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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 10 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing Agile 290 197 319
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 7.03% 12.94% 12.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.27% 14.31% 16.61%
Number of salaries quoted 202 134 202
10th Percentile £39,336 £42,525 £38,976
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,563 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,788 £62,617 £55,750
Median % change year-on-year +1.87% +12.32% -14.32%
75th Percentile £76,047 £79,688 £71,991
90th Percentile £93,520 £91,934 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 2,823 1,377 1,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 68.39% 90.47% 78.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,175 786 1,258
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £73,931 £70,688 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £51,865 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.19% -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 26 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 26 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 -9 251 £65,000 +2.58% 70
Bradford -11 13 £75,000 +3.45% 3
Wakefield -3 9 £57,500 +5.50% 2
Elland - 7 £32,500 -
Huddersfield -8 3 £51,500 +37.33% 1
Brighouse - 2 £42,500 -
Halifax -5 1 - -
Dewsbury - 1 - -
Wetherby - 1 £35,000 -
Ossett - 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 7 (2.41%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.07%) CMS
3 5 (1.72%) Confluence
4 3 (1.03%) IIS
5 2 (0.69%) WordPress
6 1 (0.34%) Apache
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.34%) JBoss
6 1 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.69%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.69%) Trello
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.34%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (3.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.03%) Shopify
4 1 (0.34%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 79 (27.24%) AWS
2 76 (26.21%) Azure
3 34 (11.72%) Serverless
4 28 (9.66%) AWS Lambda
5 23 (7.93%) Amazon S3
6 22 (7.59%) Amazon ECS
7 21 (7.24%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (7.24%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (6.21%) AWS Step Functions
9 16 (5.52%) GCP
10 14 (4.83%) Amazon ECR
10 14 (4.83%) Apigee
10 14 (4.83%) GitHub
11 13 (4.48%) Amazon SQS
12 11 (3.79%) SaaS
13 9 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (2.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 8 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (2.76%) Microsoft Copilot
14 8 (2.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.14%) Broadband
2 4 (1.38%) Internet
3 3 (1.03%) HTTP
4 2 (0.69%) CTI
4 2 (0.69%) DNS
4 2 (0.69%) Network Security
4 2 (0.69%) Profibus
4 2 (0.69%) VoIP
4 2 (0.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.21%) DynamoDB
2 15 (5.17%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.14%) SQL Server
4 10 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (3.10%) BigQuery
6 8 (2.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (2.76%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.72%) MySQL
9 3 (1.03%) Metadata
9 3 (1.03%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.03%) Redis
9 3 (1.03%) Tableau
10 2 (0.69%) Big Data
10 2 (0.69%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.69%) Power BI
11 1 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.34%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 28 (9.66%) GitLab
1 28 (9.66%) Jenkins
2 23 (7.93%) JIRA
3 19 (6.55%) Cypress.io
4 17 (5.86%) SonarQube
5 16 (5.52%) Git
6 15 (5.17%) Maven
7 5 (1.72%) Selenium
8 4 (1.38%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.03%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.03%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.69%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.34%) Gatling
11 1 (0.34%) JMeter
11 1 (0.34%) JUnit
11 1 (0.34%) Postman
11 1 (0.34%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 72 (24.83%) Social Skills
2 54 (18.62%) Finance
3 52 (17.93%) Public Sector
4 41 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (8.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (4.14%) Games
6 12 (4.14%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.10%) Advertising
8 6 (2.07%) Banking
8 6 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.72%) Agriculture
9 5 (1.72%) Automotive
9 5 (1.72%) Marketing
10 4 (1.38%) Back Office
10 4 (1.38%) Retail
11 3 (1.03%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.03%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.69%) Legal
