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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 -7
Permanent jobs citing Agile 299 200 339
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 7.62% 12.87% 13.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.14% 14.04% 17.58%
Number of salaries quoted 201 138 216
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,988
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,000 £45,812
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £93,634 £93,778 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £63,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.80% +10.87% -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 2,685 1,425 1,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 68.46% 91.70% 78.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,051 817 1,323
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £71,625 £71,250 £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 4 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 4 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 -8 255 £64,500 +1.79% 114
Bradford -13 13 £75,000 +3.45% 5
Wakefield -2 10 £57,500 +5.50% 3
Elland - 7 £32,500 -
Huddersfield -9 3 £51,500 +37.33% 1
Pudsey - 2 - -
Ossett - 2 - -
Brighouse - 2 £42,500 -
Dewsbury - 2 - -
Pontefract +4 1 - -
Halifax -4 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 (2.01%) CMS
2 4 (1.34%) Confluence
2 4 (1.34%) 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 9 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.00%) Trello
3 2 (0.67%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.67%) Sketch
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (3.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.34%) Shopify
3 1 (0.33%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 82 (27.42%) AWS
2 74 (24.75%) Azure
3 39 (13.04%) Serverless
4 31 (10.37%) AWS Lambda
5 26 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
5 26 (8.70%) Amazon S3
6 24 (8.03%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (7.02%) AWS Step Functions
8 20 (6.69%) Amazon ECR
8 20 (6.69%) Apigee
8 20 (6.69%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (5.35%) Amazon SQS
10 15 (5.02%) GCP
11 12 (4.01%) GitHub
12 10 (3.34%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (3.34%) Power Platform
13 9 (3.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (3.01%) SaaS
14 8 (2.68%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (8.36%) Broadband
2 4 (1.34%) HTTP
2 4 (1.34%) Internet
3 2 (0.67%) CTI
3 2 (0.67%) DNS
3 2 (0.67%) VoIP
3 2 (0.67%) VPN
4 1 (0.33%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.02%) DynamoDB
2 17 (5.69%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.01%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (3.34%) BigQuery
4 10 (3.34%) SQL Server
5 9 (3.01%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (2.34%) MySQL
8 5 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.67%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.67%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.34%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.34%) Tableau
10 3 (1.00%) Power BI
10 3 (1.00%) Redis
11 2 (0.67%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (0.67%) Big Data
11 2 (0.67%) Metadata
12 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 36 (12.04%) GitLab
1 36 (12.04%) Jenkins
2 24 (8.03%) Cypress.io
3 23 (7.69%) JIRA
3 23 (7.69%) SonarQube
4 21 (7.02%) Maven
5 17 (5.69%) Git
6 6 (2.01%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.01%) Selenium
7 3 (1.00%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.00%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.67%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.67%) JUnit
8 2 (0.67%) Postman
9 1 (0.33%) Gatling
9 1 (0.33%) JMeter
9 1 (0.33%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 73 (24.41%) Social Skills
2 56 (18.73%) Finance
3 47 (15.72%) Public Sector
4 38 (12.71%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (10.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (8.36%) Games
7 12 (4.01%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.34%) Advertising
9 6 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.67%) Agriculture
10 5 (1.67%) Automotive
10 5 (1.67%) Retail
11 4 (1.34%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.34%) Marketing
12 3 (1.00%) Back Office
12 3 (1.00%) Banking
12 3 (1.00%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.67%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.67%) Legal
13 2 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 96 (32.11%) Developer
2 74 (24.75%) Senior
3 50 (16.72%) Lead
