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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 -7
Permanent jobs citing Agile 302 203 348
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 7.77% 13.05% 13.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.36% 14.22% 17.52%
Number of salaries quoted 203 143 221
10th Percentile £41,500 £42,750 £40,988
25th Percentile £49,375 £49,000 £45,441
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £75,625 £80,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £93,634 £93,778 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +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 2,658 1,428 1,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 68.42% 91.77% 79.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,032 822 1,374
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £40,434
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £71,438 £71,250 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.41%

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 1 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 1 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 -8 258 £63,788 -1.10% 116
Bradford -12 13 £75,000 +3.45% 3
Wakefield -3 10 £57,500 +21.05% 3
Elland - 7 £32,500 -
Huddersfield -8 3 £51,500 +37.33% 1
Pudsey - 2 - -
Ossett - 2 - -
Brighouse - 2 £42,500 -
Dewsbury - 2 - -
Pontefract +4 1 - -
Halifax -6 1 - - 2
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 6 (1.99%) CMS
2 4 (1.32%) Confluence
2 4 (1.32%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.99%) IIS
3 3 (0.99%) JBoss
4 2 (0.66%) Apache
4 2 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.66%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.66%) WordPress
5 1 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.99%) Trello
3 2 (0.66%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.66%) Sketch
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (2.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.32%) Shopify
3 1 (0.33%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 87 (28.81%) AWS
2 75 (24.83%) Azure
3 41 (13.58%) Serverless
4 33 (10.93%) AWS Lambda
5 28 (9.27%) Amazon ECS
6 27 (8.94%) Amazon S3
7 25 (8.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (7.28%) AWS Step Functions
9 21 (6.95%) Amazon ECR
9 21 (6.95%) Apigee
10 20 (6.62%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (5.63%) Amazon SQS
12 16 (5.30%) GCP
13 12 (3.97%) GitHub
14 10 (3.31%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (3.31%) Power Platform
14 10 (3.31%) SaaS
15 9 (2.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 8 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
16 8 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.61%) Broadband
2 4 (1.32%) HTTP
2 4 (1.32%) Internet
3 2 (0.66%) CTI
3 2 (0.66%) DNS
3 2 (0.66%) VoIP
3 2 (0.66%) VPN
4 1 (0.33%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.28%) DynamoDB
2 17 (5.63%) MongoDB
3 12 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (3.31%) BigQuery
4 10 (3.31%) SQL Server
5 9 (2.98%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (2.98%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (2.65%) MySQL
6 8 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (1.99%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.66%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.32%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.32%) Tableau
10 3 (0.99%) Power BI
10 3 (0.99%) Redis
11 2 (0.66%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (0.66%) Big Data
11 2 (0.66%) Metadata
11 2 (0.66%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 38 (12.58%) GitLab
2 37 (12.25%) Jenkins
3 25 (8.28%) Cypress.io
4 24 (7.95%) SonarQube
5 23 (7.62%) JIRA
6 22 (7.28%) Maven
7 17 (5.63%) Git
8 6 (1.99%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.99%) Selenium
9 3 (0.99%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.99%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.66%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.66%) JUnit
10 2 (0.66%) Postman
11 1 (0.33%) Gatling
11 1 (0.33%) JMeter
11 1 (0.33%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 74 (24.50%) Social Skills
2 57 (18.87%) Finance
3 46 (15.23%) Public Sector
4 38 (12.58%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (10.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (8.61%) Games
7 12 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (1.99%) Advertising
8 6 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.66%) Agriculture
9 5 (1.66%) Automotive
9 5 (1.66%) Retail
10 4 (1.32%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.32%) Marketing
11 3 (0.99%) Banking
11 3 (0.99%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.66%) Back Office
