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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 359 244 556
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 11.44% 21.25% 19.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.84% 22.43% 22.70%
Number of salaries quoted 219 161 423
10th Percentile £43,135 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,231 £47,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +13.34% -4.71%
75th Percentile £81,250 £91,934 £77,794
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £88,605
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 2,267 1,088 2,449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 72.22% 94.77% 86.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,549 683 1,882
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,350 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,750 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £69,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £84,832
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £49,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -9.09%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -3 320 £66,212 -1.91% 61
Bradford -16 12 £68,898 -4.97% 9
Elland - 7 £32,500 -
Huddersfield -10 3 £51,500 -10.43% 2
Ossett - 3 - -
Wakefield -8 2 £42,500 -33.33% 2
Pudsey - 2 - -
Brighouse - 2 £42,500 -
Dewsbury - 2 - -
Halifax -1 1 - - 1
Pontefract -3 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 (1.95%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.11%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.84%) Apache
3 3 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.84%) Confluence
3 3 (0.84%) JBoss
3 3 (0.84%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.28%) CMS
4 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.56%) Sketch
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (3.62%) SAP ERP
2 6 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.28%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 142 (39.55%) AWS
2 89 (24.79%) Serverless
3 78 (21.73%) Azure
4 63 (17.55%) Amazon S3
4 63 (17.55%) AWS Lambda
5 51 (14.21%) Amazon ECS
6 49 (13.65%) AWS CloudFormation
6 49 (13.65%) AWS Step Functions
7 40 (11.14%) Amazon SQS
8 37 (10.31%) Amazon ECR
8 37 (10.31%) Apigee
9 28 (7.80%) SaaS
10 26 (7.24%) GitHub
11 18 (5.01%) GCP
12 17 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (3.34%) Power Platform
16 11 (3.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (3.06%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 33 (9.19%) Broadband
2 2 (0.56%) DNS
2 2 (0.56%) HTTP
3 1 (0.28%) SSL
3 1 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (15.60%) DynamoDB
2 32 (8.91%) SQL Server
3 23 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (6.13%) NoSQL
5 12 (3.34%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.51%) Metadata
7 7 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.39%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.39%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.39%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.39%) MySQL
9 5 (1.39%) Tableau
10 4 (1.11%) Power BI
11 3 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.84%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.56%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (0.56%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 59 (16.43%) GitLab
2 55 (15.32%) Jenkins
3 40 (11.14%) SonarQube
4 38 (10.58%) Cypress.io
5 37 (10.31%) Maven
6 31 (8.64%) Git
7 15 (4.18%) JIRA
8 8 (2.23%) Selenium
9 7 (1.95%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.84%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.84%) JUnit
11 2 (0.56%) Postman
12 1 (0.28%) Gatling
12 1 (0.28%) JMeter
12 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
General
1 106 (29.53%) Social Skills
2 56 (15.60%) Finance
3 46 (12.81%) Public Sector
4 43 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (9.47%) Games
6 19 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (2.51%) Marketing
8 9 (2.51%) Retail
9 5 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.11%) Agriculture
10 4 (1.11%) Automotive
11 3 (0.84%) Advertising
11 3 (0.84%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.56%) Banking
12 2 (0.56%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.56%) Legal
13 1 (0.28%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.28%) Law
Job Titles
1 114 (31.75%) Developer
2 76 (21.17%) Senior
3 65 (18.11%) Lead
4 42 (11.70%) Java Developer
5 30 (8.36%) Analyst
