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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 12 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 -7
Permanent jobs citing Agile 271 168 288
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 6.42% 10.99% 13.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.17% 12.23% 16.80%
Number of salaries quoted 191 117 154
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,074 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,231
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £57,100
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +9.46% -12.62%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,806
90th Percentile £93,634 £83,750 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -6.50%

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 2,954 1,374 1,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 69.97% 89.92% 77.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,259 744 1,010
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £91,515 £85,000 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -8.65% -0.95%

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 24 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 24 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 -5 239 £65,000 +1.56% 198
Bradford -11 14 £75,000 +3.45% 29
Wakefield -2 10 £57,500 +5.50% 10
Huddersfield -9 3 £51,500 +37.33% 2
Elland - 3 £32,500 -
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 6 (2.21%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.85%) CMS
2 5 (1.85%) Confluence
3 3 (1.11%) IIS
4 2 (0.74%) WordPress
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.37%) JBoss
5 1 (0.37%) nginx
5 1 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.74%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.74%) Trello
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (3.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.11%) Shopify
3 2 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.37%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 90 (33.21%) AWS
2 73 (26.94%) Azure
3 36 (13.28%) Serverless
4 32 (11.81%) AWS Lambda
5 28 (10.33%) Amazon S3
6 21 (7.75%) Amazon ECS
6 21 (7.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (7.75%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (6.27%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (6.27%) AWS Step Functions
7 17 (6.27%) GCP
7 17 (6.27%) GitHub
8 13 (4.80%) Amazon ECR
8 13 (4.80%) SaaS
9 12 (4.43%) Apigee
10 11 (4.06%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (3.69%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (3.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (3.32%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (3.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.48%) Internet
1 4 (1.48%) Network Security
2 3 (1.11%) DNS
3 2 (0.74%) CTI
3 2 (0.74%) HTTP
3 2 (0.74%) Profibus
3 2 (0.74%) VoIP
3 2 (0.74%) VPN
4 1 (0.37%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.37%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.37%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (0.37%) Firewall
4 1 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.27%) DynamoDB
2 15 (5.54%) MongoDB
2 15 (5.54%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.06%) Relational Database
4 10 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (3.32%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (2.95%) BigQuery
7 7 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.85%) MySQL
9 4 (1.48%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.11%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.11%) Metadata
10 3 (1.11%) Power BI
10 3 (1.11%) Redis
10 3 (1.11%) Spark SQL
10 3 (1.11%) Tableau
11 2 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.74%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 31 (11.44%) GitLab
2 29 (10.70%) Jenkins
3 26 (9.59%) JIRA
4 21 (7.75%) Cypress.io
5 15 (5.54%) Git
5 15 (5.54%) SonarQube
6 13 (4.80%) Maven
7 7 (2.58%) JMeter
8 5 (1.85%) Postman
8 5 (1.85%) Selenium
9 4 (1.48%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.11%) Appium
10 3 (1.11%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.11%) Claude Code
10 3 (1.11%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.74%) Ranorex
12 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 71 (26.20%) Social Skills
2 57 (21.03%) Public Sector
3 44 (16.24%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (15.87%) Finance
5 16 (5.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (4.80%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.32%) Advertising
7 9 (3.32%) Banking
8 5 (1.85%) Marketing
9 4 (1.48%) Agriculture
9 4 (1.48%) Automotive
9 4 (1.48%) Back Office
9 4 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.48%) Legal
9 4 (1.48%) Retail
