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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 -7
Permanent jobs citing Agile 293 199 318
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 7.17% 12.93% 13.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.54% 14.20% 16.65%
Number of salaries quoted 199 135 204
10th Percentile £38,937 £41,145 £39,148
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,000 £46,171
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £76,837 £79,375 £71,991
90th Percentile £93,907 £91,934 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +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 2,779 1,401 1,910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 68.05% 91.03% 78.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,119 793 1,272
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £40,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% +3.77% -3.64%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,250 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,250 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £51,932 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.33% -5.00% -7.98%

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 20 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 20 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 -8 252 £65,000 +4.00% 146
Bradford -11 13 £75,000 +3.45% 5
Wakefield -2 9 £57,500 +5.50% 4
Elland - 7 £32,500 -
Huddersfield -8 3 £51,500 +37.33% 1
Ossett - 2 - -
Brighouse - 2 £42,500 -
Pontefract +2 1 - - 1
Halifax -4 1 - -
Dewsbury - 1 - -
Batley - 1 - -
Bingley - 1 - -
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 (2.05%) CMS
1 6 (2.05%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.71%) Confluence
3 3 (1.02%) IIS
4 2 (0.68%) JBoss
4 2 (0.68%) WordPress
5 1 (0.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.68%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.68%) Trello
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.34%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (3.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.02%) Shopify
4 1 (0.34%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 76 (25.94%) AWS
2 71 (24.23%) Azure
3 34 (11.60%) Serverless
4 28 (9.56%) AWS Lambda
5 24 (8.19%) Amazon S3
6 23 (7.85%) Amazon ECS
7 22 (7.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (6.83%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (6.48%) AWS Step Functions
10 15 (5.12%) Amazon ECR
10 15 (5.12%) Apigee
11 14 (4.78%) GCP
11 14 (4.78%) GitHub
12 13 (4.44%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (3.41%) SaaS
14 8 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (2.73%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (2.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 8 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (2.73%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.80%) Broadband
2 4 (1.37%) HTTP
2 4 (1.37%) Internet
3 2 (0.68%) CTI
3 2 (0.68%) DNS
3 2 (0.68%) Network Security
3 2 (0.68%) Profibus
3 2 (0.68%) VoIP
3 2 (0.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.48%) DynamoDB
2 15 (5.12%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.10%) SQL Server
4 10 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.07%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (3.07%) BigQuery
6 8 (2.73%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (2.73%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.71%) MySQL
9 3 (1.02%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.02%) Redis
9 3 (1.02%) Tableau
10 2 (0.68%) Big Data
10 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.68%) Metadata
10 2 (0.68%) Power BI
11 1 (0.34%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 30 (10.24%) GitLab
1 30 (10.24%) Jenkins
2 23 (7.85%) JIRA
3 19 (6.48%) Cypress.io
4 18 (6.14%) SonarQube
5 16 (5.46%) Git
5 16 (5.46%) Maven
6 6 (2.05%) Selenium
7 5 (1.71%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.02%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.02%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.68%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.68%) JUnit
9 2 (0.68%) Postman
10 1 (0.34%) Gatling
10 1 (0.34%) JMeter
10 1 (0.34%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 74 (25.26%) Social Skills
2 55 (18.77%) Finance
3 47 (16.04%) Public Sector
4 41 (13.99%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (10.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (5.80%) Games
7 13 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.07%) Advertising
9 6 (2.05%) Banking
9 6 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.05%) Retail
10 5 (1.71%) Agriculture
10 5 (1.71%) Automotive
10 5 (1.71%) Marketing
11 4 (1.37%) Back Office
12 3 (1.02%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.02%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.68%) Legal
