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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 12 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 -7
Permanent jobs citing Agile 277 168 298
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 6.56% 11.21% 13.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.47% 12.46% 16.98%
Number of salaries quoted 195 115 164
10th Percentile £40,050 £41,074 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £62,500 £55,750
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% +12.11% -14.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,452
90th Percentile £93,180 £85,250 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -4.56%

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 2,925 1,348 1,755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 69.31% 89.93% 77.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,241 744 1,059
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £82,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.94% -3.81%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -6 243 £65,000 +1.56% 200
Bradford -12 14 £75,000 +3.45% 23
Wakefield -4 9 £57,500 +5.50% 10
Elland - 5 £32,500 -
Huddersfield -9 3 £51,500 +37.33% 3
Brighouse - 1 £42,500 -
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 (2.17%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.81%) CMS
2 5 (1.81%) Confluence
3 3 (1.08%) IIS
4 2 (0.72%) WordPress
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.72%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.72%) Trello
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (3.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.08%) Shopify
3 2 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.36%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 92 (33.21%) AWS
2 73 (26.35%) Azure
3 39 (14.08%) Serverless
4 34 (12.27%) AWS Lambda
5 29 (10.47%) Amazon S3
6 22 (7.94%) Amazon ECS
6 22 (7.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (6.86%) AWS Step Functions
8 19 (6.86%) GitHub
9 17 (6.14%) GCP
10 16 (5.78%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (5.05%) Amazon ECR
11 14 (5.05%) Apigee
12 12 (4.33%) Amazon SQS
12 12 (4.33%) SaaS
13 11 (3.97%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (2.89%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (2.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 8 (2.89%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.44%) Internet
1 4 (1.44%) Network Security
2 3 (1.08%) DNS
3 2 (0.72%) CTI
3 2 (0.72%) HTTP
3 2 (0.72%) Profibus
3 2 (0.72%) VoIP
3 2 (0.72%) VPN
4 1 (0.36%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.36%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.36%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (0.36%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.86%) DynamoDB
2 15 (5.42%) MongoDB
3 13 (4.69%) SQL Server
4 10 (3.61%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.25%) BigQuery
5 9 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.81%) MySQL
9 4 (1.44%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.08%) Metadata
10 3 (1.08%) Power BI
10 3 (1.08%) Redis
10 3 (1.08%) Spark SQL
10 3 (1.08%) Tableau
11 2 (0.72%) Big Data
11 2 (0.72%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 31 (11.19%) GitLab
1 31 (11.19%) Jenkins
2 26 (9.39%) JIRA
3 23 (8.30%) Cypress.io
4 17 (6.14%) SonarQube
5 15 (5.42%) Git
5 15 (5.42%) Maven
6 6 (2.17%) JMeter
7 5 (1.81%) Postman
8 4 (1.44%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.44%) Selenium
9 3 (1.08%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.08%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.08%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.72%) Appium
11 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.36%) Ranorex
11 1 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 73 (26.35%) Social Skills
2 57 (20.58%) Public Sector
3 46 (16.61%) Finance
4 43 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.25%) Advertising
8 8 (2.89%) Banking
9 5 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.81%) Marketing
10 4 (1.44%) Agriculture
10 4 (1.44%) Automotive
10 4 (1.44%) Back Office
10 4 (1.44%) Legal
10 4 (1.44%) Retail
11 3 (1.08%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.72%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.72%) Publishing
12 2 (0.72%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (28.52%) Senior
2 78 (28.16%) Developer
3 41 (14.80%) Lead
4 39 (14.08%) Analyst
5 34 (12.27%) Business Analyst
6 25 (9.03%) Full-Stack Developer
