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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -6
Permanent jobs citing Agile 323 216 466
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 9.01% 15.98% 15.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.24% 16.94% 18.63%
Number of salaries quoted 203 137 329
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,790
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% +21.74% -10.20%
75th Percentile £78,750 £93,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 2,440 1,275 2,501
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 68.10% 94.30% 81.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,826 710 1,872
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,588 £39,660
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,598 £73,886 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,753 £84,964
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -4 287 £64,500 -4.44% 63
Bradford -6 10 £70,148 -3.24% 10
Elland - 7 £32,500 -
Wakefield -5 4 £57,500 -9.80% 2
Huddersfield - 3 £51,500 -
Ossett - 3 - -
Brighouse - 2 £42,500 -
Dewsbury - 2 - -
Pudsey - 2 - -
Pontefract +4 1 - -
Halifax -3 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 3 (0.93%) Apache
1 3 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (0.93%) Apache Spark
1 3 (0.93%) Confluence
1 3 (0.93%) JBoss
1 3 (0.93%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.62%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.31%) CMS
3 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.93%) Trello
3 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.62%) Sketch
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.48%) SAP ERP
2 5 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 103 (31.89%) AWS
2 72 (22.29%) Azure
3 54 (16.72%) Serverless
4 44 (13.62%) AWS Lambda
5 40 (12.38%) Amazon S3
6 37 (11.46%) Amazon ECS
7 31 (9.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (9.29%) AWS Step Functions
9 28 (8.67%) Amazon ECR
9 28 (8.67%) Apigee
10 26 (8.05%) Amazon SQS
11 19 (5.88%) GCP
12 14 (4.33%) Power Platform
13 13 (4.02%) SaaS
14 11 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (3.41%) GitHub
15 9 (2.79%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (2.79%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (2.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 8 (2.48%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 33 (10.22%) Broadband
2 4 (1.24%) HTTP
3 1 (0.31%) Internet
3 1 (0.31%) SSL
3 1 (0.31%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (11.46%) DynamoDB
2 14 (4.33%) NoSQL
3 11 (3.41%) MongoDB
3 11 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (3.10%) SQL Server
5 9 (2.79%) BigQuery
5 9 (2.79%) Metadata
6 8 (2.48%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (2.48%) MySQL
6 8 (2.48%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.55%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.55%) Power BI
7 5 (1.55%) Tableau
8 4 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.93%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (0.62%) Big Data
10 2 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.62%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 48 (14.86%) GitLab
2 44 (13.62%) Jenkins
3 32 (9.91%) Cypress.io
4 31 (9.60%) SonarQube
5 29 (8.98%) Maven
6 20 (6.19%) JIRA
7 16 (4.95%) Git
8 6 (1.86%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.86%) Selenium
9 3 (0.93%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.62%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.62%) JUnit
10 2 (0.62%) Postman
11 1 (0.31%) Gatling
11 1 (0.31%) JMeter
11 1 (0.31%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.31%) Zephyr
General
1 79 (24.46%) Social Skills
2 54 (16.72%) Finance
3 49 (15.17%) Public Sector
4 37 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (10.53%) Games
6 23 (7.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (1.86%) Retail
9 5 (1.55%) Agriculture
9 5 (1.55%) Automotive
9 5 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.55%) Marketing
10 4 (1.24%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.93%) Advertising
11 3 (0.93%) Banking
12 2 (0.62%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.62%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.31%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.31%) Law
13 1 (0.31%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 98 (30.34%) Developer
2 77 (23.84%) Senior
3 59 (18.27%) Lead
4 39 (12.07%) Java Developer
