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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 5 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 342 243 525
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 10.52% 20.73% 18.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.81% 21.85% 21.90%
Number of salaries quoted 207 161 403
10th Percentile £43,568 £42,500 £42,147
25th Percentile £50,903 £47,231 £47,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,934 £79,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £91,356
Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year -3.85% +12.14% -3.39%

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 2,310 1,112 2,397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 71.08% 94.88% 85.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,584 695 1,862
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,388 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,918
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £69,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £96,500 £84,964
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £49,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -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 4 May 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 May 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 -3 305 £66,847 -0.97% 82
Bradford -19 10 £65,000 -10.34% 3
Elland - 7 £32,500 -
Huddersfield -8 3 £51,500 -10.43% 1
Ossett - 3 - -
Wakefield -9 2 £42,500 -33.33% 4
Brighouse - 2 £42,500 -
Dewsbury - 2 - -
Pudsey - 2 - -
Halifax -3 1 - - 1
Pontefract -3 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 7 (2.05%) OpenStack
2 3 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (0.88%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.88%) JBoss
2 3 (0.88%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.58%) Apache
3 2 (0.58%) Confluence
4 1 (0.29%) CMS
4 1 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.58%) Sketch
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (3.80%) SAP ERP
2 4 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.29%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 128 (37.43%) AWS
2 79 (23.10%) Serverless
3 76 (22.22%) Azure
4 60 (17.54%) AWS Lambda
5 59 (17.25%) Amazon S3
6 51 (14.91%) Amazon ECS
7 46 (13.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 46 (13.45%) AWS Step Functions
8 37 (10.82%) Amazon ECR
8 37 (10.82%) Amazon SQS
8 37 (10.82%) Apigee
9 26 (7.60%) SaaS
10 19 (5.56%) GitHub
11 18 (5.26%) GCP
12 14 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (3.80%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (3.51%) Power Platform
15 11 (3.22%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (2.63%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 33 (9.65%) Broadband
2 2 (0.58%) DNS
2 2 (0.58%) HTTP
3 1 (0.29%) SSL
3 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (15.50%) DynamoDB
2 27 (7.89%) SQL Server
3 21 (6.14%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (5.85%) NoSQL
5 11 (3.22%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.63%) Metadata
7 5 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (1.46%) BigQuery
7 5 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.46%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.46%) MySQL
7 5 (1.46%) Tableau
8 4 (1.17%) Power BI
9 3 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.88%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.88%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.58%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.29%) Looker
Development Applications
1 60 (17.54%) GitLab
2 56 (16.37%) Jenkins
3 40 (11.70%) SonarQube
4 38 (11.11%) Cypress.io
5 37 (10.82%) Maven
6 29 (8.48%) Git
7 15 (4.39%) JIRA
8 8 (2.34%) Selenium
9 7 (2.05%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.88%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.88%) JUnit
11 2 (0.58%) Postman
12 1 (0.29%) Gatling
12 1 (0.29%) JMeter
12 1 (0.29%) REST Assured
General
1 92 (26.90%) Social Skills
2 52 (15.20%) Finance
3 47 (13.74%) Public Sector
4 37 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (9.94%) Games
6 19 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.63%) Marketing
7 9 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (2.63%) Retail
8 5 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.17%) Advertising
9 4 (1.17%) Agriculture
9 4 (1.17%) Automotive
10 3 (0.88%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.58%) Banking
11 2 (0.58%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.29%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.29%) Law