6 25 (9.03%) Java Developer
7 24 (8.66%) Software Engineer
8 18 (6.50%) Senior Developer
9 16 (5.78%) Python Developer
10 13 (4.69%) .NET Developer
10 13 (4.69%) Architect
11 12 (4.33%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.97%) Senior Manager
12 11 (3.97%) Senior Software Engineer
13 10 (3.61%) Data Engineer
13 10 (3.61%) Senior Analyst
13 10 (3.61%) Senior Business Analyst
14 9 (3.25%) Technical Architect
14 9 (3.25%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (13.72%) AngularJS
2 35 (12.64%) React
3 33 (11.91%) .NET
4 26 (9.39%) Node.js
5 23 (8.30%) Spring Boot
6 20 (7.22%) Terraform
7 19 (6.86%) Gherkin
7 19 (6.86%) RESTful
8 17 (6.14%) ASP.NET
8 17 (6.14%) Vue
9 16 (5.78%) ASP.NET Core
9 16 (5.78%) CSS
9 16 (5.78%) Jest
10 15 (5.42%) HTML
10 15 (5.42%) REST
11 13 (4.69%) .NET Core
12 12 (4.33%) Playwright
13 11 (3.97%) Spring
14 10 (3.61%) Entity Framework
14 10 (3.61%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.58%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.86%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.61%) Data Structures
4 8 (2.89%) NHS
5 7 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.53%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.17%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.44%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.44%) Learning Management System
8 4 (1.44%) Media Streaming
8 4 (1.44%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.08%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.08%) PKI
9 3 (1.08%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.69%) Linux
2 8 (2.89%) Unix
2 8 (2.89%) Windows
3 1 (0.36%) Android
3 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (28.52%) CI/CD
2 76 (27.44%) Mentoring
3 70 (25.27%) DevOps
4 66 (23.83%) Continuous Improvement
5 55 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (19.13%) Coaching
7 50 (18.05%) Scrum
8 46 (16.61%) Full-Stack Development
9 43 (15.52%) Stakeholder Management
10 41 (14.80%) SDLC
11 40 (14.44%) Software Engineering
12 34 (12.27%) AI
12 34 (12.27%) Test Automation
13 33 (11.91%) Acceptance Criteria
13 33 (11.91%) Microservices
14 30 (10.83%) Kanban
14 30 (10.83%) Technical Leadership
15 29 (10.47%) Decision-Making
16 28 (10.11%) Roadmaps
17 27 (9.75%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 61 (22.02%) SQL
2 54 (19.49%) Java
3 52 (18.77%) JavaScript
4 49 (17.69%) TypeScript
5 45 (16.25%) C#
5 45 (16.25%) Python
6 20 (7.22%) Groovy
7 16 (5.78%) Bash
8 8 (2.89%) PHP
9 7 (2.53%) Scala
10 6 (2.17%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.08%) C++
11 3 (1.08%) Ruby
12 2 (0.72%) Ladder Logic
12 2 (0.72%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.36%) ActionScript
13 1 (0.36%) Bicep
13 1 (0.36%) Perl
13 1 (0.36%) R
13 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (7.58%) Degree
1 21 (7.58%) Security Cleared
2 17 (6.14%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.42%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 12 (4.33%) ITIL Certification
5 10 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.17%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.81%) PMP
8 4 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.44%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (0.72%) APMP
9 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.72%) CAPM
9 2 (0.72%) PgMP
10 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.36%) CSPO
10 1 (0.36%) IIBA
10 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.47%) QA
2 21 (7.58%) Data Quality
3 17 (6.14%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.81%) WCAG
5 4 (1.44%) PMO
6 2 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.72%) IEC 61131
7 1 (0.36%) GRC
System Software
1 33 (11.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (5.42%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.05%) HP Fortify
3 6 (2.17%) Ansible
4 3 (1.08%) Argo
4 3 (1.08%) Packer
5 2 (0.72%) Kibana
5 2 (0.72%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 44 (15.88%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.69%) SAP
3 7 (2.53%) Oracle
4 6 (2.17%) Databricks
5 5 (1.81%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.81%) Google
5 5 (1.81%) IBM
5 5 (1.81%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.81%) TOWER Software
6 3 (1.08%) Adobe
6 3 (1.08%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.72%) Allen-Bradley
7 2 (0.72%) Avaya
7 2 (0.72%) Cisco
7 2 (0.72%) Foundry
7 2 (0.72%) Genesys
7 2 (0.72%) Pega
7 2 (0.72%) Siemens
8 1 (0.36%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.36%) Palantir