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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 13 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 -7
Permanent jobs citing Agile 278 169 297
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 6.66% 11.32% 12.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.66% 12.59% 16.71%
Number of salaries quoted 203 119 169
10th Percentile £41,500 £41,074 £41,080
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,418 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% +13.64% -15.84%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,353
90th Percentile £92,254 £88,000 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £56,250
% change year-on-year -4.00% +11.11% -6.25%

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 2,878 1,342 1,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 68.98% 89.89% 77.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,231 756 1,093
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £83,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -7 243 £65,000 +2.58% 87
Bradford -10 13 £75,000 +3.45% 6
Wakefield -3 9 £57,500 +5.50% 3
Elland - 6 £32,500 -
Huddersfield -6 3 £51,500 +37.33% 3
Brighouse - 2 £42,500 -
Wetherby - 1 £35,000 -
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 7 (2.52%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.80%) CMS
2 5 (1.80%) Confluence
3 3 (1.08%) IIS
4 2 (0.72%) WordPress
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.72%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.72%) Trello
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (3.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.08%) Shopify
3 2 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.36%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 85 (30.58%) AWS
2 75 (26.98%) Azure
3 36 (12.95%) Serverless
4 30 (10.79%) AWS Lambda
5 24 (8.63%) Amazon S3
6 21 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (7.19%) Amazon ECS
7 20 (7.19%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (6.12%) AWS Step Functions
8 17 (6.12%) GCP
8 17 (6.12%) GitHub
9 14 (5.04%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (4.32%) Amazon ECR
10 12 (4.32%) Apigee
11 11 (3.96%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (3.96%) SaaS
12 9 (3.24%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (2.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (2.88%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.44%) Internet
2 3 (1.08%) HTTP
2 3 (1.08%) Network Security
3 2 (0.72%) CTI
3 2 (0.72%) DNS
3 2 (0.72%) Profibus
3 2 (0.72%) VoIP
3 2 (0.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.12%) DynamoDB
2 15 (5.40%) MongoDB
3 13 (4.68%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.24%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (3.24%) BigQuery
4 9 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (3.24%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.80%) MySQL
7 4 (1.44%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.08%) Metadata
8 3 (1.08%) Redis
8 3 (1.08%) Spark SQL
8 3 (1.08%) Tableau
9 2 (0.72%) Big Data
9 2 (0.72%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.72%) Power BI
10 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 28 (10.07%) GitLab
1 28 (10.07%) Jenkins
2 26 (9.35%) JIRA
3 20 (7.19%) Cypress.io
4 16 (5.76%) Git
5 15 (5.40%) SonarQube
6 13 (4.68%) Maven
7 6 (2.16%) Selenium
8 5 (1.80%) JMeter
9 4 (1.44%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.44%) Postman
10 3 (1.08%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.08%) Claude Code
10 3 (1.08%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.36%) Appium
11 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.36%) Gatling
11 1 (0.36%) JUnit
11 1 (0.36%) Ranorex
11 1 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 72 (25.90%) Social Skills
2 56 (20.14%) Public Sector
3 50 (17.99%) Finance
4 41 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (4.32%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.24%) Advertising
8 8 (2.88%) Banking
9 5 (1.80%) Agriculture
9 5 (1.80%) Automotive
9 5 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.80%) Marketing
10 4 (1.44%) Back Office
10 4 (1.44%) Legal
10 4 (1.44%) Retail
11 3 (1.08%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.08%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.72%) Publishing
12 2 (0.72%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.36%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 82 (29.50%) Senior
2 79 (28.42%) Developer
3 43 (15.47%) Lead
4 41 (14.75%) Analyst