12 1 (0.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 108 (31.58%) Developer
2 72 (21.05%) Senior
3 64 (18.71%) Lead
4 43 (12.57%) Java Developer
5 30 (8.77%) Analyst
6 23 (6.73%) Business Analyst
6 23 (6.73%) Full-Stack Developer
7 21 (6.14%) Python Developer
8 18 (5.26%) Development Manager
8 18 (5.26%) Senior Manager
8 18 (5.26%) Software Manager
9 17 (4.97%) Technical Leader
10 16 (4.68%) Senior Developer
10 16 (4.68%) Software Engineer
11 15 (4.39%) Software Development Manager
12 14 (4.09%) .NET Development Manager
12 14 (4.09%) AWS Developer
12 14 (4.09%) Engineering Manager
12 14 (4.09%) Software Developer
13 13 (3.80%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (14.62%) AngularJS
1 50 (14.62%) React
2 47 (13.74%) Spring Boot
3 37 (10.82%) Gherkin
3 37 (10.82%) Jest
4 31 (9.06%) .NET
5 22 (6.43%) REST
6 21 (6.14%) Node.js
6 21 (6.14%) Vue
7 17 (4.97%) Spring
8 16 (4.68%) GraphQL
8 16 (4.68%) HTML
9 15 (4.39%) ASP.NET
9 15 (4.39%) CSS
9 15 (4.39%) RESTful
10 14 (4.09%) Flask
11 12 (3.51%) .NET Core
11 12 (3.51%) ASP.NET Core
11 12 (3.51%) Elastic Stack
12 11 (3.22%) Android SDK
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.65%) Mobile App
2 26 (7.60%) Cloud Native
3 21 (6.14%) Onboarding
3 21 (6.14%) Product Ownership
4 18 (5.26%) Data Structures
5 17 (4.97%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (4.39%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (3.80%) Social Media
8 11 (3.22%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.05%) NHS
10 6 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.46%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.17%) Media Streaming
12 4 (1.17%) PKI
13 3 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.36%) Android
2 21 (6.14%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.75%) Linux
4 4 (1.17%) Windows
5 3 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (42.11%) CI/CD
2 105 (30.70%) Mentoring
3 96 (28.07%) DevOps
4 77 (22.51%) Problem-Solving
5 70 (20.47%) Continuous Improvement
6 60 (17.54%) SDLC
7 58 (16.96%) Stakeholder Management
8 48 (14.04%) AI
9 47 (13.74%) Coaching
10 42 (12.28%) Roadmaps
11 41 (11.99%) Software Engineering
12 40 (11.70%) Decision-Making
12 40 (11.70%) Full-Stack Development
12 40 (11.70%) Observability
13 39 (11.40%) Microservices
13 39 (11.40%) Project Management
14 35 (10.23%) Scrum
14 35 (10.23%) Waterfall
15 33 (9.65%) Infrastructure as Code
16 32 (9.36%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 85 (24.85%) Java
2 59 (17.25%) TypeScript
3 47 (13.74%) SQL
4 46 (13.45%) JavaScript
5 40 (11.70%) Python
6 39 (11.40%) Groovy
7 37 (10.82%) Bash
7 37 (10.82%) C#
8 14 (4.09%) Kotlin
9 9 (2.63%) PHP
10 4 (1.17%) Go
10 4 (1.17%) VBA
11 2 (0.58%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.58%) Scala
12 1 (0.29%) COBOL
12 1 (0.29%) Perl
12 1 (0.29%) R
Qualifications
1 46 (13.45%) AWS Certification
2 24 (7.02%) Degree
3 23 (6.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 23 (6.73%) ITIL Certification
4 18 (5.26%) AWS Certified Developer
4 18 (5.26%) Security Cleared
5 17 (4.97%) SC Cleared
6 7 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.05%) IIBA
7 4 (1.17%) CBAP
8 3 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.88%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.58%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.58%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.58%) PMP
10 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.29%) CIPD
10 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.65%) QA
2 32 (9.36%) Accessibility
3 21 (6.14%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.05%) GDPR
5 6 (1.75%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.88%) PMO
8 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.58%) GRC
8 2 (0.58%) NIST
8 2 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 73 (21.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (12.28%) Terraform
2 37 (10.82%) HP Fortify
3 22 (6.43%) Kubernetes
4 13 (3.80%) Ansible
5 6 (1.75%) Grafana
5 6 (1.75%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.88%) Argo
6 3 (0.88%) Packer
7 2 (0.58%) Kibana
8 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (6.73%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.56%) SAP
3 5 (1.46%) AppDynamics
3 5 (1.46%) IBM
4 4 (1.17%) Databricks
4 4 (1.17%) Google
4 4 (1.17%) ServiceNow
5 3 (0.88%) Oracle
5 3 (0.88%) TOWER Software
6 2 (0.58%) Adobe
7 1 (0.29%) Foundry
7 1 (0.29%) Informatica
7 1 (0.29%) New Relic
7 1 (0.29%) Nintex
7 1 (0.29%) Palantir