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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 289 280 627
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 13.42% 21.86% 25.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.18% 23.73% 27.99%
Number of salaries quoted 176 144 524
10th Percentile £45,665 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £46,250 £50,172
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,174 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% +8.00% -2.37%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,875 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £92,330
Yorkshire median annual salary £63,076 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.44% +6.67% -4.00%

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 1,682 1,180 2,240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 78.09% 92.12% 89.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,028 631 1,731
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,900
Median % change year-on-year - +0.18% -2.40%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £48,722 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.20% +5.00% -8.90%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -2 254 £67,500 - 64
Bradford -7 20 £72,500 +31.82% 7
Pudsey - 2 - -
Huddersfield -8 1 £55,000 -4.35%
Wakefield -12 1 £42,500 -10.53% 3
Dewsbury - 1 - -
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 10 (3.46%) OpenStack
2 7 (2.42%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.08%) Apache
3 6 (2.08%) Confluence
4 5 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.35%) FileNet
6 1 (0.35%) JBoss
Applications
1 7 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.35%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 14 (4.84%) SAP ERP
2 9 (3.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.69%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 139 (48.10%) AWS
2 73 (25.26%) Azure
2 73 (25.26%) Serverless
3 55 (19.03%) Amazon S3
4 45 (15.57%) AWS Lambda
5 40 (13.84%) Amazon ECS
6 39 (13.49%) AWS CloudFormation
6 39 (13.49%) AWS Step Functions
7 33 (11.42%) Amazon SQS
7 33 (11.42%) SaaS
8 26 (9.00%) Amazon ECR
8 26 (9.00%) Apigee
9 24 (8.30%) GitHub
10 17 (5.88%) GCP
11 16 (5.54%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (3.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (3.81%) Amazon EventBridge
13 11 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (3.46%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.54%) Broadband
2 2 (0.69%) DNS
3 1 (0.35%) Firewall
3 1 (0.35%) Network Security
3 1 (0.35%) SSL
3 1 (0.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (17.65%) DynamoDB
2 31 (10.73%) SQL Server
3 23 (7.96%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (7.61%) NoSQL
5 14 (4.84%) Relational Database
6 9 (3.11%) Data Lake
6 9 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (3.11%) Metadata
7 7 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (1.73%) BusinessObjects
8 5 (1.73%) MySQL
9 4 (1.38%) Power BI
9 4 (1.38%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.38%) Tableau
10 3 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.04%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.04%) Data Vault
10 3 (1.04%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.69%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.69%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 38 (13.15%) Jenkins
2 37 (12.80%) GitLab
3 27 (9.34%) Git
4 26 (9.00%) Cypress.io
4 26 (9.00%) Maven
4 26 (9.00%) SonarQube
5 6 (2.08%) JIRA
6 3 (1.04%) Selenium
7 2 (0.69%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.35%) JUnit
General
1 92 (31.83%) Social Skills
2 40 (13.84%) Finance
3 36 (12.46%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (12.46%) Public Sector
4 18 (6.23%) Games
5 12 (4.15%) Retail
6 11 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (3.46%) Marketing
8 5 (1.73%) Legal
9 4 (1.38%) Advertising
9 4 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.69%) Law
12 1 (0.35%) Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.35%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.35%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 74 (25.61%) Developer
2 64 (22.15%) Senior
3 41 (14.19%) Lead
4 30 (10.38%) Java Developer
5 23 (7.96%) Development Manager
6 19 (6.57%) Software Manager
7 18 (6.23%) Analyst
7 18 (6.23%) Software Development Manager
8 17 (5.88%) Python Developer
9 15 (5.19%) Business Analyst
10 14 (4.84%) .NET Development Manager