5 35 (12.59%) Business Analyst
6 25 (8.99%) Full-Stack Developer
6 25 (8.99%) Software Engineer
7 24 (8.63%) Java Developer
8 18 (6.47%) Senior Developer
9 17 (6.12%) Python Developer
10 14 (5.04%) .NET Developer
11 12 (4.32%) Architect
11 12 (4.32%) Senior Analyst
11 12 (4.32%) Senior Business Analyst
11 12 (4.32%) Senior Software Engineer
12 11 (3.96%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.96%) Senior Manager
13 9 (3.24%) Data Engineer
13 9 (3.24%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 9 (3.24%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (14.03%) AngularJS
2 38 (13.67%) React
3 33 (11.87%) .NET
4 26 (9.35%) Node.js
5 21 (7.55%) Spring Boot
5 21 (7.55%) Vue
6 19 (6.83%) Terraform
7 18 (6.47%) ASP.NET
7 18 (6.47%) CSS
7 18 (6.47%) RESTful
8 17 (6.12%) ASP.NET Core
8 17 (6.12%) HTML
9 15 (5.40%) Gherkin
9 15 (5.40%) REST
10 14 (5.04%) .NET Core
10 14 (5.04%) Jest
11 11 (3.96%) Entity Framework
11 11 (3.96%) Flask
11 11 (3.96%) Spring
12 10 (3.60%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.83%) Cloud Native
1 19 (6.83%) Product Ownership
2 11 (3.96%) Data Structures
3 8 (2.88%) NHS
4 7 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.16%) Mobile App
6 5 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.80%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.44%) Learning Management System
7 4 (1.44%) Media Streaming
7 4 (1.44%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.08%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.08%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.08%) PKI
8 3 (1.08%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.68%) Linux
2 8 (2.88%) Unix
2 8 (2.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (28.78%) Mentoring
2 75 (26.98%) CI/CD
3 67 (24.10%) DevOps
4 66 (23.74%) Continuous Improvement
5 52 (18.71%) Coaching
5 52 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (17.27%) Scrum
7 46 (16.55%) Full-Stack Development
8 41 (14.75%) Software Engineering
8 41 (14.75%) Stakeholder Management
9 37 (13.31%) SDLC
10 34 (12.23%) Acceptance Criteria
11 32 (11.51%) Microservices
11 32 (11.51%) Test Automation
12 31 (11.15%) AI
12 31 (11.15%) Technical Leadership
13 30 (10.79%) Waterfall
14 29 (10.43%) Decision-Making
14 29 (10.43%) Kanban
15 27 (9.71%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 61 (21.94%) SQL
2 54 (19.42%) Java
3 53 (19.06%) JavaScript
4 48 (17.27%) C#
4 48 (17.27%) TypeScript
5 43 (15.47%) Python
6 18 (6.47%) Groovy
7 14 (5.04%) Bash
8 8 (2.88%) PHP
9 7 (2.52%) Scala
10 6 (2.16%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.08%) C++
11 3 (1.08%) Ruby
12 2 (0.72%) Ladder Logic
12 2 (0.72%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.36%) Bicep
13 1 (0.36%) Go
13 1 (0.36%) Perl
13 1 (0.36%) R
13 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (7.91%) Degree
2 16 (5.76%) Security Cleared
3 13 (4.68%) AWS Certification
3 13 (4.68%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 10 (3.60%) ITIL Certification
5 9 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.16%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.80%) PMP
8 4 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.44%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (0.72%) APMP
9 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.72%) CAPM
9 2 (0.72%) CBAP
9 2 (0.72%) IIBA
9 2 (0.72%) PgMP
10 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.36%) CSPO
10 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.71%) QA
2 23 (8.27%) Data Quality
3 18 (6.47%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.80%) PMO
4 5 (1.80%) WCAG
5 2 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.72%) IEC 61131
6 1 (0.36%) GDPR
6 1 (0.36%) GRC
6 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (11.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (5.04%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.32%) HP Fortify
3 6 (2.16%) Ansible
4 3 (1.08%) Argo
4 3 (1.08%) Packer
5 2 (0.72%) Kibana
5 2 (0.72%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 44 (15.83%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.04%) SAP
3 7 (2.52%) Oracle
4 6 (2.16%) Databricks
4 6 (2.16%) TOWER Software
5 5 (1.80%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.80%) Google
5 5 (1.80%) IBM
5 5 (1.80%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.08%) Adobe
6 3 (1.08%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.72%) Allen-Bradley
7 2 (0.72%) Avaya
7 2 (0.72%) Cisco
7 2 (0.72%) Foundry
7 2 (0.72%) Genesys
7 2 (0.72%) Pega
7 2 (0.72%) Siemens
8 1 (0.36%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.36%) Palantir