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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 352 222 497
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 10.02% 16.31% 17.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.41% 17.05% 20.74%
Number of salaries quoted 213 142 371
10th Percentile £43,889 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £47,231
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £70,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% +17.60% -4.76%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,296 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £87,500
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 2,443 1,302 2,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 69.52% 95.66% 83.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,730 675 1,863
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,313 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,443 £69,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £94,511 £84,993
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.05%

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 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 24 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 -3 315 £65,288 -3.28% 71
Bradford -8 9 £65,000 -10.34% 6
Elland - 7 £32,500 -
Huddersfield - 4 £52,000 - 1
Wakefield -7 3 £50,000 -21.57% 3
Ossett - 3 - -
Brighouse - 2 £42,500 -
Dewsbury - 2 - - 1
Pudsey - 2 - -
Pontefract 0 1 - -
Halifax -5 1 - - 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 (1.99%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.14%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.85%) Apache
3 3 (0.85%) JBoss
3 3 (0.85%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.28%) CMS
4 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.85%) Trello
3 2 (0.57%) Sketch
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (3.41%) SAP ERP
2 5 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 127 (36.08%) AWS
2 78 (22.16%) Azure
3 76 (21.59%) Serverless
4 58 (16.48%) AWS Lambda
5 57 (16.19%) Amazon S3
6 53 (15.06%) Amazon ECS
7 44 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 44 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
8 37 (10.51%) Amazon ECR
8 37 (10.51%) Apigee
9 35 (9.94%) Amazon SQS
10 22 (6.25%) GCP
11 21 (5.97%) SaaS
12 17 (4.83%) GitHub
13 14 (3.98%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (3.98%) Power Platform
14 9 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (2.27%) PowerApps
16 7 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 33 (9.38%) Broadband
2 2 (0.57%) DNS
2 2 (0.57%) HTTP
3 1 (0.28%) SSL
3 1 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (14.49%) DynamoDB
2 21 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (5.68%) NoSQL
4 19 (5.40%) SQL Server
5 13 (3.69%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.56%) BigQuery
6 9 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (2.56%) Metadata
6 9 (2.56%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.56%) MySQL
7 8 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (1.70%) Tableau
9 5 (1.42%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.42%) Power BI
10 4 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.14%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.85%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.57%) Big Data
13 1 (0.28%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 59 (16.76%) GitLab
2 57 (16.19%) Jenkins
3 40 (11.36%) SonarQube
4 39 (11.08%) Cypress.io
5 38 (10.80%) Maven
6 25 (7.10%) Git
7 15 (4.26%) JIRA
8 8 (2.27%) Selenium
9 7 (1.99%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.85%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.85%) JUnit
11 2 (0.57%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.57%) Postman
12 1 (0.28%) Gatling
12 1 (0.28%) JMeter
12 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.28%) Zephyr
General
1 89 (25.28%) Social Skills
2 54 (15.34%) Finance
3 49 (13.92%) Public Sector
4 40 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (9.66%) Games
6 21 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (1.99%) Marketing
8 7 (1.99%) Retail
9 5 (1.42%) Agriculture
9 5 (1.42%) Automotive
9 5 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.85%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.57%) Advertising
11 2 (0.57%) Banking
11 2 (0.57%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.57%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.28%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.28%) Law
12 1 (0.28%) Legal