12 2 (0.69%) Publishing
12 2 (0.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 88 (30.34%) Developer
2 77 (26.55%) Senior
3 48 (16.55%) Lead
4 42 (14.48%) Analyst
5 37 (12.76%) Business Analyst
6 26 (8.97%) Full-Stack Developer
7 25 (8.62%) Java Developer
8 23 (7.93%) Software Engineer
9 18 (6.21%) Python Developer
9 18 (6.21%) Senior Developer
10 14 (4.83%) .NET Developer
11 13 (4.48%) Senior Analyst
11 13 (4.48%) Senior Business Analyst
12 11 (3.79%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.79%) Senior Manager
12 11 (3.79%) Software Developer
13 10 (3.45%) Architect
13 10 (3.45%) Full-Stack Python Developer
14 9 (3.10%) Senior Software Engineer
15 8 (2.76%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (13.79%) AngularJS
1 40 (13.79%) React
2 31 (10.69%) .NET
3 25 (8.62%) Node.js
4 22 (7.59%) Spring Boot
4 22 (7.59%) Vue
5 19 (6.55%) Terraform
6 18 (6.21%) ASP.NET
6 18 (6.21%) CSS
7 17 (5.86%) ASP.NET Core
7 17 (5.86%) HTML
8 16 (5.52%) Jest
8 16 (5.52%) RESTful
9 14 (4.83%) .NET Core
9 14 (4.83%) Gherkin
9 14 (4.83%) REST
10 11 (3.79%) Entity Framework
10 11 (3.79%) Flask
11 10 (3.45%) Spring
12 8 (2.76%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.21%) Mobile App
1 18 (6.21%) Product Ownership
2 17 (5.86%) Cloud Native
3 11 (3.79%) Data Structures
4 10 (3.45%) NHS
5 9 (3.10%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (3.10%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.07%) Social Media
8 5 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.72%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.38%) Learning Management System
9 4 (1.38%) Media Streaming
10 3 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.03%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.03%) PKI
10 3 (1.03%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.14%) Android
1 12 (4.14%) Linux
2 8 (2.76%) Windows
3 7 (2.41%) Unix
4 6 (2.07%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (29.31%) Mentoring
2 84 (28.97%) CI/CD
3 68 (23.45%) DevOps
4 62 (21.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 60 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (16.90%) Coaching
7 46 (15.86%) Full-Stack Development
8 43 (14.83%) AI
8 43 (14.83%) Scrum
9 40 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
10 38 (13.10%) SDLC
10 38 (13.10%) Software Engineering
11 36 (12.41%) Technical Leadership
12 33 (11.38%) Roadmaps
12 33 (11.38%) Waterfall
13 32 (11.03%) Acceptance Criteria
13 32 (11.03%) Decision-Making
14 30 (10.34%) Test Automation
15 29 (10.00%) Microservices
16 27 (9.31%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 59 (20.34%) Java
2 56 (19.31%) SQL
3 51 (17.59%) JavaScript
4 50 (17.24%) C#
5 47 (16.21%) TypeScript
6 45 (15.52%) Python
7 20 (6.90%) Groovy
8 16 (5.52%) Bash
9 11 (3.79%) Kotlin
10 10 (3.45%) PHP
11 7 (2.41%) Scala
12 3 (1.03%) Ruby
13 2 (0.69%) Go
13 2 (0.69%) Ladder Logic
13 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.34%) Bicep
14 1 (0.34%) C++
14 1 (0.34%) Perl
14 1 (0.34%) R
14 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (8.28%) Degree
2 18 (6.21%) Security Cleared
3 15 (5.17%) SC Cleared
4 14 (4.83%) AWS Certification
5 12 (4.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 12 (4.14%) ITIL Certification
6 9 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.07%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.72%) PMP
9 4 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.38%) CBAP
9 4 (1.38%) Chartered Engineer
9 4 (1.38%) IIBA
10 2 (0.69%) APMP
10 2 (0.69%) CAPM
10 2 (0.69%) PgMP
11 1 (0.34%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.97%) QA
2 25 (8.62%) Accessibility
3 22 (7.59%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.72%) WCAG
5 4 (1.38%) PMO
6 2 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.69%) IEC 61131
7 1 (0.34%) GDPR
7 1 (0.34%) GRC
7 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (11.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (4.83%) HP Fortify
1 14 (4.83%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.07%) Ansible
3 3 (1.03%) Argo
3 3 (1.03%) Packer
4 2 (0.69%) Kibana
4 2 (0.69%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 43 (14.83%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.48%) SAP
3 6 (2.07%) Databricks
3 6 (2.07%) Oracle
3 6 (2.07%) TOWER Software
4 5 (1.72%) AppDynamics
4 5 (1.72%) IBM
4 5 (1.72%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.38%) Google
6 3 (1.03%) Adobe
6 3 (1.03%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.69%) Allen-Bradley
7 2 (0.69%) Avaya
7 2 (0.69%) Cisco
7 2 (0.69%) Foundry
7 2 (0.69%) Genesys
7 2 (0.69%) Pega
7 2 (0.69%) Siemens
8 1 (0.34%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.34%) Palantir