5 34 (10.53%) Analyst
6 28 (8.67%) Business Analyst
7 22 (6.81%) Full-Stack Developer
8 21 (6.50%) Python Developer
8 21 (6.50%) Software Engineer
9 17 (5.26%) Senior Developer
9 17 (5.26%) Senior Manager
10 14 (4.33%) Engineering Manager
11 12 (3.72%) Delivery Manager
11 12 (3.72%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 12 (3.72%) Software Developer
11 12 (3.72%) Technical Leader
12 11 (3.41%) Architect
12 11 (3.41%) Data Engineer
13 10 (3.10%) AWS Developer
13 10 (3.10%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (13.93%) AngularJS
2 41 (12.69%) React
3 34 (10.53%) Spring Boot
4 29 (8.98%) Jest
5 28 (8.67%) Gherkin
6 22 (6.81%) Vue
7 20 (6.19%) Node.js
8 18 (5.57%) REST
9 16 (4.95%) .NET
10 15 (4.64%) GraphQL
11 13 (4.02%) RESTful
12 12 (3.72%) CSS
12 12 (3.72%) Flask
12 12 (3.72%) HTML
13 11 (3.41%) Android SDK
14 9 (2.79%) ASP.NET
15 8 (2.48%) .NET Core
15 8 (2.48%) ASP.NET Core
15 8 (2.48%) Spring
16 7 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.22%) Mobile App
2 22 (6.81%) Onboarding
3 21 (6.50%) Product Ownership
4 19 (5.88%) Data Structures
5 14 (4.33%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (4.02%) Cloud Native
7 12 (3.72%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (3.72%) Social Media
8 8 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (2.48%) NHS
9 7 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.86%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.55%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.24%) Media Streaming
12 4 (1.24%) PKI
13 3 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.93%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.91%) Android
2 21 (6.50%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.86%) Linux
4 4 (1.24%) Windows
5 3 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (36.22%) CI/CD
2 106 (32.82%) Mentoring
3 76 (23.53%) DevOps
4 68 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (16.72%) AI
5 54 (16.72%) Continuous Improvement
5 54 (16.72%) Stakeholder Management
6 51 (15.79%) SDLC
7 50 (15.48%) Coaching
8 46 (14.24%) Roadmaps
9 39 (12.07%) Full-Stack Development
10 38 (11.76%) Project Management
11 37 (11.46%) Decision-Making
11 37 (11.46%) Observability
11 37 (11.46%) Scrum
11 37 (11.46%) Technical Leadership
12 36 (11.15%) Software Engineering
13 31 (9.60%) Waterfall
14 30 (9.29%) Acceptance Criteria
15 29 (8.98%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 79 (24.46%) Java
2 56 (17.34%) TypeScript
3 48 (14.86%) JavaScript
3 48 (14.86%) SQL
4 47 (14.55%) Python
5 34 (10.53%) C#
6 32 (9.91%) Groovy
7 30 (9.29%) Bash
8 14 (4.33%) Kotlin
9 9 (2.79%) PHP
10 5 (1.55%) Scala
11 4 (1.24%) Go
11 4 (1.24%) VBA
12 2 (0.62%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.62%) Ruby
13 1 (0.31%) Bicep
13 1 (0.31%) Perl
13 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (10.53%) AWS Certification
2 29 (8.98%) Degree
3 22 (6.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 22 (6.81%) ITIL Certification
4 19 (5.88%) Security Cleared
5 18 (5.57%) SC Cleared
6 12 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.17%) IIBA
8 6 (1.86%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (1.55%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.24%) CBAP
10 4 (1.24%) PMP
11 3 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.62%) APMP
12 2 (0.62%) CAPM
12 2 (0.62%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.62%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.62%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (10.22%) Accessibility
2 29 (8.98%) QA
3 26 (8.05%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.55%) PMO
5 2 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.62%) GDPR
5 2 (0.62%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (14.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (8.67%) HP Fortify
2 26 (8.05%) Terraform
3 14 (4.33%) Kubernetes
4 9 (2.79%) Ansible
5 3 (0.93%) Argo
5 3 (0.93%) Grafana
5 3 (0.93%) Packer
5 3 (0.93%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.62%) Kibana
7 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (8.36%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.95%) SAP
3 7 (2.17%) ServiceNow
4 6 (1.86%) Databricks
4 6 (1.86%) TOWER Software
5 5 (1.55%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.55%) IBM
6 4 (1.24%) Google
7 2 (0.62%) Oracle
7 2 (0.62%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.31%) Foundry
8 1 (0.31%) Informatica
8 1 (0.31%) Nintex
8 1 (0.31%) Palantir
8 1 (0.31%) Progress