13 2 (0.68%) Publishing
13 2 (0.68%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 91 (31.06%) Developer
2 73 (24.91%) Senior
3 50 (17.06%) Lead
4 43 (14.68%) Analyst
5 38 (12.97%) Business Analyst
6 26 (8.87%) Java Developer
7 25 (8.53%) Full-Stack Developer
8 22 (7.51%) Software Engineer
9 18 (6.14%) Python Developer
10 16 (5.46%) Senior Developer
11 14 (4.78%) .NET Developer
11 14 (4.78%) Senior Analyst
11 14 (4.78%) Senior Business Analyst
12 12 (4.10%) Software Developer
13 11 (3.75%) DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.75%) Senior Manager
14 10 (3.41%) Full-Stack Python Developer
14 10 (3.41%) Technical Leader
15 9 (3.07%) Delivery Manager
16 8 (2.73%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (13.99%) AngularJS
2 38 (12.97%) React
3 28 (9.56%) .NET
4 25 (8.53%) Node.js
5 23 (7.85%) Spring Boot
6 22 (7.51%) Vue
7 20 (6.83%) Terraform
8 18 (6.14%) ASP.NET
8 18 (6.14%) CSS
9 17 (5.80%) ASP.NET Core
9 17 (5.80%) HTML
9 17 (5.80%) Jest
10 15 (5.12%) Gherkin
10 15 (5.12%) RESTful
11 14 (4.78%) .NET Core
12 13 (4.44%) REST
13 11 (3.75%) Entity Framework
13 11 (3.75%) Flask
13 11 (3.75%) GraphQL
14 10 (3.41%) Android SDK
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.85%) Mobile App
2 19 (6.48%) Product Ownership
3 15 (5.12%) Cloud Native
4 12 (4.10%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (3.75%) Data Structures
6 10 (3.41%) NHS
6 10 (3.41%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.41%) Social Media
7 9 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.71%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.37%) Learning Management System
11 4 (1.37%) Media Streaming
12 3 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.02%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.02%) PKI
12 3 (1.02%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.80%) Android
2 11 (3.75%) Linux
3 7 (2.39%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.39%) Windows
4 6 (2.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (29.01%) CI/CD
2 81 (27.65%) Mentoring
3 66 (22.53%) DevOps
4 64 (21.84%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (20.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 47 (16.04%) AI
7 45 (15.36%) Coaching
8 43 (14.68%) Full-Stack Development
9 42 (14.33%) Scrum
10 41 (13.99%) Stakeholder Management
11 37 (12.63%) SDLC
12 36 (12.29%) Software Engineering
13 35 (11.95%) Roadmaps
14 33 (11.26%) Acceptance Criteria
14 33 (11.26%) Technical Leadership
15 32 (10.92%) Decision-Making
15 32 (10.92%) Waterfall
16 28 (9.56%) Microservices
16 28 (9.56%) Test Automation
17 26 (8.87%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 63 (21.50%) Java
2 55 (18.77%) SQL
3 50 (17.06%) JavaScript
4 47 (16.04%) C#
5 45 (15.36%) Python
5 45 (15.36%) TypeScript
6 21 (7.17%) Groovy
7 17 (5.80%) Bash
8 16 (5.46%) Kotlin
9 10 (3.41%) PHP
10 7 (2.39%) Scala
11 3 (1.02%) Ruby
12 2 (0.68%) Go
12 2 (0.68%) Ladder Logic
12 2 (0.68%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.34%) Bicep
13 1 (0.34%) Perl
13 1 (0.34%) R
13 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (8.53%) Degree
2 18 (6.14%) Security Cleared
3 15 (5.12%) AWS Certification
3 15 (5.12%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 12 (4.10%) ITIL Certification
5 9 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.05%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.71%) PMP
8 4 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.37%) CBAP
8 4 (1.37%) Chartered Engineer
8 4 (1.37%) IIBA
9 2 (0.68%) APMP
9 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.68%) CAPM
9 2 (0.68%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.68%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.53%) QA
2 23 (7.85%) Accessibility
3 20 (6.83%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.37%) PMO
4 4 (1.37%) WCAG
5 2 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.68%) GDPR
5 2 (0.68%) IEC 61131
5 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 34 (11.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (5.12%) HP Fortify
2 14 (4.78%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.05%) Ansible
4 3 (1.02%) Argo
4 3 (1.02%) Packer
5 2 (0.68%) Kibana
5 2 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 41 (13.99%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.44%) SAP
3 6 (2.05%) Databricks
3 6 (2.05%) TOWER Software
4 5 (1.71%) AppDynamics
4 5 (1.71%) IBM
4 5 (1.71%) Oracle
4 5 (1.71%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.02%) Google
5 3 (1.02%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.68%) Adobe
6 2 (0.68%) Allen-Bradley
6 2 (0.68%) Avaya
6 2 (0.68%) Cisco
6 2 (0.68%) Foundry
6 2 (0.68%) Genesys
6 2 (0.68%) Pega
6 2 (0.68%) Siemens
7 1 (0.34%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.34%) Palantir