11 13 (4.50%) Architect
11 13 (4.50%) AWS Developer
11 13 (4.50%) Senior Manager
11 13 (4.50%) Software Engineer
12 12 (4.15%) Data Engineer
12 12 (4.15%) Project Manager
12 12 (4.15%) Senior Developer
13 11 (3.81%) Full-Stack Developer
14 10 (3.46%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (21.11%) React
2 38 (13.15%) Spring Boot
3 36 (12.46%) .NET
4 31 (10.73%) AngularJS
4 31 (10.73%) REST
5 30 (10.38%) Node.js
6 26 (9.00%) Gherkin
6 26 (9.00%) Jest
7 19 (6.57%) Spring
8 18 (6.23%) HTML
9 17 (5.88%) CSS
10 15 (5.19%) Django
10 15 (5.19%) FastAPI
10 15 (5.19%) Flask
10 15 (5.19%) RESTful
10 15 (5.19%) Vue
11 13 (4.50%) .NET Core
11 13 (4.50%) ASP.NET
11 13 (4.50%) Blazor
12 11 (3.81%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.34%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.27%) Data Structures
3 20 (6.92%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (5.54%) Mobile App
5 15 (5.19%) Onboarding
6 13 (4.50%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.42%) Legacy Applications
7 7 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.08%) Social Media
9 5 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.73%) NHS
9 5 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.38%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.04%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.69%) Educational Technology
12 2 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.69%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.69%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.19%) Android
2 14 (4.84%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.69%) Linux
3 2 (0.69%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (41.87%) CI/CD
2 100 (34.60%) Mentoring
3 90 (31.14%) DevOps
4 75 (25.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 66 (22.84%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (19.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 55 (19.03%) Software Engineering
8 48 (16.61%) Coaching
9 47 (16.26%) Microservices
9 47 (16.26%) SDLC
10 44 (15.22%) Infrastructure as Code
11 40 (13.84%) Project Management
12 36 (12.46%) Scrum
13 31 (10.73%) Decision-Making
13 31 (10.73%) Waterfall
14 29 (10.03%) Full-Stack Development
14 29 (10.03%) Roadmaps
15 28 (9.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 27 (9.34%) Observability
16 27 (9.34%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 52 (17.99%) Java
2 50 (17.30%) JavaScript
3 49 (16.96%) TypeScript
4 47 (16.26%) SQL
5 36 (12.46%) Python
6 28 (9.69%) Bash
7 25 (8.65%) C#
7 25 (8.65%) Groovy
8 4 (1.38%) PHP
8 4 (1.38%) VBA
9 3 (1.04%) ABAP
9 3 (1.04%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.69%) COBOL
10 2 (0.69%) Go
10 2 (0.69%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.69%) R
11 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (12.80%) AWS Certification
2 18 (6.23%) AWS Certified Developer
2 18 (6.23%) Degree
3 15 (5.19%) ITIL Certification
4 14 (4.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 8 (2.77%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.77%) Security Cleared
6 5 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.04%) IIBA
7 3 (1.04%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.69%) PMP
8 2 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.35%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.96%) QA
2 21 (7.27%) Accessibility
3 12 (4.15%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.42%) GDPR
5 6 (2.08%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.04%) PMO
9 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.69%) GRC
9 2 (0.69%) NIST
9 2 (0.69%) P3O
9 2 (0.69%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.35%) NCSC
10 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 73 (25.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.35%) Squid
Systems Management
1 55 (19.03%) Terraform
2 26 (9.00%) HP Fortify
3 19 (6.57%) Kubernetes
4 10 (3.46%) Ansible
5 6 (2.08%) Grafana
5 6 (2.08%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.35%) Kibana
6 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (9.00%) SAP
2 21 (7.27%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.08%) Databricks
4 4 (1.38%) Google
4 4 (1.38%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.04%) Oracle
5 3 (1.04%) Pega
5 3 (1.04%) WSO2
6 2 (0.69%) Adobe
6 2 (0.69%) New Relic
6 2 (0.69%) Nexthink
6 2 (0.69%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.35%) ESRI
7 1 (0.35%) IBM
7 1 (0.35%) Informatica
7 1 (0.35%) Nintex