Job Titles
1 111 (31.53%) Developer
2 78 (22.16%) Senior
3 70 (19.89%) Lead
4 44 (12.50%) Java Developer
5 34 (9.66%) Analyst
6 27 (7.67%) Business Analyst
7 23 (6.53%) Full-Stack Developer
7 23 (6.53%) Python Developer
8 22 (6.25%) Software Engineer
9 18 (5.11%) Senior Developer
10 17 (4.83%) Technical Leader
11 16 (4.55%) Senior Manager
12 14 (3.98%) Engineering Manager
12 14 (3.98%) Software Developer
13 13 (3.69%) Architect
14 12 (3.41%) AWS Developer
14 12 (3.41%) Delivery Manager
14 12 (3.41%) Full-Stack Python Developer
14 12 (3.41%) Software Manager
15 11 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (15.34%) AngularJS
2 50 (14.20%) React
3 47 (13.35%) Spring Boot
4 38 (10.80%) Jest
5 37 (10.51%) Gherkin
6 25 (7.10%) .NET
6 25 (7.10%) Node.js
7 23 (6.53%) REST
7 23 (6.53%) Vue
8 17 (4.83%) Spring
9 16 (4.55%) GraphQL
9 16 (4.55%) HTML
10 15 (4.26%) CSS
10 15 (4.26%) RESTful
11 14 (3.98%) ASP.NET
11 14 (3.98%) Flask
12 12 (3.41%) Elastic Stack
13 11 (3.13%) .NET Core
13 11 (3.13%) Android SDK
13 11 (3.13%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.38%) Mobile App
2 22 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 21 (5.97%) Onboarding
4 20 (5.68%) Data Structures
4 20 (5.68%) Product Ownership
5 16 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (3.69%) Social Media
8 12 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.99%) NHS
10 5 (1.42%) Educational Technology
10 5 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.42%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.42%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.14%) Media Streaming
11 4 (1.14%) PKI
12 3 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.85%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.09%) Android
2 21 (5.97%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.70%) Linux
4 4 (1.14%) Windows
5 3 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (39.49%) CI/CD
2 115 (32.67%) Mentoring
3 91 (25.85%) DevOps
4 81 (23.01%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (17.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 58 (16.48%) Stakeholder Management
7 56 (15.91%) SDLC
8 53 (15.06%) AI
9 52 (14.77%) Coaching
10 45 (12.78%) Roadmaps
11 43 (12.22%) Full-Stack Development
12 41 (11.65%) Software Engineering
13 40 (11.36%) Microservices
14 39 (11.08%) Decision-Making
14 39 (11.08%) Project Management
14 39 (11.08%) Scrum
15 38 (10.80%) Observability
16 37 (10.51%) Technical Leadership
17 35 (9.94%) Waterfall
18 31 (8.81%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 92 (26.14%) Java
2 63 (17.90%) TypeScript
3 53 (15.06%) JavaScript
4 52 (14.77%) SQL
5 48 (13.64%) Python
6 40 (11.36%) Groovy
7 38 (10.80%) Bash
8 37 (10.51%) C#
9 14 (3.98%) Kotlin
10 10 (2.84%) PHP
11 4 (1.14%) Go
11 4 (1.14%) Scala
11 4 (1.14%) VBA
12 2 (0.57%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.57%) Ruby
13 1 (0.28%) Perl
Qualifications
1 44 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 25 (7.10%) Degree
3 23 (6.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 23 (6.53%) ITIL Certification
4 18 (5.11%) Security Cleared
5 17 (4.83%) SC Cleared
6 15 (4.26%) AWS Certified Developer
7 9 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.99%) IIBA
9 5 (1.42%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.14%) CBAP
10 4 (1.14%) PMP
11 3 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.57%) APMP
12 2 (0.57%) CAPM
12 2 (0.57%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.57%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.57%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.66%) Accessibility
2 33 (9.38%) QA
3 24 (6.82%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.70%) GDPR
5 5 (1.42%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.42%) PMO
6 4 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.57%) GRC
8 2 (0.57%) NIST
8 2 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 67 (19.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (10.51%) HP Fortify
2 36 (10.23%) Terraform
3 20 (5.68%) Kubernetes
4 11 (3.13%) Ansible
5 4 (1.14%) Grafana
5 4 (1.14%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.85%) Argo
6 3 (0.85%) Packer
7 2 (0.57%) Kibana
8 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (6.82%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.40%) SAP
3 6 (1.70%) Databricks
3 6 (1.70%) ServiceNow
4 5 (1.42%) AppDynamics
4 5 (1.42%) Google
4 5 (1.42%) IBM
4 5 (1.42%) TOWER Software
5 2 (0.57%) Adobe
5 2 (0.57%) Oracle
6 1 (0.28%) Foundry
6 1 (0.28%) Informatica
6 1 (0.28%) New Relic
6 1 (0.28%) Nintex
6 1 (0.28%) Palantir