4 36 (12.04%) Analyst
5 32 (10.70%) Business Analyst
6 29 (9.70%) Java Developer
7 25 (8.36%) Full-Stack Developer
8 24 (8.03%) Software Engineer
9 19 (6.35%) Python Developer
10 15 (5.02%) Senior Developer
11 13 (4.35%) .NET Developer
11 13 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
11 13 (4.35%) Senior Business Analyst
12 12 (4.01%) Engineering Manager
12 12 (4.01%) Senior Manager
13 11 (3.68%) DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.68%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 11 (3.68%) Technical Leader
14 10 (3.34%) Delivery Manager
14 10 (3.34%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (14.05%) AngularJS
1 42 (14.05%) React
2 26 (8.70%) .NET
3 25 (8.36%) Spring Boot
4 24 (8.03%) Node.js
5 23 (7.69%) Vue
6 22 (7.36%) Jest
7 20 (6.69%) Gherkin
8 18 (6.02%) ASP.NET
8 18 (6.02%) CSS
8 18 (6.02%) HTML
9 17 (5.69%) ASP.NET Core
9 17 (5.69%) RESTful
10 13 (4.35%) .NET Core
10 13 (4.35%) REST
11 12 (4.01%) GraphQL
12 11 (3.68%) Android SDK
12 11 (3.68%) Flask
13 10 (3.34%) Entity Framework
14 7 (2.34%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.03%) Mobile App
2 21 (7.02%) Product Ownership
3 16 (5.35%) Onboarding
4 14 (4.68%) Cloud Native
5 13 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (3.68%) Social Media
7 10 (3.34%) Data Structures
7 10 (3.34%) NHS
8 9 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.67%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.34%) Learning Management System
12 4 (1.34%) Media Streaming
13 3 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (1.00%) Educational Technology
13 3 (1.00%) PKI
13 3 (1.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 25 (8.36%) Android
2 14 (4.68%) Apple iOS
3 11 (3.68%) Linux
4 7 (2.34%) Windows
5 6 (2.01%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (31.77%) CI/CD
2 90 (30.10%) Mentoring
3 67 (22.41%) DevOps
4 65 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (17.73%) AI
5 53 (17.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 48 (16.05%) Coaching
7 45 (15.05%) Full-Stack Development
8 44 (14.72%) Scrum
9 42 (14.05%) Roadmaps
10 39 (13.04%) Software Engineering
10 39 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
11 38 (12.71%) SDLC
12 36 (12.04%) Technical Leadership
13 34 (11.37%) Decision-Making
14 32 (10.70%) Project Management
15 31 (10.37%) Acceptance Criteria
16 29 (9.70%) Microservices
16 29 (9.70%) Test Automation
17 28 (9.36%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 68 (22.74%) Java
2 54 (18.06%) JavaScript
3 53 (17.73%) SQL
4 47 (15.72%) TypeScript
5 46 (15.38%) Python
6 44 (14.72%) C#
7 26 (8.70%) Groovy
8 22 (7.36%) Bash
9 15 (5.02%) Kotlin
10 11 (3.68%) PHP
11 6 (2.01%) Scala
12 3 (1.00%) Ruby
13 2 (0.67%) Go
13 2 (0.67%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.33%) Bicep
14 1 (0.33%) Ladder Logic
14 1 (0.33%) Perl
14 1 (0.33%) R
14 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (8.70%) Degree
2 20 (6.69%) AWS Certification
2 20 (6.69%) Security Cleared
3 17 (5.69%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 15 (5.02%) ITIL Certification
5 10 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.34%) PMI Certification
7 6 (2.01%) PMP
8 4 (1.34%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.34%) CBAP
8 4 (1.34%) Chartered Engineer
8 4 (1.34%) IIBA
9 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.67%) APMP
10 2 (0.67%) CAPM
10 2 (0.67%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.67%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.03%) Accessibility
2 23 (7.69%) QA
3 21 (7.02%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.34%) PMO
4 4 (1.34%) WCAG
5 2 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.67%) GDPR
5 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.33%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 36 (12.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (7.02%) Terraform
2 20 (6.69%) HP Fortify
3 14 (4.68%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.01%) Ansible
5 3 (1.00%) Argo
5 3 (1.00%) Packer
6 2 (0.67%) Kibana
6 2 (0.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 37 (12.37%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.01%) SAP
3 7 (2.34%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.01%) Databricks
4 6 (2.01%) TOWER Software
5 5 (1.67%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.67%) IBM
5 5 (1.67%) Oracle
6 2 (0.67%) Avaya
6 2 (0.67%) Cisco
6 2 (0.67%) Foundry
6 2 (0.67%) Genesys
6 2 (0.67%) Google
6 2 (0.67%) Pega
6 2 (0.67%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.33%) Allen-Bradley
7 1 (0.33%) Informatica
7 1 (0.33%) Palantir
7 1 (0.33%) Progress
7 1 (0.33%) Siemens