10 3 (1.11%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.74%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.74%) Publishing
11 2 (0.74%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (28.41%) Senior
2 73 (26.94%) Developer
3 41 (15.13%) Lead
4 39 (14.39%) Analyst
5 33 (12.18%) Business Analyst
6 25 (9.23%) Software Engineer
7 23 (8.49%) Java Developer
8 22 (8.12%) Full-Stack Developer
9 17 (6.27%) Senior Developer
10 14 (5.17%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (5.17%) Python Developer
11 13 (4.80%) Architect
12 12 (4.43%) .NET Developer
12 12 (4.43%) Senior Software Engineer
13 10 (3.69%) Senior Manager
14 9 (3.32%) Senior Analyst
14 9 (3.32%) Senior Business Analyst
14 9 (3.32%) Senior Java Developer
14 9 (3.32%) Technical Architect
14 9 (3.32%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.92%) AngularJS
2 34 (12.55%) React
3 33 (12.18%) .NET
4 26 (9.59%) Node.js
5 22 (8.12%) Spring Boot
6 21 (7.75%) Terraform
7 18 (6.64%) RESTful
8 17 (6.27%) Gherkin
9 16 (5.90%) ASP.NET
9 16 (5.90%) REST
10 15 (5.54%) ASP.NET Core
11 14 (5.17%) CSS
11 14 (5.17%) Jest
12 13 (4.80%) HTML
12 13 (4.80%) Vue
13 12 (4.43%) .NET Core
13 12 (4.43%) Playwright
13 12 (4.43%) Spring
14 9 (3.32%) Entity Framework
15 8 (2.95%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.75%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.01%) Product Ownership
3 8 (2.95%) Data Structures
4 7 (2.58%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (2.58%) Mobile App
4 7 (2.58%) NHS
5 6 (2.21%) Driving Licence
6 5 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.48%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.48%) Learning Management System
7 4 (1.48%) Media Streaming
7 4 (1.48%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.11%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.11%) PMI
8 3 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.80%) Linux
2 8 (2.95%) Unix
2 8 (2.95%) Windows
3 1 (0.37%) Android
3 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (28.41%) CI/CD
2 73 (26.94%) Mentoring
3 70 (25.83%) DevOps
4 65 (23.99%) Continuous Improvement
5 54 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (19.19%) Coaching
7 50 (18.45%) Scrum
8 44 (16.24%) Full-Stack Development
9 43 (15.87%) Stakeholder Management
10 42 (15.50%) Software Engineering
11 40 (14.76%) SDLC
12 35 (12.92%) AI
13 34 (12.55%) Microservices
13 34 (12.55%) Test Automation
14 32 (11.81%) Acceptance Criteria
15 31 (11.44%) Technical Leadership
16 30 (11.07%) Kanban
17 28 (10.33%) Roadmaps
18 26 (9.59%) Waterfall
19 25 (9.23%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 59 (21.77%) SQL
2 53 (19.56%) Java
3 48 (17.71%) JavaScript
4 46 (16.97%) TypeScript
5 44 (16.24%) C#
6 43 (15.87%) Python
7 18 (6.64%) Groovy
8 15 (5.54%) Bash
9 8 (2.95%) PHP
10 7 (2.58%) Kotlin
10 7 (2.58%) Scala
11 3 (1.11%) C++
11 3 (1.11%) Ruby
12 2 (0.74%) Ladder Logic
12 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.37%) Bicep
13 1 (0.37%) Go
13 1 (0.37%) Perl
13 1 (0.37%) R
13 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (7.75%) Security Cleared
2 20 (7.38%) Degree
3 17 (6.27%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.80%) AWS Certification
5 10 (3.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 10 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.69%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (2.21%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.85%) PMP
8 4 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.48%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (0.74%) APMP
9 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.74%) CAPM
9 2 (0.74%) PgMP
10 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.37%) CSPO
10 1 (0.37%) IIBA
10 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.70%) QA
2 19 (7.01%) Data Quality
3 16 (5.90%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.85%) WCAG
5 4 (1.48%) PMO
6 2 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.74%) IEC 61131
7 1 (0.37%) GRC
System Software
1 30 (11.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (5.90%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.43%) HP Fortify
3 7 (2.58%) Ansible
4 3 (1.11%) Argo
4 3 (1.11%) Packer
5 2 (0.74%) Kibana
5 2 (0.74%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.37%) Grafana
6 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 43 (15.87%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.17%) SAP
3 7 (2.58%) Oracle
4 6 (2.21%) Databricks
5 5 (1.85%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.85%) Google
5 5 (1.85%) IBM
5 5 (1.85%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.85%) TOWER Software
6 3 (1.11%) Adobe
6 3 (1.11%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.74%) Allen-Bradley
7 2 (0.74%) Avaya
7 2 (0.74%) Cisco
7 2 (0.74%) Foundry
7 2 (0.74%) Genesys
7 2 (0.74%) Informatica
7 2 (0.74%) Pega
7 2 (0.74%) Siemens
8 1 (0.37%) Progress