6 25 (6.96%) Python Developer
7 23 (6.41%) Business Analyst
8 22 (6.13%) Full-Stack Developer
9 19 (5.29%) Software Engineer
10 18 (5.01%) Development Manager
10 18 (5.01%) Senior Manager
10 18 (5.01%) Software Manager
11 17 (4.74%) Technical Leader
12 16 (4.46%) Senior Developer
13 15 (4.18%) AWS Developer
13 15 (4.18%) Software Development Manager
14 14 (3.90%) .NET Development Manager
14 14 (3.90%) Engineering Manager
14 14 (3.90%) Software Developer
15 13 (3.62%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (17.27%) React
2 50 (13.93%) AngularJS
3 47 (13.09%) Spring Boot
4 37 (10.31%) Gherkin
4 37 (10.31%) Jest
5 35 (9.75%) .NET
6 28 (7.80%) Vue
7 24 (6.69%) REST
8 23 (6.41%) Node.js
9 22 (6.13%) HTML
10 21 (5.85%) CSS
11 20 (5.57%) Flask
12 17 (4.74%) GraphQL
12 17 (4.74%) RESTful
12 17 (4.74%) Spring
13 16 (4.46%) ASP.NET
14 15 (4.18%) .NET Core
15 13 (3.62%) ASP.NET Core
15 13 (3.62%) Blazor
16 12 (3.34%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.19%) Mobile App
2 30 (8.36%) Cloud Native
3 23 (6.41%) Data Structures
4 22 (6.13%) Product Ownership
5 21 (5.85%) Onboarding
6 18 (5.01%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (4.18%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (3.62%) Social Media
9 11 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.95%) NHS
11 6 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.39%) Low-Code
13 4 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (1.11%) Media Streaming
13 4 (1.11%) PKI
14 3 (0.84%) Management Information System
15 2 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (8.91%) Android
2 21 (5.85%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.67%) Linux
4 4 (1.11%) Windows
5 3 (0.84%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (42.34%) CI/CD
2 112 (31.20%) Mentoring
3 103 (28.69%) DevOps
4 85 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
5 79 (22.01%) Continuous Improvement
6 62 (17.27%) SDLC
7 60 (16.71%) Stakeholder Management
8 49 (13.65%) Coaching
8 49 (13.65%) Software Engineering
9 45 (12.53%) AI
10 44 (12.26%) Microservices
10 44 (12.26%) Roadmaps
11 43 (11.98%) Infrastructure as Code
12 42 (11.70%) Decision-Making
12 42 (11.70%) Project Management
13 40 (11.14%) Full-Stack Development
13 40 (11.14%) Observability
14 38 (10.58%) Waterfall
15 37 (10.31%) Scrum
16 34 (9.47%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 84 (23.40%) Java
2 61 (16.99%) TypeScript
3 56 (15.60%) JavaScript
3 56 (15.60%) SQL
4 44 (12.26%) Python
5 39 (10.86%) C#
5 39 (10.86%) Groovy
6 36 (10.03%) Bash
7 14 (3.90%) Kotlin
8 9 (2.51%) PHP
9 4 (1.11%) Go
9 4 (1.11%) VBA
10 2 (0.56%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.56%) Scala
11 1 (0.28%) ABAP
11 1 (0.28%) COBOL
11 1 (0.28%) Perl
11 1 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 48 (13.37%) AWS Certification
2 24 (6.69%) Degree
3 23 (6.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 23 (6.41%) ITIL Certification
4 20 (5.57%) AWS Certified Developer
5 19 (5.29%) Security Cleared
6 18 (5.01%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.95%) IIBA
8 4 (1.11%) CBAP
9 3 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.84%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.56%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.56%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.56%) PMP
11 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.28%) CIPD
11 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.19%) Accessibility
2 32 (8.91%) QA
3 22 (6.13%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.95%) GDPR
5 6 (1.67%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.11%) PMO
7 3 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.56%) GRC
8 2 (0.56%) NIST
8 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.28%) P3O
9 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 82 (22.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 53 (14.76%) Terraform
2 37 (10.31%) HP Fortify
3 21 (5.85%) Kubernetes
4 13 (3.62%) Ansible
5 6 (1.67%) Grafana
5 6 (1.67%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.84%) Argo
6 3 (0.84%) Packer
7 2 (0.56%) Kibana
8 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (6.69%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.85%) SAP
3 5 (1.39%) AppDynamics
3 5 (1.39%) Databricks
3 5 (1.39%) IBM
4 4 (1.11%) Google
5 3 (0.84%) Oracle
5 3 (0.84%) ServiceNow
5 3 (0.84%) TOWER Software
6 2 (0.56%) Adobe
7 1 (0.28%) Foundry
7 1 (0.28%) Informatica
7 1 (0.28%) New Relic
7 1 (0.28%) Nintex
7 1 (0.28%) Palantir