12 2 (0.66%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.66%) Legal
12 2 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 100 (33.11%) Developer
2 75 (24.83%) Senior
3 51 (16.89%) Lead
4 34 (11.26%) Analyst
5 30 (9.93%) Business Analyst
5 30 (9.93%) Java Developer
6 27 (8.94%) Full-Stack Developer
7 24 (7.95%) Software Engineer
8 20 (6.62%) Python Developer
9 17 (5.63%) Senior Developer
10 13 (4.30%) .NET Developer
11 12 (3.97%) Engineering Manager
11 12 (3.97%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 12 (3.97%) Senior Analyst
11 12 (3.97%) Senior Business Analyst
11 12 (3.97%) Senior Manager
11 12 (3.97%) Technical Leader
12 11 (3.64%) DevOps Engineer
13 10 (3.31%) Delivery Manager
13 10 (3.31%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (15.23%) React
2 43 (14.24%) AngularJS
3 26 (8.61%) .NET
3 26 (8.61%) Node.js
3 26 (8.61%) Spring Boot
4 24 (7.95%) Vue
5 23 (7.62%) Jest
6 21 (6.95%) Gherkin
7 18 (5.96%) ASP.NET
7 18 (5.96%) CSS
7 18 (5.96%) HTML
8 17 (5.63%) ASP.NET Core
8 17 (5.63%) RESTful
9 15 (4.97%) REST
10 13 (4.30%) .NET Core
10 13 (4.30%) GraphQL
11 11 (3.64%) Android SDK
11 11 (3.64%) Flask
12 10 (3.31%) Entity Framework
13 7 (2.32%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.94%) Mobile App
2 21 (6.95%) Product Ownership
3 16 (5.30%) Onboarding
4 14 (4.64%) Cloud Native
4 14 (4.64%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (3.97%) Social Media
6 10 (3.31%) Data Structures
6 10 (3.31%) NHS
7 9 (2.98%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (2.98%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.32%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.32%) Learning Management System
10 4 (1.32%) Media Streaming
11 3 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.99%) Educational Technology
11 3 (0.99%) PKI
11 3 (0.99%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 25 (8.28%) Android
2 14 (4.64%) Apple iOS
3 11 (3.64%) Linux
4 7 (2.32%) Windows
5 6 (1.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (32.78%) CI/CD
2 90 (29.80%) Mentoring
3 69 (22.85%) DevOps
4 66 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (18.21%) AI
6 52 (17.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 49 (16.23%) Full-Stack Development
8 46 (15.23%) Coaching
9 45 (14.90%) Scrum
10 42 (13.91%) Roadmaps
11 39 (12.91%) SDLC
11 39 (12.91%) Software Engineering
11 39 (12.91%) Stakeholder Management
12 36 (11.92%) Technical Leadership
13 34 (11.26%) Decision-Making
14 33 (10.93%) Project Management
15 30 (9.93%) Acceptance Criteria
15 30 (9.93%) Microservices
15 30 (9.93%) Test Automation
16 28 (9.27%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 70 (23.18%) Java
2 57 (18.87%) JavaScript
3 53 (17.55%) SQL
4 51 (16.89%) TypeScript
5 48 (15.89%) Python
6 45 (14.90%) C#
7 27 (8.94%) Groovy
8 23 (7.62%) Bash
9 15 (4.97%) Kotlin
10 12 (3.97%) PHP
11 6 (1.99%) Scala
12 3 (0.99%) Go
12 3 (0.99%) Ruby
13 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.33%) Bicep
14 1 (0.33%) Ladder Logic
14 1 (0.33%) Perl
14 1 (0.33%) R
14 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (8.61%) Degree
2 21 (6.95%) AWS Certification
3 20 (6.62%) Security Cleared
4 17 (5.63%) SC Cleared
5 16 (5.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 16 (5.30%) ITIL Certification
6 10 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.65%) PMI Certification
8 7 (2.32%) PMP
9 4 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.32%) CBAP
9 4 (1.32%) IIBA
10 3 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.99%) Chartered Engineer
11 2 (0.66%) APMP
11 2 (0.66%) CAPM
11 2 (0.66%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.66%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.93%) Accessibility
2 24 (7.95%) QA
3 21 (6.95%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.32%) PMO
4 4 (1.32%) WCAG
5 2 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.66%) GDPR
5 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.33%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 37 (12.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (7.28%) Terraform
2 21 (6.95%) HP Fortify
3 15 (4.97%) Kubernetes
4 6 (1.99%) Ansible
5 3 (0.99%) Argo
5 3 (0.99%) Packer
6 2 (0.66%) Kibana
6 2 (0.66%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 37 (12.25%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.97%) SAP
3 7 (2.32%) ServiceNow
4 6 (1.99%) Databricks
4 6 (1.99%) TOWER Software
5 5 (1.66%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.66%) IBM
5 5 (1.66%) Oracle
6 2 (0.66%) Avaya
6 2 (0.66%) Cisco
6 2 (0.66%) Foundry
6 2 (0.66%) Genesys
6 2 (0.66%) Google
6 2 (0.66%) Pega
6 2 (0.66%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.33%) Allen-Bradley
7 1 (0.33%) Informatica
7 1 (0.33%) Palantir
7 1 (0.33%) Progress
7 1 (0.33%) Siemens