4 4 (1.31%) Google
5 3 (0.98%) Oracle
5 3 (0.98%) Pega
5 3 (0.98%) WSO2
6 2 (0.66%) Adobe
6 2 (0.66%) New Relic
6 2 (0.66%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.66%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.33%) IBM
7 1 (0.33%) Informatica
7 1 (0.33%) Nintex